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🎒 Immigrant student bill advances amid protests
March 13, 2025 · 💌 Margaret Kingsbury
Here’s a great way to start your morning: Check out these adorable pictures of the Nashville Zoo’s newest baby, a clouded leopard cub! She’s so sweet 😻
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🌝 Prepare Your Coffee, Astronomy Lovers
A rare total lunar eclipse will be visible early Friday morning! The partial eclipse will begin just past midnight, with the total eclipse starting at 1:26 a.m., and the maximum eclipse at 1:58 a.m. [WKRN]
- If you take a pic, send it to me to share!
🎵 Starwood Amphitheatre Property’s Future
Councilmember Joy Styles is working with developers to revitalize the 65-acre Antioch property once home to the popular Starwood Amphitheatre. Plans for the property might be released by the end of summer. [WKRN]
🗞️ Exploring a True Crime Saga
In 1998, Nashville was rocked by the murder of Skull’s Rainbow Room founder David “Skull” Schulman. On the City Cast Nashville podcast, we’re talking about it with the guys from Last Podcast on the Left. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
- For more local true crime, listen to the story of this murder for hire. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
🏛️ Legislative Updates
The bill allowing schools to bar undocumented immigrant students has progressed amid demonstrations, and two House and Senate committees will now consider it. [Tennessee Lookout]
- Lawmakers also greenlit bills clarifying abortion exceptions and protecting the right to contraception and fertility treatments, while they’ve shut down a bill protecting larger abortion rights. [Nashville Banner]
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What To Do
Thursday, March 13
- 🛍️ Grocery Volunteer | 8:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. | Volunteer | The Store
- 🏀 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament | Noon & 6 p.m. | $43.05+ | Bridgestone Arena
- 🐶 Dog Man Party! (1st-4th grades) | 4-5 p.m. | Free | Madison Library Branch
- ✂️ Free Haircuts | 4-7 p.m. | Free | Pruitt Library Branch
- 🖌️ Sip & Paint (21+) | 7 p.m. | $45 | Sports & Social Green Hills
- 🎙️ Keb' Mo' & Shawn Colvin | 7:30 p.m. | $49.50 | Ryman Auditorium
- 🕺 Nashville Elvis Festival starts | 7:30 p.m. | $69+ | The Factory at Franklin
- 😎 T-Pain in Concert | 8 p.m. | $187.74+ | The Pinnacle
Friday, March 14
- 🖼️ Kindred Spirits opens | 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. | $16+ | Frist Art Museum
- 🏀 SEC Party in the Park | 10 a.m.-10:30 p.m. | Free | Walk of Fame Park
- 🐸 Wishing Chair Productions presents “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Free | Main Library Branch
- 🩰 Story Time with the Nashville Ballet | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Free | Madison Library Branch
- 🥫 Sort & Organize for the FreeStore | 11 a.m.-2 p.m. | Volunteer | FreeStore
- 🕺 Nashville Elvis Festival | 11 a.m.-7:30 p.m. | $49+ | The Factory at Franklin
- 📻 Finally Friday | Noon-2 p.m. | Free | 3rd and Lindsley
- 🏀 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament | Noon & 6 p.m. | $105.30+ | Bridgestone Arena
- 🧶 Nash Yarn Fest: Opening Night Party | 6-9 p.m. | $75 | Fairgrounds Nashville
- 🎹 Schubert’s Unfinished and The Zodiac Suite | 7:30 p.m. | $18+ | Schermerhorn Symphony Center
- 🎙️ Last Podcast on the Left | 8 p.m. | $29+ | Ryman Auditorium
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