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Feral: Little Pal
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Part 1 of 3 of the true story of a wild (feral) cat colony over a 3-year time period. My observations and involvement.
Safe Streets Can’t Come Soon Enough
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Metro and Mayor Freddie O’Connell have been promoting a Vision Zero goal to eliminate fatalities and injuries on the roads in Nashville, but advocates have called for the city to move faster.
“ … We Need Roses, Too.”
My Uncle Harry is 81 years old this year. He is vital and funny and very technically oriented. He had a great life as a software and hardware engineer in computers.
Q&A with Stephen Watts
Stephen Watts, 29, is a young Millennial with a Gen Z sensibility. Watts has an intersectional view of how his generation works in social justice and advocacy.
Hoboscopes: May 6, 2026
Mr. Mysterio is not a licensed astrologer, a trained waitstaff member, or a certified chainsaw operator.
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Q&A with Aftyn Behn
Time Without Housing Is Harm: Why Nashville Needs a Real Homelessness System
Hoboscopes: April 22, 2026
Features
Learn More About Community Organizing
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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. Add all the uncertainty from the federal level with the Tennessee’s legislature’s approach to target marginalized populations and those who offer support, no wonder that fears and tensions run high. The question becomes, what can we do after an election that reinstated representation we have at the state and the federal government?
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‘Look Into My Eyes’ documents contemporary loneliness and the supernatural
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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. The movie was released by A24 in September and it’s now streaming on MAX. Look Into My Eyes is a mosaic portrait of a handful of psychic readers in New York City.
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Coffee Shop Discrimination
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There’s a coffee place that discriminated against a deaf person I know and called the police on her because she couldn’t hear. The staff told her she had to come in to order and when she did they called the cops because she was taking too long to order and holding up the line. I will not be buying my coffee at this establishment anymore. I can’t say the name, but it is a chain and it is a famous chain where everybody gets their coffee. It’s expensive coffee and you walk up to a window and everything.
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Backbone
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One thing about backbones. They rarely develop a consciousness that they are a backbone. Take white women, for example. We don’t realize that we’re the backbone of patriarchy! Or that we willingly or unwillingly support the whole structure that oppresses our fellow bones, ligaments and muscles that would be Black people, any people of color, Native Americans … Fellow women of all descriptions.
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Homeless since 1970
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I’ve been homeless since Sept. 29, 1970 — longer than anybody else out here. In those nearly 55 years, I’ve learned: Don’t ask for stuff from people on the street. It’s heartbreaking when they say no, it’s rejection. You don’t wanna ask nobody else, they’re gonna say the same thing.