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Know Your Rights

By Amanda Haggard | February 12, 2025

The Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) has intensified its efforts to inform and protect immigrant communities and empower their allies.

Feral: Little Pal

Part 1 of 3 of the true story of a wild (feral) cat colony over a 3-year time period. My observations and involvement.

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Federal edicts and missiles over these past couple of weeks have created chaos among nonprofit organizations, state and local agencies and others who are focused on serving people who struggle to make ends meet. Among some of the confusion created by the White House was the threat of halting a large portion of federal grant funding that Congress has allocated for agencies serving some of the most vulnerable populations in our nation. It remains unclear what direction the federal government intends to take next.

‘Look Into My Eyes’ documents contemporary loneliness and the supernatural

Movie poster of Look Into My Eyes. It features an illustration looking into the window of an apartment building. In the window is a woman sitting at a table illuminated by a candle.

Most Nashvillians will know filmmaker Lana Wilson for her Taylor Swift documentary, Miss Americana (2020). Wilson also directed the Brooke Shields documentary Pretty Baby (2023) as well as an examination of extremism and abortion in America (After Tiller, 2015), and a meditation on suicide in Japanese culture (The Departure, 2017). Wilson’s new movie, Look Into My Eyes reads like a blend of the filmmaker’s curiosities with interesting personalities and particular cultural trends.

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Spooky streams for Halloween screen screams

By Joe Nolan | October 30, 2024

Here are my movie recommendations for this year’s scary celebrating:

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The Amazing Life Story of Father Charles Strobel

By Brian Benson | October 30, 2024

This book is an amazing life story of Father Charles Strobel.

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All Is Not Lost When Things Don’t Go As Planned

By Norma B. | October 30, 2024

Have you ever gone to the store for one thing and left with something totally different?

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When Is Class In Session?

By Maurice B. | October 30, 2024

When one really wants to learn, then and only then will the teaching and teacher appear. The fullness of life is a very occupied event to be explained. The universe is full of expiring people and marvelous events that are good and bad according to the expectations of the various minds eye within this whole universe. Taking something so detrimental as getting a school education and using that education in society to survive and live when social media has a major grasp or deadly grip on the attention of the majorities minds eye. The true beginnings of teaching are those that came along with the fight of our existence whereas we began to become aware of the newness outside of the most comfortable area known to mankind.