Nashvillest

Tennessee may be the 3rd/6th fattest state, but Williamson County is actually the 3rd skinniest county in the nation, and Maury County is 4th. [Thanks to Laurel for the tip!]
Tennessee may be the Volunteer State, but we rank 39th on the national scale of actual volunteer rates. Nashville fares a little better when compared to [...]

[Read more →]

Good morning, Nashville. Some tourists were in for a treat yesterday when a drunk homeless guy hopped into the driver’s seat of their trolley near Hard Rock Cafe around 4pm. There were only 6 people aboard at the time and it took them a little while to realize something was wrong. He dropped everyone off [...]

[Read more →]

VH1 already used the “De Novo Dahl Has The Best Week Ever” headline, so we had to settle for boring over here at Nashvillest. Plus, we’re not really sure if having your music featured in a TV show is exciting enough to make it actually the best week ever. Extremities aside, local indie rockers De [...]

[Read more →]

 
We have a lot of talented photographers in our happy little Nashvillest family, and we can’t imagine what kinds of creativity would surface if they all got together to collaborate. Tonight we’ll have a chance to find out. Some of Nashville’s photographers are gathering to do a summer photowalk - not only a great excuse [...]

[Read more →]

Cool Springs will be getting a little swankier when Westin Hotel moves in. The plans were approved today and they hope to have it open to guests by 2010. We’re still holding out for the Peabody. [Tennessean]
Police discovered a “tent city” out in Lebanon earlier this week with a garden, some farm animals, and a [...]

[Read more →]

Around lunchtime today a semi overturned near Brentwood on northbound I-65, so you may want to find an alternate route if you’re headed into town this evening. Though the accident should be cleared out by 4pm, traffic has been backed up for miles for the past several hours and definitely won’t make rush hour any [...]

[Read more →]

On this dreary day in Nashville, we could almost feel the sunlight when we saw this capture by Erackblack. There’s nothing like bright blue skies to chase away the rainy-day blues.
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 [...]

[Read more →]

This video makes us wonder if our yearly CMApocalypse attendees are actually German tourists. The hoe-down appears to have little to no relevance to the topic of the actual video, but it’s an unexpected cultural depiction. Nashville even gets a shout out somewhere around :06 seconds. 

[Read more →]

While everyone was worried about TVA poisoning North Carolina, it sounds like they’re doing an even better job of spraying pollutants around Middle Tennessee. Reports are now showing that we’re breathing particles from not one, but three TVA plants. Apparently the pollutants can get lodged in our lungs. Think about that the next time you [...]

[Read more →]

We would be remiss if we didn’t mention this, but the Metro Planning Commission will be meeting tonight to talk about the controversial May Town Center development that aims to be a “second downtown” in the middle of rural Davidson County. They’re expecting a pretty packed house for the meeting, which starts around 6pm at [...]

[Read more →]