Thursday, May 31, 2007
Corrieri’s Formaggeria in the Nashville Winepress
To find out a little bit about Brett Corrieri and his amazing cheese shop in the 12South area, please visit Nashville Wine Press
Country Music Stars at the Blackjack Tables
I heard this on the radio this morning. Gerry House and the House Foundation had Anastasia Brown on and they got to talking about going out after the ACM Awards to play some blackjack. Here are the people in the party and they were all at one table and they were shouting, laughing, high-fiving each other and everything. Can you imagine stumbling across this in the hotel? I think we would all believe our eyes were deceiving us.
The Party:
George Strait
Reba McEntire
Kelly Clarkson
Ronnie and Janine Dunn
Anastasia Brown
Irv Woolsey
The Party:
George Strait
Reba McEntire
Kelly Clarkson
Ronnie and Janine Dunn
Anastasia Brown
Irv Woolsey
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
William Gerst, Gerst Haus and the Nashville Brewing Industry
Here is a book that celebrates the life and business of William Gerst through words and pictures.
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Known for country music, antebellum homes, the Parthenon, and Civil War battlefields, Nashville also has a rich brewing history that spans 100 years. Several breweries were established in the late 1800s, but the William Gerst Brewing Company alone endured into the 20th century and even survived Prohibition. Once one of the largest breweries in the South, Gerst brewed its last batch in 1954, leaving Nashvillians unable to enjoy locally brewed beer until the dawn of the recent microbrewery revolution. Nashville Brewing offers readers a pictorial account of the William Gerst Brewing Company--an important but almost forgotten part of Nashville history.
Scott R. Mertie has been interested in the brewing industry since he started collecting beer cans as a six-year-old. As he became older, Scott expanded his hobby to include brewery advertising and home-brewing. Upon moving to Nashville in 1992, Scott visited the Gerst Haus restaurant and noticed vast amounts of breweriana displayed on the walls that once promoted the restaurant's namesake a century earlier. This started his fascination with the William Gerst Brewing Company and the brewing history of Nashville.
The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. Arcadia is proud to play a part in the preservation of local heritage, making history available to all.
Nashville Brewing is now available in area book stores.
Signed copies can also be purchased directly from the author.
E-mail gerst@gerstbeer.com for more information.
Travelers Say $3.50 a Gallon is the Limit
Nashville Business Journal - May 29, 2007
A new survey shows that while Americans remain positive about summer travel, if the price of gasoline rises to $3.50 a gallon, they would reconsider.
The travelhorizons survey of 1,500 Americans, co-authored by the Travel Industry Association and Yesawich Pepperdine Brown & Russell, examined the impact of escalating gasoline prices on travel.
Other data indicates leisure travelers will likely take slightly more trips this summer....for the rest of the story, click here
A new survey shows that while Americans remain positive about summer travel, if the price of gasoline rises to $3.50 a gallon, they would reconsider.
The travelhorizons survey of 1,500 Americans, co-authored by the Travel Industry Association and Yesawich Pepperdine Brown & Russell, examined the impact of escalating gasoline prices on travel.
Other data indicates leisure travelers will likely take slightly more trips this summer....for the rest of the story, click here
Dylan Gives Rolling Stone The Blues and Others Who Wont Play Along
“Where’s the global warming?”
The 40th Anniversary edition of Rolling Stone is now on newsstands. The interview by Jann Wenner of Bob Dylan contains a lot of material that was not in the audio clips posted on the RS website over the weekend. Among other things, there is a continuing pattern of Wenner trying to get some political quotes out of Dylan, and not receiving that which he’d clearly like to receive.
As in:
Wenner: What do you think of the historical moment we’re in today? We seem to be hellbent on destruction. Do you worry about global warming?
Dylan: Where’s the global warming? It’s freezing here.
Wenner: It seems a pretty frightening outlook.
Dylan: I think what you’re driving at, though, is we expect politicians to solve all our problems. I don’t expect politicians to solve anybody’s problems.
Wenner: Who is going to solve them?
Dylan: Our own selves. We’ve got to take the world by the horns and solve our own problems. The world owes us nothing, each and every one of us, the world owes us not one single thing. Politicans or whoever.
Wenner: Do you think America is a force for good in the world today?
Dylan: Theoretically.
Wenner: But in practical fact …
Dylan: The practical fact is always different than theory.
Wenner: What do you think the practical fact is now?
Dylan: With what’s going on? Human nature hasn’t really changed in 3,000 years. Maybe the obstacles and actualities and daily customs change, but human nature really hasn’t changed. It cannot change. It’s not made to change.
The scent of desperation from Wenner is palpable. He’s doing his damnedest to pin Bob down, but Dylan just keeps stepping back and speaking on an entirely different level, at the same time dismissing the left/liberal clichés that form the premise of the questions
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This next piece comes from Peter Bronson, Cincinnati Enquirer
In other words, a Who's Who of the far-out left - Jane Fonda, Jimmy Carter, Norman Mailer, George McGovern, Steven Spielberg, Bill Moyers, Michael Moore, Neil Young and the other usual suspects. It's predictable from a magazine that calls the Bush administration "a band of reckless, power-drunk ideologues" who "steal elections."
Mailer calls Bush a "spiritual terrorist," Paul McCartney says the answer is "peace and love," Fonda says, "We're fighting for ... the life of the Earth." And Rolling Stone waves its Bic lighter in a rock-concert cheer - "More, More!''
It's almost as if the clock stopped at Rolling Stone in 1967. The interviews are a time capsule - with only a few words changed. Nixon becomes Bush. Vietnam becomes Iraq. Pollution becomes global warming.
And through it all, there's the same old stubborn hippie optimism that catastrophe is just around the corner.
In every interview, the questioner eventually asks something like: "Isn't it a drag that the world is coming to an end because nobody listened to us in the '60s - and they still don't?"
But here's a bigger bummer than a dime bag of oregano: Some of the rock stars refused to play along.
"Do you think it's gloomy on the horizon," Editor Jann Wenner asks Bob Dylan.
"In what sense do you mean," Dylan replies.
"Bob, come on," Wenner goads.
"No, you come on. In what sense do you mean that?" Dylan demands.
Wenner tries again: "We seem to be hell-bent on destruction. Do you worry about global warming?"
"Where's the global warming?" Dylan asks. "It's freezing here."
As my friend Mike McCarthy said, "There's some surprising stuff in there." He's right.
Author Tom Wolfe: "Anyone who thinks that religion is bad for society is out of his mind. We are now beginning to see what happens when you don't have it."
Spielberg, on the dark legacy of the '60s: "Just narcissism, a collective and personal narcissism."
Jack Nicholson: "I'm a patriotic fella and this factionalism today isn't to my liking. I'm incapable of hating a president of the United States."
Stewart Brand, LSD tripper and inventor of the Whole Earth Catalog: "Almost everything we tried either failed hideously or didn't pan out. Communes failed, drugs went nowhere, free love led pretty much to AIDS. A lot of people thought Mao Tse Tung was a hero."
The 40th Anniversary edition of Rolling Stone is now on newsstands. The interview by Jann Wenner of Bob Dylan contains a lot of material that was not in the audio clips posted on the RS website over the weekend. Among other things, there is a continuing pattern of Wenner trying to get some political quotes out of Dylan, and not receiving that which he’d clearly like to receive.
As in:
Wenner: What do you think of the historical moment we’re in today? We seem to be hellbent on destruction. Do you worry about global warming?
Dylan: Where’s the global warming? It’s freezing here.
Wenner: It seems a pretty frightening outlook.
Dylan: I think what you’re driving at, though, is we expect politicians to solve all our problems. I don’t expect politicians to solve anybody’s problems.
Wenner: Who is going to solve them?
Dylan: Our own selves. We’ve got to take the world by the horns and solve our own problems. The world owes us nothing, each and every one of us, the world owes us not one single thing. Politicans or whoever.
Wenner: Do you think America is a force for good in the world today?
Dylan: Theoretically.
Wenner: But in practical fact …
Dylan: The practical fact is always different than theory.
Wenner: What do you think the practical fact is now?
Dylan: With what’s going on? Human nature hasn’t really changed in 3,000 years. Maybe the obstacles and actualities and daily customs change, but human nature really hasn’t changed. It cannot change. It’s not made to change.
The scent of desperation from Wenner is palpable. He’s doing his damnedest to pin Bob down, but Dylan just keeps stepping back and speaking on an entirely different level, at the same time dismissing the left/liberal clichés that form the premise of the questions
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This next piece comes from Peter Bronson, Cincinnati Enquirer
In other words, a Who's Who of the far-out left - Jane Fonda, Jimmy Carter, Norman Mailer, George McGovern, Steven Spielberg, Bill Moyers, Michael Moore, Neil Young and the other usual suspects. It's predictable from a magazine that calls the Bush administration "a band of reckless, power-drunk ideologues" who "steal elections."
Mailer calls Bush a "spiritual terrorist," Paul McCartney says the answer is "peace and love," Fonda says, "We're fighting for ... the life of the Earth." And Rolling Stone waves its Bic lighter in a rock-concert cheer - "More, More!''
It's almost as if the clock stopped at Rolling Stone in 1967. The interviews are a time capsule - with only a few words changed. Nixon becomes Bush. Vietnam becomes Iraq. Pollution becomes global warming.
And through it all, there's the same old stubborn hippie optimism that catastrophe is just around the corner.
In every interview, the questioner eventually asks something like: "Isn't it a drag that the world is coming to an end because nobody listened to us in the '60s - and they still don't?"
But here's a bigger bummer than a dime bag of oregano: Some of the rock stars refused to play along.
"Do you think it's gloomy on the horizon," Editor Jann Wenner asks Bob Dylan.
"In what sense do you mean," Dylan replies.
"Bob, come on," Wenner goads.
"No, you come on. In what sense do you mean that?" Dylan demands.
Wenner tries again: "We seem to be hell-bent on destruction. Do you worry about global warming?"
"Where's the global warming?" Dylan asks. "It's freezing here."
As my friend Mike McCarthy said, "There's some surprising stuff in there." He's right.
Author Tom Wolfe: "Anyone who thinks that religion is bad for society is out of his mind. We are now beginning to see what happens when you don't have it."
Spielberg, on the dark legacy of the '60s: "Just narcissism, a collective and personal narcissism."
Jack Nicholson: "I'm a patriotic fella and this factionalism today isn't to my liking. I'm incapable of hating a president of the United States."
Stewart Brand, LSD tripper and inventor of the Whole Earth Catalog: "Almost everything we tried either failed hideously or didn't pan out. Communes failed, drugs went nowhere, free love led pretty much to AIDS. A lot of people thought Mao Tse Tung was a hero."
Travel to Nashville from July 1 - 31, 2007 with Southwest and Save
Here is a current deal that Southwest Airlines is offering for Nashville.
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$84 one-way, to/from Austin, TX
$79 one-way, to/from Baltimore/Washington Int'l, MD
$34 one-way, to/from Birmingham, AL
$34 one-way, to/from Chicago (Midway), IL
$54 one-way, to/from Cleveland, OH
$49 one-way, to/from Columbus, OH
$84 one-way, to/from Corpus Christi, TX
$84 one-way, to/from Dallas (Love Field), TX
$84 one-way, to/from Detroit, MI
$84 one-way, to/from El Paso, TX
$44 one-way, to/from Ft. Lauderdale, FL
$44 one-way, to/from Ft. Myers, FL
$84 one-way, to/from Hartford, CT/Springfield, MA
$84 one-way, to/from Houston (Hobby), TX
$44 one-way, to/from Jacksonville, FL
$54 one-way, to/from Kansas City, MO
$84 one-way, to/from Midland/Odessa, TX
$44 one-way, to/from Orlando, FL
$34 one-way, to/from Philadelphia, PA
$84 one-way, to/from Phoenix, AZ
$59 one-way, to/from Pittsburgh, PA
$74 one-way, to/from Raleigh-Durham, NC
$64 one-way, to/from San Antonio, TX
$44 one-way, to/from Tampa Bay, FL
$84 one-way, to/from Tulsa, OK
$44 one-way, to/from West Palm Beach, FL
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Terms and Conditions:
~Available only on southwest.com.
~Purchase May 25 through May 31, 2007, midnight Central Time.
~Travel July 1 through July 31, 2007.
~Available on Southwest Airlines-operated, published, scheduled service.
~Fares do not include federal excise tax of up to $3.40 for each flight segment. A flight segment is defined as a takeoff and a landing.
~Fares do not include airport-assessed passenger facility charges (PFC) of up to $9 and government-imposed September 11th Security Fee of up to $5 one-way.
~Fares are one-way.
~Fares may be combined with other combinable fares.
~Fares are not combinable with Senior Fares.
~When combining fares, all rules and restrictions apply.
~Fares are nonrefundable but may be applied toward future travel on Southwest Airlines.
~Seats are limited and won't be available on some flights that operate during very busy travel times and holiday periods..
~Any change to this reservation (flights, dates, cities, and/or names of passengers) may result in a fare increase. Standby travel requires an upgrade to the full unrestricted fare.
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$84 one-way, to/from Austin, TX
$79 one-way, to/from Baltimore/Washington Int'l, MD
$34 one-way, to/from Birmingham, AL
$34 one-way, to/from Chicago (Midway), IL
$54 one-way, to/from Cleveland, OH
$49 one-way, to/from Columbus, OH
$84 one-way, to/from Corpus Christi, TX
$84 one-way, to/from Dallas (Love Field), TX
$84 one-way, to/from Detroit, MI
$84 one-way, to/from El Paso, TX
$44 one-way, to/from Ft. Lauderdale, FL
$44 one-way, to/from Ft. Myers, FL
$84 one-way, to/from Hartford, CT/Springfield, MA
$84 one-way, to/from Houston (Hobby), TX
$44 one-way, to/from Jacksonville, FL
$54 one-way, to/from Kansas City, MO
$84 one-way, to/from Midland/Odessa, TX
$44 one-way, to/from Orlando, FL
$34 one-way, to/from Philadelphia, PA
$84 one-way, to/from Phoenix, AZ
$59 one-way, to/from Pittsburgh, PA
$74 one-way, to/from Raleigh-Durham, NC
$64 one-way, to/from San Antonio, TX
$44 one-way, to/from Tampa Bay, FL
$84 one-way, to/from Tulsa, OK
$44 one-way, to/from West Palm Beach, FL
~~~~~~~
Terms and Conditions:
~Available only on southwest.com.
~Purchase May 25 through May 31, 2007, midnight Central Time.
~Travel July 1 through July 31, 2007.
~Available on Southwest Airlines-operated, published, scheduled service.
~Fares do not include federal excise tax of up to $3.40 for each flight segment. A flight segment is defined as a takeoff and a landing.
~Fares do not include airport-assessed passenger facility charges (PFC) of up to $9 and government-imposed September 11th Security Fee of up to $5 one-way.
~Fares are one-way.
~Fares may be combined with other combinable fares.
~Fares are not combinable with Senior Fares.
~When combining fares, all rules and restrictions apply.
~Fares are nonrefundable but may be applied toward future travel on Southwest Airlines.
~Seats are limited and won't be available on some flights that operate during very busy travel times and holiday periods..
~Any change to this reservation (flights, dates, cities, and/or names of passengers) may result in a fare increase. Standby travel requires an upgrade to the full unrestricted fare.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
A Tasteful Pursuit by Randy Rayburn
Wednesday, June 13 2007
SUNSET GRILL
2001 Belcourt AvenueNashville, Tennessee
6:00 PM Cocktail Reception7:00 PM Six-Course Seated Dinner
$175 per person $250 per person to be seated at the Ten Top Chefs Table, seating is limited(75% is tax-deductible)
Guests will have the opportunity to bid in silent and live auctions.
Auction and Ticket Co-ChairsLinda Herrell and Kendra May
FOR RESERVATIONS
Visit www.strength.org/atastefulpursuitOr call 615-386-3663
Can't attend, but would like to help?
Please consider making a contribution to help end childhood hunger.
HOST
Dustin Pritchett, Chef de Cuisine of Sunset Grill
GUEST CHEFS
Bradford Thompson, Executive Chef of Mary Elaine’s at the Phoenician Resort (Scottsdale, AZ)Brian Uhl, Executive Chef and Owner of Cabana (Nashville, TN)
Paul Ent, Chef and Partner of Midtown Café (Nashville, TN)
Debra Paquette, Chef and Owner of Zola (Nashville, TN)
Tyler Brown, Executive Chef of The Capitol Grille at The Hermitage Hotel (Nashville, TN)
Share Our Strength's A Tasteful Pursuit is a national culinary program featuring the nation's most renowned chefs touring the country to raise funds for the fight to end childhood hunger. We partner with the culinary elite in major cities to create sumptuous, multi-course dinners paired with exquisite wines.
SUNSET GRILL
2001 Belcourt AvenueNashville, Tennessee
6:00 PM Cocktail Reception7:00 PM Six-Course Seated Dinner
$175 per person $250 per person to be seated at the Ten Top Chefs Table, seating is limited(75% is tax-deductible)
Guests will have the opportunity to bid in silent and live auctions.
Auction and Ticket Co-ChairsLinda Herrell and Kendra May
FOR RESERVATIONS
Visit www.strength.org/atastefulpursuitOr call 615-386-3663
Can't attend, but would like to help?
Please consider making a contribution to help end childhood hunger.
HOST
Dustin Pritchett, Chef de Cuisine of Sunset Grill
GUEST CHEFS
Bradford Thompson, Executive Chef of Mary Elaine’s at the Phoenician Resort (Scottsdale, AZ)Brian Uhl, Executive Chef and Owner of Cabana (Nashville, TN)
Paul Ent, Chef and Partner of Midtown Café (Nashville, TN)
Debra Paquette, Chef and Owner of Zola (Nashville, TN)
Tyler Brown, Executive Chef of The Capitol Grille at The Hermitage Hotel (Nashville, TN)
Share Our Strength's A Tasteful Pursuit is a national culinary program featuring the nation's most renowned chefs touring the country to raise funds for the fight to end childhood hunger. We partner with the culinary elite in major cities to create sumptuous, multi-course dinners paired with exquisite wines.
This past Friday
We stopped in at Las Paletas for some popsicles that were truly were outstanding.
I had a "Creamy Lime" and Andrea had a "Hot Chocolate."
The creamy lime tasted much like a perfect key lime pie and was so refreshing. The "hot chocolate" was a creamy chocolate with hot peppers in it. At first you tasted the cold, creamy milk chocolate which gave way to a lil ember of heat that would sit on the back of your tongue. It wasn't to hot but gave a nice twist to the typical chocolate popsicle.
Be sure to check them out many times this summer and enjoy the evolving and revolving flavors.
Las Paletas
(615) 386-2101
2907 12th Ave S
I had a "Creamy Lime" and Andrea had a "Hot Chocolate."
The creamy lime tasted much like a perfect key lime pie and was so refreshing. The "hot chocolate" was a creamy chocolate with hot peppers in it. At first you tasted the cold, creamy milk chocolate which gave way to a lil ember of heat that would sit on the back of your tongue. It wasn't to hot but gave a nice twist to the typical chocolate popsicle.
Be sure to check them out many times this summer and enjoy the evolving and revolving flavors.
Las Paletas
(615) 386-2101
2907 12th Ave S
Horse People in Stitches Magazine
When Andrea Bobu moved her embroidery business, threadadventures, from Clovis, CA, to Smyrna, TN, early this year, she managed to bring all her customers with her.
“My customers are mostly horse people – breeders, trainers and horse associations – and although the types of horses and owners are different in both states, they share a passion for their animals and everything related to them,” Bobu says. “I own several quarter horses I take to shows. I understand horse people since I’m one of them.”
Most of Bobu’s orders are for hats and jackets, fully embroidered with at least three different designs that use different techniques, such as twill, sequins, leather appliqué and foam. The award jackets she designs and decorates usually include the horse association’s logo, award title and placing, and the year and horse’s name; the embroidery is placed on the left chest and the full jacket back
To read the rest of this article go to Stitches Magazine
“My customers are mostly horse people – breeders, trainers and horse associations – and although the types of horses and owners are different in both states, they share a passion for their animals and everything related to them,” Bobu says. “I own several quarter horses I take to shows. I understand horse people since I’m one of them.”
Most of Bobu’s orders are for hats and jackets, fully embroidered with at least three different designs that use different techniques, such as twill, sequins, leather appliqué and foam. The award jackets she designs and decorates usually include the horse association’s logo, award title and placing, and the year and horse’s name; the embroidery is placed on the left chest and the full jacket back
To read the rest of this article go to Stitches Magazine
Nashville Downtown
Overlooking The Honky-Tonks at 5th and Broadway
Reflection of the Ryman Auditorium
Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum- Aglow
Legends Corner
US Bank Building and Country Music Television
What Makes The Nashville Skyline
Gruhn Guitars
4th and Broadway
Looking up 5th Avenue
Nashville Arena- Tower
"Batman" Building Framed
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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