🍽️ Is Nashville’s food scene underrated?

🎁 Wrap Your Gifts With The Contributor

The wrapping paper edition of The Contributor is on streets now, which gave the City Cast Nashville podcast team a great reason to chat with the newspaper's executive director Will Connelly and columnist Judith Tackett about the state of homelessness in Nashville. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🍽️ Music City’s Underrated Food Scene

Resy’s 2024 Retrospective named Nashville as the most underrated food city, with White Limozeen, Rolf and Daughters, and Chief’s on Broadway being the most in-demand restaurants. [Resy Retrospective 2024]

🧘 Library No Longer Funding Free Yoga Classes

Popular Nashville Public Library wellness program BeWell didn’t receive funding to continue its free library programming for the first half of 2025. Over 32,000 people participated in BeWell library classes last year. They’re hoping to raise $12,000 to continue. [Nashville Scene]

• Donate to the fundraiser here. [Small World Yoga]

🛟 Office of Youth Safety Seeks Executive Director

Mayor Freddie O’Connell has signed an executive order creating the nation’s first Office of Youth Safety, which will proactively address youth violence without police intervention. An executive director should be chosen by the end of the year. [The Tennessean]