So said Perry Wallace on March 8th, 1970, to young Tennessean reporter Frank Sutherland the day after Wallace played his last basketball game at Vanderbilt. That interview made front page news the day the story ran: Wallace had been a…
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Nicki Pendleton Wood has found the sweet spot: she’s a smart and enthusiastic foodie without being a snob. That’s not to say she doesn’t have strong opinions! Breakfast food in particular brings out her inner critic: “even the words…
It’s important to know where to find a good BLT when you need one. Pepper the puppy has brought me low on a few occasions with her fierce if playful biting, her energy level, and her tiny bladder. I must…
Brent Moody might be your surgeon if you’ve got skin cancer. He might be your Sunday school teacher if you’re a kid at First Presbyterian Church. If you buy art, you might purchase something he’s painted at local art shows….
You can tell when Todd Jones enters the room. All of a sudden, things get livelier. People are more animated and warmer. They’re following his lead. You won’t see many yawns when he’s in the pulpit most Sundays at First Pres! …
A friend of BaconOnTheBookshelf sent me an urgent message today to share with readers and eaters alike. It was reported in the New Orleans Times Picayune and the Nashville Business Journal blog that Cochon Butcher will be opening in Nashville’s…
My friend Lawrence Blank-Cook liked Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves so much that she couldn’t even bear to start another book once she’d finished it. She found herself in a terrible funk – an avid reader, no book by…
No one needs to tell my dear friend Betsy Wills to lean in! She has managed a family and high-test career with energy and enthusiasm to spare. She is hard-working, fun-loving, and terrifically smart. Most recently, she co-founded YouScience, an…
Josh Herring and wife Lauren hail from East Tennessee but stayed in Nashville after he graduated from the Owen School. Thank you again, Vanderbilt, for all that you do! When he’s not busy working at Merrill Lynch in the Private…