Grand Ole Opry; February 8-9

Friday, February 8

8:00 – 8:30
Marty Stuart
The Whites
Tennessee Mafia Jug Band
8:30 – 9:00
Jimmy Dickens
Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press
Jennifer Hanson
9:00 – 9:30
Jim Ed Brown
Jack Greene
Chuck Wicks
9:30 – 10:00
John Conlee
Jason Michael Carroll
Gene Watson

Saturday, February 9
Early Show

6:30 – 7:00
Jimmy Dickens
Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press
Mandy Barnett
7:00 – 7:30
Jimmy C. Newman
Jack Greene
Jake Owen
7:30 – 8:00
Ray Pillow
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Joe Diffie
8:00 – 8:30
John Conlee
Jeff Bates
The Grascals
Opry Square Dancers
8:30 – 9:00
Jim Ed Brown
Jesse McReynolds & The Virginia Boys
Mark Chesnutt

Late Show

9:30 – 10:00
Jimmy Dickens
Jesse McReynolds & The Virginia Boys
Mandy Barnett
10:00 – 10:30
Jimmy C. Newman
Jake Owen
The Grascals
10:30 – 11:00
John Conlee
Jeff Bates
Joe Diffie
Opry Square Dancers
11:00 – 11:30
Jim Ed Brown
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
Mark Chesnutt

Nashville Restaurant Scores; February 6-12

HIGH SCORES:

Wing Stop
847 Hamilton Crossing
Date Inspected: 1-30-08
Score: 93

Domino’s Pizza
5320 Nolensville Road
Date Inspected: 1-28-08
Score: 93

Subway
769 Bell Road
Date Inspected: 1-29-08
Score: 97

Wing Stop
3921 Nolensville Road
Date Inspected: 1-29-08
Score: 98

Papa John’s
3604 Gallatin Road
Date Inspected: 1-29-08
Score: 93

Alberto’s Mexican Restaurant
4701-B Gallatin Road
Date Inspected: 1-29-08
Score: 94

Pasgetti’s
7609 Hwy 70 South
Date Inspected: 1-31-08
Score: 94

Whitt’s BBQ
5310 Harding Road
Date Inspected: 1-31-08
Score: 94

LOW SCORES:

No Low Scores for this Week.

UPDATES:

O’Charley’s
100 East Park Drive
Passed Reinspection

Anderson’s Market
8993 Hwy 100
Passed Reinspection

Banaadir Restaurant
1038 Murfreesboro Road
Passed Reinspection

Comments about the Nashville hats on WebbspunIdeas.com

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Mitt Romney visits the Pancake Pantry

Mitt Romney visited the Pancake Pantry this morning and ate while also visiting and meeting people. He ate well and tipped well, from what I hear. I think he seems to be a good guy and of all of the guys left in the race....He is my current choice for next president. Good luck Mitt and keep enjoying the good food.

Thanks to Michael Delgiorno for the info and knowing what the morning was like at the Pancake Pantry.

Michael Delgiorno

Funky Bookshelves

I found these funky bookshelves at the blog of Weirdomatic while looking at the Freshome blog. Be sure to check out the warning sign about the police.

Willie Nelson: Twin Towers Were Imploded Like Condemned Vegas Casino Buildings

"I saw those towers fall and I've seen an implosion in Las Vegas - there's too much similarities between the two, and I saw a building fall that didn't get hit by nothing."

Listen to Willie's thoughts on the attack of 9/11. *audio comes from the website, BreitBart.tv*

Bobby Brown wears our Nashville hat on "Gone Country"

Bobby Brown

See Bobby Brown wearing one of the Nashville Hats that we make. Enjoy the VIDEO from the CMT show "Gone Country."

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Marriott ebreaks for February 7-10

Arizona - Multiple Cities
$95-$127
Nevada - Las Vegas
$159-$215
Arizona - Phoenix
$119-$295
New Hampshire - Manchester-Concord
$75-$87
California - Anaheim-Orange County
$63-$139
New York - Albany
$83-$104
California - Multiple Cities
$71-$143
New York - Multiple Cities
$79-$119
California - Oakland
$67-$119
New York - New York
$119-$335
California - San Jose
$63-$103
North Carolina - Asheville
$91-$95
Connecticut - Hartford
$67-$151
Ohio - Columbus
$59-$119
Florida - Fort Lauderdale
$136-$423
Oklahoma - Tulsa
$67-$71
Florida - Jacksonville
$71-$79
Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
$71-$159
Florida - Multiple Cities
$65-$127
South Carolina - Columbia
$71-$95
Florida - Pensacola
$87
South Carolina - Multiple Cities
$51-$87
Georgia - Atlanta
$51-$127
South Carolina - Myrtle Beach
$47-$79
Georgia - Multiple Cities
$71-$103
Texas - San Antonio
$79-$104
Kentucky - Lexington
$56-$83
Virginia - Norfolk-Virginia Beach
$71-$131
Kentucky - Louisville
$60-$95
West Virginia - Morgantown
$96
Louisiana - Multiple Cities
$47-$87
Wisconsin - Madison
$87-$104
Maryland - Baltimore
$87-$159
Michigan - Multiple Cities
$63-$95
Minnesota - Rochester
$79
Nebraska - Multiple Cities
$95-$103

Outside the U.S.

Canada - Montreal
$119-$146 CAD
Canada - Toronto
$71-$151 CAD

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French Fries are Missiles in a Food Fight?

LARAMIE, Wyo. —
Three 13-year-old girls accused of throwing french fries during lunchtime at their school were cited for "hurling missiles," an adult infraction covered by city ordinances.

The principal of Laramie Junior High and a police officer had warned students during an assembly the day before the french fries' launch that if they threw food, they had to suffer the consequences, Police Chief Bob Deutsch said. The warning came after school officials had heard rumors of an impending food fight.



"They saw it as really the planning of a riot, when you think about it," Deutsch said.
The girls decided to test the warning, he said.

"It wasn't a spontaneous thing -- a couple of kids giggling, throwing a french fry at each other," Deutsch said. "They intended on getting everybody involved in this and starting something that no doubt would have the potential of getting out of control."

Read the entire story HERE.

Tim McGraw will perform at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Tim McGraw, Jimmy Buffett and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss will perform at this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival taking place April 25-27 and May 1-4. The event at the Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans will feature 11 stages presenting a wide variety of musical styles.

This year's performers also include Sheryl Crow, John Prine, Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint, Delbert McClinton, Del McCoury, Richard Thompson, Widespread Panic, Dr. John, Al Green, Diana Krall, Chick Corea, the Roots and many others.

Pancake Pantry to be Featured on the Splendid Table

This comes from the Splendid Table.

Expect to wait in line when you go to Pancake Pantry. But, then, it's simply one of the best pancake houses in the country and folks say it's worth the wait. The Sterns say the must-haves are the buckwheat cakes with ginger cream on the side, the sweet potato pancakes, and the Swedish cakes. The hash browns are first rate, too.

Pancake Pantry
1796 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN
615-383-9333

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Jane and Michael Stern have the website Road Food, which provides reviews and thoughts of restaurants that they have visited around the country.

A Handmade Home

by Joyce Wadler


ANY fool can hire an architect to draw up a plan for a house, but it takes a truly inspired fool — which is to say, an artist — to start building and see where the earth and driftwood and shards of broken pottery take him, and an equally impassioned fool — say, a woman in love — to go along and carry the rocks on her back.



This is how it was with the little-known sculptural home that is Eliphante, three acres of fantastical domes, shacks and follies created over 28 years by Michael Kahn and his wife, Leda Livant. Here there is the residence, which has 25-foot ceilings and incorporates rocks and scraps from construction sites; there, a studio, one wall of which is the Ford pickup that brought the couple west; and a labyrinthine art gallery called Pipedreams, in which every painting has its own environment.


All photos by David Kadlubowski

The building that gave the compound its name has a long, trunklike entrance made of rock and an irregularly mounded roof. “Aaah, Ella-fahn-tay,” a friend joked soon after it was built, giving it a playful faux-French pronunciation.

The couple began building when they first arrived here, although they did not own the property, and they continued to do so until the progressive brain disease, which killed Mr. Kahn this December at age 71, robbed him of the ability to speak.

Read the entire story in the New York Times.

Ryugyong Hotel

By Eva Hagberg

The one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel is hideous, dominating the Pyongyang skyline like some twisted North Korean version of Cinderella's castle. Not that you would be able to tell from the official government photos of the North Korean capital -- the hotel is such an eyesore, the Communist regime routinely covers it up, airbrushing it to make it look like it's open -- or Photoshopping or cropping it out of pictures completely.

Even by Communist standards, the 3,000-room hotel is hideously ugly, a series of three gray 328-foot long concrete wings shaped into a steep pyramid. With 75 degree sides that rise to an apex of 1,083 feet, the Hotel of Doom (also known as the Phantom Hotel and the Phantom Pyramid) isn't the just the worst designed building in the world -- it's the worst-built building, too. In 1987, Baikdoosan Architects and Engineers put its first shovel into the ground and more than twenty years later, after North Korea poured more than two percent of its gross domestic product to building this monster, the hotel remains unoccupied, unopened, and unfinished.

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Read the complete story in Esquire.

American Ranch Horse Association show in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; February 2-3

February 2 & 3, 2008
9:00am
VOLRHA Tour Around Tennessee
MTSU Livestock Arena, Murfreesboro, TN
615-397-6754 or 615-417-4253
tangostat@hotmail.com

Visit American Ranch Horse Association to learn more.