Nashville Weekly

Marcus Floyd Runs For General Sessions Court Judge’s Position

Marcus Floyd Runs For General Sessions Court Judge Nashville

Public defender Marcus Floyd is campaigning for General Sessions Court Judge. Floyd has been a prosecutor, probation officer and mayoral adviser in his career thus far. Floyd announced that he would run for the Judgeship of the Sessions Court, Division VII, a position that William Higgins occupies now. Floyd told the Nashville Scene that he...

Tennessee To Shift Nathan Bedford Forrest’s Statue From Capitol

Tennessee officials will shift a Capitol bust that honors Nathan Forrest, an enslaver, Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader. Through special voting, the State Building Commission (SBC) accepted the proposals to shift the statues of Forrest, Admiral Albert Gleaves, and Admiral David Farragut to the Nashville-based Tennessee State Museum. Tennessee Governor William Byron...

Low Vaccination Rate Pose A Problem in Tennessee

It is very evident that the COVID-19 vaccination campaign of Tennessee is going very poorly. According to the latest statistics, the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccination is received by only 42.1 % of the population, and only 37.6 % of people in Tennessee have received the 2nd dose of the vaccination. Even though the...

Nossi College of Art Includes Tom Eckert In Its Culinary Program

After launching its new degree program on culinary arts earlier in 2021, Nossi College of Art has added Tom Eckert to its list of advisory board members. Eckert is serving as an executive chef of Morph Hospitality Group. In a recent Nossi news release, Eckert said that people like him wish to not only guide students...

Ellen Hobbs Lyle Decides Against Running For Chancellor Again

The Chancellor for the Davidson County Chancery Court, namely Ellen Hobbs Lyle, has announced her decision to not seek election again next year. After having been involved in many controversial cases over the years, Lyle would step down. Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist appointed Lyle to the Davison County bench for the first time in 1995,...

Tennessee Seeks Date Of Execution For Its Lone Woman On Death Row

Last year’s COVID-19 epidemic interrupted the regular pattern of executions in the State of Tennessee. The capital punishment’s resumption in Tennessee meant death sentences for seven men in under 24 months. After Nick Sutton’s execution in February 2020, the epidemic resulted in the cancellation of four other executions scheduled for the remainder of that...

Rates Of COVID-19 Cases Keep Coming Down In Nashville

Davidson County’s daily average coronavirus case count keeps coming down, with Nashville City’s weekly average of the new cases being similar to what it was around the start of the epidemic. Those findings are as per the Metro Public Health Department’s recently released data. As of June 01, 2021, the department puts the city’s weekly...

JP Café Now Open In Nashville’s Entrepreneur Center

Starting a physical coffee store was not part of Aundrea Goodwin’s list of things to do. As the Chief Executive Officer of JP Events, Goodwin had enough important work to deal with, including building her US catering business with corporate events. Anyhow, when Goodwin’s marketing partner and 615innovations founder, Tina Phillips told Goodwin about a...

Ascend Amphitheater Hosts Nashville Ballet’s Comeback Performance

Nashville Ballet prepares to come back after a year that saw many of its performances getting canceled and virtual programming becoming successful. Therefore, its stage return seems significant in many regards. After all, it is the company’s first real-time performance in over a year as well as the first outdoor gig in Nashville. It...

Musicians Corner Festival To Return As Before To Centennial Park

The coronavirus epidemic meant that almost every live music event from March to December 2020 was either canceled or changed to a virtual event. With the vaccinated people count going up gradually, plus Nashville’s public health department preparing to lift several restrictions on public gatherings, festival bookings, and club listings are also returning strongly. Centennial...