Now, I'm going to preface my review of The Scene by admitting that yes, I am a contributing music…read morewriter, so I may be a bit biased. However, from a purely objective standpoint (because I felt this way even before they hired me), I can say that The Scene is the best publication in Nashville when it comes to arts and entertainment. First of all, The Scene can be found for free at countless locations throughout the city. It features album, book and film reviews as well as hard news pieces on the goings-on in and around Nashville. They also print some pretty popular features, such as the "Best of Nashville" list, and their website is extensive with archives of all the articles they publish. The Scene is a Village Voice publication, and those people know how to run a paper. With all the staffers and contributors The Scene employs, it's pretty easy to see that if something interesting goes down in Nashville, one of our guys will cover it. There are always listings of upcoming shows and events as well as reviews of things you may have missed. Besides, it's free! It certainly doesn't look like a hastily thrown-together publication, however.

Scene is pay to win, or pay for attention. The restaurants, bars, and venues that buy the most…read moreadvertising get the most attention. I work at one of only 5 fully plant based restaurants in Nashville but somehow we are left out of any articles like "where to find best vegetarian meals" but they'll instead mention a meat-centric restaurant with a few vegetable dishes, like wtf? Is it because we turn them down when we get sales calls from them? Because we don't want to buy advertising in their cheap rag? I agree with Simply S. that the staff at Scene only write about the things they're interested instead of covering the wide variety of happenings in Nashville. It's poor representation and they should hold themselves to a higher standard.

"The City Paper" is a pretty great free local newspaper that focuses more on hard news and local…read moreevents than arts and entertainment. While "The Scene" is the publication to check out for music and film reviews and occasional news features, "The City Paper" is a great way to check out the goings-on of the city that may not be covered in "The Tennessean." "The City Paper" has several pick-up locations all over the city, but if you're unable to track a copy down, you can always read their full issues at www.nashvillecitypaper.com. They have some really strong writers, and they focus mainly on city politics rather than state or national news. They have some good features in their Lifestyles and City Voices sections, and most issues are at least worth picking up.

The City Paper lacks the crazy antics or really hard hitting stuff the Scene carries so from a…read morereadability standpoint, it's not the paper to catch your eye or make you think. The Tennessean is your normal Newspaper standpoint so you get everything from fires and crime, National and world news, to some little bits about a civic project here and there. Normal Newspaper stuff. The City Paper seems to me to be aiming for just being generally informative about whats up in Nashville with regards to businesses, neighborhoods, and not so much focus on cirme or car accidents. I am in real estate so obviously, I use it a lot just to stay up to date about developments, new industries coming in, things the mayor may be doing etc.. I have to be frank that with 3 kids and a career my time is limited to skimming headlines for articles that are relevant to me and my goals or activities. I really can't give it an honest critique for accuracy or editorial content. I use it strictly to get information and I certainly feel I find more useful tidbits that I do in the Tennessean about what's going on in our fine city.

I have been a subscriber for 20+ years. I recently experience not receiving my Saturday paper…read more Things like this happen and usually is not a big deal. Did you know there is NO customer service on SATURDAY. I tried the phone service to file issue and it said there was a technical problem to call back during normal business hours Monday thru Friday and Half day on Sunday. So I tried filing the issue with the computer site and asked for re-delivery. Well 3 hours later no paper. I have now filed to give me credit . What is that 50 cents for this head ache. What happen to them caring if you get the paper you pay for through easy pay I got an e-mail saying the will respond to my e-mail during regular business hours . If a few days I will get my paper?. The e-mail continued to say you can set up easy pay with them. Yes I know I have it. Lets see if I get my 50 cent credit on my charge card. THERE SHOULD BE SATURDAY CUSTOMER SERVICE.

paid close to 900.00 for 1 year paper to get delivered and needed on porch. both of us are in late…read more80's. some days it never shows up and some times it just lays in the street they don't even throw in yard on busy street. I keep calling and they just lie and say they will fix it. guess who won't be paying that again. Madison tn

Considering going to an event sponsored by Nashville Lifestyles? Don't--the organization is a scam…read more I purchased tickets for an event on the Nashville Lifestyles website ("Battle of the Burger") that was listed as a "rain or shine" event. The day before the event, though, it was cancelled due to ... gotta love it, bad weather. The event has yet to provide details about how to request a refund, nor has it provided a new date/time. In my book, that's false advertising and unprofessional communication, enough that I'll think twice before attending a future Nashville Lifestyles event. [If someone from Nashville Lifestyles would like to message me about providing a refund, I'd be happy to reconsider this review.]

I just started reading Nashville Lifestyles. I'm an avid reader of The Rage and the Nashville…read moreScene, which have a lot of information about upcoming events, but because they're weekly, sometimes you don't have time to plan. Because Nashville Lifestyles is monthly, they advertise upcoming events far earlier, and they sponsor their own events too, including a summer bash, the bartending bash and a singles event. The articles are interesting. There's no real news, just interest pieces about Nashville people, events, restaurants and phenomena. This month's edition had a great article about country music stars who've started restaurants and food brands, like Jimmy Dean Sausage and Kenny Roger's Roasters.

Fine respected local newspaper that has been around for decades- affordable advertising with 'long…read moretime' advertisers- great community service -- help & coverage to assist animal shelters & rescues in saving homeless pets- Thanks! I GIVE THEM "5" STARS!

I would suggest checking to make sure they are going to print what they are supposed to and what…read moreyou paid for. We were sent proofs twice,the first one being full of incorrect information including wrong address,name and phone number,services that our business didn't offer,spelling and punctuation errors galore...we were so disappointed that we asked to please just cancel the article and we would still pay for small ad..the answer to that was "I'm pretty sure you can't"..ummm, well, I'm pretty sure I want to.. so find out?! No answer to that. We then wrote them a huge paragraph saying what all the wrong information was, and sent new photos because apparently they could not use the ones we sent. Our response now back was a revised article with the new picture that looked decent,info was at least correct, so we responded back that it looked fine now, thank you for fixing it. Well apparently somehow the proof we confirmed yes for them to use all of the sudden was now not possible..the title was changed, huge space gaps between words, a giant quote box in the center of article(something we specifically requested NOT to be there)..and now once again no photo which was included with price, because that one also was not able to be used..pictures were taken with a Nikon D-90,high resolution, we could have changed them to be able to be used by them had we known what the problem was..So these changes were made known to us through an e-mail at 4 p.m., a few hours before the article ran,no phone call to any of our 3 contact numbers so we could okay it..When we saw the e-mail first thing in the morning, we hated the changes, and looked at the online paper to see that they had already printed it, and furthermore made more changes! Being a brand new business and this being our first attempt at advertising this was extremely disappointing. We also let them know how unhappy we were and requested a copy of the form I had filled out, and no response back at all. They will not even respond back with a yes or no as to whether I can have this item...Very rude and unprofessional, we can't understand why they would have sent us a proof of something to verify and then change completely with no notice.I would also think you would want your spelling and punctuation to be correct before you send something to a customer.....Will NEVER use them again or recommend to anyone who wants something higher quality than a kindergartner could write.

When I first moved to Nashville area I saw people standing on the side of the road at intersections…read moreor sometimes in the strip between the two lanes holding up a paper and people rolling down their windows and making an exchange=== money for a paper. I thought wow this is a unique way to get your daily newspaper. I asked a co-worker and found out that this is a publication put out by homeless people and they have to follow a program and basically they pick these papers up and are allowed to sell them for money for themselves as opposed to just hanging out with a sign that said hungry- need food. I was very intriqued. I started buying the paper each it was convenient---stopped at a red light had the change hanging or my wallet handy as I think this is a great idea and once I started to actually get the little publication I enjoyed the articles. The articles are typically by homeless or former homeless people. I appreciate that this program is in place and I certainly feel more comfortable rolling down my window and or making eye contact and acknowledging these folks that are trying to do something to better their situation.

The businesses that are featured and the stories written about them are based on how much the…read morebusiness pays each month to StyleBlueprint. The writers of the articles are more like teenage fans gushing over a famous movie star than true journalists writing a story. The truth is stretched to the limit and sometimes to the point that history is rewritten. Sometimes you can even go read past articles about a business and it will say something entirely different than the current article. Not a lot of background checked on the featured person. I know cause I went to school with one featured business owner who totally lied about her degree in the article. Style Blueprint reminds me of an online version of those magazines at the checkout counter in the grocery store like National Enquirer. A successful business owner should not waste their money on advertising in this glorified online blog.

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What was formally All the Rage, Metromix is another free and entertaining paper that you can grab…read moreup in Nashville. They seem to center themselves in their food reviews and music articles. They do a great job of listing shows by genre, and have ads for local restaurants, many including coupons. They take on a more People Magazine gossip approach than The Nashville Scene does, so you'll have little snippets of where Taylor Swift was and what bookstore Nicole Kidman visits. They used to have a very detailed pull out every week of apartments in the city, which I thought was very helpful, but they still have classified for you to go through, so that's alright too.

Nashville Scene helped kill Metromix Nashville tabloid, which died February 2011. No more Gannett…read moreNashville print weekly (weakly) which struggled despite heroic efforts by Heather Byrd of failed Metromix. Chris Ferrell Scene alternative weekly has been racking up the ads and circulation numbers to detriment of Gannett's tool. Metromix folded - it's gone, except its online ghost which may not survive Gannett corporation budget knife.