Nashville's blogging council member, Emily Evans, attended the Riverfront community meeting in East Nashville last week and she was not pleased with idea of recreating the wheel. She builds a head of steam and gets on a roll herself: I was a bit surprised when I attended a community meeting on redev...

We got some requests via Twitter for plugs.  Here are the 3 sites that made the cut: OutAboutBrooklyn: This blog hits the nail on the head when it comes to placeblogging.  They go to places and write about them, and they do it frequently. With the added angle of seeking out LGBT friendly places, O...

I spend a good deal of time doing various searches on Google News and one thing that I have noticed is a blurring of the lines between bona fide mainstream "news results" and the alternative "blog results." Given the mainstream media's penchant for downplaying the impact of blogs on news cycles, tha...

A local keeper of reality is attempting to signify again. UPDATE: Aunt B dishes some reality of her own to our resident Encyclopedia Jones: Just wondering, what’s the going ad rate at the Scene? I mean is $4,000 something you scoff at all the time or just when other people bring it in? Because I h...

MnSpeak's own Ang has added a new feature to her popular "Overheard in Minneapolis": The hard R material, dubbed OIM: OMG! (Full disclosure: I suggested the name.) Some language NSFW....

dk.today looks at the best places locally to buy vinyl. Is That All You've Got asks why Hollywood has a hard time getting Minnesota right. The Empty Envelope goes to the Wells Fargo Museum. TC Tour Guide continues their weird twin cities list....

Tweeters kicked print media's butts on immediate coverage of the aftermath of the TVA coal ash spill. While it did take the divine NY Times 2 days to show up, Nashville's media print blogs, which theoretically should be a species suited to landing on top of the story, were either on holiday (PiTW), ...

Glenn Reynolds appreciates KnoxNews for information symbiosis: I’VE OFTEN ARGUED that the relationship between blogs and Big Media should be thought of as symbiotic rather than competitive, and here’s some more evidence. Jack Lail, managing editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel, emails that Inst...

It was not too long ago that I bitched about the mainstream media's tendency to assume a false dichotomy between liberalism (which gets automatically conflated with "ideological") and pragmatism (with which conservatism often enjoys the benefit of the doubt in press writing). The emerging crisis of ...

The live journaler at Life on Swan Pond after TVA has a blow-by-blow account of this evening's Kingston City Council meeting with TVA CEO Tom Kilgore. According to the account, Kilgore was asked whether the cost of the spillage would be passed on to consumers, and he told the gathering that TVA insu...