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August 12, 2025 · 💌 Margaret Kingsbury
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What's CITY Talking About?

🎶 Nashville’s Greenest Music Festival
If you think electronic dance music is just glow sticks and noodle dancing, think again. John Hanna, co-founder of this weekend’s Deep Tropics Music, Art, & Style Festival, joins the City Cast Nashville podcast to teach us about the local scene, and why Deep Tropics is hailed as one of the most sustainable festivals in the world. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
🚂 Possible WeGo Star Schedule Changes
Wilson County is considering modifying its WeGo Star commuter rail service from Lebanon to downtown Nashville to include weekend and evening options. Residents would need to vote on the potential schedule changes in a referendum. [NewsChannel 5]
✈️ Airport Ditches DEI Program
For the past 20 years, Nashville International Airport has worked with certified small, minority, and women-owned businesses as part of a program to support “historically underutilized” businesses. The airport recently cut the program to comply with anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion legislation on both the federal and state levels. The board plans to carry over these businesses into a new, race- and gender-neutral program. [The Tennessean]
☕ Starbucks Baristas Hope To Unionize
Baristas at the Bellevue Starbucks on Highway 100 have filed for union selection, hoping to join 12,000 fellow baristas at more than 600 Starbucks locations nationwide. The group seeks a livable wage, safer working conditions, and fair scheduling. [WSMV]

What To Do
Tuesday, Aug. 12
- 🧷 Diaper Bank Sorting and Packaging for Nashville Diaper Connection, multiple times (Volunteer)
- 💻 GeekCause Virtual Orientation, Noon-12:45 p.m. (Volunteer)
- 🧑🌾 12 South Farmers Market at Sevier Park, 4-7 p.m. (Free entry)
- ⭐ Starry Night Story Time at Bordeaux Library Branch, 6-6:30 p.m. (Free)
- 🧘 Gentle Yoga at Richland Park Library Branch, 6-7 p.m. (Free)
- 🎥 Summer of Sound: “Festival Express” at Riverside Revival, 6-8:30 p.m.
- 🎵 The Weeknd: After Hours Til Dawn Tour at Nissan Stadium, 7 p.m.
- 😆 Comedy Ramble at The Lab at Zanies, 7 p.m.
- 🎶 The Fray at Ryman Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
- 🎤 Sounds of Welcome: A Benefit Concert for NICE at 3rd and Lindsley, 7:30 p.m.
- 🎙️ Pitch Meeting at Analog at Hutton Hotel, 7:30 p.m. (Free)
Wednesday, Aug. 13
- 👚 Ms Aja's Clothing Closet at Pruitt Library Branch, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. (Free)
- 👋 Bingo & Snack Volunteer at FiftyForward Knowles Center, 12:45-2:15 p.m. (Volunteer)
- 🧑🌾 WeGo Market at Elizabeth Duff Transit Center, 2-5 p.m.
- 🦑 Adventure Science Center: Squid Dissection at Bordeaux Library Branch, 5-6 p.m. (Free)
- 🪕 Seventeenth Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum Honoring Alison Brown at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, 6:30-7:45 p.m. (Free)
- 💃 Adults Open House at MOVE Inclusive Dance, 6:30 p.m. (Free)
- 🦇 Evening Cave Tour at Warner Park Nature Center, 6:30-9 p.m. (Free)
- 🎵 Big Damn Music Jam at 3rd and Lindsley, 7 p.m.
- 🎥 Movie Night: “Dirty Dancing” at The Dive Motel, 7 p.m.
- 🎤 ONEUS at Ryman Auditorium, 8 p.m.
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