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Walk a Mile: Sylvan Heights ......................7

Food for the Soul ..................................... 51

CITY LIMITS

In the 27th installment of his column, J.R. Lind wanders westward through the neighborhood formerly known as Cat Town Hill

BY J.R. LIND

Pith in the Wind .........................................8

This week on the Scene’s news and politics blog

Booksmart ............................................... 10 Local organizations launch book drive to increase Asian American and Pacific Islander representation in school libraries

BY ASHLEY BARRIENTOS

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FOOD AND DRINK

Les Dames d’Escoffier Nashville wants to desegregate Nashville’s food scene

BY JENNIFER JUSTUS

Cheap Eats .............................................. 52 Classic Colombian flavors in low-key South Nashville digs

BY ALIJAH POINDEXTER

Extreme climate events are now a fact of life in Middle Tennessee — but who’s leading recovery efforts?

BY ELI MOTYCKA

Agrihoods — Next-Level Farm-to-Table Living........................................................ 13 Taking a look at Tennessee’s Burns Village & Farm, the co-housing agrihood aiming for a 2024 launch

BY J.R. LIND

Meet Metro’s Chief Sustainability and Resilience Officer .................................... 14 Kendra Abkowitz on pursuing renewable energy, resilience hubs, community feedback and more

BY KELSEY BEYELER

Carbon-Offset Companies Are Taking Off in Nashville .............................................. 14 A quick look at two local companies aiming to offset carbon emissions

FILM

The Striking Viking

The Northman is a gruesome, intense, brilliant revenge epic

Man Tumbles Through Honky Tonk Central’s Ceiling Catbird Seat and Patterson House to Relocate

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Review: Come From Away at TPAC

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Artists Talk: Kelly S. Williams on Her Painting ‘L’Origine du Monde on Instagram’

We talk with the Nashville-based artist about her devotional ode to painting

BY LAURA HUTSON HUNTER

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THEATER Spotlight!

TPAC announces a slate of new performing arts series

BY AMY STUMPFL

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Little Town Killer

A roundup of eco-friendly community organizations, services, restaurants and businesses

BY BRADLEY SIDES AND CHAPTER 16

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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Nashville author Jeremy Scott delivers a fastpaced, complex murder mystery

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No, the Rhetoric Isn’t Equally Bad on ‘Both Sides’

But She’s Your Mother

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BY KATHRYN RICKMEYER

The Green Directory ................................ 16

BY LORIE LIEBIG

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The Long Arc of Disaster Preparedness and Recovery .......................................... 12

The Scene’s live-review column checks out Garth Brooks at Nissan Stadium

BY D. PATRICK RODGERS

If we critically examine the lasting damage our mothers cause, are we bad daughters?

COVER STORY The Green Issue 2022

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The Vinyl Cut ............................................ 61 Your Quick-Reference Guide to Record Store Day 2022

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Sorry, Not Sorry ....................................... 62 Jessica Lea Mayfield returns to Nashville on her own time

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Every time I read another negative report on the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, I feel like Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day. In March, the Nashville Area Chamber, under the leadership of president and CEO Ralph Schulz, pulled yet another ill-considered move that has served to frustrate the Metro Council and apparently the mayor as well. The chamber began pushing legislation as an amendment to HB 2092/SB 2021 that would give county mayors the power to take over school boards of districts with a high number of underperforming schools.

The mayor would have sole power to appoint and remove school board members. This particular model for oversight would allow voters and residents to hold the mayor fully accountable for results.

What’s wrong with this?

First, if you’re planning legislation that is going to require the mayor to take full accountability over something, a heads-up to that mayor would seem necessary and appreciated. But Schulz did not inform Mayor John Cooper. You read that correctly. The chamber did not consult with the mayor or his administration regarding this legislation. According to Mike Jameson, Cooper’s director of legislative affairs: “The mayor is a strong supporter of [Metro Nashville Public Schools Director Adrienne Battle], a strong supporter of an elected school board and did not request this legislation.”

Second, the Metro Council was so taken aback that a resolution was prepared, and on April 5, the council voted 23-1 to condemn the chamber’s efforts to push this proposed legislation, which would apply to any local district with at least 10 schools listed by the state as “failing” for three consecutive years. As The Tennessean reported, “The action highlights a policy rift between Nashville’s elected officials and the chamber, a nonprofit that receives public funds and acts as an economic development arm for the city.”

The council’s resolution was to halt the chamber’s “efforts to subvert democracy and eliminate the people’s voice in determining who serves on the Metropolitan Nashville Board of Public Education.” Those are strong words, and not something we should expect of our Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce. But again, I feel like we relive this dissatisfaction over and over again.

In May 2020, Cooper’s budget cut chamber support by 50 percent, which brought the chamber’s funds down to $175,000 an-

nually. Today, with growing frustration in the community and among Metro Councilmembers, some feel even that is too much.

Councilmember Zach Young has said the chamber receives six figures from the city and the mayor should rethink that. Of course, you would think if the chamber’s work or contributions had improved, so would the funds they receive from the city’s budget. Instead, we are seeing repeated disappointments from the chamber under Schulz’s leadership.

And what are the hardworking school board members to think? MNPS board chair Christiane Buggs has referred to the chamber’s actions as “backroom dealing” to deny residents “their right to choose their representative on the school board.”

The chamber’s push for legislation on education seems like an exclamation mark on a job already being poorly done. In some of my previous research, I found the chamber to be far less successful at bringing businesses and companies to Nashville than is the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp.

I read a recent report from the Nashville Business Journal on the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce that listed the group as the largest chamber in Tennessee based on their 2019 financials. That made me scratch my head. The Nashville Area Chamber defines itself as including Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Montgomery, Robertson, Rutherford, Sumner, Williamson and Wilson counties. That is a large and populous area to recruit membership revenue from, but the chambers of commerce in Rutherford, Williamson and Dickson counties were also on the same list of “largest chambers.” Does the Nashville Area Chamber truly belong at the top of this list, or was it there because other counties are pulling all the weight?

As the old adage goes, behavior never lies.

In this case, the actions of Schulz as president of the chamber have proven unimpressive, time and again. And as Councilmember Young asked, “Do we need to be allocating money to an organization that was actively lobbying against the interests of our own government and our own taxpayers?”

It’s clear I’m not the only one who’s ready for a new day.

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Walk a

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J.R. Lind wanders westward through the neighborhood formerly known as Cat Town Hill

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THE ROUTE: From Sylvan Supply east on Charlotte.

Right on 38th Avenue then right on Dakota. Right on 40th and then left into Hill Center Sylvan Heights, then back to the start.

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Once a month, reporter and resident historian J.R. Lind will pick an area in the city to examine while accompanied by a photographer. With his column Walk a Mile, he’ll walk a one-mile stretch of that area, exploring the neighborhood’s history and character, its developments, its current homes and businesses, and what makes it a unique part of Nashville. If you have a suggestion for a future Walk a Mile, email editor@nashvillescene.com.

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hey used to make baby gates here.

On Charlotte Avenue, the Madison Mill factory — flush against the old Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway line, just east of 42nd Avenue — churned out various wood and steel products starting in 1959. (By then, the NC&StL had been absorbed by the Louisville and Nashville.) In the last several years of its manufacturing life — it sold to a developer in 2015; by then, the L&N had been absorbed

by CSX — it primarily made baby gates.

There are no baby gates to be had at what is now called Sylvan Supply. There’s beer and bespoke ramen and punk rock sushi.

But no baby gates.

Madison Mill used to be next to, among other things, a car wash. In 2010, H.G. Hill Realty paid $950,000 for the small tract at 40th and Charlotte where the aforementioned car wash stood. H.G. Hill paid a 300 percent premium for it. On its face, it’s bizarre: One of the city’s premier real estate companies paid three times the value for a car wash on what was (and in many ways, still is) Nashville’s most utilitarian and unheralded thoroughfare? But that little tract was just the final piece of a puzzle. The Hill family bought its first plot on the block in 1926. The car wash gave the company a huge contiguous parcel.

Now it’s Hill Center Sylvan Heights, with Double Dogs and Farm Burger and Chaatable. Charlotte’s glow-up in the past decade or so has come in pockets. Yes, an old factory is now a shiny steel mixed-use project, and the former car wash and its neighbors are a Hill family outpost, but across

Charlotte there’s still some kind of light industrial work getting started on this April morning, crisp and clear after overnight rainstorms.

There’s still an AutoZone at 39th Avenue, and Rosie’s Market is across the street with a cavalcade of color on its cinder-block exterior.

And so it goes in fits and starts. On the south side of Charlotte, next to the AutoZone, is an auto glass shop and a mechanic, with their chewed-up asphalt parking lots and concertina-wire fences. On the north side, next to Rosie’s, is L&L Market.

It began life in 1929 as the Se-Ling Hosiery Mill, then became a Genesco factory and eventually a restaurant supply. Now, like seemingly every one of the numerous former hosiery mills that dot the city, it’s a mixed-use space, with pasta shops, yoga studios and Trumpist brewery Bold Patriot.

38th Avenue meets Charlotte just west of a sign for the former Wishy Washy — whether it’s the Wishy Washy where Dolly Parton met her husband Carl Dean on her first day in Nashville in 1964 remains a mystery — and then climbs hard into the sky.

This is Cat Town Hill, all 690 feet of it. At one time, 37th Avenue marked the boundary between the City of Nashville and unincorporated Davidson County, so a completely plausible theory is that Cat Town Hill got its name because there were houses of ill repute hidden in its wilds, just outside the jurisdiction of the city constabulary.

Unfortunately (or fortunately), the truth of the name is far less scandalous. Cat Town Hill is the most prominent topographical feature of Cat Town, which was bound by 33rd Avenue, Charlotte and the rail line. It got its name because someone who lived there … well, they liked cats. Certainly Sylvan Heights is a far more marketable name, but there’s no denying the charm of Cat Town Hill.

There’s a smattering of newer homes on the lower reaches of Cat Town Hill. Some have shades of contemporary architecture, but many just seem to have been built to match the older stock across the train tracks in Sylvan Park. There are plenty of original stock homes remaining though, built in the 1930s as what we would now call “workforce housing” for the factories and mills that

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were situated west of the city. Those laborers sent their children to Park Avenue School, which is still at the corner of Park and 38th, where it has been since 1915. It’s quiet this morning — MNPS students are on Easter break.

Water rushes in rivulets down the sides of 38th Avenue, confined to small channels in the pavement worn by years and years of drainage. The rush of water echoes from storm sewers too, long-ago buried creeks still doing their work of carrying away the rain to the Cumberland. There are two distinct ages of sidewalk along 38th.

Generally, the older (and wider) ones are on the east side of the street, laid down decades ago to safely deliver children to the school, minimizing the number of times they’d need

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to cross a street that slopes like a ski ramp and propels even careful drivers at treacherous speeds. In front of the newer homes are numerous narrow sidewalks-to-nowhere doing the bare minimum to comply with Metro’s oft-scoffed sidewalk ordinance.

One of the older new homes — if that makes sense — is at the corner of 38th and Dakota. It was built in 2007, long enough ago that the exposed sheet-metal siding that’s so popular among gentrifying developers is now completely rusted. According to property records, a permit pulled in 2006 called for the existing house to be moved to 57th and Louisiana in The Nations. The permit expired before that undertaking could take place. There are tall-and-skinnies at 57th and Louisiana now.

Two houses down from there on Dakota, a sign promises “New Construction” on the lot a developer recently purchased for $420,000 from owners who paid $155,000 nine years ago. The year before that, this two-bedroom house could be rented for $850 per month.

Above Dakota is the summit of Cat Town Hill and a sprawling hilltop apartment complex, separated from the single-family homes by tall trees and dense undergrowth (and a fence). Back in 1956, WSM started work on a 1,379-foot television tower around here to replace the 578-foot tower at 14th Avenue South and Compton, near Belmont University. On Feb. 4, 1957, for reasons that are still unclear, the unfinished tower collapsed, killing four construction workers and hospitalizing a fifth for shock. One 300foot section skidded down the hill, stopping just short of crashing into a home. Another piece fell through a house on Lookout Drive to the south. The only casualty in the neighborhood was a dog. Viewers who happened to be watching the station the afternoon the tower fell could hear screaming and someone yelling, “Oh my God, send help — the tower has just fallen down, help quick.”

Ultimately, WSM (now WSMV) built its tower on Knob Hill, west of White Bridge Road, because at the time it was a relatively secluded area, and a second collapse would have been relatively risk-free.

After the hill crests, Dakota — on this end, still largely hosting older homes — slopes gently down to a lot that serves as Montgomery Bell Academy’s auxiliary athletic fields. On 40th Avenue, a feral cat — his ear marked to show he’s been neutered — stalks the alleys, presumably intrigued by the birds chirping at the feast of worms and plant matter left about by the storm and rain.

Once 40th passes Nevada Avenue, the momentum of redevelopment from Charlotte takes over from the stubbornness of the deeper neighborhood. The sidewalks narrow, and the homes tighten and crowd the street. (In large part because of the topography, the lots on Cat Town Hill were drawn relatively large; because of the economics of who intended buyers were, the original houses are relatively small, resulting in massive yards.) Signs warn dog owners to not let their pooches poop or pee on the grass.

There’s a remarkable number of what may be communal swings. They look like porch swings, but they aren’t — in a technical sense — porch swings, because they aren’t on porches, because, by and large, the new-builds don’t have porches.

Each little block that’s been filled with cut-and-paste homes seems to have its own clutch of these swings, a trend that continues even as 40th forks and becomes the back entrance to the Hill Center, where a truly astounding number of the swings sit in a grassy patch near the Station 40 apartments.

The swings are as quiet and empty as the railroad tracks and the surrounding developments at this hour. The bars and restaurants will surely be noisy later, filled with happy-hour devotees and longweekend lovers. It used to be loud all day.

They used to make baby gates here.

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THIS WEEK ON OUR NEWS AND POLITICS BLOG: The Tennessee Supreme Court said a lower court erred when it tossed the state Senate maps and ordered the legislature to draw new ones. The high court conceded there may be questions about the map’s constitutionality — the Tennessee Constitution quite plainly requires that Senate districts within the same county be numbered consecutively, and just as equally plainly, the map’s numbering in Davidson County is not consecutive. But it’s too late in the election and qualifying calendar to change the maps for this fall’s elections. … Speaking of last-minute changes, state Sen. Brenda Gilmore (D-Nashville) announced her retirement and subsequent endorsement of Keeda Haynes for the District 19 seat she has held for one term. The announcement came on the last day of qualifying, triggering the state’s anti-skulduggery law (seriously that’s what it’s called!), which extends the deadline in cases where an incumbent drops out (or drops dead) at the last minute. …The exodus from the Cooper administration continues. Eric Brown, the mayor’s North Nashville economic and community development manager, joined senior policy adviser Dia Cirillo, transportation adviser Faye DiMassimo and press secretary Andrea Fanta as top staffers who have left in recent months. …

Also departing: Metro Arts Council executive director Caroline Vincent. In August, the Scene reported allegations from former staffers who claimed Vincent and other supervisors created a toxic work environment that relied heavily on intimidation, fear and punishment while tokenizing people of color. … A bill banning camping near state highways passed a state Senate committee, and Sen. Frank Niceley took the time to note Adolf Hitler decided to live on the streets for two years to improve his oratory skills and connect with the masses. No evidence supports this claim, by the way: Hitler lived in a dormitory for homeless men because he was broke. “A lot of these people, it’s not a dead end — they can come out of these homeless camps and have a productive life,” said Niceley. “Or in Hitler’s case, a very unproductive life.” OK. … The state House passed a bill restricting the sale of Delta-8 to people 21 and older, establishing a tax and a regulatory scheme for the cannabis product. … Lawmakers will consider allowing Metro to raise its hotel-motel tax by 1 percent to fund construction of a new domed Tennessee Titans stadium/future Wrestlemania venue. … The state House also passed a bill making it more difficult and complicated for doctors to prescribe abortion-inducing medication and creating a felony if they fail to comply. … Contributor Betsy Phillips says don’t fall for the “both sides are equally as bad” rhetoric if the examples are “Democrat sends mean tweet” and “Republican talks about Hitler a lot and tries to harm trans kids.” “When a legislator can extol the virtues of Hitler and bring forth bills singling out gay people, that’s no longer rhetoric,” writes Phillips, referencing the aforementioned Sen. Niceley’s comments. ... A Canadian man fell through the ceiling on Saturday night at Honky Tonk Central. He was arrested by the Metro Nashville Police Department and charged with felony vandalism.

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he first Asian-themed book drive for Metro Nashville Public Schools and Williamson County Schools is currently underway — and it’s coming at an important time for Nashville’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community amid a steady increase in antiAsian hate nationwide.

According to watchdog organization Stop AAPI Hate, nearly 11,000 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were reported in the U.S. between March 2020 and December 2021. Anti-Asian hate crimes also increased by 339 percent nationwide last year, according to a study published by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism.

“Since COVID, you can see that there’s been anti-Asian sentiment all over the country, even sometimes in Tennessee,” says Christine Lai, the president of the Greater Nashville Chinese Association.

Lai says people in her community have been harassed in supermarkets and other public spaces. “So GNCA kind of sat down and asked, ‘What can we do about it?’ ” AAPI-centered organizations like GNCA, API Middle Tennessee and the Nashville Chinese School have joined forces in an effort to strengthen their communities, uplift each other’s voices and unpack their cultural identities.

These organizations have recently moved to more action within the past year, citing the rise in anti-Asian hate and the Atlantaarea spa shootings that claimed the lives of six Asian women in March 2021.

“We considered that one of the reasons why there’s anti-Asian sentiment here is that some people don’t understand Asian culture,” says Irene Moser, principal of the Nashville Chinese School. “With reading, you can build a connection and help everybody with Asian heritage in schools get a sense of belonging. When you see a book that represents your culture in the library, everybody can check it out to read.”

The drive aims to put books on school library shelves that capture the Asian American experience, convey important Asian cultural traditions and spotlight authors of Asian descent. Out of the 29

titles on the current donation book list, 14 are either unavailable or have very few copies in MNPS libraries.

The initial fundraising period began on March 9, and GNCA is still accepting donations via its GoFundMe campaign throughout April. The goal is to raise $11,000, which will allow them to purchase and donate approximately 600 books to MNPS and Williamson County school libraries.

This book drive, created in partnership with other organizations, is just one way GNCA is proactively working toward empowering the AAPI community.

“Obviously, we can invite the police to come in to talk about how to protect ourselves,” says Lai. “But that is very passive — we want to be active.”

In Nashville, Asian Americans make up nearly 4 percent of the city. API Middle Tennessee executive director Joseph Gutierrez says AAPI students still deserve to be seen despite being a smaller part of the population.

“Representation matters,” says Gutierrez. “When there are not enough Asian students to even say they exist, their end sizes are so small that they’re statistically irrelevant. But those students need to be seen, and they need to see themselves in the school.

So I think books are a great way for cultural exchange and for students to see themselves being main characters in their own lives.”

For these three organizations, the book drive is only the first step in an initiative they hope will expand throughout Middle Tennessee. “This drive is very meaningful because it’s a sustainable action we can do to further help our next generation, even my next generation, to keep their heritage,” says Prince Huang, outreach committee lead for GNCA. “We hope this will be a starting point to influence other regions of Tennessee and outside states to do the same.”

Books will be delivered to participating schools in May, which is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

People who wish to donate new or gently used books can drop them off at the Natchez Trace Church of Christ on April 23 and April 30 from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

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TA KI N G A L O O K AT CO -H O U SI N G AGR IHO O D S, D IS A ST E R P R E PA R E DN E SS A N D R ECOVERY, L OC A L E C O- F R I E N DLY B U SI N E SSE S A N D SERVICES, AND MO R E

THE LONG ARC OF DISASTER PREPAREDNESS AND RECOVERY Extreme climate events are now a fact of life in Middle Tennessee — but who’s leading recovery efforts?

BY ELI MOTYCKA NASHVILLE LIES LOW in the Central Basin, a divot in Tennessee’s topography that’s a little like a sink. The Cumberland River pulls water from across the city via tributaries like Mill Creek, which crisscross dense residential neighborhoods.

While Tennessee is shielded from the superstorms of the Gulf and drought in the West, the latest research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts a less stable climate.

Rain will fall harder and in bursts, the recipe for flash floods. Hot and cold air masses will collide more often, spawning more and stronger tornadoes.

Several major natural disasters have struck Tennessee in the past decade-and-a-half. Two days of rain in 2010 fueled a 1,000year flood that claimed 31 lives across three states and cost more than $2 billion in property damage — as longtime residents recall,

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downtown Nashville was underwater. In 2016, wildfires torched Sevier County for almost two weeks, and Middle Tennessee’s March 2020 cluster of tornadoes made national headlines. Those were followed shortly by a derecho, which left thousands without power. In 2021, floods hit Antioch in March and Waverly in August. More tornadoes ripped through West and Middle Tennessee in December.

In the wake of events like these, the community — sometimes the nation — typically snaps into action to help survivors. But the way that happens — who gets help, why and from whom — is a constantly changing combination of agencies, resources and systems. The 2020 tornadoes provide a helpful lens for understanding what happens after an extreme, destructive climate event.

Nashville’s clearinghouse for aid money is the Middle Tennessee Disaster Response Fund. Managed by the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, that fund has taken in $12.5 million since March 2020 and disbursed $9.5 million across dozens of organizations. In the immediate aftermath of the tornado, a flurry of $30,000 checks went out to dozens of groups across Davidson County. Since then, the vast majority of allocated funds have gone toward home repairs and rebuilds. The Community Foundation is the financial anchor of the Davidson County Long Term Recovery Group, a combination of stakeholders that includes disaster case managers, volunteer groups and direct-aid organizations like Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee.

After the tornadoes, government efforts struggled to fit in.

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2020 TORNADO DAMAGE IN EAST NASHVILLE ing to the Community Foundation after the 2010 floods, and deferred to the Long Term Recovery Group. Vice Mayor Shulman’s Special Committee on Tornado Relief met a handful of times, but lacked a clear mandate or role in recovery.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is perhaps the most famous punching bag for critics of government bureaucracy.

All told, FEMA approved $2.9 million in individual aid for survivors of the 2020 tornadoes.

AGRIHOODS — NEXT-LEVEL FARM-TOTABLE LIVING

Taking a look at Tennessee’s Burns Village & Farm, the co-housing agrihood aiming for a 2024 launch

BY J.R. LIND CO-HOUSING — AND ITS various flavors and offshoots — is a new name for an old concept. Planned by their future residents rather than by developers, at their core, cohousing projects are single-family homes grouped around communal space. Early buy-in from residents, consensus-based decision-making and architectural and planning decisions — front porches opening onto carless streets, for example — are intended to foster a sense of community increasingly absent in a siloed society.

The idea almost has a pioneer spirit behind it: like-minded folks setting out to make their way in a new place together — bound together for reasons of safety and necessity, yes, but striving for the higher levels of Maslow’s famous pyramid.

Intentional communities, as academics tend to label them, have a long history in Tennessee. The Farm in Summertown, founded by counterculturists in the 1970s, is perhaps the most famous example. But that followed several 19th-century projects, like the abolitionist, egalitarian Nashoba outside of Memphis, the charmingly English Rugby on the Upper Cumberland Plateau and the semisocialist Ruskin in Dickson County.

There are communes in Cannon County.

Applications and appeals require a level of detail comparable to a legal brief. FEMA can be a bit like the IRS: A survivor needs an experienced guide to navigate all the red tape without making a clerical error, otherwise start over. Allocations are historically disproportionate along lines of race and completely exclude undocumented survivors.

Geovani Lopez immigrated to Tennessee from Mexico in 2003. He lived in Lebanon, Tenn., when 2020’s deadly tornadoes hit. Lo-

In DeKalb County, there’s the Agape Community, a dwindling Russian Orthodox collective. Former company towns — Alcoa, for example — could meet the definition.

Heck, even Oak Ridge probably does in a broad sense.

The point is, people get into intentional communities for a host of reasons: disenchantment, religion, fresh starts, nuclear weapons development.

Maybe communal living doesn’t suit the American spirit, but the human spirit craves community.

And the human body needs fresh air and food. That’s where agrihoods come to fill the breach.

An agrihood is a single-family, multifamily or mixed-use community built with a working farm or community garden as a focus, according to the Urban Land Institute. It affords residents the opportunity to be involved in agriculture as much as they’d like to be while providing fresh foods. They are increasingly popular in exurbs around major cities, as they help preserve farmland threatened by sprawl. Think of it as nextlevel farm-to-table living.

And a group of Tennesseans thinks they’ve found the perfect place for such a project.

Burns is a small town about 35 miles west of Nashville, flush against the southwest corner of Montgomery Bell State Park and just east of Dickson.

It’s a fecund area — part of the Black Patch of the late-19th and early-20th century, where the dark soil produced much of the nation’s tobacco. It’s crisscrossed by creeks with charming names: Beaverdam, Billy Richardson, Gum Branch. And if the folks behind the project hit their target, Burns will be the home of Burns Village & Farm by early 2024.

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pez says he didn’t know what a tornado was, much less how to prepare for a direct hit.

“We didn’t get alerted until our phones started sounding with warning signs,” Lopez tells the Scene via a translator. “I put my shoes on and went outside. There was already debris floating around — my wife told me to get in the closet and take cover.”

Afterward, Lopez and his neighbors started on the long road to recovery.

“There was the ability to apply for FEMA and the Red Cross, but as immigrants, we don’t do that because of the rigorous requirements,” he says. “That scares people away. I did apply for the Red Cross only to be denied.”

Lopez, who is undocumented, was not able to apply for FEMA because he doesn’t have a social security number. He was given the option to apply with his child’s social security number, which he declined, because he thought it might have future credit repercussions. Ever since that day, Lopez and his family spring into action at any sign of heavy rain or strong winds.

“The psychological damage is something you will never get out of your mind,” says Lopez.

Efforts to mitigate damage, smooth recovery and prepare for the next disaster are underway. In March, the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition joined a national partnership uniting climate

The Green Issue justice efforts with concerns specific to immigrants, like status-based exclusions and language barriers.

“As a result of having to respond to all these climate disasters, we realized we can’t just be responding,” says TIRRC executive director Lisa Sherman Luna. “We have to look at the systems change we need.”

Changes will be necessary if Nashville hopes to respond to its climate future. The Metro Council adopted expanded FEMA floodplain maps in February, requiring thousands more homeowners to carry flood insurance. Flood mitigation efforts, gaining traction across the Southeast, could protect low-lying areas like South Nashville and preclude developments in flood zones like the East Bank. Transportation and electricity account for the vast majority of carbon-dioxide emissions, by far the largest contributor to climate change. Expanded transportation infrastructure, like light rail and bike lanes, could take cars off the road.

A serious, organized effort between local power companies and the federal government could stop TVA from burning natural gas and coal.

Meanwhile, extreme climate events are becoming a fact of life in Middle Tennessee.

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BURNS VILLAGE & FARM LAND acres of a large family farm under contract.

With enough buy-in, they plan an agrihood of 28 to 35 homes centered around a farm, managed and operated by professionals but with opportunities for residents to chip in.

The Deal family, which owns the farm, has been in the area a long time — long enough that there’s a Deal Road southwest of town. And they know what can happen to family farms.

“Several of us in the family have careers in the building industry and are familiar with the traditional subdivision method of breaking up the ‘family farm,’ ” the Deals say in a statement. “We have chosen not to split up the land and sell it off to a track home development.”

The farm has been in the family for generations, and the Deals see this as a way to save and preserve it against economic pressures to subdivide.

But there’s still a lot of work to be done.

For starters, the community needs more members. A kickoff weekend is scheduled for April 29 through May 1, beginning with a free intro-to-co-housing presentation at 6

p.m. April 29 at The Nashville Food Project.

That will be led by Kathryn McCamant, a consultant for Burns Village and co-author of several books on co-housing, including Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves, considered the seminal work on the movement. A workshop will follow on April 30 and May 1. Registration and more information is available at burnsvillagefarm.com.

The final costs of the project are still unclear. The homes won’t be designed until there are enough future residents, and there’s a whole manner of infrastructure, utilities and planning hoops to take care of.

Nevertheless, the two-year timeline is a reachable goal based on earlier such projects, including Germantown Commons in Nashville, the state’s first co-housing project.

It’s telling — maybe a bit chilling, even — that Americans have become so disconnected to the agriculture that feeds us that we had to coin a new word for one of the oldest living arrangements in human society. But a new way of living may re-form those bonds. ■

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CARBON-OFFSET COMPANIES ARE TAKING OFF IN NASHVILLE

MEET METRO’S CHIEF SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE OFFICER

A quick look at two local companies aiming to offset carbon emissions

Kendra Abkowitz on pursuing renewable energy, resilience hubs, community feedback and more

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KENDRA ABKOWITZ powering over 11,000 homes, or removing more than 14,000 cars from the road, every year.” A part of TVA’s Green Invest Program, the project will harness power from solar panels in Tullahoma and bring Metro closer to its code mandate of achieving 35 percent renewable energy by 2025. Nashville is the first municipality to pursue this project with the TVA. Abkowitz says the project is behind schedule, but “we’re hopeful that in 2024, that utility scale solar project will be operational.” A draft of the project’s impact is scheduled to be released by the TVA on April 22. Once the draft is out, there will be a 45-day period for public comment and a public meeting with the TVA, which is scheduled for May 23.

An endeavor like this is no small task — it includes a federally required environmental review process, public comment, construction and implementation. Plus, TVA and NES are among the largest utility providers in the nation.

NES recently named Teresa BroylesAplin as its next CEO. “Teresa … was vocal about her vision to further sustainability and resilience across the community,” says Abkowitz. “She has … ideas that she shared with us about how NES as well as other local power companies can develop a more healthy working relationship with TVA and also advocate collectively for some of the carbon reductions that need to happen. So we were grateful to hear that.”

Abkowitz’s job is intrinsically linked to the environment and its intersection with society.

“Everything we do operates at that intersection,” says Abkowitz. “Oftentimes, when I’m looking at environmental issues, I’m frequently thinking about, ‘OK, well, how is my project supporting efforts to improve public health? How is my work

supporting opportunities to perhaps generate local economic … or workforce development? How does my work intersect with housing and long-term land development and land-use issues?’ ” Examples of this in action are resilience hubs, a concept Abkowitz is exploring with her colleagues in Metro.

Resilience hubs operate like community centers that are equipped to “flex” when needed — that might look like a recovery center after a natural disaster or a vaccination site during a pandemic.

“Whatever is happening in that space aligns with what the community identifies as its needs,” says Abkowitz.

While these spaces already exist in different capacities, Metro is piloting a program to create a more intentional focus on equipping these hubs.

Sustainability is more than planting trees and building solar panels; it must also consider those who have been disproportionately affected by environmental disasters — primarily people of color — and those who could be positively or negatively affected by sustainability initiatives. Abkowitz is conscious of this in her work, and community feedback can also help align equity and sustainability. One way to do this is through Metro’s Climate Action Plan Survey, which Abkowitz says will close in mid-May. “It takes a village,” she says. “We’re all in this together, right? We hear that thrown out there, but if we are really to take action to address climate … and environmental issues in our community, it’s going to take all of us working together. Metro government can’t do it alone — we need nonprofits, residents, businesses [and] major institutions throughout the community to do that with us.” ■

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SPEARHEADING NASHVILLE’S sustainability efforts takes more than simply slapping solar panels on roofs and installing electric vehicle charging ports. It takes expertise, long-term planning and extensive collaboration. Here in Nashville, that role belongs to Kendra Abkowitz, who recently sat down with the Scene to discuss some of Metro Nashville’s sustainability initiatives.

Abkowitz started working as Metro’s chief sustainability and resilience officer in October, a role previously filled by Mary Beth Ikard. Abkowitz grew up in Nashville and got her start in the sustainability realm through an internship that turned into a job at Vanderbilt University. She obtained a Ph.D. in environmental management and policy at Vandy, and spent six years working at the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.

“I’ve been able to see a lot of growth and change in the city,” says Abkowitz. “And as you can imagine, that directly ties back to environmental stewardship, sustainability and how do you continue economic growth and development in a city over time, in a way that meets the needs of all people?”

There are several projects in the works to make Nashville a greener city, like assessing which Metro buildings are best suited for solar power or how to reduce the environmental impacts of the city’s transportation fleets. Though the recently passed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will help fund projects like these, Nashville hasn’t received that money yet as federal agencies work through the logistics of dispersing it. Abkowitz is also working on ways to protect Nashville’s tree canopy, manage floods and stormwater, replace street lights with LED bulbs and, yes, address the city’s trash problem.

(Nashville’s main trash pickup contractor, Red River, filed for bankruptcy in October and has struggled to keep up with its assigned routes — leaving the city and other contractors to pick up the slack.)

“It is a really important topic and something we need to consider,” says Abkowitz. “Not only do we need to look at, operationally, how we manage the waste and collect it across the city, we need to think about reducing that volume.”

A major endeavor in the works is a partnership with the Tennessee Valley Authority, Nashville Electric Service and Vanderbilt to create 100 megawatts of utility-scale solar power — according to Metro, that’s “the clean-electricity equivalent of carbon emissions from

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BY KELSEY BEYELER

IN THE FIRST EIGHT MONTHS of 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal, “global companies spent $107.2 million on carbon offsets, up from $72.1 million in all of 2020.” Experts expect the international carbon-offset market to reach $700.5 million by 2027.

Offset credits, also known as carbon credits, are essentially climate-change currency. Credits are earned through endeavors that remove, reduce or sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

One carbon credit is equal to 1 ton of carbon dioxide. Companies, investment firms, governments and other entities purchase large numbers of carbon credits in order to balance out carbon emissions they cannot eliminate or offset themselves.

The demand for carbon credits has ballooned over the past decade — many companies are looking for ways to reduce or eliminate their carbon footprint, to bolster their appeal to socially conscious investors and customers and pursue their own corporate missions. The price of carbon credits varies widely based on several factors, like the impact of the credit and where the company is purchasing the credit from.

Here’s a look at two Nashville companies producing carbon credits.

ENEXOR BIOENERGY

Humans produce roughly 300 million tons of plastic waste annually. Roughly one-third — 1.3 billion tons — of all the food produced in the world is wasted.

These startling statistics gave former Enron executive Lee Jestings some food for thought: What if we could turn garbage into green energy?

Turning organic and plastic waste into energy solves two pressing problems: It decreases waste and addresses energy poverty — that is, the term applying to the nearly 1 billion people worldwide who lack basic access to electricity. In 2014, Jestings and a team of engineers began

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The Green Issue developing a technology to do just that.

The Enexor Bio-CHP is an on-site renewable energy solution that is contained in a 20-foot shipping container and powered by a microturbine.

Because of the technology’s rugged design, it can be deployed virtually anywhere, from a suburban retail center to a hurricane-prone island or even a remote village. Jestings says this eliminates expensive landfill and hauling costs associated with traditional waste practices.

“The areas of the world with the most waste are often the areas who lack access to electricity and clean water,” he says.

“Think Africa and Central America.”

One pound of organic waste can be converted into 3 kilowatts of energy.

Each Bio-CHP — which processes waste through thermal oxidation and particulate filtration — produces 75 kilowatts of electricity and 200 kilowatts of thermal energy per hour, Jestings says. To put that in perspective, the average household in the United States uses 1.25 kilowatts of electricity per hour, or 30 kilowatts a day.

Jestings says a single machine can offset up to 2,000 tons of carbon annually. Enexor tokenizes the carbon credits, which then are sold to companies looking to offset their emissions and meet sustainability goals.

AGRICAPTURE

Another Nashville startup is helping farmers get paid for putting carbon back into their fields. Headquartered in downtown Nashville, AgriCapture works with farmers and landowners to adopt climatefriendly practices that aim to improve soil health by increasing carbon yields and developing a farming-driven carbon market.

“These efforts allow companies to offset their greenhouse gas emissions by paying farmers for their fields’ capacity to withdraw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and trap it in the soil,” says AgriCapture director of strategy Tyler Hull.

The green startup has teamed up with landowners and farmers with holdings in Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri and Mississippi for a carbon-capture project.

The initial project will quantify, monitor, report and verify climate-friendly, regenerative land practices on 888 tracts of farm land totaling 51,691 row-crop acres, according to Hull.

Hull says regenerative land management practices, such as reduced or no-till farming and cover cropping, can increase and accelerate the amount of carbon stored in soil. These practices can simultaneously reduce emissions from agricultural operations — which, along with forestry and other forms of land use, account for 24 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

After half a decade of lean crop prices, many farmers may be intrigued by the idea of a new source of income that is less dependent on weather and agricultural commodity markets. Farmers who participate in carbon credit programs typically receive between $7 and $40 per acre, depending on practices and yields, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. ■

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THE GREEN DIRECTORY

A roundup of eco-friendly community organizations, services, restaurants and businesses COMPILED BY ASHLEY BARRIENTOS AND D. PATRICK RODGERS Below, find a directory of eco-friendly community organizations and nonprofits, services, restaurants, businesses and initiatives rounded up by the Scene. This is far from a comprehensive list — if you know of a local business or organization that you think should be included in our roundup, email us at editor@nashvillescene.com.

ABLE ableclothing.com A brand on a mission to help end poverty through creating sustainable jobs, specifically for women. ABLE’s products are produced in communities globally that face poverty, in hopes of creating more jobs and modeling a sustainable economy.

Crema crema-coffee.com Nashville’s zero-waste coffee shop with locations downtown and in East Nashville.

Everything Crema uses to serve coffee is either recyclable or compostable, and the shops operate trash-can-free.

Cumberland River Compact cumberlandrivercompact.org A group that partners with organizations “to positively impact our water quality” throughout the Cumberland River Basin. Initiatives include tree-planting campaigns, policy planning, adopting streams, sustainable agriculture, outdoor cleanup opportunities and more.

The Food Initiative thefoodinitiative.org A Clarksville-based nonprofit that uses a 12-acre farm to teach young people about the food system via educational workshops and hands-on farm experience.

The Food Initiative also grows food for hunger-relief organizations including Loaves and Fishes and Manna Cafe Ministries.

AVO eatavo.com A plant-based, locally sourced, sustainable kitchen on City Boulevard in West Nashville. “In addition to our role as a dining establishment,” say the AVO folks, “we also prioritize sustainability practices as part of our business operations while also supporting our community through initiatives for local nonprofit organizations.”

The Good Fill thegoodfill.co East Side refill shop that helps Nashvillians avoid the use of disposable plastics by offering bath, body and pet products (and more) to be taken home in reusable bottles and other containers.

Brooklyn Heights Community Garden brooklynheightscommunitygarden.org A nonprofit 0.56-acre urban farm on formerly vacant lots in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood — a historically Black and low-income neighborhood that experiences food insecurity.

High Garden Tea highgardentea.com An environmentally conscious tea shop and apothecary with compostable packaging and a focus on reconnecting humans with nature. High Garden’s brickand-mortar location was destroyed in the March 2020 tornado, and it is now an online-only shop.

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The Green Issue Junkdrop Junkdropnash.com A service offering curbside pickup as well as clean-outs for homes, businesses, storage spaces and more, with donated items like appliances, clothes, furniture and construction materials going to those in need.

Nashville Tree Foundation nashvilletreefoundation.org Nonprofit working to preserve urban forests and identify some of the oldest trees in the county. Visit the organization’s website to make a donation, sign up for volunteer opportunities or suggest a site for more trees to be planted.

Trap Garden trapgarden.org A Black-led nonprofit that helps Nashvillians access healthy, high-quality food.

Larkspur Conservation at Taylor Hollow larkspurconservation.org A natural-burial site in Sumner County that enables people to bury their loved ones in a green space without the use of chemicals, plastic, metal or concrete — returning our bodies to the earth in a more economical and ecological way.

Music City Creative Co. musiccitycreative.co A hand-screen-printing shop and retail store specializing in eco-friendly custom merchandise. Music City Creative “partners with national and local brands to support the advancement of social equity and mobility through its designs, diverse hiring practices and partnerships with nonprofit groups.”

Nisolo nisolo.com A socially and environmentally conscious leather goods manufacturer whose product line includes shoes, bags and accessories for men and women. The company touts its belief in ethical production and fair pricing.

Tri-Star Recycling tsrecycle.com E-recycling company certified by the R2 Technical Advisory Committee that manages the ethical disposal of surplus electronics that could otherwise lead to ecological contamination.

RecycleNash recyclenash.com Curbside glass-recycling pickup for residents of West Nashville, East Nashville, Belmont, Belle Meade, Brentwood, Hermitage and West End for $10 a month.

Turnip Green Creative Reuse turnipgreencreativereuse.org A nonprofit that annually diverts thousands of pounds of discarded materials that otherwise might end up in a landfill — materials are used for after-school projects, reuse workshops and more.

The Nashville Food Project thenashvillefoodproject.org A long-running nonprofit that makes thousands of nutritious meals each week for Nashvillians in need using organic food collected from urban gardens, farms, stores and more. The NFP works with several povertydisrupting nonprofits and community groups.

Urban Green Lab urbangreenlab.org A nonprofit focused on sustainable-living education that “helps develop and implement sustainable strategies for organizations.”

Root Nashville rootnashville.org A public-private campaign — led by Metro and the Cumberland River Compact — aiming to plant half a million trees in Davidson County by 2050.

Sage Refill Market sagerefillmarket.com A market offering “low-waste and package-free options for household cleaning and personal care products.” Sage Refill stocks green products from popular vendors.

Nashville Foodscapes nashvillefoodscapes.com Nashville Foodscapes customizes yards and homes, consulting with clients about permaculture principles, water conservation and other earth-friendly methods.

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Walk Bike Nashville walkbikenashville.org An advocacy group working toward green transportation and a city that is friendlier and more accessible to pedestrians and cyclists.

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I’m a fan of the late soul era, which began in 1968 and lasted until around 1976. Starting off as a gospel-influenced vocal music, soul took some of the sonic innovations of the late ’60s to heart, with results that were sometimes droll and sometimes — as in electric-guitar-driven tracks like The Temptations’ 1969 song “Slave” — powerful and disturbing.

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more like rock in the early ’70s, and there was also a healthy show-tunes-meetsfunk element at work back then. That combination is part of what I hear in the music of Nashville soul-funk band Alanna Royale. The 2014 debut full-length Achilles gets down in the same retro-soul space that Sharon Jones occupies, and frontwoman Alanna Quinn-Broadus is a powerful, engaging singer. Her vocals put me in mind of, say, Marlena Shaw or Lorraine Ellison, and the band knows how to use horn arrangements and keyboards, along with guitar, to re-create the soul-meetsrock sounds of 1970. Their 2018 album

So Bad You Can Taste It continues in the same warm, party-friendly but never dumb revivalism that characterizes Achilles. The band is hot and Royale owns the stage — put on your dancing shoes. Aztec Sun opens. 8 p.m. at Exit/In, 2208 Elliston Place EDD HURT MUSIC

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OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW ALBUM RELEASE

One of the most amazing things about Americana is how it’s come full circle to its roots in the commercial folk-country-pop of 50 years ago. On the new album Paint This Town, Old Crow Medicine Show makes a

Bob Seger album, right down to an album cover that depicts a used-up American dystopia. In typical fashion, bandleader Ketch Secor & Co. have come up with a few songs that skirt the world of political folk, just like it used to in the 1960s. You can’t really fault a group who writes a song about Black Grand Ole Opry legend DeFord Bailey, a native Nashvillian who deserves the cred, but that tune and the one about John Brown only give part of Secor’s talents.

Secor can come across like it’s still 1937 in his particular neighborhood, but at heart he’s a pop artist, and Old Crow is the great commercial folk-country group of our era.

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OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW The release of Paint This Town marks the band’s return to their former label ATO, and they cut the album in their own Nashville studio. Like I said, Paint This Town is sort of like Poco or Seger or even Uncle Tupelo filtered through a more intensive course in bluegrass and post-O Brother Where Art Thou usages. It also sounds like Southern rock, as in “Honey Chile,” which relies on timeless Marshall Tucker-isms and other melodic tricks to make its point. Old Crow has covered Blonde on Blonde; maybe they need to try Seger’s Night Moves next. 8 p.m. at The Blue Room at Third Man Records, 623 Seventh Ave. S. EDD HURT

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Spring is the perfect time for outdoor markets — the days are long, but the heavy heat of summer hasn’t yet kicked in. The Be Good Market is among the season’s best, and it will set up outside Vinyl Tap on Record Store Day to accompany the shop’s special vinyl exclusives. (Read our full run-down of Record Store Day releases and events on p.

61.) Be Good is a business created during the pandemic by friends Taylor Small, Claire Brandon and Sofia Carlson as a way to connect creative people. Though the brand is based out of the May Hosiery Mills Co-Op in Wedgewood-Houston, its community also mobilizes for events like this one. Saturday’s market will feature items from The Green Ray, Loosetooth Apparel, Lunch Rugs, Violet Ray Stained Glass and more. There will also be food and live music, and you won’t be far from some other great spots in the area, like Cafe Roze across the street or HiFi Cookies down the road. 11 a.m.-7 p.m. at Vinyl Tap, 2038 Greenwood Ave. KELSEY BEYELER

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WEEKEND CLASSICS: BEING THERE

Released in December 1979, Being There is literally one of the last great movies of the ’70s. After spending the Me Decade helming both cult faves (Harold and Maude) and Oscar winners (Coming Home), director Hal Ashby wrapped up his decadelong hot streak with this quiet but chaotic satire, based on the 1970 novel from Jerzy Kosiński (who also adapted the screenplay).

Peter Sellers, who died just months after the movie’s release, gives an Oscar-nominated performance as a dim-witted, TV-obsessed gardener who is forced to venture out in the world after his employer dies and somehow becomes a rising figure among the movers and shakers in Washington, D.C. Shirley MacLaine (who takes part in a scene of self-pleasure that’s all kinds of insane), Jack Warden and Melvyn Douglas (who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his performance) co-star as some of the powerful people who get won over by Sellers’ remote-control-carrying simpleton.

April 23-24 at the Belcourt, 2102 Belcourt Ave. CRAIG D. LINDSEY

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For a full weekend, Main Street Festival will take over downtown Franklin for the 38th time. This year’s invasion includes more than 220 local and regional arts and crafts vendors, including Dan Powell Fine Art, Jacob Olds, Strings for Hope, First Mountain Woodcraft, Orchard View Pottery and Artistzarama. Food vendors

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are slated to include the delicious Ellie’s Old Fashioned Doughnuts, Buffalo Sausage, Ace’s Kettlecorn, Wild Bill’s Olde Fashioned Soda, fest fave Unique Funnel Cake House, a beer garden and a whiskey lounge. This year’s festival will also include a new feature — an interactive area with street art and larger-than-life illustrations inspired by children’s books. Main Street Festival also offers yoga, street games, poetry and children’s book readings, weaving stations, chalk-art exhibits and demonstrations by professional artists as well as an area called Spring Street where attendees can spread a blanket out on the lawn and watch dance performances and live art. There’s a little something for everyone. April 23-24 on Main Street in Franklin AMANDA HAGGARD FILM

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NASHVILLE EARTH DAY 2022

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HANS CONDOR

Over the past decade-and-a-half, I have seen Hans Condor shred at Exit/In and Springwater. I have seen them shred outdoors at East Nashville’s multipurpose event space Soft Junk. I have even seen them shred at Five Points bar and restaurant Alleycat Lounge (which many years ago transformed into its current iteration, Drifters Tennessee BBQ Joint). Though the band’s lineup has changed several times since Hans Condor’s formation, one thing has always remained: Hellfire-breathing punk rock frontman Charles Kaster puts on one of the very best rock ’n’ roll shows in Nashville. Back in the fall, Kaster & Co. put out their longawaited debut full-length album Breaking and Entering, which Scene contributor Lance Conzett described thusly at the time: “Tracked during two sessions in 2016, the LP functions like a primal scream, with songs like ‘Rock n Roll Animal’ and ‘All Messed Up on Death Metal and Shit’ bursting with the same energy that you’d be anticipating if you were on the way to see them do a late-night set at Foobar.” (I saw Hans Condor shred there too.) Think Motörhead, The MC5, AC/DC and a splash of Nine Inch Nails, cranked up to eardrumbursting levels. The Strains, Ryan Sobb and The Guillotines are also slated to play. 8 p.m. at The East Room, 2412 Gallatin Ave.

JAZZ ON THE TRIANGLE FEAT. THE MIDTOWN JAZZ QUARTET

One of the city’s most vital under-theradar concert series — it lasted for 24 seasons — was held at an unusual spot, Church of the Holy Trinity. The Jazz on the Triangle concerts were a welcome venue for Music City’s improvisational community. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused its absence for two years, but Jazz on the Triangle has returned with an excellent group to lead off the newest season. The Midtown Jazz Quartet features four solid players in bassist Dr. Gary Smith, pianist Steve King, drummer Gus Duffy and Michael Morton on flute. Their specialty is updated versions of mainstream jazz standards, and they’re making their debut appearance at Church of the Holy Trinity. Hopefully the show will help relaunch Jazz on the Triangle as a major showcase for Nashville’s top jazz musicians.

4 p.m. at Church of the Holy Trinity, 615 Sixth Ave. S. RON WYNN

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THE NAUGHTY TREE

It’s wild to me that people still bring up Adam and Eve when attempting to defend gender- and sexuality-based discrimination. Some folks don’t seem to understand that a SERPENT speaking to a WOMAN is just as much a myth as Prometheus shaping men out of mud. MUD! Anyway. Leave it to the queer-friendly Woven Theatre Company and Kindling Arts Festival to defy the “But it’s in the Bible”

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GLADYS KNIGHT

Gladys Knight is one of soul and R&B’s greatest vocalists, excelling in both a group setting and as a solo singer. The first part of her career featured her headlining Gladys Knight and the Pips, a foursome that had hits throughout the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.

But Knight has been equally successful on her own, with one of her first solo ventures being the theme song for the 1989 Bond film License to Kill. Her spectacular career includes a pair of chart-topping singles, 11 No. 1 R&B hits, six No. 1 R&B albums, plus seven Grammy Awards (three with the Pips, four solo). Though she’s expanded her activities in recent years to include both acting and business enterprises, performing remains her first love, and fans can see a premier vocalist at her best on Monday night at the Mother Church. 7:30 p.m. at the Ryman, 116 Fifth Ave. N. RON WYNN

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folks and stage a dawn-of-humans story in opposition. The Naughty Tree is a “big queer celebration that goes all the way back to the beginning,” reclaiming Eden with a theatrical, cabaret-style production that elevates “everyone for who they are and who they love.” Woven’s productions are always compelling and well-staged. Written by local playwright River Timms, with music from Fable Cry and choreography

by Lenin Fernandez, The Naughty Tree is sure to be bombastic. Kindling’s Daniel Jones directs. The kicker? It stars one of Nashville’s most vivacious actors, James Rudolph II. It has everything: actors, dancers, poets, burlesque dancers and even a drag queen or two. 8 p.m. April 24-25 at The Blue Room at Third Man Records, 623 Seventh Ave. S. ERICA CICCARONE

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change and supporting sustainable businesses and nonprofits. Nashville Earth Day 2022 will feature food, a kids’ area, and educational activities from a variety of exhibitors and vendors, including local food growers and makers, nonprofits, sustainable small businesses, and state and Metro government agencies. There will be free live music from Raihanna Estrada, Larysa Jaye, Gustavo Moradel, Josh Okeefe, Striking Matches and Aaron Lee Tasjan.

Get there early — despite the rain, last year the free toys for kids vanished quickly. 11 a.m. at Centennial Park, 2500 West End Ave.

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BLAC RABBIT

If the name wasn’t enough of a dead giveaway for you, Blac Rabbit is that rarest of music collectives: a rock band that’s mostly African Americans. Coming out of Rockaway Beach in Queens, the group is fronted by Brooklynites, identical twin brothers and Beatles enthusiasts Amiri and Rahiem Taylor. (They’re far from the first twins of color to front a rock group — don’t forget about Daniel and Danny Chavis, who formed both The Veldt and Apollo Heights.) After coming out with a self-titled,

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INSTRUMENTHEAD: REVEALED BOOK LAUNCH

“This is where musicians’ heads are really at” — that’s how Nashville photographer Michael Weintrob summarizes his 2017 book Instrumenthead, which features photos of 369 musicians with their instruments covering their faces, and it’s an apt description, literally and figuratively. The book, which includes images of music legends such as Bootsy Collins, Johnny Winter and Susan Tedeschi, has earned praise from the likes of Allen Toussaint and won the Independent Publisher Book Award for Most Outstanding Design. Weintrob has been a house photographer for Morrison, Colo.’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre and the Bluegrass Underground concert series, and he has shot live concerts and festivals for a couple of decades now. He’s celebrating the release of his new book Instrumenthead: Revealed — which features the same musicians from the first book, but with their faces revealed — with a heavyweight lineup at Exit/In. Renowned keyboardist Peter Levin will lead a tribute to the music of Greg Allman and The Allman Brothers Band (both acts that he’s played with), featuring Luther Dickinson, Lamar Williams Jr., Jimbo Hart, Chad Gamble and Audley Freed. Bass virtuoso Victor Wooten heads up a fiery combo including Nir Felder, Keith Carlock and Jeff Coffin. Country star Maggie Rose will play a special acoustic performance.

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SHELBY LYNNE & ALLISON MOORER

Followers of the career of singer Shelby Lynne are probably familiar with how journalists have compared her to Dusty Springfield. The Virginia-born vocalist, who was raised in Alabama, ranks near the top of any list of contemporary song stylists.

Unlike Springfield, however, she never quite became a star, though it’s safe to say that Lynne’s 2000 breakthrough album This Is Shelby Lynne hovers over her career in the same way that Dusty in Memphis does for the sublime English pop-soul-rock singer. Without a doubt, Dusty in Memphis is a sui generis album: It’s super-pop without a hint of equivocation, and one of the most beguiling records ever made. This Is Shelby Lynne was a landmark album — Dusty in Memphis for the nascent Americana audience. Lynne continues to be a singer’s singer who doesn’t seem interested in courting the mass audience — what’s she going to do, go country? Meanwhile, her sister Allison Moorer also sings superbly and seems comfortable with being an Americana artist. Moorer’s 2019 album Blood, produced by Kenny Greenberg, stands as an exemplary confessional record.

Monday’s show at City Winery should give two fine singers room to express themselves — you know, sometimes records just don’t capture everything people can do. 8 p.m. at City Winery, 609 Lafayette St. EDD HURT

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six-song EP in 2017, Blac Rabbit finally released a debut full-length, Interstella, last month, and it’s filled with numbers you can either rock out or trip out to. I don’t know about y’all, but it’s always great seeing a guitar-heavy rock outfit full of Black folk, practically reclaiming the genre we came up with in the first damn place. Hey, it can’t just be Living Colour, Bad Brains and TV on the Radio fighting the good fight out there.

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SNOW THA PRODUCT

Snow Tha Product earned her keep by being the kind of MC who enters a cypher and expects to be the last one standing. Fitting for someone who collabed with Tech N9ne and boasts co-signs from legends like Snoop Dogg. The California native is hitting town a few weeks out from the release of her single “Cobrar,” which she released alongside a >> P. 47

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1. GraceWorks Turkey Trot 2. Downtown Franklin Rotary Club’s Jockeys and Juleps Kentucky Derby Party 3. Studio Tenn’s One Night Only

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1. Pilgrimage Music Festival (Franklin) 2. Crockett Park Summer Series (Brentwood) 3. Carnton Planation Sundays (Franklin)

1. Leiper’s Fork Christmas Parade 2. Nolensville’s Veterans Day Parade 3. Franklin Veteran’s Day Parade

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1. Brentwood Baptist 2. Brentwood United Methodist 3. Church of the City Franklin

1. The Park at Harlinsdale Farm 2. Pinkerton Park 3. Granny White Park 3. Nolensville Park

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Best Place To Go Biking

Best Farmers Market

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1. The Factory at Franklin 2. The Graystone Quarry 3. Homestead Manor

1. Franklin Farmer’s Market at The Factory 2. Nolensville Farmer’s Market 3. Reed’s Produce & Garden Center

1. Franklin Bridge Golf Club 2. The Grove 3. Vanderbilt Legends Club

1. Puckett’s Grocery & Restaurant 2. FirstBank Amphitheater 3. Kimbro’s Pickin Parlor

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1. Studio Tenn 2. Act Too Players - School of Music and Theatre 3. Williamson County Enrichment Center

1. GraceWorks Ministries, Turkey Trot 2. Boys & Girls Clubs Steak & Burger Dinner

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Best Stylist

1. Chad Hilburn, Salon 1797 2. Catie Parker, Shear Hospitality 3. Tracy Hannabach, Salon 1797

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1. Life Time 2. Core Power Yoga 3. Free Flow Yoga 3. The Hot Room Yoga & Wellness

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Best Antiques

1. Three French Hens 2. Franklin Antique Mall 3. Village Antiques & Gifts

Best Auto Dealership

1. Darrell Waltrip Automotive Group 2. Toyota of Cool Springs 3. CarMax

Best Auto Repair

1. Moody’s Tire & Auto Service of Cool Springs 2. Christian Brothers Automotive Brentwood 3. Rhea Little’s Tire & Auto Repair

Best Bank

1. Pinnacle 2. Ascend Federal Credit Union 2. Regions 3. SunTrust (Truist)

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1. Steve King, Pinnacle 2. Tiffany Jones, Pinnacle 3. Carole Webb, Regions

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Best Employer

Best Gift Shop

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1. The Bloom House by Angela Sadler 2. Always In Bloom, Inc. 3. Accent Flowers

1. GraceWorks Ministries 2. Franklin Special School District 3. Nxt Level

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1. Global Motorsports 2. Mercedes-Benz of Nashville 3. BMW of Nashville 3. Land Rover Nashville

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Best Women’s Clothing

1. Indigo Cottage, Nolensville 2. Wilder Boutique 3. fab’rik Franklin

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THE FRANKLIN THEATRE Come down to the Jewel of Main Street for Looney Tunes screenings and School of Rock showcases all day long!

SUNRISE YOGA WALK Start your Sunday off with a sunrise yoga walk through Downtown Franklin. We’ll begin our walk at Franklin Grove at 6:45am.

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Health & Wellness

Best Physical Therapy

Best Weight Loss Center

Best Plastic/Cosmetic Surgeon

Best Women’s Health

1. Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee 2. Evolve Movement Therapy 3. STAR Physical Therapy

1. Dr. Ashley Guthrie, Guthrie Facial Plastic Surgery 2. Dr. John Moore, Cool Springs Plastic Surgery 3. NuBody Concepts

1. NuBody Concepts Nashville 2. Cryo and Contour, Nutrition 3. Evolve Movement Therapy

1. Williamson Medical Center 2. Vanderbilt Center for Women’s Health Cool Springs 3. Women’s Group of Franklin

Readers’ Choice Best Allergist

1. Dr. Joe Belleau, Cool Springs Allergy 2. Dr. David Hagaman, Vanderbilt 3. Dr. Kimberly Bergeron, Heritage Medical Associates

Best Chiropractor

1. Cool Springs Chiropractic 2. Jennifer Gray, Family Chiropractic & Wellness 3. Oasis Health Center

Best Dental

1. Laden & Batra Dentistry 2. Aspen Grove Dental Associates 3. Dr. John Fogaros

Best Dermatology

1. Vanderbilt Dermatology Franklin 2. Franklin Dermatology Group 3. REN Dermatology and Laser Center

Best Eye Care

1. Primary EyeCare Group 2. Nicholas Hackett MD, Vanderbilt Eye Institute Franklin 3. Nolo Eye Care + Eyewear Gallery

BONE AND JOINT INSTITUTE OF TENNESSEE

Best Family Care Physician

1. Williamson Medical Group 2. Cool Springs Internal Medicine 3. Dr. Scott Parker, Vanderbilt Family Medicine

Best Hospital

1. Williamson Medical Center 2. Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt 3. St. Thomas West

Best Massage

1. Massage Envy 2. Elements Massage 3. Evolve Movement Therapy

Best Men’s Health

1. Williamson Medical Center 2. Dr. Jacob McCoy, Vanderbilt Urology 3. Vanderbilt Primary Care Franklin

Best Oral Surgeon

1. Southern Oral Surgery 2. Coyne Oral Surgery 3. Spring Hill Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

Best Orthodontist

1. Cox Orthodontics 2. Kemp & Rice 3. Lucas Orthodontics

Best Orthopedics

1. Bone and Joint Institute of Tennessee 2. Tennessee Orthopaedic Alliance 3. Vanderbilt Orthopaedics

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Best Bar

1. Cork & Cow 2. Tony’s Eat & Drink 3. Fozzy’s Bar & Grill Spring Hill

Best Bartender

1. José Ramón, Pueblo Real 2. Mary Beth Youngstead, Sperry’s Cool Springs 3. Zach Helton, Stoney River

Best BBQ

1. Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint 2. Jim ‘N Nick’s 3. Whitt’s Barbecue

Best Breakfast

1. Birdie’s Breakfast 2. First Watch 3. Big Bad Breakfast, Franklin

Best Brunch

1. First Watch 2. Puffy Muffin Brentwood 3. 55 South

Best Burger

1. Burger Up, Franklin 2. Shake Shack 3. Drake’s Cool Springs

Best Caterer

1. Tito’s and Pueblo Real Mexican Restaurant 2. Brown Bag Cool Springs 3. Big Shake’s Hot Chicken & Fish

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Best Steak

Best Mexican

Best Thai

Best New Restaurant

Best Vegan/Vegetarian

Best Pizza

Best Wine Menu (in a restaurant)

Best Restaurant

Best Wings

1. Juice Bar 2. Franklin Juice Company 3. I Love Juice Bar

Readers’ Choice 1. Merridee’s Breadbasket 2. Puffy Muffin Brentwood 3. Franklin Bakehouse

Best Seafood

1. Yuno 2. Peter’s Sushi & Thai 3. Wild Ginger

Food & Drink Best Bakery

Best Japanese/Sushi

Best Chef

1. Chef Big Shake, Shawn Davis 2. Jonathan King, The Heritage at Brentwood 3. Chris Cunningham, Coal Town Public House 3. Eric Shanklin, Pasta & Cream

Best Chinese

1. P.F. Chang’s 2. No. 1 Chinese 3. Ching Asian Bistro

1. Tito’s Mexican Restaurant 2. Mojo’s Tacos 3. Garcia’s

1. Chrysalis Modern Italian 2. Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille, Cool Springs 3. Izzy’s

1. Nashville Pizza Company 2. Brixx Wood Fired Pizza + Craft Bar 3. Marco’s Pizza

Best Cocktails

1. Happenchance Social 2. Grays on Main 3. Red Pony

Best Coffee Shop

1. Frothy Monkey 2. The Fainting Goat Coffee Co. 3. Just Love Coffee Cafe, Brentwood

1. Sperry’s Cool Springs 2. Red Pony 3. Stoney River Steakhouse and Grill

1. Wild Ginger 2. Sperry’s Cool Springs 3. Ludlow & Prime

1. Sperry’s Cool Springs 2. Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille, Cool Springs 3. Stoney River

1. Ozeki Grill and Thai Kitchen 2. Jasmine 3. Koi Suishi & Thai

1. Wild Ginger 2. CoreLife Eatery 3. Herban Market

1. Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille, Cool Springs 2. J. Alexander’s Restaurant 3. North Italia

1. Outlanders Southern Chicken 2. Big Shake’s Hot Chicken & Fish 3. Mineo’s Pizza & Wings

Best Craft Beer

1. Mill Creek Brewing Co 2. McCreary’s Irish Pub & Eatery 3. Hope House Tennessee Taps

Best Dessert

1. Crumbl Cookies 2. Triple Crown Bakery 3. Puffy Muffin Brentwood

Best Donut

1. Five Daughters Bakery, The Factory at Franklin 2. Tiny Little Donuts 3. Duck Donuts

Best Hot Chicken

1. Outlanders Southern Chicken 2. Big Shakes Hot Chicken 3. Party Fowl

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Best Private High School

1. Battle Ground Academy 2. Brentwood Academy 3. Currey Ingram Academy

Best Private Middle School 1. Saint Matthew School 2. Battle Ground Academy 3. Currey Ingram Academy

Best Public Elementary School

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1. Johnson Elementary School 2. Moore Elementary School 3. Poplar Grove Elementary School

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Best Public High School

1. Centennial High School 2. Franklin High School 3. Nolensville High School

Best Public Middle School

BATTLE GROUND ACADEMY

Readers’ Choice Best Children’s Haircut

1. Uncle Classic Barbershop 2. Ability Cuts 3. Cuts N Blessings Barbershop

Best Dance School

1. Ann Carroll School of Dance 2. DC Dance Factory 3. Williamson County Parks & Recreation Rhythm & Spirit

Best Gymnastics

1. Let It Shine Gymnastics 2. Harpeth School of Gymnastics 3. Premier Athletics, Nashville

Best Indoor Play Place

1. Let it Shine Gymnastics 2. DEFY Nashville 3. Urban Air Trampoline & Adventure Park

Best Martial Arts

Best Pet Boarding

1. Waggy Tails Pet Center 2. Crossroads Pet Professionals 3. My Second Home

Best Pet Daycare

1. My Second Home 2. Paw Pals Inc. Brentwood 3. Waggy Tails Pet Center

Best Pet Groomer

1. Haute Dogge Grooming Salon 2. Happy Retales, Trey 3. The Farm at Natchez Trace

Best Place to Trick or Treat

1. Ballenger Farms, Nolensville 2. West Main Street 3. Westhaven

Best Preshool

1. Saint Matthew School 2. High Hopes Development Center 3. The Gardner School

1. RMA Jiu Jitsu Academy 2. Elite Martial Arts 3. Family First Martial Arts of Spring Hill

1. Brentwood Middle School 2. Freedom Middle School 3. Mill Creek Middle School

Best Summer Camp

1. Deer Run Camps & Retreats 2. Flour Power Nashville 3. Young Scholars

Best Tutoring

1. Gentry’s Educational Foundation 2. Learning Lab 3. Mary Lee Bunch Associates, L.L.C.

Best Veterinarian

1. Williamson Animal Hospital 2. Battleground Hospital for Animals 3. Nolensville Animal Hospital

Best Youth Group

1. Saint Matthew Catholic Church 2. Brentwood United Methodist Church 3. Church of the City

Best Youth Sports League 1. Franklin Baseball Club 2. Brentwood Blaze 3. Catch23 Performance

Best Music Class

1. Liberty Music Academy 2. School of Rock 3. Shuff’s Music

Best Music Class

1. Laura Holderman, Saint Matthews School 2. Cassidy Gephardt and Arianna Hume, Liberty Music Academy 3. Steve Rossi, School of Rock

Best Pediatric Dentist

1. Dr. Buzz, Pediatric Dental Care 2. Dr. Bradley M. Farrow, DMD 3. Williamson Pediatric Dentistry

1. Pediatric Associates of Franklin 2. Brentwood Children’s Clinic 3. Harpeth Pediatrics 3. Heritage Medical Center

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1. Harpeth Square Apartments 2. Southaven at Commonwealth 3. Avenida

Best Builder/Developer

Best Furniture

1. Head Springs Depot 2. Sara Sells 3. Sprintz Furniture

Best Garden Center

1. Hewitt Garden and Design Center 2. Fast’s Greenery 3. Harpeth True Value

Best Home Decor

1. Sara Sells 2. J J Ashley Antiques & Reproduction 3. Riverside Franklin

Best House Cleaning

1. Jett’s Cleaning Service 2. Gracious Cleaning 3. Maid Right of Williamson County

HEWITT GARDEN AND DESIGN CENTER

Best Neighborhood 1. The Grove 2. Falls Grove 3. Meadow Lake

Best Plumber

1. Joslin Plumbing 2. Don Wood Plumbin 3. Hiller Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical

Best Real Estate Agent

Best Real Estate Brokerage

Best Interior Decorator

Best Real Estate Team

Best Landscaping

Best Roofing

1. Julie McCoy 2. Charisma Design 3. ONYX + ALABASTER

1. Southern Creations Landscape, LLC 2. Landscape Innovations 3. Landscape Services Inc.

Best Moving Company

1. Black Tie Moving 2. True Friends Moving Company 3. Turnkey Moving

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Best HVAC

1. Lee Company 2. Hiller Plumbing, Heating, Cooling & Electrical 3. Joslin Plumbing & Heating

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1. John Maher Builders 2. Ford Classic Homes 3. The Kingston Group

1. Benchmark Realty 2. Keller Williams Realty 3. PARKS - Franklin

1. Nashville Home-Benchmark 2. Jenny Fann & The Gurus, Keller Williams Nashville-Spring Hill 3. Paula and Chris Adams, We Live Here TN

1. Don Kennedy Roofing 2. Storm Guard Roofing & Construction of Nashville 3. Tim Leeper Roofing

Best Senior Living

1. The Heritage at Brentwood 2. Morning Pointe of Spring Hill 3. Somerby Franklin

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AN EVENING WITH BENJAMIN FERENCZ, THE LAST SURVIVING PROSECUTOR OF THE NUREMBERG TRIALS

Photographs and eyewitness testimony of the Russian army’s atrocities in Bucha and elsewhere in Ukraine are stark reminders that human progress has not yet stunted the malignancy of human disregard for the humanity of others. War crimes are not just in 80-year-old grainy newsreels.

They are still with us in the age of TikTok. Fortunately, war criminals are, on occasion, prosecuted and punished, an imperfect recourse but the best we’ve divined.

These efforts began with men like 102-yearold Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials, set up to prosecute Nazi war criminals and collaborators after World War II. Ferencz remains vital, not just because of his investigative and prosecutorial work in the 1940s and ’50s, but because he remains a respected and morally clear voice on the harrowing subject of crimes against humanity. Chabad of Nashville is hosting An Evening With Benjamin Ferencz at Congregation Micah. In addition, in-person attendees will have the opportunity to speak with Holocaust survivors. On-site tickets are $25 and virtual screening tickets are $15. 7 p.m. at Congregation Micah, 2001 Old Hickory Blvd., Brentwood J.R. LIND

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HELADO NEGRO

Helado Negro is the moniker of Ecuadorian American Roberto Carlos Lange, a Brooklyn-based electronic musician whose dreamy tunes and thoughtful lyrics showcase an immense yet gentle talent. If voices were clouds, his would be a stratus. His last two albums This Is How You Smile (2019) and Far In (2021) may be his best-known, but Helado Negro has an extensive discography dating back to 2009. Shifting between English and Spanish, his lyrics largely explore and affirm Latin American identity using layered soundscapes that come across mellow yet complex. Lange also has an affinity for visual effects, which you can see in the music video that he directed for “Hometown Dream” — it incorporates footage from a family trip to Ecuador in the 1980s. 8 p.m. at The Basement East, 917 Woodland St. KELSEY BEYELER MUSIC

short film highlighting a few children of immigrants supporting their families in big ways, including a pro skater and a med student. While Snow hasn’t dropped a studio album in 10 years, she’s kept plenty busy with a string of mixtapes, features and singles, and she even earned a Latin Grammy nomination for her fast-spitting bilingual collaboration with Bizarrap, a producer out of Argentina. AJ Hernz and Subliminal will appear in support. 8 p.m. at Brooklyn Bowl Nashville, 925 Third Ave. N.

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CURTIS HARDING W/JOSHY SOUL

In an interview with Marquis Munson at WNXP-FM in November, psychedelic soul songwriter Curtis Harding said: “Being optimistic can be a chore at times. But at the end of the day, if you can see your way through where you are and if you can focus on something positive, then it’s going to grow some beautiful flowers.” His latest album If Words Were Flowers delivers on the promise of something beautiful — the album feels like a labor of love, but one that is full of hope. (Horn arrangements are good at making a song feel heavy and uplifting, like the ones bursting through on the song “Hopeful” from Flowers.)

The album and title track are named for something his mother always said, which is to give her flowers while she’s still here.

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Bring your canine companions for an afternoon of dog-centric activities and local pet vendors, food trucks, beer, and more. Humans can enjoy beer tastings, sip a cocktail from the bar, play lawn games, and grab a bite to eat from tasty local food trucks. Furry friends will enjoy their own beer tasting by Busch Dog Brew, cheese it up in the pet photo booth, sample treats, and cut loose in our off-leash mini dog park.

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BY JENNIFER JUSTUS I’m gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days I’m gonna tell God how you treat me one of these days “This is a welcome table,” Randall said of the setting. “We come together in community to consider what has been erased, who has been decentered and ways history complicates what we think we know. … Commensality, the act of eating together, is a powerful practice. Who we will eat with is a way of defining who is and who isn’t valued as a member of the community.”

Randall noted how for centuries Black and white people did not eat together in Nashville. She spoke of the many middleclass white families who employed Black folks to clean and cook for low wages and even passed off the cooking of their help as their own. “Intimate acts of culinary erasure,” she said, “that complicate contemporary moments when a Black chef presents food and is not acknowledged.”

Randall also educated the group on the important but ignored Black social and political clubs meeting around food. “Long before Nashville’s first hipster pop-up restaurant,” she said, “Black women in Music City routinely turned their homes into finedining establishments for a single night, for a single noon, for a single morning to serve great and political meals. Because they could not go to restaurants, they turned their home into restaurants.”

Indeed, Caroline Randall Williams’ greatgrandmother, who lived not far from Yay Yay’s, had 40 place settings of silver for serving procured on a husband’s librarian salary. Randall also read a list she compiled — more than 50 clubs, some dating back more than a century into Nashville’s history — including the likes of the Jolly Seekers, Lily of the Valley Art Club, Midweek Pleasure Club, Links, We Mean Pleasure and The Vagabonds.

There are more, she said: “Some of them exist to this day. They have been ignored.”

The North Pole Literary Society, for example, held a spring festival of singing and dining, but also raised money to feed 2,000 underprivileged Black children on Christmas Day in 1916.

“But the clubs were not only about service,” said Randall. “They were about the pursuit of sensual pleasure as a political act. Those feasts were about creating an occasional meal so dignified they were a cure for myriad race-based injustices. They were about being recognized as worthy to be served and being ethical enough to respect anyone serving. They were about knowing the power is serving and eating, eating and serving.”

Pulling from the pages of Black-owned newspapers, Randall shared elegant details from history, including the club colors and place cards, flowers and gold ribbon — beauty, art and bounty. “It wasn’t the only thing, but it was part of the thing,” she said.

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n the days after George Floyd’s murder, Charlotte Miller’s white friends kept texting to ask if she was OK. “Hell no, I’m not,” she would tell them.

And then a well-intentioned bake sale popped up to raise funds for a local Black-run nonprofit. It involved the “usual suspects,” says Miller, who is Black, but it “didn’t include anyone who looked like me.” Miller adds that in 25 years as a chef, she has never worked with another Black woman chef in a manager-level position.

Angry and exasperated, Miller reached out to Nancy Vienneau, a local writer who at the time served as president of the local chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier, a philanthropic organization of women in food, beverage and hospitality. Miller DESEGREGATING is an inaugural NASHVILLE’S FOOD SCENE: member of the loINTEGRATING YOUR cal chapter and the BUSINESS — BRINGING INCLUSION TO THE FRONT organization’s first AND THE BACK OF THE secretary. (Full HOUSE NOON APRIL 23 AT YAY YAY’S, disclosure: I’m a member as well.)

1821 JEFFERSON ST. Miller wanted to do something, but she wasn’t sure what it looked like yet.

Miller and Vienneau continued talking and emailing. As COVID raged and time passed, their plan incubated and eventually hatched.

Last month, Les Dames Nashville, led by Miller, kicked off Desegregating Nashville’s Food Scene: An Anti-Racism Brunch and Dialogue Series. In the first of three meetings, the group took on the topic Nashville’s Food History: How Race Played and Continues to Play a Role. At an event this Saturday, the topic will be Integrating Your Business: Bringing Inclusion to the Front and the Back of the House. A third event on May 21 will focus on Practicing True Hospitality: Welcoming Black and Brown People Into White Businesses and White People Into Black and Brown Businesses. The gatherings take place over Miller’s exquisite brunches at her coffee shop and event space, Yay Yay’s on Jefferson Street, which Miller opened with Jason Luntz about six months ago.

The first gathering, which rooted guests in history, featured the duo of Alice Randall and her daughter Caroline Randall Williams.

The pair are a force in many endeavors — including their cookbook Soul Food Love: Healthy Recipes Inspired by One Hundred Years of Cooking in a Black Family. Randall delivered a historical and personal talk, with Randall Williams offering her brilliant, thought-provoking poetry. And they took guests beyond the usual suspects of Nashville history (i.e., hot chicken and meat-andthrees). Rather, Randall began by invoking one of the oldest African American spirituals, “Welcome Table,” which was performed by the Fisk Jubilee Singers as early as 1872 just down the road from Yay Yay’s:

CHARLOTTE MILLER “Acts of audacious hospitality.”

Randall Williams’ father, who grew up near Yay Yay’s, had a 13th birthday in 1972. The Ku Klux Klan burned a cross on the lawn during the party. “But that didn’t stop Grandmother Bontemps from making those place cards,” Randall said. “That didn’t stop Grandma from cooking a feast for her family.”

“These extravagances insisted with fly culinary flair that there was a place at the bounty of America’s table for Black men and Black women as surely as there is a hymn, ‘Welcome Table,’ ” Randall said. Randall called the table at Yay Yay’s an heir to the rich tradition, and Miller said the talk brought tears to her eyes. “I want to take away all the trauma tables,” Miller said. “I want to provide people joy. That’s what’s radical.”

Miller served truffled sherried eggs, shrimp and grits, roasted salmon, fruit plates and strawberry rhubarb crisp, along with food and drink she curated from sponsors such as Dozen pastry baskets and Bloomy Rind cheese platters. There were bloody mary and mimosa bars. To have folks around the bounty for discussion gave her reasons, she said, to feel productive and proud.

“I built the table for reconciliation instead

of burning everything to the ground,” Miller said. “I hope that people have real conversations — that they are brave enough to look at their own behavior. And to start hiring people who don’t look like them.”

For the second half of the talk, Randall moved into the fascinating and important Nashville legacy of Black vegan and vegetarian movements, which help “shift our understanding of soul food” — a shift to what she said “Edna Lewis called soil food.”

“Why in a city with multiple Black vegan restaurants and an extraordinary connection to 19th-century Black vegetarianism is there so much writing about hot chicken and so little about bean loaves or George Washington Carver or these extraordinary Black food clubs that have been existing for so long?” asked Randall. The powerful message from both Randall and Randall Williams left the group with much to discuss. The group was left with questions like, “What does farm-to-table mean in a land of ‘Strange Fruit,’ as Caroline’s poem asked us?”

Reflecting on the day, Miller says she can’t wait for the next conversation. “And when we do a call to action, to see what people can do,” she said, “and take back to their work.”

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t age 38, I’m sitting at my mother’s table, staring at a plate of silver-dollar pancakes. She stands over a castiron skillet in the kitchen as the edges of the second batch crisp. I shift from side to side in my chair.

I stopped eating weeks ago, and I feel as if there is nothing to shield my bones from my mother’s furniture. So she is feeding me. All I want is for her to hold me and tell me that it will be OK. I cannot remember the last time she did that. Surely she had once, hadn’t she?

A few blocks away you’ll find my home, the one I shared with my abusive husband.

When I fled in the middle of the night with one bag of clothes and my dogs, I headed straight for her apartment. Now I am watching plump summer blueberries form purple pools on my plate. As she joins me at the table, I confess that I’m not sure how to survive the anguish of my former self dissolving. “I never knew true agony until now,” I say. “I’m scared of myself.”

Her brows furrow, and the lines on her face tell a story I’ve been reading since girlhood — the one where she had her own rough childhood and unhealthy marriage to keep her occupied. The confession that I might hurt myself has hurt her. This is my cue to shrink. My body aches with the memory of how this felt, of dinners at the kitchen table where my parents ate in silence and I didn’t say how much that hurt or ask for what I needed. I sip my coffee and try to remember a time when I felt like I could place my needs before hers, and it hits me: I didn’t become an abused wife by accident. I had been training to make myself small since childhood. It’s not her fault that I chose that man. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum either.

Tears run down my cheeks, and she does not move to comfort me. In this moment, I realize that I’ve lost my taste for sitting politely at the table and pretending to be fine.

I am no longer easy. I am feral and broken and messy, but I am still her daughter.

There is no room for me to fall apart here.

So I do what I did when things got hard as a kid: find a good hiding spot. I put thousands of miles on my car that summer, driving every backroad that led out of that Texas town, crying at stoplights and singing until I was hoarse. Somewhere among the hills between Austin and Luckenbach, I blew out the speakers.

By the time the Friday night lights from

IT’S NOT HER FAULT THAT I CHOSE THAT MAN. BUT IT DIDN’T HAPPEN IN A VACUUM EITHER. the stadium across the street flooded my mother’s living room, I was headed back to Nashville, the last place I’d been single and happy. You can’t heal in a house that’s still burning. As I finished loading the moving truck, the old woman who lived downstairs approached me. “I’ve been watching you working so hard to do this alone,” she said.

She asked if she could hold my hands and pray for me. Then she hugged me, and I sobbed into her house dress.

When I returned to my mom’s apartment again in the spring for work, something had shifted. Healing doesn’t just bring change — it brings grief, loss and, in many ways, a death of self. When you undergo that kind of change, there are people in your life who won’t let you get away with it. One night my mother and I had an argument about the dogs — she had left them on the patio on an unseasonably hot day to spend time with her new boyfriend. It broke my heart.

For the first time I could remember, I told her she’d hurt me. I was met with silence.

I questioned my role in an old script that no longer served me. It was a betrayal of a shared storyline, a rewrite without consent.

That was one year ago, and I haven’t heard from her since. In the past I would’ve apologized to keep her in my life, but this time, I couldn’t stomach that abandonment of self. I do want to reach out, but I don’t know how to honor her unprocessed trauma while sorting through my own. I don’t know how to heal from my childhood when we can’t agree that it was painful. At times, I’m afraid that if I open the door to empathy again — even just a crack — her needs will swallow mine whole. I have hope that one day I’ll find the space where my pain can coexist with hers, where my needs don’t have to end for forgiveness to begin.

Until then I will keep my door shut tight, like I did in my childhood bedroom. Except now, I won’t leave the little girl with knots in her blond hair alone on the other side. On my hardest days, I envision myself softly knocking on her door and then embracing her. I tell her no matter how messy she gets or how much she needs, she’ll always have me.

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“That piece has quickly become one of the favorites,” Williams says. “I follow the Musée d’Orsay on Instagram, and about four years ago I was, you know, casually scrolling through, and I saw these posts. This image is based on a screenshot I took, because I was sure they would be taken down, but also because the images themselves were just mind-blowing to me.

“First of all, the gloves of the art handlers.

They’re not actually serving any purpose — if you look at the photos carefully, you can

tell that they’re staged. The hands are not even touching or supporting the painting, they’re just around it. And the hands had this really creepy kind of unnecessary vibe, like maybe mimicking the way they would touch the body. Or maybe they were trying to showcase and frame this work in a way that, to me, was just totally absurd. And also the red wall that it’s on — I’ve actually seen this painting in person at the Musée d’Orsay, but

I didn’t remember it being on that red wall.

But of course it’s on a red wall in France — it’s just too good.

“And then also it’s just so fascinating — the scandal of the painting, how and why it came to be made, and the legacy of it, is almost as amazing as the work itself. One of the things that I really love is that it was a commission — it was painted for this Ottoman diplomat, and he kept it in his closet behind a curtain.

The way he displayed it is that he’d have people over for dinner, and then bring them into his private chamber and then pull back these curtains, and there’s the painting. The idea of all that going on behind the scenes is so interesting to me, and it folds in nicely with the pure, raw realness of the image. And this was in the 1860s! It’s incredible that the painting, today, is still shocking. The idea of it being made to be kept in someone’s private room, and the way that it was shown, the curtains — all of it is just yes.

“So it’s not only the history of the painting, but the way it was displayed, and how it’s treated now. For me, the vision of it behind curtains, shown in that original way, kind of led me to this framing of the painting with the triangle. There’s this on-display feel, and I’m pushing that further. The framing with the faux wood was just my way of creating an altar, a showpiece, a viewing room. Giving it all those things that I think it also originally had. It’s a deeply appreciative devotional altar to that painting.

“The floral pattern is based on a folding screen that I found in a junk store in Belle Meade probably 25 years ago. It came with that contact-paper pattern on it — I think it was like a drawer-lining paper but they used it kind of like a wallpaper. So that screen, that object, I carried it with me to grad school, and I’ve had it with me forever in the studio because it functions as another wall, another way to look at paintings. So I’ll set it up sometimes while I’m working on something else, and hang things that I’ve been working on on it, and look at them, just visually put it in my eyesight. It’s an easy way to make a movable wall. So that screen has been with me, and that pattern has been with me, it’s been imprinted in me for so long.

“That pattern also evokes in me this kind of 1960s and 1970s kind of feeling of horror. When I think of the scariest movies that I’ve ever seen, they’ve been made in that timeframe. These early movies that I saw, they scared the shit out of me. So that pattern brings that to the forefront. There’s something Picnic at Hanging Rock about it that has this ominous feel to me. And I was trying to get to that place.

“I mean, this has been a fucking weird time! Everything’s become more horrifying. I think this show is a direct result of really being alone in the studio for a while, and just working through some of that.

“But I have always loved ‘L’Origine du monde.’ I mean, it’s been one of the paintings that I can look back at and see how it’s been formative for me. And just because I’ve had this formal art education, and even growing up here, I was able to indulge in Courbet and Manet. Realism, for me, was it. Discovering it was the moment when I found works of art that I wanted to make. So for me, that painting has always been meaningful to me.”

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“Like any arts organization, we’re always looking to expand our audience,” says Jennifer Turner, TPAC president and CEO. “But we also want the art we present to really reflect our community. Yes, we want to entertain. But we also want to reach a little deeper, to really connect with people.”

The announcement steps well beyond TPAC’s popular Broadway series, covering everything from theater and dance to cabaret and family programming.

The result is an impressive lineup of innovative artists and thought-provoking work that represents diverse stories and perspectives.

For example, the new dance series kicks off in January with MOMIX’s Alice, a dreamy interpretation of Alice in Wonderland that blends movement, light and projected imagery. The series also showcases celebrated international companies — including Ballet Hispánico performing Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s explosive Doña Perón, and the Scottish Ballet with its acclaimed staging of The Crucible.

The theater series includes three powerful solo shows, including LeLand Gantt’s Rhapsody in Black and Irma Herrera’s Why Would I Mispronounce My Own

Name? — both of which explore themes of race and power structures in America.

And Thaddeus Phillips’ 17 Border Crossings takes an “engrossing look at the imaginary lines that divide up the world and the very real barriers they create.”

Audiences can look forward to the return of Cabaret On Stage, which will deliver big Broadway names such as Sam Harris (presented with John McDaniel); Liz Callaway and Jason Graae; Kristin Chenoweth; and Judy Kuhn (with John McDaniel). The new family series includes Acoustic Rooster’s Barnyard Boogie: Starring Indigo Blume (featuring characters from Kwame Alexander’s beloved children’s books) and Bluey’s Big Play (a theatrical adaptation of the awardwinning animated series).

The announcement also features several non-series TPAC presentations, including the previously announced Meow Meow (co-presented with OZ Arts); Christmas Eve With C.S. Lewis; Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis; Voctave; Chloe Arnold’s Syncopated Ladies: Live; and Tablao Flamenco.

“We understand that there are many pathways to TPAC,” Turner says, “whether it’s through one of our resident companies, our Broadway series or educational programs. Our hope with this new programming is to continue building that bridge, introducing Nashville to great artists from around the world and performances that both challenge and entertain.”

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When the Corn Is Waist High doesn’t slow down from here. In fact, it gets all the more twisted, told with a rapid pace that leaves, thankfully, little room for catching one’s breath. Other murder victims appear with attached flowers, and the small town, with “only five people on the payroll at the Crooked Creek Police Department,” gets national attention for a serial killer who’s preying on the local residents: “The situation in Crooked Creek had reached maximum national interest. ‘The serial killer of Indiana’ was nightly national news, and everyone was scared across the entire mid-state.”

Scott, a Nashville writer and entertainer, tells his latest novel from the perspective of Father Solomon Lancaster, who is both the sheriff of Crooked Creek and the priest at Jerusalem Independent Catholic Church. This unique point of view allows the book to showcase the narrator’s deep complexities: “I began to worry that sooner or later, my obligations as a priest would be undone or superseded by my obligations as a sheriff. It was a conflict of interest I had always hoped to avoid. Foolish.” It also helps establish a closeness with the residents of the small town, as we hear their confessions and see their oftentimes eccentric behaviors.

Father Lancaster’s is a highly original voice, providing one of the book’s greatest strengths. He frequently curses, and just as often, narrates moments with wonderful doses of dry humor: “This was a bustling day for sinners, as I heard two whole confessions.”

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Scott opens the focus, and we see how the whole narrative has been meticulously working to dissect the very essence of trust — and to show how horrific it can be when we don’t know whom to trust.

As if the gruesome murders and shocking reveals aren’t enough, Scott gives us these few lines near the novel’s end: “The killings had left the town and the entire county better off. People were wary now, but also people here had grown closer to each other. They’d learned to count on one another, lean on one another, trust one another.” Now that’s horror.

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ince 2008, Record Store Day has put a spotlight on the massive contributions that independent record stores make to the communities lucky enough to have them, via limited-edition special releases KEEP AN EYE ON STORES’ only available at SOCIAL MEDIA FOR mom-and-pop stores.

UPDATES The Record Store Day organization and individual shops kept the ball rolling in 2020 and 2021, with exclusive releases spread among multiple “RSD Drops” dates, and stores enacting protocols to maximize COVID safety.

On April 23, RSD will finally return as an in-person, one-day event — sort of. Thanks to the ongoing bottlenecks in the supply chain for vinyl records, some of the more than 300 special titles originally announced have been delayed. The organization planned ahead with an RSD Drops day on June 18 when those late-arriving titles will be offered.

Among some enticing reissues courtesy of Los Angeles label Org Music is Jeannie C. Riley’s landmark country LP Harper Valley P.T.A., available Saturday. Be sure to come back in June for Linda Martell’s 1970 album Color Me Country, the truly outstanding lone

album from the first Black woman to chart a country single.

While the jazz fans in the audience will be able to get Albert Ayler’s Revelations on Saturday, they’ll have to wait until June for Freddie Hubbard’s Live at Studio 104.

Edgar Froese’s Epsilon in Malaysian Pale, a long-out-of-print solo release from the late co-founder of electronic legends Tangerine Dream, is on track for RSD proper. But prog-heads can’t scoop up Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett’s The Tokyo Tapes until June.

The World of Ben Vaughn, the latest from the songwriter and producer who helped wrangle Nashville studio aces to make Ween’s 12 Golden Country Greats, will make its debut as an “RSD First” release that’ll go into wider distribution later. Same goes for So… How’s Your Girl?, the mind-expanding 1999 LP from Handsome Boy Modeling School, aka hip-hop producers Dan the Automator and Prince Paul, and Beam Me Up Scotty, the 2009 mixtape that helped put Nicki Minaj on the map.

Some special releases are coming in (relatively) big quantities. The two largest: 24,150 copies of Prince’s The Gold Experience and 20,600 of Pearl Jam’s 1998 live set called Live on Two Legs (both delayed till June). Not all the big releases feel superfluous. But you can argue that major label UMG ordering 15,000 picture discs of Kacey Musgraves’ Star-Crossed — excellent though the album is — makes it harder for tiny indie Delmore Recording Society to procure its 2,000 copies of Karen Dalton’s Shuckin’ Sugar.

The collection of early recordings by late, great folk singer Dalton is among a few

RSD releases manufactured at Third Man Pressing in Detroit, which features some of the first new vinyl presses manufactured since the early ’80s. In a recent video titled “A Plea to the Three Global Major Labels From Jack White,” Third Man chief White calls for the majors to start building their own pressing plants to make more breathing room for everyone else.

Speaking of Third Man, the label’s Nashville storefront (623 Seventh Ave. S.) and the venerable Phonoluxe (2609 Nolensville Pike) are two local independent shops that will be open regular hours but won’t offer exclusive titles or other promotions as part of Record Store Day. Viv and Dickey’s (1262 Jackson Felts Road in Joelton) isn’t going to have special releases this time, but will be celebrating “A Store That Happens to Sell Records Sale Day” with a 15 percent discount on used inventory and some other promotions TBA. Alison’s Record Shop (994A Davidson Drive) typically offers discounts but doesn’t carry special releases; details weren’t confirmed at press time.

The Great Escape’s locations around the region include their 5400 Charlotte Ave. flagship and its sister location at 105 Gallatin Pike N. in Madison, as well as stores in Bowling Green, Ky., and Murfreesboro. All will be open at 8 a.m. for browsing special titles and offering each customer five free LPs from the 99-cent bin, in addition to some other goodies to be announced.

Shoppers in the special RSD line that will form around the back of Grimey’s New and Preloved Music (1060 E. Trinity Lane) will receive a menu of the RSD exclusives available from the store, on which they can

mark up to 12 titles. Beginning at 10 a.m., staff will pull the titles customers choose and then complete the checkout. They’ll also have a master menu on a big ol’ dry-erase board where they’ll mark titles “86” as they run out.

In February, owners of The Groove (1103 Calvin Ave.) ended their bid to buy the property their store stands on when it was put up for sale, but they aren’t going anywhere just yet. They’ll be open with RSD exclusives for browsing (and a 20 percent discount on non-RSD box sets) beginning at 9 a.m., with their annual Acme Radio-assisted concert in the backyard from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The phenomenal Brassville headlines, while master rhymesmith Tim Gent, country champion Leah Blevins and spooktacular rockers The Phantoms of Saturn are among the others on the bill.

The Groove is one of just two area shops this year planning a free miniature music festival to mark RSD. The other is bar and record store Vinyl Tap (1038 Greenwood Ave.), whose staff is planning their biggest party yet with live music on stages indoors and out, drink specials, a curated market of vendors and makers and lots more. (That includes coffee for the early shoppers waiting when they open up at 9 a.m.) The music lineup hadn’t been confirmed at press time, but while you jam out, you can browse exclusive titles and take advantage of a 15 percent discount on non-RSD stock.

Events like these tend to have lots of moving parts, and details can change quickly.

The smart play is always to check stores’ social media for updates before you head over.

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his month will mark eight years since the release of Jessica Lea Mayfield’s Make My Head Sing. I just heard the album for the first time recently, and to my ears, its heady, sugary, grunge-gaze amalPLAYING FRIDAY, APRIL 22, gam sounds thrilling, AT THE HIGH WATT fresh and profound.

Its emotional range is arresting, serving honeyed, starry-eyed harmonies one moment (“Standing in the Sun”) and supercharged melodious punk stylings the next (“Do I Have the Time”), before studying the bleakness of addiction over a perfect slowcore dirge (“Party Drugs”).

When she was making that record, Mayfield was based in East Nashville and listening to a lot of Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots. But that place and those bands are far from the only influence on her work. Mayfield is a Buckeye State native who spent her early years with her bluegrass-leaning family band, bouncing back and forth between Northeast Ohio and Middle Tennessee with stints in Kentucky and West Virginia in between. Tennessee was the setting for some noteworthy experiences.

“I played the opening of Opry Mills mall when I was 9,” Mayfield recalls with a laugh.

She’s speaking with the Scene ahead of a full-band show on April 22 at The High Watt, her first headlining appearance here in several years.

As a teenager, Mayfield made her first solo recording, an EP called White Lies, with help from her brother David. Almost a decade after that mall gig, she earned national recognition for her first full-length, the uncannily deep 2008 alt-country collection With Blasphemy So Heartfelt. Produced by The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, the album established her as an exciting new addition to the long lineage of Ohioans making timeless American music. (Asked if there’s something in the water there, she answers succinctly: “Boredom.”) Auerbach also worked the boards for Mayfield’s next one, 2011’s Tell Me, before the duo mutually ended their creative partnership.

“We were sort of like fire and ice personality-wise,” Mayfield says of Auerbach. “It was odd, but it’s probably what made those albums interesting.”

The aforementioned Make My Head Sing came next. In 2017, she followed it with Sorry Is Gone, a no-holds-barred musical exposé of an abusive relationship that’s thankfully now in the rearview.

“Sorry Is Gone documented the moment I first woke up to what was happening to me, and the past few years have been more of a healing process than anything,” she says. “I realized I spent my whole life letting other people push me around and tell me what to do. That chapter is definitely over.”

Still only 32, Mayfield is deep into her career. And for the first time, she’s taking her

time. Now based in Los Angeles, she spent her quarantine time practicing drums, watching Degrassi, playing Animal Crossing — and writing an album’s worth of new songs.

Her plan is to parcel out her next fulllength as a series of singles, and so far there have been two. “Daddy Boyfriend” backed with “Emotional Abandonment” came out in 2020, while “Can You Feel It?” backed with “72 Past Lives” was released last year.

Each is available as a digital single and in

a very limited run of 7-inches. While her touring band consists of guitarist Blake Wooten, bassist Angela Wooten and drummer Nate Moran, Mayfield plays all the instruments herself on the tracks. The recordings tap into her trademark partacoustic, part-electric sound and firsttake, best-take energy without feeling at all backward-gazing. “It’s super loose,” she says of the new material. “There’s no bow to tie around it.”

If it hadn’t been for vinyl pressing

plants getting overwhelmed, she’d have finished releasing all her new songs as 7-inches by now. However, Mayfield isn’t stressing about these hurdles.

“The beautiful thing about self-releasing all this new material is I have no one to answer to but myself. Looking back, I wouldn’t have let people pressure me as much as they did when I was young. There will always be more opportunities, and what’s meant to be won’t pass you by.”

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Government Cheese just keeps getting better with Love

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ew rock bands stick around for more than a few years, and even fewer can claim to be doing the best work of their career after three-and-a-half decades.

But that’s exactly PLAYING THE BASEMENT where the members of EAST APRIL 23; LOVE Government Cheese WILL BE SELF-RELEASED find themselves with APRIL 29 their new album Love, which is set to hit stores and streaming services on April 29.

The Cheese will preview material from Love at a show on April 23 at The Basement East, and the lineup taking the stage will be the same one the band has had for more than 30 years. That includes the four musicians who led the band to regional fame out of Bowling Green, Ky., in the 1980s — Scott Willis (vocals, guitar), Tommy Womack (vocals, guitar), Billy Mack Hill (vocals, bass) and Joe “Elvis” King (drums) — along with guitarist Viva McQueen. McQueen became a fullfledged member around 1990 after a couple of stints as the band’s roadie, during which he often would sit in with the group at the end of the night.

After a 15-year hiatus, the band reunited in 2010 for some shows in conjunction with the release of Government Cheese 1985-1995, a 43-track anthology that included almost everything they had released on vinyl and CD, as well as some previously unreleased material and alternate takes.

They followed that in 2015 with The Late Show, their first album of new material in 20 years. Last year, Willis got the itch to make another record.

“I heard Tommy’s latest, I Thought I Was Fine, and I was like, ‘Holy shit! This rocks,’ ” he says about bandmate Womack’s 2021 release. “ ‘A Little Bit of Sex, Part 2’ rocks as hard as anything out there ever. And I was like, ‘Damn it, I want to do this.’ So I was like, ‘Do you want to do another Cheese record?’ And he always is game, you know — whether it’s the right thing to do or not.

“So I called the rest of the guys and said, ‘Hey, Tommy and I were talking about doing a record. You want to?’ And everybody was like, ‘Fuck yeah!’ But Joe was like, ‘We’re not doing it unless Brad Jones produces it.’ ” Jones produced The Late Show, and the band

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previously had worked with him on It’s a Rock ’n’ Roll Party With Government Cheese, their 1995 vinyl single featuring “The Shrubbery Is Dead” backed with “Jailbait.”

“We had recorded ‘Shrubbery’ before, but it just didn’t have the balls we wanted,” Willis says. “Then once we recorded with Brad in ’95, we were like, ‘Oh my God, this guy knows how to make our records pull together and make our songs sound better.’ ” One of the band’s strengths is there are three writers: Hill, Willis and Womack. For about half a year, the trio shared demos of songs with the entire band via Dropbox — more than 60 songs were considered, according to Hill. “We had a big bucket of songs,” he says.

“It’s kind of the way we’ve always done it,” Willis says. “We’ve never passed a notepad around and traded lyrics. We all had our ideas — we brought pretty much full songs to the band.”

Eventually they shared between 20 and 30 songs with Jones. “He went through and said, ‘Here’s the 11 I picked,’ and then we went back and forth with him,” Willis explains. “A couple songs dropped off, a couple more came on. We were like, ‘Damn it, we need another song.’ Then Tommy came with ‘Love’ at the very end — on the Friday, I think, before we started recording on Monday.”

They recorded the album in September at Alex the Great Recording, which Jones co-owns with Robin Eaton. If Love is their best album, the band gives the producer a good deal of credit.

“Brad arranged the material and suggested licks we should play,” Womack says. “He would say, ‘That’s a good part — but what if we tried this?’ ” “You’d see him through the window coming back out [into the studio] and go, ‘Oh my God, is he coming for me because he’s going to tell me to change what I’m doing,’ ” Willis says with a laugh.

While Hill, Willis and Womack all agree Love represents their best work, it’s easy to connect the dots from the new material to the band’s earliest recordings in the ’80s. As titles like “Younger Than I Was,” “Wake the Dead,” “So Cliche” and “Rock N Roll Retirement Home” suggest, the irreverence, the humor, the sense of absurdity and the punk ethos that infused their earliest work and attracted an audience of loyal fans is still there. The songs are just a little more grown-up — and better played.

“Will it make the old-time Cheeseheads feel 19 again?” Womack asks. “No. But the [past two] records are the best music we’ve ever made, the most sophisticated we’ve ever made — a lot of the best songs we’ve ever made.”

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“Thank you, God, for my life,” Brooks said after taking a pause to catch his breath. He may be getting older, but his determination remains unmatched. His stage, which is designed to give fans in all sections of the venue a good view, allows him to ping-pong from one corner to the next so he can take turns facing everyone.

Despite the massive space, the performance was decidedly intimate.

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No artist would find this an easy situation to cope with, but Brooks appeared to take it especially hard. In the early ’90s, he earned a reputation for boundless, almost chaotic energy onstage — and above it, as he famously used special trapeze rigging to fly out over the crowd. Now, just a couple of months after his 60th birthday, Brooks’ fierce determination to impress is paired with a degree of emotional vulnerability that few artists dare to show.

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allowing more fans who didn’t get to enjoy the full show in July to snag prime seats this time around. Brooks also teased another very special project: He’s recently acquired the Lower Broadway property that was once home to Paradise Park and later Downtown Sporting Club, and he will be opening a new bar on the site that will be called Friends in Low Places.

During his encore, Brooks returned to the stage with his acoustic guitar in hand to fulfill an unspoken agreement he’s had with fans for years now. Concertgoers anxiously held up hand-lettered signs with messages and song requests, hoping to catch Brooks’ eye. He took a moment to sing snippets of tunes that don’t normally make the set list, including “She’s Every Woman” and “Ireland,” standouts from his eight-times platinum-certified LP Fresh Horses.

“I love playing Nashville [because] you know the singles and you know the deep cuts too, man,” said Brooks with a megawatt grin.

He also offered up brief takes on Billy Joel’s classic “Piano Man” and George Strait’s trademark number “Amarillo

by Morning,” which featured the fiddle stylings of longtime bandmate Jimmy Mattingly. Trisha Yearwood, Brooks’ fellow country powerhouse and wife of 16 years, emerged to join him for a fan-requested rendition of “Shallow” from the 2018 version of A Star Is Born. After some flirty banter, Brooks encouraged Yearwood to perform her 1992 hit song “Walkaway Joe,” which he cited as one of his personal favorites.

Brooks, Yearwood and the band closed out the evening with “Standing Outside the Fire,” his anthemic hit from 1993’s In Pieces. As the crowd chanted the chorus — “Life is not tried / It is merely survived / If you’re standing outside the fire” — it felt like a powerful collective declaration.

There may have been some bumps along the way, but Brooks’ determination led to a joyful, cathartic night that fans would remember for all the right reasons.

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“On behalf of the band, the crew and especially myself, thank you for coming back,” Brooks told the crowd just a few minutes into the show, as he let out a nervous chuckle. “I’m gonna be really honest — I wouldn’t do it if I were you.”

He also took a moment to address the black cloud that was both figuratively and literally hanging over the show. Thankfully, the forecast called for the potential thunderstorms to hold off for a few hours.

“Tonight is a special night — we’re just gonna kind of fly off the rails,” he said.

“They say that there is a chance of rain … but I say we make a deal. If it rains on us tonight, it’s because we’re on song number 157!”

With more than three decades of performing behind him, Brooks knows what his fans want to hear. The bulk of the 27-song show was dedicated to his biggest hits and favorites from throughout his vast and varied catalog. He rolled and rocked

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Square, Room 302, Nashville, Tennessee, and defend or default will be taken on June 13, 2022.

It is therefore ordered that a copy of this Order be published for four (4) weeks succession in the Nashville Scene, a newspaper published in Nashville.

Richard R. Rooker, Clerk M. De Jesus, Deputy Clerk Date: April 14, 2022 Joseph Zanger Attorneys for Plaintiff NSC 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12/22 Non-Resident Notice Fourth Circuit Docket No. 21A10 MARY LISA HARPER, et al. vs.

ANGELA LEE HARPER, et al.

In this cause it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant is a non-resident of the State of Tennessee, therefore the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon UNKNOWN FATHER. It is ordered that said Defendant enter HIS appearance herein with thirty (30) days after May 12, 2022 same being the date of the last publication of this notice to be held at the Metropolitan Circuit Court located at 1 Public Square, Room 302, Nashville, Tennessee, and defend or default will be taken on June 13, 2022.

It is therefore ordered that a copy of this Order be published for four (4) weeks succession in the Nashville Scene, a newspaper published in Nashville.

Richard R. Rooker, Clerk M. De Jesus, Deputy Clerk Date: April 14, 2022 Joseph Zanger Attorneys for Plaintiff NSC 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12/22

Non-Resident Notice Fourth Circuit Docket No. 21A10 MARY LISA HARPER, et al. vs.

ANGELA LEE HARPER, et al.

In this cause it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant is a non-resident of the State of Tennessee, therefore the ordinary process of law cannot be served upon ANGELA LEE HARPER. It is ordered that said Defendant enter HER appearance herein with thirty (30) days after May 12, 2022 same being the date of the last publication of this notice to be held at the Metropolitan Circuit Court located at 1 Public Square, Room 302, Nashville, Tennessee, and defend or default will be taken on June 13, 2022.

It is therefore ordered that a copy of this Order be published for four (4) weeks succession in the Nashville Scene, a newspaper published in Nashville.

Richard R. Rooker, Clerk M. De Jesus, Deputy Clerk Date: April 14, 2022 Joseph Zanger Attorneys for Plaintiff NSC 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12/22

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