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Steven Soderbergh is famous for also doing the camerawork in the movies he directs, and Presence might be the biggest-ever flex from Soderbergh the cinematographer.
The Contributor launches tour led by street paper vendors to help folks see the city through a different lens
Bachelder’s background is in public health and community organizing.
Retired Contributor vendor Calvin Brooks, born Nov. 24, 1957, in Columbus, Ohio, entered into eternal rest on Sept. 1, 2025, at the age of 67.
Glancing at the top films currently streaming on Amazon Prime, there’s the sense that we’re already in deep autumn at the height of scary movie season.
When you see a blind person with a seeing-eye dog, remember that this practice started with a young man from Nashville. In 1927, Morris Frank was a 20-year-old student at Vanderbilt University and unhappy about his dependency on others to get around. Frank’s father read him an article in the Saturday Evening Post by Dorothy Eustis, an American woman living in Switzerland. In the article, Eustis talked about how shepherds there were training dogs to help blind people. She speculated that this practice could be perfected to help blind people on a full-time basis.
“The reason I am working in the homelessness sector has a name: Earnest R.”
Dr. Sanmi Areola is a veteran in public health, having served in leadership positions in Nashville, Johnson County, Kan., and in Prince George’s County, Md., before returning to Nashville in 2025 to lead the Metro Public Health Department (MPHD).
Rev. Davie Tucker has served as the executive director of the Metro Human Relations Commission since 2022.
