City Cast Nashville
🍼 Tackling Nashville’s child care crisis
January 13, 2025 · 💌 Margaret Kingsbury
Happy Monday! I hope y’all are enjoying what’s left of the snow. If you’re looking for a good indoor activity today, register for Nashville Public Library’s LEGO contest, and get started on your epic build!
What's CITY Talking About?
👶 Nashville’s Child Care Crisis
Child care costs in Nashville can be as much as college tuition, and parents often spend years on waitlists. Today on the City Cast Nashville podcast, we’re chatting about our child care crisis, and what legislators are doing about it. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
🏠 Emergency Overflow Shelter Suddenly Closes
Metro's emergency homeless shelter was unable to stay open on Friday morning, sending everyone back into the winter snowstorm. On Bluesky, Mayor O’Connell said the city “could not maintain security and staffing levels to keep it operating continuously through the weekend.” 113 unhoused people died in Nashville last year. [Nashville Banner]
🍱 No More Summer Grocery Funds for Kids
Gov. Bill Lee has rejected $75 million in federal funding for the Summer EBT program, which provided supplemental groceries to families whose children qualified for free or reduced school meals during the summer. [The Tennessean]
- Related: Rep. Aftyn Behn’s plan to end our grocery tax. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
🎨 Metro Arts (Still) in Disarray
New Metro Arts leadership is failing to meet the requirements of 2024’s conciliation agreement, imperiling this year’s artist funding. Metro Arts was asked to create new guidelines and submit a plan by Jan. 6, but the plan is riddled with errors. [Nashville Banner]
- How Metro Arts chaos impacts local organizations. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
- How artist funding could be more equitable. [Hey Nashville]
What To Do
Monday, Jan. 13
- 🌕 Full Wolf Moon | 5-7 p.m. | Free | Beaman Park Nature Center
- 💭 Manifest Mondays: Vision Board Creation Hour | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Free | Main Library Branch
- 🧷 Diaper Bank Sorting and Packaging | 1-3 p.m. | Volunteer | Nashville Diaper Connection
- 🎵 Moving the Music Forward | 3-6 p.m. | Free | Main Library Branch
- 😆 Nateland Live | 7 p.m. | $24.50 | The Lab at Zanies
- 🎶 Show Tunes at Sid’s | 7-9 p.m. | Free Entry | Sid Gold’s Request Room
- 🪈 Kim Scott, Flute | 8 p.m. | $15 | Blair School of Music
- 🎸 Grunge Night 12 Vs. The World | 8 p.m. | $19.27 | The Basement East
- 💜 Rock & Roll Monday! “Purple Rain” (1984) | 7 p.m. | $15+ | Franklin Theatre
Tuesday, Jan. 14
- 🎵 Ringo Starr & Friends | 7:30 p.m. | $79.50+ | Ryman Auditorium
- 📝 Life's Little Lessons | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | Free | Bordeaux Library Branch
- ✏️ Elementary After School Tutor/Mentor | 4-7 p.m. | Volunteer | 37208
- 🧒 Adventure Club: Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day | 4-5 p.m. | Free | Bellevue Library Branch
- 🍷 Wine School 101 | 6-7:30 p.m. | $75 | Miel Restaurant & Bar
- 🚨 A Tribute to The Police | 7:30 p.m. | $18.58 | 3rd and Lindsley
- 🐔 The '58: Greasy Chicken Review | 8 p.m. | Free | Eastside Bowl
- 🎶 32nd Alive and the Bluebird Benefit Concert Series | 9 p.m. | $33.14 | The Bluebird Cafe
- 🏅 Skee-Ball Tournament | 7 p.m. | Free Entry | Bearded Iris Brewing
Please enjoy my daughter’s snow cat! 😻
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