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Bright & Early: Can’t Take The Heat Edition

Good morning, Nashville. We interrupt this edition Bright & Early to set the record straight on something very important: With hot chicken popping up everywhere from Church’s to some random diner in Michigan, it is absolutely vital that we remember that hot chicken started here in Nashville. No matter who tries to claim it or how many [...]

The Weekendist: 4th Of July Edition

It’s a holiday! And a long weekend! And… exploding things! Here are our top picks for 4th of July fun, and be sure to let us know if we’ve missed anything in the comments. We’ll see you on Tuesday! FRIDAY General Jackson Showboat 25th Anniversary Celebration. Riverfront park, 8pm, free. Get a head start on [...]

Happy Hour: Stop Reading This And Go Outside Please

If this does not make you crave hot chicken somethin’ awful, then you are not human (or okay, maybe you’re a vegetarian. Which is cool too.) [Tennessean] Metro Police say that the giant gang shoot-out on the northside in broad daylight yesterday just goes to show us that Nashville gangs have some real cajones and [...]

Gwyneth Paltrow Blows Our Cover (And We Kind Of Like It)

So it was really cool and awesome and fun last week when Gwyneth Paltrow used her GOOP newsletter to let everyone know how great Nashville is, right? We’re glad she enjoyed her stay here while filming the new movie Love Don’t Let Me Down with Tim McGraw, and we have to admit she has great taste. [...]

Hot Holidays With Hot Chicken: Music City Hot Chicken Festival

If you’ve been reading Nashvillest for longer than a couple weeks, it should come as no surprise that we’re really big fans of hot chicken over here. And there’s no better place for a hot chicken fan than at this weekend’s Music City Hot Chicken Festival, an annual foodie-fest in East Nashville’s East Park.  The [...]

Prince’s Gettin’ Famous: Hot Chicken Spreading Like Wildfire

Little did we know when we posted this review of Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack that hot chicken was going to be the buzz of the summer. It seems that more and more people are discovering the glory that is a firey piece of fried chicken, particularly from Prince’s, and this Slashfood article blames it on [...]

Nashville Staples: Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack Review [Guest Posts]

Editor’s note: Guest blogger Jon Arnold is a loyal contributor to Nashvillest, and has reviewed concerts and coffee for us in the past. You can find him on the web at Fruit Tree Music. Thanks, Jon! I’m sitting at my desk at work with a strange mix of emotions: indigestion, a little mouth pain, but [...]

Garden & Gun Magazine Nods To Nashville

In the current issue of Garden & Gun Magazine, they list 100 Southern Foods You Absolutely, Positively Must Try Before You Die, and Nashville is, interestingly enough, home to a whopping four, plus a couple sorta-Nashville spots too (edited at 12:40pm, thanks to Paul Nicholson for the correction). What Nashville delicacies does Garden & Gun deem [...]

Get Your Cook On: Hot Chicken Amateur Cooking Contest

Our friends over at the Music City Hot Chicken Festival are back this year with all things hot chicken. The fest isn’t until July 4, so we’ll save covering that for later… But if you’re that special kind of hot chicken fan, you may be able to get in on the early action. The festival [...]