Daily Archives: March 4th, 2010
Happy Hour: No Punch Backs
- It’s a happy day for the ‘noogans! Volkswagen is moving in, which means lots of new jobs. Just not until 2011. [WKRN]
- Also, they’re so excited that they’re ditching their lawnmowers for goats, since the animals have done such a “bang up job” mowing the kudzu. [WTVF]
- Metro Schools is shifting around almost 70 principals and assistant principals for the 2008 school year. [WTVF]
- Some Rutherford County burglars were totally busted by a 13-year old girl who was at home when they broke into her house. [Tennessean]
- A $2 million mansion in Brentwood went up in flames this afternoon, but the owner luckily managed to escape with her dog. [WKRN]
Photo by Special.
It’s a happy day for the ‘noogans! Volkswagen is moving in, which means lots of new jobs. Just not until 2011. [WKRN]
Also, they’re so excited that they’re ditching their lawnmowers for goats, since the animals have done such a “bang up job” mowing the kudzu. [WTVF]
Metro Schools is shifting around almost 70 principals and assistant [...]
Nashvillest Spotlight: ModerNash
Ever wished that IKEA was closer than Atlanta? We do, just about every day. Nashvillest HQ is decked out almost exclusively in IKEA, and there’s only so many trips to Atlanta with a borrowed pickup truck we can make before it starts to get annoying (and expensive). Luckily for us, it seems like that for every problem we encounter, some entrepreneur has created a solution. Enter ModerNash, a couple of guys who got the bright idea to go pick up popular furniture at IKEA and sell it on Craigslist at a reasonable profit. That morphed into the current version of ModerNash, where Nashvillians can place their custom IKEA orders and they’ll go pick them up and bring them back to town. It’s easy, flexible, and a lot cheaper than paying IKEA’s shipping rates on large items. They’ll even deliver to your door or set up your furniture for an additional fee. Check out their site for the pricing scale and more info. They also donate 10% of their profits to charity, so you can feel better about all that furniture you’re buying.
Seems like we could apply this idea to a multitude of different products. When will we be able to pay someone to go pick up a Slurpee in Virginia for us?
Ever wished that IKEA was closer than Atlanta? We do, just about every day. Nashvillest HQ is decked out almost exclusively in IKEA, and there’s only so many trips to Atlanta with a borrowed pickup truck we can make before it starts to get annoying (and expensive). Luckily for us, it seems like that for [...]
Photo Of The Day: July 15, 2008
Nashville is full of weird sights, including this purple firetruck parked in a lot near the airport and captured by crashmattb. What is it and why is it there? Well, we’ll probably never know. But we can bet it’s a good story.
Photo Of The Day will be a recurring feature for Nashvillest as long you keep giving us stuff to post. Don’t worry- We’ll give you props. Just add them to the pool or tag them with “Nashvillest” if you’re feeling lazy.
Nashville is full of weird sights, including this purple firetruck parked in a lot near the airport and captured by crashmattb. What is it and why is it there? Well, we’ll probably never know. But we can bet it’s a good story.
Photo Of The Day will be a recurring feature for Nashvillest as long you [...]
Nashville Is Reads: Say What?
Coming soon to a telephone pole near you… Nashville Is Reads. Nashville Is Reads tags itself “an outdoor literary journal.” Local publication Keyhole Magazine will partner with the existing Baltimore Is Reads to post pages of poetry on common objects – light posts, shopping carts, park benches and abandoned houses – around town. Baltimore Is Reads has been plastering Baltimore with outdoor poetry since 2006, and they describe their mission simply:
The objective is to inspire readers with startling, prescient poetry, but the journal also seeks to mark a counterpoint to the blitzkrieg of advertisements that are an unavoidable part of city life.
Nashville Is Reads will begin with the new summer edition, so watch for random poetry to begin appearing soon.
Photo from Baltimore Is Reads Issue 2.
Coming soon to a telephone pole near you… Nashville Is Reads. Nashville Is Reads tags itself “an outdoor literary journal.” Local publication Keyhole Magazine will partner with the existing Baltimore Is Reads to post pages of poetry on common objects – light posts, shopping carts, park benches and abandoned houses – around town. Baltimore Is [...]
Bright & Early: The City Of California Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Davidson County has become a hotspot for rooting out and arresting undocumented immigrants, but whenever we arrest them, we have to ship them out to the closest federal immigration court all the way in Memphis. Sheriff Daron Hall is hoping to fix that by flying out to DC to ask the feds to give us an immigration court of our own, explaining that “Nashville is processing more [immigrants] than any other city, other than California and Phoenix, Arizona.” Wonder where California falls on the list of America’s 25 largest cities.
- Keeping us safe. Ever since the Epic Sign Collapse of ‘08 on I-65 out in Cool Springs last week, TDOT has been running around inspecting every sign like it in Tennessee. Lucky for us, they found that one of the signs by Brentwood had two broken bolts out of eight, which they promptly took down. We still say it was the squirrels.
- Oops! A computer glitch at a Clarksville US Bank had 9,000 people in Clarksville notified that they had defaulted on their mortgages. Trouble is, none of them actually had.
- Bits & pieces. Williamson County will be footing the bill for identity protection for the 5,200 students whose social security numbers were accidentally posted on the internet last summer … At least someone’s benefiting from the crappy economy: Sales at Middle Tennessee’s Goodwill stores are up … So far we’ve gotten almost double the rainfall that we had last year in the month of July.
Photo by DCMatt.
Good morning, Nashville. Davidson County has become a hotspot for rooting out and arresting undocumented immigrants, but whenever we arrest them, we have to ship them out to the closest federal immigration court all the way in Memphis. Sheriff Daron Hall is hoping to fix that by flying out to DC to ask the feds [...]
Nashvillest Is Back In Action!
Nashvillest is all settled into our new server home, so thanks for your patience while we sorted things out. Our apologies for the site being down for part of the day yesterday, as well as the RSS/Twitter vomit you may have experienced. Everything should be running smoothly, and all of your bookmarks and subscriptions should be back to normal by now. Our email addresses even work again! Thanks for reading… We love you all.
Nashvillest is all settled into our new server home, so thanks for your patience while we sorted things out. Our apologies for the site being down for part of the day yesterday, as well as the RSS/Twitter vomit you may have experienced. Everything should be running smoothly, and all of your bookmarks and subscriptions should [...]
Nickelodeon Slime Across America Tour Comes To Nashville
What’s green, gooey and has 18 wheels? The Nickelodeon Slime Across America Tour, of course. The “Slimemobile” will be at Centennial Park this Saturday for some serious slime action. This is a blast from the past for us, and while it probably still won’t be as cool as Super Sloppy Double Dare, we bet it’ll be pretty impressive for the kids. The event runs from 12pm-5pm with a performance by Epic Records’ MTV-made boyband, Menudo, at 2pm.
What’s green, gooey and has 18 wheels? The Nickelodeon Slime Across America Tour, of course. The “Slimemobile” will be at Centennial Park this Saturday for some serious slime action. This is a blast from the past for us, and while it probably still won’t be as cool as Super Sloppy Double Dare, we bet it’ll [...]
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