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🎶 Why local AI protections could be blocked
June 10, 2025 · 💌 Margaret Kingsbury
Happy Tuesday! Start your morning with a laugh by watching local comedian Amber Autry’s set for “Netflix Is a Joke”!
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🎶 Bonnaroo Is This Weekend
On today’s City Cast Nashville podcast, WNXP on-air host Emily Young is giving you her guide to everything you’ve gotta see at Bonnaroo. Remember: Water! Sleep! Sunscreen! [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
🏘️ Hundreds Will Lose Emergency Rental Assistance
Pandemic-era funding for the city’s Emergency Rental Assistance program expires at the end of June. The Metro Action Commission will continue the program, but the funding cut will significantly impact the number of clients they can assist. [The Tennessean]
💧 Group Seeks To Protect the Cumberland From Pollutants
A coalition of environmental groups and researchers are seeking federal funding to protect the Ohio River from pollutants and habitat destruction. 30 million people’s water sources come from the Ohio River Basin, which includes the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers. [Tennessee Lookout]
- The fight to protect the Duck River [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
🏛️ New Bill Could Block AI Protections
President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” would block Tennessee’s “Elvis Act,” legislation protecting artists from having their voices or images stolen by AI, or the state could face losing federal broadband funding. Also at risk is the recently passed Preventing Deep Fakes Images Act. [WKRN]
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Leopard Forest Opens June 20 at Nashville Zoo
The Zoo’s newest adventure, Leopard Forest, opens next week and introduces Nashville to four new animals! Come see critically endangered Amur leopards, playful Colobus monkeys, inquisitive DeBrazza’s monkeys, and agile Klipspringer, all along a forested boardwalk. In addition, the Zoo’s popular giraffe habitat will reopen! Ribbon cutting on June 20 at 9:30.
What To Do
Tuesday, June 10
- 🥫 Deliver Groceries to South Nashville Seniors | 9 a.m.-Noon | Volunteer | South Nashville
- 🎻 Midday Music Featuring Early Music City | 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. | Free | Main Library Branch
- 🌱 Take & Grow Tuesdays | 11 a.m.-2 p.m. | Free | Main Library Branch
- 🫖 Summer Afternoon Iced Teas | 3-4:30 p.m. | $50+ | Cheekwood
- ⚽ USMNT vs. Switzerland Send | 7 p.m. | $44.60+ | GEODIS Park
- 🎼 Opry 100 | 7 p.m. | $48 + | Grand Ole Opry
- 📚 Nashville Gals June Book Swap | 7 p.m. | Free | Reclaimed Elegance
- 🎵 Counting Crows (16+) | 7:30 p.m. | $103.80 | The Pinnacle
- 🎶 Jet | 7:30 p.m. | $43.92 | Ryman Auditorium
- 🎤 Garrison Keillor Tonight | 7:30 p.m. | $50 | City Winery
Wednesday, June 11
- 🎸 Family Program: Musical Instrument Petting Zoo | 10 a.m.-Noon | $29.95 | Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- 👚 Sort Baby & Children’s Clothes | 1-3 p.m. | Volunteer | Mother To Mother
- 📕 Conversations@NPL: Jane Ferguson | 5:30-7:30 p.m. | Free | Main Library Branch
- 😆 Library Laugh Lounge | 6:30-7:30 p.m. | Free | Donelson Library Branch
- ☮️ Hippie Dippie Summer Social | 6:30-8:30 p.m. | $33.85 | Kenect Nashville
- 🎵 Big Damn Music Jam | 7 p.m. | Free | 3rd and Lindsley
- 🎨 Bubble Paint a Mug | 5-7 p.m. | $32.93 + | Poindexter
- 🎼 Opry 100 | 7 p.m. | $40 + | Grand Ole Opry
- 🎩 Penn & Teller | 7:30 p.m. | $73.56+ | Ryman Auditorium
- 🌝 Lantern Hike Under the Strawberry Moon | 7:30-9:30 p.m. | Free | Beaman Park Nature Center
There’s a new traffic ticket text scam making the rounds. FYI, you’ll never be asked to pay a ticket via text. It seems like just a few months ago, I was being spammed constantly with “overdue toll road payment” texts. Sir, there are no toll roads in Nashville. Try again (or actually, just stop).
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