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Bright & Early: Wake Us When It’s Over Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Tennessee has managed to make quite a spectacle of itself in the past few weeks with our strange array of fringe gubernatorial candidates and controversial statements from the not-so-fringe ones, but we’re here to tell you that at least this leg of the journey will be over soon. You have today and [...]
Happy Hour: Duck Duck Goose
The National Weather Service was finally able to confirm that, yes, a tornado did touch down in northern Davidson County last night. Still no word on how strong it was. [Tennessean]
Adios, Dove Awards! They’re taking the show to Atlanta after 41 years of being in Nashville. [Tennessean]
Tennessee’s gubernatorial race has been making the rounds on [...]
Happy Hour: It’s A Fairy Tale World
Here is your Wednesday afternoon “We have no idea what to make of this situation” photo above, courtesy of @dbox who says: “A man on an all-terrain segway just asked me what the deal with Cinderella and Prince Charming was.” Captions welcome in the comments.
Things got serious at the parking garage behind Borders on West End [...]
Happy Hour: Play Us Out
Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey totally got called out by Governor Phil this morning for giving too much attention to his campaign and not enough to his current gig at the legislature. “[W]hile the Legislature’s here,” the governor said, “I need a little more Ron Ramsey the speaker than Ron Ramsey the gubernatorial candidate.” [WTVF]
According to [...]
Bright & Early: Rockin’ The Vote Edition
Good morning, Nashville. This weekend, Nashville will be one of the nine polling places for the Iraqi parliamentary election. Because Nashville has the largest Kurdish populations in the United States, we were chosen to host one of the polling sites and Iraqi nationals will be traveling into town from all over the southeastern US to [...]
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 that [...]
Bright & Early: Recycle, Reduce, Reuse Edition
Good morning, Nashville. City officials are busy trying to find ways to coerce our city to recycle more. Currently 67% of Nashvillians participate in the curbside recycling program, which isn’t too shabby, but the Dean administration wants to find out why the other third isn’t recycling. Typically, the rate of participation in a recycling program [...]
Bright & Early: Neck And Neck Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The seven main candidates in the 2010 Tennessee gubernatorial race went head to head last night at Belmont on all things education-related. The forum included candidates Bill Haslam, Mike McWherter, Zach Wamp, Ron Ramsey, Jim Kyle, Bill Gibbons and Kim McMillan, who covered the whole gamut of topics ranging from Pre-K to [...]
Bright & Early: Hat Tricks & Drunk Birds Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re pretty sure we could hear the Preds fans screaming all over city on Saturday after the epic 8-0 win over the Detroit Red Wings. It was a night of firsts for our Preds: First win by 8 goals, first time they’ve scored 5 goals in the first period (including the first [...]










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