• Based on the Instagram and Facebook posts, we can tell Nashville had a great Pride weekend. An estimated 20,000 people were downtown for the two-day event.
• The Tennessean re-visits that Kurdish family caught up in the original travel ban in a feature story.
• Good news for Davidson County residents, as our unemployment rate has dropped to 2.1 percent, a full percentage point lower than the April level.
• Chris Young (we had to Google him, too) will be headlining this year’s Fourth of July celebration at riverfront, which features more than 35,000 pounds of fireworks.
• Church and civic leaders met Friday night to address the increase in youth violence, a trend that has been cited in multiple homicides this year.
• A 12.5 percent increase in the Metro Arts Commission budget means more local non-profits will be receiving grants, headlined by a $149,500 grant to the Belcourt Theatre.
• The Nashville Public Library is ending library fines as we know them. Please return your books and other media, though.
• A woman pulled over in South Nashville because she was swerving in and out of traffic turned out to have multiple gunshot wounds. She is being treated at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
• Your neighbors in East Nashville would appreciate it if you would please stop driving so fast down their street (and ignoring stop signs).
• A fake $20 bill was used at a convenience store on 8th Avenue South, so be careful accepting larger denominations.
• After losing James Neal in the Expansion Draft, the (Regular) Draft this weekend netted six new members of the Nashville Predators organization.

Photo by Christy Frink.