Daily Archives: December 3rd, 2011
Happy Hour: School, School, School
- 14-year old Centennial High freshman Claire Dickerson was hit by a car while walking to school for the first day. She’s currently at Vandy in critical condition. [WTVF]
- Guitar legend Les Paul passed away this morning at age 94. [WTVF]
- The college semester hasn’t even started yet and UT-Knoxville is already bragging on its incoming freshman class. [WZTV]
- As a result of the No Child Left Behind results, Metro is mailing out letters to families in the MNPS school system’s 16 underperforming schools offering transfers to other schools that are in better standing. [WKRN]
- Speaking of schools, the ACLU came to an out-of-court settlement with the company responsible for censoring non-pornographic gay & lesbian websites in Nashville and Knoxville public schools. [WPLN]
14-year old Centennial High freshman Claire Dickerson was hit by a car while walking to school for the first day. She’s currently at Vandy in critical condition. [WTVF] Guitar legend Les Paul passed away this morning at age 94. [WTVF] The college semester hasn’t even started yet and UT-Knoxville is already bragging on its incoming [...]
Bright & (Not So) Early: Poor Planning Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Just when we thought things with the convention center couldn’t get any more dramatic, News Channel 5 uncovered another contract that blew the budget out of the water. A consultant hired to help out with the hotel portion of the project was originally capped at $104,500, but then MDHA removed the cap six months later and placed a new $500,000 cap on it last week. The total price tag for the consultant was $315,000, which is about three times more than the original budget.
- Metro councilman Sam Coleman is filing his own non-discrimination ordinance to compete with the controversial one sponsored by Councilwoman Megan Barry. Councilman Coleman’s bill would ban discrimination based on anything other than job performance, though Metro’s lawyers say that the vague language wouldn’t actually protect anyone.
- The Tennessean finds that folks are still coming to Tennessee on vacation, but they’re not staying in hotels nearly as much as they used to. This is probably some bad news for the hotel tax, which is supposed to be paying for our shiny new convention center.
- Bits & pieces. Metro Schools fully expect some outbreaks of the swine flu … Just in time for school to start, some hooligans covered the Schwab Elementary School playground with graffiti … The Music City Star commuter train had a bit of a bomb scare yesterday.
Photo by Neuski.
Good morning, Nashville. Just when we thought things with the convention center couldn’t get any more dramatic, News Channel 5 uncovered another contract that blew the budget out of the water. A consultant hired to help out with the hotel portion of the project was originally capped at $104,500, but then MDHA removed the cap [...]
Tonight: Shakespeare In The Park 2009 Kicks Off
A telltale sign of the rapidly-approaching end of summer in Nashville, Shakespeare in the Park has been busy setting up shop in Centennial Park for the past few weeks, preparing for their first performance of the summer tonight. We love Shakespeare in the Park because it’s a free and entertaining annual event that really brings the community together, and if you’ve been reading Nashvillest for long, you know that we’re (almost) always on board with that!
This year, the Nashville Shakes will feature two performances – The Taming Of The Shrew, today through August 23, and The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare [Abridged], running August 27 through September 13. The free performances at the Centennial Park bandshell are Thursdays through Sundays within the specified dates, and the evening begins at 6:30pm with some pre-show entertainment.
Of course, we have to remind you that donations are welcome (and maybe even encouraged). The Nashville Shakes go to great lengths every year to make Shakespeare In The Park such a great event for the Nashville community, so throw ‘em a few bones to support their work.
A telltale sign of the rapidly-approaching end of summer in Nashville, Shakespeare in the Park has been busy setting up shop in Centennial Park for the past few weeks, preparing for their first performance of the summer tonight. We love Shakespeare in the Park because it’s a free and entertaining annual event that really brings the [...]
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