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The Tennessean has a very comprehensive series of articles on how Nashville and country music are changing in the fact of new technologies and retail climates. The feature also looks at what these changes mean for fans.

Liz Garrigan introduces Nashville to her successor at the helm of the Scene featuring some scathing criticism of the hire by Henry Walker:

Sasha Frere-Jones worries that there is no awesome summer pop song waiting for us this year. He's concerned that there is nothing poised to reign at the top of Top 40 radio playlists that Top 40 fans can embrace and non-Top 40 music listeners can call their guilty pleasure. He asks, "Where are the singles?

No she is not talking about the great civil rights battle but a bigger more important issue to her. The battle for the first lady to get her giant underground party room at the mansion. The scene has the details.

A New York food company is recalling more than 286,000 pounds of meat and poultry because it might be contaminated with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes.

Mike Byrd is dismayed that the so-called “Beer Cabaret” bill will likely find new life and chastises Council

The Scene reports that we may see at-Large Council Member Jerry Maynard's "beer cabaret" bill again thanks to the efforts of former at-LCM Adam Dread, who is now a lobbyist for the "Pure Gold" chai

Ok, why haven’t I posted lately?

3 big reasons:

Certain people, like Phil Valentine for example, seem to have taken offense at the following comments by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.
“Africans and Europeans came here and founded this country together - Europeans by choice and Africans in chains. That’s not a very pretty reality of our founding.
Descendants of slaves did not get much of [...]