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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: Green, Greener, Greenest Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Mayor Dean will be making an appearance at the Nashville Farmer’s Market today to discuss some new initiatives aimed at preserving our city’s green space and making us the greenest city EVER. If you’re one of the three people who has nowhere to be at 1pm today, you can head over to [...]
Bright & Early: Sound Of Music City Edition
Good morning, Nashville. In case we’d forgotten about the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, which took one of the hardest hits during the flood, they’re now turning to their endowment for the necessary funding to repair the beautiful building. At the height of the flood, they had about 20 feet of water in their basement which ruined [...]
Bright & Early: Rebuilding Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Saturday marks the start of the Nashville Build by the crew of Extreme Home Makeover and a few thousand volunteers. The crew will be rebuilding the home of a flood victim somewhere in Nashville and probably making it super-fancy since the mysterious beneficiary has likely been crammed into a hotel or friend’s [...]
Happy Hour: Singing The Blues
Memphis’ famous House of Blues Studio D was shipped to Nashville in pieces yesterday. The studio has been struggling in recent years so they’re hoping that Nashville can breathe some new life into it. Along the side of the truck hung a banner that said “From Memphis With Love,” which is just about the saddest [...]
Bright & Early: Sign Of The Times Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Belmont University has finally started construction on the multimillion-dollar sportsplex planned for Rose Park in the Edgehill neighborhood. The only problem is that someone keeps vandalizing the construction site by spraypainting, smashing headlights and peeing on building equipment. The complex, which has been controversial from the outset, will be open to the [...]
Happy Hour: Birds Flying High
So that storm was a doozy, eh? Three big lightning strikes were enough to take down the city’s 911 dispatching system, or most of it, leaving operators to record calls by pen and paper. [WTVF] Organizers are now taking questions for Mike McWherter and Bill Haslam’s September 14th debate, so send ‘em some good ones [...]
Bright & Early: Race To The Top Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The votes are in and now here’s the news you have all been waiting for: Basil Marceaux managed to run away with 3,505 votes, which is less than 1% of the total. The members of illustrious staff were kind enough to let him record a “consolation speech” and are already pimping him [...]
Happy Hour: Stop Reading This And Go Outside Please
If this does not make you crave hot chicken somethin’ awful, then you are not human (or okay, maybe you’re a vegetarian. Which is cool too.) [Tennessean] Metro Police say that the giant gang shoot-out on the northside in broad daylight yesterday just goes to show us that Nashville gangs have some real cajones and [...]
Happy Hour: Getting Our Goat
See this baby goat, you guys? Her name is Bette and she lives at The Green Wagon, where she is being bottle fed because her mom didn’t take care of her. Go give her a squeeze for us. [Flickr] Now back to our regularly-scheduled programming: The Nashville MTA officially announced their new free Circulator buses [...]
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