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writer, editor, senior producer @nashvillebanner.bsky.social | 📚 Greetings From New Nashville + People Only Die of Love in Movies | words & audio at NYT, Atlantic, NPR, et al | steveharuch.com | Signal: sharuch.90 | wearenorthnashville.org
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One year ago, the We Are North Nashville project launched with a celebration at the Frist, honoring the elders in style.

If you haven't already, now would be a great time to listen or catch up on the podcast: www.wearenorthnashville.org/podcast/

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Steve Haruch, wearing glasses and dressed in a black sportcoat, stands in the Frist Art Museum during the We Are North Nashville launch event Larry Turnley Jr. and his father, known as Fever, step out of a limousine outside the Frist Art Museum as fellow elders Rev. Margreat Smithson and Pat Jackson, and We Are North Nashville project lead M. Simone Boyd look on M. Simone Boyd, wearing a pink dress, embraces Rev. Margreat Smithson, dressed in black and gold, outside the Frist Art Museum Seated in the auditorium during the event, Melvin Gill, dressed in a gray sportcoat and blue shirt, receives a gift as fellow elders Leitha Carter, holding flowers, and Rev. Margreat Smithson look on
September 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Marva looks back at young Cassian as her ship heads through the clouds. The sun behind her head resembles a halo.
April 22, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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So again, a child has been sedated against his will and carried onto a ship that is headed for space. When Cassian wakes up, he's disoriented, flying toward the sun.
Young Cassian, just waking up from sedation, looks out the window of a ship that is headed toward space.
April 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Marva and Clem don't speak his language. Marva says to him, "We're trying to help you."

Then she commands her droid to give her a tranquilizer.

Clem says, "He's got people here."
Clem Andor, a character in the Star Wars series ANDOR, crouches on a spaceship and yells, "He's got people here" to Marva, referring to a child we know later becomes Cassian Andor.
April 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Me in the national security group chat
Actor Takeshi Kaneshiro, shown in the film Chungking Express (directed by Wong Kar-Wai), wears a tan jacket over a bllue shirt as he smiles and talks into a black telephone
March 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Poet Stephanie Niu will be at The Porch house in Nashville on Saturday, 4/5, to talk about her Vanderbilt Literary Prize-winning collection I WOULD DEFINE THE SUN

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March 24, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Hey Nashville friends, Stephanie Niu — winner of the inaugural Vanderbilt Literary Prize — will be at The Porch on April 5 to sign her winning book I WOULD DEFINE THE SUN, read and have a convo with me after.

Free with RSVP —> www.porchtn.org/happenings/b...
An event flyer featuring a photograph of author Stephanie Niu, wearing a black shirt and smiling toward the camera, beside the cover of her book I WOULD DEFINE THE SUN, which features an abstract image of sunlight reflecting on golden water. Text below logos for The Porch and Vanderbilt University Press reads: Birthing the Book with Stephanie Niu / Winner of the Vanderbilt University Literary Prize / Saturday, April 5, 2025 at the Porch House / 3:30 p.m. Book signing / 4:00 p.m. Reading / Followed by a discussion moderated by Steve Haruch / More info at porchtn.org / 2811 Dogwood Pl., Nashville TN, 37204
February 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Three books banned by Williamson County (TN) school board. @iamstevenhale.bsky.social reporting in the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social newsletter, The Flyer:
Screenshot of the Flyer, a newsletter from the Nashville Banner that reads: After a lengthy public comment period and debate — both of which included the reading of long suggestive and sexual passages — the Williamson County school board voted to remove three novels from public school libraries. The decisions came after a majority of board members decided those books fell afoul of the state’s Age-Appropriate Materials Act. The newly banned books are: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer; The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky; and Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. The board also voted to put age restrictions on access to two other books — The Field Guide To The North American Teenager by Ben Philippe and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. The Banner reported in October that Wilson County has banned nearly 400 books from its school libraries. Byline: Steven Hale
December 10, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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Post someone you've been told you look like, who you definitely don't look like.

(For a decade+ pretty much anytime a band had an Asian member someone would mistake me for them. But I went to a lot of Seam shows, and inevitably someone would just start talking to me as if I were him.)
Sooyoung Park, a man who looks nothing like Steve Haruch, even though they are both Korean American, is wearing a white T-shirt while playing a Fender Telecaster guitar onstage. Park is/was the frontman of the indie rock band Seam, formed in Chapel Hill, NC, relocated to Chicago and active in the 1990s and early 2000s.
December 7, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Drop the Lock Screen

(Columbus City Hall, designed by Edward Bassett)
The front edifice of Columbus City Hall in Columbus, Indiana. Two rectangular brick structures seem to be floating midair, separated by a few feet of negative space. Behind them, a semi-circular front of glass, in which the sky and edifice are reflected. The building was a location in the film Columbus, directed by Kogonada (his debut feature, before going on to direct After Yang and episodes of the Star Wars series The Acolyte) and starring John Cho, Haley Lou Richardson and Parker Posey.
November 28, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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Nobel Prize winning writer Toni Morrison in a black and white photo is wearing a dress in a nightclub, a joyful expression on her face and her right arm raised above her head as she dances and a light from above shines down on her
November 21, 2024 at 12:28 AM
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A week ago, I got to sit onstage and chop it up with Fran Lebowitz at the Nashville Symphony. Photo by the great Ray Di Pietro, who posted some film shots on his IG.
Writer Fran Lebowitz, in a navy blue blazer, sits onstage at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, microphone in hand, as Steve Haruch asks a question with one hand extended, kind of like the "anime guy" meme; you could almost imagine him saying, "Is this more of a comment?"
November 20, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Denzel Washington, as Demetrius, in a blue work uniform, speaks with Sarita Choudhoury, as Mina, in Mira Nair’s 1991 film Mississippi Masala.
November 16, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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quote with a picture of you from the ‘80s
A young Korean kid (that’s me) wearing a red jumpsuit making a cute face
August 7, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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I'm reading with Stephanie Choi on 4/26 and you should come!

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April 11, 2024 at 10:49 PM
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“Yeah boss, we figured out how to change the headlamp bulbs. Nice and normal, just like you asked.”
Photo of a car front quarter with an arm reaching into an opening in the dang wheel well, nearly up to the elbow
December 14, 2023 at 9:53 PM
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Text from story: "I was looking for different answers and more acknowledgment of the $2 billion itself," Wimberly said. "There wasn't anything specific that was acknowledged." He added that he didn't recall the governor ever using the word "underfunding." Even so, all three said they were grateful for the opportunity, felt "optimistic," and looked forward to meeting with Lee again early next year. Meanwhile, O'Quinn said, "We welcome any state officials and legislators to visit the campus."
December 14, 2023 at 3:34 PM
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Pretty great giveaways for the @nashvillebanner.bsky.social fundraiser! And every donation before the end of the year gets doubled, so ....

give now to support nonprofit journalism in Nashville: nashville-public-media.fundjournalism.org/donate/?camp...
List of prizes for the Nashville Banner's 12 Days of Giveaways 12/11: $50 gift card to Belcourt Theatre 12/12: $100 gift card to Nicky's Coal Fired 12/13: $100 gift card to Fleet Street Pub 12/14: $100 gift card to Parnassus Books 12/15: $100 gift card to Nicky's Coal Fired 12/16: $100 gift card to Fenwick's 300 12/17: Five (5) $50 gas cards courtesy of Twice Daily 12/18: $100 gift card to Midtown Cafe 12/19: $100 gift card to Lockeland Table 12/20: 4 tickets + swag from Oz Arts Nashville 12/21: Dinner for 2 at The Catbird Seat 12/22: Two (2) tickets to 2024 Pilgrimage
December 12, 2023 at 9:25 PM
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Texting with my sister in Chicago and…
December 6, 2023 at 9:00 PM
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Nashville, this is tonight!

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October 4, 2023 at 6:03 PM