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Porter Wagoner

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In the 1960s and ’70s, Porter Wagoner was Nashville royalty. His television variety show helped keep the Grand Ole Opry alive. This month, a new Wagoner album comes out on a rock label, but don’t call it crossover: as Waylon Jennings once said, “Porter couldn’t go pop with a mouth full of firecrackers.” Produced by […]

Jiyayi Suleyman, 26, is Nashville’s first Kurdish American police officer. “I took this job to bridge the gap between not only the Kurdish community but the Muslim community with the police department,” Suleyman says. “I wanted to be that one guy that mak

Take a ride-along with Nashville’s first Kurdish American cop

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