City Cast Nashville
🥧 Your guide to Nashville in November
November 1, 2024 · 💌 Margaret Kingsbury
Happy Friday! Daylight Savings Time is Sunday, so don’t forget to set those clocks back an hour 🕑
What's CITY Talking About?
❓What You Think About Voting
Earlier this year, I asked Hey Nashville readers why (or why not) you vote. Tune in to hear us read and discuss your responses on the City Cast Nashville podcast! [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
🗳️ Ballot Breakdown With the Nashville Scene
The Nashville Scene is taking one more look at the Nov. 5 ballot with stories about Congressional and Senate races, gun control, and reproductive rights. [Nashville Scene]
- Find your Nov. 5 polling place. [Nashville.gov]
- Listen to our interviews with the three women running to represent Nashville in Congress. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
🏫 CoreCivic Sponsors School
CoreCivic, the Brentwood-based for-profit prison company under investigation for civil rights violations, sponsors Ravenwood High School — including showing ads during football games. Some parents are alarmed. School administration defends the sponsorship. [Tennessee Lookout]
🎵 Local Company Aims To Combat AI-Generated Music
The Nashville-based company Humanable, launched last month, certifies music as free of generative AI to help preserve human musical creativity through legal pathways. They’ve certified over 86,000 songs so far. [The Tennessean]
What To Do
Friday, Nov. 1
- 😱 8th Annual Nashville Scares: Creature | 9 p.m.-2 a.m. | $21.85+ | Studio 615
- 🎙️ Cyndi Lauper | 8 p.m. | $39.45+ | Bridgestone Arena
- 😋 Cultural Food Festival | 5-9 p.m. | Free Entry | Nolensville Farmers Market
- 🍸 Nashville Tequila Festival | 6-9 p.m. | $55+ | The Yard at oneC1TY
- 📚 3rd Annual Bourbon 'N' Books: Cheers to Knowledge | 7-10 p.m. | $75 | CMA Event Space
- 💀 Dia De Los Muertos at White Limozeen | 9 p.m. | Free Entry | White Limozeen
- 🎃 Halloween Weekend Party | 9 p.m.-2 a.m. | $25.18+ | Harriet's Rooftop
- 🧷 Diaper Bank Sorting and Packaging | 10 a.m.-12 p.m. | Volunteer | Nashville Diaper Connection
- 💃 Drag Race: Loosey LaDuca | 8 p.m.-3 a.m. | $20+ | Play Dance Bar
Saturday, Nov. 2
- 🦴 Tim Burton's “The Nightmare Before Christmas” in Concert | 7:30 p.m. | $75+ | Schermerhorn Symphony Center
- 💚 Turnip Green Festival | 10 a.m.-2 p.m. | Free Entry | Nashville Farmers’ Market
- 🎞️ “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” | 11:59 p.m. | $27 | The Belcourt Theatre
- 💀 El Día de los Muertos | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | $20 | Cheekwood
- 🦓 Celebrate Reading Days | 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. | $22 | Nashville Zoo
- 🛍️ Nashvember 2024 | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Free entry after 10 a.m. | Horton Events
- ✏️ Nature Poetry | 10-11:30 a.m. | Free | Bells Bend Outdoor Center
- 🎉 Dia de los Muertos Party | 9 p.m.-2 a.m. | $25.18+ | Harriet's Rooftop
- 🎥 Día de los Muertos Celebration: “Coco” | 1-4 p.m. | Free | Donelson Library Branch
- 🚶 20th Annual Hike for Safe Haven | 10 a.m. | Volunteer | Percy Warner Park
Have a great weekend! Before I go, Metro Water Services has released a map of pipe materials, where you can check to see if you have lead pipes.
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