Clarksville Living Magazine — January 2018

The January 2018 issue of Clarksville Living Magazine helps readers kick the smoking habit, tours the new Downtown Commons, and invites the city to play with kaleidoscopic art.

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The cover health feature, “Kicking the Habit,” brought to readers by Tennova Medical Group, tackles one of the most common — and most defeating — New Year's resolutions: quitting smoking. It lays out the real health stakes and the strategies that give quitters a fighting chance, timely for a community where a meaningful percentage of the population still smokes.

“The New Downtown Commons” takes readers through the evolving heart of the city, the public gathering space that had quickly become central to downtown life — a look at how the project reshaped the way Clarksville comes together.

“Kaleidoscope Art Invites Clarksvillians to Play” celebrates an interactive local art experience, while a profile of TN Brew Company adds to the issue's coverage of the businesses giving the city its flavor.

The issue keeps the new-year theme going with a feature on the benefits of exercise, a look at “Mini-Resolutions” as a gentler twist on the usual all-or-nothing pledges, a reviewed roundup of meal kits, and a taste of Mexico right here in Clarksville.

Together the features open 2018 on a practical, upbeat note — healthier habits, a revitalized downtown, and plenty of local flavor — the kind of wide-ranging January number the magazine does well.

The recurring departments and photo pages round out an issue that captures Clarksville at the top of a new year — resolved to be healthier, proud of a revitalized downtown, and hungry for the local flavor its restaurants and breweries keep adding. It is the magazine at its most characteristically useful, pairing genuine health guidance with a celebration of the places that make the city worth living in. Whether a reader's aim is to quit smoking, move more or simply try somewhere new for dinner, the January number offers a nudge in the right direction and a reminder of how much the community has to offer close to home.

Table of Contents

• Kicking the Habit (p. 6)
• TN Brew Company (p. 8)
• Bonus (p. 5)
• Benefits of Exercise (p. 12)
• The New Downtown Commons (p. 14)
• Kaleidescope Art Invites Clarksvillians to Play (p. 18)
• taste of Mexico, right here in Clarksville! (p. 22)
• Mini-Resolutionsa New Twist on New Year’s Resolutions (p. 28)
• Mealkits reviewed (p. 30)
• percent of the population smokes (p. 24)

Regular departments

• The Fridge (p. 34)
• PetPix (p. 43)
• Network (p. 44)