GreenHillsBoy

I was downtown Sunday afternoon/night to attend the incredible Pink concert and the apartment tower, even at 18 floors, is very imposing. Also, the new Cambria has an excellent stage and a nice size area to listen to some excellent music. They had all the windows along Rosa Parks open and must say that its bar area is really impressive. Not crowded and dirty like so many on lower Broad.

This has to be one of the ugliest children's hospitals in the nation. The bottom portion looks like a prison and the top looks like they couldn't decide what to do. Doesn't go at all with the rest or most of the VU campus architecture.

Agree with MLBrumby that both United and American have provided the worst service, attitude, etc. that I have experienced over the past several years. I fly a lot and both United and American are pathetic, connections way to close to be realistic, gate agents that are rude, don't care, seem to have no training. Both of these need to study European airlines like KLM, SAS, Air France to name a few.

The Fairfax Flats is as bad in person as the picture above....what were they thinking?

Lee belongs to a very conservative church that is very far right in beliefs, so don't be surprised if he backs this or at least doesn't confront the rural nuts who seem to dominate our legislature. They seem to especially love to stick it to Nashville.

This is owned by the Reed family and I understand that they are not interested in selling but might consider a long term lease of some type.

Just returned from trips through Miami and Washington Reagan and there did appear to be some slower issues with connections, mostly due to the Air Traffic Controller issues in the Northeast. There were no issues in Nashville, but again the terminal appeared to be extremely busy and all of the flights to and from Nashville were totally full with a long list of standbys. I now also think we were lucky to NOT have an American Airlines hub as their routings/connections are poorly organized and we saw delays twice related to their own staffing, pilots and support personnel having to be pulled because of too many hours.....how can that happen? They also have some VERY short windows for connections that make no sense especially in Miami where going from one concourse to another can take an extremely long time with no moving sidewalks, at least between D and E.

It was announced as a Martin's Barbecue, but the fencing was up quite a while ago and it appears nothing or little has been done.

I am noticing a disturbing trend with many restaurants now adding the liquor tax to the quoted price of a drink. So when you see a price of a glass of wine on the menu that is $10, they are now adding the liquor tax of 15% plus the normal sales tax of 9.25% so that listed price of a $10 glass of wine is actually $12.45. Less than a couple of years ago, this was a rare instance, but now I am seeing this more and more. I think that if they are going to add the tax after, they should note on the menu that the price does not include the liquor tax or sale tax. I have seen this recently at Pastaria, Henrietta Red, Louies Wine Dive, the Omni Hotel ( and from what I've heard, most of the downtown hotels do this), just to name a few recently. I have escalated my concerns and a couple of managers have even admitted that tourists are livid to see that much tax added after the stated menu price. I'm going to try and get our Metro council to do something about this, at least note if the price does not include the liquor tax.

When will you guys get over Alex Palmer? Don't you think that horse is dead by now!

That has to be the ugliest building, more like a prison than a children's hospital. If I were a child, I'd be afraid to go in there, could also be a psychiatric ward from the 40's.

And they have a very good brunch and Saturday and Sunday.

Dale, no one will believe the girl.

I can't even.....

I don't patronize companies like Chick Fil A that are owned by homophobics. And don't get the attraction for mediocre food anyway.

I understand this is the fourth marriage, so much for the family values the video seems to focus on. Of course he was a big supporter of Roy Moore in Alabama.

Understand from a very reliable source that Zara, a European department store, will be part of the new section in the mall. Zara sells clothing that is very European and would be considered a higher end than H & M and better quality. It does seem odd that no official names of the new stores have been announced.

I agree that this is a quality development and shows you can have it if you set standards and don't simply loosen the standards to appease big developers. Green Hills, like most of the city, is being inundated with two tall skinnys on what was formally a lot for one home. In almost every case, they have to dig across the street to connect for utilities and NEVER fix the street back to what it was. Why are they allowed to get away with this?

It is Green Hill in Wilson County ty

I'm going to NYC in September and paying $270 for the Hilton in the heart of the city across from Rockefeller Center. I use Hotels.com.

Mayor Briley is moving toward a project that will do what several of you have stated, focus on one area and make that work before expanding. He mentioned that a project on Dickerson Rd. would be a rapid bus line with additional incentives for businesses and residential to build on/ near the line. It will also be within the current time budget or at least not start with any new taxes. Also discussion of the busses being able to control the traffic lights and hopefully in places where it could be done, dedicated lanes

Grew up in Smith County and it is said there and by my many relatives in Overton County.

Agree on many of these comments. My main issue is the increasing number offering small plates at prices in the $14-20 range which is too high for very small quantities. The concept is good in that you should be able to sample a number of things and still come out around what a normal entrée would be but most of these you can't as you end up with a $40 bill for one without drinks. A couple does it well, Americano's on West End has small plates as does Barcelona in Edgehill. I do disagree about Silo, I have had mostly positive experiences except the extra charge for blue cheese olives for a martini.

Couldn't agree more, it seems that almost everyone that challenged the assessment won the challenge and their assessments were lowered substantially. I have no idea how or who allowed this, but it needs to be looked into and someone held accountable. We do also need to STOP the payments to former council members who lobby, Jerry Maynard for General Hospital for one.

Just spent the weekend in Charlotte for my first visit and was very impressed. The B of A and Duke power buildings are impressive in architectural style and height, much more so than any of our talls. I don't like bashing our architecture like many do, but have to say we are significantly behind Charlotte. The condos and apartments downtown or Uptown as they call it are also sharper and vary more than ours. Their NFL stadium has brick and glass and has significantly more curb appeal than NIssan Stadium and is right downtown as is their relatively new AAA baseball park, which does look similar to First Tennessee Park here. I love Nashville, but hate to admit that we are behind Charlotte and don't even get me started on how beautiful their high end mall is called South Park....all brick, heavily landscaped and has a very upscale consistent look, couldn't find one bill board like we have in GH.