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OktoberStreetFesting: A Guide To Side-By-Side German Festivities This Weekend
It’s an old story if you’ve been in Nashville for longer than a year or two – No, Nashville’s Oktoberfest in Historic Germantown and the Germantown Street Festival are not the same festival. They were, but that’s a tale for another time. The separate-but-equal-ish festivals take place this weekend to celebrate Oktoberfest, same time, same [...]
Oktoberfest-ish: A Tale Of Two Street Fests
Saturday is a big day for Germantown. It’s the day when two nearly-identical festivals, the Germantown Street Festival and Oktoberfest, take over parallel streets in the tiny neighborhood. To the casual observer, it would appear to be one big giant pile of German-themed festivity, and that’s okay – No matter which street you land on, [...]
Oktoberfest, Er, Germantown Street Festival, Er, What?
Though it was announced weeks ago that Germantown’s annual Oktoberfest celebration would be splitting into two separate festivals… On the same day… At the same time… In the same place. Well, people are still confused, and rightly so. Let’s just make this clear: There are two festivals this year. And that’s all we’re going to [...]
Happy Hour: Too Much Information
So remember when we told you that Oktoberfest was becoming the Germantown Street Festival? The Tennessean steered us wrong. There are actually two festivals in Germantown on the same day at the same time–the street festival AND Oktoberfest. Props to them for the round-about retraction [Tennessean] The student who was shot at Central High School [...]
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