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💘 Best date spots in Nashville
February 13, 2025 · — Natalia Aldana
Hiya! City Cast editor Natalia Aldana here, filling in for Margaret today.
Cheers to Bad Idea, a wine-forward Laotian restaurant in East Nashville, for being listed among USA Today’s 2025 Restaurants of the Year list! Clearly, this spot is a great idea 🍷

What's CITY Talking About?

💐 To Love, or Not To Love, Valentine’s Flowers
Mattie Bush-Martin from Amelia’s Flowers joins the City Cast Nashville podcast to answer our burning floral questions: What’s the best flower to cheer someone up? Is buying flowers for yourself economically responsible? And does she hate Valentine’s Day as much as we do?
- Plus, we get the scoop on Pont Neuf, her buzzy new bar where you can sip a cocktail while building a bouquet. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
🏫 Renderings Shared of Vanderbilt-Florida Campus
Vanderbilt University has released images of the planned seven-acre West Palm Beach campus. The South Florida campus, which Vanderbilt purchased in October for $46 million, is expected to be a satellite campus for the schools of management and engineering, host graduate business programs, and serve as an innovation hub. [Nashville Scene]
🎒 MNPS Approves Weapons-Detection System
In a unanimous vote on Tuesday, the Metro Nashville Public Schools board approved the implementation of sensors at the entrances of all high schools to more accurately detect weapons. The Evolv sensors were piloted at Antioch High School after the Jan. 22 shooting, and are currently used at Nissan Stadium. [Nashville Banner]
🏥 South Nashville Clinic Celebrates Immigrants
The Siloam Health center in Melrose says they’re making it their goal to ensure patients “feel celebrated when they walk in” and provide care as Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced they will now arrest undocumented immigrants in hospitals. Siloam Health is also preparing their staff on what to do if ICE attempts to enter and conduct a raid. [WPLN]

What To Do
Thursday, Feb. 13
- 🥾 Helping Hand Hike | 10 a.m.-Noon | Volunteer | Mill Ridge Park
- 🎶 Black History Month Free Music Series: Will Davenport | 2:30-4:30 p.m. | Free | BNA’s Green Beans Coffee Co.
- 🎙️ The War & Treaty Performance | 4-5 p.m. | $11.99+ | Grimey’s
- 🍽️ Frothy Love Dinners | 5-8:30 p.m. | $65 | Frothy Monkey
- 💘 Crazy Lil' Thing Called Love: Dinner Show | 5:30 p.m. | $74.99+ | The Venue at Fiddle Dee Farms
- 🍫 Candy & Chocktails | 5:30 p.m. | $90 | GooGoo Cluster
- 📚 Silent Book Club | 6-8 p.m. | Free | L & L Market
- 💃 Line Dancing Class With the 615 Soul Line Dancers | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Free | Madison Library Branch
- 🎭 "Alice by Heart" | 7:30 p.m. | $35 | The Barbershop Theater
- 🎥 “West Side Story” With Live Orchestra opens | 7:30 p.m. | $36+ | Schermerhorn Symphony Center
- 🎤 Galentine's Sweetheart Karaoke With Natalie Osborne (21+) | 8 p.m. | Free Entry | Cross Eyed Critters
- 🎸 Finneas | 8 p.m. | $39.50+ | Ryman Auditorium
- 🏀 Vanderbilt Women's Basketball vs. Mississippi State | 8 p.m. | $10 | Vanderbilt University Memorial Gym
Friday, Feb. 14
- 🧑🎓 2025 Nashville Conference on African American History & Culture | 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. | $35 | TSU Avon Williams Campus
- 🐇 The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Free | Main Library Branch
- 🥫 Sort & Organize for the FreeStore | 11 a.m.-2 p.m. | Volunteer | FreeStore
- 📻 Finally Friday | Noon-2 p.m. | Free | 3rd and Lindsley
- 🍽️ Frothy Love Dinners | 5-8:30 p.m. | $65 | Frothy Monkey
- 🧒 Able Together | 5-8:30 p.m. | Free | Tusculum Cumberland Presbyterian Church
- 💘 Crazy Lil' Thing Called Love: Dinner Show | 5:30 p.m. | $74.99+ | The Venue at Fiddle Dee Farms
- 🩰 Valentine's Day Pas De Deux Class for Couples | 6-7 p.m. | $35 per couple | Nashville Ballet
- 💌 Love Notes to Nature | 6-8 p.m. | Suggested $10 donation | Warner Park Nature Center
- 🎵 Winter Concert Series: Lisa Stewart and the Love Notes | 7 p.m. | $45 | Cheekwood
- 🎥 “Romeo + Juliet” Rooftop Screening | 7-9 p.m. | Free | Acme Feed & Seed
- 🎭 The Mountaintop opens | 7:30 p.m. | $58.50+ | TPAC’s Andrew Johnson Theater
- 🎤 Father John Misty | 8 p.m. | $39.50+ | Ryman Auditorium
- 🎶 My So-Called Band: 90’s Valentine’s Day (18+) | 9 p.m. | $29 | Brooklyn Bowl
Saturday, Feb. 15
- 🏃 Couple Shuffle | 9 a.m. | $18.83+ | Veterans Park, Hendersonville
- 🐻 Goldie B. Locks & The Three Singing Bears | 10-10:45 a.m. | Free | Williamson County Performing Arts Center
- 🖤 Black History Month: Descendant-led Tour With Gary Burke | 10-11 a.m. | Free | Fort Negley
- 🎵 Nashville Opera: When Marian Sang | 11 a.m.-Noon | Free | Tennessee State Museum
- 🚸 Kidsville Family Walk | 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | Free | Centennial Park
- 🍫 Nashville Chocolate, Wine & Whiskey Festival 2025 | 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. | $69.34+ | The Factory at Franklin
- 🎶 Songwriter Session: Kasey Tyndall | Noon-12:45 p.m. | $29.95 | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- 🧙 Wizards and Woodlands (18+) | 12:30-3:30 p.m. | Free | Shelby Bottoms Nature Center
- 🐴 Community Work Day | 2-4 p.m. | Volunteer | Freedom Reigns Ranch, Columbia
- 🍽️ Frothy Love Dinners | 5-8:30 p.m. | $65 | Frothy Monkey
- 💘 Crazy Lil' Thing Called Love: Dinner Show: opens | 5:30 p.m. | $74.99+ | The Venue at Fiddle Dee Farms
- 💃 Sweet Heart Big Band Dance | 7-9 p.m. | $12 | Shelby Park Community Center
- 🎥 “West Side Story” With Live Orchestra closes | 7:30 p.m. | $36+ | Schermerhorn Symphony Center
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