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Style Blueprint
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Style Blueprint
Your First Look at BNA's New Dining & Shopping Options (Open Now!)
Share with your friends! Pinterest LinkedIn Email Flipboard Reddit Whether you're arriving in Nashville or heading out on your next big adventure, there are a few new reasons to get to the airport early. The latest addition to BNA's New Horizon growth plan has officially landed, and it brings eight brand-new dining and shopping destinations to the Concourse D extension — plus a few newly unveiled works of art. Here's your first look! New Restaurants & Shops 3rd & Broadway: A twist on the beloved downtown staple, this new outpost offers everything from locally made gifts to wearable souvenirs, making it a one-stop shop for iconic Music City keepsakes. A twist on the beloved downtown staple, this new outpost offers everything from locally made gifts to wearable souvenirs, making it a one-stop shop for iconic Music City keepsakes. Sandella's Flatbreads: Offering fresh flatbreads, artisanal coffee from Caffé Umbria, and refreshing juices, this is a delicious stop for travelers craving something healthy and flavorful. Offering fresh flatbreads, artisanal coffee from Caffé Umbria, and refreshing juices, this is a delicious stop for travelers craving something healthy and flavorful. The Castle: Inspired by GEODIS Park, this sporty stop is a tribute to Nashville SC, offering elevated bites and beverages. Inspired by GEODIS Park, this sporty stop is a tribute to Nashville SC, offering elevated bites and beverages. New Heights Cantina & Taqueria: From the experts behind New Heights Brewing, local beer meets bold flavors at this eatery. You'll find made-to-order tortillas, scratch-made salsas, and a breakfast menu well worth waking up for. Pin Pin Flytes Virtual Dining Hall: This tech-forward dining concept brings together restaurant chains like California Pizza Kitchen and Earl of Sandwich into one seamless, scratch-made experience. This tech-forward dining concept brings together restaurant chains like California Pizza Kitchen and Earl of Sandwich into one seamless, scratch-made experience. Nashville Tracks by Hudson: Equal parts gift shop and tribute to Music City's spirit, this retail stop features everything from craft spirits and local goods to must-have travel snacks. Equal parts gift shop and tribute to Music City's spirit, this retail stop features everything from craft spirits and local goods to must-have travel snacks. Daniel Diamond: Known for glitzy fringe jackets and rhinestone everything, Daniel Diamond is the go-to brand for country music stars, bachelorettes, and shoppers looking to sparkle their way through the terminal. Known for glitzy fringe jackets and rhinestone everything, Daniel Diamond is the go-to brand for country music stars, bachelorettes, and shoppers looking to sparkle their way through the terminal. Martini: This stylish new lounge serves expertly shaken cocktails, flatbreads, sandwiches, and Frothy Monkey coffee. It's the perfect place to toast the start or end of your trip. Pin New Local Artwork But that's not all! The Concourse D extension also debuts BNA's first outdoor terrace, offering sweeping views of the airfield and the Nashville skyline, plus a brand-new record node rotunda. The space is also a love letter to Nashville's vibrant arts scene, featuring three pieces of original artwork: 'Twine with my Mingles' by Elizabeth Williams of New Hat Projects: A colorful 180-foot installation made from loom-woven wristbands lining the moving walkway. A colorful 180-foot installation made from loom-woven wristbands lining the moving walkway. 'A Thread Without End' by Benjamin Ball: 620 suspended stainless steel spheres that bring eye-catching movement and elegance to the gate area. 620 suspended stainless steel spheres that bring eye-catching movement and elegance to the gate area. 'Our Radiant City' by Brenda Stein: A terrazzo masterpiece featuring shimmering depictions of Nashville landmarks around the rotunda. Pin Fresh off receiving the 2025 ACI-NA Richard A. Griesbach Award for Excellence in Airport Concessions, BNA shows no signs of slowing down. If this is what layovers look like now, we'll gladly take the long route every time. Safe travels! ********** Planning a trip? Explore our Travel section, which offers travel tips, getaway ideas, and more. About the Author Brianna Goebel Brianna is StyleBlueprint's Associate Editor and Sponsored Content Manager. She is an avid fan of iced coffee and spends her free time reading romance novels.
Daily Mail
5 days ago
- Business
- Daily Mail
7 new restaurant deals you can get this July
Published: Updated: Forget slaving over a hot stove this summer – your favourite restaurants are rolling out mouthwatering deals you won't want to miss. From cheesy indulgences to frosty BOGO shakes, here's where to snap up the tastiest offers of July! 1. California Pizza Kitchen California Pizza Kitchen is serving up free Baked Mac 'N Cheese in honour of National Mac & Cheese Day on July 14. Just spend $20+ online and use code CPKMAC – available through July 31 (excluding Hawaii). 2. The Cheesecake Factory 3. Whataburger Whataburger's 'WhataSummer of Savings' kicks off July 7 with five days of hot freebies, BOGOs, and reward points. From free onion rings to BOGO shakes and $0.75 fries, it's a fast food fan's dream come true. 4. Popeyes Popeyes is serving up 3-piece Signature Chicken for just $5, plus a wing BOGO for Rewards members through July 22. Every Tuesday until August 12, get discounted fries, tenders, drinks, and more with all-day happy hour pricing. 5. Del Taco 6. Friendly's 7. Jack in the Box
Yahoo
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
California Pizza Kitchen Doubles Down on Controversial Menu Items With New Salad Inspired by This Wildly Popular Food Trend
California Pizza Kitchen Doubles Down on Controversial Menu Items With New Salad Inspired by This Wildly Popular Food Trend originally appeared on Parade. California Pizza Kitchen had fans going through the emotions recently when the restaurant unveiled a new frozen pizza that features quite the controversial pizza topping. In May, much to the surprise of diners, California Pizza Kitchen announced that it would be releasing a Dill Pickle Pizza in select grocery the pizza joint isn't done just yet. To kick off the month of June, they're releasing several new menu items in restaurants across the country. And no, there aren't any pickles involved this time, but they are jumping on a pretty popular trend with one of the new new dish, which takes its inspiration straight from wine and cheese night, is their Charcuterie Salad. Described as being similar to "your favorite snacking board," the Charcuterie Salad features mixed greens and fresh basil, tossed in housemade mustard herb vinaigrette and topped with applewood smoked ham, salami and Brie cheese, along with cubed Parmesan, green apples and candied walnuts. The salad is served with housemade toasted sesame crackers. We hope you're ready to fill up on your greens this summer because California Pizza Kitchen is rolling out three other salads. The new additions include the Crispy Chinese Dumpling Salad, Steakhouse Salad and Burrata Panzanella Salad (available for a limited-time only). With its stellar new lineup of salads, California Pizza Kitchen is confident that they're in a league of their own. "Our new entrée salads are a delicious twist on the ordinary,' said Chef Paul Pszybylski, VP of Culinary Innovation at CPK, in a statement. 'Salads have always been a hugely popular category at CPK, so we're proud to expand and diversify our menu to help guests find their newest favorite dish. You won't find salads like these anywhere else.' Which salad is calling your name this summer?California Pizza Kitchen Doubles Down on Controversial Menu Items With New Salad Inspired by This Wildly Popular Food Trend first appeared on Parade on Jun 10, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 10, 2025, where it first appeared.
Los Angeles Times
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Demetri Martin brought visual art to stand-up. Can he take comedy into the art world?
I wasn't expecting a painting of a naked clown to greet me when I FaceTimed Demetri Martin on a Monday afternoon in May. After the longest two seconds of my life, the comedian appeared in front of the camera with an unassuming smile. For the past few months, Martin has been toiling away in the studio shed designed by his wife, interior designer Rachael Beame Martin, in the backyard of their Beverly Glen home. Lush greenery peeks through the windows above a lattice he constructed to mount canvases of various sizes. His first solo exhibition of paintings and drawings is just days away and he has some finishing touches to make. Visual art is not new to Martin, a wiz at one-liners who incorporates drawings in his stand-up. 'The cool thing about a drawing is I can share something personal and I can use a graphic to illustrate it more specifically,' he says in 'Demetri Deconstructed,' his 2024 Netflix special. In one graph from the special, he plots the inverse relationship between the amount of 'past' and 'future' time across an individual's lifespan. The point where 'past' and 'future' meet is the mid-life existential crisis. There is a synergy between Martin's jokes and his sketches, which are more akin to doodles than drawings. Their humor lies in their pared-down specificity. They 'make you ponder something on the absurdity-of-life level, which I guess is comedy,' says Martin's close friend and musician Jack Johnson. With his love of joke crafting, Martin says he represents the comedy old guard as stand-up has become heavily autobiographical in today's internet age. 'Specifically, it's jokes that have always attracted me when we're talking about the comedy world,' Martin says of his aversion to storytelling. 'Can you do a joke in 12 words? Can you get an idea across? How much can you take away and it still lands with people?' 'Acute Angles,' Martin's solo exhibition running Sunday to May 31, takes his obsession with constraint a step further. The experiment: Can you communicate jokes visually without any words? 'I brought visual art into my stand-up comedy,' says Martin, who worked on paintings for two-plus years before he figured he had enough material to fill a gallery. 'Can I bring comedy into the visual art world?' 'Acute Angles' — he says the title references the shape of his nose — features large-scale paintings with a unifying color palette of bright red, sky blue and medium gray, in addition to 30 smaller drawings. The paintings depict implausible scenarios: What if the grim reaper slipped on a banana on his way to kill you? What if Superman ripped his underpants on his quest to save you? The show is a collaboration with his wife, whom he adoringly describes as the muscles of the operation. The two secured a month-long lease of an abandoned yoga studio tucked behind a California Pizza Kitchen in Brentwood. Using her design skills — they met in New York City when she was attending Parsons School of Design and he was pursing comedy — Beame Martin led a rebuild of the studio-turned-gallery. When Martin's publicist called to ask if the gallery had a name, the couple turned to Google. They eventually came up with 'Laconic Gallery,' for Laconia, Greece, where Martin traces his roots, and because the word laconic perfectly describes Martin's ethos: marked by the use of few words. On the day of our interview, Martin is completing the last of 12 paintings for the show and is puzzled why the paint appears differently on the canvas than in the can. He's trying hard to ensure the color of the naked clown's pubic hair matches his hair. The relationship between the viewer and the art is both exciting and scary to Martin. When taking a comedy show on the road, you more or less know your jokes will land, he says. With an art show, there's more of a vacuum between him and the audience, yet the conceit remains: the show is meant to be funny. But whether viewers laugh while visiting the art exhibition almost doesn't matter. For Martin, the reward has been the process of creation — the meditative zone he sinks into, indie rock oozing from his CD player, as he envisions and re-envisions the work. (Many of the paintings in the show are derived from old sketches.) The show also represents Martin's re-emergence from his own mid-life existential crisis. At 51, he is older than his dad was when he died and about the same age as his late mom, when she was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. 'So now, is this like bonus time for me?' he started to ask himself in his late 40s. In some ways, Martin has always been a tortured artist. After graduating from Yale, he attended NYU Law only to drop out after the second year. But New York City is also where he found himself, spending late nights at the Comedy Cellar and the Boston Comedy Club. His days were spent visiting the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Daydreaming his way through the galleries, jotting jokes in his notepad, is when he first gained an appreciation for the arts. 'He's not without cynicism once you know him, but where comics so often lead with cynicism, he has this wide-eyed openness, and I think that's a thread that pulls through all of his work,' says comedian and fellow Comedy Central alum Sarah Silverman. Now, Martin is a father to an 8-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son — the same age he was when manning his Greek family's shish kebab stand on the Jersey Shore. His self-described anger at seeing the world his kids are growing up in, namely their peers' obsessions with cell phones, seeps into his paintings and drawings. But ultimately, being a father has irrevocably improved Martin's perspective on life. 'I think sometimes resignation is also acceptance,' he says, on his new appreciation of midlife. 'You're still motivated, but maybe not in the same way. … You still want to make things, but maybe it doesn't matter as much, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter. So that's where I feel like I'm at, where I'm saying, 'You know what, I'm grateful.' I understand how lucky I've been now.' He's not quite done with touring but 'Acute Angles' represents a potential escape. If his comedy can travel without him, if he can make money while foregoing lonely nights on the road, he can prioritize more important moments, like playing catch with his son after school. After all, his kids aren't at the age yet where they hate him — a joke his kids don't like. Still, Martin's art-making mirrors his joke-writing. It's a numbers game, meticulously filling notebooks in handwriting Silverman describes as 'tiny letters all perfectly the same size,' then revisiting and sharpening material until the joke emerges, like a vision. 'It's really a privilege to have the kind of career where I can try something like this,' Martin says. 'I don't take that for granted anymore.'
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Twin Hospitality Group Inc. Announces Appointment of Kim Boerema as Chief Executive Officer
Kim Boerema Fast-Growing Experiential Restaurant Group Hires California Pizza Kitchen and Texas Roadhouse Veteran DALLAS, May 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Twin Hospitality Group Inc. (Nasdaq: TWNP), the parent company of Twin Peaks Restaurant, today announces the appointment of Kim Boerema as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Boerema will draw on his over 30 years of industry experience, scaling and optimizing high-volume, full-service restaurant operations, to continue driving forward the rapid growth trajectory of the ultimate sports lodge, Twin Peaks. Boerema most recently served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Parry's Pizzeria & Taphouse, where he helped to significantly scale the brand, taking it from a 10-unit concept to an approximately 30-unit concept in the last two and a half years. Other prior experiences include serving as CEO and President of Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant, where he led brand transformation efforts in addition to serving as COO of California Pizza Kitchen, where he was key in creating a new cost-effective restaurant prototype along with rebuilding the operations and leadership teams. Boerema was also a Regional Vice President at Texas Roadhouse, where he oversaw 125 units in 22 states, driving growth and best-in-class retention for the respective locations. 'Kim brings deep expertise in franchising, corporate operations, and profitability enhancement, making him ideally positioned to lead Twin Peaks in its next stage of growth,' said Ken Kuick, CFO of Twin Hospitality Group. 'With a pipeline of 100 lodges, Kim's background and proven leadership will be instrumental as we look to scale the Twin Peaks brand and fuel long-term momentum." 'I have always had a passion for experiential dining, which aligns perfectly with the immersive sports lodge positioning of Twin Peaks,' said Kim Boerema, CEO of Twin Hospitality Group. 'Over the years, Twin Peaks has emerged as an industry leader known for operational excellence and brand integrity, and I look forward to not only maintaining but also enhancing what makes the Twin Peaks brand such a coveted customer experience as we continue to expand across the globe.' For more information on Twin Hospitality Group, visit Twin Hospitality Group Inc. Twin Hospitality Group Inc. is a restaurant company that strategically develops and operates specialty casual dining restaurant concepts with a goal to redefine the casual dining category with its experiential driven brands. For more information, visit About Twin Peaks Founded in 2005 in the Dallas suburb of Lewisville, Twin Peaks has 116 locations in the U.S. and Mexico. Twin Peaks is the ultimate sports lodge featuring made-from-scratch food and the coldest beer in the business, surrounded by scenic views and wall-to-wall TVs. At every Twin Peaks, guests are immediately welcomed by a friendly Twin Peaks Girl and served up a menu made for MVPs. From its smashed and seared-to-order burgers to its in-house smoked brisket and wings, guests can expect menu items that satisfy every appetite. To learn more about franchise opportunities, visit For more information, visit Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to the timing and performance of new store openings. Forward-looking statements reflect the expectations of management concerning the future and are subject to significant business, economic and competitive risks, uncertainties, and contingencies. These factors are difficult to predict and beyond our control and could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. We refer you to the documents that are filed from time to time by Twin Hospitality Group Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, such as its Registration Statement on Form 10 and reports on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and Form 8-K, for a discussion of these and other factors. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this press release. Investor Relations:ICRMichelle Michalskiir@ Media Relations:Destinee # # # Attachment Kim BoeremaError in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
