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ACTIVISTS, DEVELOPERS AND CITY OFFICIALS ARE TRYING TO TACKLE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. WILL IT BE ENOUGH BEFORE 2030? BY ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ
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The MNPD says it won’t share data with ICE — but the state’s ‘anti-sanctuary-city law’ could complicate that BY NICOLE WILLIAMS
Pith in the Wind .........................................7 This week on the Scene’s news and politics blog
New Civil Rights Window Display Unveiled at Woolworth Theatre ................................8 The exhibit will be an ongoing part of the space’s facade BY MARGARET LITTMAN
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A reading of famed Nashvillian Timothy Demonbreun’s horoscope BY ELIZABETH ELKINS
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For the Love of Ivey ................................. 33 Prolific pop-rock songsmith Jeremy Ivey brings influences to the surface on Invisible Pictures
THIS WEEK ON THE WEB: Nashville Helping Nashville Headed Back to East Park People Experiencing Homelessness Deserve Our Compassion, Not Our Fear The Sutler Is Shuttering
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Nashville’s Affordable Housing Crisis Activists, developers and city officials are trying to tackle the affordable housing crisis in a variety of ways. Will it be enough before 2030? BY ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ
Tomato Fest ............................................. 34
The Batman Is a Roaring Return for the Dark Knight
Little Feat gets ready to celebrate Waiting for Columbus at the Ryman
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The Spin ................................................... 35 The Scene’s live-review column checks out Yola at the Ryman BY LORIE LIEBIG
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FROM BILL FREEMAN TRUMP’S PICK FOR THE 5TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT DOESN’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT TENNESSEE CEO of the conservative Tennessee Star and host of the Tennessee Star Report Michael Patrick Leahy recently interviewed 5th Congressional District candidate Morgan Ortagus. In the interview, Ortagus struggled to answer some easy questions about the district that former President Donald Trump thinks she should represent. For Ortagus’ effort, the Tennessee Star was kind enough to label her responses as “limited knowledge.” Suffice it to say, Ortagus should feel completely embarrassed about her performance, though she has downplayed it instead. The questions Leahy posed were not even in softball range — ones that your average Tennessee grade-school student would answer correctly. Is Ortagus smarter than a fifth-grader? I’ll let you decide. What kind of representation would the 5th District be faced with if its representative doesn’t know anything about Tennesseans, the roads we drive on, our history, our businesses, our sports, our music or even who has been responsible for our government? Among Leahy’s questions: “What three interstate highways are located in the 5th Congressional District?” As Occupy Democrats has pointed out, if Ortagus won both the primary and the general election, she would likely vote on the transportation bills that fund federal highways. She should know them — I-65, I-24 and I-40 — but she did not. Leahy also asked: “A country music superstar, a famous, multi-Grammy-Award-winning performer, has a popular winery in the center of the 5th district in Arrington, Tenn. Who owns it?” The answer was Kix Brooks. Ortagus didn’t know. “Who was Brig. Gen. Robert Reese Neyland?” She didn’t know, nor did she know that the University of Tennessee’s Neyland Stadium was named for the legendary football coach. “One of the most famous NASCAR drivers living today lives in the 5th District and has a large auto dealership in Franklin. Who is that?” She didn’t know. (It’s Darrell Waltrip.) “There are four previous Republican governors who are still living, and live in Tennessee. Can you name them?” Ortagus named Bill Haslam, but had no knowledge of Winfield Dunn, Don Sundquist or Lamar Alexander. “Who was the only Tennessee governor who ever served time in prison for crimes committed while in office?” She didn’t know. (Democrat Ray Blanton.) “A rather well-known Confederate general — one whose name and history have been a source of enormous controversy in Tennessee the last few years — was born and raised in the community of Chapel Hill, in the 5th District. Who was he?” She didn’t know. (Nathan Bedford Forrest.) Particularly disappointing was the fact that Ortagus had no knowledge of Forrest or his impact on our community — even though the question was posed in a way that should have reminded her of multiple recent controversies surrounding statues of the early KKK leader. Her defense is even more disappointing. Ortagus said, “Voters in this district trust President Trump’s judgment and they trust him whenever he says that I’m the right person in this race.” Does that mean she thinks there’s no need to learn just a few noteworthy things about our district and state? When
MORGAN ORTAGUS asked in a separate interview by Tennessee Star’s Leahy about whether or not she was a “carpetbagger” — i.e., a politician who takes up residence in a place and runs for office without strong ties to the area — Ortagus said: “Absolutely not. I’m not a politician. I’ve never run for office before.” She’s also not been a Tennessean before. She registered to vote here in November. We love the folks who move to our great state, but we expect them to learn at least a little bit about the area they claim they are “committed to,” as Ortagus told The Tennessean when she announced her candidacy. Perhaps, as Tennessee Star reporter Aaron Gulbransen speculates, it’s “a move by some national leaders in the Republican Party towards a British Parliamentary style of selecting candidates [wherein] the party leadership selects candidates for seats in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom to represent geographic areas who have no ties to those areas but are perceived to be loyal to party leadership.” This is not normally how America does things. It raises the question: Will conservative Tennesseans tolerate someone being pushed on them who has no knowledge of them, their needs or the place they live? There are multiple other candidates seeking the GOP nomination in the Aug. 4 primary. Former state House Speaker Beth Harwell, who already has a record of service in Tennessee, is running. California native and music video director Robby Starbuck, businessman Baxter Lee, former Brig. Gen. Kurt Winstead and Natisha Brooks are all running. There could be other candidates entering the race too. There is a small possibility that Ortagus will not make the ballot. Last week, a bill from Sen. Frank Niceley (R-Strawberry Plains) passed in the state Senate on a 32-1 vote requiring a three-year Tennessee residency for congressional candidates when they enter a primary election. In the House, however, sponsor Rep. Dave Wright (R-Knoxville) is amending the bill to postpone the effective date until after the November election, which would allow Ortagus to run. Whatever happens, we should all be concerned. Tennesseans are a strong people dedicated to their cities, their communities, their neighbors and their history. Any candidate should at least demonstrate the same.
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colleagues that MNPD would be unable to prevent ICE from obtaining LPR data in response to a subpoena. Sepulveda’s warnings, which date back to the beginning of the LPR debate in late 2020, have gone largely unheeded. At times, colleagues have dismissed her calls for concern outright. During one lengthy debate in early 2021, District 26 Councilmember Courtney Johnston — the primary sponsor of BL2021-961 — stated, “ICE doesn’t care about LPR data.” This claim, however, is belied by the existence of a contract between ICE and major LPR manufacturer Vigilant Solutions for access to LPR data gathered by law enforcement agencies across the country. Once the bill passed, Councilmember At-Large Bob Mendes started work on several follow-up bills to address what he saw as areas of agreement among proponents and opponents of LPRs. One of those bills, BL2022-1115, would prohibit the MNPD from using LPR data to assist with immigration enforcement, essentially codifying the promise made by Chief Drake in his letter to the council. Several CMs, including two who supported LPRs, signed onto the legislation. Then the Council Office released its legal analysis of the bill, which concluded that it would violate TCA §7-68-101 — colloquially referred to as the “anti-sanctuary-city law” — passed by the Tennessee state legislature in 2018. The law precludes any local government entity or official from adopting a “sanctuary policy,” which it defines as “any directive, order, ordinance, resolution, practice, or policy, whether formally enacted, informally adopted, or otherwise effectuated” that could interfere with federal immigration enforcement efforts. Read strictly, this could mean that even
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chorus of incredulous laughter filled the gallery as Councilmember AtLarge Burkley Allen spoke in favor of license plate readers during the final night of debate over council bill BL2021961. The controversial legislation creates a framework for Metro agencies to use LPRs. “I appreciate the very important and legitimate concerns about people being taken from their homes,” said Allen at the Feb. 1 Metro Council meeting, “and I think we’ve worked hard to take precautions so that that is very, very, very, very, very unlikely to happen.” She was responding to a common refrain from opponents of LPRs, who have expressed concerns about the surveillance technology being used to assist ICE with immigration enforcement. The bill — which faced opposition from a host of advocacy organizations — narrowly passed, setting the stage for the Metro Nashville Police Department to implement a countywide LPR program. District 30 Councilmember Sandra Sepulveda, the first Latina elected to the Metro Council and a major opponent of the bill, remembers that night vividly. “Votes drastically changed in the last couple of minutes,” she tells the Scene. A letter from MNPD Chief John Drake and Nashville Department of Transportation director Diana Alarcon arrived on the day of the vote, requesting that CMs support the bill. It left community members and CMs feeling “blindsided,” says Sepulveda. The letter stated, in part, that “LPR information will NOT be shared with ICE for any type of immigration enforcement.” Sepulveda attacked this claim on the council floor that night, calling it “irresponsible” and “blatantly untrue.” She warned her
Chief Drake’s letter — and the promise it contained, whether enforceable or not — would violate state law, a point that CM Mendes raised rhetorically during a discussion of his bill at a recent council committee meeting. At the very least, it seems apparent that there is nothing the Metro Council or the MNPD could legally do to prohibit data sharing with ICE for immigration-enforcement purposes. In response to a request for comment, MNPD public affairs director Don Aaron provides the following statement: “The MNPD is not asking for LPRs for immigration enforcement. The department does not intend to proactively provide LPR information to ICE for the sole purpose of immigration enforcement.” Mendes says that while he knew there was “likely tension with state law,” he heard common ground among CMs and the police department that “nobody wanted to use the information for immigration enforcement,” and he wanted to ensure that the Metro Council had a venue for further discussion of the issue. Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition director Lisa Sherman Luna hopes the legal opinion from the Council Office will cause CMs to rethink their support for LPRs, which she says will have a “chilling effect on immigrant communities and their participation with Metro government.” Sabina Mohyuddin, executive director of the American Muslim Advisory Council, echoes this concern, noting that the use of surveillance technology to target communities of color throughout the country has led to “an increased sense of distrust, especially in new surveillance technology.” Andrés Martínez, director of policy and communications at Conexión Américas and former chair of the Community Oversight Board, is concerned about the possibility of further state preemption. “We can implement as many policies as we want to — to protect private information, to protect people’s civil liberties — but the state can come in and undo that whenever they want,” he says. Reflecting on repeated attempts to warn her colleagues about this possibility, Sepulveda says, “It was almost like we weren’t believed.” Now she appears to be vindicated in her concerns. “We passed legislation,” Sepulveda says, “and these are the consequences of that legislation.” EMAIL EDITOR@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
THIS WEEK ON OUR NEWS AND POLITICS BLOG: Citing ongoing health concerns, Metro Councilmember At-Large Steve Glover has resigned. Glover, who first joined the council as a district member in 2011, was one of the few conservatives on the council and a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump. Vice Mayor Jim Shulman said he often disagreed with Glover, but praised his love for the city and the determination and passion he brought to his role. Per the Metro Charter, Glover’s seat will remain vacant until the 2023 council elections. … The Metro Council passed a resolution in support of Ukraine, though Councilmember Bob Mendes noted the body has never passed such a resolution in support of, say, Kurds and Somalis, despite those two groups having significant presence in the city. … Speaking of refugees, United Way of Greater Nashville and the American Muslim Advisory Council have partnered with Catholic Charities and NICE (the two Nashville nonprofits contracted by the state department to resettle 540 Afghan refugees) to establish a fund to help those who fled Afghanistan after the U.S. military withdrawal. The Welcoming Nashville Fund is designed to help the refugees — many of whom are arriving with little other than the clothing on their backs — find homes, jobs and supplies. Each Afghan received a one-time payment from the government of $1,025, which was supposed to last 90 days. Until leases can be secured, many families are living in Airbnbs, which can be costly. Catholic Charities tells the Scene that a $1,500 donation will sustain a family of four for a month, a $1,000 gift will furnish a living room and kitchen, and $250 will help purchase kitchenware. … Contributor Betsy Phillips says people experiencing homelessness need our passion, not our fear and certainly not our opprobrium. She points to the reaction of people in West Nashville opposed to a church allowing the nonprofit Shower the People to use its parking lot to provide services to folks in the encampments nearby. “You’re seeing more people experiencing homelessness in your neighborhood because there are more people experiencing homelessness,” she writes. “Nonprofits who want to help homeless people are setting up in West Nashville and Madison and Antioch and so on, because that’s where people without homes are. They’re not confined to the downtown area or ‘bad’ neighborhoods. And you living in a ‘good’ neighborhood cannot protect you from the effects of the moment. People experiencing homelessness are more visible in your neighborhood not because some church has opened its doors to them, but because the bottom fell out and people are suffering, and your neighborhood is relatively safe for someone who has to sleep outdoors.” … State House Rep. Robin Smith (R-Hixson) has been indicted on federal fraud charges, and on Monday she resigned. In a letter to House Speaker Cameron Sexton and other members of the House, Smith said her resignation was effective immediately. According to court filings, Smith reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, and a hearing on the agreement was scheduled to take place this week. NASHVILLESCENE.COM/PITHINTHEWIND EMAIL: PITH@NASHVILLESCENE.COM TWEET: @PITHINTHEWIND
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ext time you’re walking up Rep. John Lewis Way North, take a minute to look in the new window display at 221. Last week, the owners of the new Woolworth Theatre unveiled a miniature museum exhibit in the building’s southernmost window. It includes several stools that once sat at the historic lunch counter, a trench coat similar to the iconic one that late civil rights icon John Lewis once wore, plus a backpack like he used to carry, copies of his March book trilogy, art from his graphic novel, and a screen where informational displays about the fight for civil rights will be displayed. The new window display is the first of what Woolworth’s owners say will be ongoing efforts to educate the public about the sit-ins that took place at this spot in the 1960s, and also preserve the historic building. The future of the Woolworth Building has been on the minds of lots of Nashvillians. It was named to Historic Nashville Inc.’s 2021 Nashville Nine list, the annual plea regarding spaces that ought to be preserved. Sixty-two years ago, a group of students held sitins at Nashville’s lunch counters, looking to integrate the city’s downtown spaces. Their methods were nonviolent, although the counterprotests they endured were not. It was the first place that Lewis was arrested, and sparked similar sit-ins around the country. In February 2018, Tom Morales of TomKats Hospitality opened Woolworth on 5th, a restaurant
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inside the historic building. The space had been shuttered for years, but some original details, such as the original terrazzo floors, remained. The restaurant re-created the lunch counter and offered some programming and outreach about the sit-ins, but closed during the pandemic. Next for the building is the 400-seat new theater, which will host long-run productions planned to be different from what else is available downtown. More details will be announced soon, but first the ownership team wanted to unveil the window. In the process, they’re underscoring their intent to work with the Tennessee State Museum, the Nashville Public Library (which runs the informative Civil Rights Room on its second floor) and others to tell and preserve the civil rights story from the site. One of Lewis’ nephews and one of his cousins were on hand for the unveiling, providing detailed lore such as the typical contents of Lewis’ backpack (an apple, an orange and a toothbrush). “When we first started this project, we never had the intention of caring for a historical building,” says Keval Sheth, CEO of the Woolworth Theatre. “However, once we found the Woolworth we were excited to be in such a special space. Our team wanted to make sure we pay homage to the history by utilizing this main street side window to display the significance of the building for years to come.” The Woolworth Building is one of a number of sites in the state where the fight for civil rights took place. The state’s tourism body is working to make more of these places available to visitors and to better explain their significance. “What happened in Tennessee changed the world,” said Mark Ezell, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development and secretary/ treasurer of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail Marketing Alliance, in a statement earlier this year. Ezell noted that there are now 14 Tennessee stops on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail. “Our state’s history and heritage shine a light on the triumphant and impactful stories at these destinations.” Sheth says the team plans to reach out to other Woolworth locations to find period artifacts that may be used in future exhibitions and in creating more permanent displays with the nearby Tennessee State Museum. EMAIL EDITOR@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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Nashville’s Affordable Housing Crisis ACTIVISTS, DEVELOPERS AND CITY OFFICIALS ARE TRYING TO TACKLE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. WILL IT BE ENOUGH BEFORE 2030?
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Alisha Haddock hadn’t yet joined The Housing Fund when a deadly tornado ravaged Nashville two years ago. She was still with Catholic Charities of Tennessee when the storm hit on March 3, 2020, devastating neighborhoods including North Nashville. In the wake of the destruction, vultures descended upon the historically Black community, looking to buy up properties from desperate folks who lost their homes or couldn’t afford necessary repairs. For Haddock, the disaster revealed just how unstable the housing situation was in North Nashville — especially for those who didn’t own their homes, and those who lacked insurance. But even before the storm, North Nashville had been changing. “We were hemorrhaging neighbors,” says Haddock. “We were losing them left and right.” She soon noticed that most of the people leaving the neighborhood were renters. “I just think we were losing little pieces of our community, and it was going unnoticed that you were being pushed out because you didn’t own anything.” Haddock made her way to The Housing Fund in 2021, becoming the director of community impact. The nonprofit manages Nashville’s first public land trust, and the goal is to develop 15 properties and sell them to first-time homeowners, with a focus on people historically shut out of the process — like Black people, who are statistically denied loans more often than white wouldbe homeowners. It’s an effort to correct the wrongs of redlining and other forms of housing discrimination. When those owners are ready to sell, the trust buys their houses back, preserving their affordability. It’s a long-term approach, and the model has seen success in other cities around the country. Haddock hopes The Housing Fund’s work can inspire and complement other efforts around the city. The nonprofit’s first home was completed in January on North Nashville’s McKinney Street. Haddock is very excited about the work, and says the program can help people build wealth for their families and find some sense of economic liberation. At the same time, the flood of new residents into the city — some of whom are willing to buy a place over asking price sight unseen — and the increasing gap between housing costs and wages can’t be stemmed with The Housing Fund’s work alone. Tens of thousands of units of housing are needed in Nashville to meet demand in the next 10 years, according to a team of local housing experts. According to a 2021 report from Mayor John Cooper’s Affordable Housing Task Force, Nashville needs to create 53,758 units by 2030, and 18,000 of those need to be affordable to households earning 80 percent of the area median income level or lower. AMI is a useful metric in housing conversations, helping sort out what a seemingly vague term like “affordable” means. The U.S. Department of Housing and Development defines affordable housing as costing no more than 30 percent of someone’s income. Since incomes vary from region to region, AMI helps gauge what’s affordable in a given place. (It’s important to note that it’s the mean — a number at the center of the range of Nashville’s incomes — and not
ALISHA HADDOCK, THE HOUSING FUND an average.) In Nashville, the AMI is $84,300 per year for a four-person household. So a family of four earning 80 percent AMI brings in $67,440, and 30 percent of that is $20,232. Any family spending more than 30 percent of its annual income on housing costs is considered cost burdened — and that describes more than 40 percent of Nashville’s renters. (HUD has calculations for other sizes of households, including individuals.) Keeping the existing stock of housing affordable is also a concern. The task force’s report also notes that from 2010 to 2019, home values and rents grew by more than 150 percent. It’s an imposing challenge, but people like Haddock aren’t deterred. “It just can’t be one particular person, one particular entity,” says Haddock. “It’s going to take all of us to solve something as big as affordable housing.”
On the other side of North Nashville, at 2615 Clarksville Pike, sits a much denser project: a three-building apartment created by a nonprofit developer. A 1,000-squarefoot mural by Norf Art Collective is on the
side of the central building depicting civil rights heroes like Diane Nash, Curlie McGruder, Z. Alexander Looby and John Lewis. The development was created by Urban Housing Solutions, a nonprofit developer in Nashville that owns about 1,500 affordable apartment units all over the city. Founded in 1991, the developer originally focused on housing for populations with special needs, like people with disabilities and folks experiencing homelessness. But now housing is a common struggle for people who don’t require any kind of specialized assistance, and UHS is broadening its work. “Nashville’s affordable housing problem has really metastasized to become, at this point, a market failure,” says Brent Elrod, managing director of UHS. “Our focus has expanded to continue to provide housing and opportunities for people with special housing needs, but integrating those into a more broadly mixed affordable apartment community.” The newest building in the development, created in 2020, is housing for low-income seniors — for example, couples earning less than $3,295 a month — and construction was funded with low-income housing tax credits.
The other two buildings were built using grants from Nashville’s Barnes Housing Trust Fund and feature a range of studios and multi-bedroom apartments. Most of the units are priced for families and individuals making between 40 and 80 percent of the AMI, and aimed at housing working artists. A studio there goes for around $860 to $890, which is below the market average according to the affordable housing report. Even though UHS builds apartments, Elrod isn’t sure that building dense clusters of units alone is enough to meet the housing crisis — though vertical density, meaning tall buildings with several units, will help a lot. What’s going to be crucial is public investment from programs like the Barnes Fund. Elrod says those grants allow developers to spend more money up front when building a project, and reduce the debt they have to deal with down the road, helping them keep rents low. And like Haddock, Elrod says it’s going to take a lot more agencies doing this kind of work, including nonprofits and for-profits. There are other factors to consider when creating affordable housing, Elrod says, like access to public transportation. The Clarksville Pike development is located near the planned site of a WeGo transit hub and is along a bus route, an important factor to many UHS renters. Elrod, who grew up in Nashville, has been with UHS since 2006 and has been director since October 2020. While he’s excited for many of the developments going up around town, there were some difficulties early on — on March 25 of last year, just a few months into Elrod’s time as director, storms took the roof off one of Urban Housing Solutions’ East Nashville properties. That location housed many deaf and hard-of-hearing people, and several residents had to be relocated to other properties or extended-stay motels. Elrod says he takes full responsibility for tenants’ delayed return home, but after a slow rebuild and insurance disputes, he’s hoping to reopen in upcoming months. Natural disasters quickly reveal how vulnerable many people’s housing situations can be — many feared the 2020 tornado would usher in gentrification the way Nashville’s historic 2010 flood did. But raging elements are far from the only threats to housing in Nashville. Rents rise, wages stagnate, new developments get built, and people begin to wonder if they’re getting forced out.
On a sunny Sunday afternoon in February, a fish fry hosted by community groups and unions brings East Nashvillians out to eat, dance, mingle and discuss the future of a patch of land slated for redevelopment: the East Bank. The city has been discussing the development of the area, with plans to include parks and housing, coinciding with repairs to Nissan Stadium and the creation of a new campus for tech giant Oracle, which is moving to town. As Marshall Crawford of The Housing Fund told the Scene’s sister publication the Nashville Post, if for-profit developers are the only builders on the East Bank, and there’s no economic incentive to build affordable units, those homes will likely be pricey. Judging from the dozens of Nashvillians
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New Housing Units Needed by 2030
What does “affordable” mean? The U.S. Department of Housing and Development defines affordable housing as a home that costs the occupant 30 percent or less of their income.
New Housing Units Needed by 2030: 53,758
Housing Budget
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Number of new units needed for households making above 80 percent AMI
Example: An individual earning $47,250 a year needs to spend $14,175 or less on housing to avoid being cost burdened. That is $1,181 a month.
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showing up to the fish fry, neighbors share those concerns. “Representatives from this community ought to be involved,” says Dorlisa Smikes, an East Nashville resident who lives down the street from the East Bank. Smikes is calling for fixes to existing buildings as well as infrastructure improvements like parks. She and her husband own their home, but she says housing in Nashville has “gotten ridiculous” and notes that stagnant pay rates make it difficult to keep up. Another topic of conversation at the fish fry is news that the city might build a whole new football stadium rather than renovating Nissan Stadium — raising questions about the city’s spending priorities. Housing activists hope to secure a community benefits agreement to ensure affordable housing units are built, as well as other guarantees that can help fund local schools or allow Nashvillians to secure well-paying jobs involved in the development. In some ways, the East Bank development represents some of the tension in the housing discussion — the need for affordable housing versus the need for more units, period. “None of my people can afford to live in a $1,200 … or $1,400 apartment,” says Nate Carter of advocacy group Stand Up Nashville. Carter says that when developers come in to build 300- or 400-units complexes, SUN advocates for 100 or more to be priced for low-income workers — people trying to scrape by on minimum wage. The call is especially urgent when displacement is involved, like tearing down an old complex to make way for a new one. (That said, no housing needs to be torn down on the East Bank.) In a story via the Nashville Post, Carter’s view contrasts with those of District 16 Councilmember Brett Withers. Withers argues that since there’s no housing on the East Bank and therefore no risk of displacement, adding supply at any price would be a benefit to the city, and possibly alleviate gentrification elsewhere. Also at the fish fry is Martha Carroll of Nashville Organized for Action and Hope. She recounts the effort to include affordable housing at the new development replacing the Riverchase Apartments — her main focus for the past three years. When those low-income apartments were sold in 2017, groups like NOAH and The Salvation Army began asking for affordable units to be included and to make sure tenants weren’t displaced. Carroll says the developer was accommodating, and the number of affordable units agreed upon increased from 150 to 220. Other requests included letting residents with kids stay until the school year ended, helping tenants connect with housing navigators, and providing financial assistance on moving costs. Carroll says the new owner, Cypress Real Estate Advisors, has been more responsive and done more than most developers. At the same time, 220 units is a “drop in the bucket,” she says. At a Feb. 24 Planning Commission meeting, commissioner Pearl Sims stepped down after five years, saying the agreement at the development was a “great going-away gift” and that she was moved by the advocacy and data-collection efforts by nonprofits working at the apartments. Another commissioner said it would be worth doing a case study or postmortem on why the effort
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District 17 Councilmember Colby Sledge, a former member of the Barnes Fund commission, sponsored legislation to double the city’s investment into the fund (from $10 million to $20 million) and to create a housing catalyst fund that will purchase existing affordable units to keep their costs low. Sledge points to work UHS did in preserving two affordable apartment complexes near the airport as a model for the catalyst fund, keeping them off the market. Or as Elrod tells the Scene, basically freezing those rents. (Full disclosure: Freeman Webb, which is affiliated with the Scene’s parent company FW Publishing, will manage the property.) The investments were made possible thanks to federal American Rescue Plan dollars aimed at relieving the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Sledge doesn’t want this to be a one-time investment. “My plan is to come back and ask for exactly as much money when the second round of ARP funds comes through next fiscal year,” says Sledge. “This is the new normal to me. We have to fund this at a level that says we’re committed and we know what the issues are and we know what it takes to help solve them.” He’s also got a “new obsession” with housing for families and multifamily developments. “How are we going to encourage, and if we need to, incentivize three-bedroomplus units and multifamily [housing]?” he says. “Because otherwise we are gonna be a city without families, and a city without families dies.” Sledge says getting affordable housing built in Nashville is difficult, and can require frequent negotiations about building and zoning codes — though he doesn’t think it’s more difficult than many other major cities. “I actually think we are further along, in a lot of ways, in creating the pipelines for
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“We have to fund this at a level that says we’re committed and we know what the issues are and we know what it takes to help solve them.” —COUNCILMEMBER COLBY SLEDGE affordable housing and setting up the infrastructure for it,” he says. “But it’s still really hard.” Sledge points to the Twelfth and Wedgewood development, which he says seemed like a perfect candidate for affordable housing: It was on vacant public land, meaning nothing had to be torn down and no one had to be displaced. But it wasn’t seamless. The work on that project began in 2016 and finished in 2020, and the usual complications of legislation and construction weren’t the only reasons for the longer-than-expected build. An old gas tank from a filling station previously located on the property had to be removed, and right-of-way issues with nearby streets had to be addressed. “You have to be doing basically everything all the time in order to keep up,” he says. “You have to use every tool in your toolbox, and you have to be inventing new tools at the same time.” For all the work and challenges ahead, Metro’s new housing director Angie Hubbard, who previously worked at the MDHA and Greater Nashville Regional Council, says that after two months on the job she is feeling “energized.” There’s a lot to tackle, but she says the priority is gathering data to inform those efforts. Data will help in efforts to preserve housing, Hubbard says, as well as in identifying the needs of residents to ensure they have housing security. Even though the new housing supply may relieve pressure on households making 80 percent of the AMI, she says, families and individuals in the lowest income levels may still face other barriers to housing, and a fair housing strategy will be crucial to helping them out. In addition to good data, deep community engagement will be needed to learn about and address those needs. Metro Planning Department spokesper-
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son Richel Albright adds that she’s been attending community meetings and taking note of what community residents want out of the East Bank. “The stadium is one component of that entire area,” says Albright. “It will not be the entire 300-plus acres, because we know that that’s not what the community wants. The community wants to see housing, they want to see amenities that help neighborhoods grow and thrive.” Hubbard’s goals include the creation of a dashboard to track affordable housing, hiring a manager for the housing catalyst fund and engaging the community to figure out ways to incentivize affordability. Hubbard was on the Affordable Housing Task Force and is familiar with the recommendations of its report. Some of those recommendations will be difficult to take on in the current political environment. For example, the report notes that linkage fees — in which market-rate developments are charged a certain amount of money that goes toward an affordable housing fund — would be useful, but state law currently prohibits them. And even tools like in-lieu fees and inclusionary zoning lead to other conversations, debates and knots that will need to be unraveled. District 5 Councilmember Sean Parker would also like to see more ambitious cityled efforts, including more municipally built, municipally owned options as alternatives to what the private market offers. “When you build housing and you hold it on your balance sheets, you’re capturing those rents,” says Parker. And once construction costs and debts are paid off, he says, that rent money can go toward building more housing. Parker adds that a new messaging effort about affordable housing and public housing may be needed to combat old stigmas stemming from the ’80s and ’90s — not just
dispelling stereotypes and myths like the infamous “welfare queen” trope, but also communicating that plenty of middle-class workers like teachers and firefighters are struggling to secure homes. “We’re talking about middle-class folks [who] are in dire need for housing these days,” says Parker.
U.S. cities have been building fewer units of public housing and working toward more public-private efforts. Even the MDHA’s overhaul efforts at James A. Cayce Homes — turning the project into a mixed-income community — involves private investors and loans. Ambitious plans may be needed, but the threat of state preemption looms large. Nashville had a short-lived inclusionary zoning law in 2016, which allowed developers of projects with more than five units to request certain permissions — like being allowed to build taller structures or build more densely — if they set aside a certain percentage of those units for affordable housing. The state legislature blocked it. While there are still some calls for it to return, there’s also debate about how effective inclusionary zoning is. Some studies say it does help build units at low-income levels, though not necessarily the lowest, while some opponents say it can drive up prices of market-rate housing. As a 2019 study from the Urban Institute think tank notes, data is pretty limited and quite mixed, despite the growing popularity of such laws. Advocates note that alternatives to new zoning laws exist in the form of incentives — for example, a new ordinance allowing homeowners to build separate housing units in their backyards to create more affordable housing. The city is also trying to get more landlords to accept housing vouchers, which will assist in efforts to house people experiencing homelessness. But the current model of community groups, politicians, officials and developers trying to hash things out might be the modus operandi for a while. And Hubbard hopes she can help get all these groups on the same page using engagement and plenty of data. “The primary thing that we are working on is to align all of the great work that’s happening around housing,” says Hubbard. “We have great nonprofit partners. We have forprofit developers that are very much committed to increasing housing affordability. We just need one place where there’s a unified strategy around how we do that.” EMAIL EDITOR@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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succeeded. Even so, Carroll says, “We needed far more support from the city.” She also calls for an independent office of housing that wouldn’t be reliant on mayoral appointments. District 19 Councilmember Freddie O’Connell filed a bill to create such an office in October, and — despite some initial pushback from Mayor Cooper’s office — the city is carrying out a performance audit of the current structure to explore the idea. Housing activists have seen other success in town. Negotiations between Stand Up Nashville and Nashville SC about the soccer stadium being built in Wedgewood-Houston resulted in the city’s first community benefits agreements. That agreement secured affordable housing units, a child care facility, a minimum wage of $15.50 for stadium employees and more. Those accomplishments are heartening, but Carter adds that it’s still going to be difficult to reach the thousands of units needed just by pushing for 100 or 200 units at a time. Indeed, building isn’t the only route that needs to be pursued. The Affordable Housing Task Force report listed nine high-priority recommendations, from tripling the Barnes Fund to expanding payment in lieu of taxes — or PILOT — programs to supporting efforts to create mixed-income housing on Metro Development and Housing Agency property. The good news is that some progress has been made on these recommendations.
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THE PORCH PRESENTS KIESE LAYMON
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Ozari Events at the L&L Market
and Blood Root will open. 7 p.m. at The High Watt, 1 Cannery Row CHARLIE ZAILLIAN
was something outside of rock. It lasted about three years and then it circled back and rejoined the marketplace and became the same thing.” So it makes sense [NO FUN] that Ezra Furman’s 2019 album EZRA FURMAN Twelve Nudes registers as a Forty-five years after the DUE TO CONCERNS late moment in rock ’n’ roll Ramones invented the ABOUT COVID-19 that references punk as both genre, a music fan might TRANSMISSION, PLEASE a style and as an example of want to know exactly what CHECK WITH VENUES ABOUT how having no fun can be a punk rock was. I think it POTENTIAL CANCELLATIONS good time. You might hear was a reaction against rock BEFORE MAKING PLANS. echoes of Memphis rocker ’n’ roll, since punk got rid Jay Reatard throughout Twelve of the backbeat in favor of Nudes, and “Transition From the flat beats favored by Velvet Nowhere to Nowhere” sounds like Underground drummer Maureen Marc Bolan or David Bowie. Meanwhile, Tucker. As the great rock critic Richard “Trauma” describes how disaffected human Meltzer told writer Jason Gross in a 2000 beings roll in an economy designed to crush interview for Perfect Sound Forever: “Punk
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HEART ATTACK MAN
Heart Attack Man hails from Northeast Ohio — a breeding ground for youthful, authentic punk rock for as long as punk has existed — and takes its name from a Beastie Boys deep cut. Extremely online frontman Eric Egan’s 10K Instagram followers might make you think they’ve already arrived, but the foursome is still gathering momentum. Think Cheshire Cat-era Blink-182 reinterpreting macabre Misfits imagery for the social media age, and you’re getting close. Occasional screamo and metalcoreverging passages test my patience, but the Heart Attack men never wait long to bring it back to the hook. And with their ability to land a huge chorus — look up “Pitch Black,” “Sugar Coated” and the unabashedly snotty “Leap Year” — it shouldn’t be long before they break through. Covey, Arm’s Length
them: “She takes her time as the authorities arrive / Going out for a smoke in the back lot.” Furman sings in a hoarse voice that communicates real rage, and Twelve Nudes stands as an excellent scrapbook of rock readymades. Sundaes will open. 8 p.m. at The Blue Room at Third Man Records, 623 Seventh Ave. S. EDD HURT
FRIDAY / 3.11 ART
Kiese Laymon is among the most talented and influential writers working today. His work spans the genres of nonfiction, memoir, fiction and poetry, and to each he brings a sense of emotional honesty, conscience and deep love for his community. By the end of its first chapter, his acclaimed Heavy: An American Memoir slaps you cold and then envelops you in warmth. While you could say that his work focuses on identity — specifically Black Southern identity — it also has a universality that any bighearted reader will connect with. Last month, he was awarded an NAACP Image Award for his novel Long Division, about which he said on Instagram: “There’s a story to be told about the importance of the Image Award for people like us, for whom that award is the Pulitzer. That’s the award your grandmama and them want to see you win.” The Porch Writers’ Collective again proves its chops by featuring Laymon in its annual fundraiser. He’ll appear in conversation with Danté Stewart, author of Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle. “Only once in a lifetime do we come across a writer like Danté Stewart, so young and yet so masterful with the pen,” writes author Robert Jones Jr. for The New York Times. “This work is a thing to make dungeons shake and hearts thunder.” Songsmith Allison Moorer will open the evening. With two books of her own under her belt (2019’s Blood and 2021’s I Dream He Talks to Me), Moorer shows her ever-expanding ability to transcend and transform genre. Tickets are $100 — it is a fundraiser, after all, with cocktails and “heavy hors d’oeuvres” — and proceeds will support The Porch’s programming, which includes courses, community engagement, entertainment and opportunities for youth. Tickets at porchtn.org. 6:30 p.m. at 14TENN, 1410 51st Ave. N. ERICA CICCARONE MUSIC
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As Nashville’s poetry scene continues to explode, it seems only fair that we should celebrate fresh voices in a fresh new way. And that’s exactly what Be Witched is all about. The wildly imaginative arts event series is teaming up with Kindling Arts Festival this weekend to present Dream House — “an immersive environment that blurs the lines between lucid daydream and impossible fantasy.” The unique project brings together the talents of Be Witched cocreators Meg Wade and Maggie Wells, along with art director Dana Poole and a team of collaborators, for a groovy mix of poetry, interactive art and dancing. There will be spontaneous performances throughout the evening, including poetry readings from Scene contributor Kashif Andrew Graham, along with Karyna McGlynn, Nu Pet Alignment and Lauren Turner. And you’ll want to stick around after the final reading — that’s when Wells steps behind the turntable to host an all-out dance party. 8 p.m. at Ozari Events at the L&L Market, 3816 Charlotte Ave. AMY STUMPFL
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NASHVILLE ZOO’S DINOTREK
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Far too few people use the question “What is your favorite dinosaur?” as an icebreaker. It’s too bad, because everyone has one, even people who somehow got through childhood without a dinosaur phase (poor souls). That’s because everyone has seen at least one-and-a-half Jurassic Park movies. Mine is either the chonky Ankylosaurus (an armored vehicle with four legs and a fricking spiky Viking club for a tail) or Stegosaurus, what with its scary back and equally terrifying thagomizer (so named by Gary Larson in a Far Side; paleontologists realized there wasn’t an actual name for the spiked tail of Stegosaurus so they copped one from the comics). If, like me, you have a hard time deciding between two or two dozen favorites, head down to the Nashville Zoo’s Dinotrek, a pleasant little walk in the woods on the edge of the zoo complete with moving, growling and, yes, spitting dinos. (They are replicas, I somehow find it necessary to say.) The animatronic prehistoric road show is in town March 11 through the end of July and does require an extra $4 ticket, but c’mon. They have a moving Diabloceratops, which I’ve never even heard of, but it sounds rad as heck. March 11-July 29 at the Nashville Zoo, 3777 Nolensville Pike J.R. LIND
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HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER W/ALEXA ROSE
Broadly speaking, with his project Hiss Golden Messenger, Durham, N.C.’s M.C. Taylor makes what you might call folk music, or Americana. (The Recording Academy certainly considers it the latter anyway, having nominated HGM’s 2019 record Terms of Surrender for a Best Americana Album Grammy.) But neither of those terms quite gets at the nuance of what
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CHEEKWOOD IN BLOOM
Spring is just around the corner, and what better way to celebrate than with Cheekwood in Bloom. This is the 10th anniversary of the local favorite event, which features more than 250,000 colorful tulips, daffodils and other blooming bulbs, along with vibrant redbuds, dogwoods and magnolias. Docents will be on hand to lead interactive tours, allowing visitors to explore the estate’s unique house and history, along with its seasonal gardens. You can also grab a beer or cocktail and check out live musical performances each weekend in the scenic Beer Garden. Get inspired by one of the many wellness programs or hands-on workshops, perhaps
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SOMEBODY’S WATCHING ME: THE CONVERSATION
With the exception of the late Peter Bogdanovich, there wasn’t a New Hollywood filmmaker who was on a roll more than Francis Ford Coppola. Think about it: He made The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, both Oscar-winning masterpieces. And in between making those films, he made the 1974 classic The Conversation, arguably the best in the wave of riveting, paranoid thrillers that came out during the Watergate-era ’70s. An always on-point Gene Hackman plays
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a surveillance expert who thinks he can keep his private life private. That is, until he gets hired (by a young Harrison Ford!) to record a young couple (Frederic Forrest and Cindy Williams) talking in the public plaza, and gets wrapped up in a murder plot that makes the in-way-over-his-head wiretapper a vulnerable target. This new 50th-anniversary DCP restoration includes a surround-sound mix supervised by the legendary Walter Murch, the film’s editor and sound designer. It shows this weekend as part of Somebody’s Watching Me, the Belcourt’s series of surveillance-themed cinema. 5:30 & 8 p.m. March 11-12 at the Belcourt, 2102 Belcourt Ave. CRAIG D. LINDSEY
DON’T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS! (THE MUSICAL)
You may not be all that familiar with the name Mo Willems. But if you’ve spent any time with young children over the past 20 years or so, you’ve likely encountered his work. The award-winning children’s author has created a host of delightful picture books — including the popular Elephant and Piggie series and the Knuffle Bunny trilogy. This weekend, you can check out another one of Willems’ charming creations, as Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! (The Musical) takes the stage at TPAC. Based on Willems’ Caldecott Honor-winning book, this musical adaptation follows the adventures of a wily bird who longs to hop behind the wheel when the bus driver decides to take a break from his route. Featuring a script from Willems and longtime collaborator Mr. Warburton (executive producer of Muppet Babies), plus music by Deborah Wicks La Puma (the composer behind Elephant and Piggie’s We Are in a Play!), Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! promises to serve up fun songs, colorful puppets and more. 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. at TPAC’s Polk Theater, 505 Deaderick St. AMY STUMPFL MUSIC
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Taylor does with 2021’s emotionally complex Quietly Blowing It. The whole record is shot through with soul, and while Hiss Golden Messenger is most frequently compared to folks like Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, there are also notes of soft-rock god Jackson Browne on songs like album closer “Sanctuary.” As AllMusic’s Mark Deming notes, “The arrangements dress the tunes in sounds that recall the rootsy end of ’70s soft rock but with an emotional eloquence that’s often very beautiful, even when his characters are chasing a happiness that’s out of their grasp.” Deming gets it. Taylor frequently collaborates with a number of noted current and former Nashvillians, including William Tyler, James Wallace and Buddy Miller — a couple of whom show up on Quietly Blowing It — and so a guest appearance from one of his local pals Saturday night certainly isn’t out of the question. Taylor’s fellow North Carolinian Alexa Rose will appear in support. 8 p.m. at Brooklyn Bowl, 925 Third Ave. N.
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IN OTHER WORLDS: A MONTHLY SCI-FI AND FANTASY BOOK CLUB
A fun thing to do when reality is bad is to read about an even worse reality. Twoyear anniversary of a global pandemic got you down? Well, let me introduce you to a futuristic desert world where the line between human and robot is thin and society is so bad that some people are choosing to live in the middle of a deathly dust storm that’s been swirling for 30 years. This is the plot to the new sci-fi thriller Noor by Africanfuturist Nnedi Okorafor, and you should definitely read it. Luckily for you, East Nashville’s The Bookshop has a new monthly sci-fi and fantasy book club, and Noor is the first pick. All you have to do to sign up is purchase the book through The Bookshop. They will meet in person at the coffee shop next door and ask everyone to wear a mask. Private shopping at The Bookshop will be available following the discussion, with participants getting 10 percent off purchases. 5 p.m. at Hanna Bee Coffee, 1035 W. Eastland Ave. KIM BALDWIN MUSIC
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Lori Mechem’s educational credentials are so established that sometimes her impressive skills as a pianist get overlooked. Mechem, along with husband and bassist Roger Spencer, have been an inspiring and tireless force on the regional jazz scene since 1988, and their efforts have made the Nashville Jazz Workshop a well-respected force in global musical circles. But Mechem is also a gifted and versatile soloist and melodic interpreter who has played with such giants as Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Smith, Terry Gibbs and Pete Christlieb, to cite only a few. For this Saturday night performance at Nashville Jazz Workshop’s Jazz Cave, Mechem will head a top-flight unit featuring guitarist Andy Reiss, bassist
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Recently, top-notch guitarist (and Scene contributing editor) Jack Silverman briefly had his retirement party crashed. You might have seen the video of Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon taking the mic on a couple songs during Grateful Dead tribute The Stolen Faces’ show at Brooklyn Bowl in February. It was a fun and weird little diversion that drew some headlines. But now that the hoopla has subsided, it’s worth remembering that it was Silverman’s last regular gig with the band because he’s focusing on the original material he has developed over the past few years. He’s been making guitar-centered instrumental music he calls “crime jazz,” full of complex harmonies that scan as ominous and noirish. In a live setting, the pieces take off in unexpected directions courtesy of an elastic group of co-conspirators who know how to improvise without getting stuck in the navel-gazing doldrums. Saturday evening, he’ll play in the bar at The Dive Motel with The Weird Sisters, purveyors of mutant electronic blues and funk (take eight minutes and check out their latest single “Lazy/Crazy” to get a taste of what you’re in for), and Naan Violence, the inventive improvisational project of Atlanta-based sitar player Arjun Kulharya. Later on, the party continues with a set from DJ PoBoy. 5 p.m. at The Dive Motel, 1414 Dickerson Pike STEPHEN TRAGESER
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I don’t know about y’all, but I’m definitely feeling the Belcourt devoting its Music City Mondays this month to Michael Schultz, probably one of the most underappreciated Black filmmakers of all time. I mean, had you heard of him before I brought his name up? This man was on a roll throughout the 1970s. The Nashville arthouse played his beloved inner-city/ coming-of-age story Cooley High last week. Now, they’re coming with his 1976 follow-up Car Wash, a comic look at a day in the life of a Los Angeles car wash, featuring Richard Pryor, George Carlin, The Pointer Sisters and actor-directors Bill Duke and Ivan Dixon. As for music, the Norman Whitfield-produced tunes of Rose Royce play all throughout the movie. (True story: A film curator friend of mine played this film during a series she programmed. I showed up to the screening and gave her my double-LP copy of the soundtrack. Hey, game recognizes game.) 5:45 & 8 p.m. at the Belcourt, 2102 Belcourt Ave. CRAIG D. LINDSEY BOOKS
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Children of the ’80s might recall a PSA commercial in which a fictitious drug user jumps off a diving board into an empty concrete pool. We don’t see her splat, but we elder millennials got the point. But how did cannabis go from “gateway drug” to a gateway to wealth for upstanding entrepreneurs? This week, the Nashville Jewish Book Series will explore the forces that created the marijuana gold rush with a virtual event featuring Heather Cabot. In her book The New Chardonnay: The Unlikely Story of How Marijuana Went Mainstream, Cabot hits the road with Snoop Dogg and his business partner Ted Chung as the rapper rolls out his own brand of weed. (Curious about Snoop’s friendship with Martha Stewart? Of course you are!) The deeply reported book also introduces us to racial justice activists, marijuana moguls and plenty of interesting characters to get an array of perspectives on the rebranding of cannabis. Presented by the Gordon Jewish Community Center and the Memphis JCC, the online event is free to attend. Register at nashvillejcc.org. 7 p.m. online ERICA CICCARONE
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As the pandemic has progressed, the game cabinet my girlfriend and I keep has grown quite full. Even as more options emerge for stuff to do safely in public, we find we keep coming back to some titles. In the immensely popular Wingspan, you and your pals compete to run the best avian sanctuary, but you don’t have to be a birder or even birdcurious to appreciate it. The illustrations are gorgeous, and once you get the hang of the rules, it flows well. (See also: Viticulture, by the same publisher, in which you manage a winery.) Want more cute in your competition? Everdell, in which woodland critters battle to build the finest city in the titular kingdom, is a delight. Be forewarned there’s a lot of small text on the cards, so you may have to pass them around or get up to look at them carefully. If you’re having a few people over, consider Decrypto, in which you’re trying to verbally communicate a secret message to members of your team — without the opposing team, who’s listening in, figuring it out. It’s a fun way to get to know people better, which is what game nights are all about. In a similar vein, a title we don’t own but love to play is The Visitor in Blackwood Grove. One player is The Visitor, an alien who crash-landed on Earth, and they have to make up a rule that unites objects on a selection of beautifully illustrated cards that they’ve drawn from the deck. The Kid (who is the alien’s ally, E.T.style) and representatives of the FBI, the CIA and the Department of Energy (the alien’s enemies) each share cards with The Visitor, vying to figure out the unifying rule before anyone else can. STEPHEN TRAGESER
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the track “Perfect Dark” is a keeper. It would feature nicely on a mixtape alongside “Hours and Hours,” the slow-burning standout from Bully’s 2022 album Sugaregg. Also on the bill are dream-popsters Bleary, whose 2019 mini-album Gates blended punk-rock bite and 120 Minutes-worthy melodicism, and Slush, a posse of choruspedal shoegazers who delivered a killer midday set at Spewfest three years back but have scarcely been heard from since. 8 p.m. at Drkmttr, 1111 Dickerson Pike.
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What is love? That’s one of humanity’s greatest, most alluring mysteries, one that humans have tried to solve and fulfill through music, art and literature — and now, podcasts. After 18 years as a column in The New York Times, Modern Love has evolved into a podcast that gives readers a glimpse into love’s complexities and rawness. In each episode’s first 10 minutes or so, you listen to different experiences of love told in the form of narrative essays submitted by everyday people. Each story is a poetic slice of love’s triumphs and pitfalls; you learn that it is ordinary, traumatic, phenomenal and goes beyond what words could ever describe. After the break, host Anna Martin talks to the authors of these vignettes and unpacks their anecdotes, giving the audience an update of where these people are now in their lives. These bite-size love stories will leave your soul feeling nourished and renewed. New episodes drop every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts. ASHLEY BARRIENTOS
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he pandemic has thrown several curveballs at Nashville’s restaurant industry. But one thing has remained true through COVID-19’s reign of terror: People want coffee. In 2020, Moonshot Coffee Bar opened on the ground floor of TownePlace Suites on Gay Street downtown. Also that year, both Elegy Coffee and Weak Coffee joined the list of East Nashville offerings. The list continued to grow in 2021. Barista Parlor opened its seventh location in the lobby of W Nashville in the Gulch, Humphreys Street Coffee opened its second location not too far away on Broadway, and two newbies — Matryoshka and All People — opened near Wedgewood-Houston and Cleveland Park, respectively.
Frustratingly for an indecisive Gemini like me, none of them are bad. They’re all raising the coffee bar and making it increasingly difficult to remain loyal to just one or two shops. Now coffee connoisseurs can refuel at a new spot every day of the week for a month without repeating and, more importantly, without being served a substandard drink. It’s wonderful, it’s maddening. Here’s the scoop on the latest shops to join the scene.
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BARISTA PARLOR SECRET GARDEN 300 12th Ave. S. baristaparlor.com
The first time I walked into Barista Parlor, I rolled my eyes. It was 2014, and I had just moved to Nashville from Seattle, where coffee shops generally had cozy, get-out-ofthe-rain-and-read-a-book kind of vibes. This weirdo shop in East Nashville looked like a Pinterest board had barfed all over it. Trend upon trend, and to top it off, the barista laughed at me when I asked if they had any Splenda. I carried a grudge for years. But I have since calmed down. Barista
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Parlor has too. Now there are more than half a dozen BPs around town — including one in the Nashville International Airport — and Isle of Printing’s thoughtful if enthusiastic branding has been tightened up. It’s no longer a menagerie of ideas in one space — Barista Parlor is a cohesive collection. The local chain’s newest spot is Barista Parlor Secret Garden, more a coffee nook than a coffee shop in the lobby of the W Nashville. During the day the space is awash with natural light — the only wall is the floor-to-ceiling panel of windows looking out to 12th Avenue. Plants curated and cared for by Oasis Design Studio are scattered throughout — hence the Secret Garden title — and at the center of it all is Isle of Printing’s mod-inspired Kodachrome-esque art installation. A collection of 12 large drum-shaped lampshades are all painted with black-and-white geometric patterns, with the light shining through two layers of transparent yellow, teal and pink circles that hang below. They’re cool as shit, like an arty crib mobile mixed with a View-Master reel. I could stare at them all day. The coffee’s great too, as Barista Parlor’s coffee always is. Just bring your own Splenda.
The first Humphreys Street Coffee Shop opened in 2018 on Humphreys Street in Wedgewood-Houston. It’s one part great coffee shop and one part “social enterprise” — a business founded by the nonprofit organization Harvest Hands. The shop’s main goal is to serve a good cup of coffee, yes, but Humphreys Street also empowers young people by “teaching money management and employment skills.” Not only are both shops staffed by local teens, but student employees also roast, package and ship all of Humphreys Street’s beans in South Nashville. The second location, on the corner of the Nashville First Baptist Church building on Broadway, is much like the original. It’s a bright, clean space, and a quiet reprieve from Lower Broadway’s usual chaos. The La Cocada is a must-try, especially iced. The latte is inspired by a cocada, a coconut macaroon-like cookie served throughout Latin America, and it’s made with dulce de leche caramel and coconut. It’s creamy, rich and surprisingly not too sweet. When I took my first sip while walking down Broadway back to my car, I exclaimed, “Oh shit,
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Matryoshka dolls, aka nesting dolls, are the perfect inspiration for this teenytiny colorful coffee shop. The cafe sits in the front third of a 960-square-foot space
347 Douglas Ave., Suite 101 allpeoplecoffee.com All People, opened in the Douglas Market Lofts in December by co-owners Corey Alexander and Bradley Bruce, is one of a few Black-owned coffee shops in Nashville. Their motto is simple: “Where all people feel welcome.” The space is modern and cozy. There’s a moss wall with a neon sign that reads “created equal,” the perfect background should you want to snap a pic of your pretty drink for social media. There’s also a charming reading corner with leather lounge chairs, a checkerboard and a “take a book, leave a book” library. There’s also a small outside patio, which is a great place to dog-watch. (Dogs > people.) Along with Osa coffee and espresso — made with a custom Mavam Espresso machine that’s decorated with a 24-karatgold logo — All People also has wine and a self-serve draft wall. The draft wall is very cool. It features 12 taps that offer a rotating selection of local beer — TailGate, Southern Grist, Jackalope, East Nashville Beer Works, Bearded Iris and more — as well as Switter’s Nitro Cold Brew. And don’t sleep on the bagels. All People’s countertop pastry case is often stacked with fat, hand-rolled bagels from Jersey Oven in Mount Juliet. The crust snaps upon first bite, and the inside is perfectly chewy and tender — they rival H&S, my personal favorite Nashville bagel shop.
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tucked away on the first floor of one of those weirdly faux-industrial buildings in the Alloy Apartments and Artisan Spaces. Blink while driving by and you’ll miss it. Hell, blink while walking by and you may have to double back. Once you get inside, though, Matryoshka is filled with treasure MATRYOSHKA COFFEE
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upon treasure. Your eye will jump and skip around for several seconds before you remember you’re just there to grab some coffee and didn’t accidentally wander into an Instagram-friendly art installation. The space, opened by Abbey Chiavario in December, bursts with color. A wall that separates the cafe from its sister business Technico — a coffee equipment technician and distribution service — is covered with a vibrant Art Deco-meets-’80s-aerobics-aesthetic mural. Another is decorated with brightly colored merchandise — T-shirts, stickers, mugs and other coffee accessories — and a full-length mirror that’s perfect for selfies and framed with stickers and encouraging handwritten notes. The menu features that same energy. The Charlotte is a screamin’-pink drink made of pink matcha, vanilla, strawberry powder and your choice of whole or oat milk. The Confetti Cuban, my personal favorite, is a condensed-milk latte topped with sprinkles and edible glitter. The sprinkles melt into the warm milk foam as you sip, leaving swirls of color in their wake. It’s lovely. There isn’t much room for food — it’s just 300 square feet, after all — but the shop does carry vegan pastries from Yellow & Lavender as well as a variety of instant ramen and breakfast cereals. Fun, silly, perfect. Matryoshka is a whole world of positive energy packed into one tiny space, and it’s the playful, not-too-serious attitude Nashville’s booming coffee community needs right now. EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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bout three-fourths of the way into Mary Addison Hackett’s Anonymous Was a Vlog video series, she confesses that she’s put a moratorium on her painting practice. “I’ve put a MARY ADDISON HACKETT moratorium on my ANONYMOUS WAS A VLOG painting practice,” THROUGH MARCH 31 AT she says. For those UNREQUITED LEISURE, of us who have 507 HAGAN ST. known and loved Hackett’s wild, diaristic paintings, this is potentially devastating news. But it’s delivered with such a singular charm — a combination of choppy editing and deadpan delivery that becomes familiar after watching several minutes of the videos — that, instead of mourning the loss of her paintings, you really just can’t wait to see what it is that she’ll do next. Anonymous Was a Vlog is around 45 minutes of 20 video vignettes that are played on a loop in the Unrequited Leisure gallery space. Aside from the artist and an occasional appearance from her Jack Russell terrier Agnes, the main character in the videos is the Mojave Desert, where
Hackett was living at the time. The heat and the wilderness are overwhelming but compelling specters. At one point, she discusses the possibilities of creating an outfit out of the blue cooling packets you can keep in your freezer. In another video, she explains away the darkness as a way to cool her home: “I’ve covered the windows with aluminum foil.” She moved to the desert from her home in Nashville after the 2016 election. “Looking back, I might have overreacted,” she says dryly in her artist’s statement, “but after the 2016 presidential election, I had a ‘Heads we stay, tails we go’ moment. Even though I come from a privileged background, I no longer felt buffered by that privilege. Politically speaking, my home state of Tennessee felt either cruel or apathetic. In 2017, I sold most of my belongings and relocated to a rural parcel of land in the Mojave Desert and began practicing modern-day homesteading.” The series takes its name from a line in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own — “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” — and undercurrents of feminism and self-sufficiency exist throughout. In one video, Hackett claims that the project is apolitical, but the confounding, exasperated anger and despair around the Trump presidency is hard to shake, much like how artwork made during the COVID pandemic can’t really escape being at least partially informed by it. Speaking of the
pandemic, the timing of Hackett’s decision to isolate herself in the desert for the two years is striking. The dateline at the end of each video reminds you that this is a time capsule of the years between Trump’s election and COVID, and Hackett’s fixation on simple coping strategies like making smoothies and sewing dog carriers seems strangely prescient. Hackett describes the work in one of her vignettes, which she calls “really lo-fi downand-dirty aesthetic/non-aesthetic videos.” It’s a welcome bit of self-reference — her awkward timing and banal subject matter would be funny regardless, but knowing that Hackett is in on the joke ensures that it’s a shared joy. Her monologues are offthe-cuff, but she’s always charming and astute — like a Spalding Gray for 21stcentury women artists. In one video, she says she plans to Google how to quit social media, then questions whether it’s possible to exist without it. “Those of us who are, like, cultural producers — we don’t exist without the internet,” she says. “It’s not 2006 anymore. I’m tired of trying to be talented, funny, skillful, charming. Tired of having labels. Someone once told me that the art world doesn’t really like funny. The art world can handle tacky, shallow, overly academic. Funny doesn’t really do it.” At the collection’s halfway point there’s an unusual installment called “Nature Girl” that acts kind of like an interlude. In it, Hackett has edited herself into a stilted
CGI green-screen background with the soundtrack for Jesus Christ Superstar playing over her. After she spends a few videos speaking about her migraines and fantasies about trepanning herself, the refrain — which she’s edited to trip over itself like a broken record, “Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ!” — seems less like a religious reference and more like a series of exasperated cries. The series begins with Hackett filming herself with her phone in her car, looking at herself instead of directly into the camera with that off-center look that’s familiar to all of us who’ve grown uncomfortably familiar with Zoom. When Hackett squints to keep the sun out of her eyes, I’m reminded of other strong women in documentary cinema — namely, the Beales of the Maysles brothers’ classic Grey Gardens. Hackett shares the Beales’ vulnerability and strength, and the confessional center of the work is just as indescribably captivating as watching Little Edie talk about wearing pantyhose over a skirt. By the time Hackett’s series is over, we’ve seen her move from a strange quirky recluse to a spirited frontierswoman. She sings along to David Allan Coe’s “You Never Even Called Me by My Name” with the spunk of Little Edie’s Fourth of July choreography. The video, titled “Slutty Sunday Lip Sync,” closes the series with an uplifting tone. EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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A reading of famed Nashvillian Timothy Demonbreun’s horoscope BY ELIZABETH ELKINS Editor’s note: Elizabeth Elkins’ book We Should Soon Become Respectable: Nashville’s Own Timothy Demonbreun will be published March 15 by Vanderbilt University Press. When Elkins set out to learn about the French-Canadian trapper and 18th-century Nashville settler, she left no stone unturned — including those in the celestial realm. She consulted with a local astrologer on Demonbreun’s chart, and she offers it as an addendum here.
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o, what kind of man was Timothy? There are many assumptions to make based on his choices and actions: Was he a spoiled rich child who did what he wanted, a classic-case misogynist and polygaWE SHOULD SOON mist, or a conceited BECOME RESPECTABLE: adventurer? Was he NASHVILLE’S OWN TIMOTHY brave and stubborn, DEMONBREUN a passionate romanBY ELIZABETH ELKINS VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY tic who lived for PRESS the moment, from 126 PAGES, $17.95 survival to success AVAILABLE MARCH 15 and back again? We know he was a man who conned the Spanish governor out of a war, carried on graceful correspondence with Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, owned several slaves, may have served as a spy, and was a decorated veteran. He served in the Revolutionary War, extraordinarily so it seems. Generals counted on him: He must have been loyal and steadfast, perhaps unshakable and fearless. Military records underscore his leadership skills. We can make many assumptions from all the facts and all of the opinions in this book so far. Timothy wrote letters with an educated grace and undeniable wit. A few of those letters survive, giving us scattered clues to Timothy’s personality. One notable letter is from October 1785, addressed to Spanish Gov. Francisco Zavier Cruzat, written urgently after the Spanish seized refugees in Kaskaskia, Ill. It was convincing and elegant, and it can be partially credited with averting military action between the United States and Spain. Timothy later eloquently petitioned the U.S. government for greater reward for his services during the Revolutionary War, which he felt were overlooked. He cared about spirituality, bringing his deep Catholic faith to Nashville, even if it meant bringing the priest in from Kentucky. We know from later Nashville court records he loved to be in court, loved to sue people — and according to newspaper reports, he was a charming party host. For the curious, however, there are more ways to unlock a personality than just the historic record. Astrology may be one of the most unconventional. It’s part math, part magic — arguably either pure nonsense or
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chillingly prophetic. There is, of course, no science in this art — but there are thousands of years of fervent belief that the position of the stars in the sky at the time of your birth can determine your fate, and influence who you are. Nashville astrologer Jes Justice dove into Timothy’s astrological chart to find clues to his motivation, personal relationships and proverbial destiny. It’s important to note that prior to the reading she knew nothing other than his birthplace and birth date, that a street was named after him in Nashville and that he was a part of the founding of the city. He was, of course, born in late March, under the sign of the ram, Aries, with a Leo moon and Taurus rising. Justice dug into the details: Mercury was in Aries that day, Mars in Scorpio, Venus in Aquarius. She crosses complicated lines in her readings, noting Trines and the Lilith and the Chiron and conjunctions far beyond the understanding of the casual astrology believer, but they combine to form a picture of the subject at first glance: This person is fiery, driven, passionate and creative while also being a builder in life. This is someone who may build a business, an enterprise or even actual buildings or infrastructure. He is definitely a trailblazer who was born to be a rebel with a cause and do things his own way. Although he can be impulsive and dramatic, he’s very gifted at being able to pace himself, to steadily build upon past accomplishments and build something over a long period of time. He does things differently than the people around him, and his career and public life are meant to break social norms and boundaries. His success in business is greatly related to his sense of self-worth. He takes his success very personally, and this is probably why he is successful. He feels he must succeed in order to matter. Justice immediately wondered if Timothy inherited money from his father, but said his father was most likely detached and aloof; their relationship was strained. He was probably closer to his mother than his father as his mother was the more nurturing and loving parent. His chart shows he gained additional wealth in a foreign land, but it required great risk and long-term perseverance to get there. Things, she said, didn’t
always come easily to Timothy. His career was paramount to him, and it was most likely in law or the justice system. There were definitely secret financial dealings in his life. He may have been getting money from a secret source or had to lie about bank accounts or where he was getting money from — at least at some point. As far as his personality, the stars offered some clues. It’s really difficult for him to let go of being controlling; he may have an overpowering presence and most often takes the lead in most situations in his life. He does not change his mind easily. He probably struggled with anxiety and perfection. He is a very compassionate person, naturally disciplined, perhaps very obsessed with work? He is meant to become more relaxed, spiritual and a compassionate leader in his lifetime. He may have been the leader of a cause. The biggest key to his success is that he is willing to break norms, traditions and the status quo, and that is how he makes a name for himself. His businesses will be most successful in foreign lands — the businesses themselves would probably be something traditional like building or selling. There’s a darker thread in this heavenly geometry, though. Timothy likely felt something was wrong with him, that he could never live up to what was expected of him. He wanted to be perfect, and these shortcomings were always a part of his thought process. He felt different from others, and this may be exactly what compelled him to travel far from home. He put that insecurity into his work. He held fast to a dedicated cause: be of service and try to improve others’ lives. He loved people, and was probably very nice to deal with in any business. Timothy may have also been viewed as odd, exceptional or interesting. This guy sticks out. He is led by an urge to find the truth and feels that he has a different world view than most people. With his Mercury sextile in Venus, he is charming and persuasive and probably well-liked. Even though he had pretty bad anxiety that may have caused some neurosis, he comes off as friendly and good-natured. The chart shows he is very clever and an intelligent thinker who can get mixed up in controversy without being condemned or associated with major dramas. He’s also able to mix with an eclectic group of people quite easily. He has genuine charisma and is probably very popular, in business and in his personal life. Which leads us to perhaps the biggest question: What about his romantic relationships? It looks like he will be married. But with Mars and Pluto in his seventh house there will be separating at some point. His relationships tend to be a key part of how he transforms in life, and they may also be volatile. I definitely see a daughter who could be a Leo. [Of note, of course, is the early August birth of his first child, a daughter, making her a Leo.] He has at least one child. With his sun in the 12th house, he is somewhat secretive, not
easy to know fully, a part of him is always hidden. There are many secrets at some point in his life — very secretive dealings. Also, with his 12th house ruler in the seventh house, I think there’s a secret relationship or a secret marriage, or perhaps this relationship could have caused him to withhold some sort of big secret. She continues that he loved time with his children, and she suspects there are secret children. “I see so much secrecy,” she says, “but I don’t see anything malicious about it. His family means a great deal to him even though his family life is complicated. There are definitely some nontraditional aspects going on here, perhaps something very transformative happens in his family life. It’s either a divorce or death or major separation. Honestly, the more I get to know him I think he has something like a double life in his personal life. There’s a lot of secrecy here, but he has such a great personality and propensity for business and service no one seems to notice or care.” His romantic relationships are actually really important to him even though they are volatile, somewhat dishonest and a hot mess. I think he really does truly love his partner or partners, and he is extremely passionate. It is possible however that he benefited off of a romantic separation or the ending of a relationship. Somehow the ending of a relationship enriched his life. The people he is involved with romantically have a huge impact on him and are very intertwined with his destiny. The decisions he made in his romantic life greatly impacted his life as a whole. He has his own sense of ethics regarding relationships, he does what he feels is right, and he tried his best. He actually is the one the people depend on. His moon sextile Saturn gives him emotional maturity and a sense of dependability. People felt like they could lean on him and trust him. This goes to show that although he may have had secret relationships, he would never totally abandon any of his partners. He showed his love through making sure they had money, shelter and food. “There’s a wife that is a Leo,” says Justice, unaware of Elizabeth’s late-July birth. “This is probably the most important partner to him, or she’s the mother of his most important child to him. That sounds bad, but that’s what it looks like. He probably train-wrecked at least one of his partner’s lives or that person met some sort of tragic end. In the best-case scenario, it wasn’t his fault, though it likely was tied to his doing other secretive things in business that aren’t known about.” Justice believes Timothy’s career and home life were often at odds. His career, though it provided financial stability, made him unavailable either literally because of his travel and business obligations or, importantly, emotionally. Above all else, Timothy liked to feel like a great provider. He was also destined to live a long life, she concludes, and probably died of natural causes or old age. Read more at nashvillescene.com. EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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he last time I saw Jeremy Ivey, it was on my computer screen. It was the eve of the 2020 election, he and his band were streaming from East Nashville club The 5 Spot, and gallows humor INVISIBLE PICTURES was the order of the OUT FRIDAY, MARCH 11, day. Both live and VIA ANTIon record, material from Ivey’s 2020 LP Waiting Out the Storm — like the barroom rave-up “Things Could Get Much Worse” and ruminative dirge “Someone Else’s Problem” — met the moment head on. The 42-year-old singer-songwriterguitarist’s latest solo outing, Invisible Pictures — his third in just four years, dating back to 2019’s The Dream and the Dreamer — isn’t all sunshine and rainbows either. But similarly to how ’21 offered glimmers of hope in contrast to 2020’s crushing bleakness, the 10-song LP, out Friday via ANTI-, is more about moving forward, especially from a sonic perspective. Ivey began work on Pictures in Nashville with Alabama Shakes producer Andrija Tokic and completed it in Los Angeles with engineer-mixer Rob Schnapf, whose credits include Beck’s Mellow Gold, Guided by Voices’ Isolation Drills and Elliott Smith’s final three albums before his 2003 death. Bob Dylan comparisons follow Ivey wherever he goes, and that isn’t likely to change, though Invisible Pictures also leans
into influences from Brian Wilson, John Lennon and The Kinks. But the late Smith’s specter looms largest, figuratively and literally. On “Phantom Limb” — a rapidchord-shifting, deceptively sunny-sounding standout — Ivey even plays Schnapf’s Gibson 330 hollow-body, previously used by the bard of brokenheartedness himself on 1998’s unabashedly Beatles-esque XO. In the spring of 2000, Ivey was 20 years old and bought Smith’s Figure 8, which was coproduced by Schnapf, the day it came out. “It hit me pretty hard,” he tells the Scene. “Once I discovered Elliott Smith’s earlier albums, I was demoralized because he’d already done what I’d been trying to do — quietly sung double-tracked vocals, lots of chords — and did it much better. He’s always been an inspiration of mine, but I hid that influence for a long time. Now, I’m open to it. It’s OK.” Ivey is a native Texan, longtime Nashvillian and partner to Margo Price in music, marriage and parenthood. Last year, the duo was able to sneak in a tour behind Price’s 2020 LP That’s How Rumors Get Started in between the delta variant torpedoing late-summer dates and omicron doing the same for most holiday shows. In addition to Ivey’s new one, Price even managed to wrap a follow-up to Rumors, due later this year on a date TBA, and a memoir called Maybe We’ll Make It, out Oct. 4. Invisible Pictures is accomplished, intricate and varied. All at once, it’s a slight return to Ivey’s songwriting roots and a showcase of tricks and nuances he’s picked up along the way. From the harpsichord- and organ-laden opening jaunt “Orphan Child” to the piano-and-harmonica closer “Silence and Sorrow,” the songs rarely feature destinations that resemble their points of origin. Ivey calls this a natural reaction to years of writing relatively straightforward country songs with arrangements for bigger bands in mind. Pictures’ ace in the hole is Micah Hulscher, who plays keys for both Price’s
band The Pricetags and Ivey’s group The Extraterrestrials, as well as his own ensemble Greasy Neale. “Micah’s got perfect pitch — he can hear anything, and tell you what it is right away,” says Ivey. “I sent him about 17 voice memos from my phone, offering to pay him to chart out a few of them. He sent me a PDF file with charts for everything within a couple hours. Because of that, we were able to go into the studio and put the sheet music right in front of the musicians — which was incredible.” The record’s biggest influence of all, though, is Ivey’s immediate family. He and Price — married since 2008 — are parents of two: Judah, age 11, and Ramona, who’s 2-and-a-half. “People always say it’s a bad thing to have a big age split between kids. But our youngest — she’s hilarious. And our son — since the pandemic he’s taken drum and piano lessons and has got a knack for music, for learning. He’s learning notation right now, but can learn by ear pretty easily. I’m sure he’ll pass me skills-wise by the time he’s a teenager. It’s been so nice just to be around the house with them both these past two years — to watch them develop naturally.” EMAIL MUSIC@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
rom the videoconference window on my laptop screen, Jon King has the unassuming appearance of some sort of administrator. He wears a dark crewneck sweater over a dark PLAYING SATURDAY, oxford shirt, collar MARCH 12, AT EXIT/IN crisp and neat. He’s in the corner of a white room, flanked by a narrow door and shelving filled with three-ring binders in various colors of vinyl, each labeled neatly and uniformly. On the surface, everything about his presence seems orderly. But King, now 66, has been the frontman of Gang of Four since the fundamental post-punk group came together in Leeds, U.K., in 1976. And when he speaks, the spirit of his voice is the same as it was on the band’s 1979 debut album Entertainment! Even through a little laptop speaker, I can hear an avant-garde poet, an angry left-wing revolutionary, a romantic and an egalitarian dreamer. With their discotheque-punk grooves and anticapitalist ideals, Gang of Four always reminded me of the famous quote attributed to early-20thcentury activist Emma Goldman: “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” The band’s sound and Dadaist aesthetic set a high bar for what radical music could be. Though King may not have the name recognition of many rock celebrities, Gang of Four’s music created a ripple effect that touched an astonishing variety of music that has come since. “When we were playing in Los Angeles — I think the Reseda Country Club — a naked man jumped out of the audience and grabbed me,” King recalls. “This is back in 1983 or something. … It was Flea! There’s a photograph of a naked Flea hugging me onstage.” This abrupt meeting, without Flea even extending the courtesy of putting on a tube sock, eventually led to Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill producing Red Hot Chili Peppers’ debut album. Years later, the funk-punk sound that RHCP was then developing yielded Grammys, platinum records and stadium tours. The Peps are far from the only band to work closely with Gang of Four. In 1981 and ’82, a then-little-known outfit from Georgia called R.E.M. opened several dates on the Gang’s U.S. tours. And the groups that have drawn openly on Gang of Four’s ethos are myriad. Gill, who died in 2020, perfected a serratededged guitar style that you hear echoes of in Fugazi’s Ian Mackaye and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello. Kurt Cobain cited Gang of
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Four as a major influence on Nirvana. Funky post-millennium Brooklynites like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Rapture and Liars all take pages from Gang of Four’s book. Plus, Frank Ocean and Run the Jewels have both sampled tracks from Entertainment! But like many critical darlings, King & Co.’s street cred never converted into commercial success. Perhaps the lyrics were too esoteric and philosophical — or the sound too confrontational and harsh — for some audiences. “We’ve always been like The Velvet Underground, I suppose,” says King. “Everyone knows of us, but it’s not like you’re going to get platinum albums out of that kind of thing.” King and Gill co-wrote and contributed to the production of the aforementioned Entertainment! and its 1981 follow-up Solid Gold. Both were rereleased last year as part of a box set on Matador Records, Gang of Four: 77-81. That Grammy-nominated collection also contains demos, live recordings and a booklet King put together. To celebrate the release, Gang of Four is touring the U.S. once again. Drummer Hugo Burnham is the other original member alongside King. Bassist Sara Lee, who was in the band circa 1981 to ’85, is also on board. In the wake of Gill’s passing, the current incarnation is rounded out with a new guitarist from a generation of artists deeply impacted by the King/Gill/Burnham sound: David Pajo of legendary Louisville, Ky., post-rockers Slint, who releases solo material as Papa M and has toured with many groups including Interpol and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. “Andy was my great buddy for such a long time,” King says of his fallen partner. “So we wanted something to pay respect to that.” Looking through King’s lyrics and the new box’s liner notes, fans get a glimpse of a unique mind. He brings together the cultural criticism of a Marxist revolutionary, the subversive avant-garde tactics of French situationist theorists and the patient sparseness of cinema’s bleakest auteurs. “On the box set there’s a song called ‘In the Ditch,’ which is on Solid Gold,” King says. “Just before I wrote that song, every single household in the United Kingdom had been sent a book called Protect and Survive.” The grim book, satirized in the song, was a guide to surviving a nuclear attack and what to expect from the radiation fallout. It offered useless advice, like whitewashing windows and hiding under a table covered in laundry bags. “I genuinely thought it was, like, a weird gag,” says King, his eyes rolling back. “It’s a crazy thing to think that hiding under bin liners filled with your underwear is really going to be of use when [a bomb] lands.” Such Vantablack humor is a hallmark of King’s work, but our 45-minute talk reveals a warm character with many loves and interests you might not expect. Without prompting, he walks me through his passion for music, especially storytellers like Robert Johnson, Bob Dylan and Jimmy Webb, who wrote “Wichita Lineman.” King is reverent as he speaks about the masterful tune, made famous by pop and country hero Glen Campbell. “You didn’t necessarily know what the song was about, but you knew the lineman was telling an authentic story from his heart — the loneliness of his life.” EMAIL MUSIC@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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e’re not doing a literal translation of Waiting for Columbus.” From the other end of the phone, Bill Payne, co-founder and keyboardist of the legendary Little Feat, has uttered the words every fan wants to hear. A pillar of rock ’n’ roll, a proto-Americana milestone and a predictor of key evolutions in the jamband phenomenon, the double LP recorded in 1977 and released in ’78 is one of the definitive live documents of rock at its grandest. The record is a stone-cold party-starter, bursting at the seams with indelible hooks and grooves and artfully presented stories — they are the connective tissue between the bursts of collective improvisation, and yet they’re so much more. Copying the album note for note just wouldn’t capture the tone that makes it special. And despite the original release being packed to the gills with choice selections from across Little Feat’s filler-free catalog, there’s still plenty more to choose from. The ongoing 45th anniversary tour for Columbus stops at the Ryman March 16 and 17 with a boatload of special guests who run the gamut from Rosanne Cash to Billy Strings to Eric Church to Bettye Lavette; it’ll also be taped for a future PBS special. “It’s going to be fun,” says Payne of the two-night Mother Church stint. “[We have] new members, with Scott Sharrard on guitar and vocals, and Tony Leone playing drums. It leaves [longtime members] Sam Clayton, Kenny Gradney and I, and Fred Tackett, to round out the rest of it. And it’s just going to be a challenge in how we approach things
from night to night.” Little Feat, a band from Los Angeles that could easily fool you into thinking they were from New Orleans, is still going strong after 53 years and a zillion miles on their radials. They’ve managed to survive shifting tastes and changing tides as well as the heartbreaking losses of founding frontman Lowell George, drummer Richie Hayward, and guitarist and songwriter Paul Barrere. And they’ve done it all while expanding the scope of their sound and staying true to their roots. It is — please forgive me — no small feat to make a band work for a few years, never mind five decades. Payne seems to have found the secret to success in that exploratory spirit that makes Waiting for Columbus a desert-island record — which in turn informs the new set list for each night. “It’s a matter of leaving things open,” he says. “We’re going to open it up to either the extended or the expanded version of that album, which adds songs like ‘Red Streamliner’ and ‘One Love Stand,’ ‘Cold Cold Cold’ — and/or, we do ‘Let It Roll,’ ‘Roll Um Easy,’ ‘Roll Your Eyes.’ [Laughs] No. We’re leaving it open to try a bunch of different things and that’ll keep it fresh.” With a skyscraper-high stack of stunning songs as a foundation and some of your favorite musicians’ favorite musicians onstage, Payne & Co. are prepared to build on their already heady legacy. Sure, if you had a back catalog of jams like “Fat Man in the Bathtub,” “Oh Atlanta” and “Willin’ ” — the third of which was wielded like a magical amulet by the goddess Linda Ronstadt on her Heart Like a Wheel — you could probably get away with resting on your country-funk laurels. But where’s the fun in that? The majesty of songs like unbeatable sing-along “Dixie Chicken” or Cheech-andChong-grade stoner anthem “Don’t Bogart the Joint” is that they rope you in with fun times and the promise of freedom. There’s a lightness to the lyrics and an effervescence to the melody, even when the subject at hand
is profound loneliness. And the grooves are locked so snugly in the pocket that they practically beg for a jam. “The depth of the songs is meaningful,” explains Payne. “It’s a great platform, [for] some really good musicians tackle it, either as a [straightforward] song or when you put on your jam-band persona, I guess, which we do anyway. But it’s just that platform where we can take you a lot of different places. That, to me — the exploration — has always been a huge part of being in Little Feat.” As we talk it becomes clear that the wandering spirit that runs through Little Feat isn’t just a work obligation but an essential part of Payne’s character. Our conversation runs from winter surfing in the ’60s — “the wetsuit I had didn’t cover my feet or my legs, and it was freezing out there” — to being invited to join The Rolling Stones in the ’80s. We talk about Nat King Cole and legendary pianist Glenn Gould, and having Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen hip you to new music. We talk about streaming music and its ups and downs. “The access to music was wonderful,” says Payne. “It’s informing quite a bit the way I approach music. And even though we don’t get paid very well in general from streaming services, I said, ‘Well, I’m going to just build my library of jazz, of world music, of classical music.’ ” It all confirms that the more things change, the more they stay the same: Little Feat has always been about voracious listeners making music for other voracious listeners. The thrill is still there, and there’s yet more music on the way. Payne has a stash of co-writes with late Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and is working with folks like Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr (who’s also going to drop in at the Ryman) and poet Paul Muldoon. It’s a helluva third act and inspiration for all of us rock ’n’ roll lifers. “There’s some really good stuff going on right now. The energy is right in every sense of the word.” EMAIL MUSIC@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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Fire here in Nashville with The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach at his Easy Eye Sound Studio. That record wasn’t her first-ever release, TAKE ME TO CHURCH but along with her collaborations with country supergroup The Highwomen, it firmly BY LORIE LIEBIG positioned her as one of the best new voices within the big tent of Americana. Yola’s 2021 album Stand for Myself proved to any aying that you’ve “been taken doubters that her talent stretches beyond to church” has been used so any barriers or expectations that come with often to describe a memoragenre labels. ble show at the Ryman, aka the On Thursday, Yola made it clear that the Mother Church of Country time she spent off the road in Music City as Music, that the true meanthe pandemic raged didn’t dampen her natuing of the phrase seems to have almost been ral charismatic stage presence. Her consiserased. On Thursday evening, the first of two tently jaw-dropping vocal range and control Nashville dates on Yola’s Stand 4 Myself Tour, hit what felt like an almost unbelievable new the joyful, soul-stirring gathering was not level of intensity as well. only worthy of the old chestnut but also could Her set featured a mixture of tunes from easily be its new definition. both albums. Stand for Myself songs like The night kicked off with a performance “Be My Friend,” “Break the Bough,” “Great from Allison Russell, whose critically acDivide” and the superlative “Stand for Myclaimed debut solo record Outside Child self” fit in nicely alongside a stripped-down is up for three Grammys. The intensely take on the Walk Through Fire song “It Ain’t personal project served as a vessel of healEasy.” A cover of Elton John’s “Goodbye ing and reclamation of power for Russell, Yellow Brick Road,” which she recorded who endured immense trauma during her for the deluxe edition of Walk Through Fire, childhood in Montreal that partly informs is something of a staple in her live set, and the album. She went on to find a warm, welfor good reason — she gracefully conveys coming community of like-minded creative the grandeur of John’s statement about profolks in Nashville. It’s only fitting that Rusfound loneliness. sell would bring part of that community Even the more subdued songs of the night with her to soak in the delight of her Ryreverberated with a powerful energy. Sisman show. taStrings and Russell came out to join Yola, The group, which she named “The Rainwho called Russell a “sister in spirit,” for bow Coalition of the Loving,” was composed a stunning rendition of Aretha Franklin’s of cellist Larissa Maestro, guitarists Mandy Fer “Daydreaming.” She also paused to and Joy Clark, bassist Ryan Madora, celacknowledge the second anlist Monique Ross and violinist DREAMER IN THE MIDDLE niversary of the tornado Chauntee Ross. The sibling OF THE NIGHT: YOLA outbreak that killed duo performs as Sisroughly two dozen taStrings and recently people throughout made a move to Middle Tennessee Nashville. Before and injured or rolling into her displaced many song “4th Day more. Both Yola Prayer,” Russell and Russell, who shared a kind were living toof benediction gether at the time, that resonated huddled for safety throughout the in their Nashvilleevening. “We are area basement as the not what we’ve lost,” storm passed. she declared. “We are With an already impresnot alone. We are more sive stream of crowd-pleasing than the sum of our scars.” songs behind her, Yola offered an That sense of community was energetic encore that included a medley of the thread woven through every second of throwback covers that inspired dancing in Russell’s set. Fellow Nashville talent Daisha the pews — a feat rarely achieved by even McBride made a surprise appearance during the most seasoned of Ryman headliners. She “All of the Women,” adding powerful rap brought two R&B hits from the ’80s to an verses that reinforce the song’s plea for proeager new audience, including her take on tection and recognition for those whose sufAnita Baker’s “Sweet Love” and Yarbrough fering gets a blind eye turned toward it. & Peoples’ funky stomper “Don’t Stop the Russell’s husband and Birds of Chicago Music.” If you didn’t know those songs bebandmate JT Nero joined her onstage for the fore walking into the Ryman, Yola’s jubilant album-closing “Joyful Motherfuckers”; the interpretations made them unforgettable. couple’s young daughter Ida then made her When Yola and her bandmates made their own surprise appearance. SistaStrings, along way backstage and the lights finally came with Chauntee Ross’ daughter Braelyn, gave up, an electric feeling lingered in the air. the perfect end to the set by filling out the The evening was a well-deserved celebratexture of “Nightflyer” with sweet harmotion of two immense talents who are giving nies, encouraging the crowd to join in. The back to Nashville as much as they get from coalition gathered one last time for a bow as it (and perhaps even more). But it also repthe crowd rewarded them with a lengthy and resented a collective moment of hope, healmuch-deserved standing ovation. ing and catharsis at a time when it’s sorely The past three years have been a whirlneeded. wind for U.K.-born singer-songwriter Yola. EMAIL THESPIN@NASHVILLESCENE.COM She recorded her 2019 album Walk Through
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y, it’s been a bit since last the runes were cast and the latest offerings in streaming, physical media and even some theaters were gathered together in one place. Prepare yourself for another catch-up installment of Primal Stream that aims to cover as many bases as possible. And as a side note, anyone looking for some incredible Ukrainian art: If you didn’t manage to catch Stop-Zemlia at the Belcourt back in February, it’ll likely pop up on The Criterion Channel at some point soon, so remember that. As always, look back at past issues of the Scene for many more recommended titles.
STUDIO 666 IN THEATERS Likely to be the two-and-a-half-star film that I watch more than other more consistent offerings, this Foo Fighters epic is a rather unexpected riff in the school of John Fasano rock horror (think Black Roses or Rock ’n’ Roll Nightmare). Studio 666 finds Dave Grohl & Co. playing themselves, and in the process of recording their 10th album, getting involved in a demonic curse
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ARREBATO ON BLU-RAY AND VIA THE CRITERION CHANNEL A psychotronic classic of Spanish cinema that sprang from the heroin- and sex-fueled Movida Madrileña, Arrebato is a landmark of the Cursed Film subgenre. A left-field poke in the pineal gland at last year’s 12 Hours of Terror marathon at the Belcourt, this is a druggy dive into the secrets that hide between each of the 24 frames that flit by every second, and it’s a must-see for any fans of works like Theodore Roszak’s Flicker or John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns. The Blu-ray, from Anus Films/Vinegar Syndrome, features a gorgeous transfer and some great supplements.
RENO 911: THE HUNT FOR QANON ON PARAMOUNT+ Messy in a way that absolutely feels true to the insanity of the current era, the latest Reno 911 installment is the kind of thing that delivers just enough laughs and weird narrative turns to justify its presence. It’s been a few years since I last dabbled in the Renoverse (the sixth season really pissed me off), and thankfully this features the full cast — along with a Brian Posehn/Steve Agee reunion — in a shambly infiltration of a QAnon booze cruise to the Bahamas. The jokes are fast and furious and have a pretty good hit-to-miss ratio, and
it’s fun to soak up the vibe of these great comedians carrying on in characters they’ve been working on for decades. Nobody commands the TV camera in as humorous and tectonic a way as Niecy Nash (see also: TNT’s Claws, which is the best trash-TV soap opera out there), and she and Wendi McLendon-Covey simply preside over this breezy trifle.
CHERRY FALLS ON SHUDDER Tragically eviscerated by the MPAA in a bloodletting that shames any of this underseen slasher’s extant kills, 2000’s Cherry Falls has one of the best horror-movie hooks cinema has ever given us. There’s a slasher on the loose, tearing through the supporting teen cast with a vicious zeal. But the killer is only slaying virgins, and that knowledge is set to spread through Cherry Falls High School like a pandemic of unbridled teen hornitude. The late, great Brittany Murphy stars as distinctive and relatable heroine Jody Marken, with Michael Biehn and Candy Clark (!) as her parents. There’s strong supporting work from former Nashvillian DJ Qualls and Josie and the Pussycats’ Gabriel Mann. Like Event Horizon, this is one of the mutilated horror classics of the late ’90s/early Aughts, and if there’s any justice, perhaps the legendary lost first cut might be found someday.
SAVED BY THE BELL SEASON 2 EPISODE 6, “WRESTLING WITH THE FUTURE,” ON PEACOCK I’ve been in the bag for the new Saved by the Bell since the last time my house flooded and I ended up taking refuge on my friend Brandy’s couch. Season 2 delivers on the strengths of the new show even while better incorporating the original Bayside kids (now adults and parents themselves) into the strong multicharacter ensemble. But Episode 6, “Wrestling With the Future,” is deserving of as much attention as it can be given, because it is canonically a sequel to 1995’s Showgirls. Elizabeth Berkley-Lauren delivers Nomi Malone realness, getting in touch with her Vegas years and even doing that exquisite magical hand-crossing gesture. (Dear reader, I screamed out loud, even though I was the only person in the house.) This is a reconciliation and a giant hug for the legacy of Verhoeven’s Showgirls, as well as a vindication for Berkley-Lauren and her singular career. Fans of Showgirls owe it to themselves to check this out. EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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