“National significance.” Cheekwood CEO Jane Offenbach uses the phrase again and again when discussing her vision for the 51-year-old institution comprising a historic house, an 8,000-piece art collection, and 55 acres of lawns and gardens. Her goals include getting the…
08.31.2011 | EVENTS, NEWS, PEOPLE
Mike Wolfe, star of the hit TV show American Pickers, has blazed a trail onto the Nashville retail scene this summer. Wolfe recently christened a new location for his world-famous Antique Archaeology store in Marathon Village. Since his opening…
Nashville Remembers a Legendary Art Director
“Bill Johnson knew all facets of art. In particular, he had a great sense of type, of type design. Bill and I first met when he was working with Rolling Stone in the
In the 1970s, an aspiring young photographer named Raeanne Rubenstein shot for many of the most popular magazines of the day. Her beat was the flamboyant artists and musicians who lived and worked in New York City’s famed Lower East…
A brave band of architects drew inspiration from figures like Frank Lloyd Wright. They imagined that buildings done right could restore the human connection to nature and create a more harmonious society. Nashville architect Bob Street drew inspiration from Wright…
Sunday nights can be slow in Sylvan Park. But behind Charlotte Avenue’s dark storefronts, across N. 49th Street from Betty’s Grill, a light shines over the entryway into the Global Education Center. Step inside and you’re in a spacious,…
There was a time in music and popular culture that was defined as before the Beatles and after the Beatles. Nancy Lee Andrews was a member of this revered rock ‘n’ roll royalty for six years, while she was…
Never in a million years did I ever think that one day I would be sitting in Tony Bennett’s studio overlooking New York’s Central Park. Unbelievably, here I am. The view is nothing short of spectacular. The park is covered…
Ballet, despite its origins as the dance of royalty and not of the masses, is an art form that speaks to everyone. It is pure story-telling theatre but without words. Ballet is quite simply what feelings look like. It…
So a few months ago Jed Hilly was about to mow his lawn. It was a Saturday like any other, and—b-r-r-ring!—Merle Haggard rang him up. Hilly didn’t know Merle. They weren’t buds or work associates. But there it was, Haggard…
