🌮 Your guide to Taco Week 2024

🌮 How to Make the Most of Taco Week 2024

Breakfast taco eggroll, anyone? Nashville Scene food writer Chris Chamberlain is on today’s podcast previewing Taco Week, taking place Dec. 2-8 at more than 40 Nashville restaurants, and giving host and hot sauce aficionado Marie Cecile Anderson his picks for the tacos you can’t miss. [City Cast Nashville 🎧]

• 🦃 Plus: Where to dine in Nashville on Thanksgiving. [Hey Nashville]

🪧 Local Concert Riggers Seek to Unionize

Declining workplace safety standards and a lack of adequate training since the pandemic began have pushed local riggers to establish a union, primarily for stagehands working with Rhino Staging. The National Labor Relations Board could call a vote if 30% of workers sign union interest cards — but two cases could delay the NLRB. [Nashville Scene]

⚽ NWSL Soccer (Probably) Not Coming to Nashville

Trigger warning for soccer and fútbol fans: Nashville will not be getting a National Women’s Soccer League team in this expansion round, with the league citing scheduling issues as the primary reason. But there might be hope still, as stakeholders like Lonnie Murray of HerGame Nashville continue to push for a women’s pro team. [Nashville Business Journal 🔒]

❤️ Sudanese Diaspora Supports Family During War

Over 2,000 people of Sudanese descent and origin living in Nashville say they and every Sudanese person they know are sending support to their friends and family in Sudan, who since 2023 have been caught in a war that has killed thousands and internally displaced more than 11 million. Here’s how you can help. [Nashville Banner]