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Honky Tonk Central, Sept. 6, 2020Photo: Alex Kent
In July, as Nashville was hitting new highs for COVID-19 positivity rates and hospitalizations were surging across Tennessee, TMZ published a video of Lower Broadway with the title âNo-Maskville.â The nearly 90-second clip taken from a car shows what looks like a normal scene for the street on a weekend night â and thatâs what was so confounding about it. Large crowds crammed into small indoor bars, with many more people milling around outside waiting to get in, most of them apparently unmasked. A shirtless man strolls by in the foreground.
It was one of several videos and images from Nashvilleâs main tourist destination that spread around the internet over the past year to the shock and horror of many observers. The images further prompted a question that one might have already felt compelled to ask: What the hell is going on down there?Â
Man,
Kid Rock’s bar just can’t seem to avoid controversy… even when it’s not their fault.
The bar is already coming off of a rocky 2020.
Steve Smith, the outspoken owner of Kid Rock’s and several other bars on Nashville’s historic Lower Broadway including Tootsie’s and Honky Tonk Central, initially
refused to close his businesses back in March when they mayor ordered bars and restaurants closed across the city. He finally
gave in, but when Kid Rock’s reopened, it again found itself in hot water with the city over failing to follow social distancing and capacity restrictions. The bar had its beer
Musician Kid Rock has pledged to donate $100K to help ailing small businesses in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.
The 49-year-old, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, took to Twitter on Monday to show support for The Barstool Fund and encourage others as blessed as he is to do the same.
The Barstool Fund is a COVID-era charity created by Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy and has so far raised over $18 million for struggling amid pandemic shutdowns.
Charitable: Musician Kid Rock has pledged to donate $100K to The Barstool Fund to help ailing small businesses in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, he revealed in a tweet on Monday
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As we prepare to put a bow on this very memorable year, we re again taking a few minutes to look back before we step into a 2021 with plenty of questions to answer. We re breaking out the most popular stories from this year in various categories before we tally them all on Jan. 4. You can check out