As anyone from The Tennessean will tell you, Anne Paine is a tough nut to crack. When I started at the Nashville daily newspaper last year, Paine was the dean of the newsroom. The environmental reporter had been at 1100 Broadway for decades and had seen more than her share [...]
Come the middle of March, and it seems everyone who’s anyone in Nashville wants to be in one place: not here. Instead, these so-called forward-thinkers are heading to or wishing they were at South by Southwest, the Austin, Texas music/tech/film festival that seems to get bigger and bigger each year [...]
“Bring out your dead!” It’s one of many classic lines from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” and one that might find some relevance before long at the U.S. Postal Service. The American institution announced Wednesday they would only deliver the mail five times a week starting in August instead [...]
So if anyone missed it in the push to finals last semester, some Belmont school decided to cut tuition by a third next fall. Now before anyone calls home saying Bob Fisher has done the best thing of his 11-year tenure, let me clarify – it ain’t us. Belmont Abbey [...]
Writing a post-game story can become monotonous after a while. An old colleague of mine may have put it best – stare down your laptop, likely in an empty arena, until you’ve written a story you’re pleased with. Because of this normal grind, the nights where the monotony is broken [...]
When ABC announced they were picking up a pilot about Music City last spring, I wasn’t sure what to expect. What I didn’t see coming was the traffic that would come from it. During the summer, my job was a few blocks away from some location shooting for “Nashville.” While [...]
As part of our new online push, each Friday the Belmont Vision will be showcasing new posts, blogs and columns from our stuff. All posts follow a lighter, more conversational tone perfect for easing into a weekend. In the first weekly edition of BU Blogs, the Belmont Vision is introducing two [...]
Waiting rooms are filled with people who are nervous. No matter where you’re sitting or what you’re waiting for, the atmosphere is almost always the same, even though designers may have replaced dreary gray furniture with more optimistic colors. Pamphlets and magazines that are sometimes thumbed but rarely read,are scattered [...]
Moving is boring. Let me clarify that. Moving back to Nashville for the fourth time in as many years is boring. Monotonous. It’s a routine now, coming to campus during a two-day flux of students and family, then getting readjusted to campus life for two more days before classes start. [...]
Breaking up is hard to do. If the cover wasn’t clear enough for you, we’re moving on. Doing something new. Whatever you want to call it. The point is, the pages you’re reading right now will likely be the last the Belmont Vision ever prints. As of this summer, we [...]
I’m burned out. There’s really no other way to put it. This version of a burnout, however, is not just from some March Madness, back-from-Spring Break fatigue or premature case of senioritis. It’s the result of a workaholic’s mind that’s been in overdrive for way too long. In short, my [...]
I never thought it would come to this. I’ve spent a year writing columns for this college media organization, and I never thought I would cross this line. But when the federal government, both major political parties and Fox News won’t stop making a fuss over it, I have to [...]
04/19/2012
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