nashville neighborhoods: Nashville Entertainment: Belcourt Theatre
- 01/25/13 12:42 AM
The Belcourt Theatre is a unique Nashville treasure with a vibrant historic past and deep roots in the community. Today, the Belcourt is a nonprofit cultural institution dedicated to presenting the best of independent, documentary, world, repertoire and classic cinema. The Belcourt provides opportunities for people of all ages to discover, explore and learn through the power of film. We cultivate and build on the powerful sense of shared experience that audiences can achieve — taking advantage of our building’s physical character and location in the heart of a lively Nashville neighborhood: Hillsboro Village.Since the re-opening of the theatre in 1999, … (0 comments)
nashville neighborhoods: New Year's Broadway Bash 2013 (Nashville)
- 12/26/12 02:33 AM
“In 2009, The Gabe Dixon Band, Tommy Sims and Friends, Marc Broussard, Jonny Lang, The Dirt Drifters, and Rodney Atkins performed to a crowd of 15,000 party-goers on the streets of downtown Music City. At midnight, a giant lighted guitar dropped 80 feet and set off a fireworks display that welcomed 2010. The 2009 event was so much fun, we decided to do it again. Damien Horne, Heidi Newfield, Will Hoge, and Phil Vassar headlined the 2nd annual Music City New Year’s Eve Bash on Broadway on December 31, 2010. Just 8 months after the historic floods of May 2010, 25,000 people came out to celebrate the outgoing 2010 and incoming 2011 in … (0 comments)
nashville neighborhoods: Neighborhood Compatibility Questionnaire
- 10/02/12 08:06 AM
In the adapting world of real estate, many often forget the crucial impact cultural studies plays on the industry's success. We've been dominately impacted, over and over again, by the market's "negative numbers" for the last decade that realtors and the people alike are asking for something different. We want more fun, excitement, and what is most fitting to help with recovery and sustain its survival. It's the very questions we've been pondering since our company's inception: How do we reach out again? How do we add some spice where the traditional recipe has grown dull? How do we bring the LOVE? We began to pull statistical information from previous voting polls, list what specific … (0 comments)
nashville neighborhoods: Nashville Entertainment: Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
- 09/25/12 04:11 AM
The Belle Meade neighborhood, located just 5 minutes from Downtown Nashville off Broadway/West End Avenue, gives Beverly Hills a run for its glamour - Dixie style. Escape to a classy and trendy area where impressive mansions are built on vast grounds of former 19th century plantations and horse ranches. And one of Belle Meade's legendary features, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, sits on its southern boundary. Two years ago Cheekwood hosted displays by glassblower Dale Chihuly in honor of their 50th anniversary, transforming the landscape into an enchanting wonderland of color, light and form and creating a spectacular interaction between nature and art. Feast … (0 comments)
nashville neighborhoods: Nashville Entertainment: Carnton Plantation
- 09/25/12 03:15 AM
Franklin, Tennessee is what those famous country and blues tunes are all about! You'll receive a hospitable dose of the Great American Main Street experience and plenty of chances to explore, dine and shop. It’s located 20-25 minutes directly south of Downtown Nashville, with immediate access to Interstate 65. Named in Southern Living’s “Best Small Town” top ten list, Susan Watson tours Franklin's Carnton Plantation with Robert Hicks - author of Widow of the South - to find out why people continue to be intrigued with the events of nearly 150 years ago or with the place it happened at.
Nothin' wrong with a … (0 comments)
nashville neighborhoods: Music Calls Us Home
- 09/25/12 02:14 AM
HOW IN THE WORLD can a smaller Southern city acquire a moniker like Music City USA? Since its inception, Nashville, Tennessee has gained a worldwide reputation as being the best place to write, produce, record, and tour musical works. Here’s how it happened. Did you know, in the beginning, Davy Crockett played the fiddle along the banks of the Cumberland River? And settlers bucked danced?…that we’re the home of the legendary Grand Ole Opry House, Ryman Auditorium, Country Music Hall of Fame, Castle Studio, RCA Studio B, The Nashville Network, CMT, GAC, Music City Walk of Fame, and the newly constructed Schermerhorn Symphony Center?…that when the Fisk Jubilee Singers performed for Queen … (2 comments)
nashville neighborhoods: Nashville Cuisine: F. Scott's Restaurant & Jazz Bar
- 09/24/12 05:09 AM
Do you favor fine and contemporary food selections made with local produce? Live jazz six nights a week? 300 different wine selections to choose from? Smoke-free environments? 50% menu discounts after 9 pm? Boy, have I got a treat for you... centrally placed in the heart of Nashville's Green Hills neighborhood, F. Scott's Restaurant & Jazz Bar is a flair & sophisticated spot for all occasions, all the time. Not gonna lie. A fantastic choice for a date too!
Written by Stephanie Brake … (0 comments)
nashville neighborhoods: Weekend Recap 9
- 09/24/12 04:37 AM
Autumn has finally arrived! Thinner, crisp air, Pumpkin Spice, hay rides, carving pumpkins... we are READY for the changing colors and seasonal open houses! And just an FYI: we finished describing 28 Nashville neighborhoods and adding quick hotlinks for their listings on each page last week. Match them up with your values, save your favorites, submit your info for a showing, find a realtor right for you, and begin the journey to your dream home in Music City. The sky's the limit, folks!
nashville neighborhoods: Nashville Recreation: Radnor Lake
- 09/20/12 01:50 AM
Radnor Lake State Park provides scenic, biological, geological and recreational opportunities not found in other metropolitan areas. L&N Railroad Company impounded Radnor Lake in 1914 to provide water for its steam engines, and intended to use the area as a hunting preserve for company executives. Migrating birds soon found the lake and began wintering there. In 1923, L&N's executive vice president stopped all hunting on the land and declared it to be a nature preserve. The company sold it to developers in 1961. It became the first State natural Area in 1973, with a diversity of natural habitats ranging from the … (0 comments)
nashville neighborhoods: Nashville Entertainment: Belmont Mansion
- 09/19/12 07:00 AM
Can you imagine your estate turning into a university? Adelicia Acklen probably didn't either. Enjoy Tennessee Crossroads' look into Nashville's Belmont Mansion, located near the Hillsboro Village and 12 South neighborhoods. ~Web Agent (Real Prop Finders)
Written by Stephanie Brake … (0 comments)
nashville neighborhoods: Nashville Cuisine: Loveless says, "Make biscuits, not war."
- 09/19/12 05:04 AM
You haven't had country ham, fried chicken, fluffy biscuits, pulled pork or fruit jam quite like this before... ALL made from scratch. Aside from Southern comfort food at its best, The Loveless Cafe offers a gift store, bike shop, BBQ pit and a backyard Barn for Music City Roots concerts and other special events. Here's a sneak peak at one of Nashville's most cherished treasures, located on the outskirts of the Belle Meade neighborhood and across the road from the Natchez Trace Parkway!
Now my belly's talkin'! Written by Stephanie Brake … (0 comments)
The Belcourt Theatre is a unique Nashville treasure with a vibrant historic past and deep roots in the community. Today, the Belcourt is a nonprofit cultural institution dedicated to presenting the best of independent, documentary, world, repertoire and classic cinema. The Belcourt provides opportunities for people of all ages to discover, explore and learn through the power of film. We cultivate and build on the powerful sense of shared experience that audiences can achieve — taking advantage of our building’s physical character and location in the heart of a lively Nashville neighborhood: Hillsboro Village.Since the re-opening of the theatre in 1999, … (0 comments)
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