Brad Schmitt
Inside Nashville Columnist at The Tennessean
Inside Nashville columnist for The Tennessean
Articles
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1 week ago |
tennessean.com | Brad Schmitt |Diana Leyva
Yes, Nashville is exploding in reputation for being a dining destination, but it has only captured six wins since James Beard awards started in 1991For the Nashville restaurant scene, June 15 was Oscar night. And after a nine-year drought, Music City claimed a trophy.
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1 week ago |
tennessean.com | Brad Schmitt
Bargatze, the U.S.'s highest grossing comedian, hopes to develop his replacements as he comes off the road to concentrate on movies and a theme park Bargatze has three prongs to his Nashville-based Nateland empire to develop new talent — a podcast, a Monday night live showcase at Zanies and a YouTube channel that airs comics' specials "We’re essentially creating a ladder of opportunity for comedians no matter where they are in their career," said Adrian Kulp, SVP of production for Nateland...
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2 weeks ago |
tennessean.com | Brad Schmitt
Woodall became a foster parent after her brother in law, then Smyrna police chief, asked her one late night to watch two little boys who'd been abused. In 1991, Woodall started to foster a baby who was physically abused so badly that the baby grew up unable to walk or talk. Woodall adopted that girl 16 years later. Her birth daughters estimate Woodall cared for about 50 children with developmental disabilities or special medical needs.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Brad Schmitt
Nancy Arlene Woodall's phone rang in the middle of the night. It was her brother-in-law, Mike Beach, then the chief of police in Smyrna. Two young boys had been abused. Could she take them in? "That's what started everything," her daughter Michelle Brown recalled. That spontaneous act of kindness in the 1980s launched decades of Woodall serving as a foster mom to more than 400 Tennessee children, many with disabilities. She died June 8 in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She was 71.
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1 month ago |
tennessean.com | Brad Schmitt
Universal Studios opened Epic Universe theme park Memorial Day weekend, the first major theme park to launch in the U.S. in 20 years Susan Cummings wanted to be a stand-up comedian at MTSU, but she ended up working for Universal Orlando to pay the bills and climbing the corporate ladder there Cummings led a team that built the Super Nintendo World part of Epic Universe Universal Orlando has opened the nation's first major theme park in more than 20 years — and a Tennessean had a big part in...
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