
Steve Haruch
Senior Producer at Nashville Banner
Writer, Editor and Producer at Freelance
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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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3 weeks ago |
nashvillebanner.com | Steve Haruch
This week, the Metropolitan Social Services department released a report based on its annual community needs evaluation. The title of this year’s report: “The High Cost of Low Wages in Nashville.” Coinciding with its release, the department hosted a community gathering at West End Community Church, featuring a panel discussion on the report’s findings and possible solutions.
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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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