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At last, Music Row smiles
In the cyclical world of country music, the Dixie Chicks are the latest sign that our city’s indigenous art form may be climbing out of the cellar. With their latest CD Home, the all-girl trio have found receptive audiences everywhere they’ve turned, from the Today show to The New York Times. The bluegrass-heavy CD, lacking drum accompaniment and including songs considered too long for commercial radio, is in some ways a rebellious slap against the industry. But the industry and the chicks are in full embrace.
Going nuclear
Nobody ever flipped the “on” switch to the nuclear plant outside Hartsville, Tenn. The Tennessee Valley Authority, which started building the plant nearly three decades ago, abandoned it amid an electricity glut. Now some private energy companies are considering using the site as a “uranium enrichment facility.” Fearing they’ll soon be glowing in the dark, Hartsvillians are unhappy.
Minor league baseball park gets legs
The Nashville Sounds are ratcheting up their pleas for a new ballpark downtown. Although several sites are in the mix, most fans appear to like the riverfront property that is currently home to the now-closed thermal plant. In the Sounds’ latest proposal, Metro would help build the $35 million ballpark in two ways. It would give the Sounds the land. And it would back the bonds to build the thing. Neither request seems especially farfetched.
War announced at Opryland
Not quite, but close. In what was a clear first in Nashville civic history, Vice President Dick Cheney laid out the rationale for attacking Iraq while speaking to a group of veterans in the Delta Ballroom at the mammoth Opryland Hotel. No word on whether he ate his complimentary luncheon Goo-Goo.
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