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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 23h

Feline Friday

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 1d

I was on today's episode of City Cast Nashville talking 7th District special elections, Metro Council and, of course, Best of Nashville. Thanks @whittlz.bsky.social and company for having me.

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quinn hills 🏳️‍⚧️ @quinnhills.bsky.social · 1d

so proud of our queer little crew :)
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Best Repertory Series Queer Qlassics
ANNIE PARNELL
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Illustration of a person painting a mural that reads “Nashville Scene”

When The People's Joker screened in the Belcourt's Queer Qlassics series, director Vera Drew handed out stickers on the sidewalk — and my partner and I ran into Grammy nominee Aaron Lee Tasjan (whose latest album explores coming out) in the popcorn line. That's just the surface of the community and happy chaos of this July series, which featured a Q&A with Drew, a local queer film history seminar, and screenings of tearjerkers (Brokeback Mountain) and camp oddities (D.E.B.S.) alike. Its focus on "stability in hostile times" is especially important now — and so was its revolutionary sense of joy.

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Nashville Scene @nashvillescene.com · 1d

The @NashSevereWx.com team has the city's vote for Best YouTube Channel! See who won second and third place in our readers' poll and check out the rest of our 2025 Best of Nashville Media & Politics winners here.

Media & Politics

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t understand this bit.

D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 1d

I've asked him for a link. He is not really on social (smart).

D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 1d

I think Eli very clearly lays out how it's more complicated than YIMBY/NIMBY!

D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

This will be resolved in about 90 seconds, art director had to fix a URL issue. You picked a bad time to click lol

D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

Some of the categories have been around since day 1, back in 1989. Just because the Belcourt is the undisputed champ doesn't mean we're going to ditch the category!

All good, no worries.

D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway your complaint has been registered lol. Everyone's entitled to their take. 🫡

D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

Probably needless to say here but we sort through a LOT that we don't ultimately include. 274 writers' choices is significant (actually down a few dozen from years past), but obviously isn't every institution/individual/business in Nashville, so "everyone gets a trophy" is pretty hyperbolic!

Linda Wynn — the Tennessee Historical Commission’s assistant director for state programs — is a historian’s historian. Not only is her own work impeccable, she’s also responsible for a lot

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Betsy Phillips @betsyphillips.bsky.social · 2d

I especially love the photo.

www.nashvillescene.com/bon/2025/peo...

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

Ouch thanks a lot gang.

We work hard on it for months. I think the writers’ contributions are phenomenal this year. Readers’ poll? I always have significant qualms with what folks select there but it is what it is.

Anyhow cant please all the people all the time. Thanks for reading anyhow.

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so good, and run by solid people. Keep up with em on IG!

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously we don't tamper with the readers' poll votes (we work our asses off on the writers!) but yeah that one was ... not my favorite to see lol.

D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

There are more! A few more I wrote and about 270 more by our staff and contributing writers, along with our annual readers’ poll. Good stuff, hope you'll check it out. /end

Alabama-born longtime Nashvillian Dusty Slay is no stranger to the pages of the Scene’s Best of Nashville issue. We named him our Best Comedian in the 2019 writers’ choices, and

D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

We wrote Dusty Slay up as Nashville’s Best Comedian back in 2019 — and his new special ‘Workin’ Man’ is so good I had to give it to him again.

Best Comedian

Best Resource for Lost Pets

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

I wanted to throw a little love the Nashville Humane Association’s way. Their 24/7 microchip-scanning station in West Nashville is a very valuable resource.

Losing a pet can be an extremely stressful situation — for both the pet owner and their furry little friend. Fortunately, when a good Samaritan stumbles across a lost pet,

The critics and editors at the Scene pride ourselves on being a pretty solid source for Nashville’s curious eaters — but for the past couple of years, Anas Saba of

D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote up Nashville Hidden Gems as Best Instagram Account. With roughly 130,000 followers on IG (and another 7,500 or so on TikTok), Anas Saba tours the city’s best undersung restaurants, many of them immigrant-owned.

Best Instagram Account

In writing about Nashville country singer Kristina Murray’s third LP Little Blue in May, the Scene’s Jacqueline Zeisloft noted the clear influence of Emmylou Harris, Jerry Jeff Walker, Harlan Howard

D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

For Best Country Album I wrote up Kristina Murray’s fantastic ‘Little Blue,’ which features Murray’s big voice and knack for evoking raw emotion.

Best Country Album

Over the past several months, Clinton Spruill and Amy Watson of Saap Saap BBQ have popped up at spots including Bad Idea, Hearts, Rice Vice, Martha My Dear and Lowbar.

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D. Patrick Rodgers @dpatrickrodgers.bsky.social · 2d

My pick for Best Pop-Up is Saap Saap, Clinton Spruill and Amy Watson’s unique blend of Southern barbecue and Laotian food. So good.

Best Pop-Up