Monthly Archives: December, 2011
Bright & Early: Falling Into Fall Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Your tour of this morning’s headlines:
- The latest study by Feeding America shows that nearly 30% of Middle Tennessee’s kids don’t have access to healthy food because of poverty. The folks at Second Harvest are working closely with the group to figure out how to tackle the problem. [WPLN]
- More terrible offeason hockey news: A plane carrying most of the Russian hockey team Lokomotiv crashed during take-off this morning, killing 36 and injuring one. Former Preds Vasicek and Skrastins are on the team’s roster but haven’t been confirmed to be on board, though Yahoo’s Puck Daddy is reporting that everyone on the main roster was on the plane. [AP]
- But on a happier note, Preds single game tickets go on sale this Saturday. [WKRN]
- If you haven’t already noticed, it’s still sort of cold outside! And cloudy. And autumn-y. Things are supposed to warm up by the weekend, but it looks like we’re at least trending in the right direction. [Nashville WX]
- But despite all the rain, the Cumberland isn’t anywhere near flood stage. [WKRN]
- And man, we’re really upset that all of this rain is driving up the price of… pasta? [WKRN]
- Someone has been phoning in bomb threats to the Murfreesboro Islamic Center, which has already had a hell of a time out there in the short time it has existed. [WTVF]
- So imagine you’re just coming home from a relaxing vacation and you notice that your roof is gone! Except it was supposed to be your neighbor’s roof that was gone, because they had actually ordered a roof repair, but someone removed your roof instead. So then the roofers ran away and it rained inside of your house. Only in Clarksville. [WTVF]
Photo by Eva Maria.
Good morning, Nashville. Your tour of this morning’s headlines: The latest study by Feeding America shows that nearly 30% of Middle Tennessee’s kids don’t have access to healthy food because of poverty. The folks at Second Harvest are working closely with the group to figure out how to tackle the problem. [WPLN] More terrible offeason [...]
The Weekendist: Work It (Or Don’t) Edition
TGIF, Nashville. Assuming your weekend isn’t already full of barbecue hopping, football watching, lake excursions and other such long weekend delights, you may want to check out our top picks for things to do this Labor Day weekend. Stay safe, don’t drive drunk, have fun, etc! We’ll see you Tuesday.
73rd National Folk Festival. Friday – Sunday, September 2-4 at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, free. If you missed our post about the National Folk Festival earlier today, head over here to check it out. You don’t want to miss the fest and its 250+ performers, from flea circus to ancient hula dancing and everything in between. Did we mention it’s free?
Musician’s Corner. Saturday, September 3 from 3-6pm in Centennial Park. Musician’s Corner is back for the fall, and the first week is packed with great local artists - Attwater, The Co, Andrew Osenga, Damien Horne, Striking Matches, Metro Parks Jamband and Foxes Have Foxholes. Activities for kids and everyone’s favorite food trucks/stands will round out the afternoon of free entertainment, so take advantage of one of these last summer Saturdays to spend in the park.
First Saturday Art Crawl. Saturday, September 3 from 6-9pm in downtown Nashville. It’s that time of year when the evenings are cooling off, which makes for a pretty perfect stroll down 4th & 5th Avenues and through the Arcade for an evening of perusing art galleries, sipping wine and possibly seeing some street performances.
Franklin Jazz Festival. Saturday – Sunday, September 3-4 in downtown Franklin, $10. If the National Folk Festival isn’t enough music for you (or you just can’t find parking), head to Franklin for the 22nd annual Franklin Jazz Festival. A portion of all profits benefit The GEAR Foundation, and you can expect 8 fantastic jazz acts to take the stage through the fest, including headliners C.J. Chenier and The Red Hot Louisiana Band and The Nashville Jazz Orchestra featuring Blue Lou Marini (Blues Brothers) and Charles “Wig” Walker (The Dynamites).
Photo by _Faraz.
TGIF, Nashville. Assuming your weekend isn’t already full of barbecue hopping, football watching, lake excursions and other such long weekend delights, you may want to check out our top picks for things to do this Labor Day weekend. Stay safe, don’t drive drunk, have fun, etc! We’ll see you Tuesday. 73rd National Folk Festival. Friday [...]
73rd National Folk Festival Comes To Nashville This Weekend
It’s going to be a good Labor Day weekend in Nashville, largely thanks to the totally free National Folk Festival camping out at Bicentennial Mall for the next three days. Lest you write off the NFF as simply another free outdoor festival to hit up if you have time, consider this – Nashville beat out 43 other cities for the rights to host, and the festival will return annually through its 75th birthday in 2013. The National Folk Festival’s roots run deep, and we couldn’t be happier that it’s found a home here.
So what can you expect if you wander over to the festival this weekend? Have a gander:
The National Folk Festival features over 250 of the nation’s finest traditional musicians, dancers and craftspeople, 6 stages of continuous performances, participatory dancing, parades, workshops, crafts exhibits and demonstrations, a festival marketplace, children’s activities and delicious regional and ethnic foods.
Legendary masters as well as the next generation of dynamic young artists celebrate the musical soul and cultural roots of America. Audiences are treated to authentic blues, gospel, jazz, polka, cowboy, bluegrass, klezmer, old-time, Cajun, rhythm and blues, mariachi, western swing, zydeco, as well as traditional music and dance from Native American, Celtic, Acadian, Middle Eastern, Caribbean, Asian, Appalachian, Hispanic, Eastern European, African and Pacific Island cultures.
It would be an understatement to say that there’s something for everyone at the Nashville Folk Festival. Try a dozen somethings for everyone. From Mexican mariachi to breakdance to Cherokee storytelling to ancient hula to a flea circus, there will be no shortage of entertainment from all cultures and traditions.
Most of the acts are new to us, but we highly recommend checking out the Nashville Scene‘s list of Ten must-see National Folk Festival Acts if you’re looking for a starting point.
And there will be booze. Yes, booze in a state park… Sort of. The beer gardens will actually be outside of the actual park, at the corners of Jefferson St and 8th Ave, a sneaky sneaky trick that we’re totally on board with. That beer will pair mighty well with food from basically one bazillion local food trucks, who have been put on a rotating schedule for the weekend (click for the truck lineup: Friday, Saturday, Sunday).
The National Folk Festival kicks off tonight from 7-10:30pm, and continues tomorrow (Saturday) noon to 10:30pm and Sunday noon to 6:30pm. A full schedule of all performances can be found here.
Photo by National Folk Festival.
It’s going to be a good Labor Day weekend in Nashville, largely thanks to the totally free National Folk Festival camping out at Bicentennial Mall for the next three days. Lest you write off the NFF as simply another free outdoor festival to hit up if you have time, consider this – Nashville beat out 43 [...]
Bright & Early: Enforcer Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Here’s your morning news:
- Former Preds defenseman and forward Wade Belak was found dead in a Toronto hotel room yesterday, and though the cause of death hasn’t been confirmed, many media outlets are reporting that it was a suicide. Belak was with the Preds from 2008 until he retired this past February. Our hearts go out to his friends and family. [City Paper]
- We’re not sure we understand what’s going on in this story, but involves the discovery of an underground vault in Printer’s Alley that no one is digging up or cracking open, and it involves paving over the historic cobblestone in the alley. [WKRN]
- Leave it to Chris Johnson to stir the proverbial Twitter pot as he did yesterday with his tweet telling “fake Titans fans” to “STFU on my timeline, I don’t have a regular job, so don’t compare me to you, and I can care less if you think I am greedy.” Clearly this is going to end well. [WTVF]
- Music City Bowl tickets go on sale today! Get ‘em while they’re hot. [City Paper]
- Consider this your official Nashvillest lecture about not drinking and driving over the holiday weekend! It’s dumb, it’s dangerous and also the Tennessee Highway Patrol will be setting up some extra checkpoints to catch those who do. [WTVF]
- A 30 to 40-cent drop in gas prices could be coming our way. We like the sound of that! [WKRN]
- Thanks to Hurricane Irene, FEMA is freezing long-term disaster relief spending to take care of business in the northeast and Metro’s ongoing flood buyout program could be impacted. [Tennessean]
Photo by Kerry Woo.
Good morning, Nashville. Here’s your morning news: Former Preds defenseman and forward Wade Belak was found dead in a Toronto hotel room yesterday, and though the cause of death hasn’t been confirmed, many media outlets are reporting that it was a suicide. Belak was with the Preds from 2008 until he retired this past February. [...]
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