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With more change on the horizon, trailblazers of the once-thriving neighborhood remember what made it great BY HANNAH HERNER

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7 The Boring Company Consistently Evades Oversight Lack of accountability and transparency shrouds Music City Loop project as tunneling progresses BY JULIANNE AKERS

8 Pediatrician Expresses Fear of Measles Outbreak as Vaccination Rates Remain Low Religious exemptions reached all-time high in latest state kindergarten compliance report BY HANNAH HERNER

9 Activists Protest ICE Call Center on Día de los Muertos The Donelson event memorialized those who died in immigrant detention centers this year BY ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ

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11 Rock Block Memories With more change on the horizon, trailblazers of the once-thriving neighborhood remember what made it great

Tony Giarratana next to the Rock Block Flats model •PHOTO: ERIC ENGLAND

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THE BORING COMPANY CONSISTENTLY EVADES OVERSIGHT Lack of accountability and transparency shrouds Music City Loop project as tunneling progresses BY JULIANNE AKERS

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CONSTRUCTION AT THE MUSIC CITY LOOP SITE, MARCH 2026

IT’S BEEN MORE than a year since Elon Musk’s The Boring Company announced its plans to construct a parallel pair of 9.5mile underground tunnels stretching from the Nashville International Airport to the downtown core. Meanwhile, a slew of questions surrounding the project’s safety, environmental impact and more remain — all while the company disregards pleas for transparency. With the current tunnel route set to run underneath state-owned roads, The Boring Company effectively evaded almost any need for permits or approvals from Nashville’s Metro government. This includes the Metro Council, which passed a nonbinding resolution in March opposing the Music City Loop. This leaves most regulatory control over the massive transportation system up to officials with the state of Tennessee. However, it’s not entirely clear what — if anything — the state is doing in terms of oversight. In an additional effort to cement state control over the project, the Tennessee General Assembly’s Republican supermajority approved legislation this year creating the “Subterranean Transportation Infrastructure Coordination Act.” The law established the Subterranean Transportation Infrastructure Coordination Authority — made up of members appointed by the governor and speakers of the House and Senate

— which is responsible for resolving disputes, hearing appeals and “exercising the powers necessary to facilitate the construction, operation, and maintenance of a transit project.” While Gov. Bill Lee and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally have made their appointments, which include various former and current state leaders and business officials, House Speaker Cameron Sexton’s section of the state website listing the board members remains blank. A spokesperson with Sexton’s office tells the Scene that the speaker has not yet made his appointments. Among the current board members is former state Sen. Bill Ketron (R-Murfreesboro). When recently questioned by the Tennessee Lookout about whether he thinks concrete barriers will prevent flooding in the tunnel, Ketron said, “They say that they will, but I don’t think I want to be one of the first ones riding through it.” For many Nashvillians, these safety and environmental concerns have been at the forefront of the tunnel discussion since the project was announced in 2025. The Boring Company has called the tunnel “amazingly safe” and released its own assessment last year claiming there were no environmental concerns. This comes in contrast to a recent report from the Southern Environmental Law Center, which found construction on the Music City Loop could lead to

sinkholes and groundwater contamination. Trey Bussey, senior attorney at SELC, tells the Scene the company’s initial assessment did not address some of the key challenges and risks related to the project, such as results of geotechnical boring sampling. “The Boring Company has not disclosed its plans for dealing with these risks,” says Bussey. “We don’t know what they would do if the tunneling machine gets stuck under Mill Creek. We don’t know what they will do if they run into a lot of contaminated soil or groundwater. How are they going to treat that groundwater? What if it starts to flow in all new directions? I don’t think The Boring Company has disclosed a lot of information that’s essential for the public to analyze the risks of this project, particularly to public resources.” Bussey says he thinks the lack of independent review and oversight related to the project is troubling and not typical for projects of this scale. “The Woodland Avenue bike lane has been held up in [National Environmental Policy Act] review and litigation over years,” he says. “Much smaller projects receive a whole lot more scrutiny than this one did.” District 6 Metro Councilmember Clay Capp echoes Bussey’s concerns that the tunnel’s construction is not proceeding like a typical

transportation project. “It’s quite simply a backdoor deal between the richest man in the world and the state government,” Capp says. Meanwhile, the Scene has attempted to contact The Boring Company more than a dozen times since the project was announced last year. Neither the company nor any of its officials have responded to any of the Scene’s requests for comment. At a February meeting, company leaders made a sole public appearance to speak with members of the Metro Council. There, The Boring Company Vice President Davis Buss said the company prefers using blog posts — published every two months — and “personal and small group meetings” as methods of communication rather than interviews with media or formal appearances. However, these bimonthly blog posts are not subject to any sort of checks. In The Boring Company’s most recent post, the organization claims to have hosted “numerous site tours for residents, business owners, students, community leaders, elected officials, and regulatory agencies.” The company did not respond to the Scene’s request in August for a site tour. In addition, the blog claims The Boring Company has “engaged with more than 275 community, educational, nonprofit and professional organizations and participated in over 160 volunteer events across Middle Tennessee,” though it provides no details on what those organizations are. The post also claims the company has responded to more than 220 inquiries submitted to nashville@boringcompany.com. None of those responses have been to the Scene. The Boring Company’s dodging of reporters’ questions and government oversight is not new. The company’s tunnel project in Las Vegas has been the subject of similar transparency barriers, worker safety concerns and criticisms related to efficiency. ▼

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3.7 percent of students presented a religious exemption from vaccination, representing an increase from 3.3 percent the year prior. In nearby Williamson County, just 87.7 percent of students were fully immunized, with 11.1 percent of students presenting religious exemptions, for the 2025-26 school year. This represents a substantial drop from the year prior, with 90.5 students fully vaccinated in Williamson County in the 2024-25 school year, and 8.4 percent utilizing a religious exemption. More families are getting exemptions for their children — whether religious or medical exemptions — than ever before. The 2025-26 school year had the all-time-highest percentage of documented exemptions statewide at 7.5 percent — higher than the previous year’s rate of 6.6 percent. This was largely driven by an increase in religious exemptions, including a jump from 3.5 to 4.6 percent year over year. In order to receive a religious exemption, the parents or guardians of a child must submit a signed statement expressing that the vaccination conflicts with the tenets of their religion. A medical exemption requires a note from a physician or public health nurse listing risk of harm for specific vaccines. The child is required to get any remaining vaccines that they are not at risk of harm for. Dr. Joseph Gigante, professor of pediatrics at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, says some medical professionals are willing to sign an exemption for students who aren’t necessarily at risk of harm. But, he says, you won’t find any of them at Vanderbilt.

Gigante tells the Scene he’s concerned about a measles outbreak in the Nashville area. In fact, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt confirmed they treated a child with measles last week. There have been at least nine cases of measles statewide this year, according to the Tennessee Department of Health, with five of those cases confirmed unvaccinated. “I think, unfortunately, this is predictable,” Gigante says. “As more and more parents opt to not vaccinate their kids against measles with the MMR vaccine, we’re going to see more and more of these outbreaks.” Measles may get the most press, but it’s not the only concern. Gigante is starting to see children in his clinic with meningitis, haemophilus influenzae and pneumococcus, which are all preventable by vaccine. Kindergarten immunization requirements have not changed in recent history, but the government’s stance on them has. After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cut childhood vaccination recommendations down to 11 vaccines from 18 earlier this year, Gigante and his colleagues continued following the American Academy of Pediatrics vaccine recommendations, which remained at 18 childhood vaccinations. The only addition to the childhood vaccination slate is an optional respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) shot, which was rolled out in 2023 and significantly decreased the rate of hospital admissions for babies and toddlers, Gigante says. However, vaccine hesitancy is at an alltime high. “I’ve been doing this for over 30 years,” he says. “This is the worst it’s ever been by far, and I’m afraid it’s only going to get worse. “I don’t know how many more measles outbreaks it will take, and to be quite honest, how many more children have to die from measles and other vaccine-preventable diseases before folks decide, ‘Hey, maybe not vaccinating our children is is not the right choice.’” ▼

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ACTIVISTS PROTEST ICE CALL CENTER ON DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS The Donelson event memorialized those who died in immigrant detention centers this year

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MORE THAN 60 immigration activists gathered in Donelson on Sunday to speak out against plans to bring an ICE call center to the airport-adjacent neighborhood. The event began alongside the busy corridor of Donelson Pike, with a procession down Royal Parkway to the building that is planned to house the call center. Outside of 801 Royal Parkway — a nondescript three-story office building — activists set up an ofrenda, an altar that honors dead relatives in Día de los Muertos ceremonies. This altar was dedicated to those who died in detention facilities operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — a number that has nearly doubled in the past year. Volunteers took turns bringing up photo frames that contained the names of those who have died in ICE custody, placing them on the altar afterward. Dozens of names — most but not all Spanish — sat upon the ofrenda, along with paper flowers, marigolds and tea candles. There was a long enough break in the day’s cold, rainy weather for the 90-minute event, which also included speakers and songs. “This altar holds the grief of families pulled apart, of parents who cannot set a place at the table because they do not know where their child sleeps at night,” said advocate Brenda Perez, wearing calavera makeup and speaking in English and Spanish. “A call center is built to locate, to track and to remove. An ofrenda is built to welcome. One turns people into cases. The other calls them by name. One says, ‘You do not belong here.’ The other says, ‘There is always a place for you at this table.’” Attendees also called out the owner of 801 Royal Parkway, Rick Fownes and MAC Partners

LLC, demanding the lease be severed. Activists say Fownes, who is based in Massachusetts, and his property manager have ignored repeated calls from the community. Koniag, a company owned by Alaskan natives, holds the contract for the call center with ICE and originally planned the site for Adams, Tenn. The location changed to Nashville in August, and soon sparked backlash. One speaker, who introduced herself as a teacher and longtime Donelson resident, stressed the trauma ICE has caused her students and their families. She said some of the kids she works with are missing school and foregoing assistance over fears about ICE. District 30 Metro Councilmember Sandra Sepulveda has been a vocal opponent of the plan and attended the Sunday event. While she doesn’t represent Donelson, many of her constituents are immigrants, and she sits on the Metro Council’s Immigrant Caucus. “At the end of the day, these are people,” said Sepulveda after the event. “These are family members. These are loved ones, and they didn’t come home.” She added that councilmembers have been speaking to Metro Legal about options to address the call center. Organizations that were represented at the Día de los Muertos event included Music City MigraWatch, Nashville Organized for Action and Hope (NOAH), Sacred Resistance, and the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC). ▼

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TONY GIARRATANA STANDING BY ELLISTON PLACE SODA SHOP PHOTO: ERIC ENGLAND

With more change on the horizon, trailblazers of the once-thriving neighborhood remember what made it great BY HANNAH HERNER PERHAPS SCOTT MOSKOVITZ’S biggest contribution to Nashville was ensuring that the city received the Sunday edition of The New York Times the day it dropped. Before his personal campaign to make that happen in the 1970s, Nashville received the paper on Monday. Moskovitz, the founder of since-closed newsstand-and-more Mosko’s, says he called the Times’ circulation manager every day for two years. He left hundreds of messages and spent hundreds of dollars in his pursuit. Eventually, a well-connected friend of Moskovitz said he’d ask his “Uncle Punch” about it. The next week, Moskovitz’s phone rang, and the circulation manager was on the other end. As it turns out, Uncle Punch was The New York Times’ then-publisher, Arthur “Punch” Ochs Sulzberger. Moskovitz recalls the conversation: “‘Mr. Moskovitz, I am so sorry I haven’t called you back.’ And I went, ‘You haven’t called me back for two years, you son of a bitch! What the

fuck is wrong with you?’ Pardon my language. It’s exactly what I said to him. I said, ‘If you were here, I would absolutely strangle you. Why haven’t you called me back?’ Dead, dead silence.” Mosko’s had the Sunday Times, on Sunday, the following week. Nashville was an underestimated market, to say the least, when Moskovitz opened his newsstand on Elliston Place in 1977. “I mean, people didn’t think we wore shoes,” he says. The Rock Block — which extends roughly from Louise Avenue to just beyond 22nd Avenue North on Elliston Place in Midtown — is a small piece of land that has launched an outsized collection of anecdotes like this. Mosko’s wares included then-novelties like dirty greeting cards, a cigar humidor, some craft beers and a comprehensive newsstand that included everything from The Advocate to

the Harvard Business Review. The Rock Block introduced many new flavors to Nashville, including sushi at Samurai Sushi, the famous “bean roll” (i.e., a massive burrito) at The Gold Rush and Chicago-style pizza at Obie’s, not to mention excellent but more familiar fare like a lineup of sandwiches at Mosko’s (and the burgers at Rotier’s just a few blocks away). In its heyday, beginning in the 1970s, the Rock Block was a place where people found their personal style at vintage stores, got their first drink, did their first drugs and saw that first band that made them a music fan at Exit/In or The End. Those bands bolstered the block too, frequenting the surrounding businesses. As was the Nashville way, they were welcomed, but left alone. Today the block is a far cry from its glory days. Developer Tony Giarratana has slowly collected many of the properties in the area over the past several years — and at long last, his plans are set to get underway. Some say re-creating the Elliston Place Soda

Shop is the best thing Giarratana ever did. He bought the soda shop in 2019 on the night it closed, and tells the Scene he spent $6 million remodeling the building next door to house the 1939-founded business. It’s “better than it ever was,” says Giarratana. Giarrantana, who owns many of the properties on the Rock Block — save for Exit/In, The End and a few others — says the key ingredient the neighborhood needs is people. The businesses will follow. In the past, the block was bolstered by the Louise Douglas Apartments, which have since been replaced by a Holiday Inn. In the first quarter of 2027, his crew will begin work on Rock Block Flats, a project that has been in the works for six years and will yield five stories and 90 total apartments an estimated 18 months later. Rock Block Flats will be located on the south side of the street, behind the facades that previously housed The Gold Rush, Elder’s Bookstore, Buffalo Exchange and others. In 2028, Giarrantana is set to start work on the 17-story mixed-use building 22 Elliston

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was pretty wild like that.” Koehler inherited the title “Unofficial will be demolished. Mayor of Elliston Place” from Buford In addition, the project includes a park in Anthony, who had run the jewelry shop front of Ducklo Eyecare that will seal off the since 1947. Koehler bought the shop in 1993, sidestreet running in front of it, plus a parking eventually relocating off the block in 2007. garage down 22nd Avenue North. Volley Two of Koehler’s best stories start with Automation will park cars robotically for Rock Cadillacs. Block Flats residents in front of the building. Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill of ZZ Top rolled “You need peoup in a Cadillac ple living there,” one day, as the Giarrantana says. brand had spon“Because they live sored the band’s there, they walk tour that year. Gibto the restaurants, bons came into his they walk to the store and played bars, they walk to Koehler’s guitar. the entertainment On another venues. You need occasion, a couple people, and the —DEBBIE MICHAEL, OWNER OF FORMER ROCK BLOCK rolled up to the VINTAGE STORE BETTY BOOP'S more people you store in a Cadillac, get, the more with the husband vibrant the neighclimbing out of borhood is. If there’s no people, it’s pretty bleak.” the car to try to direct the boat of a vehicle into It’s pretty bleak now, he admits. a parallel parking spot. As it turns out, it was “All of a sudden, it’s not a deserted, scary Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash on their way place,” says Giarratana. “It’s a vibrant neighborto Samurai Sushi. hood, like 12South.” It was a bit of a fan-boy moment for Koehler. In his previous career in entertainment, he had Chuck Koehler, the owner of former Rock compiled a video featuring comedic moments Block staple Anthony’s Jewelers, would often from Carter Cash’s career. watch the comings and goings at Mosko’s deli “I was like, ‘You used to be really funny,’ and counter across the street. June Carter Cash looks at me and she goes, “One day, I look over there and I see Sen. Fred ‘What do you mean used to be funny?’” Koehler Thompson, who’s sitting next to some young recalls. Each time he saw the Cadillac show up, guy that’s got this purple spiked mohawk,” he’d rush out to fill the meter in exchange for a Koehler tells the Scene. “They’re just having this joke from Carter Cash. lively conversation. Elliston Place Yunho Choo is the owner of Samurai Sushi, which is still open today, and remembers Johnny Cash requesting Samurai’s food as one of his last meals. He knows famous people come in, but he doesn’t know all their names — save Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. Samurai Sushi originally opened in 1989, and Choo says when he took over in 2003, he could count Nashville’s sushi offerings on one hand. His restaurant became popular thanks to a fusion approach that is ubiquitous among sushi offerings today. The Choo Choo Roll, complete with strawberries and pine nuts, and the Hawaiian Roll with fresh mango remain his most popular dishes. Mosko’s alleged first three DEBBIE MICHAEL, OF BE TT Y BOOP ’S OWNER customers sum up the prestige of PHOTO COURTESY OF DEBBIE MICHA the Rock Block at the time. First EL was Randy Rayburn, who would later found Sunset Grill, and lived in the Louise Douglas Apartments at the time. Then came Brooks &

“To be a Boopette meant that you were part of our group. Either you worked there or you would wear the vintage clothes, and we'd all kind of hang out together, and we'd all look beautiful and crazy-looking, and we were all beautiful women who were kind of wild.”

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Dunn’s Kix Brooks, then a struggling artist who also lived in the Louise apartments. Third was Don Schlitz, who would read the magazines for free all day, looking for song ideas. Schlitz, who died in April of this year, later became known for writing “The Gambler,” among other hits. Moskovitz has a file of dozens of signed photos of celebrities who would stop in. But he never hung any up. “My philosophy was anybody can come in here, and I don’t want you to be bothered,” he says. “This is a private space. You can come in here.” At Elliston Place vintage store Betty Boop’s, the costume department for Robert Altman’s legendary 1975 ensemble film Nashville stopped by to purchase pieces for the cast and extras. One of the film’s most memorable scenes, during which Keith Carradine’s character sings the Oscar-winning song “I’m Easy,” was filmed at Exit/In just across the street. Debbie Michael’s store became a hit with both artists and students. Betty Boop’s opened at a time when vintage stores were a new concept, and when “we were all trying to break the glass ceiling,” she says. “I did not graduate [from Vanderbilt] because I felt like I could earn more money messing around with antiques,” Michael says. “Back then, you have to understand, there’s two reasons why women went to college. Mainly to find a rich husband or someone that would be rich, and secondly to be a schoolteacher or a nurse.” As she saw it, Michael and her crew of “Boopettes” were doing something subversive — just like everyone else on the Rock Block. “To be a Boopette meant that you were part of our group,” she tells the Scene. “Either you

worked there or you would wear the vintage clothes. And we’d all kind of hang out together, and we’d all look beautiful and crazy-looking, and we were all beautiful women who were kind of wild.” Perhaps Michael’s most lasting legacy is the Elliston Place Street Festival, which she started with audio engineer Johnny Rosen in the late ’70s. Boop’s closed in 1980, and Michael moved to Arkansas. But the street festival lived on. “Elliston Place was really, really coming about,” Michael says. “The Exit/In was booking up-and-coming people that later became incredibly famous. You just never knew who you were going to see down there.” Marshall Chapman inadvertently broke the glass ceiling at TGI Friday’s — which opened one of its early locations in Nashville in 1971 — as the outpost’s first female bartender. “I think they did that as kind of a gimmick to attract attention,” she tells the Scene. “But I was a terrible bartender.” She never mastered the soda gun, so she’d often mix the wrong drink. She didn’t last long in the role. “I was usually very generous with the alcohol, so they loved me,” she says. “But I put the drink down and I say, ‘I hope this isn’t too strong for you, sir.’ He couldn’t complain after that.” Chapman and her friends knew the Rock Block as the “Devil’s Triangle,” with TGI Friday’s, Exit/In and The Gold Rush as its three points. The list of legendary artists she saw at Exit/In in the ’70s and ’80s is long: Tom Waits, Linda Ronstadt, Wayne Cochran, Roger Miller, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Bobby “Blue” Bland, B.B. King. “I can tell you 100 things like that that I saw at the Exit/In,” she says. “I saw some of the most incredible acts when they were still young and hungry.” Chapman played her own first show at Exit/In, opening for Cowboy Jack Clement, who became

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an iconoclast of country music. At her show, she looked out into the audience and saw Johnny and June Carter Cash, Ray Ste-

vens, Jerry Smith, Harlan Howard, Jessi Colter and Waylon Jennings. “The entire audience was of that caliber, and I went there — little Miss Vanderbilt just graduated, just started writing songs — and I just thought I’d died and gone to heaven,” she tells the Scene. By the time Erin Plew Lyles got a job at The Gold Rush in 2007, female bartenders were the norm. She started working there under the belief that if you work at a bar you like, it won’t feel like work. It’s still her favorite job. “It was always a place that I knew I could go, where there were people who were into film and music,” Lyles says. “A bar [where] you can

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just go by yourself and all your friends are there.” She was able to play her favorite indie-rock acts over the bar’s speakers, like Magnetic Fields and Spoon. An area of The Gold Rush referred to as The Blue Bar was reserved for classic rock like Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead. The Gold Rush was another establishment where famous musicians could come to be left alone. It also prepared her for her work today as a therapist. “Being a bartender, there is a lot of listening to people and what they’re going through,” she says. “I think I really did discover, ‘Oh I’m pretty good at this. I’m pretty good at listening and talking to people that are going through really tough stuff.’” Part of what earned Chuck Koehler of Anthony’s Jewelers his Unofficial Mayor of Elliston Place title: He started the Elliston Place Merchants Association. Each member of the association sponsored a street light, paying Nashville Electric Service monthly to become the best-lit entertainment district in town. The bars also allowed people to order outside food from fellow Elliston Place restaurants. You could

eat a Gold Rush bean roll at The Corner Bar, for example, or Obie’s Pizza at The Gold Rush. “I would always try to preach, so to speak, that we’re not competing with each other,” Koehler says. “We’re competing with Hillsboro Village. We’re competing with 12South. Our goal was to always cross-promote everything, because once you get somebody to park their car and come into an establishment on Elliston Place, you want them to stay.” Over the past half-century, there’s been so much transience on Elliston Place that it’s difficult to name all the businesses that have come and gone. There was Elder’s Book Store, Rock Block Guitars, music store Safe Psyches, Sherlock Holmes Pub, hair salon Scissor Cuts, Audio Systems, Sundance Leather, and vintage stores Smack and Dangerous Threads. It was hard for Chris Cobb to narrow the Rock Block’s legacy down to the 480 characters that were placed on a historical marker in 2020. The marker was unveiled in preparation for the 50th anniversary of Exit/In, which Cobb co-owned at the time. The club was purchased by developers AJ Capital in 2022, though it has maintained operation as a music venue since.

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“I think the driving factor of the marker was that there’s a really important musical history that would not exist had it not been for the Rock Block specifically,” says Cobb. The marker focuses on the 1970s and ’80s, describing the neighborhood as the “counterculture epicenter.” “During that time, at that moment, Nashville had a very real, very authentic music-driven culture that was part of the foundation of what has now become a global brand in Music City.”

“I know people are frustrated, and some people are downright angry that we haven’t developed the property,” Giarratana says. “It isn’t because we’re ignoring it. It’s because of the market. The Rock Block Flats is $31.5 million. It’s not like, ‘Let me pull some cash out of my pocket and do this project.’” Yunho’s lease will last for at least four more years, and he’s proud of what he created there. “What makes him fulfilled and happy is when all these Vanderbilt students used to be regulars at Samurai, and now they’re like in their 40s, or Annie Choo — translating for her father, when they get married and they have kids,” Annie Yunho Choo of Samurai Sushi — tells the Scene, says on her father’s behalf. “They come back to the “The charm of Elliston Place is like what he restaurant, even though it’s been over 20 years.” hopes one day might come back. But he loves Annie, who owns vegan restaurant AVO, marElliston Place and he wants to continue doing ried the man whose father sold the restaurant to sushi over there.” Yunho in 2003. They named their son Elliston. The business moved Five-year-old Elliston over one building to is part of why the family the former Obie’s Pizza is holding onto the lospace when The Gold cation. Both Annie and Rush closed in 2019. her husband have memYunho was told years ories of hanging out on ago that he could potenthat street; her husband tially occupy his old site would play pool at The after Rock Block Flats Gold Rush as a child. —CHRIS COBB, FORMER CO-OWNER OF was built. “When Elliston was EXIT/IN “Basically everything born, I walked the street around him just starts and I took a picture of to close, and obviously when everything closes, every sign that said Elliston on it,” Annie says. the whole dynamic of the street changes,” An“And I hope to show him that one day. Some of nie says. “The personality of the street kind of all the signs are gone now. I’m glad I took photos, went away. It negatively affected his business.” because it’s changed so much.” ▼ Yunho will believe pending changes when he sees them.

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Although the context is indie rock, the music on Dead Gowns’ new album Vegas is stylistically all over the place. For singer and bandleader Geneviève Beaudoin, the lyrics for Vegas, which detail the end of a friendship in the context of Las Vegas, carry the message of the album. Beaudoin currently lives in Maine, where she grew up, and Vegas examines Beaudoin’s trip out West with wintry precision and exhausted humor. As she sings on the album’s “Vegas Dream”: “The mistake in my hand / ’Cause I had signed for the car rental / Without reading the fine print.” Meanwhile, “Salt Destroyer” lays out the end of a relationship in uncomfortable detail. As it was on Dead Gowns’ 2025 album It’s Summer, I Love You, and I’m Surrounded by Snow, the music is post-Big Thief indie-folk, with acoustic guitar interludes and arrangements that build into rock. Vegas and It’s Summer might put you in mind of Wednesday, Waxahatchee and any number of Americana bands that skirt avant-garde folk while remaining accessible. In that sense, Beaudoin is as much like Sierra Ferrell as she is Cat Power, with different musical idioms. Vegas is subtly addictive — Beaudoin and Luke Kalloch’s guitars provide plenty of understated thrills. Lamplight and Justin and the Cosmics provide support Saturday at Drkmttr. EDD HURT 8 P.M. AT DRKMTTR 1111 DICKERSON PIKE

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“Sweetest Things” sounds like the Grateful Dead channeled through, say, The Climax Blues Band. For that matter, Deer Tick has always played with the conventions of mainstream rock. Writing about the band for the Scene in 2010, I called their 2009 release Born on Flag Day “a cross between The 13th Floor Elevators and America,” and Coin-O-Matic is similarly genre-defying. The aforementioned “Sweetest Things” is as catchy as “Endless Loop,” itself an unclassifiable slice of all-American rock ’n’ roll. Coin-O-Matic bears comparison to Low Cut Connie’s recent work, and “Endless Loop” and “Exit Door” would fit nicely with tracks

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BARBARA’S BLUE KITCHEN

An accomplished playwright, screenwriter, actor and educator, Lori Fischer is widely respected throughout the local arts community. But she’s also racked up plenty of credits beyond Music City. Her delightful musical Barbara’s Blue Kitchen has played everywhere from the Adirondack Theatre Festival and Cincinnati Playhouse to the Cumberland County Playhouse, and it even enjoyed an off-Broadway run at the Lamb’s Theatre in 2006. Audiences are invited to pull up a chair and revisit this homestyle favorite, as Fischer brings Barbara’s Blue Kitchen back to the Darkhorse Theater this weekend only. Set in Watertown, it’s sort of a slice-of-life comedy, featuring a slew of quirky characters — from Miss Tessie (a delightfully sassy senior from the neighborhood retirement home) to Jeanette (a Tupperware-toting waitress with a penchant for dropping her plates). There are also plenty of country-tinged tunes like “Love Coming Through,” “How Many Pieces of My Heart,” and “I Want My Kidney Back.” Malana Harris directs, and the cast includes Fischer, along with local favorite Shawn Knight. AMY STUMPFL NOV. 5-7 AT THE DARKHORSE THEATER 4610 CHARLOTTE AVE.

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Baby Teeth Performance Lab first burst onto the scene in May, serving up Charlotte Jones’ tender two-hander Airswimming. Now this female-led indie theater company is back, presenting the U.S. premiere of Joel Horwood’s thought-provoking Wolves Are Coming for You. Originally produced in the U.K., the play follows a small village where a resident claims to have spotted a wolf on the outskirts of town. What follows is a fascinating exploration of rumor, truth, community, isolation and the fear of the unknown. The piece offers a unique exercise in collective imagination and the “theater of the mind,” with two actors taking on a total of 15 characters without the benefit of a traditional set. It also highlights “the importance that storytelling plays in human civilization, and how women have always been integral to passing on those stories.” Baby Teeth co-founder Elena Ramage is making her directorial debut

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Omnipresent Nashville photographer Ray Di Pietro will host his first photography exhibit Balloons on Thursday. The exhibit will benefit a variety of Nashville community service organizations. Prints will be for sale for $500, with proceeds benefiting the following organizations, assigned to each print: Nashville Rescue Mission, Room In The Inn, The Store, Open Table Nashville, People Loving Nashville, Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, The Contributor and the Community Resource Center. Two-hundred newspaper-style exhibit programs will also be for sale for $20, with

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A moving confession with a fitting soundtrack and heavy rainfall. A fast-paced chase to catch a train before it departs. A spark of electricity arising from two hands brushing. At Meet Cute Con, you can meet some of the faces that make these romantic, swoon-worthy moments work. The convention is a piece of small-town romance made public, bringing actors and actresses from One Tree Hill, Virgin River, Grey’s Anatomy and more together for one weekend. Hosted at The Loveless Barn, the night will feature intimate Q&A panels, professional photo opportunities, live music and memorabilia available for purchase. General tickets give access to most activities on Saturday, but VIP upgrades are available to extend the experience to an exclusive poolside evening at Virgin Hotels on Friday. Whether you’re attending for an autograph, specialty cocktails and delicious cafe bites, or to swoon the way your favorite fictional characters did, Meet Cute Con is sure to deliver. JESSE JONES 10 A.M.-6 P.M. AT THE LOVELESS BARN 8400 HIGHWAY 100

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from that band’s 2023 full-length Art Dealers. It might be Deer Tick’s best album to date, which is saying something for a band that’s released plenty of great music already. Americana folk duo DUG opens. EDD HURT 8 P.M. AT THE BASEMENT EAST 917 WOODLAND ST.

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with Wolves, and the cast includes Caroline Conner and another Baby Teeth co-founder, Kayla Enquist. The creative team also features a number of familiar faces, including sound designer Jacob Allen and lighting designer Rachel Rinehart — skilled artists, whose work we’ve recently seen at both Street Theatre and Nashville Rep. AMY STUMPFL NOV. 6-14 AT THE BARBERSHOP THEATER 4003 INDIANA AVE.

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[WORDS AND MUSIC]

On Friday, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will unveil Roger Miller: Wit, Wisdom, and Wonder, a new exhibition that explores the life and career of the late country-pop superstar. A member of the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, Miller rose to prominence in the 1960s on the strength of crossover hits like “King of the Road” and “Dang Me.” He won 11 Grammy awards, hosted his own network television show, appeared in films and television series, and won a Best Original Score Tony for his Broadway musical Big River. On Saturday, museum writer-editor and exhibit co-curator Erin Osmon will lead a panel discussion about the celebrated singer, songwriter and humorist that will include three people who knew Miller best: his wife Mary Miller, his close friend Bill Anderson and his former music director, bandleader and pianist Randy Hart. “One thing that was important with the panel is to bring Roger into the room because he’s

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no longer with us,” Osmon tells the Scene. “So it is going to have a video component — a compilation of some of Roger’s television appearances in the ’60s and ’70s … and then there’s lots of archival photos and some audio to help aid the discussion.” DARYL SANDERS 2:30 P.M. AT THE COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM’S FORD THEATER 222 REP. JOHN LEWIS WAY S.

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have navigated some aspect of grief. It’s an increasingly common occurrence, according to Martin herself: “These days, we are faced with it far more than can possibly be healthy,” she writes in the exhibition statement. But making art out of pain can be a tool for healing, and Martin has enlisted some of the strongest artists in her orbit to convene. “My hope is that, in sharing these works, we will come together and partake in the opportunity to befriend grief, get to know it, help each other carry it, use it, sit with it, or maybe release it.” Artists include Sam Dunson, who received a Scene Best of Nashville writers’ choice for Best Local Legend in 2025, and Noah Saterstrom, whose painting for the cover of Ann Patchett’s Whistler recently brought his work to a wider literary audience. As always, Julia Martin Gallery opening receptions are great parties, even during times of grieving. Be there on Saturday from 5 to 9 p.m. to find out why.

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DAILY LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF ICE

Authoritarian states share certain DNA: surveillance, intimidation and a profound daily impact on the minds and experiences of certain targeted peoples. Nelson Núñez, an immigrant and agricultural labor organizer, has seen such regimes at work across the American continent, from his home country of Honduras to his new home in Nashville. Nelson will speak about his life on Saturday at Dozen Bakery as a special presentation of Outside the Frame, a zine about his life. Admission is free, but donations will benefit Workers’ Dignity (Dignidad Obrera), an economic justice center on Nolensville Road that has been advocating for workers’ rights in Nashville for more than 15 years. ELI MOTYCKA 5-6:30 P.M. AT DOZEN BAKERY 2522 GRANDVIEW AVE.

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DAN DEACON W/TERROR PIGEON

If there’s any musician’s work I could describe as pure ear candy — with all the necessary depth — it’s that of Dan Deacon. While the flawless production from the Baltimore-based electronic musician is certainly pleasant to the ear, it is also so much more than that. Deacon combines his experimental electronic and synth soundscapes with both upbeat and pensive, introspective lyrics to create works of music unlike anything else out there. Tracks “Become a Mountain” from his 2020 record Mystic Familiar and “Feel the Lightning” from 2015’s Gliss Riffer are must-listens. Aside from his traditional albums, Deacon’s catalog includes an array of work on film scores and a recent feature on Turnstile’s 2026 record. His score for National Geographic’s 2026 documentary Time and Water is an ethereal and emotionally moving piece of art that fans of Mort Garson’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia would surely enjoy. Deacon — known for his high-energy shows — is headed to Nashville for a set at The Basement East Sunday with support from Nashville-based indie synthpop darlings Terror Pigeon. JULIANNE AKERS 8 P.M. AT THE BASEMENT EAST 917 WOODLAND ST. [WAR PARTY]

GWAR

Those in the know will wear an outfit they don’t care about to see Gwar — or at least a rain poncho. There’s an infamous “splash zone” at the alien-themed shock-rock collective’s gigs, and anything from slime to simulated gore could rain on the crowd at their Sunday show at Brooklyn Bowl. Gwar has proven they cannot be defeated: not by time, which they’ve wrangled since their humble 1984 beginnings in a Richmond, Va., warehouse, and not by conservative internet reactionaries, whose feeble 2025 attempts at whipping up scandal over the band’s onstage antics have only added fuel to their satirical fire. In a genre dominated

MONDAY / 11.9 [SURE AS I’M SITTIN’ HERE]

RIDING WITH THE KING: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN HIATT

Thirty years ago, acclaimed singer-songwriter John Hiatt joined forces with addiction treatment and recovery facility Cumberland Heights to launch the John Hiatt Fund for Adolescent and Young Adult Treatment. Hiatt, who is best known for hits like “Thing Called Love,” also helped launch the annual Concert for Cumberland Heights to benefit the fund. “I am a recovering alcoholic addict, and I sought treatment myself back in 1984, so I’ve always had a place in my heart for the treatment center model as it pertains to substance abuse,” Hiatt tells the Scene. The Concert for Cumberland Heights returns to the Ryman Auditorium for the 30th consecutive year on Nov. 9. Billed as Riding With the King: A Tribute to John Hiatt, this year’s show will honor Hiatt for his many contributions to Cumberland Heights. Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill, Keith Urban, Nick Lowe, John Doe, Steve Earle, Jason Isbell, Lilly Hiatt and Shawn Colvin are among the artists slated to perform songs by Hiatt. Hiatt himself will close the show with two or three songs. While Hiatt lends his name to the treatment fund, he’s quick to credit others — including former Cumberland Heights employees Walt Quinn and Eleanor Templeton and his longtime manager Ken Levitan — for the success of the concert series, which has raised nearly $4 million to date. DARYL SANDERS 7:30 P.M. AT THE RYMAN 116 REP. JOHN LEWIS WAY N.

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[BECOME A MOUNTAIN]

by incredibly self-serious acts, Gwar has long proven that heavy metal, at its core, is a little silly — just like wrestling and drag. There’s room to cover Chappell Roan and celebrate Terry Gross, besides. ANNIE PARNELL 7 P.M. AT BROOKLYN BOWL 925 THIRD AVE. N.

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MUSIC CITY MONDAYS & KEN RUSSELL X4: TOMMY

Earlier this year, IMAX brought back Ken Russell’s 1975 all-star adaptation of The Who’s rock-opera opus Tommy for a twonight run. I can only imagine how gotdamn insane it must’ve been for audiences to see this maximalist musical mindfuck, with eternally smooth-chested Who frontman Roger Daltrey as the titular “deaf, dumb and blind kid,” played/laid out on a giant IMAX screen. But given that IMAX auditoriums also have speakers placed behind the screen, I’m guessing the sound was just as awesome as when the film first dropped, when theaters had to be equipped with a behind-the-screen fifth speaker so every screening could have that “Quintaphonic Sound.” (I wonder if the ol’ Belle Meade Theatre had that setup when it played there back in the day.) Even though they don’t have secret speakers set up in their auditoriums, the folks at the Belcourt will close its quadrilogy salute to the late British filmmaker with a certain-to-be-loud, Music City Mondays screening of his most commercially successful film. CRAIG D. LINDSEY 8 P.M. AT THE BELCOURT 2102 BELCOURT AVE.

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When we call films “urgent” or “necessary,” are we supporting the cause or the film itself? Lee Chang-dong returns with Possible Love, his first film in eight years and winner of the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival. It follows director Lee Ye-ji (Cho Yeo-jeong) as she makes a documentary about laid-off workers, fixating on Ho-seok (Sul Kyung-gu) and his experience in a workers’ strike that was broken up by the police. Director Lee and her financier husband, Sang-woo (Zo In-sung), try to befriend Ho-seok’s wife, Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon), to convince Ho-seok, still deeply traumatized, to sit for an interview. Lee Changdong uses the skills he has developed over his career to self-reflect on his role as a storyteller. Every emotional moment is interrupted by a camera rolling in the background. The film often feels like a playground for those with the capital to make it, sold to an audience to be consumed. “Urgent” and “necessary” are labels Lee Chang-dong has spent his press tour deflecting, asking instead: “Am I worthy of telling their story?” KEN ARNOLD NOV. 11-15 AT THE BELCOURT 2102 BELCOURT AVE.

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Nine months into a refresh, a new menu brings comfort food and well-met pairing challenges to East Nashville’s Bad Idea BY ELI MOTYCKA WINE AND CHICKEN NUGGETS for dinner usually signal dire circumstances. Nuggets, a distinctly American comfort food made famous by microwavable food trays and McDonald’s, come with caviar at East Nashville’s Bad Idea, where a new menu re-creates the mystery snack’s internal congealment with unsettling precision. It happens that a cloudy Portuguese pét-nat — short for the French pétillant-naturel, and fizzy like a fountain drink with an inscrutable fruity bouquet akin to Dr. Pepper — can work with that potato-starch crisp. Bad Idea is now nine months into a new era after parting ways with Colby Rasavong, who helped put the East Nashville restaurant on The New York Times’ coveted top 50 “Restaurant List” in 2024 and attract a Michelin sommelier award for owner Alex Burch in 2025. For a time, Bad Idea was one of Nashville’s buzziest restaurants. Burch’s wine expertise complemented a menu from Rasavong, who was raised in Murfreesboro and collected a star-studded

kitchen résumé around the Southeast, centered on Lao cuisine that experimented with technique and palate. Every dish was a curiosity for the unacquainted diner. Spice, heat and strong flavors also presented pairing challenges, according to Burch, who has welcomed Bad Idea’s new direction as approachable and accessible. The restaurant’s name itself was the founders’ tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment of the ambitious, optimistic folly that was opening an upscale wine bar built on Lao menu. By October 2025 — two years after opening in East Nashville’s Five Points neighborhood — Bad Idea settled just outside the city’s tip-top kitchens while not quite cementing itself as a neighborhood staple. When Rasavong departed in November of that year, Bad Idea’s unique culinary identity suddenly lost its flag. When Burch handed the kitchen keys to David Breeden, who brought a decades-long career atop national landmarks The French Laundry and Per Se, the heavy-hitter veteran had a great wine cellar and a blank slate to work with. Breeden charted a course toward iconic American

dishes based around steak and seafood, with particular predilection toward Southern favorites. In July, chef Logan King took over after spending years under towering American chef Thomas Keller in kitchens like the French Laundry, Bouchon and Surf Club. A new menu leading with pimento cheese, caviar and chicken nuggets looks at first like an overcorrection pandering to the provincial American. While modern Lao cuisine attracted the curious, strip steak and Atlantic scallops now feed the bottom line. But any path through the familiar menu will no doubt encounter pleasant surprises and a satisfying attention to the season. The nuggets start and end with novelty, which may be worth the modest starter price tag. The inside is a mysterious mix of chicken meat and poultry parts, just like the original fast food staple. A full table will struggle to split them

without a smile or a story, especially alongside a first stop on the excellent wine list. Bad Idea’s pimento cheese is an herbed creamy blend topped with reduced chiles served with a hidden star: a sleeve of buttery, crunchy saltines that both honor and shame the iconic club cracker. Onions, leeks and cheese help frame squash, root vegetables and crucifers across many small and tasty plates. Small riffs, like a light ribbon of “kimchi bubbles” and herb labneh, liven dishes without wandering too far afield from expectations. Germantown pasta powerhouse Rolf and Daughters put agnolotti on Nashville’s dining map, but Bad Idea offers up its own crowd-pleasing pillows simply dressed and touched with miso. Hamachi and head-on prawns mirror macrotrends that dominate today’s fine-dining menus. All are executed well and helped by the kitchen’s bias for openflame cooking. The undersized kitchen, a compromise on the CONTINUED ON PAGE 30

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otherwise exceptionally excellent church space, is prone to pacing challenges. There’s another reason to focus on sipping. Bad Idea’s highest returns come by fully embracing wine. Burch built the restaurant on it after all, and has curated real hits. Take recommendations from Burch or his informed staff and tour four continents with the half-glass option, unless you have a compelling reason not to. Like a well-catered wedding, the menu’s entrées offer an option each for those seeking steak, fish, chicken or vegetarian, surrounded by comforts like butter emulsions, peas, carrots and turnips. These simple American staples get treated with French techniques, giving Burch a wide berth to build wine pairings. But stay on track — three or four half-pours across 90 minutes, or thereabout — to arrive happily buzzing in time for dessert. A meal that started with chicken nuggets ends with a dense s’mores torte topped with toasted marshmallow fluff. Simple can be satisfying. It is also stabilizing,

in this case, as Bad Idea finds its niche in Nashville’s saturated restaurant scene. The quietly luxurious space is airy and trendy and cozy at the same time, and there is still no better place to drink wine. Burch’s selection and guidance immediately make a meal at Bad Idea memorable. A table can enjoy four courses, plus a diverse wine tour, for under $90 a head — a sweet spot that ends as an appropriately priced celebratory dinner rather than a sticker-shock splurge. ▼

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BLUEGRASS AND BEYOND

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BABY, GOLF BALL, LOBSTER TAIL Learning to live in my body, on its own terms BY MARY LIZA HARTONG Vodka Yonic features a rotating cast of women, nonbinary and gender-diverse writers from around the world sharing stories that are alternately humorous, sobering, intellectual, erotic, religious or painfully personal. You never know what you’ll find in this column, but we hope this potent mix of stories encourages conversation. WHEN I AWOKE from anesthesia, the spine surgeon reported that the disc had been so large and so sprawling that it was as if he had delivered a baby from my back. I asked if it was the biggest herniated disc he’d ever seen — it was — and what common object I might compare it to when relaying the story to my friends. “A golf ball,” he said. “Or a lobster tail. It just kept coming.” Groggy but curious, I did a slow shimmy into a seated position. The doctor beseeched me to take it easy. No bending, no lifting. He was a good guy and clearly a great surgeon, but as he bid me adieu, I thought of his similes — baby, golf ball, lobster tail — and wondered whether he’d missed his calling as a poet. Long before the surgery, I was the finest first baseman on the fifth-grade softball team. There, against the chain link fence, I could watch the parents’ awed expressions as I caught balls only angels could reach. Sometimes I think I got good at softball just to stick it to my pediatrician. She never liked me eating lollipops at the end of my visits; I never liked her dragging the metal bars of the scale up, up, up until she’d have to start over and add the big bar, the kahuna. The nicest thing she ever told me was that I had 20/20 vision. Our softball team was called the Super Cows. We were half athletes, half misfits, a mélange put together by my father, who ardently believed the clumsiest kids from Bible study should, at the height of a game, give pitching a whirl. It was like watching a newly birthed calf take the field. Meanwhile, those of us with hand-eye coordination worked overtime to compensate — sprinting, lunging, caking ourselves in orange dirt. We’d been winning and we wanted to keep winning. What I remember most from those games was the teeter-totter of fortune and plague, how I’d make desperate eye contact with my father across the field, begging him to keep me on first base. Later, I would discover the fun of being just OK, of dugout Hubba Bubba and horsing around in the outfield. But at 10, I still wanted to be the best.

Screw the prayerful dingdongs. I had earned my spot and was not about to surrender it. Altruism forgotten, Dad always kept me in. The fierce first baseman and the woman in the hospital bed are both technically me, as was the marathon runner and the casual COVID bike rider and the woman who left no zipline unzipped. Somewhere along the line, though, I stopped feeling my best. Was it the day my favorite jeans began to wheeze at my waist? Or the summers I told myself I’d sign up for a softball league but didn’t? Maybe it all comes back to the pediatrician. To the heavy metal bars going clank, clank, clank. Even in my 30s, pregnant, I averted my eyes and stepped backward onto the scale. Sometimes I’d joke to the OB nurse that my weight was “none of my business.” No time to describe the waiting room with its angry wooden bead mazes and its haunted black aquarium. Nor was there time, in our short walk to the exam room, to recall the pediatrician explaining to me exactly what 98th percentile meant. The message was clear: You are bad. But what about the softball field, or the classroom, or church, or my cozy twin bed being tucked in at night, where the message was you are good? I don’t think you are bad ever really left my system. In fact, I think it took up residence in my back. Every time I tried to jog — or Rollerblade, or dance, or play, or do anything that little first baseman would have enjoyed — my back seized up again. It was begging me to pay attention. To be kinder, to forgive. It wasn’t until a few months ago, when I fell while holding my baby, that I finally did. To put it medically, my disc herniated. It compressed the spinal nerves and rendered my foot, calf and flank numb. But I think I like the surgeon’s approach better. Once I noticed the great big thing causing me pain, it just kept coming. My dad didn’t keep me in the game because I was the best; he kept me in because he loved me. Now, as an adult, it’s my job to love me. And so I continue to pull at the lobster tail. I buy clothes that fit. I move slowly, excited for the day my incision has healed and I can pick up a softball again. Maybe I’ll even coach my daughter’s team someday. She will catch balls only angels can reach, she will eat what’s good, and so help me God, she will never have anything painful to dislodge. ▼

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IN SEPTEMBER 2024, Lou Turner encountered a strange angel. While on the road with Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band, the Nashville indie-folk polymath and her partner Trevor Nikrant found themselves stranded by a flat tire. The pair managed to get their car to a shop, where a mechanic Turner would later describe as “very odd but sweet” fixed them right up. She dubbed the man her very own “strangel,” a term she coined on the spot. The idea became a wellspring of inspiration as she finished up her third solo album, which she’ll release Friday via Spinster. As I chat with Turner over the phone during her afternoon walk, I hear a child’s voice in the background. “I just met a little strangel,” Turner says. “We manifested them.” To Turner, a “strangel” can be anything whimsical, wonderful and slightly off-kilter. The term captures the delightfully peculiar people she

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encounters out in the world: an enigmatic but kindly mechanic, for instance, or a fan who shows up to a set and makes dinner for the whole band, despite not knowing them. “There are these people that let you stay at their house even though they’ve never met you,” Turner explains. “There’s magical cats that will follow you around a city and kind of seem to be like a spirit guide.” Though the term entered her mind in 2024, Turner had already been unknowingly working on Strangels for about a year. After spending the better part of three years on the road with Ryan Davis, MJ Lenderman and her own band Styrofoam Winos (of whom she’s one-third, alongside Nikrant and Joe Kenkel), Turner eventually realized she couldn’t flesh out an entire project while on tour. Instead, she jotted down ideas little by little, pocketing loose excerpts of memories, passing observations and fleeting scenes from her

life — little things worth holding onto before they slipped away. Eventually, she returned home to Nashville to stitch those fragments together into a warm and reflective tapestry. “The road’s great for that,” Turner explains. “Kind of just gathering scraps of ideas and images. Maybe a line will come to you and then you can kind of return to your solitude and make something more coherent.” Much of Strangels took shape in solitude. Turner engulfed herself entirely in her own creative process, hanging out with her own mind and making something she recognized as totally singular — a collection of songs as weird and unique as she pleased. “The feeling of being alone is really empowering,” she says. “It makes you play things you wouldn’t play if people were watching.” While Turner played nearly every instrument herself, Nikrant aided in the creation process. He contributed pedal-steel riffs to a few songs and keys on “Strange Angels.” He also took on some of the logistical work that comes with producing an entire album yourself. “He kind of helped set up mics, and would press record and run out the door for me while I was on the drums or something,” Turner says. “And then make us dinner.” Throughout the project, Turner finds her footing in the unifying theme. She populates the record with “strangels” of the animal world, critters ranging from snakes to beavers to fireflies. The menagerie embraces contradiction, whimsy and strange little connections between the natural and the otherworldly. The result is a collection of folk fables. The enchantingly gentle “Beaver Moon” features a mesh of delicate instrumental performances as sound effects, anchored by airy acoustic guitar and pedal-steel riffs that you feel even though they’re barely audible. Understated

arrangements leave room for the mirthful details of each song to emerge, leading to an intimate, slightly off-balance perspective in which the mundane and the magical feel like two sides of the same coin. The final two songs, “Ark” and “Strange Angels,” serve as twin love letters to the extraordinary, both played on Turner’s grandfather’s guitar using the unique tuning Joni Mitchell uses on Hejira. The powerful ballads tie the entire concept together with a “benediction” quality, as Turner describes it. Though she has since stepped out of the selfcontained ethereal imaginarium of her Strangels universe, Turner emphasizes the importance of maintaining a sense of wonder. “I think there’s a lot of sheer determination in wonder. You have to go looking for it, and you have to sometimes try to create it. It comes down to choosing to be curious and to stay open to possibility.” ▼

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into performing as Quiet Entertainer, Nashville DJ and producer Greg Freeman has returned to his roots with his slyly named new record Greg Again… (which, for anyone not deep into contemporary electronic music, is a nod to U.K. producer and recent Bonnaroo headliner Fred Again..). “I’m doing remixes of all of my best instrumental songs, and kind of rejoining them and making the production a little nicer, and having nicer arrangements — and then putting it out,” Freeman explains. “I wanted to give myself another shot and really just equip myself to play better sets, and just have better reactions during my sets. But also [I wanted] to get out of the mode of just playing gigs and try to get back into creating and making stuff and doing.” After two decades of pushing musical boundaries of Music City, making hip-hop and dance music that falls outside the borders of even the underground cliques

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that make up those scenes, Freeman has stockpiled an enormous repertoire. Constantly probing the edges of his own creativity, often at the expense of traditional popularity, Freeman’s vision of where music can go is ready for reappraisal by both artist and audience. “It’s that same ethos, but I’ve learned a lot since [the early days],” says Freeman. “Those first tracks that I did were really meant for rappers. And it’s just too weird to be rapped on, or it’s too elaborate, or too many samples — or whatever people’s thoughts were to why this doesn’t really work. But [as a] cool track, it’s cool. I’m still trying to build an entire thing around what I’m doing. That’s the other reason why I’m doing Greg Again… — trying to just relaunch this idea, and drive it home that I’m still going. I still have just a lot of expression around Quiet Entertainer, and it’s still my thing.” Quiet Entertainer’s thing has always been left of center. In addition to hip-hop that’s too weird for the hardcore heads and dance music that’s too creative for the club, he’s become adept at crafting strange arrangements and building a live band that explores regions of the mind beyond the self-imposed borders of normie Nashville. “That’s kind of been my challenge: ‘How do I get

people to care about what I’m doing as an artist, or care about this type of music?’” says Freeman. “I feel like I’m closer than I ever thought I would be, just because I’m trying. I just like to try, and then I feel good about doing stuff that I tried to do or didn’t realize I could do.” Patience and perseverance seem to be the right path. The first time Freeman appeared in these pages — as part of a story about the late, lamented Cafe Coco’s nascent hip-hop scene way back in 2009 — hip-hop and electronic music were barely visible in Middle Tennessee. Today both the city and its performers feel ready for deeper dives into headier sounds. The growth has been astounding, and it’s not over yet. “I still have many years of ideas to execute and it’s all going to happen, but first things first, right? I still have a lot to do. This is not my final form.” ▼

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THE FOLKS AT Marathon Music Works can say they threw a pretty good Halloween party on Saturday night, even if the concert wasn’t officially billed as such. An audience decked out in costumes — from a crew of Super Mario characters to a dude dressed up like the late, great MF DOOM — was buzzy and ready for Thundercat, a musician who’s no stranger to over-the-top looks. Due to trick-or-treaters and an unrelated traffic jam, I missed opener Channel Tres. But I can’t recommend his recent release Enigma POV enough — a danceable album that tinkers with some classic techno and jungle hits. A blitzing drum solo from “Children of the Baked Potato” — a 2025 collab with Remi Wolf — brought Thundercat to the stage, and he unleashed his own tornadic bass line. After some riffing with the crowd, the artist born Stephen

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Lee Bruner launched into a few songs from Distracted, the 2026 LP he’s touring behind. Early on it seemed like the instruments would drown out his signature falsetto, but Thundercat’s voice was consistent and clear most of the night. He jumped into the petulant breakup song “No More Lies,” dropping his falsetto to sing the verses recorded by Tame Impala’s Kevin Brown. He also did justice to the late Mac Miller’s bouncing flow while maintaining a punchy bass line for “She Knows Too Much,” capping off Mac’s standout line with a bold shout: “You can talk about the universe and energy / But all you really want is a celebrity.” A big fan of geeky pop culture, Thundercat called out many of the costumes in the crowd from shows like SpongeBob SquarePants and Inuyasha. The bassist mused that people should be able to rock costumes year-round — “You should go to church dressed as Wario,” he said. A noted Trekkie, he also shouted, “Rest in peace, Patrick Stewart” during the song “Walking on the Moon,” a spacey love ballad that features the line “You’re my Uhura.” And the space voyage

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beloved tracks. He pulled out an extra-funky version of self-deprecating slow jam “Dragonball Durag,” which got the crowd moving and singing along to lines like, “I may be covered in cat hair / But I still smell good.” Thudding bass lines and crashing drums added some swagger to closing number “Them Changes,” one of best R&B songs of the 2010s and Thundercat’s breakout hit. While he exited the stage with a loud “Happy fucking Halloween,” Thundercat returned minutes later for a two-song encore with a glittery yellow bass featuring Sonic the Hedgehog artwork. First he performed a solo rendition of “Show You the Way” (originally recorded with his soft-rock heroes Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald), and then the band returned for “Friend Zone,” a synth-driven tune juxtaposing video games and relationship games. ▼

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WITH WILD HORSE NINE, writer-director Martin McDonagh returns to what put him on the map: making another surprisingly insightful, black-comic travelogue/buddy comedy in which two professional killers go on a very awkward vacation. It’s basically an American spin on McDonagh’s 2008 feature-film debut In Bruges, which featured Irish hitmen (played by Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) bickering and laying low in scenic Belgian country. This time around, it’s CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) bickering and laying low on Easter Island. Fresh from helping set up the 1973 coup d’etat that ended democracy in Chile, they travel to the big-headed Chilean territory so the terminally ill Chris can chill and enjoy the sights before his old pal Lee fulfills his buddy’s wish by taking him out. It’s a getaway that gets off on the wrong foot from the jump, with the mentally deteriorating Chris getting high off morphine and complaining and/or pissing off everyone he comes into contact with. (He would much rather hang out with the wild horses he sees around the island.) As if the pressure of killing his mentor isn’t enough, Lee also has to deal with concerned, insult-riddled phone calls from two parties: his superior (Steve Buscemi), who wants him to finish the job before Chris starts work on his very revealing memoir (as a Burn After Reading fan, I had fun seeing Malkovich in vulgar, unhinged CIA-crony mode again,

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dropping random musings in a tape recorder for his “mem-moi”); and his two-timing wife (Parker Posey), who worries that spooks have been keeping tabs on her and the kids. McDonagh once again fires his foul tempered yet empathetic cylinders for another cranky crime farce in which lethal characters are too disillusioned and world-weary to be violent and menacing. They’ve seen the evil that men do — and they’re fed up with that shit too. Both Malkovich and Rockwell give compelling, zero-fucks energy in their performances and their wardrobe choices. Malkovich gets to indulge in his own flair for flamboyant fits, while Rockwell is all kitschy, retro leisure wear and cowboy hats. Malkovich plays his ornery, dying hitman as someone who’s done preserving the tyranny of evil men. As a possible act of penance, he slings out some harsh truths about Chile’s future to a young Chilean student (Mariana di Girolamo) he befriends during his trip. Rockwell’s Lee assumes the role of beleaguered caretaker, oftentimes putting out fires by acting more asshole-ish than his bestie. This comically caustic battle cry is McDonagh once again at his most bitterly hopeful, crafting a tale about people trying to find peace and love in a world where dangerous dickheads and despots ruin everything. As bullets and bullshit continually interrupt their good time, the ugly (but sympathetic) Americans of Wild Horse Nine stay sane by staying human — and connecting with others striving to do the same.

Even these aging assassins know that, to borrow a line from Fleabag creator/star (and McDonagh’s boo) Phoebe Waller-Bridge, people are all we’ve got. ▼

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Puzzle by Jill Singer 10 Chews (out) 11 Cry heard by Old MacDonald 12 Central points 13 Woodpecker food 18 Attacks 19 Words that might come before a meal 22 Major works of art

23 Mexican revolutionary Emiliano 24 Resident of Aleppo 28 Moccasins and loafers, e.g. 29 Free of animal products 30 Wrath 31 Writer Gay

32 Hallucinatory experiences 33 It comes with cups and saucers 36 Chicago exchange, in brief 38 Director Lee 39 Sculptor’s tool 41 French composer who refused the Legion of Honour in 1920

42 Skewered 44 Gateway of India locale 45 Tough nut to crack 46 “Network” director Sidney 49 Hurdle for an aspiring atty. 50 Words of reproach following a betrayal 51 Big blow

52 Things confessed 54 Ancient wrap 56 “I don’t wanna” 57 It might be on a lot 58 “___ Possible” (2000s animated series) 59 Perchance

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Thursday, December 3, 2026, at 1:00 o’clock p.m., prevailing Nashville time, on the steps of the historic Davidson County Courthouse, 1 Public Square, Nashville, Tennessee 37201, offer for sale to the highest and best bidder for cash and free from all rights and equity of redemption, statutory right of redemption or otherwise, homestead, dower, elective share and all other rights and exemptions of every kind as waived in said Deed of Trust, certain real property situated in Davidson County, Tennessee, described as follows: Legal Description: The real property is described in the Deed of Trust at Instrument 202512080097430, Register’s Office for Davidson County, Tennessee. Land in Davidson County, Tennessee, being the northerly 50 feet of the southerly 150 feet of Lot Nos. 174, 175 and 176 on the map of West Nashville Heights, as of record in Book 332, Page 127, Register’s Office for Davidson County, Tennessee. Said part of Lot Nos. 174, 175 and 176 fronts 50 feet on the easterly side of Nall, formerly Stevenson Avenue, and back between parallel lines 151.7 feet to the westerly line of lot No. 177. Being the same property conveyed to Victor M. Calderon, of record in Instrument No. 200506020062234, Register’s Office, Davidson County, Tennessee. Map/Parcel No: 091-13-0-117.00 Street Address: The street address of the property is believed to be 520 Stevenson Street, Nashville, Tennessee 37209, but such address is not part of the legal description of the property. In the event of any discrepancy, the legal description herein shall control. Other interested parties: N/A THIS PROPERTY IS SOLD AS IS, WHERE IS AND WITH ALL FAULTS AND WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, AND SUBJECT TO ANY PRIOR LIENS OR ENCUMBRANCES, IF ANY. WITHOUT LIMITING THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING, THE PROPERTY IS SOLD WITHOUT ANY REPRESENTATIONS

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