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Happy Hour: In Other News
Summarizing today: NASA tried to blow up the moon, President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, golf became an Olympic sport, Miley quit Twitter, and… it rained in Middle Tennessee. We’re so predictable. At least the time lapse video was cool. [Nashville WX]
The TVA would like to drain one of their reservoirs near Chattanooga into [...]
Bright & Early: Siren Song Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The folks in Rutherford County are still reeling from last week’s EF-4 tornado and now wonder whether a siren warning system could’ve saved lives. We tend to take our own siren system for granted here in Nashville (especially when we hear it every five minutes for two hours straight), but it’s a [...]
Happy Hour: In Which The Baptists Partner With Winos
The Tennessee Baptist Convention has thrown their collective weight behind the fight against wine in grocery stores, meaning that they’ve actually linked arms with the Tennessee Wine & Spirits Retailers Association. Hell might have just frozen over. [Tennessean]
“Nearly one in six Tennesseans has told a joke about Barack Obama’s race, and three-fourths say they’ve heard [...]
Bright & Early: Long Kiss Goodbye Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We have to admit we don’t know a whole lot about football (except that we’re supposed to bleed two-tone blue around here) but we hear it’s a big day for the NFL. Free agency is finally here, which means that changes are in store for the Titans beginning with one pretty big [...]
Bright & Early: Morning After Edition
Good morning, Nashville. What a great time we had last night at Twestival Nashville! We met so many of you guys face-to-face, gave away a ton of great prizes, heard some awesome music, and most importantly raised over $2,000 for charity: water (if you missed out, you can still donate here!) And oh yeah, we [...]
Happy Hour: Ride That River
Remember the second TVA ash spill that happened a few weeks ago? No, not Kingston or Alabama–the Ocoee River one that happened between those two but never quite made the news. Well, the TVA has finally drafted a plan for getting that cleaned up. [WZTV]
Just as we thought, the guy who donated the $8000 painting [...]
Happy Hour: Yes We Crayon!
Remember that Nashvillian artist who used 50,000 crayons to make a portrait of Barack Obama? Now he gets to go to the inauguration and we’re way jealous because we didn’t think of a crayon portrait first! [Tennessean]
Rep. Marsha Blackburn might run for governor, which seems to be the thing to do these days. We’re tempted [...]
Bright & Early: The Saga Continues Edition
Good morning, Nashville. More than two months out from the English Only special election, things are already starting to heat up a bit. Davidson County resident and El Salvador native Rosa Quinteros served Metro and the Davidson County Election Commission with a lawsuit yesterday afternoon. Quinteros, who’s in the country legally seeking temporary asylum from [...]
Crayon Campaign For Barack Obama [Only In Nashville]
Nashville artist Herb Williams has spent the last four months creating a giant CRAYOLABAMA. In other words, a giant portrait of President-Elect Barack Obama made entirely out of crayons. NBC has a video interview with Herb. He’s pretty hardcore.
Thanks to our Twitter friend @jessyly for posting the link!
Bright & Early: The Morning After Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We hear there’s a new president or something. Here in Tennessee, it’s business as usual with the Republicans gaining several seats in both the state House and Senate. We are happy to report that yesterday went by without a hitch on the new voting machine front, though. Now we just get to [...]
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