Daily Archives: December 3rd, 2011
Happy Hour: Badly Broken Brackets
- We hope you all enjoyed slaving over your brackets only to have them blown at the last possible moment during Vandy’s big upset against Murray State this afternoon. You’re in good company, though; even the President lost this one. [City Paper]
- Now here’s an interesting twist: The Leprechaun Bank Robber from yesterday and the Santa Bank Robber from Christmastime are actually the same person. [WTVF]
- Oh hey! It turns out that the County Clerk offices actually were not breaking any laws by playing slot machines yesterday, despite the best efforts of News Channel 5 to prove otherwise. John Arriola apologized anyway (sort of), saying: “Even though I did not know this was happening and even though everything was technically legal and ethical, it should not have happened, and I take full responsibility.” [WTVF]
- Gwyneth Paltrow had some super-flattering things to say about our city in her blog this morning. Though we can’t quite picture her packing away some Prince’s Hot Chicken and we’re not quite sure where this Fido inside of Bongo Java is and her shoutout to the Turnip Truck’s “staff of hipsters” makes us giggle, we sure do appreciate the love. Come on back and see us, Gwyneth, ya hear? [GOOP]
- We’re feeling for our friends at the Tennessean this afternoon upon hearing the news that parent company Gannett gave its CEO a $1.6 million raise despite laying off 6,000 people and imposing unpaid furloughs on most of the folks left. [Poynter]
Photo by Nathan T. Baker.
We hope you all enjoyed slaving over your brackets only to have them blown at the last possible moment during Vandy’s big upset against Murray State this afternoon. You’re in good company, though; even the President lost this one. [City Paper] Now here’s an interesting twist: The Leprechaun Bank Robber from yesterday and the Santa [...]
Bright & Early: End Of The Rainbow Edition
Good morning, Nashville. About 7,000 Vanderbilt students are the lucky recipients of a year’s worth of free identity theft protection after a professor’s computer was stolen containing their social security numbers. Apparently the incident happened in February, and the school has since instructed professors to “purge personal information like social security numbers from their files.” No kidding.
- Hog wild. Tennessee will soon begin hunting feral hogs from the sky, because these hogs eat crops and carry diseases and “breed prolifically.” They estimate they can wipe out 400 hogs in just 8 hours of helicopter hunting.
- Playing the slots. News Channel 5 busted up a St. Patrick’s Day party at County Clerk John Arriola’s office yesterday by barging into the break room and discovering that city employees were amusing themselves with slot machines. After hassling the employees, the news crew was asked to leave but continued being obnoxious, so now there is a painfully awkward news story to document the whole thing.
- Bits & pieces. We always love it when we make INTERNATIONAL NEWS for things like yesterday’s unsuccessful leprechaun bank robbery (Thanks to Drew L. for the tip) … Hey East Tennessee, could you stop falling apart already? … Lest you forget about all the water main street closures downtown … We’ve got some wet weather in store for the weekend.
Photo by Karen Alisa.
Good morning, Nashville. About 7,000 Vanderbilt students are the lucky recipients of a year’s worth of free identity theft protection after a professor’s computer was stolen containing their social security numbers. Apparently the incident happened in February, and the school has since instructed professors to “purge personal information like social security numbers from their files.” [...]
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