NASHVILLE, TN – Nashville Film Festival has wrapped up its 2024 year, and according to the festival’s Executive Director Jason Padgitt, with great success. Padgitt said the festival itself was able to hold a wide variety of entertainment for guests, showing a total of 150 films that hailed from 25 different countries around the world. “It’s been terrific and it’s really great to see something that you get to imagine all year come to life,” Padgitt said. “Just seeing the reactions of the audience and the filmmakers, and really everybody associated with the Film Festival, has been really gratifying and…
Author: Logan Langlois
NASHVILLE – Project 2025 remains a key talking point of the upcoming election cycle, but how would the plan directly affect Tennessee? Colin Seeberger, a senior advisor for Communications at American Progress, recently published a piece breaking down how the implementation of Project 2025 could negatively impact the average Tennessean. He said that Project 2025 shifts the tax burden from the wealthy on to the middle class, and that under the plan, the average Tennessean supporting a family of four could see a yearly tax increase of $2,420. Seeberger said Project 2025’s proposals on “limits or lifetime caps on [Medicaid]…
NASHVILLE – Several Nashvillian community action groups have come together to host an upcoming ‘City-Wide’ Stop Hate In Nashville Rally. The rally was organized largely by longtime civil rights activist Venita Lewis, Hamid Abdullah of The Brothers Round Table, and John Smith of John Smith Marketing. The rally is scheduled for Aug. 17, 3 p.m. at the Nashville Metropolitan Courthouse steps. Venita Lewis said that the rally has a general but important purpose: to pull Nashville together and take a stand against hateful rhetoric and actions that have taken place across Music City at an alarming rate in recent years.…
MURFREESBORO – Lilly’s Hot Chicken brought fried gold to the last Murfreesboro Hot Chicken Festival, winning “Best in Boro” as well as a slew of praise from new and old customers alike. Co-owner and co-founder Chris Lilly said it was an honor to participate in the competition, and that the recipe they used which won them “Best in Boro” is a signature recipe served daily at their business. He said Lilly’s Hot Chicken has received unending public supportsince first opening their food truck on May 6, 2021, and then their brick-and-mortar restaurant on the same date two years later. Lilly…
NASHVILLE – The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has become one of the biggesttalking points this presidential election cycle Alarms regarding the documents’ disturbingproposals have been ringing among political commentators, academics and social media. Project 2025’s proposals include firing thousands of civil servants, expanding the president’s power, dismantling the Department of Education, halting abortion pill sales and altering the United States climate and environmental policies, among other steps. Many call Project 2025 extreme and a direct threat against minority communities and women and an assault on individual rights, civil liberties and the environment. “When you think about who is going to…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — Among applause and celebration, Nashville welcomed the opening Davidson County’s first publicly developed permanent supportive housing project last week. Strobel House, located at 110 Jo Johnson Avenue, is open and accepting applications from unhoused individuals looking for physical, mental and emotional support. The furnished, modern-looking building currently offers a total of 90 individual living spaces. These living spaces are complete with a bedroom, bathroom, living room and kitchen. Many of the people who took part in the construction or funding of the building were in attendance during the opening day ceremony, as well as…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — The summer of love is coming to the Jefferson Street Sound Museum this Saturday, as the building will be hosting a one-day exhibit for legendary guitar player and vocalist Jimi Hendrix, as well as a Q&A sesssion about his legacy. Rock music and Jimi Hendrix historian David Piercy said the informative and entertaining exhibit will be opening at 11 a.m. with a $25 cover for the full day, and closing at 5 p.m. Jefferson Street Sound Museum founder and curator Lorenzo Washington said Hendrix is one of the most asked about ‘60s and ‘70s…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — The Miracle House of God Non-Denominational Church hosted a Pastor’s Installation and Appreciation for Prophetess Venita D. Lewis, Pastor, on July 13 at the Fairfield Baptist Church in Goodlettsville. Miracle House of God founder and described Anointed Prophetess Venita D. Lewis said that she was both excited and humbled to be installed and celebrated last Saturday. Lewis said the church’s establishment came after she had been ignoring a feeling of being called on by her faith to work as a pastor and prophetess. Now, she said she can no longer ignore this call. …
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — The work of a children’s book author plays an invisible yet monumental role in shaping the minds of children, often beginning shortly after they exit the womb and first begin to experience the world around them. The role of children’s stories can be underappreciated until times such as July’s National Black Family Month, during which the things that become staples of family learning and bonding such as story time are brought to the forefront. LaTasha Reynolds knows this role firsthand, since publishing her first book Bryla’s Amazing Imagination: Bryla Visits the Moon, featuring Black…
By Logan Langlois NASHVILLE, TN — The Southern Movement Committee (SMC) celebrates encouraging news, as Metro Budget Chair Delishia Porterfield allocated $1 million to SMC’s proposed Varsity Spending Plan in her substitute budget that went into effect July 1. Arts and Culture Director Mike Floss said the Varsity Plan is designed to reinvest Nashville’s tax dollars into community centers and public schools along North and East Nashville. He said the plan also includes the establishment of an Office of Youth Safety to be staffed by Nashville city employees. This office would be focused on at-risk youth outreach that works toward…