As we told you about previously, Justin Bieber spent some time here in East Nashville after his concert this week at Dinos here in East Nasvhille. Here’s video of Justin toppling the Jenga tower – his preferred game now that he’s taking a month away from alcohol. Some additional info from previous post on Perez Hilton, too! Video originally from Instagram:DinosNashville.
Month: June 2016
Justin Bieber on a Month Long Alcohol Break – Plays Jenga at Dino’s Instead!
After his concert last night downtown, the Justin Bieber crossed the river to our side of town, and decided to play some Jenga at our favortie (now former?) dive bar – Dino’s! According to locals, he was offered shots of liquor but declined, saying he was taking a month long break from alcohol. Other party favors were apparently not on the list of things he was taking a break from. Here’s some shots of the Biebs from last night – who also trekked to Melrose Billiards on Franklin Pk, but…
Rachel Tumerman Gives East Nashville a MUCH Needed Public Art 101 Lesson
Rachel Tumerman, family of mural artist Leah Tumerman, Posted a very much needed Art 101, in response to the vandalism at the in-progress mural in East Nashville at Five Points. From her Facebook post: Nashville, hidden underneath my current anger is a deep sadness and disappointment in you. I am beside myself with disbelief that a city that prides itself on being cultured, supportive of the arts, progressive, and hip has proven to be quite the contrary in this particular instance. I feel it necessary to give a 101 on…
East Nashville Bear Mural: Sneak Preview!
There have been many mixed emotions over the East Nashville mural that is currently being painted on the side of East Side Cycle, owned by Bongo World. The original mural, some claimed a Nashville ‘landmark’ had been there many years, and YES it was time for a change. Over the past few days, a new mural has began to appear – a mural of bears, and some East Nashville residents have went as far as to deface the mural on Sunday night. Early Monday, volunteers were seen helping artist, Leah…
The East Nashville Flamingos
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: 06/22 – As of this morning, Martin & Lewis, the replacement flamingos, have ALSO been birdnapped – between 1AM and 6AM overnight! Will they join Pinky and Perky on their Journey? Was this more sinister? Tyler contacted us via our tipline this morning (615-669-TIPS) ORIGINAL STORY: East Nashville friends Tyler Davis and Russ Clifford, like many others in the neighborhood, have a small garden at their home. Tyler maintains the garden and during May of 2015 he adopted 2 plastic pink flamingos to overlook his work. Named…
Tim Lankford: President of an EMS Education Non-Profit, Despite Prejudiced Online Comments – TEMSEA
Tim Lankford, who holds the title of District Chief (Supervisor) with the Nashville Fire Department, is also the President of statewide non-profit organization, TEMSEA. An organization whose visions include “to promote and foster the development of effective, professional EMS and EMS education in Tennessee”. Lankford, who lists himself as ‘President’ of the TEMSEA, recently came under fire when he was found to have made multiple prejudiced posts online about the LGBT community, gay marriage, and the recent transgender equality laws – going as far as to endorse a quote that…
Nashville Fire Department: Employees & Salaries
We’ve had a few inquiries to publish a list of the MNFD Employees, since they seem to be commenting to news articles and behaving badly on social media – and since all of that information is 100% available via public open data resources – so that you can see if the person that’s showing out in the comments sections of your favorite news sections is a MNFD employee, or not – and also how much they’re being paid by the city of Nashville to hold that position – and to…
Nashville Fire EMT Laura Huffstuttler: Issues Vague Threat to EastNashville.news & Can “Go to HELL”
Since NewsChannnel5 and Out & About picked up our story this week, we’ve received many messages from Nashville Fire Department employees – most saying how glad they are that this attitude is now out in the open, and is being addressed. However, we have received quite a few from employees that supported Tim Lakford’s words, and felt they should let us know – and since they continue to buck the system and defy the social media policy that they were just reminded us days ago, we felt we should give…
Tartufo’s Stripper Chef Brittany Dugger: FIRED! Offfers New “IN HOME Service”
It was only a matter of time, if you’ve followed the story of Brittany Dugger over the past year. It started with assaulting a man outside of a restaurant she worked at, claiming her former ‘military training’ kicked in. It only got worse from there, as it was exposed that she was a former stripper that claimed to be homeless to elicit GoFundMe donations, and help from a stripper’s charity organization, the Nashville Stripper’s Church. A few months later she was spotted back in the strip club, and had to…
5 Points Mural: Time for Change
It’s time to say goodbye to an East Nashville icon – one that has been the backdrop of thousands of photos over the past decade. The mural on the side of what is currently East Side Cycles will become a new hipster mural, the project starting on June 23rd. According to Bob of Bongo World, the project has been in the works for quite some time, and is finally being realized: Bob told the neighborhood “I want the neighborhood to know that we will soon be changing a mural that…