Arts + Culture

Harpeth Guitar Restoration

Scott St. Dennis Is Bringing Favorite Instruments Back To Life Article by Ed Atlas | Photography by Provided If you’ve played guitar for any time at all, at some point you likely had your hands on a Harmony “Stella” acoustic. Once the nation’s leading guitar manufacturer, Harmony’s Stella was a top seller. They were cheap, a bear to play and could be found stuffed into closets and propped up in corners of suburban bedrooms from sea to shining sea.   While they lacked aesthetics and...

Arts + Culture

Doing His Best

Tonic's Emerson Hart Is Experiencing The Best Of Times At His Old Bellevue Home Article by Ed Atlas | Photography by Lindsey Baydoun A few years ago, a band playing at a corporate fundraising event launched into a stirring rendition of “If You Could Only See,” the 1997 chart-topping hit from alt-rock icons, Tonic.   After the set, an audience member approached the singer, exclaiming, “That’s the best cover of that song I’ve ever heard!” To which the performer replied, with a wry but...

Arts + Culture

Psychologist By Day, Novelist By Night

RJ Jacobs' Successful Side Hustle Proves That Art & Science Can Work Well Together Article by Ed Atlas | Photography by Provided Stories are woven throughout RJ Jacobs’ life: from his early days as an English major to his career as a psychologist and now, his successful side hustle. While in college at the University of Florida, Jacobs dabbled in writing, though he’s quick to laugh it off.    “Candidly, it was terrible. I didn’t have a good sense at that time of what was marketable, or why...

Finance + Legal Services

A Legacy Of Leadership And Family In Business

How State Farm’s Bethany Harbin Became A Bellevue Staple Article by Kellie Walton | Photography by Ed Atlas When Bethany Harbin started working in her father’s State Farm office at just 15 years old, she never imagined it would turn into a lifelong career.    “I thought it would be a part-time job,” she says. “Never thought it would be what I would do.”    But years later, after earning a finance and insurance degree from Middle Tennessee State University and working under different...