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Bright & Early: Wet Hot Tennessee Summer Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Cool Springs experienced quite the flooding scare yesterday as a slow-moving thunderstorm dumped as much as 2.5″ of rain within an hour in some areas, causing flash floods that stranded motorists and made their way into at least a few homes. The scene was an eerily familiar one, as flooding is still [...]
Bright & Early: Where It Hurts Edition
Good morning, Nashville. As of July 1, we’ll be shelling out just a little bit more for our traffic tickets than we used to. Strapped for cash (who isn’t?), the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation will be be requiring municipalities to tack on an additional $13.75 fee per violation when we pay our tickets before the [...]
Bright & Early: Stirring The Pot Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We would be remiss if we didn’t mention all the storms headed our way, though we suspect you’ve already looked out the window this morning and seen for yourselves. As of 9:30am, all of Middle Tennessee was placed under a tornado watch until 5pm for a particularly nasty line of storms that’s [...]
Bright & Early: All Is Fair Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Tennessee State Fair and Fairgrounds have been in constant limbo for the past year or so with Mayor Dean proposing to shut it down by the first of July, then extending the closing date to the end of the year with various groups fighting to keep it around as a 104-year [...]
Happy Hour: You’re Fired
After the Titans’ excruciating six straight losses that we try to forget about, Coach Fisher announced today that Vince Young will be the starting quarterback for the rest of the season. No pressure or anything, VY™. [WKRN] Vols Coach Lane Kiffin is totally down with Lil’ Wayne. [Tennessean] Speaking of the Vols, the Tennessean is [...]
Cool Springs Correspondent: Paccini’s Italian Caffe [Guest Posts]
Editor’s Note #1: Paccini’s has now been closed for several weeks, shortly after our guest contributor submitted this review. Below is the original guest post in its entirety. Editor’s Note #2: Jeff Goins is a transplant Nashvillian working in nonprofit marketing; he loves reading, writing, and tinkering around on the guitar. You can find him [...]
Happy Hour: It’s Distracting
Tennessee police still aren’t writing too many tickets for texting while driving because they haven’t figured out how to enforce it. [Tennessean] Metro Council will soon start debating whether Nashville should opt out of the guns in parks law, although we’re not sure where this fits in. [WKRN] One of the office complexes in Cool [...]
Because We Really, Really Need More Burritos: Chipotle & Chuy’s Updates
What do Chipotle and Chuy’s have in common? Without getting into a debate about burritos and Tex-Mex and what really is or isn’t Mexican food, they share a common bond of some very, very enthusiastic fans. And those very, very enthusiastic fans should be excited to hear these updates. Chipotle has a nice new shiny building [...]
Happy Hour: No Touching, No Touching!
Some of you were all a-twitter this morning about a power outage in Cool Springs and Brentwood. The culprit? Some birds playing a little too close to the substation. [Tennessean] For the folks going to Bonnaroo this year, Jimmy Buffet will be making an appearance, or so says band member Nadirah Shakoor’s Twitter. [Tennessean] Senator [...]
Happy Hour: The Big Ten
Tennessee’s unemployment ended up being 9.9% for the month of April, which means we’re a mere tenth of a percentage point away from 10! Compare ot last year’s April unemployment rate of 6%. We’re getting depressed just thinking about it. [WSMV] So let’s lighten things up with a cute video/slideshow/thing about Metro students covering the [...]
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