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| What Nashville's Talking About |
| | 🎉 Have a Great Weekend in Nashville | From Friday happy hour to the Sunday scaries, we’re discussing our picks for the perfect Nashville weekend on today’s City Cast Nashville podcast, including suggestions for entertaining out-of-town friends. [🎧 City Cast Nashville] | | ✊🏿 John Lewis Remembered | Renowned Civil Rights activist John Lewis died five years ago today. His pivotal role in Nashville’s Civil Rights movement will be celebrated in a march this Saturday, following Fifth Avenue North from Jefferson Street to downtown. [Axios Nashville] | | | 📰 Family Faces Charges Due To Lack of Medical Care | A Nashville family that adopted an abused foster child with complex psychological needs faces child abandonment charges. The couple requested and were refused medical aid from TennCare and the Department of Children’s Services, and cannot care for the child without it. [Tennessee Lookout] | | | 🏙️ Downtown Improvement District Expands | On Tuesday, Metro Council approved an expansion of the Central Business Improvement District to bring extra services to the Gulch, after a lengthy public hearing. [Nashville Banner] | - Opposition to the expansion centered on the Nashville Downtown Partnership, which has been accused of arresting unhoused people in a partnership with off-duty Tennessee State Highway Patrol Officers, improperly storing gas tanks in the library garage, and failing to submit financial reports. [{Rich Text}]
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| A Local’s Guide to the Nashville International Airport |
|  | Pyramids Cafe is one of our favorite places to eat at BNA. (Courtesy of Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority) |
| In 2024, Nashville International Airport set an annual passenger record of 24.8 million, and it expects to grow by 4.8% this year. Whether you’re going on a trip, picking up friends and family, or just hanging out, here’s your local guide to BNA. | | ⌚ While You Wait | - Explore BNA’s art exhibits.
- Need some air? BNA’s new Concourse D extension includes the airport’s first outdoor terrace!
- Have young kids? Head over to the children’s play area at Concourse B.
- Looking for a quiet place to work? Concourse D has some desks with charging stations that are perfect. The central atrium by the T terminal also tends to be pretty quiet, as does the A terminal at the very end of the concourse.
| | 🛍️ Where To Shop | Here are the City Cast Nashville team’s favorite airport stores! | - Executive producer (and proud Texan) Whitney Pastorek recommends James Avery Artisan Jewelry, great for gifts for yourself or others, although she’s mad about the disappearance of Vino Volo.
- Podcast host Marie Cecile Anderson prefers to buy gifts at Tennessee Tribune News & Gifts, which features local vendors, from Loveless Cafe food sets to Emmaline’s Hot Sauce. Gulch Goods is also a great place to shop with local vendors.
- Both Marie and I love to go to Parnassus Books. I like to play a game of “how many of these books have I already read,” and then find one I haven’t and buy it, while Marie will see which of their staff picks are available on the Libby app through the Nashville Public Library, and check them out to read on her trip.
| | | 🍽️ Where To Eat | - Whitney’s go-to meal is the falafel platter at Pyramids Cafe. So many veggies! And Yazoo Brewing Company at the very end of Terminal C, where Southwest flies out, is a great place to hide.
- Producer Daniel Sumstine grabs a smoothie from The Urban Juicer before a trip.
- The Farmer Biscuit at Fugitives Public House is Marie’s favorite, with country ham, a fried egg, goat cheese, and a ton of Tater Tots. She’s also had its Nashville hot chicken salad before a flight, and it was soooooo good!
- I can usually find something gluten-free at Bongo Java, and if I want a bigger meal, New Heights Cantina & Taqueria.
- Other restaurants worth checking out: Acme Feed & Seed, Shake Shack, Puckett’s, and Prince’s Hot Chicken, though that’s risky before a flight!
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| | | Every week, we’re gonna highlight neighborhood recommendations from City Cast Nashville Neighbors. Here are some local favorites from our founding Neighbors! | | 😻 Dominique M. shouts out Madtown Coffee for being “a safe space with great food — you can add ‘open seat’ placards to your table to welcome others.” | | 😻 Ana S. shouts out Kübox (said like Q-Box), “a local small business building affordable, custom, reusable, eco-friendly packaging solutions for moving and shipping of all kinds!” | | 😻 Judith T. shouts out The Contributor, which “offers our unhoused neighbors immediate access to income and helps them rebuild their lives.” | | Want to shout out your Nashville faves? Become a Neighbor! | | |
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Don’t forget: We need your support during our City Cast Nashville Neighbors launch campaign, and you need the City Cast Nashville Neighbors tote bag! Only a few more days to get the bag! | | | | And a BIG thank you to our newest City Cast Nashville Neighbors: Jenny A., Michael M., Judith T., and Megan B.! | | Jenny says, “On days when I think I can’t stomach one more walking pod of pink cowboy hats and daisy dukes, you remind me there’s more to Nashville than penis straws. God Bless You.” God bless you too, Jenny! There really is so much more to Nashville than our bachelorette parties. | | I can’t wait to hang out with y’all at a members-only event. Sign up to become a Neighbor today! |
| 💌 Margaret Kingsbury | Thanks to the City Cast Nashville team — executive producer Whitney Pastorek, podcast host Marie Cecile Anderson, and producer Daniel Sumstine — for contributing to today’s airport guide. |
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