East Nashvillian Issue 12

JULY | AUGUST 2012 VOL II, ISSUE 6

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PUBLISHER

Lisa McCauley EDITOR

Chuck Allen AS S O C I AT E E D I TO R

Daryl Sanders DESIGN DIRECTOR

Mackenzie Moore S TA FF P H OTO G R A P H ER

Stacie Huckeba CALENDAR EDITOR

Emma Alford ADVERTISING DESIGN

Benjamin Rumble Emily Marlow CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Jaime Brousse Warren Denney Terri Dorsey Liz Jungers Hughes Robbie D. Jones Theresa Laurence Catherine Randall Ron Wynn ADDITIONAL PHOTOGR APHY

Joyce Erickson Laurent Van de Kerckhove Glenn Sweitzer

A D E V ERT I S I N G CO N TAC T

Lisa McCauley lisa@theeastnashvillian.com 615-582-4187

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© 2012 Kitchen Table Media, LLC The East Nashvillian is published bimonthly by Kitchen Table Media, LLC. No portion of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission from the Publisher. All rights reserved.

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East Side Buzz Surprise, surprise, surprise: Conflict of interest in school board race First-term councilmen still have a lot to learn Reinventing Highland Heights Oprah back in the hood Painting the East Side red Neighborhood’s creative juices fuel Tomato Art Fest

By Theresa Laurence Hank3 Shakes Nashville with ‘One Big Wag’

By Warren Denney Willy Daunic Enjoys a good challenge

By Ron Wynn Rarities, Oddities, Bargains, & more Long before there was a Riverside Village, there was M&M Furniture

By Liz Jungers Hughes East Nashville Home Deliveries Midwives back by popular demand

By Catherine Randall East Nashville heavy hitters Join forces on innovative development

By Jaime Brousse East Side Calendar

Parting shots On the cover: Hank3 and Trooper by Glen Sweitzer

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PUBLISHER

Lisa McCauley EDITOR

Chuck Allen AS S O C I AT E E D I TO R

Daryl Sanders DESIGN DIRECTOR

Mackenzie Moore S TA FF P H OTO G R A P H ER

Stacie Huckeba CALENDAR EDITOR

Emma Alford ADVERTISING DESIGN

Benjamin Rumble Emily Marlow CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Jaime Brousse Warren Denney Terri Dorsey Liz Jungers Hughes Robbie D. Jones Theresa Laurence Catherine Randall Ron Wynn ADDITIONAL PHOTOGR APHY

Joyce Erickson Laurent Van de Kerckhove Glenn Sweitzer

A D E V ERT I S I N G CO N TAC T

Lisa McCauley lisa@theeastnashvillian.com 615-582-4187

w w w.theeastnashvillian.com

© 2012 Kitchen Table Media, LLC The East Nashvillian is published bimonthly by Kitchen Table Media, LLC. No portion of this magazine may be reproduced without written permission from the Publisher. All rights reserved.

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East Side Buzz Surprise, surprise, surprise: Conflict of interest in school board race First-term councilmen still have a lot to learn Reinventing Highland Heights Oprah back in the hood Painting the East Side red Neighborhood’s creative juices fuel Tomato Art Fest

By Theresa Laurence Hank3 Shakes Nashville with ‘One Big Wag’

By Warren Denney Willy Daunic Enjoys a good challenge

By Ron Wynn Rarities, Oddities, Bargains, & more Long before there was a Riverside Village, there was M&M Furniture

By Liz Jungers Hughes East Nashville Home Deliveries Midwives back by popular demand

By Catherine Randall East Nashville heavy hitters Join forces on innovative development

By Jaime Brousse East Side Calendar

Parting shots On the cover: Hank3 and Trooper by Glen Sweitzer

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he existence of love within the framework of evolution is one of the philosophical conundrums of present day human beings. Fortunately for those interested in pondering such contradictions, this year’s Tomato Arts Festival will provide a wonderful day in which to do so.

There have been studies within the relatively obscure field of psychological anthropology that have demonstrated fairly conclusively that one of the dominating reasons for the success of homo sapiens has been its ability to effectively organize into groups. This ability is obviously not unique, but the development of higher consciousness and language gives us a decisive edge over our fellow earthly creatures.

Unfortunately, we still carry a propensity towards tribalism that could, ironically, lead to our undoing. One would think that as we master our surroundings there would be a concurrent mastery of our inner reality. Nevertheless, fear and superstition remain the rule. Fear of others who don’t look like us, talk like us, worship like us, have sex like us — fear predominately based on ignorance and tribalism.

In others words, instinct still conquers reason.

Thankfully, the Great Architect saw fit to bless us with love.

As difficult to truly define as it is universal, love is what gives me hope. It’s what keeps me optimistic with regards to the fate of our species. So while we may instinctually form groups in order to evolve, love is what builds bridges between these groups. Love reaches out. Love unites.

And so we have the wonderful confluence of love and instinct that is the fête, or in East Nashville parlance The Tomato Arts Festival. At least for a day, we can keep our latent tribal instincts at bay, join together as a community and simply celebrate being.

That, and pay homage to the greatest of fruity social egalitarians — the tomato. For as we should all know by now, the tomato is a uniter, not a divider.

Offering classes and workshops for adults in 3D, drawing & painting, photography, graphic design, interior design, printmaking, bookmaking, and more!

Chuck Allen 615.383.4848 WWW.WATKINS.EDU/COMMUNITY

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he existence of love within the framework of evolution is one of the philosophical conundrums of present day human beings. Fortunately for those interested in pondering such contradictions, this year’s Tomato Arts Festival will provide a wonderful day in which to do so.

There have been studies within the relatively obscure field of psychological anthropology that have demonstrated fairly conclusively that one of the dominating reasons for the success of homo sapiens has been its ability to effectively organize into groups. This ability is obviously not unique, but the development of higher consciousness and language gives us a decisive edge over our fellow earthly creatures.

Unfortunately, we still carry a propensity towards tribalism that could, ironically, lead to our undoing. One would think that as we master our surroundings there would be a concurrent mastery of our inner reality. Nevertheless, fear and superstition remain the rule. Fear of others who don’t look like us, talk like us, worship like us, have sex like us — fear predominately based on ignorance and tribalism.

In others words, instinct still conquers reason.

Thankfully, the Great Architect saw fit to bless us with love.

As difficult to truly define as it is universal, love is what gives me hope. It’s what keeps me optimistic with regards to the fate of our species. So while we may instinctually form groups in order to evolve, love is what builds bridges between these groups. Love reaches out. Love unites.

And so we have the wonderful confluence of love and instinct that is the fête, or in East Nashville parlance The Tomato Arts Festival. At least for a day, we can keep our latent tribal instincts at bay, join together as a community and simply celebrate being.

That, and pay homage to the greatest of fruity social egalitarians — the tomato. For as we should all know by now, the tomato is a uniter, not a divider.

Offering classes and workshops for adults in 3D, drawing & painting, photography, graphic design, interior design, printmaking, bookmaking, and more!

Chuck Allen 615.383.4848 WWW.WATKINS.EDU/COMMUNITY

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EAST SIDE BUZZ

Surprise, surprise, surprise: Conflict of interest in school board race LOTS OF INK HAS ALREADY BEEN generated about the surprising race for the school board seat representing District 5, the one pitting board chairwoman Gracie Porter against three challengers with far less experience — John Haubenreich, Elissa Kim and Erica Lanier.

To begin with, it’s somewhat surprising three candidates would want to challenge a seemingly popular and effective two-term board member.

It also is surprising that any school board race would attract as much money and attention as the District 5 race is attracting, particularly one involving no part of the more affluent West Nashville area.

But what is probably most surprising of all is amidst all the recent coverage given to the District 5 contest by the local newspapers, not a single question has been raised about one of the candidate’s obvious conflict of interest.

Elissa Kim, the darling of the pro-charter

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forces who has emerged as Porter’s most serious and well-funded challenger, is an executive with Teach For America, a nonprofit corporation that supplies teachers to the Metro school system. She is also on the board of KIPP Nashville, a nonprofit corporation operating local charter schools. Because both TFA and KIPP receive funding from the Metro school board, Kim’s affiliations would represent clear conflicts of interest if she is elected — a fact Kim was reluctant to acknowledge during a lengthy interview with The East Nashvillian.

“I will not resign from Teach For America,” Kim said when asked if she would resign her posts to eliminate the conflicts of interest if elected. “I would recuse myself from any discussions or decisions regarding Teach For America.”

When it was noted Teach For America receives funding from the Metro taxpayers, Kim said, “I would recuse myself from any decision around that.” The TFA executive went on to say she would “roll off ” the KIPP Nashville board.

So if Kim is elected, she would recuse herself from voting at times to avoid her conflict of interest with Teach For America; which means at times, District 5 residents would not be represented on important budgetary votes, as well as any votes involving teachers as

a group, essentially being disenfranchised on those school board matters.

Kim seemed surprised — there’s that word again — by the questions about her potential conflicts of interest and was dismissive of the significance of district voters not being fully represented if she is elected.

Some experienced political insiders taking interest in the District 5 race believe Kim, who has only two years experience as a classroom teacher, was encouraged by people close to Mayor Dean to oppose Porter, who does not share the same enthusiasm as the mayor for charter schools. Although she says she will not push a pro-charter agenda if elected, Kim has been endorsed by the pro-charter Greater Public Schools Pac. Even though Porter has been characterized as anti-charter by her opponents’ supporters, the lifelong educator insists she doesn’t oppose charter schools. “I’m not against charter schools, but I’m against those that are not functional,” she explained. “And I’m also expecting those charter schools to perform as well or better than our regular schools.”

Porter, who has 34 years experience in the Metro school system as a teacher, principal and librarian, won a two-year term to the school board in 2006, then ran unopposed for a full four-year term in 2008. Prior to being

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Surprise, surprise, surprise: Conflict of interest in school board race LOTS OF INK HAS ALREADY BEEN generated about the surprising race for the school board seat representing District 5, the one pitting board chairwoman Gracie Porter against three challengers with far less experience — John Haubenreich, Elissa Kim and Erica Lanier.

To begin with, it’s somewhat surprising three candidates would want to challenge a seemingly popular and effective two-term board member.

It also is surprising that any school board race would attract as much money and attention as the District 5 race is attracting, particularly one involving no part of the more affluent West Nashville area.

But what is probably most surprising of all is amidst all the recent coverage given to the District 5 contest by the local newspapers, not a single question has been raised about one of the candidate’s obvious conflict of interest.

Elissa Kim, the darling of the pro-charter

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forces who has emerged as Porter’s most serious and well-funded challenger, is an executive with Teach For America, a nonprofit corporation that supplies teachers to the Metro school system. She is also on the board of KIPP Nashville, a nonprofit corporation operating local charter schools. Because both TFA and KIPP receive funding from the Metro school board, Kim’s affiliations would represent clear conflicts of interest if she is elected — a fact Kim was reluctant to acknowledge during a lengthy interview with The East Nashvillian.

“I will not resign from Teach For America,” Kim said when asked if she would resign her posts to eliminate the conflicts of interest if elected. “I would recuse myself from any discussions or decisions regarding Teach For America.”

When it was noted Teach For America receives funding from the Metro taxpayers, Kim said, “I would recuse myself from any decision around that.” The TFA executive went on to say she would “roll off ” the KIPP Nashville board.

So if Kim is elected, she would recuse herself from voting at times to avoid her conflict of interest with Teach For America; which means at times, District 5 residents would not be represented on important budgetary votes, as well as any votes involving teachers as

a group, essentially being disenfranchised on those school board matters.

Kim seemed surprised — there’s that word again — by the questions about her potential conflicts of interest and was dismissive of the significance of district voters not being fully represented if she is elected.

Some experienced political insiders taking interest in the District 5 race believe Kim, who has only two years experience as a classroom teacher, was encouraged by people close to Mayor Dean to oppose Porter, who does not share the same enthusiasm as the mayor for charter schools. Although she says she will not push a pro-charter agenda if elected, Kim has been endorsed by the pro-charter Greater Public Schools Pac. Even though Porter has been characterized as anti-charter by her opponents’ supporters, the lifelong educator insists she doesn’t oppose charter schools. “I’m not against charter schools, but I’m against those that are not functional,” she explained. “And I’m also expecting those charter schools to perform as well or better than our regular schools.”

Porter, who has 34 years experience in the Metro school system as a teacher, principal and librarian, won a two-year term to the school board in 2006, then ran unopposed for a full four-year term in 2008. Prior to being

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EAST SIDE BUZZ unanimously chosen chairwoman by her colleagues on the board, she served as vice chair.

“I’ve really made some tough decisions this year that a lot of people are not pleased with,” Porter says. “But those decisions I made were based on the knowledge I had, and also, what I thought was the right thing to do to move the district forward.

And every decision I make, it’s on behalf of the children. When we forget about the students in this district and are influenced by outsiders, we have not done our jobs as board members.”

Porter’s initial vote in May against KIPP Nashville’s application to operate a middle school in the Whites Creek area was one decision that rankled some of her constituents in East Nashville where KIPP Academy is based.

“That was based on test scores,” she said of her vote to deny the middle school application. “KIPP’s scores were very low the year before.

“I got phone calls about it, and these were very close people that I’ve known in the community for years,” she continued.

“But you can’t be afraid to step out on the limb when it’s necessary. I have to do what is right for this community, I have to do what is right for the kids and I have to do what is right for the school district.

“If some people are holding the KIPP vote against me, then I can’t help that. But I want KIPP to succeed, just like I want every other school in this district to succeed. But I cannot give you the green light if you have not made the grade.”

When KIPP Nashville returned to the board in June with improved scores for the 2011-2012 school year, Porter voted, along with seven other board members, to approve their middle school application.

Both Lanier and Haubenreich entered the District 5 race with the intent of giving parents a greater role in the decision making about their children’s education.

“I hear the overall concerns of the district,” health care professional Lanier, who is serving her third term as district chair of the Parent Advisory Council, said. “Overall, they feel that in terms of the school board, there is no accountability to the true stakeholders in our children’s education, there is a serious lack of responsiveness, ... and [there is] a transparency issue.

“So, the three reasons I got into this race are to restore the accountability, responsiveness and the transparency [of the school board].

A former teacher now practicing law, John Haubenreich entered the race because he “could no longer be satisfied with the pace of reform” in the district.

“We have a crisis of trust in Nashville,”

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Haubenreich continued. “Neither Gracie nor, in my opinion, anyone else on the school board or in the administration, is doing a good job of reaching out to families, especially middle class families, to bring them back into the public school system.

No one is doing that — and that is something that urgently needs to be done.”

The Metro general election, which includes the District 5 school board race, will be held on Thursday, Aug. 2. Early voting begins on July 13 and runs through July 28.

— Daryl Sanders

“When we forget about the students in this district and are influenced by outsiders, we have not done our jobs as board members.”

— Gracie Porter

First-term councilmen still have a lot to learn

NORMALLY, EAST NASHVILLE CAN be counted on to provide spunky debate on Metro issues, especially something as big as the first property tax increase in seven years.

But no such resistance emerged.

All three council members from the East Side are first-termers — young and trying to understand their first Metro budget. Enticed by juicy perks offered to their districts, such as total school renovations to Stratford STEM Magnet High School and Highland Heights, now operated as KIPP Academy charter school, all three — Anthony Davis, Peter Westerholm and Scott Davis — supported the 53-cent tax hike, which raises the average property tax bill 15 percent.

Right after his election last summer to represent District 7, Anthony Davis

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expected to face a tax increase vote and became an early supporter. He thought most of his Inglewood constituents would agree that the pain was worth the gain. “We’re honored that the largest capital project approved in the budget was Stratford High School,” he says. Davis also believed his supporters would be appeased by improved city services he helped them get this year, like more frequent brush pickups.

District 6’s Peter Westerholm says his work experience analyzing the state budget helped a little, but adds, “It was a lot to process in a short amount of time — a bit intense. The way the budget was laid out was different from what I was used to.”

After he processed the information, he decided there were compelling reasons for his support, especially considering past budget cuts. He decided to support the tax hike because of increased funding for public safety and education. “It’s not a silver bullet, but I think increasing starting salaries will help us attract better teachers,” Westerholm says.

Renovating historic Highland Heights School, one of the few remaining originally black high schools, was a selling point for District 5 council member Scott Davis. Paving and infrastructure projects for his rapidly changing district west of Gallatin Road, along with pay raises for Metro employees, also secured his vote to raise taxes.

East Nashville’s delegation of freshmen council members all expressed hope raising the tax rate at this time will set straight the city’s financial status for several years.

“Hopefully we will never have to do it again,” Anthony Davis says. “This should be enough for a good while.”

The new council team from the East Side proudly point out the council’s decision to stash $8 million dollars in reserves, although it’s less than half a percent of the $1.7 billion budget. But some city veterans familiar with the bigger picture of Metro’s finances believe East Nashville’s new council members may not realize a tidal wave of debt is looming ahead.

“This tax increase is no horn of plenty,” longtime council member Emily Evans, a professional expert on municipal financing, says. She notes Metro refinanced its debt in 2010 to avoid budget cuts, but payments will balloon starting in 2014. Under that arrangement, the city’s current debt load is $95 million, but in 2015 it will escalate to $190 Million, requiring a 13 percent property tax hike to pay debt alone.

When the sessions on refinancing were explained, many Metro council members were busy helping their districts in the aftermath of the flooding in May 2010, Evans observes. “It was like going to your home equity loan to pay your utility bill,” she adds. — Terri Dorsey

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EAST SIDE BUZZ unanimously chosen chairwoman by her colleagues on the board, she served as vice chair.

“I’ve really made some tough decisions this year that a lot of people are not pleased with,” Porter says. “But those decisions I made were based on the knowledge I had, and also, what I thought was the right thing to do to move the district forward.

And every decision I make, it’s on behalf of the children. When we forget about the students in this district and are influenced by outsiders, we have not done our jobs as board members.”

Porter’s initial vote in May against KIPP Nashville’s application to operate a middle school in the Whites Creek area was one decision that rankled some of her constituents in East Nashville where KIPP Academy is based.

“That was based on test scores,” she said of her vote to deny the middle school application. “KIPP’s scores were very low the year before.

“I got phone calls about it, and these were very close people that I’ve known in the community for years,” she continued.

“But you can’t be afraid to step out on the limb when it’s necessary. I have to do what is right for this community, I have to do what is right for the kids and I have to do what is right for the school district.

“If some people are holding the KIPP vote against me, then I can’t help that. But I want KIPP to succeed, just like I want every other school in this district to succeed. But I cannot give you the green light if you have not made the grade.”

When KIPP Nashville returned to the board in June with improved scores for the 2011-2012 school year, Porter voted, along with seven other board members, to approve their middle school application.

Both Lanier and Haubenreich entered the District 5 race with the intent of giving parents a greater role in the decision making about their children’s education.

“I hear the overall concerns of the district,” health care professional Lanier, who is serving her third term as district chair of the Parent Advisory Council, said. “Overall, they feel that in terms of the school board, there is no accountability to the true stakeholders in our children’s education, there is a serious lack of responsiveness, ... and [there is] a transparency issue.

“So, the three reasons I got into this race are to restore the accountability, responsiveness and the transparency [of the school board].

A former teacher now practicing law, John Haubenreich entered the race because he “could no longer be satisfied with the pace of reform” in the district.

“We have a crisis of trust in Nashville,”

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Haubenreich continued. “Neither Gracie nor, in my opinion, anyone else on the school board or in the administration, is doing a good job of reaching out to families, especially middle class families, to bring them back into the public school system.

No one is doing that — and that is something that urgently needs to be done.”

The Metro general election, which includes the District 5 school board race, will be held on Thursday, Aug. 2. Early voting begins on July 13 and runs through July 28.

— Daryl Sanders

“When we forget about the students in this district and are influenced by outsiders, we have not done our jobs as board members.”

— Gracie Porter

First-term councilmen still have a lot to learn

NORMALLY, EAST NASHVILLE CAN be counted on to provide spunky debate on Metro issues, especially something as big as the first property tax increase in seven years.

But no such resistance emerged.

All three council members from the East Side are first-termers — young and trying to understand their first Metro budget. Enticed by juicy perks offered to their districts, such as total school renovations to Stratford STEM Magnet High School and Highland Heights, now operated as KIPP Academy charter school, all three — Anthony Davis, Peter Westerholm and Scott Davis — supported the 53-cent tax hike, which raises the average property tax bill 15 percent.

Right after his election last summer to represent District 7, Anthony Davis

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expected to face a tax increase vote and became an early supporter. He thought most of his Inglewood constituents would agree that the pain was worth the gain. “We’re honored that the largest capital project approved in the budget was Stratford High School,” he says. Davis also believed his supporters would be appeased by improved city services he helped them get this year, like more frequent brush pickups.

District 6’s Peter Westerholm says his work experience analyzing the state budget helped a little, but adds, “It was a lot to process in a short amount of time — a bit intense. The way the budget was laid out was different from what I was used to.”

After he processed the information, he decided there were compelling reasons for his support, especially considering past budget cuts. He decided to support the tax hike because of increased funding for public safety and education. “It’s not a silver bullet, but I think increasing starting salaries will help us attract better teachers,” Westerholm says.

Renovating historic Highland Heights School, one of the few remaining originally black high schools, was a selling point for District 5 council member Scott Davis. Paving and infrastructure projects for his rapidly changing district west of Gallatin Road, along with pay raises for Metro employees, also secured his vote to raise taxes.

East Nashville’s delegation of freshmen council members all expressed hope raising the tax rate at this time will set straight the city’s financial status for several years.

“Hopefully we will never have to do it again,” Anthony Davis says. “This should be enough for a good while.”

The new council team from the East Side proudly point out the council’s decision to stash $8 million dollars in reserves, although it’s less than half a percent of the $1.7 billion budget. But some city veterans familiar with the bigger picture of Metro’s finances believe East Nashville’s new council members may not realize a tidal wave of debt is looming ahead.

“This tax increase is no horn of plenty,” longtime council member Emily Evans, a professional expert on municipal financing, says. She notes Metro refinanced its debt in 2010 to avoid budget cuts, but payments will balloon starting in 2014. Under that arrangement, the city’s current debt load is $95 million, but in 2015 it will escalate to $190 Million, requiring a 13 percent property tax hike to pay debt alone.

When the sessions on refinancing were explained, many Metro council members were busy helping their districts in the aftermath of the flooding in May 2010, Evans observes. “It was like going to your home equity loan to pay your utility bill,” she adds. — Terri Dorsey

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Reinventing

Highland Heights TWO YEARS AGO, CITY LEADERS deliberated the fate of the Highland Heights Middle School, a beloved but rundown historic landmark on Douglas Avenue in East Nashville’s Cleveland Park neighborhood: Should it be demolished and replaced, or preserved and renovated?

Suffering from years of neglect, the handsome but shabby 1930s building had been given a stay of execution in 2005 when the city leased part of the vacant educational campus to KIPP Academy, a charter school serving disadvantaged students in grades 5-8.

Founded in Houston in 1994, KIPP Academy received approval in 2011 to add a college prep high school at Highland Heights.

After transferring the nearly eight-acre Highland Heights campus from the school board to General Services in 2010, Mayor Karl Dean and Metro Council allocated $10 million in the capital budget to renovate and upgrade the 91,000-square-foot facility for use by KIPP Academy and hired Gobbell Hays Partners of downtown Nashville to create architectural plans. Everyone was happy.

Or so it seemed.

When The Tennessean reported in early 2011 that the city might demolish the school and replace it with an entirely new facility, neighborhood advocates, elected officials and alumni quickly initiated a campaign to save it from the wrecking ball. In 2011, Historic Nashville, Inc. (HNI) included the school on its Nashville Nine list of the city’s most threatened historic places.

“Several members of the community nominated Highland Heights to the Nashville

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Nine,” Melissa Wyllie, vice president of HNI, says. “We fielded calls from people citywide who were upset the city intended to tear down this much-loved landmark. We recently lost Ransom School off West End and Murphy School in Midtown — we didn’t want to lose Highland Heights, too.”

The Metro Historical Commission (MHC) also sprang into action. “We contacted Metro councilman Scott Davis, school board member Gracie Porter and KIPP Academy’s founder Randy Dowell to make sure they understood the building’s importance, both to the community and our city,” Tim Walker, director of the MHC recalls. “This was followed by a number of meetings that also included the architects and project manager Majel Carr with Metro General Services, where we began to look at ways to preserve the original building while meeting KIPP’s needs in expanding.”

Built in several phases between 1930 and 1973, the sprawling civic landmark had served as an anchor in the Cleveland Park neighborhood for generations. The school

was one of several commissioned by the city in the ’30s as the result of a 1927 study that determined 77 percent of the city’s schoolchildren were educated in inadequate schools.

Sound familiar? By 1937, the figures had been reversed as the result of an aggressive 10-year building campaign.

According to research provided by Scarlett Miles at the MHC, the original three-story section of the school was designed in 1929-30 by local MIT-trained architect Donald Southgate, who was known for upscale residential buildings, schools and churches in West Nashville, such as West End High School, Jacksonian Apartments (razed in 1998), and St. George’s Episcopal Church. During the ’30s, federal New Deal funding was used to construct new athletic fields designed by architect Emmons H. Woolwine and a multiuse gymnasium and auditorium, designed by Warfield & Keeble. The school continued to

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grow from 1962 to 1977, with modern wings housing a cafeteria, classrooms, an auditorium and a second gym.

“Lack of maintenance over the past few decades resulted in water penetrating the building and causing significant damage throughout,” project architect Dominique Arrieta, who specializes in schools and historic rehab projects, explains. “We’ve worked hard to create a plan that will save the original 1930 school building, including its wonderful classical architectural details such as the interior stairwells, windows, and exterior trim.

Unfortunately, it will be necessary to replace the 1939 gymnasium, which is cramped and no longer meets safety codes.”

The modern wings will be demolished and replaced with new wings set back from the historic section of the school as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior’s Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Properties. “This should enable Highland Heights to remain eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places,” Walker says.

“We also hope to have the school designated as a Local Landmark, which will ensure the historic building remains viable for future generations.”

By implementing green design features, such as geothermal heat pumps located beneath the adjacent athletic fields, the project should earn LEED Silver designation.

“The renovated school will also incorporate outdoor classroom spaces, separate entrances for the middle and high school students, a cafeteria that doubles as a community meeting center and a public park area in the front lawn area,” Arrieta says. “We want Highland Heights to return to its role as a vital community center for over 80 years in East Nashville.”

“In the past seven years, we’ve grown from 60 fifth-grade students to 350 in grades 5-8,” KIPP Academy’s Dowell says. “With the new high school, we will be able to enroll up to 800 students once the renovated building opens in 2014. We’re thrilled to be a part of the community-wide effort to preserve and reinvent Highland Heights in East Nashville.”

— Robbie D. Jones

Oprah

back in the hood EAST NASHVILLE HOMEGIRL OPRAH Winfrey is back in the hood — at least as a property owner.

The last week in June, the richest woman in America came to the aid of her father Vernon Winfrey and purchased at auction his

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Reinventing

Highland Heights TWO YEARS AGO, CITY LEADERS deliberated the fate of the Highland Heights Middle School, a beloved but rundown historic landmark on Douglas Avenue in East Nashville’s Cleveland Park neighborhood: Should it be demolished and replaced, or preserved and renovated?

Suffering from years of neglect, the handsome but shabby 1930s building had been given a stay of execution in 2005 when the city leased part of the vacant educational campus to KIPP Academy, a charter school serving disadvantaged students in grades 5-8.

Founded in Houston in 1994, KIPP Academy received approval in 2011 to add a college prep high school at Highland Heights.

After transferring the nearly eight-acre Highland Heights campus from the school board to General Services in 2010, Mayor Karl Dean and Metro Council allocated $10 million in the capital budget to renovate and upgrade the 91,000-square-foot facility for use by KIPP Academy and hired Gobbell Hays Partners of downtown Nashville to create architectural plans. Everyone was happy.

Or so it seemed.

When The Tennessean reported in early 2011 that the city might demolish the school and replace it with an entirely new facility, neighborhood advocates, elected officials and alumni quickly initiated a campaign to save it from the wrecking ball. In 2011, Historic Nashville, Inc. (HNI) included the school on its Nashville Nine list of the city’s most threatened historic places.

“Several members of the community nominated Highland Heights to the Nashville

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Nine,” Melissa Wyllie, vice president of HNI, says. “We fielded calls from people citywide who were upset the city intended to tear down this much-loved landmark. We recently lost Ransom School off West End and Murphy School in Midtown — we didn’t want to lose Highland Heights, too.”

The Metro Historical Commission (MHC) also sprang into action. “We contacted Metro councilman Scott Davis, school board member Gracie Porter and KIPP Academy’s founder Randy Dowell to make sure they understood the building’s importance, both to the community and our city,” Tim Walker, director of the MHC recalls. “This was followed by a number of meetings that also included the architects and project manager Majel Carr with Metro General Services, where we began to look at ways to preserve the original building while meeting KIPP’s needs in expanding.”

Built in several phases between 1930 and 1973, the sprawling civic landmark had served as an anchor in the Cleveland Park neighborhood for generations. The school

was one of several commissioned by the city in the ’30s as the result of a 1927 study that determined 77 percent of the city’s schoolchildren were educated in inadequate schools.

Sound familiar? By 1937, the figures had been reversed as the result of an aggressive 10-year building campaign.

According to research provided by Scarlett Miles at the MHC, the original three-story section of the school was designed in 1929-30 by local MIT-trained architect Donald Southgate, who was known for upscale residential buildings, schools and churches in West Nashville, such as West End High School, Jacksonian Apartments (razed in 1998), and St. George’s Episcopal Church. During the ’30s, federal New Deal funding was used to construct new athletic fields designed by architect Emmons H. Woolwine and a multiuse gymnasium and auditorium, designed by Warfield & Keeble. The school continued to

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grow from 1962 to 1977, with modern wings housing a cafeteria, classrooms, an auditorium and a second gym.

“Lack of maintenance over the past few decades resulted in water penetrating the building and causing significant damage throughout,” project architect Dominique Arrieta, who specializes in schools and historic rehab projects, explains. “We’ve worked hard to create a plan that will save the original 1930 school building, including its wonderful classical architectural details such as the interior stairwells, windows, and exterior trim.

Unfortunately, it will be necessary to replace the 1939 gymnasium, which is cramped and no longer meets safety codes.”

The modern wings will be demolished and replaced with new wings set back from the historic section of the school as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior’s Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Properties. “This should enable Highland Heights to remain eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places,” Walker says.

“We also hope to have the school designated as a Local Landmark, which will ensure the historic building remains viable for future generations.”

By implementing green design features, such as geothermal heat pumps located beneath the adjacent athletic fields, the project should earn LEED Silver designation.

“The renovated school will also incorporate outdoor classroom spaces, separate entrances for the middle and high school students, a cafeteria that doubles as a community meeting center and a public park area in the front lawn area,” Arrieta says. “We want Highland Heights to return to its role as a vital community center for over 80 years in East Nashville.”

“In the past seven years, we’ve grown from 60 fifth-grade students to 350 in grades 5-8,” KIPP Academy’s Dowell says. “With the new high school, we will be able to enroll up to 800 students once the renovated building opens in 2014. We’re thrilled to be a part of the community-wide effort to preserve and reinvent Highland Heights in East Nashville.”

— Robbie D. Jones

Oprah

back in the hood EAST NASHVILLE HOMEGIRL OPRAH Winfrey is back in the hood — at least as a property owner.

The last week in June, the richest woman in America came to the aid of her father Vernon Winfrey and purchased at auction his

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Winberry Place development, which had gone into foreclosure in May, less than a year after its grand opening. The purchase price was $475,000.

Winberry Place, which houses Vernon’s barber shop and space for a beauty salon, was the anchor property in an envisioned mix of retail and residential units on several surrounding parcels of land at the corner of Lischey and Vernon Winfrey avenues.

It was hoped the development would help revitalize the Cleveland park area.

In a statement to WSMV, a spokesperson for Oprah said Vernon will continue to manage the property and cut hair in the barber shop.

The story has become fodder for the tabloids because it made public a family feud between the TV powerhouse and her stepmother, Barbara Winfrey, who told WSMV she blamed the foreclosure on bad advice given to her husband by Oprah, among others.

Vernon told the television station, “My wife and I, we have not been getting along well, and I did not want to endow myself to another drawn-out, struggling debt.” He has since filed for divorce. — Daryl Sanders

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EAST SIDE BUZZ

You can’t control the market, but you

can control your decisions.

Sometimes the market reacts poorly to changes in the world. But just because the market reacts doesn’t mean you should. Still, if current events are making you feel uncertain about your finances, you should schedule a complimentary portfolio review. That way, you can help ensure you’re in control of where you want to go and how you can potentially get there.

Take control. Schedule your free portfolio review today.

SERVING MADISON, INGLEWOOD AND HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE AREAS.

Solar energy is healthy for tomatoes and other living things.

(No leaks, no spills, no kills.)

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To learn more about solar energy: www.SundogSolarEnergy.com Member SIPC

For a free site consultation: info@SundogSolarEnergy.com 615-650-0540

Winberry Place development, which had gone into foreclosure in May, less than a year after its grand opening. The purchase price was $475,000.

Winberry Place, which houses Vernon’s barber shop and space for a beauty salon, was the anchor property in an envisioned mix of retail and residential units on several surrounding parcels of land at the corner of Lischey and Vernon Winfrey avenues.

It was hoped the development would help revitalize the Cleveland park area.

In a statement to WSMV, a spokesperson for Oprah said Vernon will continue to manage the property and cut hair in the barber shop.

The story has become fodder for the tabloids because it made public a family feud between the TV powerhouse and her stepmother, Barbara Winfrey, who told WSMV she blamed the foreclosure on bad advice given to her husband by Oprah, among others.

Vernon told the television station, “My wife and I, we have not been getting along well, and I did not want to endow myself to another drawn-out, struggling debt.” He has since filed for divorce. — Daryl Sanders

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One block from here,

As no doubt you already know, major rehabilitation on I-24 at the Main Street and Woodland Street bridges will continue throughout the summer.

Deanna Lambert, the Community Relations Officer – Region 3 at the Tennessee Department of Transportation has provided us with information regarding road closures, detours, times and dates, which you will find below. To sign up for weekly email updates, go to: www.tdot.state.tn.us/ i24bridges/maps.shtml.

— The Editor

A mother works three jobs to feed her children.

We’re neighbors. Friends. Teammates. Family. We are East Nashville. We continue to endure, overcome and thrive because we take pride in who we are and what we’ve made here. We’re a vital part of Nashville. And the Martha O’Bryan Center is a vital part of us. The Martha O’Bryan Center has been helping families grow closer together, better their circumstances and succeed since 1894. Give East Nashville a hand.

V i s i t W W W. B R E A K T H E L I N E . O R G a n d f i n d o u t m o r e .

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This project consists of 13 weekend closures beginning April 20, 2012.

Weekend Closures ONLY: Fridays 9 p.m. to Mondays 5 a.m.

Closed Roadway Segments • I-24 West will be closed from Mile Marker 47.8 to Mile Marker 50.2 • I-24 East will be closed from Mile Marker 46.8 to Mile Marker 48.0 • Woodland Street from Interstate Drive to South 5th Street • Main Street (James Robertson Parkway) from Interstate Drive to South 5th Street • I-24 West on-ramps at Shelby Avenue • I-24 East on-ramp at Spring Street Interstate Detour Routes • From north of Nashville on I-24 East/I-65 South toward Chattanooga will follow I-65 South/I-40

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West at Exit 86, then follow I-40 East/I-65 South at Exit 84A, and then follow I-40 East/I-24 East at Exit 210.

• From south of Nashville on I-24 West/I-65 North toward Clarksville/Louisville will follow I-65 South/I-40 West at Exit 211, then follow I-40 West/I-65 North at Exit 210A, and then follow I-65 North/I-24 West at Exit 208.

Local Detour Routes • East on Woodland Street wanting to continue east on Woodland Street will turn right onto Interstate Drive, then turn left onto Shelby Avenue, then turn left onto South 5th Street, and turn right onto Woodland Street.

• West on Woodland Street wanting to continue west on Woodland Street will turn left onto South 5th Street, then turn right onto Shelby Avenue, then turn right onto South 2nd Street, then turn left onto Russell Street, then turn right onto South 1st Street, and turn left onto Woodland Street.

• East on James Robertson Parkway (Main Street) wanting to continue east on Main Streetwill turn right onto Interstate Drive, then turn left onto Shelby Avenue., then turn left onto South 5th Street, and turn right onto Main Street.

• West on Main Street wanting to continue west on James Robertson Parkway (Main Street)will turn right onto Spring Street, then take the I-24 East on-ramp, then exit I-24 East at James Robertson Parkway (Exit 48), and turn right onto James Robertson Parkway.

• Shelby Avenue to I-24W will turn onto South 5th Street and will continue on Spring Street to the I-24W on-ramp.

• Jefferson Street and North 1st Street to I-24 East will take North 1st Street, and then turn left onto Woodland Street to the I-24 East on-ramp.

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One block from here,

As no doubt you already know, major rehabilitation on I-24 at the Main Street and Woodland Street bridges will continue throughout the summer.

Deanna Lambert, the Community Relations Officer – Region 3 at the Tennessee Department of Transportation has provided us with information regarding road closures, detours, times and dates, which you will find below. To sign up for weekly email updates, go to: www.tdot.state.tn.us/ i24bridges/maps.shtml.

— The Editor

A mother works three jobs to feed her children.

We’re neighbors. Friends. Teammates. Family. We are East Nashville. We continue to endure, overcome and thrive because we take pride in who we are and what we’ve made here. We’re a vital part of Nashville. And the Martha O’Bryan Center is a vital part of us. The Martha O’Bryan Center has been helping families grow closer together, better their circumstances and succeed since 1894. Give East Nashville a hand.

V i s i t W W W. B R E A K T H E L I N E . O R G a n d f i n d o u t m o r e .

/ SPRING STREET

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I-24 Closures throughout Summer 2012 www.theeastn ashvillian.com 18

This project consists of 13 weekend closures beginning April 20, 2012.

Weekend Closures ONLY: Fridays 9 p.m. to Mondays 5 a.m.

Closed Roadway Segments • I-24 West will be closed from Mile Marker 47.8 to Mile Marker 50.2 • I-24 East will be closed from Mile Marker 46.8 to Mile Marker 48.0 • Woodland Street from Interstate Drive to South 5th Street • Main Street (James Robertson Parkway) from Interstate Drive to South 5th Street • I-24 West on-ramps at Shelby Avenue • I-24 East on-ramp at Spring Street Interstate Detour Routes • From north of Nashville on I-24 East/I-65 South toward Chattanooga will follow I-65 South/I-40

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West at Exit 86, then follow I-40 East/I-65 South at Exit 84A, and then follow I-40 East/I-24 East at Exit 210.

• From south of Nashville on I-24 West/I-65 North toward Clarksville/Louisville will follow I-65 South/I-40 West at Exit 211, then follow I-40 West/I-65 North at Exit 210A, and then follow I-65 North/I-24 West at Exit 208.

Local Detour Routes • East on Woodland Street wanting to continue east on Woodland Street will turn right onto Interstate Drive, then turn left onto Shelby Avenue, then turn left onto South 5th Street, and turn right onto Woodland Street.

• West on Woodland Street wanting to continue west on Woodland Street will turn left onto South 5th Street, then turn right onto Shelby Avenue, then turn right onto South 2nd Street, then turn left onto Russell Street, then turn right onto South 1st Street, and turn left onto Woodland Street.

• East on James Robertson Parkway (Main Street) wanting to continue east on Main Streetwill turn right onto Interstate Drive, then turn left onto Shelby Avenue., then turn left onto South 5th Street, and turn right onto Main Street.

• West on Main Street wanting to continue west on James Robertson Parkway (Main Street)will turn right onto Spring Street, then take the I-24 East on-ramp, then exit I-24 East at James Robertson Parkway (Exit 48), and turn right onto James Robertson Parkway.

• Shelby Avenue to I-24W will turn onto South 5th Street and will continue on Spring Street to the I-24W on-ramp.

• Jefferson Street and North 1st Street to I-24 East will take North 1st Street, and then turn left onto Woodland Street to the I-24 East on-ramp.

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Painting

the East Side red Neighborhood’s creative juices fuel Tomato Art Fest

By Theresa Laurence

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his time of year, as the Tennessee homegrown tomato emits her siren song, drawing locals to her like a June bug to a back porch light, planning for East Nashville’s 2012 Tomato Art Fest is in high gear.

Tomato art entries are being accepted at festival headquarters, Meg and Bret MacFayden’s Art and Invention Gallery, and event organizers are busy putting together a full slate of events for the neighborhood’s biggest, most imaginative festival of the year. The Tomato Fest works so well, Meg says, because “the kind of people who live here are really willing to play,” lending a freewheeling spirit to the festival that makes it such a draw to neighbors as well as those across the river and beyond.

By now, most East Nashvillians know how the Tomato Art Fest grew from oneoff art show to a street festival attended annually by 20,000 people. But neighborhood residents may not know quite how organically it has evolved over the years.

In 2004, the MacFaydens were searching for inspiration amidst the dog days of summer, contemplating a new art show for August. The idea for a tomato-themed art show came together among Meg, her friend and heirloom tomato grower Diane Gross, and another friend and gallery patron Ann Edgerton.

Edgerton brought the MacFaydens a clipping about a festival in California that featured wine and tomato pairings, as well as tomato art. Meg passed it along to Gross, and the three women, with the help of Bret, began cooking up the idea for their own art show paying homage to Tennessee’s “official fruit,”as designated by the state legislature in 2003.

Little did they know that 1,000 eager arts patrons would show up — quite a few of them in costume — to celebrate tomato art at that first event. “We had no intention of it being anything but a onetime art show,” Meg says, but “it turned into a big party.”

Soon, neighbors began asking what they could do to take the art show to the next level and make it a bonafide festival.

For the first few years, events were held

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on the Art and Invention property, but it soon grew too big to be contained, spilling into the streets of Five Points and beyond.

The second line parade, which was initiated after many New Orleans residents relocated to Nashville following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is now the popular kick off to the festival.

“Anybody can take ownership of an idea and run with it,” Bret says, explaining how some of the day’s events got started and continue still. The various goofy contests, such as the wet burrito contest, where contestants eat a burrito while being sprayed with a water hose, were all dreamed up by neighbors and small business owners.

Even some of the musicians, such as East Nashville’s favorite agnostic hymnist, Todd Snider, approached the organizers about performing at this year’s fest. Meg’s reaction? “Wow!” And so Snider’s alter ego Elmo Buzz and his band the Eastside Bulldogs, which includes Elizabeth Cook and Tim Carroll, will close out the festival on Saturday night.

Meg and Bret are insistent they never sat down and brainstormed ideas to design a festival. “We’re like the clearinghouse, the train station where ideas come in and out,” she explains.

The MacFayden’s Art and Invention Gallery is a bit like a train depot, with customers, artists, friends and neighbors coming and going during both official and unofficial business hours.

Art and Invention is part gallery and part workshop, a place to showcase artwork, as well as a space for these two working artists to spend time on their own projects.

This is not a gallery with a dozen paintings on the wall and a few sculptures on pedestals that would require a second mortgage to afford. For sale here are whimsical, functional and affordable pieces of art and jewelry, a good bit of it

by East Nashville artists.

The space embodies the funky, laidback vibe of the neighborhood. During a recent visit, Meg, wearing paint-splattered overalls, a T-shirt, baseball cap and

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Painting

the East Side red Neighborhood’s creative juices fuel Tomato Art Fest

By Theresa Laurence

T

his time of year, as the Tennessee homegrown tomato emits her siren song, drawing locals to her like a June bug to a back porch light, planning for East Nashville’s 2012 Tomato Art Fest is in high gear.

Tomato art entries are being accepted at festival headquarters, Meg and Bret MacFayden’s Art and Invention Gallery, and event organizers are busy putting together a full slate of events for the neighborhood’s biggest, most imaginative festival of the year. The Tomato Fest works so well, Meg says, because “the kind of people who live here are really willing to play,” lending a freewheeling spirit to the festival that makes it such a draw to neighbors as well as those across the river and beyond.

By now, most East Nashvillians know how the Tomato Art Fest grew from oneoff art show to a street festival attended annually by 20,000 people. But neighborhood residents may not know quite how organically it has evolved over the years.

In 2004, the MacFaydens were searching for inspiration amidst the dog days of summer, contemplating a new art show for August. The idea for a tomato-themed art show came together among Meg, her friend and heirloom tomato grower Diane Gross, and another friend and gallery patron Ann Edgerton.

Edgerton brought the MacFaydens a clipping about a festival in California that featured wine and tomato pairings, as well as tomato art. Meg passed it along to Gross, and the three women, with the help of Bret, began cooking up the idea for their own art show paying homage to Tennessee’s “official fruit,”as designated by the state legislature in 2003.

Little did they know that 1,000 eager arts patrons would show up — quite a few of them in costume — to celebrate tomato art at that first event. “We had no intention of it being anything but a onetime art show,” Meg says, but “it turned into a big party.”

Soon, neighbors began asking what they could do to take the art show to the next level and make it a bonafide festival.

For the first few years, events were held

Bret and Meg MacFayden Photo by Stacie Huckeba 20

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on the Art and Invention property, but it soon grew too big to be contained, spilling into the streets of Five Points and beyond.

The second line parade, which was initiated after many New Orleans residents relocated to Nashville following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, is now the popular kick off to the festival.

“Anybody can take ownership of an idea and run with it,” Bret says, explaining how some of the day’s events got started and continue still. The various goofy contests, such as the wet burrito contest, where contestants eat a burrito while being sprayed with a water hose, were all dreamed up by neighbors and small business owners.

Even some of the musicians, such as East Nashville’s favorite agnostic hymnist, Todd Snider, approached the organizers about performing at this year’s fest. Meg’s reaction? “Wow!” And so Snider’s alter ego Elmo Buzz and his band the Eastside Bulldogs, which includes Elizabeth Cook and Tim Carroll, will close out the festival on Saturday night.

Meg and Bret are insistent they never sat down and brainstormed ideas to design a festival. “We’re like the clearinghouse, the train station where ideas come in and out,” she explains.

The MacFayden’s Art and Invention Gallery is a bit like a train depot, with customers, artists, friends and neighbors coming and going during both official and unofficial business hours.

Art and Invention is part gallery and part workshop, a place to showcase artwork, as well as a space for these two working artists to spend time on their own projects.

This is not a gallery with a dozen paintings on the wall and a few sculptures on pedestals that would require a second mortgage to afford. For sale here are whimsical, functional and affordable pieces of art and jewelry, a good bit of it

by East Nashville artists.

The space embodies the funky, laidback vibe of the neighborhood. During a recent visit, Meg, wearing paint-splattered overalls, a T-shirt, baseball cap and

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a beaded crystal necklace, flits between customers and chats easily with them while ringing up purchases.

Bret, in a white T-shirt, jean shorts and a wristwatch, takes a slightly more behind-thescenes approach. He spends most of his days in the vast Invention laboratory at the back of the building known as Garage Mahal, surrounded by wood, metal and all types of materials used in his design/build business.

Not one to clamor for credit, Bret talks about some of his well-known projects when nudged.

In the immediate vicinity, he designed the Five Points Collaborative modular buildings next door and the I Dream of Weenie hut, which the MacFaydens owned before selling it to a new owner. Bret also designed the interior space of the Provence restaurant at the downtown library, and has a hand in the new development currently under construction at Fatherland and 11th streets, which will become storefronts for new small businesses, the lifeblood of the neighborhood.

“People are the driving force [of East Nashville],” he says. “There’s so much good-will energy and a critical mass of creativity here, it’s unbelievable.”

The shops, restaurants and other small businesses run by these creative people are the reason that people are choosing to live in and visit East Nashville. “There’s no big economic juggernaut”

drawing people here, he notes. Indeed, there are no big corporate headquarters in the neighborhood, no hospital, no mall, no pre-packaged family entertainment destination.

“People make their own fun here,” Meg says.

With East Nashville restaurants like Mas Tacos Por Favor and Mitchell’s Deli getting recent national media attention, Bret says, “This seems to be a pivotal year for East Nashville.”

When the MacFaydens, who live in the Belmont area, first purchased the big sheet metal building at 1106 Woodland Street in 2000, they weren’t quite sure what to expect of the neigh-

gravitating toward the neighborhood, rehabbing the beautiful old houses. With all the families here now, “it just gets better and better,” he adds.

Meg and Bret, who met in East Nashville on the set of the 1991 film Ernest Scared Stupid, hardly recognize the Five Points area now. Back then, he was helping build large-scale sets, like transforming the abandoned building that would be the future home of Margot Café into a lawyer’s office, and she was painting scenery.

The skills gained while working on movie sets have helped the MacFaydens with their ability to serve as “clearinghouse” and host to the sauciest festival in town. “We know how to put things together in a red-hot hurry,” Meg says.

Which is handy, since all the details for the Tomato Art Fest don’t come together until the eleventh hour.

This year, like last, the MacFaydens are relying on professional event planner Jack Davis to oversee the logistics of the festival. They are particularly excited about having the funds and the manpower to pick up all the trash left behind.

Then on Sunday, Aug. 12, after all the hubbub has died down, festival fairy godmother Meg MacFayden may be able kick back with her favorite food, a luscious bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. “There’s nothing like a BLT — period,” she says.

The same could be said of East Nashville’s Tomato Art Fest: There’s nothing like it. Period.

“There’s so much good-will energy and a critical mass of creativity here, it’s unbelievable.” borhood. As post-tornado pioneers, they were here before the Slow Bar began its brief run of glory and before Margot Café opened its doors.

They have watched the neighborhood grow at an almost unfathomable rate over the last dozen years.

“When we first started out here, there was nothing but crickets outside,” Bret recalls. There were also the occasional loiterers and prostitutes not far from their doorstep.

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a beaded crystal necklace, flits between customers and chats easily with them while ringing up purchases.

Bret, in a white T-shirt, jean shorts and a wristwatch, takes a slightly more behind-thescenes approach. He spends most of his days in the vast Invention laboratory at the back of the building known as Garage Mahal, surrounded by wood, metal and all types of materials used in his design/build business.

Not one to clamor for credit, Bret talks about some of his well-known projects when nudged.

In the immediate vicinity, he designed the Five Points Collaborative modular buildings next door and the I Dream of Weenie hut, which the MacFaydens owned before selling it to a new owner. Bret also designed the interior space of the Provence restaurant at the downtown library, and has a hand in the new development currently under construction at Fatherland and 11th streets, which will become storefronts for new small businesses, the lifeblood of the neighborhood.

“People are the driving force [of East Nashville],” he says. “There’s so much good-will energy and a critical mass of creativity here, it’s unbelievable.”

The shops, restaurants and other small businesses run by these creative people are the reason that people are choosing to live in and visit East Nashville. “There’s no big economic juggernaut”

drawing people here, he notes. Indeed, there are no big corporate headquarters in the neighborhood, no hospital, no mall, no pre-packaged family entertainment destination.

“People make their own fun here,” Meg says.

With East Nashville restaurants like Mas Tacos Por Favor and Mitchell’s Deli getting recent national media attention, Bret says, “This seems to be a pivotal year for East Nashville.”

When the MacFaydens, who live in the Belmont area, first purchased the big sheet metal building at 1106 Woodland Street in 2000, they weren’t quite sure what to expect of the neigh-

gravitating toward the neighborhood, rehabbing the beautiful old houses. With all the families here now, “it just gets better and better,” he adds.

Meg and Bret, who met in East Nashville on the set of the 1991 film Ernest Scared Stupid, hardly recognize the Five Points area now. Back then, he was helping build large-scale sets, like transforming the abandoned building that would be the future home of Margot Café into a lawyer’s office, and she was painting scenery.

The skills gained while working on movie sets have helped the MacFaydens with their ability to serve as “clearinghouse” and host to the sauciest festival in town. “We know how to put things together in a red-hot hurry,” Meg says.

Which is handy, since all the details for the Tomato Art Fest don’t come together until the eleventh hour.

This year, like last, the MacFaydens are relying on professional event planner Jack Davis to oversee the logistics of the festival. They are particularly excited about having the funds and the manpower to pick up all the trash left behind.

Then on Sunday, Aug. 12, after all the hubbub has died down, festival fairy godmother Meg MacFayden may be able kick back with her favorite food, a luscious bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. “There’s nothing like a BLT — period,” she says.

The same could be said of East Nashville’s Tomato Art Fest: There’s nothing like it. Period.

“There’s so much good-will energy and a critical mass of creativity here, it’s unbelievable.” borhood. As post-tornado pioneers, they were here before the Slow Bar began its brief run of glory and before Margot Café opened its doors.

They have watched the neighborhood grow at an almost unfathomable rate over the last dozen years.

“When we first started out here, there was nothing but crickets outside,” Bret recalls. There were also the occasional loiterers and prostitutes not far from their doorstep.

“Then we started seeing strollers,” Bret says.

More strollers followed as young families began

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EAST NASHVILLE TOMATO 5K ANDREWS CADILLAC FIRECRACKER 5K

MAFIAoZA'S RUN FOR THE HILLS

PUTNAM COUNTY TURKEY TROT

FARM BUREAU HOLIDAY RUN

NEWTON NISSAN FROSTBITE

5K RACE/WALK REGISTRATION Please print. Use this form to register for 5K. One form per runner.

First Name __________________________________________________ Last Name __________________________________________________ Date of Birth __________________________ Sex: q M q F Address: ____________________________________________________

A CAUSE WORTH RUNNING FOR Tomato 5K BENEFITTING THE MARGARET MADDOX FAMILY YMCA LOCATION

PACKET PICKUP Friday Aug 10 10am-6pm at Maddox YMCA. Saturday Aug 11 6am – 7:15 Turnip Truck East

Email: ________________________________________________________

The East Nashville Tomato 5K will occur Saturday, August 11, 2012, on the corner of South 10th Street and Woodland Street.

5K T-Shirt Size q S q M q L q XL q XXL T-shirts guaranteed to preregistered runners only.

RACE ROUTE

$25 pre-registered until June 15 $35 if registered after June 15

$_____________________ Entry Fee Enclosed

Race route can be viewed by clicking Tomato 5k on ymcamidtn.org/races.

RACE REGISTRATION

________________________________________________________________ City: _________________________________ ST: __ Zip: __________ Phone: ______________________________________________________

$____________________ Additional Donation Mail-in registration must be postmarked by August 8. Registration fees are not refundable.

Please make check payable to Margaret Maddox Family YMCA.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:

Signature required for participation.

In consideration of your acceptance of my entry into this race, I, for myself, my executors, administrators and assigns, do hereby release and discharge the YMCA of Middle Tennessee, and all sponsoring businesses and organizations, from all claims of damages, demands, actions, and causes of actions whatsoever, in any manner arising or growing out of my participation in this event. I also hereby consent to permit emergency treatment in the event of injury or illness.

Signature: ___________________________________________________ Guardian signature if under 18

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PROVIDE

BRYAN, WARD AND ELMORE INC.

Margaret Maddox Family YMCA 2624 Gallatin Road Nashville, TN 37216 Register online at

Deadline for online reg. Aug 8.

At the Y, we believe the skills learned early on are vital building blocks for life, and we never want a family to sacrifice a quality preschool education because they can’t afford it.

At our preschool, 9 out of 10 students benefit from the financial assistance that’s made possible by race proceeds and other donations.

PARTICIPATION RELEASE

Complete the registration form and return with check or money order payable to Margaret Maddox Family YMCA to:

RACE COST

Our Mission: A worldwide charitable fellowship united by a common loyalty to Jesus Christ for the purpose of helping people grow in spirit, mind and body.

Help neighbors take personal responsibility for their health.

Through its Income-based Rate Scale and other forms of financial assistance, the Y in East Nashville eliminates the socio-economic barriers to wellness for 1 out of every 2 members, giving everyone the chance to harness the power of prevention and stop illnesses before they start.

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EAST NASHVILLE TOMATO 5K ANDREWS CADILLAC FIRECRACKER 5K

MAFIAoZA'S RUN FOR THE HILLS

PUTNAM COUNTY TURKEY TROT

FARM BUREAU HOLIDAY RUN

NEWTON NISSAN FROSTBITE

5K RACE/WALK REGISTRATION Please print. Use this form to register for 5K. One form per runner.

First Name __________________________________________________ Last Name __________________________________________________ Date of Birth __________________________ Sex: q M q F Address: ____________________________________________________

A CAUSE WORTH RUNNING FOR Tomato 5K BENEFITTING THE MARGARET MADDOX FAMILY YMCA LOCATION

PACKET PICKUP Friday Aug 10 10am-6pm at Maddox YMCA. Saturday Aug 11 6am – 7:15 Turnip Truck East

Email: ________________________________________________________

The East Nashville Tomato 5K will occur Saturday, August 11, 2012, on the corner of South 10th Street and Woodland Street.

5K T-Shirt Size q S q M q L q XL q XXL T-shirts guaranteed to preregistered runners only.

RACE ROUTE

$25 pre-registered until June 15 $35 if registered after June 15

$_____________________ Entry Fee Enclosed

Race route can be viewed by clicking Tomato 5k on ymcamidtn.org/races.

RACE REGISTRATION

________________________________________________________________ City: _________________________________ ST: __ Zip: __________ Phone: ______________________________________________________

$____________________ Additional Donation Mail-in registration must be postmarked by August 8. Registration fees are not refundable.

Please make check payable to Margaret Maddox Family YMCA.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:

Signature required for participation.

In consideration of your acceptance of my entry into this race, I, for myself, my executors, administrators and assigns, do hereby release and discharge the YMCA of Middle Tennessee, and all sponsoring businesses and organizations, from all claims of damages, demands, actions, and causes of actions whatsoever, in any manner arising or growing out of my participation in this event. I also hereby consent to permit emergency treatment in the event of injury or illness.

Signature: ___________________________________________________ Guardian signature if under 18

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GIVE A CHILD A STRONG START

PROVIDE

BRYAN, WARD AND ELMORE INC.

Margaret Maddox Family YMCA 2624 Gallatin Road Nashville, TN 37216 Register online at

Deadline for online reg. Aug 8.

At the Y, we believe the skills learned early on are vital building blocks for life, and we never want a family to sacrifice a quality preschool education because they can’t afford it.

At our preschool, 9 out of 10 students benefit from the financial assistance that’s made possible by race proceeds and other donations.

PARTICIPATION RELEASE

Complete the registration form and return with check or money order payable to Margaret Maddox Family YMCA to:

RACE COST

Our Mission: A worldwide charitable fellowship united by a common loyalty to Jesus Christ for the purpose of helping people grow in spirit, mind and body.

Help neighbors take personal responsibility for their health.

Through its Income-based Rate Scale and other forms of financial assistance, the Y in East Nashville eliminates the socio-economic barriers to wellness for 1 out of every 2 members, giving everyone the chance to harness the power of prevention and stop illnesses before they start.

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TOMATO Art FEST

2012 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Photos Courtesy of Aerial Innovations of Tennessee

Thursday, Aug. 9 Tomato Wine Dinner at Marche: a four course meal with accompanying wines.

Marche Artisan Foods (1000 Main St., 615-262-1111, marcheartisan@ bellsouth.net) Tomato Art Fest Wine Supper at Rumours: See what wines are chosen to pair with a four-course patio menu featuring all things tomato. Rumours East (1112 Woodland St., 615-262-5346, www. rumourseast.com)

Friday, Aug. 10 6:30 – 9 p.m. — Tomato Art Preview Party: A wonderful night of sights, sounds and flavors — and lots and lots of tomato art. $25.00 (reservations required). Art & Invention Gallery (1106 Woodland St., 615-226-2070, meg@ artandinvention.com)

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5 – 6:30 p.m. — Kid’s Tomato Art Show Opening Reception: Tomato art by young tomato artists. YCAP Chapel (1021 Russell St., 615-256-9622 ext. 72555, lgregg@ymcamidtn.org)

Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012

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615.650.4444

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1406-A McGavock Pike Nashville, TN 37216

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7 a.m. — Children’s Fun Run: Registration is $5 per child. Five Points (the corner of Woodland and 10th Street) 7 a.m. – 8 p.m. — Tomato Treats: Tomato-inspired treats for sample and for purchase. Turnip Truck (970 Woodland St., 615-650-3600) 7:30 a.m. — Tomato 5K: Registration is $35 per runner. Five Points (the corner of Woodland and 10th Street, https://6595.thankyou4caring.org/ page.aspx?pid=376) 8:30 a.m. — Tomato Fairy/Elf Costume Contest: Join us for a Tomato Fairy and Elf contest for children of all ages. The lot behind Fannys House of Music (1101 Holly St., 615.915.1960, tammy@fairytalesbookstore.com) 9 a.m. — New Orleans-Style Second Line Parade: The parade starts in front of Bongo Java and follows part of the 5K run course before ending at the Main Stage located in the lot next to Bongo.

Wear your favorite tomato costume,

bring an instrument to play and hit the streets. Right in front of Bongo Java Roasting Company (107 South 11th St., 615.915.1960, tammy@fairytalesbookstore.com) 9 a.m. – noon — Bongo Java Kid’s Event: Sidewalk chalk, balloons and other crafty stuff for the kids. Special treats from Grins & Las Paletas. Bongo Java (107 South 11th St., 615.777.3278) 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. — KidFest: Free fun for children of all ages — inflatables, water slide, tomato head hair painting, popsicles, crafts and storytelling. The park at the corner of 12th & Holly 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. — 1st Annual Crossword Tournament: Puzzlers of all interest levels are welcome — individuals and teams. $40 per individual to enter; $30 for students & seniors and $100 per team of three. Doors open at 8:30 a.m.; walk-ins if space available.

East End United Methodist Church (1212 East Holly St., 615-227-5979, www.thegenerationconnection.com) 9:30 a.m., 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. — Pet and Wildlife Demonstrations: 5 Points Animal Hospital and Waldens Puddle have joined forces to bring you all sorts of information about your pets and wildlife. Demonstrations held throughout the day. 5 Points Animal Hospital (1103 Woodland Street, 615-750-2377) 10 a.m. — Music: Main Stage (lot next to Bongo Java) 10 a.m. — Half Brass 11 a.m. — Vietti Showcase Noon — tba 1 p.m. — Medicine Ball 2 p.m. — Fanny’s Showcase 3 p.m. — Richard DuBois 4 p.m. — The Wans 5 p.m. — Hurts to Laugh 6 p.m. — Rock City Birdhouse 7 p.m. — tba 8 p.m. — Elmo Buzz and the Eastside Bulldogs and friends 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. — Tomato Art Show: No finer collection of tomato art to be found east of the Mississippi, and maybe even in the entire tomato-eating world. Art & Invention Gallery (1106 Woodland St.,615.226.2070, meg@ artandinvention.com)

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TOMATO Art FEST

2012 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Photos Courtesy of Aerial Innovations of Tennessee

Thursday, Aug. 9 Tomato Wine Dinner at Marche: a four course meal with accompanying wines.

Marche Artisan Foods (1000 Main St., 615-262-1111, marcheartisan@ bellsouth.net) Tomato Art Fest Wine Supper at Rumours: See what wines are chosen to pair with a four-course patio menu featuring all things tomato. Rumours East (1112 Woodland St., 615-262-5346, www. rumourseast.com)

Friday, Aug. 10 6:30 – 9 p.m. — Tomato Art Preview Party: A wonderful night of sights, sounds and flavors — and lots and lots of tomato art. $25.00 (reservations required). Art & Invention Gallery (1106 Woodland St., 615-226-2070, meg@ artandinvention.com)

FREE IES DELIVER

Now interviewing for a part-time,

CERTIFIED pharmacy tech

5 – 6:30 p.m. — Kid’s Tomato Art Show Opening Reception: Tomato art by young tomato artists. YCAP Chapel (1021 Russell St., 615-256-9622 ext. 72555, lgregg@ymcamidtn.org)

Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012

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e d i s r rive village acy pharm rhood Drug Store o r Neighb

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Gary Williams, D.Ph.

615.650.4444

Owner / Pharmacist

1406-A McGavock Pike Nashville, TN 37216

MON-THUR: 9-7 | FRIDAY: 9-6 | SAT: 9-5 | SUN: AVAILABLE FOR EMERGENCIES

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7 a.m. — Children’s Fun Run: Registration is $5 per child. Five Points (the corner of Woodland and 10th Street) 7 a.m. – 8 p.m. — Tomato Treats: Tomato-inspired treats for sample and for purchase. Turnip Truck (970 Woodland St., 615-650-3600) 7:30 a.m. — Tomato 5K: Registration is $35 per runner. Five Points (the corner of Woodland and 10th Street, https://6595.thankyou4caring.org/ page.aspx?pid=376) 8:30 a.m. — Tomato Fairy/Elf Costume Contest: Join us for a Tomato Fairy and Elf contest for children of all ages. The lot behind Fannys House of Music (1101 Holly St., 615.915.1960, tammy@fairytalesbookstore.com) 9 a.m. — New Orleans-Style Second Line Parade: The parade starts in front of Bongo Java and follows part of the 5K run course before ending at the Main Stage located in the lot next to Bongo.

Wear your favorite tomato costume,

bring an instrument to play and hit the streets. Right in front of Bongo Java Roasting Company (107 South 11th St., 615.915.1960, tammy@fairytalesbookstore.com) 9 a.m. – noon — Bongo Java Kid’s Event: Sidewalk chalk, balloons and other crafty stuff for the kids. Special treats from Grins & Las Paletas. Bongo Java (107 South 11th St., 615.777.3278) 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. — KidFest: Free fun for children of all ages — inflatables, water slide, tomato head hair painting, popsicles, crafts and storytelling. The park at the corner of 12th & Holly 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. — 1st Annual Crossword Tournament: Puzzlers of all interest levels are welcome — individuals and teams. $40 per individual to enter; $30 for students & seniors and $100 per team of three. Doors open at 8:30 a.m.; walk-ins if space available.

East End United Methodist Church (1212 East Holly St., 615-227-5979, www.thegenerationconnection.com) 9:30 a.m., 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. — Pet and Wildlife Demonstrations: 5 Points Animal Hospital and Waldens Puddle have joined forces to bring you all sorts of information about your pets and wildlife. Demonstrations held throughout the day. 5 Points Animal Hospital (1103 Woodland Street, 615-750-2377) 10 a.m. — Music: Main Stage (lot next to Bongo Java) 10 a.m. — Half Brass 11 a.m. — Vietti Showcase Noon — tba 1 p.m. — Medicine Ball 2 p.m. — Fanny’s Showcase 3 p.m. — Richard DuBois 4 p.m. — The Wans 5 p.m. — Hurts to Laugh 6 p.m. — Rock City Birdhouse 7 p.m. — tba 8 p.m. — Elmo Buzz and the Eastside Bulldogs and friends 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. — Tomato Art Show: No finer collection of tomato art to be found east of the Mississippi, and maybe even in the entire tomato-eating world. Art & Invention Gallery (1106 Woodland St.,615.226.2070, meg@ artandinvention.com)

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10 a.m. – 6 p.m. — Tomato Art at Bryant Gallery: Come to Bryant Gallery for a group show featuring local artists. Bryant Gallery (1113 Woodland St., 615-650-0063) 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. — Tomato Bazaar: Over 100 vendors will arrive early to tempt and delight you with their wares. Five Points (www. tomatoartfest.com for a list of vendors and vendor map) 10 a.m. till a champion is crowned — Second Annual Tomato Art Fest Cornhole Tournament: Two players toss bags of corn at a 6-inch hole 10 yards away in a quest to become “King of the Cornhole Toss.” Prizes will be awarded to the winning teams, as well as gifts for the best team name. 37206 Building (corner of 11th & Fatherland, 615.228.9249, tomatoartcornholefest@ gmail.com) 10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. — 4th Annual Bobbing For Tomatoes / Tomato Toss: Bobbing for (real) tomatoes and tossing (faux) tomatoes at a target; plus prizes, treats for the pooches and wading pools to cool hot paws — fun for pets and those who love them. Wags & Whiskers (between Red Door & 5 Spot, 615.228.9249) 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. — Bike Safety Workshop: Bike safety workshop and free bike parking for festival goers. Eastside Cycles (103 South 11th St., 615-469-1079)

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lades and another wrinkle in their brains from thinking so hard.

1-2 p.m. — Beautiful Tomato Contest: Costume contest for your tomatoes. Entries must be submitted by 1 p.m. to be eligible. Alegria (5 Points Collaborative, 1108 Woodland St., 615-227-8566)

Family Fun Open House: Games and fun activities for families to enjoy in air-conditioned splendor inside the Ann Ragsdale Recreation Center located behind the YCAP Building on Russell Street. YCAP (1021 Russell St.)

2 p.m. — Recipe Contest: Tomato recipes will go head-to-head in this year’s contest. Drop off entries between 1:15 and 1:45 p.m. Judging starts promptly at 2 p.m. Margot Cafe (122 South 12th St., info@nashvillefarmersmarket. org)

Kids Tomato Art Exhibit: Children’s tomato artwork will be on display with contest placement ribbons and awards. YCAP Chapel (1021 Russell St.)

2-3 p.m. — Red Head Competition: Just show up with your tomato red locks. This contest is open to all redheads. The Clearview Stage (in the parking lot behind Margot Cafe)

For more information about the Tomato Art Fest, visit www.tomatoartfest.com.

3 p.m. — Bloody Mary Competition: Who has the best Bloody Mary recipe in all the land? Come to 3 Crow Bar and find out. 3 Crow Bar (1024 Woodland St., 615-262-3345) 4-5 p.m. — All East Nashville Fashion Show: Features East Nashville merchants and neighbors. The Clearview Stage (in the parking lot behind Margot Cafe) 5 p.m. — Wet Burrito Contest: Hungry contestants race to eat a burrito the fastest, while being hosed down with water. Nuvo Burrito (1000 Main St., sean.p@nuvoburrito.com, 615-866-9713)

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. — Faux Paw Fashion Show: Costume contest for your pet. The Clearview Stage ((in the parking lot behind Margot Cafe, http://www.lockelandsprings. org/fauxpaw)

5 – 11 p.m. — Tomatoes and Wine: Drink specials and a refreshing tomato-inspired menu throughout the day. Rumours East (1112 Woodland Street, 615-262-5346)

Noon — Giant Ice Cream Sundae Extravaganza: Kids ages 2-10 try to build the largest ice cream sundae in East Nashville. Pied Piper Creamery (114 South 11th St., 615-227-4114)

Other activities

12:30 p.m. — Biggest/ Littlest/Ugliest Tomato Contest: Enter your tomato to win coveted prizes for ugliest tomato, biggest tomato and

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10 a.m. – 6 p.m. — Tomato Art at Bryant Gallery: Come to Bryant Gallery for a group show featuring local artists. Bryant Gallery (1113 Woodland St., 615-650-0063) 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. — Tomato Bazaar: Over 100 vendors will arrive early to tempt and delight you with their wares. Five Points (www. tomatoartfest.com for a list of vendors and vendor map) 10 a.m. till a champion is crowned — Second Annual Tomato Art Fest Cornhole Tournament: Two players toss bags of corn at a 6-inch hole 10 yards away in a quest to become “King of the Cornhole Toss.” Prizes will be awarded to the winning teams, as well as gifts for the best team name. 37206 Building (corner of 11th & Fatherland, 615.228.9249, tomatoartcornholefest@ gmail.com) 10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. — 4th Annual Bobbing For Tomatoes / Tomato Toss: Bobbing for (real) tomatoes and tossing (faux) tomatoes at a target; plus prizes, treats for the pooches and wading pools to cool hot paws — fun for pets and those who love them. Wags & Whiskers (between Red Door & 5 Spot, 615.228.9249) 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. — Bike Safety Workshop: Bike safety workshop and free bike parking for festival goers. Eastside Cycles (103 South 11th St., 615-469-1079)

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lades and another wrinkle in their brains from thinking so hard.

1-2 p.m. — Beautiful Tomato Contest: Costume contest for your tomatoes. Entries must be submitted by 1 p.m. to be eligible. Alegria (5 Points Collaborative, 1108 Woodland St., 615-227-8566)

Family Fun Open House: Games and fun activities for families to enjoy in air-conditioned splendor inside the Ann Ragsdale Recreation Center located behind the YCAP Building on Russell Street. YCAP (1021 Russell St.)

2 p.m. — Recipe Contest: Tomato recipes will go head-to-head in this year’s contest. Drop off entries between 1:15 and 1:45 p.m. Judging starts promptly at 2 p.m. Margot Cafe (122 South 12th St., info@nashvillefarmersmarket. org)

Kids Tomato Art Exhibit: Children’s tomato artwork will be on display with contest placement ribbons and awards. YCAP Chapel (1021 Russell St.)

2-3 p.m. — Red Head Competition: Just show up with your tomato red locks. This contest is open to all redheads. The Clearview Stage (in the parking lot behind Margot Cafe)

For more information about the Tomato Art Fest, visit www.tomatoartfest.com.

3 p.m. — Bloody Mary Competition: Who has the best Bloody Mary recipe in all the land? Come to 3 Crow Bar and find out. 3 Crow Bar (1024 Woodland St., 615-262-3345) 4-5 p.m. — All East Nashville Fashion Show: Features East Nashville merchants and neighbors. The Clearview Stage (in the parking lot behind Margot Cafe) 5 p.m. — Wet Burrito Contest: Hungry contestants race to eat a burrito the fastest, while being hosed down with water. Nuvo Burrito (1000 Main St., sean.p@nuvoburrito.com, 615-866-9713)

10:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. — Faux Paw Fashion Show: Costume contest for your pet. The Clearview Stage ((in the parking lot behind Margot Cafe, http://www.lockelandsprings. org/fauxpaw)

5 – 11 p.m. — Tomatoes and Wine: Drink specials and a refreshing tomato-inspired menu throughout the day. Rumours East (1112 Woodland Street, 615-262-5346)

Noon — Giant Ice Cream Sundae Extravaganza: Kids ages 2-10 try to build the largest ice cream sundae in East Nashville. Pied Piper Creamery (114 South 11th St., 615-227-4114)

Other activities

12:30 p.m. — Biggest/ Littlest/Ugliest Tomato Contest: Enter your tomato to win coveted prizes for ugliest tomato, biggest tomato and

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littlest tomato. (info@nashvillefarmersmarket.org)

throughout the day Tomato Haiku Competition: Start waxing poetic, girls and boys, because the tomato haiku competition is back. Winners will be announced from the main stage and receive prizes, accoJuly | August 2012 THEEASTNASHVILLIAN.COM

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Hank3 and Trooper cool down in their backyard doggie pool. Photo courtesy of Hank3

Shelton Hank Williams III — Hank3 — is many things. Enigmatic star.

Rocking hellbilly. Outspoken critic of the music biz. Grandson and son.

Great friend to many. And, oh yes — dogs love him.

Perhaps the most misunderstood artist in Nashville, Williams must wake up every morning and face the distorted expectations of a city built on the legacy of his iconic grandfather, Hank Williams. But when he does wake up each day, he has food, water, and a roof over his head. And that’s more than many of his friends — especially man’s best.

On occasion, Williams personally has taken on the task of rescuing and finding homes for dogs in need, and has become known as a champion of that cause.

To that end, has has performed the benefit show Hank3’s One Big Wag annually since 2009 for his favorite nonprofit organization — Happy Tales, a Franklin-based, no-kill animal shelter whose mission is to rescue, care for and find adoptive homes for unwanted pets.

He has literally pulled off the road to help.

His 13-year-old dog Trooper, a brown and tan hound mix and one of three rescues in his home, is a prime example of Hank3’s kindness.

“I guess Troop was my first rescue,” Williams says, while taking a break at his

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Inglewood home in mid-June. “It put me into that world a little more. And when I started going to these type of events [animal benefits], everyone just talked to me as Shelton — it’s not the Hank3 thing — so it’s a personal thing.

It’s a little more laid back.

“With the Trooper thing, I was driving back from New Orleans — we were rehearsing down there — and I was coming into Poplarville [Miss.]. I pulled into a Sonic and I saw a real young dog walking really slow. I could tell he wasn’t feeling good. So I decided to pick him up. I put him in the truck and he just sat there and seemed like he adapted. He seemed like he would adapt to anything — that’s why I called him Trooper.

“He might have been a year or 18 months then. He was playful and definitely happy to be here — he’s one of the best-tempered dogs I’ve ever been around.”

It is no secret that Hank3 has led a different life from most, and he has spoken publicly of the challenges of that life — one of feeling isolated as a child and miscast as an adult. His music, both country and metal, is an in-your-

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face rebellion against all control. Yet, he is a walking irony. The tough-looking, often-profane wild man bathed in tattoos from another world has a heart of gold. He sympathizes with the unfortunate and lost — the victims. As a performer, he tries to give a voice to those in the wilderness — whether it is with an ampedup anger or lonely hopelessness, or with heart for those who are busted wanderers. Like his grandfather, and to an extent, his father, Hank3 speaks for many who cannot speak for themselves. The misfits.

He raises that voice for unwanted animals, too.

As a child with a father who was largely absent, Williams spent time on his mother’s family farm in Missouri. There, he was around a variety of animals and hunting dogs, and learned to respect them all.

“Being around the farm pushed me kind of toward the rescue thing and made me want to help animals,” he says. “We always had dogs around. But there are some people out there who think ‘well, it’s okay if a dog’s sick or if a dog’s been hit,’ and they think it’s fine to let

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Hank3 and Trooper cool down in their backyard doggie pool. Photo courtesy of Hank3

Shelton Hank Williams III — Hank3 — is many things. Enigmatic star.

Rocking hellbilly. Outspoken critic of the music biz. Grandson and son.

Great friend to many. And, oh yes — dogs love him.

Perhaps the most misunderstood artist in Nashville, Williams must wake up every morning and face the distorted expectations of a city built on the legacy of his iconic grandfather, Hank Williams. But when he does wake up each day, he has food, water, and a roof over his head. And that’s more than many of his friends — especially man’s best.

On occasion, Williams personally has taken on the task of rescuing and finding homes for dogs in need, and has become known as a champion of that cause.

To that end, has has performed the benefit show Hank3’s One Big Wag annually since 2009 for his favorite nonprofit organization — Happy Tales, a Franklin-based, no-kill animal shelter whose mission is to rescue, care for and find adoptive homes for unwanted pets.

He has literally pulled off the road to help.

His 13-year-old dog Trooper, a brown and tan hound mix and one of three rescues in his home, is a prime example of Hank3’s kindness.

“I guess Troop was my first rescue,” Williams says, while taking a break at his

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Inglewood home in mid-June. “It put me into that world a little more. And when I started going to these type of events [animal benefits], everyone just talked to me as Shelton — it’s not the Hank3 thing — so it’s a personal thing.

It’s a little more laid back.

“With the Trooper thing, I was driving back from New Orleans — we were rehearsing down there — and I was coming into Poplarville [Miss.]. I pulled into a Sonic and I saw a real young dog walking really slow. I could tell he wasn’t feeling good. So I decided to pick him up. I put him in the truck and he just sat there and seemed like he adapted. He seemed like he would adapt to anything — that’s why I called him Trooper.

“He might have been a year or 18 months then. He was playful and definitely happy to be here — he’s one of the best-tempered dogs I’ve ever been around.”

It is no secret that Hank3 has led a different life from most, and he has spoken publicly of the challenges of that life — one of feeling isolated as a child and miscast as an adult. His music, both country and metal, is an in-your-

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face rebellion against all control. Yet, he is a walking irony. The tough-looking, often-profane wild man bathed in tattoos from another world has a heart of gold. He sympathizes with the unfortunate and lost — the victims. As a performer, he tries to give a voice to those in the wilderness — whether it is with an ampedup anger or lonely hopelessness, or with heart for those who are busted wanderers. Like his grandfather, and to an extent, his father, Hank3 speaks for many who cannot speak for themselves. The misfits.

He raises that voice for unwanted animals, too.

As a child with a father who was largely absent, Williams spent time on his mother’s family farm in Missouri. There, he was around a variety of animals and hunting dogs, and learned to respect them all.

“Being around the farm pushed me kind of toward the rescue thing and made me want to help animals,” he says. “We always had dogs around. But there are some people out there who think ‘well, it’s okay if a dog’s sick or if a dog’s been hit,’ and they think it’s fine to let

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“His willingness to lift his voice on behalf of homeless animals is an invaluable gift to this mission. He is such a true animal advocate.”

- Kat Hitchcock Leader of the pack: Hank3 with his rescues (L-R) Mama, Trooper and Royal. Photo by Glenn Sweitzer

them fend for themselves. They don’t take on the responsibility of caring for them. I always thought that was wrong.”

Today, he is packing for a month-long tour in Europe and preparing to pick up the housesitter that will take care of his home and his dogs. He is excited about the upcoming benefit for Happy Tales that will be held Aug. 3 at Marathon Music Works in Marathon Village in Nashville. The gig will feature Hank3 and a select few special guests. He hopes the show will take that next step in growth that he feels is needed. The first two were held at The Factory in Franklin, and last year’s was staged at the Loveless Barn.

The event has been a labor of love.

“My drummer’s [Shawn McWilliams] wife

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Tish worked for 102.9 [The Buzz] radio and had noticed my Facebook page, and how I was into helping dogs find homes,” he said. “She told me that if I ever wanted to do an event to let her know. I did, and she put me in touch with Kat Hitchcock at Happy Tales.”

Hitchcock, executive director of the organization, went to bat for him. Fundraisers of this nature can be difficult under any circumstance, and his reputation as a bad boy preceded him.

It was his sincerity that won everyone over.

“Working with Hank3 is an amazing experience,” Hitchcock says. “He is one of the most genuine, most authentic human beings out there. I believe that’s why his fans are so devoted to him — that, and because he is phenomenally talented. His willingness to lift

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his voice on behalf of homeless animals is an invaluable gift to this mission. He is such a true animal advocate. We all owe him a debt of gratitude.”

Williams believes the dynamic works.

“I think it’s a good thing that I have this reputation of a tough guy or an outlaw,” he says. “I connect to a lot of people out there that come from all walks of life. My fans come, but others that want to help show up too, and I just want to get as many out there as I can. It’s about helping the shelter and the animals.

“Kat stepped up to the plate for me and let people know who I was,” he continues. “It has all come together because of her.”

That was four years ago and the money raised by the event has gone to Happy Tales

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“His willingness to lift his voice on behalf of homeless animals is an invaluable gift to this mission. He is such a true animal advocate.”

- Kat Hitchcock Leader of the pack: Hank3 with his rescues (L-R) Mama, Trooper and Royal. Photo by Glenn Sweitzer

them fend for themselves. They don’t take on the responsibility of caring for them. I always thought that was wrong.”

Today, he is packing for a month-long tour in Europe and preparing to pick up the housesitter that will take care of his home and his dogs. He is excited about the upcoming benefit for Happy Tales that will be held Aug. 3 at Marathon Music Works in Marathon Village in Nashville. The gig will feature Hank3 and a select few special guests. He hopes the show will take that next step in growth that he feels is needed. The first two were held at The Factory in Franklin, and last year’s was staged at the Loveless Barn.

The event has been a labor of love.

“My drummer’s [Shawn McWilliams] wife

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Tish worked for 102.9 [The Buzz] radio and had noticed my Facebook page, and how I was into helping dogs find homes,” he said. “She told me that if I ever wanted to do an event to let her know. I did, and she put me in touch with Kat Hitchcock at Happy Tales.”

Hitchcock, executive director of the organization, went to bat for him. Fundraisers of this nature can be difficult under any circumstance, and his reputation as a bad boy preceded him.

It was his sincerity that won everyone over.

“Working with Hank3 is an amazing experience,” Hitchcock says. “He is one of the most genuine, most authentic human beings out there. I believe that’s why his fans are so devoted to him — that, and because he is phenomenally talented. His willingness to lift

July | August 2012

his voice on behalf of homeless animals is an invaluable gift to this mission. He is such a true animal advocate. We all owe him a debt of gratitude.”

Williams believes the dynamic works.

“I think it’s a good thing that I have this reputation of a tough guy or an outlaw,” he says. “I connect to a lot of people out there that come from all walks of life. My fans come, but others that want to help show up too, and I just want to get as many out there as I can. It’s about helping the shelter and the animals.

“Kat stepped up to the plate for me and let people know who I was,” he continues. “It has all come together because of her.”

That was four years ago and the money raised by the event has gone to Happy Tales

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to help them maintain operating costs. As a no-kill shelter, the organization absorbs more expense and has to expend more manpower, facts that many people don’t consider. The show at Marathon Music Works should attract a broader crowd, including those who might not choose to drive down to Franklin or out to Loveless.

“The other shows have been attended well,” he says. “Marathon seems like it’s going to be good. It’s a big room. I wanted one in Nashville because I think we’ll attract more people and open things up with it some. The environment should be good.

Whatever money we make goes to them, and they’ll have a set up for donations and raffles and those things.”

Williams continues to take his personal rescue responsibility seriously, as well. He shares his home with Trooper, Mama and Royal. Mama, a brown shepherd mix, had been hit by a car and was pregnant when he and a friend picked her up from the roadside in East Nashville. Amazingly, she and her puppies survived, and he found homes for them all, keeping Mama himself.

That was a few years ago. The story of Royal, a pit bull mix, is more recent, rescued near his house in Inglewood, the Haunted Ranch.

“I have found pit bulls on a hill near here — where I live,” Williams said. “All through here. Someone is breeding them and dumping them here. I feel bad for them because I think the pit bulls are up against it. The fighting still goes on, which is bad for

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“We’re talking about the all-American dog if you really look back. The Little Rascals years, that was the all-American dog.

There were six or seven Peteys. It just goes to show that society has created a little more of the bad rap on them.”

A neighbor had called Williams last December and told him of a large dog running around on the street. It was Royal. Veterinarians have since told him that the dog has been shot, run over and has nerve damage in his tail, probably from being fought and yanked from a ring.

“My neighbor knows I work with Happy Tales and he called me up and told me about a big dog nearby that was running around and making the other dogs crazy,” he recalls. “So I went over and picked him up, and I could tell the first thing was that he didn’t want me to leave him. He wanted to be in your lap — you couldn’t leave the room. He’s had some issues, but he’s adapted really well and he gets along great with my other two.”

Williams identifies with the pit bull, and because he believes they are often misunderstood and miscast — like himself, he speaks for them. He also has walked in support of them on Pit Bull Awareness Day. “I see a lot of them around this side of town, abandoned, I guess, and I feel bad for them. But it’s a problem everywhere.

I’m a big fan of the all-American dog. There are other breeds who can be aggressive, too. I just think we need to understand them … some people see aggression and don’t understand it and get abusive with them.”

For Williams, all animal rescue and care is good karma.

“It comes around, the karma of the dogs,” he says. “And it’s therapeutic for the people and the animal. I say this a lot — not everyone is cut out for people, they’re cut out for animals. It’s a therapeutic thing for a lot of people, just having a cat or a dog.

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to help them maintain operating costs. As a no-kill shelter, the organization absorbs more expense and has to expend more manpower, facts that many people don’t consider. The show at Marathon Music Works should attract a broader crowd, including those who might not choose to drive down to Franklin or out to Loveless.

“The other shows have been attended well,” he says. “Marathon seems like it’s going to be good. It’s a big room. I wanted one in Nashville because I think we’ll attract more people and open things up with it some. The environment should be good.

Whatever money we make goes to them, and they’ll have a set up for donations and raffles and those things.”

Williams continues to take his personal rescue responsibility seriously, as well. He shares his home with Trooper, Mama and Royal. Mama, a brown shepherd mix, had been hit by a car and was pregnant when he and a friend picked her up from the roadside in East Nashville. Amazingly, she and her puppies survived, and he found homes for them all, keeping Mama himself.

That was a few years ago. The story of Royal, a pit bull mix, is more recent, rescued near his house in Inglewood, the Haunted Ranch.

“I have found pit bulls on a hill near here — where I live,” Williams said. “All through here. Someone is breeding them and dumping them here. I feel bad for them because I think the pit bulls are up against it. The fighting still goes on, which is bad for

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them, and while it does, there’s more legislation against the dogs themselves.

“We’re talking about the all-American dog if you really look back. The Little Rascals years, that was the all-American dog.

There were six or seven Peteys. It just goes to show that society has created a little more of the bad rap on them.”

A neighbor had called Williams last December and told him of a large dog running around on the street. It was Royal. Veterinarians have since told him that the dog has been shot, run over and has nerve damage in his tail, probably from being fought and yanked from a ring.

“My neighbor knows I work with Happy Tales and he called me up and told me about a big dog nearby that was running around and making the other dogs crazy,” he recalls. “So I went over and picked him up, and I could tell the first thing was that he didn’t want me to leave him. He wanted to be in your lap — you couldn’t leave the room. He’s had some issues, but he’s adapted really well and he gets along great with my other two.”

Williams identifies with the pit bull, and because he believes they are often misunderstood and miscast — like himself, he speaks for them. He also has walked in support of them on Pit Bull Awareness Day. “I see a lot of them around this side of town, abandoned, I guess, and I feel bad for them. But it’s a problem everywhere.

I’m a big fan of the all-American dog. There are other breeds who can be aggressive, too. I just think we need to understand them … some people see aggression and don’t understand it and get abusive with them.”

For Williams, all animal rescue and care is good karma.

“It comes around, the karma of the dogs,” he says. “And it’s therapeutic for the people and the animal. I say this a lot — not everyone is cut out for people, they’re cut out for animals. It’s a therapeutic thing for a lot of people, just having a cat or a dog.

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“I’m no professional, but I try to do what I can. If I find out about a dog that’s running around, or if I find a lost dog myself, I post it on my Facebook page and find people that are interested — I’ve done it for maybe nine or 10 dogs. And I follow up on them. All of them post pictures and stay in touch with me.

I’ve helped some people find a home for ones because they couldn’t keep it up. I do it on my own.”

Hank3 has always cut his own path. He stays relevant musically by caring about what he does, just as he does for homeless animals.

Ranch Cattle Callin are intensely metal-driven records on which Hank3 plays all the instruments. ADD is a pressure-dropping, doom-rock statement, and Cattle Callin explores what he calls the “cattle-core” sound, featuring a chaotic, blistering speed-metal woven in and around actual cattle auctioneering. All country crazy funk-punk of the highest order.

Williams has been on the road most of 2012 in support of these records and his new label. The fact that he has been free to do his own thing has been liberating, but has also translated to even more hard work — some-

Ranch, where he has a home studio.

“Yeah, I’m still on the road, with the four records out last fall,” he says. “But I’ve recently done a few songs with Junior Brown over here.

I primarily played drums on some songs with him. And I’ve recorded a project for Alamo Jones and mixed it here. I’m working on a song with David Allan Coe that should be coming out soon.

“We’re going to try to work the road until winter — we’re in road mode right now. I’ll try to get back into some recording soon maybe after that.”

“I’m no professional, but I try to do what I can. . . I’ve done it for maybe nine or 10 dogs.

And I follow up on them. All of them post pictures and stay in touch with me.”

There are those who have wanted him to conform more to the music industry — play more off of the sainted name. He doesn’t have to. The name isn’t going anywhere. In January of 2011, after 14 acrid years, he finally gained his much-publicized split from Curb Records, and he immediately launched his own label — Hank3 Records.

In September, he released four records — Ghost To A Ghost/Guttertown, a double-album set, and a pair of single albums, Attention Deficit Domination and 3 Bar Ranch Cattle Callin. The double set is a straight-shooting country collection, flavored with his trademark hellbilly sound, and heavily weighted with Cajun influences and a pervasive, lonesome mood.

The legendary Tom Waits appears on Ghost To A Ghost.

Attention Deficit Domination and 3 Bar

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thing from which he has never shrunk. He now wears all the hats for Hank3 Records, except for publicity and distribution — he has a deal with Megaforce Records (MRI).

Watching Hank3 live onstage can be therapy in itself — both for him and his fans. He leaves nothing on the table, and like the animals he champions, he aims to please. This is an artist known to perform three-hour live shows in his effort to deliver.

Always driven, he has somehow found the time for other projects during road breaks.

And, as further proof of his caretaking side, Hank3 has recently appeared on former Scorcher Jason Ringenberg’s Farmer Jason and Buddies: Nature Jams, a children’s record, singing of manatees.

And there’s the work he’s managed to squeeze in here and there at the Haunted

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The Happy Tales event is his only Nashville date in the offing, at least between now and the fall, so the hope is for a good turnout. To Hank3, it’s all about the commitment.

“Living here, I started finding all kinds of dogs,” he explains. “It’s gotten a little better, but there’s still a real need [for help]. Not just here — it’s the same problem everywhere. If I see them while I’m out, I try to help them.

That’s why I’m committed to the show and to Happy Tales. They are out there trying to make a difference with the spaying and neutering, and trying to find homes for them. It’s a real responsibility.”

Tickets are available online at marathonmusicworks.com or at Hank3’s One Big Wag on Facebook, and at the venue on the day of the show. For more information about the shelter or the show, contact Happy Tales in Franklin at 615-791-0827.

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Photo by Glenn Sweitzer

“I’m no professional, but I try to do what I can. If I find out about a dog that’s running around, or if I find a lost dog myself, I post it on my Facebook page and find people that are interested — I’ve done it for maybe nine or 10 dogs. And I follow up on them. All of them post pictures and stay in touch with me.

I’ve helped some people find a home for ones because they couldn’t keep it up. I do it on my own.”

Hank3 has always cut his own path. He stays relevant musically by caring about what he does, just as he does for homeless animals.

Ranch Cattle Callin are intensely metal-driven records on which Hank3 plays all the instruments. ADD is a pressure-dropping, doom-rock statement, and Cattle Callin explores what he calls the “cattle-core” sound, featuring a chaotic, blistering speed-metal woven in and around actual cattle auctioneering. All country crazy funk-punk of the highest order.

Williams has been on the road most of 2012 in support of these records and his new label. The fact that he has been free to do his own thing has been liberating, but has also translated to even more hard work — some-

Ranch, where he has a home studio.

“Yeah, I’m still on the road, with the four records out last fall,” he says. “But I’ve recently done a few songs with Junior Brown over here.

I primarily played drums on some songs with him. And I’ve recorded a project for Alamo Jones and mixed it here. I’m working on a song with David Allan Coe that should be coming out soon.

“We’re going to try to work the road until winter — we’re in road mode right now. I’ll try to get back into some recording soon maybe after that.”

“I’m no professional, but I try to do what I can. . . I’ve done it for maybe nine or 10 dogs.

And I follow up on them. All of them post pictures and stay in touch with me.”

There are those who have wanted him to conform more to the music industry — play more off of the sainted name. He doesn’t have to. The name isn’t going anywhere. In January of 2011, after 14 acrid years, he finally gained his much-publicized split from Curb Records, and he immediately launched his own label — Hank3 Records.

In September, he released four records — Ghost To A Ghost/Guttertown, a double-album set, and a pair of single albums, Attention Deficit Domination and 3 Bar Ranch Cattle Callin. The double set is a straight-shooting country collection, flavored with his trademark hellbilly sound, and heavily weighted with Cajun influences and a pervasive, lonesome mood.

The legendary Tom Waits appears on Ghost To A Ghost.

Attention Deficit Domination and 3 Bar

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thing from which he has never shrunk. He now wears all the hats for Hank3 Records, except for publicity and distribution — he has a deal with Megaforce Records (MRI).

Watching Hank3 live onstage can be therapy in itself — both for him and his fans. He leaves nothing on the table, and like the animals he champions, he aims to please. This is an artist known to perform three-hour live shows in his effort to deliver.

Always driven, he has somehow found the time for other projects during road breaks.

And, as further proof of his caretaking side, Hank3 has recently appeared on former Scorcher Jason Ringenberg’s Farmer Jason and Buddies: Nature Jams, a children’s record, singing of manatees.

And there’s the work he’s managed to squeeze in here and there at the Haunted

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The Happy Tales event is his only Nashville date in the offing, at least between now and the fall, so the hope is for a good turnout. To Hank3, it’s all about the commitment.

“Living here, I started finding all kinds of dogs,” he explains. “It’s gotten a little better, but there’s still a real need [for help]. Not just here — it’s the same problem everywhere. If I see them while I’m out, I try to help them.

That’s why I’m committed to the show and to Happy Tales. They are out there trying to make a difference with the spaying and neutering, and trying to find homes for them. It’s a real responsibility.”

Tickets are available online at marathonmusicworks.com or at Hank3’s One Big Wag on Facebook, and at the venue on the day of the show. For more information about the shelter or the show, contact Happy Tales in Franklin at 615-791-0827.

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Willy Daunic ENJOYS A GOOD CHALLENGE

By R o n Wynn | PHOTOS BY STACIE H U C K E BA

When the national ESPN network feed ends at 3 p.m. each day and the sounds of the locally produced The Sports Revolution begins, there is a subtle, yet noticeable difference in tone and sensibility on radio station 102.5 FM The Game.

The Sports Revolution’s Willy Daunic and cohost Greg Pogue, are obviously friends on and off the set.

“H

ow much have you been following the Twitter feed today?” Daunic asks during a recent show in reference to the growing anxiety over whether Nashville Predators’ free agent defenseman Ryan Suter will return to the team or sign with a rival.

“Not much,” Pogue deadpans.

While Daunic is billed as principal host, he easily shares the spotlight. During the show’s first hour, variety and intimacy are hallmarks. The opening hour is also spiced by Daunic and Pogue’s mix of verbal jabs and sports info. At one point, Pogue wonders why his microphone is placed so high, saying it looks like it’s for (the late) “Manute Bol.” Then when Daunic asks him a trivia question regarding Bol’s alma mater, he correctly answers, “The University of Bridgeport.”

Over the show’s first half, they provide a capsule version of the day in sports, covering Wimbledon news and the loss by Nashville’s Brian Baker, as well as free agency in the NHL. All this plus musical excerpts during bumper segments and transitional moments from Bruce Springsteen, James Brown and Lee Greenwood, among others.

A former two-sport athlete at Vanderbilt University, Daunic has successfully navigated transitions and overcome challenges for much of his life. As a boy, he adjusted to a family move from New York City to the radically different environment of Maitland, Fla. Later, he juggled commitments to basketball and baseball as a Vanderbilt student-athlete. Then after two seasons as a professional athlete, he shifted from the baseball diamond to the broadcasting booth.

Competitiveness has always been an important aspect of Daunic’s personality. His athletic skills were good enough to make him an all-state baseball and basketball player his senior year. Daunic turned down a contract offer from the San Diego Padres to accept a basketball scholarship at Vandy, where he also played baseball.

His busy college slate often involved playing both sports on the same day, sometimes even switching uniforms and proceeding from the court to the

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Willy Daunic ENJOYS A GOOD CHALLENGE

By R o n Wynn | PHOTOS BY STACIE H U C K E BA

When the national ESPN network feed ends at 3 p.m. each day and the sounds of the locally produced The Sports Revolution begins, there is a subtle, yet noticeable difference in tone and sensibility on radio station 102.5 FM The Game.

The Sports Revolution’s Willy Daunic and cohost Greg Pogue, are obviously friends on and off the set.

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ow much have you been following the Twitter feed today?” Daunic asks during a recent show in reference to the growing anxiety over whether Nashville Predators’ free agent defenseman Ryan Suter will return to the team or sign with a rival.

“Not much,” Pogue deadpans.

While Daunic is billed as principal host, he easily shares the spotlight. During the show’s first hour, variety and intimacy are hallmarks. The opening hour is also spiced by Daunic and Pogue’s mix of verbal jabs and sports info. At one point, Pogue wonders why his microphone is placed so high, saying it looks like it’s for (the late) “Manute Bol.” Then when Daunic asks him a trivia question regarding Bol’s alma mater, he correctly answers, “The University of Bridgeport.”

Over the show’s first half, they provide a capsule version of the day in sports, covering Wimbledon news and the loss by Nashville’s Brian Baker, as well as free agency in the NHL. All this plus musical excerpts during bumper segments and transitional moments from Bruce Springsteen, James Brown and Lee Greenwood, among others.

A former two-sport athlete at Vanderbilt University, Daunic has successfully navigated transitions and overcome challenges for much of his life. As a boy, he adjusted to a family move from New York City to the radically different environment of Maitland, Fla. Later, he juggled commitments to basketball and baseball as a Vanderbilt student-athlete. Then after two seasons as a professional athlete, he shifted from the baseball diamond to the broadcasting booth.

Competitiveness has always been an important aspect of Daunic’s personality. His athletic skills were good enough to make him an all-state baseball and basketball player his senior year. Daunic turned down a contract offer from the San Diego Padres to accept a basketball scholarship at Vandy, where he also played baseball.

His busy college slate often involved playing both sports on the same day, sometimes even switching uniforms and proceeding from the court to the

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diamond or vice versa. But baseball was the sport Daunic loved most. Coach Eddie Fogler allowed him to retain his basketball scholarship, even as he became a full-time baseball participant his senior year. He did well enough to be drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 25th round of the 1993 draft.

But after two years of minor league baseball and a less than exemplary set of statistics (one homer), Daunic was released by the Blue Jays.

He then faced the issue of what to do with the rest of his life. Fortunately, while at Vandy, he had met Plaster, who got him a part-time job at radio station WTN 99.7 FM answering phones and reading a daily trivia question. That early employment deal quickly evolved into a mentor/friend relationship that has continued to this day.

For over 18 years at two different radio stations (and also on television at Fox 17), Daunic teamed with George Plaster to become Music City’s top-ranked sports talk duo. Over that period, Daunic progressed from raw novice to a polished pro. He became able to not only deal with the rigors of studio exchanges with knowledgeable, sometimes rowdy fans, but

is the afternoon-drive time engine for the equally fresh venture. The new gig features Daunic as principal host alongside Pogue, former executive sports editor of The Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro) and former Nashville Banner sports writer, as well as a longtime radio (WNSR) and television (WNAB) broadcaster.

“Of course, there are two aspects to this venture, and some things that go beyond just my hosting,” he continues. “We feel now as football season is approaching we’re really ready as a station to challenge The Zone and 560 AM. As a music station making the switch to sports talk, there were structural things that

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102.5 had to do. We had to get the right people in place in other areas like the sales force. We also needed to make certain the signal was strong enough to be heard in areas across the city, and be sure we had everything we needed so we could really compete in the marketplace. I feel we definitely have that right now.”

Sports talk hosts come in many varieties, including the loud and brash, folksy intellectuals, stat-obsessed geeks and calm philosophers.

Daunic cites conversational acumen and analytical flair as his principal strengths. “I’m the kind of person who likes to keep things light,” Daunic says in evaluating his broadcasting style. “I try to have fun, and I tend to be more analytical in terms of how I approach callers. The thing about being a former athlete as opposed to a trained broadcaster is I know what the people on the field — or on the court or diamond — are going through in terms of the physical demands and amount of time and preparation that’s gone into getting where they are. But you’ve also got to be able to explain that to the audience in a way where it doesn’t seem as though you are disregarding their perspective.”

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them as part of our programming is a great thing, especially as we move into football and basketball seasons.”

An East Nashville resident in the Lockland Springs neighborhood since the fall of 2000, family is another important element in Daunic’s life. He and his wife Erin have two children — a daughter Evans who is nine and a six-year-old son Mahoney, plus his parents and cousin also live in East Nashville. Each summer, Daunic runs a summer camp for children and he also does some coaching in the Upward basketball league at First Church of the Nazarene when possible. He also works

wouldn’t advise against it. I would be honest with them about the rigors and challenges of the job, but I would definitely encourage them to get into it if indeed it is truly what they love.”

That is clearly the case with Daunic, who acknowledges that hosting The Sports Revolution takes an inordinate amount of his time.

But he’s also been studio host for the Predators pregame, intermission and postgame shows since they began in 1998. He’s also done assorted play-by-play and color commentary for college and high school baseball, football and basketball.

“Play-by-play is definitely something that I want to explore more later in my professional career,” Daunic says. “Right now, the show is my number one priority, and I also truly love doing the Predators shows, even though I never played hockey as a kid and really only became a big fan once Nashville got a team. Down the road, I hope it’s something that can become a bigger thing, but right now I’m very happy concentrating on the show and the Predators.”

Daunic looks forward to the coming of the college and pro football seasons, and says there are some intriguing things coming at 102.5 in the next few weeks. He’s also frank in his assessment of the marketplace’s competitive future for three sports talk stations. “We don’t really know if there’s room for three full-time sports talk stations,” Daunic concludes. “We’ll certainly find out in the next few months. The Zone has been the top dog for a while, and 560 AM has its niche, as well. I think we’re well-placed now and are really ready to hit our stride in terms of programming, personalities and infrastructure. So the fans will really make that decision for us. I think and hope there’s room for everyone, but you won’t know that until we’re all out there and we’ve been out there for a while.”

“The goal is to have a good mix of those things, and be certain that the show isn’t becoming overly static because we’re just reading tweets and email responses.”

“We feel now as football season is approaching we’re really ready as a station to challenge The Zone and 560 AM.” to also expand his activities into the ranks of pregame, intermission and postgame host for Nashville Predators radio broadcasts, despite lacking hockey experience.

“We started in a mentorship situation, but it has long since blossomed into something much closer and greater than that,” Daunic says of his relationship with Plaster. “We socialize together, my children are close to him, and we talk all the time. He was the person who helped me make that transition from athlete to broadcaster, because the toughest thing for any former athlete is being able to express what you know in a succinct manner that both a knowledgeable and casual fan can understand.

He helped me create a style and find a voice.

But the biggest lesson that he taught me was be yourself on the air. Don’t create some sort of phony personality or radio persona, because the audience will quickly discover it’s not honest and reject it.

“During all the years I was involved with George, a lot of times I hosted the show’s final hour. Plus, I got the chance to see him in operation and learn first-hand the rigors of hosting and what that entails.

Now Daunic is tackling his greatest professional challenge. Since November, he’s been the principal host for The Sports Revolution.

The program airs weekdays from 3-7 p.m., and

athletes who are big factors in other sports such as R.A. Dickey (New York Mets) and David Price (Tampa Bay Rays) in major league baseball or Brian Baker in tennis. So you have to be careful to try and get those things in while still feeding that driving thirst for football talk.”

Daunic deems himself “old school” to some extent in terms of his views on the impact of social media on sports talk radio. “I personally enjoy a lot more conversation and engaging a caller as opposed to just letting a show be dominated solely by tweets and email,” Daunic explains. “Of course you definitely must have a presence of social media, and we do integrate tweets and emails into the program. The goal is to have a good mix of those things, and be certain that the show isn’t becoming overly static because we’re just reading tweets and email responses.

“Now with the PPM meters (Portable People Meters) that can measure audience reaction and response in such a specific manner, we have to constantly weigh ratings response in terms of deciding what drives a show. The thing that you don’t want to do necessarily is let that totally guide what you do to the point where you ignore a good story because you don’t think it will drive the meter. But at the same time, we’re in a very competitive situation, so you do have to pay attention to what those meters tell you about what stories and what things seem to generate response.”

One major asset 102.5 FM has in its ongoing battle with The Zone and 560 AM is being Nashville’s ESPN affiliate. “That (the ESPN connection) is huge because it gives you such access to a host of people and events,” Daunic said. “It gives us major league baseball, the NFL, the NBA, big-time college football conferences, as well as the SEC, and many of the major writers and figures in sports. Having

“I’ve been real impressed over the years with the continued level of sophistication that you get from callers,” Daunic adds. “It is especially interesting how much hockey knowledge they’ve acquired over time, and also the degree of emphasis and interest in pro football. Nashville may not have the reputation of places like New York, Philly, Boston or Chicago, but I would argue that the level of passion and interest is just as high, especially in the SEC.” “I feel like I continue to grow as a host every day, and that fan interest continues to rise in this market,” Daunic continues. “If you had told me when I first started that there would be a time when the SEC would not dominate sports talk conversation, I never would have believed it, even after the Oilers first moved to Memphis. But since they moved here and became the Titans, pro football talk has become huge. In fact, football in general, pro and college, tends to rule the roost even when we’re in July and nothing is really happening.

“People still want to talk about transactions and possible trades, even when we have local

with various organizations and foundations. In addition, this summer his parents, Joel and Ann, will also be running a week-long summer camp “The Generation Connection” from July 9-13 in East Nashville. The concept features matching senior citizens with children ages 7-12 to participate in physical and educational activities that connect them with their communities. So when Daunic is asked what he would say if either of his children asked him about a career in sports talk radio, it’s much more than just a throwaway interview question.

“I would tell them about any job they are considering that the best thing you can have in life is something you enjoy, and something that you don’t view as work or a job,” Daunic says “So if they really love sports, and want to go into sports talk or sports journalism, I

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diamond or vice versa. But baseball was the sport Daunic loved most. Coach Eddie Fogler allowed him to retain his basketball scholarship, even as he became a full-time baseball participant his senior year. He did well enough to be drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 25th round of the 1993 draft.

But after two years of minor league baseball and a less than exemplary set of statistics (one homer), Daunic was released by the Blue Jays.

He then faced the issue of what to do with the rest of his life. Fortunately, while at Vandy, he had met Plaster, who got him a part-time job at radio station WTN 99.7 FM answering phones and reading a daily trivia question. That early employment deal quickly evolved into a mentor/friend relationship that has continued to this day.

For over 18 years at two different radio stations (and also on television at Fox 17), Daunic teamed with George Plaster to become Music City’s top-ranked sports talk duo. Over that period, Daunic progressed from raw novice to a polished pro. He became able to not only deal with the rigors of studio exchanges with knowledgeable, sometimes rowdy fans, but

is the afternoon-drive time engine for the equally fresh venture. The new gig features Daunic as principal host alongside Pogue, former executive sports editor of The Daily News Journal (Murfreesboro) and former Nashville Banner sports writer, as well as a longtime radio (WNSR) and television (WNAB) broadcaster.

“Of course, there are two aspects to this venture, and some things that go beyond just my hosting,” he continues. “We feel now as football season is approaching we’re really ready as a station to challenge The Zone and 560 AM. As a music station making the switch to sports talk, there were structural things that

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102.5 had to do. We had to get the right people in place in other areas like the sales force. We also needed to make certain the signal was strong enough to be heard in areas across the city, and be sure we had everything we needed so we could really compete in the marketplace. I feel we definitely have that right now.”

Sports talk hosts come in many varieties, including the loud and brash, folksy intellectuals, stat-obsessed geeks and calm philosophers.

Daunic cites conversational acumen and analytical flair as his principal strengths. “I’m the kind of person who likes to keep things light,” Daunic says in evaluating his broadcasting style. “I try to have fun, and I tend to be more analytical in terms of how I approach callers. The thing about being a former athlete as opposed to a trained broadcaster is I know what the people on the field — or on the court or diamond — are going through in terms of the physical demands and amount of time and preparation that’s gone into getting where they are. But you’ve also got to be able to explain that to the audience in a way where it doesn’t seem as though you are disregarding their perspective.”

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them as part of our programming is a great thing, especially as we move into football and basketball seasons.”

An East Nashville resident in the Lockland Springs neighborhood since the fall of 2000, family is another important element in Daunic’s life. He and his wife Erin have two children — a daughter Evans who is nine and a six-year-old son Mahoney, plus his parents and cousin also live in East Nashville. Each summer, Daunic runs a summer camp for children and he also does some coaching in the Upward basketball league at First Church of the Nazarene when possible. He also works

wouldn’t advise against it. I would be honest with them about the rigors and challenges of the job, but I would definitely encourage them to get into it if indeed it is truly what they love.”

That is clearly the case with Daunic, who acknowledges that hosting The Sports Revolution takes an inordinate amount of his time.

But he’s also been studio host for the Predators pregame, intermission and postgame shows since they began in 1998. He’s also done assorted play-by-play and color commentary for college and high school baseball, football and basketball.

“Play-by-play is definitely something that I want to explore more later in my professional career,” Daunic says. “Right now, the show is my number one priority, and I also truly love doing the Predators shows, even though I never played hockey as a kid and really only became a big fan once Nashville got a team. Down the road, I hope it’s something that can become a bigger thing, but right now I’m very happy concentrating on the show and the Predators.”

Daunic looks forward to the coming of the college and pro football seasons, and says there are some intriguing things coming at 102.5 in the next few weeks. He’s also frank in his assessment of the marketplace’s competitive future for three sports talk stations. “We don’t really know if there’s room for three full-time sports talk stations,” Daunic concludes. “We’ll certainly find out in the next few months. The Zone has been the top dog for a while, and 560 AM has its niche, as well. I think we’re well-placed now and are really ready to hit our stride in terms of programming, personalities and infrastructure. So the fans will really make that decision for us. I think and hope there’s room for everyone, but you won’t know that until we’re all out there and we’ve been out there for a while.”

“The goal is to have a good mix of those things, and be certain that the show isn’t becoming overly static because we’re just reading tweets and email responses.”

“We feel now as football season is approaching we’re really ready as a station to challenge The Zone and 560 AM.” to also expand his activities into the ranks of pregame, intermission and postgame host for Nashville Predators radio broadcasts, despite lacking hockey experience.

“We started in a mentorship situation, but it has long since blossomed into something much closer and greater than that,” Daunic says of his relationship with Plaster. “We socialize together, my children are close to him, and we talk all the time. He was the person who helped me make that transition from athlete to broadcaster, because the toughest thing for any former athlete is being able to express what you know in a succinct manner that both a knowledgeable and casual fan can understand.

He helped me create a style and find a voice.

But the biggest lesson that he taught me was be yourself on the air. Don’t create some sort of phony personality or radio persona, because the audience will quickly discover it’s not honest and reject it.

“During all the years I was involved with George, a lot of times I hosted the show’s final hour. Plus, I got the chance to see him in operation and learn first-hand the rigors of hosting and what that entails.

Now Daunic is tackling his greatest professional challenge. Since November, he’s been the principal host for The Sports Revolution.

The program airs weekdays from 3-7 p.m., and

athletes who are big factors in other sports such as R.A. Dickey (New York Mets) and David Price (Tampa Bay Rays) in major league baseball or Brian Baker in tennis. So you have to be careful to try and get those things in while still feeding that driving thirst for football talk.”

Daunic deems himself “old school” to some extent in terms of his views on the impact of social media on sports talk radio. “I personally enjoy a lot more conversation and engaging a caller as opposed to just letting a show be dominated solely by tweets and email,” Daunic explains. “Of course you definitely must have a presence of social media, and we do integrate tweets and emails into the program. The goal is to have a good mix of those things, and be certain that the show isn’t becoming overly static because we’re just reading tweets and email responses.

“Now with the PPM meters (Portable People Meters) that can measure audience reaction and response in such a specific manner, we have to constantly weigh ratings response in terms of deciding what drives a show. The thing that you don’t want to do necessarily is let that totally guide what you do to the point where you ignore a good story because you don’t think it will drive the meter. But at the same time, we’re in a very competitive situation, so you do have to pay attention to what those meters tell you about what stories and what things seem to generate response.”

One major asset 102.5 FM has in its ongoing battle with The Zone and 560 AM is being Nashville’s ESPN affiliate. “That (the ESPN connection) is huge because it gives you such access to a host of people and events,” Daunic said. “It gives us major league baseball, the NFL, the NBA, big-time college football conferences, as well as the SEC, and many of the major writers and figures in sports. Having

“I’ve been real impressed over the years with the continued level of sophistication that you get from callers,” Daunic adds. “It is especially interesting how much hockey knowledge they’ve acquired over time, and also the degree of emphasis and interest in pro football. Nashville may not have the reputation of places like New York, Philly, Boston or Chicago, but I would argue that the level of passion and interest is just as high, especially in the SEC.” “I feel like I continue to grow as a host every day, and that fan interest continues to rise in this market,” Daunic continues. “If you had told me when I first started that there would be a time when the SEC would not dominate sports talk conversation, I never would have believed it, even after the Oilers first moved to Memphis. But since they moved here and became the Titans, pro football talk has become huge. In fact, football in general, pro and college, tends to rule the roost even when we’re in July and nothing is really happening.

“People still want to talk about transactions and possible trades, even when we have local

with various organizations and foundations. In addition, this summer his parents, Joel and Ann, will also be running a week-long summer camp “The Generation Connection” from July 9-13 in East Nashville. The concept features matching senior citizens with children ages 7-12 to participate in physical and educational activities that connect them with their communities. So when Daunic is asked what he would say if either of his children asked him about a career in sports talk radio, it’s much more than just a throwaway interview question.

“I would tell them about any job they are considering that the best thing you can have in life is something you enjoy, and something that you don’t view as work or a job,” Daunic says “So if they really love sports, and want to go into sports talk or sports journalism, I

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Rarities,

Oddities, Bargains and more. . .

Long before there was Riverside Village, there was M&M Furniture

By Liz Jungers Hughes | Photos by Stacie Huckeba

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A search for secondhand treasure in East Nashville will likely lead you to the corner of Riverside Drive and McGavock Pike, where the ever-changing inventory of shabby chic home furnishings at M&M Furniture, along with vintage décor finds at Old Made Good and the collection of ladies’ consignment clothing and accessories at Thrifty Threads have made Riverside Village a destination for thrift store thrill seekers.

It wasn’t always so.

M&M Furniture proprietor Roger Myer (pictured above) opened shop 15 years ago, when the only other nearby business was the Citgo on the opposite corner. “We were the only ones here for eight years,” Myer says.

It may have been a lonely corner then, but the development of Riverside Village and the revitalization of the neighborhood have been kind to M&M Furniture. While the store retains its humble sensibility, it feels right at home in the cool, quirky neighborhood that has grown up around it.

Myer regularly places attention-grabbing merchandise outside the store, often drawing in regulars who search for unique and affordable items while lending the shop a lively, friendly vibe. Over time, Myer

has come to know his neighbors in Inglewood, many of whom supply the store with its eclectic mix of secondhand merchandise. “People know I’m here and bring me stuff,” Myer says. “I never have to go out anymore.”

In the past, Myer relied on visits to area storage auctions to find merchandise — that is, until the A&E reality show Storage Wars changed everything. “When storage units are abandoned,” goes the voiceover that opens each episode, “the treasures within are put up for auction” — and the cameras are there to capture the drama that follows and keep score of the winners ($90,000 profit on limited edition Elvis Presley newspapers? Yes!) and losers ($2,000 for an Abraham Lincoln-style hat worth $50? Yikes!).

Though rumors about the show’s fakery abound, Myer says storage

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Rarities,

Oddities, Bargains and more. . .

Long before there was Riverside Village, there was M&M Furniture

By Liz Jungers Hughes | Photos by Stacie Huckeba

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A search for secondhand treasure in East Nashville will likely lead you to the corner of Riverside Drive and McGavock Pike, where the ever-changing inventory of shabby chic home furnishings at M&M Furniture, along with vintage décor finds at Old Made Good and the collection of ladies’ consignment clothing and accessories at Thrifty Threads have made Riverside Village a destination for thrift store thrill seekers.

It wasn’t always so.

M&M Furniture proprietor Roger Myer (pictured above) opened shop 15 years ago, when the only other nearby business was the Citgo on the opposite corner. “We were the only ones here for eight years,” Myer says.

It may have been a lonely corner then, but the development of Riverside Village and the revitalization of the neighborhood have been kind to M&M Furniture. While the store retains its humble sensibility, it feels right at home in the cool, quirky neighborhood that has grown up around it.

Myer regularly places attention-grabbing merchandise outside the store, often drawing in regulars who search for unique and affordable items while lending the shop a lively, friendly vibe. Over time, Myer

has come to know his neighbors in Inglewood, many of whom supply the store with its eclectic mix of secondhand merchandise. “People know I’m here and bring me stuff,” Myer says. “I never have to go out anymore.”

In the past, Myer relied on visits to area storage auctions to find merchandise — that is, until the A&E reality show Storage Wars changed everything. “When storage units are abandoned,” goes the voiceover that opens each episode, “the treasures within are put up for auction” — and the cameras are there to capture the drama that follows and keep score of the winners ($90,000 profit on limited edition Elvis Presley newspapers? Yes!) and losers ($2,000 for an Abraham Lincoln-style hat worth $50? Yikes!).

Though rumors about the show’s fakery abound, Myer says storage

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auctions function just like they do on Storage Wars, and no one is allowed to go inside them before making a purchase. “It used to be that 5 or 10 people might show up and a unit might sell for $100 or $200,” Myer explains. Since Storage Wars became a hit, auctions will now draw crowds that drive the prices up to several hundred or even thousands of dollars.

Myer’s best storage unit score was about $1,000 worth of gold jewelry that he bought for under $100. But more often than not, he didn’t find much of anything, especially after the flood of 2010. “People lost a lot of their stuff and didn’t have so much to store anymore,” Myer says. These days, the deals come to Myer while he minds the store, and that’s how he prefers it.

Much of his stock comes in from elderly neighbors cleaning out their attics or garages, and Myer enjoys passing it down to the younger generation, who look for inexpensive vintage wooden furniture within the style of area homes built in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. Nothing in the store has a price tag, and a few of the more unique items may not be for sale at any price — but don’t be afraid to ask. Myer memorizes the price of every item in the store. Metal bed frames, of which there are many, run $25 for a twin up to $40 for a king. There are bargains to be had on everything from vintage lamps, framed art, bookshelves, dressers, appliances and lawnmowers.

Myer never knows what might walk through the door. Customers often bring him signs to decorate the store with, including a Walk the Line movie poster from a neighborhood policeman who worked the Nashville premiere, and a framed portrait of Frank James, Jesse’s brother. One of the store’s most unique pieces is a fireman’s hat that was the first style worn as part of the uniform at the 16th & Holly Street firehouse, which hangs from the ceiling just inside the entrance. Myer no longer has his prized cigar box guitar or 19th century saddlebags, but the stuffed drunken cowboy riding a mule? That he will never sell.

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auctions function just like they do on Storage Wars, and no one is allowed to go inside them before making a purchase. “It used to be that 5 or 10 people might show up and a unit might sell for $100 or $200,” Myer explains. Since Storage Wars became a hit, auctions will now draw crowds that drive the prices up to several hundred or even thousands of dollars.

Myer’s best storage unit score was about $1,000 worth of gold jewelry that he bought for under $100. But more often than not, he didn’t find much of anything, especially after the flood of 2010. “People lost a lot of their stuff and didn’t have so much to store anymore,” Myer says. These days, the deals come to Myer while he minds the store, and that’s how he prefers it.

Much of his stock comes in from elderly neighbors cleaning out their attics or garages, and Myer enjoys passing it down to the younger generation, who look for inexpensive vintage wooden furniture within the style of area homes built in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s. Nothing in the store has a price tag, and a few of the more unique items may not be for sale at any price — but don’t be afraid to ask. Myer memorizes the price of every item in the store. Metal bed frames, of which there are many, run $25 for a twin up to $40 for a king. There are bargains to be had on everything from vintage lamps, framed art, bookshelves, dressers, appliances and lawnmowers.

Myer never knows what might walk through the door. Customers often bring him signs to decorate the store with, including a Walk the Line movie poster from a neighborhood policeman who worked the Nashville premiere, and a framed portrait of Frank James, Jesse’s brother. One of the store’s most unique pieces is a fireman’s hat that was the first style worn as part of the uniform at the 16th & Holly Street firehouse, which hangs from the ceiling just inside the entrance. Myer no longer has his prized cigar box guitar or 19th century saddlebags, but the stuffed drunken cowboy riding a mule? That he will never sell.

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ike a growing number of American couples, late into their second pregnancy, Faye Hunt and her husband Christopher Guanajuato elected to have a home birth rather than a conventional hospital delivery.

“What sealed the deal was a tour of the labor and delivery floor,” Hunt recalls. “It brought me back to birthing my son in the hospital, and I knew then that what I was wanting all along was to stay at home. At that point, we officially switched to a midwife.”

According to reports released early this year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, home births have increased by 29 percent since 2004. The local numbers echo the national trend. The Tennessee Department of Health reports Davison County has had an increase from 43 home births in 2008 to 63 in 2010 and a majority of those births were in East Nashville.

If the old stereotype still exists that all midwives and home birthers are hippy-dippy, crunchy-granola types, the statistics suggest otherwise. The reports revealed that married women who are pregnant with a second or third baby are more likely to choose home birth. These women are highly educated and informed about their options and their responsibilities.

“East Nashville is more progressive,” Heather Wilson, a certified profes-

sional midwife, says. “These women have a great community.”

East Nashville mothers who spoke with The East Nashvillian about home birthing shared specific reasons for their decision. They all felt home birth was safe and midwives could offer a better continuity of care. They also felt birth was a natural occurrence and should be family-centered. Birth, they said, should be treated as a sacred, spiritual event not a medical emergency.

“Home birth is becoming a national conversion,” says Sheryl Shafter, who is also a certified professional midwife. “Women want more options. I get a lot more calls from the city than I used to.”

For any expectant couple, the primary concern is safety. Worldwide, most births are attended by trained midwives who are considered safe and affordable practitioners. In Europe, over 70 percent of births take place at home with lower infant and maternal mortality rates than the United States.

Expecting mothers like Lauren Cardwell begin their decision-making process with research. “The more I learned, the more I wanted to have a home birth,” she says. “I didn’t know how well-trained they were. I was blown away by their knowledge and continuity of care.” Cardwell was drawn into the profession because of her own home birth experience and is now a professional doula.

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ike a growing number of American couples, late into their second pregnancy, Faye Hunt and her husband Christopher Guanajuato elected to have a home birth rather than a conventional hospital delivery.

“What sealed the deal was a tour of the labor and delivery floor,” Hunt recalls. “It brought me back to birthing my son in the hospital, and I knew then that what I was wanting all along was to stay at home. At that point, we officially switched to a midwife.”

According to reports released early this year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, home births have increased by 29 percent since 2004. The local numbers echo the national trend. The Tennessee Department of Health reports Davison County has had an increase from 43 home births in 2008 to 63 in 2010 and a majority of those births were in East Nashville.

If the old stereotype still exists that all midwives and home birthers are hippy-dippy, crunchy-granola types, the statistics suggest otherwise. The reports revealed that married women who are pregnant with a second or third baby are more likely to choose home birth. These women are highly educated and informed about their options and their responsibilities.

“East Nashville is more progressive,” Heather Wilson, a certified profes-

sional midwife, says. “These women have a great community.”

East Nashville mothers who spoke with The East Nashvillian about home birthing shared specific reasons for their decision. They all felt home birth was safe and midwives could offer a better continuity of care. They also felt birth was a natural occurrence and should be family-centered. Birth, they said, should be treated as a sacred, spiritual event not a medical emergency.

“Home birth is becoming a national conversion,” says Sheryl Shafter, who is also a certified professional midwife. “Women want more options. I get a lot more calls from the city than I used to.”

For any expectant couple, the primary concern is safety. Worldwide, most births are attended by trained midwives who are considered safe and affordable practitioners. In Europe, over 70 percent of births take place at home with lower infant and maternal mortality rates than the United States.

Expecting mothers like Lauren Cardwell begin their decision-making process with research. “The more I learned, the more I wanted to have a home birth,” she says. “I didn’t know how well-trained they were. I was blown away by their knowledge and continuity of care.” Cardwell was drawn into the profession because of her own home birth experience and is now a professional doula.

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Paternal grandmother Eileen Cardwell (above) holds her new grandson Lem while her granddaughter Lottie looks on. (below) Lottie holds her new brother's hand.

In 2000, the Tennessee legislature established the Council of Certified Professional Midwifery.

The organization implemented a universal standard of care for what used to be called “lay midwives.” One of those lay midwives was Wilson, who recently retired after 32 years and 1,500 births.

“I had to change with the times,” she says. Today, each midwife works with a physician and has emergency backup if complications arise. When Wilson first started, backup doctors sometimes were hard to locate.

“There are some phenomenal doctors who are working to develop a model of collaboration and communication between the midwives and advanced care,” Shafter says. “Good communication makes it safe.”

Regarding her unplanned home birth in January, Jessie Goodwin says, “We need to begin to look at birth as a positive and natural part of life.” Goodwin was seeing a certified nurse-midwife at a local birthing center for her second child. The pregnancy was overdue by one week and the midwives gave her an “induction concoction,” a castor oil-based mixture. She drank the concoction that January morning and went about her day, not realizing the stomach cramping she was experiencing was actually labor. Within an hour and a half, the baby’s head was crowning. Goodwin’s mother caught the baby with no complications.

“A lot of people looked at me like I was crazy to have a home birth,” Laura Dona-

hue recalls. “It felt completely natural and normal for me.”

The lack of medical intervention at home was of primary importance to the mothers.

“Because I am in the medical field, I know how useful intervention can be, but I didn’t want to take those risks on my child unless I really needed to,” pediatric nurse practitioner and home birth mother Katie Wetsell says.

Sometimes with low-risk women these interventions interfere with the process. “I didn’t get to hold Quetzal Sol immediately,” Hunt says of her firstborn son. “Because of the vacuum extraction, he was cleaned up and assessed in a bassinet right next to me by a pediatrician so I saw him at first but didn’t get to hold him right away. But I did with Paloma.”

In addition to medical skills, midwives offer a variety of comfort measures unavailable or impractical at the hospital-like water births. “I loved the midwives for their balanced attitude of safety and health for the mother, the baby and the family,” Julie Duemler says.

Many women reported the family or sibling experience was the main reason they chose home birth. “I did it for the ‘after’ experience,” Wetsell explains. Her older son woke up and met his new brother who had been born in the middle of the night. “It felt more like a family experience to have him home with us.”

Wetsell had her first son in a birthing center attend by a certified nurse-midwife, “They didn’t do anything for me that I couldn’t do at home,” she recalls. “That birth gave me the confidence I needed to birth at home.”

Hunt was already pushing when her sister arrived to photograph the birth. Moments

later, her daughter slipped into the warm water of the birthing pool. The three-yearold brother woke up to his baby sister’s cries.

Hunt thinks the home birth made the sibling adjustment seamless because there was no separation like families experience in a hospital delivery.

After a good experience having a hospital birth with her first baby, Cardwell says, “We wanted to be in our own place. We didn’t want to be separated from our daughter and we wanted her to be there to welcome the new baby. Home birth honors the whole sacred family-centered experience.”

“Women are recognizing birth is more than physiology,” she adds. “It is a sacred moment rather than a medical event.”

These women shared a security and trust with their midwives to relax not only the body, but their spirits to the intensity of the whole birth experience. Like most spiritual experiences this comes with surrender.

“My practice has always been a ministry,” Wilson says. “It’s what God called me to do.”

Duemler remembers Wilson’s quiet reverence when her second baby was coming fast. “I was feeling out of control, like crazy out of control because he was coming so fast,” she recalls. “And Heather climbed up into bed with me and said, ‘Do you mind if I pray?’ And we said ‘no,’ and as Heather prayed, this ‘Come Holy Spirit Moment’ happened. The entire energy of the room changed. It was so powerful. It’s a moment I will never forget.”

Although the birth took place 10 years ago, the memory lingers as powerful and present as when it first occurred. It is this kind of birth experience that is drawing women back to the timeless practice of home birth — of women helping women.

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Paternal grandmother Eileen Cardwell (above) holds her new grandson Lem while her granddaughter Lottie looks on. (below) Lottie holds her new brother's hand.

In 2000, the Tennessee legislature established the Council of Certified Professional Midwifery.

The organization implemented a universal standard of care for what used to be called “lay midwives.” One of those lay midwives was Wilson, who recently retired after 32 years and 1,500 births.

“I had to change with the times,” she says. Today, each midwife works with a physician and has emergency backup if complications arise. When Wilson first started, backup doctors sometimes were hard to locate.

“There are some phenomenal doctors who are working to develop a model of collaboration and communication between the midwives and advanced care,” Shafter says. “Good communication makes it safe.”

Regarding her unplanned home birth in January, Jessie Goodwin says, “We need to begin to look at birth as a positive and natural part of life.” Goodwin was seeing a certified nurse-midwife at a local birthing center for her second child. The pregnancy was overdue by one week and the midwives gave her an “induction concoction,” a castor oil-based mixture. She drank the concoction that January morning and went about her day, not realizing the stomach cramping she was experiencing was actually labor. Within an hour and a half, the baby’s head was crowning. Goodwin’s mother caught the baby with no complications.

“A lot of people looked at me like I was crazy to have a home birth,” Laura Dona-

hue recalls. “It felt completely natural and normal for me.”

The lack of medical intervention at home was of primary importance to the mothers.

“Because I am in the medical field, I know how useful intervention can be, but I didn’t want to take those risks on my child unless I really needed to,” pediatric nurse practitioner and home birth mother Katie Wetsell says.

Sometimes with low-risk women these interventions interfere with the process. “I didn’t get to hold Quetzal Sol immediately,” Hunt says of her firstborn son. “Because of the vacuum extraction, he was cleaned up and assessed in a bassinet right next to me by a pediatrician so I saw him at first but didn’t get to hold him right away. But I did with Paloma.”

In addition to medical skills, midwives offer a variety of comfort measures unavailable or impractical at the hospital-like water births. “I loved the midwives for their balanced attitude of safety and health for the mother, the baby and the family,” Julie Duemler says.

Many women reported the family or sibling experience was the main reason they chose home birth. “I did it for the ‘after’ experience,” Wetsell explains. Her older son woke up and met his new brother who had been born in the middle of the night. “It felt more like a family experience to have him home with us.”

Wetsell had her first son in a birthing center attend by a certified nurse-midwife, “They didn’t do anything for me that I couldn’t do at home,” she recalls. “That birth gave me the confidence I needed to birth at home.”

Hunt was already pushing when her sister arrived to photograph the birth. Moments

later, her daughter slipped into the warm water of the birthing pool. The three-yearold brother woke up to his baby sister’s cries.

Hunt thinks the home birth made the sibling adjustment seamless because there was no separation like families experience in a hospital delivery.

After a good experience having a hospital birth with her first baby, Cardwell says, “We wanted to be in our own place. We didn’t want to be separated from our daughter and we wanted her to be there to welcome the new baby. Home birth honors the whole sacred family-centered experience.”

“Women are recognizing birth is more than physiology,” she adds. “It is a sacred moment rather than a medical event.”

These women shared a security and trust with their midwives to relax not only the body, but their spirits to the intensity of the whole birth experience. Like most spiritual experiences this comes with surrender.

“My practice has always been a ministry,” Wilson says. “It’s what God called me to do.”

Duemler remembers Wilson’s quiet reverence when her second baby was coming fast. “I was feeling out of control, like crazy out of control because he was coming so fast,” she recalls. “And Heather climbed up into bed with me and said, ‘Do you mind if I pray?’ And we said ‘no,’ and as Heather prayed, this ‘Come Holy Spirit Moment’ happened. The entire energy of the room changed. It was so powerful. It’s a moment I will never forget.”

Although the birth took place 10 years ago, the memory lingers as powerful and present as when it first occurred. It is this kind of birth experience that is drawing women back to the timeless practice of home birth — of women helping women.

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ne of the biggest charms of East Nashville is the abundance of locally owned small businesses, and the festivals that celebrate them.

And it’s about to get more of both.

What was once an empty lot next to Far East Nashville could be your new shopping destination or startup business office space by the end of the summer.

With 11,000 square feet divided into a dozen buildings able to house 17 small businesses, the Shoppes on Fatherland give you a whole new reason to venture beyond Five Points.

Showing visitors around the neighborhood? Walk off that croissant french toast with a stroll to the new furniture and art studio, or pop in the herbal apothecary and tea shop. Looking for the perfect gift? Stop by the flower shop, or make your own jewelry with tips and products from Red Dog Beads.

Need to tame your locks after sweating it out at Kali Yuga Yoga? Step across the street to the organic hair products store.

Just behind the shops, you’ll find the newest concept to hit East Nashville: a 3,200-square-foot community pavilion and open-air gathering spot.

The project is the brainchild of two East Nashville power couples who have shaped the neighborhood as we know it, but managed to stay behind the scenes — developers Mark & Patti Sanders, and artists/ entrepreneurs Bret and Meg MacFayden.

The Sanders family moved to East Nashville 30 years ago and have since built the area around South 11th and Fatherland Street into a $13,000,000 development that includes Fatherland Court, 37206 Building condominiums, MC3 condominiums and a major rehab on the historic retail building at 1012 Fatherland (now home to

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By Jaime Brousse

East Wax Nashville, The Nail Lounge and Far East Nashville). Longtime Historic East Enders may recall that the site for the Shoppes was once residential.

“I felt like some retail, another restaurant — those types of things to bring more people in, instead of just residential — would add to the activity of the neighborhood,” Mark Sanders says. “To give some of the starter businesses a place to get going.”

That’s where the MacFaydens came in.

The couple has spent the last dozen years on a Woodland Street roll (Batter’d and Fried pun intended). In 2000, they converted an old garage into an art studio, Garage Mahal, which led to the 2003 opening of the adjoining Art & Invention Gallery. The next year, they founded the Tomato Art Fest, putting Five Points on the map for Bloody Mary enthusiasts and red-pants-wearing hipsters.

When the MacFaydens sold I Dream of Weenie in 2011 and launched Five Points Collaborative (An Idea Hatchery), Mark Sanders was inspired to seek the MacFaydens’ help to

try something similar on his property a few blocks away — albeit on a larger scale.

“I hope that it gives people an opportunity at learning their business and growing and seeing what their business can become,” Bret MacFayden, who serves as designer and consultant to the Fatherland development, says.

“That’s what I want to see. I want to see an individual walk up and say, ‘I can do that.’”

The development is welcomed by the Historic East Nashville Merchants Association. The organization’s president, Dr. Tom Hadley of East Side Smiles, sees the project as an expansion of East Nashville’s reputation as a hub for food and drink. He points to the medical, design, legal and architectural storefronts you now see in the area, and says the Shoppes could help new businesses overcome one major obstacle — rent prices.

“Property values continue to be cost prohibitive and I think that this is the genius behind The Shoppes on Fatherland and the Idea Hatchery,” Hadley says. “We’ve been forced to make more from less and as the

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East Nashville Heavy Hitters

I nnovative Development

O

ne of the biggest charms of East Nashville is the abundance of locally owned small businesses, and the festivals that celebrate them.

And it’s about to get more of both.

What was once an empty lot next to Far East Nashville could be your new shopping destination or startup business office space by the end of the summer.

With 11,000 square feet divided into a dozen buildings able to house 17 small businesses, the Shoppes on Fatherland give you a whole new reason to venture beyond Five Points.

Showing visitors around the neighborhood? Walk off that croissant french toast with a stroll to the new furniture and art studio, or pop in the herbal apothecary and tea shop. Looking for the perfect gift? Stop by the flower shop, or make your own jewelry with tips and products from Red Dog Beads.

Need to tame your locks after sweating it out at Kali Yuga Yoga? Step across the street to the organic hair products store.

Just behind the shops, you’ll find the newest concept to hit East Nashville: a 3,200-square-foot community pavilion and open-air gathering spot.

The project is the brainchild of two East Nashville power couples who have shaped the neighborhood as we know it, but managed to stay behind the scenes — developers Mark & Patti Sanders, and artists/ entrepreneurs Bret and Meg MacFayden.

The Sanders family moved to East Nashville 30 years ago and have since built the area around South 11th and Fatherland Street into a $13,000,000 development that includes Fatherland Court, 37206 Building condominiums, MC3 condominiums and a major rehab on the historic retail building at 1012 Fatherland (now home to

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join forces on

By Jaime Brousse

East Wax Nashville, The Nail Lounge and Far East Nashville). Longtime Historic East Enders may recall that the site for the Shoppes was once residential.

“I felt like some retail, another restaurant — those types of things to bring more people in, instead of just residential — would add to the activity of the neighborhood,” Mark Sanders says. “To give some of the starter businesses a place to get going.”

That’s where the MacFaydens came in.

The couple has spent the last dozen years on a Woodland Street roll (Batter’d and Fried pun intended). In 2000, they converted an old garage into an art studio, Garage Mahal, which led to the 2003 opening of the adjoining Art & Invention Gallery. The next year, they founded the Tomato Art Fest, putting Five Points on the map for Bloody Mary enthusiasts and red-pants-wearing hipsters.

When the MacFaydens sold I Dream of Weenie in 2011 and launched Five Points Collaborative (An Idea Hatchery), Mark Sanders was inspired to seek the MacFaydens’ help to

try something similar on his property a few blocks away — albeit on a larger scale.

“I hope that it gives people an opportunity at learning their business and growing and seeing what their business can become,” Bret MacFayden, who serves as designer and consultant to the Fatherland development, says.

“That’s what I want to see. I want to see an individual walk up and say, ‘I can do that.’”

The development is welcomed by the Historic East Nashville Merchants Association. The organization’s president, Dr. Tom Hadley of East Side Smiles, sees the project as an expansion of East Nashville’s reputation as a hub for food and drink. He points to the medical, design, legal and architectural storefronts you now see in the area, and says the Shoppes could help new businesses overcome one major obstacle — rent prices.

“Property values continue to be cost prohibitive and I think that this is the genius behind The Shoppes on Fatherland and the Idea Hatchery,” Hadley says. “We’ve been forced to make more from less and as the

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price per square foot of East Nashville rises, business owners need to be more efficient if they want a premium location.”

Mark Sanders agrees. “We don’t have a whole lot of commercial space, so these small pockets, we have to maximize what goes in there,” he says. Depending on size and location, rent at the Shoppes ranges from $450 to $1,650.

Besides encouraging new business, the area could also provide a little healthy competition for other commercial space in 37206.

Laurie Lehman of Mt. Juliet took a leap of faith when she heard about the development. She closed her photography studio in the Walden Building on Eastland Avenue, where she had operated for two years.

Lehman says the move closer to Five Points seems like the perfect fit.

“I love the vibe in East Nashville and I feel this community is looking for businesses and products that are unique, fresh and creative,” she says. “And that is what I base my photography style after.”

Lehman holds most portrait sessions on location,

"I feel like it will ignite a little fire under a lot of the developments in the neighborhood." but wants a unique space to meet with clients and hold in-studio sessions for babies and toddlers — office sizes range from 192 to 800 square feet. The big draws to her are the trendy space design, the specialty aspect to the different businesses and the idea of the pavilion bringing in more foot traffic.

Developers envision the newly dubbed East-Centric Pavilion becoming a centralized social gathering spot for public market days and do-it-yourself courses, arts and crafts sales — and of course, festivals.

To celebrate the grand opening of the Shoppes on Fatherland, the inaugural East-Centric Music Festival is set for Sept. 1 (some of the shops hope to be open earlier, in time for Tomato Art Fest on Aug. 11). The event will feature music, a beer garden, food trucks and an artisan market — think Etsy, only in person. There are several other events in the works for 2012-2013, including a film festival, a wine festival, a storytelling festival, and even an El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration. As is usually the case in East Nashville, each event will have a philanthropic aspect, raising money for different local charities.

Plans to convert an adjacent empty lot into free parking to accommodate the extra traffic, and to install bike racks, are also in the works.

The project’s developer hopes the Shoppes on Fatherland will be a catalyst for continued change around East Nashville. “I feel like it will ignite a little fire under a lot of the developments in the neighborhood,” Sanders says. “A lot of commercial spaces are sitting empty, that need to be either built or rehabbed if things are going to start to pick up. People are going to see that East Nashville is a fun place to be.”

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EXTREME MAKEOVER East Nashville Style 208 SOUTH 11TH STREET

Located in East Nashville’s happening Five Points neighborhood, this eye-catching home has recently undergone an extreme makeover, returning it to its Victorian Era charm while simultaneously featuring all the creature comforts of a new home in the suburbs. The 101- year old Queen Anne-style residence is located squarely between Russell and Fatherland, where several new award-winning infill developments have recently gone up, including the modernist “MC3” townhomes and the three-story, multi-use “37206 Building” with two yoga centers, two salons, and boutique shops. The Shoppes on Fatherland are currently under construction next to the popular Far East Vietnamese restaurant and Bill Martin’s corner grocery store.

When local developer George Brandt purchased the home in May 2011, it was in shabby condition with several rooms missing flooring. Original stained glass transoms had been painted over with lead-based paint.

Many people felt the ramshackle house was beyond salvation. Taking on such a project was a risk, but one that Brandt was willing to take due to the remarkable renaissance in the surrounding neighborhood.

“There is some real satisfaction in bringing a historic home back to life,” said Brandt.

“Especially when it has so many features that deserve it – stained glass, incredible millwork, 12-foot ceilings, and five fireplaces.”

One of the unique elements of the house is the central fireplace chimney turned on a 45-degree angle with fireplaces serving the kitchen, dining room, and front parlor. Brandt restored the original mantels and partially exposed the brick chimney.

“George had missing millwork, porch columns, and other trim replicated,” said Cheryl Bretz, the local realtor for the property. “He installed a gorgeous new staircase leading to a bedroom, bathroom, and den in the previously unfinished attic. Missing fireplace hearths were replaced with elegant marble tiles and original hardwood floors were restored.”

A coffered ceiling was added to the living room and paneled chair rails to the dining room. “The magnificent new gourmet kitchen has marble and granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, and new cabinets inspired by the originals that were too far gone to be

restored,” said Bretz. “The new master suite overlooking the rear yard and patio features a dazzling marble tiled bathroom and large walk-in closet. The ceilings throughout the first floor were painted baby blue, which is absolutely amazing – I’m going to paint my own ceilings this color!”

Built around 1911, the 3,068-square foot home has a new kitchen, three full baths, a half-bath, three bedrooms, living room, dining room, stair hall, and a den. The plan was designed with a home office in mind and is zoned multiuse. Visit www.houselens.tv/208south11thst. aspx or www.cherylbretz.com, www.movingtonashvilletn.com learn more.

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price per square foot of East Nashville rises, business owners need to be more efficient if they want a premium location.”

Mark Sanders agrees. “We don’t have a whole lot of commercial space, so these small pockets, we have to maximize what goes in there,” he says. Depending on size and location, rent at the Shoppes ranges from $450 to $1,650.

Besides encouraging new business, the area could also provide a little healthy competition for other commercial space in 37206.

Laurie Lehman of Mt. Juliet took a leap of faith when she heard about the development. She closed her photography studio in the Walden Building on Eastland Avenue, where she had operated for two years.

Lehman says the move closer to Five Points seems like the perfect fit.

“I love the vibe in East Nashville and I feel this community is looking for businesses and products that are unique, fresh and creative,” she says. “And that is what I base my photography style after.”

Lehman holds most portrait sessions on location,

"I feel like it will ignite a little fire under a lot of the developments in the neighborhood." but wants a unique space to meet with clients and hold in-studio sessions for babies and toddlers — office sizes range from 192 to 800 square feet. The big draws to her are the trendy space design, the specialty aspect to the different businesses and the idea of the pavilion bringing in more foot traffic.

Developers envision the newly dubbed East-Centric Pavilion becoming a centralized social gathering spot for public market days and do-it-yourself courses, arts and crafts sales — and of course, festivals.

To celebrate the grand opening of the Shoppes on Fatherland, the inaugural East-Centric Music Festival is set for Sept. 1 (some of the shops hope to be open earlier, in time for Tomato Art Fest on Aug. 11). The event will feature music, a beer garden, food trucks and an artisan market — think Etsy, only in person. There are several other events in the works for 2012-2013, including a film festival, a wine festival, a storytelling festival, and even an El Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration. As is usually the case in East Nashville, each event will have a philanthropic aspect, raising money for different local charities.

Plans to convert an adjacent empty lot into free parking to accommodate the extra traffic, and to install bike racks, are also in the works.

The project’s developer hopes the Shoppes on Fatherland will be a catalyst for continued change around East Nashville. “I feel like it will ignite a little fire under a lot of the developments in the neighborhood,” Sanders says. “A lot of commercial spaces are sitting empty, that need to be either built or rehabbed if things are going to start to pick up. People are going to see that East Nashville is a fun place to be.”

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EXTREME MAKEOVER East Nashville Style 208 SOUTH 11TH STREET

Located in East Nashville’s happening Five Points neighborhood, this eye-catching home has recently undergone an extreme makeover, returning it to its Victorian Era charm while simultaneously featuring all the creature comforts of a new home in the suburbs. The 101- year old Queen Anne-style residence is located squarely between Russell and Fatherland, where several new award-winning infill developments have recently gone up, including the modernist “MC3” townhomes and the three-story, multi-use “37206 Building” with two yoga centers, two salons, and boutique shops. The Shoppes on Fatherland are currently under construction next to the popular Far East Vietnamese restaurant and Bill Martin’s corner grocery store.

When local developer George Brandt purchased the home in May 2011, it was in shabby condition with several rooms missing flooring. Original stained glass transoms had been painted over with lead-based paint.

Many people felt the ramshackle house was beyond salvation. Taking on such a project was a risk, but one that Brandt was willing to take due to the remarkable renaissance in the surrounding neighborhood.

“There is some real satisfaction in bringing a historic home back to life,” said Brandt.

“Especially when it has so many features that deserve it – stained glass, incredible millwork, 12-foot ceilings, and five fireplaces.”

One of the unique elements of the house is the central fireplace chimney turned on a 45-degree angle with fireplaces serving the kitchen, dining room, and front parlor. Brandt restored the original mantels and partially exposed the brick chimney.

“George had missing millwork, porch columns, and other trim replicated,” said Cheryl Bretz, the local realtor for the property. “He installed a gorgeous new staircase leading to a bedroom, bathroom, and den in the previously unfinished attic. Missing fireplace hearths were replaced with elegant marble tiles and original hardwood floors were restored.”

A coffered ceiling was added to the living room and paneled chair rails to the dining room. “The magnificent new gourmet kitchen has marble and granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, and new cabinets inspired by the originals that were too far gone to be

restored,” said Bretz. “The new master suite overlooking the rear yard and patio features a dazzling marble tiled bathroom and large walk-in closet. The ceilings throughout the first floor were painted baby blue, which is absolutely amazing – I’m going to paint my own ceilings this color!”

Built around 1911, the 3,068-square foot home has a new kitchen, three full baths, a half-bath, three bedrooms, living room, dining room, stair hall, and a den. The plan was designed with a home office in mind and is zoned multiuse. Visit www.houselens.tv/208south11thst. aspx or www.cherylbretz.com, www.movingtonashvilletn.com learn more.

“THE BRETZ TEAM”

CHERYL & GEORGE KELLER WILLIAMS REALTY GEORGE CELL: (615) 428-8758 • CHERYL CELL: (615) 969-5475 • OFFICE: (615) 822-8585 WWW.MOVINGTONASHVILLETN.COM • WWW.CHERYLBRETZ.COM

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UPCOMING For the love of dogs Saturday, July 14 — Made in the Shade, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Middle Tennessee Pet Resource Center is hosting its annual “Made in the Shade” event. The goal of the event is to provide dogs that live outdoors in Nashville’s hot summer heat with a little relief. Volunteers fan out across the city to provide the pooches with water buckets, tarps, plastic pools and durable toys. They also attempt to educate the owners on the dangers heat poses to their pets. To learn more, volunteer, or donate to the event, visit www.

MTPRC.org.

Shop till you drop Saturday, July 14 — Eastside Weirdo Bohemian Bazaar, Garage beside Logue’s Black Raven Emporium and Lone Wolf Tattoo, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.

One Saturday each month (usually the second weekend), Lone Wolf Tattoo and Logue’s Black Raven Emporium team up to host the Eastside Weirdo Bohemian Bazaar in the garage next door. Vendors sell cult DVDs, jewelry, vinyl records, art, and other odds and ends. But you won’t find any socks or sunglasses. Think flea market, minus all the junk no one cares about. You can even get a tarot reading while you’re there. 2913-2915 Gallatin Rd. For more information, call 615-562-4710 or 615-7127900.

paved greenway trail for a total of six miles. Riders will stop at the pedestrian bridge to identify some of the sights and sounds, and Carmichael will also answer any questions bikers might have. At this time of day, you might even see some of the park’s more elusive wildlife, such as deer, raccoons or minks. Be sure to B.Y.O.B — bring your own bike — or rent one ahead of time from www.nashvillegreenbikes.com. All participants must be able to ride six miles at a leisurely pace. To register, call 615-862-8539 or email shelbybottomsnature@nashville.gov.

“Biking the Bottoms” is a cycling event that will kick off at the nature center in Shelby Bottoms Park. Naturalist Kenny Carmichael will lead the group along the

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Meet the pups Saturday, July 28 — Pups in the Park, Shelby Bottoms Park, 5-6 p.m.

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the Park” event for all of Nashville’s dog lovers. Owners and their pooches will meet up at the nature center and take a stroll through the park with naturalist Kenny Carmichael. It is an excellent opportunity to get out in the open air and make some new furry friends. You’ll learn a little about the great outdoors, as well as dog etiquette. Don’t forget to pick up after your pup. Dogs must be friendly and kept on a leash six feet or shorter. 615-862-8539 or shelbybottomsnature@nashville.gov to register.

Tuesday — Beginner Yoga Classes, Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Aug. 14 - Nov.13 For all the would-be yogis out there, Shelby Bottoms Nature Center will be offering beginner classes through the fall. Certified Hatha yoga instructor Alicia Jones will be leading the donation-based sessions. There is a suggested donation of $8 per class, but they also accept non-monetary donations, including books for the nature center, food or other needed supplies. The classes will focus on traditional postures, breathing, and mindfulness, so they’re open to all skill levels. The session times will alternate every other Tuesday, with morning classes from 9:30-10:30 a.m. one week, and afternoon classes from 2:30-3:30 p.m. the next. Enjoy the many benefits of yoga while soaking up the scenery of the park. To register for the classes, call 615-862-8539 or email shelbybottomsnature@ nashville.gov.

Shelby Bottoms is hosting its “Back Porch Ice Cream Social” again for another refreshing afternoon this summer. Environmental education specialist Christie Wiser will show you how to make your own homemade ice cream using ingredients from local farms. She’ll churn up a serving with some items from the park’s own Discovery Garden, like fresh mint, basil and lavender. Wiser will have a few batches of the sweet stuff premade so you can taste it for yourself.

To preregister, call 615-862-8539 or email shelbybottomsnature@nashville. gov.

RECURRING Shake a leg

Fighting crime is fun Tuesday, Aug. 7 — East Nashville Night Out Against Crime, 5-8 p.m.

East Nashville is celebrating “National Night Out” in its own way. A few local neighborhood organizations have teamed up to present another “East Nashville Night Out Against Crime.” This event gives everyone a chance to meet and greet with East precinct police officers, firefight-

Monday — Keep On Movin’, The 5 Spot, 10 p.m. till close For those looking to hit the dance floor on Monday nights, The 5 Spot’s “Keep on Movin’” dance party is the place to be.

This shindig keeps it real with old school soul, funk and R&B. Don’t worry, you won’t hear Ke$ha — although you might see her — and you can leave your Apple Bottom jeans at home. If you have two left feet, then snag a seat at the bar. They have

2038 Greenwood Ave. 615-226-6070. www. familywash.com.

Get fit

Saturday, Aug. 25 — Back Porch Ice Cream Social, Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, 2-3 p.m.

Saturday, July 28 — 11th Annual Mafiaoza’s Music City Brewer’s Fest, Music City Walk of Fame Park, noon - 4 p.m. and 6-10 p.m.

It’s time again to make a toast — with a good local brew. The 11th Annual Mafiaoza’s Music City Brewer’s Fest is back again with over 50 breweries participating this year. This fest is so popular that tickets to the late session have already sold out, but tickets to Session A from 124 p.m. are still up for grabs. Passes are $35 and $20 for designated drivers (no beer samples). Abita, Sierra Nevada and Guinness will all be filling their cups along with local brewers like Blackstone, Yazoo and Jackalope. Enjoy the live music and take the edge off with some grub from Martin’s BBQ, The Sportsgrille, or any of the other food vendors on site. A portion of the fest’s proceeds will go to Second Harvest Food Bank. There also will be a full slate of musical performers. For more info or to purchase tickets, visit www.musiccitybrewersfest.com.

two-for-one drinks specials, so you can use the money you save on a cover to fill your cup. 1006 Forrest Ave. 615-650-9333. www. the5spotlive.com.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ...

Beer me

Peddling through the park Saturday, July 21 — Biking the Bottoms, Shelby Bottoms Park, 6-8 p.m.

ers and other local officials. At last year’s night out, McGruff the Crime Dog even showed up. You’ll be able to pick up a few pointers from local nonprofits on the basics of crime prevention, too. There will be live music, activities for kids, and free hot dogs. Check the event’s Facebook page to learn more. 800 block of N. 2nd St. (between Cleveland and Hancock streets).

A fiddle of this and a fiddle of that

Have your pie and drink a pint, too

Wednesday — Old Time Jam, 5 Spot, 7 p.m. till close

Tuesday — $10 Pint & Pie Night, Family Wash, 6 p.m. till midnight Every Tuesday night at The Family Wash, you can score a pint of beer and a shepherd’s pie for just $10. The reigning music venue on the East Side, The Wash is home to an abundance of good music, and on Tuesdays, the club plays host to the long-running songwriter series, Shortsets, hosted by Cole and Paul Slivka. They offer a wide selection of craft beer, and they even have a vegetarian shepherd’s pie for herbivores. So sit back and enjoy the show, along with your pint and pie.

The 5 Spot’s weekly “Old Time Jam” is a musical call to arms for all of East Nashville’s pickers and grinners. Bring your acoustic weapon of choice to play with the menagerie of musicians who turn up each Wednesday night. Share tunes and swap stories with the regulars. This bluegrass ball isn’t just for musicians though. Even if you can’t strum a chord, you can sit back and enjoy the rootsy jams. There is no cover and beers are discounted a buck.

1006 Forrest Ave. 615-650-9333. www. the5spotlive.com.

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UPCOMING For the love of dogs Saturday, July 14 — Made in the Shade, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Middle Tennessee Pet Resource Center is hosting its annual “Made in the Shade” event. The goal of the event is to provide dogs that live outdoors in Nashville’s hot summer heat with a little relief. Volunteers fan out across the city to provide the pooches with water buckets, tarps, plastic pools and durable toys. They also attempt to educate the owners on the dangers heat poses to their pets. To learn more, volunteer, or donate to the event, visit www.

MTPRC.org.

Shop till you drop Saturday, July 14 — Eastside Weirdo Bohemian Bazaar, Garage beside Logue’s Black Raven Emporium and Lone Wolf Tattoo, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.

One Saturday each month (usually the second weekend), Lone Wolf Tattoo and Logue’s Black Raven Emporium team up to host the Eastside Weirdo Bohemian Bazaar in the garage next door. Vendors sell cult DVDs, jewelry, vinyl records, art, and other odds and ends. But you won’t find any socks or sunglasses. Think flea market, minus all the junk no one cares about. You can even get a tarot reading while you’re there. 2913-2915 Gallatin Rd. For more information, call 615-562-4710 or 615-7127900.

paved greenway trail for a total of six miles. Riders will stop at the pedestrian bridge to identify some of the sights and sounds, and Carmichael will also answer any questions bikers might have. At this time of day, you might even see some of the park’s more elusive wildlife, such as deer, raccoons or minks. Be sure to B.Y.O.B — bring your own bike — or rent one ahead of time from www.nashvillegreenbikes.com. All participants must be able to ride six miles at a leisurely pace. To register, call 615-862-8539 or email shelbybottomsnature@nashville.gov.

“Biking the Bottoms” is a cycling event that will kick off at the nature center in Shelby Bottoms Park. Naturalist Kenny Carmichael will lead the group along the

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Meet the pups Saturday, July 28 — Pups in the Park, Shelby Bottoms Park, 5-6 p.m.

Shelby Bottoms is hosting a “Pups in

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the Park” event for all of Nashville’s dog lovers. Owners and their pooches will meet up at the nature center and take a stroll through the park with naturalist Kenny Carmichael. It is an excellent opportunity to get out in the open air and make some new furry friends. You’ll learn a little about the great outdoors, as well as dog etiquette. Don’t forget to pick up after your pup. Dogs must be friendly and kept on a leash six feet or shorter. 615-862-8539 or shelbybottomsnature@nashville.gov to register.

Tuesday — Beginner Yoga Classes, Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, Aug. 14 - Nov.13 For all the would-be yogis out there, Shelby Bottoms Nature Center will be offering beginner classes through the fall. Certified Hatha yoga instructor Alicia Jones will be leading the donation-based sessions. There is a suggested donation of $8 per class, but they also accept non-monetary donations, including books for the nature center, food or other needed supplies. The classes will focus on traditional postures, breathing, and mindfulness, so they’re open to all skill levels. The session times will alternate every other Tuesday, with morning classes from 9:30-10:30 a.m. one week, and afternoon classes from 2:30-3:30 p.m. the next. Enjoy the many benefits of yoga while soaking up the scenery of the park. To register for the classes, call 615-862-8539 or email shelbybottomsnature@ nashville.gov.

Shelby Bottoms is hosting its “Back Porch Ice Cream Social” again for another refreshing afternoon this summer. Environmental education specialist Christie Wiser will show you how to make your own homemade ice cream using ingredients from local farms. She’ll churn up a serving with some items from the park’s own Discovery Garden, like fresh mint, basil and lavender. Wiser will have a few batches of the sweet stuff premade so you can taste it for yourself.

To preregister, call 615-862-8539 or email shelbybottomsnature@nashville. gov.

RECURRING Shake a leg

Fighting crime is fun Tuesday, Aug. 7 — East Nashville Night Out Against Crime, 5-8 p.m.

East Nashville is celebrating “National Night Out” in its own way. A few local neighborhood organizations have teamed up to present another “East Nashville Night Out Against Crime.” This event gives everyone a chance to meet and greet with East precinct police officers, firefight-

Monday — Keep On Movin’, The 5 Spot, 10 p.m. till close For those looking to hit the dance floor on Monday nights, The 5 Spot’s “Keep on Movin’” dance party is the place to be.

This shindig keeps it real with old school soul, funk and R&B. Don’t worry, you won’t hear Ke$ha — although you might see her — and you can leave your Apple Bottom jeans at home. If you have two left feet, then snag a seat at the bar. They have

2038 Greenwood Ave. 615-226-6070. www. familywash.com.

Get fit

Saturday, Aug. 25 — Back Porch Ice Cream Social, Shelby Bottoms Nature Center, 2-3 p.m.

Saturday, July 28 — 11th Annual Mafiaoza’s Music City Brewer’s Fest, Music City Walk of Fame Park, noon - 4 p.m. and 6-10 p.m.

It’s time again to make a toast — with a good local brew. The 11th Annual Mafiaoza’s Music City Brewer’s Fest is back again with over 50 breweries participating this year. This fest is so popular that tickets to the late session have already sold out, but tickets to Session A from 124 p.m. are still up for grabs. Passes are $35 and $20 for designated drivers (no beer samples). Abita, Sierra Nevada and Guinness will all be filling their cups along with local brewers like Blackstone, Yazoo and Jackalope. Enjoy the live music and take the edge off with some grub from Martin’s BBQ, The Sportsgrille, or any of the other food vendors on site. A portion of the fest’s proceeds will go to Second Harvest Food Bank. There also will be a full slate of musical performers. For more info or to purchase tickets, visit www.musiccitybrewersfest.com.

two-for-one drinks specials, so you can use the money you save on a cover to fill your cup. 1006 Forrest Ave. 615-650-9333. www. the5spotlive.com.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ...

Beer me

Peddling through the park Saturday, July 21 — Biking the Bottoms, Shelby Bottoms Park, 6-8 p.m.

ers and other local officials. At last year’s night out, McGruff the Crime Dog even showed up. You’ll be able to pick up a few pointers from local nonprofits on the basics of crime prevention, too. There will be live music, activities for kids, and free hot dogs. Check the event’s Facebook page to learn more. 800 block of N. 2nd St. (between Cleveland and Hancock streets).

A fiddle of this and a fiddle of that

Have your pie and drink a pint, too

Wednesday — Old Time Jam, 5 Spot, 7 p.m. till close

Tuesday — $10 Pint & Pie Night, Family Wash, 6 p.m. till midnight Every Tuesday night at The Family Wash, you can score a pint of beer and a shepherd’s pie for just $10. The reigning music venue on the East Side, The Wash is home to an abundance of good music, and on Tuesdays, the club plays host to the long-running songwriter series, Shortsets, hosted by Cole and Paul Slivka. They offer a wide selection of craft beer, and they even have a vegetarian shepherd’s pie for herbivores. So sit back and enjoy the show, along with your pint and pie.

The 5 Spot’s weekly “Old Time Jam” is a musical call to arms for all of East Nashville’s pickers and grinners. Bring your acoustic weapon of choice to play with the menagerie of musicians who turn up each Wednesday night. Share tunes and swap stories with the regulars. This bluegrass ball isn’t just for musicians though. Even if you can’t strum a chord, you can sit back and enjoy the rootsy jams. There is no cover and beers are discounted a buck.

1006 Forrest Ave. 615-650-9333. www. the5spotlive.com.

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Farm fresh Wednesday — East Nashville Farmers Market, Freewill Baptist Church, 3:306:30 p.m.

Take a detour from your usual trek to Kroger and stop by the East Nashville Farmers Market. They offer the ”cream of the crop” in locally grown organic and fresh foods. Peruse the local cheeses, milk, breads, herbs, fruits, vegetables, jams and jellies. A few merchants even sell handmade goods, such as soaps, candles, pottery and jewelry. Over 30 vendors bring their goods to the lot beside Free Will Baptist Church to provide the Eastside with their fresh goods. Go out and meet the farmers who make your food.

They also accept SNAP (food stamp) benefits. Grocery shopping has never been this fun — or homegrown. 210 S. 10th St. www.eastnashvillemarket.com.

RANDY • LES • JOE • MARK

NASHVILLE’S PUNK ROCK RODENTS RETURN WITH

Honestly, officer ...

Thursday — East Nashville Crime Prevention meeting, Beyond the Edge, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Join your neighbors to talk about crime stats, trends and various other issues with East precinct commander David Imhof, community affairs coordinator Dan Orgen and head of investigation Lt. Greg Blair. If you are new to the East Side, get up to speed on criminal activity in the area. If you are a recent victim of crime, they want to hear your story. 112 S. 11th St. 615-226-3343.

Bringin’ down the house Thursday — After-Hours Jams, The Fiddle House, 7 p.m.

Every Thursday, The Fiddle House, a fullservice, acoustic string shop, keeps its doors open for an after-hours jam. Each week, they alternate between “Old Time” and “Bluegrass” sessions. Sometimes only a few fiddlers show up for the soirees, but other nights the House is packed out. If you like to pick or if you just want to hear a good jam, check this place out next time you’re free on Thursday night. All skill levels are welcome and this pickin’ parlor is free. The music kicks off at 7 p.m. and ends whenever they feel like calling it a night. 1009 Clearview Ave. 615-730-8402. www.thefiddlehouse.com.

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Kicks for the kids Wednesday — Professor Smartypants, The Family Wash, 6-8 p.m.

It’s only appropriate that a venue named The Family Wash hosts a family night once a week.

Every Wednesday, kids eat free at The Wash and Professor Smartypants hosts. They call him the “master of disguise and intrigue.”

He tells jokes and sings songs, but his comedy isn’t just for the kiddies; parents will enjoy his humor, too. Professor Smartypants goes on at 6:30 p.m. sharp; so don’t be late. 2038 Greenwood Ave. 615-226-6070. www.familywash. com.

Chicks and giggles Friday (last of each month) — Girl on Girl Comedy, Mad Donna’s, 8 p.m.

Once a month, Mad Donna’s hosts a standup comedy series, Girl on Girl Comedy. Nearly all the performers are women, although sometimes a guy is brave enough to take the stage. Girl on Girl is the brainchild of Christy Eidson, who hosts the show. Eidson has been doing comedy for over 10 years. Once in awhile, they mix things up a bit with music, burlesque and the occasional male pole dancer. They even hand out prizes throughout the show, something you won’t find at any other comedy night

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in Nashville. Be forewarned, this is an R-rated event, so if you can’t handle anything raunchy or risqué, Girl on Girl is not for you. The show is 18 and up. Admission is $10 a head or $15 for couples. Show up early, snag a good seat, and have a nice dinner before the debauchery begins. 1313 Woodland St. 615-226-1617. www.maddonnas.com.

Get your creep on

AND

Friday and Saturday — The Cult Fiction Underground, Logue’s Black Raven Emporium, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

The Cult Fiction Underground is housed beneath Robert Logue’s Black Raven Emporium off Gallatin Road. Every weekend they host screenings of rare and classic horror and cult films under the shop for $5. There is a gothicstyle bar and lounge area downstairs also, so you can socialize and have a drink before (or after) the film. The dim basement creates an intimate gathering space for cult and horror fans.

It looks like the kind of place Edgar Allen Poe might’ve stumbled out of over 150 years ago.

The entrance is behind the building and parking is free. Check out Black Raven’s Facebook page to see what films they’re screening each week. 2915 Gallatin Rd. 615-562-4710.

If you have an event you would like to have listed, please send information about the event to calendar@theeastnashvillian.com.

SATURDAY AUGUST 11, 2012 DOORS @ 8:00 * BANDS @ 9:00 THE END 2219 Elliston Pl. Nashville, TN. 615-321-4457

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Farm fresh Wednesday — East Nashville Farmers Market, Freewill Baptist Church, 3:306:30 p.m.

Take a detour from your usual trek to Kroger and stop by the East Nashville Farmers Market. They offer the ”cream of the crop” in locally grown organic and fresh foods. Peruse the local cheeses, milk, breads, herbs, fruits, vegetables, jams and jellies. A few merchants even sell handmade goods, such as soaps, candles, pottery and jewelry. Over 30 vendors bring their goods to the lot beside Free Will Baptist Church to provide the Eastside with their fresh goods. Go out and meet the farmers who make your food.

They also accept SNAP (food stamp) benefits. Grocery shopping has never been this fun — or homegrown. 210 S. 10th St. www.eastnashvillemarket.com.

RANDY • LES • JOE • MARK

NASHVILLE’S PUNK ROCK RODENTS RETURN WITH

Honestly, officer ...

Thursday — East Nashville Crime Prevention meeting, Beyond the Edge, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Join your neighbors to talk about crime stats, trends and various other issues with East precinct commander David Imhof, community affairs coordinator Dan Orgen and head of investigation Lt. Greg Blair. If you are new to the East Side, get up to speed on criminal activity in the area. If you are a recent victim of crime, they want to hear your story. 112 S. 11th St. 615-226-3343.

Bringin’ down the house Thursday — After-Hours Jams, The Fiddle House, 7 p.m.

Every Thursday, The Fiddle House, a fullservice, acoustic string shop, keeps its doors open for an after-hours jam. Each week, they alternate between “Old Time” and “Bluegrass” sessions. Sometimes only a few fiddlers show up for the soirees, but other nights the House is packed out. If you like to pick or if you just want to hear a good jam, check this place out next time you’re free on Thursday night. All skill levels are welcome and this pickin’ parlor is free. The music kicks off at 7 p.m. and ends whenever they feel like calling it a night. 1009 Clearview Ave. 615-730-8402. www.thefiddlehouse.com.

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Kicks for the kids Wednesday — Professor Smartypants, The Family Wash, 6-8 p.m.

It’s only appropriate that a venue named The Family Wash hosts a family night once a week.

Every Wednesday, kids eat free at The Wash and Professor Smartypants hosts. They call him the “master of disguise and intrigue.”

He tells jokes and sings songs, but his comedy isn’t just for the kiddies; parents will enjoy his humor, too. Professor Smartypants goes on at 6:30 p.m. sharp; so don’t be late. 2038 Greenwood Ave. 615-226-6070. www.familywash. com.

Chicks and giggles Friday (last of each month) — Girl on Girl Comedy, Mad Donna’s, 8 p.m.

Once a month, Mad Donna’s hosts a standup comedy series, Girl on Girl Comedy. Nearly all the performers are women, although sometimes a guy is brave enough to take the stage. Girl on Girl is the brainchild of Christy Eidson, who hosts the show. Eidson has been doing comedy for over 10 years. Once in awhile, they mix things up a bit with music, burlesque and the occasional male pole dancer. They even hand out prizes throughout the show, something you won’t find at any other comedy night

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in Nashville. Be forewarned, this is an R-rated event, so if you can’t handle anything raunchy or risqué, Girl on Girl is not for you. The show is 18 and up. Admission is $10 a head or $15 for couples. Show up early, snag a good seat, and have a nice dinner before the debauchery begins. 1313 Woodland St. 615-226-1617. www.maddonnas.com.

Get your creep on

AND

Friday and Saturday — The Cult Fiction Underground, Logue’s Black Raven Emporium, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.

The Cult Fiction Underground is housed beneath Robert Logue’s Black Raven Emporium off Gallatin Road. Every weekend they host screenings of rare and classic horror and cult films under the shop for $5. There is a gothicstyle bar and lounge area downstairs also, so you can socialize and have a drink before (or after) the film. The dim basement creates an intimate gathering space for cult and horror fans.

It looks like the kind of place Edgar Allen Poe might’ve stumbled out of over 150 years ago.

The entrance is behind the building and parking is free. Check out Black Raven’s Facebook page to see what films they’re screening each week. 2915 Gallatin Rd. 615-562-4710.

If you have an event you would like to have listed, please send information about the event to calendar@theeastnashvillian.com.

SATURDAY AUGUST 11, 2012 DOORS @ 8:00 * BANDS @ 9:00 THE END 2219 Elliston Pl. Nashville, TN. 615-321-4457

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District 5

VOTE AUGUST 2 Early Voting Begins July 13th

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i E L I S SA K I M FOR SCHOOL BOA RD i To build vibrant, healthy communities, we must build excellent schools that prepare our kids to excel in any field of their choosing. When only 30% of third graders in district 5 schools read at a proficient level, it’s time for change. We must get all our children on track. i i i i

High expectations matter- kids will meet the bar we set Incredible teachers and principals change students’ lives Focus, discipline, and hard work are the ‘secrets’ to success We must ALL work together to create classroom environments and programs that maximize our kids’ progress

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