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Morton Plumbing (615) 255-2527 mortonplumbing.net

Voted Best in Nashville 6x!

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Best etsy s hop

Olivia Frankenstein Cute OCCult

The Olivia Frankenstein Etsy shop, owned and operated by East Nashvillians Crystal Chan and Marc Vargas, is filled with creepy and cute pop-culture-referencing treasures. One T-shirt shows Mickey Mouse smiling despite a dagger sticking out of his bloody head. On another, inspired by vintage Japanese film posters, Godzilla spits fire upon the Nashville skyline. There are shirts, patches and stickers with a skeletal hand creeping out of a coffin that reads “Get in, Loser,” à la Mean Girls; soaps shaped like Frankenstein’s Monster and the Creature From the Black Lagoon; and glittery enamel pins celebrating a love of true crime. If you’re worried that New Nashville is getting too normal, be thankful Olivia Frankenstein is doing its part to keep things weird. MEGAN SELING

Best Chan Ce to Be an artist (When you’re totall y not )

Paint the tOwn by numbers

All that’s left of the adult coloring books trend are junk drawers filled with broken crayons. What good is a relaxing hobby if you have nothing to show for it afterward?

That’s what’s so great about Paint the Town

by Numbers, the local paint-by-numbers kits designed by Camilla Spadafino. They have everything you need to create colorful

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You know White Bridge Auto Wash delivers top-notch, affordable service, but did you know they also offer an epic cookbook collection? At Duke’s General, the specialty boutique hidden inside the car wash’s lobby, you can find local favorites like Nashville Eats and The Blackberry Farm Cookbook alongside offerings from Nopalito, an incredible Mexican restaurant in San Francisco, and Prune, Gabrielle Hamilton’s famous French bistro in New York.

Finding a place where I can get my trunk vacuumed that also has a cookbook selection rivaling the one at Parnassus is true bliss. ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best Wellness s hop

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Woo-woo culture is embarrassing, but God help me if I don’t love the Goop online wellness store. It’s fortunate, then, that I live so close to Lemon Laine, the sweet East Nashville spot that offers top-of-the-line products from companies like Vintner’s Daughter and Moon Dust, as well as a custom oil bar where you can combine essential oils according to your every whim. The place smells fan-

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pop-art-inspired paintings you’d actually want to hang on your walls — designs include portraits of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mr. Rogers and Frida Kahlo — and all you have to do is stay in the lines while filling in the color-coded spaces. MEGAN SELING

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Exterior repairs & painting

Interior painting PHoto : DAniel Meigs

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Best new nail salon, writer’s choice: cured nails tastic, and owner Laura Laine knows more about skin care than almost anyone — she’s even taught Gwyneth a thing or two. LAURA HUTSON HUNTER

Best Ass-Kic King Wor Kout

TylT CyCle’s DirTy 30/30

A cycling class at Tylt Cycle is no freaking joke — the RealRyder bikes move back and forth, mimicking the experience of riding an actual bicycle, except you’re inside and far away from hazards like bugs, humidity and dickhead Nashville drivers. But the real ass-kicker at Tylt is the Dirty 30/30 class, which is 30 calorie-torching minutes on the bike followed by 30 minutes of circuit weight training led by Tylt’s savage (but sweet) instructors. Also, there’s plenty of space between each bike, so you’re not all up in your neighbor’s grill (unlike at some other cycling studios). I’ve been going to Tylt for almost a year, and you know what? I sure don’t miss those extra 10 pounds I was carrying around. ABBY WHITE

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CUreD Nails

While there’s no shortage of places to get an overpriced burger or tiki drink in East Nashville, it’s been pretty damn difficult to get a decent manicure. But your cuticle woes are over, my friends, thanks to the arrival of CURED Nails. Even though it technically is located in a strip mall — albeit a tiny one, which also houses TailGate Brewery — the airy Gallatin Avenue salon is modern and chic and offers a full roster of spa-like nail services, in addition to recently added facial treatments, brow/lash tinting and waxing. NANCY FLOYD

Best HAirstylist

BriaN HiCkmaN aT loCal HoNey easT

I’m not exaggerating when I say that at least once a day someone comments on my haircut. It’s an occurrence so common it’s become a running joke with my husband and co-workers. And as much as I’d like to

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Best hairstylist, writer’s choice: brian hickman at local honey east

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------ home, goods & services writErs’ cHoicE ---------------------take credit for these coif-centric accolades, all praise goes to Brian Hickman at Local Honey East. Creative director for Local Honey’s three salons, Brian is considered a trendsetting leader in the industry who has nearly 40,000 Instagram followers and a regular teaching schedule that takes him into salons across the country. We’re happy to share him with the nation — as long as he keeps brandishing his scissors right here in Nashville. NANCY FLOYD

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EscapE Day spa anD salon

The subterranean domain of Escape Day Spa feels like enough of a retreat from the world that you might just forget you’re in a Belle Meade strip mall. The two relaxation rooms are wonderfully dark, with plenty of nooks for solitary unwinding or quiet conversations with companions.

The spa menu includes a bevy of options for facials, massage and nail care — and the staff is happy to help you customize the experience based on your needs. My fantasy? Becoming a spa-dwelling mole who avoids the light of day. ERICA CICCARONE

Best Csa

GrEEn Door GourmEt’s local Farm Box

At NPS Pharmacy, we don’t look or act like any other pharmacy that you have ever seen, and that is by design. We are Nashville's true concierge pharmacy.

CSAs are awesome. You get local produce, farmers gets support — everybody wins.

But some weeks you just don’t need 20 turnips, and that’s where the folks at Green Door Gourmet come in. Their local farm box is flexible: Buy it only the weeks you need it, choose fun- or family-size, pick it up Saturday or Sunday, and make some produce selections yourself. Would you rather have two leeks or four scallions? Pick, eat, enjoy, repeat. ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best pla Ce to s hop for Chef Gifts

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Bachelorette parties notwithstanding, Nashville loves NOLA imports, and this year’s best is Coutelier knife shop. Chef-owners Jacqueline Blanchard and Brandt Cox offer Michelin-star pedigrees and hand-forged steel knives sourced annually on trips to Japan. All of their blades and kitchen tools are top-of-the-line and beautiful to behold. The best part: The owners are warm, welcoming people who are happy to help you find what you’re looking for — even if you don’t know what that is. ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best pla Ce to Buy a Quirky Gift

GiFt HorsE

Do you need Dolly Parton collar flair, a La Croix coloring book, a brunch-scented candle or a jewelry tray shaped like a French bulldog? Yes. Yes you do. Gift Horse offers all these wacky delights and more, making it a perfect, out-of-the-box, one-stop shop for all the perfect, out-of-the-box people in your life. Perusing the Fatherland Street store is a gift in itself — a cacophony of color and quirky slogans can keep you mesmerized and entertained long after you’ve made your selections. NANCY FLOYD

Best s o Cks

QuEEn oF cups HanDmaDE

Tie-dye is the best way to cool up a basic wardrobe. Sure, you can make cool T-shirts, but you can also make cool scrunchies, cool totes, even cool socks. Especially cool socks.

Queen of Cups Handmade has it all. Sisters Alexia and Jemina make tie-dye that isn’t your run-of-the-mill Grateful Dead T-shirt color-bursts. Queen of Cups tie-dye features light, airy crackles of color, like the visual version of Pop Rocks. You can find onesies and socks at Arcade in Hillsboro Village,

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Best place to Buy a quirky gift, writer’s choice: gift horse

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Best all-hours honey source, writer’s choice: johnson’s honey farm and you can buy their stuff online or at one of their frequent pop-ups — follow @queenofcups_handmade on Instagram to keep up. LAURA HUTSON HUNTER

Nashville is ranked #1 for Economic Strength among metro areas in the United States.

Best Pla ce to Buy a Wedding g ift

Welcome Home

I know, I know. You’re not supposed to go rogue and purchase an off-registry wedding gift, but if you’re looking for something special that your newly married friends are sure to love, stop by Welcome Home. The East Nashville shop has a gorgeous — and constantly changing — selection of barware, decor, kitchen items and sundry home goods that are both charming and practical. They’re gifts that’ll make your friends smile, and trust me, they won’t be even a little mad that you didn’t buy them a lame blender. NANCY FLOYD

We’re also named as one of the Top 10 Fastest Growing Cities.

And we’re just getting started.

Behind every headline and ranking is the hard work of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. It’s the Chamber Effect.

Best antiq ue dealer

JoHn Boy Baker

With innumerable antiques dealers making exceptional finds all over the Midstate, it’s difficult to pin down just one to call our favorite. But between his wonderful Instagram presence (@johnboybaker), kitschy pieces and sparkling personality, John “John Boy” Baker is certainly in the lead. The beautiful midcentury furniture, fun knickknacks and outlandish artwork he posts on his IG often get scooped up quickly, but he’s worth the follow — if you’re quick enough to respond, that pea-green velvet couch or novelty Mel Tillis mug could be yours. John Boy also has two cute dogs, so that doesn’t hurt.

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Best all-Hours

Honey s ource

JoHnson’s Honey Farm

Learn more about what we do and how you can join at nashvillechamber.com/membership

Jess and Paula Morton run a multigenerational farm that provides area beekeepers with equipment and resources, and the honey from their hives is unmatched in flavor and consistency. Paula, the daughter of previous farm owner Ed Johnson, is a thirdgeneration beekeeper — honey bees have been on her family farm since 1918. What makes Johnson’s even sweeter? The farm’s 24-hour self-service operation, summed up in a sign that reads, “Take the honey, leave the money.” MATT FOX

Wedgewood-Houston’s answer to the bigbox mall operations that cluttered up your top drawers as a teenager. Harder-to-find lines like Loulette, Only Hearts and Blush are offered alongside specialty brands like Harlow and Fox, the English company that designs bras exclusively for sizes DD-G. Plus they offer intimate settings for parties and personal fittings. Nashville Darlin might be the antidote we’ve been seeking for all those downtown bachelorette parties.

LAURA HUTSON HUNTER

Best c ar Pets

relic Home

It’s hard to talk about carpets without feeling like The Dude, so let’s just get this out of the way: A good carpet can really tie the room together. But it’s true! An antique rug instantly upgrades a space, giving it stately vibes even when it’s tattered — sometimes even more so when it’s tattered.

Relic Home’s shop-runner Alyssa Spyridon has great taste that you can trust, and she sources the rugs from all over the world.

Follow the shop on Instagram (@relic.home) or visit the online shop, which offers everything from runners and area rugs to Moroccan floor cushions. LAURA HUTSON HUNTER

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Clearly, there are plenty of people Googling “best murals in Nashville,” because hordes of wanderlusters and wayfarers keep lining up at the wings mural in the Gulch, and the oft-vandalized “I Believe In Nashville” wall in 12South. Forget those influencer hot spots and get thee to Germantown, where the lovely folks at Cumberland Machine Co. have been quietly decorating an otherwise nondescript wall that borders their parking lot for the past couple of years. It all started with a witch — for Halloween, naturally — and the Cumberland Machinery employees really got into the decorating game, building a gift-filled sled for Christmas, and more recently, a cheerful beach backdrop with a couple of chairs and surfboards placed in the front. Just try to walk past it without smiling. ABBY WHITE

Best l ingerie

nasHville Darlin

Sure, sexy’s great, but there’s nothing better than cool panties. Badass panties, even.

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Kratom, the Medicinal Leaf in Tennessee Story by Jeff Hargis PhD TMC

What is it, What does it do, Where is it from, What are the possible risks or benefits and what you should know before buying it?

East West Herbal is located at 3028 Gallatin Pike in East Nashville. We carry over 300 medicinal herbs, spices, coffees and teas. We pride ourselves in helping people to understand more about herbs and how they work along with their possible risks and benefits.

We hope this article will act as a guide to consumers who are on a quest to explore Kratom; and who are not fully aware of the benefits or risks involved when buying an herbal supplement such as kratom. Things you should know when it comes to Possible Uses, Risks, Pricing, Availability, Quality Sourcing, Purity and Freshness are all important factors.

This article is to give you an basic guide about what you may be buying, how much it should cost and what you should look for in a vendor, so you may evaluate with a better understanding as to whether the product is right for you and where you want to purchase Kratom from.

All information contained in this article is provided for general information purposes only and is not intended as medical advice for the reader. Do not use this information to diagnose a health problem without first consulting a qualified health care provider. No physician- patient relationship is created by reading this article.

What is Kratom?

Mitragyna Speciosa AKA Kratom Leaf is a member of the coffee family. It grows throughout Southeast Asia. The use of this amazing plant goes back beyond the days of the Opium Wars of China. From 1750–1919 the Manchu Dynasty realized the future of the country depended on the control of the opium trade. The Emperor had ordered raids on the Poppy farms to seize or destroy all the opium. This left the Poppy field workers that had become physically dependent on the plant due to exposure to the powerful resin of the Poppy in a state of withdrawal. It was at that time that the presence of the mysterious Kratom plant appeared in history. The plant was used to combat the symptoms of opium withdrawals and give its user relief from pain and fatigue. In the 1800’s the Dutch while in Asia learned of Kratom and is believed to have taken the plant back to Europe to treat Laudanum addiction.

According to the American Kratom Association the magic leaf is said to be used by an estimated 5 million people in America for conditions such as chronic pain, inflammation, stress, anxiety and Opioid addiction withdrawals.

Kratom is considered a partial opioid agonist. Meaning it has the ability to bind to the Opioid (mu) receptors in the body.

The body may think it’s getting an opioid; without the intoxicating or addictive effects. The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded researchers at the University of Florida College of Pharmacy a two-year, $3.5 million grant to bolster research on Mitragyna Speciosa or Kratom, and its potential to treat Opioid misuse, physical dependence and other conditions such as hypertension, information and diabetes.

Where does Kratom come from?

Kratom grows throughout most of Southeast Asia. Indonesia

supplies about 85% of the world’s Kratom. It was reported to export 400 tons of kratom each month until the recent salmonella scares from Kratom. Then the exports dropped to 100 tons a month. The exports are reported to be increasing again because of the crack down on black market vendors of the product. Each vendor is required to meet defined guide lines and be licensed by the state. Some black-market vendors do still manage to sell their unregulated products through the internet and social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

Kratom is illegal in many countries. Despite many vendors marketing ploy of claiming to sell Thai and Malay Kratom, it was banned in Malaysia in 1952 and in Thailand since 1943 but has recently been approved in Thailand for medical use only. Though not impossible to obtain, it’s most unlikely it would come from reliable vendors. Other countries have banned Kratom use such as Australia, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Lithuania, Myanmar, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden and the United States.

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Kratom for sale The legality of Kratom is questioned in many states of America. You might get access to Kratom easily in one state but not in another, which depends on the legislation of the state.

Currently, Kratom in these States of America is banned; Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Vermont, and Wisconsin. In many other states, Kratom is strictly regulated.

What are the risks involved when buying Kratom?

Kratom being primarily from third world countries, hygiene is always a concern. If not handled properly the consumer can run a risk of being exposed to pathogens such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and helminths (worms). Salmonella and e. coli are two of the most concern. There is also a risk of heavy metals, pesticides and other harmful contaminates. Kratom like many other substances can become habit forming if misused. The withdraw symptoms of Kratom are said to be much the same as a caffeine withdrawal. More study is needed to know more about Kratom both good and bad. As with many other herbal products it is important to understand that none have been approved to prevent, cure or treat any disease or sickness by the FDA.

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What to look for in a vendor when buying Kratom.

Remember that many of these herbs are flying under the radar and are not governed by any agency. A few commonsense rules may help you to keep safe and able to make the right choice. If buying online or in a local store, there are a few things you should look for. Are the name and address of the manufacturer on the package? Many times, the package will not clearly state what is in the package or where it was packaged. This leaves a lack of accountability. A lot of websites are nothing more than smoke and mirrors. The web page looks great with images of a clean and modern facility with dozens of employees dressed in sterile clothing; but in reality, it may be a pole barn with a gas powder leaf mulcher in another country.

Ask the vendor for a copy of their license if from an overseas vendor. Ask where the Kratom is sourced from if buying from a local vendor. Ask to see the COA Certificate of Analysis and a MSDS sheet to assure the product has been checked for pathogens and other contaminates and is pure. Remember this is a consumable product that you are putting in to your body. It should be handled the same as any other food that you would be comfortable eating.

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Best podcasting network, writer’s choice: We oWn this toWn

we own this town

When Doug Lehmann started the We Own This Town podcast in 2005, Serial was still nine years away. Podcasting was in its infancy, and WOTT, a music show dedicated to Nashville’s local scene, was a ramshackle experiment in internet radio. Now, under the guidance of Michael Eades, WOTT has transformed into a full-scale podcasting network and studio with more than a dozen shows. Podcasts like Liquid Gold and Nashville Demystified give voice to many facets of Nashville’s unique culture and demonstrate what makes this city interesting — above and beyond its music. LANCE CONZETT

Best Podcast w e’ll Miss … for Now

Neighbors

Start with one commonality — relative geographical closeness — and go from there. Soon you’ll find plenty of things that connect us. Over the course of six seasons,

Neighbors creator Jakob Lewis showed us the complexities and beauty in all kinds of people we cross paths with, but rarely get to know. As each episode of his Nashville Public Radio podcast fades into moving music, it brings a realization that the time taken getting to know this person was time well spent. It looked like Neighbors was coming to an end last year after six seasons — but Lewis recently tweeted that he plans to bring the podcast back. Good news for Nashville. HANNAH HERNER

Best New r adio Voice

rachel iacovone

People love their public radio hosts. We rely on them, we’re used to them, and their voices fend off commute-inspired rage. But change is hard. Rachel Iacovone moved to Nashville this summer from South Florida to fill the morning slot on WPLN, replacing one Nashville Public Radio host in practice (Jason Moon Wilkins, who moved to the

Best new radio voice, writer’s choice: rachel iacovone

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nessee Journal last year, he had big shoes to fill. Ed Cromer edited the must-read state politics publication for 20 years. Schelzig, as well-sourced as anyone in the press room, filled the shoes, and the Journal remains a must-read on Capitol Hill. A mix of original reporting, aggregation and analysis makes its four packed pages the most efficient primer in politics. STEPHEN ELLIOTT

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afternoon) and another in spirit (Natasha Senjanovic, who left to pursue reporting opportunities). The transition has been seamless: Iacovone is the new normal for thousands of early-rising Nashvillians.

STEPHEN ELLIOTT

Best musi C r eporter

marissa r. mOss

Yes, it’s true, and worth mentioning in the interest of full disclosure: Marissa R. Moss is indeed a sometime Scene contributor, and she’s done some great work for us. But she’s also done a good deal of reporting in the pages of Billboard, Rolling Stone and others on topics as vital as gender representation in country music and harassment and discrimi-

fr om “Best of Nashville” hist ory 2005: Best politi Cal s tatement (w riter’s Choi Ce) PiNk f lami Ngoes nation in the world of country radio. Whether it’s analysis, criticism or really good tweets about what’s wrong and right with the music industry (see those at twitter.com/MarissaRMoss), Moss is always worth a read, and we should all be proud to have her at work here in Music City. D. PATRICK RODGERS

Best Capit ol r eporter

erik sChelzig

When longtime Associated Press reporter Erik Schelzig took over as editor of The Ten-

District 19 Councilmember Freddie O’Connell’s email newsletter is a must-read rundown of the biweekly comings and goings of Metro’s legislative body. Sure, there’s the usual hyperlocal stuff about neighborhood events, and since it’s Germantown- and downtown-adjacent, there’s a lot of planning and zoning. But O’Connell also gives a detailed but breezy summary of all the council and committee business, plus an insider’s “What I’m Hearing” section for Metro obsessives who need all the hot goss, such as it as. For reporters, it’s a convenient and essential cheat sheet for what’s coming down the pike. For normal people, it’s a straight-to-your-inbox way to stay informed on local government. J.R. LIND

Best Cart ographing

Coun Cilmem Ber

dave rOsenberg

A grumpy Gus on Twitter (of course) once asked Bellevue-area Councilmember Dave Rosenberg how and why he was always making maps after elections, cynically supposing there was some kind of dark art or dark money behind his efforts. “I just like maps,” Rosenberg replied. And thank good-

ness. There are lots of ways to crunch and visualize data these days, but Rosenberg almost always presents results by council district rather than voting precinct, making the geography granular enough to be interesting, but large enough to be comprehensible. (Quick, name your precinct number. No, that’s not it.) Want to know which council districts went for Bernie and Trump in the primaries? Rosenberg’s got it. Want to know where turnout is up? He’s got it. He just likes maps. And so do we. J.R. LIND

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dOn JOhnsOn (@htmldOn)

Want to get in the weeds on election results from Dyersburg to Ducktown? Set your browser to Nashville resident Don Johnson’s feed and spend the morning after an election hitting refresh. Where were Knoxville at-large council candidates strongest?

Johnson knows. Where are the bases of support for candidates for dang near anyone running in Tennessee? There’s a map for that. Though Johnson’s maps — contra the above-mentioned Dave Rosenberg’s — are precinct-based and often wonky, he mixes in a good dose of whimsy too. Did you know David Briley won three of the four precincts with Jeni’s Ice Cream locations in the August election? You do if you follow @htmdon.

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Best Pr otest

The FighT To Remove DaviD ByRD

Rep. David Byrd, a Republican from Waynesboro, was easily re-elected last year despite allegations that he sexually abused three high school students when he was their basketball coach decades ago (and despite a damning recording of him apparently apologizing to one of them).

But a group of women, some of whom traveled regularly from rural Tennessee to the Capitol, refused to let him off the hook, even when House Republican leadership seemed content to do just that. The halls outside the state House and the committee room where Byrd briefly chaired an education subcommittee (seriously) were regularly filled with the sounds of their righteous anger at yet another man in power refusing to be

accountable for his actions. They would not let up, and now he has. Byrd announced he will not seek re-election next year. Good on those protesters, and good riddance to him.

STEVEN HALE

Best Political

oPera tive

KaThaRine heRiges

Local elections are tricky. There’s rarely, if ever, polling to rely on, and limited fundraising leads to difficult decisions. So it takes a unique talent to consistently win at the local level, and Katharine Heriges has done it. Heriges, a Nashville native who sits on the Tennessee Democratic Party Executive Committee, has a number of recent wins, including working with Bob Mendes on his 2015 and 2019 triumphs in the notoriously difficult at-large Metro Council race, and Vincent Dixie on his win in an open Democratic primary for a state House seat. With the Democratic Party on the ropes in Tennessee, it might be Heriges and other young operatives like her who lead it — if only slightly — out of the dark. STEPHEN ELLIOTT

Best Political

Newcomer

ZulFaT suaRa

As an accountant and nonprofit leader with groups like the American Muslim Advisory Council and the National Women’s Political Caucus, Zulfat Suara was familiar to many people working on the ground in Nashville politics. Many more Nashvillians know her now. After the results were tallied in the Aug. 1 election, Suara was the second-place vote-getter in the Metro Council at-large race. In last month’s runoff, she secured the last of four at-large spots still up for grabs,

Best political operative, writer’s choice: Katharine heriges

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year, it was NewsChannel 5’s Williams and The Tennessean’s Joey Garrison who led the coverage that in part led to Nashville Mayor Megan Barry’s resignation. This year, Williams’ reporting, with key contributions from The Tennessean’s Natalie Allison and Joel Ebert, preceded House Speaker Glen Casada’s downfall. Williams’ first story dropped on the final day of the legislative session in May; it included a number of revelations, notably that Casada’s chief of staff Cade Cothren sent racist text messages. The stories kept coming. A few days later, Allison and Ebert revealed that Casada himself had sent creepy messages about women to his top aide. It took a few weeks, but Republicans ultimately called for him to step aside, and he did. STEPHEN ELLIOTT

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TIrrC VoTes

The Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition is necessarily political. But it wasn’t until 2018 that the Nashville-based group fully dipped its toes into the nittygritty of electoral politics. They formed a political action committee, TIRRC Votes, in order to influence local and state elections, and in 2019 they entered the Metro fray for the first time. A mass-canvassing and advertising effort supported their ultimate success: Of 25 endorsements in Metro races this cycle, 21 of their candidates won.

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In March, city officials agreed to the NFL’s request to chop down 21 mature cherry blossom trees in downtown Nashville, just two weeks before the annual Cherry Blossom Festival. Why? To make room for a stage to be used for three days during April’s massive NFL Draft event. People. Were. Pissed.

More than 66,000 citizens signed a petition to save the trees. Then-Mayor David Briley tried to compromise, promising the trees would be replanted elsewhere. But the damage was already done. The similarity in numbers is probably just a coincidence, but it’s at least poetic: A few months later, more than 62,000 Nashvillians cast their vote for Briley’s opponent, John Cooper, in September’s runoff election. MEGAN SELING

Best neigh Bors

hermITage resIdenTs Vs. ICe Barry Goheen Buzzer Beaters and Memorial Magic: A Memoir of the Vanderbilt Commodores 1987-1989 Saturday, October 19, 2019 AT 1:00 PM A Q&A with Barry Booker followed by a book signing.

Chris Edmunds No Surrender: A Father, A Son, and an Extraordinary Act of Heroism that Continues To Live On Today Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 7:00 pm

In late July, two agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement attempted to stop an immigrant man who was driving in his van with his 12-year-old son. Instead of pulling over, the man drove back to his home and parked in the driveway, where ICE agents proceeded to block him in and try to coax him out of the van. They wanted to arrest him. But the man’s neighbors weren’t having it. Soon a crowd had gathered, made up of neighbors, immigrant advocates and an attorney. They brought the man and his son food and water, and refueled the van so that they could wait out the agents who did not have the legal right to forcibly remove him from his car.

Eventually, the ICE agents left, and one of the man’s neighbors bluntly summed up the standoff: “They came to the wrong community on the wrong day.” STEVEN HALE

Best twitter ACCount

Jason IsBell

He’s sold hundreds of thousands of records, won Grammy Awards and sold out a sevennight residency at the Ryman this month.

But my favorite Jason Isbell project is his endlessly entertaining Twitter feed. When the singer-by-trade isn’t humiliating trolls with witty quips, he’s using his platform to speak out against misogyny in the music industry, speak openly about mental health and call for gun control. The only way Isbell’s Twitter feed could get any better is if he adopted a puppy and started posting

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Best ACtivist

JusTIn Jones

Whether it was demonstrations calling for the removal of Nathan Bedford Forrest’s bust in the Capitol or subsequent confrontations with then-House Speaker Glen Casada over his racist chief of staff and their sexist bro chats, Justin Jones was at the forefront of this year’s protest-heavy legislative session. Time after time, it was his voice that could be heard speaking hard truth to entrenched power. His detractors will want to emphasize the episode in which he tossed a mostly empty cup of tea into an elevator after a group of legislators, an incident that led to Jones being banned from the Capitol.

But a sense of proportion is in order. A trip to the dry cleaners can make up for the regrettable elevator confrontation; but the damage done by the moral bankruptcy of so many of Tennessee’s political leaders, and the neglect — if not disdain — they show for so many of the state’s citizens are much harder to repair. STEVEN HALE

Best h ist ori An

BeTsy PhIllIPs

Author and former Scene contributor Betsy Phillips has an encyclopedic knowledge of Tennessee and Southern history, which is cool in and of itself. But what makes Phillips so great is her ability to craft these facts into captivating stories.

Her passion for the weird, wacky, sad and sordid history of our region is so infectious that anyone within earshot (or with a Twitter account — find her at @AuntB) is pulled into her world. When she’s not investigating Nashville’s midcentury white supremicist bombings for her upcoming book Dynamite Nashville, she writes short stories (see A City of Ghosts and Jesus Crawdad Death), dyes and spins her own yarn, and crochets blankets that double as stunning works of art. MEGAN SELING

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THE FACTS: ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES E-Cigarettes are already regulated by the FDA and have been since August 8th, 2016.

E-Cigarettes are Tobacco Products which contain Nicotine. They are legally regulated as such.

E-Cigarettes have had ALL INGREDIENTS listed with the FDA for the past two years.

E-Ci E-Cigarette liquids do not contain fatty oils. All of the registered ingredients used in E-Cigs are Water Soluble.

REGULATED ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE PRODUCTS

The CDC has found nothing unusual in any E-Cigarette product.

SO WHAT IS THIS MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS?

ACUTE LIPOID PNEUMONIA

“All five patients shared a history of recent use of marijuana oils or concentrates”

When people purchase illegal street drugs, they are not sure what sort of risks they are opening themselves up to. Illegal black market drugs have always been dangerous.

ACUTE LIPOID PNEUMONIA is caused by inhaling fatty oils. These oils do not exist in Electronic Cigarettes.

ILLEGAL BLACK MARKET DRUGS

Knee jerk reactions will only exasperate the problems posed by illegal black markets. Clearing the market of legal & regulated E-Cigarette products would only create a new black market.

It is important for adult consumers to know that Electronic Cigarettes are MUCH SAFER than tobacco cigarettes.

Legally regulated E-Cigarettes have not been confirmed as a cause in ANY case. As a smoker, it is ALWAYS in your best interest to switch to Electronic Cigarettes completely rather than to continue to smoke tobacco cigarettes.

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Nashville Zoo Chuck E. Cheese Kings Dining and Entertainment

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Music City Pet Sitting Miss Kitty’s Bed & Bath R uff Dog Daycare

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Miss Kitty’s Bed & Bath My Puppy Parlor The Pampered Pooch Pet R esort & Spa Nashville Pet Products Wags & Whiskers PetSmart

Best place to take kids when it’s raining, readers’ poll: adventure science center

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Camp Widjiwagan Nashville Ballet School Whippoorwill Farm Day C amp

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Phillips Toy Mart Arcade Kids Brilliant Sky Toys and Books

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We tried, but we just can’t choose! Two Rivers Dog Park and Fair Park Dog Park are both perfect in their own way. Two Rivers is huge. Like, really big. It’s approximately seven acres, with a paved walking path, several benches, plenty of trees and even a covered picnic area. The new-this-year Fair Park isn’t nearly as big, but the modern landscaping features tons of seating, artificial turf that won’t turn to mud on rainy days, a separate area for smaller dogs and a fun agility course featuring a seesaw, weaving posts, tires to run through and more.

Cute! MEGAN SELING

Best New Pla ygr ou ND

reD caboose Park

Kids and parents want totally different things from playgrounds. Obviously, safety is paramount to the latter, or at least that’s what you tell the other parents. But just as important: a shady place to sit. Kids, of course, just want fun stuff they can run around and climb and slide down, plus as many swings as possible. The new playground at Bellevue’s Red Caboose Park checks a lot of boxes. It has that fun bouncy stuff on the ground underneath the equipment to protect delicate noggins. Its merrygo-round is zero-entry, which has the dual benefit of safety and allowing kiddos to

Best new playground, writer’s choice: red caboose park

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build up more speed. There’s all the usual playground stuff — and tons of it — plus some fake trees for climbing fun. It’s surrounded by a fence that has just one entrance, and there are a dozen comfy picnic tables, gloriously located under a pleasant stand of wide-canopied trees. J.R. LIND

Best CaNiNe o uti Ng

Dog nights oF summer at cheekwooD

If you, like me, are always saying, “We really should get to Cheekwood more,” I’m about to give you a whole pack of reasons to go — and that reason is DOGS. Throughout August, Cheekwood’s Thursday Night Out welcomes all dogs on leashes. Add bars, music, lawn games and half-priced admission!

Go set up shop at the big tree table near the entrance for maximum canine cuddles.

Westminster’s got nothing on Nashville.

ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best Dog Park for Huma Ns

barkPark

BarkPark is more than just a private dog park: It’s a playground for humans too.

While the dogs have fun running zoomies and cooling off on the splash pad, humans

PHoto : DaNiel meigs

Best Dog Park

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Pho to: Daniel Meigs

Best interactive animal adventure, writer’s choice: nashville zoo

Best Way to Exha ust Your Kids

Best Bar nyard F u n

When my 3-year-old niece is bored, she flushes things down the toilet for sport — dolls, bars of soap — so we must tucker her out, and Climb Nashville always does the trick. At Climb’s East Nashville and West Nashville locations, kids can boulder, toprope and auto-belay with as much supervision as needed. Do I know what those words mean? Nope, but I know it keeps ’em moving.

Plus, Climb hosts birthday parties, which means no rented ponies, no rain plan — just a good time and tired kids. ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Animal-rescue organization The Gentle Barn is located just outside of Murfreesboro, and its mission is to teach us humans compassion and understanding right in the barnyard. The farm is home to a horde of lovable misfits, like Lolli, a goat who is fitted with prosthetic rear legs, and Rick Springfield, a handsome white rooster who was found wandering a parking garage at the Nashville International Airport. Thirtysome goats, chickens, turkeys, cows, pigs and other critters roam the 40-acre farm in retirement. You can visit The Gentle Barn

pho to: Eliza beth Jones

at ease letting her climb, jump and toddle around. AMANDA HAGGARD

climbing and ziplining their way through the trees. There are a dozen different courses and more than 150 different climbing elements to accommodate all ages and fitness levels. (Adults can get in on the fun, too!) The park even has special events like Glow in the Park, where visitors can climb through the course at night under twinkling lights. MEGAN SELING

Best park for toddlers, writer’s choice: smith springs community center can take advantage of the covered seating, free Wi-Fi and coffee bar. It’s like a cool co-working space where all the obnoxious tech bros have been replaced with cute puppies! The monthly membership fee also includes admission to weekly dog-friendly events like live comedy, film screenings, professional pup portraits and even grooming dates. Nail trims and haircuts at the dog park? Genius! MEGAN SELING

Best Park for Toddlers

Smith Springs Community Center

It’s rare to take my 2-year-old to a playground and feel like it was made for her.

Playgrounds are often full of big kids, and the structures are just a bit too large to set a little one loose on. But at Smith Springs Community Center, on the south side of Percy Priest Lake, there’s a small section just for toddlers. The playground structure is a tiny, colorful house that looks like something straight out of Whoville, but with a slide on one side, a climbing ladder on the other and the cutest little benches inside.

My daughter has a blast there, and I feel

Climb Nashville

The Gentle Barn

Best Pla ce to Prete nd to Be a Mo nkey

on Sundays, when you can snuggle turkeys, feed goats and hug cows. ERICA CICCARONE

Best Intera ctive Animal Adve nture

Nashville Zoo

What do you think kangaroo fur feels like?

Before I hit up good ol’ Kangaroo Kickabout, I guessed bristly dog fur, but no — kangaroos have soft fur, and even softer temperaments, which makes them perfect petting partners for kids. The Nashville Zoo lets kids get up-close with all kinds of animals — camels, goats, alpacas, parrots and tortoises — which means you get a full afternoon of entertainment and a prime backdrop for this year’s Christmas card pic.

ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best F ree Pr ogra mming for Kids

Nashville Public Library

If you haven’t been to the library since you bought your Kindle, you’re likely missing out on a lot of cool free stuff you can do with your kids. Nashville Public Library branches across the city offer reading

The Adventure Park at Nashville

From the street, The Adventure Park at Nashville’s maze of ropes, cables, planks and netting looks like some kind of dangerous trap. But really, it’s the perfect spot for kid’s day out, a place for your little ones to unleash their inner monkey by swinging,

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Pho to: Eric Engla nd

Best way to exhaust your kids, writer’s choice: climb nashville

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Thanks

to everyone who made our Holly Street ROCKS! wine tasting a smashing success!

• A FREE Black-Owned Business Directory • Educational Resources for Entrepreneurs • Networking Opportunities

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Best fun in the sun, writer’s choice: anderson beach events, puppet shows, dance parties, crafts, movies and more. Try Music and Movement, a class that combines song, dance and stories, or check out the cutest class, Reading Paws, where kids can build skills by reading aloud to a therapy dog. ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best s cientific Adventure

Warner Park nature Center When your kids get a hankering to explore something slimy, head to the Warner Park Nature Center. Check out a free explorer’s backpack to score a net for catching tadpoles, a looking glass and collection box for viewing creatures up-close, and pencils and paper so little artists can draw what they see. For kids who don’t like getting their hands dirty, there’s also a free on-site museum with bird feeders right outside the window. ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best dog

smash (aka Lord Banner of smashviLLe)

There’s only one thing better than bringing the Stanley Cup to Smashville, and that’s bringing the PUP to Smashville! During the 2018-19 hockey season, Kristen Finch, a member of the Nashville Predators’ communications department, adopted Lord Banner of Smashville, also known as Smash. The Best dog, writer’s choice: smash

Best f un in the s un

anderson BeaCh

Hidden in an Antioch neighborhood on the south side of Percy Priest Lake is the entrance to a water wonderland. It costs a mere $5 per car to access the shore, which has plenty of picnic tables and grills on a shady hill. The beach area is narrow but long, with ropes to mark swimming areas for adventurous kiddos. Enjoy the open air and the picturesque waters of Percy Priest; build a sandcastle. It’s much cheaper than a trip to the Gulf. ELIZABETH JONES

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Pho to: daniel Meigs

By Marisela Treviño Orta Based on the novel Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez Directed by Crystal Manich

Best wallaBy, writer’s choice: jack jr. black-and-white pooch with one floppy ear was just a few months old when he became the official dog of the Nashville Predators, and now he spends his days rough-housing with Roman Josi, chomping on rival mascots and posing for pics with fans at Preds events. 14/10, would raise a banner for Smash. MEGAN SELING

a home. Jack Jr. loves to snuggle, hang out in his cloth pouch and chew on any charging cord that crosses his path. And fun (adorable) fact: When Fasching first brought Jack Jr. home, he’d sometimes get startled by his own tail and fall over under the weight of his own head (which he has since grown into).

Ha! MEGAN SELING

Best Pig

Best Free g iFt For the Kids in your l iFe

Tocina The Pig

The cutest lady strutting down Woodland Street these days is doing it on four hooves.

Onetime Scene cover girl Tocina the Pig follows her nose around East Nashville. This pudgy adventurer loves to snack, swim and … well, snack. Tocina, whose name means “bacon” in Spanish, will eat just about anything — including the candle on her birthday cupcake. She can be found in Cornelia Fort Airpark some mornings, rooting around while her dad, Craig Jarrell, works out.

Thank you, Tocina, for keeping East Nashville weird. ERICA CICCARONE

Best Walla By

Jack Jr.

After famed local marsupial Jack the Wallaby passed away in November, Jack’s brokenhearted keeper Alex Fasching wasn’t sure when or if he’d be ready for another wallaby. Then one spring day he got a call from a wallaby rescue operation in Wisconsin. There was a 5-month-old joey in need of

Dolly ParTon’s imaginaTion library

Sponsored by Ensworth School

Since 1995, Queen Dolly has spearheaded Imagination Library, a program that provides a free book monthly to Tennessee kids from birth to age 5. Input their name, address and birthday at imaginationlibrary. com, and age-appropriate books will start magically arriving in the mailbox. It’s a beautiful tribute Dolly started for her dad, whom she says was the smartest man she ever knew despite the fact that he never learned to read. I’m not crying; you’re crying! ASHLEY BRANTLEY

October 10-27, 2019

Best o ne- s to P s ho PPing sP ot

Eleven-year-old Mari Cruz is the Mexican born daughter of undocumented migrant workers. For generations, elevenyear-old Tyler Paquette’s family has owned the farm where Mari’s family is suddenly working. Tyler wonders how he can be a patriot while his family breaks the law. Mari worries about her mother who vanished during a dangerous border crossing. She also lives in fear that she will be separated from her American-born sisters – especially after her uncle is taken into custody.

It isn’t long before the local community makes their opinions known. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences?

PieD PiPer creamery anD FairyTales booksTore anD more

Located in walkable Five Points, Pied Piper is the perfect place to duck into and hide from the blazing sun. With more than 20 flavors of creamy homemade ice cream

A world premiere production co-commissioned by Nashville Children’s Theatre and Vanderbilt’s Center for Latin American Studies

Buy tickets at NashvilleCT.org or call 615-252-4675.

Best one-stop shopping spot, writer’s choice: Pied PiPer creamery and Fairytales Bookstore and more

Pho to: daniel Meigs

Ticket fees apply.

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Goo Goo clusters taste of Goo Goo

Caramel, marshmallows, peanuts and chocolate — that’s all it takes to make a Goo Goo Cluster, but the candy company’s flagship store offers so much more. For $40, the shiny downtown shop offers a tour, an absurd amount of dessert samples and a candy-making class in which you can make your own Goo Goo. Bonus: Kids under age 12 can participate for free when accompanied by a paying adult. ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best Pla Ce to eat With Kids

Martin’s Bar-B-Que Downtown

on The Clay lady's Campus

artisan fair

available at any given time, your sweet tooth will be instantly satisfied. Instead of returning outside to the heat, head to the other side of the East Nashville house, where you can peruse Fairytales Bookstore’s oodles of children’s and adults’ books and unique gifts. Need a puzzle, a stuffed animal, a kite or a gnome? Fairytales has you covered. This purple store is a guaranteed hit. ELIZABETH JONES

1416 LEBANON PIKE NASHVILLE TN 37210

A unique outdoor night market celebrating the Nashville arts community.

Featuring local artists, food trucks, interactive art project, artist demonstrations, live music and more.

www.fireflyartisanfair.com

Eating out with young kids is a clown show, and clowns are terrifying. Entertainment is a prerequisite, but don’t go signing up for a Chuck E. Cheese card just yet. Martin’s BarB-Que’s downtown location offers the best of both worlds: kid- and adult-friendly food alongside pingpong, music, shuffleboard and lots to look at — the place is decorated like a kid’s clubhouse with posters galore.

And if none of that works, at least you can grab a beer to cry into. ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best l oud r est aurant for Kids

Bavarian Bierhaus

Possibly the largest restaurant in Donelson is located at the Opry Mills mall — but no, you don’t have to enter the mall to eat at this sausage fest. Bratwurst and German dishes are plentiful at the Bavarian Bierhaus, and if you’re got kids in tow, the restaurant’s noise level is perfect for drowning out screaming and hollering toddlers. A band plays often, and the hall is one big room with long tables and benches, giving kids plenty of space to climb and dance. I would argue that the noise is even better for infants, lulling them right to sleep while you sip on a liter’s worth of beer. Prost! ELIZABETH JONES

Best Pla Ce for a Birthd ay CaKe

BakeD on 8th

Unicorns wearing flower crowns, sprinklecovered ice cream cones and stars shooting through a gem-colored sky … whatever kind of birthday cake your kid can dream up, Baked on 8th can make it happen. And these beauties don’t just look good — they taste even better. All of Baked on 8th’s flavors (strawberry, lemon, carrot, peanut butter, cookies-and-cream and more) are balanced with the right amount of acid and salt, avoiding that cloying flavor that so often plagues store-bought disasters ... I mean desserts.

MEGAN SELING

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A Dance Studio in the heart of East Nashville offering classes for both Children and Adults.

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red Bicycle

Red Bicycle in The Nations is a great place for a freelancer to work. An iced coffee costs less than $4, and the cafe welcomes dogs wholeheartedly, indoors and out.

Owner Dave Trett is often on the premises with his adorable Pekingese, Tilly, who looks like Falcore from The Neverending Story got put through a Care Bear-making machine.

Four hours into a project, her fuzzy face is restorative. And if that doesn’t work, an espresso’s just a few feet away. ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best c at c afe

the catio

The Catio just might be the most East Nashville business ever established: a BYOB vegan bakery packed to the gills with adorable, adoptable kitties. However, under the watchful eyes of co-owners Beca-Lew Skeels and Anna Talaga, the East Side cat cafe transcends easy hipster jokes and instead delivers a truly charming, earnest haven for current and aspiring cat people.

Beyond the feat of finding forever homes for more than 60 cats, The Catio has a bakery that’s innovative and delightful, offering spectacularly made vegan cakes, cookies and more. LANCE CONZETT

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southside animal hospital

fr om “Best of Nashville” hist ory 1998: Best Pla ce to g ive the KiDs a Mul ticul tural ex Perience (Writer’s c hoice) t he f armers market critical care at just about any time — and without a long wait. The vets are thorough and experienced, and best of all, they always provide clients with options, so you can plan your dog or kitty’s care based on their needs and your budget. The hospital’s long-term care for aging fur-babies is comprehensive.

With a separate waiting area for cats, rubber mats on exam tables and technicians who are trained in handling anxious pets, Southside is committed to helping our critters live their best lives. ERICA CICCARONE

Best Dog g ro o Mer

my puppy parlor

Even if you’re a bit of a drive from Madison, when you’re looking for a spot to have your fluffy little buddy groomed, My Puppy Parlor is worth the trek. The relatively newly established canine salon not only offers competitive prices on a full range of services — they also have just about the most talented and friendly staff in the game.

What’s more, it’s just a generally adorable establishment, from its decor to the gourmet dog treats for sale near the register.

D. PATRICK RODGERS

With six vets on staff, Southside Animal Hospital can squeeze in appointments for

WHO:

Best dog groomer, writer’s choice: my puppy parlor

• 3 to 6-year-old children and their parent(s) • Girls and boys who do or do not STUTTER

BENEFITS OF PARTICIPATION:

• Speech-language assessments results, consultation, and service referrals • Compensation of $40 per visit ($80 total)

ACTIVITIES:

• Speech and language assessments • Looking at pictures • Listening to short stories • Playing computer games • Wearing a soft “hair net” with sponges (to record brain activity) and “stickers” with sensors (to measure heart rate and sweat)

Think Your Child May Stutter?

Interested in Your Child’s Speech?

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Researcher: Dr. Robin Jones; Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences

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Recommended for ages 2 and up.

OCTOBER 10–13, 2019

NASHVILLE BALLET IN SYLVAN PARK

See the devastating demise of aging Southern belle Blanche DuBois in this sultry adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic.

NOVEMBER 1–3, 2019

TPAC’S POLK THEATER

The world’s most beloved ballet and Music City’s favorite holiday tradition!

DECEMBER 7–23, 2019

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As a practice, we have an orthopaedic-specialized team of healthcare professionals and some of the best and well known board-certified, fellowship-trained surgeons in the country.

We provide innovative surgical and nonsurgical treatments of musculoskeletal disorders and injuries. From the rapidly growing areas of orthobiologics—including stem cell therapies and platelet rich plasma treatments—to being on the cutting-edge of robotic joint replacement, we are constantly striving to provide the best-possible options for our patients. We have specialists in hand, elbow, shoulder, spine, orthopaedic trauma, hip, knee, foot and ankle, joint replacement, and sports medicine, who provide the most up-to-date treatments used today. Our goal is to provide the quickest return to sport and to life that our patients want. We partner daily with our patients to work toward their goals and the best possible outcomes for the life they want to live.

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Arthroscopy, Joint Reconstruction, & Orthopaedic Trauma

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Arthroscopy, Knee and Shoulder Reconstruction & Sports Medicine

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Surgery of the Hand & Upper Extremity

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Anterior Hip Replacement, General Orthopaedics, Joint Replacement, & Sports Medicine

Joseph C. Schaffer, MD

Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, General Orthopaedics, Shoulder, Knee, Hip, Trauma, Orthobiologics

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Shoulder, Hip and Ankle Replacement, Orthobiologics and Cartilage Repair, Trauma, & Foot and Ankle Reconstruction

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Nashville Pedal Tavern Full Ride Cycling Sprocket Rocket Party Bike

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Sheree Spoltore James Shaw Jr. Becca Stevens

McCabe Golf Course Hermitage Golf Course Topgolf

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new classes & new trainers.

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Nashville’s best kept secret THANK YOU for making us Nashville’s favorite place for affordable, adult enrichment.

Road to the Hall of Fame On Sunday, October 20, 2019, Jerry Bradley, Brooks & Dunn, and Ray Stevens formally join the Country Music Hall of Fame, receiving country music’s highest honor. For the two weeks leading up to that official induction, the Museum conducts the Road to the Hall of Fame: Rite of Remembrance and Salute.

This daily ceremony honors the 136 Country Music Hall of Fame members who have come before this newest class, each member’s biography being read aloud in the order of their induction, from 1961 to 2018.

RITE OF REMEMBRANCE AND SALUTE October 17, 18,

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Presented by Museum programs are funded in part by the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission; National Endowment for the Arts; and the Tennessee Arts Commission.

Museum admission or Museum membership required for program admittance unless otherwise noted. Program passes required for select programs.

See box office for details.

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Tennessee’s Oldest Ski Shop & Nashville’s Only Pro Shop!

5827 Charlotte Pike

615.356.5051

IT’S BACK!

18th Annual Ski & Snowboard Sale

Oct.25th 5pm-9pm • Oct.26th 9:30am-6pm • Oct.27th 11am-4pm Ski Areas, Ski & Snowboard Reps, Clubs & Lots of CLEARANCE ITEMS up to 60% OFF. BIGGEST SALE OF THE YEAR!

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Best place to take out-oftowners, readers’ poll: cheekwood estate and gardens

Best Pla ce to take o ut -of- towners

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Nashville Pedal Tavern Sprocket Rocket Party Bike NashTrashTours Nashville Shores Sound Waves at Opryland Wave Country Wave Pool Chattanooga Gatlinburg Asheville, N.C.

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Gnash, Nashville Predators T-Rac, Tennessee Titans Booster, Nashville Sounds

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NASHVILLE’S FIRST URBAN WINERY

Pho to: kindell Buchanan

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Best titan, writer’s choice: kevin byard

Best titan

Kevin Byard

There is no better person to drag the local NFL franchise out of its sustained mediocrity (three postseason appearances, one win in the past 15 years) than former Middle Tennessee State University star Kevin Byard, who has never settled for being overlooked or ignored. In the past two years he has led the league in interceptions (eight in 2017), publicly feuded with Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders when he felt disrespected, and in July, signed a contract extension worth $14.1 million per season (a record for his position). He not only pro-

duces, he motivates all those around him with his ability, his actions and his attitude.

DAVID BOCLAIR

Best Pred ator

viKtor arvidsson

Over the past three seasons, Viktor Arvidsson has averaged 0.44 goals per game, which ranks among the top 20 in the NHL for that span. He ranked third in the league in that regard last season at 0.59. He is one of two players in franchise history to score more than 30 season goals twice, and his 34 in 2018-19 set a Nashville record. He has done it all at 5-foot-9, 180 pounds, and he was not

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Pho to: daniel Meigs

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tim corbin

With the paucity of championships won by Nashville-based teams, this one is a shoo-in.

Commodores baseball coach Tim Corbin came to West End in 2003. In the 35 years prior, Vandy had six winning seasons in the SEC and qualified for only three NCAA tournaments. In the 16 years since, Vandy’s missed the tournament only twice, and won the conference four times and the national title twice, the latest win in Omaha coming this summer. Given Vanderbilt’s perennial mediocrity on the gridiron and more recent struggles on the hardcourt, the Blackand-Gold faithful thank the Good Lord for Corbin every day and wait for spring. J.R. LIND

Zack Granite

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drafted until he was 21 (most are selected as 18-year-olds). Arvidsson has earned this.

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Best Name

Starts at 6pm Guest Speaker Earl Hightower

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Nashville Sounds centerfielder Zack Granite hit a respectable .290 and stole 25 bases in 2019 and even enjoyed a few cups of coffee with the Texas Rangers. Sure, we can debate his slash line and the utility of a speedy player with limited power in today’s professional baseball environment. We could do that. Or we could just enjoy the fact that his name is Zack Granite. Zack with the hard K, not the equivocating H. That stoney phoneme comes like a jab just before the powerful right cross of his surname: Granite. Like the rock. Kablam! J.R. LIND

Best athleti C Feat

kumar rocker’s no-hitter

In a year during which Vanderbilt reigned as the nation’s premier baseball program — winning the College World Series and sending an SEC-record 13 players to the MLB draft — a freshman pitching in only his 20th

game wearing black-and-gold provided the definitive moment. Taking the mound in a win-or-go-home game against Duke, Kumar Rocker didn’t just beat the hated Blue Devils, he no-hit them, striking out 19 batters and saving Vandy’s season in what some have called the greatest single-game pitching performance in college baseball history.

To think — he’s still just 19, and Commodores fans get to enjoy him for three more years. At a time when Major League Baseball has never been more hard-up for African American ambassadors (black players made up 6.7 percent of big-league rosters in 2019, down from 18.7 in 1981), it’s hard not to get ahead of ourselves in regard to what Rocker — whose imposing frame, electric fastball and megawatt smile recall Yankee pitcher and likely Hall-of-Famer C.C. Sabathia in his younger years — could potentially accomplish. For now, let’s just savor greatness while it’s here. CHARLIE ZAILLIAN

Best Wrestler

brett ison

The current Southern Underground Pro champion — a belt Brett Ison has held for the better part of a year — is a standout in the local independent wrestling scene.

The “Strong Style Pitbull” comes in at 6-foot-3 and 270 pounds, which is intimidating enough. But Ison prefers to make his entrance with his head draped in a towel, which somehow makes him seem even more frightening. Despite his size, Ison moves like a cat in the ring, echoing the style of his favorite wrestlers as a youngster, like the legendary Rey Mysterio Jr. After a show at The Basement East — where he’s undefeated all-time — Ison screamed, “This is my territory!” It sure is. J.R. LIND

Best NeW h ire

Jerry stackhouse

In the waning seasons of Jerry Stackhouse’s

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Pho to: Premier Boxin G cham Pions

Best accessorized, writer’s choice: caleb plant

18-year NBA career, there were a lot of rumblings among basketball analysts about what a great coach the all-star would make.

Now, after a few seasons working as an NBA assistant coach in both Toronto and Memphis, Stackhouse has anchored down in Nashville as the head coach of Vanderbilt’s men’s basketball team. Having been selected as Sports Illustrated’s 1995 Player of the Year under the great Dean Smith at North Carolina, Stack knows a thing or two about what it means to be part of an elite NCAA program. P.J. KINZER

Best accessorized

Best eyes

Best s on G to s in G at Preds Games

No one keeps stats for video coordinators in the NHL, and there are no official awards from the league. Which is good for the other 30 men who have Lawrence Feloney’s position with the other teams throughout the league, because he’d run away with it all.

As the Predators’ quick-draw eye in the sky, Feloney has the job of determining whether there’s some kind of malfeasance the officials overlooked worthy of challenging.

Was an opposing player a nanometer offside before the goal? Was his stick just a hair’s breadth above the crossbar? You can’t hide from Feloney’s eyes. Shivers go down the backs of the Preds’ opponents when the referee announces, “Nashville is challenging the goal.” They know they’ve lost and their goal will be stolen away. It’s Feloney theft.

J.R. LIND

Nashville fans love to sing, which isn’t a shock, of course, given that karaoke in this town is like Saturday night at the Roman Colosseum. For years, Predators fans have joined in with Biz Markie’s “Just a Friend” late in the third period, for example. The latest organic fan interaction comes after a challenge of a Predators goal. As the ref pulls on the headphones and ganders at the tablet screen, 17,000-plus pull out their cellphones, turn on the flashlight and let loose with a rousing chorus of The Beatles’ classic “Let It Be.” J.R. LIND

Lawrence FeLoney

Best Person to Get yo u thr ou Gh nashville traffic

JoseF newgarden

Hendersonville native and Pope John Paul II High School graduate Josef Newgarden signed with Team Penske in 2017, which gave him access to some of the best minds and technology in racing. Since then he has won more IndyCar races than anyone and captured the series championship in his first year. He has yet to win the Indianapolis 500 (he has finished in the top five twice), but most analysts agree it’s just a matter of time. DAVID BOCLAIR

fr om “Best of Nashville” hist ory 1993: Best thin G nashville needs (r eaders’ Poll) Pr o sP orts

caLeb PLant

Ashland City native Caleb Plant outfitted himself with a world championship belt in January when he won the IBF Super Middleweight title by unanimous decision. His first title defense, in July, ended when he finished his opponent in the third round. Currently living and training in Las Vegas, he is the first fighter born and raised in Tennessee to become world champion. Undefeated as a pro (19-0), he shows no signs of relinquishing the belt anytime soon. DAVID BOCLAIR

“Let it be”

Best c all for r einforcements

nashviLLe sc

Local professional soccer franchise Nashville SC wanted to make a splash in its final season before the transition to Major League Soccer, so the offseason focus was on adding offense. Then midway through the schedule, the club realized the defense was lacking. In mid-July, Nashville SC added two defenders on loan from MLS clubs and did not allow a goal in the first five games with one or both in the lineup. By late August, Nashville was battling for first place in the conference standings. DAVID BOCLAIR

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Best exit

rick byrd

If you’re going to retire after nearly four decades in any business, you might as well go out on top — or at least as close to it as you’re likely to get. Rick Byrd exited stage right after 33 years as Belmont’s men’s basketball coach (he also had short stints at Maryville College and Lincoln Memorial), and his final season included the program’s first at-large invitation to the NCAA Tournament and the first victory in the event

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Biggest g ame-Changer

Derrick Morgan

Morgan, a onetime Tennessee Titans firstround draft pick and No. 91 for nine seasons, retired as an outside linebacker in July at the young age of 30. Now Morgan is trading in sacks (44.5 in his career) for securities.

He created KNGDM Opportunity Zone Impact Fund to raise $50 million to invest in real estate and operating businesses in Opportunity Zones, with the goal of addressing racial inequities of wealth and finance.

Morgan got his MBA while still playing in the NFL, so he’s ready for this next play in his book. MARGARET LITTMAN

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After raising her hand in an audience of much (much) younger folks, Martin McConnell stole the stage at last year’s WeWork Creator Awards in Marathon Village. Her enthusiasm and confidence were rewarded with $50,000 in seed money intended to help her expand her local nonprofit Music for

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Seniors, which takes live music (not CDs, iPods or streaming services) into senior living communities. After 12 years of slowbut-steady growth in Nashville, Music for Seniors expanded to Knoxville this summer, with an eye toward Chicago next. Expect to see Martin McConnell continue to shoot her hand up when necessary. MARGARET LITTMAN

Best Loraxes

JiM gregory anD will worrall

The dogwoods, tulip poplars, bur oaks and hickories have two inexhaustible Nashvillians to thank this year. Jim Gregory and Will Worrall, founders of the Nashville Tree Conservation Corps, have been speaking up for trees — 21 cherry blossom trees, in particular. The tree-huggers got more than 60,000 people riled up in protest of the city’s plan to yank 21 cherry trees downtown in advance of the NFL Draft in April. The duo is also helping draft legislation to overhaul Metro’s tree ordinance and organizing socalled releafing efforts. Because unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. ERICA CICCARONE

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The Nashville Zoo at Grassmere had a babybooming year — twin cotton-top tamarins

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known to many as March Madness — an 81-70 triumph over Temple in the First Four.

Byrd won more than twice as many games (805) as he lost (401) and guided the Belmont program from its NAIA roots to its current status as one of the country’s most wellregarded mid-majors. DAVID BOCLAIR

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PHOTO CONTEST Best event that’s literally for the Birds, writer’s choice: hummingbird happy hour, warner park nature center were born in April, a Chilean flamingo hatched in August, with more following soon after — but the two clouded leopard cubs born in March, to mother Niran and father Ron, deserve special recognition.

Two years ago, Niran was the first clouded leopard ever born from artificial insemination through cryopreservation (a process that uses frozen semen). The fact that Niran was able to give birth to two healthy cubs, without complications, is a historical achievement in the ongoing fight to conserve the vulnerable species. And, duh, these babies are ADORABLE. MEGAN SELING

Best Near By Getawa y

Beaman Park

Less than 15 miles outside of town is Beaman Park, a hidden gem of the Metro parks system that boasts more than 1,600 acres of preserved land and well-kept trails to explore it. The Henry Hollow Loop is a popular two-mile stretch of winding paths along creekside views and gentle bluffs.

For a more secluded route, the in-and-out Ridgetop Trail provides access to the heart of the park through varying flora along the hill’s crest. Before you plan a weekend trip to the mountains, be sure to check out Beaman Park as an alternative getaway from the daily bustle. MATT FOX

Best eve Nt tha t’s Litera LLy for the Birds

hummingBird haPPy hour, warner Park nature center “Hummingbird banding” might sound like some wack-ass millennial Pilates workout, but it’s actually how the world’s smallest birds are tagged for study, and Warner Park is one of the only places in the country where it happens. At Warner’s annual September happy hour, you can eat, drink, dance and support research that teaches us cool shit like the fact that hummingbirds can’t walk but they can fly backwards. In the words of Jesse Pinkman: “Yeah, science!” ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best PLace to Get f ree

rock haven Lodge

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Best c o LLective Brai Nst ormi NG

nashviLLe Pride’s community visioning Project

This year, the organization Nashville Pride embarked on the Nashville Community Visioning Project, a series of large and small conversations, plus a detailed online survey, geared toward learning what the queer community wants and needs in order to thrive. A consulting firm will synthesize the information in a report that LGBTQ-friendly organizations can use to address the community’s concerns. The Community Visioning Project reminds us that queer people are not a monolith, and it takes a village to address our diverse needs. ERICA CICCARONE

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Many of Nashville’s newish large-scale buildings are excessively “busy” with numerous colors, forms and materials. In contrast, 500 11th Ave. N. in Capitol View borders on elegant. The 10-story structure offers a sufficient blend of “21st-century contemporary” design and timeless elements of conventional tall-building construction: a well-defined entrance; a base, midsection and cap that are distinguishable but work in concert; and attractive height and bulk proportionality. Northwestern Mutual, Boyle Investment Co. and architect Cooper Carry (Atlanta) have given the North Gulch a fine midrise building. WILLIAM WILLIAMS

Best eyesore

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2 International Plaza is a glorious monolith, a shrine to gaudy ’70s architecture. The office building looms over Briley Parkway near the airport, its walls shielded entirely by gold-tinted panels that lure some unsuspecting commuters into a losing game of sunbeam dodgeball. But time your approach correctly, and this eyesore shows its true colors. The building’s reflective design at

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Best New Co Nstr u Ctio N w ithi N a tight s paCe

Dream Hotel

Bill Barkley and Alex Marks deftly nailed their vision for downtown’s distinctive new Dream Hotel. Fronting Fourth Avenue with Printers Alley in the back, the multi-building hotel — the former Climax Saloon (specifically, the original steel-stamp façade), the ex-Utopia Hotel and new structures — looks and functions attractively and harmoniously. And within a confined space, no less. Nashville-based architecture firm ESa and Meyer Davis Studio (interior design) of New York delivered creatively.

Bonus points for keeping the fire escape and adding the old-school gentleman’s club signage on the Printers Alley face … genius.

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21c museum Hotel NasHville

No matter how much we grow, Nashville’s likelihood of having a dedicated, standalone contemporary art museum is fairly slim. But we have a hotel-adjacent contemporary art museum that’s free, has exhibits that change annually, and is open 24/7, so I take advantage of it as often as I can. I think of it as my late-night de-escalation zone when I’m walking back to my car after going out downtown — often from the Ryman

Best new construction within a tight space, writer’s choice: dream hotel

to the Public Square Garage. I stop at the 21c and take in three floors of things I don’t get to see anywhere else in the city — works by artists like Beth Cavener, Shelley Reed and Jesse Jonathan Hale — sometimes mingling with hotel guests, but mostly being invisible, finding new favorites, and plotting my return. MARGARET LITTMAN

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NasHville sHakespeare Festival

Change is hard. Shakespeare in the Park has called Centennial Park home for 30 years, and so it was hard to imagine the Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s summer celebration anywhere else. But the move one mile west didn’t dim the glow of a night of affordable Bard under the stars. For Shakespeare in the Park’s first installment in the new spot, the OneC1ty location offered free parking, good sightlines, food trucks, and access to Sump Coffee and Pastaria Nashville gelato, plus “posh potties” several steps above the yet-to-be-rehabbed restrooms in the bandshell at Centennial. And importantly, the change happened without losing any of the community feel you get from being in a public park. MARGARET LITTMAN

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Best Pla ce for an adul t Birthd ay Party

soundwaves

Remember those kids’ birthday parties, wherein you’d get a whole room to yourself to play your own music, eat pizza and generally run wild? Those days don’t have to be over just because you’re a grown-up. There’s a way into Gaylord Opryland Resort’s exclusive new SoundWaves attraction without staying at the hotel: renting a party room.

Best place for an adult Birthday party, writer’s choice: soundwaves

The room costs $50 per person and comes with parking vouchers, pizza, a birthday cake and admission to the newly built water park.

SoundWaves is a half-outdoor, half-indoor park with big, fast water slides as well as two lazy rivers, a wave pool and “water obstacles.” Frozen alcoholic beverages can be acquired at the adults-only pool, where you can sip frosé and watch people wipe out on the boogie board. Bliss. ELIZABETH JONES

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Best way to see nashville, writer’s choice: tour de nash

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tour de Nash

Every year, a critical mass of cyclists congregates at Public Square Park to take over the streets of Nashville on routes ranging from eight to 45 miles, stretching as far as Belle Meade and Inglewood. Tour de Nash isn’t a race — it’s a celebration of pedalpowered tourism, taking cyclists of all abilities on a slow-motion journey through Nashville’s nooks and crannies. No spandex required. LANCE CONZETT

Best history crash course, writer’s choice: bicentennial capitol mall state park

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BiceNteNNial capitol Mall state park

When it isn’t playing host to music festivals and vintage baseball games, Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park provides the definitive walking tour of Tennessee and its history. A marble wall stretching the length of the park lists statewide milestones from the dawn of time to the 1990s. Additional highlights include a massive stone map of Tennessee, county-by-county info markers and a carillon that plays “Tennessee Waltz” on the hour. The park is also near the food booths at the Market House at the Nashville Farmers’ Market, along with the new Tennessee State Museum, making a daylong TriStar trek easier than ever. MATT FOX

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East is a true-crime fanatic’s dream come true. At the Alcatraz East Crime Museum, built to look like a combination of the Tennessee State Prison and the famous facility at Alcatraz Island, murderinos both old and young (yes, they have exhibits designed for children) will find hundreds of fascinating and/or creepy artifacts from America’s sordid, scandal-filled history, including John Dillinger’s death mask, O.J. Simpson’s Bronco and an interactive autopsy table.

Whoa. MEGAN SELING

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Rachel Agee, Kodachrome at Actors Bridge Studio

Rachel Agee has been a beloved figure in Nashville’s theater scene for years, known for her uncanny ability to inhabit a character and steal the occasional scene. So it should come as no surprise that she’s also a gifted director. Agee’s talents were on full display when she made an impressive directorial debut in May, with Actors Bridge Ensemble’s beautiful production of Adam Szymkowicz’s Kodachrome. Tender, funny and full of heart, the production had Agee’s fingerprints all over it. AMY STUMPFL

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Best theater director, writer’s choice: Jon Royal

Best Thea ter Direct or

Jon Royal

As the city’s theater community swells with fresh talent from all over the country, actor, director and educator Jon Royal keeps the scene grounded. That’s not to say Royal resists working with newcomers — his talent for collaboration with artists of all stripes is noteworthy. But the Nashville native is committed to making theater reflect all of Nashville, and he’s had an astounding year.

Royal’s talent as a director begins with his willingness to tackle bold works, but it comes through most in the performances he summons from actors. In January, Royal directed Ghost at Nashville Children’s Theatre. Royal grew up going to see plays at NCT, and he trusts that kids can handle art that articulates somewhat complex social problems. Ghost was infused with his respect for young people. In February, Nashville Repertory Theatre’s production of Topdog/Underdog had Royal at the helm, directing Eddie George and Joel Diggs.

Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play requires the actors to summon vulnerability while at the same time masking it with humor and posturing. It’s a testament to Royal’s abilities as a director that both actors balanced right on this knife’s edge.

The following month, Royal directed Actors Bridge Ensemble’s Citizen: An American Lyric, a bold meditation on American racism that’s based on a book of poetry by Claudia Rankine. Royal approached this with great care, and the performances were raw and unnerving — exactly as they should be for

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But working with kids is Royal’s passion.

It’s why he got into theater to begin with.

As a teaching artist, Royal works with kids at NCT and the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. He also teaches in Restorative Justice and the Arts, a program of the Metro Nashville Arts Commission, the Juvenile Justice Center and the Oasis Center, which engages court-involved youth in a range of artistic endeavors. Every summer, he heads to the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles to teach in its Will Power to Youth program.

“I became an artist because there are things that I want to change in the world,” Royal told the Scene in July. He makes it easy to believe that’s possible. ERICA CICCARONE

Look, I’m not gonna lie: It’s super nice to see a play at TPAC, with its rows of restroom stalls, or OZ Arts Nashville, with its stateof-the-art lighting and sound. But a little joint on Indiana Avenue is putting on progressive new works on a shoestring budget.

The Barbershop Theater is hard evidence of the passion and dedication of our small local theater companies. Fearless leaders Nettie Kraft and Graham Mote opened the theater in 2017 with plenty of help from their friends, and the companies of The Barbershop Collective have energized the local theater scene. The black-box seats about 50 people, all of whom share a restroom. But the little theater buzzes with vitality, and I can’t help but feel like I’m sitting with the cool kids when I’m there — seeing something completely original that’s born out of a shared sense of purpose. ERICA CICCARONE

Best Thea ter Performa nce

Joel Diggs, Topdog/ Underdog

Joel Diggs electrified audiences as Booth in Nashville Rep’s February production of Topdog/Underdog. The Pulitzer Prizewinning play by Suzan-Lori Parks is about two brothers who share a room in a shabby boarding house and struggle with how society sees them, and ultimately how they see themselves. Playing opposite the towering Eddie George, Diggs nimbly tore around the stage, sometimes in his boxer shorts and socks, as if he might shake the set apart. The play is driven by Booth’s desperate longing to be accepted by his older brother, which mirrors his need to be seen as a man in a country that insists he is a boy. Diggs captured that striving with

fr om “Best of Nashville” Hist ory 1998: Best Idea for a Pu blic S cul pture (W riter’s C hoice) A monument to the 1960s sit -ins heartbreaking urgency. His performance read like a love letter to every younger sibling who has ever felt overlooked and underestimated. ERICA CICCARONE

Best Exam ple of ‘The S ho w Must Go On ’

The Wolves

Some of life’s most important lessons take place outside the classroom. And Actors Bridge Ensemble taught us all something about courage last fall when Belmont University attempted to censor and ultimately shut down a staging of Sarah DeLappe’s powerful drama The Wolves, co-produced by Actors Bridge and the university’s theater department. Actors Bridge and director Jaclynn Jutting (who was at that time head of Belmont’s BFA directing program) moved the production off campus, delivering one of the season’s biggest hits. AMY STUMPFL

Best Ensem ble

Dance Nation, Nashville Story Garden

In June, Nashville Story Garden pulled off one of the best productions of the year with Clare Barron’s Dance Nation, the story of a group of teenage girls (and one boy) in a dance class who awkwardly, hilariously figure out how to find their power. Directed

by New York’s Rachel Dart, Dance Nation was an after-school special wrapped in a feminist zine folded in a soiled maxi pad — because there’s no shame in bleeding when you’re surrounded by your friends. Every member of the cast dazzled me: Jessica Anderson, Lauren Berst, Alicia Haymer, Melodie Madden Adams, Sejal Mehta, Evelyn O’Neal, Tamiko Robinson Steele, James Rudolph, Tamara Todres and Ted Welch.

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Best Mo nolo gue

Alicia Haymer, Dance Nation

Leave it to Alicia Haymer to find a foothold in an ensemble crowded with talent and catapult herself to the front of the line.

Nashville Story Garden’s Dance Nation was strong all around during its run this summer, but Haymer delivered the most thrilling five minutes of theater all year with her monologue as Ashlee. At the start of it, her character is a teenage girl gently affirming her worth. But something important happens in the midst of it — she finds her power.

Haymer seemed to deliver the monologue with the strength of every pissed-off woman in the whole fucking country. She lifted us up, and was met with riotous applause and shouts of solidarity. ERICA CICCARONE

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Grow Up, Nashville Story Garden

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As Nashville’s appetite for new works continues to grow, Nashville Story Garden has stepped up with a series of short-play festivals. Inspired by Amios’ SHOTZ! program in New York, NSG gives the writers three conditions, all of which must be met in their plays.

May’s festival, titled Grow Up, presented five new plays dealing with radical growth or change — with results that were both hilarious

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and thought-provoking. AMY STUMPFL

Best C o ntemporar y Dance Performa nce

ink, Camille A. Brown & Dancers at OZ Arts Nashville

In December, New York-based company Camille A. Brown & Dancers performed ink at OZ Arts Nashville, and it’s the kind of performance I wish everyone I know could see. In ink, Brown borrows traditions from African dance, tap, jazz, hip-hop and African American social dance, fusing ancestral stories with contemporary ones to celebrate black masculinity and brotherhood. In addition to the performances from technically stunning — and very stylish — dancers, Brown’s choreography told a palpable story that resonated with many. The after-show talkback was one of the most illuminating I’ve attended. OZ continues to bring brilliant artists to Nashville to shake and inspire us.

ERICA CICCARONE

Best Immersive Thea ter Experie nce

All the Dead Things at Kindling Arts Festival

The 2019 Kindling Arts Festival was packed with dynamic performances. But All the

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Best theatrical adaptation, writer’s choice: lucy negro redux, nashville ballet Dead Things provided a uniquely immersive experience. Conceived by Nate Eppler and written by a crew of up-and-coming playwrights, this offbeat comedy about a fictional Southern family offered big laughs. But by presenting the piece in the now-shuttered Royal Circus — a funky home-decor shop in Wedgewood-Houston — producers made us think about the seemingly random objects that define our own stories. AMY STUMPFL

Best Thea trical Adapt atio n

Lucy Negro Redux, Nashville Ballet

Nashville Ballet’s Lucy Negro Redux was nothing short of astonishing, cracking the artform open and re-creating it to be more inclusive and vibrant. Based on a book of poems by Caroline Randall Williams, Lucy tells the story of a black woman who some scholars believe was the Dark Lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Williams performed as the narrator and muse, reciting her poetry as dancers swirled around her. Jazz composer Francesco Turrisi and Carolina Chocolate Drops co-founder, MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient and noted solo artist Rhiannon Giddens played the folk score they composed for the production, and prima ballerina Kayla Rowser gave an emo-

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Best visual artist, writer’s choice: vadis turner fr om “Best of Nashville” Hist ory 2002: Best Artistic Gam ble (Writer’s C hoice) Paul Vasterli ng’s choreogra phy in Nashville Ballet tional, flawless performance as Lucy. The project cemented choreographer and director Paul Vasterling as one of Nashville’s true visionaries. It proved — in case we had any doubts, which we shouldn’t — that “there is beauty in the dark.” ERICA CICCARONE

Best Use of L ocal Tale nt in a R arel y Pr o duce d Jazz O pera

The Cradle Will Rock, Nashville Opera

It’s not unusual for Nashville Opera to attract internationally acclaimed artists. But when artistic director John Hoomes staged Marc Blitzstein’s landmark 1937 jazz opera The Cradle Will Rock in May, he seized the opportunity to work with local talent from the theater community. Nashville favorites such as Megan Murphy Chambers, Eric Pasto-Crosby, Martha Wilkinson and more delivered this fast-paced satire with style.

Enthusiastic audiences embraced the work, and rewarded Nashville Opera with a soldout run. AMY STUMPFL

Best Ble nd of Thea ter and Activism

23/1, Destiny Theatre Experience

As the founder and artistic director of Destiny Theatre Experience, Shawn Whitsell may be the busiest man in Nashville. An actor, activist, poet, teaching artist, director and writer (with 22 full-length plays to his credit), Whitsell also regularly volunteers to work with Nashville’s incarcerated population. That’s what inspired 23/1, which follows one man’s struggle to maintain his humanity while in solitary confinement.

Tough and uncompromising, 23/1 represents some of Whitsell’s strongest work to date.

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Best V is ual Artist

Vadis Turner

When Vadis Turner returned to Nashville from New York in 2014, her hometown embraced her with open arms. At that time, Turner was making gorgeous ribbon paintings of stormy skies and sunsets, and textured landscapes based on literary characters and female rites of passage that popped with color. Using materials from the domestic sphere, Turner’s work was meaningful, accessible and totally gorgeous. In November, Turner’s Zeitgeist

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show Bedfellows showed her turning toward monochromatic compositions: huge, ropey wall reliefs that recall sails, ships and the wings of planes. Turner is an artist willing to walk away from a successful style in order to evolve. Her confident new work rewards us with a new way of seeing that is surprising and transformative. ERICA CICCARONE

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Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

When Afro Cuban artist and longtime Bostonian Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons moved to Nashville in 2017, a lot of people were probably surprised. She’s been a fixture in the national contemporary art scene since the 1980s, has friends in high places, and could surely choose to live in whatever city she’d like. But Campos-Pons insists that Nashville is like a sister city to her Cuban hometown of Matanzas, which is similarly known for its artists and musicians. As the chair of Vanderbilt’s art department, she’s going to lead to big changes in Nashville’s community of artists — and from the look of the 2019 Havana Biennial, to which she brought seven of Nashville’s best artists, she’s off to a great start. LAURA HUTSON HUNTER

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Dangerously Close to Weaving at The Rymer Gallery

The best textile art exhibition of the year opened back in June and featured contributions from Vadis Turner, Catie Beth Thomas, Becky Dickovitch, Avery Williamson, Jana Harper, Quinn Hunter, S.H. Collier and Natalie Baxter. But the star of Dangerously Close to Weaving was contributing artist and curator Pam Marlene Taylor. Taylor’s showstealing wall sculptures were emblematic of the exhibition’s title — they simultaneously embraced traditional craft techniques and completely transcended them. Even more impressive was Taylor’s organizing of this thoroughly impressive display, which demonstrated the kind of curatorial vision Nashville rarely sees outside of larger institutions. JOE NOLAN

Best C ura tor

Katie Delmez, Frist Art Museum

Art museums are notoriously insular, and a community gallery can easily get shoved in a corner, overlooked and underused. But you have to walk through the Frist Art Museum’s Conte Community Arts Gallery when you enter the building, and curator Katie Delmez has made it more than worth the stroll. In the current exhibition, Murals of North Nashville Now, Delmez commissioned local artists with ties to historically black North Nashville

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Best curator, writer’s choice: katie delmez, frist art museum to create 8-by-12-foot paintings, most of them showstoppers. It’s an investment in the black community and the local art scene that matters. Delmez is paying attention to what’s culturally important to our city, and letting artists stretch out and do some of their best work yet. ERICA CICCARONE

Best Galler y W e’ll Miss

TIE: Cumberland Gallery and Art & Invention Gallery

If either Cumberland Gallery or Art & Invention had closed in 2019, it would be considered the end of an era. To have them both close in the same year — Cumberland in March, Art & Invention in May — is seismic.

Cumberland was ahead of its time — opening way back in 1980, the gallery took risks on some of the city’s best artists, like Mark Hosford, Barry Buxkamper and Billy Renkl.

The funkier Art & Invention was a hub for East Nashville’s creative scene, and originated the now-indispensable Tomato Art Fest. Art is constantly evolving, as it should, but we’re mourning the loss of these spots nonetheless. LAURA HUTSON HUNTER

her artistic practice can still recognize her world-famous pictures at a glance. The Frist’s Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing was a moving display of the photographer’s timeless images. But it was the show’s overall picturing of Lange as a social-practice art pioneer that made it one of the year’s most illuminating surprises. JOE NOLAN

Best Intera ctive Art Galler y

The Crappy Magic Showroom

Local artist and curator David Hellams has

Commission to Rescue Surplus Ceramics From Middle School Art Class at The Crappy Magic Showroom Thanks to Bridget Bailey and David Hellams, I have two unique sculptures on my work desk. “The Dog” and “The Chicken” only slightly resemble actual animals — it’s as if they’ve been pulled out of nightmares. I bought them for a pittance at the Commission to Rescue Surplus Ceramics From Middle School Art Class at The Crappy Magic Showroom in Wedgewood-Houston’s The Packing Plant. Bailey salvaged dozens of treasures from her middle school art classes — each abandoned by a budding artist with a tooheavy backpack who made the choice to leave their ceramic doodle behind. The duo also commissioned small mixed-media

Best Social-Practice Art-History Exhibition, writer’s choice: Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing at the frist art museum

Best Drawi ng and S culpture Exhi bitio n

Terra Incognita at Ground Floor Gallery + Studios

Drawing will always be intrinsic to sculpture-making, and I’m especially fond of exhibitions that display the disciplines side by side. Terra Incognita at Ground Floor Gallery + Studios featured large, illuminated sculptures by Andrew Harding alongside gorgeous, meditative drawings that Erin Murphy created in response to Harding’s works. Terra Incognita created a conversation about textures and spaces informed by big-picture ideas about cosmology, quantum mechanics, ecology, mythology and geology.

It was also a display that embraced the mysterious even as it hinted at the anxieties that arise at the edges of perception and understanding. JOE NOLAN

Best S ocial- Pra ctice Art H ist or y Exhi bitio n

Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing at the Frist Art Museum

The Dust Bowl-era photographs of Dorothea Lange are so famous that lots of Americans who don’t know her name or understand

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Best Tennessee H ist or y Art Exhi bitio n

Between the Layers: Art and Story in Tennessee’s Quilts at the Tennessee State Museum

This fantastic display of quilts opened back in February — it was the very first new exhibition at the Tennessee State Museum following the October 2018 grand opening at its new location. Between the Layers was an eye-catching display of backing, batting and binding. It also offered a unique and refreshing blend of craft, art and histories — personal, local and statewide. Here’s hoping the new location continues to empower and inspire the museum’s staff to realize their mission with this much style, energy and imagination. JOE NOLAN

Best Illustra tor

Rachel Briggs

Nashville-based illustrator Rachel Briggs is a remarkable and sought-after talent — so sought-after, in fact, that we at the Scene have asked her to illustrate multiple Best of Nashville issues past. This year alone, she’s done work for the Tennessee State Museum’s Let’s Eat! Origins and Evolutions of Tennessee Food exhibit as well as local festival Musicians Corner, artists Lori McKenna and Little Big Town and more.

Seen the beautiful mural onstage at the new Grimey’s location? That’s her. Admired the labels on cans and bottles from Memphisbased Wiseacre Brewing? That’s her too.

Her style is unmistakable, and there’s a pretty good chance you’ve admired it at one point or another. D. PATRICK RODGERS Best artist-inresidence, writer’s choice: rocky horton scenes from local artists, and all of the proceeds benefited the immigrant-rights group RAICES Texas and the continuation of all things weird and good at The Crappy Magic Showroom. Bailey and Hellams both skew weird on the local art-o-meter, and I love them for it. ERICA CICCARONE

Best Artist -in-R eside nce

Rocky Horton

In November 2018, Nashville artist and Lipscomb University professor Rocky Horton took out an ad right here in the Scene’s pages declaring himself to be Nashville’s official artist-in-residence. Over the course of this year, Horton has completed a number of projects under the banner of his residency, including an interactive online send-up of Jack Kershaw’s infamous Nathan Bedford Forrest statue, as well as a display of gorgeous floral still-life paintings at The Arts Company. But the highlight of the project is Horton’s design for the South American-dictator-style “Artist in Residence” sash he fashioned for himself.

Here’s hoping that sash and this irreverent new tradition will be passed on to another local artist in 2020. JOE NOLAN

Best Art H appe ning

An Evening With Matt Christy at The Red Arrow Gallery

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goer. But the formality of most art exhibitions is ripe for disruption, just begging to be upset and overturned. Nashville artist Matt Christy’s work has long embraced chance, absurdity and even straight-up chaos. Christy’s The Vibrating Neighbor painting exhibition brought high psychedelic weirdness to East Nashville back in January, but his An Evening With Matt Christy event was the show’s bizarro high point. With help from brothers Benji and David Onri Anderson, Christy’s contemporary art happening combined video, poetry, improvisational music, dance and an almost equally odd Q&A for the most unique gallery experience of the year. JOE NOLAN

The Flaming Lips Present A King’s Mouth: An Immersive Installation at Fort Houston

When The Flaming Lips’ interactive sculpture installation came to Fort Houston back in May, it seemed like gallerygoers were in for a silly art stunt in which they would climb into the mouth of a sculpture that looked like the god Zardoz fabricated from Warhol’s silver balloons. Once inside,

fr om “Best of Nashville” Hist ory 2000: Best Pla ce to Buy Afford able Art (R eaders’ Poll) T he Arts C ompany viewers would be treated to an audiovisual display featuring The Flaming Lips’ music, of course. I even watched a video recorded from inside the piece before I went to the opening, and still felt mostly meh. But the thing itself was a complete surprise.

The sculpture was charmingly weird and skanky, and the interior installation was unexpectedly intense. In an age of overrated everything, is there anything better than art that exceeds expectations? JOE NOLAN

Best S culptural

Painti ng S ho w

Moppet at Elephant Gallery Amelia Briggs has become synonymous with her cotton-candy palette and her “inflatable” paintings that might also be categorized as soft sculptures. Briggs’ March exhibition at Elephant Gallery, Moppet, found the artist inspired by the storefront space’s reputation for creative experimenting. Briggs outfitted the gallery like some near-future living room with a shaggy blue rug, with her already super-weird works blown-up to an absurd scale on the walls.

She even fashioned one of the pieces into a Cronenberg-esque coffee table — a sick green arachnid decorated with tufts of purple fur. JOE NOLAN

Best L ocal Artist S po tlight

Murals of North Nashville Now at the Frist Art Museum

Though new urban development is changing the face of historically black North Nashville, artists are using street art to reflect the social issues unique to their community. The Frist Art Museum is shining a light on some of the neighborhood’s artists with Murals of North Nashville Now, an exhibition of eight new works that stretches through the long hallway of the Conte Community Arts Gallery. Curated by Katie Delmez, the exhibition’s 8-by-12-foot murals are cathartic expressions of the neighborhood’s past, present and future. The exhibition features work by Brandon Donahue, Elisheba

Best Nashville- Themed Exhi bitio n

Presence at the Hotel Preston

The best Nashville-themed art exhibition this year didn’t include acoustic guitars, Johnny Cash or that building downtown — you know the one. Presence, which showed at the art gallery in the Hotel Preston for most of the spring, celebrated people like civil rights leader Diane Nash, Councilmember Sharon Hurt, and about a dozen black scientists and inventors. You might know Norf Art Collective for their stunning murals, but the artists — doughjoe, Woke3, ArJae and Keep3 — have individual practices as well, and Presence showed us what’s been happening in their studios while

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Best New C o ntemporar y Art Galler y

Unrequited Leisure

One of the healthiest signs for Nashville’s still-growing art scene is that we keep attracting far-flung talented folks who are opting to come to our city to open various creative spaces for their curatorial projects. The latest and greatest outpost from afar is Unrequited Leisure, which opened next to Third Man Records back in January. Curators Chalet Comellas and Clinton Sleeper have already turned in a number of first-rate exhibitions, and the space has quickly established itself as a destination for ambitious multimedia shows.

I predict you’ll be seeing Unrequited Leisure’s programming in next year’s “Best of” mentions, so add them to your First Saturday plans starting now. JOE NOLAN

Best S pooky S ummertime Museum Exhi bitio n

Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s at the Frist Art Museum

Art institutions often understandably pivot toward exhibitions of family-friendly eye candy during the warm-weather months.

I still don’t know how Monsters & Myths ended up spending the whole summer in the Frist’s upper-level galleries, but it was a wonderfully dark and weird surprise. This display of surrealist painting and sculpture featured works by Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, René Magritte and Max Ernst, the last of whose show-stopping “Europe After the Rain II” was the great work of the exhibition. Monsters & Myths offered a brooding and brutal examination of national violence and fascism that spoke to contemporary anxieties through the lens of the greatest conflicts of the past century. Summertime sadness, indeed. JOE NOLAN

Film S eries (Nine Films or Fewer)

Queer Qlassics at the Belcourt

Pride was extra special this year, thanks to the Belcourt’s Queer Qlassics. Programmed

by Belcourt staffers Tiffany Minton and Jason Shawhan — the latter is one of the Scene’s most long-standing film critics — Queer Qlassics screened seminal works of queer cinema. The screenings of Paris Is Burning, The Queen, Before Stonewall and A Bigger Splash were more than your average visits to the movies. Minton and Shawhan spiced things up with guest speakers, the drag queen outfit SheHaw and a vogue-off.

The result was a monthlong celebration of queerness that was the most fun I’ve had at the movies in my life. ERICA CICCARONE

Best Film S eries (10 Films or More)

Spirit of ’69 at the Belcourt

Year after year, our beloved Belcourt Theatre offers up the best programming of just about any film center you’ll find in the country. This year was no exception, with the Hillsboro Village arthouse celebrating the semicentennial of one of the most meaningful years in cinematic history with its splendid, 13-film Spirit of ’69 series. Throughout

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meditations about Carolina wrens and rat snakes with snapshots of her family history, and common themes rise to the surface between these seemingly disparate topics.

Included in the book are gorgeous illustrations by Billy Renkl, Margaret’s brother. It’s a keeper. ERICA CICCARONE

June and July, the Belcourt screened groundbreaking features from 1969 such as Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Medium Cool and The Wild Bunch, along with the documentaries For All Mankind and Apollo 11. What a delight to see such a meaningful baker’s dozen of historic cinema on the big screen in 2019. D. PATRICK RODGERS

Best Belcourt

Best S hort -Fictio n Book

Betsy Phillips’ Jesus Crawdad Death

S taff Pick

American Movie

“You get to see Americans and American dreams, and you won’t walk away depressed after seeing this,” promises filmmaker Mark Borchardt about one of his unfinished masterpieces. The cult-favorite 1999 documentary American Movie follows the Wisconsin man as he plugs along toward his dream of making the next great American movie. He has commendable drive and endearing earnestness, but his — and the documentary’s — greatest asset is the friends and family who get on board with him. It’s a study in holding fast to dreams.

Many worthy documentaries reveal historic injustices or introduce some mind-busting reality. American Movie, chosen by Belcourt staffer Zack Hall, is stupid-funny — and at its core, sweet — and a welcome change of pace. HANNAH HERNER

Best Arts Educa tor

Allison Inman

You might know Allison Inman as the chipper Belcourt staffer who often introduces guest speakers before and after screenings.

She works behind the scenes to connect viewers with scholars, filmmakers, activists, poets, nonprofit leaders and more. Inman is also the big brain behind the theater’s High School Film Club and the groundbreaking Strong Leads: A Film Seminar for High School Girls. She brings other people to the table in order to serve everyone in our community, like when she worked with poet and social worker Melissa Gordon to create Words Caught in My Throat: A Film Seminar for Black Middle School Girls. Inman understands that if stripped of its pretensions, film can be a vehicle for empowerment and community. She’s one reason the Belcourt is such a special place. ERICA CICCARONE

Best Por n Eve nt

HUMP! Film Festival at The Mark

Scene readers may know Betsy Phillips as a former longtime contributor to our politics blog, Pith in the Wind. Phillips made a seemingly effortless jump to fiction with her collection of short stories, Jesus Crawdad Death, published by Third Man Books in November. It’s comforting, fun to read, and further evidence of Phillips’ singular voice.

There’s a line in the last chapter that I absolutely love: “It’s been a dry summer. The grass has done the best it can.” I’ve been thinking of it as a metaphor for a tough season. When life hands you scarcity, when it feels like there’s no rain coming to help you out, you just do the best you can with what you’ve been given. Sometimes it’s enough.

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have been terrible — a work in which Instagram filters and daytime talk-show glossiness are met with trite observations about Living Your Dream. But Nashville: Scenes From the New American South is not that book — it’s not even close. Under the guidance of beloved Nashville author Ann Patchett, photographer Heidi Ross spent months documenting the city from all angles — from the weird Bacchanalia of Lower Broadway to the worn-to-hell boots of Gillian Welch that grace the book’s cover.

Combined with Patchett’s singular perspective, the photos — and the book itself — is nuanced and smart in all the best ways.

LAURA HUTSON HUNTER

Best No nfictio n Book

Mary Laura Philpott’s I Miss You When I Blink

Mary Laura Philpott is a Nashville treasure, and if you don’t believe me, take it from another Nashville treasure, Ann Patchett. The bestselling novelist and Parnassus Books

Best Author

Margaret Renkl

Former Scene contributor Margaret Renkl served as the patron saint of Tennessee authors as editor of Chapter 16, the allabout-books web publication of Humanities Tennessee. Lucky for us, she was also writing her own stuff. Each week, Renkl’s essays are among the best in The New York Times, dosing the embattled Opinion section with sanity, wisdom and wit. In July, Milkweed Editions published Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss, Renkl’s achingly beautiful collection of essays. Late Migrations explores the lessons we are taught by nature. Renkl weaves

For a screening of a bunch of pornos, HUMP! Film Festival was surprisingly refined. It helps when the venue is as pristine as The Mark, and the curator as renowned as Modern Love columnist Dan Savage. Still, the 14th annual arty porn event was a first for Nashville — the curated series of short, artful pornos hasn’t previously found welcoming reception in the Bible Belt — and the packed-house excitement was palpable. The goal of HUMP! is to introduce people to sexy things they may not have been aware of, as in a crowd-pleasing entry from a group of Middle Tennessee filmmakers that featured women dressed up like goats so they can be “milked” by sexy farmers. Can’t wait to see what the 15th annual HUMP! has in store.

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co-owner said this of MLP’s essay collection I Miss You When I Blink: “It made me laugh, it made me cry. I miss it already.”

If that sounds clichéd, consider the source again, and try to take the strands of your own life and spin them into a simultaneously lighthearted and poignant collection of individual yet coherent essays. I Miss You When I Blink is a bestselling book from a bookselling Nashvillian who has done as much as just about anyone in this city to promote the written word. As long as she’s writing and selling books, we’ll keep reading and buying them. STEVEN HALE

Best C rea tive Pairi ng

Nashville: Scenes From the New American South by Ann Patchett and Heidi Ross A coffee-table book about Nashville could

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Best COMEDIAN, writer’s choice: DUSTY SLAY

Best C omedia n

Best New Nashville

Nashville’s comedy scene has been flourishing in recent months and years, with more and more talented comics and noteworthy showcases popping up at venues all over town. Among the most hardworking Music City stand-ups is Dusty Slay. The Alabama native and onetime trailer-park resident has been at it for a while, but 2019 has been an exceptionally big year for Slay. He made his second appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, appeared on Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring, performed at the Grand Ole Opry and landed on Variety’s “10 Comics to Watch for 2019” list. He’s earned it, too, thanks to his work ethic and an act that — though rooted in his Southern upbringing — seems to earn him fans wherever he goes. There are more big things coming from Dusty Slay — trust us on that one. D. PATRICK RODGERS

Nashville women are constantly assaulted

by Jeds: “singer-songwriters” with cockatoo haircuts, who can’t write or sing but are trying to turn 15 minutes of fame into careers.

So it was cathartic to watch this particular douche-canoe get emotionally bodyslammed by Hannah Brown and a studio audience of women — who’ve clearly known a Jed or two — for being a lying cheater who sucks at lying and cheating. Finally: A bachelorette does something good for Nashville.

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Best Poetr y-R eadi ng O utfit

Be Witched

If the idea of poetry readings still conjures images of serene beatniks sipping coffee in a smoky haze, you haven’t checked out Be Witched, the poetry-event engine powered

by Maggie Wells, Meg Wade, Dana Poole and Richard Harper. The group organizes events with a more-is-more approach — like sculptures of toes and shrimp cocktail hanging from the ceiling, a Barbie chandelier, an arm-flailing tube man — and a mix of local and out-of-town poetry readers. Every event ends in a dance party with Wells (aka Blasé) at the turntable. ERICA CICCARONE

Best Nashville

R eality TV S tar

Jay Cutler, Very Cavallari

What Season 2 of Very Cavallari lacked in drama, it made up for in Jay Cutler. The retired quarterback continued to enthrall, suggesting Kristin fire everyone on staff; secretly deporting Pepper (a goat he detests) to Luke Bryan’s; and kicking around the idea of opening a butcher shop, “Cuts,” while hatching just four of every 20 chicken eggs. If you think 1-in-5 is a losing record, you don’t know the Cutler credo: You can’t fail if you don’t try. ASHLEY BRANTLEY

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Best DIY V enue

Drkmttr

There’s a reason why most DIY venues fizzle out after a couple of years: The odds are stacked against them. There are skyrocketing rents to consider, the looming shadow of hungry developers transforming dumpy houses that are still perfectly suitable for habitation (and shows) into milliondollar duplexes. There’s also the fact that members of youth-culture scenes simply grow up and out of them. All of those factors make running a consistent DIY space wildly difficult.

Drkmttr, which settled into its third and (hopefully) permanent home at the beginning of the year, has battled all of those threats and survived. The venue’s new Dickerson Pike space maintains all of the highminded ideals that have been at the core of the operation from its beginning in 2015: cheap shows, inclusive booking, always allages, always safe for marginalized people.

What’s different is that the existential dread that business partners Kathryn Edwards, Olivia Scibelli and Chappy Hull have faced in the past has been eliminated, thanks in part to another DIY trio from local rock history. Donnie Kendall, April Kendall and Mary Mancini co-ran Lucy’s Record Shop in the ’90s, filling the DIY hole in a scene that was — and in many ways always is — looking for its voice. The three (along with David Abbey and Mancini’s husband and Lambchop chief Kurt Wagner) bought the building that now houses Drkmttr, giving the space a home that can’t be taken from them. fr om “Best of Nashville” Hist ory 2006: Best L ocal Thea trical Acti ng G r ou p (R eaders’ Poll) Peo ple’s Bra nch T heatre

Since the opening, Drkmttr has hosted events running the gamut from comedy nights to craft fairs to disco dance parties, alongside their usual fare of local and national shredders with names like Act of Impalement, Tom Violence and Guerilla Toss.

Now that Drkmttr isn’t fighting for survival, its future as a community resource for young people in Nashville is brighter than ever. LANCE CONZETT

Best G r ou p

The Highwomen

Grab your history books and some big-ass Sharpies, because it needs to be marked: 2019 is the year of The Highwomen. “Supergroup” isn’t a strong enough word to describe what Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires have done with their new project, which has led to a slew of inspiring performances and a fantastic new self-titled LP, recorded at RCA

Studio A. The members have referred to the project as a movement, and they aren’t wrong.

The Highwomen loosely modeled themselves on The Highwaymen, another country supergroup, which consisted of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings. The project showcases both the members’ individual strengths and the ways those can be increased by being deliberate and inclusive. The Highwomen bring together an array of women’s voices for some of the best country vocal performances of the past several years, while putting women’s narratives front and center.

The album also includes “If She Ever Leaves Me,” one of the first widely distributed country songs to discuss a same-sex relationship with same-sex pronouns, in the achingly gorgeous and plainspoken language of the best in the genre. It’s sung by Carlile, the only non-Nashvillian of the core

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Best Pu nk Band

Peachy

Peachy’s debut EP Squirt is packed with grinding, fuzzy guitar riffs, racing percussion and bratty vocals about rich assholes and bodily autonomy. But don’t take the band too seriously — they put the F-U in fun.

Their raw sonic blasts are laced with ’70s punk swagger and New Wave nerviness, and they’ve been building a reputation as one of the tightest bands in town since they appeared on the scene in 2018. If you think Peachy is on fire now, the best may be yet to come: They’re capping off the year by

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group, who’s here enough that we’ll give her honorary-local status. The lyric is by Shires, her husband Jason Isbell and fellow songwriter Chris Tompkins, and it’s written from the point of view of a woman who sees a man eyeing her partner from across the room: “If she ever leaves, it’s gonna be for a woman with more time / Who’s not afraid to let her dreams come true / If she ever gives her careful heart to somebody new / Well, it won’t be for a cowboy like you.”

At a time where conversations surrounding gender equity and diversity in country music have reached a fever pitch, listening to The Highwomen feels radical and cathartic. And the fact that their album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart with practically zero radio airplay is some pretty sweet icing on a well-deserved cake. BRITTNEY McKENNA

Best PUNK BAND, writer’s choice: PEACHY recording new music with Bully singer-guitarist Alicia Bognanno, already suggesting something to consider for next year’s Best of Nashville issue. MEGAN SELING

name for himself in Nashville’s DIY scene by combining hardcore thrash and dark trap beats for something that sounds like Death Grips meeting Show Me the Body in a dark alley. Osborne’s performances are electrifying and unmissable for fans of both punk and hip-hop. LANCE CONZETT

Best H ip-H o p Newcomer

Kent Osborne

All Them Witches may have packed The East Room to capacity at this year’s Spewfest, but it was Kent Osborne who stole the show at the fourth running of the eclectic local festival. Osborne has quickly made a

Best America na Break out

Molly Tuttle

Singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Molly Tuttle has long been a fixture of the bluegrass and roots scenes, winning fans with her virtuosic playing and honeyed vocals. It’s been a real treat to see Tuttle garner even more international acclaim after the release of her debut album When You’re Ready. The LP naturally showcases her guitar chops, but leaves plenty of space for her agile singing and especially thoughtful songwriting to shine, too. BRITTNEY McKENNA

Best Jazz Band (Tha t Is n’t a Jazz Band)

Concurrence

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Even though he loves the work of many great jazz musicians, Concurrence cofounder and dynamic electric bassist Greg Bryant maintains that Concurrence isn’t a jazz band. That’s because he and co-founder

(and Alabama Shakes touring keyboardist) Paul Horton resist being placed in a restrictive idiomatic box. Concurrence has a firm grounding in experimental, edgy jazz, and improvisation is at the core of everything they do. But their recordings and performances (with mainstream jazz vocalists, spoken-word artists and rappers alike) show them drawing on multiple groove-oriented sources to focus on something they aptly call “black creative music.” RON WYNN

Best S oul Band

Altered Statesman

Playing great soul music is a matter of respecting the eternal verities of pacing, timing and passion. Altered Statesman commands the basics in ways that would satisfy Curtis Mayfield, but the band — led by singer and guitarist Steve Poulton — turns soul futuristic. The current incarnation of the long-running group includes drummer Robert Crawford and bassist Ron Eoff. Guitarist T.J. Larkin and multi-instrumentalist Jason Goforth round out the sound, which you can hear on this year’s release Tried as Adults. EDD HURT

Best S olo Performer

JayVe Montgomery

For some folks, music is just good ol’ entertainment, a nice distraction. But what I really crave in a performance is to be put under a spell, to be offered a glimpse into the sublime beauty and mystery of human existence that is still very much alive under the craptastic quagmire of today’s world.

That may sound like a tall order, but that’s exactly what I experienced earlier this year when I saw JayVe Montgomery, performing under the name Abstract Black, at Bastion.

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HR Lexy

Founder, vocalist and central figure Arlene Sparacia rebooted her project HR Lexy in 2018 with new collaborator Justin Verted, and the pair’s recent work pushes boundaries in both electronic pop music and performance art. The group’s 2018 EP My Mouth Is Your Mouth and 2019 album Art Overego feature nuanced examinations of human relationships, contemplations of life and death and more, and HR Lexy’s live performances integrate inventive choreography (often for one or two dancers), costumes and set pieces that you might expect from a creative mind like Björk. STEPHEN TRAGESER

Best Italo/ H i-NR G Traditio nalist

Tan

If you long for a certain sound — appropriate for moodily lit European dance palaces, suburban aerobics classes, and the intersection between glamorous decadence and acerbic satire — then you know that Nashville makes you work for it. You have to go back to James Cathcart and Zack Hall’s sorely missed Space Is the Place nights at the old Stone Fox to find that exact timespace, where Italo disco, Hi-NRG, New Wave and sophisti-pop all combined in a perfect storm of programmed 4/4 boom. But that’s exactly what Tan, aka Nathan Snell, has been delivering for the past few years, both via DJ sets and through his albums (the second of which, Two by Tan, just dropped in July). Shimmering, propulsive and full of the very life force that animated the golden age of synthetic dance music, Tan’s sound is on the vanguard of Nashville’s low-key but fiercely devoted Neuromantic scene — along with other artists like Mischa Lively and dedicated nights like Another Night Another Dream. JASON SHAWHAN

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But unlike some elder statesmen content to coast on past glories, Wagner keeps using his curiosity about new techniques for recording and composition to keep breaking his own mold. That tradition continued this year with This (is what I wanted to tell you), which began as a synthesizer collaboration with Mac McCaughan and grew to include longtime Lambchop cohorts Matt Swanson and Tony Crow, among others. It’s a beautiful, beguiling set of deconstructed downtempo pop that leaves itself open to interpretation while floating confidently in its own orbit, as Lambchop always has.

CHARLIE ZAILLIAN

Best Band Tra nsforma tio n

Z

Since the release of their 2018 album BarbedWire.org, Z has made a 180-degree turn. The group began with a fuzzy, popdriven art-rock sound reminiscent of frontman Zach Prosser’s former band Mom and Dad, but then made a very unexpected hard left turn. Tom Violence’s Annalyse Clark joined the fold as the group rearranged itself into the nu-metal-tinged, semi-industrial post-punk powerhouse that you can hear on their recent LP Trauma Center and see

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percussion instruments and looping gear — plus a plastic hose he blew into as he swung it around his head like a lasso — he deftly mined the tension between melody and cacophony, between rhythm and chaos. Ultimately, he created a musical experience that felt uplifting, challenging and transporting all at once. JACK SILVERMAN

Best songwriting voltron, writer’s choice: blank range in their ferocious and kinetic shows, which border on performance art. OLIVIA LADD

cians and audiences around them, and their community-driven ethos — one devoid of pretension or ego — brings a freshness to the scene. JACQUELINE ZEISLOFT

Best R ock Democra cy

Styrofoam Winos

Best Jazz V ocalist

Lou Turner, Joe Kenkel and Trevor Nikrant all shine in their respective solo work, but when they play together as Styrofoam Winos, they become something that’s both bigger than the sum of its parts and completely unforced. Their songs draw you in and encourage you to be neighborly. Their appearances all over town help extend their camaraderie and goodwill to the musi-

Dara Tucker

Dara Tucker’s soaring, expressive voice and crisp delivery have made her not only a prime local star but also a presence on the national scene. Over the past four years, among other things, she’s opened for Gregory Porter and toured with Charlie Hunter, as well as won the silver medal in the 2017 American Traditions Vocal Competition, an event that requires participants to perform songs in nine different categories. If all that weren’t enough, while continuing to make regular appearances at Music City venues, Tucker finds time to be both a filmmaker and writer. She produced a docu-series on Nashville musicians called Music City Select and contributes essays to Huffington Post, discussing her experiences as a black woman working in an art form that gets minimal (at best) attention from much of the mainstream press and pop music industry.

RON WYNN

Best JAZZ VOCALIST, writer’s choice: DARA TUCKER

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Jason Ringenberg

Best C ou ntr y Instr ume ntalist

Billy Contreras

In 2017, Nashville’s most famous cowpunkfrontman-turned-children’s-singer resigned himself to the fate many artists face: His audience wasn’t there, and his muse had left him. Ringenberg, the living, breathing supernova who fronted Jason and the Scorchers and later found fame as kiddie bopper Farmer Jason, was happy with his legacy but didn’t think he had anything left to give. Then he spent three weeks as artistin-residence at Sequoia National Park and churned out an album’s worth of material while embedded in a rustic mountain cabin.

The result: Stand Tall, an album whose name alludes to the famous trees that surrounded him and nods to his rediscovered confidence. It’s all the best of what people want from Ringenberg, with good stories well told, genuine emotional heft and riffy country-rock. The parks continue to be America’s best idea, indeed. J.R. LIND

Best Indie Institutio n

Lambchop

Kurt Wagner and his coterie of musicians and friends known collectively as Lambchop have made music in Nashville since

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Perhaps “country” is a little confining as a descriptor for what happens every time The Stone Fox Five’s ringleader Chris Scruggs turns the spotlight on jaw-dropping fiddler Billy Contreras. Typically once each set, Scruggs cuts Contreras loose on a fiddle tune that Contreras will take into the stratosphere, channeling in equal parts Bob Wills, John Coltrane and Jimi Hendrix.

The fiddle master — who has played with George Jones, Charlie Louvin, Ray Price and even Lionel Hampton — can go on for up to 10 minutes at a stretch, and he somehow never runs out of ideas, many of which are downright brilliant. You can often catch Contreras with the SF5 on Sundays at The Local; his instrumental trio plays 8-10 p.m. most Mondays at American Legion Post 82.

JACK SILVERMAN

Best S o ngwriti ng V ol tr o n

Blank Range

Nashville indie foursome Blank Range has been on the bubble for what feels like a long

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time, with a malleable, loose sound that holds its own in front of both punk and country crowds. In Unison, which follows their 2017 debut Marooned With the Treasure, was the sound of everything aligning for BR’s troika of songsmiths: Jonathon Childers’ Steve Earle-ian heartland rock coexists with Grant Gustafson’s power-pop inclinations and Taylor Zachry’s punkish rave-ups in an unvarnished yet classy way, atop the rhythmic backbone provided by drummer Matt Novotny. But the group announced it was going into hiatus mode not long after the album’s February release. Count Blank Range’s eventual legacy as a stepping stone to even bigger things from its members, but until then, consider In Unison the definitive work of one of our favorite local acts of the decade. CHARLIE ZAILLIAN

Sugar/Spice Booking and Promotion

Local promoters Rian Archer and Rachel Scarbrough, working as Sugar/Spice Booking and Promotion, have been visible all over the city this year. They’ve been behind an impressive volume of events, boosting both local artists (Peachy, Soft Bodies and Soy Milk Boy, to name a few) and artists from across the globe, like Sweden-born, Germany-residing synth-pop songsmith Molly Nilsson and French darkwave outfit Lova Taraxx. They approach this tireless endeavor with the intention of prioritizing artists who are likely to be marginalized.

And making space for women, nonbinary and transgender people and people of color has helped make this year’s run of shows in Nashville one of the most diverse and exciting we’ve had in a while. SETH GRAVES

Best Blues/ R &B S ho wcase

Grown Folks Night at Carol Ann’s Cooking Cafe

Before “urban renewal” and the interstate bulldozed their way through the heart of Nashville’s black community, erasing in its wake a host of irreplaceable clubs and other businesses, this city had a blues/R&B tradition every bit as lauded as its country and gospel ones. That rich history gets celebrated every Tuesday night at Carol Ann’s Home Cooking Cafe on Murfreesboro Road, which is also one of the nation’s finest soulfood sites. Every Tuesday night, the establishment showcases dynamic live R&B. The event was the brainchild of Jimmy Church, a vital participant during the heyday of Nashville R&B who’s still active today, and usually the show’s emcee. Grown Folks Night brings back, at least for one night a week, the animated, intense and powerful sounds that are vastly different from what’s heard on today’s urban airwaves. RON WYNN

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Best Inte ntio nal Pr omo ter

Hannibal Lokumbe With Intersection

Best anniversary show, writer’s choice: third man records’ 10th anniversary party ranging from sludge-metal outfit Eyehategod to art-rock innovators Deerhoof and beyond. An array of local artists also headlined and supported at a slew of events, including the psychedelic music-and-art gathering Far Out Fest and biennial hardware-hacking celebration Circuit Benders’ Ball. It’s a great spot, and it’s exciting to see it reaching its full potential. STEPHEN TRAGESER

Best Al t-C ou ntr y R eside ncies

Jon Byrd

Alabama-born singer-songwriter Jon Byrd covers a lot of territory during his weekly residencies at Music City venues Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge (on Tuesdays) and Springwater (on Thursdays). Byrd’s own tunes are reason enough to get out in the early evening, but he dips into his deep songbag of country classics by the likes of Dallas Frazier and Gram Parsons, to boot.

He plays pleasingly idiosyncratic rhythm

guitar, and he sings in a tenor voice that evokes the glory days of Parsons himself.

EDD HURT

Best Intera ctive Bluegrass Ex perie nce

Best Avant-G arde Music S eries

FMRL

Full Moon Pickin’ Party

Musician and promoter Chris Davis has for many years (the past five under the name FMRL) helped build and maintain a Nashville audience for music that doesn’t neatly fit into the commercial archetypes that get the lion’s share of attention. Some of the artists are local, like wind and electronics experimentalist JayVe Montgomery, while others are from places as distant as Canada — like the seldom-seen but influential psych group Simply Saucer — or even Niger, like guitar wizard Mdou Moctar (who played two FMRL shows in town before opening several shows for Tame Impala). The common thread is that they offer enlightening and enriching work. New shows get added regularly, so watch fmrlarts.org for updates.

STEPHEN TRAGESER

Most nights Nashville’s best bluegrass is at the Station Inn, but they’ve got competition six nights a year. On Fridays from April through October, on whichever week the moon is full, some 2,000 folks gather at Warner Parks for fellowship, beer and bluegrass. The real action, though, happens out by the barn — not in a horror-movie way — where mandolin, banjo and fiddle players and more come together to create ephemeral jam sessions. Everyone is welcome to jump in and play — or just listen. Either way, it’s a rare and special event that’s worth your time. ASHLEY BRANTLEY

Best Anniversar y S ho w

Third Man Records’ 10th Anniversary Party

Despite a heap of bright spots, the 10 years since Jack White’s Third Man Records set up shop near downtown haven’t consisted entirely of smooth sailing. That made the massive party they threw in April — to celebrate their success at the very difficult task of running a world-renowned independent label — even sweeter. The outstanding lineup consisted of TMR signees like Lillie Mae and friends of the family like The Gories. To top it all off, The Raconteurs (White’s rock group with Brendan Benson, Patrick Keeler and “Little Jack” Lawrence) played their first gig in nearly a decade to kick off a world tour behind their latest LP Help Us Stranger. OLIVIA LADD

Best V enue Pr ogrammi ng Up grade

Little Harpeth Brewing

Little Harpeth Brewing has been hosting memorable shows for years, but it felt like taproom manager Devin Pena and his colleagues took it to another level in 2019.

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Jason Eskridge’s Sunday Night Soul at The Five Spot

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One of this year’s premier musical events took place during Black History Month.

Acclaimed composer, bandleader and trumpeter Hannibal Lokumbe spent the first week of February in residency with contemporary music ensemble Intersection. The organization doesn’t merely mouth allegiance to the concepts of diversity and inclusion, but embraces them through numerous genre-bending programs. During Lokumbe’s stay, that included a discussion of how the arts can be a healing force for incarcerated people. There was also a stirring performance of Lokumbe’s string quartet Fannie Lou Hamer, in honor of the civil rights activist, and a capstone event at Fisk University centered on a performance of Crucifixion Resurrection: Nine Souls a-Traveling, his requiem for the victims of the shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., in 2017. Evocative songs of remembrance and protest marked one of the year’s cultural and political high points.

RON WYNN

This March will mark six years since singer, composer, bandleader and instrumentalist Jason Eskridge convinced the folks at East Nashville bar The Five Spot that their locale could become a hotbed for local, statewide and regional soul music. Eskridge, a stalwart vocalist whose sound and approach reference artists from Prince to Al Green,

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Best jazz club, writer’s choice: rudy’s jazz room was no stranger to taking a chance. He abandoned what many would consider a dream job with NASA to pursue music more than two decades ago, and he knew there were plenty of wonderful soul singers in the area who needed a place to perform. Thus was born Sunday Night Soul. Every second and fourth Sunday, top soul performers take over the Five Points bar, and the sustained enthusiasm shows Music City still has plenty of interest in classic and contemporary soul music. RON WYNN

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Culture Shock

Pop and hip-hop have a long history of getting along: See Mariah Carey and Notorious B.I.G. (seriously, look it up); Phantogram and Big Boi; Katy Perry and Juicy J. It was only a matter of time before local pop and local hip-hop got in on the action. Enter Culture Shock, a quarterly showcase that pulls together the best in both local scenes for live collaborations — bringing pop sparkle and rap realness to Mercy Lounge and The High Watt, amplifying both sides of the equation for bigger and bigger audiences.

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Honky Tonk Tuesday Nights at American Legion Post 82

Whether you want to impress your out-oftown visitors with a taste of “real Nashville” — which is becoming increasingly hard to find — or you just want to cut loose on a Tuesday, this weekly hootenanny could well be the most reliably fun event going on in town. Hosted by the old-school country mavens The Cowpokes, the evening usually starts at 7 p.m. with dance lessons from Laura Mae, and the music kicks off at 8.

You’ll typically find some of the best honkytonk and Western swing acts around: On a given week you might see The Stone Fox Five, Greg Garing, Jim Lauderdale, Chuck Mead, Paul Kramer and Swing Street, or Kristina Murray. Don’t leave before you get to see the always-reliable Cowpokes, who tend to play after the featured guest. The best part is the exuberance of the crowd: a mix of old-school country fans, the young and the hip, and of course, the U.S. armed services veterans who are Post 82 members.

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Rudy’s Jazz Room

Nashville’s jazz community continues to grow each year, but a major complaint for a long time has been a lack of venues for local and national acts to appear. But since May 2017, Rudy’s Jazz Room has offered the kind of intimate, music-first setting where jazz flourishes, with high-quality acoustics that enable listeners to fully appreciate the artists. Rudy’s also features multiple sets each evening (including late-night presentations on Fridays and Saturdays), a jazz brunch, and a nice mix of familiar area talent and touring regional and national bands and performers. Anyone who hasn’t been fortunate enough to see a show in a club like the Village Vanguard can get an excellent idea of what it’s like by spending a night at Rudy’s.

RON WYNN

Best Festiv al Pr ogrammi ng U pgrade

Sweet by Sweet Time 2: Sweet Time’s Revenge

Sweet Time Booking has been bringing Nashville some ill DIY garage punk for the past several years. But for his second installment of the Sweet by Sweet Time festival in August, curator Ryan Sweeney raised the bar in a big way. Brooklyn psych popsters Habibi, pan-Tennessee post-punkers Sweet Knives, Seattle glam wizard Scott Yoder and Memphis legends The Oblivians all took the stage alongside some of the Southeast’s loudest freak-flag flyers on a three-show, two-day bill that even included an all-ages show at Drkmttr. P.J. KINZER

If it’s got the name of Caroline Bowman, Gary Branigan & Co.’s organization Cold Lunch Recordings attached to it, you can be confident that it’s showcasing some of the best of what’s bubbling up from the underground in Music City. That goes for standard show bills and especially for daylong festival bookings. Spewfest IV in February boasted a wide-ranging lineup (anchored by psych vets All Them Witches) that kept The East Room and The Cobra packed to overflowing; the CLR-curated Record Store Day party at Vinyl Tap in April was the liveliest gig of the day, with highlights including Sad Baxter, Peachy and Whoa Dakota; and August’s inaugural Brown Bag Festival at The Cobra featured a stunning collection of local rap talent ranging from longtime locals FU Stan and AL-D to newcomers like Lackhoney and Kent Osborne. OLIVIA LADD

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Cold Lunch Recordings

Not only has Cold Lunch Recordings been crushing it on the festival front with stellar shows and multi-stage parties — they’re also responsible for pumping out some of Nashville’s most exciting rock music in 2019. Over the past year, it seems like every time I hear a tremendous new record from DIY Nashville rockers, it’s on the label. Via releases by Bleary, Only, Hari and Lasso Spells, among others, Cold Lunch is ruling the scene like Theory 8 and Infinity Cat before them. LANCE CONZETT

son’s transcendent soundscapes wrap around you like a weighted blanket. Guitars and strings sound like whale songs, gentle percussion comes rolling in like a calming heartbeat. It’s stunning. If therapy and apps like Calm and Headspace aren’t getting the job done, put Universalis on the stereo, lie down, close your eyes and breathe. You’re going to be OK. MEGAN SELING

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Daisha McBride, WILD

Nothing takes the sting out of my student loan payments (and looking back on a middling football program) quite like knowing that Middle Tennessee State University’s Blue Raiders are still producing some of the best hip-hop in the region. On her debut fulllength WILD, Knoxville native, MTSU grad and Nashville resident McBride continues the tradition of Division 1A dopeness that Count Bass D started, mixing up classic funk intuition with futurist instincts and tight, tight flows while making connections across a wide swath of the industry. We’re anxiously anticipating her postgraduate work. SEAN L. MALONEY

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Tanya Tucker, While I’m Livin’

Living legend Tanya Tucker went more than 15 years without releasing new music, only to return with one of the best albums of her nearly five-decade career. While I’m Livin’ is a touching portrait of a woman reflecting on a life well-lived while still looking fiercely to the future, buoyed by rootsy production from Shooter Jennings and Brandi Carlile and extraordinarily thoughtful songwriting from Carlile and her longtime writing partners Phil and Tim Hanseroth.

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Hammock, Universalis

Mass shootings. Global warming. Donald Trump. I know I’m not the only one to fantasize about being launched into space to live out what feels like the final days for humankind among the stars. For a more realistic escape, there’s Hammock. With their latest album Universalis, released just before the end of 2018, Marc Byrd and Andrew Thomp-

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The Belcourt’s annual Science on Screen series ended in April with a unique confluence of ideas about technology and culture. The program was Sci-lent Cinema, a selection of nine science-related or science-fiction silent short films, scored live by a group of musicians organized by Nashville’s Hyasynth House. The collective is in its second year of making electronic music a more inclusive space for women, transgender and nonbinary individuals, and the group gathered a phenomenal ensemble for the show.

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In terms of both how they write their songs and how they run their band, Faux Ferocious plays the long game. The quartet of Music City natives and lifelong friends found a Goldilocks zone between Southern rock and krautrock on Pretty Groovy. The 10-song set realizes the potential of FF’s toe-tapping, trance-inducing live shows, and its pithy, punky commentaries on city life (“Price of Progress”) and musician life (the instant-classic opener “Chase the Dream”) work on both a Nashville-specific and a universal level. The record has earned the band a promotion from SoCal garage-rock clearinghouse Burger Records to Danger

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by Bully’s loving tribute to and building on early-’90s grunge, the past two years have been all about Smashing Pumpkins chord progressions and Breeders harmonies. On Gates, the debut EP by Bleary, songs like “Ghost” and “Divine Proportion” thrum with mid-’90s reverb, recalling the sounds of 20 years ago while never feeling derivative of them. LANCE CONZETT

— and as a bonus, Bandcamp purchases raise money for The Nashville Food Project.

Hard to get sweeter than that. SEAN L. MALONEY

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Mouse’s big-label offshoot 30th Century — a meeting of the minds one can hope leads to future studio collabs. CHARLIE ZAILLIAN

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Depression Breakfast, Just Because I’m a Womxn

Rest in power, Depression Breakfast. The sensational punk quartet disbanded in August, but fortunately for us, they left behind an album that captures the cathartic rage of their live shows. The band responds both to our sociopolitical moment and its greater context by taking swings at oversensitive art boys, critiquing victim-blaming culture and more. Just Because I’m a Womxn is a mirror held up to contemporary society and a potent reminder of the power to speak out that lives in DIY scenes — including Nashville’s. JACQUELINE ZEISLOFT

In a post-recession music-biz landscape that has forced out way too many talented, kind people, it’s nice to see the good guys (and gals) win for a change. When they weren’t busy championing other peoples’ bands — curating the East Nashville Underground local-music showcases in the earlier part of this decade — married West Coast transplants Jared and Kristyn Corder were quietly, diligently honing their craft in their own group, *repeat repeat. The eventual union of the Corders and Black Keys drummer-producer Patrick Carney has resulted in Glazed, a barn burner of a power-pop album — with an emphasis on the “power” (think old Weezer, Rentals, Self). That comes matched with a sweetness and optimism we could always use more of in these times.

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The hallmarks of patience are all over Is Not Defeated, the album released in August by post-rock collective The Ascent of Everest.

The 16-track, hour-and-a-quarter record — not a length you hear of often in these times of tiny attention spans — is the group’s first release in nearly a decade. Each song slowly reveals itself, winding along a steep and harrowing path to a great crescendo that always proves to be worth the wait. P.J. KINZER

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Wu Fei and chatterbird, Hello Gold Mountain

Hello Gold Mountain, an evening-length composition for chamber orchestra by guzheng master Wu Fei, contains multitudes.

The piece was inspired by the seldomrecounted story of some 20,000 German Jews who fled the Holocaust and, unable to obtain visas to immigrate elsewhere, found refuge in Shanghai. The Chinese Civil War forced many of these people out again, and many settled in San Francisco, colloquially known as Old Gold Mountain. The piece, a hopeful sign of cooperation across cultural boundaries, premiered in February with the alt-classical ensemble chatterbird and featuring multi-instrumentalist Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz on oud. STEPHEN TRAGESER

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Buddy and Julie Miller, Breakdown on 20th Avenue South

Husband-and-wife team Buddy and Julie Miller are among the most seasoned musicians in Nashville, making the release of their first album together since 2009 something to celebrate under any circumstances.

But Breakdown on 20th Avenue South deserves extra praise due to the extraordinarily nuanced ways the Millers examine and portray the give-and-take in a marriage, from the hypnotic “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” to the poignant “Secret.” It’s no small feat, but it comes across as so natural and unassuming that it makes you wonder why all albums can’t be this honest. STEPHEN TRAGESER

Best Tribute Reco rd

Rayland Baxter, good mmornin

Rapper Mac Miller died of an accidental drug overdose in September 2018 at age 26, and the loss of a talented, creative lyricist and performer was mourned by fans and fellow artists alike. Nashville songsmith Rayland Baxter is both of those things, and he paid tribute to the late artist with good mmornin. Composed of seven tracks that

Best Rock Debut

Bleary, Gates

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Best Quick Trip to the ’70s

Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears, Time Has Grown a Raspberry

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Guitarist and singer Sean Thompson’s Time Has Grown a Raspberry was one of this year’s grooviest surprises, a chooglin’ bit of back-to-the-country psych that is as warm and wonderful as the sunshine on a late-summer day. A concept EP about gentrification and modern living, Raspberry is chock-full of tasty licks and human kindness

Best C ou ntry Debut

Jenny Tolman, There Goes the Neighborhood

Nashville can be a tough town for women making country music. Newcomer Jenny Tolman countered that by concocting her

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Ace on the Outspeaker (some of which includes collaboration with violinist Kate Richi) falls into territory that skews to pop while remaining rigorously minimalist.

The LP recalls both the Velvets and another great post-VU band, The Go-Betweens, without copying either. EDD HURT

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of Thunderbitch. Jaime is a masterful debut from an artist who needs no introduction.

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Vladopus9, Expires on Tuesday

The combination of Joseph Page’s openended guitar figures, Chris Simpson’s stopand-start drumming and Lisa Rau’s crazed vocals makes Vladopus9’s Expires on Tuesday a unique record. Expires folds Sonic Youth-style noise into songlike structures, but the band sounds like they’re in love with pure velocity. The lyrics are self-mocking on cuts like “Saynow Stravinsky,” which finds Rau questioning the nature of music itself. EDD HURT span Miller’s career, the EP showcases Miller’s chops as a songwriter and arranger, while highlighting Baxter’s uncanny knack for paying homage to his influences while still sounding like himself. BRITTNEY McKENNA

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Brittany Howard, Jaime

Brittany Howard is one of the most crucial figures in modern rock music. Her work with Alabama Shakes reshaped the genre,

while other projects like Bermuda Triangle and Thunderbitch show Howard to be a versatile artist with much to say. Yet there were still stories she needed to tell that didn’t work for any of those projects, and those fueled her solo debut Jaime, named for her late sister. The album puts a new spin on key elements of those earlier projects, with the soulful star power Howard wields with the Shakes, the vulnerability of Bermuda Triangle’s songwriting, and the raw energy

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Crave On, Ace on the Outspeaker

Lots of rock bands reference the four studio albums The Velvet Underground released between 1967 and 1970. In the case of Nashville’s Crave On, the influence of Lou Reed & Co. is indirect. Crave On songwriter Patrick Orr’s work on the group’s

There aren’t many folks whose passions are equally divided between sports and music, and even fewer whose musical tastes on that side of the equation are jazz- and bluesoriented. Greg Pogue is that rare bird. From 9-11 a.m. on weekdays, he navigates the tricky waters of sports talk with co-host Joe Dubin on WNSR (560 on the AM dial, and 95.9 on the FM). From 6-8 p.m. on Sundays, he assesses melodies, rhythms, compositions and recordings with the best jazz musicians of our city and region via his outstanding online radio show Nashville Jazz on Acme Radio. Each week Pogue engages a top musician, producer or arranger (and occasionally even a journalist) for freewheeling conversation on a variety of cultural issues, interspersed with selections from their favorite discs. While catching it live is the best, fortunately archives enable fans to never miss an episode of a Music City broadcast staple. RON WYNN

Best Music V ideo

Okey Dokey and Liz Cooper, “Winnebago”

Okey Dokey, the warm and shimmering post-’60s pop-music project led by Aaron Martin and Johny Fisher, plays well with others. The music video for “Winnebago” features one of several collaborative singles the band released in addition to their January LP Tell All Your Friend. Martin, Fisher and fellow local rocker Liz Cooper’s work with filmmaker Cody Duncum on this piece is quietly arresting. It’s a meditative look at the longevity of relationships that’s funny, sweet and comes for your heartstrings without warning. STEPHEN TRAGESER

Best New W ay to S ee the S tor y of Music

Adventure Science Center’s soundBox

Institutions like the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum give cultural context to the music we love — they help us understand what music means. But music is also a physical phenomenon, and thanks to Adventure Science Center’s new soundBox exhibit, youngsters and grownups have an innovative, interactive new way to explore the science behind the sounds we love. A suite of 15 tech-filled stations lets you see the shape of your voice painted in light, add layers to a composition in real time, perform with the Nashville Symphony (via a computer program) and more. MATT FOX

Best new way to see the story of music, writer’s choice: adventure science center’s soundbox

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International Lens: Burn in g

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Wait, wasn’t Swervedriver just here?

The reasons for the U.K. grunge-gazers’ second Music City show in six months are threefold. First: unfinished business. Their Basement East engagement back in April had been billed as a co-headlining show with fellow reunited alt-rockers Failure, but something must have gotten lost in translation, because Swervies were reduced to a too-short 11-song opening set. Second: new material. The 7-inch single “Think I’m Gonna Feel Better” backed with “Reflections” follows January’s super-solid Future Ruins LP. Third, and most unfortunate: debt. When PledgeMusic, the marketplace site the band went through to crowdfund Ruins, mysteriously went dark in June, it left legions of fans who’d donated and been promised records in return empty-handed.

Lawsuits are pending — Swervedriver isn’t the only band to get bamboozled — but until then, it’s back on the road. Here’s hoping the foursome lets out all the frustration with an up-tempo ripper or four from Raise, the

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smashing ’91 debut that established them as a British analog of sorts to Dinosaur Jr., and made me a fan for life. Los Angeles shoegazers Milly will open the show. 8 p.m. at Mercy Lounge, 1 Cannery Row CHARLIE ZAILLIAN

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Nashville Rep is getting real with Detroit-based playwright Dominique Morrisseau’s emotionally immersive Pipeline. Directed by Jon Royal, Pipeline stars Alicia Haymer as Nya, a dedicated African American public school teacher who is desperate to keep her teenage son Omari (Gerold Oliver) from succumbing to the school-to-prison pipeline. Omari, tender and honest at his core, attends an upstate New York private school, where he’s goaded into

conflict by the subtle but deep-seated racism of his environment. Royal has had a stellar year, directing three searing productions and deepening his work as an arts educator.

First published in 2017, Pipeline reflects the conflicts facing contemporary parents who feel the school system is rigged against their children. The play will also star Scene favorite Joel Diggs, alongside Barry G. Kennedy Jr., Mary Tanner and Candace-Omnira LaFayette. Local artist Omari Booker’s paintings will be incorporated into the set, and you can see artwork by Nashville high school students in the lobby. Oct. 17-Nov. 3 at TPAC’s Johnson Theater, 505 Deaderick St. ERICA CICCARONE

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Curator’s Perspective: Eric Carle — His Life and Legacy

Eric Carle makes illustrations that are a perfect mixture of elaborate and lighthearted.

The creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar is in league with Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein as one of the world’s most beloved children’s book authors. His biography is riveting — born in Syracuse, N.Y., to German immigrants, he spent his youth in wartorn Germany and, after finally arriving back in New York and getting a job as a graphic designer for The New York Times, he was drafted into the Korean War. Luckily for us, he returned to the job after being discharged from the army and eventually became an art director, which led to his fruitful book-making career.

The exhibit of Carle’s art at the Frist, Eric Carle’s Picture Books, includes more than 100 works — spanning 23 books and a fivedecade career. Thursday’s curator’s talk is led by Ellen Keiter, the chief curator of The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, and will focus on his fascinating life story. 6:30 p.m. at the Frist Art Museum, 919 Broadway LAURA HUTSON HUNTER

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Marc Maron

Marc Maron seems to succeed in spite of himself — he’s a rebellious bridgeburner. A grudge-holder. A hot mess.

But he’s also an incredibly hard worker. In March, he hit his 1,000th episode of WTF, the podcast he started in his garage way back in 2009, before many of us had even heard of the format. Over the past 10 years, he’s also authored two books, starred in two television shows — including Netflix’s fierce, wonderful GLOW — and appeared at venues large and small doing stand-up. He has an acerbic, tell-it-like-it-is style that he often turns inward. Fans of the podcast are wellacquainted with his coffee addiction, intermittent jogging, obsessive relationship with food and the many feuds he’s had — and often overcome — with fellow comics. If that kind of raw introspection isn’t your thing, maybe Maron isn’t your guy. For the rest of us, his openness about coping with modern life is refreshing, assuring, real. Maron returns to Nashville with his Hey, There’s

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Paranoid Mess Fest

If you find yourself feeling particularly angsty and full of rage this weekend — or if that’s just your default mood — then it might be a good idea to attend Paranoid Mess Fest so you can fester freely among your rowdy comrades. This weekend-long event represents the beating heart of Nashville’s hardcore scene, featuring prominent local metal and punk acts, as well as several touring acts making the pilgrimage to Music City. The fest kicks off Friday night at The End with bands including punks Shanghai Theater, Shill and Anti-Human, to be followed by an after-party at Duke’s featuring DJ Alejandro Navarro. On Saturday and Sunday, the festival will be moved to Drkmttr, hosting acts like thrashers Waxed, Thirdface, Z and punk-leaning rapper Kent Osborne, who will play music loud enough to damage your eardrums on the spot. (This

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Residency

Alabama-born singer and songwriter Jason Isbell has come a long way since he left the great Southern rock group Drive-By Truckers in 2007. On their self-titled 2009 album, Isbell and his band The 400 Unit trafficked in Muscle Shoals-style soul and rock exercises that seemed like the work of a dedicated muso who loved jazz. Isbell came into his own on his 2017 release The Nashville Sound, which established him as a first-rate songwriter who may just define the aspirations and idealism of Americana music. This week at the Ryman, he kicks off his annual residency at the Mother Church with a set of seven shows spread out over nine days. As always, he’ll have specially selected opening acts for each night. His wife, singer Amanda Shires, plays on Oct. 18, followed by fife-and-drum master Shardé Thomas and blues performers R.L Boyce, Christone Ingram, Jimmy “Duck” Holmes and North Mississippi Allstars. The Blind Boys of Alabama will open the final show on Oct. 26. 8 p.m. Oct. 18-26 at the Ryman, 116 Fifth Ave. N. EDD HURT MUSIC

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is no joke — bring ear plugs.) Accompanying the music will be vendors selling art, vintage goods, music and “bootleg tees” all weekend long. All of the festival’s profits will be donated to Launch Pad, a Nashville organization that provides shelter to street youth, with an emphasis on affirming LGBTQ people. This proves that local punks and metalheads are good people with an affinity for expressing their rage and aggression — and moreover, that they’re much more concerned with building an authentic community than they are with making money. That said, it never hurts to tip the bands! Oct. 18-20 at The End, 2219 Elliston Place, and Drkmttr, 1111 Dickerson Pike

[PRICE OF FAME]

Maren Morris

If you watched filmmaker Ken Burns’ recent eight-part documentary series about the history of country music, you might have noticed how Burns mostly evaded any hard-nosed discussion of how country music fits into the larger scheme of popular music. In other words, it’s a misreading of country’s impact to ignore how it’s become more like other forms of pop since Garth Brooks changed its rules nearly 30 years ago. You don’t like modern country because it doesn’t fit into your scheme of authenticity? That’s a peculiar viewpoint, and I think Maren Morris epitomizes what’s good about country nowadays — even when she’s at her more superficial and secondhand. On her 2016 breakthrough album Hero, Morris included a fascinating song titled “Second Wind” that examines the downside of fame. Her latest album, this year’s Girl, continues in that vein, and it includes moments of brilliance along with the familiar tropes country-pop thrives on. What Morris has to say about the debilitating pressures of modern fame is the point. If you want to know about the old ways, you can still listen to Uncle Dave Macon and Kitty Wells. 7 p.m. at Ascend Amphitheater, 310 First Ave. S. EDD HURT THEATER

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More Tour for one night only. Boomer Lives!

7:30 p.m. at TPAC’s Polk Theater, 505 Deaderick St. ERICA CICCARONE

[DAMMIT, JANET!]

The Rock y Horror Show

Halloween is just around the corner, and Circle Players are already gearing up for some big fun with The Rocky

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[SOME LI KE IT HOT]

Commodore Quake Feat. Megan Thee Stallion & Bren Joy

As long as Megan Thee Stallion is touring and dropping bars, Hot Girl Summer won’t ever truly end. The Houston rap star is set to bring her heatwave of a career to Vanderbilt University for the annual Commodore Quake concert. With the release of her first LP Fever back in May, Hot Girl Meg dominated 2019: She landed featured spots on projects by Chance the Rapper, Maxo Kream and Gucci Mane. XXL also named her to its annual Freshman List, and Megan’s Freshman Class freestyle — delivered in a classic Houston rap flow with her signature swagger — was easily one of the best performances from her cohort. Also performing is Bren Joy, a Nashville native whose music effortlessly blends some of the best elements of R&B, hip-hop, gospel and jazz. The Quake

[HOUND OF L OVE ]

Houndmouth

Houndmouth emerged out of New Albany, Ind., with a flurry of success in 2013. Their first two albums, From the Hills Below the City and Little Neon Limelight, secured the band’s place as indie countryrockers, and its members soon found themselves performing on Letterman and playing world tours. But that was a different era for Houndmouth. Part of their characteristic sound came from the catchy tunes and insightful lamentations shared between singers Matt Meyers and Katie Toupin. Unfortunately, their stunning harmonies and retro sound are a thing of the past. In 2016, Toupin left the band (on good terms), and she took her sweet, honey-like voice with her, leaving Houndmouth to the boys. Matt Meyers, Zak Appleby and Shane Cody handled the transition gracefully, adding horn players Graeme Gardiner and Drew Miller in Toupin’s absence. Houndmouth’s new sound embraces this transition, and proves that the group is choosing to evolve rather than stagnate. Their latest full-length, Golden Age, exhibits a new, theatrical sound, with tunes that are more pop than country, and are filled with sophisticated melodies and intelligent lyrics. The title track, for example, sounds a bit like an LCD Soundsystem tune, but it tells

a story reminiscent of the band’s own experience. Meyers sings: “You start to blame her / But she gotta be famous / You know you gotta be famous.” Opening for the band on both nights will be Mark Charles, the alternativefolk singer-songwriter (not the independent Native American presidential candidate).

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12 Hours of Terror

This is what Belcourt program director Toby Leonard told me about this year’s 12 Hours of Terror: “All I can tell you is that the event is 12 hours long, we haven’t announced a single film, and it is nearly sold out.” (As of press time, the event has fully sold out.)

Yes, the Belcourt’s overnight marathon of horror films returns — and as usual, nobody knows what the hell will be playing. (Judging by this year’s graphic, it’s entirely possible that Halloween III: Season of the Witch, the sequel that ain’t got a damn thing to do with Michael Myers or Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode, will be one of the films.) In all likelihood, it’ll be an interesting, eclectic collection of features and shorts. After all, last year they played A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (the best one — don’t @ me!), Slumber Party Massacre, the Lucio Fulci train wreck Zombi 3, the experimental Austrian film Angst and the horror-hood flick

Tales From the Hood. So there will definitely be creepy, scary, freaky shit for everybody.

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is open to the general public, with discounted tickets for Vandy students. 8 p.m. at Vanderbilt University Memorial Gymnasium, 210 25th Ave. S. ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ

[Area 51]

Light the Nations

For the fourth year running, Light the Nations will bring a fall celebration to the strip on 51st Avenue. The annual event lets visitors and residents decorate free paper-bag lanterns that will run along the sides of the street. Building up to the lighting, the festivities will run all afternoon with food and drinks (from Daddy’s Dogs, Bradley’s Creamery, Banh Mi & Roll Factory and more) as well as activities for kids (crafts, bounce houses, face-painting and more). The event includes stages on both sides of the street, filled with local artists playing everything from bluegrass (Wolfpack Bluegrass Band) to rock ’n’ roll (Welles, Outer Vibe) and more. Guests can grab a latte from Red Bicycle or a pint of Little Harpeth’s Octoberfest Prost from The Nations Bar & Grille while they wait for the sun to go down. Just make sure to stick around to see the road all lit up. 2-10 p.m. in the Nations, 51st Ave. N. P.J. KINZER MUSIC

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Horror Show. A brilliant salute to all those cheesy sci-fi B movies of the 1950s, Richard O’Brien’s cult classic has earned a loyal following since its original London premiere in 1973 — not to mention its 1975 film adaptation, which has since become a midnightmovie staple — with unforgettable songs like “Sweet Transvestite,” “Over at the Frankenstein Place” and “The Time Warp.”

And Circle Players’ production features a solid cast, including Barrett Thomas, Bryan Royals, Emily Summers, Blake Holliday and more. Oct. 18-Nov. 2 at the Looby Theatre, 2301 Rosa L. Parks Blvd. AMY STUMPFL

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[DOUBLE YOUR PLEAS URE]

White Animals & Webb Wilder

Just as you know salmon will swim upstream each year, you can count on the White Animals playing at Exit/In when Vanderbilt Reunion Weekend rolls around.

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Tape Deck Mountain

“Pop-punk was the devil, and bands like Spiritualized and Verve were the holy grail,” Tape Deck Mountain singer-guitarist Travis Trevisan told Impose magazine last year, talking about his way of rebelling as an indoor kid growing up in San Diego. That’s where TDM began as Trevisan’s solo project.

He moved to Nashville in 2015 and linked up with bassist David Sullivan, drummer Andy Gregg and guitarist Greg Harp, and since then the project has blossomed into a topflight rock unit that grooves as hard as it riffs. The foursome’s new one-off single “Screen Savior” is its first new material since last year’s stellar Echo Chamber Blues, and locates a contemplatively heavy sweet spot between the high-atmosphere ’90s U.K. ’gaze that shaped Trevisan’s youth and the burlier Midwestern stylings of peers like Indiana space-rockers Cloakroom. Also on the bill: Kind Skies, a gang of dyed-in-the-wool indie-rock nerds from Lexington, Ky., plus locals Strange Encounters and Palm Ghosts. 9 p.m. at The 5 Spot, 1006 Forrest Ave. CHARLIE ZAILLIAN

[Mar vel Audioph onic Universe]

Kendell Marvel

Lee Ann Womack, Tracy Lawrence, George Strait, Chris Stapleton and Brothers Osborne are among the country pros who have recorded songs written or co-written by Kendell Marvel over the past 15 years or so. Marvel has begun to step into the spotlight himself, and his second album Solid Gold Sounds may help keep him there for years to come. The record

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Wilco

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Bianca Del Rio

It seems like every week brings us a new drag performer aiming for legendary status among tastemakers and the general public. It’s a grueling industry with a newfound respectability and mass appeal that has created a sequined sausage factory for lip-syncing glam. But among the myriad new sparkles in the consumptive night of the modern world, you can count the true legends on one hand. Bianca Del Rio is one of those legends. With the showbiz instincts of the Rat Pack, the fashion flair of timeless Edith Head realness, and material that would make Buddy Hackett and Redd Foxx quake and quail, Del Rio delivers a vibrant, vulgar experience that no one else out there can compete with. So now, with her It’s Jester Joke Tour, Bianca Del Rio is coming to Nashville, and no one is safe. You already know you want to see this. 8 p.m.

at Marathon Music Works, 1402 Clinton St. JASON SHAWHAN

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was produced by and co-written with The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach (and released on his Easy Eye Sound imprint). The songs are some of Marvel’s best work yet, and the musical settings — which run the stylistic gamut from Glen Campbell to ZZ Top — are an outstanding showcase for Marvel’s range as a performer. Marvel has been on the road opening arena shows for Stapleton, but he’ll be at 3rd and Lindsley on Sunday for what may become a rare visit to a venue that size.

8 p.m. at 3rd and Lindsley, 818 Third Ave. S.

[HORR ORS !]

Music City Mondays: Litt le Sho p of Hor r or s — dire ctor ’s cut

MAJOR SPOILERS FOR A 33-YEAROLD MOVIE AHEAD: I love these purists who believe that the 1986 musical film Little Shop of Horrors — which was adapted from the 1982 stage musical — would’ve been perfect if only the filmmakers had stuck with the original ending. In the stage version, sad-sack hero Seymour and his girl Audrey get eaten by alien plant Audrey II, who goes on to take over the country with other killer Venus flytraps. But the more positive ending — with Seymour killing Audrey II and living happily ever after — replaced it after the notoriously negative reaction the original version got from test-screening audiences. These naysayers forget that the movie came out during the holidays, when families aren’t really keen on seeing flicks in which people they like are offed by homicidal aliens. (Do I even have to bring up the ’96 December debacle that was Mars Attacks!?) But if you macabre muhfuckas really want to see what would’ve/could’ve/ should’ve been, the director’s cut version will be screening this week at the Belcourt.

7 & 9:15 p.m. at the Belcourt, 2102 Belcourt Ave. CRAIG D. LINDSEY comedy

[HI T THE DEC K]

jaded, especially when we feel that a good group — like, oh, Wilco — gets absurdly overpraised by listeners who ought to know better. I never gave a hoot about Wilco’s well-reviewed 2002 album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which sported sonics that obscured bandleader Jeff Tweedy’s gift for songwriting. Tweedy seemed to draw inspiration from earlier records like His Name Is Alive’s Mouth by Mouth and Big Star’s depressive-rock masterpiece Third, but Yankee lacks the lyricism that characterizes those two superb albums. Still, I like the band’s 1998 collaboration with Billy Bragg, Mermaid Avenue — which was written using previously unheard lyrics by Woody Guthrie — and I dig their 2007 album Sky Blue Sky and 2009’s Wilco (The Album). They’re out on tour after a two-year hiatus, and their new full-length Ode to Joy promises to be in the same league as Sky Blue Sky. Soccer Mommy — the acclaimed indie-rock project of longtime Nashvillian Sophie Allison — will open. 7:30 p.m. at the Grand Ole Opry House, 2804 Opryland Drive EDD HURT MUSIC

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In the early ’80s, frontman Kevin Gray & Co. quickly achieved cult-like status among both college kids and punks, and soon were playing frat houses and clubs across the South. That’s about when self-proclaimed “Last of the Full Grown Men” Webb Wilder showed up, drawing equally rabid fans with his hybrid rock-blues-R&B sound and deadpan humor. Neither act became a mainstream attraction, but they still draw crowds more than three decades later. It’s reunion time again, and that brings the remarkable opportunity to see both on the same stage this weekend at Exit/In. Their passion for playing has never faded, and neither has the enthusiasm that now-middle-aged kids have for them. Just know that wherever — and whenever — White Animals or Webb Wilder show up, there is always a party. See for yourself this weekend. 9 p.m. at Exit/In, 2208 Elliston Place HOLLY HOFFMAN

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[FOR TUNE COOKIE]

Fortune Feimster

Her name is Fortune — not Treasure, not Gracious and not, as she says, “anything [else] you can associate with a unicorn or a stripper” — and she provides the voice of Brenda on the new Fox animated series Bless the Harts (alongside Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph!). She was also Ruby on NBC’s canceled-too-soon Champions, she was Colette on The Mindy Project, she was a roundtable co-host on Chelsea Lately, and she has appeared on Drunk History, RuPaul’s Drag Race and Life in Pieces. That’s a hell of a résumé! But her best work is as a stand-up comic — she delivers genuine and thoughtful material that’s disguised as self-deprecation but is ultimately rooted in

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critics’ picks powerful self-acceptance. (She’s a lesbian who grew up in North Carolina, and her dad offered to buy her a blazer and top hat when she came out — if you haven’t yet, watch her episode of Netflix’s The Standups for more hilarious stories about growing up gay in the South.) And besides being hilarious, Feimster is also kind. The last time she was in town, she not only had everyone at Zanies laughing so hard they started crying, but she also hung out after the show to pose for selfies, sign autographs and chat with anyone who wanted to say hi. Fortune forever.

5 & 7:30 p.m. at Zanies, 2025 Eighth Ave. S.

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Caylee Hammack

Earlier this year, country singersongwriter Caylee Hammack captured the attention of fans and critics alike with the release of her debut single “Family Tree,” which introduces her as both a clever, thoughtful wordsmith and a bold artist who isn’t afraid to push the boundaries of country music. She doesn’t yet have a full-length debut album, so expect her to test out new material when she plays 3rd and Lindsley on Tuesday. Still, her star is firmly on the rise, so it’s a safe bet that the Georgia-born up-andcomer won’t be playing rooms as intimate as this one for much longer. Husband-and-wife country duo Haley & Michaels will open. The show is part of the recurring Rhythm and Boots series, presented in conjunction with WKDF-FM. 7 p.m. at 3rd and Lindsley, 818 Third Ave S. BRITTNEY McKENNA

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Author Event with Sean Brock

Chef Sean Brock of the upcoming Audrey and Red Bird in his massive East Nashville restaurant complex is a notable advocate for Southern food and the heritage of the recipes and ingredients that make

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up the cuisine. Brock’s new book South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations is filled with 125 home-cooking recipes based on the chef’s exhaustive research into the history of the dishes that inspire him. With emphasis on factors like simplicity, thrift and seasonality, Brock has invented new recipes that fit within the framework of Southern cuisine, particularly of his native Appalachian region. (If you learn nothing else from this book, Brock would like you to pronounce it correctly: apple-LATCHin.) In cooperation with Parnassus Books, Brock has planned a signing event Monday at Blair School of Music, where he’ll be joined in conversation with Patrick Carney of The Black Keys, combining Brock’s obsessions of food and music. 6:30 p.m. at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, 2400 Blakemore Ave. CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

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TUES/10.22 [10,000 Maniacs]

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell came to the forefront of every bookstore’s nonfiction section with 2000’s The Tipping Point, in which he explains some of the mysteries behind unexpected social phenomena. Later, Outliers established his “10,000-Hour

[BABY BRAVE ]

Faye Webster

Twenty-one-year-old Atlantan Faye Webster shows off a skill set as eclectic as her home city on her 2019 LP Atlanta Millionaire’s Club, a curious amalgam of stoner country, slacker rock and Southern R&B. (She has cited Angel Olsen and Aaliyah as key influences, which checks out.) With nine songs (one, “Jonny,” gets a reprise at the end) in a short 30 minutes, AMC starts slow but finds its groove with the alluring neo-soul stylings of twin standouts “Kingston” and the aforementioned “Jonny.” The yearning “Come to Atlanta,” meanwhile, is something ATL’s chamber of commerce seriously might want to consider licensing.

And Webster gets major points in my book for her outward baseball fandom: She hadn’t even been born the last time the Atlanta Braves won the World Series (1995), but she proudly sports their jersey in her promo photos — and even onstage for her This Tent set at this year’s Bonnaroo. Paging Jason IsRule” as reasoning behind the success of figures like Robert Oppenheimer, The Beatles, Bill Gates and Canadian NHL players with birthdays in January. With his new book Talking to Strangers, the journalist/author/podcaster/all-around overthinker takes on the potential dangers of misinterpreting people we don’t know.

The book takes a hard look at Larry Nassar, Jerry Sandusky, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, and Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, all in the quest to know what went wrong, and how these atrocities might have been prevented. Gladwell will speak about the book at Belmont in an event supported by partnerships with Parnassus Books and EO Nashville. The ticket price is $35, and includes a copy of Talking to Strangers and morning coffee. 7:30 a.m. at Belmont’s Massey Performing Arts Center, 1900 Belmont Blvd. P.J. KINZER

[FL OW MOTION]

Omni

On their 2017 album Multi-task, Georgia band Omni did a great job of reviving the circa-1980 style of groups like Pylon, Wire, Gang of Four and Captain Beefheart.

Of course, Beefheart’s 1970 album Lick My Decals Off, Baby remains one of the main inspirations for bands like Gang of Four, and Decals is rock music that approaches the flow of Thelonious Monk’s great compositions. Omni achieves an admirable flow on Multi-task tunes like “Supermoon,” which may be the most Pylon-like track on the record. Bassist and singer Philip Frobus contributes deadpan vocals to Multi-task, while ex-Deerhunter guitarist and drummer Frankie Broyles fulfills the function of Beefheart’s essential collaborator John French, who played drums and guitar on Beefheart albums like Decals and 1980’s Doc at the Radar Station. Omni has a new record, Networker, set for a November release. It’s musically and sonically fuller than Multi-task, likely because it’s their first for accomplished indie label Sub Pop. Avantrockers Safety Net will open. 9 p.m. at The Basement, 1604 Eighth Ave. S. EDD HURT

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Of Many Colors

In Dolly Parton’s America, Jad Abumrad explores the country icon’s power to unite

Did you think of your audience as divided between Dolly superfans and folks who, for one reason or another, don’t have an interest in country music? You know, I didn’t start there. I was sort of following a personal curiosity, as somebody who grew up in the South but who had never really known her music. Honestly, I was a child of really bad hair metal, right? So, that was my jam, unfortunately. I was aware of Dolly Parton, but didn’t actually know her stuff.

Around 2016, she came and did a concert in Queens, and … I have a visceral memory of people just losing their freaking minds when she came here. And the level of excitement kind of caught me off guard. I was just curious about this person who seems so part of my life, except not really — and was suddenly a part of everyone’s life here. It raised a lot of questions for me.

As I got more into the series, I did start to really think about: “Oh, there are people for whom Dolly is like Saint Dolly.” … For those moments in the series where I want to take a slightly independent look, where I want to draw in people who maybe are a tiny bit critical of her, I started to think about those folks and how that would play. But no, most of the time I don’t think about the audience. I guess that’s sort of a luxury — just trying to answer the questions as best as you can for yourself and for the people around you.

From listening to the first episode, it’s clear that having a deep familiarity with her work was important. How did you go about developing that?

There was a moment where we just sat down with Apple Music and went through the entire discography. There’s a lot of stories early in the series about ’60s-’70s Dolly, and that’s a really interesting Dolly. There are very discrete Dolly Partons that existed in those two decades, and I had no clue about

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it. I knew the “9 to 5” Dolly, I knew the “Islands In the Stream” Dolly, but I didn’t know “Daddy Come and Get Me” Dolly or “Just Because I’m a Woman” Dolly. They were very different Dollys.

In telling the story of her life, and of the country at those moments, I felt like I really had to start with the music. I listened to all those albums. They were releasing — when I say “they,” I mean her and Porter Wagoner through the ’60s and ’70s — it was just a fricking Niagara Falls of music. … That was one of the things that I was initially stunned by, was just how much music she has put out in her life. But yeah, I can’t say I’m an expert, but I’m pretty good at ’70s Dolly, which is now my favorite Dolly.

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In the podcast, you have an interesting conversation with music scholar Helen Morales (author of Pilgrimage to Dollywood).

You discuss how Dolly Parton had been overlooked as a songwriter and storyteller, and now there’s much more scholarly interest in her work. Did that lead you to some bigger questions or realizations about the cultural divide we’re experiencing? You’re seeing generations of young women see in her sort of this “spirit guide of third-wave feminism.” These are not my words, it’s just how it was put to me. I think you’re seeing a lot of people look to her for the first time as somebody — through her longevity and through the example of how she lives — who has created a space in America where it is truly nonpartisan, or bipartisan, or unipartisan. I don’t even know what the right word is, but I think people are seeing that in her for the first time.

There are Dolly-ologists for the first time ever. There are academics and classes and people coming up who are doing that. So I just think that there is some kind of sea change happening right now, and people are looking at her as not just as a musician and a singer and a songwriter, but as somebody whose life means something bigger than that.

Bigger in what way? I’ll start with Helen Morales. One of her arguments that I find compelling is that, if you look at Dolly’s lyrics over time … she is a kind of lyrical, musical encapsulation of the last 50 years — of how far women have traveled, and still have to travel. She somehow represents it all.

I think as a person who fiercely refuses to take political stance, [Parton] does represent an interesting ethos when it comes to politics. Right now, I feel like the norm has become people yelling and screaming their opinion. She refused to do that. And on certain days it can seem weak, and on other days and that can seem almost sacred, in a way — it depends on how you see it in the context. … She holds a space that is pretty singular in America right now.

versation about different songs of hers, whereas before, I just sort of knew her as a persona. On some basic level, I actually have a relationship with her work now. … Asking the people who love her and think deeply about her — asking them what they love about her has made me think differently about a lot of things.

That made me think differently about the South, about the political landscape of feminism. It’s made me think differently about the politics of the Trump era.

It’s made me think differently about country music and about Nashville. A lot of the stories that we get into are as much about Nashville — the city of Nashville, the industry — as anything. So it let me think differently about a lot of that stuff. illus tra tio n: Chris tine de Car valho

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ountry music may be thoroughly woven into Nashville’s public persona, but being here doesn’t mean you live and breathe country. Nashville native Jad Abumrad — who you’ll know as the Available via cohost of WNYCwnycstudios.org and FM’s long-running wherever else you find science-centered podcasts program Radiolab — was inundated with country music growing up, but definitely didn’t absorb it.

But New Yorkers’ ecstatic responses to a concert Dolly Parton did a few years ago in New York prompted Abumrad to take a deep dive into the breadth and depth of the phenomenal singer and songwriter’s seemingly universal appeal. His new nine-part podcast Dolly Parton’s America explores the many sides of Parton — expert storyteller, savvy businessperson, cultural icon and more — through extensive conversations with music and cultural scholars, folks in the music business and Parton herself. Ahead of the premiere of the first episode on Oct.15 (new episodes are set to be released weekly), Abumrad spoke with the Scene by phone from WNYC.

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The power of a platform isn’t something to be taken lightly, but it doesn’t seem like she’s abdicating her platform. She’s just using it in a different way. I think it’s too simple to say that she’s refusing to take a stand, because of the things that she has done and gone through in her life. I think she embodies a lot of the stands that people would have her take. …

I’ll be completely upfront: She refuses to take a lot of the stands that I would take. But at the same time I think: “Well, do I need her to say that stuff?” It very quickly becomes more about me than about her. That’s I think what’s interesting — what good does it do?

Is it just moral vanity? ’Cause I want my opinion validated? Or do I really think that hurts — [that Parton speaking out directly] could force a change in the world? I don’t know. And I’m not sure that there’s a clean line between those two, to be honest. These are the kinds of questions that I get into with [Parton] in the series.

How has your relationship with Parton’s body of work, or your perception of other peoples’ feelings about her, changed as you’ve worked on the series? I can now have a long, in-depth con-

Without giving too much away, could you tell me a little bit more about how some of your feelings about Nashville changed? Nashville is this interesting place where people from rural areas come to the city to sing about rural areas, right? It was a place that grew out of a desire to preserve a place that no longer existed — people would leave those places to come to Nashville to sing about those places.

Nashville always had a really interesting kind of, like, “country but not” quality to it.

And it was really interesting to see the way in which Nashville became such a big city in its own right. … That was really interesting, because I remember growing up in Nashville as this Arab kid with a funny name, and feeling like I’d stepped into a storybook that I wasn’t somehow written into. I realized that story was very much a commercial product, and that had developed over the 20 years prior. And so that was kind of interesting. It made me sort of reflect back on my own experience, and my dad’s journey — really, sort of seeing Nashville as an idea.

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First-Rate Nearly seven decades into his career, Ahmad Jamal continues to grow

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cclaimed pianist, composer and bandleader Ahmad Jamal has been a headliner since the early ’50s, when he relocated from his native Pittsburgh to Chicago. That’s how he began one Playing Friday, Oct. 18, of the most remarkat the Schermerhorn able and extensive careers in jazz history, which has included numerous international festivals and hosts of national tours.

Still, there’s at least one place he hasn’t played: Nashville.

“That’s the home of the Grand Ole Opry, right?” he asks during a phone conversation. “Then to the best of my knowledge, I’ve never played there.”

Well, make that “haven’t played yet” — he’ll perform at the Schermerhorn on Friday. It’s amazing that there are still firsts to be had for Jamal, whose first recording session as a bandleader was in 1951. At that time, his group was called The Three Strings, later renamed The Ahmad Jamal Trio. Jamal quickly established the trademarks that made him a seminal jazz influence. These include a superb ability to manipulate and change tempos, immaculate phrasing, imaginative sweeps and flourishes within songs, innovative use of space in his solos, and a wonderful touch as a melodic interpreter. His immense technique made the small combo sound of piano, bass and drums feel like the sonic equivalent of a big band. No less a dignitary than Miles Davis — not known for giving out compliments — frequently cited the impact of Jamal’s playing on his own approach. But Jamal downplays those formidable skills.

“I’m first and foremost an ensemble player,” Jamal says. “Without the great musicians I’ve had in my groups over the years, nothing would have happened for me. I’ve never been the type to want the spotlight as a pianist. I prefer to work off and with other musicians.” Still, despite his modesty, Jamal’s brilliance has earned him multiple honors, among them a fellowship as an American Jazz Master from the National Endowment for the Arts, recognition from the Kennedy Center as a Living Jazz Legend, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

The list of memorable albums in Jamal’s seven-plus-decade catalog is staggering, but one stands above the rest: his 1958 release At the Pershing: But Not for Me. Pianist Jamal, bassist Israel Crosby and drummer Vernel Fournier were recorded live at Chicago’s Pershing Hotel, with a set list that ranged from “The Surrey With the Fringe on Top” to his masterful arrangement and reworking of Nat Simon’s “Poinciana.” The album, released by Chess Records’ jazz imprint Argo, stayed on the Billboard all-genre chart for more than two years (107 weeks), and “Poinciana” became

Jamal’s signature tune.

“You know, there were four of us who made Leonard Chess a millionaire by the time he sold that company,” says Jamal.

“That was Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley and me. That album established the company’s jazz division. But you know, at the time — for me, it was just a good session we played. No way did I anticipate that kind of success, and I was grateful for it then and now. It just goes to show you never know what will hit, because I didn’t think that album would have that impact.”

That was just the beginning. Jamal continued an amazing run of recordings and live performances, seldom going more than a year or two without releasing an album.

His music was introduced to the hip-hop generation via samples of his 1970 LP The Awakening, used extensively as the foundation for tracks by Nas, Common and DJ

Premier, among others. The Jamal legacy has recently had two additions, including another first: Ballades, released Sept. 13, is his first mostly solo album. Jamal explains that the new record grew out of sessions for his 2017 album Marseille.

“Well, I was making this LP at a studio outside of Paris and was doing a lot of different things, some of them just fooling around,” he says. “But [producer Seydou Barry] came to me after we finished the first album and said, ‘We’ve got to put this other material out.’ I didn’t want to do it, but he insisted, so that’s how Ballades ended up getting released.”

Ballades contains dynamic solo interpretations of “Poinciana,” “Spring Is Here,” “What’s New” and “I Should Care.” Jamal takes the familiar melodies and does twists, turns and dips with them, never abandoning the established line, yet skillfully in-

serting and injecting enough inventions to make his versions distinctive. There are three enjoyable tracks on which he’s joined by bassist James Cammack, but hearing Jamal’s piano unaccompanied is a rare delight, the spice that makes Ballades something special.

At 89, Ahmad Jamal is busier than ever. He hasn’t divorced himself from contemporary happenings, saying he’s listening intently to what’s happening both nationally and on the local Chicago scene. But his primary focus remains on playing.

“I find there are still things I want to say and do on the piano,” he concludes.

“I’m still learning after all these years, and that’s the greatest thing about playing music. You realize there’s always more out there for you to discover.”

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Center Stage

Sleater-Kinney continues adapting on The Center Won’t Hold

By Megan Seling

I’m so excited that Sleater-Kinney is playing the Ryman for the first time. Obviously that venue has huge historical significance. Does it resonate with you in any way? Yeah, I think any time you get to play a historic venue, where it’s been the home to amazing performances and artists over the years, you feel both in awe and a certain amount of pressure, I think, to just live up to this legacy of the room itself.

I read in a previous interview that one of the reasons The Center Won’t Hold happened was because the TV adaptation of your memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl wasn’t picked up by Hulu. Did that spur a new creative direction at all? Well, we knew we were going to write another record, so [the series not getting made] more, just, freed up logistical time.

My memoir was looking back, and as I was adapting that for television and making the pilot, that also was looking back. And that’s never been a comfortable space for me creatively, to be steeped in anything that’s nostalgic or sentimental.

But it did remind me that, particularly

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leater-Kinney announced some incredibly exciting news on Instagram just eight days into 2019: “Sleater-Kinney. Produced by @st_vincent. 2019.”

Accompanying that caption is a photo of the band — guitarist Corin Tucker, drummer Janet Weiss and bassist Carrie Brownstein — standing behind Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent). The post racked up thousands of ecstatic comments when shared across the women’s Instagram accounts.

There were fire emojis. So many fire emojis.

Then the narrative Playing Monday, took a sharp, unexOct. 21, at the Ryman pected turn.

On July 1, after the band released two singles and announced a fall tour, Weiss announced she was leaving the band. She posted a letter to her social media that read, in part: “The band is heading in a new direction and it is time for me to move on.” Gossip and conspiracy theories took over the newsfeed.

Fire emojis turned to puke emojis, and fans sounded off in the comments. “S-K is now a Portlandia skit of St. Vincent,” wrote one Instagrammer, reacting to Tucker and Brownstein’s letter wishing Weiss well. “Time to unfollow and archive my love for my once fave band,” wrote another.

Despite the distractions and drama, The Center Won’t Hold stands as one of SleaterKinney’s most intriguing albums to date.

The record pulses with electronic experimentation inspired and aided by Clark, as well as Sleater-Kinney’s organic urgency.

Ahead of the group’s show Monday at the Ryman, Brownstein chatted by phone with the Scene about performing at the historic venue and the monsters that inspired one of her favorite songs on the record — as well as The Great British Bake Off.

with my relationship to music, that I wanted to feel very much in-the-moment. I wasn’t ready to sort of put that into this glass case of history and send it packing. So I think it instilled in me a new sense of urgency, which is really what I need with SleaterKinney. When we came back in 2015 with No Cities to Love, we also came back with a real desire and want. And it’s the kind of musical container and entity that demands a lot of dedication, intention and passion. It has to feel kind of urgent. It’s always good to find that urgency, because often you’re not inspired otherwise.

Well, and the timing was so perfect. A year after No Cities to Love comes out, obviously we know what happened to the country. Did Trump winning the election somehow make it feel even more urgent or important? For the 25 years we’ve been a band, we’ve always been in conversation with the times we live in, with the sociopolitical climate, with our own personhood within that atmosphere and environment. So that doesn’t change things.

It’s always been a band in conversation with itself, a band in conversation with our audience, with culture.

And if anything, our job is to continue to make songs that feel relevant, but also that last. There’s still a deliberation, there’s still an editorial process. There’s still the craft of making good songs. Because even if your music feels so on-the-nose and so of-themoment, the moment is fleeting. Ideally, you want your songs to have meaning to people a year from now or five years from now, when they’re not as context-specific.

Do you remember which song came first for The Center Won’t Hold? Yeah, actually, “Hurry on Home” I think was one of the first songs that I wrote for the album. And I think for Corin, it was “Ruins.”

I’m glad you mentioned “Ruins.” I think that’s my favorite song on the record right now. It’s so creepy and intriguing. Can you talk a little bit

about what influenced that song? It’s so different from anything Sleater-Kinney has done before.

One thing I’m so proud of on this record is just the amount of room that Corin and I gave each other to figure out who we were as songwriters in the present moment. I think of that as such an amazing Corin song.

She’s always someone who’s played with persona and identity and character in her songs, well before I did. That falsetto, that bridge where it’s sort of haunted and psychedelic, and also just sounds like a siren call. There’s just the heaviness to it and the kind of broken-down second verse. Like, to me, it really just sounds like something decomposing and also living at the same time.

It really captures something so corrosive and deadly and haunted.

I’m very proud of her for that song, and I think it’s definitely one of her favorites, and one of mine, and one that we’re really looking forward to playing. She had all this imagery in her mind that was kind of in that Godzilla vein — something monstrous that we had kind of collectively assembled and now couldn’t get rid of. I guess you’re playing with two monster myths. You have Frankenstein and Godzilla in that song — piling on all the myths [laughs]. There is something that feels, like, horrific about it in a way that’s very exciting, and live, we really get to expand it, because there’s all that improvisation at the end. That’s really fun to explore.

One of the reasons “Ruins” hits so hard, too, is that it’s followed up by “L ove,” which is somewhat of a Sleater-Kinney origin story, right? To go from horror to “Here’s how we found one another, and here’s what we’ve been through together, and it’s all full of love.” I love the juxtaposition between the two songs. Was that done on purpose? Yeah, certainly in the sequencing it was. Obviously the songs weren’t written in tandem.

Sequencing is irrelevant to some people, because we listen to music so much as singles

and, you know, sort of decontextualized from the album. But I think for us, and the story of this record, it was almost like we needed to re-establish collaboration and togetherness as a means of hope — as a means of optimism.

And that song, though it starts obviously with something that’s self-referential, it is really such an homage to connection as a fulcrum for survival. After the very [destructive] ideas of “Ruins,” I think we wanted to build something back up in the next song.

And almost just to remind ourselves, in the middle of the record, that this is why we’re able to continue everything that came before this song. And everything that comes after this song is because of what we’re speaking to in the subject of the song itself, which is the fondness for one another, and the joy.

Speaking of joy, I saw on Twitter that you also love The Great British Bake Off. Do you really love it as much as I’m hoping you’re loving it? No pressure! But I love that show. No, no, no. As much as social media is a performance for all of us, that was a very earnest tweet. [The Great British Bake Off] has a slightly soporific effect now, because I have used it to sort of soothe myself right before sleep. Like when I get tired of reading, and I kind of need to shut my brain off further, I’ll put on an episode of it, and it does have a strangely restorative effect. It makes me feel vaguely hopeful. I just — yeah, I love it.

Everything’s so transactional now, and that show just completely bypasses all of that. You don’t see a single brand, nobody’s promoting anything, and you just realize how nice it feels to be in a world where we’re not being sold anything. Because even politics, you know — we’re being sold ideas, we’re being sold hate, or we’re being sold opinions. There’s something so clean about [the show].

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Giant Steps

The Nashville Jazz Workshop’s 19th annual Jazzmania marks a season of change

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azzmania, the Nashville Jazz Workshop’s annual fundraiser that’s slated for Saturday at The Factory at Franklin, is always a welcome occasion for Music City’s community of improvisational musicians and fans. But this 19th Jazzmania, Saturday, edition has extraOct. 19, at The Factory special meaning — it at Franklin comes during a time of transition for the NJW. In January, after 19 years in the Neuhoff Complex in Germantown, the workshop will relocate to its new headquarters at 1012 Buchanan St. The new building is right next to Slim & Husky’s carryout and delivery location The Rollout, in what was formerly the Music City Center for Spiritual Living.

“It’s bittersweet,” acknowledges NJW cofounder Roger Spencer, who along with his wife Lori Mechem co-founded the Nashville Jazz Institute in 1998. The organization became a federally recognized nonprofit, changed its name to the Nashville Jazz Workshop and moved to its current location at 1319 Adams St. in 2000. “A lot of good music has been played here. But we’re optimistic about this move.”

“It will be a gradual one,” Mechem says of the move. “We’re looking at having a grand opening in January, and we’re going to start moving some things over there soon.”

gerald clayton This adds to the importance of the fundraising effort. Jazzmania’s headliner, The Gerald Clayton Quartet, should help in that respect. The son of outstanding bassist John Clayton, pianist Gerald Clayton has a nimble and lyrical style, and his own résumé is quite impressive. He’s a Grammy-nominated instrumentalist and composer who’s recorded and toured not only with his own groups, but also with such jazz greats as Charles Lloyd, Terrell Stafford, Diana Krall, and his own family ensemble, The Clayton Brothers.

Mechem and Spencer are also highly regarded educators and performers — things they’ve had more opportunity to focus on since the NJW hired a new executive director, Eric Dilts, in 2018 — and they’ll be playing the show with The Lori Mechem Quartet.

(Mechem leads the band and plays piano; Spencer is a bassist.) Also performing will be a group that exemplifies the Workshop’s work in the flesh: the NJW Young Artist

Anchor Down Mike Watt’s Missingmen will dock at Exit/In for a multigenerational punk rock revue

By C harlie Zaillian

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op at eight bells but let tom and big man konk a little longer cuz i know they’re tuckered. cat who put us up after the louisville gig knows a bitchin’ coffee pad so we chug, fuel the boat and pull anchor. 175 miles to music city but no traff so we shovel some chow at swett’s and get a short stay in before bam bam at that spunk pad exit/in. one month into hell-ride and homesick for pedro town but grateful the south’s treated us kind. byebye till next time...

This is my imagined version of Missingmen bassist-vocalist Mike Watt’s tour diary entry for his trio’s Exit/In gig on Sunday. With his self-taught writing style, nautically inspired lexicon (“the boat” is the band’s tour van, in case you couldn’t tell) and commitment to no-frills DIY touring — or “jamming econo” — Watt is one of a kind. The co-founder of Minutemen is the pride of San Pedro, C alif., one of the best living bass players on the planet, and at 61, a punk icon who’s walked the walk like few before or since.

“His slang, it tends to rub off on everyone around,” guitarist-vocalist and Playing Sunday, Oct. 20, longtime Watt collaboraat Exit/In tor Tom Watson says with a laugh. “And it brings us

all together, too.”

The band, rounded out by 22-year-old drummer Nick Aguilar (whom Watt affectionately refers to as “Big Man”), is 11 days into a 45-date tour with no breaks. Watt is trying to save his voice, so Watson speaks to the Scene on his behalf. He’s calling from Denver, where The Missingmen are enjoying their first

Ensemble, composed of students from the Young Artists program, rounds out the bill.

Jazzmania includes other entertaining events prior to the musical ones. The NJW Heritage Award is presented each year to a person who has made major long-term contributions to the local jazz community. (This year’s honoree hasn’t been announced, but past recipients have included saxophonist Jeff Coffin, trumpeter Rod McGaha, drummer Chester Thompson and pianist Beegie Adair — all sterling musicians who’ve also been actively involved in Nashville jazz as educators, bandleaders and more.) There’s a special patron reception that includes the opportunity for a meet-and-greet with The Gerald Clayton Quartet, as well as live and silent auctions. See nashvillejazz.org for a full schedule of events, and prepare to bid generously — this year’s proceeds will help defray the costs of moving and prepping the new site.

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real breather since leaving C alifornia — not a day off, technically, but a chance to split up and have some alone time before reconvening for their second gig at Denver’s L ion’s L air L ounge, which they sold out the night before.

Watson, a former member of the whip-smart, wildly underrated post-punk combo Slovenly, has known Watt since they were young bucks in L .A.’s suburban South Bay in the 1980s. They were labelmates on SST R ecords, which released Double Nickels on the Dime, Minutemen’s unabashedly funky, aggressively leftist four-sided bizarro punk odyssey, in July 1984.

Double Nickels would be the last Minutemen album before singer-guitarist D. Boon’s untimely death in ’85. But the trio’s transgressive, self-reliant streak would make it a focal point of Michael Azerrad’s essential 2001 chronicle of the ’80s American underground, Our Band Could Be Your Life. T he book takes its title from a lyric in “History L esson — Part II,” Double Nickels’ earnest ode to Watt and Boon’s modest rock ’n’ roll dreams growing up in blue-collar Pedro — geographically close to the glitz and glamour of L .A., but worlds away psychologically and socioeconomically.

Watt’s 1994 solo album Ball-Hog or Tugboat?, meanwhile, proved his influence was broad, and cred unparalleled. It features guest spots from Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, J Mascis, Thurston Moore, Frank Black, Evan Dando, Kathleen Hanna and heaps of other Clinton-era rock fixtures.

In 2006, Watt, Watson and drummer R aul Morales formed The Missingmen. C urrently, Watson is on leave from his day job as an art handler to do the tour.

cally black North Nashville’s burgeoning Buchanan Business and Arts District. It has 400 fewer square feet than the previous building, which will necessitate putting the NJW’s George Tidwell Library, a vast collection of recorded jazz, into storage. But there will be a larger space for the Jazz Cave performance venue, which will now seat 120 people. There will be 45 parking spaces and bigger restrooms, and there are plans for necessary structural changes within the building to make it acoustically sound for a jazz-based operation.

“We definitely have to do a few things to make it work better for our purposes,” says Spencer, “but it’s going to be a good setup for everyone once those developments are done.”

There will be three classrooms, while the stage will serve as a fourth. There are also ambitious plans underway for next year, designed to get more interaction with the NJW’s new community. Mechem says one program in development is a free event series called 20 for 20. Among other classes, public concerts and additional programming, the workshop also hopes to bring its Jazz by the Book series back to Parnassus Books. Though the time for elbow grease and sweat equity is coming soon, the NJW needs funding now. If you’d like to support the workshop but are unable to attend Jazzmania, see the NJW website for details on how you can donate.

“We knew eventually, given some of the things that have been happening in the neighborhood, that we were going to have to move,” says Spencer. “We think we’ve found the best facility and a good neighborhood to keep our mission alive and active.”

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Though Morales couldn’t make the trip, they didn’t have to look far to find Aguilar, his replacement.

“Mike went to high school with N ick’s father R udy, so there’s a connection from Pedro,” Watson explains.

“He’d sit in on a song here and there when we’d play, and when R aul couldn’t do the tour, he was the perfect choice.”

The Missingmen aren’t to be confused with The Secondmen — Watt’s early-2000s ensemble, which featured a different lineup and organ in place of guitar. The Missingmen pull from a songbook of mostly Minutemen tunes, with a smattering of tracks from a record Watt, Watson and Morales plan to record and tour next year. The set lists also feature a pair of covers, “Sweet Honey Pie” and “I’ve Always Been Here Before,” from psych-rock hero R oky Erikson of the 13th Floor Elevators, who died in May. From a musical standpoint, no one has ever wielded the four-string quite like Watt has, making it alternately groove, sing, lock in or go off, depending on what the song calls for. But his legacy — teaching future generations how to tour right — is universal.

Keep it spartan, sing your truth, be humble, be safe, have fun. Be good to yourself, and each other. (I strongly recommend keeping up with the tour diaries on Watt’s site, hootpage.com — they put you right there in “the boat” with the band.)

“Mike is just a really strong-willed guy,” Watson says.

“It is a lot of work with him. You want to do your best.

Sometimes you don’t quite make it, and you’ll hear about it. But he’s always straight-up with his intentions and wanting to do it better. I love hanging out and working with him. He’s been a great thing in my life.”

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‘The Good, the bad, the funny and the tragic’ A look at this year’s Nashville Jewish Film Festival

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By Joe Nola n n her greeting in the 2019 Nashville Jewish Film Festival guide, NJFF managing director Fran Brumlik sheds some light on what we mean when we talk about “Jewish films.”

Brumlik insists that a movie produced by, written Nashville Jewish Film by, starring or Festival even directed by Oct. 16-Nov. 7 at the a Jew isn’t necesBelcourt, AMC Bellevue sarily a Jewish 12 and the Gordon Jewish Community Center film. nashvillejff.net “A Jewish film … reflects on Jewish experience,” she writes. “The good, the bad, the funny and the tragic.” Brumlik makes an important distinction here. The NJFF is celebrating its 19th year, and I can assure you that film festivals achieve such sustainability only with a clear and purposeful creative vision to guide them.

The films screening at this year’s fest — which takes place Oct. 16-Nov. 7 at the Belcourt, AMC Bellevue 12 and the Gordon Jewish Community Center — capture a mosaic portrait of modern Jewish life around the world. Culture, religion, history and social conditions are all addressed in a program that ranges from hard-hitting political documentaries to thoughtful romantic comedies and hostage-crisis thrillers. This international program features films from the U.S., Portugal, France, Germany, the U.K., Canada, Israel and more.

The festival kicked off Wednesday, Oct. 16, at the Belcourt with Fiddler: Miracle of Miracles.

This new documentary by Max Lewkowicz

tells the story behind the beloved Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. The documentary offers a behind-the-scenes peek at how an obscure collection of short stories became a Broadway sensation and an Academy Award-winning film. Fiddler’s themes about tradition and family transcend the Jewish experience, and Miracle admirably looks beyond the stories, the play and the famous film to include a broader social context.

The Portugese film Sefarad is a historical drama about a period and a people in a place that I never knew existed before reading this movie’s blurb on the NJFF website. Artur Carlos de Barros Basto was an army captain and a Jewish convert who established the Jewish Community of Oporto, Portugal, 400 years after the Portuguese Inquisition. In the 1500s, all Jews who wouldn’t convert to Christianity were forced out of Portugal.

The “crypto-Jews” who stayed in Portugal professed loyalty to the Pope while they practiced their religion in secret for centuries. Luis Ismael’s period drama captures candle-lit secret sabbaths in medieval Portugal as well as the fashion and feel of early-20th-century Europe. Sefarad, like Fiddler on the Roof, spotlights themes of history and enduring tradition. But where Fiddler’s drama plays out in barnyards and bedrooms, Sefarad is set in military courtrooms and in the hazy echelons of religious power.

The most intriguing title at the film festival is the documentary King Bibi: The Life and Performances of Benjamin Netanyahu. Using only archival media footage, this polemic

My Polish Honeymoon film pictures the history and identity of Israel through the lens of its controversial prime minister. This is a film about politics by way of political theater, and it reveals Netanyahu to be a master manipulator of the latter. The film is structured as an adaptation of the book 7 Steps to Fearless Speaking by Lilyan Wilder, Netanyahu’s public-speaking guru during his early years in politics. It’s a brilliant device that frames Netanyahu as a pure and practiced power politico who brought Israeli politics into the 21st century by following his teacher’s maxims and embracing Americanstyle media campaigning.

Rescue Bus 300 is based on the 1984 hijacking of an Israeli intercity bus line as it traveled from Tel Aviv to Ashkelon. Four armed Palestinians took 41 bus passengers hostage, claiming to be armed with knives and a suitcase containing two anti-tank rounds.

After a high-speed chase, Israeli military forces besieged and raided the bus. The audacity of the attack and the controversy of what followed scandalized Israeli society.

The trailer for Rescue Bus 300 calls this a “docu-action film,” and director Rotem

For the Love of Miike Takashi Miike’s 103rd film First Love works as a meetcute for Miike neophytes

By Natha n Smith

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apanese filmmaker Takashi Miike is like a sugar-crazed kid in the candy store of movie genres. Since 1991, Miike has dabbled in almost every style and subgenre Japanese cinema has to offer, from First Love classic “J-horror” (AudiNR, 108 minutes tion, One Missed Call) Opening Friday, Oct. 18, to live-action anime and at the Belcourt video game adaptations (Ace Attorney, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure), bloodsoaked samurai epics (13 Assassins, Blade of the Immortal) and a spoof of The Sound of Music (The Happiness of the Katakuris). He’s something like a Japanese Howard Hawks — the only difference is that it took Hawks 50 years to make roughly 50 feature films, whereas Miike has made more than 100 in the span of three decades. Miike’s 103rd, First Love, opens at the Belcourt this week.

The absurdly prolific pace at which Miike works makes his filmography a little daunting to the uninitiated — along with the fact that his movies contain

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some of the most shockingly violent images ever conceived and captured on film. First Love makes for a surprisingly restrained introduction to an extreme artist. Even 103 movies into his career, Miike is finding new stories to tell — First Love is, in one movie, a sports drama, a romance and a yakuza crime thriller.

L eo, a promising young boxer, is diagnosed with a deadly tumor at the base of his skull. He has little to live for until he meets Yuri, a sex worker haunted by strange visions of her abusive father. Yuri is in a little over her head — a crooked cop and a gangster who are planning a drug deal want to pin it all on her — and she and L eo spend their first wild night together

on the run from assassins, the yakuza, C hinese gangsters and the ghost of her dad.

That premise promises all sorts of insanity and extremity, but First Love is a relatively restrained effort from one of cinema’s most unchecked artists. In his review of 1999’s Audition, former New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell says the film’s early scenes contain the “formal modesty of a work by Yasujiro Ozu.” First Love has that same quiet, classical quality for much of its runtime. The violence can be gnarly when it hits — prepare yourself for some serious decapitation action — but Miike mostly swaps squibs for emotional complexity. L eo and Yuri are physically fighting

Shamir blends commentary from witnesses and survivors with dramatic re-enactments, punctuated by thrilling action sequences and nail-biting moments in which lives hang in the balance. The hijacking and the rescue raid make for a screen-ready story, but the film’s deeper themes about the complex, often violent relationship between Jews and Palestinians make this movie much more than shoot-’em-up escapist fare.

Adam and Anna just got married, and in My Polish Honeymoon they celebrate their union by attending a ceremony in the small Polish village where Adam’s grandfather grew up.

Adam is looking forward a romantic getaway with his wife, but Anna becomes obsessed with the history of her own family. This French fish-out-of-water tale by Elise Otzenberger follows the couple’s bumbling, stumbling journey into their families’ pasts. It’s a funny love story about the bigger picture of who we are as individuals, versus in the context of all of those who came before us.

Of course, there’s much more to this year’s Nashville Jewish Film Festival than just those titles. Visit nashvillejff.net to see a complete schedule and to purchase tickets.

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to survive the night, but they also face much more existential struggles; everything L eo does is framed by the knowledge of his tumor, and Yuri is struggling to overcome childhood trauma and drug addiction.

There are occasional flashes of the pure, uncut Miike — an extended fight scene in a hardware store, a cartoon car chase, absurd humor and an abrasive jazz score — but it’s all relatively toned-down, for better or worse. The moderation Miike demonstrates in First Love makes it a perfect introduction to an oeuvre that’s often overwhelming, but it also means the movie feels less interesting the more familiar you are with Miike’s catalogue. In its opening moments, First Love takes on the shape of a pulpy Hollywood melodrama, promising a torrid affair between a boxer and an escort on the run. But Miike can never stay away from the criminal underworld for long, which unfortunately means traversing territory he’s already charted. That said, the guy’s made more than a hundred movies, so I think he’s earned the right to recycle some of his old material. But throughout much of the film, I found myself wishing First Love was more about boxing. There’s something about the intimate motion of contact sports that seems uniquely suited to the cinema, and Miike’s penchant for ripping bodies apart could make for an interesting spin on the sports drama.

Ultimately, First Love is true to its title: It works as a meet-cute for Miike neophytes, but if you’re already head over heels for the guy, it probably won’t amount to much more than a spark.

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The Girl WiTh The Sun in her eyeS

Noah Hawley’s Lucy in the Sky should soar, but instead falls flat

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t isn’t uncommon for soldiers who have been through the worst of war to arrive home and crave a return to the battlefield and its specific sort of brotherhood. So much so that real life, so to speak, begins to feel unfamiliar, superficial even. It’s territory that’s explored well in 2008’s Hurt Locker, Lucy in the Sky wherein soldiers R, 124 minutes Opening in select yearn for more than theateRs FRiday, Oct. 18 grocery shopping and dropping the kids off at school. In writerdirector Noah Hawley’s Lucy in the Sky, that yearning is celestial, as we follow Lucy Cola (Natalie Portman), an astronaut who has just returned from her first mission to space and begins to lose both interest in her life and her grip on reality.

The film is loosely based on the real-life story of American astronaut Lisa Nowak, who in 2007 drove from Houston to the Orlando airport (while infamously sporting adult diapers to avoid making any stops) to interrogate and kidnap an Air Force captain.

The object of her attempted kidnapping, Colleen Shipman, had been dating a man Nowak was formerly romantically entangled with. Nowak was arrested and charged with kidnapping, and she became a national punch line.

Lucy in the Sky attempts to understand that kind of behavior — minus the diapers — and while the film does grant its story some emotional gravitas, it gets lost in the existential crisis of it all.

Lucy loves but is bored by her husband Drew (Dan Stevens) and the minutiae of daily life. All that seems to matter is returning to space. She spends her days training so vigorously that she has various procedural checklists memorized and repeats them regularly as a self-soothing mechanism

— the first sign that something’s not quite right. At one point, Lucy nearly drowns herself attempting to complete an exercise, and she does so with such calm that a deepening mental disconnect is clear. Lucy’s need for excitement leads her to romance with fellow astronaut Mark (Jon Hamm), who is described by her husband as “a divorced action figure who likes to go fast.” In other words, Mark represents everything that Drew — who is safe, grounded — and her life before space aren’t. Mark is a rocket through the clouds, and serves as the only real spark Lucy in the Sky offers.

Generally, the film is far too crowded with high school-level symbolism and motifs. When Lucy isn’t framed by doorways, she’s gazing up at the sky, lost in memories of when she was last in her spacesuit. She’s also preoccupied by the metamorphosis of butterflies. In one of the film’s many groaninducing, on-the-nose lines, she wonders to herself, “Why would God make something that has to destroy itself in order to fly?”

It’s all an odd stumble for Hawley, who expertly juggles multiple characters, storylines and genres with his FX series Fargo and Legion. In this, his feature film debut, Hawley regresses to using just about every clichéd director’s trick, including jarring aspect-ratio shifts to coincide with shifting points of view.

It’s all too much, and only pushes the story deeper into the tabloid territory it attempts to avoid. Portman is lost in her character’s many clichés, though she lends Lucy a passionate and endearing nature that prevents her from falling totally into the “crazy woman” archetype. There was an opportunity here to focus more on the rare experience of a woman training for a second mission at the male-dominated NASA. But instead, when Lucy’s supervisor holds her back because he feels she’s grown “too emotional” — a common sexist stereotype — she unravels further, as if to affirm his misogyny.

The film’s over-the-top final act begins with Portman re-enacting the scenes that come closest to real life, as Lucy stops at a grocery store to pick up supplies — a wig, a knife, gasoline — and then finally confronts Mark and his new flame. It’s Hawley throwing everything he can at the screen, and unfortunately, it drowns Lucy in melodrama where it should have pulled her out.

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