🏖️ Spring break staycation ideas

🎉 Our Spring Break Staycation Plans

Spring break is next week, and while some folks may be headed to 30A or other exotic locales, most of us are stuck in Nashville. But never fear! On today’s podcast, the entire City Cast Nashville team shares over 20 incredible ideas for staycation fun right here in Music City. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

• But if you are headed to the coast, here are the closest beaches to Nashville. [📰 City Cast Nashville]

🏙️ Buchanan Street Proposals Advance

On Tuesday, the Metro Council voted to advance a set of zoning proposals that would place restrictions on new Buchanan Street businesses, such as stricter operating hours. The proposals were brought by Councilmember Brandon Taylor, who represents the district. Taylor says his constituents are tired of the late-night noise and trash. Opponents argue the overlays could unfairly regulate Black-owned businesses. [NewsChannel 5]

• Check out our neighborhood guide to Buchanan Street. [📰 City Cast Nashville]

🚌 Public Transit Changes

WeGo is seeking public input on its proposed summer service changes. The proposal would increase bus frequency to the airport and Opry Mills, add service routes to Madison and Skyline, and adjust school trips. You can give feedback at in-person meetings or online through April 10. [WeGo Transit]

🏛️ Second Bill Proposed To Control Tesla Tunnels

Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) has proposed a second bill to retain state control over The Boring Company’s Tesla tunnels in Nashville. Meanwhile, his January financial disclosure showed he owns Tesla stock. Johnson claims he was unaware of any local tunnel plans when he bought the stock. [Tennessee Lookout]

• Johnson says he liquidated his Tesla stock on Tuesday, after media reached out to him about it, “to avoid even the appearance of impropriety.” [Nashville Scene]

Before it was a full-month celebration, there was Women’s History Week. In 1978, a group of women in Santa Rosa, California, recognized that women’s history was largely overlooked in academics, so they organized a week in March to celebrate and educate others about women’s contributions in the U.S.

During the week of March 8, over a hundred women participated in essay contests, distributed curriculum materials at local schools, and held a parade. The event's success soon inspired women’s groups nationwide to hold similar events.

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the week of March 8 National Women’s History Week. Seven years later, Congress designated March as Women’s History Month.

Here are some ways to honor women this month.

🎉 Women’s History Month Events in Nashville

• The Frist’s exhibit “In Her Place” celebrates local women artists.
• Ryman Auditorium and the Opry House are welcoming many amazing women musicians this month, from Diana Ross to Trisha Yearwood.
• Church Street Park is hosting free events every Sunday this month centering Nashville’s suffrage legacy, from live music to craft classes.
• Watch Women’s History Month movies at the Bordeaux Library Branch throughout the month, and learn about the women who played an important part in the Nashville Student Movement on March 17.
• Learn more about how women got the right to vote by watching the acclaimed Tony Award-winning musical “SUFFS,” at TPAC through March 8.
• Take an International Women’s Day Hike at Henry Horton State Park on March 8.
• The Pro Wrestling Symphony will crown its first women's champion on March 8.
• Show your appreciation of Dolly Parton at the Nashville Symphony’s “Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony” from March 19-21, and by going to the “9 to 5: The Musical” at The Fisher Center from March 20-22.
• Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery is hosting a happy hour and panel on women’s contributions to Tennessee whiskey on March 21.