(page last updated 2008)
Kathleen Hansen, marketing director for the Modern Language Association, lives in Brooklyn with musician Alex Sniderman, dog Bobby and cats Hula and Edwyn (born while she was working on the FWJ).
Jim Ridley is senior writer and god of all things cinematic at the Nashville Scene. He and his wife have a daughter and a son.
Alonso Duralde is film critic for MSNBC.com and author of the recently published 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men. He lives in L.A. with partner Dave White, author of Exile in Guyville: How a Punk-Rock Redneck Faggot Texan Moved to West Hollywood And Refused to Be Shiny And Happy.
Clark Parsons, who wrote under the name Addison DeWitt for reasons of personal safety and later wrote his “American in Nashville” column for the Scene, is now an American in Berlin. He co-founded a telecommunications company in Germany and abides with wife and son in the way-cool Prenzlauerberg neighborhood of the former East Berlin.
Dr. Regina Gee is associate professor of art history at Montana State University. Bozeman is a long way from home for a girl from the Big Easy, but she gets even farther away from time to time with lectures in Poland and teaching trips in Tuscany. Regina got herself a Fulbright a few years back, and all her old friends from the rock-block days are mighty proud of her.
Collin Wade Monk creates the Scene’s weekly podcast, and he put together a boffo mix of Nashville ‘80s music to accompany the wonderful article Tracy Moore wrote in 2006 about that era.
John Atkins, author of the interview styled in the Elizabethan prose of Jay McInerney, lives in Seattle with his wife Jill and their two plants Herman and Ruby. No dogs or cats. John toils in the saltmines of a small software company that tells people what they are worth. If you’d like to know, go put in your 2 cents at payscale.com and find out for yourself. Feel free to connect with his slimming profile on LinkedIn.
Pete Wilson, whose FWJ contributions will be added to the big ole pdf soon, is a librarian at Vanderbilt. He hosts “Nashville Jumps,” a radio show devoted to the jump blues of the 1940s, on WRVU 91.1 FM in Nashville.
Randy Fox’s work for the FWJ will also be added soon. Randy’s WRVU show, “Hipbilly Jamboree,” like Pete’s, has attracted a devoted local following.
Nicki Pendleton Wood is Nashville’s goddess of all things gustatory, in the unbiased opinion of her husband. As the Nashville Banner’s food writer and restaurant reviewer in the 1990s, she made enough waves to attract national attention, including a front-page profile by Pulitzer-winner Tony Horwitz in The Wall Street Journal. She’s the author of The London Shopping Companion, and she has a foodie blog, Tupperware Avalanche.
Tom Wood and Nicki got married a year after the FWJ died. They live in Nashville with their daughter. Tom survived a couple of years at The Tennessean, put out this book and this book, knocked around as a journalist, and is now creating a spinoff site for NashvillePost.com, for which he writes a weekly local-history column.
Lee A. Carr passed away in 2003. His rambunctious spirit lives on in the pages of The Fireplace Whiskey Journal.
Several other writers and artists also pitched in on the FWJ, but we don’t know what they’re up to now. If you’re an FWJ alumnus, send Tom a note so he can update this page.
In memoriam: Jim Ridley, 1965-2016