http://freedomforumdiversity.org Diversity Institute at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Soundslide craze has swept the newspaper industry. Soundslides Plus is a cheap and easy way to produce audio slideshows with photographs and mp3 audio files. You can download a free demo version of Soundslides. The demo version is fully functional but puts a demo tag on the beginning of ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2008/08/19/soundslide-done-right/ Chips Quinn Scholars capture essential Nashville stories Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Stories include Centennial dog park, coffee culture, Nashville morning, western wear, gourmet paletas, Lower Broadway, Nashville's Farmer's Market and Vanderbilt's band camp. http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2008/08/19/nashville-stories-2/   Chips Quinn Scholars capture essential Nashville stories Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Stories include Centennial dog park, coffee culture, Nashville morning, western wear, gourmet paletas, Lower Broadway, Nashville's Farmer's Market and Vanderbilt's band camp. *Nashville Cowboy Bleu, a sales associate at Trail West explains western wear. *The Nashville Farmers Market is ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2008/08/15/nashville-stories/   Chips Quinn Scholars produced seven news videos Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008. The videos range from coffee to guitars. *Nashville's favorite coffee house, Bongo Java roasts its coffee beans in-house at its east side cafe. *Vanderbilt University's greenhouse manager keeps the plants blooming for research and more. *The Frist Center for ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2008/08/15/081408_assign_1/ A line of hungry customers often wraps around the Pancake Pantry building on the southern edge of the Hillsboro Village neighborhood in Nashville. The restaurant opened in 1961 and quickly became a place where locals, tourists and the stars mix for breakfast and lunch. http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2008/08/14/pancaked/ Bongo Java is a gathering place for all of Nashville. Located across the street from Belmont University in the hip Belmont-Hillsboro Village neighborhood, Bongo attracts musicians, students and artists. http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2008/08/14/too-weird-to-franchise/ Artist Alice Aycock’s sculpture “Ghost Ballet for the East Bank Machineworks” was funded by the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission and unveiled along the banks of the Cumberland River in 2007. Ghost Ballet is 100 feet high, 100 feet wide and 60 feet deep, and is made of steel, industrial metals ... http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2008/08/14/ghost-dancer/ Gigi's Cup Cakes is a gourmet cupcake shop owned by Gina Butler, a former country singer turned baker. Butler's passion for baking came from years of baking with her mother and grandmother. http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2008/08/14/country-to-cupcakes/ Vanderbilt's Freshman Commons is an environmentally friendly building and certified as a a Gold level building from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2008/08/14/vander-built-green/ The Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-75 exhibit at the Frist in Nashville challenges visitors to decide what is art. The exhibit has 41 paintings by artists like Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Frank Stella and Sam Gilliam. http://freedomforumdiversity.org/2008/08/14/art-or-not/