(CBS News) Nashville, Tenn. is famous for its country music legends, honky-tonks, Southern-style cooking and its growing obesity problem. Tennessee has the fourth-highest obesity rate in America. But Nashville's Mayor Karl Dean is waging a slow, steady battle against the crisis and trying to make the city a healthier place. His strategy, he says, is simple -- to expand opportunities for exercise and good nutrition and to lead by example.

(The Nashville Scene) From food trucks to Close Encounters, five reasons to leave your house this summer.

Nashville’s new convention center, already set to have a green roof, probably will have a solar one, too. The Convention Center Authority has hired a local consulting firm to explore options for solar panels on top of the Music City Center, the $585 million building under construction downtown. An installation on the roof above the ballroom on the building’s north end would make the facility one of the most high-profile in Middle Tennessee to use the alternative energy source.