Tag Archives: sommet center
Bright & Early: The Nashville Sommet GEC Center Arena Edition
Good morning, Nashville. In what is the biggest, most surprising news ever, the Sommet Center is pretty much not the Sommet Center anymore. The Preds have reached a naming rights deal with Bridgestone Americas Inc., and the proposed name for the arena is – wait, you guessed it – Bridgestone Arena. The change will be [...]
Happy Hour: It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
Facing the wrath of All Of Tennessee, Rep. Curry Todd insists that he’s not actually trying to close bars after midnight and that the bill is just a drastic attention-grabbing ploy to address some other issues so could we please simmer down and stop with all the angry calls and emails already, thank you very [...]
Happy Hour: Wall To Wall
A local church put together and sent out 10,000 health kits to help with the relief work in Haiti. [WSMV]
Friends and neighbors of the family that was killed in a duplex fire this morning are hoping to come together and raise some money for the two surviving children. Five people, including the parents and three [...]
Bright & Early: Waking Up In The Tundra Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re not quite sure which is more bewildering to us this morning: That white stuff falling from the sky or the 13-degree reading on the thermometer. Or maybe it’s the 200 crazies brave folks who hopped into the Percy Priest Lake on New Years Day as part of the YMCA’s annual [...]
Bright & Early: Crushing Our Dreams Edition
Good morning, Nashville. A white Christmas is looking a little less likely as we get closer to the holiday. We’ve been reading all sorts of fancy explanations of the impending storm system over the past several days, but now it looks like the weather just isn’t going to be cold enough for more than a [...]
Bright & Early: What’s In A Name Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Last week, we had some fun with the news that the Sommet Center could soon be getting a new name… again. The Nashville Hockey Club had a falling out with the Sommet Group over Sommet’s alleged failure to make the payments that were part of the naming deal, but Sommet insisted that [...]
Happy Hour: #501broadway Edition
The Nashville Arena GEC Sommet Center will likely be getting yet another name change in the coming months. The Preds ended their naming deal with the Sommet Group by suing them this afternoon, then the Sommet Center issued an angry response, then Mayor Dean weighed in with some Preds love, and then we sat back [...]
Happy Hour: Dividing And Conquering
Roane County has made quick work of the $43 million given to them by the TVA as a peace offering for spilling 5 million cubic yards of toxic nastiness all over Kingston. Most of the money will be going towards schools, and the remainder will be set aside for roads, sewers, libraries, and a new [...]
Happy Hour: Waterlogged
We thought we had a lot to complain about here in Nashville with our eight inches of rain, but then we saw Atlanta. [TwitPic]
Two Metro schools went on lockdown today after a boy’s mother called up school officials and told them she was afraid he was toting a gun. Thankfully, no weapons were found. [WSMV]
The [...]
Bright & Early: Get On The Bus Edition
Good morning, Nashville. This weekend was a good one for the Titans, who took down the Buffalo Bills 21-18 in their first preseason game of 2009. We hear Kerry Collins put on quite a show until Vince Young took over in the second quarter. The opening game was not without incident, however, as runningbacks Chris [...]
Active Discussions