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Restaurants, roads, civic mess, weekend plans, and the neighborhood details worth forwarding.
The May 20 run has a free Super Bowl celebration on Lower Broadway, an East Bank timeline check, a deferred grocery-tax vote, and a practical East-side night calendar while Facebook and Nextdoor wait for supervised capture.
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The celebration is on Lower Broadway, but the real neighborhood question is how the East Bank, bridges, streets, and public spaces handle the run-up to 2030.
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Metro Council deferred the proposed local grocery-tax reduction to June 16, keeping a small but real affordability item inside the budget fight.
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Tonight + Weekend
Shows, swaps, runs, markets, and the useful little plans that make the neighborhood feel alive.
A practical May 20 mini-calendar: Game Point at Bongo East, East Nasty's Route 8, The Basement East's 80s/AC-DC tribute night, and a quieter East Branch Library lane.
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A Facebook post in the East Nashville group says Talk Nice Vintage is hosting an Everything Must Go clothing swap and listening party on Saturday, May 23 at 10:30 a.m.
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The Facebook New posts pass now has three standalone stories, plus this hub for the capture logic and what we deliberately skipped.
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East Nashville Farmers Market is scheduled for 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. today at 511 Woodland Street, while NWS Nashville says late-day rain chances start the wetter stretch of the week.
Read storyCouncil + Streets
The public-record stuff with real consequences: taxes, East Bank, streets, safety, and services.
NFL owners voted to put Super Bowl LXIV in Nashville's new enclosed stadium, turning the East Bank from a construction zone into a future national pressure test.
Read storyThe May 19 Council materials include an East-side-ish sidewalk funding bump, a Shelby Park field-trip grant, an East Bank Authority election, and two NES resolutions still carrying Winter Storm Fern smoke.
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Two Metro visitor-economy meetings landed on the same day, which is your reminder that the fun part of Nashville also has agendas, boards, and funding rooms.
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Metro says feedback is being digested on the East Bank's north-south spine while the first buildings move toward shovel-ready. Translation: this is where the future traffic argument lives.
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Restaurants, makers, storefronts, and the small business signals worth catching early.
A Facebook post from an East-side resident offered prototype bouquets, free East Nashville and Madison delivery, and real photos of the arrangements.
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The East Nashville restaurant reopened for dinner service May 13 after a February grease fire closed the building for more than three months.
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The scrape surfaced old 5 Points Diner opening copy, but the direct source says the restaurant is already in normal-hours mode. This is why the watchlist checks the source, not just the headline.
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The Woodland Street opening comes with a ribbon cutting, giveaways, late hours, and the exact amount of zero chill East Nashville pretends not to enjoy.
Read storyFrom The Feed
Group-chat texture, tips, screenshots, and the source-backed things that start close to the ground.
A Facebook flyer lists a Wednesday, May 20 show at The Underdog with Meltdown South, Carson Deans Band, and Mike Gowen Jr., starting at 9 p.m.
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A flyer shared in the East Nashville Facebook group advertises a May 16 community day for Bridging the Gap Learning Center on South 8th Street, a small event sitting inside a much bigger childcare shortage.
Read storyA private East Nashville thread turned one fence-line dispute into useful advice: mothballs are pesticide products, not outdoor snake control, and hubNashville is the cleaner complaint lane.
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A tiny-yard confession turned into clover talk, micro-flower enthusiasm, and the very local realization that a lawn can be both small and exhausting.
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The May 19 run found a 2030 Super Bowl vote, an East Bank board seat, a Gallatin sidewalk funding bump, a Shelby Park field-trip grant, NES tree-trimming politics, a Tuesday market, and late-day rain chances.
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A May 19 Rules Committee resolution asks NES and the Electric Power Board to pause recently announced vegetation-management changes, keeping the Winter Storm Fern trust fight alive.
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The May 15 run found a Main Street restaurant back from fire damage, a three-day Eastside Bowl weekender, a South 8th childcare event, pothole math, and one very East Nashville mothball dispute.
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Eastside Bowl's May 15-17 rockabilly and hot-rod weekender is the practical answer to 'why does Gallatin feel louder already?'
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After the January ice storm, NDOT's repair count gives East Nashville a practical script: report the hole, name the road owner, and stop relying on group-chat screaming alone.
Read storyThe utility says customers can pay bills, check usage, and report outages from their phones. After winter, that is not nothing.
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A May 12 scrape turned up a Starbucks incentive vote to watch, two tourism-money meetings, a Vision Zero check, East Bank movement, and one very loud night at The Basement East.
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The coffee giant's Nashville hub is citywide news, but the incentive vote is exactly the kind of money-and-jobs story East Nashville should keep one skeptical eye on.
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