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Bright & Early: Bridge The Gap Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Flood recovery efforts continue, even a year and a half after the May 2010 floods. The United Methodist Church’s Flood Recovery Network has begun canvassing flooded areas in Madison and Donelson to find people who still need help. The Flood Recovery Network hopes to canvass more than 2,500 homes and will offer [...]
Head To The Hermitage On Friday For Free Admission [Freebies]
This coming Friday marks the 195th anniversary of the American victory at the Battle of New Orleans, and to celebrate, The Hermitage is inviting everyone to come party, 1812-style, for free! Regular price admission is $17 for adults, so take advantage of this rare free day. Fill up the car and take a (short) roadtrip [...]
Happy Hour: We’re All Just Bums
Opponents of selling wine in grocery stores are now proclaiming that if we change the law to allow this kind of sale, we’ll be plagued with an epidemic of “street drinkers” whose unconscious bodies we will have to clear out of our driveways before we go to work every morning. For the love of Shiraz, [...]
What Exactly Is “Indie Nashville,” CNN?
CNN Money has just graced us with an interesting piece entitled “Indie Nashville,” wherein they tout the virtues of our wonderful city/America’s country music capitol/American’s big-city-small-town/yada yada yada. It appears to be The-Tourist-Who-Doesn’t-Want-To-Be-All-Touristy’s Guide to Nashville. Or at least, that’s what we think they’re trying to do. Let’s start at the beginning. The capital of [...]
Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day 2008 [Freebies]
Our new Twitter friend @jarhead tipped us off this morning about the upcoming Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day, a day every year when admission is free to all Smithsonian affiliate museums, as well as a bunch of other museums that choose to participate. Around Nashville, that includes the Country Music Hall of Fame, Frist Center, Historic [...]
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