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Bright & Early: Call To Arms Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We hope you guys were able to get outside this weekend and enjoy a taste of spring before temperatures start plummeting this afternoon. In other news, the number of handgun permits issued by the State of Tennessee have jumped 23% from this time last year, possibly because we keep thinking we’re going [...]
Bright & Early: Troubled Waters Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re hearing plenty of harrowing reports about Tennesseans who were in Haiti on mission trips when the earthquake hit, but members of Nashville’s Haitian community (yes, we have one of those) are also trying to get in touch with relatives back home who were likely affected. Much like Fisk University Haitian radio [...]
Bright & Early: Smug As A Bug Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Nothing says “Christmas” like getting behind the wheel drunk and taking out nearly an entire lot of Christmas trees. Overnight, a car plowed through one of the lots on White Bridge Road, ruining 38 trees and also driving through a tent full of heaters and other supplies and causing about $5,000 worth [...]
Happy Hour: Street Without A Song
We were really sad to hear the news that Elringo “Velvet Thunder” De’Angelino, one of Nashville’s best and most iconic street musicians, passed away over the weekend. He brought us lots of smiles on our nights downtown on 2nd Ave. and will definitely be missed. Since he had no family, homeless advocates have set up [...]
Happy Hour: No Shirts, No Guns, No Problem
Tennessee’s “Guns in Bars” law was ruled unconstitutionally vague this afternoon, citing the Average Joe’s difficulty of differentiating between bars and restaurants. The decision can be appealed, but the process could take up to a year. We’re also guessing that some less-vague version may pop up between now and then. [WPLN]
Hometown hero Miley Cyrus’ tour [...]
Happy Hour: Let The Backpedalling Begin
PR firm McNeely Piggot & Fox, which has been in some hot water recently for their convention center contract, has resigned from the project altogether. Though they still maintain that coverage of the kerfuffle has been “misleading,” the resignation letter stated that they felt the convention center project was too important to be sidetracked by [...]
Hold The Phones: Texting While Driving Ban (And Some Other Stuff) In Effect Today
Folks, today’s the day. Today is the day that the texting while driving ban officially hits the books, much to the chagrin of chronic crackberry-ers and speedy T9-ers alike. You all voiced some strong opinions about the ban a couple months ago, and the day of judgement has arrived.
Now that texting while driving is illegal, [...]
Happy Hour: Not In This Bar, You Don’t
If you’ve got an extra gun (or three!) just lying around the house and collecting dust, you can drop it off at one of several locations around town today or tomorrow in exchange for… a circus ticket! The program aims to get guns off the street, and we may laugh, but we hear they collected [...]
Happy Hour: Git-R-Dun
Classic: “At approximately 9:50 p.m. on Monday, a red Toyota pickup truck with the word ‘Redneck’ printed on the back window, crashed into the west side of Sonic at 1505 Murfreesboro Road.” No one was hurt, by the way. [Tennessean]
Despite Adam Dread’s best efforts to help find a workaround for Tennessee’s new Guns In Bars [...]
Bright & Early: Can’t Get No Satisfaction Edition
Good morning, Nashville. By now, we’re all pretty familiar with the Guns in Bars bill saga, which was passed by the state legislature and vetoed by Governor Phil and then passed again over the course of the past two weeks. A similar bill that would allow guns in public parks is also well on its [...]
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