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CONTENTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Metro Council Debates Homelessness Issues — Sometimes Clashing With Mayor

Go With the Flow

CITY LIMITS

There’s growing emphasis on homelessness services and how to use federal dollars BY ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ

‘You’re Coming Off Death Row’ Death penalty set aside for Pervis Payne in exchange for two life sentences

ART

Bobby and Tinney Contemporary team up for A Fluid & Emphatic Now BY JOE NOLAN

BOOKS

BY STEVEN HALE

‘The Voice Is My Key’

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COVER STORY Hey, Thanks

Our thank-you letters to the nonprofits, activists, workers and friends who make Nashville special BY SCENE STAFF

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MUSIC

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CULTURE

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On First Reading: The First of Our New Metro Council Recaps Reports Weird Vibes

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Lately I’ve been thinking about the number of good and strong people Nashville has been blessed with, who have done all they could to better our community and improve the lives of those living within it. One who continually comes to mind is General Sessions Judge William E. Higgins. Bill has been a judge in our city since 1980, and as a native Nashvillian, he has long worked to build the kind of life most of us aspire to lead — a lifestyle of family, faith, community, safe neighborhoods and giving back. I applaud him for his fine efforts. I understand Judge Higgins is not going to stand for reelection, and though I’m sure he is looking forward to his retirement, I’m a little saddened to hear he’ll be leaving the bench. I do hope the one who takes his place will follow his fine example and continue to be as fair as possible, while also protecting our city’s most vulnerable. Judge Higgins’ official biography reflects a man who concentrates on doing honorable things. He went to Vanderbilt University before attending Nashville School of Law and then joining the Army. From the time Judge Higgins was old enough to make a difference, he’s been working to do so. He spent two years on active duty in the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of captain before his honorable discharge. He served three terms on the Metro Council and practiced law for 13 years prior to being elected as a judge. In 1980, he was elected Judge of General Sessions Court, Division VII. Since that time he’s been reelected five times without opposition. Nashvillians clearly recognize his fairness and his commitment to upholding the law. Judge Higgins has had an impressive career, and has consistently given back to Nashville. He believes deeply in public service and has spent his life — especially his years on the bench — protecting the rights of his fellow Nashvillians. Bill’s son Jim Higgins and the Higgins Firm also show the same passion for

public service. In addition to working daily to represent their clients, Jim and the firm’s team members have found a way to benefit others who have a heart for public service. With Judge Higgins as their inspiration, the Judge Bill Higgins Public Service Scholarship was created. The scholarship benefits young professionals who are getting engaged in public service, and aims to inspire young people to dedicate time and energy to service. According to the Higgins’ team, “Public service is not always the most popular route for many young professionals, as public servants are tasked with grueling and demanding work, [but] it is one of the most rewarding.” The judge has dedicated his life to helping others, and he serves as a great example. It makes great sense that such a scholarship would bear his name. Judge Higgins has been a longtime friend to Nashville and its residents — and he can be proud of the work he has done. Nashville will miss his fair and steady voice. I’m reminded of an old George Jones song — sometimes when the great ones move on, I have to ask myself, “Who’s gonna fill their shoes?”

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CITY LIMITS

METRO COUNCIL DEBATES HOMELESSNESS ISSUES — SOMETIMES CLASHING WITH MAYOR

There’s growing emphasis on homelessness services and how to use federal dollars

he growth of a camp at Brookmeade Park seems to have sparked a citywide discussion in the press and on social media about homelessness in Nashville this year. And that includes debates between Metro councilmembers and Mayor John Cooper’s office on the subject. Much of the discussion arrived in the wake of the sudden resignation of Judy Tackett, longtime director of Nashville’s Homeless Impact Division, who departed in late October. Tackett spoke at a Nov. 17 joint committee meeting, and when a councilmember asked why she left, she replied that the “leadership structure” hindered her from implementing the vision she had planned. Councilmember Colby Sledge says he and his colleagues are now “stuck” when trying to “figure out who the right person is to go to and what the strategy is.” Cooper appointed Office of Emergency chief Jay Servais as interim director, but some councilmembers called for the city to quickly find a permanent hire with experience in homelessness outreach. Shortly after Tackett resigned, Councilmember Freddie O’Connell filed a bill to create an independent Office of Homelessness and Housing, which would become the new hub for agencies like the Homeless Impact Division and offer improved coordination for homelessness services and housing initiatives. The bill has 17 co-sponsors. The mayor’s office argues that the current structure — with HID nested in Metro Social Services — is effective, citing its success in getting 600 people off the street this year through rapid rehousing efforts. O’Connell and his fellow councilmembers

‘YOU’RE COMING OFF DEATH ROW’ Death penalty set aside for Pervis Payne in exchange for two life sentences BY STEVEN HALE

ervis Payne didn’t know why his attorneys were calling him late Thursday afternoon. “How ya doing?” he asked Kelley Henry, the Nashville-based supervising assistant federal public defender who has been fighting for years to prove his innocence and see his life spared. Payne has been living under a sentence of death for more than 30 years. “I have some very good news,” she told him. “You’re coming off death row.”

discussed his bill at a joint session between the council’s Human Services and Affordable CAMP AT Housing committees. Representatives of BROOKEMEADE PARK Cooper’s office also attended and discussed homelessness, despite the language. An ofconducting a performance audit of the existficer with MNPD’s Quality of Life Team also ing structure. O’Connell’s bill will be on the said that a majority of people experiencing agenda for the council’s Dec. 7 meeting. homelessness interviewed by police said Another source of discussion for the they wanted cameras for safety reasons. Metro Council has been the use of American Councilmember Sandra Sepulveda also Rescue Plan funds to address homelessness. voiced concerns about funding what appear The council approved $1.5 million in ARP to be capital improvements with ARP dollars. money for Metropolitan Social Services to be The mayor’s office says that the funding used for shelter, outreach, sanitation, housis derived from ARP money because an ing and food, and the mayor signed off on it. increase in camp populations at places like A more controversial use of that funding is a Brookmeade has placed extra burden on the proposal to allocate $1.9 million for construcparks department. tion equipment and infrastructure improveWhile the bill was deferred again at the ments at Brookmeade and to install cameras Nov. 16 council meeting, councilmembers at parks where encampments exist. are still frustrated about the mayor’s invitaWhen the bill came before the Budget tion to tour Azafrán Park (which doesn’t Committee on Nov. 2, members deferred it have a camp but does have a camera), for one meeting, citing concerns with the Wharf Park (currently home to Old Tent cameras and equipment. In response, the City) and Brookmeade. mayor invited councilmembers to tour the The Scene emailed all 40 councilmembers camps themselves — but councilmembers to ask if they accepted or declined the invitaquickly blasted the move on social media and tion and why. As of this writing, 23 councilin interviews, with Sledge noting his “mix members have responded; of those, only one of surprise and disgust” at the invitation. At attended the tours. Many, like Sepulveda and the Budget Committee meeting on Nov. 15, Brandon Taylor, say they and other Metro Councilmembers Sean Parker and Sledge officials already know that the best way to voiced concerns about the bill’s framing of solve homelessness is more affordable housthe equipment to be used for “managing ing, and that a tour wouldn’t provide new homeless encampments” — quoting the insight. Others call the visits, which bill’s own caption — and its potential included a police escort, “inhuuse for displacing tenants. mane,” “performative” and Supporters of the bill, like VISIT OUR NEWS AND POLITICS BLOG “nutso.” sponsoring Councilmember PITH IN THE WIND TO Some councilmembers say Courtney Johnston and READ CONTRIBUTOR they’re struggling to address parks director Monique @STARTLESEASILY’S NEW COLUMN homelessness in their own Odom, said it was not “ON FIRST READING,” FEATURING RECAPS AND ANALYSIS OF THE districts. Of Brookmeade, intended as an answer to BIMONTHLY METRO COUNCIL MEETINGS.

Payne was in disbelief, Henry tells the Scene. Memphis District Attorney Amy Weirich announced Thursday that her office was abandoning its effort to see Payne executed and would instead ask a court to give him two life sentences. Weirich said the latest assessment from the state’s expert could not rule out intellectual disability, leading her to concede the legal fight over Payne’s status. The news comes less than two weeks after a Nashville judge approved an agreement to take another Black man, Abu-Ali Abdur’Rahman, off death row because of “overt racial bias” in jury selection at his 1987 trial. Prosecutors and Payne’s legal team had been preparing for a Dec. 13 hearing over whether Payne was too intellectually disabled to be executed legally. His attorneys say he has a functional IQ of 68. A new law passed by the legislature earlier this year gave him a way to present evidence of his intellectual disability to a court. Payne, a Black man, was convicted and sentenced

to death for the 1987 murders of a white woman named Charisse Christopher and her 2-year-old daughter Lacie Jo. Prosecutors at the time portrayed him as a drug user who attacked Christopher after she rejected a sexual advance. But Payne has always maintained his innocence, and has always told the same story: that he came upon a horrifying murder scene while checking to see if his girlfriend was at her apartment across the hall, tried to help, then fled in fear. With added support from the Innocence Project, Payne succeeded in getting DNA testing on previously untested evidence last year. That testing, according to his attorneys, found male DNA from an unknown third party on key evidence including the murder weapon. It’s not enough to exonerate him, but his attorneys argue it’s consistent with his innocence claim. Efforts to prove his innocence will continue. But for now, he will at least not be executed. “We look forward to Mr. Payne’s resentencing hearing,” Henry said in a written statement. “This is some measure of justice for Mr. Payne and his family, but our fight for full

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Councilmember Russ Bradford says, “We have encampments all over the city that need attention, and I’m concerned that we’ve allowed all the focus to be on just this one park because it happens to be in a more affluent area of town.” Bradford is a sponsor of the bill, though he says it’s because he’s the Public Facilities chair, not necessarily because he supports it. Fellow sponsor Johnston says she was out of town the week of the tours. Thom Druffel intended to join the Brookmeade tour, but wasn’t able to when it got rescheduled after a firearm was found in the park. Gloria Hausser, a sponsor of the bill, seems to be the only councilmember to attend all three tours, and she says they were enlightening. Hausser tells the Scene she previously didn’t realize how different each camp is, and learned a lot about the outreach work done by police officers with the Quality of Life Team. She also saw how unstable some of the infrastructure at Brookmeade Park was, like weakening footbridges. Hausser says only two other councilmembers attended any of the tours. She agrees that housing is needed, but says short-term safety issues like cameras and park improvements are also important. In a statement, the mayor’s office says the “nature of these information-gathering visits have been misinterpreted.” There will be a pair of charrettes — that is, community discussions — on homelessness hosted by Vice Mayor Jim Shulman on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 before the bill goes before the Metro Council on Dec. 7. EMAIL EDITOR@NASHVILLESCENE.COM

exoneration of this innocent man will continue.” Thirty minutes after hearing the news that the brother she knows as “Bubba” would not be put to death, Rolanda Holman tells the Scene she is “almost in disbelief but ecstatic as well.” She says she’d spent the day thinking of and praying for Julius Jones, a Black Oklahoma man who was set to be executed on Nov. 18 despite serious questions about his guilt. Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt granted Jones clemency hours before his scheduled execution. Holman says she could relate to Jones’ family. Her brother once came so close to execution that she and the rest of her family received a letter from the state formally inviting them to witness it. When she saw the news about Jones’ life being spared, she started praying again. Hours later, she got the call from Henry telling her that Payne’s death sentence would be set aside. And minutes before she spoke to the Scene, she was on the phone with him. He’d called from the prison. “We just had a moment,” Holman says. “We shed some tears. Just to be grateful.” EMAIL EDITOR@NASHVILLESCENE.COM

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HEY, THANKS OUR THANK-YOU LETTERS TO THE NONPROFITS, ACTIVISTS, WORKERS AND FRIENDS WHO MAKE NASHVILLE SPECIAL

This issue has become something of a Thanksgiving tradition here at the Scene — our annual collection of thank-you letters to the organizations and people who make Nashville a better place to live. It feels good to acknowledge the nonprofits, activists, workers and friends who give our city its character, and this year we’ve landed on a dozen recipients. In these pages you’ll find our messages to employees at public schools, movie theaters, music venues and restaurants, not to mention a historian, a group of anti-racist activists and more. Read along with us as your old pals at the Scene look at our special city and say, “Hey, thanks.”

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HEY THANKS, ‘REMOVE THE BUST’ ACTIVISTS

HEY THANKS, COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER

For more than 40 years, a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest — a Confederate general, alleged war criminal and early Ku Klux Klan leader — enjoyed prominent placement in the Tennessee State Capitol. Since the bust’s dedication in 1978, there have been protests over it, particularly by Black Tennesseans. Those protests heated up in recent years, as the Black Lives Matter movement grew across the country. In 2020, protests erupted across the U.S., including in Nashville, after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd. Across the street from the Capitol, protesters held a campsite for 62 nights in protest of police violence and to call for the removal of the Forrest bust. Longtime activist Venita Lewis visited the site, which young protesters dubbed the People’s Plaza, and offered insight from her own life of action and protest. She also showed that this occupation wasn’t a new struggle — plenty had raised their voices before to remove the statue. That said, People’s Plaza celebrated when the State Capitol Commission voted to move the bust in a July 2020 meeting. Despite pearlclutching from GOP leaders like House Speaker Cameron Sexton and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, the Tennessee Historic Commission voted in March of this year to remove the bust, and it was taken down in July, headed for the state museum. (Curiously, the busts of two union admirals are also being relocated to the museum.) It took a long time to get the bust out of there, but as the advocates who called for its removal demonstrate, the broader fight for equality and justice is never a short one.

It’s hard to know what to do when disaster strikes, and Middle Tennessee has experienced more than its fair share of calamity in recent years. We faced deadly tornadoes in March 2020, a bombing on Christmas Day that same year and the deadly flooding in Waverly this summer, and it all happened in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic — which has of course been a disaster of its own. There have been times when Tennessee was reporting the worst COVID-19 infection rates in the country. What do you do if you need help? What do you do if you want to help? It can all feel so overwhelming. So thank you, Community Resource Center, not just for helping people in our community when they’re in need, but for inspiring all of us to be a part of your efforts. Organizing immediate disaster relief is just one part of what CRC does. In October the group launched Afghan Allies, a program that will offer support and resources to the hundreds of Afghanistan evacuees who will be moving to Nashville in the coming months. CRC also works with local teachers to ensure classrooms are outfitted with necessary supplies. It’s one thing to say thank you — it’s another to show it. Donate to CRC or purchase items from the organization’s Amazon wishlist by searching for its name on the AmazonSmile Charity List. If you have more time than money, you can also volunteer — they’re always looking for folks to help sort through donations and build hygiene kits. I’ve done it, it’s fun! It can be hard work, but it goes by quickly when you bring a buddy. Plus, they always have great snacks. Thanks, too, for the snacks, CRC.

THANKS TO YOU, AFTER 40 YEARS, THE NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST STATUE IS OUT OF THE CAPITOL

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Contributor, Nashville Scene

HEY THANKS, CITIZEN INCUBATOR KITCHENS

THE FOOD CO-WORKING SPACE HELPS A WHOLE LOT OF ENTREPRENEURS ADD TO NASHVILLE’S FOOD SCENE When last we checked in with Citizen Incubator Kitchens, the food co-working space had about 140 members. Today it’s 250. That’s a whole lot of entrepreneurs adding to Nashville’s food scene. The clientele is made up of food trucks, caterers, small food manufacturers, chefs who sell prepared meals and more. Many are small businesses launched by individuals who have great ideas — but who may lack the experience or financial means to get into the market. Other members are experienced folks who just need a home base for producing their cuisine. Citizen Incubator Kitchens started with a small commissary kitchen in West Nashville. Two years ago Laura Wilson, managing partner along with her husband Grant, added an 8,000-square-foot facility in the ground level of Hunters Station, the popular collection of dining spots near Five Points in East Nashville. In fact, the front door of Hunters Station opens into Citizen Market, which sells grab-andgo snacks and drinks produced by Citizen Kitchens clients. It also hosts a farmers market on Saturdays. Laura Wilson says she continues to be amazed by the creativity of businesses that spring from the Citizen Kitchens, like The Pepper Pott, which sells Caribbean cuisine via Guyanese family recipes. Wilson says she was impressed by how skillfully clients pivoted during the pandemic. A couple in the music business created a cinnamon roll business called Rock n Rollz Nashville. “And they were killing it,” Wilson says. When the pandemic eased, they went back to their industry jobs. Wilson says she approves of anything that allows entrepreneurs to experiment without losing their house. “You can think about the big idea and throw yourself into it, and it’s not going to destroy you,” she says. “It makes taking a risk not as terrifying.” She also notes one inspiring thing — the number of members who have outgrown Citizen Kitchens and have their own facilities. “We want people to grow and leave the kitchen out of success,” she says.

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Senior Editor, Nashville Scene

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HEY THANKS, VACCINATED NASHVILLIANS ON FINDING HOPE AT MUSIC CITY CENTER

This isn’t a letter intended to excoriate the unvaccinated. It’s not even a letter thanking my fellow vaccine recipients for doing their part to keep us safe. This is a letter to those who wrote messages on the bulletin boards at Music City Center, in the large room where we waited for those blissful post-jab 15 minutes before we pocketed our COVID-19 vaccination cards and went home. The colorful collages read “Why I Chose to Vaccinate,” and hundreds of Nashvillians contributed messages of unbridled hope. Some reflected the pastimes we missed — seeing live music, watching sporting events with buddies, convening with one’s congregation at church. Others couldn’t wait to hug — parents, grandparents, friends, classmates. I wrote about squeezing my niece and nephew, who live out of state. Some were deeply personal. “For my mom who is receiving chemo,” wrote one person. “The vaccine didn’t come in time to save my dad,” another wrote. “I got vaccinated in hopes you won’t have to bury yours.” There were beacons of joy and promise: “Because I’m gonna be a DAD.” But what got me most were the messages that leaned into the banal: “To do my part.” “Because no one is safe until everyone is safe.” “Because I care.” If I learned anything about daily life during lockdown, it’s that what I long regarded as the mundane, unsexy stuff of living — working beside my colleagues, looking at my husband across the table at a restaurant, holding the door open for the next person — is sacred. My strength, my hope for our world, lies not in books or art or career, but in this community of strangers. As one person simply wrote, “I love the world.” Thank you for reminding me that I do too.

HEY THANKS, MOVIE THEATER EMPLOYEES

TO THE TICKET-TAKERS, CONCESSION WORKERS, PROJECTIONISTS, USHERS AND CLEANUP CREWS WHO MAKE MOVIEGOING POSSIBLE For those of us whose favorite place on earth is the inside of a movie theater, it’s been more than a relief to see cinemas reopen and new films hit the screen — it’s been downright rapturous. This year, as case numbers steadily declined and vaccination rates steadily increased, COVID-19’s chokehold on the film industry began to loosen, meaning more new movies to see and the return of the best places to see them. Of course, we wouldn’t be able to see films on the big screen were it not for movie theater employees. And I don’t just mean the employees of independent local theaters like our beloved Belcourt, or labor-of-love repertory spots like Full Moon Cineplex in Hermitage. I also mean the workers at corporate megaplexes like Regal and AMC. All too often we audiences ignore the low-wage workers who make special experiences possible — or worse than ignoring them, we issue complaints at them. It isn’t the concession-slinging teen’s fault that Regal now carries Pepsi rather than Coke products, and it isn’t the kindly ticket-taker’s fault that you can’t bring in your outside snack. (Or anyway, that you did a bad job of concealing it.) To those ticket-takers and concession-stand workers, to the projectionists and ushers and cleanup crews who have to deal with understaffing, rude customers and paychecks that haven’t been adjusted to meet inflation in a decade or two — thank you. You’ve made it possible for us to see the latest films from Villeneuve, Campion, Larraín, Verhoeven, Zhao and Anderson (Wes and Paul Thomas) the way that they’re intended to be seen: on the big screen, together.

—ERICA CICCARONE

Culture Editor, Nashville Scene

—D. PATRICK RODGERS

Editor-in-Chief, Nashville Scene

HEY THANKS, THE GIVING KITCHEN AND BIG TABLE

TO TWO GROUPS THAT ORGANIZE FINANCIAL AND WELLNESS ASSISTANCE FOR OUR HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY The Giving Kitchen and Big Table came to Nashville from Atlanta and Washington state, respectively, to organize financial and wellness assistance for our hospitality industry. To these two organizations: We know you’ve got more than enough to say grace over in your own hometowns, but you made the difficult decision to expand your reach into our city and hire staff to put boots on the ground because you thought we were worth it, and we’re honored and gratified by your presence. Our entire community was hit hard by the double whammy of the tornado and the pandemic in early 2020, and that’s exactly when you stepped in to show workers in our hospitality industry that they were seen, they were appreciated, and they are an important part of what makes Nashville a great city. With your efforts to provide much-needed aid to food service workers — who may need anything from a friendly mechanic who’ll cut a deal on a brake job, to a little bit of help on next month’s rent, or even emergency psychological counseling — you’ve already gone above and beyond in your first few months here. Hopefully, we’ll return the favor by helping make those connections and raising funds for your long-term efforts, which will continue to be an important safety net for some of our neighbors.

—CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

Contributor, Nashville Scene

NASHVILLE SCENE | NOVEMBER 25 – DECEMBER 1, 2021 | nashvillescene.com

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HEY THANKS, THE PORCH WRITERS’ COLLECTIVE THE NONPROFIT HAS PROVIDED COURSES, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, ENTERTAINMENT AND INSPIRATION FOR NINE YEARS AND COUNTING

I hold a Master of Fine Arts degree from a prestigious university, but I have found more inspiration, support and realworld advice about writing in the workshops at our local literary bastion The Porch Writers’ Collective. Now when young writers ask me if they should pursue an MFA, I say, “Are there writing courses in your town? Check those out first.” At The Porch, you can study a multitude of writing genres in one-day workshops or those that span a couple of months. Upcoming classes include an intermediate short-story workshop, Reporting From Here: Journalism for Everyone, and Writing Parents and Children. The instructors are first-rate, and The Porch quickly adapted to using a virtual platform during the pandemic. The organization works hard to meet the needs of our city’s diverse communities. In 2016, The Porch launched a new workshop specifically for immigrants and refugees in Nashville and published an anthology of their writing in 2019. Earlier this year, instructors hosted free writing classes in Church Street Park with a true come-as-you-are spirit. In addition, The Porch partners with Nashville-area schools, after-school programs, libraries and community centers to provide creative writing workshops to kids in grades 3 through 12. On the artsy side, The Porch partners with OZ Arts for the Art Wire fellowship, in which fellows attend the venue’s world-class performances and write about them. The nonprofit partners with WPLN to produce the podcast Versify, in which people sit down with writers to talk about their lives, and the writers transform the people’s stories into poetry. All of this is in addition to a robust roster of public readings by writers from near and far, the popular Books, Bars and Guitars events that pair musicians with writers to perform at the posh Analog at the Hutton Hotel, informal brownbag lunches, book clubs and more. Just nine years in, The Porch is an important cultural institution that makes a difference in the lives of those of us committed to this often lonesome art form. I’m grateful for their service.

HEY THANKS, LEAROTHA WILLIAMS

HEY THANKS, GYRO SPOT

TO THE EATERY THAT LETS ME ENJOY BEING A REGULAR My girlfriend and I live near the multicultural treasure chest of eateries at the intersection of Nolensville Pike and Old Hickory Boulevard, and we’ve loved lots of them. Yet we keep going back to Gyro Spot, where we’ll stop in about once a month for the combo gyro plate. Each unassuming but delicious and generous portion comes in a container nearly bursting with rice, pita, gyro meat, shawarma-style chicken and salad, slathered in tzatziki or ranch. It’s not the comfort food I grew up with, but it’s extremely comforting regardless, like something you make for — or at least pick up on the way home to — someone you love on an ordinary day. Besides the food, there’s another important component to the appeal: being a regular customer with a usual order. It’s not that it’s an uncommon experience, or that Gyro Spot treats us better than any diner treats its regulars. We aren’t on a first-name basis with the two guys who are usually working when we come in, but they know us by sight (harder to do with masks of course) or else our order, which is the same every time. And I’ve got a reply ready when one of them does his occasional bit where he tells me the check is a thousand bucks: “You drive a hard bargain, my friend, but it’s worth every penny.” I’m getting older, more tired, less patient. These kinds of small, good things — I note with nods to Raymond Carver and late, great Scene editor Jim Ridley — have become very valuable to me. They help me bounce back a little quicker when I’m knocked down by a reminder of the ugly side of our world. And for that, dear Gyro Spot, I will always be grateful.

—STEPHEN TRAGESER

THE HISTORIAN AND TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DOES IMPORTANT AND OFTEN THANKLESS WORK The work of historians is always a public service, even if the fruits of their labor are consigned to dusty archives in the back of a library. For those willing to look, there is a trove of knowledge. Thankfully, Tennessee State University professor Learotha Williams has devoted lots of his time in recent years to being a very public historian. His work has contributed to the placing of historical markers, like one marking the spot of Nashville’s old slave market downtown. He’s also shined a bright light on the difficult but important history of lynchings in Middle Tennessee, and his Twitter feed (@learothawms) is a scrolling source of these and other historical anecdotes and artifacts. This year saw the release of I’ll Take You There: Exploring Nashville’s Social Justice Sites, a book he co-edited with Amie Thurber. And now he’s working with TSU and Apple to develop an app that will provide a guided walking tour of civil rights landmarks, along with audio of Williams’ own interviews with leaders and participants in the civil rights movement. At a time when the work of historians is increasingly being used as a political football, Williams is doing the slow and often thankless work of uncovering and preserving the interesting, complicated and, yes, difficult facts of our not-so-distant past. His work is seemingly endless, but we’re all better for it.

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—ERICA CICCARONE

Culture Editor, Nashville Scene

—STEVEN HALE

Staff Writer, Nashville Scene

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HEY THANKS, PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES MNPS TEACHERS AND STAFF HAVE BEEN MAINTAINING AN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT BUT IMPORTANT JOB

For more than a year-and-a-half, teachers and school staff have been maintaining an extremely difficult yet important job — educating our children and keeping them as safe as possible. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — or really, since the March 3 tornado that disrupted schools right before pandemic-related shutdowns — educators and support staff have had to act quickly, adjust to drastic changes and risk their health, all while teaching and caring for children as they face challenges of their own. This work has been further complicated by politics. Several laws and executive orders have been created in Tennessee this year seeking to restrict what can be taught regarding race and limit the district’s ability to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. (Metro Nashville Public Schools has continued to defy the governor and the legislature by requiring masks.) School board meetings have been a battleground for riled-up parents to challenge one another over these same topics. At those same meetings, teachers and support staff have been speaking about their struggles and asking the district for help. Many of these employees, along with bus drivers, have also held rallies to get extra attention and demand more support as they’ve had to work extra to pick up the slack left by vacancies. They’ve been spread thin with little reward or acknowledgement. I wish I could give each and every one of them a bonus — or even just a gift card — so they can treat themselves to a nice, well-deserved meal. At the very least, I can say thank you.

HEY THANKS, NASHVILLE PARENT INSTAGRAM

THESE LOCAL INSTAGRAM ACCOUNTS MAKE KEEPING YOUR KID ENTERTAINED A LITTLE LESS DAUNTING What is a best friend if not someone with a wealth of essential knowledge? A person who knows things like when a Christmas-light-display destination’s wait time is dreadfully long, or whether the ice cream is worth the money. A best friend is armed with key information, like knowing that the swings are broken at the local playground, or where the closest bathroom is. Thank goodness I found my internet BFFs, the gals I turn to when a long, blank weekend stretches in front of me and my child wakes up and asks: “What are we going to do today? And what are we going to do after that?” Enter @frecklefaced_adventures, @notathomemom, @thenashvillemom, @nashvillelittles and @nashville_parentguide. Bless these strangers on Instagram, with their tips on which splash pads have shade and when’s the least crowded time to go to museums, and their clear advice on which hiking trips are doable if you have a 4-year-old. My family is increasingly out and about thanks to you, and your service is duly noted and appreciated. You’re helping many a frazzled, caffeine-fueled parent. We may still be frazzled, but at least we’re *~*fun parents*~* now.

—KELSEY BEYELER

Education Reporter, Nashville Scene

—ELIZABETH JONES

Art Director, Nashville Scene

HEY THANKS, VENUE DOORPEOPLE

TO MY FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST MISSING OUT ON LIVE MUSIC The pandemic still isn’t over, but I’m grateful to have seen a few shows in person since venues began to reopen. Even with COVID-19’s Delta variant still around, the twinge of unease I get when going out feels manageable, so long as I wear a mask and keep my distance. And I can pretty quickly go back to enjoying just being there — hearing snippets of conversation and little riffs at sound check, being part of the crowd when we grow silent in recognition that something extra special is happening. I have a lot of folks to thank for making this possible. That includes venue management who made the decision to require proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test, and the fans, musicians and staffers who are happy to comply. It includes musicians who took on the burden of demanding this safeguard before it became common, even if it shouldn’t have been their responsibility. And I’d most especially like to thank the folks who work the door at venues, who are right there on the front line every night. For the most part, it seems like people who want to see shows safely are happy to get with the program, but when they’re not, it’s you, doorpeople, who take the full force of their tantrums. It’s you who have to interpret a Rosetta Stone’s worth of vaccination proofs and test results and keep the line moving as fast as possible — all while translating slurred mumbles, scanning tickets or taking cash, and juggling industry folks, journos and the like who are on the guest list. (Not to mention randos who think they ought to be on the guest list.) Without the work you’re doing, I’d be stuck where I was this time last year: sitting on my couch, staring at musicians on the screen, wishing I was in the room. I can’t thank you enough.

—STEPHEN TRAGESER

Music Editor, Nashville Scene

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One of the great things about this time of year is that you can just make something up, do it every year and call it a seasonal tradition. I went through a phase in which I tried to watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy every Thanksgiving (they’re all available for cheap rental via Amazon Prime Video), but last year I decided that can be really boring and I don’t feel like doing it anymore. So I’m plotting my new WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT

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WEEKEND CLASSICS: BREATHLESS

Sixty-one years ago, Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless fucked up cinema — but in a good way. This pulpy, 1960 yarn about a French criminal (Jean-Paul Belmondo, who died in September) who goes on the lam after killing a cop (he mostly hides out at the apartment of his American girlfriend, played by future FBI target Jean Seberg) was the most explosive grenade lobbed by the French New Wave — a movement full of celluloid-loving filmmakers (including François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol, who helped Godard come up with the story) hellbent on making movies that were savvy,

BREATHLESS hip and aesthetically anarchic. “We barged into the cinema like cavemen into the Versailles of Louis XV,” Godard said about himself and his La Nouvelle Vague brethren back in 1964. But even though many daring and rebellious films came out of this era, Breathless is still seen as the coolest. It’s the movie that basically convinced your favorite filmmaker (Scorsese, Tarantino, PTA — they’ve all been influenced by it) to start making movies. Catch it this weekend in a new 4K DCP restoration as part of the Belcourt’s ongoing Weekend Classics series. Nov. 26-28 at the Belcourt, 2102 Belcourt Ave. CRAIG D. LINDSEY MUSIC

tradition, and I’m really going to go for it. Maybe I’ll start watching the Friday trilogy instead — it’s on HBO Max. For me it has the same nostalgic quality as LOTR, but with way more Chris Tucker. Other ideas I’m workshopping are A Clockwork Orange and Kill Bill Vols. 1 and 2, available on HBO Max; Who Framed Roger Rabbit on Amazon Prime; and Blade Runner and Ghost, both on Netflix. I contend that a film need not be Thanksgiving-themed in order to fit into the traditional slot, but if you’re a stickler for theme there are options like Trains, Planes and Automobiles (Amazon Prime), Addams Family Values (Netflix) and Hannah and Her Sisters (Amazon Prime or Starz, if you’re one of the people who has Starz). Something to keep in mind: The 1993 Pauly Shore vehicle Son in Law is on Prime and is also Thanksgiving-based.

[TIMELESS PICKING]

THE ROLAND WHITE BAND

Looking back down the bluegrass highway, you can see how mandolinist Roland White has rolled along. Born in 1938, White moved to California in 1954 with his brothers Clarence and Eric, and the band he started with them, The Country Boys, ended up appearing on The Andy Griffith Show in 1961. After they changed their name to The Kentucky Colonels — none of the band members was from Kentucky — they recorded one of the most influential albums in bluegrass history, 1964’s Appalachian Swing! Like all great bluegrass records, it’s timeless: Listen to the frenetic picking on the album’s “Lee Highway,” which lasts all of 1:17 and paved the way for the

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MUSIC CITY CHORUS A BARBERSHOP HARMONY CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION MARCH 29 & 30

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SUNDAY / 11.28 [UPSIDE-DOWN FROWN]

GRUMPY W/LEGIT SMITTY & MICHAEL ALAN SCOTT

When local indie-rock outfit Grumpy headlines Exit/In on Sunday, they’ll bring

[HOLD ON TO THAT FEELING]

GUILTY PLEASURES 20TH ANNIVERSARY

There is no dearth of tribute acts in the town that loves to refer to itself as Music

City. But before it was just as common to hear Bon Jovi and Journey covers as Hank and Patsy ones in the neon canyon of Lower Broadway, a crew of local rock ’n’ rollers was cranking out note-perfect renditions of the hits for Nashville crowds. Now billing themselves as “Nashville’s premier ’80s cover band,” Guilty Pleasures got together for a gig at Mike “Grimey” Grimes’ East Side watering hole Slow Bar (now Three Crow Bar) back in September 2001. On Saturday night, bassist Grimes & Co. will take the stage at The Basement East (which Grimey co-owns) to celebrate 20 years of neon nostalgia — set-list staples over the years have included big ones by AC/DC, Prince, U2, Madonna, Van Halen and beyond. Seriously, you can hear wellrendered 1980s tunes at plenty of places in Nashville, but this post-Thanksgiving get-together with a crew of world-class performers is the show most likely to feel like an Old Nashville family reunion. Don’t stop believin’. 8 p.m. at The Basement East, 917 Woodland St. D. PATRICK RODGERS

[CAIT THE GREAT]

Caitlin Rose’s eclectic, funny, fiery 2011 local-and-beyond fave Own Side Now recently got the 10th-anniversary deluxereissue treatment via ATO Records, to be commemorated at this post-Thanksgiving 5 Spot gig with Old Nashville survivor Loney Hutchins Sr. Given the fact that Rose has kept a relatively low profile in recent years, it’ll be not just a thrill to revisit timeless Own Side material like coming-ofage anthem “Learning to Ride,” infectious country-rocker “Shanghai Cigarettes” and epic album closer “Coming Up,” but hopefully also to get clued into what Rose has been up to since 2013’s also-great The Stand-In, her only other full-length to date. For a taste of what to expect from longtime singer-songwriter Hutchins, check out his excellent tune “Stoney Creek,” which we recently shared via our music blog, Nashville Cream. Dress to impress; the show is going to be filmed. 8:30 p.m. at The 5 Spot, 1006 Forrest Ave. CHARLIE ZAILLIAN MUSIC

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progressive bluegrass and country rock that rose up in the 1960s and ’70s. Along the way, White played in bands with Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt. He formed The Roland White Band in 2000, and he’s also noted for teaching mandolin and being a mentor for young bluegrassers. White’s oeuvre is vast, but a good place to start is The Roland White Band’s 2002 full-length Jelly on My Tofu, which contains a cover of rock ’n’ roll songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s “Flesh, Blood and Bone,” first cut by Esther Phillips and Little Willie Littlefield in 1952. As White told Bluegrass Now writer Joe Romano in 1996, beholding Bill Monroe for the first time was a revelation: “It was a real eye opener to see how he was holding his hands.” White remains an eye-opening performer — don’t miss him. 8 p.m. at the Station Inn, 402 12th Ave. S. EDD HURT

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SYMPHONY BALL CELEBRATES 75 YEARS OF HARMONY

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with them a sunny, sardonic approach to DIY-informed melodic pop-rock that could appeal to fans of Best Coast and Mitski in equal measure. Look for the band — fronted by Charlotte, N.C., transplant and primary lyricist Mason Schmitt — to play tunes from its celebrated 2020 full-length debut Loser, and maybe even some new material. And given the show’s proximity to the holiday season, there’s a good chance you’ll hear the deliciously melancholic “Sad Santa.” Alt-rocker Legit Smitty and indie-pop singer-songwriter Michael Alan Scott will open. 9 p.m. at Exit/In, 2208 Elliston Place

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STARBENDERS, OLIVIA JEAN & GYASI

Former frontwoman of The Black Belles turned Third Man Records fixture Olivia Jean is becoming the type of artist so consistent it’s all too easy to take for granted. We shouldn’t. Last year’s Palladium, a collab with bilingual indie-pop veteran April March, brought an intriguing Francophone flair to Jean’s trademark “garage-goth” proceedings. Meanwhile, 2019’s Night Owl was an 11th-hour addition to my top 10 made-in-Nashville albums that year, a stellar set of surf-inflected, bass-driven tunes that are as fun to listen to

as I’m certain they were to play. Jean will play Sunday night at The Basement East as part of House of Lux Presents, a show put on by local producer and performer Lux-o-Matic and also featuring Atlanta’s Starbenders and local glam rocker Gyasi. 7 p.m. at The Basement East, 917 Woodland St. CHARLIE ZAILLIAN

MONDAY / 11.29 FILM

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MUSIC CITY MONDAY: LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER: THE RETURN OF MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN

Think of this week’s Music City Monday selection, Learning to Live Together: The Return of Mad Dogs & Englishmen, as the straight-faced answer to Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese. Just like in that Netflixdistributed pseudo-documentary, Learning follows a popular singer and a ragtag crew of musicians as they tour the country in the 1970s, complete with live concert footage. However, while Rolling sprinkled fictional tidbits amid the stuff that actually happened, Learning stays earnestly truthful — especially since the stuff that happened would be almost impossible to

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You probably know Jennifer Nettles best as one-half of the award-winning country duo Sugarland. But this versatile artist is also a seasoned Broadway performer. She made her Broadway debut in 2015 as Roxie Hart in Chicago, and would later go on to play Donna in the Hollywood Bowl production of Mamma Mia! This summer, Nettles released a new collection of Broadway songs called Always Like New, featuring

a great mix of both familiar standards and more contemporary tunes — from “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat” (Guys and Dolls) and “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ ” (Oklahoma!) to “Wait for It” (Hamilton) and “You Will Be Found” (Dear Evan Hansen). In October, she took over the lead role of Jenna in Sara Bareilles’ critically acclaimed musical Waitress. Now she’s back with the Nashville Symphony for a couple of intimate evenings filled with holiday favorites and Broadway hits. Nov. 30-Dec. 1 at the Schermerhorn, One Symphony Place. AMY STUMPFL

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make up. British soul singer Joe Cocker got eccentric musician and producer Leon Russell to round up a band for his 1970 U.S. tour, eventually assembling a heavily populated caravan of performers (including singers Rita Coolidge and Claudia Lennear) who brought along everything from children to pets. This doc takes us back to that wild time, as well as the time many of them reunited to perform with the equally crowded Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Lockn’ Festival in 2015. 5:30 and 8 p.m. at the Belcourt, 2102 Belcourt Ave.

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On Nov. 30, 2020, Nashville Public Radio launched music discovery station WNXP on 91.1 FM, the frequency that carried the nonprofit’s classical programming for almost a decade and beloved Vanderbilt student station WRVU for about 60 years before that. As contributor Lance Conzett pointed out in our Best of Nashville issue, where we crowned WNXP Best New Radio Station, program director Jason Moon

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I caught singer and songwriter Allison Russell’s show at Third Man Records a couple of weeks ago, and it occurred to me that Russell’s work represents what’s progressive about both Nashville and one of the city’s most notable musical exports, Americana. Most likely, Russell’s new album Outside Child will get attention from the folks who give out awards next year, and she’s already made inroads with

Collier, who will perform a mixture of songs and poetry. If you want to know why the new New Nashville is noted for its breadth of musical talent and reach of innovation, this is a great place to start. The show is presented by poetry and music collective The Porch, which hosts the bimonthly Mirror House series. The venue asks that you provide proof of vaccination or a recent COVID test, and there’s a suggested $10 donation at the door. 7 p.m. at Tempo, 2179 Nolensville Pike EDD HURT BOOKS

Wilkins, editorial director Jewly Hight and a growing array of staffers have done an exemplary job. They’ve made the station stand out in a very, very crowded radio marketplace as they put a diverse array of rising Nashville artists in context with the rest of the music world. To celebrate a year of sweat equity, the station is hosting a massive party on Wednesday with a stacked lineup of local artists. The threads that connect them all: They’re outstanding songwriters and musicians who’ve been featured on the station one way or another. Rocker and bandleader Liza Anne, post-Weezerian power-pop maestros *repeat repeat, inventive hip-hop storyteller and producer Namir Blade, nuanced pop songsmith Bantug and literary singer-songwriter Josh Gilligan are all on deck. 8 p.m. at Exit/In, 2209 Elliston Place

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I’m not someone who thinks social media is the root of all evil. We were plenty fucked before “friend” became a verb. But like most people I know, I could stand to spend less time on my phone and combat this enduring pandemic brain fog by letting the minutes tick by while focusing on other worlds than this. The Bookshop and the Graduate Hotel are teaming up for an event that will get you out of the house and put your nose in a book. Silent Book Club is perfect for introverts who desire to be among people but prefer to skip the small talk. The beauty of the event is that you can read whatever you like. Want to roll up with Infinite Jest? Be my guest. But you can also sink into a sofa with a cozy mystery (Louise Penny’s latest Three Pines novel is fantastic), catch up on Saga before the next volume drop or bring your earbuds to listen to a new audiobook. Grab a macchiato

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tastemakers and fans. Russell’s synthesis of Southern soul and post-1960s folkinfluenced art song gained resonance at Third Man thanks to a band that featured SistaStrings, a sibling duo composed of Chauntee and Monique Ross, along with guitarist Megan McCormick and multiinstrumentalist and arranger Larissa Maestro. As many notable folk-derived albums have demonstrated over the years, sheer musicality matters in music that usually depends on verbal textures, and Outside Child — as well as Russell’s live show — is as beguiling for its aural audacity as it is dependent on the themes Russell delivers. Wednesday night at Tempo, you can catch SistaStrings, McCormick and Maestro, along with Ominichord artist Ross

or green tea at the Graduate’s Poindexter Coffee, and enjoy the hotel’s posh lobby. Valet parking is $8. The November event filled up quickly, so register via Eventbrite soon. I feel smarter already. 6 p.m. at the Graduate Hotel, 101 20th Ave. N. ERICA CICCARONE

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URBAN BOURBON The Whiskey House is using its massive collection to help nonprofits fundraise BY CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

spend money on building materials or on whiskey,” he jokes.) They began to host entertaining and educational tasting events at the various Whiskey Houses until the organization morphed into a new, more professional enterprise with the acquisition of Whiskey House No. 4. JB formally transferred his collection to a new nonprofit that is in the final stages of achieving 501(c)(3) status after some minor hiccups in filing necessary forms. The new organization has officially hired its first employee as a house caretaker, contracted with accounting services and engaged legal representation to help navigate the sometimes arcane state alcohol regulations. JB is very aware of the laws and the potential to make accidental missteps, so he’s clear about what The Whiskey House is and what it isn’t. “We don’t have any ‘members,’ and we’re not selling tastings or bottles,” he explains. “We’re a corporation, and this is our office. Half of the corporations in town have a bar in their office, so we’re not any different. We also don’t directly donate any funds to nonprofits. What we do is offer a valuable platform for nonprofits to raise money for themselves through auctioning off tastings at their own fundraising events.” Recently, JB has helped local groups like OZ Arts raise $10,000 at its Beyond Bourbon event and donated and hosted three to six tastings per month for other charitable causes. Now, he’s ready to take it to the next level by going a little more public with The Whiskey House. “I’ve gone to a lot of charity auctions,” JB says, “and I’ve discovered that nothing raises more money than whiskey. People bid a lot more for rare tasting opportunities than for signed guitars and other memorabilia or tickets to sporting events. We vet each potential nonprofit partner that we find out about through committee members, and now I’m looking for nonprofits that I don’t know about to broaden the range of our outreach.” Committee members and volunteers

host and proctor each tasting event. Guests who have purchased spots at a tasting often gasp when they walk through the front door to discover room after room with shelves heaving under the weight of thousands of bottles. The two main collections are found in the Kentucky Room and the Tennessee Room, each featuring exhaustive assortments of bourbon and Tennessee whiskey. An International Room holds stores of scotch, rums and other spirits, while the main hallway is lined with shelves of less prestigious whiskey that are usually available for a short pour during a tasting. The Library Room is filled with rare barrel picks and irreplaceable special finds. “We consider ourselves to be the stewards of this collection,” explains JB. “There’s nowhere else in the world where you can sample 50 to 100 different Eagle Rare picks or Four Roses picks.” The highlight of the newest Whiskey House is what JB calls the Spirits Chapel — an auditorium setup with tasting rails to preset glasses as well as stadium seating and A/V capabilities to host up to 50 guests for large events. “It’s the room I’ve always dreamed about,” JB says. “It’s the Mother Church of Whiskey.” The walls of the Chapel and much of The Whiskey House are also covered with historical whiskey memora-

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omewhere in an undisclosed location in South Nashville, realtor John Brittle is smiling. The reason the location must remain shrouded in mystery is that the nondescript former commercial office building is home to a remarkable collection of more than 4,000 bottles of rare spirits from around the world, primarily whiskey. Brittle (known to all as JB) is grinning because he has a bold plan. “Our goal is to raise $250,000 for local charities next year!” This audacious proclamation is based on a long history of successful fundraising JB has done over the years. In addition to his career as a realtor with Parks, he has been a collector and donor for a long time, but he didn’t start out with whiskey. “I used to be a wine guy,” he says. “I’ve only been collecting whiskey for about six years, and I went into it thinking there were only like 100 whiskeys in the world. Then I realized that when I donate a bottle of wine to an auction, that was it. Somebody buys and drinks the bottle, and it’s gone. I discovered I can raise money with whiskey multiple times by offering tastings for nonprofits to auction off. Plus, I discovered that whiskey people are a lot more fun than wine people.” JB’s collection grew too big to keep in his own home, so he leveraged his real estate knowledge to find and lease several different buildings to stash the bottles and invite friends over to drink from his private holdings. Each iteration became known colloquially as JB’s Whiskey House, an “if you know, you know” situation among local whiskey lovers. Like Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland putting on a show in the barn, Whiskey House denizens pitched in to remodel each house to create storage for the collection — which grew geometrically each year — and comfortable seating areas to share a dram among friends. JB and his friends scavenged for building materials to make shelving and decorate each Whiskey House. (“I decided we could

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tastings occurring at the same time. JB or his docents will ask each participant what they normally drink, and maybe offer a small pour of a rarer version of their everyday favorite. Then, the educational portion of the tasting begins as guests are led through the differences of drinking from a proper glass, the effect of a small amount of water to open up a spirit, and the importance of using proper ice with large cubes provided by Nashville Ice Lab. A typical tasting will include 10 to 12 quarter-ounce pours of whiskeys that might be arranged by geography or style. (“If somebody pays $5,000 to be a part of a tasting, I’ll definitely dig a little deeper into the collection!” says JB with a chuckle.) It’s not all showmanship and glamour, as JB admits that he and other volunteers often spend an hour a day just cleaning glasses.

But now that the group has decided to aim for loftier goals, JB has committed to travel to events to help explain the tastings and raise more money. “One of the requirements of us to work with any nonprofit is that their leadership has to come see The Whiskey House in advance to know what we’re all about,” he says. “After that, I’m not afraid to go act as a carny for a nonprofit at an auction. People show up with these events ready to write a check, and if I can get in the right room with the right people, we can do some very special things!” If you see The Whiskey House name on the item list at some charitable auction you happen to be attending, you can know that lot is indeed very special. EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM

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available for $30 to $40 each. There are even more options — framed prints, home decor and accessories — for sale via his Society6 page. I personally find the tote bag featuring Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air daydreaming about mashed potatoes to be especially delightful ($24.99).

XPAYNE xpayne.com Contemporary pop artist XPayne has a lot of merch for sale on his website — prints, originals and dozens of T-shirts decorated with his colorful, playful illustrations of Black athletes, artists and pop-culture icons. There’s Redd Foxx as Fred Sanford, Mary J. Blige, Shock G and Kobe Bryant designs, to name a few, all

planners from Nashville’s own DesignWorks Ink go for $19. They also have a great selection of ornaments, including Post Malone’s head and a stick of butter.

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BLACK SHEEP GOODS blacksheepgoods.com Every piece of clothing Black Sheep Goods sells is one-of-a-kind and hand-dyed in a process called ice dying. Artist Ashley Owens pours liquid dye over clothing that’s covered with chunks of ice. As the ice melts, the dye swirls and drips into gorgeous and colorful designs reminiscent of tie-dye but with a more fluid, abstract watercolor look. Dresses, skirts, jumpsuits, sweatshirts, pants and more are available in sizes small to 3X, and a beautiful (and cozy AF) hooded sweatshirt goes for a very reasonable $40.

GOO GOO CHOCOLATE CO. 116 Third Ave. S. googoo.com The new Goo Goo Cluster shop on Third Avenue South opened just weeks ago after a lengthy renovation, and the new space makes it even easier for candy fans to design their very own premium Goo Goo Cluster ($12). Start by choosing a milk or dark chocolate shell and then fill it with your lucky giftee’s favorite ingredients — options include salted caramel, peanut butter, Nutella, potato chips, Fruity Pebbles, marshmallows, pecans, coconut, toffee, shortbread, white chocolate chips, rainbow sprinkles and more. Can’t make it to the shop? You can also order custom Goo Goos online for shipping.

DELIGHT ECLECTIC instagram.com/delighteclectic Delight Eclectic’s crystal jewelry designs are chic and simple, with just enough dazzle from rose-goldfilled chains and decorative gold wire-wrapping to really let stones like peridot, opal, green kyanite, strawberry quartz, smoky quartz, green tourmaline and amethyst shine. Necklaces cost between $40 and $80, depending on the size and type of stone. DM via Instagram to order.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC 510 Broadway nmaam.org Even someone with a passing interest in music will find something to appreciate at the National Museum of African American Music. More than 56,000 square feet of exhibits, memorabilia and artifacts tell the history of everything from blues, jazz and gospel to rock, hip-hop and pop. Annual memberships start at $25 and include unlimited access to the museum, free admission to museum programming, and discounts at the gift shop and for premium ticket events.

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LAWRENCE & CLARKE CACTI CO. AND GARDEN & MERCANTILE lccactico.com and gardenmercantile.com Giving someone a plant as a gift is a risky move — not everyone has a green thumb or appreciates a present that comes with commitment. That said, cactuses are hard to kill, and the experts at Lawrence & Clarke Cacti Co. (2003 Old Hickory Blvd.) will help you find the right little plant to please just about anyone on your list. If your plant-crazy pal already has all the greenery they need, hop next door to Garden & Mercantile (2007 Old Hickory Blvd.) for gift-worthy accessories like a frog-shaped moisture meter that ribbits when the soil gets dry. Cute! EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM

BUTCHER & BEE 902 Main St. butcherandbee.com Everyone has at least one friend who is really into condiments. (In my circle it is me, I am that friend.) For us, you’ll find the perfect gift in Butcher & Bee’s fermented honey ($10.25) and smoked onion jam ($10). Both will elevate even the most basic meal, from a thrown-together cheese plate to a sandwich stacked with whatever happens to be in the fridge. They’d even be great for the friend who loves to eat good food but hates to cook. KERNELS NASHVILLE POPCORN 2501B Gallatin Ave. kernelsnashville.com Is it really the holiday season if there isn’t a giant tin of popcorn somewhere in the house? Of course not. Kernels Nashville Popcorn tins come in three different sizes ($20-$60) and can be filled with one to three different flavors of the shop’s freshly popped popcorn. The menu includes caramel, cheddar, chocolate drizzle, Nashville hot, vanilla-cinnamon and more, and if you’re the kind of person who needs to try before you buy, just stop by the shop to sample more than a dozen different options.

N.B. GOODS 725 Porter Road shopnbgoods.com Just because the music lover in your life buys every record they want the moment it’s released doesn’t mean you can’t give them the gift of music. East Nashville’s n.b. goods has bold and beautiful handmade felt pennants ($20 and up), some of which feature popular song titles and lyrics. Jay-Z’s “Can’t Knock the Hustle,” Jason Isbell’s “Be Afraid” and Bruce Springsteen’s “My Love Will Not Let You Down” are all available, and n.b. goods can also make you a custom creation. For that Springsteen fanatic, don’t miss the shop’s “United States vs. Bruce Springsteen” trucker hat ($27). Eddie Vedder was seen wearing it in Asbury Park, N.J., in September!

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THE GOLDEN SLIPPER 314 Madison St. thegoldenslippernashville.com Germantown’s The Golden Slipper is a wonderland of eye-catching trinkets, many of which would be perfect for stocking stuffers, an office gift exchange or that new friend who’s still in the “Are we buying one another presents?” territory. Cute little vintage tins of fruit-flavored lip balm go for $6 a pop, while pretty bottles of cocktail syrups and bitters — in flavors like pineapple-lime, tomato-beet, and sassafras-andsorghum — start at $7. Have an office gift exchange? Striking and classic cloth-wrapped weekly desk

MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO SHOP LOCAL THE GOLDEN SLIPPER’S SHOP SMALL HOLIDAY MARKET Shop more than 30 vendors and then stick around for a neighborhood crawl through Germantown to visit nearby spots like Foiled & Fern, Tempered Fine Chocolate and more. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, at 314 Madison St. THE WICKED MARKET The Wicked Market is Nashville’s only pop-up shop that follows the lunar cycle, appearing during the night of each full moon. The last one of 2021 will be Dec. 8. Keep your eye on the website (thewickedmarket.com) for the location. PORTER FLEA The annual Porter Flea Holiday Market is back! There will be more than 200 vendors — see the full list at porterflea.com — as well as food trucks and music from WXNA Nashville DJs. Tickets to Friday’s Preview Market are $25; Saturday’s admission is free. 6-10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, at The Fairgrounds Nashville, 500 Wedgewood Ave.

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ART

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Bobby and Tinney Contemporary team up for A Fluid & Emphatic Now BY JOE NOLAN

random corners of the internet. Removed from their editorial and historic contexts, Mister’s copies are actually about the act of copying, and both the ethics and aesthetics of reproducing images. But the reason viewers might dig deeper into the more meta themes of Mister’s images is because they’re big — “Everest (Cyan)” and “Everest (Permanent Green Light)” are both mounted on panels that are nearly 5 feet tall — and they’re beautiful. I prefer blackand-white images to be balanced a little on the chilly side, and “Everest (Cyan)” cranks the cool to 11, rendering the inscrutable and icy face of the highest peak in the world in frozen tones that crackle with the ominous brutality of silent isolation. Francesco Lo Castro’s works like “Amalgama” and “Deep Zero” read like colorful, plump but graceful sculptures. Or maybe

they’re chubby soft paintings? These works are 3D, but they’re also wall-mounted. They occupy an ambiguous space between sculpture and painting that’s simultaneously playful and provocative. These abstract works are made up of arrangements of smooth, curving, puffy forms that are colored in muted tones of pink, blue and lavender. The pieces are all about form — they’re made out of heavy, dense MDF, but they look so soft and smooth that viewers will have to resist the urge to cuddle up with these unique pieces. I want to bear-hug Lo Castro’s wall sculptures, but I want to take a bite out of Elise Thompson’s multimedia works on paper and vinyl. Thompson’s paintings are about layers — painterly and personal. She explores these themes by combining materials like clear vinyl and transparent

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he downtown hotel Bobby may be best known for its rooftop bar and dog-in-residence program. But a new partnership with art gallery Tinney Contemporary is making the hotel a destiA FLUID & EMPHATIC NOW nation for art lovers THROUGH FEB. 28 AT BOBBY who want to take HOTEL, 230 FOURTH AVE. N. in contemporary BOBBYHOTEL.COM/ colors, forms and THECOLLECTION textures between their pedal-tavern rides and honky-tonk hangovers. Tinney is programming quarterly exhibitions at the hotel, and The Collection at Bobby’s inaugural show is a win for both the gallery and the hotel. The fantastically titled A Fluid & Emphatic Now is organized by Tinney’s gallery manager and curator Joshua Edward Bennett. The display is a mostly abstract affair, featuring works that highlight the unique materials they’re made of. Bennett is also an artist whose sculptural creations often use palettes and materials viewers are used to seeing in commercial signage applications. Bennett organized a roster of creators who make similarly unique choices regarding what art might be made from, the colors it might display and the textures it might embrace. In a time when so much contemporary art is focused on content, A Fluid & Emphatic Now reminds viewers that form will always be the capstone of the form-content-subject trifecta of art components, and it christens a new space in which to experience the pure pleasures of shape and space, tone and texture, color and composition. Some of my favorite works in the show are the folded-paper-currency photographs by New Orleans-based artist D-TAG. The works remind viewers of the beauty of paper currency’s complex aesthetics of symbols, codes, portraits, landscapes, unique colors and textures. The artist folds various bills in a practice that reads like obsessive abstract origami. D-TAG’s folded bills are also combined and overlapped. Through this process, he teases out unexpected designs and phrases that read like secret messages: “Living the Dream,” “Cash Rules Everything Around Me,” “The Future Is Bright.” D-TAG’s images are unique, and the text he reveals by rearranging and recombining the letters on the bills is refreshingly ambiguous, ranging from capitalist critiques to aspirational assertions. Viewers will be forgiven for thinking that Andy Mister’s gorgeous images of Mount Everest are photographs. These exquisitely detailed works look like pictures taken through colored filters or digital shots that have had layers of transparent color added via Photoshop. In fact, Mister uses carbon pencil, charcoal and acrylics to painstakingly re-create photographic images that he finds in magazines and textbooks, and in

washes of acrylic paints to add layers to her surfaces while allowing elements to show through and overlapping colors to combine into unique hues. But she also employs heavy pours of thick paint, and even attaches elements like glass beads to obscure and distort other elements, gestures and spaces. It’s not exactly a palimpsestic practice, but one feels like an archaeologist looking at these paintings, wondering at their origins, attempting to peer into the various versions of a work that might have existed before Thompson applied her last layers. These are paintings for people who love painting. They’re full of bold colors in unexpected combinations, applied in gobs and drips — thick cake-frosting layers and delicate gushes of transparent tones. EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM

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BOOKS

‘THE VOICE IS MY KEY’ Playwright and poet Dan O’Brien searches for meaning in the chaos of trauma BY MARIA BROWNING

an O’Brien, who has served on the faculty of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference for more than a decade, is an award-winning playwright and widely published poet, with a A STORY THAT HAPPENS: ON long list of honors PLAYWRITING, CHILDHOOD, that includes the & OTHER TRAUMAS 2018 PEN America BY DAN O’BRIEN Literary Award DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS — Los Angeles in 100 PAGES, $13.95 Drama (for The House in Scarsdale: A Memoir for the Stage) and the 2014 Horton Foote Prize for Outstanding New American Play (for The Body of an American). 2021 saw the publication of two books from O’Brien: a poetry collection, Our Cancers, and a book of essays, A Story That Happens, originally delivered as craft lectures at Sewanee. The essays weave observations on the art of playwriting with a deeply personal memoir shaped by the cancer diagnoses both O’Brien and his wife, actor and writer Jessica St. Clair, received six years ago. They also touch on his childhood and the experience of living and working in an era of global upheaval. O’Brien answered questions via email.

Your work as a poet and playwright grows out of trauma, but I wonder if you think of writing as personally cathartic or therapeutic — or is that an idea you reject? Writing saved me as a child and helps me live now. I don’t believe that anything I write can erase the effects of trauma, but the act of writing is how I strive to find form and meaning — a story — in the chaos of trauma. This personal story will change and require revision, naturally, as long as I’m around. Perhaps readers and audiences who relate to my work feel a kind of solidarity as they reflect upon the challenges in their personal stories. I was drawn to writing in early adolescence because I happened upon writers who transgressed the taboo of their traumas to create poems, stories, plays that told the truth, and did so with eloquence and insight. These writers gave me strength and made me want to do what they did. I haven’t wavered in this aspiration since I was 12 years old.

In the essay “Surviving Conflict,” you write about the war reporter Paul Watson and his guilt over photographing the desecrated corpse of a U.S. soldier in Somalia. You say you worried that your cancer and your wife’s came as “retribution” for the transgression of writing about his transgression. Are there always spiritual stakes in writing? That particular worry — that maybe I should not have written about the atrocities witnessed by Watson, or about the struggles of my childhood, for that matter — was related to the pressing question common to anybody in the midst of a catastrophe: “Why me?” During the six months of my wife’s breast cancer treatment, followed immediately by my own treatment for colon cancer, I was

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casting about for any reason why this double calamity should have befallen us. My questioning was a primal, even magical impulse.

In “Unspeakable: Speech Onstage,” you say you don’t envision your plays so much as overhear them, and later you note that drama is “first and foremost an auditory art.” Is staging ever critical to the meaning of a play? Oh yes, staging and all elements of design and stagecraft are critical to how a play communicates. But these elements are largely beyond a playwright’s control. In any case a stage production is secondary to the script, in that actors and directors and designers must follow and interpret the creation of the playwright. … When I write I try to listen, and to imagine the shape and movement, if you will, of conflicts and relationships. I want to hear voices, in the nonhallucinatory sense (or the quasi-hallucinatory sense when I’m writing well). Voices are most intimate to me. If I accurately hear how a character speaks, then I know them in a way more profound than how they dress, how they carry themselves, etc. The voice is my key.

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You write that in this moment of “intractable discord … we cannot afford to give up on the dream of being one another.” Can you say more about the value of imagining ourselves into very different lives? Playwrights shouldn’t presume to write about everybody everywhere — this kind of hubris leads to appropriation, caricature, offense and worse. Yet one can’t write solely about oneself if the art form is to survive and flourish. Fundamental to the entire endeavor of theater-making is the elicitation and exercise of empathy: Actors pour themselves into roles, audiences into characters. By becoming someone else we encounter ourselves anew. The theater provides the opportunity to question one’s self and the perceived other. The questioning is what matters, especially if, like me, you value plays that interrogate rather than resolve complex issues. To read an extended version of this interview — and more local book coverage — please visit Chapter16.org, an online publication of Humanities Tennessee. EMAIL ARTS@NASVILLESCENE.COM

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Your quick-reference guide to Record Store Day Black Friday releases and events in Nashville BY BRONTE LEBO

f you’re looking to support local businesses while finding unique gifts for yourself or the people you love this Black Friday, our local record stores are ready to help. Several of the local staples will participate in the annual Record Store Day Black Friday, stocking exclusive titles that are available only from indie retailers. Keep in mind that supply chain issues, including shipping delays and production problems, have been disrupting operaRECORD STORE DAY BLACK FRIDAY tions for independent HAPPENING AT RECORD record stores. If STORES ACROSS TOWN ON you had your eye on FRIDAY, NOV. 26 any specific titles, you may want to double-check that they’re still going to be available. The Record Store Day organization provided a list of delayed releases, but reassured customers that even those titles will arrive eventually. The list of exclusives dropping on Friday is still substantial, with 119 titles. These include a collection of reissues, like 50th anniversary editions of both Leonard Cohen’s Songs of Love and Hate and Miles Davis’ Live-Evil, and a 10th anniversary edition of Evanescence’s eponymous album. There are also a number of “RSD Firsts” that will be available on vinyl for the first time on RSD Black Friday, including Jason Isbell’s Geor-

gia Blue and John Legend’s Once Again. There are live recordings, like Charlie Parker’s Bird in L.A., Carole King’s In Concert — Live at the BBC 1971 and All Them Witches’ Live on the Internet, soundtracks to popular films including How to Train Your Dragon and The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, and even a few seasonal titles like The Staple Singers’ The 25th Day of December and Teddy Swims’ A Very Teddy Christmas. Even those shops that aren’t stocking RSD exclusives are finding other ways to commemorate the day, including discounts and giveaways. So grab a mask (they’re required or strongly encouraged at many of the locations on the list) and stop by this weekend at one or more of the stores that are here for you every day of the year. Alison’s Record Shop (994A Davidson Drive) won’t have any RSD releases, but they will be offering 15 percent off everything in store throughout the weekend. They’ll stay closed on Thanksgiving, but will open from noon to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. If you’re looking for RSD exclusives, head down the road to The Great Escape (5400 Charlotte Ave.). The store will open for extended hours on Black Friday, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., then resume normal noon to 7 p.m. hours on Saturday and Sunday. In addition to the exclusive releases, Great Escape will hold a storewide 20-percent-off sale with some exclusions. If you’d prefer to stay on the East Side, expect the same at the Madison location (105 Gallatin Pike N.). Also in East Nashville, Vinyl Tap (2038 Greenwood Ave.) will have a table of RSD exclusives that opens at 9 a.m. on Friday. Only two customers will be allowed to peruse at a time, so you may want to arrive early to line up. The rest of the store and the bar will open at noon. Among their RSD exclusive offerings, Vinyl Tap will have Lera Lynn’s Live &

Unplugged From Vinyl Tap LP, and Lynn will drop in for a performance, listening party and album signing at 3 p.m. on Friday. While you’re in the neighborhood, also head over to The Groove (1103 Calvin Ave.) for more RSD exclusives and a 40-percentoff sale on select other titles. The Groove — which recently launched a crowdfunding campaign in a bid to buy its building — will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Keep in mind that all deals are available in-store only. For more RSD exclusives in East Nashville, stop by Grimey’s New and Preloved Music (1060 E. Trinity Lane). The shop will open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. They’ll also kick off their annual Toy Drive for Christmas on Friday, so bring a toy donation to receive 15 percent off your purchase, with some exclusions. If you can’t make it out in person, any RSD exclusives that don’t sell over the weekend will be available on Grimey’s website starting Monday, Nov. 29.

Third Man Records (623 Seventh Ave. S.) will be carrying only Third Man titles, but they will have a tiered discount based on your total purchase: 10 percent off sales of $50 or more, 15 percent off $100 or more and 20 percent off if you spend $200 or more. You can spend some of that cash you saved in the Blue Room Bar, which will be open Friday and Saturday from 5 p.m. to midnight. Just outside of Nashville, Viv and Dickey’s Oldies and Goodies (1264 Jackson Felts Road in Joelton) is teaming up with Elevator Vinyl (115 Sanders Ferry Road in Hendersonville) and Disk Go Joe’s (211A N. Main St. in Goodlettsville) for the first annual Northside Record Crawl. Viv and Dickey’s is not stocking any RSD exclusives this year, but they will offer 20 percent off the whole store on Friday, when they’re open from noon to 6 p.m. And if you visit the three locations on Saturday between 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and answer trivia questions at each store, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win one of three prize packs, with first place valued around $200. EMAIL MUSIC@NASHVILLESCENE.COM

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RETURN OF THE MOLE MEN After 25 years, a neo-noir radio show starring Webb Wilder finally debuts BY DARYL SANDERS

leven months ago, awardwinning producer, director, writer and editor Steve Boyle stumbled across a one-ofa-kind time capsule from Nashville’s past. He was organizing his personal archives when he ran across the master tapes for Mole Men, a two-hour neo-noir radio drama he produced a quarter-century ago. It was intended to be the first episode in a series of programs starring roots rocker Webb Wilder, to be called Webb Wilder, Last of the Full Grown Men. Sadly, the pilot didn’t air and the series never came to fruition. Among his archives, Boyle also found a copy of the companion Mole Men novel he had co-written with actor-writer Shane Caldwell around the same time. “I had forgotten about all this stuff,” Boyle says. “I played the radio show and then picked up the book and thought, ‘This can’t be wasted, PART 1 AIRS ON WMOT because if I croak 89.5-FM AND WMOT.ORG ON tomorrow, my kids TUESDAY, NOV. 30, AT 7 P.M. AND DEC. 4 AT 6 A.M.; PART aren’t going to 2 AIRS DEC. 7 AT 7 P.M. AND know what to do DEC. 11 AT 6 A.M.; READING with this. It’ll be FROM THE BOOK DEC. 5 AT lost.’ And I didn’t EASTSIDE BOWL want to see it lost because it just didn’t seem fair. There was so much work put into it.” With the blessing of Wilder and Caldwell, Boyle cut a deal with Ingram Content Group to put the book back in circulation. Then he called Jessie Scott, program director at WMOT, and pitched her on airing the radio show. Thoroughly excited by the prospect — “She flipped out,” Boyle recalls — Scott agreed. “Jessie Scott is making this happen, and we’re very grateful for that,” says Wilder, who is also one of WMOT’s regular on-air personalities. He hosts Afternoons With Webb Wilder Monday through Thursday and the station’s Americana chart show The List on Friday. So after 25 years, Mole Men will finally make its broadcast debut on WMOT in two parts. The first will air Nov. 30 and be rebroadcast Dec. 4, while the second will air Dec. 7 and again Dec. 11. After it airs on WMOT, Mole Men will be made available to public radio stations nationally and internationally via PRX. There will also be a reading from the book and a short performance Dec. 5 at Eastside Bowl. Webb Wilder, Last of the Full Grown Men was originally conceived in 1994 as a TV series for Hard Rock Cafe’s global music video television network, after Boyle produced a series of sketches promoting the network that were dubbed “anticommercial-commercials.” They starred Wilder as a hard-boiled private detective, a character that dates back to a 1984 short film called “Webb Wilder, Private Eye: The Saucer’s Reign.” The short became a staple of the USA Network’s Night Flight program, and Wilder & Co. released a follow-up in 1991 called “Horror Hayride.”

Both “Horror Hayride” and the subsequent Mole Men featured Wilder reprising his private-eye character, and Caldwell was cast in both productions as the bad guy. “I pitched the idea of a television series for Hard Rock Cafe to back because the network was starting to develop further,” Boyle explains. “And the CEO said yes, but he wanted to read a couple of scripts. So Shane and I sat down to write scripts.” “I remember Steve and I had dinner at Green Hills Grille, and we talked about what the overall feel of the project would be, and Webb’s character — what he would do and how he would react to situations,” Caldwell recalls. “The first one we decided to do was ‘Mole Men’ because we all three love that three-episode arc of the original George Reeves Superman show called ‘Superman and the Mole Men.’ ” After they had already written a script for a “Mole Men” episode and another episode titled “The Doll,” the CEO told them he had a hard time reading scripts. He requested they give him a narrative version of the stories. “I thought, ‘You know what, I’m just going to print them as a book,’ ” Boyle recalls. “You want something that reads like a book? Well, here’s an actual book.” But before they could finalize the deal for the television series with the Hard Rock Cafe network, the CEO resigned and his replacement didn’t want to pursue the series. Boyle, Caldwell and Wilder were all fans of radio dramas from the pre-TV era, as well as Firesign Theater radio noir spoofs such as Nick Danger: Third Eye, so it was a natural fit to reimagine their show for radio. “I pitched it to NPR and PRI and both said they were interested, PRI in particular,” says Boyle. “But they both said, ‘We need to hear a pilot show.’ ” So Boyle produced what is now the stand-alone Mole Men as a pilot episode and filled the cast with familiar names. Wilder plays himself, of course, and Caldwell appears as Wormy Worsham. They’re joined in the production by the late George “Goober” Lindsey (who died in 2012) as Dusty Norris, Felix Cavaliere of The Rascals as Captain Jack McCreedy, the late James Griffin of Bread (who died in 2005) as Lance Murdock, Kathy Mattea as Thelma Newby and Jonell Mosser as Ruby Falls. Jim Hoke served as music director. By the time Boyle put the finishing touches on the pilot, both NPR and PRI had undergone format changes and were no longer interested. And with that, the project hit a dead end. Until now. Wilder is happy that Mole Men will finally be heard, and he credits Boyle’s tenacity with making it possible. “His energy and determination, I think, is the main reason [the show is airing now] — and the quality of the various participants,” Wilder says. “It’s kind of like a ‘rise of the Phoenix’ kind of thing.” EMAIL MUSIC@NASHVILLESCENE.COM

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A VERY GUCCI MOVIE Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci is absurd, bonkers and very watchable BY CRAIG D. LINDSEY

idley Scott’s House of Gucci is an astounding maelstrom of overacting — two hours and 38 minutes of go-big-orgo-home, basically. Nearly all of the principal cast puts on their best Italian accents and goes for HOUSE OF GUCCI broke in this film inR, 158 MINUTES spired by a true story. NOW PLAYING AT REGAL AND AMC LOCATIONS Leading the charge is Lady Gaga — she of actual Italian stock — as Patrizia Reggiani, the woman who climbed the social ladder by marrying Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver, the most subdued cast member) and becoming involved in the Gucci fashion empire. Gaga’s Patrizia is a spitfire, getting her Lady Macbeth on by convincing her husband, who had aspirations to be a lawyer, to look into the family business. But she doesn’t do this alone, getting help from Maurizio’s uncle and Gucci chairman Aldo (Al Pacino, bringing the trademark hamminess he’s able to turn up and down at will). Aldo is hoping his nephew will be his right-hand man, even though Maurizio was disowned by his ailing father Rodolfo (Jeremy Irons, still suave even when looking sickly) for marrying a commoner like Patrizia. (Papa Gucci practically recoils in terror when she tells him her family works in ground transportation.) Aldo would rather work with Maurizio than his buffoonish son Paolo, played by Jared Leto — and we have to detour to talk about Leto’s performance for a quick minute. Covered in

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duction designer Arthur Max and costume designer Janty Yates, they all look stylish as hell while doing it. Working from a script by Becky Johnston and Roberto Bentivegna, Scott sprints through two decades to get to all the meaty moments his actors can sink their teeth into. Admittedly, a lot of the performances feature the kind of soap-opera histrionics you’d usually find in a Ryan Murphy show. (It’s a shame all this happened overseas — this saga would’ve made a great season of American Crime Story.) But the acting just gels with the story’s grandiosity. Even though there’s no cocaine use in this movie (somewhat shocking, since it’s a film about rich, decadent people), nearly everyone acts like they just did a bump before filming. Perhaps the most revealing thing about

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C’mon C’mon is a comfy cableknit sweater of a movie BY JASON SHAWHAN

he rapturous news is that we have Joaquin Phoenix back. After his Oscar-winning and utterly disheartening performance in Joker, I’m not going to lie — I feared we’d lost him forever to a future of edgelord iconography. If you look at his collective work (and I’m specifically including To Die For, The Master, The Immigrant, Her, Inherent Vice and You Were Never Really Here), it’s not an C’MON C’MON exaggeration to say he’s R, 108 MINUTES NOW PLAYING AT THE one of the most consisBELCOURT AND AMC tently interesting actors THOROUGHBRED 20 in the business today. And that’s why the brick wall of Joker was such a giant flashing neon warning sign. So if nothing else, C’mon C’mon is a soothing soak of nervy kindness. Phoenix delivers in a role that could just as easily have been an indie take on “cool dad” tropes.

He’s alive and frustrated and deeply human, doing the thing — and I don’t even know if it’s a conscious choice — where you can see the toll of being human, being a flawed organism, in his eyes, and striving to be more than just that. It works just as well in director Mike Mills’ digital black-and-white as it does in any other Phoenix film. That protean skill this actor has, of blending into a space, defines much of C’mon C’mon. Phoenix’s Johnny finds himself the best possible option for his estranged sister Viv (Gaby Hoffman), who’s trying

to find a way to care for her precocious son Jesse (Woody Norman) while simultaneously trying to get her bipolar husband (Scoot McNairy) into a proper care facility. (McNairy gets short shrift from the script but nevertheless makes a devastating impression as a person adrift in his own body and life.) Johnny isn’t exactly meant to be a critique of nascent Peter Pan-ism, but he’s definitely meant to exhibit some manchild tendencies. Your patience with him may vary, but there’s an aspirational — in the good sense of the word — empathy to Johnny that feels real, and

Gucci is how it shows that the Gucci family was mainly made up of shitty businessmen. These gentlemen are so wrapped up in keeping their pristine family legacy intact that they often ignore how much money their empire is losing. And let’s not forget the fraud — be it tax fraud or making Gucci knockoffs — being committed. As much as the eyes-on-the-prize Patrizia tries to be an active member of the Gucci business, she’s no match for these men and their stubborn, scheming egos. By the time Maurizio predictably kicks her to the curb, she’s a full-fledged woman scorned, confidently choosing violence and reminding people you don’t mess with Italian women. House of Gucci is one sophisticated, sharp-dressed trip of a movie. EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM

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In this cause it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant is a non-resident of the State of Tennessee, therefore the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon NANCY ANN BIRD. It is ordered that said Defendant enter HER appearance herein with thirty (30) days after December 2, 2021 same being the date of the last publication of this notice to be held at the Metropolitan Circuit Court located at 1 Public Square, Room 302, Nashville, Tennessee, and defend or default will be taken on January 3, 2022. It is therefore ordered that a copy of this Order be published for four (4) weeks succession in the Nashville Scene, a newspaper published in Nashville. Richard R. Rooker, Clerk L. Chappell, Deputy Clerk Date: November 4, 2021 Jennifer L.E. Williams Attorney for Plaintiff NSC 11/11,11/18,11/25, 12/2/21 Non-Resident Notice Third Circuit Docket No. 21D1139 JESSE LEE WALL vs. OSCAR FERNANDEZ ERQUICIA In this cause it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant is a non-resident of the State of Tennessee, therefore the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon OSCAR FERNANDEZ ERQUICIA. It is ordered that said Defendant enter HIS appearance herein with thirty (30) days after December 2, 2021 same being the date of the last publication of this notice to be held at the Metropolitan Circuit Court located at 1 Public Square, Room 302, Nashville, Tennessee, and defend or default will be taken on January 3, 2022. It is therefore ordered that a copy of this Order be published for four (4) weeks succession in the Nashville Scene, a newspaper published in Nashville. Richard R. Rooker, Clerk L. Chappell, Deputy Clerk Date: November 4, 2021 L.R. DEMARCO Attorney for Plaintiff

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Non-Resident Notice Fourth Circuit Docket No. 21D1177 KARLA YESENIA GARCIA vs. NICOLAS GARCIA PEREZ In this cause it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant is a non-resident of the State of Tennessee, therefore the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon NICOLAS GARCIA PEREZ. It is ordered that said Defendant enter HIS appearance herein with thirty (30) days after December 16, 2021 same being the date of the last publication of this notice to be held at the Metropolitan Circuit Court located at 1 Public Square, Room 302, Nashville, Tennessee, and defend or default will be taken on January 17th, 2022. It is therefore ordered that a copy of this Order be published for four (4) weeks succession in the Nashville Scene, a newspaper published in Nashville.

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