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Bright & Early: Meep Meep Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We hope you enjoyed your long weekend as much as we did, and if you’re not one of the 45,500 people who gathered around the giant U2 space ship on Saturday, you can read all about it over at the Tennessean. Or maybe you were one of the 125,000 people who headed [...]
Bright & Early: All We Need Is _____ Edition
Good morning, Nashville. We’re running behind this morning, so here is your abbreviated Bright & Early: All the changes to TCAP this year seem to have created a bit of a disaster. [WZTV] The State Fairgrounds will keep the doors open for events like the flea market until Hickory Hollow can get things together to [...]
Bright & Early: The Good Old Days Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Depending on how long you’ve lived here, you may or may not remember the glory days of the Starwood Amphitheater. Situated way out in Antioch, it certainly wasn’t perfect, but it was the primary venue for outdoor music here in Nashville until it closed down in 2007. Now Mayor Dean’s administration is [...]
Happy Hour: Centerstage
Conan revealed this afternoon that he’ll be making a stop at Jack White’s Third Man Records tomorrow evening at 8pm, first come first served! Which means you should all probably start getting in line right now and also save us a spot. [Tennessean] The weather hasn’t been real nice to us today with some of [...]
Bright & Early: Digging To China Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Despite the fact that we’ve all been navigating around the convention center construction and road closures for several weeks, the “groundbreaking” ceremony is scheduled for Monday. During that time, the Mayor and other city leaders will do that thing where they put on hard hats and pretend to dig important holes while [...]
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: Failure Abounds
Oops, TennCare accidentally sent out 3,900 people’s social security numbers to the wrong addresses. TGIF! [WTVF] And this is your monthly “People Are Not Getting Pulled Over For Texting While Driving Because No One Has Any Idea How To Enforce This Thing, Which Is What Everyone Was Saying All Along” update. [WSMV] Starting with the [...]
Bright & Early: Why Not Wine Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The controversial issue of allowing wine to be sold in grocery stores is certainly not a new one, but lawmakers and advocates are taking a slightly different approach this year. The current bill moving through the legislature would give individual counties the opportunity to vote on the issue as early as August. [...]
Bright & Early: It All Falls Down Edition
Good morning, Nashville. By the time you read this, the demolition of the Nashville Autohaus and several other buildings near the 7th and Shirley intersection will probably be underway (but not Rocketown just yet!) Construction for the Music City Center is expected to break ground today meaning that all of the buildings that are currently [...]
Bright & Early: Take That Back Edition
Good morning, Nashville. On the heels of Governor Phil’s announcement of widespread TennCare cuts, many hospitals are speaking out and comparing the cuts to Armageddon and declaring that “people will die” if they actually go into effect. Among the most devastating, they say, is the $10,000 cap on hospital stays for TennCare patients. This essentially [...]
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