Daily Archives: March 11th, 2010
Happy Hour: Skeletons In The Closet
- This should make us all feel better: All of the rain has made some humain bones float into the Cumberland River, and those bones could apparently be 6,000 years old. Who the heck was in Tennessee 6,000 years ago besides the dinosaurs!? [WSMV]
- If you frequent the downtown YMCA, you may notice that it’s closed. It was struck by lightning last night and all the power went out, so it’ll reopen on Saturday morning for all your fitness needs and in the meantime you can visit any of the other locations. [WKRN]
- The Holiday Inn in Brentwood laid off their entire staff, kicked all of their guests out, and shut their doors for good yesterday without any real notice. It’s the same hotel that was successfully sued for $2 million a few months ago for firing some folks because they were gay. [WSMV]
- Metro PD thinks they’ve tracked down at least one of the two suspects in Tuesday’s Green Hills Mall parking garage assault wherein some poor sap got locked in his own trunk. [WKRN]
- The Slammin’ & Jammin’ car show in Lebanon ended up causing the city to fork over almost $20,000 to pay police officers overtime for the security they provided. [WSMV]
Photo by Paul Nicholson.
This should make us all feel better: All of the rain has made some humain bones float into the Cumberland River, and those bones could apparently be 6,000 years old. Who the heck was in Tennessee 6,000 years ago besides the dinosaurs!? [WSMV]
If you frequent the downtown YMCA, you may notice that it’s closed. It [...]
This Weekend: Snow Patrol To Play Instore At Grimeys
Too poor to snag tickets to the Coldplay show on Saturday at the Sommet Center? Yeah, us too. But us poor folk were pretty excited to hear that Snow Patrol will be playing an instore at Grimey’s on Saturday before they open for Coldplay that night. It’s like, half the show for none of the price, or something! Just one more reason why we love Grimey’s.
Snow Patrol will be playing at 2pm on Saturday, and we strongly suggest that you arrive early (it took us 45 minutes to park on Record Store Day).
Photo by lint01.
Too poor to snag tickets to the Coldplay show on Saturday at the Sommet Center? Yeah, us too. But us poor folk were pretty excited to hear that Snow Patrol will be playing an instore at Grimey’s on Saturday before they open for Coldplay that night. It’s like, half the show for none of the [...]
Raise Up Benefit: Mindy Smith, Landon Pigg, Erin McCarley And More
Benefit shows are a dime a dozen in Nashville, and it gets to the point where we usually just tune them out. Yet tonight’s fundraiser at Rocketown for Ruthie Sayles, a Nashville resident in need of a $100,000 surgery stemming from a preexisting condition, is hard to ignore. Her friends are joining together to put on tonight’s show, and it just so happens that among her friends are Mindy Smith, Landon Pigg, Erin McCarley, Griffin House, Brooke Waggoner and Sixpence None The Richer. These artists have each packed out smaller venues on their own, and tonight is a rare opportunity to see them all on one ticket.
In addition to the show, more of Ruthie’s talented friends will be auctioning off their professional services (no, not like that!) including studio production, photoshoots, video work and music lessons. The concert is from 6pm-10pm at Rocketown, and tickets are $20.
Benefit shows are a dime a dozen in Nashville, and it gets to the point where we usually just tune them out. Yet tonight’s fundraiser at Rocketown for Ruthie Sayles, a Nashville resident in need of a $100,000 surgery stemming from a preexisting condition, is hard to ignore. Her friends are joining together to put [...]
Bright & Early: Busted Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’ll start off today with a burning question: Which of you folks are among the lucky 5,000 Nashvillians whose parking tickets were found stuffed in clerks’ desks at the Metro courthouse yesterday? Because your editors have collected a number of parking tickets around town over the years, and we’re pretty sure no one has ever stuffed ours into a desk. Either way, the tickets are hiding no more, the clerks in question have been fired, and the 5,000 will soon be receiving letters telling them that they still need to pay up.
- This is Amurrica. On the heels of the whole Guns In Bars bill debacle, the Tennessee Senate just passed another piece of gun legislation that specifies that any gun made completely in Tennessee won’t be subject to those pesky federal regulations.
- We can’t wait. A group of dedicated folks are working out a plan to revitalize Centennial Park. If you love Centennial as much as we do for its hodgepodge of strange and seemingly unrelated statues (Parthenon? Oyster? Monument to transportation? What?), then you’ll be happy to know that the plan includes adding a place for musicians that “will resemble a landmark in England.” Awesome.
- Bits & pieces. Knox County Schools have unblocked GLBT websites after being faced with a lawsuit from the ACLU, claiming that the whole thing was the result of a glitch. Metro doesn’t seem to be budging … Green Hills Mall security officers seem to be calling shenanigans Tuesday’s mugging that took place in the parking garage … Councilman Eric Crafton wants to require that all Metro employees be residents of Davidson County.
A year ago on Nashvillest: We were a little bit horrified when a projector screen came crashing down on the Hannah Montana movie set, failed at explaining the clown in a box with a beer scenario in the Gulch, and were kind of offended when Hotel Preston called us all rednecks.
Photo by Silenus81.
Good morning, Nashville. We’ll start off today with a burning question: Which of you folks are among the lucky 5,000 Nashvillians whose parking tickets were found stuffed in clerks’ desks at the Metro courthouse yesterday? Because your editors have collected a number of parking tickets around town over the years, and we’re pretty sure no [...]
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