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Cover art for the May 20 East Nashville source pass.

Today's East Nashville Source Pass: Broadway Fireworks, Grocery Math, East Bank Deadlines, And Wednesday Plans

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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Lower Broadway in downtown Nashville.

Nashville Is Throwing A Free Super Bowl Party Tonight, And East Nashville Gets The Planning Homework

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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Nashville Metropolitan Courthouse.

The Grocery Tax Cut Vote Got Pushed To June, So The Checkout-Line Math Gets Another Month

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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Game Point board game cafe in East Nashville.

Wednesday Night On The East Side Has Board Games, A Run, And A Basement East Throwback

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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Facebook screenshot showing the Talk Nice clothing swap and listening party flyer.

A Talk Nice Clothing Swap Is Bringing Clothes, Matcha, And Live Music To Saturday Morning

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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Facebook screenshot showing The Underdog May 20 show flyer.

The Underdog Has A Wednesday Flyer With Meltdown South, Carson Deans, And Mike Gowen Jr.

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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Facebook screenshot showing prototype bouquet photos and pricing.

A Local Floral Maker Is Testing Prototype Bouquets In The East Nashville Feed

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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Issue cover for The Facebook Feed Had Flowers, A Clothing Swap, And A Tiny Show Calendar

The Facebook Feed Had Flowers, A Clothing Swap, And A Tiny Show Calendar

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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Cover art for the May 19 East Nashville source pass.

Today's East Nashville Source Pass: Super Bowl, Council Math, Trees, Market Tents, And Rain

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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The new Nissan Stadium site on Nashville's East Bank.

Nashville Got The 2030 Super Bowl, So The East Bank Just Got Very Real

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.

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Nashville Metropolitan Courthouse.

Tonight's Council File Has Gallatin Sidewalk Money, Shelby Park Buses, And NES Tree Drama

The 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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Nashville Electric Service building.

The NES Fight Has Moved From Ice Storm Outage To Tree-Trimming Moratorium

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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East Nashville Farmers Market at 511 Woodland Street.

Farmers Market Is At 5th And Woodland Today, With A Little Weather Side-Eye

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.

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Issue cover for Today's East Nashville Source Pass: Hawkers, Rockabilly, Potholes, Childcare, And The Group Chat

Today's East Nashville Source Pass: Hawkers, Rockabilly, Potholes, Childcare, And The Group Chat

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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A real East Nashville street photograph used as neighborhood context for a South 8th childcare event.

A South 8th Childcare Grand Opening Lands Right In East Nashville's Waitlist Problem

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.

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Hawkers Asian Street Food location photo from Google Places.

Hawkers Is Back On Main Street After The Fire, Which Means East Nashville Gets Its Wok Noise Back

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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Eastside Bowl location photo from Google Places.

Eastside Rockin' Rumble Starts Tonight, So Gallatin Gets Three Days Of Volume

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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Nashville Department of Transportation and Multimodal Infrastructure location photo from Google Places.

Nashville Filled 10,995 Potholes This Year, So Yes, Your Tire Is Being Dramatic For A Reason

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.

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A real East Nashville street photograph used as neighborhood context for a fence-line dispute.

The Mothball Fence-Line Argument Has An Actual Answer

A 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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Nashville Electric Service location photo from Google Places.

NES Has A New App, Which Is Boring Until The Power Blinks

The utility says customers can pay bills, check usage, and report outages from their phones. After winter, that is not nothing.

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Issue cover for Today's East Nashville Source Pass: Coffee Money, Road Safety, East Bank, And The Beast

Today's East Nashville Source Pass: Coffee Money, Road Safety, East Bank, And The Beast

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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Downtown Nashville and the Silliman Evans Bridge viewed from Shelby Park.

Starbucks' $30 Million Incentive Ask Has Entered Nashville Math

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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Davidson County Courthouse and Public Square Park fountain in Nashville.

Nashville's Event-Money Rooms Had A Very Tourism Tuesday

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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Gallatin Road near Briley Parkway in Nashville.

Road Safety Has A 5 P.M. Meeting, And The Potholes Have Receipts

NDOT's Vision Zero meeting and hubNashville's service-request stats make one thing clear: the best neighborhood complaint comes with a request number.

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Wide angle real photograph of Nissan Stadium on Nashville's East Bank.

East Bank Boulevard Is The Part East Nashville Should Keep Staring At

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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A row of old brick buildings in Nashville.

The Beast Gets Loud On Woodland Tonight

The Basement East has Cattle Decapitation, Brujeria, No Cure, and Knoll at 7 p.m., which is a very direct way for Woodland Street to announce Tuesday.

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A real photograph of East Park in East Nashville.

East Branch Is Open Late Today, Which Counts As Infrastructure

The East Branch Library is open noon to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays, and yes, that is a useful neighborhood fact dressed as a tiny civic miracle.

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A row of old brick buildings in Nashville.

The Restaurant Watch Caught A Stale Opening Ghost At 1016 Woodland

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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Party Fowl mural with East Nashville and 37206 artwork.

Party Fowl Lands In Five Points Tomorrow With Hot Chicken And Industrial Confidence

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.

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A real photograph of East Park in East Nashville.

East Nashville Is Officially Breaking Up With Grass

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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A real blue jay perched on a tree branch.

The Tiny Bluejay Emergency Has Entered East Nashville Procurement

A neighbor needed 14 tiny birds by Wednesday, the comments checked Gallatin retail intelligence, and suddenly this became a miniature supply-chain story.

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Gallatin Road near Briley Parkway in Nashville.

Gallatin And Main Are Finally Getting The Please Stop Treating This Like Daytona Treatment

NDOT's corridor work is moving from neighborhood complaint into actual street design, which is where the cones put on a tie and become policy.

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Gallatin Road near Briley Parkway in Nashville.

A Man Was Killed At East Trinity And Gallatin. No Jokes Here.

MNPD says a 58-year-old pedestrian died Monday after being struck by a semi at one of East Nashville's most stressful intersections.

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A row of old brick buildings in Nashville.

Tonight At The Basement East: Dry Cleaning, Hotline TNT, And A Sunday Night With Intentional Side-Eye

The 8 p.m. show gives Woodland a post-punk Sunday option, because apparently rest is for neighborhoods without venues.

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A real photograph from East Nashville in Nashville, Tennessee.

Lost And Found Is Turning Gallatin Into A Food Court With Better Lighting And More Opinions

The open-air Inglewood hangout already has pizza, wine, cocktails, coffee, food trucks, vintage, and an Indian ice cream shop circling the runway.

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A real photograph of East Park in East Nashville.

Eastwood Has A One-Hour Cleanup Tomorrow, Which Is Civic Duty With Trash Bags

NDOT lists an Eastwood Neighbors cleanup Monday evening at Tabla Rasa Toys, a rare civic event that respects bedtime.

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Shelby Park in Nashville.

Shelby Bottoms Is Scheduling Nature At Us Again

Back Porch Jam, Naturalist Station, and Symphony Storytime are on the May calendar, which is nice because not every event needs a wristband.

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A real photograph from East Nashville in Nashville, Tennessee.

What People Are Mad About This Week: Parking, Patios, And A Suspiciously Confident Sign

A recurring outrage forecast for East Nashville's most renewable natural resource: informed irritation.

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Gallatin Road near Briley Parkway in Nashville.

Gallatin Performed Its Daily Ballet Of Brakes, Cones, And Quiet Screaming

A prototype traffic quick hit for the people who said they were leaving in five and are still looking at the same vape shop sign.

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A row of old brick buildings in Nashville.

A New Restaurant Soft-Launched So Softly Half The Neighborhood Is Pretending They Already Knew

The launch playbook: one blurry Instagram story, three excited texts, and a reservation list that somehow has hierarchy.

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Shelby Park in Nashville.

The Sidewalk Parent Index Is Flashing Red Around Shelby

Stroller math, scooter dodgeball, and one crosswalk that appears to be decorative.

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A real photograph of the East Nashville Historic District.

The Permit File Is Whispering Again

When the boring PDF starts explaining why everyone is suddenly yelling about parking.

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A real photograph from East Nashville in Nashville, Tennessee.

The Weekend Calendar Is Already Acting Like It Has A Publicist

Markets, shows, pop-ups, patio decisions, and the eternal question of whether you should leave the house.

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A row of old brick buildings in Nashville.

Riff Investigates Whether A New Venue Has Soul Or Just Edison Bulbs

A nightlife review format for the city where every room claims it is intimate and every tab says otherwise.

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A row of old brick buildings in Nashville.

Classifieds Are Coming For Jobs, Gear, Kid Stuff, And Neighborhood Pleas

A self-serve marketplace where East Nashville can sell a guitar pedal, find a babysitter, or beg someone to take the extra moving boxes.

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