NSO Begins New Music Education Initiative

At Dan Mills Elementary School (today/yesterday), forty fourth-graders gave their full attention (sound of clarinet begins) to Nashville Symphony clarinetist Dan Lochrie playing music from “Peter and the Wolf:”

Political gamesmanship was in full force in the state House today as the Criminal Practice Subcommittee considered a controversial bill to make handgun carry permits secret.

Republicans in the state Senate won a round today by passing bills lowering the GPA requirement for keeping a lottery scholarship and distributing lottery reserve money. Both came over weak resistance by Democrats in the Senate Education Committee.

Three thousand residents in Bedford County are being asked to boil their drinking water.

Governor Phil Bredesen concedes that his idea for a super-delegate gathering to choose between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is probably dead.

The Metro Council approved on final reading last night, a bill that will allow duplexes to be built as separate houses.

There’s one name that ends up at the top of the heap among Nashville’s gospel music producers each year. It’s Ed Cash. He’s taken home the Gospel Music Association’s Dove Award for ‘producer of the year’ four-years running. He’s nominated for a fifth. Those who work with him say he’s got a gift that helps him pick the right seasonings for a song, as WPLN’s Blake Farmer reports.

Amun Ra Theatre will soon have its own performance space-making it the first African-American theatre company in Nashville to open a permanent venue.

A bill to ban an open container of alcohol in a vehicle cleared the House State and Local Government Committee today.

The chairman of the Metro school board said today she will not run for re-election this August.