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Buff City Soap Co. opens location in Murfreesboro, offers natural, organic body care alternatives
Photos and story by Allison Borrell / Contributing Writer The demand for more natural and organic body and skin care products has been on the rise in recent years, and the Nashville area is no stranger to that. Now, with the opening of a location of Memphis-based company Buff City Soap Co. in Murfreesboro, that …
Breaking Barriers: How Middle Tennessee women are reshaping male-dominated tattoo industry
Photo courtesy of unsplash.com Story by Allison Borrell / Contributing Writer The tattoo industry has long been a male-dominated field, but women across the country and in Nashville have been reshaping it over the past decade. To fully understand the role of women in the tattoo industry, we have to go back to the early …
Nashville’s Spark Theatre Company to put on ‘The Vagina Monologues’
Photo Courtesy of Spark Theatre Company Story by Toriana Williams / Contributing Writer Empowering. Out of several separate interviews, the word that recurred the most was “empowering” when talking about “The Vagina Monologues.” “The Vagina Monologues,” written by Eve Ensler in 1996, is an episodic play composed of 200 interviews of women and their experience …
MTSU alumnus to take local band Grand Transit to higher places post-graduation
Photo courtesy of Grand Transit’s Twitter page Story by Allison Borrell / Contributing Writer The answer to the ever-looming question, “What do you want to do after college?” varies from student to student. Some want to get their hands dirty by jumping straight into the industry they studied. Some want to take time off to explore …
The Cure, Stevie Nicks, Radiohead among Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2019 Inductees
Photo courtesy of Shutterstock Being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is no small feat for an artist, no matter what style of music they’re known for making. Take, for example, the RRHF’s Class of 2019, a class that touts an incredibly dynamic group of artists, from pop superstar Janet Jackson to …
Historic Clothing Collection: A firsthand exploration of history through fashion
Photos by Sydney Wagner / Lifestyles Editor The McWherter Learning Resources Center looks like any other building on campus. Inside its walls, it houses the MTSU Textiles, Merchandising and Design Department. After 3 p.m., its hallways, where design sketches hang, are relatively bare and quiet. However, tucked away in the corner of studio 207 are …