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B itcoiners from New Orleans, Virginia, Chicago and California joined locals in Hillsboro Village this month for one of the country’s biggest meetups. It was one in a series of monthly gatherings that have turned into weeklong junkets featuring workshops, social hours, celebrity speakers and panels. Attendees typically number in the hundreds and have made Nashville a leading international destination for a tightly knit, fiercely loyal and mostly digital“Nashvillecommunity.iscompeting for the title of best bitcoin city,” a man named Rockstar told me at a happy hour during the August meetup. “It is doing a very good job.” Rockstar was in town from Chicago, where he’s a VP at Strike, the payment platform company led by bitcoin wunderkind Jack Mallers. Rockstar uses a “nym” (a pseudonym), a common measure among bitcoiners, who claim privacy and sovereignty as fundamental values. The foundational cryptocurrency — so called because it’s issued and secured by cryptography rather than a government or central bank — just entered its second decade of existence. Last year, bitcoin peaked just shy of $70,000 per “coin,” an arbitrary denomination. (Physical coins do not exist.) Other cryptocurrencies have accompanied bitcoin’s rise, each with its own form of underlying cryptography. Many are outright scams (called “shitcoins” within the industry). All have been incredibly volatile, unpredictably transferring large amounts of wealth in short periods of time based on inscrutable marketBitcoin’sdynamics.relevance in Nashville has grown steadily in the past few years. Bitcoin Park, the site of August’s Nashville meetup, is one of a few physical community spaces in the country dedicated to bitcoin. In June, a partnership that includes prominent bitcoin podcaster Matt Odell took over the space formerly owned by Florida Georgia Line. Bitcoin Park is currently developing into a full-service community space complete with a gallery (bitcointhemed art), cafe (pay in bitcoin), patios and tables for co-working, and private meeting rooms across two spacious bungalows. Odell’s podcasting studios have replaced FGL’s recording space. Bitcoin Park is in its early stages but aspires to be a national destination for the bitcoin community, inclusive of anyone interested in connecting around the currency, from software developers to small-time investors. The mononymous Mills is another regular at Bitcoin Park, where she’s been involved since its inception. She moved to Nashville from New York City a year ago, promptly organizing Nashville Bitcoin Meetup, which has since absorbed several smaller bitcoin-related social groups. Her first event was at Jackalope with a couple dozen people in August 2021. Now Mills estimates between 200 and 300 regular attendees every month. There are three rules: no photos or videos, no side conversations, and stay focused on bitcoin — no other cryptocurrencies. “We are hoping to build relationships,” Mills tells the Scene upstairs at Bitcoin Park. “A long-term goal of just being integrated in the community. We value privacy, and I think that adds an air of mystery. But we want people to feel like they can come and ask questions.” In April Mills went “face-public” — the act of publicly associating one’s face with one’s nym — in part to show others that the community isn’t entirely dominated by men. (A three-day cryptocurrency event hosted by Bitcoin Inc. this year in Miami was met with various cases of harassment againstCaseywomen.)Carrillo, an editor at Bitcoin Magazine, moved from Los Angeles just a few weeks ago. The magazine prints a glossy quarterly and publishes daily online articles, touting itself as bitcoin’s “most established” source of news and information. Nashville-based BTC Inc. acquired the media property in 2015, gradually building up its Houston Station office over the past few years. The magazine has 2.6 million Twitter followers and a 67-person masthead. BTC Inc. CEO David Bailey is listed at the top. Bailey’s LinkedIn profile suggests he has been invested in bitcoin since 2012, when a single coin traded for $5. Nashville has also become a hub for the Bitcoin Policy Institute, formed in 2021 and led by executive directors David Zell and Grant McCarty. Both are local (Zell moved here recently), and both are former policy directors at Bitcoin Magazine. The city has a concentration of bitcoin-fluent asset managers, like Valkyrie in Brentwood and UTXO. Nashville is dotted with Bitcoin ATMs, sleek machines that allow a user to trade cash for crypto. In April, the Titans became the first NFL team to accept bitcoin, and the team has an ongoing relationship with Bitcoin Magazine and BTC Inc. CEO Bailey. Bitcoin splashed into the mainstream when trading shot up last year. That was before a protracted tumble to $20,000, where it’s been since June. Discussing one’s “stack size” — the amount of bitcoin any individual is (digitally) holding — violates community etiquette, Mills explains when we first meet. “You wouldn’t talk about how much is in your bank account, right? It’s the sameManything.”bitcoiners insist that their interest isn’t tied to the price. Some bitcoin investors (especially early adopters like Bailey) have gotten very rich; others have lost huge sums. Bitcoiners’ evangelism often stems from its decentralization — transactions are publicly verified and governed by math, and its value is pure supply (which is fixed near 21 million coins) and demand, immune to the topdown control that can inflate or deflate fiat currency like the U.S. dollar. Just like with gold, a common comparison, “mining” can be resourceintensive and lucrative. Miners earn bitcoin by using computing power to verify transactions in real time. Largescale mining operations have popped up across the country, including a cluster in East Tennessee where electricity, water and land are readily accessible. Bitcoin mining consumes an enormous amount of energy — “more than the entire country of Argentina,” according to a recent Columbia University study. In a Bloomberg interview, Mallers, visibly upset, dismissed the criticisms as a shortsighted double standard. Of course it will take energy to bring money into the future, he argues — where are the people trying to ground all airplanes? (Many environmental activists want to do precisely that.) These costs, bitcoiners argue, are a small price to pay for freeing wealth from the clutches of transaction duopoly Visa and Mastercard, and the whims of selfinterested politicians.
BUILD AN OUTPOST IN NASHVILLE The city has risen as a top bitcoin destination, attracting media, investors, organizers and evangelists BY ELI MOTYCKA “NASHVILLE IS BITCOINTITLECOMPETINGFORTHEOFBESTCITY.”—ROCKSTAR,VPATSTRIKE MEIGSDANIELPHOTO: BITCOIN PARK
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“I don’t think that negates them needing to know their rights and still knowing exactly what to say in a situation like that,” says Courtney Teasley, a local attorney and former MNPS student. Teasley runs a law firm, and she serves as chair of the NAACP Nashville Branch’s Legal Redress Committee, as well as chair of the Equality and Justice Committee for the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. She’s an executive board member for the National Action Network’s Nashville branch and was campaign manager for Khadija Babb, who was recently elected Division V Criminal Court judge. She’s worked with high school students on mock trials and given “know your rights” seminars to college students.
MEIGSDANIELPHOTO:COURTNEYTEASLEY STUDENTS, KNOWYOUR RIGHTS What students should know about interacting with police officers at public schools BY KELSEY BEYELER STUDENTS AND THEIR HOWSHOULDPARENTSKNOWTHEIRRIGHTS,TOEXERCISETHEMANDHOWTHEYCOULDCHANGEINASCHOOLSETTING.
The MNPS Student Handbook describes students’ rights and the policies and procedures surrounding them. The section regarding personal rights, for example, reads that it is a violation of personal rights “to deter the free exercise or enjoyment of any rights or privileges secured by the Constitution or the laws of the State of Tennessee whether or not performed under the color of law.”
MNPD’s SRO Standard Operating Procedure states that duties include providing safe environments, building community with students, reporting guns and helping with safety plans. SROs can get involved when criminal matters arise, including situations with assault, drugs and guns. The standard operating procedure states that they can apprehend people on school property, and they are also responsible for “preliminary investigations of all incidents reported at his/her assigned school(s).”
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Though the overall increased police presence throughout MNPS doesn’t change much for middle and high schools — some of which have to share SROs while the city looks to fill 22 vacancies — the increased attention is shining a light on the role they play.
The Scene met with Teasley not long after she appeared on a recent panel at the Southern Movement Committee’s Youth Justice Town Hall. Teasley thinks the best place for students to start learning and exercising their rights is in schools with SROs. “I think the biggest thing is to teach the students … what is a criminal offense, what your rights are when you are a suspect — meaning when somebody thinks you did something — and quite frankly, [teach them that] you don’t help anybody prosecute you.”
A s the Metro Nashville Police Department implements a greater police presence throughout Metro Nashville Public Schools, some community members are worried about how that could affect students.Critics of school resource officers — armed and uniformed police who receive special training to work in schools, and who were already present in middle and high schools before this year — cite the disproportionate rate at which students of color and those with disabilities are arrested in schools.
Both MNPS and MNPD maintain that school resource officers are not to be involved in disciplinary matters within the school system.
If an SRO starts asking questions or making accusations regarding criminal activity, “Ask for a lawyer and be quiet,” says Teasley. She also notes that students don’t have to indicate who their lawyer is right away — they can simply say they wantTheone.ability to ask for a lawyer doesn’t apply when talking to a teacher or school administrators. But if a student confesses a criminal offense to a teacher, that teacher could tell an SRO, who could use that information against the student. Teasley says that when students are being accused of criminal activity by a teacher, they should ask for their parents rather than a lawyer.“When it’s time to tell your mom, you’d almost rather not tell mom because you may get your butt beat,” says Teasley. “So you might just go ahead and talk to the principal, but that could have consequences.”“We[may]automatically jump on the kid because we feel like it makes us look bad as a parent that they’re getting in trouble, or that they’ve been accused of this,” says Teasley. “I’m saying remove … the emotion from it. Actually go in and listen with your child to what the teacher is saying they did. “Listen and then ask questions,” Teasley continues. “Why do you think they did that? What’s the evidence? What facts do you have to show that my kid did this? What led you here? What was the investigation process? And talk to your child about it outside of the eyes and ears of the other people. See what they’re saying, see exactly what happened, and then use your knowledge to think and say, ‘Hmm, if this could potentially lead to criminal prosecution, maybe I should get a lawyer involved. Or maybe I should hire a lawyer for an hour [or] 30 minutes. Just have a consultation and see if there’s anything I need to be worried about.’ ” Teasley cites legal resources including the NAACP Legal Redress Committee, the National Action Network and the Black Nashville Assembly. The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee also has resources regarding students’ rights. It’s “cheaper to hire a lawyer for an hour than it [is] to hire them for a criminal case,” says Teasley. EMAIL EDITOR@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
The handbook also states that students have a right to “have school staff or an administrator present when police are called, and have a parent or guardian notified when they are questioned during a police investigation with the exception of those situations that involve child abuse or neglect.”
Students and their parents should know their rights, how to exercise them and how they could change in a school setting. For example, the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures, is somewhat loosened at schools, as vehicles and lockers on school property could be subject to searches.
… Elite girls’ school Harpeth Hall has “paused the adoption” of its controversial gender diversity philosophy, according to a statement released by school administration last week. The statement came in response to students’ calls to clarify Harpeth Hall’s position on gender, as trans male students and nonbinary students have come out in recent years. The pull-back comes after a week’s worth of backlash from parents, alums and donors, whipped into a frenzy by right-wing media. Fox News ran the story on its national platforms. … Mayor John Cooper addressed the Metro Council ahead of last week’s meeting, praising the city’s financial stability and introducing a new online tracker for neighborhood improvements. Councilmembers debated ongoing garbage woes, appropriate restrictions for license plate reader data, a Metro office for the city’s entertainment industries, and yet another Vision Zero plan — this one sets the goal of no roadway deaths by 2050, a benchmark being criticized by many for its apparent lack of urgency.
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In partnership with the city, Garth Brooks will help build out a downtown police substation at a building he purchased on Lower Broadway in December. The announcement earned Nashville a mention on the Crazy Ass Moments in American Politics Twitter account.
… Two former Ph.D. students are seeking $2 million in damages from Tennessee State University for pregnancy and parent status discrimination. … Abbie’s Safe Home, which is located on the campus at YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee’s Weaver Domestic Violence Center, is a shelter that helps keep together survivors of domestic violence HALL
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For our fourth annual Road Trip Issue, we at the Scene dispatched correspondents on fact-finding missions in five nearby areas within a roughly four-hour drive of Nashville — Columbus, Ind.; Bloomington, Ind.; Bowling Green, Ky.; Sevier County, Tenn.; and Dahlonega, Ga. What follows are rundowns of what to do and where to stay in each of these nearby locales, complete with tips for dining, entertainment and more. We’ve also got a roundup of five Middle Tennessee rivers perfect for a late-summer float, kayak or canoe trip. Need more recommendations for a quick getaway? Visit nashvillescene.com to find past Road Trip Issue installments, where we give you tips for weekend sojourns to Red River Gorge, Ky.; Birmingham, Ala.; Shawnee National Forest; Bardstown, Ky.; Oxford, Miss.; and much, much more. Safe travels!
BLOOMINGTON, IND. Bookstores, basketball and sex add oomph to a college town BY LAURA HUTSON HUNTER IF YOU WANT an unfussy but unique road trip experience, the relatively under-theradar college town of Bloomington, Ind., is as good as it gets. From the moment you arrive, you’ll no tice a very specific confluence of elements — namely, basketball and sex. Look closely and you’ll see references to the Indiana Hoo siers and The Kinsey Institute everywhere: headshots of Hoosiers star Gene Hackman and Kinsey star Liam Neeson; references to Bobby Knight and The Kinsey Reports; de sign motifs that incorporate basketball nets and Sexual Behavior in the Human Male For a small town, it’s got an unexpectedly cool and interesting combination of cultural influences. Stay When visiting a college town, I always look forward to staying at one of the Gradu ate Hotels. The Bloomington outpost is right on the square, and is upscale enough to of fer desirable amenities like luxe bedding and Malin + Goetz toiletries, but still quirky enough to include offbeat design elements like a crossword-puzzle-themed lobby floor that references Indiana University alum WillOnShortz.thetopic of quirky, there’s also a Stranger Things-themed suite that you can stay in if you’re feeling brave — or nos talgic for the early 1980s. The suite of two rooms — replicas of the Byers’ living room and the Wheelers’ basement — is large enough to sleep six, and features stacks of pulpy sci-fi paperbacks, board games and Trapper Keepers. There’s also a Dungeons & Dragons set that’s available to play near a wooden table and chairs that are exact matches of the ones in the TV show, and a chandelier that mimics the vines in the Up side Down. There are innumerable details that fans of the series will love, like boxes of Eggo waffles stuffed into every corner, and a tape deck that plays “Rock the Casbah” on repeat.Ifthe Graduate isn’t your speed, there is, of course, a pretty wide assortment of shortterm rentals available via sites like Airbnb and Vrbo. Do Indiana University has a lot going for it, but perhaps its most exceptional feature is The Kinsey Institute. The institute’s collec tion of material culture related to human sexuality is jaw-dropping in more ways than one — there are more than half a million items from across the globe in a collection that spans more than 2,000 years of human history. A new exhibition that draws on this expansive collection opens in early Sep tember. Universal Language: The Legacy of Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Kinsey Institute Collections includes an array of work that addresses the spectrum of gender identity — from photographs of natural rock formations that seem to mimic genitalia to erotic paintings and traditional Japanese woodblock prints. But Bloomington also has plenty of stuff for the kids. Switchyard Park features an ac cessible outdoor playground and splash pad, and WonderLab Museum is a hands-on chil dren’s science center. Among the museum’s highlights is an enormous Rube Goldberg machine called the Kinetic Contraption and a climbable vine of grape leaves that goes all the way up to the building’s ceiling. If you have a membership with Nashville’s Adven ture Science Museum, you get in free. As far as shopping goes, one of the many benefits of visiting a college town is that there is generally a variety of bookshops in the area. Bloomington has several options: Caveat Emptor is a used and rare bookstore that has library ladders to help you reach the highest shelves, which are stacked with volumes that cover seemingly every subject imaginable, but especially history, phi losophy and cultural studies. Morgenstern’s Bookstore & Café is a massive indie shop with a comprehensive collection of essays and New York Review of Books classics, and The Book Corner has more pop-up books and jigsaw puzzles than seem possible for such a compact space. Sure it’s a small town, but Bloomington has an exceptionally wide variety of eating options — there’s an entire block dedicated to international markets and restaurants near downtown. The perfect lunch spot is a traditional Tibetan restaurant called Little Tibet. The fare is hearty and wholesome — steamed Tibetan dumplings called Tsel are stuffed with shredded cabbage, carrot and onions, a cup of steaming-hot Tibetan tea is at once savory and creamy, and the traditional Tibetan stew called Kham Amdo Thugpa is made from handmade noodles, daikon radish and cilantro. A fairly new restaurant called The Elm of fers upscale dining and unusual cocktails like I Beg Your Garden, which combines gin and vodka with refreshing leafy ele ments like basil syrup and celery bitters. House-made potato chips are a fun addition to the traditional charcuterie plate, which features Benton’s country ham and Smoking
SEVIER COUNTY Embrace the campiness of Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Sevierville BY KELSEY BEYELER TAKING ON A WEEKEND in the Smokies can feel intimidating. Whether you’re staring up a steep hiking path, sorting out the ran dom chaos of weird attractions or dodging scores of tourists, it’s not always a relax ing getaway, and costs can add up quickly. But it can also provide an extraordinarily gorgeous retreat into the Appalachian wil derness, and if you focus on that, you won’t have to spend much. (Though the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will start imple menting a parking fee in March.)
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The key to making sense of it all is real izing that Sevier County — which includes Sevierville, Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg — boasts many versions of the same experi ence, from hiking trails to dinner shows, roller coasters and more. Just pick the ones that suit you best and block out the rest of the noise. If you’re not sure where to start, find one of the many brochure stands speck ling the area and peruse its offerings. You might even find a coupon. Stay There are myriad options when it comes to lodging in Sevier County, including cab ins, hotels, RV parks, camping sites and more. If you’re interested in gimmicky themed stays, check out spots like The Inn at Christmas Place in Pigeon Forge. If you’re not strapped for cash, find a private cabin with a nice mountain view (and preferably a hot tub) via a short-term rental site like Vrbo or Airbnb. Willing to rough it? Reserve a camping spot in or around the national park. Websites like visitsevierville.com are a good place to start when it comes to lodging. My friend and I found a relatively affordable creekside camper on Airbnb that was nestled away on someone’s property. Be sure to check reviews to gauge how safe and clean a spot is. Do Embrace the journey there and back. The three-and-a-half-hour drive from Nashville to Pigeon Forge is beautiful, and I-40 is dot ted with all kinds of attractions to pull over and enjoy. On the way there, we stopped at the new Buc-ee’s in Crossville. It was my first time at the Texas-based convenience chain, and I was flabbergasted by its variety of of ferings. It boasts an overwhelming display of Buc-ee’s-branded food and merchandise, plus a shopping area that lands somewhere between a Cracker Barrel store and a Tar get. Among Buc-ee’s many claims to fame are its clean bathrooms (seriously), but I was most impressed by the large selection of ICEE flavors and the brisket sandwich. A new Buc-ee’s slated to open in Sevierville will be the largest location yet. On the way back we made a detour to South Pittsburg, Tenn., near Chattanooga, to check out the Lodge Cast Iron headquarters. There are two Lodge factory stores in Sevier County, but the South Pittsburg location is the original, located right next to the company’s found ries. There you can find factory rejects (which looked just fine to me) at discounted prices. On Oct. 8, the South Pittsburg loca tion will unveil its new cast iron museum. Don’t walk, run to “Lodgetoberfest.” You’ll know you’ve arrived in Pigeon Forge once you start seeing garish struc tures like the upside-down Wonder Works entertainment center and the giant Titanic Museum. The sights create an interesting contrast as you drive down Pigeon Forge’s main strip — outlandish man-made attractions surrounded by the beautiful natural landscape. There are end less opportunities to spend money on random trinkets and experiences — and many billboards and signs prompting you to do so. It’s a trip. Then, of course, there’s Dollywood. During our visit, most of the rides were shut down due to the storm clouds looming overhead. I was able to catch a ride on the Barnstormer, which provided a taste of the adrenaline rush I was hoping to get on one of the larger coasters. Of all the food we ate, the cinna mon bread at Dollywood’s Grist Mill — which was recommended to me by several sources — stood out. The warm, cinnamon-sugarcoated dessert lived up to its reputation with a luscious, airy texture, accompanied by icing and apple butter. We ate it while watching the Forever Country Show, a songand-dance revue. There are plenty of other shows to enjoy throughout the park, and don’t miss the Dollywood Express Train Ride. For all the park’s kitschy beauty, my favorite aspect of Dollywood is that it takes care of its community. Not only is it Sevier County’s largest employer, but its employees can also receive free college tuition through the help of Dollywood’s parent company Herschend Enterprises, and the Dollywood Foundation has supported Sevier County residents in many other ways over the years.
Elsewhere in Pigeon Forge, the Moon Pie General Store and Book Warehouse is as sweet as its confectionary namesake, with a book selection that’s random but nevertheless charming. If you’re looking for games to play on your trip or books to read on a bal cony overlooking the mountains, you can find them there. I’ve never seen a bet ter puzzle section. A few miles off Pigeon Forge’s main strip, we shopped at Whaley’s Country Store on Waldens Creek Road and at an antique mall with a 1950s-style diner inside (it has a sign that simply reads “Antique Mall the 50s Diner”) on Wear Valley Road. It’s not the only antique store or ’50s diner on Wear Valley Road. Remember when I said there are many different versions of the same experience? Pick one. We also checked out the Smoky Mountain Brewery, which has locations in both Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. We tried all seven of the available beers served in 5-ounce sam plers for a total of $8. They were lovely. The plant-based burger I ordered was the best I’ve had yet, and the cover band created an enjoyable atmosphere. On our last day of the trip, we drove the eight or so miles over to Gatlinburg before heading home. The downtown area is full of wacky activities like themed mini-golf courses and the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Odditorium. But we opted for Coffee and Com pany and meandered through the old-timey Mountain Mall’s random selection of shops. We also followed the advice of Heather Scudder, a friend of the Scene who grew up in the area. She recommended the Ogle Dogs at Fannie Farkle’s, a 40-year-old Gatlin burg arcade absolutely dripping with nos talgia. The Ogle Dog may look like a typical corn dog, but the magic lies in the breading — it’s light, fluffy and well-seasoned. Scud der also recommended the Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum, which displays more than 20,000 salt and pepper shakers for a whop ping $3 cover charge. During this year’s legislative session, the museum’s 20th anniversary was recognized by a resolu tion from state Sen. Steve Southerland (RMorristown).Intryingto sort out all the attractions and activities (and catch the Lodge Factory on the way home before it closed), my friend and I didn’t have time for any hiking. If we had, I would have opted for a hike to a water fall, like the 5.4-mile Rainbow Fall trail, which is a beautiful if busy option. Check the National Park Service’s website for more in formation on Smoky Mountain hiking trails. And don’t be like me — skip the tourist traps and take a hike. ■
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BOWLING GREEN, KY. Big-city cuisine and plenty to see in a place with a small-town feel BY ASHLEY BRANTLEY WHAT DO YOU KNOW about Bosnia? If you came of age in the ’90s, your knowledge may be limited to things you heard Dan Rather say. Personally, I knew the nation by its proper name — Bosnia and Herzegovina — because I remember it being a big deal that they competed under their own flag (not Yu goslavia’s) at the 1992 Summer Olympics. That was all I knew — until I went to Bowl ing Green, Ky. Now I know that the Bosnian War killed roughly 100,000 people and dis placed 2.2 million. And I know that at least 5,000 of those people now call Bowling Green home. This was all news to me! But just as Nashville is home to the largest Kurdish population in the U.S., Bowling Green is the largest resettlement community in Kentucky for immigrants and refugees. That said, my reason for picking Bowl ing Green for the Scene’s Road Trip Issue was not so high-minded. I did so because it’s 70 miles from Nashville (about an hourand-a-half with traffic) and because I’d enjoyed a trip I took to Paducah years back. But where Paducah is small and walkable, Bowling Green is walk-a-little, drive-a-lot. It also happens to have one of the most diverse food scenes in the South — if you know where to look. Stay Much of the lodging in Bowling Green is on the bypass — think national chain, eightlane highway, near a strip mall. As always, I say skip these and find something central. The Hyatt Place Bowling Green is convenient and comfortable, if sterile. It has an outdoor pool, big rooms, and a lightly enforced $75 pet fee, so it’s good for kids and pets. It’s also a five-minute walk to Western Kentucky University, where you’ll find The Kentucky Museum — a quick, free way to sneak in some history via an exhibit on Mammoth Cave or Mesopo tamian writing. If you’re pet-free, try East Main Airbnb. Built in 1885, the house has been completely restored, with clean white decor, leather accents, natural light and original brick. It sleeps four (two in a bedroom, two on a pullout), so it’s great for small families. It’s also just one block from Fountain Square Park, which was designed in 1870 and still offers lovely foliage and statues to peruse. If you’re in need of private time or plush accommodations, try the Kentucky Grand Hotel and Spa. The all-suite hotel’s five rooms book up well in advance. It’s got a retro luxury feel, despite opening in 2016, and its on-site restaurants are beautifully appointed if dif ficult to visit. (The Derby Piano and Dessert Bar and The Kentucky Grand restaurant are open Wednesday through Saturday nights plus brunch on Sunday, but since we were there on Sunday night, I can’t weigh in on either.) Still, the location is solid. It’s a block from Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC), where you can catch a comedy show or concert. It’s across from Circus Square Park, which has the only Iturned-public-restroom/Instagram-hotspotgas-station-know.(Therestored Standard Oil Station is cute, and dates back to 1921.) It’s also near Bowling Green Ballpark, where you must hit a Hot Rods game, preferably on “Kentucky Waterfall Night Presented by Bearded Eagle Barbershop.” A waterfall, in this context, is an extreme mullet (!), and if you don’t want to see a bunch of kids rocking freshly shorn waterfalls, I don’t know what you do want.
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Pit stops If you’re traveling on Saturday morn ing, hit Boyce General Store in Alvaton and grab The Pie Queen’s famous breakfast. The National Corvette Museum and the Downing Museum and Baker Arboretum also make good, fun pit stops. If you’re traveling with kids, hit Chaney’s Dairy Barn. The ice cream is good, but the extras are great — farm tours, an accessible playground, and a bigass “jump ing pillow.” This in-ground trampoline is essentially a beach ball the size of a soccer field. Adults will want to jump too, so bring an extra $5 and some Advil. ■
Do Start at Gasper Brewing, the best brewery in Bowling Green. This is not hyperbole — Gasper is currently the only brewery in town after the other, Blue Holler Brew Supplies, was destroyed by December’s deadly torna does. After the storms, Gasper owner Isaiah King opened his untouched brewery to the community for warmth and free meals, and he let Blue Holler’s Chris Karraker store his surviving equipment there. You have only to read Karraker’s grateful Facebook post to see that this pattern — tragedy followed by togetherness — is emblematic of Bowling Green.Take where Gasper is located: the ShakeRag Historic District. Now on the National Register of Historic Places, ShakeRag was a safe haven for African American families. During segregation, homeowners opened tea rooms and hotels for Black travelers who’d previously had to eat and sleep in their cars. Today you can take your own walking tour of the area, which was named for people washing clothes outside and “shaking the rags” before hanging them to dry. Back at Gasper, grab a malty Downtown Brown and walk through S&M Woods and Wares. The connected shop sells everything from olivewood spoons to sage bundles. Owners Seth and Marcy Owens are often there holding events including reiki work shops and makers’ markets. If you need a jolt or a bite, hit Spencer’s Coffee, a BG staple for 20-plus years, or check out Taqueria Los Vazquez. Eleodora Alarcon’s Mexican spot is open for breakfast and lunch, so it’s ideal for DIY brunch on a weekday. Get the barbacoa torta and the agua fresca — especially if it’s cantaloupe.Activity-wise, you must hit Lost River Cave for a boat tour of the limestone caverns. Ideally, you’ll hit it on a day when storms don’t flood it, turning all the “blue holes” (aka sinkholes) into “brown holes.” But even if that happens, the grounds are worth walking. Stop into the Butterfly House for a magical photo op, and read stories on the standing stones outside the caves, which includes the obligatory claim that Jesse James partied here post-bank-robbery. For dinner, you’ve got two delightful op tions. First, Yuki Japanese Restaurant. Denise and Joe Nishijima fly in fish from Japan twice a week. Their off-the-bypass spot is an institution with good reason: They’re serving the best sushi I’ve had this year — full stop. Nobody in Nashville does nigiri this well. If they do, they don’t do it at this price. The wasabi pork shumai, the sake, the otoro! I’d go back to BG just to eat here. Then there’s Anna’s Greek Restaurant. The eponymous chef lived in Santorini for 15 years, and while her Mediterranean cuisine is rich and lively, her story is even more so. Anna moved to Bowling Green in 2000 with her now-husband, Vilson Qehaja, after the Kosovo War. They opened Anna’s in 2007 but had to re locate to Glasgow, Ky., — 40 miles away — in 2013 due to a parking-lot dispute with the highway department. Finally, in 2019, they settled in their current location: a huge old Baptist church they renovated, smack in the middle of town. The atmosphere of Anna’s is ... hard to describe. Outside it’s a big white church with Greek accents. Inside, it’s full of neon purple lights, clear chairs, stained-glass windows, and black-and-white decor — it’s very My Big Greek Quinceañera in the most fabu lous way. The sheer over-the-topness makes it feel absolutely right to order a flaming saganaki cheese (like griddled halloumi, but exponentially more dramatic) and wash it down with a Mythos beer. And it’s all even more celebratory when you know this: An na’s is now directly across the street from Christ Episcopal Church, which helped the Qehajas get on their feet when they immi grated to Bowling Green two decades ago. Where is the Bosnian food, you might ask? So did I. The answer: Behar Cafe. Sadly, they were closed for summer break while we were there. But that just means I’ve got (another) good reason to come back to Bowl ing Green soon.
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Architectural marvels await four hours north of Nashville BY ERICA CICCARONE HOME TO FEWER than 50,000 residents, Columbus, Ind., seems an unlikely setting for a Modernist architecture bastion. It came into its own in the mid-20th century, when the president of the Cummins Diesel Engine Co., J. Irwin Miller, began financing design fees for buildings if the town would solicit the work of master architects. There are seven national landmarks and more than 60 buildings that were built as the town adopted Miller’s philosophy: “What is built reflects what a city thinks of itself and what it aims to be.” Columbus is a town for the curious and forward-thinking. I was drawn to it by the 2017 film Colum bus by then-Nashvillian writer-director Kogonada. Shot in just 18 days, the film is spare and poignant, with the setting acting as a character that provides both tension and“Whenease. I found Columbus as a place, that meant a lot to me,” Kogonada told the Scene in 2017, “because it did represent so much that had occupied so much of my adult life, which is how do I make sense of being hu man in a modern world, especially as I find things in the past not tenable for me?”
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Architecture is the main event in Colum bus, but be sure to leave time for wandering so you can sink into everything this closeknit community has to offer. Mill Race Park features more architecture to check off your list, as well as a perfectly round lake, a covered bridge and lots of spots to lay down a blanket for a picnic. For shopping, you can’t go wrong with the carefully curated Viewpoint Books. Support Hoosier artisans by shopping at the Tri-State Artisans Market down town. On your way in or out of town, pick your way through the Exit 76 Antique Mall For food, the touristy — and super fun — place to go is Zaharakos Ice Cream Parlor and Museum. You can grab tasty and standard diner fare — soups, salads and sandwiches — as well as sundaes, milkshakes and malts.
The Inn at Irwin Gardens dates back to 1864, built for banker and businessman named Joseph Irwin — an as cendant of J. Irwin Miller. A relatively modest Victorian design at first, the house saw several renovations that showed the growing wealth of the Irwin clan and the architectural styles in vogue through the next several decades. Most features of the 1910 restoration have been largely preserved, and the inn still sports the same fine oak floors, tiles imported from France and Wales, and Italian marble fireplaces. The grounds feature a mag nificent garden that’s based on the Casa Degli Innamorati in Pompeii. It features fountains, a cascading pool, a sunken garden, sculptures and a variety of flora. Even if you don’t stay at the inn, it’s worth strolling through the garden when it is open to the public from 2 to 6 p.m. Sun days and Tuesdays. There are five guest rooms that range from $200 to $300 per night, and they’re appointed with beautifully maintained antiques, modern conveniences and pictur esque views of the garden and surrounding neighborhood. Get downstairs between 8 and 9:30 a.m. for breakfast to prepare for a day of sightseeing.
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Zaharakos has been around since 1900, so be sure to take a look at the mechanical musical instruments, soda fountain library and pre1900s fountains. It’s an old-timey treat. ■
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Do Book a tour on the Visit Columbus website (columbus.in.us) ahead of time, because they do sell out. We opted for the Architectural Highlights Tour, which is part walking tour and part by bus. It starts at the Columbus Visitors Center, which has a gravity-defying Chihuly sculpture in the staircase. My favorite stop on the tour is the First Christian Church, which was designed by Finnish architect Eliel Saa rinen in 1942. It’s an incredibly strange structure for a church, resembling a large rectangular block, with a separate Jenga-like tower be side it. The sanctuary is vast but structurally minimal, re lying on windows to bring in natural light. Our tour guide pointed out all the ways Saarinen considered how the building would be used, along with how it would look. It’s a principle you see throughout the buildings in Columbus — architects designed structures that were, in some ways, a collaboration with their clients, con sidering form and function equally. From there, we visited dozens of other buildings that occupy the town as schools, banks, firehouses, a hospital and more. That’s what’s so neat about this town — the architec ture isn’t limited to churches and residences, but scattered throughout municipal build ings, businesses and public places. I asked our tour guide if there were city ordinances against building taller than the historical buildings. He laughed. No, he told us, but the builders would be so ostracized that no one has ever tried. If you prefer self-guided tours, you can sign up for free tours at your pace — whether you want to walk, drive or cycle. Definitely schedule ahead to get on the Miller House Tour. Designed by another Finn, Eliel’s son Eero Saarinen, the jewel-box-like home was the private residence to J. Miller Irwin, and it’s ranked up there with Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater.
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DAHLONEGA, GA. Experiencing the Georgia Gold Rush and a burgeoning wine country in the mountains of North Georgia BY JONATHAN SIMS WHEN MULBERRY SELLERS proclaimed, “There’s gold in them thar hills!” in Mark Twain’s The American Claimant, he was paraphrasing geologist and assayer Dr. Mat thew Fleming Stephenson. From the balcony of Dahlonega, Ga.’s courthouse, Stephenson shouted to prospectors as they were leaving for the California Gold Rush, “Why go to California? In yonder hill lies more riches than anyone ever dreamed of. There’s mil lions in it!”
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Do To really understand Dahlonega, you’ll need to start on the historic square and the Dahlonega Gold Museum, which resides inside the old courthouse (the courthouse from the plea and proclamation above). There you’ll learn all about the town and the gold rush.
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Lining the city square are adorable shops, eateries and venues. If you have a sweet tooth, you’ll certainly want to stop by Paul Thomas Chocolates and The Fudge Factory There are plenty of little specialty clothing shops and outfitters, but you can’t miss the old General Store, which has all of the locally made products and mining-themed knick knacks you could ever want. For dinner, you’ll want to get a reservation at Bourbon Street Grille, a Cajun-inspired restaurant in one of Dahlonega’s oldest buildings, or the famous Smith House, which offers familystyle Southern cooking — seriously close to the way my Granna used to cook. Just off the main square, you’ll find The Canopy + the Roots, a coffee shop on the ground floor with tree limbs hanging from the ceiling and a listening room below decorated in roots, and the Holly Theatre, a beautiful historic setting for first-class stage productions. If you’re interested in mining for gold, you can head deep down underground at Consolidated Gold Mine. Miner D or Miner Ja mie will take you into the old mines, where you’ll stand 16 stories under Walmart. Once you’re above the surface, you can pan for gold or gemstones and browse the gift shop. Crisson Gold Mine is a still-active mine with some old equipment that still works, like the machine that crushes the quartz and sends the bits down to the troughs below, where you can also pan for gold or gems.
For those interested in weird true crimes, they offer a Crime and Punishment tour, which takes visitors around the square, telling the story of strange crimes and the absurd pun ishments the perpetrators received.
The Georgia Gold Rush started in Dahlonega (an anglicization of the Cherokee word for the color yellow, pronounced DuLAWN-uh-guh) — a mountain town that is, as the crow flies, the closest town to the south ern terminus of the Appalachian Trail — in 1828. It ended when everyone packed up and headed out West for golder pastures. Over the past few years, the town has been experiencing a new gold rush by min ing its vines. Unsurprisingly, it’s a little easier to pick a grape off a vine than to pick gold out of rock — tastier too. I visited Dahlonega with a group of travel writers earlier this month for a quick look at the town’s gold mining history, their wine coun try and their historic square. To get there, you’ll head down I-24 to Chattanooga, switch to I-75, then head into the hills on Highway 76 in Dalton, Ga. When you reach Ellijay (home of the Georgia Apple Festival), you’ll follow Highway 52 straight into Dahlonega. The drive takes about four-and-a-half hours in total. Stay In town, there are a few chain hotels, but their facades look like they fit right in with the historic downtown’s aesthetic. For a more boutique experience, the Dahlonega Square Hotel & Villas give a slight bed-andbreakfast feel — as it’s in a restored historic home — with modern rooms. They’ve turned the kitchen and dining area into a satellite tasting room for Kaya Vineyard & Winery and use the local Chastain Southern Catering & Out back Cafe for breakfast in bed. There are plenty of campgrounds along the way, but Amicalola Falls State Park just outside of Dahlonega is the main outdoor attraction, boasting a 729-foot waterfall, the largest in the state of Georgia.
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fries. Montaluce Winery is tucked back in the hills, in what could be considered Little Tuscany — you can experience Italian fine dining in a Tuscan villa at the crest of the hill. Three Sisters Vineyard is more laid-back, with a tasting room and delicious wines next to a small pond. And Accent Cellars is a wine maker, not a grape-grower; its more modern vibes focus on experiencing fantastic wines with good friends.
Georgia is fairly new to making wine on a large scale, but the town is situated on the Dahlonega Plateau, which has just the right climate and sun exposure for growing grapes. You’ll definitely want to make time to visit each of the wineries. Wolf Mountain Vineyards and Winery sits at one of the high est points in town, offering breathtaking views and incredible food; do not skip the pizzas and the grits
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JRL HARPETH RIVER Accessible, social, convenient Sound logistics and a social atmosphere make the Harpeth ideal for entry-level river enjoyers. The river loops back on itself, allowing for convenient pickup and drop-off locations and a wide array of float times. Kids, even young ones, will remain emotionally intact thanks to shorter floats (crafty navigators can find two- and fourhour routes) and plenty of pebble beaches perfect for pit stops. Chillers with coolers can float the whole day. A popular route takes floaters a leisurely two miles, from a parking lot launch right off Highway 70 to the Harpeth River Mound Bottom. A microrapid halfway through provides just enough excitement.Someofthe fun comes from arguing with friends and family over how to best piece together a flotilla of interchangeable inflat ables (a little rope goes a long way), though nearby rental outfits offer sturdier vessels. The Harpeth runs year-round, but be wary later into the fall — cold floats aren’t fun, and the water flows only one way.
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Launch infrastructure is a little more sparse than it is on the Harpeth or the Duck, but ac cess points dot the river between Clarksville and Keysburg, where the Red meanders into Kentucky.Toround out a day-trip float, the Red takes passengers on a journey through Ten nessee history. Near Adams, it brushes up against the legendary Bell Witch Cave. In Port Royal State Historic Park, travelers in tersect with a somber waypoint on the Trail of Tears, the forced removal of Indigenous people from the Southeast. The Red comes with more isolation, fewer crowds and a more mature river profile.
RED RIVER North, silty, historical Like the Buffalo and Duck, the Red River is a Davidson County day trip. Unlike its peer mid-grade tributaries, the Red is north and close to top-tier off-river attractions, offering a trip both rugged and refined. The river itself presents plenty of on-water obstacles, and it demands closer attention to navigation — more of a canoe-and-kayak adventure than a float. The banks and water are murky and opaque, rich in minerals that give silt its color and the river its name.
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Our appraisals of the Buffalo, Cumberland, Duck, Harpeth and Red rivers BY ELI MOTYCKA AND J.R. LIND ACCORDING TO the state, Tennessee is home to about 17,000 miles of warm-water streams and rivers. Many of the rivers here in Middle Tennessee, most of them within a couple hours’ drive of Nashville, are popular destinations for kayaking, canoeing and innertubing, dotted with rental sites that offer all the necessary equipment. See our appraisals of five of them below.
JRL CUMBERLAND RIVER Large, ominous, beckoning Engaging with the Cumberland doesn’t have to be scary, difficult or a health risk, though many Nashvillians intuit (correctly) that nothing that close to Broadway is safe for bathing. There are plenty of reasons to be interested: It’s close to your house, or you’ve been to Austin where people swim downtown, or you feel that, in the hottest stretches of the summer, it spites you a little bit more every day. The city, developers and the Tennessean have (together) been trying to make the Cumberland “happen” for a couple years by reframing the river as a primary city asset. A few of us even have that friend who (allegedly) dips in the Cumberland regularly. The best information says it’s Metrocomplicated.is16yearsdownstream of an EPA consent decree that requires quarterly re ports on the city’s sewage runoff, much of which drains into the Cumberland — Metro Water reported about 12 million gallons of sewage runoff in April, May and June. The Cumberland River Compact’s 2019 waterquality overview cites runaway runoff and pathogenic E. coli in and around the Cum berland’s downtown bend. For a safer and cleaner approach, head upstream and stay rural. Historic Granville, home of the much-
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DUCK RIVER Lengthy, diverse, rewatchable Winding 284 miles from its source between Man chester and Murfreesboro to New Johnsonville where it flows into the Tennessee, the Duck River is the longest river wholly within the Volunteer State. Its superlatives don’t stop there: It’s also con sidered the most biologically diverse river in North America, particularly well-known for its wide variety of mussels, many endan gered. It was environmental concerns that kept the Tennessee Valley Authority from finishing Columbia Dam after a critically endangered mussel was found in the area. The Duck is fairly serene. There are a few small dams creating reservoirs for the towns that rely on the Duck for drinking water, in addition to the TVA’s Normandy Dam near Manchester. Navigation can be challenging, as the Duck winds and bends and splits, giving paddlers fits as they have to decide which way around a gravel bar to go. It’s also prone to quick rises, especially in the spring and early summer, but that just means it’s best to delay floats to the early fall, when the leaves begin to turn and the vast array of wildlife is easily spottable and moving about. Otters are a not-infrequent sight.There are some decent little drops and rapids as the river comes off the Highland Rim and into the bottomland, but nothing that even a moderately experienced canoer or kayaker would balk at. The Duck River Agency in Shelbyville provides river maps and conditions and is a good stop for folks looking to set out on their own, but there are also plenty of outfitters for day-trippers. With all those miles, a completist could take dozens of trips without repeat.
Because much of the river is on protected land, it can be a fairly wild trip, with low-hanging branches coming from above and alligator snap ping turtles coming from below. (I highly recom mend a good pair of rockfighting water shoes.) But other than the occasional Scout troop, it’s often fairly empty and quiet even at busy times. Just don’t leave your cobbler unsecured if you camp overnight.
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BUFFALO RIVER Nostalgic, wild, quiet Forgive me for having a soft spot for the Buffalo. The Middle Tennessee Council Boy Scouts of America operates Grimes Canoe Base halfway between Linden and Topsy (seriously), so the Buffalo was the first “wild” river I ever floated nearly 30 years ago. One trip there, my troop awoke to see a very large and unbothered raccoon sitting in a Dutch oven, holding its cast iron lid in one paw and scooping cobbler detritus into his mouth with the other. That doesn’t really have anything to do with the river, but it’s a funThestory.Buffalo is the largest tributary of the Duck (more on that below) and flows unen cumbered for 125 miles. Its middle section — primarily in Perry and Humphreys coun ties — is the primary target of the paddle crowd. If it’s good enough for the Scouts, it’s good enough for you. Like its big brother the Duck, the Buffalo is prone to rising water in the wet seasons and is similarly biodiverse, so aim for the autumn. There are outfitters available in Linden and Lobelville, and certain stretches of the river are also suitable for tubing.
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MUSIC [DON’T LET THE BEAT DROP] DEEP TROPICS MUSIC, ART AND STYLE FESTIVAL Deep Tropics, the biggest festival focused on dance music that’s kept up a consistent run in Nashville, is back for its fourth installment this weekend. Past iterations of the fest have woven some great rappers, local and otherwise, into the mix; this iteration is more like the inaugural fest in 2017, in that the lineup consists entirely of dance producers and DJs. The epicenter of the action is at the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, where producers and producer teams like Vintage Culture, LSDream, A Hundred Drums, Ben Böhmer, Lux Velour and Snakehips will be spread across three stages on Friday and Saturday. The duo Sidepiece kicks things off with a set at Assembly Food Hall’s Skydeck on Thursday; that’s just one of several separately ticketed events featuring performers from the fest. Among them are Tripp St. and It Hz leading a late-night party at Eastside Bowl on Friday, and Wax Motif and Marsh topping the bill at Brooklyn Bowl on Saturday. Check out deeptropics.org for the full rundown of events and ticketing options, and to learn more about their substantial climate initiative. Aug. 25-27 at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, Brooklyn Bowl, Eastside Bowl and other venues
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THURSDAY / 8.25 COMEDY [TOO OLD TO BE A DUCKLING — QUACK QUACK] JOHN MULANEY John Mulaney seems an unlikely candidate to be one of the planet’s top contemporary stand-up comedians. But the svelte Midwesterner and former altar boy — the progeny of accomplished Chicagoland attorneys — is undeniably mesmerizing as both a writer and a performer. As a Saturday Night Live writer, he penned some memorable bits, including the incredibly popular character Stefon, his collaboration with cast member Bill Hader. As a comic, he’s released three near-perfect comedy specials with 2012’s New in Town, 2015’s The Comeback Kid and 2018’s unbeatable Kid Gorgeous at Radio City. And that’s not to mention his collaborations with fellow Georgetown alum Nick Kroll (Big Mouth and Oh, Hello among them), a handful of great voice performances (most notably as SpiderHam in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) and the five times he returned to SNL as host, to great success. The progressive and largely unproblematic Mulaney has courted some controversy in recent years, most of it involving his personal life and ongoing struggles with drug and alcohol addiction. Perhaps Mulaney will discuss some of that this week, when he performs a run of shows at Nashville’s Mother Church of Country Music as part of his ongoing From Scratch Tour. He’s got a show apiece on Thursday and Sunday, and two shows on Friday — the comedian’s 40th birthday. Aug. 25, 26 & 28 at the Ryman, 116 Rep. John Lewis Way N. D. PATRICK RODGERS NASHVILLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL PRESENTS GEM OF THE OCEAN Nashville Shakespeare Festival is back at OneC1ty this weekend with August Wilson’s mighty Gem of the Ocean Presented in partnership with Kennie Playhouse Theatre, this compelling story is part of Wilson’s iconic Pittsburgh Cycle, and follows “a young African American man’s journey of redemption, and the powerful people he meets along the way.” Directed by Chuck Smith (the resident director at Chicago’s Goodman Theater, who directed Jitney for the 2021 Summer Shakespeare Festival), the cast features a host of local talent — including Jarvis Bynum, Kenny Dozier, Clark Harris, Pierre Johnson, Tamiko Robinson Steele, Brian Webb Russell, Jackie Welch and Maya Antoinette Riley. Audiences can also look forward to original music from three-time Grammy nominee Joseph Wooten. Through Sept. 11 at OneC1ty, 8 City Blvd. AMY STUMPFL FILM [BUT THIS IS NOT THAT KING …]
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With last year’s The Green Knight, director David Lowery (A Ghost Story, The Old Man & the Gun) did the unthinkable: He took a literally 700-year-old chivalric poem and managed to make it relatable and fresh without modernizing it. Based on the late 14th century’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Lowery’s film features dazzling, Malick-esque lensing and excellent performances from a pair of gorgeous movie stars — Dev Patel as Sir Gawain and Alicia Vikander as both the Lady and a commoner named Essel. In keeping with its source material, The Green Knight is allegorical and metaphysical, but also somehow completely grounded. Vexingly but perhaps not surprisingly, the film was totally snubbed by both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes. Nevertheless, it’s a rich and fascinating medieval fantasy that will make for a compelling screening in the context of the Frist Art Museum’s ongoing Knights in Armor — a fascinating exhibit of rare European arms and armor on loan from the Museo Stibbert in Florence, Italy. The Green Knight will be introduced by Dr. Sarah Childress, who has taught film courses at Vanderbilt University, Bowdoin College and Belmont University. The screening is free, and seating is first come, first served. 6:30 p.m. at the Frist Art Museum, 919 Broadway D. PATRICK RODGERS
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Margo Price fans will know Greasy Neale’s Micah Hulscher as the charismatic longtime keyboardist from her band The Price Tags. Regulars at recent Nashville Sounds games, meanwhile, might recognize the Seattle native as one of two organists (Matt Rowland is the other) working admirably to fill the void left by “Krazy” Kyle Hankins when the respected Preds piano man didn’t continue his summertime gig with our in-town Triple-A squad post-COVID. During 2020’s peak pandemic months, Hulscher formed Greasy Neale with bassist Alec Newnam and drummer Nate Felty (both players in Price contemporary Kelsey Waldon’s band) to stay loose on their instruments and explore further-out musical inclinations. Among the most omnivorous jazz combos I’ve heard this side of Minneapolis’ The Bad Plus — another group that embraces playing way-outside-their-wheelhouse covers as a means of growing as musicians — Greasy Neale puts on live shows that reward open-minded audiences with anything from reinterpretations of Brazilian, Celtic, classical and even shoegaze music (they do a mean cover of Cocteau Twins’ ethereal “Cherry-Coloured Funk”), to a growing repertoire of busy, playful originals that began with 2020’s “Diesel’s Ball Chase” (an homage to Hulscher’s dog). The band will play from 8 until 10 p.m., and there is neither an opener nor a cover charge. 8 p.m. at The Blue Room at Third Man Records, 623 Seventh Ave. S. CHARLIE ZAILLIAN
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For more than three decades, Jim Lauderdale has been making phenomenal contributions to Nashville music. He’s released a massive stack of albums that fall in the middle of a Venn diagram of bluegrass, rock and country, and he’s written a wide array of country songs cut by everyone from George Strait and The Chicks to Elvis Costello. As Americana gained strength, he became one of the genre’s most visible figures — you saw or heard him host the much-missed weekly Americana variety show Music City Roots for much of its run and, for more than a dozen years, host the Americana Honors and Awards show. On Friday, he’ll release Game Changer, his 35th LP, made up of original songs that represent his estimable interpretation of “country.” His take isn’t pegged to one particular era or style, but draws the best sounds from many of them to create something timeless. It starts off with groovy rocking “That Kind of Life (That Kind of Day),” but later on “Our Happy Hour” echoes the lush countrypolitan sound, while “Let’s Make Some Memories” takes on Western swing. There’s a lot more inside: You can get a taste of the new LP when he performs Friday on the Grand Ole Opry, and get a closer listen when he stops on Wednesday at 3rd and Lindsley for a full set. 7 p.m. at the Grand Ole Opry House, 600 Opry Mills Drive; also playing 8 p.m. Aug. 31 at 3rd and Lindsley, 818 Third Ave. S.
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MUSIC [THEY MET IN A TURKISH BATH] THE DECEMBERISTS W/JAKE XERXES FUSSELL Indie royalty The Decemberists are the latest in a string of Aughts rock favorites to make a stop in Nashville. It’s something of a career celebration for the Portland, Ore.-based band, which celebrated its 20th anniversary with a string of virtual shows last year. Recent set lists show an eclectic mix of songs from the band’s deep catalog, with cuts from fan-favorite albums like 2005’s Picaresque and 2006’s The Crane Wife featuring prominently. Georgia folk and blues artist Jake Xerxes Fussell, whose most recent release is this year’s Good and Green Again, will open. 8 p.m. at the Ryman, 116 Rep. John Lewis Way N. BRITTNEY MCKENNA BOOKS [KNOCKED UP] MICHELLE TEA For decades, Michelle Tea has delivered on feminist prose and poetry that have been beacons of light for queer and counterculture people. Rooted in personal narrative, her work also acts as cultural criticism — a difficult line to walk, and she’s among the best. Her latest book Knocking
The son of an underground hip-hop producer (Duke Nitty, for those familiar with the Memphis scene of the ’90s and Aughts), Duke Deuce is a true child of Dirty South hip-hop. Now 30 and a serial collaborator and skilled wordsmith in his
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Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility brings her punk rock roots and queer experience to her journey to motherhood. Some of us would rather lick rust than read another “journey to motherhood” essay, let alone a whole book. But Tea’s memoir is different. She critically examines what she calls the “Labor Industrial Complex,” detailing the big things, like artificial insemination, and the small, like naming her child. And besides, she’s still punk as fuck. The Bookshop wisely has paired her in conversation with Nashville’s Kendra DeColo, whose 2021 collection of poems is an ode to mothers, giving women permission to create their own archetypes of motherhood and reject the ones that don’t work. It’s sure to be a compelling conversation. 5 p.m. at The Bookshop, 1043 W. Eastland Ave. ERICA CICCARONE MUSIC [CAVE OF DREAMS] JOHN FEDCHOCK W/THE PAT COIL TRIO John Fedchock has an impressive career that dates back to 1980. As a leader, his John Fedchock New York Big Band has recorded several fine LPs and appeared in major jazz venues all over the East Coast. As an arranger, Fedchock earned multiple Grammy nominations, and as a trombonist, his solos are featured prominently in not only his big band’s compositions, but also recordings and concerts with his quartet and sextet. On Saturday, he’ll be joining The Pat Coil Trio in concert — with Coil on piano, Roger Spencer on bass and Danny Gottlieb on drums. This will be top-caliber mainstream jazz with a solid blend of standards and originals, another great bill at the Nashville Jazz Workshop’s Jazz Cave. 7 p.m. at the Nashville Jazz Workshop’s Jazz Cave, 1012 Buchanan St. RON WYNN SUNDAY / 8.28 MUSIC [DEUCE IS LOOSE] DUKE DEUCE
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Though COVID hit right as Deuce looked poised to break with Memphis Massacre 2 — a star-studded mixtape with assists from Bluff City denizens Juicy J and Project Pat, and even a cameo from Lil Jon — it’d take more than suboptimal timing to blunt the young rapper’s creativity. Two years onward, Deuce continues to hone his voice as a key steward of bringing Southern gangsta rap, crunk and trap music into the future, to the tune of two bona fide hit albums — 2021’s Duke Nukem and the hot-off-the-presses Crunkstar — both joint releases between Motown Records (!!!) and Atlanta’s Quality Control Music. 8 p.m. at The Basement East, 917 Woodland St.
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NEKO CASE Veteran indie vocalist Neko Case comes to Nashville fresh off her expansive solo release Wild Creatures, an assemblage of previously released material from a prolific career. Outside of her work with indie-rock staples The New Pornographers, Case has long cultivated her honky-tonk side, earning her a spot in the upper echelons of Americana. Originally from Virginia, Case makes music that’s shot through with Southern bona fides — she twangs on “Lonely Old Lies” and gets close to a modern-day hymn with “John Saw That Number.” There are few artists out there with Case’s material, artistic maturity or experience as a performer, and no one with her voice. Amid Brooklyn Bowl’s track record for next-gen bookings, Case will take the stage as a luminary. Madison, Wis., band Disq will open. 8 p.m. at Brooklyn Bowl, 925 Third Ave. N. ELI MOTYCKA
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Here’s the cinematic version of that Indulgent Bites cover story about decadent Nashville dishes we ran a few weeks ago — the Belcourt is screening the extended cuts of all three Lord of the Rings movies back to back on Sunday. That’s about 12 hours of Tolkien and Bagginses and Proudfoots/ Proudfeet — and an altogether gluttonous amount of misty mountains. There will be 10-minute intermissions for each film, and roughly 20-minute breaks between screenings. By the time you’re through, it’ll be like you’ve gone on your own journey through Mordor, spotting Peter Jackson cameos and taking drinks every time Frodo looks forlorn. Shoes required. Starting at 11:30 a.m. at the Belcourt, 2102 Belcourt Ave.
LAURA HUTSON HUNTER MUSIC [WINGS] WILL HOGE & BLACK OPRY REVUE To celebrate the release of his new album Wings on My Shoes, Will Hoge will set up shop at 3rd and Lindsley on Sunday for this week’s installment of Lightning 100’s Nashville Sunday Night, bringing with him his soulful take on pop-influenced rock ’n’ roll. Wings, which includes the great new tune “John Prine’s Cadillac,” marks Hoge’s 12th solo release and follows the genreblending singer-songwriter’s critically acclaimed 2020 release Tiny Little Movies It’s a special evening beyond the album’s release, though, as Hoge will share the bill with the Black Opry Revue, a showcase of Black country artists put together by grassroots organization The Black Opry. 8 p.m. at 3rd and Lindsley, 818 Third Ave. S.
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BOOKS [YOU GOTTA BE KITTEN ME] KITTEN READING CLUB BACK-TOSCHOOL BASH Remember when your mom would drop you off at the local animal shelter with a backpack full of books to share with one lucky kitten? No? Me neither. But wouldn’t it be nice? Metro Animal Care and Control is often the last house on the block for unloved animals. Through the shelter’s fostering and adoption programs, they’re able to place these furballs into loving homes.
A long-overdue coming-out festival for local print shop Camp Nevernice on Wednesday will feature performances from musicians Erin Rae, Kristina Murray, Jobi Riccio, Annie Williams and Sean Thompson, and of course colorful show posters printed and designed by Laura Baisden. Baisden, formerly of Hatch Show Print and Isle of Printing, struck out on her own in 2015 after buying a Vandercook printing press from a bartender at Mickey’s. (Have you ever read a more Nashville sentence?) Before you head to the party, hosted at a concrete art studio across the street from Camp Nevernice, peek into Baisden’s shop to see original tour prints for artists like Chris Stapleton and Gillian Welch. Bring cash for arts, crafts, food, drink and bingo. Consider it an informal kickoff to your Live on the Green weekend. 5-9 p.m. at 302 Douglas Ave ELI MOTYCKA
MUSIC [LEGACY OF BRUTALITY] GLASSING & NO/MAS Beauty and frailty aren’t concepts generally thrown around the dungeons of extreme metal, but Austin, Texas, band Glassing has created something both esoteric and individual. Glassing is often lumped in with black metal cultists or sludge Neanderthals. But Twin Dream, the trio’s new release on Philly imprint Brutal Panda, is subtly melodic and bursting with sonic texture, with blast beats as ambient chaos rather than the typical death metal velocities. D.C.’s bombastic No/Mas is returning to Nashville with its manic malevolence. The band’s debut album on Closed Casket Activities stuffs 15 deathgrind ragers into just over 21 minutes, appealing to cavemen and crust punks alike.
7 p.m. at Drkmttr, 1111 Dickerson Pike P.J. KINZER FILM [WE ARE ALL STARDUST BROTHERS] CREATURE FEATURE FILM NIGHT: THE LEGEND OF THE STARDUST BROTHERS If you’re a person who hasn’t seen a movie lately that made you go, “What the fuck did I get myself into?” seconds after you start watching it, Third Man Records has a lovely bit of what-the-fuck all lined up for you. This 1985 clusterfuck from Japan about the rise and fall of a manufactured pop duo is the work of film/anime director Makoto Tezuka. Dude did a Rocky Horror style concept album for a nonexistent film with musician/TV personality Haruo Chikada, and eventually felt it made sense to actually make the musical. He truly throws everything into this batshit tale of two singers who become overnight sensations. (Not to spoil anything for ya, but zombies and Hitler do make some cameos.) For those of you who like your biting satire of the corporate music industry done with a little bit of cocaine in it, you gotta check this shit out. 8 p.m. at The Blue Room at Third Man Records, 623 Seventh Ave. S. CRAIG D. LINDSEY
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Mid-South. Birmingham, Ala., behemoths No Cure combine Earth Crisis chugs with death metal beats, but also nail a ripping cover of the genre’s greatest song — Project X’s “Straightedge Revenge.” The two tracks on the new cassette from Chattanooga’s Gumm are stompy, midtempo hardcore, but with very Fugazi-like idiosyncracies. Filling in the rest of the heaviness Sunday night will be locals A Dozen Black Roses. 6:30 p.m. at The End, 2219 Elliston Place P.J. KINZER
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There were many disappointing things about the closure of Mercy Lounge and its sister venues in May. Among them: Housequake, Tyler Martinez & Co.’s recurring showcase of Nashville’s rising crop of contemporary pop musicians, was without a home. Thankfully, the party is back on a twice-monthly basis with a whole new house to shake, just over the Madison line at Eastside Bowl. Monday’s installment features four Nashvillians, including Jerrica Alyssa, whose R&Binflected style draws on ’90s superstars like Janet Jackson and Mary J. Blige. Jarrod Gipson’s latest single “When You’re Not Around” is a fantastic blend of futurefunk and cutting-edge dance-pop. Back in February, R.E.N dropped Sorry I Hesitated, a fascinatingly rich and confessional EP that’s simultaneously darkly introspective and kinetic. Zøie X rounds out the bill with her concoction of forward-leaning EDMand hyperpop-kissed jams. You’ve got four new voices to check out for yourself; no cover means even fewer reasons to not get over there. 7:30 p.m. at Eastside Bowl, 1508 Gallatin Pike S., Madison STEPHEN TRAGESER
The Friends of MACC — the nonprofit that raises money for and encourages support of the shelter — are connecting children with shelter pets in a whimsical initiative. At the Kitten Reading Club Back-to-School Bash, you can read a story to a smol feline in the shelter’s adoption center. As we know, cats are finicky. Their literary tastes may vary, so I’d plan to bring a variety of books. You can also sign your kiddo up for story-time sessions with local authors. Indie bookshop Parnassus Books will provide a $5 gift card to all attendees. On the same day from 4 to 6 p.m., Parnassus will donate 10 percent of profits to Friends of MACC and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Learn more and register at the Friends of MACC’s Facebook page. 9 a.m.-noon at Metro Animal Care and Control, 5125 Harding Place ERICA CICCARONE MONDAY / 8.29
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ART XPAYNE: PAST, PRESENT, AND AFROFUTURISM THROUGH AUG. 31 AT CËCRET BY CË GALLERY, 516 HOUSTON ST. XPAYNE“YEMEYA,” XPAYNECITY,”“BLACK UP,ME“BEAM”XPAYNE
The paintings in Past, Present, and Af rofuturism use the same bold colors and stylish symbolism of Nina Chanel Abney’s collages; the same totemic minimalism of Kerry James Marshall’s “Scout” portraits. But one of the show’s most deeply felt con nections is the kinship between these works and the Aaron Douglas murals from 1930 at Fisk University. Iconic without being reverential, a work like “Black City’’ seems to reference both Romare Bearden’s 1971 masterpiece “The Block” and Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing. That kind of co-mingling of art history and pop culture elevates XPayne’s canvases into the future of contemporary art — he is both the space ship and the afro. EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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NOT EARTHPLANETOF New work by XPayne marks the evolution of one of Nashville’s most original artists BY LAURA HUTSON HUNTER C ëcret by Cë Gallery bills itself as a speakeasy-style art gallery, and its cur rent exhibition of work from XPayne perfectly encapsulates that feeling of secrets hidden in plain sight. On the heels of Cë Gallery’s exhibitionawe-inspiringrecentof paintings from legendary musician George Clinton, Past, Present, and Afrofu turism is another marker on the road to establishing Nashville’s visual identity as bolder and Blacker than anything we’ve so far Theseen.exhibition is divided into acts like a theatrical production — there’s the Past, Present and Future, as well as an Epilogue. This organization asks its audi ence to consider the magnitude of human history and achievement — it’s like a por trait hall for past lives, or a fantasy set of playing cards all laid out in a row. Among the first works are portraits of religious figures from the West African Yoruba tradition. “Olodumare” shows an aged man with white dreadlocks and a crown. In profile, his heavy-lidded eye is dignified, and the outlines of his nose and ears are gestural but bold, like the short hand markings of graffiti art. He is every bit the Yoruba version of Zeus — even the tarot-deck stars that orbit him seem entirely under his control. Yemeya is the Yoruba goddess of the sea, and XPayne interprets her with a blue drop of water on her chest, dressed in nothing but a turban and gold bamboo hoop earrings, as if she’s just transformed from a mermaid. I’m re minded of Helmut Newton’s photograph of Elizabeth Taylor in her pool, and the 2015 self-portrait of Juliana Huxtable covered in body paint. These paintings are grand portraits that are equal parts sacred and sexy, as if religious icons could be centerfolds. In his writing around the show, XPayne references the urgency of vi sualizing the future. “This is not simply about Blacks in space (although it is that too),” he writes. “This is about using culture and history to imagine an unseen and prosperous future. Imagining how the future looks provides mental armor for the now. This show is about adapta tion and change in the face of danger.” It’s appropriate, then, that several of the paintings in the exhibition’s Future category are comparatively light hearted. “Beam Me Up” shows a boy with a hi-top fade afro that’s tall enough for a spaceship to crash-land on it. His blank, cherubic face looks straight ahead, as if unaware or unconcerned with the science fiction happening just above him.
Amy Skerratt, founder of local plus-size clothing boutique The Extended Shop, dealt with that experience time after time. “My friend who’s a size 6 had a job interview the next day and she didn’t like anything in her closet,” Sker ratt says. “We went to the Green Hills mall. She was able to find something, which was great, but it then dawned on me. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. If I had a job interview tomorrow, I would have had to schedule two to three weeks in ad vance because of what I would wear.’ I didn’t have that luxury or privilege to just walk in and try Skerrattstuff.”decided to create a solution for a problem the world has been slow to fix. She founded The Extended Shop to cater to women who wear plus-size clothing and want to make a fashion statement. Skerratt started her shop on Instagram in 2021 and gained a following by participating in mar kets like Porter Flea. In June of this year, Skerratt opened her brick-and-mortar in Capitol View near downtown. Even though more brands are now cre ating plus-size lines, larger people still face barriers when trying to access these clothes. “I remember walking into Loft after they announced [the new plus-size line], and I was so excited,” Skerratt says. “Then I went up to a sales associate and I said to her, ‘I saw that you guys expanded your sizes. I would love to try some stuff on.’ She said, ‘Oh yeah, that’s only online.’ Like, what the heck.TheWhy?”Extended Shop sells casual attire like cutoffs and fun T-shirts; business attire like silk blouses and pencil skirts; and little black dresses, boldly colored crinkle pants and floofy maxi dresses perfect for a night out. It’s a great place to shop for basics too, like jeans, tank tops, jackets and buttondowns. The boutique carries sizes up to 5X. Skerratt says other women in her friend group shared the same struggle. This isn’t new to her — in her younger years, she struggled with her broad shoulders and never saw bodies like hers represented on mannequins in stores.
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Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe arrives 110 years after Thorpe’s signal achievement, winning gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. His runaway victories made him the toast of Sweden. Around the world, reporters hailed him as a hero, but even at the height of his fame he was treated as an exotic oddity. Raised in Oklahoma on the periphery of the Sac and Fox Nation — both his parents were of Native American and European descent — Thorpe learned to play up his Indian side, delighting crowds with war chants and rain dances. In reality, he relished the pleasures of hunting and fishing and as an adult became an adept ballroom dancer. Above all, Thorpe was born to compete. From his early days on the track team for the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, where he was sent in 1904, through his decades-long careers in football and baseball, Thorpe flourished on the field and languished off it. Pictures of Thorpe attest to his efficiently proportioned body. Medical examiners, measuring every part of Thorpe’s body to account for his superiority, concluded that he was “the perfect physical man.” In a portrait of Thorpe, which meticulously re-creates his muscular frame, “Thorpe’s body is smooth and symmetrical, an image of athletic grace and perfection.” Standing in his Olympic togs, as he does in a famous 1912 photo, Thorpe looks impressive. In action, he was fearsome. “His teammates could sense that he was different,” Maraniss writes. “They had seen … the resilience of his body and his resistance to pain, the rare combination of strength, speed, stubbornness, instinct, and agile grace, the hint of danger and spark of electricity.” After Thorpe led Carlisle to a football victory over Army, a New York Times correspondent poetically captured Thorpe’s dominance: Thorpe “simply ran wild, while the Cadets tried in vain to stop his progress. It was like trying to catch a shadow.”
Maraniss presents Thorpe as an exhibit in the 20th-century debate over whether Native Americans should retain tribal identities or be assimilated into mainstream U.S. culture. The Carlisle School was founded on the assimilationist principle, its first superintendent publicly welcoming “our brother in red” (though Carlisle was coed) into “our United States family.” By the time Thorpe arrived on campus, the assimilation debate had been subsumed by the school’s obsession with sports. In the place of education, football became Carlisle’s primary focus, Coach Pop Warner its most influential figure, and Jim Thorpe its undeniable star. Maraniss describes how Thorpe’s relationship with Carlisle was mutually beneficial. Thorpe used the school as a platform for his Olympic run and as an entrée into professional football and baseball. In return, Warner raked in money for the school by playing away games where tens of thousands paid to watch Carlisle’s “big Indian” run, tackle and kick. Maraniss deftly handles the central controversy of Thorpe’s career — his being stripped of his Olympic medals when newspapers revealed that Thorpe played semi-professional baseball for two summers before the Stockholm Olympics. The vast majority of athletes and fans saw the punishment as unjust and hypocritical, given that Thorpe made only a pittance for playing a sport that had nothing to do with his Olympic events, and that other countries, including host Sweden, openly subsidized their athletes. The controversy did nothing to dim Thorpe’s popularity. When he toured the world in 1913 to ’14 as part of an exhibition for Major League Baseball, he was the primary attraction at every stop, from Japan to Egypt to the Vatican. Path Lit by Lightning acknowledges its subject’s imperfections — financial irresponsibility, excessive drinking, indifference as a parent — and how they contributed to his struggles to find employment when his playing days were finished. In his prime, though, Thorpe amazed crowds with performances that inspired “Homeric odes” to his “otherworldly prowess.” Maraniss reminds us that “athletic myths” are inspired “by the desire to rise above life’s ordinariness and associate with the transcendent.” Thorpe’s flaws don’t make him less heroic; they transform an Olympic god into a man we can recognize. For more local book coverage, please visit Chapter16.org, an online publication of Humanities Tennessee. EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
TRYING TO CATCH A SHADOW A new biography of Jim Thorpe separates the man from the legend BY SEAN KINCH BOOKS PATH LIT BY LIGHTNING: THE LIFE OF JIM THORPE BY DAVID MARANISS SIMON & SCHUSTER 672 PAGES, $32.50 MARANISS WILL DISCUSS HIS BOOK 6:30 P.M. THURSDAY, AUG. 25, AT PARNASSUS BOOKS
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J im Thorpe’s tribal name, Path Lit by Lightning, is a memento of the stormy night in 1887 when he and his twin brother Charlie were born. In retrospect, the name seems apt for the multi-sport star who rose from obscurity to global renown as the world’s greatest athlete. But as David Maraniss makes clear in his new biography of Thorpe, “There were few natural lights along the path of Jim Thorpe’s life.” His brother Charlie died of typhoid fever when they were 9; his mother died in childbirth several years later; his father, a gambler and bootlegger who showed little interest in fatherhood, died when Jim was 16. Whatever path Jim Thorpe traveled, he lit it by himself.Maraniss’
“We’d start every session off essentially like a therapy session,” King says, “[with] me spilling my guts about whatever I was going through. … It was really such a bless ing to have not just myself but all these other amazing writers, you know, helping me say what I needed to say when I could hardly stand up.”
On his new album Young Blood , Marcus King exorcises some personal demons BY DARYL SANDERS T here’s a sound that perme ates Marcus King’s new album Young Blood, which hits stores and streaming services Friday: the resonant, muscular growl of a ’59 Les Paul Standard. The legendary guitars, known colloquially as “Bursts” for the sunburst finish they left the factory with, have been at the heart of so many great rock albums — many that are part of the rock canon, from The Rolling Stones to ZZ Top and beyond. Though some key records are miss ing, the most accurate estimates suggest that Gibson made only 643 Les Paul Standards in 1959. In King’s hands, the instrument sounds dark and desperate and dangerous.
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“There’s so much lineage there,” Auer bach adds, “with his dad playing in a South ern rock band and his grandpa having an electricGrowingGibson.”up,King’s family called him “Young Blood,” and he was still in his teens when he launched his musical career front ing The Marcus King Band. The group, which first gained an audience in the jam world, released its debut album Soul Insight in 2015 on Warren Haynes’ Evil Teen label, then moved to Fantasy Records in 2016 for its eponymous second record. Both albums reached the Top 10 of Billboard’s Blues Al bumsKingchart.first met the Black Keys front man in early 2018, and shortly thereafter, they co-wrote “How Long” with revered songsmith and John Prine co-writer Pat McLaughlin. King recorded that song for his album Carolina Confessions, which was produced by Dave Cobb and released later that same year. “It was right before I went in and did the re cord with Cobb,” King recalls of the first time he wrote with Auerbach. “We ended up get ting back together again late 2018 and kind of drumming up an idea for another record. And that’s what ended up being El Dorado.” Auerbach helped King explore his song writer side for 2020’s Grammy-nominated El Dorado, King’s first solo album. But for the follow-up Young Blood, King reached back to the music he knows best: the music of his youth, the Southern rock ’n’ roll and blues his daddy taught him from a young age. “On El Dorado, [Dan] had a way of pin pointing the balladeer side of me and focus ing on that,” King explains. “On this record, we focused in on the rock ’n’ roll side. And we don’t stray far from it.” The dark mood that hangs over Young Blood is not an artful affectation. King was struggling with addiction and recovery on top of a painful breakup just prior to and during the writing sessions for the record. Joining King at those sessions were ac claimed co-writers such as Desmond Child and Angelo Petraglia.
The particular Burst that King plays on Young Blood belongs to his friend and pro ducer, Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys.
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“There’s something to be said about the magic of those ’59 Les Pauls,” Auerbach says, reached by phone later. “It’s kind of staggering when you start to look at what re cords they were used on. It’s almost always your favorite records.”
“My father played rock ’n’ roll his whole life,” King says. “We always would play gospel hymns on the porch of my greatgrandfather’s house, so I guess I kind of grew up around the old mountain music. That’s certainly what my great-grandfather played. And my grandfather played country and Western music.”
“We wanted it to sound like that,” King says. “Like a buzzsaw or something — when you get too close to it, you might lose a limb.”
“If you want to try to achieve those sounds, it’s good to go back to the well,” KingThesays.young guitarist was definitely drink ing from that well on Young Blood, the second record he’s made with Auerbach at the console. Music runs deep in King’s fam ily: Born in Greenville, S.C., he’s a fourthgeneration musician and a third-generation electric guitarist.
The end result is an aching reflection of both the challenges King has faced and the strengths he’s drawn on to make it through. On one of the album’s singles, “Blood on the Tracks,” he sings, “Bad luck’s gotten a hold’a me / But it ain’t takin’ me down.” Just as Auerbach had certain writers in mind to co-write with King and himself for the album, he also knew who he wanted to accompany King when tracking got under way at his Easy Eye Sound Studio. He called on drummer Chris St. Hilaire, bassist Nick Movshon and second guitarist Andy Gab bard, who also contributed backing vocals. “He just knew that this combination of players would be the right fit,” King says. “Man, they hit it off instantly,” Auerbach says with excitement in his voice. “They were so tight. They sounded like they’d been playing the songs for years on the day that we recorded, which was the first day Nick or Chris even heard them.” The 11 tracks on Young Blood not only solidify King’s status as a budding guitar god, they showcase his soulful singing. “I think my voice came from my grandfather,” he says. “He had a real raspy voice, and I always really loved hearing my grandfather sing.” With two successful collaborations under their belts, the odds are high King and Auer bach will work together again in the future. “I love working with Marcus,” Auerbach says. “I’ll work with Marcus forever. He’s endlessly talented — and so genuine. That shit never goes out of style.” EMAIL MUSIC@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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BY NUMBERSTHE Kyle Hamlett Duo explores the ineffable and sublime in everyday life on Tape Diamonds BY STEPHEN TRAGESER L ifelong Nashvillian Kyle Hamlett’s hypnotic voice has weaved its way around and through the city’s con glomeration of music scenes for two decades. Around the turn of the millen nium, when he was a student at Middle Tennessee University,Stateheandsomefriendsstarted Lylas, a band known for sweetly melancholy folk and pop songs whose characters haunt or are haunted. Some of the tunes on their three full-length albums are playfully grim, and they frequently walk a line such that you’re never quite sure who’s mortal and who’s not. Over time, band members rotated in and out, working with a range of artists includ ing Stone Jack Jones, Lambchop, Margo Price, William Tyler and Wooden Wand, and bringing new influences into the mix. In 2017, Lylas released Warm Harm, a collec tion that felt familiar in intent but heavier in style, with post-punk edges built on its roots-schooled foundation. Following that album, Hamlett, who works in music pub lishing by day, played out with a crop of bandmates who felt like a definitive new version of Lylas. However, members’ other commitments led the group to dissolve, which inspired Hamlett to try releasing mu sic under his own name. Hamlett’s longtime friend and collaborator Luke Schneider, a pedal-steel maestro who recently curated a wide-ranging compilation of contemporary pedal-steel music for Tompkins Square, sug gested a naming convention that adapted well to Hamlett’s proclivity for playing with a rotating cast. “I wanted to have as much flexibility as I could while still honoring the people that were playing with me,” Hamlett says via phone. “So I kind of let it be a fluctuatingnumber game at that point. That was Luke’s idea, actually, which is kind of fun. I resisted slightly at first, but he was like, ‘Yeah, let’s just call it Kyle Hamlett Duo, and then when you wanna play with more or less, you can just change the number.’ ”
Starting with 2019’s psych-kissed Nowhere Far, Hamlett’s solo recordings and shows have been billed as Kyle Hamlett Uno. Vari ous other ensembles appear as Kyle Hamlett Trio, Quatro or Cinco, playing different ar rangements of his songs. Kyle Hamlett Duo, however, is its own entity, featuring only Hamlett and Schneider, and they have their own repertoire that Hamlett says he wouldn’t feel right playing with anyone else. Thursday, Aug. 25, marks a rare occa sion when schedules align and the Duo can play together. With a set from poet and songsmith Anne Malin and Chris Davis — percussionist, WXNA DJ and tireless supporter of independent music via arts nonprofit FMRL — manning the turntables at Vinyl Tap, the pair will mark the release of their debut LP. Hamlett and Schneider recorded Tape Diamonds with engineer Jake Davis on another rare break in winter 2018, and it finally sees the light of day on Friday via Arrowhawk Records. Hamlett explains that though Lylas had ventured further into art-rock, he found himself writing folkschooled songs again. “There’s always been a haunt ingness or hauntedness to [folk] that’s appealed to me,” Hamlett says. “I love a lot of more pro duced, big, band stuff as well — rock-band stuff or whatever. But there’s something really im mediate and kind of spooky and haunting about the spareness of a lot of folk music. And the tradi tion of it seems to carry weight in some kind of cultural momentum or lineage that I find incredibly appealing. But I also really like just having the musical foundation feel like that — and having it be a very solid structural base to then explore on top of — because it feels so tried-and-true and unsinkable as a form.”
He thought Schneider — who’d been developing the ambient and New Age steel techniques that characterize his solo album Altar of Harmony — could augment the new work he was doing. The resulting 11-song set opens with “Expected Of,” whose medi tative Grateful Dead-esque presentation belies the frustration and unease that you might pick up from reading the lyrics by themselves; they consist mostly of unan swered questions. A little later, the pair flips the script on The Smiths’ “Death of a Disco Dancer.” The original is blasé by design, a satirical excoriation of apathy toward oth ers’ well-being; Hamlett and Schneider recast it as an eerie Piedmont blues, with un nerving lead steel lines that come sparking like you’ve stuck your finger in an electrical socket. They also revisit “Years and Years,” one of the earliest songs from the Lylas cata log, with Schneider filling the space around Hamlett’s gentle voice and fingerpicking with cascades of shimmering melody. “What I respond to the most in art is stuff that mystifies me a bit, or that ... makes me ask questions, or that doesn’t spell ev erything out to me,” Hamlett says. “And I’ve found that to be incredibly moving, and to rewire my brain and make it work in a way that I really like. And so when I started trying to write lyrics, I felt like that’s the kind of thing I’ve wanted to do myself. I’ve never felt like a very good linear, narrative storyteller per se, and so it feels good and natural for me to kind of work in impressions and things that feel kind of dreamlike — not A-to-Bto-C kinds of stories, things that remain in that ‘Mystery Train’ kind of zone. ... The boundaries aren’t incredibly clear, and it’s not always this very tidy through line or story. It’s confusing. There’s a lot of ambiguity and a lot of stress and anxi ety, and a lot of unknowns in life. And it’s fun and true to me when art reflects that.”After Thursday’s Duo show, Hamlett has more performances with different incarnations of his numbered ensembles on the horizon. Kyle Hamlett Cinco will open songsmith Lou Turner’s Sept. 2 album release party at Third Man Records. But he’s looking forward to the creative possi bilities of his next outing with Schneider. “I would be curious to see what happens if we did it [with] a more purely collaborative spirit — just getting in the room with not much pre-planned and just kind of seeing how it shaped up. Maybe have some instru mental tunes, or have a side of the record be all-instrumental or something like that — kind of in the Bowie-and-Eno mold.” EMAIL MUSIC@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
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THANK YOU FRIENDS BY EDD HURT I f you’re a fan of power pop, you likely appreciate it as a precisely judged balancing act with extra guitars. Taking their cues from The Beatles and The Who, power pop pers as stylistically divergent as Shoes, Game Theory and the unavoidable Big Star have made music that is both heavy and light, as well as profound and ephemeral. Riffs that toy with time signatures matter in power pop, but it’s also a music that folds in the preoccupations of young singers who sometimes find life all too overwhelming. On Aug. 20 at The East Room, Rock Eupora’s singer, songwriter and guitarist Clayton Waller, stood up and proved that he’s a master of the form, from conjuring super-catchy guitar riffs to delivering vocals that are simultaneously emotionally charged and offhand.
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“I ’ll be honest: They’re not supposed to let a band like us play here,” Jamey Jasta said with a certain amount of disbelief. Hatebreed, the metalcore band he’s fronted for 28 years, was on the most hallowed stage in country music on Aug. 16 at the Ryman. On one hand, Jasta seemed to have a genuine reverence for the hall that’s meant so much to American music. On the other, mosh calls are his most refined skill, and it seemed difficult to fathom that he’d find himself staring across an audience seated in church pews. “I can’t believe this is the first Hatebreed show ever without a circleMoshing,pit.” slam dancing or whatever you like to call it is a long-running tradition, but the Ryman is much more “Tennessee Waltz” than “Toxic Waltz.” Thus, it’s a pretty unlikely spot for Anthrax, who wrote and recorded “Caught in a Mosh,” to bring their COVID-delayed 40th anniversary celebra tion. When they finally hit the road, the venerable Queens, N.Y., thrashers brought Hatebreed and Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society along with them. Jasta, a former Headbanger’s Ball host, has been a prominent figure in the worlds of hardcore and metal since the late ’90s. Hatebreed’s first album, 1997’s Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire, catapulted them from VFW halls to Ozzfest stages, exposing them to fans of more mainstream metal. There’s not a lot of nuance in their songs, but to the band’s credit, they pull it off. All the same, it’s a little hard to sell a tune called “Destroy Everything” while flanked by stained glass inside a historic landmark. Going into the show, I wasn’t familiar with Black Label Society, but I knew they had diehard fans — no doubt in part from Wylde’s high-profile work with Ozzy Osbourne and Guns N’ Roses. In concert with BLS, his voice reminded me of late Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley, and the songs were in the vein of standard hard rock. It didn’t do much for me, but the crowd responded strongly, especially to “In This River,” a ballad Wylde wrote for his late friend and Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott. Dime was shot and killed onstage during a show with his band Damageplan in 2004, and his brother Vinnie Paul Abbott, Pantera and Damageplan’s drummer, died in 2018. Wylde and Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante will be filling in for the Abbotts on upcom ing Pantera reunion shows that have caused some controversy among fans. Aside from questions about whether the Abbotts would have approved of a reunion, the shows will include singer Phil Anselmo, who was called out for white supremacist sympathies after he shouted “white power” and made a Nazi salute at a show in 2016. Nonetheless, “In This River,” accompanied by projected im ages of Dime, was poignant. Much like their riff heroes in Motörhead, the Ramones and AC/DC, Anthrax estab lished pretty strict musical parameters early on and has consistently worked within them. In their four-decade run, the New Yorkers have always kept it fast and fun, never shying away from a good time. So why slow down just because you get old? Their set opened with a video featuring interviews about Anthrax with Keanu Reeves, Lady Gaga, Gene Simmons and Henry Rollins, the last of whom bought a house in Nashville and has been spotted around town recently. As the video ended, Anthrax’s backlit sil houettes appeared. Perhaps Jasta forgot to pass along the “no moshing” memo: I spied the shadowy figure of guitarist Scott Ian with one finger tracing a circle in the air, the in ternational signal to fire up the pit. The curtain rose and Anthrax went into full-blitz mode with “Among the Living,” the titular ripper from their 1987 album. Singer Joey Belladonna challenged the crowd to find a way to start a pit, and followed up with “Caught in a Mosh.” Save for a few raised fists, there wasn’t much of a result. It’s tough to engage in good-natured battle with your neighbor at the Ryman without leaving a mark on something historic and probably irreplaceable.Evenso,the pot boiled as the thrash legends blasted on through the 12-song set they’ve worked up for this tour. During the half-speed breakdown of their Judge Dredd homage “I Am the Law,” Ian proved that he can still skank across stage while fluidly strumming out his aggression. Though the show might have felt a bit more at home in a space where moshing and crowd-surfing felt appropriate — like maybe long-gone Nashville club Sal’s, where it’s likely the band played their first show in Music City — it’s still exhilarating to see what Anthrax can do. Four decades into their career, they bring the enthusiasm of a band who’s sleep ing in the van as they trek across the coun try behind their first 7-inch.
The show kicked off with a set from An gela’s Headache, a shape-shifting and contem plative pop ’n’ rock project lead by Angela Wooten, who you might have heard with Nashville bands like Bandit and Secret Club. Following Wooten & Co. was rock outfit The Prescriptions, whose most recent full-length is 2019’s Hollywood Gold, a psych-rock record that takes cues from genre-busting bands like My Morning Jacket. The Prescriptions have recently been on the road with Rock Eupora in the run-up to the release of Pick at the Scab, Rock Eupora’s fourth LP overall and first for Alabama indie Single Lock Re cords. The East Room concert concluded a slew of events marking the album’s release. When Rock Eupora took its turn on the stage, Waller told the audience about writing
the new album: “I was off the road, alone with my thoughts and alone with God.” Indeed, the sheer level of craft that Pick at the Scab evinces makes Waller’s commitment to the job of creating interesting music very clear. The new album is about not knowing how to navigate life, and the possibility that — as The Kinks famously bemoaned way back in the 1960s — the good times have flown, or maybe were never there to begin with. Waller was born and raised in Missis sippi, and he moved to Nashville to study at Belmont University, graduating from the school’s MBA program in 2015. He recorded Pick at the Scab mostly by himself, a pro cess familiar to fans of obsessive powerpop artists like Todd Rundgren. Waller’s approach lends the album a pleasing con sistency of tone. Listen to the album — its mid-fi recording techniques give it the kind of slightly retro aura that you might associ ate with power pop, and Waller’s lyrics are first-rate. However, the record’s virtues were magnified by Waller playing the entire album front-to-back with a crack band. On songs like “Intimacy,” which is the most immediately appealing slice of classic power pop on Pick at the Scab, Waller played rhythm guitar with no false steps. Second guitarist David Dreas added single-note figures and additional rhythm moves, while bassist Matt Wyman and drummer Dan Crotts kept the music moving. On “I Will Never Be Happy,” Waller played solo, and the vulnerability of his vocal performance put me in mind of Neil Young and Alex Chilton. The band was beyond perfect — the songs sped up, slowed down and had, you know, dynamics. Waller’s songs stick measures of 2/4 into 4/4 structures, and this is also a band who knows how to play with time. Waller is a true composer, not just a songwriter, and his tunes satisfy as pieces of pure music, with the guitar figures evoking, say, Game The ory, while his melodies suggest he’s listened to The Shins. In other words, Waller has a synoptic view of the field of power pop. The show consisted of 80 of the most impressive minutes of music I’ve seen in a while, and if Waller wrote his latest album alone with his thoughts and his beliefs, he’s translated the personal into something that has the poten tial to go worldwide.
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EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM AIN’TFILM NEVER HAD A FRIEND LIKE ME Three Thousand Years of Longing is grand, imaginative and sometimes problematic BY CRAIG D. LINDSEY THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING R, 108 AUG.OPENINGMINUTESWIDEFRIDAY,26
don’t know if it was George Miller’s intention to make the most fan tastical “magical negro” movie of all time, but with Three Thousand Years of Longing, that’s exactly what ol’ boy did. Here Idris Elba (who just went toeto-toe with a killer lion in the recently released Beast) walks around damn near butt nekkid as the Djinn — basically a tall-ass genie. This pointy-eared wish ful filler finally breaks out of his bottle after narratologist Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) buys it at an Istanbul shop and cleans it back in her hotel room. Once the Djinn is out, he grants her three wishes, which the lady is hesitant to accept since she knows caution ary tales about wishes don’t end happily. After turning a lot of action fans on with the Oscar-winning hit Mad Max: Fury Road, veteran Australian filmmaker Miller is back in fantasy mode with Longing, which he co-wrote with his daughter Augusta Gore. And much like the A.S. Byatt short story it’s based on, it’s all over the gotdamn place. It’s sprawling yet contained, as the Djinn regales Binnie, both of them in hotel robes, with all the stories of how he pleased those (mainly women, including the Queen of Sheba) who found him — and how he usually ended up back in a bottle, eventu ally dropped in the ocean. These sequences are production-designed to the nth degree, with Miller and his longtime collaborators (including editor/wife Margaret Sixel and cinematographer John Seale) making the settings so elaborate and extravagant that some of my film-critic colleagues have wished the film was being shown in IMAX. I’ve also noticed a racial divide among critics regarding the movie. While paler scribes have praised the film for its fullscale and wondrously shot inventiveness, there are critics of color who aren’t vibing with the fact that it’s still a flick that leans on the outdated magical-negro trope. You could also make the case that it has racist, misogy nistic and even fatphobic elements. I have to admit, Three Thousand Years of Longing is both imaginative and problem atic, a cinematic conundrum. As much as Elba plays his mystical figure as a humble romantic servant, homeboy is still playing a servant — a studly, strapping servant at that. This beautiful dark, twisted fantasy is mainly there to convince Swinton’s single, lily-white, repressed yet content story enthusiast that wanting something more isn’t a bad thing, even if it doesn’t lead to a happy ending. (No body does uptight women quietly ready to let their freak flag fly quite like Swinton.) Miller seems to run out of steam in the third act, as he brings both these characters back to the real world after an hour and change of sur real, illusory madness. There is a possibility that most of what happens in Longing might be just Binnie hal lucinating from a brain tumor or something. (The film starts off with her seeing a couple characters from Djinn’s stories in crowds.) If that is the case, then this makes Longing the second ambitious piece of cinema to come out this year — next to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria — starring Swin ton as a lonesome woman who may or may not be mentally falling apart. With Longing, Miller indulges in grandilo quent storytelling, while also making the case that there appears to be a serious lack of it in our popular culture. He even makes a subtle dig at our comic-book-obsessed film industry in one scene, as Binnie addresses an audience about mythmaking and asks “what is its purpose” while images of be loved superheroes are projected behind her. Yeah, Three Thousand Years of Longing has a lot of issues. But as far as films about a person of color teaching some white person how to live, it’s easier to take than Green Book
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Doug Emmett’s cinematography is muted, stripping its colors down to gray, blue and brown. In fact, Brian’s clothing matches the glumly painted interiors of the bank. But di rector Abi Damaris Corbin relies too much on style as proof of the film’s serious convictions, particularly since this monochrome look isn’t particularly original. While it certainly has good intentions, Breaking feels scared that anyone could mistake it for a thriller. At best, it subverts such narratives in the interest of making something more realistic.
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Breaking is set in 2017 and based on a real event that took place that year, but its framing conveys a pandemic-era loneliness. After the quick exit of the bank’s patrons, Brian is left inside with only two other people. Corbin doesn’t show them in the same shot, instead cutting between images of isolated people in institutional spaces. Only the police have the privilege of sharing a two-shot.Thefilm’s casting is impeccable. Brian’s emotions seem all the more urgent due to the restraint of Boyega’s performance. The Star Wars and Attack the Block actor brings out this soft-spoken man’s need to show his rage over not having a shot at improving his life. Estel is put in the bind of sympathizing with him while still feeling endangered by his hold-up. Breaking presents a tragedy in which most participants, even Brian, enter with good intentions — Estel and Eli genuinely want him to avoid becoming another corpse.
Breaking is a tight narrative that could be staged as a play, but even so, the film includes several half-hearted attempts to open things up. The demands of a featurelength narrative include an incorporation of the media’s response to Brian’s hold-up, but threads like these are clearly secondary. Brian’s interaction with a news producer (Nashville’s own Connie Britton) doesn’t reveal anything about the way the media ex ploits this kind of story. Although the police receive more screen time, even Eli remains underdeveloped.Byzoomingin so closely on Brian, Breaking misses a bigger picture, taking a systemic problem and reducing it to a char acter study. The film’s sympathy for veter ans is unmistakable, but Brian’s desperation is used as a synecdoche of their experience. Breaking does a better job of suggesting how racism pushes Brian toward a violent conclusion without fully spelling it out. All the main characters are people of color, three of them Black, but they’re pressed into service for larger institutions that can’t respect the dilemma of a man like Brian. Even if they’re capable of doing so as indi viduals, their sincerity about bringing the robbery to a peaceful end can go only so far. Breaking tries its best to honor the real man whose experience it’s based upon. Un fortunately, Breaking shows the difficulty of transforming life into a narrative similar to earlier fiction — by the end of the ’70s, stories about damaged veterans lashing out had already become a trope. There’s a lot here, but by its conclusion the film itself feels as trapped as its characters. EMAIL ARTS@NASHVILLESCENE.COM
Breaking is an uneven but sympathetic character study BY STEVE ERICKSON B reaking pulls off a bait-andswitch exemplified by the title’s change from 892, as it was called when it premiered via film festivals many months ago, to its moniker.current Break ing sounds more exciting, if a touch generic, whereas 892 only made sense if one knew something specific about the film — it represents the amount of money owed to veteran Brian Brown-Easley (John Boyega) by Veterans Af fairs. The loss of that money leads the former Marine to hold up a bank. But Breaking isn’t really a genre movie, much less an action movie. It tries to get in tune with the rhythm of hopeless despair, capturing that feeling in itsThestyle.film opens with Brian walking through inhospitable Atlanta streets on his way to a Wells Fargo branch. He proceeds to hand a teller a note claiming to have a bomb, al though he doesn’t want to rob the bank — he just wants a chance to speak with the VA and argue a case for receiving the money. Bank manager Estel (Nicole Beharie) sees what’s going on and orders all the customers escorted out, and Brian demands to speak with police. Due to the VA’s missing disability payment, he’s about to be forced out of a hotel onto the streets. Despite working two jobs, he doesn’t have the income to get by. The missing check seems to be a bureaucratic mistake, but Brian can’t get the VA’s attention any other way. Hostage negotiator Eli Bernard (the late Michael K. Williams in his final role) speaks with Brian, hoping to de-escalate.
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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 ALVARO JACAL ROSAS
It is ordered that said Defendant enter HIS appearance herein with thirty (30) days after September 8, 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 October 10, 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 RichardNashville.R.
It is ordered that said Defendant enter HIS appearance herein with thirty (30) days after September 8, 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 October 10, 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 RichardNashville.R. Rooker, Clerk L. Chappell Deputy Clerk Date: August 11, 2022 Sabrina Jacal NSCPlaintiff8/18, 8/25, 9/1, 9/8/2022
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