Arts + Culture

Eat, Play, Learn

The Bellevue Community Center Is All About Caring For The Kids Article by Kellie Walton The Bellevue Community Center may default to a fitness facility in your mind. But don’t let the ellipticals and group fitness classes cloud your memory that there are tons of kid-focused activities going on here, too.  In fact, Program Director Demario Patterson has a long list of ways kids can take advantage of this community resource. They've just wrapped up summer camp season, with those hot, sunny days...

Travel

Taking A Trip Before School Starts?

BNA Cheap Flights Helps You Find A Deal For Your Family Article by Maria Dinoia | Photography by Provided Some of the best businesses start not with a business plan, but with a feeling. For Andrea Giordano, that feeling struck for the first time in 2007 while seated in front of a computer screen, staring at a $25 flight from Columbus, Ohio, to Nashville. "I can think as far back as 2007," she says. "And I remember the feeling in my body of pure excitement and also I couldn't stop talking...

Local Services

Golden Anniversary

The Exchange Club of Bellevue marks a half century of service Article and Photography by Provided You’re probably aware that there was a big celebration last month surrounding our nation’s 250th anniversary. But you may not have known that just a few days later, Bellevue celebrated the 50th anniversary of perhaps its longest-serving community organization.   On July 7, nearly 100 community members packed a conference room at the Bellevue Regional Community Center to commemorate the Golden...

Shopping

Beat The Heat By Exploring McKAY's

Go On A Treasure Hunt This Summer At Beloved Bellevue Staple McKAY’s Article by Lisa Valentine | Photography by Courtesy of McKAY's Whether you’re looking for the perfect beach read this summer or crossing off titles on your summer reading list, Bellevue’s mainstay, McKAY’s is a trove ofentertainment gold. The best  part about McKAY’s is not just the books, music, games and more that you walk out with, but rather the treasure hunt itself as you explore theaisles of pre-loved gems. First...

Food + Beverage

Celebrate National Grilling Month

With Bellevue's HoneyFire Barbeque and Co. Article by Maria Dinoia | Photography by Courtesy of HoneyFire Honeyfire Barbeque Co.'s Ben Claybaker built HoneyFire on a deep, genuine love of the craft of barbecuing and the belief that great barbecue has the power to bring people together. "I was born in Texas and grew up in Arkansas," says Claybaker. My hometown was 15 miles from Louisiana and 40 miles from Texas. Both sides of my family are from the South, mostly East Tennessee, Texas and...

Travel

An All-Inclusive That’s All Worth It

Puerto Vallarta’s Villa La Estancia Is A Worthwhile Retreat Article by Kellie Walton | Photography by Courtesy of Villa La Estancia If you've ever looked at all-inclusive resorts and immediately thought of swim-up bars, spring break revelry, and buffet lines, Villa La Estancia in Riviera Nayarit is the antithesis. Situated in stunning Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, I whisked my mom away for a birthday trip last fall, and from the moment we arrived, it was clear this resort operates on a different...

Sports + Recreation

Running Wild

The Harpeth Hills Flying Monkey Marathon Is A Beloved Percy Warner Park Annual Tradition Article by Maria Dinoia | Photography by Provided If you've ever run a marathon and thought, 'You know what this needs? More hills, more roots, and a lot more soul,' then the Flying Monkey Marathon in Bellevue was made for you. Held each November in the lush, forested terrain of Percy Warner Park, the Flying Monkey has built a reputation as one of the most challenging trail marathons in the Southeast. With...

Entertainment

Nashville's Most Un-Nashville Band

Meet Bellevue's Velvet Dogs Article by Maria Dinoia | Photography by Lisa Linn Manley In a city where every third person has a guitar pick in their pocket and a publishing deal on their mind, The Velvet Dogs are something of an anomaly. No original songs. No country. No Skynyrd, no Seger. Just a group of middle-aged guys from Bellevue who get together to play hard rock because it's what they love. And because, as band founder and bassist Ed Atlas puts it, somebody has to. "There's a law in...

Food + Beverage

Good Pours And Better Company

Southern Whiskey Society Returns For Year Four Article by Kellie Walton | Photography by Provided For the past nine years, the first Saturday of August has filled Franklin with good whiskey and even better conversation. The Southern Whiskey Society’s (SWS) Southern Food & Whiskey Experience returns to The Factory this year on August 8th. But before we get into this year’s event, let’s pour one out for how it all began.  Joseph Dulaney has lived in Bellevue since 1998. By day, he works in...

Sports + Recreation

Tee It Up Indoors At Back Nine Golf

George And Carrie Lund Have Brought The World’s Foremost Indoor Golf Experience To An Upscale Space In The Heart Of Bellevue Article by Ed Atlas | Photography by Provided Even though it’s tucked inconspicuously into a corner of a high-profile Bellevue retail corridor, the Back Nine indoor golf experience is quickly becoming a destination unto itself. The facility’s welcoming ambience and dazzling technology inspires golfers of all levels to hone their skills and immerse in a community of...