City: Nashville, TN

Category: Media

Telephone: (615) 244-7989

Description: Nashville Scene is Music City’s leading alternative newspaper. About 55,000 of the free weekly papers are distributed at grocery stores, convenience stores, bookstores, restaurants, record stores, and other places around town. Founded in 1983, the Scene covers politics, business, music, and arts in an in-depth fashion and does investigative stories. The Scene has a comprehensive listing of local entertainment events. Special issues, such as the annual “You’re So Nashville If . . .” and the “Best of Nashville” winners issues, get snapped up quickly. The Annual Manual, published at the beginning of the year, is a city guide full of information about living in Nashville. The Scene also publishes restaurant guide issues. The paper has won numerous awards from the National Newspaper Association and the Association of Alternative Newspapers. It is published by City Press Publishing, a subsidiary of Village Voice Media, publisher of five other alternative weeklies around the country.