City Cast Nashville
📹 New bodycam footage of ICE arrest
September 29, 2025 · 💌 Margaret Kingsbury
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What's CITY Talking About?
🏗️ East Bank Update
What’s going on with the East Bank? On today’s City Cast Nashville podcast, the Fallon Company’s Shawn Seaman gives us the lowdown on “Nashville’s Next Great Neighborhood,” from what they’re building first to who’s in charge of that pesky East Bank Boulevard. Plus: An exclusive announcement! [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
👨🏻💼 Mayor’s First Two Years
Mayor Freddie O’Connell is halfway through his four-year term. Highlights from his first two years as mayor include the passing of his “Choose How You Move” transit referendum, establishing the East Bank Authority, and navigating increasing tensions between Nashville and state leaders. [Nashville Scene]
- Two of his senior staff members recently quit. Here’s an interview with O’Connell’s new chief of staff, Masami Tyson. [Nashville Banner]
📹 New Bodycam Footage of ICE Arrest
New bodycam footage has been released of a joint Tennessee Highway Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation from May in Nashville, but blurred faces and interruptions in the video raise concerns about transparency. [Nashville Banner]
- Our interview with The Remix TN about May’s immigration enforcement. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
📽️ Submit Your Home Videos to NPL!
The Nashville Public Library wants your home videos! Preservationists will digitize selected family videos as part of the Home Movie Project archive, a public virtual time capsule of Nashville neighborhoods. I’ll have to see if my mom has some VHS home videos to submit! [Axios Nashville]
- Apply to participate by Oct. 23. [Nashville Public Library]
- Plus, other cool library programs. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]
What To Do
Monday, Sep. 29
- 📚 Bookmobile Visit | East Library Branch | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Free
- 📦 Sort and Organize Donations | Rivergate ThriftSmart | 1-4 p.m. | Volunteer
- 📽️ Fall Family Movie Night: “Paddington in Peru” | Goodlettsville Library Branch | 4-6 p.m. | Free
- 📖 Silent Book Club | Drift Hotel’s Sun Room | 6-8 p.m. | Free
- 😆 New Material Monday | Zanies | 7 p.m.
- ⏺️ Vinyl Nights | Dawn at Bode Hotel | 7-10 p.m.
- 🎵 Ole 60 | Ryman Auditorium | 7:30 p.m.
- 🍿 “Ernest Scared Stupid” | Honeytree Meadery | 8 p.m. | Free
- 🎤 Shaboozey | The Pinnacle | 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Sep. 30
- 🐦 Fall Migration Bird Banding | Warner Park Nature Center | 8 a.m.-Noon | Free
- 💼 TN Mobile Job Lab | Madison Public Library | 10 a.m.-2 p.m. | Free
- 🥕 Work Perks: Produce Day | Nashville Farmers’ Market | 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. | Free
- 🥫 Free Food Distribution | Andrew Jackson Boys & Girls Club | 2:15-3:30 p.m. | Volunteer
- 🫖 Harvest Teas | Cheekwood | 3-4:30 p.m.
- 📀 Marcus King In-store Performance | Grimey’s | 4-5 p.m.
- 🎶 Opry 100 | Opry House | 7 p.m.
- 😆 Anthony Fuentes | The Lab at Zanies | 7 p.m.
- 🎵 Haim | The Pinnacle | 7:30 p.m.
- 🎤 Pitch Meeting | Hutton Hotel | 7:30 p.m. | Free
⭐ My event pick of the week: The Get OUT, Get LOUD benefit concert for Nashville Pride at Marathon Music Works on Sunday, Oct. 5! This is a great way to support Nashville Pride, which lost many of their previous sponsors 🏳️🌈
Free · Daily