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BILL FREEMAN, 1951-2024
The businessman, philanthropist and owner of the Nashville Scene died on Nov. 17
Bill’s loved ones will host a celebration of his life on Wednesday, Dec. 11, at First Presbyterian Church (4815 Franklin Pike). Visitation will begin at 10 a.m., and the service will be held at noon.
WILLIAM H. “BILL” FREEMAN, noted civic leader and proud Nashvillian, passed away Sunday, Nov. 17, at the age of 73. He leaves behind his beloved wife of 50 years, Barbara “Babs” Tinsley Freeman; his son, the Honorable James Robert Freeman (Rachel); his son, Cpl. William Harvey Freeman, USMC, retired (Eucaris Carlino); his son, Michael Edgar Freeman (Kimberly); and his seven grandchildren — Katie Freeman, Grace Freeman, and Will Freeman; Mikey Freeman and Hazel Freeman; and Ella Freeman and Elena Freeman. He is also survived by his sisters Beth Freeman Moore (David Moore), Barbara “Babs” Freeman-Loftis (Thomas N. Loftis Sr.), Brenda S. Freeman (Jeff Jones) and Bonnie Freeman Endsley (Tim Endsley), as well as a host of nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents Robert Louis Freeman and Virginia Margaret Gannon Freeman, as well as his sister Rebecca Freeman.
A Nashvillian born and raised, Bill especially loved his hometown of Donelson, where he first met his wife Babs when they were elementary students together. He never forgot his roots in Donelson, and he supported many worthy causes in his childhood neighborhood throughout his lifetime. Bill and Babs were faithful members of Hillsboro Presbyterian Church, and they both valued and instilled a sense of personal faith in their sons and grandchildren.
Bill was the co-founder of Freeman Webb Company, one of the country’s most successful companies in the multifamily industry, owning and managing more than 18,000 apartment homes in the Southeast with nearly 600 employees. Bill founded the company in 1979 with his best friend and business partner, the late Jimmy Webb. The company has been recognized many times over by local and national organizations for its efforts in championing affordable housing and for its work in the industry as a whole. The recognition that brought Bill the greatest sense of professional pride was Freeman Webb’s award as the 2017 Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM®) National Accredited Management Organization (AMO®) Firm of the Year — but the award that brought Bill the most personal satisfaction was the year-over-year recognition as one of the best companies to work for. The fact that he helped create a company that provided homes for working-class individuals and families and the fact that he built a company that was a pleasure to work for and provided stability for its employees were his greatest sources of professional accomplishment.
Bill was a quiet supporter of causes too numerous to mention. Stories will emerge for years after
he has gone of his quiet actions to help people who needed help. From the largest organizations to the neediest individual, Bill never said no to a true need. Not once. As frequently as his support was given, his determination to keep it quiet was just as common. Nashville will likely never know how many causes — large and small — were preserved, enhanced, saved or championed because of Bill Freeman.
A brief list of the organizations he supported include the University of Tennessee Foundation, Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, the Sexual Assault Center, Tennessee State University Athletics, the Nashville Zoo, the Reno Air Racing Association, the Clement Railroad Hotel Museum, Shelters to Shutters, the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, Day 7 and One More Day on the Appalachian Trail.
Bill was a proud member of the Democratic Party, both locally and nationally. He supported the Tennessee Democratic Party for several decades and also served as its treasurer in years past. He was considered one of the most influential fundraisers for local, state and national political campaigns, frequently named Tennessee’s top fundraiser for U.S. presidential elections.
Bill’s effort to champion important causes was not overlooked by our country’s leaders. He was named to the Kennedy Center Advisory Committee on the Arts in 2016 by President Barack Obama, and he served as the national co-chair of President Obama’s Organizing for Action Advisory Board. Still serving in this role at his passing, Bill also was appointed by President Joe Biden to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board in 2022.
Bill felt that the power of the press was an American institution and a personal freedom that should be preserved and strengthened. It was this belief that led him to found FW Publishing, the publishing arm for many independent media outlets in Middle Tennessee. It began as an effort to preserve the alt-weekly newspaper the Nashville Scene when it was at risk of closing in 2018, and the company has grown into a prime example of preserving and enhancing fair and balanced journalism and community news. FW Publishing has grown from its quiet start with the Nashville Scene to multiple cross-platform media outlets that cover the entirety of the greater Nashville area and beyond.
Bill was a man of principle. Personal beliefs and moral stances meant very much to him. He led his life with the guiding principle of the Golden Rule — doing for others what he hoped others would do for him. To Bill, right was right and wrong was wrong. He suffered no fools, but he also never met a stranger. Hearty handshakes and resounding claps on the back were commonplace.
It was that sincerity and that sense of fairness that drove Bill’s personal desire to balance the scales of life — if life didn’t play fair for a certain
group of people, Bill wanted to help. Homelessness, social justice and public education were especially close to his heart. Bill had a gift for bringing together folks from all walks of life. He treated every person he knew with the same level of respect and dignity.
His desire to help others and his prowess in the business world didn’t go unnoticed by others throughout Bill’s life. He was asked to serve on multiple boards and professional organizations, and he served with distinction on each one. Just a few of his appointments include serving on the boards of the Metro Nashville Airport Authority, the Nashville Public Television Council, the Tennessee State University Foundation, the University of Tennessee Alumni Board of Directors, Davidson County Mental Health and Veterans Court Assistance Foundation, the Nashville Area YMCA, the Nashville Convention Center Commission, the Nashville State Community College Foundation, the Cumberland Heights Foundation, Children’s House and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam also appointed him to the Tennessee State University Board of Trustees.
Bill’s roles on boards and charitable organizations were not the only actions Bill took to serve others. He was an alumnus of the Leadership Nashville program. He was named Man of the Year by the Nashville Area Junior Chamber of Commerce and Father of the Year by the American Diabetes Association. He was also a member of the Al Menah Shriners, the Royal Order of Jesters in the Nashville Court No. 92, and the Knights Templar. Bill was a member of the Belle Meade Country Club and a former member of the Cedar Creek Yacht Club and Richland Country Club. He was also a longtime Mason, having been elected twice as the Master of Corinthian Masonic Lodge, and was bestowed the highest honor in this organization in July 2023 as the 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Mason.
Sincerity, honesty and keeping promises were paramount to Bill’s success as a businessman, but they were even more important to him as a husband, father and grandfather. Bill’s greatest source of pride was his family. Ask anyone who knew Bill, and they’ll tell you he was so very proud of his sons and grandchildren. The example he set for his sons and daughters-in-law will undoubtedly be passed down to Bill and Babs’ beloved grandchildren, who were the greatest focus of their lives since Bill retired from his full-time role with Freeman Webb in recent years.
Everyone who knew Bill would say he was determined to accomplish a goal once he set his mind to it. He began in the real estate world at a young age, having been the youngest person to receive his GRI (Graduate, REALTOR Institute). He was also the youngest person to serve as the director of Nashville’s Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency (MDHA) under Mayor Richard Fulton.
As successful as Bill was in his professional career and philanthropic endeavors, he remained a man of the people. It drove him to run for mayor of Nashville in 2015 — not out of a desire to seek power, but from a desire to give back to the hometown he loved. It drove his hobbies and his interests — supporting his lifelong love of the outdoors, of aviation and of outdoor sportsman activities. His love of aviation led him to earn his private pilot’s license at a young age, and he was just as at-home in the skies as he was on the ground. Bill’s love for aviation included starting a Sky Diving Club while he was a student at UT. He enjoyed flying his P-51 Mustang, Su Su, and performing aerobatics with his Pitts Special airplane in air shows. He was a member of the Warbirds of America, the Seaplane Pilots Association (SPA), the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) and the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA).
A longtime member of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA), Bill sponsored innumerable hunts and activities designed to encourage a love of the outdoors in future generations. He was an avid outdoorsman and took great pleasure in duck hunting with the Full Contact Duck Club in Arkansas and spending time with friends and family. He loved nothing better than long walks in the woods. Bill and Babs took great joy in taking friends and family on wagon rides with his favorite mules, Sally and Jane, at their farm in Thompson’s Station when their boys were young. For decades, he hosted many hunts on his farm for military service members through the Wounded Warrior Project. His support for veterans was unparalleled.
He was also a lifelong supporter of the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, sharing with everyone that the Speedway was a true historical treasure to the stock-car racing world. Bringing NASCAR back to Nashville and seeing a stable future laid out for the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway was one of his long-held passions. He was also a stalwart supporter of law enforcement agencies, with a firm belief that police officers were the key to ensuring safe and thriving neighborhoods for all children to be raised in. He was a longtime supporter and member of The 100 Club of Nashville.
When Bill spoke at Jimmy Webb’s funeral in 2019, he commented through tears, “In the book of Micah, God gives us three requirements. Those three requirements are to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God.” Bill commented then that his best friend and true brother Jimmy had done just those things in his lifetime. So has Bill. Bill acted justly, he loved mercy, and he is walking humbly with his God. May he rest in peace. ▼
POPULAR LIBRARY WELLNESS PROGRAMS LOSE FUNDING
A fundraising shortfall may threaten community yoga and meditation classes
BY ELI MOTYCKA
OVERSCHEDULING BY THE Nashville Public Library system has left popular community classes without a full operating budget starting Jan. 1. At least one operator is independently fundraising to maintain its BeWell programs, which serve thousands of Nashvillians across the city’s 21-branch system. Calling its current level of service unsustainable, the library is in the process of reducing some but not all of its BeWell programs.
Internal budget decisions left BeWell, an NPL initiative that coordinates free wellness-focused classes, without the money to support its full programming schedule from Jan. 1 to June 30, the end of the current fiscal year. BeWell facilitates yoga, tai chi, meditation, music and craft programs, and maintains a particularly strong presence at branches in Madison, Donelson and North Nashville.
Two sources of funding directly support Nashville’s library system. Through Metro’s annual budgeting process and regular capital spending plans, library branches get basic operating support for staff, books, essential services, renovations and maintenance. The city’s budget totaled 444 staff positions and $46,359,200 across all branches in 2024, an increase from previous years’ budgets.
The Nashville Public Library Foundation, a nonprofit that is closely integrated with but
LAWYERS DETAIL ARGUMENTS AHEAD OF SCOTUS HEARINGS
Tennessee ban on transgender care for adolescents challenged in U.S. v. Skrmetti
BY HANNAH HERNER
IN THE PAST three years, 24 states have instituted bans on gender-affirming care for minors. Before that, every state allowed various treatments for transgender youth with parental and physician approval — including hormones, puberty blockers and in some cases surgery.
Chase Strangio, co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union LGBTQ & HIV Project, pointed out this fact during a Monday virtual press conference. This week, he will become the first openly transgender attorney to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court as part of United States v. Skrmetti. (Arguments in the case were set to begin Wednesday, Dec. 4 — after this issue went to press.)
“What Tennessee has done is to ban hormone
legally independent from Metro, raises booster funds to support additional programming like children’s puppet shows, author visits, an early literacy campaign and BeWell. Board members include prominent business and political figures, as well as the mayor. In last year’s annual report, NPLF claimed $12.8 million in fundraising; the same retrospective says BeWell, specifically, brought “3,900 wellness programs to over 32,000 participants.” Kristi Graham, NPLF’s communications director, referred the Scene to Nashville Public Library spokesperson Andrea Fanta.
“These yoga classes are highly popular, and — while we offer them at no cost to the community — NPL pays for these classes,” Fanta tells the Scene in a statement. “Unfortunately, we can’t sustain them at the current level. To ensure we can sustainably offer these classes, NPL continues to seek grants and other refunding opportunities.”
Liz Veyhl of Small World Yoga is now looking for $12,000 to keep scheduled yoga and meditation classes in Nashville libraries through June 30.
“Six weeks ago I got a call from Bassam [Habib], who runs the BeWell program, notifying us that we would not get full funding for our full yoga classes for the first half of next year,” Veyhl tells the Scene. “People depend on these classes, especially this time of year. We greatly
therapy and puberty-delaying medication only when those medications are prescribed to allow adolescents to live, identify or appear inconsistent with their sex assigned at birth,” Strangio explained Monday.
“The prohibition is not based on any sex-neutral criteria like risk or evidence of efficacy, but instead on whether a course of treatment departs from what is expected for people based on their sex at birth. We are simply asking the Supreme Court to recognize that when a law treats people differently based on their sex, the same equal-protection principles apply regardless of whether the group impacted by the law happens to be transgender.”
The basis of the plaintiff’s argument is the 14th Amendment, also known as the Equal Protection Clause. Strangio, members of the ACLU of Tennessee, Lambda Legal, a Memphis physician and a Nashville family — among others — are seeking to convince the court that the ban on gender-affirming care for minors singles out and discriminates against the group.
There are several potential outcomes to the case, Strangio added. The U.S. Supreme Court could recognize that Tennessee’s law discriminates based on sex and therefore the court should send it back down to a lower court and require heightened scrutiny — a legal term that brings additional stipulations for a law to be considered constitutional. Another outcome is
value our relationship with NPL and are trying to figure out how to keep serving our community there.”
Habib, BeWell’s program coordinator, declined to comment on the record. While budget decisions happen over his head, Habib was tasked with notifying BeWell partners about the funding.
“These classes are for everyone,” Habib says in a Nov. 27 press release issued by Small World
the highest court applying the heightened scrutiny standards itself, Strangio says, to decide whether the law is likely constitutional or likely unconstitutional. Or the Supreme Court could agree with the lower court that allowed the ban to go into effect.
There’s a possibility that the new presidential administration delays the case, but Strangio says that regardless of whether the Trump administration wants to switch sides (the U.S. is currently on the side of the ACLU and plaintiffs), the basis of the case will not be threatened. In addition, the ruling would not automatically affect the other 23 states, as their laws differ, but it would supply a standard that could lead to changes in their laws.
Nashvillian plaintiffs Brian Williams, his wife Samantha Williams and their 16-year-old transgender daughter LW Williams have been traveling to another state to obtain hormone therapy for LW since the ban was passed during the 2023 legislative session and went into effect in July 2023. She started puberty blockers at 13 years old and hormone therapy at 14, Brian WIlliams explained Monday.
“We are not expecting anyone to understand everything about our family or the needs of transgender young people like LW,” said Williams. “What we are asking for is for her freedom to be herself without fear. We are asking for her to be able to access the health
Yoga. “We see a really diverse demographic of students attending these classes, across education levels, employment status, income, and housing.”
The city’s seven-person library board — a Metro entity separate from the NPL Foundation’s board — paused its executive search in February. Terri Luke has led the Nashville Public Library as interim director since the retirement of former director Kent Oliver in 2022. ▼
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“ WE ARE SIMPLY ASKING THE SUPREME COURT TO RECOGNIZE THAT WHEN A LAW TREATS PEOPLE DIFFERENTLY BASED ON THEIR SEX, THE SAME EQUAL-PROTECTION PRINCIPLES APPLY REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE GROUP IMPACTED BY THE LAW HAPPENS TO BE TRANSGENDER.” — CHASE STRANGIO
care she needs, and in her adulthood, knowing nothing is holding her back because of who she is. At the very least, we’d ask others to do what we did all those years ago when LW first came out to us: open your hearts and listen.” ▼
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WITNESS HISTORY
This 1964 Gibson Dove was acquired by John Leventhal in the 1990s, played onstage by Rosanne Cash for many years, and given to Cash’s daughter Carrie Crowell as a wedding gift in 2014.
From the exhibit Rosanne Cash: Time Is a Mirror
artifact: Courtesy of Carrie Crowell artifact photo: Bob Delevante
2024 Boner Awards
From conspiratorial legislation to country stars hurling chairs, here’s our 35th annual list of bloopers and blunders
Here we are, three-and-a-half decades after the inception of the Scene’s annual Boner Awards issue, and Nashville’s elected leaders, country stars and other public figures just keep topping themselves.
Back in 1990, these annual anti-awards were named for single-term, scandal-plagued Nashville Mayor Bill Boner. Even so, Mayor Boner’s transgressions seem downright quaint compared to what lands in the Boner Awards nowadays. This year’s issue has it all: state leaders passing conspiratorial legislation about
A Bill That Should Have Been Squashed
There’s certainly a human propensity to panic — ask Satan. One of the latest subjects of this tendency is vaccinations, especially in Tennessee. During this year’s legislative session, Rep. Scott Cepicky (R-Culleoka) tried to claim that the government could vaccinate a person against their will, through their vegetables. They’re vaccinating our vegetables! Cepicky’s conspiratorial legislation sought to prohibit the manufacture, sale or delivery of the hypothetical vaccinated foods without proper labeling. The labeling would require, however, that this is a scientific possibility. Oral vaccines are rare, and it’s simply not possible to infuse them into produce. Despite a committee room that sounded like a comedy club, the legislation ultimately passed.
The Tin Foil Hat Caucus
There are plenty of issues affecting the lives of Tennesseans that we’d love to see our state legislature take action on. “Chemtrails” and theoretical “geoengineering” are not high on that list. In this year’s session of the Tennessee General Assembly, a bill designed to ban intentional modification of the atmosphere was sponsored and pushed by Republicans in the state House and Senate. During discussion of the bill, some elected leaders referred to “chemtrails” — the subjects of long-debunked conspiracy theories involving top-secret toxins being sprayed in the atmosphere for malevolent purposes. “If you look up — one day, it’ll be clear,” said Sen. Frank Niceley (R-Strawberry
chemtrails and vaccinated vegetables; a scandalplagued country star chucking furniture off the roof of a honky-tonk; U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles doing just about everything wrong.
Read on for a list of this year’s biggest screw-ups, compiled by the Scene’s editorial staff. See also: our petty-crime roundup, in which former staffer and current contributor J.R. Lind highlights some of the dopes and ding-a-lings arrested for Boner-worthy criminal behavior in 2024.
Plains) at a March hearing. “The next day they will look like some angels have been playing tictac-toe. They’re everywhere. I’ve got pictures on my phone with X’s right over my house.” Despite making national (and international) headlines and being labeled “nonsense” by environmental experts, the legislation passed easily in both chambers.
A Different Breed
When a fellow lawmaker is trying to prohibit marriage between first cousins, sometimes it’s better to say nothing at all. Republican
state Rep. Gino Bulso of Brentwood learned this lesson in a committee hearing when he very nearly let the completely settled bill pass his desk without his additional comments. Instead, Bulso — like his grandparents before him — submitted to a burning urge, telling his own inbred family history despite the adverse consequences. No one asked, but Bulso shared anyway, informing colleagues that he — the grandchild of first cousins — now stood with them in striking the same statute his grandparents married under.
Reading Comprehension
Official state books are, in theory, a great way to encourage reading across Tennessee. But state Rep. Gino Bulso (who else?!) attempting to put that theory into practice was another situation entirely — especially since some of the texts he proposed in House Bill 1828 aren’t even books. Many of them also don’t have anything to do with Tennessee. In his efforts to get the Bible established as Tennessee’s state book, Bulso suggested that and another nine texts, including George Washington’s “Farewell Address” (not a book). One silver lining to this hot-mess express? America’s sweetheart made the list, as Bulso included Dolly Parton’s children’s book A Coat of Many Colors. The legislation passed.
Gallery Games
At the beginning of the 2024 legislative session, state House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) decided — somewhat randomly — that each member would get one guest pass to allow an individual to sit in the west side of the House gallery while lawmakers conducted business. The east side remained open to the general public, but that didn’t seem to prevent confusion about the golden-ticket matter, as many members of the public were turned away. Sexton said it allowed for legislators’ visitors to get seats. What wasn’t explicitly stated: The tickets created a friendlier crowd for Sexton and his GOP colleagues, with Republicans controlling 75 of the House’s 99 tickets.
Put ’Em Up
Nashville’s public schools have been improving,
and Rep. John Ray Clemmons (D-Nashville) wanted to recognize that, introducing a resolution honoring Metro Nashville Public Schools for achieving a glowing review of its post-pandemic recovery. But Rep. Scott Cepicky (R-Culleoka), who infamously said his goal was to throw the whole public school system “in the trash,” disagreed. The two almost came to blows on the House floor this spring after Cepicky moved to kill the resolution and called Nashville schools “shitty,” with their near-fisticuffs captured in an iconic series of photos by Tennessee Lookout’s John Partipilo. The civility police weep.
(Not the) Master of His Domain
If you search for Cosby, Tenn., rep and House Republican Caucus Chair Jeremy Faison on Google, you’ll get news about his role passing some of Tennessee’s stupidest bills, or that time he tried — and failed — to pull a referee’s pants down at a kids’ basketball game. But if you see a link to what appears to be his campaign site, jeremyfaison4tn.com, you’ll get a laundry list of his other misdeeds. Lesson one of the internet for any public figure is to own your domain before the trolls do. As the Tennessee Holler spotted, Faison even left the lapsed link in his Twitter bio for a stretch. Considering the fact that JeremyFaison.com also redirects to the wall of shame, it’s not clear what Faison will do for a web presence besides posting corny MAGA memes on his personal social media.
Unchained Weaponry
A bill requiring safe firearm storage was shot down in the Senate Judiciary Committee despite a botched live demo by chair Todd Gardenhire (R-Chattanooga). Armed with bolt cutters, Gardenhire set out to prove how easy it was to slice through a cable securing a gun safe. But the cable wouldn’t budge, even with Gardenhire putting his weight into it. Despite the failure, he insisted a lock could be bypassed by a “professional” criminal. The cable put up a solid fight, but the bill didn’t survive.
Sign Me Up
To run for student council, a candidate sometimes needs 25 signatures from classmates to qualify for the ballot. The threshold is the same for our state legislature, and even our bestfunded and most popular local representatives occasionally struggle to find just 25 local voters to sign their forms. Nashville Democratic Rep. Justin Jones — of Tennessee Three and MSNBC fame — seems to enjoy that struggle, as he turned in just 26 signatures to qualify for the ballot in his dark-blue district this year. His GOP opponent objected, and regulators found various issues with a number of the signatures, though not enough to boot him from the ballot. All this could have been avoided by turning in 50, but instead Jones threatened to force Democrats to launch a risky write-in campaign to save the left-wing seat. It wasn’t his first time flubbing the process, as an early Jones bid for Congress was derailed by deficient signatures. But he was outdone by a nearby Republican, as
GOP candidate Jennifer Frensley Webb faced similar issues as she qualified for the ballot in a different Davidson County district. Webb went one step further, though: One of her petition signers confessed under oath to the felony of signing the document on behalf of a family member.
Kissing the Ring
Gov. Bill Lee continues to kiss the ring of once and future President Donald Trump — but he’s clearly not respected for it. Lee, who chairs the Republican Governors Association, was called a RINO — that’s “Republican in name only” — by Trump after the two endorsed different candidates for an East Tennessee state Senate seat. Lee supported incumbent Jon Lundberg (a proponent of his voucher legislation), while Trump threw his weight behind Bobby Harshbarger, an anti-voucher candidate and the son of Republican U.S. Rep. Diana Harshbarger. Just a few days later, Lee told reporters he still supported Trump, but he just has his “own style.” Even now, Lee continues to fall in line with outlandish Trump policies, like the abolition of the Department of Education. Give us a break, Bill.
Labor Pains
Gov. Bill Lee’s pitch to keep Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant union-free stalled out as more than 70 percent of employees voted for United Auto Workers representation. Lee and his Republican allies refused to call it a failure — but it sure wasn’t the “loss for workers” he claimed. Meanwhile, the president of UAW Local 1853 in Spring Hill suggested Lee might be sweating the South’s growing momentum for organizing workers.
Put Down Your Pencils
Last year, Lizzette Reynolds stepped into her role as Tennessee education commissioner with lawmakers questioning her credentials. Six months in, the calls just got louder. There were some obvious red flags — like the fact that, as revealed by Democratic state Rep. Caleb Hemmer, her primary residence was in Texas — and some statute violations. Despite Gov. Bill Lee’s unwavering support, Reynolds, not qualified as an administrator or teacher, struggled to get around mandates that the commissioner be qualified to teach “at the highest level of education that she oversees.” She enrolled at UT-Martin for teaching credentials a little too quickly. She also signed forms saying she’d worked for the state for more than six months (she hadn’t) in seeking a tuition waiver. She ultimately repaid the taxpayer dollars months later amid damning Tennessean reports.
Dim Tim
At a Chiefs Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City, Mo., in February, a mass shooter killed one woman and injured 22 people, including 11 children. Instead of offering the traditional “thoughts and prayers,” Republican U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett of Knoxville shared a photo of
Andy Crapp
Looking at his record since taking office, you might think Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles has been trying to make it onto the Boner Awards list. From false statements about his professional and educational background to unaccounted-for money meant for a children’s burial garden, civil penalty payments for multiple campaign finance violations and amended campaign finance reports, he’s certainly put in the work since being elected to Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District two years ago. In August — on the day after Ogles defeated his Republican primary challenger, Metro Councilmember Courtney Johnston — the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided Ogles’ office and seized his cellphone as part of an investigation into the congressman’s financial reporting. Ogles — nicknamed “Pinocchi-Ogles” by some — characterized the FBI’s investigation as a politically motivated attack on his campaign. But despite all the scandal, the former mayor of Maury County still went on to defeat Democratic challenger Maryam Abolfazli and secure reelection. Maybe this award ought to go to 5th Congressional District voters.
a man whom he called an “illegal alien” and a “shooter.” Despite being briefly detained by police, that man (Denton Loudermill Jr. of Olathe, Kan.) was not one of the people who was involved or charged in the shooting. Loudermill was instead a parade attendee and a literal victim of the trauma of another mass shooting in America. Burchett later deleted his post and followed up with a statement saying he was incorrect in claiming that Loudermill was an “illegal alien.” The post still used a photo of Loudermill in reference to “one of the shooters.” Burchett blamed “incorrect news reports” for his false statement. Loudermill sued Burchett in a Kansas federal court, though the case was later thrown out due to what the judge argued was Burchett’s lack of a connection to the state. (Loudermill’s attorney plans to refile the suit in a Washington, D.C., federal court.) The Knoxville News Sentinel later reported that Burchett spent $20,000 of his 2024 campaign donations in lawyers fees over the suit.
Closed-’Dores Policy
Most reporters know not to put ourselves at the center of a story. That’s Journalism 101. Sometimes, it’s unavoidable — like when, on March 26, Scene reporter Eli Motycka was arrested by Vanderbilt University police while reporting on student protests regarding campus
speech and Israel’s military invasion of Gaza. He was released from custody a few hours later and ultimately wasn’t charged with a crime (because he committed no crime, because he was doing his job), with Judicial Magistrate Timothy Lee not finding probable cause to hear charges against Motycka. Vanderbilt, at the time beset by ongoing student protests and criticism of Chancellor Daniel Diermeier (who wrote a crisis-management book in 2011), subsequently announced that the school had selected Nashville attorney Aubrey Harwell of Neal & Harwell to lead an independent review of the university’s response to the arrest. Harwell recommends in his 27-page report a clearer external media policy, better communication between police and administrators and advance warning before campus police make a trespassing arrest. All of that would be nice to see — as would an apology.
Psych Out
College-campus culture wars have inspired many difficult conversations across dinner tables, department meetings and dorm rooms. Thankfully, one absolute truth doesn’t get a lot of contrarians playing devil’s advocate: Nazis are bad. Austin Peay State University’s Logan Smith, hired as an assistant professor of psychological science and counseling over
the summer, seemingly thought the Nazis had some good ideas, actually. Before and during his Ph.D. research, Smith ran popular social media channels dedicated to different categories of hating people, growing to a degree of folk prominence among the American far right. It all caught up with him this fall, when an anonymous anti-fascist group exposed the connections, setting off a short and successful campaign that got Smith out of APSU. Next time, maybe the job interview can include a few questions about extracurriculars.
In a School Zone
If you want to get from kindergarten to first grade, it’s a good idea to learn how to say you’re sorry. Somehow that lesson has evaded school director Amani Reed, who hopped among the nation’s most prestigious private schools before landing the top gig at University School of Nashville in 2022. In the past six months, Reed’s mishandling of sexual misconduct by a former English teacher has managed to turn alumni, teachers, parents and students against him. Within a few weeks of the new school year, students walked out of class in protest, and multiple teams of attorneys were conducting overlapping inquiries — all while parents cut monthly checks toward the $30,000 tuition bill.
Flying by the Seat …
When bro-country dunce Morgan Wallen isn’t packing arenas full of our nation’s tonedeaf citizens, he’s out doing bratty punk shit on Broadway. You know the story by now: He got drunk and threw a chair off the rooftop of Chief’s — an act that could have seriously injured someone. It landed near some cops, which you’d think would bother his more conservative fans, but his listeners shrugged it off. Boys (i.e., 31-year-old men) will be boys, we suppose. The Metro Council wasn’t so lenient, and denied a vertical sign for Wallen’s new honky-tonk — a move that probably doesn’t pass First Amendment muster but did send a message that many Nashvillians are not amused by Wallen acting like a drunk tourist.
the contents of a three-bedroom apartment — or about three-dozen basement-dwelling incels.
‘Master Race’ Proponent Is No Mastermind
It takes a lot to earn the direct attention of the U.S. attorney general, but 24-year-old Skyler Robert Philippi of Columbia, Tenn., did just that in November when he allegedly planned and attempted to bomb a Nashville electrical substation as part of a white supremacist plot to throw the region into chaos. Luckily for all Nashvillians, and unbeknownst to him, Philippi was in cahoots with two Federal Bureau of Investigation informants who provided him with fake explosives. But he “believed he was moments away from launching an attack on a Nashville energy facility to further his violent white supremacist ideology,” U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a release. Philippi also allegedly planned to commit a mass shooting at a Columbia YMCA before moving on to bigger and bolder targets. If convicted, Philippi could face up to 20 years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine for the charge of attempting to destroy an energy facility. He could also face up to life in prison and a $250,000 fine for the charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.
OutDick
Clay Travis — the former lawyer and sportswriter turned right-wing TV and radio “personality” behind sports and politics website OutKick — could have an entry on this list every year. In 2024 alone, he called for Trump supporters to commit jury tampering, said WNBA star Caitlin Clark is lucky to be getting any salary at all because “no one cares about” women’s basketball, and sicced his racist manchild followers on ESPN reporter Mina Kimes after she praised vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s masculinity. It’s a bummer sharing a city with this doofus.
All Fans Are Welcome, Like It or Not
Nashville SC announced before the 2024 season a new “seated supporters section” at Geodis Park to give more people a chance to watch with the team’s most passionate fans. Ahead of the March 8 match against Inter Miami, however, Nashville SC announced visiting supporters were welcome in the “mistakenly labeled” section. It felt like a betrayal to die-hard fans, who consider themselves an integral part of the match day experience. Many didn’t buy the team’s “mistake” explanation and speculated the change was made to sell more tickets to fans who’d pay top dollar to see Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi live.
about how Queen Bey needs to cozy up to the mainstream country “family” if she wants to be part of it, it’s a major miss even on the most commercially crass level to ignore her — along with the slew of Black artists who contributed to her album.
Police in Bio
OK, this one feels a little too obvious for the Boner Awards. Showing poor judgment, even by police standards, a Metro Nashville cop decided to appear in an OnlyFans video groping a woman during a fake traffic stop. All right, he didn’t just “appear.” He drove up in his own cruiser, in his actual uniform, while on the clock and — according to NewsChannel 5 — the video was his idea! The Metro Nashville Police Department had already been investigating Sean Herman by the time NewsChannel 5 broke the story in May, and eventually arrested him and suspended his certification in August.
Cord Cutting
Patriot Games
When a gaggle of Patriot Front white nationalist goons marched through downtown Nashville on July 6, they drew condemnation from government and community leaders. And according to The Tennessean, they also breached the contract for the rented U-Haul vehicles they traveled in. A U-Haul rep told the daily: “U-Haul is an inclusive company. Our customers reflect every walk of life — representing every demographic across every geographic area in the U.S. and Canada.” The Tennessean reported that U-Haul’s terms and conditions state that a “customer shall require passengers to ride only in the cab of the truck, pickup truck, and van or vehicle towing any trailer.” U-Haul vans are a common form of transportation for the hate group, which makes sense, because according to U-Haul’s website, their 26-foot trucks can move
Billy Blue Jeans
For a brief moment, the hapless Tennessee Titans seemed to have found their quarterback of the future. That hope was short-lived. Will Levis, the mayo meister himself, became the laughingstock of the NFL early in the 2024 season, regularly turning what should have been routine plays into backbreaking, abstractly dumb turnovers, single-handedly losing a handful of games. The “generational” run of meme-worthy plays will be remembered long after Levis’ career is over.
Plan Bey
Credit where it’s due: Queer and Black artists were not entirely ignored by the crew behind the 58th Annual CMA Awards. And voting members of the organization gave Morgan Wallen only one of the seven trophies he was nominated for (though it was the biggest one, Entertainer of the Year). But when superstar Beyoncé makes a massive country album, why pretend it doesn’t exist? Setting aside the truth in Luke Bryan’s quiet-part-out-loud comments
ILLUSTRATION: HOLLY CARDEN
There have been extensive layoffs across the corporate media world in 2024. Paramount Global’s belt-tightening ahead of a planned merger included wiping out years of online content from various assets including MTV News and Nashville-based Country Music Television. In September, Paramount laid off the overwhelming majority of staff at CMT, including longtime senior VP of music and talent Leslie Fram — in other words, a collective of people who’ve worked hard to make the channel better at representing the diversity of who makes and listens to country music. (Also, y’know, giving people a reason to pay attention to a cable network in the streaming era.) From a glance at the CMT website, the plan appears to be to keep the network going in a zombie state to, uh, help promote spinoffs of Yellowstone
Oh Naur
Male revue Thunder From Down Under has begun its residency at the historic Woolworth Theatre, which was once the site of some of Nashville’s historic civil rights protests. But that questionable choice is not what this Boner Award is for. The Woolworth Theatre was slapped with accusations of breach of agreement and promissory fraud in court earlier this year because of the way they handled another group of hotties — Chippendales. Chippendales Holdings brought a lawsuit against the venue for flaking out on a pending contract, with theater reps claiming they’d received a “far superior proposal.” We’re staying tuned to see if these poor Aussies come close to completing their three-year contract in this cursed venue.
Trouble Jeopardy
Back in June, an episode of Jeopardy! honored Nashville by featuring our fair city as the answer to a clue. “For some authentic hot chicken in this city of its origin,” the clue read, “try 400 Degrees or Hattie B’s.” While we don’t necessarily mind being associated with hot chicken in general or Hattie B’s and 400 Degrees specifically, how do you mention Music City’s most famous dish and
leave out the originator, Prince’s Hot Chicken? As the apocryphal story goes, after being served the intensely spicy dish by his romantic partner as punishment for his philandering, Thornton Prince perfected the recipe for hot chicken nearly a century ago. To folks outside of Nashville, leaving Prince’s out of the Jeopardy! clue was likely an unnoticeable error. But to those of us who live here — where Prince’s legendary great-niece André Prince Jeffries is still the face of not just Prince’s but also hot chicken at large — it was a scorching error.
Not En Pointe
Nashville Ballet has a long history of “creating a climate of respect that is supportive of all voices and celebrating diverse stories.” So imagine our surprise when artistic director/ CEO Nick Mullikin recently appeared on Mike Huckabee’s TBN show to promote Nashville’s Nutcracker. It’s not as if the former Arkansas governor and recent Trump appointee has been shy about sharing his anti-LGBTQ views. (He once compared marriage equality to legalizing substance abuse, polygamy and incest.) The move might have curried some favor with the Huckster’s long-suffering “War on Christmas” pals, but we have a feeling it also landed Nick on quite a few naughty lists.
Pissed Off in Millersville
It’s rare anyone gives much thought to Millersville, a town of 6,000 straddling Robertson and Sumner counties, best known as a place to get gas if you can’t make it all the way to Cross Plains. Per capita, however, it may lead the state in political drama that sometimes cascades into surrealism. The city fires employees with Steinbrennerian regularity, which led to the police chief becoming city manager. That seems like standard-fare smalltown cronyism. Except it led to the assistant police chief running the force, and instead of focusing on whatever Millersville police ought to be focusing on (which, for decades, was pulling over anyone going 36 in a 35), he chooses to engage in conspiracy theories involving foreign adversaries, mortgage fraud and child sex trafficking — theories so febrile and disjointed even 8chan is like “bruh.” It’s all very confusing, which is probably the point, but at some point, the assistant chief drew the attention of the TBI, which raided his home. In a social media video, he accused agents of peeing in his bathtub and tracking urine through his house, which he said was some kind of coded message about “piss on you, America.” In fact, the only pee left behind was from the assistant chief’s dog, who — frightened by the commotion — let loose in the tub before an agent kindly took him outside to finish. Maybe the dog, a husky mix, was one of them foreign adversaries.
Fall Before the Pride
Some two years after Murfreesboro City Manager Craig Tindall raised Cain over BoroPride’s attempt to host an LGBTQ Pride festival, the city agreed to pay $500,000 to
PETTY CRIME ROUNDUP
From a nude liquor heist to a lube-assisted handcuff escape, here’s our roundup of 2024’s most Boner Award-worthy small-time crime
BY J.R. LIND
DISTILLING A YEAR’S worth of idiotic — and largely inconsequential — criminality into one reflexive story has never been an easy task. It’s grown only harder since Nashville decided to cater to infrequent visitors committed only to coming to town for a few days to flaunt the standards of good taste, decorum and decency. But enough about the Tennessee General Assembly.
The Broadway blotter in 2024 was — as has been the case for the decade-plus since the city pivoted to an economic model based on overserving Cybertruck drivers, future failed tradwife Instagram influencers and school-board meeting busybodies — full of the usual cavalcade of self-urinators and incoherent Pink Whitney-vomit-flecked entitled alumni chapter presidents. For the most part, the bachelorettes with the ruined mascara and the lascivious gawkers slobbering at them receive a reprieve this year, however.
Our algorithmically driven news presentation pushed them off Google’s first 173 pages because a certain country music megastar (we don’t use names in the Petty Crime Roundup) — whose unceasing antisocial behavior has been so public, egregious and unpunished that the next logical career step is a Trump cabinet nomination — heaved some furniture from precipitous height.
Given that sort of competition, it’s going to take a lot more than screaming at a cop or yellowing the crotch of your pleated khakis to get attention.
It helps draw eyeballs to your misdeed if you’re a relatively prominent person, or at least related to one.
The son of a Mississippi Republican congressman was arrested for his small-potatoes foreshadowing of the aforementioned country singer when he tossed a cup from atop Jason Aldean’s bar this year, hitting the
foot of a passing Metro police officer. The principal of a prominent Cincinnati Catholic high school lost his job after being kicked out of — and returning to — The Twelve Thirty Club six times one enchanted March evening.
On the rankings of societally important people, “TikTok influencer” falls behind “child of backbench congressman” and “administrator of Midwestern parochial school.” So it should be no surprise that, despite convincing more than 4 million people to watch your insipid 30-second videos about God-knows-what, you’re still getting a free trip to the lockup if you punch a server at a honky-tonk across the jaw. That’s what one TikTok influencer who is probably better-known than George Will learned in March. (George Will would never get arrested at Rippy’s, or get on TikTok for that matter.)
Kid Rock’s MAGA Griftarama, Neon Shot Emporium & “Steak” “House” is the axis mundi for booze-fueled dumbassery, with fights and nudity and general disorder the nightly agenda. A 26-year-old Illinoisan was arrested in February for assault of an officer, disorderly conduct, vandalism and resisting arrest. He was apparently so upset by the entertainment being offered that he was knocking things from the bar and stage. Having good taste is a crime now.
At least his logic was sound, unlike that of the 61-year-old man arrested in June at Broadway Brewhouse. He was discovered, wearing naught but a bar apron, trying to steal liquor. Far be it from us to yuck somebody’s yum, but if you find yourself nude at 6 a.m. and breaking into a Broadway Brewhouse, steal the hot wings.
Of course, drunken lunacy needn’t be confined to bars. You can also get hammered and do something stupid at less obvious places, like a middle school
football game in Lebanon, as one Hartsville couple learned in September. So incensed was the missus at the pivotal events of Satterfield Middle versus Winfree Bryant Middle, she poked at an opposing fan. An SRO leapt to action, and he and the poker took a tumble. While the SRO was doing his best to restrain her enthusiasm, he got kicked by the missus’s mister. Both were arrested.
Sounds like a healthy marriage, unlike that of the 26-year-old man arrested at Commerce and John Lewis Way in April for firing shots into the air. He told the officers — after he threatened their life, catching a charge — that he was just happy he’d gotten divorced. Vegas would have been cheaper, pal.
It would have been safer to just do some light vandalism. Small thinkers will merely vandalize one trash can or lamppost, but that wasn’t good enough for a 37-year-old arrested in April. He hurled a perfect game: knocking down all 76 planters on the Broadway Bridge. Sturdy though they were, the planters themselves were not damaged, just tossed asunder. The plants within and the soil, however, had to be replaced to the tune of $3,800, unbudgeted no doubt by the beautification folks. And this is why it’s important to have a plan. A 25-year-old was arrested in the computer lab at the Divinity Library at Vanderbilt University (read that again) for … uh, an act of self-devotion. Because in this age of smartphones and ubiquitous internet access, the only place to access the ’Hub is a divinity school library. Hands don’t have to be idle to be the devil’s playground. Anyway, the man was cuffed but managed to wriggle free because, well, he’d come prepared with lubricant, and his hands were still slick with assistance when he was Mirandized.
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settle a federal lawsuit with the American Civil Liberties Union. That money went to the Tennessee Equality Project, which “advocates for the equal rights of LGBTQ people in Tennessee,” and organizes the BoroPride Festival. The settlement agreement also repealed a city ordinance aimed at banning drag performances from happening on public property and meant that the city would accept any future event permit applications from the group, which successfully held its 2023 festival months later at Murfreesboro’s Miller Coliseum.
Google It
If you do some online research on Freedom Valley, a few results will come up — including an adults-only campground in Wisconsin, and another nudist-oriented campground in Ohio. While the name evokes adults-only retreats in the minds of some, the Clarksville-Montgomery County Board of Education thought, “What a nice name for an elementary school!” The name Freedom Valley Elementary was pitched as a patriotic nod to the area’s Fort Campbell history, and it was initially the board’s favorite out of a list of 40 options. But ultimately, after a bit of light research, the name was rejected. As reported by Clarksville Now, one school board member said, “If you want to know why we oppose this name, go out and do your research.”
Money Pit
This year’s sinkhole in the Gulch is probably second only to the Tower of Babel in terms of heavy-handed construction metaphors. The ongoing build of a fancy condo complex had already obstructed traffic and annoyed neighboring businesses, and in January, as workers dug trenches for utility lines, the road collapsed. (Fortunately no one was injured.) As The Tennessean reported, it wasn’t the first time Yates Construction, the company overseeing the site, had received stop-work orders, but it was maybe the most visually dramatic of the stoppages. While a growing Nashville needs to build, these haphazard construction sites — aimed at wealthy out-of-towners — only highlight how some developers will happily make life worse for everyday Nashvillians in pursuit of profit.
You Don’t Want the Smoke
At Roy Meat Service, you can choose your soda and you can choose your sides, but you can’t choose your neighbors. January will mark almost two years since a new neighbor filed a lawsuit against the beloved meat-slinging corner store for the fumes billowed by its smoker — and the Scene can’t remember a worse-picked fight. Social media caught wind of the suit about a year after it was filed, and Jeff and Christie Roy have raised more than $45,000 to cover legal fees and reported a spike in business since they became the heroes of their own East Nashville folk tale. Their litigious neighbor — the owner of this particular Boner — has apparently gone silent, and according to The Tennessean, Roy bought a second smoker to keep up with demand.
Brainworms on Parade
In May, former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium for a “Night of Country and Comedy” — where he praised the power of laughter but talked no policy in his approximately 10 minutes of stage time. Minutes before showtime, a spokesperson for Kennedy told reporters that the longshot candidate would not attend the event due to a “weather/family emergency” in Florida. That story quickly changed when a performer informed the crowd that Kennedy would be late due to a family emergency. The show started more than half an hour after its advertised start time, and RFK Jr. took the stage just before 11 p.m. — after the crowd was warmed up by some of the … brightest and funniest comedians of our time, including accused rapist Russell Brand and Jim Breuer, who went from being a Saturday Night Live cast member to being a darling of conspiracy-obsessed Christian nationalists. The lack of policy talk (or interaction with the non-ticket-holding public, or with local reporters) wasn’t an issue for RFK Jr. fans. And hey, he’ll have plenty of time to talk policy (and potentially damage America’s public health initiatives) if he’s confirmed as President-Elect Donald Trump’s next Department of Health and Human Services secretary.
Grants Tomb
Nashville’s art world is generally a fairly Bonerless arena. But whenever government funding is involved, Boner Awards are sure to follow. Such was the case with the Metro Arts Commission, whose botched 2024 grants process involved a tug-of-war between institutions and individuals that unfolded like a convoluted soap opera. The commission started the year with what seemed like an unfortunate enough Boner Award — it could barely retain enough members to make a quorum. A tumultuous and brief tenure from the commission’s director and a $3 million fund set aside by Nashville to handle Metro Arts’ issues left everyone — even submitters to our annual “You Are So Nashville If …” competition — confused. Submitted reader Trent Hanner: “After multiple explanations and podcasts, you still don’t understand what happened at Metro Arts.”
Choose How You Move On, Emily
Former Metro Councilmember Emily Evans made hating public transportation her whole personality this year. In addition to whining on social media, she founded the lethargic and ineffective Committee to Stop an Unfair Tax. She also floated strange ideas she said were just jokes in a story by the Nashville Banner: saying there’s an “assault” on drivers, suggesting the city pay for Uber rides and conjecturing that Elon Musk could build a tunnel to the airport. The referendum won big at the polls despite Evans’ … uh, imaginative messaging. In a final act of desperation, Evans and the Committee to Stop an Unfair Tax are suing the city to stop the referendum — which the city’s legal director calls “a nuisance.” ▼
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[LIFT YOUR VOICE] PENTATONIX
Prepare to get in the holiday spirit with sensational a cappella group Pentatonix, bringing their Hallelujah! It’s a Christmas Tour to Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. The Grammywinning ensemble has captured the hearts of millions with their extraordinary vocal talent and innovative arrangements. The group’s current lineup consists of Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Kirstin Maldonado, Kevin Olusola and Matt Sallee, whose unique blend of voices and captivating stage presence have propelled them to international stardom. The quintet has been invited to perform everywhere from the White House to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and has become a global phenomenon, selling more than 10 million albums worldwide. Their holiday concerts feature beloved favorites like “Carol of the Bells,” “Let It Snow,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and their iconic arrangement of “Hallelujah,” and their flawless harmonies and infectious energy will have you singing along in no time. Gather your friends and family — it’s a show that will leave you feeling merry and bright.
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7 P.M. AT BRIDGESTONE ARENA
501 BROADWAY
LESLIE ODOM JR.
THURSDAY / 12.5
[A CENTURY OF WAFFLES]
COMMUNITY
100TH ANNUAL WAFFLE SHOP
In 1924, the Downtown Presbyterian Church put on its first Waffle Shop event as a fundraiser for the church and as an unofficial way to kick off the holiday shopping season — back when downtown was Nashville’s center of retail commerce. Now the annual event celebrates a century of waffling for a good cause, and it’s morphed into a way to support the church’s important homeless outreach initiatives. Those include a free breakfast and access to essential items like socks, underwear and toiletries to anyone in need every Saturday morning. Guests are invited to a breakfast prepared by parishioners, with a menu including waffles, grits, Hattie B’s Hot Chicken, Puckett’s country bacon, and turkey hash made from the original Waffle Shop recipe, plus a choice of Frothy Monkey Coffee or spiced tea. There will be holiday music, an organ recital, opportunities to do a little holiday shopping at either a silent auction or the church’s gift shop, and fascinating historical tours of the ornate
19th-century Egyptian Revival-style sanctuary at Downtown Prez. Eat well and do good at the same time! CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN
11 A.M. AT DOWNTOWN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
154 REP. JOHN LEWIS WAY N.
MUSIC
[INSTRUMENTAL EFFORTS] BENEFIT FOR VICTIMS OF HELENE FEAT. WILLIAM TYLER, JACK SILVERMAN QUARTET & KANNON
At the end of September, Hurricane Helene devastated a sizable portion of Appalachia in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina, an area where preparing for the effects of a hurricane hasn’t historically been necessary. The recovery will continue for a long time, and musicians in Nashville keep finding ways to support. Thursday’s show, set to raise funds for various recovery efforts, features three artists who make fascinating, thoughtful instrumental music. Kannon is a jazz-schooled quartet whose saxophonist, Chris Watts, spearheaded organizing this gig. Back in May, they released their latest track, a cool arrangement of Alice Coltrane’s “Blue Nile” that takes on proggy dimensions toward the conclusion. Jack Silverman Quartet, continuing to evolve in
the wake of their excellent debut LP Prince of Shadows, takes up the middle spot. Topping the bill is widely loved guitarist, composer and improviser William Tyler, whose two recent releases look backward and forward. Future Myths features new solo arrangements of the songs from his 2019 full-band album Goes West performed in a unique acoustic space — a decommissioned railway water tank in Rangely, Colo., called The Tank Center for Sonic Arts — while “Flight Final,” which brings synths and samples into the mix, is a taste of new music to come next year. STEPHEN TRAGESER
9 P.M. AT THE BASEMENT
1604 EIGHTH AVE. S.
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[IT’S ROCK O’CLOCK SOMEWHERE] TIM CARROLL’S ROCK ’N’ ROLL
HAPPY HOUR
After more than a decade, Tim Carroll’s weekly Rock ’n’ Roll Happy Hour at The 5 Spot has become a Nashville institution. It’s also one of the city’s better musical bargains. Songwriter, guitarist and recording artist Carroll and his bandmates — bassist Cullen Tierney and drummer Zack Murphy — serve up two-anda-half hours of original, incendiary rock ’n’ roll every Friday, no breaks, no cover. Although he got his start as a punk rocker, since moving to Nashville from New York in the early ’90s, Carroll has carried the banner for a bluesy brand of guitar-driven rock featuring hot riffs and memorable hooks. He’s a prolific writer — the late songwriting legend John Prine recorded one of his songs — and he’s known to play as many as 50 original numbers during a single happy hour show. Currently, Carroll’s shows include five or six songs from his recently released 18th album, the excellent Roll With the Revolution. The happy hour shows usually run from 6 to 8:30 p.m., but this Friday he will get the party started a half-hour earlier. DARYL SANDERS 5:30 P.M. AT THE 5 SPOT 1006 FOREST AVE.
[GOD BLESS US, EVERY ONE!]
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A TALE OF THREE CHRISTMAS CAROLS
More than 180 years after its publication, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol remains an enduring staple of the season that has been adapted countless times for both stage and screen. Beginning this weekend, you can check out three very different versions that are sure to get you into the holiday spirit. Rabbit Room Theatre and Matt Logan Productions are teaming up to premiere a magical new adaptation, which will run Dec. 7 through 22 at the Franklin Special School District Performing Arts Center in Franklin. Adapted by Rabbit Room’s A.S. “Pete” Peterson and directed/designed by Logan, the production features a stellar cast, plus an original score and digital projections by Tony and Laura Matula (MA2LA). Next up, Nashville Rep is bringing back its heartwarming production from last season Dec. 6 through 22
at TPAC’s Polk Theater. Artistic director MicahShane Brewer has crafted a sweet, festive piece with some lovely musical elements and a grand Victorian design. And it’s great to see so much of the original cast returning — including Matthew Carlton as Ebenezer Scrooge. Looking for something totally different? Street Theatre Company has got you covered with StarKid’s campy A VHS Christmas Carol, playing Dec. 6 through 21 at the Barbershop Theater. Packed with nostalgia, this offbeat show reimagines the beloved tale in the style of an MTV music video, with plenty of ’80s references, fashions and catchy synth-pop tunes. Directed by Sawyer Wallace with music direction (and narration!) by Randy Craft, it’s a fun twist on a true holiday classic. AMY STUMPFL THROUGH DEC. 22
album propelled Musgraves to a handful of Grammy nominations, including Best Country Album (for Deeper Well) and Best Country Song (for the contemplative country-folk song “The Architect”). She also earned a nod in the Best Americana Performance category for “Don’t Do Me Good,” a duet with Madi Diaz that appears on the latter’s 2024 album Weird Faith. Now Musgraves closes the year with a two-night performance at Bridgestone Arena, her final stop on a world tour supporting Deeper Well that took the singer-songwriter across Europe and coast to coast in North America. Support on the show comes via indie-rock band Lord Huron and bluegrass favorites Nickel Creek.
celebrate when she returns to her adopted hometown this weekend. She’s touring in support of Deeper Well, a serene new LP that may be her finest songwriting since 2018’s wildly successful Golden Hour. Last month, the
If you’ve ever noticed an NFL referee who had biceps larger than anyone else on the field, that was Ed Hochuli. Now retired, Hochuli reached a nearly unbelievable status as a beloved NFL official, a job where most workers are known to fans more for their failures than successes. The Steel City post-hardcore strongmen of Edhochuli named their menacing unit after the ref, which makes perfect sense. The band was forged in the city of Homestead Steel Works, as the band’s sound reflects — heavy, sweaty, ugly music for an industrial decay. But don’t miss the locals either. Wife-husband duo Friendship Commanders will be back in Nashville after a busy fall touring the Southwest. Newcomers Yammer Jaw have grabbed a lot of attention recently with their abrasive riffs and manic live sets. And Woundflower dropped one of my favorite releases of 2024, an imaginative grindcore/industrial mammoth called Misery. Bring earplugs, because this show promises to be cranked to 11. P.J. KINZER
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[COLLECT ’EM ALL] BOOK SWAPS
Treat yourself to a new book at one of three upcoming book swaps in December, taking place all across town. Bring a new or gently used book and swap with other readers, all while being able to declutter your bookshelf for new goodies. On Dec. 7, Heart & Light Yoga (4331 Old Hickory Blvd., Old Hickory) will host their book swap and also feature fantasy author Blair Ryker. Her latest title, The Cards We’re Dealt, will be available for purchase and signing. Literary Flour will also be present, offering bookishthemed cookies to round out the afternoon.
Nash Gals Book Swap will host a White Elephant Party at Love and Exile (715 Main St.) on Dec. 16. You can bring a used book for the usual swap, or you can bring a brand-new, wrapped fiction book to participate in the exchange. On Dec. 20, Nashville Smut Lovers is hosting its own White Elephant Book Swap. Guests are encouraged to bring a new, wrapped book — the spicier the better — for their very first book swap at Americano Lounge (434 Houston St.). Grab a coffee or cocktail and enjoy your new title with other readers, kicking off at 7 p.m. TINA DOMINGUEZ
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[!KABOOM] SY ARDEN EP RELEASE AND LIVE ART EVENT
Local artist Sy Arden presents !KABOOM, a multimedia EP listening premiere and live art event that’s set to be a “circus for the senses” featuring a partnership with Music City Movement. The eccentric songster and visual artist hails from the small town of China Grove, N.C., where she was steeped in the Appalachian arts by her guitar-wielding, folk-hero-type father (for whom the record is partially in tribute). Arden has chosen to keep the title of her rambunctious debut a surprise until showtime, when she and four other artists will create mixed-media art pieces live during the first listen. Carla Ciuffo — a local artist whose works are part of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and the Nashville International
Airport permanent collections — will join Arden alongside illustrator Holly Carden, who has contributed many covers for the Scene (including this week’s Boner Awards). Ethereal fabric artist and clothing designer Cybelle Elena will also participate, and Myrtle Beach resident Lo Rasmus makes the trip to round out an uber-talented lineup. Local fire and burlesque performer Wayward Pixie will hold an opening ceremony prior to the premiere, while tarot readings will be available via Paige “Thrive” Goddess throughout the evening. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own shirt for a DIY spray-paint booth featuring stencils of the EP’s logo and to stick around for a “funky punk” dance party after the main event. A portion of proceeds will go to victims of Hurricane Helene, which ravaged areas across Arden’s home state in September. JASON VERSTEGEN
7 P.M. AT 100 TAYLOR ARTS COLLECTIVE
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[SWEET AND LOWDOWN] STUDIO GHIBLI FEST: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO
I live with an 11-year-old film critic. So discerning are his tastes that he thinks John Wick is the greatest movie ever made because there are no boring parts. On the flip side, he also likes My Neighbor Totoro, Hayao Miyazaki’s animated classic about two sisters settling into an old country house to help their ailing mother. Released in 1988, the film has no villains, no weapons, no post-credits scenes. But it does have craft. Any movie lover will appreciate its visually enchanting watercolor look, especially when you point out that Miyazaki and his team at the legendary Studio Ghibli did not use computers to help animate his films. Eight Ghibli animators created the film, one frame at a time! That’s tens of thousands of frames, bruh. While theaters are overflowing with movies — big, loud ones — seeing My Neighbor Totoro as part of Regal Cinemas’ Studio Ghibli Fest could be just what your crew needs to help slow down and regain focus. The 11-year-old’s only complaint, actually, is that My Neighbor Totoro doesn’t have a sequel. Everyone’s a critic. TOBY ROSE DEC. 7-11 AT REGAL CINEMAS
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I saw a relatable sentiment on the internet lately that said something along the lines of, “Looking is my favorite hobby. I love to look.” The upcoming winter market at Random Sample is the perfect place to look. There will be instrument bags, ceramics, cute drawings and sculptures, jewelry and alternative woodworking, among other art. Plus, there will be food from Clownsums Diner pop-up (yes, a clown-themed restaurant). Think: gifts you can’t find on the internet and that your loved one won’t already be getting. In addition, the Random Sample space is home to Renascence Books and Nashville Radical Library. It also happens to have a great exhibition of blackout poetry and collage work lately. The gallery event is part of the West Nashville Art Crawl, and offers an opportunity to do more looking — at the various participating galleries. As a West Nashville resident, I’m excited to get in on the fun of an art crawl. HANNAH HERNER
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ATTACK OF THE TITANS FEAT. SIX ONE TRÏBE, CHUCK INDIGO, LOTISMUSIC & QUEZ CANTRELL
There’s always a lot going on in the world of Nashville hip-hop, and Saturday’s show is a great opportunity to check in for yourself. Stellar MC and community activist Chuck Indigo’s masterful Until I Get There feels like a summation of all the work he’s done over the past decade. He has long stood out at telling stories and sharing perspective, and he just keeps getting better. Philosophically inclined rapper Quez Cantrell stands on his own amid atmospheric beats on his recent LP New Is Never Easy; the features from local legends like Starlito, Gee Slab and Petty are icing on the cake. Meanwhile, LotisMusic’s July EP Give Me My Flowers is a sensitive look at navigating relationships. The expansive Six One Trïbe crew, the self-styled Wu-Tang of the South, has spun off an array of individual releases (Gee Slab’s Expect to Win and Blvck Wizzle’s Skoot Muzik among them), dropped their collective album Beginning of 4 Ever and kicked off a new annual event with their 615 Day party; with this much to celebrate, it’d be silly to expect them not to throw down as the year draws to a close. STEPHEN TRAGESER
8 P.M. AT EASTSIDE BOWL
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FILM [LOST GENERATION] RESTORATION ROUNDUP: LET’S GET LOST
If seasonal affective disorder had a soundtrack, I think it would be Chet Baker’s holiday songs. The trumpet genius and crooner had a masterful way of capturing the winter blues that grabbed me when I was just a kid. Bruce Weber’s 1988 portrait of the jazz great shows that the
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12.15 The Heart Behind the Hits Featuring James Otto, Jet Harvey, Terri Jo Box, Russell Sutton, D. Vincent Williams, Michael Cef, Emily Henline, Joe Bizelli, Justin Love
12.18 Uncle B’s Drunk with Power String Band Show Featuring Bryan Simpson w/ Adam Chaffins, Jenee Fleenor, Brit Taylor
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11.20 Tom Douglas – Love, Tom
12.21 Ty Herndon & Jamie O’Neal “Merry Christmas, Baby”
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12.29 Pick Pick Pass w/ Jeff Middleton, Wil Nance, Steve Williams
12.30 Buddy’s Place w/ Lauren Mascitti, Jack McKeon, Dan Smalley
sadness in Baker’s lonely tones reflected the bleakness that he felt on the inside. With Baker’s James Dean looks and Weber’s incredible black-and-white images of the Prince of Cool, Let’s Get Lost serves as one of the most visually compelling jazz documentaries ever made. Weber revealed the artist through interviews with the trumpet player’s ex-wives, musicians and friends. Beautifully crafted to tell the story of a mournful romantic, Weber’s film shows the trumpeter in incredible live footage, candid behind-the-scenes access and a few commercials that featured Baker. Even if you fell in love with this movie when the Belcourt showed it in 2019, it’s worth a rewatch in the new 4K update. Let’s Get Lost is one of the defining works of jazz on film, but just hearing Baker’s work over a fantastic set of theater speakers again is worth the ticket price. P.J. KINZER
3:30 AND 8 P.M. AT THE BELCOURT 2102 BELCOURT AVE.
TUESDAY / 12.10
FILM [ANOTHER IS GOLD] MAC GAYDEN: FRIENDS OVER
For those who missed the premiere in January, on Tuesday evening the Belcourt will host an encore screening of the film Mac Gayden: Friends Over, which recently received Best of Nashville recognition from the Scene as the year’s best concert film. The film celebrates the music of Mac Gayden, the hit songwriter and pioneering slide guitarist who was a member of the influential session supergroup Area Code 615 and founder of the seminal Southern rock outfit Barefoot Jerry. Gayden is probably best known as the writer of the pop and R&B standard “Everlasting Love,” which he co-wrote with the late Buzz Cason. Produced by Diane Gayden and directed and edited by Steve Boyle, the film was shot during a pair of “Friends Over” shows at 3rd & Lindsley on Sept. 20, 2022, and Jan. 4, 2023. There are inspired and touching performances by not only Gayden, but also an all-star lineup of musical friends and admirers, including Jimmy Hall, Mickey Raphael, Charlie McCoy, Lee Roy Parnell, Robin Eaton, The Valentines and Cason. Tuesday’s screening will feature a new cut of the film, which includes an introduction by songwriter-producer David Malloy and interviews with Parnell, Eaton and producer Paul Worley about Gayden’s career. DARYL SANDERS
6:30 P.M. AT THE BELCOURT 2102 BELCOURT AVE.
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’Tis the season to strum a few songs for a good cause. This week, the annual Nashville Unlimited Christmas show returns to Christ Church Cathedral for a 25th year of fundraising for Room In The Inn, the longtime local nonprofit group aiding unhoused community members. The lineup for this one-
of-a-kind holiday gathering includes singingsongwriting legend Emmylou Harris, Music Row session wizard Charlie McCoy, gospel group The McCrary Sisters, old-school countryWestern group Riders in the Sky, Dobro player Rob Ickes, Dave Matthews Band member Jeff Coffin and the Nashville Jazz Orchestra, plus a promised slate of surprise guests. Organizers suggest a $20 donation for admission, which is first come, first served on show night. Prolific sideman and president of Nashville Musicians AFM Local 257 Dave Pomeroy produces and hosts Nashville Unlimited Christmas. Since 1992, he’s organized shows that have raised a reported $520,000 for Room In The Inn.
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[WHERE THE LOVE LIGHT GLEAMS] LESLIE ODOM JR.
Leslie Odom Jr. demanded attention even among a talent-packed Hamilton cast, showcasing both soaring high notes and an ability to make his voice feel like warm caramel for your ears. The latter quality shines through on Odom’s two holiday albums, Simply Christmas (2016) and The Christmas Album (2020). The latter is a perfectly nice, peppy holiday album, but Odom’s goal on the former was to capture a more melancholic holiday spirit: “I didn’t want it to be sad. I didn’t want it to be sullen. But I don’t think the album was really ever cheerful.” It’s the kind of album you might listen to while driving from family Thanksgiving in your hometown to a new home where you know almost no one. One could imagine losing their breath when Odom starts singing “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” just as snow starts falling on the lonely Interstate 40. Certain people in such a situation — not me — might even start crying when they realize they’ll likely be spending Christmas alone for the first time. That’s never happened to me, of course, but I can imagine similarly tender moments as Odom takes the Schermerhorn stage to celebrate all that’s joyful and bittersweet in the holiday season. COLE VILLENA DEC. 11-12 AT THE SCHERMERHORN 1 SYMPHONY PLACE
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Fat Tiger brings authentic Korean food and great atmosphere to White Bluff
BY LOGAN BUTTS
ROUGHLY 30 MILES west of downtown Nashville, on U.S. Highway 70 in the small town of White Bluff, sits one of the best roadside restaurants in the South.
In the three years since it opened, Fat Tiger KBBQ & More, an authentic Korean restaurant that makes all its meals from scratch, has established itself as one of Middle Tennessee’s unique eateries.
When you arrive at the rustic roadside location — in the former home of a sorghum
mill — you may be greeted by a chicken called Ricky Bobby, named for one of Will Ferrell’s most iconic roles. If Ricky’s not around, frontof-house manager Jody Bradley will almost certainly be there with a warm welcome. When I mentioned that I was excited to try the food, Bradley’s response was, “Good, you should be.”
Inside you’ll find walls adorned with catrelated art and thrift-store trinkets. You’ll also find the co-owners, wife-and-husband duo
Starrlite DeCook and David Mullins. Mullins lived in Lebanon, Tenn., before moving to Dickson as a teenager, while DeCook spent 20 years in South Korea prior to moving to the United States. In 2017, DeCook began traveling to Dickson County from Chicago for work, which is how the two met.
“Every time I would visit, I would be like, ‘a Korean restaurant would do so well here,’” DeCook tells the Scene on a recent Friday afternoon.
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A Korean restaurant was something that had been brewing in DeCook’s brain for quite some time — she even wrote a business plan for one in college. Mullins had a long history in the restaurant business, working at various establishments in Dickson County and as a grill cook during his stint in the Marines.
It seemed like a perfect combo. But a restaurant serving traditional Korean cuisine isn’t a guaranteed slam-dunk in a rural Tennessee town.
“One of the ‘benefits’ of a smaller town is that everybody’s curious about what you’re doing, especially new restaurants,” DeCook says. “So the challenge of getting people in the door was not as big of an issue for us because it’s something new.”
One of the biggest challenges the duo did face was transforming the sorghum millturned-antique store into a restaurant space. It took them 10 months.
“We were here every day doing something,” says DeCook, who still has a day job as an IT director for an insurance company. Mullins runs the kitchen, which includes hand-picking fresh produce, while DeCook handles many of the logistical duties, like having specific Korean ingredients shipped to White Bluff.
Another challenge was upscaling the recipes, most of which were passed down from DeCook’s Korean grandmother, from at-home portions to restaurant levels.
“[Nashville] doesn’t have as much variety [in ingredients] as other metropolitan areas,” says DeCook. “There’s more Asian places and Asian people in the Nashville area now, but still not as much as like Chicago or Washington, D.C.”
DeCook and Mullins also wanted their menu to stand out amid the quality Korean offerings in the area. That’s what the “& More” in the restaurant’s name signifies. (The couple credits the “Fat Tiger” portion to DeCook’s sister.)
“The ‘& More’ is us not pigeonholing ourselves into just Korean food,” DeCook says. “We serve authentic, traditional food, but we also serve modern Korean food that’s not necessarily traditional, but it’s something
that Korean people eat all the time. … We not only wanted to serve the old-school stuff, but also the food that Korean people actually eat every day. It’s modern Korean cuisine. It’s not necessarily fusion, but food evolves over time.
“A lot of people think, when it comes to ethnic cuisine, it’s a very narrow thing,” she continues. “You have to have a certain kind of ambiance and only serve a certain kind of food and have certain types of employees, but that’s really not the case.”
The Fat Tiger menu offers traditional Korean staples like bulgogi (thinly sliced, garlicmarinated beef filet), tonkatsu (a big, pankocrusted pork cutlet) and bibimbap (a hearty rice bowl). But DeCook and Mullins get playful with dishes like the Fat Tiger Loaded Fries, which are topped with mozzarella, provolone, kimchi and pork stew, an egg and aioli sauce. It’s “flavor heaven in a bowl,” according to the menu’s description.
The couple’s hard work and unique vision have paid off, with people making the trip to White Bluff from all over the area.
“I never thought I would’ve done this,” Mullins says. “Opening a restaurant around here would be really hard in itself. And then to be a cuisine that is not familiar for people around here, it was a little more than a toss-up that the concept would work.
“When we started the concept, we were here looking for food ourselves,” Mullins continues. “We were wanting something other than burgers and fries. This gives you a whole different palate. Even in the way Koreans eat their food, every bite is a different flavor exposure.”
It’s difficult, of course, for DeCook and Mullins to recommend just one dish. But of the many items I sampled, the Bulgogi Loaded Fries were a standout.
Says DeCook: “When people come in and they are looking at the menu and they’re like, ‘What do you recommend?’ I’m like, ‘Don’t ask me. I wrote it. It’s all my favorites.’”
“If you don’t know if you want to try it, and if you’re apprehensive because you don’t know it, come here. We’ll teach you.” ▼
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Nashville’s contemporary artists finish 2024 with an expanding creative scene
BY JOE NOLAN
THERE ARE A FEW different trends shaping Nashville’s contemporary art scene as we approach the coming winter art season and a new creative calendar in 2025. Commercial real estate remains prohibitively expensive for creative startups. And while I’m listening closely to some rumors about new galleries that will be debuting in the coming months, I’m mostly on the lookout for independent curators, curatorial collaborations and pop-up displays to continue to define the edges of Nashville’s contemporary art scene in the coming year. Don’t be surprised if those edges continue to trace an everwidening circle throughout Davidson County.
WEST NASHVILLE
A great example of our city’s expansive creative geography is this month’s West Nashville Art Crawl. The events include stops in the Sylvan Park and Richland/West End neighborhoods; the crawl connects galleries like Random Sample to a number of domestic artist studios; and the happening includes participants ranging from O.G. Nashville art pioneers like Alan LeQuire and Roger Clayton to emerging artists like painters Jess Peoples and Kymberlee Stanley. Offerings range from abstract painting and contemporary woodworking to Twyla Lambert Clark’s wearable fiber art and Audry Deal-McEver’s signature ceramic designs. Cozy creative laboratories like Random Sample and domestic art displays are both long-standing art traditions in Nashville. It’s heartening to see the city’s creatives continue to find new ways to adapt and thrive using these tried-and-true strategies and venue models. There have been a few recent West Nashville Art Crawls, and there was a Madison Art Crawl in November. Again, this diffusion of the creative culture is partly fueled by economic displacement. But the suburban-izing of Nashville’s art community is also just a symptom of its ongoing, fast-paced growth. It’s been a minute since you could fit Nashville’s contemporary artists into a single gallery space, and energized enclaves like West Nashville and Madison are bringing more strength, resilience and opportunity to our contemporary art infrastructure as a whole. Find out all the details and plan your crawl at westnashvilleartcrawl.com.
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DETAILS: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, in West Nashville and vicinity
EAST NASHVILLE
Speaking of O.G. Nashville artists, a new exhibition in East Nashville features a pair of local photographers who’ve spent their careers depicting our storied local music scene. Double
Take pairs pictures by Jim Herrington and Larry Niehues in a pop-up display curated by M. Allen Parker and Cloutman Creative Studio at Michael Weintrob Photography. Herrington has snapped everyone from The Rolling Stones to Cormac McCarthy to Dolly Parton, and his debut volume of pioneering mountaineer portraits, The Climbers, is considered a classic of the mountaineering history genre. Larry Niehues was actually born in France, but he gained a cult following with his star-spangled photographs of all things Americana: neon motel signs, cowboy roundups, biker rallies. Niehues’ images feature Egglestonian pops of color and a Robert Frank-esque knack for social realism. His work
caught the eye of Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, and the singer-songwriter became one of Niehues’ early champions before asking the artist to be the band’s tour photographer. Art historian and museum curator Brenda Colladay will moderate a gallery talk with Herrington during the show’s closing reception on Saturday night.
➡DETAILS: Closing reception 5-7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at Michael Weintrob Photography, 919 Gallatin Ave.
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If an artist who just arrived in Nashville asked me how to break into the city’s visual art scene,
I’d tell them to join Coop. In a contemporary art community that’s defined by artist-run projects, Coop is the longest-running collective in the city, programming the biggest space at creative hub The Packing Plant in WedgewoodHouston. Its focus on emerging artists and curators means there’s always an evolving vibe happening on the gallery walls and in its busy creative events schedule. With all that in mind, I always look forward to Coop’s annual New Members Exhibition. These shows can offer a great introduction to the next generation of the city’s emerging artists, and they can also serve up glimpses of what to expect from the gallery/curatorial collective in the coming years. The 2024 exhibition lineup includes photography, ceramics, paintings and mixedmedia works from Kelly Ann Graff, Cara Anne Greene, Jan Hatleberg, Jarrett Kinsland, Delanyo Mensah, Natalie Thedford, Pallas Lane Umbra, Taylor Walton and Danielle Wilson ➡DETAILS: Opening reception 1-9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7, at Coop, 507 Hagan St.
If you’re like me, you’re still super-anxious to forget that the traumatic doldrums of the pandemic era ever happened. But it’s important to remember that lots of folks in our creative community are still recovering their livelihoods and creative practices from the massive social and commercial disruptions created by the global spread of a certain virus. Following the one-two combination of empty theaters and the Writers Guild strike, the film industry is still on the ropes as a new post-AI era unfolds for American moviemakers.
Nashville artist Will Morgan Holland worked in Nashville’s film industry before the lockdowns and social distancing that began in 2020 eventually sent him away from film sets and into gig work as an Uber Eats driver to supplement his growing family’s income. “It was a hellscape of fast food and hours alone on the road, but it paid for groceries for my kids,” the artist explains in his press release. Holland was determined to remain creatively productive during those lonely waits in drive-thru lanes, and his new Ubereaten exhibition at Julia Martin Gallery features works he created using only his smartphone in his car. The resulting digital photo collages constitute a “Gothic surrealist exploration of contemporary America.” The show’s title speaks to Holland’s delivery experiences, but also to carnivorous capitalism and the toothsome retail advertising that’s constantly gnawing at our wallets.
➡DETAILS: Opening reception 6-9 p.m. at Julia Martin Gallery, 444 Humphreys St. ▼
REWRITING THE RULES
The legendary Wooster Group brings Symphony of Rats to OZ Arts
BY AMY STUMPFL
IN THE EARLY DAYS of their new production of Richard Foreman’s Symphony of Rats — which arrives at OZ Arts this weekend — the visionary avant-garde artists of The Wooster Group ran into a momentary snag. The fabric used in Antonia Belt’s fabulous costumes was conducting electricity, thereby interfering with the performers’ microphones and receivers.
“We suddenly realized that the guys wouldn’t be able to wear their microphones on their bodies,” explains Kate Valk, a founding member of the esteemed ensemble who is currently co-directing Symphony with The Wooster Group’s fearless leader, Elizabeth LeCompte. “At first, we were like, ‘Oh my God — you mean they’ve got to wear everything on their heads like some sort of weird antennae?’ But then it was, ‘Hold on. You know, that’s not half-bad.’ And that’s actually a good example of how we work — and also what makes it so much fun.”
That kind of creative, outside-the-box thinking has been a hallmark of The Wooster Group since it was established in the mid-1970s. Employing a uniquely collaborative process — with a focus on experimentation and the melding of art forms — the group’s work is often defined by its daring use of lighting, sound and video technologies. And unlike more traditional theater companies, the group incorporates such elements throughout the rehearsal process, rather than introducing them during a final tech week.
“A lot of people have to manufacture theater on a three- to six-week schedule,” Valk says. “They learn the lines, do the blocking, and then all the tech and costumes come in at the end. For us, the technical artists — the sound, video,
lights — they’re all integral to our rehearsals from the very beginning. That allows us to develop a specific language, a vocabulary for the piece. And it’s the same with costumes. We don’t even have a rehearsal unless the performers are fully garbed. It defines the look, the lighting and the movement. It’s a huge part of the process.”
Also key to the development of Symphony of Rats was a “reimagining” of Richard Foreman’s original text.
Penned by the avant-garde playwright during the Reagan administration, Symphony offers a sharp political satire concerning a U.S. president who may (or may not) be receiving messages from outer space. It was originally produced by Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater and The Wooster Group in 1988, with Foreman directing.
Word has it that when LeCompte and Valk asked Foreman if the group could make a new version of the play, he said: “You can do whatever you want! I hope it’s completely unrecognizable.”
And by all accounts, it truly is — with the group’s new interpretation featuring iambic pentameter, along with original music by Suzzy Roche.
“I love Richard’s writing,” says Valk, who performed in the original 1988 production. “I don’t really know what it means, but I love it because it’s so open and determinedly anti-narrative. But Liz is always looking for a story, so we had a good push-pull going at first, as we figured out how to approach the text. What she decided, which I think was very definitive, was that she wanted to set the entire thing to music. It is a symphony of rats, after all. And to do that, we needed to lift the language. So we put it into
meter — iambic pentameter — and that just lifted everything.”
LeCompte agrees, noting that the choice “opened the door to the imagination.”
“I really did sort of detest the writing at first, until we were able to put it into verse,” she says with a laugh. “But then I understood it. I could hear it as an opera. I could understand it in a more poetic way. Before, it had always been done with a kind of naturalism. And natural performance mixed with this poetic text was very confusing to me. I felt it should be bigger than that. I wanted to show it, to expose it with a kind of irony and a sense of humor.”
For Mark Murphy, executive and artistic director of OZ Arts, Symphony offers “a multilayered concoction of live performance” that is “remarkably visceral and cinematic.”
“There’s so much happening in terms of all the imagery, the multimedia components, the music and movement and humor,” says Murphy. “Of course, when you talk about something being so complex and multilayered, it begins to sound rather serious and even academic. But the truth is it’s also very funny. It’s a wild, kinetic experience.
“It’s hard to imagine a more important, influential group in the world of contemporary performing arts,” Murphy adds, noting that Symphony marks his 16th time presenting a Wooster Group production. “I’m a huge fan, and I’m simply thrilled to be able to introduce them to our Nashville audiences. They’ve been at it since the mid-’70s, and they’re still on the cutting edge — leading the way and rewriting the rules.”
Symphony of Rats Dec. 6-8 at OZ Arts, 6172 Cockrill Bend Circle
PHOTO: KEETJA ALLARD
A STEELY COMMITMENT TO CHANGE
Historian David Greenberg explores John Lewis’ lifetime of making good trouble
BY HAMILTON CAIN
AMONG THE CIVIL RIGHTS era’s holiest shrines is the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., where demonstrators famously confronted a hostile all-white police force on March 7, 1965. Images of the officers’ brutal attack against the peaceful protesters on “Bloody Sunday” shocked the country and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act later that year. One of the leaders of the protest march that day was a young Baptist minister named John Lewis. In the sweeping, scrupulous new biography John Lewis: A Life, historian David Greenberg re-creates the moment when Lewis collapsed amid a police fusillade. “A trooper’s club knocked [Lewis] hard on the left side of his skull. ... Blood ran down his head. The world began to spin.”
That day Lewis learned how to make the world spin to his own ends. Perhaps no politician emerged from Selma with as steely a will to compel racial change. His career in public affairs spanned more than 60 years, and he came to embody the past, present and future. Greenberg’s account is dutiful yet solid in its interpretations, teasing out how Lewis’ lifelong religious principles and moral compass guided him from decade to decade.
Born in 1940 on a farm outside rural Troy, Ala., three generations after the Emancipation Proclamation, Lewis was a thoughtful boy, and something of a bookworm. As a child he felt anointed to something larger than himself; he preached to the chickens and later to Methodist and Baptist congregations. The lynching of Emmett Till in 1955 stirred him, as he cojoined his faith with a desire for equality. Two years later, he matriculated at an all-Black seminary in Nashville, a city afflicted with the nation’s original sin but struggling to distinguish itself from Bull Connor’s Birmingham and KKK-inflected towns. “Forty-three percent Black, Nashville
was the most tolerant city in the South,” Greenberg observes. “As the activist minister Cordy Tindell (‘C.T.’) Vivian said of Nashville’s liberals, ‘They tried to set a tone far different than most cities. … Even so, Black Nashvillians endured second-class treatment, racist humiliations, and stunted opportunities.”
Lewis fought for desegregation of lunch counters, quickly catching the notice of fellow pastors and organizers. As a leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he was soon working with Vivian, Martin Luther King Jr., Julian Bond and other luminaries, later picking up the torch after King’s assassination in 1968. The man met the moment, throwing his weight behind Robert Kennedy’s late entry into that year’s presidential race; he was ensconced in a room at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles when Kennedy was cut down in the kitchen by assassin Sirhan Sirhan, just following the primary victory in California.
After Lewis’ marriage to Lillian Miles at Ebenezer Baptist, officiated by Martin Luther King Sr., the couple settled in Atlanta. Greenberg astutely underscores the policy concerns that crept out of Lewis’ activism, from voting rights to education to environmental protections. When Jimmy Carter’s election in 1976 elevated Atlanta Congressman Andrew Young to U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the ever-ambitious Lewis tossed his hat into the ring to fill Young’s seat. In an uphill contest, he “portrayed himself as both an agent of and a testament to the egalitarianism that made Atlanta prosper.” A New South was eager to showcase a vitality and fresh engagement with social justice. Greenberg tracks this pivotal period with shrewd analysis and a novelist’s pacing. Lewis lost the race but found a spot in the Carter administration, and in 1981 went on to his first victory as a representa-
tive on Atlanta’s City Council, “the body’s most outspoken member, but also one of its most polarizing.”
Greenberg balances vibrant political history with Lewis’ complex persona and values, particularly his fiery commitment to his constituents. The 1986 congressional primary pitted him against his best friend, Bond, whose cocaine addiction and subtle political differences — as well as a vituperative runoff — tipped the election to Lewis. A legend took flight as the newly minted congressman wielded his “moral authority” as his “sharpest weapon.” The second half of John Lewis maps his triumphs and setbacks on Capitol Hill, where he cultivated often uneasy relationships on both sides of the aisle while mentoring a new generation of Black figures, including Barack Obama. Lewis increasingly fell back on his reputation as a hero, leveraging it to muster gains for laws and politicians alike. His final years cemented his status before his terminal diagnosis of cancer and his death in 2020.
John Lewis: A Life is never worshipful but rather approaches its subject with investigative curiosity and rigor. Greenberg gives us the complete view without bogging down in minutiae, a solid account of one Alabama farmboy’s journey and enduring impact on our people.
For more local book coverage, please visit Chapter16.org, an online publication of Humanities Tennessee. ▼
John Lewis: A Life
By David Greenberg
The 5th Annual Smithfrield and Friends Christmas Show featuring SARAH DARLING, TWINNIE, JILLIAN JACQUELINE, JANELLE ARTHUR & ADAM HAMBRICK
WILL HOGE previewing “BLACKBIRD ON A LONELY WIRE” (Will’s version) + New Full Band Rock N Roll Experience featuring CHRISTOPHER GRIFFITHS, MARK MASEFIELD, ANDY HERRIN & JON TYLER WILEY The Late Late Show with CARLY BANNISTER with special guests TRELLA, ZACH TORRES, OLIVIA BARTON, HENRY J STAR & MORE + Comedians BRAD SATIVA & AMBER AUTRY
the weeks w/ the watson twins the bygones w/ emma harner radiohead tribute to the bends ft. gucci little piggies w/ Lillie Mae and Rische Love duke jones ben chapman w/ muscadine bloodline cleto cordero, bryan simpson, reid haughton, bob dipiero, gabriel kelley, & more nashville is dead cole chaney w/ hancock & shouse joel kim booster how the grunge stole xmas w/ drop the leash & dead and bloated bop to the top presents: jingle bop hot in herre: 2000s dance party susto w/ holler choir my so-called band: 90's new year's eve karrot: a tribute to korn & shake my tomb: a tribute to the deftones nile / six feet under w/ PSYCROPTIC & EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY A Nirvana Tribute Experience ethan samuel brown w/ the prescriptions & zach torres
josh gallagher w/ taylor goyette (7PM) william tyler, jack Silverman quartet, & kannon (9PM) molly martin ft. laney jones (7PM)
cris jacobs (9PM)
rr party w/ d. striker, hands down eugene, justin webb & the noise, ct stephenson, & jason crawford theo lawrence w/ willy tea taylor
joshua quimby ft. tori miller (9PM) sierra carson w/ tobacco road (7PM) unto others w/ b.o.a. & critter brain (9PM)
logan halstead (7PM)
my wall ft. bursting & the angels of death (9PM)
dane louis
ryan kinder w/ taylor hogan (7PM)
john condit ft. julia haile & eve maret (9PM)
improvement movement w/ the medium (7PM)
MUSIC
A BLACK MUSIC ROUNDTABLE
Kenny Smoov, Erica Hayes Schultz and Justin Causey give a view from the trenches in our third annual survey
FOR THE THIRD installment of our annual Black Music Roundtable, the common thread among our panelists is radio broadcasting. Returning participants are Kenny Smoov, award-winning program director at radio station 92Q and co-host of the weekday drivetime staple Kenny Smoov Morning Show, and Erica Hayes Schultz, longtime host of Soul of the City on community radio station WXNA. Both are extremely well-connected — locally and nationally — and knowledgeable about a huge variety of Black popular music communities. Joining for the first time is Justin Causey, who was a member of the legendary Aristocrat of Bands while he was a student at Tennessee State University; he also co-authored a 2021 paper in the Journal of Hip Hop Studies on Nipsey Hussle’s legacy. A key figure in Nashville hip-hop, Causey also cohosts the recently launched Cashville Radio show on WNXP with Carlos Partee, and hosts his own show The Corner on WXNA — all while keeping a busy schedule with entertainment production and artist management.
WHAT WAS THE BEST LIVE SHOW YOU SAW IN NASHVILLE THIS YEAR FROM A NATIONAL ARTIST?
Justin Causey: Wu-Tang and Nas at Bridgestone [in late 2023]. I’m a hip-hop baby, so seeing two of my favorite acts and getting to really be immersed in their discography, and seeing how poised and energetic they were was amazing. Hearing “Incarcerated Scarfaces” live meant something to me.
Kenny Smoov: Hands down, Jazmine Sullivan!
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She was just a presence, a force on that stage [at Bridgestone Arena, opening for Maxwell]. Vocals, arrangements, energy! Tops, period.
Erica Hayes Schultz: Hiatus Kaiyote at Brooklyn Bowl.
WHO IS A NASHVILLE BLACK MUSIC PERFORMER THAT EVERY FAN SHOULD SEE AND HEAR?
JC: Mike Floss and Rod McGaha. A father-son duo connecting through music — I mean, c’mon man, that’s beautiful.
KS: 2’Live Bre. He’s a star!
EHS: Chuck Indigo; Lord Goldie with a live band.
WAS 2024 A GOOD YEAR FOR LOCAL BLACK MUSIC COMMUNITIES, BELOW AVERAGE OR ABOUT THE SAME AS PRIOR YEARS?
JC: It was a great year for the community. A lot of recording artists and musicians are finding their lanes and championing them. Executives are finding their footing in different rooms that didn’t welcome us beforehand. We are slowly being the change we want to see, but are still fighting for resources and shared experiences within this industry.
KS: Below average. Too many cancellations. It was a bad year!
EHS: Average, because there wasn’t as much music released versus a few years ago. However, what was released was really good.
WHAT SPECIFIC ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE POWERFUL PEOPLE IN NASHVILLE REGARDING THINGS THEY CAN
DO TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS FOR BLACK POPULAR MUSICIANS?
JC: There is room for everyone to win, you just have to do the work and help out. Also your version of success may be different from someone else’s, but if you look at another man’s plate, you won’t enjoy what’s in front of you. Support and structure; you can’t build anything without a strong supporting foundation, and in the music business you need that, in the form of a creative team and creative community.
KS: Just give them the stage. They will excel. Also don’t be afraid to go big on the artists. Nashville will pay for top-tier acts! [Locals] travel out of town often to compensate for the lack here!
EHS: Working with Black business owners to give incentives to start music venues in prime locations that everyone would be interested in going to. We need at least one Brooklyn Bowlsize venue that is Black-owned, giving a place for local and up-and-coming national Black music artists.
WHAT CHANGES DO YOU HOPE OCCUR IN 2025?
JC: That other genres in Nashville get the same support as country. Because after all, we are “Music City” because of musicality and skill, not just because of one genre.
KS: Better live acts and crowd participation. Early [ticket] purchases are the key!
EHS: More music released by artists. Many Nashville artists are being creative, just not here in Nashville. Come back. We miss you. Also I
wish Black country music artists would collaborate with hip-hop and local artists to create unique tracks to have them stand out from everyone else.
WHAT NATIONAL ARTIST DID NOT COME TO NASHVILLE IN 2024 WHO YOU HOPE WILL APPEAR IN 2025?
JC: Tyler, the Creator; Kaytranada; Schoolboy Q; Vince Staples; Earl Sweatshirt; Sam Gellaitry; Berlioz; FKJ; Ojerime; Doechii; NxWorries; Flying Lotus; Central Cee; Dave; Knucks; Soulection; BADBADNOTGOOD; Men I Trust; SAULT.
KS: Muni Long! She is too important to R&B for her not to stop in Music City.
EHS: Jamila Woods, Kendrick Lamar.
ANY FINAL THOUGHTS, REFLECTIONS OR PREDICTIONS?
JC: Just do the work. Keep growing. KS: Love and artistry will make its way toward the center of our music. We have strayed away from what makes Black music great: heart, soul and love! ▼
The end of the year is coming up rapidly, and this look back is part of our Year in Music coverage. Keep an eye out for much more in our annual Year in Music Issue on Dec. 12!
ERICA HAYES SCHULTZ
KENNY SMOOV
JUSTIN CAUSEY
DOWN TO THE BONES
Katie Gavin finds the power in a stripped-back sound on What a Relief
BY HANNAH CRON
ACROSS MODERN MUSIC history, there’s a fascinating study to be done of what singers from popular bands do when they go off on their own for solo albums or solo careers. Outside the confines of Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks went full-on rock with the instant classic Bella Donna. When he didn’t have to dance around with NSYNC, Justin Timberlake went deeper and deeper into R&B (for better and sometimes worse, as in the cringiest moments of Man of the Woods). Katie Gavin, vocalist of Los Angeles indie-pop trio MUNA, has gone country.
MUNA fans will recognize long-standing threads of classic country and folk in their music, but Gavin dives headfirst into a more homespun sound on her debut solo record What a Relief, released in October via Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory label. With early inspiration from singer-songwriters like Emmylou Harris, Katie Gavin’s musical evolution came naturally.
“For me, as a songwriter, I’m very drawn to telling stories, and I think that some of the best storytelling is in country music,” says Gavin, speaking ahead of a sold-out show Sunday at
The Blue Room at Third Man Records. “I think you can hear that influence in certain MUNA songs, but it’s been nice to have kind of free rein to explore that whole world with this record.”
Gavin’s reflective lyricism seems a natural fit for a more acoustic sound. With assistance from producer Tony Berg (whose credits include work with Andrew Bird and the aforementioned Bridgers) and Sara and Sean Watkins, the sibling duo behind Nickel Creek, What a Relief has an authentic flair. Gavin points out that Bridgers’ suggestion to lean into the country foundations of songs like the heartrending “Inconsolable” helped them shine their brightest.
“The original demo of [‘Inconsolable’] was pretty bluegrass, and we had gone in some different directions, trying to produce the song, and were just, frankly, having a hard time with it,” she says. “And that was also, funnily enough, a Phoebe thing. I think she’s very collaboration-minded, and is a good A&R person, but we were having trouble figuring out what the vibe for that song was going to be. And she was like, ‘I liked it when it was bluegrass.’ … I think she
suggested that Sara and Sean come in, and that was one of my favorite days recording. We kind of just did the song thinking, ‘Two takes.’ We’re all going at the same time, and they’re just such talented players. So then I asked Sara to play on ‘The Baton’ as well.”
What a Relief has an unexpected Nashville connection. Elusive songwriting star Mitski duets with Gavin on the despair-wrought “As Good as It Gets.” Gavin recalls the two met and became friends when Mitski visited L.A. for some songwriting sessions about five years back.
“She’s my favorite living songwriter, and she makes me feel so seen with her music,” Gavin says. “And when we were making the record, it was actually Phoebe’s idea to have that song be a duet. And as soon as we knew that we wanted it to be a duet, I just thought … ‘I would want to have it be Mitski, right?’ She was on tour right when I asked. She was home in Nashville for a couple of days that month, and made the time to record it when she was home. So yeah, it’s really wonderful that she’s on the record. It means a lot to me.”
The internet has dubbed What a Relief’s sound “Lilith Fair Core,” a humorous and apt summarization for a female folk-country record in 2024.
The legendary femme folk festival of the late ’90s helmed by Sarah McLachlan has become foundational lore these days; unfortunately, the music industry and culture at large could use it now more than ever. If the powers that be convene to bring Lilith Fair back in 2025 (please!), Katie Gavin herself would be an excellent organizer. Her dream lineup includes MUNA — who wouldn’t dream of headlining such a historic comeback? — boygenius, Chappell Roan, Tracy Chapman, Sarah McLachlan, rappers Monaleo and Glorilla, newcomers jasmine.4.t and Avery Tucker, Nashville’s own Courtney Marie Andrews, and, of course, the Indigo Girls.
“I’m so proud of them,” Gavin says of the groundbreaking Georgia duo. “It’s so amazing to just think about how much they’ve shifted culture. I got to play with them at The Greek Theater in September, and it was like, ‘That’s a great career highlight.’ I hope I get to do more with them.” ▼
Playing 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, at The Blue Room at Third Man Records
PHOTO: ALEXA VISCIUS
Saturday, December 14
SONGWRITER SESSION Jamie Floyd
Sunday, December 15
MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT
Alisa Jones
1:00
Saturday, December 21
SONGWRITER SESSION
Matt Warren and Dave Pahanish
NOON · FORD THEATER
Sunday, December 22
MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT
Cody Kilby
1:00 pm · FORD THEATER
Saturday, January 4
SONGWRITER SESSION
Brinley Addington
NOON · FORD THEATER
1 Go downhill fast, maybe
5 Instigate
11 Little while
14 Adjective often paired with “hearty”
15 The “boy” in the Broadway lyric “Never before has a boy wanted more!”
16 Cruise through
17 “Duh!,” in textspeak
18 Noted convention center?
19 “Moo, ___, La La La!” (children’s book)
20 June observance
22 Pastry whose dough is used in making pigs in a blanket
24 Common situations in time travel narratives
26 The emperor Caligula wanted to name his a consul, in legend
27 Lowercase “n” lookalike
28 Its cups aren’t supposed to runneth over
29 Singer Lewis
30 Last word in the full title of Cervantes’s most famous novel
33 Pigeonry
34 Halloween-themed hit, with a hint to four squares in this puzzle
36 What the puck is going on?
37 “ … have it your way, then”
38 BeBe’s sister, in a gospel duo
39 Something “dead” in a haunted corn maze?
40 ___ powder (manicure type)
43 It comes from the heart
45 Summer drink made from the fruits of two tropical trees
48 Graphic showing the status of a download, say
50 Like Polish, but not polish
51 Lionizing lines
52 General during the Clone Wars
54 “Last Christmas” pop duo
55 Marble count for each side in Chinese checkers
56 Opposite of a jumbo shake?
57 Prefix with trust or rust
58 Sounds of hesitation
59 Recorded, in a way
60 Throw hard, in modern slang DOWN
1 Quaint store
2 Maze runner
3 “Mistress of the Dark” in a 1988 film
4 “Othello” role
5 Sound sounds
6 Encouragement to a flamenco performer
7 Cut finely
8 Civil rights leader Medgar
9 Campbell of horror film fame
10 Just terrible, in slang
11 One of the original five inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame
12 “Yes, that’s abundantly clear”
13 Source of refreshments on a train to London
21 Financial institution with A.T.M.s known as “Green Machines”
23 Fellow presenter
25 Art knife brand
30 Paintings in the “Water Lilies” series, e.g.
31 Dating app for queer women
32 Elizabeth of cosmetics
33 Openness
34 Certain edible seedlings
35 Khan tract?
36 Keep in stock, say
38 “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” author
40 “Apollo and ___” (Bernini masterpiece)
41 Kick around some concepts
42 Aspiring driver’s need
44 Invite for
45 Painter whose “Olympia” caused controversy for its depiction of a sex worker
46 Result of burning sage
47 “Not happening!”
49 2016 election nickname
53 Catchy song
PUZZLE BY SARAH SINCLAIR AND PAOLO PASCO
WHEREAS, David M. Anthony (“Trustee”) has been appointed Substitute Trustee by Lender by that Appointment of Substitute Trustee of record at Instrument No. 20241113-0088510, Register of Deeds Office for Davidson County, Tennessee, with authority to act alone or by a designated agent with the powers given the Trustee in the Deed of Trust and by applicable law; and
WHEREAS, Lender, the owner and holder of said Indebtedness, has demanded that the real property be advertised and sold in satisfaction of said Indebtedness and the costs of the foreclosure, in accordance with the terms and provisions of the loan documents and Deed of Trust.
NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that the Trustee, pursuant to the power, duty and authority vested in and imposed upon the Trustee under the Deed of Trust and applicable law, will on Thursday, December 12, 2024, at 11:00 o’clock a.m., prevailing time, on the steps of the historic Davidson County Courthouse, 1 Public Square, Nashville, Tennessee 37201, offer for sale to the highest and best bidder for cash and free from all rights and equity of redemption, statutory right of redemption or otherwise, homestead, dower, elective share and all other rights and exemptions of every kind as waived in said Deed of Trust, certain real property situated in Davidson County, Tennessee, described as follows:
herein shall control.
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THIS 19th day of November, 2024. David M. Anthony, Substitute Trustee
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FORECLOSURE SALE NOTICE WHEREAS, Integrity Group Solutions, LLC executed a Deed of Trust dated December 2, 2019, of record at Instrument No. 201912040125123, Register of Deeds Office for Davidson County, Tennessee (the “Deed of Trust”) and conveyed to Rudy Title and Escrow, LLC, Trustee, the hereinafter described real property to secure the payment of certain indebtedness (“Indebtedness”) owed to Blue Mountain Investment Group LLC (referred to as “Lender” and sometimes as “Beneficiary”); and WHEREAS, default in payment of the Indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust has occurred; and
Legal Description: The real property is described in the Deed of Trust at Instrument No. 20191204-0125123, Register of Deeds Office for Davidson County, Tennessee. Land in Davidson County, Tennessee, being Lot No. 209 on the Plan of Part of The W.C. Miller Home Place, Sterling Heights, Section Five, of record in Plat Book 1835, Page 37, Register’s Office for said County, to which reference is hereby made for a more complete description.
Being the same property conveyed to Integrity Group Solutions, LLC by Warranty Deed recorded simultaneously herewith in Instrument No. 20191204-0125122, Register’s Office for Davidson County, Tennessee.
Street Address: The street address of the property is believed to be 77 Valeria Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37210, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property. In the event of any discrepancy, the legal description
As to all or any part of the Property, the right is reserved to (i) delay, continue or adjourn the sale to another time certain or to another day and time certain, without further publication and in accordance with law, upon announcement of said delay, continuance or adjournment on the day and time and place of sale set forth above or any subsequent delayed, continued or adjourned day and time and place of sale; (ii) sell at the time fixed by this Notice or the date and time of the last delay, continuance or adjournment or to give new notice of sale; (iii) sell in such lots, parcels, segments, or separate estates as Trustee may choose; (iv) sell any part and delay, continue, adjourn, cancel, or postpone the sale of any part of the Property; (v) sell in whole and then sell in parts and consummate the sale in whichever manner produces the highest sale price; (vi) and/ or to sell to the next highest bidder in the event any high bidder does not comply with the terms of the sale.
Substitute Trustee will make no covenant of seisin, marketability of title or warranty of title, express or implied, and will sell and convey the subject real property by Trustee’s Quitclaim Deed as Substitute Trustee only.
This sale is subject to all matters shown on any applicable recorded Plat or Plan; any unpaid taxes and assessments (plus penalties, interest, and costs) which exist as a lien against said property; any restrictive covenants, easements or setback lines that may be applicable; any rights of redemption, equity, statutory or otherwise, not otherwise waived in the Deed of Trust, including rights of
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA Case No. CV-23-02470-PHX-DLR NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF: Men’s Wearhouse 1921 Gallatin Pike North, Madison, TN 37115 United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Plaintiff, v. Jonathan Larmore, et al. Defendants, and Michelle Larmore; Marcia Larmore; CSL Investments, LLC; MML Investments, LLC; Spike Holdings, LLC; and JMMAL Investments, LLC, Relief Defendants.
TO ALL PARTIES IN INTEREST: Notice is hereby given that Allen D. Applbaum, as Receiver for ArciTerra Companies, LLC and related entities, intends to sell, through his broker, Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services (“Marcus & Millichap”), a multi-use retail center located in [1921 Gallatin Pike North, Madison, TN 37115], and owned by [1921 Gallatin Pike Nashville TN, LLC] (the “Property”), free and clear of all liens, claims, interests and encumbrances (the “Sale”).
Pursuant to the Motion for Entry of an Orders: (A) approving (i) the Receiver’s engagement and compensation of Marcus & Millichap as broker for the sale of the Property, and (ii) the proposed sale and auction procedures for the sale of the Property (the “Sale Procedures”),
including the scheduling of an Auction and Sale Hearing to consider the sale of the Property; (B) approving the sale of the Property to the bidders who submit the highest and best offers at a public auction to be conducted on RealINSIGHT Marketplace Auction Platform at https:// rimarketplace.com (the “Marketplace Auction Platform”), free and clear of all liens, claims, encumbrances and interests; and (C) granting related relief (the “Sale Motion”), the Receiver is soliciting higher and better offers for the Property. The Receiver is soliciting higher and better offers by means of an Auction to be conducted on the Marketplace Auction Platform, which shall be governed by the terms and conditions of the order establishing sale and auction procedures (the “Sale Procedures Order”) approved by the Court on October 17, 2024 [ECF No. 246].
The Sale Motion and the Sale Procedures Order are on file with the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, 401 W. Washington St., Suite 130, SPC 1, Phoenix, Arizona 85003-2118 (the “Court”), and are available for review during regular business hours. Copies of the Sale Motion, the Sale Procedures Order, and the proposed Purchase Agreement to be executed by the Successful Bidders are also available upon request from the undersigned or by visiting the Receiver’s website at www. arciterrareceivership.com.
OBJECTIONS, if any, to the relief requested in the Sale Motion or to final approval of the proposed Sale of the Property must be filed in writing with the Clerk of the Court on or before November 6, 2024 at 5:00 p.m., Phoenix Time (the “Objection Deadline”). A copy of the objection must also be served on all of the following so as to be received by the Objection Deadline: counsel to the Receiver, Archer & Greiner, P.C., Attn: Allen G. Kadish and Harrison H.D. Breakstone, 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10036. Through this Notice, HIGHER AND BETTER OFFERS to purchase the Property are hereby solicited. The Auction will be held on the Marketplace Auction Platform beginning on October 29, 2024 at 12:00 Noon (Eastern Standard Time) and ending on October 31, 2024 at Noon (Eastern Standard Time). Instructions for attending the Auction are available at: at https://
rimarketplace.com.
A FINAL HEARING on the Sale Motion will take place on November 13, 2024 at 10:00 a.m., Phoenix Time, at the United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, 401 W. Washington St., Suite 130, SPC 1, Phoenix, Arizona 85003-2118, before the Honorable Douglas L. Rayes. Please be advised that any of the foregoing dates may be changed by the Court without further notice.
If you have any questions regarding or would like copies of materials relating to the information in this Notice, please make such request in writing to Counsel for the Receiver, Archer & Greiner, P.C., 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10036 Attn: Allen G. Kadish and Harrison H.D. Breakstone. NSC: 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/5/24
IN THE CHANCERY COURT OF SUMNER COUNTY, TENNESSEE, AT GALLATIN RULE NO: 23AD-30
IN RE: THE ADOPTION OF TYLER TURNER (dob: 01/09/2014) TYLIN PATTERSON 01/23/2013) BY: TYLA CHAMPACO and JESSE CHAMPACO PLAINTIFF vs. TELVIN TURNER
DEFENDANT
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
In this action, it appearing to the satisfaction of the Clerk and Master, from the Plaintiffs’ complaint which is sworn to that the whereabouts of Telvin Turner are unknown and cannot be ascertained after diligent search and inquiry so that the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon him.
It is therefore, ordered that publication be made in the NASHVILLE SCENE, a newspaper published in Davidson County, Nashville, Tennessee, for four consecutive weeks commanding said defendant to file an answer to the Petition for Termination of Parental Rights and Adoption with the Clerk and Master whose address is 155 East Main Street, Suite 3600, Gallatin, Sumner County, Tennessee 37066 and a copy to Plaintiff’s attorney, according to law within thirty days from December 12, 2024. If the Defendant fails to do so, judgment by default will be taken against him for the
NEIGHBORHOOD
relief demanded in the complaint. This the 15th day of November, 2024 MARK T. SMITH, CLERK AND MASTER Insertion Dates: November 21, November 28, December 5 and 12, 2024
ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF
Clare A. Zanger 135 Clif Garrett Drive White House, TN 37188615-6720511
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