Monday, June 1, 2009
Media / Silverman / The Economy A Sign of the Apocalypse? Phil Valentine and Nashville Scene Agree on Something
Posted by Jack Silverman on Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:34 AM
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The world's turned upside down, Prince's Hot Chicken was dead on a Friday night, and Pacman Jones has just been voted Humanitarian of the Year. Not really, but those events would have been no less shocking than the realization that dawned on us after reading yesterday's Tennessean. Mark your calendars, because years from now, you'll be telling your grandkids about May 31, 2009: the day Phil Valentine and the Nashville Scene agreed on something.
In his weekly column on Sunday, Valentine voiced strong opposition to the push for a new convention center, echoing many of the sentiments expressed by Scene writer Caleb Hannan in his April 23 cover story, "Nashville's big bet on the dying convention business" (which, simply put, asked the question, "What's the city smoking?")
Whether it's the result of some hiccup in the space-time continuum or merely a product of Mercury's arrival yesterday at its direct station after a period of retrograde motion, this unlikely convergence leads us to two conclusions: first, the old adage, "Even a broken clock is right twice a day"; and second, if two such ideologically opposed institutions agree that the Music City Center idea is whacked, then it must be whacked. Right?
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