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The problems not solved stopping Needle Exchange. Like making a scapegoat, misplacing the blame. It’s that daily delivery that’s all pre-arranged. A business transaction for more of the same.

I’m standing in the way, Of their really big payday. Expensive renovations and upgrades galore. There’s a price to be paid, If we do it this way, But I can see the possibilities for so much more. Something needs to be done, To confront Brookmeade. We run out of options, And we’ll see where that leads. It’s gotten so bad. There are people so mad, And a park at Fort Negley, Is the last thing we need. Intentions and plans for that Fort Negley land. Divided We Fall - United We Stand.

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Now, kicking a man when he’s down, doesn’t help. They’re not going to stop, if they’ve got nothing else. The Chains of Addiction, like a lock with no key. Instant Contentment that can end tragically. This prison they live in, is a fight to survive. Their means of escape, may cost them their lives. Enslaved by a Craving and Trapped by a Need. Like hard rocky ground and wasted good seed. How do you break through? and where do you start? To get over the hump and get past the hard part. It’s your friends who make the difference. When you’re thinking nobody cares. It’s your friends who make the difference. Get you from here to there. It’s your friends who make the difference, And what a friend we have in Thee. It’s your friends who make the difference and, It’s your friends who hold the key. Thank you for the friends you’ve sent me. Such a Beautiful Sentiment, Someone should sing. A Noble Intention, that won’t change a thing. What a Wonderful World this could possibly be, If deaf ears could hear and blind eyes could see. That black Mercedes Benz parked at that homeless camp, Isn’t just sitting there visiting friends. I guess that’s what makes this a great place to be. You don’t have to go far, to get what you need. It’s your friends who make the difference. When you’re thinking nobody cares. It’s your friends who make the difference. Get you from here to there. It’s your friends who make the difference, And what a friend we have in Thee. It’s your friends who make the difference and, It’s your friends who hold the key. Thank you for the friends you’ve sent me. I really do believe that a community, Would be exactly what they need. But I really doubt, what I’m talking about, Has any chance that it will ever succeed.

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Well, It’s a beautiful concept. I have to admit. They put a lot of money and time into it. They say, this is something that has to get done. Forgetting and letting, This problem go on. Justice Will Prevail, eventually. Someone’s going to fail, Either them or me. Closing homeless camps, to take back the land. Is that the best we can expect? From the Parks Department. Intentions and plans for that Fort Negley land. Divided We Fall - United We Stand. Welcome to “The Eagle’s Nest” facility. Nashville’s homeless, micro-housing, community. In the setting sun’s shadow of Fort Negley. The time has come to make this a reality. I’m fighting this fight. Am I fighting alone? Let the Will of The People, Decide and be known. I’m speaking out for those who have no voice, But it’s the People in Power, Who have the choice. Intentions and plans for that Fort Negley land. Divided We Fall - United We Stand.

It’s your friends who make the difference. When you’re thinking nobody cares. It’s your friends who make the difference. Get you from here to there. It’s your friends who make the difference, And what a friend we have in Thee. It’s your friends who make the difference and, It’s your friends who hold the key. Thank you for the friends you’ve sent me.

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I’m doing what I can, I’m only one man. So, I’m Believing, And I’m leaving this, In God’s Hands. Because, This is not… The End.

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HADLEY PARK COMMUNITY CENTER AND HADLEY PARK LIBRARY BY RIDLEY WILLS II This public park at the corner of Twenty-Eight Avenue North and John Merritt Boulevard, adjacent to Tennessee State University, was dedicated July 4, 1912, on the site of the old Thomas Harding Plantation. When its purchase was announced, Mayor Hillary Howse said that Hadley Park was, “the first public park for black citizens established by any city in the world.” The park was named for Mary Hadley Clare, who died a short time before the park was dedicated. Eugene C. Lewis, chairman of the board of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, and a neighbor of Mrs. Clare, suggested that the park be named for

her. He did so because Mrs. Clare, the wife of Major William Clark, a former officer in the Confederate Army of Tennessee, was a frequent visitor to the homes of her family’s former slaves and took a personal interest in their welfare. Clare Avenue, one block south of the park, is named after the family. Mary’s father, Dr. John E. Hadley, whose plantation was in Hadley’s Bend, was known to have helped former slaves to freedom. Thomas Harding, a younger brother of John Harding, of Belle Meade Plantation, owned a significant amount of land in North Nashville before his death in 1869. Four years later, Frederick Doug-

las spoke from the Harding porch to freedmen workers. He told them that they must learn or die. After the city purchased Harding’s house in 1912, it became the park’s community Center. The Hadley Park Branch Library opened in 1952, and like the community center, it was also built to serve Black Nashvillians. Hadley Park Branch Library was the only library in Nashville that Black citizens could use at that time and for many years after. It was renovated in 1995. During the Great Depression, the WPA built the park entrance gates and improved the recreational facilities. In the 1930s, a kindergarten was es-

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tablished for neighborhood children in the park. In 1952, McKissack & McKissack designed a new swimming pool and community center, a bandstand opened in 1963 and the swimming pool and community center were renovated in 1983 and 1985. By the latter date, Hadley Park had a baseball diamond, picnic shelters, a playground and tennis courts. Today, there is next door at 2901 John Merritt Boulevard, a 10-story Hadley Towers Apartments with 126 moderately priced units. It houses a number of Tennessee State students as well as several Contributor vendors.

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SUMMER READING LIST

The Bread of Life Tallu Schuyler Quinn reflects on the ingredients of a good life in her posthumous memoir BY BETH WALTEM ATH AND CHAP TER16.ORG In What We Wish Were True, Tallu Schuyler Quinn prepares herself and her readers for the final surrender to death. In the summer of 2020, while the world confronted a pandemic and a reckoning with national and global injustice, Quinn learned she had glioblastoma, an incurable, malignant brain tumor. Her life expectancy was two years. At age 41, Quinn had already lived what she calls a “charmed and wonderful” life. She had felt loved and supported by family until she created a family of her own with her husband, Robbie, and their two young children, Lulah and Thomas. Through a master’s degree in theology, work as a cook in a national anti-poverty movement, time living in Nicaragua and over a decade as executive director of The Nashville Food Project, Quinn wrestled with ultimate concerns: her faith in God, racial and economic injustice, global degradation and what it means to offer solutions and solidarity in the midst of a broken world. Her memoir offers an antidote to the distraction, indifference, and denial of our modern culture. “Perhaps the worst thing is not death,” she writes, “but the ways we cover up our own desire to express deep reverence for life.” In short chapters that reflect on her happy childhood, her vocational path in food justice,and the tender family life that she and her husband built, Quinn explores how grief and joy accompany each other as we learn to live

fully in our bodies and then learn to surrender them. Through descriptive prose she shares the beauty she finds everywhere, from the scent of the vegetable garden she tends to feed Nashvillians who are food insecure to the color of the wildflowers that will grow in the green burial ground she chooses as her final place of rest. Her epiphanies do not mask the pain and confusion of her illness as Quinn describes the toll a brain tumor takes, dimming her sight and jumbling her thoughts so that she can no longer do simple things she loves without assistance: read, write, manage simple math or hold a coherent conversation. Someone is always there to assist her in the vulnerable moments — her husband to read the cards she receives, her father to edit her voice memos into chapters, her mother to steady her as she picks out a grave plot, her cousin to weave a burial shroud in the colors of a sunset, her 10-year-old daughter to take over cooking dinner and a close friend to help her process what her young children need now versus what they will remember. What We Wish Were True is a love letter to life written as a dozen thank-you notes to the people, places, flora, and food that filled it. Quinn focuses on what she can do at each stage of her disease to be present to her life and her children. Once admired for her fabulous cooking, she does the mise en place — gathering and organizing the ingredients — for her daughter’s culinary training. She listens to

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Lulah’s plans and thanks her daughter that the family won’t exist on frozen pizza after she dies. The preparation and the sharing of food serves as a source of revelation in so many of the stories in this memoir. On a church retreat, Quinn is given a secret “God-word” meant to describe how others see the way that divine love is embodied in her life. Recalling that the word was “bread,” Quinn recruits a colleague to make hundreds of loaves to be passed out at her funeral. Quinn died in February of this year, but if the stories in this book are any evidence, she had enough time to consider how she wished to be remembered and to leave a trail of crumbs for her loved ones. Each short reflection feels like an ingredient Quinn has gathered and prepared for someone she loved, even the reader she will never meet. Together her words make more than a recipe for a good life; they’re an invitation to a great, unpredictable feast. No one can be sure how it will come together, only remain hopeful that it somehow will.

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——— No part of an embodied life is guaranteed except for death. I think about everything I will miss, what I won’t be alive to witness or to experience or endure or to bounce back from. I think about specifics – no singing showtunes in the minivan. No burnt toast with butter in the mornings. No snuggling up to watch cooking shows. … Part of my focus on the future is my desire to make a smooth path for loved ones in a tangibly helpful way — printing family photos, revisiting our advanced directive documents, setting aside gifts to open on special occasions in the future, finally cleaning out the basement, and, I don’t know, ending misogyny in all forms! After learning of Quinn’s diagnosis, a friend wishing to show her support brought fresh loaves of bread every week, reminding Quinn that the word “accompany (au con pain)” means “to come with bread.” What We Wish Were True savors the moments and morsels that sustain our lives even as it uncovers our limitations and the depths of our grief. There is not much we can do in the face of dying but show up for every moment in it and for each other — preferably with bread. For more local book coverage, please visit Chapter16.org, an online publication of Humanities Tennessee.

SUMMER READING LIST

Summer Reading List In The Contributor’s annual reading list, regular writers, volunteers, vendors, interns and more help wrangle a mishmash of our favorite reads from the previous year. Here is what we were reading in 2021.

The Power Elite

The Body Keeps The Score

BY BESSEL VAN DER KOLK

Bessel van der Kolk, trauma expert, explores the body, mind, and brain as it responds to trauma. This New York Times Bestselling Nonfiction Book utilizes van der Kolk’s academic perspective while offering compassion to those struggling with trauma. The writing is not bogged down with convoluted psychological theories and van der Kolk allows the reader to understand trauma and subsequent reactions to different types of trauma. The Body Keeps The Score takes the reader alongside decades of trauma research and discovers alternative ways to heal. ISABELLA ROMERO

Nobody’s Magic

BY DESTINY O. BIRDSONG

Destiny O. Birdsong’s debut novel is the kind of novel that comes along maybe once every 10 years. It follows the stories of three women — all strangers to each other, all living in Shreveport, La., all with albinism. For the last of which, they endure the ogling of their peers at best, and the dangerous, prejudiced mythology of the world at worst. But Suzette, Maple and Agnes wield more power than anyone in their lives gives them credit for — and with it, they make decisions that will have you rooting for them in your sleep. Birdsong is a Nashville author and poet. Don’t sleep on this book. ERICA CICCARONE

Shit Cassandra Saw

BY C. WRIGHT MILLS

BY GWEN E. KIRBY

Gwen E. Kirby, of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and The University of the South, in her first collection of 21 short stories, delivers compelling narratives about the lives of women — written by a woman — for other women. From the adrenaline rush of Cassandra’s blessing and curse in the title story of this collection, to the jaded eye she casts upon male writers who repeatedly fall back on the tired and overused literary convention of, “Midwestern Girl,” to the story of a young girl’s quest for a first kiss at, “The Disneyland of Mexico,” Kirby proves she truly knows living, breathing women. I’ve had conversations with other readers of this book who remark on the humorous nature of Kirby’s stories. But for me, each one rings clearly with the hallmark of the most profound Greek tragedies. These stories would be funny only if they weren’t so true. JEN ALEXANDER

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The field of anthropology has come under scrutiny in recent years for its uncanny inability to shake off its origins in eugenics and imperialism. These days, one reads mid-century ethnographies with somewhat of a side eye. However, The Power Elite is most easily describable as that very thing, although Mills himself was a sociologist working out of Columbia University. Instead of examining the social structures and kinship lines of a non-industrialized tribe, Mills instead turns inward to America’s own ruling class. In doing so, he creates one of the most seminal records of the intricate connections between each social locus of power in the United States. Some may find the book a bit dated, especially as we enter a rising technocratic era; nonetheless, any amateur historian will find this text foundational to a comprehensive understanding of the ol’ American Century. LAURA BIRDSALL

SUMMER READING LIST

Hood Feminism

BY MIKKI KENDALL

The New York Times Best Selling book Hood Feminism highlights a blind spot in the feminist movement: gender’s intersectionality with race, sexual orientation and class. In this book, Mikki Kendall writes about mainstream white feminists and their habit of leaving minority women out of important conversations. This takes the form of forgetting that meeting basic needs should be a feminist issue. Hood Feminism questions the solidarity of the mainstream white feminist movement. Mikki Kendall calls readers to action, using her own experience as a black woman to display various problems. ISABELLA ROMERO

Detransition, Baby

BY TORREY PETERS Dentransition, Baby offers a perspective in fiction not often (or at all) explored: The main character is a trans woman navigating life and prospective motherhood. In an interview with The Guardian, Peters says she wrote the book not knowing what kind of response it would get. (The book is a New York Times bestseller.) “I was just thinking about what was going to be funny for my friends and what was pertinent to our lives,” she said. The result is a dynamic narrative with imperfect, human characters that make you want to keep reading. AMANDA HAGGARD

The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth BY SAM QUINONES Author and journalist Sam Quinones’s new book, The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, takes up where he left off with his acclaimed 2015 title Dreamland. The first book was about the origins of the opioid epidemic — pharmaceutical companies and drug traffickers, to be brief. The new book is about the people Quinones met while touring the country to discuss Dreamland. It takes on a new demon, fentanyl, which is causing the quick overdose deaths of an astounding number of people. But he also met people who are taking up the reins of healing their communities from opiods, who are distributing sausage rolls and reinventing drug courts to save their small towns. It’s a fantastic, bracing read. ERICA CICCARONE

Black Jesus and Other Superheroes

BY VENITA BLACKBURN This outstanding, prize-winning collection of short stories, some no longer than a single page, has all the energy and excitement of a 4th of July family reunion at a local public park with characters we don’t often come across in modern fiction. Blackburn writes about the lives of real, everyday people without judgment or prejudice. Her characters are simply who they are regardless of age, race, sexual orientation, or social status. They aren’t demoralized by any sort of existential disorder causing them to lack meaning and purpose in life. Blackburn tells us that ‘stuff happens’ and we move on to the next thing. That’s how the world she has created works. In these wide-eyed, skillful stories, we are all superheroes who, sometimes against all odds, are on a noble quest to make it to tomorrow as best we can. JEN ALEXANDER

The Minimal Self

BY CHRISTOPHER LASCH

This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir BY CECILY STRONG

Cecily Strong did the most daring and best Saturday Night Live bit in years when she dressed up as a clown to make a point about abortion. By then she had already opened up about her life in this absorbing memoir. It’s not a show business tell-all. Instead we get somber reflections on COVID-19 isolation, death, an abusive relationship, getting kicked out of high school and being a performer prone to anxiety and depression. You don’t get to peek behind the curtain, but you do get a glimpse into a complicated soul. JIM PATTERSON

The past few years’ revival of interest in Christopher Lasch’s seminal 1979 bestseller The Culture of Narcissism have not - for reasons one can only surmise — been accompanied by a corresponding interest in the book’s quasi-sequel, Lasch’s 1984 The Minimal Self. The decoupling of these two texts is a shame, and I encourage folks who haven’t read either to read both together. While Lasch’s fastidious and relentless social critique in The Culture of Narcissism will likely remain his most memorable work, The Minimal Self serves as its more ponderous and gentle sibling. In it, Lasch mourns the encroachment of an insidious philosophy of survivalism on which Americans increasingly rely in the face of psychic destruction beyond our control. If this sounds a tad grim, it is; however, there is a keen euphoria in hearing Lasch reveal so clearly what many of us have hitherto experienced as a vague and unplaceable sense of psychic pain. LAURA BIRDSALL

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results BY GARY KELLER WITH JAY PAPASAN When I see a priority list with 10 or more items, I become irrationally upset. Reading The One Thing helped me rationalize my anger. The opening chapter gets right to the point saying that the secret to life is the One Thing. From then on, the authors explain in simple and direct language what it means to set one priority in life, and how doing so will cut away clutter, distractions, and help you achieve your goal. The One Thing will change your life and with it, you will start changing the world. JUDITH TACKETT

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Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

BY CAROL LEONNIG

Fans of Presidents Kennedy and Clinton will be disappointed if they read Carol Leonnig’s exposé on the Secret Service. It’s old news that both were reckless in their personal lives, but it’s jarring when The Washington Post reporter shows how blasé each was about actions that seriously compromised their own safety and the nation’s best interest. The broader story is even more disturbing — the management of those entrusted with protecting public officials. The Secret Service’s culture of hard partying and underhanded sabotage to anyone who undermined it, including top officials, is shocking. JIM PATTERSON

SUMMER READING LIST

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction BY LISA KROGER AND MELANIE R. ANDERSON The best and worst part of this book is that I came away from it with a list of 20 new books I want to read. Monster, She Wrote outlines several women who wrote horror, sci-fi and more, offering a sort of textbook style approach: With each chapter, the reader gets a small author bio, some book recommendations and then some related materials they might be into that might not necessarily be by that author. It’s a great mix of tidbits of gossipy information and historical looks at the women leading these genres. AMANDA HAGGARD

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

BY JUDITH KERR

The first book of this trilogy describes a Jewish family’s flight to Switzerland, France, and then England at the dawn of World War II. Anna, a nine-year old girl describes how her father, a famed writer and outspoken anti-Nazi, escapes Germany to avoid arrest. His family follows suit, and Anna is forced to decide which toys to leave behind in Hitler’s Reich. This classic children’s book is an eerie reminder of the fate thousands of children in modern Ukraine currently share. While this is a children’s book, present events will make it a thought-provoking read for grown-ups as well. JUDITH TACKETT

How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas BY DAVID BORNSTEIN Do you want to be a changemaker? Then this book is for you. The chapters are largely self-contained and provide specific examples from across the world of how social enterprises can start small and have a tremendous impact. Pay attention to the underlying theme, which is about empowering the people you want to serve. This book is about planting the seed of hope and watching it grow. JUDITH TACKETT

BY DIANA PRICE

Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon 400 Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

EDITED BY IBRAM X. KENDI AND KEISHA N. BLAIN

Kendi and Blain have created a brilliant history of African Americans like no other. Drawing on the talents of 80 Black writers from different genres, each assigned a five year block of the past, and ten of our most notable Black poets, this volume veritably sings with pride and oppression, struggle and achievement. The anthology builds chronologically from 1619; when the crew of the Portuguese pirate ship, White Lion, bartered “some 20-and-odd Negroes” for food at the Virginia Colony; to 2019 where Alicia Garza, one of the cofounders of “Black Lives Matter,” says, “No More!” and demands justice for and de-escalation of unprovoked violence against Black Americans. In between there are enlightening stories of great joy and demoralizing sorrow. The struggle continues. JEN ALEXANDER

Broken Horses

BY BRANDI CARLILE The first thing that attracted me to Brandi Carlile was that wonderful cry break of hers. To me, it’s the best in the business — hands down — no equal. But it turns out that she’s quite a good storyteller as well. In her autobiography we learn of an early near-death experience, growing up in Washington state where her musical talents were practiced and perfected as a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator, her steadfast, unwavering conviction that she was gay, and that her bond to those she loves is unbreakable. Brandi’s no-holdsbarred drive to be accepted by the country music community has not been easy. In a genre that likes it’s female singers pretty, full busted, and sex, sex, sexy, Brandi is none of those things. But Brandi has an enormous talent and the drive to make it all work. Broken Horses is a testament to love and will. I patiently await the next chapter of her amazing story. JEN ALEXANDER

Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem

BY DAVE MCGOWAN

The premature loss of Dave McGowan to cancer in 2015 has created a bigger void in the field of legitimate independent research outside of the academy than most of us have yet realized. McGowan’s dogged solo approach to unearthing evidence, coupled with his intellectual honesty and resistance to speculation, are rare, and it is a great credit to his daughters that his works have remained in circulation and grown in popularity since his death. In Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon, McGowan examines the connections between the music scene in Southern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s and US intelligence agencies’ counter-revolutionary efforts in the same milieu. Although this material could easily turn into a bit of a slog in the hands of a less charismatic writer, McGowan’s enthusiasm and excitement are contagious. Music nerds may bristle at the implication of some of their favorites in several less than savory enterprises — take pleasure, fair reader, in watching these idols of psychedelia and ugly pants get knocked down a peg or two. LAURA BIRDSALL

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Most anti-Stratfordian scholars (those who reject the idea that the “man from Stratford” wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare) and members of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition abide by a shared principle: that the purpose of their inquiry is not to propose any alternate candidates, but rather to focus solely on the alleged centuries-long tourism scam of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. As speculation about alternate candidates for authorship is ostensibly the juiciest part of the whole business, some may find this precept a bit dull. However, Diana Price’s book is anything but. Her fantastic scholarship examines the life of the actual Man from Stratford, a wool merchant and businessman by the name of William Shaksper. Mr. Shaksper’s investments in the theater industry (a booming 17th century business comparable to 20th century Hollywood in both prominence and cultural import), as well as his public feuds with Ben Jonson and other prominent cultural figures of the time, somehow turn the text into a true romp, through nothing but the charisma and bombast of the man himself. Price’s delightful and thorough approach to both famous and obscure primary sources brings to life a whole cast of characters from Elizabethan London, telling the immersive story of a time and place in ways that traditional histories fall short. Even Stratfordians and authorship agnostics (may they find the light) will enjoy her consumable and witty prose. LAURA BIRDSALL

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Trashumancia: Através del lente de Tato Moreno el pasado está presente

Por Gregory Williams Welsch, Radio Free Nashville GM, and @LaNoticiaNews Contributor

Tato es de Mendoza, Argentina, una de las 11 ciudades hermanas de Nashville. El evento tuvo lugar en las oficinas privadas de Ozment Law en Murfreesboro Pike, que también es el hogar del Museo de Historia Americana de Ozment Law. Aquí, las paredes están adornadas con cientos de artículos y artefactos originales que son un verdadero viaje a través de la historia de los Estados Unidos, desde los primeros habitantes indígenas de Tennessee hasta la Independencia de los Estados Unidos, la Guerra Civil y el movimiento por los Derechos Civiles. ¡Incluso incluye un mechón del cabello de Abe Lincoln! Podrías perderte durante horas en este espacio íntimo, simplemente transitando por sus pasillos. Antes de que comenzara el evento, nos sentamos en una pequeña sala de conferencias y con Tato al frente, escuchamos su historia. Siendo cineasta, además de escritor, siempre me interesan las historias de otros artistas, especialmente uno tan talentoso como Tato, que no solo se dedica a su arte, sino también a la justicia social y al bien de la sociedad.

Argentine film director, producer Néstor “Tato” Moreno (left), addresses members of the Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation and Sister Cities of Nashville during a recent reception in his honor.

Nacido en San Rafael, Mendoza, Moreno emigró a Estados Unidos en la década de los 80. Al establecerse en California, se graduó en Producción de Cine y Video en Orange Coast College.

Impulsado por su amor por la naturaleza y el medio ambiente, Tato se ha convertido en un documentalista que ha ganado premios nacionales e internacionales.

Desde entonces, Tato ha estado inmerso profesionalmente en la industria del cine y la televisión durante más de 25 años, principalmente como director, productor y editor. Ha trabajado para DirecTV Latinoamérica, ESPN, el canal Público ACEQUIA TV y también como productor independiente.

Su última película “Arreo” cuenta la historia de una familia que aún realiza trashumancia en la región de Malargüe. La trashumancia es la antigua práctica de conducir rebaños de ganado a través de las llanuras de un terreno de pastoreo a otro en un ciclo estacional, generalmente a las tierras bajas en invierno y las tierras altas en verano.

Si bien dice que realmente disfrutó su trabajo en la industria que lo llevó de Los Ángeles a Miami y Connecticut a lo largo de los años, descubrió que si bien le enseñó mucho y alimentó su billetera, en realidad ya no alimentaba su alma. Así que dio un salto de fé y se convirtió en cineasta independiente. Y ahí es donde comenzó nuestra conversación en esa sala de conferencias en Ozment Law.

La práctica no es simplemente una reliquia del pasado sino, como explicó Moreno, muy relevante para la actualidad. Su enfoque de energía y entusiasmo fueron evidentes cuando explicó que la trashumancia es una de las armas más poderosas que tenemos contra el cambio climático. Tato explicó que cada animal deposita diariamente más de 5,000 semillas

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“Arreo” ha ganado numerosos premios y al día de hoy tiene más de 4 millones de visitas en las redes sociales. Moreno se encuentra actualmente en la postproducción de una continuación de “Arreo” llamada ‘Trashumante, Suso & Eliseo’, que analiza a una familia en España que ha practicado la trashumancia durante siglos conduciendo su ganado cientos de millas, a menudo a través de ciudades que cierran las vías y celebran el paso de los rebaños. Tato entreteje hábilmente las historias de las familias españolas y argentinas y cómo sus tradiciones, que durante mucho tiempo se pensaron obsoletas, bien podrían ser la clave para ayudarnos a revertir el cambio climático y salvar nuestro planeta. Fue un honor y un placer conocer a Tato y conocer su trabajo. ¡La NAHCC Foundation y Sister Cities of Nashville deben ser elogiados por sus esfuerzos para llevar a artistas importantes como Néstor "Tato" Moreno a una audiencia más amplia! ¡¡Bravo!! Envíenos sus sugerencias por e-mail: news@hispanicpaper.com ó 615-567-3569

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God’s Love BY JOHN H., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR

VOLUNTEER AT THE CONTRIBUTOR! We’re looking for more volunteers to work in our newspaper sales office from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. one day a week! Our volunteers count newspapers, record paper sales, and — best of all — spend time talking with vendors who stop by to buy papers! If you’re interested in learning more email: cathy@thecontributor.org

Do you have God’s love in your heart? Is it for some or all? Something to think about huh! Can we spend eternity with him loving whom we want to love? Must we love all? I decide to speak on this topic because it started to become disturbing as many demonstrate ways that’s not love. Some in big and some in small ones. God says in his word whether it’s a big sin or small sin, “it’s sin.” Bout the only thing I disagree with America about is it has taught many bad things. Biden put an Afro-American up for Supreme Court judge and they were in a press conference and I just paid attention to how men did all they could to make her look bad. It’s terrible the lengths we will go through to keep a person down. Even though she deserves that honor. Many times I experience the same on my corner sharing God’s word.

A person will help you but if it came down to helping you help yourself, it’s a different story. It’s as if they wanna keep you down. But I worship a God that can’t be stopped if that’s God’s will. Ya see, if God’s love is in our hearts, it should be for all, not just some. In the end, God will judge us by our hearts. And to be honest if you just have love for some, you are not trustworthy. You’re wishywashy. What you demonstrate out here in the streets is what you’ll be judged by. God says, “What’s in the heart comes out the mouth, our deeds.” It’s hard to hide love, but it’s also hard to hide hatred. We do many things in life to make things better for our children, but it does not have to involve hate. God is a God of love, and if he’s in our heart, we should act accordingly. So in the future we should give this plenty of thought, that’s if we want to inherit his kingdom.

Thank you Very Much BY WALTER D., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR Good evening everybody. This is my story that The Contributor does help people and the most important people are y’all who buy the paper! Now for myself in the past three years my luck has been down hill because I lost my dad, plus I lost my job working at motels as a maintenance man. I am from Columbia SC. Please understand that I have a brother who isn’t worth nothing and I got sick of helping him out. It cost me my job and my own apartment by helping him out. Well I came back to Nashville last year and was living/working at a motel, but I quit because the owner didn’t want to take care of the bed bug problem so I quit, but I don’t give up so I remembered about The Contributor cause when I lived here

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back in 2010 I sold the paper and with y’alls help I was able to buy a car and get around got a good job! Anyway back in 2015 the motel I was working at sold out and they let me go. That is when I went back to SC, but left because my brother and came back to Nashville. My boss from the job I quit is making it hard to get a job but with y’alls help I am doing a little better cause I make money to eat, shower, and buy gas for my van. For right now it is my home. Please if you see me on 21st and Blair just pray for me to keep me going because I am 65 years old and still living for a reason! I truly wanted to say thank y’all so much for the help y’all given me in the past couple of weeks.

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Lisa Taddeo on the importance of grappling with women’s experiences BY ASTRID EDWARDS Lisa Taddeo is a contradiction. When we speak via Zoom she is in Connecticut. It is an unexpected Snow Day, meaning her young daughter is not at school. Her daughter wants to join the interview, and her partner is present too, helping with tech issues. Taddeo presents as the definition of professional domesticity — a stark contrast to her protagonists and the visceral books she is known for. Three Women — an exploration of the desires and sex lives of three American women over almost a decade — made international headlines when published in 2019 (in the days post MeToo and pre‑pandemic). Taddeo followed this up with her first novel, Animal, in late 2021. Moving from non-fiction to fiction, Animal follows the highly unlikable protagonist Joan. Joan is a loner, and in the opening pages she reveals she sleeps with married men, is tracking down a mysterious woman, and has killed someone. Although wildly different, both books center women’s wants, women’s trauma, and expectations about what women deserve. Even so, Taddeo admits her choice to move from her breakthrough non-fiction debut to long-form fiction was “not something that makes an abundant amount of sense”. “I enjoy having range; it makes me feel good about myself as a creator. So that makes me happy and being excited about what I’m

Lisa Taddeo is the bestselling author of Animal and Three Women, which delve deep into the realities of women’s lives to explore their rage, desires, trauma and what women deserve. In conversation with The Big Issue Australia, Taddeo discusses her writing, creativity and ponders how Me Too will be engaged with by authors. writing is ultimately what I want in life.” She pauses, and adds, “It is not what my publisher expected, or perhaps wanted.” We both laugh — publishers the world over are renowned for wanting a second book just like the first. She becomes animated when considering how the pandemic affected her creativity. Three Women took more than eight years to write. It was an intense experience, with Taddeo often moving from town to town to be close to her subjects. Animal was mostly written during that time as well. “I’m such a naturally anxious person that the pandemic was kind of my normal, so it didn’t affect my writing so much.” Given her decreased travel commitments (Taddeo spent a lot of time on the road for Three Women), “it actually made it easier to do work, in some ways”. The world has rapidly changed since Three Women’s publication. In Australia, conversations and protests around sexual assault, child abuse and domestic violence have taken centre stage, thanks to advocacy work by the likes

of Rosie Batty, Veronica Gorrie, Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins. These conversations are occurring as the hidden abuse in the home during the pandemic comes to light. Taddeo is intrigued by this, and reflects that domestic abuse and violence are not part of the national conversation to the same degree in the United States. Given that her works are raw and go where few other writers venture, would she ever consider writing about a woman’s experience of lockdown? “I’m interested in it, and the mental abuse that happens to women,” she says. “Something I’m looking at for a future project is when women are called ‘crazy’ and their children are taken away... I want to shine more of a light on the gaslighting that happens.” She goes further: “One of the things that is so difficult about domestic abuse is the way other women judge. Think of a woman going back to a man. She may not be able to talk about it, and that is something we women do to each other. It is terrible and keeps us quiet and silent.”

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Taddeo laughs when considering how her work will be placed in the canon of contemporary MeToo literature. “I don’t know,” she says. “I would imagine that things considered too spicy, too hard-hitting — that will go away and people will realize these things do happen. For me it is about hoping that these works open up what people find themselves believing.” And as for setting a future work explicitly in this time of pandemic? Taddeo sees it happening. “The real thirst is on the writer’s side; the writer finding the ideal way to express what this time feels like. There will be more work exploring that feeling. I’m looking forward to seeing what my contemporaries are going to do with it.” Taddeo has a busy year ahead. She is currently adapting Three Women for Showtime, where she is both writer and executive producer (Shailene Woodley, star of Big Little Lies and Divergent, will play Taddeo, the narrator). “I’m constantly learning,” she says. “It’s difficult to have a lot of people involved and wanting to put their opinions in, and that is not something that I’ve had to deal with when writing a book. Courtesy of The Big Issue Australia / International Network of Street Papers

The New Christian Year Selected by Charles Williams

Charles Walter Stansby Williams (1886–1945), the editor of the following selections, is today probably the third most famous of the famous Inklings literary group of Oxford, England, which existed in the middle of the 20th century, and which included among its ranks the better-known and longer-lived Oxford Dons J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. First published in 1941, this series of profound quotations, encompassing all walks of life, follows the sequence of the themes and Bible readings anciently appointed for contemplation throughout the church's year. It is hoped that the readings reproduced here will prove beneficial for any who read them, whatever their place in life's journey. — Matthew Carver

6th Wednesday after Easter

Monday after Ascension Day

2nd Saturday after Ascension Day

THE nobler things are, the commoner they are. Love is noble, because it is universal. Tauler: Sermons.

WHATSOEVER hath its being for God's sake endureth and abideth for ever with those who are true. The Paradise of the Fathers.

IF we are to have the nature of Christ regenerated in us, as the life of Adam is born in us; if we are to be like Him in nature as we are like Adam in nature; if we are to be the heavenly sons of the one as we are the earthly sons of the other, then there is an absolute necessity that that which was done and born in the Virgin Mary be also by the same power of the Holy Ghost done and born in us, by a seed of life derived into us from Christ our regenerator. William Law: Answer to Dr Trapp.

I KNOW the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. St Teresa: The Interior Castle.

Ascension Day THIS Ascension Day is properly the most solemn feast of our Lord Jesus: for this day first in his manhood he began to sit on the Father's right hand in bliss and took full rest of all his pilgrimage before. Also this is properly the feast of all the blessed spirits in heaven: for this day they had a new joy of their lord whom they saw never before there in his manhood. And also for that day began first to be restored the falling down of their fellows, and that in so great multitude and number of blessed souls of patriarchs and prophets and all those holy souls that this day first entered into that blessed City of heavenly Jerusalem, their kind heritage above. Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ, (tr. by Nicholas Love). THE Church is an excellent state, when it is sustained by God only. Pascal: Pensées.

Friday after Ascension Day BUT what does this mean, what have I to do, or what sort of effort is it that can be said to seek or pursue the Kingdom of God? Shall I try to get a job suitable to my talents and powers in order thereby to exert an influence? No, thou shalt first seek God's kingdom. Shall I then give all my fortune to the poor? No, thou shalt first seek God's kingdom. Then shall I then go out to proclaim this teaching to the world? No, thou shalt first seek God's kingdom. But then in a certain sense it is nothing I shall do. Yes, certainly, in a certain sense it is nothing; thou shalt in the deepest sense make thyself nothing, become nothing before God, learn to keep silent; in this silence is the beginning, which is, first to seek God's kingdom. Kierkegaard: Christian Discourses.

Saturday after Ascension Day WHAT is God? No less the punishment of the perverse than the glory of the humble. We may say He is reason and sweet reasonableness directing itself with fixed unchanging aim, and everywhere operative. Any perversity in collision with that must of necessity be confounded. Of course, all swelling pride and unseemliness which dashes itself against that must be broken to shivers. St Bernard: On Consideration.

HE who has the fire of love in this world need not fear the fire of the sword in the other. St Ambrose: On Psalm cxviii.

Tuesday after Ascension Day "WHO hates his neighbour has not the rights of a child." And not only has he no rights of a child, he has no "father." God is not my father in particular, or any man's father (horrible presumption and madness!), no, he is only father in the sense of father of all, and consequently only my father in so far as he is the father of all. When I hate someone or deny that God is his father—it is not he who loses, but me: for I then have no father. Kierkegaard: Journals.

Wednesday after Ascension Day THE Work is not of persuasive eloquence, but Christianity is a thing of might whenever it is hated by the world. St Ignatius: Epistle to the Romans. NOT only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do no know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves. Pascal: Pensées. I THOUGHT I should have thee, O God, as a help in loving men. Thou didst understand it differently, Thou didst use men against me to help me to love Thee. Kierkegaard.

Thursday after Ascension Day TWO things make our delight pure. One is turning of sensuality to the skill [intelligence]; for when any is turning to delight of his five wits [senses], all soon uncleanness enters into his soul. Another is, that the skill meekly be used in ghostly things, as in meditations and orisons, and looking in holy books. Therefore the delight that was naught of unordained stirring, and meekly has stirring in Christ, and in which sensuality is turned to skill, all set and used to God, makes a man's soul in rest and secureness and aye to dwell in good hope, and to be paid with all God's gifts, without grumbling or heaviness of thought. Richard Rolle: Desire and Delight.

2nd Friday after Ascension Day

Sunday after Ascension Day CHRIST humbled himself: not—was humbled. Oh, the infinite sublimity of whom it may be said with categorical necessity: neither in heaven, nor upon earth, nor in the abyss is there any one who could humble him—he humbled himself. There we see Christ's infinite qualitative difference from every other man: that he must unconditionally give his consent and approbation to every humiliation he suffers, his willingness to submit to the humiliation. That is the infinite superiority to suffering, but at the same time the more intense suffering. Kierkegaard: Journals.

LET me love Thee so that the honour, riches and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred,— may be not even encumbrances. Patmore: Life. THE righteous man has already done in heaven and in earth all that he has willed to do and therein he is like God. Eckhart: The Book of Benedictus.

Whit-Sunday; Day of Pentecost UNITY is in the Father, equality in the Son, and in the Holy Ghost is the concord of equality and unity. St Augustine: De Doctrina Christiana. THE Holy Ghost is He whereby the Begotten is loved by the One begetting and love His Begetter. St Augustine: De Trinitate. HE loves Himself and every creature by the Holy Ghost, inasmuch as the Holy Ghost proceeds as the love of the primal goodness whereby the Father loves Himself and every creature. Aquinas: Summa Theologica. A GIFT is properly an unreturnable giving . . . hence it is manifest that love has the nature of a first gift, through which all free gifts are given. So since the Holy Ghost proceeds as Love, He proceeds as the first gift. Gift . . . is the proper name of the Holy Ghost. Aquinas: Summa Theologica.

Whitsun-Week Monday NEITHER is that city, the heavenly Jerusalem, watered by the channel of any earthly river, but that Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Fount of Life, with but a short drought of Whom we are satiated, seems to flow more abundantly among those celestial Thrones, Dominions, and Powers, Angels and Archangels, rushing in the full course of the seven virtues of the Spirit. For if a river rising above its banks overflows, how much more does the Spirit, rising above every creature, when He touches the as it were low-lying fields of our minds, makes glad that heavenly nature of the creatures with the larger fertility of His sanctification. St Ambrose: On the Holy Spirit. THE Father was pleased to breathe into his body [of man] in the creation; the Son was pleased to assume this body in the redemption; the Holy Ghost is pleased to consecrate this body by his sanctification. The consultation of the whole Trinity is exercised upon the dignifying of man's body. Donne: Sermons.

Whitsun-Week Tuesday GOD begins in the soul, his Word, and the soul conceiving it passes it on to her powers in varied guise, now as desire, now as good intent, now as charity, now as gratitude, or as it may take thee: It is his, not thine at all. What is thus wrought by God take thou as his and not thine own, as it is written, "The Holy Ghost asketh in us with unutterable yearnings." He prays in us, not we ourselves. St. Paul says, "No one is able to say, Lord Jesus Christ, except in the Holy Ghost." Eckhart: Sermons and Collations.

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THEME: W HICH SPORT? ACROSS 1. Synagogue read 6. One in King’s sematary 9. Cabinet div. 13. Grind down 14. Aloha State’s welcome 15. Soup server 16. Bikini ____, Marshall Islands 17. Final, abbr. 18. Donor’s loss 19. *Vonn and Miller Olympic sport 21. *Ovechkin and Gretzky sport 23. Alternative to trade 24. Secret disclosure 25. Computer-generat-

ed imagery, acr. 28. Wise Men 30. Remnant of the past 35. Egg-layers 37. Urban dwelling 39. Printer contents 40. Volcano in Sicily 41. Poetic although 43. Paella pot 44. Dictation taker 46. Like April 1st target 47. Locker room supply 48. Dirty or sleazy 50. Fuddy-duddies, for short 52. Stir fry pan 53. Bread portion 55. Mad King George’s number 57. *PelÈ and Ronaldo

Dear Partners in Mission, As Major Sue Frizzell and I prepare to depart our posts as heads of The Salvation Army Nashville Area Command on June 19th, 2022, I want to thank you for your compassionate support of the Army’s nearly 130 years of working side-by-side with our partners in the community to transform the lives of our neighbors. We are happy to welcome the new commanders, Captains Phillip and Elaine Canning, who will now be able to share their gifts with the Nashville community. Although the leadership is changing, The Salvation Army mission to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination remains steadfast. We have cherished our time here, helping to bring the healing and transformative power of God’s love to our Nashville neighbors in need of housing and other quality-of-life basics. We know we are leaving the Nashville with strong new leaders and staff that are prepared to carry on the mission of The Salvation Army in conjunction with the powerful community partnerships that have been developed over the past 5 years in the areas of homelessness and housing. Major Sue Frizzell and I look forward to seeing the Army’s vision for expanded service and outreach in this community unfold under the leadership of the Cannings. There are exciting new plans in the works that will allow us to provide more housing opportunities to our neighbors who are currently living outside of shelter here in Nashville. We have been honored to be part of a powerful effort that transforms lives, opens hearts and builds relationships within communities and with each other! On behalf of Major Sue Frizzell and myself, may you be blessed. For Progress,

Major Ethan Frizzell

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sport 60. *Sampras and Williams sport 63. Luau greeting 64. “____ my party, and I’ll cry if I want to...” 66. Sack fabric 68. Cheat or trick 69. Davy Jones’ Locker locale 70. Bert’s buddy 71. Coral barrier 72. Poetic “ever” 73. “The defense ____” DOWN 1. Oolong, e.g. 2. Crumbs 3. *#25 Down piece

4. Off-the-cuff 5. Mylar filling 6. Socket insert 7. Adult elver 8. Tax of one tenth 9. Like Darth Vader’s side 10. Drop-off spot 11. Eugene O’Neill’s piece 12. One less than jack 15. Hair holder 20. African antelope 22. Boat propeller 24. Depart from the ground (2 words) 25. *Fischer and Kasparov sport 26. Reach a goal (2 words) 27. Private 29. *Palmer and Nicklaus sport 31. Dirty money 32. Wife’s dad, e.g. 33. Large violin family member 34. *Bolt and Owens sport 36. *A trap in #29 down 38. Biblical pronoun 42. Blast from the past 45. Tin Man’s prop 49. Bambi’s mom 51. Sewing machine brand 54. Do like phoenix 56. Accustom 57. Like gin in fiz 58. Do like goo 59. Kitchen head 60. Russian autocrat 61. Overnight lodgings 62. Hissy fit 63. What acronym and acrylic have in common 65. *#29 Down prop 67. Oui in English

VENDOR WRITING

Illuminate Art Gala BY DANIEL H., CONTRIBUTOR VENDOR On Saturday night, March 26, Daybreak Arts held an art show. Not just any show, but a once a year event. Consisting of hors d’oeuvres, specialty drinks, silent auction items, live jazz and original artwork by its artists. My name is Daniel Holmes, and I was one of the artists who attended. I arrived at 2:50 p.m. to have a meeting and a late lunch. At 4 p.m. the artists and the volunteers set up our booths. We were offered two drink tickets, which I didn’t use. Setup went smoothly and the artists had time to talk to each other prior to the 6 p.m. start. Artists consisted of A.M. Hassan, Beth Gunn, Edwin Lockridge, Gwen Johnson, Kateri, Sam Fulks, Thaddaeus Tekell Tre “Deuce” Ronin, and attending by video were Bandy, Clinecasso and Ellie Kane.

All of which have experienced homelessness at one point in our lives. Through determination and hard work, we have made a better life, but not without the help of the community. We consider ourselves a family of artists. When the world around us rejected us, it was Daybreak Arts who brought us together. Just recently we added a new artist named Antonio Booker who didn’t have artwork in the Gala, but still attended. The night was full of art connoisseurs from all walks of life. People smiled and conversed with artists. Some dance to the live music. It was an evening to remember. Daybreak Arts raised $10,000 between private auctions and artist sales. One of the guests that evening was former Assistant Director of The Contributor, Lauren Dougall.

Jelly Roll B Y J A S O N P. , C O N T R I B U T O R V E N D O R Local artist Jelly Roll hails from south Nashville. The Antioch area to be exact. He is an underdog that is rising to the top. His album “Ballads Of The Broken” was released in 2021. He isn’t new to the music game or songwriting. Listening to the music you can hear the passion and emotion put into his craft. Jelly Roll for the first time in his career got to play a sold-out show at the Ryman Auditorium downtown. He also got invited to play at the Grand Ole Opry. Which is an honor playing after some of the world’s greatest. He received a standing ovation with that performance. Jelly Roll worked his way to the rise the old-fashioned way. There is no fancy marketing he started out with a van and handed out his CDs in downtown Nashville. His songs tell a story that a lot of people resonate with about love, loss, addiction, and depression. He has a lovely wife Bunnie who is behind him all the way and the fans love her just as much as they do him. He is an amazing father and an inspiration to his community. Things weren’t always like this for him. Jelly had a troubled past growing up as an angsty teen and spending time in juvenile hall and getting felonies as an adult. He started writing music to get him out of a lifestyle that most artists are writing to get into. It takes someone with a lot of heart to want to change their life around. He

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has had his fair share of losses with loved ones. His single “Save Me” went gold and it was presented to him by his lovely wife. The tears that came out of this man were admirable. Sitting in the Ryman and listening to him pour his heart out was something you need to be to experience. It is like that at any show you go to see of his. He loves meeting the people who see him and listen to his stuff or even talk about him. I have never met a more humble human in my life. Even though he doesn’t have to hand out CDs anymore or sleep in a van. Jelly Roll doesn’t forget where he comes from and the struggle it took to get to this place. His single, “Son Of A Sinner” is rising on the country charts. That is a feat for an artist to be able to climb charts in multiple genres. I can’t wait for the day I see him on an awards show like the Grammys. I encourage everyone to check him out if you are a lover of music or inspiration of a human who loves his community of Nashville, TN. His socials are as follows, Twitter @Jellyroll615. He also has TikTok and you can stream his music on platforms like Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube. He was asked to sing on stage with Shinedown for “Simple Man” and now he is on tour with them. Crossing my fingers he is at the May show.

MOVING PICTURES

Norm Macdonald still has us laughing BY JOE NOLAN, FILM CRITIC The Adam Sandler comedy Billy Madison is the Midnight Movie at the Belcourt Theatre on Friday, May 27. It features Norm Macdonald in his very first feature film role. Macdonald was one of the most original comedians of his generation, given his groundbreaking anti-comedy style and his controversial turn as the Weekend Update anchor on Saturday Night Live between 1994-1998. We lost Macdonald to leukemia last September and this week we’re rounding-up the comedian’s best on screens big and small. Billy Madison (1995) This film stars Adam Sandler as the idiot 27-year-old heir to the Madison Hotel chain. When Billy’s father threatens to bequeath his hotel empire to an unscrupulous executive, Billy objects. But his dad points out that the only reason Billy graduated

high school is because his teachers were bribed for all 12 years of his education. The two agree that if Billy can pass all of his grades successfully — at the age of 27 — he will prove himself to be worthy of the family fortune. What follows is a bonkers fishout-of-water story with Sandler doing a Sandler impression, interacting with his school kid costars. Macdonald is a highlight here, as one of Billy’s layabout sidekicks with many of the film’s best punchline asides delivered in his laconic trademark style. Dirty Work (1998) After being dismissed from Saturday Night Live in 1998, Macdonald co-wrote and starred in Dirty Work, which is directed by Bob Saget, co-stars Artie Lange and features Chris Farley in his last film. It may come as a surprise to some viewers that the film is actually based on Roald

Dahl short story called “Vengeance is Mine Inc.” Here Mitch (Macdonald) and Sam (Lange) start their own for-profit revenge service in order to fund a heart surgery for Sam’s ailing father played by the late and great Jack Warden. This flick is notable for its cast of comedian cameos including turns from Don Rickles, John Goodman, Gary Coleman and even Adam Sandler playing Satan. Dirty Work was a critical and box office flop, but for fans of Macdonald’s bizarre comedic sensibilities, this is a cult classic. Watch Dirty Work for free on YouTube. Me Doing Stand Up (2011) Macdonald released his Ridiculous debut comedy album in 2006, but he only recorded two live comedy specials: Hitler’s Dog, Gossip and Trickery came out on Netflix in 2017, six years after Macdonald put out

his first live concert special Me Doing Stand-Up in 2011. The concert distills Macdonald’s one-of-a-kind talent for making unfunny things funny, and also for making funny things unfunny – which is totally hilarious. It’s also a poignant document as a lot of the material here is focused on death, and since we know that Macdonald struggled with leukwemia privately for years, this performance may have been captured when his health was just starting to decline. You can rent Me Doing Stand-Up on Amazon Prime for $3.99.

have spent countless Saturday nights suffering through dull cold opens and hack show host performances just to get to the satirical news segment which nearly always delivers. Macdonald’s run at the desk found him crafting his penchant for oddball angles on straight-forward jokes, and for bombing punchlines on purpose to provocative effect. It wasn’t for everybody, but for comedy connoisseurs Macdonald’s updates are still a feast of funny. Watch every season of SNL on Peacock TV, which has a free seven day trial.

Saturday Night Live Norm Macdonald never had a bigger stage than he did during his run as the “Weekend Update” anchor on SNL. The post was made iconic by Chevy Chase during his inaugural turn at the news desk and long suffering fans of the show

Billy Madison is the Midnight Movie at the Belcourt Theatre this Friday night, May 27

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Joe Nolan is a critic, columnist and performing singer/songwriter based in East Nashville. Find out more about his projects at www.joenolan.com.