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Play Tourist For Free This Weekend At Frist Center, Cheekwood & More
The annual Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day has crept up on us once again. On Saturday, hundreds of museums nationwide will offer free admission for Museum Day, so even if you’re traveling outside of Nashville this weekend, you can still get in on the freebies! Locally, participating museums include the Frist Center, Tennessee State Museum and the [...]
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: See You In Court Edition
Good morning, Nashville. The Contributor street newspaper, with help from the ACLU, will be suing the City of Brentwood over an ordinance that keeps their vendors from selling newspapers on streets and sidewalks, allegedly depriving them of their right to free speech. Eight vendors have already been cited and fined for violating the ordinance, which [...]
Bright & Early: Something In The Water Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Things got a little out of hand at Wave Country yesterday and more than 20 Metro Police officers were called in to calm things down. For some reason, multiple fights started to break out in the crowds outside the gate and people who were tired of waiting started hopping the fence. Police [...]
Happy Hour: Walk The Walk
Mayor Dean kicked off a new program challenging Nashvillians to walk 100 miles over the next two months by participating in a series of scheduled walks to familiarize folks with greenways, parks and sidewalks around the city. [WKRN] Sponsors of the proposed bill banning the practice of Sharia law have removed all the language the [...]
Bright & Early: Troubled Water Edition
Good morning, Nashville. It’s been two years since Metro started up a program to deal with the backlog of stormwater issues, tacking a special fee onto water bills intended to generate enough revenue to pay for all the fixes. So far, just 246 stormwater projects of 3,277 have been completed and some folks are concerned [...]
Bright & Early: Dreary Friday Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Last night’s storm system dumped about 1-3 inches of rain on us here in Middle Tennessee, bringing some strong winds and tornado scares along with it. The Nashville Electric Service reported that there were an estimated 24,500 people without power last night, but had restored all but about 1,140 as of this morning. [...]
Bright & Early: You’re Doing It Wrong Edition
Good morning, Nashville. Things got a little rowdy at the Vanderbilt-UT game last night when Vanderbilt mascot Mister C totally decked a Commodores fan in the face. A Commodores fan! The guy left the arena with a bloody nose and presumably a bruised ego, having been betrayed by one of his own. And in that [...]
Rites Of Spring 2011: Kid Cudi, The National, Public Enemy, Sara Bareilles Top The Bill
As always, a few days after the big Bonnaroo announcement we get another whopper of a lineup announcement courtesy of the folks at Rites of Spring, Vanderbilt’s spring mini-fest (happening this year April 15-16). The only problem with Vandy’s lineup announcements is that they’re really, really, really bad at keeping them under wraps. Last year, [...]
Bright & Early: Elephants In The Room Edition
Good morning, Nashville. After firing their CEO and being sued by one of the original founders, the Hohenwald Elephant Sanctuary is hoping to get a fresh start and take on a bigger role of educating the public about elephants. Located about 80 miles southwest of here, they take in old, sick or injured elephants from [...]
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