Weekly What - Issue 61

Weekly What - Issue 61

(North) Nashville What

Meet the Maker: Kijiji Specialty Coffee

A Springboard for the North Nashville Community

Meet one of our newest makers, longtime coffee retailer and founder of Kijiji Specialty Coffees, Edward C. Stevenson. Kijiji is a Black-owned business that has been headquartered in Nashville for more than 20 years. Kijiji Coffee House started in North Nashville and now it has grown to become the specialty coffee retailer you can find all over Nashville—from BNA to Batch. In this blog post, find out where the Black Wall Street of Nashville was, Kijiji's connection to the Titans, and how Edward connected with Batch.

 

Event What

Alive’s Memorial Butterfly Release at Home

Release a Butterfly, Remember a Loved One

Each year, Alive’s community comes together to remember loved ones with a butterfly release. Butterflies symbolize our lasting love and the spiritual renewal of a new season. For the health and safety of all, participants will release their butterflies at home this year. Alive is asking folks to share pictures and videos from their home release to be included in this year’s memorial video.

 

Food and Drink What

Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner

Would You Like Vinyl with That?

Fine food and fine music come together on the occasion of Margo Price’s new album release. Pre-order breakfast from Mas Tacos or lunch from Babo Korean Bar or dinner from Cafe Roze this week and all orders come with a copy of That’s How Rumors Get Started on vinyl courtesy of Grimey’s! Contactless delivery is this Friday so pre-order now. Bonus: Margo and her band are playing at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge on Friday night and you can watch live at 7pm.

 

Maker What

Batch book club

Join the Club

Each Monday in August, Batch invites you to join co-founder Sam Davidson as he leads a discussion based on that week's reading selection from Upstream by Dan Heath. The club "meets" digitally each Monday at noon via Zoom (link to be provided upon registration) and calls will be recorded each week in case you can't make it or would like to review. Be on the lookout for a special guest interview each week!

 

Bonus What

Special offer from AMEX

Get $5 back from AMEX in the form of a statement credit after you spend $10 or more with us (and other eligible small businesses). Learn how to enroll your eligible American Express Card at ShopSmall.com by 7/19/20 and you can get rewarded, up to 10x, if you spend by 9/13/20. Eligibility and terms apply.

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