The Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee

Smokey, the caninecierge, on the set of the Parthenon segment

Everyone's favorite caninecierge was on the set with us one day as we shot some video and some pictures of the Parthenon for an upcoming episode of Good Life Aficionado.

What are the 5 best architectural treasures in Nashville?

This photo comes from Kittywinks Peeks'

1. Parthenon
2. Scarritt-Bennett
3. Christ Church Cathedral
4. Frist Center for the Visual Arts
5. Union Station Hotel

That would be my list, off the top of my head. So what would you all pick to be the best architecture in Nashville?

Centennial Park becomes a national treasure

Mayor Karl Dean and The Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial Park and the Metro Board of Parks and Recreation will make the announcement and tour the park's historic monuments.

Monday, November 17
2:00pm

Meet at the John Thomas Monument in Centennial Park
(In case of rain they will be in the Parthenon)

Welcome to Nashville Senators McCain and Obama

Nashville Tidbits

There will be nearly as many stars on the streets as in the sky tonight because the 2008 CMT Music Awards' lineup includes virtually everyone who's anybody in contemporary country music.

Just look at who's performing: Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Sugarland, Brad Paisley, Toby Keith, Alan Jackson, Taylor Swift, LeAnn Rimes, Keith Urban and Brooks & Dunn. Presenters include Martina McBride, Julianne Hough, Reba McEntire, Sara Evans, Josh Turner, Miranda Lambert and John Rich.
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• Vince Gill will sing the national anthem at tonight's Predators-Red Wings hockey game at Sommet Center. This is Game 3 of the opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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• Reba McEntire was joined by Martina McBride on "Does He Love You" at Divas Nashvegas Saturday night during the Oasis Center fundraiser at the Parthenon.

Read more in Beverly Keel's column in the Tennessean newspaper.

"My Nashville" is the Parthenon

Book of the Week: Classical Nashville

Nashville has been many things: frontier town, Civil War battleground, New South mecca, and Music City, U.S.A. It is headquarters for several religious denominations, and also the home of some of the largest insurance, healthcare, and publishing concerns in the country. Located culturally as well as geographically between North and South, East and West, Nashville is centered in a web of often-competing contradictions.
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Nashville has been many things: frontier town, Civil War battleground, New South mecca, and Music City, U.S.A. It is headquarters for several religious denominations, and also the home of some of the largest insurance, healthcare, and publishing concerns in the country. Located culturally as well as geographically between North and South, East and West, Nashville is centered in a web of often-competing contradictions.

Order this book from the Vanderbilt University Press.

Sunday Night in Nashville

We went to the last half of the Shakespeare in the Park on a recent Sunday night. We saw the Merry Wives of Windsor and it was so funny and the acting and the way the drew the audience in was incredible. It was a wonderful show with a good turn out. See ya next year Shakes...

We walked around downtown afterwards. We enjoyed the beauty and the architecture of the Schermerhorn and Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

After all that we visited Lower Broadway, taking in the neon lights with our newly arrived German visitors. We listened to music from the sidewalk and soaked up the atmosphere and we let the spirit of Nashville move around us and whisper in our ears.

Walking in Nashville One Summer Night

This past Tuesday evening, we were downtown for a brief meeting at Past Perfect. Afterwards we walked around for a bit and we took a few minutes to admire the Ryman, our grand dame, which is silent and stood with pride and dignity over the honky-tonks which were all noisy, busy and much like children running around the feet of their grandmother. We soaked up the night air and thought of the history of Nashville and how things have been so good here.

We were recently looking at some old and new pictures of the Parthenon and there were people in each of the pictures. We thought of how that wonderful building has stood the test of time while people have come and gone. It seems like the people are so insignificant, in comparison, while these proud buildings watch us run around like we are the ones who are so important.



Let us not forget their are people who will be around after we are all gone, so think of how our city is led. Let's be careful with the images that we put out there for the world to see us in certain ways. Let's be the types of people who care for each other and lead this city, this state and this country forward and into further greatness. Don't let a "quick buck" or instant gratification stand in the way of doing what is best in the long term.

Take care everyone, thanks for stopping in and let's keep Nashville as wonderful and magical as it has always been.