Daily Archives: December 3rd, 2011
Happy Hour: You Can’t Touch This
- The Sommet Group–the very company who put the “Sommet” in the Nashville Gaylord Sommet Bridgestone Entertainment Center Arena–was raided by the FBI and the IRS today out at their Cool Springs office. Apparently they made quite the scene. [WTVF]
- For those playing along at home, Tennessee has issued exactly 19 texting-while-driving citations for the entire year the law has been in effect. [Tennessean]
- Nashville will soon be getting some solar car-charging stations for all those folks with fancy cars that plug into the wall or whatever. [WSMV]
- We can all rest easy tonight, for News Channel 5 is conducting a thorough investigation about suspicious teeth whitening. [WTVF]
- Our July 4th DUI numbers were down a bit this year, but we suppose that number does not include the boat DUIs, of which there were 28. [WPLN]
- Oprah’s dad is planning a mixed-use development right smack in the middle of Cleveland Park in East Nashville, where his historic barbershop stood until a few months ago. He’ll be reopening the shop as the retail anchor, so we sure as heck hope he’s installing a fancy fish tank and maybe also some sort of giant Oprah tribute. [WSMV]
- Some of you Brentwood folks were without power this morning, and we still don’t know why. We suspect it had to do with a bird getting a little friendly with a transformer, though. [WKRN]
Photo by urbanwoodchuck.
The Sommet Group–the very company who put the “Sommet” in the Nashville Gaylord Sommet Bridgestone Entertainment Center Arena–was raided by the FBI and the IRS today out at their Cool Springs office. Apparently they made quite the scene. [WTVF] For those playing along at home, Tennessee has issued exactly 19 texting-while-driving citations for the entire [...]
Bright & Early: Beer, Barbecue And Blowing Things Up Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We hope that all of you had a safe and long weekend and that none of you partook in activities like these. Speaking of things like that, Nashville area hospitals treated more than 50 folks for fireworks-related injuries over the weekend, many of which resulted from “people playing games, firing them at each other, firing them at the neighbors, bottle rocket wars” and people who played with them while drunk. And with a few decades of southern living under our belts, our calculations suggest that we’ve got at least two more weeks of listening to our neighbors blow things up at all hours of the day and night, so keep those earplugs handy.
- Party downtown, be there. The good news is that 100,000 people turned out for the city’s weekend of July 4th festivities. As with CMA, this was great news for downtown businesses who are still reeling from the flood.
- We don’t even know. A little further down south, folks in Columbia, TN have discovered that they have a for-real superhero living in their midst. Some anonymous college student has decided to dress up in spandex and drive around town looking for criminals to report. When questioned by the local newspaper, he stated simply, “I am just a guy trying to do what is right, in tights.” We would urge you to head to source and read the entire story.
- Bits & pieces. The Metro Council will vote on an ordinance that would ban tour buses from Love Circle. We’ll give you one guess about who that one’s targeting … It’s tough for any Nashvillian to go through July 4th without remembering Steve McNair … If we had our little way, we’d eat peaches everyday … The new GM truck coming to the Spring Hill plant is just a rumor … Despite Metro’s $250 million flood damage tally, taxpayers shouldn’t feel any of it … This week will be hot and dry … We’ve heard this story before.
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Good morning, Nashville. We hope that all of you had a safe and long weekend and that none of you partook in activities like these. Speaking of things like that, Nashville area hospitals treated more than 50 folks for fireworks-related injuries over the weekend, many of which resulted from “people playing games, firing them at [...]
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