Category Archives: News
BEEP It Downtown (Decoding The Downtown Parking Mystery)
As if parking downtown wasn’t tight enough already, a giant chunk of downtown, conveniently located right behind the Bridgestone Arena, has been closed off for the new Music City Center construction through April 2010. And there’s that whole paying for Saturday parking meters thing now, too. What’s a downtown-event-goer to do?
BEEP. BEEP stands for Best [...]
Bright & Early: Music To Our Ears Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As much as we joke around about Bluepocalypse and CMApocalypse and all the other -pocalypses that involve hundreds of thousands of tourists flooding downtown Nashville, we really do appreciate it. Folks who visited over the weekend for the SEC festivities pumped an estimated $10 million into our economy and also had some [...]
Nashvillest PSA: Set Your Clocks Ahead On Sunday
The above ecard pretty much sums it up: Daylight Savings time begins this Sunday at 2AM, so don’t forget to set your clocks ahead when you go to bed. Here at Nashvillest, we’re a little unnecessarily excited about the extra hour of sunlight in the evenings (it’s the little things that count). And if your [...]
Happy Hour: Bluepocalypse Now
The Tennessean investigates these strange creatures we call Kentuckians and explains that they eat too much junk food and drink too much booze which can land them in the hospital during this weekend’s SEC tournament. Nutritionists would also like to remind these creatures that they should stick to a 2,000-calorie diet, even if they are [...]
Bright & Early: Keep The Lights On Edition
Good morning, Nashville. By the looks of our Twitter feed, many of you guys started out the morning in the dark. According to NES lightning struck the Edmonson Pike substation a little after 6am, causing a widespread power outage that lasted for about an hour and affected more than 10,000 customers. Storms are expected to [...]
Happy Hour: Not So Fast
As it turns out, our one interesting news story from this morning concerning the young lady who tackled the dude who stole her wallet is not true. According to witnesses, a couple of good samaritans banded together when they heard the girl screaming and managed to get the wallet back and enough information for police [...]
Bright & Early: Hats Off Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Everyone warned us that it was going to get soggy today, but that didn’t make it any easier to roll out of bed this morning. Most of the midstate saw some pretty strong thunderstorms overnight and into the early morning, and we’re not out of the woods yet. Though the rain should [...]
Blogs We Love: Alphabedible Adventures [Nashvillest Spotlight]
Nashville, blogging and food… Three things we love dearly. We also love unique projects by people who love this city as much as we do, and Brian & Tracy at Alphabedible Adventures fit the bill. They’re dining through the city of Nashville one letter at a time, and from the looks of things, having as [...]
Happy Hour: Gathering ‘Round
Remember that kid from University of Tennessee who hacked into then-Gov. Sarah Palin’s private email account? And oh yes, he’s also the son of a Tennessee state representative? His trial date has been set for April 20th. [WTVF]
The driver of the fuel tanker that exploded out by the airport yesterday died this morning. He is [...]
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