Tag Archives: cool springs
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 kind enough [...]
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 Springs was [...]
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 permit [...]
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 Lamar Alexander [...]
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 town [...]
Chuy’s Bringing Elvis & Tex Mex To Cool Springs [Comings & Goings]
We weren’t familiar with Chuy’s until being introduced to a Facebook group of rabid Middle Tennessee fans desperate for the Tex-Mex chain to open its doors here in Nashville. Something about Elvis… and enchiladas? Anyway, Chuy’s has signed a lease in Cool Springs in what used to be the old Beethoven’s Grille (near Mallory & [...]
It’s Tweet-Up Time: Twitterers, Unite
April in Tennessee means a few guaranteed things: Allergy season, a late freeze, and tornaders galore. And apparently it’s also tweet-up-season, because there are no fewer than three tweet ups happening in the coming week or two. So grab a few twittering friends and head down to connect some faces with avatars at whichever one [...]
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 agree. [...]
(For Real This Time) Bye Bye, Circuit City [Comings & Goings]
We lost a couple of our local Circuit City stores at the end of last year, but it looks like the rest of them will be following. Reports are pouring in from pretty much everywhere that state that Circuit City has filed for court approval to liquidate its remaining 567 stores. That means we can [...]
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