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Bright & Early: Undead & Unrest Edition
Good morning, Nashville. If you ran into roadblocks or saw a helicopter circling very, very low over downtown Nashville yesterday afternoon, don’t worry! Turns out that all of the hullabaloo was just downtown’s Fifth Third bank hanging their enormous new energy-saving sign. In other news this morning: Same old, same old. Residents of The Gulch [...]
Bright & Early: Questions And More Questions Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Vanderbilt, Fisk and Belmont universities are among about 400 schools that may soon ask students to declare their sexual orientation during the application process. A nonprofit called Common Application brought the idea to the table, saying that it will help schools measure diversity of sexual orientation much like diversity of race and [...]
Bright & Early: Bzzzzzzzzz Edition
Good morning, Nashville. More than 5,000 people turned out to Nashville’s free World Cup watch party at LP Field yesterday. Though we didn’t exactly have folks dancing on top of buses and such, we hear it was a pretty crazy party. There were giveaways, and inflatables, and most importantly vuvuzelas! Meanwhile, the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau [...]
Happy Hour: Failure Pile In A Sadness Bowl
We wish we were kidding right now, but you know that house stuck under the overpass on I-40? It’s still there. Due to some complications with removing it, the estimated clearing time has been bumped up for the umpteenth time to 3am. The right lane of westbound I-40 is currently blocked, and the rest of [...]
Happy Hour: Hot Hot Heat
We break records with our heat: Yesterday’s low of 79 was the highest low recorded for Nashville on June 21st, ever. [WKRN] Trying to work out some extra space for dangerous criminals, the federal government is laying down the mandate that they won’t be housing anymore undocumented immigrants who are caught driving without a license, [...]
Happy Hour: Bocephus 4 Prez
Somehow we missed the part where Hank Williams Jr. was actually serious about running for US Senate in the next primary. Which is fine, as long as we’re not actually dumb enough as a state to put him into office. [Pith In The Wind] Hey, did you know we had a statue of a devout [...]
Bocephus Hops Aboard The Straight Talk Express With New Song [John Rich-ish]
Tearing a page straight out of the John Rich play book, Hank Williams Jr. is throwing his support behind the Republican ticket with his new single “McCain-Palin Tradition,” in which he revisits one of his old country hits, “Family Tradition,” but with different lyrics this time. We wish we were kidding, but you’ll just have [...]
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