THE SHOW: 12/11/2009 - Parents Upset About Rezoning / Jefferson Street works to revive musical glory / Gov. Mark Sanford SHUT DOWN!! / Baby Mama Drama for Dwight Howard

Local Buzz:
"Cold Patrol Searches For Homeless, Cold Overnight"

*NASHVILLE, Tenn. - When temperatures dip below freezing, the situation can get dangerous for Music City's homeless, and that's when the Nashville Rescue Mission's Cold Patrol comes in.
"We got a bunch of people who aren't making good decisions. Some are intoxicated and think they can brave the cold weather, that's just not true," said Ed Grimes, Nashville Rescue Mission.
They drive the streets looking for people who need a warm place to sleep.
"It was a miracle when the mission van pulled up. I thought, 'this is unbelievable,'" said David Michaels, Nashville resident.
The Metro Homeless Commission estimates there are some 4,000 homeless people living in Nashville.

*COLUMBIA, Tenn. - Some parents in Maury County are upset about a plan that would change where their children attend school.
Thursday night, the school board approved a measure that would send some students to a different school, sometimes in a completely different town.
Parents who are faced with longer commutes to get their children to school are not happy about it.
"They want to take our high school kids and send them to one city and take our elementary students and take them to another city. It's going to be hard to get kids to both, separate schools for everybody," said parent Eric Potts.
Other parents have expressed their concerns about fifth graders going to school with older students.

"Jefferson Street works to revive musical glory"
*One Nashville neighborhood is working to bring music back to a part of Music City that's been silent too long.
In its heyday, Jefferson Street was the commercial hub, music row and beating heart of Nashville's black community. Nightclubs lined the street, pounding out rhythm and blues, jazz and soul. For 30 years, the greatest artists of the day came there to perform. Ella Fitzgerald. Duke Ellington. Marvin Gaye. It's the street that taught Jimi Hendrix how to play.
And then the city decided to run an interstate across Jefferson Street. Nearly 40 years later, the neighborhood is still struggling to re-create the vibrant spirit of that lost street.
Live music, local merchants hope, will help lure the music lovers and shoppers back. The Jefferson Street United Merchants Partnership, Belmont University student musicians and local merchants are working to rebuild the street's musical reputation.

"Pleasure Palace license pulled"

*All three violations came after the Metro SOBL inspector caught male patrons masturbating inside the private Pleasure Palace booths.
Pleasure Palace appealed the second violation, which resulted in a suspension of its license for 31 days. The bookstore's attorney, John Herbison, said Pleasure Palace intends to appeal the third violation as well.
"Our position is that it is not the business's violation, that it is the customer's violation," Herbison said.
According to the inspection report, Compliance Inspector Christine Gibson arrived at Pleasure Palace on Oct. 9. When Gibson entered the store, the clerk on duty announced her presence to customers and told them to get out of the video booths. Customer runs out door Gibson then proceeded to inspect the booth area, where she found a man approximately 65-years old touching his exposed genitals with his hand. When the man learned Gibson was the city inspector, he ran out of the store before she could talk to him further.
According to Herbison, Pleasure Palace will have its appeal of the second violation heard in February.
Pleasure Palace is the second adult-oriented business to have its license revoked in the last two years. Ken's Gold Club also had its license revoked and is no longer in business.
The Metro Sexually Oriented Business Licensing board on Wednesday revoked the license of Pleasure Palace adult bookstore following the establishment's third violation of the Metro Code in the last two years.

Top Stories:
"Jenny Sanford Files for Divorce from Husband Gov. Mark Sanford After Affair"

*Jenny Sanford announced today that she will file for divorce from embattled South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who admitted in June to an affair with a longtime lover in Argentina.

"Obama's 'war and peace' speech silences criticism"

*OSLO - US President Barack Obama's justification for war in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech won general praise Friday as he left Oslo at the end of a quick visit to receive the prestigious award.

*By REUTERS Royal Dutch Shell and Petronas of Malaysia won the rights Friday to develop one of the world's largest remaining untapped oil fields, as Iraq held its second auction of oil contracts since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003.

*Joebert "Ondo" Perez, a Government-armed former militiaman, talks to the media at a remote village in Prosperidad township, Agusan del Sur province in southern Philippines Friday Dec. 11, 2009. Perez and his group took more than 70 people, including 17 school children hostage Thursday after police tried to serve summons for murder charges. Initially Perez released 18 hostages and released nine more Friday. (AP Photo)

Kidnapping comes as the government is trying to capture scores of militiamen suspected of being involved in last month's massacre of more than 50 people in Maguindinao province.

*NBA superstar Dwight Howard claims his baby mama is bashing him all over the Internet -- and now he's filed a lawsuit to keep her keyboard in check.
According to the docs filed in Orange County, CA, the Orlando Magic center is suing Royce Lyndsay Reed -- the mother of his 2-year-old son -- over allegedly defamatory comments that surfaced on gossip site lipstickalley.com.
Dwight claims Reed posted the comments -- whether "directly or indirectly" under an Internet alias -- in violation of an injunction he recently filed against her, which orders Reed to zip it before she utters a single word about the NBA star.
But in the lawsuit, Dwight includes a few samples of the comments he's talking about:
-- "[Dwight] hasn't seen his son in two months."
-- "Why file an injunction if you have nothing to hide?"
-- "But the bottom line is Dwight is a douchebag."
According to Reed's lawyer, Dwight's baby mama is "flabbergasted" by the lawsuit, claiming she has nothing to do with the comments and considered the matter resolved after the injunction. Dwight wants $9,205,000 in damages.

*It seems like the Lil' Wayne hit machine is grinding to a halt, as a label rep confirmed to us yesterday that his Rebirth disc will not be released in 2009 after all. Though some outlets are reporting a new street date of February 2nd, the rep tells us no new date has been set.
Wayne is due for sentencing in his criminal weapons case in February, at which time he is expected to be ordered to a year in prison. But he's not letting his legal troubles stop him from conducting business. He recently shot a clip for his the track "On Fire" with Chris Robinson in Las Vegas. He's also loaned his talents to "Scared Money," a track off Young Jeezy's forthcoming disc Thug Motivation 103, also due next year.

*An Indiana man who's allegedly been stalking Ashanti may be headed to trial next week. According to court papers filed in New York, Devar Hurd, a 31-year-old gym employee and janitor, sent dozens of text messages to Ashanti's mother, Tina Douglas, and her husband before his arrest in July. Some of the messages were lewd in nature and included pictures of the singer's home, where he suggested coming to "visit." Most were directed at Ashanti, but authorities say a few appeared to address Tina and Ashanti's sister Kenashia. There's no word on how Hurd obtained the number or whether Ashanti will have to testify.

*On December 11th, 1961, Langston Hughes' Black Nativity opened on Broadway. The re-telling of the classic Nativity story featured an all-black cast. It has been performed at Tremont Temple in Boston since 1969.

*NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Governor Phil Bredesen is set to make an announcement about education in Tennessee on Friday. The announcement has to do with the state's Race to the Top application for federal funds.
The state has drafted major education reforms in an effort to get a share of the $4.3 billion in education funds available from the Obama Administration.
The announcement from the Governor will be at Mt. Juliet High School, and will come after another special visitor. The NASA pilot and Mt. Juliet native Captain Barry Wilmore will present his old football uniform to the school.

*Ladies, we don't care how desperately you have to go -- there has to be a better way than this! If you're going to use the men's room, at least wait for a stall!

*Teachers fight in front of students over a love letter sent to a man that they are both involved with on facebook...click picture for video....