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Bright & Early: Do You Hear What I Hear Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Here’s your roundup of today’s headlines: Gone rogue. A tornado siren in Inglewood is driving everyone crazy, playing a “Close Encounters” / merry-go-round sound at random times, day and night. Officials suspect a hacker or prankster after sending crews to replace parts on the siren three times in the past week. Is [...]
Bright & Early: Just Another Manic Monday Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Apologies for our recent absence, but sometimes life gets in the way of bringing you the latest breaking news. Hey, did you know that Angry Birds will be landing on Facebook on Valentine’s Day? Good, now that we’re caught up on everything we missed in the past two weeks, here’s the rest [...]
Mumford & Sons Announce Three-Day March Run At The Ryman
If there’s one thing we learned from a certain late-night excursion last year, it’s that Nashville loves Mumford & Sons – or maybe they just really love us. Okay, they definitely love us. If you didn’t get a chance to catch Mumford & Sons at their sold-out War Memorial show in November 2010, they’re coming [...]
Bright & Early: Blustery Night Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We had a late night hanging out in our “safe place” as tornado warnings for Davison and Williamson county and thunderstorms with 70-80mph winds rolled through in the wee hours of the morning. A possible tornado was reported in Dickson, although no tornadoes have been confirmed in the Middle Tennessee area and [...]
Bright & Early: WTF Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Fun day we had yesterday with the weather, wasn’t it? Heavy rain, high winds, dropping temperatures and a brief tornado warning across Davidson, Williamson and surrounding counties had many people on Twitter saying “WTF, tornadoes in January?” Yes, it’s true – The National Weather Service has confirmed that an EF-0 tornado did [...]
Bright & Early: Buy It Out Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Metro flood buyouts are still chugging along at a slow & steady pace, with 78 homeowners still waiting to complete their buyouts. Metro Water spokesperson Sonia Harvat says that the city is close to closing on another 25 homes, which will leave just over 50 to go. In other “recovery” news: Jobs! [...]
Get Out And Eat: Nashville Restaurant Week 2012 Starts Today
We’re prepping ourselves for some serious eating this week, as Nashville’s first Restaurant Week of 2012 is upon us. Restaurant Week, for the unfamiliar, is a week of fixed-price meals at nearly 50 of Nashville’s finest local restaurants, mostly at $20.12 or $30.12 price points. We like to use the semi-annual event as an opportunity [...]
Free Admission At The Frist Center On MLK Day [Freebies]
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Frist Center is offering free admission today! This drizzly, dreary weather may keep us inside on our day off, but at least we’ll be getting cultured instead of sitting on the couch watching Netflix all day. (Who are we kidding, we’ll be doing that too.) We’ve been [...]
Bright & Early: Read A Book Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re a bit short on time this morning, so here’s your roundup of the day’s news: It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day! Nashvillians are observing in a variety of ways, including the annual 11am King Day March. [WSMV] The food truck craze in Nashville is still going strong. More than a dozen [...]
Bright & Early: First Snow Edition
Good morning, Nashville, and happy first snow day of the year to the kiddos! Davidson, Williamson, Rutherford, Sumner and a host of other school systems in Middle Tennessee are closed for the day, making it the luckiest Friday the 13th to ever grace our state (for kids, at least). The dusting of snow we got [...]
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