NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Best of The Beat™ Offbeat Magazine Music Awards were held in New Orleans on November 10, 2022, at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Best of the Beat™ honors musicians, bands, and music nominated by the local music community and voted on by the public for excellence in music. Among these nominees, Chapel Hart took home four wins in every category nominated. These included, Artist of the Year, Song of the Year for, “You Can Have Him Jolene”, Best Country Folk/Singer-Songwriter Artist, and Best Music Video for “You Can Have Him Jolene”. Click Here for the full list of nominations. Having gotten their start in…
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Nashville, Tenn. (TN Tribune) – Music City Baseball (MCB) is proud to welcome Mia Vickers as its new Community Engagement Manager. She will lead an increased effort to work with community leaders as the organization moves closer to bringing Major League Baseball to Nashville. Vickers joins MCB after spending over 10 years as Deputy Director of the Tennessee Highway Safety Office (THSO), where she founded the statewide Teen Driver’s Safety program and worked with leaders to implement statewide initiatives. She also spent three years with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy focusing on ethics and diversity in the organization.…
Researchers in Nashville need volunteers for the NIH-funded AHEAD Study this winter and beyond. November is Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are looking for volunteers to join the AHEAD Study which tests whether intervening ahead of Alzheimer’s symptoms can prevent future memory loss and dementia. Most people have been or will be touched by Alzheimer’s disease—whether it’s family members, friends, neighbors or colleagues. African Americans are twice as likely as non-Hispanic white Americans to have Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. In fact, African Americans have higher risk of dementia than any other US…
By William T. Robinson Jr. You would think that everyone associated with Tennessee State University would be ecstatic at the unprecedented enrollment of students this year but that doesn’t seem to be the case. It appears as if some Tennessee lawmakers in our legislature are questioning the influx of proud and anxious students excited about attending TSU which is considered a premier starship HBCU in our nation. Maybe unbeknown to some of TSU critics that TSU is a well respected starship university recognized and respected throughout the country for its prolific and stellar alumni making …
NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville has resources that have been in place for decades to greet new neighbors. Nashville’s community resources are intended to support self-sufficiency and connection, while also honoring culture and the emotional experiences of resettlement. Grassroots support and programs have most recently been developed specifically to welcome hundreds of Afghan refugees to our city. The Women’s Fund Forum, an annual feature of The Women’s Fund initiative at The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, explores the topic in the program titled “From Refugee to Nashville Neighbor: What It Takes to Call our City Home.” The forum is scheduled 6-8…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (November 10, 2022) – Metro Public Health Department officials confirm a total of 158 presumptive cases of monkeypox reported in Nashville/Davidson County in 2022. 142 of those 158 cases have recovered and are no longer in isolation. The total number of cases has grown by one in the past week. Laboratory testing can detect the presence of an orthopoxvirus infection. Confirmatory testing is conducted by the CDC. The MPHD Case Investigation Team works to identify and reach out to all potential contacts of each case. Contacts are interviewed and their appropriate form of potential treatment is determined. MPHD…
Free event is a part of the Nashville Public Library Literary Award Weekend WHO: Nashville Public Library and the Nashville Public Library Foundation present the Public Lecture as part of the Nashville Public Library Literary Award Weekend honoring award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Louise Erdrich as the 2022 Literary Award winner. WHAT: Public Lecture speakers will include Louise Erdrich; Denine Torr, Dollar General’s vice president, corporate social responsibility and philanthropy and executive director of the Dollar General Literacy Foundation; Shawn Bakker, president of the Nashville Public Library Foundation; and Terri Luke, interim director of Nashville Public Library. The…
NASHVILLE, TN — The YMCA of Middle Tennessee is pleased to announce that John Mikos has been named President and CEO of the mid-state association of YMCAs, which includes 14 family wellness centers, a 300-acre day- and resident-camp facility, the region’s largest network of before- and after-school care sites and a number of community-based outreach programs for youth and adults. Mikos is a YMCA veteran of 25-plus years currently serving as the President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Kansas City (serving Kansas and Missouri), where he previously served as Chief Operating Officer before being named CEO in 2019. …
NASHVILLE, TN — Nashville General Hospital affiliate Nashville Healthcare Center is expanding its primary care division with the addition of Krzysztof Tunia, MD, an internal medicine physician. Dr. Tunia is board-certified in internal medicine and received his medical degree from the University School of Medicine in Lublin, Poland. After graduation, he moved to the U.S. for his residency at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey. A short time later, he established his own private practice there. Now, he’s bringing over 25 years of experience in internal medicine, as well as genuine excitement (to be here), to the people…
NASHVILLE, TN — Researchers in Nashville need volunteers for the NIH-funded AHEAD Study this winter and beyond. November is Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month and researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center are looking for volunteers to join the AHEAD Study which tests whether intervening ahead of Alzheimer’s symptoms can prevent future memory loss and dementia. Most people have been or will be touched by Alzheimer’s disease—whether it’s family members, friends, neighbors or colleagues. African Americans are twice as likely as non-Hispanic white Americans to have Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia. In fact, African Americans have higher risk of dementia than…