
Demetria Kalodimos
Executive Producer at Nashville Banner
Award winning anchor, investigative reporter 16 emmys, 2 National Headliners, 3 Murrows, 3 time IRE winner, documentary filmmaker, TN journalism Hall of Fame,
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6 days ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Demetria Kalodimos |Steve Haruch
Music historian Don Cusic has played many roles — songwriter, producer, novelist, professor. (Not to mention putting in a stint at a newspaper in Cookeville many years ago.) Decades ago, he pulled into Nashville in an old VW bus that doubled as his home until he found his footing writing about music. Since then, Don has written 28 books, ranging from a biography of Roger Miller to an encyclopedia of cowboys. His latest delves into the life of one of Nashville’s most influential figures.
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1 week ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Demetria Kalodimos |Steve Haruch
Five years ago this week, Watkins School of Art, Design & Film held a socially distanced commencement ceremony amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It would the last in the school’s 185-year history, as it later merged with Belmont University. Steven Womack taught at Watkins for 25 years, and he details his time there — and the school’s demise — in a memoir titled Death of a College.
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2 weeks ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Demetria Kalodimos |Steve Haruch
With the state of Tennessee set to restart executions this month, federal public defender Kelley Henry is even more busy than usual. Her client Oscar Smith is the first man scheduled to be killed at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Her team has exhausted its legal options, and Smith is set to be executed on May 22. He will spend 14 days on death watch, instead of the customary three.
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1 month ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Demetria Kalodimos |Steve Haruch
Major Jackson is the author of six poetry collections, including, most recently, Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems. He is a professor at Vanderbilt University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Coming to Nashville to teach was a homecoming of sorts β he spent many summers here as a child. For two years, spanning 443 episodes, Major was the host of the podcast The Slowdown, which gave him the space to introduce new poems and poets to a devoted audience on a daily basis.
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1 month ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Demetria Kalodimos |Steve Haruch
Michael Shane Neal knew from an early age he wanted to be an artist. But there were no artists in his family, so he wasn’t sure how he’d turn that into a career. After taking classes in the basement of a dormitory at Lipscomb University, he had a chance meeting with someone who knew the famed portrait artist Raymond Kinstler. And after a trip to New York, a mentorship was born. Shane credits Kinstler with showing him the way to an artist’s life.
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