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Bright & Early: Green Means Go Edition
Good morning, Nashville. That new downtown parking program for hybrids, electric cars and vehicles with really good gas mileage begins on July 1, meaning that if you drive one of those cars, you can pay $10 for a permit to park in any metered space for free downtown. Applications are available only at the main [...]
Happy Hour: Face Off
The ‘Dores will go head to head with the Northwestern Wild Cats, this time with Coach Robbie Caldwell at the helm. Good thing someone paid to have his face painted on the side of that building just in time, huh? Thanks, John Rich! [WTVF] The Feds have officially ruled out the possibility that the Murfreesboro [...]
Happy Hour: The Climb
To commemorate the anniversary of 9/11, several hundred firefighters from at least nine states will be gathering in Nashville to climb the Pinnacle stairs four times in remembrance of what firefighters had to do on September 11, 2001. The climb totals 110 flights of stairs, which is the equivalent of the stairs inside the World [...]
Happy Hour: You’ve Got Until Midnight
Lots and lots of talk about today’s teabaggin’ at the Capitol. Estimates for the turnout ranged from 1,000 (haters’ guestimate) to 7,500 (according to the organizers). Metro PD puts the crowd at 2,800 – 3,000. This guy just wanted some pot. [Tennessean] Well, y’all, it was nice while it lasted: The bill to bring wine [...]
Happy Hour: Mark It 8, Dude
Either the TVA shut down their main email account due to the influx of nasty letters or the nasty letters shut it down for them. Either way? Tennesseans – 1, TVA – 0.[Tennessean] Gallatin High School thinks that jousting on bicycles on the school’s track is probably not a good idea. We would tend to [...]
Bright & Early: Bambi Goes Rogue Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Watch out for those deer while you’re driving around for the next few weeks. It’s mating season, which means the dude deer will be chasing the chick deer all over the place and probably in front of your car. On Friday, one deer flew through the windshield of a moving car, tumbled [...]
Happy Hour: Raining On Our Parade
Well guys, with 57.7% of the city tuning into last night’s debate, we’d say we won. [Tennessean] Even some country stars got in on the action! [WTVF] Speaking of that, as promised, we managed to dig up the disastrous video footage of John Rich performing a rousing rendition of “Raisin’ McCain” on the CBS Early [...]
Happy Hour: Nothing But Trouble
We know it’s easy to get bored in Cookeville, but Channel 4 is reporting a string of arson incidents that have sent 6 port-o-johns up in flames. Kids these days. [WSMV] Nashville Is Talking had us on the edge of our seats with a blow-by-blow account of a police chase down I-40 this morning. After [...]
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