Why Do We Enjoy Movies In The Park?
via Jason T. Sparks, Our Man in Nashville ed note: This was written in the Before Times, then held until the summer movie season rolled around. Things changed. July 2019: It’s a beautiful June...
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History in the Soup Aisle
by Jason T. Sparks, Our Man in Nashville Nashville, Tennessee, March 26, 2020 Staff Sgt Edgar T Sparks, Jr, my grandfather, late of the US Army Air Corps and the China-Burma-India theatre of combat...
On #SXSW2020
See Anna’s column on the SXSW that didn’t happen, in today’s Dallas Morning News. Click here to read about “Not by Not West.”
Tool Kit For Life
I have tried to keep a similar cigar box—sometimes a literal cigar box, next to my own recliner, sometimes (usually) a briefcase or backpack that I carry with me everywhere I go. I have compiled a list here of the 42 things I’d ideally have in my cigar box (or carry in a backpack; all 42 would not fit in a cigar box, but most would)—the things that, as far as I’m concerned, will prepare you for whatever you encounter.
Through Space, Time and Middle America, Part One: Wind Turbines, Cheese Fries, Intermodal Stations, and Bottlezahwatahzahdollah (A trip before the Coronavirus.)
by Jason T. Sparks, Our Man in Nashville I look back now on May of 2018 as a kind of—pardon the bastardized Latin—month mirablius. I had started a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds for...
Gretel and Hansel
The Grimm fairy tales tell us of steps that people take to survive when they are in need. Many of us in modern America are so far removed from the real pressures of want...
Alas, Poor Peanut; I Knew Him Well
By Jason T Sparks My relationship to advertising is complicated, and I know exactly why. I grew up around advertising; my father was an account executive at an agency called Carden & Cherry for...
Nashville Film Festival: Climate of the Hunter
Nashville Film Festival Coverage via Jason T. Sparks, Our Man in Nashville There is a difference between the movies one usually sees at film festivals and the movies that usually occupy the multiplex. For...
Infrequently Asked Questions: Jason Shawhan
Above is a podcast that interviews Jason Shawhan Nashville Film Festival Coverage brought to you by Jason Sparks, Our Man in Nashville The Crypt-Keeper at the Nashville Film Festival Graveyard Shift holds forth on...
What Does It Mean To Go To A Film Festival
Nashville Film Festival coverage provided by Jason T. Sparks, Our Man in Nashville Going to a film festival is its own experience. For the most part, it’s a positive experience. By the same token,...
A Child’s (and Adult’s) Christmas in Nashville
Christmas brought to you by the town of Nashville itself. by Our Man in Nashville Jason T. Sparks I love other cities, understand—I can think offhand of no bustling metropolis that I don’t want...
