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How did Nashville get to be the 'It' City? Our timeline is full of 'it.'

Like well-nigh anybody nosotros know, nosotros've had something on our minds lately: Henri Bergson's principle of duration. Especially the part where the French philosopher concludes that the instant you showtime to take stock of a moment — the great time you're having at a political party, the romantic night you hope will never terminate, the season finale of Duck Dynasty — y'all kill it. You've already started processing information technology and filing it abroad, which means you've effectively stopped living it. Certain, you can cherish, assess and fondle information technology in memory. But the moment'due south gone, and yous've already moved on to the next moment.

And then it was with mixed feelings last month that we saw The New York Times declare Nashville an "It" City. "Hither in a city once embarrassed by its Grand Ole Opry roots," Kim Severson wrote, "a identify that sat on the sidelines while its Southern sisters boomed economically, information technology is difficult to observe a resident who does not break into the goofy grin of the newly popular when the discipline of Nashville's status comes up."

Dammit, we were just getting used to the past year's proliferating mass-media profiles, the travel-section tip-offs and paratrooped-in guides to the metropolis. We'd happily accept watched for years as they kept discovering Music City has more than state music, or nutrient likewise drumsticks. Bergson's non around to ask anymore, but we worried: Now that the Times says we've arrived, does that really mean we've departed?

Once we started thinking nearly it, we realized the Times had done us a favor. Now we can concentrate on the things that brand a city something more than a passing fad. Nashville writer John Egerton said every bit much when he told the Times, "We ought to be paying more than attending to how many people we have who are sick-fed and ill-housed and ill-educated."

Only now that the moment has been effectively captured for us, in one swoop of the Grey Lady'south butterfly net, nosotros might equally well accept the opportunity to pin down what's happened. We decided to make a timeline of events that charts our path to ... er, Itness. The more we looked, the farther back we kept going. The cool event that puts us on the map in 2012 might have its roots a decade beyond, or before. Way, waay before.

Some things occur to us as nosotros scan the results. I, some twangy dudes playing hillbilly music on Lower Broad in the '90s had more impact downtown than a multi-million-dollar development blocks away on Church Street. Two, today's ballyhooed chain is tomorrow'south Sam Ridley Parkway McDonald's. Iii, the things that ultimately made us "Information technology" were here all along. Jack White, a born administrator, was undoubtedly the catalyst for a lot of media attention — but what led him here?

Follow now along with us, and encounter if yous tin pinpoint exactly where "It" happens ....

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DEC. 24, 1776:

Outsiders stumble across riverside village/salt lick natives already knew was cool.

1814:

National printing descends to profile populist politician/stone-star general Andrew Jackson.

1860s:

Northerners intent on visiting all major Southern cities brand Nashville their first finish, stay for a long time.

1862:

Nashville becomes the 2d virtually heavily fortified Federal city, ranking backside merely D.C. Guns in lots, y'all.

1866:

Fisk University founded.

1873:

Vanderbilt University established.

1874:

Fisk Jubilee Singers impress Queen Victoria, who remarks that they must live in a "musical city" — according to legend, the name "Music City" is thus born.

1892:

Union Gospel Tabernacle built; later renamed Ryman Auditorium. Over the coming decades, it hosts the major artistic figures of the early century, from Sarah Bernhardt and Enrico Caruso to Rudolph Valentino, paving the way for the likes of Ashlee Simpson.

1897:

Centennial exposition! Urban center declares cocky "Athens of the South" (the fin de siècle version of "It Urban center").

1907:

President Teddy Roosevelt likes our coffee "to the final drop." Absurd!

1922:

At Vanderbilt, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate et al. course the Fugitives (the Infinity Cat of their fourth dimension).

1925:

WSM — "We Shield Millions" — radio goes on the air, becomes domicile to the Grand Ole Opry.

1927:

An Illinois Central RR brochure describes Nashville as one of the two largest commercial fertilizer manufacturers in the country! Hey, we'll take it.

1930:

Fugitives plow into Southern Agrarians, get all weird and quasi-fascist. Similar when JEFF The Brotherhood did that Mozart comprehend with Jack White and Insane Clown Posse in German.

THE Slow BURN

1956:

Bill "Hoss" Allen takes over Cistron Nobles' belatedly-nighttime DJ slot on WLAC-AM, broadcasting Nashville R&B records border to border.

1957:

50&C Tower, tallest in Southeast (409 ft.), opens. Squint at the skyline today and y'all might make information technology out

1959:

SHONEY'S!!!!

1960:

Success of downtown lunch counter sit-ins by Nashville Student Movement protesters becomes a milestone in the civil rights movement, praised by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

1960:

TSU Tigerbelle Wilma Rudolph takes three gold medals at the Rome Olympic Games.

1962:

Ray Charles releases smash LP Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, the first record many hipsters buy with "country" in the championship.

1963:

"You told my maw! Told my mitt! You lot're gonna take me back to Ark-an-saw!" Etta James records live LP Etta James Rocks the Firm at Nashville's New Era Lodge.

1964:

On their debut LP, England'south Newest Hitmakers, some ring called The Rolling Stones cover Nashville R&B songwriter-producer Ted Jarrett'south vocal "You Tin can Make It If You Endeavour." Stones guitarist Keith Richards is a mail-lodge customer of at present-defunct Randy's Record Mart downtown.

1966:

After New York studio dates that acquit fiddling fruit, Bob Dylan comes to Nashville and nails Blonde on Blonde with Music Row session cats.

1966:

WLAC-TV late-night R&B revue Night Railroad train continues its run, with WVOL DJ Noble Blackwell as host. I 1965 prune contains what is believed to be the first Telly appearance of Fort Campbell paratrooper turned hotshot Nashville club guitarist "Jimmy" Hendrix.

1967:

Country Music Hall of Fame opens, tells public this hillbilly-music thing might stick around a while

1967:

Davidson Canton approves liquor by the drink.

1969:

Nashville Film Festival (né Sinking Creek Film Commemoration) starts.

1974:

Ryman saved after preservationists mount national entrada that leads New York Times critic Ada Louise Huxtable to attack demo plans.

1975:

Robert Altman gives a sneak peek of his new epic Music City ensemble piece to The New Yorker critic and tastemaker Pauline Kael. She promptly loses information technology at the movies and declares Nashville a masterpiece; information technology proceeds to the cover of Newsweek. The movie isn't exactly a hitting, then obviously Kael was right.

1981:

In Nashville, Elvis Costello records country-covers LP Near Blue, gateway to honky-tonk for a generation of too-absurd teens. (Encounter besides: X.) Related: First-moving ridge Nashville punks cease hating themselves.

1983:

Riverfront Park replaces urban center wharf and gargantuan TVA tower. Boy, this certain would make a great venue for a nationally televised July 4 special!

1983:

Jason & the Scorchers' EP Fervor hits No. 3 on the Village Voice's influential Pazz & Jop critics' poll.

1988:

First Southern Festival of Books.

1989:

Country'southward "Class of '89," led by Vince Gill, Alan Jackson and Garth Brooks, flexes historic commercial clout and makes state (and Nashville) a big fat blip on the national radar. Brooks outsells Michael Jackson. In mid-Dec, somewhere in Pennsylvania, a girl is built-in and named later on James Taylor.

CATCH A Burn down

1991:

In a radical intermission from years of bedraggled practiced ol' boy political machinery, Nashville elects egghead Yankee Phil Bredesen mayor.

1991:

Glory author Jay McInerney marries Helen Bransford and moves to Tennessee; afterwards writes Southern novel The Last of the Savages and regales the New York press with the wonders of bucolic living. Soon thereafter, he gets bored and moves back to New York.

SUMMER 1992:

Mary Mancini opens all-ages punk venue/hangout Lucy's Record Shop. Among the acts who play its cramped stage: Yo La Tengo and unclassifiable Nashville ambient-state-soul orchestra Lambchop.

1993:

Stimulants! Bob Bernstein opens Bongo Coffee, the outset coffeehouse to institute a lasting foothold in Nashville.

JULY 16, 1993:

Hopping aboard the state bandwagon (or so it hopes), Paramount releases The Matter Called Beloved, a Peter Bogdanovich-directed comedy-drama nigh state music hopefuls in an oddly roomy Bluebird Buffet. Though non a hit, it becomes famous as the get-go of Sandra Bullock'south stardom — and the end for gifted River Phoenix, who dies of drug-induced heart failure months after its release.

1994:

The Ryman reopens as both venue and museum. It goes seemingly overnight from padlocked relic to revered treasure, as visiting artists compete to top each other in awestruck genuflection.

1994:

Greg Garing starts playing at Tootsie's, joined by Paul Burch, while BR549 (named for a running gag on Hee Haw) sets upward iii doors down at Robert's; tourists and hipsters begin flocking dorsum to Lower Broadway, drawn by the phenomenon of live (existent) state music in Nashville.

1994:

Zoning changes to permit residential construction in downtown core. Goodbye, post-apocalyptic desertion after sundown!

1995:

Indie rock heroes Yo La Tengo record acclaimed anthology Electr-O-Pura in Nashville. Not only do they throw in a shout-out to Center Tennessee's late, lamented Museum of Beverage Containers, they give Nashville'southward beloved local specialty hot chicken national exposure with their vocal "Flight Lesson (Hot Chicken #1)."

Jan. xvi, 1995:

John Berendt profiles cantankerous-dressing Belle Meade bon vivant "High-Heel Neil" Cargile for The New Yorker. Non the tourism generator Berendt'due south Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil proved to be in Savannah, but we're pleased to encounter our eccentrics tin can concord their own in the spotlight.

1996:

Bongo Java'due south infamous "Nun Bun" — a cinnamon roll that bears an odd resemblance to Female parent Teresa — makes national headlines.

1996:

Bicentennial Mall opens, symbolically reconnecting Jefferson Street to Capitol Hill and bringing new visibility to Nashville Farmers' Market.

1996:

Downtown loonshit (now known equally Bridgestone Arena) opens with Christmas concert by ane of Center Tennessee'due south few pop hitmakers, Amy Grant.

1997:

Hee Haw goes off the air

1997:

Yo La Tengo records "Hot Chicken #2" in Nashville. Prince's counter staff responds to new influx of indie-rock curiosity-seekers: "Who's Yo-Yo Tango?"

Baronial 1997:

In a lengthy cover profile, Billboard touts Murfreesboro'southward Spongebath Records and its roster of local acts (The Features, The Katies, Self, Count Bass D) as indie rock's next large affair. They're not, alas — but information technology primes the pump for Nashville to go "the next Murfreesboro."

1997:

Nathan and Caleb Followill move to Nashville.

1998:

Later playing showtime season in Memphis, NFL team formerly known as Houston Oilers relocates for good to Nashville; changes name following year to Tennessee Titans.

1998:

Tornado roars through East Nashville. Ironically, this spurs its revitalization and, later, hipster irony

1998:

Lambchop, emerging as 1 of the decade'southward nearly revered indie rock acts — just not in its hometown — teams with cult hero Vic Chesnutt for the LP The Salesman and Bernadette.

1999:

Tennessee Titans pound turf for the outset fourth dimension at their new football stadium on East Bank. Groovy, peachy.

1999:

STARBUCKS!!!

WE HAVE IGNITION

Jan. 8, 2000:

Down by ane signal at the end of a wild-card playoff game with the Buffalo Bills, with 16 seconds on the clock, Titans tight end Frank Wycheck chucks a lateral pass to Kevin Dyson on the kickoff render. As an astonished NFL Nation watches, Dyson barrels 80 yards for the winning touchdown. The incessantly replayed moment goes down in football history as the Music City Miracle. The Tennessee Titans end upward advancing to the Super Bowl.

Jan. 30, 2000:

In the very last second of Super Bowl XXXIV, a groan heard from Antioch to Bellevue goes up as Dyson is tackled juuuuuuust short of a game-tying touchdown. Music City Miracle, run into The Angry Inch.

2000:

Subsequently a roller coaster decade of buyouts and closings, The Belcourt reopens every bit the metropolis's indie arthouse.

2000:

Commencement location of indie tape store Grimey's opens in Berry Hill.

2000:

Meanwhile, in East Nashville, The Slow Bar co-founded by Mike "Grimey" Grimes makes V Points the urban center'due south hot new night destination. Amidst the groups who play the corner pub (now three Crow Bar): a promising ii-man Rust Belt human activity chosen The Blackness Keys.

APRIL 2000:

3,230 men and 2,589 women complete the first Music City Marathon.

LABOR DAY 2000:

P.F. CHANG'S!!!

2001:

USA Today names Nashville the nation's nigh sprawling metropolitan region with a population of ane million or more. That's correct: No. 1!

2001:

In the space of a year, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, a greatly expanded Country Music Hall of Fame, and the new downtown Nashville Public Library open.

2002:

Margot Café opens in E Nashville. Oooh, cartel we cross the river?

2002:

In i year, Nashville author Ann Patchett wins two major literary prizes, the PEN/Faulkner Accolade and the Orangish Prize, for her novel Bel Canto. Nosotros'll hear more from her.

2002:

Nine Inch Nails fans are used to hearing a man in black sing "Hurt," but not the Man in Black. At age 70, with producer Rick Rubin, Johnny Cash scores 1 last career-defining striking — and notifies gloomy goths that Nashville was cutting blackness-hearted ballads when their daddies were kayaking fallopian tubes.

2003:

Chef Sean Brock, age 23, brings avant garde cuisine to the Hermitage Hotel'south Capitol Grille.

MARCH viii, 2003:

With reality-TV talent competitions all the rage, USA premieres the country music contest Nashville Star, which ultimately lasts six seasons. The outset winner is Buddy Jewell, who at present runs a chocolate pretzel shop in the downtown Arcade. Third place: Miranda Lambert

JULY iv, 2003:

A&E broadcasts a nationwide This Is Your State Independence Day celebration from Riverfront Park. Host Chris Noth bellows not-sequiturs about Woodstock, inspiring speculation the Sex activity and the Urban center star should lay off the Sex on the Beach. Simply millions scout.

2004:

City demolishes Metro Thermal Plant, freeing up riverfront space.

2004:

Much as Johnny Cash did thanks to Rick Rubin, the mighty Loretta Lynn gets a stiff breeze in her sails from an unexpected producer: White Stripes frontman Jack White. The resulting Van Lear Rose LP gets them on Letterman, gets Lynn on rock radio, and gets the legendary vocalist her biggest album sales in years. As for White … evidently he likes what he sees of Music Metropolis.

2004:

MTV.com on Nashville rapper Young Cadet: "If he's going to prove that his hometown of Nashville is more than the uppercase of country and gospel music and is, in fact, a hip-hop hotbed, his debut anthology, Straight Outta Cashville, has to pop." Pop it does, going platinum — even if Buck's association with label boss fifty Cent eventually goes pop, too.

MARCH 2004:

Country Music Hall of Fame opens its landmark Nighttime Train to Nashville exhibit on the urban center'south R&B history, giving many Nashvillians their commencement exposure to Ted Jarrett, Etta James Rocks the Firm, Nighttime Train, Jimi Hendrix's Jefferson Street days and more. The accompanying CD not only wins a Grammy, it spawns a long-overdue coast-to-coast reconsidering of Nashville music history.

2005:

CHEESECAKE Manufactory!!!!

2005:

Teenage Nashville punk band Be Your Own Pet becomes an overnight overseas sensation when indie powerhouse Rough Merchandise puts out their Damn Damn Leash EP. It'south besides the first mention outside the city limits of Infinity Cat, the abode characterization drummer Jamin Orrall runs with his brother Jake and dad Bob. Before long the ring is rubbing shoulders with Sonic Youth, playing Coachella, Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza, and touring England. There's null left for them to do but break upward — which they exercise in 2008. Certain sign the band has made it: instant griping every time they're mentioned on the Scene'south music blog Nashville Foam.

2005:

Sean Brock invited to bring his Capitol Grille team to cook at James Bristles House in New York.

MAY 9, 2005:

Oscar winner Renée Zellweger, once linked romantically to Jack White, marries country superstar Kenny Chesney. Hang on to those souvenir receipts.

AUG. eighteen-19, 2005:

Jonathan Demme shoots the concert film Neil Young: Heart of Gilded at the Ryman. Scene managing editor Jack Silverman near snags the postal service-film reception plate that held Meryl Streep's porkchop.

SEPT. xv, 2005:

Oscar winner Renée Zellweger seeks annulment from state superstar Kenny Chesney on grounds of … whatsoever. "Get me a ticket to this Nashville place!" —People magazine.

2005:

A gift to news-starved media on a tiresome 24-hour interval, the Nun Bun is stolen. Culprit remains at large. Follow the crumbs.

2006:

WHOLE FOODS!!!!

2006-PRESENT:

Sean Brock leaves for Charleston, gets massively famous, receives princely honors — and a few defeats, notably to Michael Symon on Iron Chef America. (Yous wuz robbed in Battle Pork Fat, bud.) Will he ever render?

JUNE 25, 2006:

Nicole Kidman marries Keith Urban. "Um, New York? Abolish our render tickets. I believe nosotros'll be here a while." —People magazine.

2007:

Levon Helm hosts his star-studded "Constitutional at the Ryman" as office of the Americana Music Conference. Broadcast later on PBS, it makes Music City look like roots-music sky.

2007:

The Nashville Expletive is cleaved! Casting the magic spell is Franklin band Paramore, whose 2d LP Riot! goes platinum in the U.S. and opens the floodgates.

JULY 2007:

Did Spoon's Britt Daniel inadvertently "homage" local club faves How I Became the Flop? Ensuing controversy goes viral.

AUG. 22, 2007:

Plotting the eventual conquest of Two-Buck Chuck, schemers petition to bring Trader Joe'due south to Nashville. Company responds that Nashville is "not in our two-yr plan." Oh, only you lot are in ours, Trader Joe.

KABOOM!

2008:

The Jack White-Karen Elson Years begin.

2008:

Relocated to Nashville after years of hard living, Harmony Korine, now sober and married, releases his first feature in nine years: Mister Lone, a plaintive fable starring Samantha Morton, Denis Lavant, Werner Herzog and Korine's wife Rachel. It plays the world festival circuit from Cannes to Toronto. With his partner, French fashion designer Agnes B., he opens a production part in Nashville. No dumpster is safe.

2008:

Kings of Leon's Only by the Night LP finally breaks the ring in the U.South. on the strength of the ubiquitous No. 1 rock singles "Sex on Burn" and "Use Somebody." Two years later on, the group is so huge that a pigeon crapping on Jared Followill onstage makes national headlines.

JUNE 12, 2008:

Metallica plays cloak-and-dagger prove at The Basement.

Oct. vii, 2008:

TV news networks descend on Belmont University for presidential debate. Chris Matthews appears gobsmacked to notice vocal, sign-waving Democrats in Nashville.

NOV. seven, 2008:

Trader Joe'due south opens in Green Hills.

2009:

Subsequently appearances in Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Daughter" video and on Britney Spears' "Lace and Leather," the erstwhile Franklin/Brentwood High School student known every bit Ke$ha invitee-sings on rapper Flo Rida'south No. 1 unmarried "Right Circular." A star is born.

2009:

Jack White's 3rd Man Records opens.

MAY 21, 2009:

In The Atlantic, sociologist Richard Florida publishes "The Nashville Issue," an influential piece positing Nashville as the nation's No. 1 center for music-business organization density. (Music- business organization density is something we accept in spades, all right.) He revisits the metropolis in print so often you'd think his surname was Tennessee.

JULY 2009:

Imogene + Willie opens, putting adjacent-moving ridge Nashville way on the map.Over the coming months, artisans such as Emil Erwin and Otis James bring together information technology as emblems of a new "Southern gentleman chic."

SEPT. 13, 2009:

When Taylor Swift met Kanye West on the MTV Music Awards.

SEPT. twenty, 2009:

CHIPOTLE!!!!

FALL 2009:

Harmony Korine's latest film Trash Humpers — a Nashville-shot VHS provocation in which masked geriatrics molest garbage receptacles — gets selected for the prestigious Toronto and New York film festivals. Well, of course information technology does.

Oct 2009:

For an early Belcourt screening of the rediscovered Japanese cult movie Firm, local designer (and Ben Folds drummer) Sam Smith creates a poster for a distraction. Not long after, RuPaul is spotted wearing it on a T-shirt.

Nov. four, 2009:

Breaking news from The New York Times travel department: "Only there'south more to Nashville than country music … "

Jan. 18, 2010:

Mike Wolfe's show American Pickers premieres on The History Channel.

MAY 2010:

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann notices we've had a bit of pelting, wonders why others haven't noticed either. Except for CNN'southward Anderson Cooper, whose cradling of a ceramic lamb in a inundation-soaked Nashville yard becomes a meme. Media rush to make up for non noticing Nashville's watery devastation, but metropolis looks fifty-fifty libation for (mostly) taking intendance of its ain.

JUNE 2010:

Karen Elson and Jack White join renowned way editor Grace Coddington for a Nashville Vogue shoot.

JUNE 10, 2010:

Conan O'Brien, and then a media darling after his shafting by NBC, stops by Third Human for a recording and performance.

JULY 2010:

PM/Suzy Wong chef Arnold Myint makes a strong showing as a contestant on Peak Chef. Extra pity points when his dimwitted partner'due south undercooked pasta gets him tossed.

Oct 2010:

Nylon'southward second Nashville music scene spread.

OCT. 14, 2010:

PINKBERRY!!!!

2011:

Now one of the world's top rock acts, Black Keys Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney move here and prepare a studio infinite.

FEBRUARY 2011:

Tandy Wilson, chef at pop Germantown restaurant Metropolis Firm, learns he'south a nominee for Food & Wine's honor every bit The People'due south Best New Chef 2011 and the only Tennessee chef nominated among the semi-finalists for the James Beard Award for best chef in the Southeast.

MARCH 29, 2011:

Nashville gets its own Fashion Week

April 17, 2011:

Jerry Lee Lewis performs for a Third Human live LP. Aye, that excitable guy onstage with him is histrion Edward James Olmos.

JULY 6, 2011:

"The state music upper-case letter, with its low housing prices and pro-business environment, has experienced rapid growth in educated migrants, where it ranks an impressive quaternary in terms of percentage growth. New ethnic groups, such as Latinos and Asians, accept doubled in size over the by decade." And then says Forbes magazine, naming Nashville No. 3 in its ranking of "The Next Large Boom Towns in the U.S." Suck information technology, No. 47 Los Angeles.

SEPT. xvi, 2011:

NORDSTROM!!!!

FALL 2011:

The Catbird Seat opens to immediate acclaim from The New York Times, GQ, The Wall Street Periodical, the Today show and more than.

December. seven, 2011:

Lou Reed says he doesn't want to be a "Nashville" type of songwriter. Absurd points!

November. 16, 2011:

Responding to the closing of Nashville institution Davis-Kidd, Ann Patchett and publishing veteran Karen Hayes open up Parnassus Books in Green Hills. Major authors begin to visit Nashville regularly, and besides Rachael Ray

2012:

Sean Brock announces he volition open second outpost of Husk Eatery in Nashville.

February 2012:

Quick learner Dan Auerbach takes Bon Appetit on a Nashville food tour. Auerbach and writer Andrew Knowlton hit the trifecta of The Catbird Seat, Martin'due south Bar-B-Que and Mas Tacos Por Favor — oh, and Prince's. "But information technology'southward not just food (and potable!) that's making Nashville the Southward'due south City of the Moment," Knowlton writes. "In my calendar week on the basis, I felt the energy of a city in motion." Proficient affair Tandy Wilson's driving.

FEB. 20, 2012:

Patchett temporarily brusque-circuits Stephen Colbert's forcefield of irony on The Colbert Study.

FALL 2012:

Xx-two-year-old Kendall Morales of The Southern named Hostess of the Yr by Esquire.

MARCH 24, 2012:

Britain'due south Observer profiles "East Nashville'due south" "GarageRock Scene."

APRIL 2012:

GQ declares The 5 Spot's Proceed on Movin' the "almost stylish political party in America." Nashville achieves pinnacle fedora.

APRIL 26, 2012:

Extending Nashville'south conquest of Colbert across 3 nights, Jack White's three-part interview amounts to a Third Human being infomercial. Well played!

JULY 2012:

GQ declares united states "Nowville."

Oct. 10, 2012:

The ABC serial Nashville arrives, bearing heavy buzz. The show's fake mayoral candidate is almost as dull as the existent mayor!

OCT. 26-27, 2012:

Skrillex headlines With Your Friends Fest at The Lawn at Riverfront Park. Johnny Cash turns over in his grave, says something about "cool spaceship."

NOVEMBER 2012:

Online fashion arbiter The Sartorialist shoots Nashville street way, suggests there is such a thing.

Dec. 5, 2012:

Music Row hails the Grammy nominations concert at Bridgestone and hints we'd very much like to host the real deal. Even if information technology doesn't come with LL Cool J and Maroon 5 attached.

January 2013:

Nashville designer Amanda Valentine announced as contestant on Lifetime's Project Runway.

JAN. viii, 2013:

The New York Times declares u.s.a. the "Information technology" Metropolis. Consider it an overnight success — 237 years in the making.

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