Daily Archives: March 11th, 2010
Happy Hour: Turning Up The Heat
- As we have harped on and will continue to harp on until it gets some more coverage, the contaminated medical equipment at the VA hospitals in Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida that have resulted in (so far) 33 Hepatitis cases and 5 HIV cases may have ruined a bunch of donated organ tissue as well. [WSMV]
- An audit of our state’s 911 situation revealed that several Tennessee counties may not be handling emergency dispatching correctly. [WSMV]
- UT football coach Lane Kiffin is certainly not making any friends these days. [Tennessean]
- The college kid who was arrested by some off-duty Spring Hill police officers at a Scientology protest last week had all the citations dropped. [WSMV]
- Governor Phil wants to build a $62 million “solar farm” using stimulus money to generate solar energy which we would then peddle to the TVA for some additional state revenue. [WKRN]
Photo by cdumo.
As we have harped on and will continue to harp on until it gets some more coverage, the contaminated medical equipment at the VA hospitals in Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida that have resulted in (so far) 33 Hepatitis cases and 5 HIV cases may have ruined a bunch of donated organ tissue as well. [WSMV]
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Photo Of The Day: May 13, 2009
Is it wind? Is it static electricity? Doesn’t really matter–this kid’s hair is amazing, this portrait is adorable, and most of all we wish we could’ve spent some of these past few days on the playground instead of being cooped up in an office. Thanks to sweetvenus for the submission!
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.
Is it wind? Is it static electricity? Doesn’t really matter–this kid’s hair is amazing, this portrait is adorable, and most of all we wish we could’ve spent some of these past few days on the playground instead of being cooped up in an office. Thanks to sweetvenus for the submission!
Photo Of The Day will be [...]
The Big Bang & Songs Of Love: A Winning Combo
The Big Bang Dueling Piano Bar (wonderful host of Twestival Nashville) is one of our favorite spots in downtown Nashville, tucked away above Paradise Park and home of the friendliest bar staff ever. In recent months, The Big Bang has played host to more than just Twestival: In March, they hosted a series of “TNT Thursdays” benefiting Team In Training. Tonight, The Big Bang and Griffin Technology are once again teaming up to host a great community event, this time benefiting Songs of Love, a nonprofit organization of songwriters and performers that create “musical medicine” for sick children and teens in hospitals around the nation.
Join us at The Big Bang from 6pm-8pm tonight for food, music, drink specials, special songwriter guests and a killer list of prizes from Griffin and more (word on the street is that they’ve got some Coldplay tickets to unload). And it’s free, but donations are gladly accepted (duh, it’s a fundraiser). Though we do have a bone to pick with them for scheduling on top of the LOST season finale, click here to RSVP anyway.
The Big Bang Dueling Piano Bar (wonderful host of Twestival Nashville) is one of our favorite spots in downtown Nashville, tucked away above Paradise Park and home of the friendliest bar staff ever. In recent months, The Big Bang has played host to more than just Twestival: In March, they hosted a series of “TNT [...]
Bright & Early: Maybe We Can’t Sag If We Want To Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Saggy Pants Bill may be off the table in the House if someone can’t figure out a way to make it cost less than $500,000 to enforce. Though we’re not entirely sure how it’s that expensive to tell folks to pull up their pants unless they’re creating a special new Pants Patrol, we are relieved that News Channel 5 has gotten to the bottom of the pants-sagging trend: ACLU member Joe Sweat explains, “Young people started to do it to show sympathy, empathy for people in prison.” We had no idea.
- All for the money. State auditors are a bit worried since they’ve realized that the current computer system doesn’t allow them to track all the money that trickles down to local governments, which they think leaves the door wide open for things like fraud and embezzlement.
- No booze for Pigeon Forge. The city of PIgeon Forge, a popular tourist destination that isn’t quite what it used to be, voted down a measure that would’ve allowed local restaurants to serve liquor by the drink in hopes of boosting revenue. Several other counties in Tennessee are trying to pass similar ordinances because everyone is broke and when people are broke, they still buy booze.
- Bits & pieces. We’re happy to see that Tennessean writer Peter Cooper survived his brush with death spat with Moby Teeth and is now happily writing about yesterday’s Grammy block party … Fisk, TSU, and Meharry are all trying to pull down some stimulus money to fix up their campuses … One of our favorite Nashville landmarks, the Natchez Trace bridge, will be getting all prettied up (and by that we mean it’s getting repaired so we don’t die driving across it) … If you’ve noticed more bugs in your house in the past month or two, you’re not alone.
Photo by Kittywinks Peeks.
Good morning, Nashville. The Saggy Pants Bill may be off the table in the House if someone can’t figure out a way to make it cost less than $500,000 to enforce. Though we’re not entirely sure how it’s that expensive to tell folks to pull up their pants unless they’re creating a special new Pants [...]
Arby’s Knows Recessions: A Summer Of Wednesday Freebies
Last Wednesday, if you’re one of our Twitter followers, you learned that you could walk into the nearest Arby’s and utter the questionable phrase “I’m parched, FruiTea me” to receive a free FruiTea with no strings attached. Apparently, the freebies didn’t stop there! Arby’s is hosting a whole summer of Wednesday freebies, though from this point on you will have to purchase something (usually a drink, but not every time) to get the free item… But at least there’s no more weird secret code phrases involved. Check out the list and see if anything sets your belly a-rumblin’. [via Faithful Provisions]
May 13th – Free Roastburger with any soft drink purchase
May 20th – Free Chocolate Malt Swirl shake with any sandwich purchase
May 27th – Free Regular Roast Beef sandwich with any soft drink purchaseJune 3rd – Free FruiTea with any sandwich purchase
June 10th – Free Roast Chicken club with any soft drink purchase
June 17th – Free Regular Sidekicker with any sandwich purchase
June 24th -Free Regular Roast Beef with any soft drink purchaseJuly 1st – Free Regular Beef ‘n Cheddar with any soft drink purchase
July 8th – Free Orange Cream Swirl shake with any sandwich purchase
July 15th – Free Regular Roast Beef with any soft drink purchase
July 22nd – Free Roastburger with any soft drink purchase
July 29th – Free FruiTea with any sandwich purchaseAugust 5th – Free Regular Roast Beef with any soft drink purchase
August 12th – Free Roast Chicken Club with any soft drink purchase
August 19th – Free FruiTea with any sandwich purchase
August 26th – Free Regular Beef ‘n Cheddar with any soft drink purchase
UPDATE: Arby’s has extended the summer freebies through September. Update #2: Arby’s in the Nashville area don’t seem to be honoring the September freebies.
September 9 – Free Regular Roast Beef with soft drink purchase
September 16 – Free Regular Sidekickers with sandwich purchase
September 23 – Free Roastburger with soft drink purchase
September 30 – Free FruiTea with sandwich purchase
Photo by brianbutko.
Last Wednesday, if you’re one of our Twitter followers, you learned that you could walk into the nearest Arby’s and utter the questionable phrase “I’m parched, FruiTea me” to receive a free FruiTea with no strings attached. Apparently, the freebies didn’t stop there! Arby’s is hosting a whole summer of Wednesday freebies, though from this [...]
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