Yes, It Is Hot Outside

Good afternoon, everyone.

Beat the heat with us tomorrow evening at Bar Hours. All attendees will get a firm handshake from yours truly and, if you’re nice, a compliment on your appearance. RSVP here to get the location.

Speaking of heat, was doing some digging yesterday on the adverse effects of prolonged exposure to seasonal extremes and came across this interesting bit of information. According to New York clinical psychologist Joseph Taliercio, almost all psychotropic medications, except for benzodiazepines, can impair the body’s ability to handle heat, raising the risk of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. One-sixth of Americans are on these medications. Heat strokes kill nearly two- thirds of those who suffer it.

Unsurprisingly, there’s no shortage of articles warning about how much more dangerous heat waves are getting because of climate change; yet, until now,  I’ve never seen anything about how medication could  interfere with one’s ability to self-regulate when it’s hot outside.

In her wonderful piece on air conditioning, Mary Harrington highlights one of the main contradictions of climate change. As the Earth gets warmer, she writes, it will require more air conditioning to protect people from the heat, and, in the process, will draw more power, materials, and resources from the grid, which is blamed as the source of the warming phenomenon.

Yes, maybe the grid gets “greener” in the meantime, but powering massive amounts of air conditioning with wind and solar won’t just leave a blight on the Earth, but also require massive amounts of material that don’t fall easily under the narrow environmental focus on climate change. There’s more to the environment than just the “climate.”

Onward.

💋 Misconduct of the Bad Variety Back in June, the Community Review Board began drafting a Zero Tolerance Sexual Misconduct Policy for MNPD. This Monday, the board’s proposed procedure passed, with all seven members in attendance. While the changes only function as suggestions, the board voted to forward the language onto the MNPD, the mayor, and the Metro Council.

Though the board unanimously backed the initiative, appointed member Mark Wynn called attention to the delicate relationship between police departments and direct victim service providers. “It depends on trust,” Wynn said, before explaining that in the past, it was advocacy groups who lobbied for legislation mandating certain protocols for police investigations involving sexual misconduct. Now, says Wynn, these groups’ desire to change internal affairs puts police officers in a difficult position. “It sets up an adversarial relationship with an advocacy group when they demand that…officers in their department be dealt with the same as the public,” he explained. “They're asking [officers] to stand in front of a television camera and say, ‘We need a sexual assault misconduct policy against my trusting partner I've worked with.’” MEGAN PODSIEDLIK

📑 MOU Agreement  Since the state legislature gutted the city’s Community Oversight Board last session, the newly established CRB has been trying to regain its ability to oversee investigations regarding MNPD misconduct. Members seem optimistic about the negotiations. “I was very pleased with how far we got,” said Drew Goddard about recent discussions with the police department. “I'm very pleased with the direction things were going at the end.”

It seems as though MNPD is willing to cooperate with the CRB, at least when it comes to streamlining a way for the board to procure documents and bodycam footage in relation to complaints they receive. “I'm encouraged by progress on a memorandum of understanding for the CRB's working with MNPD," Mayor O’Connell said in a press release on Tuesday. MEGAN PODSIEDLIK

🚦 Traffic Studies On Monday, the mayor signed off on a purchasing agreement for an analysis of Nashville’s off-street parking conditions and signal timing. Sourcewell, a governmental entity out of Minnesota, will be entering into the estimated $250,000 contract. The studies conducted will provide NDOT with analytics both for downtown and along the county’s major traffic corridors. MEGAN PODSIEDLIK

DEVELOPMENT

• Riverside Village’s Lou to Close (Scene)
• Local developer converts Music Row homes into bars, wellness retreat (NBJ)
• Shania Twain partners with downtown Nashville bar (NBJ)
• West Coast rare spirits retailer eyes Nashville location (Post)
• Mixed-use Midtown building changes ownership hands (Post)

✹ HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL ANTHROPOLOGY

As the legendary voice of the Vol Network, John Ward used to say, “It’s football time in Tennessee again!” High Schools across the Volunteer State started their season last week. With all the recent talk on Capitol Hill regarding public school policy, we here at the Pamphleteer would like to provide a brief anthropological survey using the sport that every Patriotic red-blooded Tennessean loves: high school football.

You can learn a lot about a school just by looking at what type of offense the football team runs. From student body social demographics, staff competency and morale, and even community support are all on display every Friday night. With that in mind, below are the five most common offenses and what they say about a school.

THINGS TO DO

View our calendar for the week here and our weekly film rundown here.

📅 Visit our On The Radar list to find upcoming events around Nashville.

🎧 On Spotify: Pamphleteer's Picks, a playlist of our favorite bands in town this week.

👨🏻‍🌾 Check out our Nashville farmer's market guide and yearly festival guide.

TONIGHT

🎸 The Lemonheads @ The Mil at Cannery Hall, 8p, $39.50, Info

🎸 Black Pistol Fire with Dan Spencer @ The Basement East, 8p, Info

🎸 Sammy Hagar and Loverboy @ Bridgestone Arena, 7p, $29.5, Info

🪕 Steve Earle @ Ryman Auditorium, 7p, $39.50+, Info

🪕 Bluegrass Night @ The American Legion Post 82, 7p, Free, Info

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