October 2014

Warm up for the holidays with Franklin High School's festive holiday market. Enjoy shopping for exceptional and unique holiday gifts, while you relish in the vision of delightful displays and a showcase of dozens of holiday goodies! The event helps sponsor project graduation, an all-night, drug and alcohol-free event held for Franklin seniors on graduation.

Franklin High School Class of 2015 is pleased to announce Mistletoe Market, a one-day shopping event at Franklin High School. Mistletoe Market is a holiday gift show that featuring artisans, craft makers and merchants from the local area.  Enjoy shopping for exceptional and unique holiday gifts including apparel, home décor, jewelry, accessories, gourmet foods and sweets. From designer duds from

Looking for a great restaurant in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood? Here is a list of all the tried-and-true favorites! Bear in mind that Germantown is going through exponential growth, and by spring of 2015, this list might easily be twice as long!

1. 312 Pizza Company - As Chicago natives the cooks at 312 take pride in bringing Nashvillians authentic Chicago deep dish pizza and other specialties from the Windy City. Their pizza sauce recipe has been passed down over 3 generations form our grandmother, who spent time cooking with the Italian immigrants in Little Italy.
2. City House - A large warehouse was been converted into a many-sectioned upscale restaurant for City House. It is open and cozy despite the many different dining areas, though

Resplendent in hideous purple paint, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge opens at 10:00 am with live bands and doesn't stop until way past everyone's bedtime. A good range of drinks and fast food are available and the staff don't pester you for refills. All the bands I heard were top class. There's no cover charge, but it's polite to put something in the tip bucket.

The Birthday Bash

Music City’s legendary honky-tonk Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge will celebrate its 54th Birthday in downtown Nashville on November 12 with a Broadway street-party hosted by America’s Morning Show host Blair Garner from NASH-FM. As part of the celebration, Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge will host entertainment on the outdoor Broadway stage throughout the day. The Wednesday event will include

Nashville Mayor Karl Dean is challenging and inspiring Nashville residents to be more physically active. Thousands of Nashvillians “stepped up to the challenge” in each of the last two years, including more than 5,000 in each of the first two years, by participating in the Mayor’s Challenge 5K Walk/Run and Kids' Fun Run - the city’s only free 5K event with a free six-week training program offered through Metro Parks & Recreation. As one of Mayor Dean’s most popular health events to date, the Mayor’s Challenge 5K brings out Nashvillians of all ages and fitness levels to walk and run the streets of downtown Nashville. The event also includes a Kids’ Fun Run, a 0.75-mile course for children 12 years of age and under.

The fourth annual Mayor’s Challenge 5K

Join the American Cancer Society to save lives and create a world with more birthdays at the Brunch Bash on November 16, 2014. This will be a great day of food, live music, numerous restaurant vendors offering samples of your brunch favorites, fun and games and much more.  Coming together to party for a cause, the American Cancer Society will continue to save lives and create more birthdays by helping people to stay well and get well, find cures, and fight back against a disease that has taken too many lives.

The Schedule

• 11:00 a.m. - Registration/Check in begins
• 11:15 a.m. - Live country entertainment begins and vendors open booths! Entertainment includes Haven Drive, George Ducas, and Taylor Davis.
• 11:30 a.m. - Merchandise table opens

The Academy of Entertainment's purpose is to teach talented youth real life skills when it comes to acting, dancing, vocals or anything that makes you talented. When you attend one of their workshops, you work with employed professionals to build your technical skills, build your work ethic and help you create a professional network so that you will succeed in your entertaining career. 

The Academy teaches students of dance, voice, video, and audio about all levels of the industry: from how to break in to how to manage your career. The Academy consistently seeks out the most highly-regarded traditional and nontraditional artists and technicians currently working in the entertainment industries to act as instructors or to provide insight along

Based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story is one of the most performed productions in American history. Imagine Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is transported to modern-day New York City, as two young idealistic lovers find themselves caught between warring street gangs, the "American" Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks. Their struggle to survive in a world of hate, violence and prejudice deeply moving and innovative.

The sophisticated score by Bernstein and Sondheim is often considered Broadway's finest. Its songs part of the nation's musical heritage. As originally staged by the legendary Jerome Robbins, the show is an impressive showcase for accomplished dancers and actors. Don't miss one of Lipscomb's largest performances of the year!

If the words “male a cappella group” conjures up mental images of students in ill-fitted blazers, cheap ties, and khak slacks singing traditional songs in a run-down college auditorium… think again. While still a male a cappella group, Straight No Chaser isn't straight-laced or straight-faced... but they're not vaudeville, either. They take the music seriously without taking themselves seriously, and in the process, have reinvented the idea of a cappella within the modern pop landscape.

Originally formed over ten years ago while together at Indiana University, the group has reassembled (with many new faces) and reemerged as a pop phenomenon. Boasting a massive fanbase, more than 18 million views on YouTube channels, numerous national appearances, this

According to the Nashville Business Journal, a new luxury 12-story hotel coming to the Gulch area in 2016 will also be home to a nationally famed eatery: the Doughnut Vault. 

In a different article, Commune Hotels & Resorts announced earlier in the month that it will bring its Thompson hotel brand to the Gulch by teaming up with MarketStreet Enterprises, the primary developer of the Gulch. Their statement in the Journal says that the hotel will have 224 rooms. It is expected to open in summer 2016. Its location will be a lot along Pine Street. But downtown has more luxury boutique hotels than you can shake a stick at: it's the doughnuts we care about!

Nashville is woefully short on places which serve these iconic treats: beyond two national chains,

Chili fans will enjoy a beautiful autumn day, delicious food, live music, and plenty of family-friendly events.  There will be drawings, a Wheel of Fortune, and the renowned silent auction, with something for everyone. Between warm chili, cold beer, cash prizes, and a lot of fun, there's no better way to spend the first day of November. The event is open to the public and this is the first year it's been big enough to warrant such a large space!

Want to Compete?

Sour cream, shredded cheese, Fritos, and oyster crackers will be provided to contestants as condiments. Chili should be made before arrival, and must be checked in through the event organizers in its container or crock pot. Teams should bring their own serving utensils.

Other than that,