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Lucky Pineapple w/Happy Birthday Amy, The Pushy Lips & Venus Trap Springwater	Fri., January 9, 9:00pm	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Music
Lucky Pineapple spent a day recording songs in Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in Chicago—a friend won the studio time in a poker game and donated it to the band. While this story imparts a certain raffish charm to the Pineapple’s biography, the Louisville seven-piece has a lot... More>>

Paramount's LaserSpectacular Feat. the Music of Pink Floyd Tennessee Performing Arts Center	Fri., January 9, 8:00pm	Downtown	Music Theater: Opening
Some things are simply bound together in existential union: peanut butter and jelly; movies and popcorn; Tango and Cash; Kid 'n Play. Often, these pairings are so seamless and sublime that we struggle to imagine one without the other. Of all the combinations in the special effects and rock 'n'... More>>

Jill Conner Browne Signing and Discussion Borders Books & Music Cafe - Brentwood	Fri., January 9, 7:00pm	Tennessee	Books
As the chief Sweet Potato Queen, Browne has put her Southern sassy slant on most aspects of women's lives, including marriage, divorce, love, children and cooking. So it's no surprise that she now takes on the next stage: aging. In American Thighs: The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Preserving... More>>

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Nashville Children's Theatre	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., November 18 until Tue., January 20	Nolensville Rd./ Woodbine/ Murfreesboro Rd.	Children Music Theater: Ongoing
So how do you stage an original theatrical mounting of the time-honored Willy Wonka story when older folks still swear by Gene Wilder's film portrayal of the eccentric candy baron and younger audiences still have Johnny Depp's characterization fresh in mind? That challenge falls to Nashville... More>>

Cheekwood Dollar Days Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., January 3 until Sat., January 31	Belle Meade/ White Bridge/ West Meade	Community Events Tours/ Landmarks
Sure, the economy has tanked, credit has dried up and your 401k is a 201k--but just because you're rolling up your pennies, reusing your Kleenex and getting by on ramen and PBR doesn't mean you can't enjoy some highbrow entertainment. For the entire month of January, Cheekwood Botanical Garden... More>>

Local Art Exhibit Feat. Marla Faith and R. Lafayette Mitchell Metro Arts Gallery	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Thu., November 20 until Fri., March 6	Downtown	Art: Ongoing
Nashville's Metro Office Building may be a little off the beaten path, but for those of you who've voted or registered your car at the Howard School Building on Second Avenue South, it's right next door. On the fourth floor you'll find the Metro Arts Gallery, currently showing works by Marla... More>>

Plowhaus Presents Aspect Tennessee Art League & Premiere Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., January 3 until Sat., January 31	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Art: Openings & Receptions
Over the years, Plowhaus has grown in membership and changed locations, leaving its East Side digs for the cozy confines of the Tennessee Art League downtown. While the group--along with its vision--has evolved, some things have remained the same. The photography of Barry Noland has made its... More>>

Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by John Baeder Tennessee State Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., December 12 until Sun., February 15	Downtown	Art: Ongoing
The official bio on John Baeder's website compares his diner paintings to Renaissance depictions of the Madonna and Child: Just as painters in earlier eras found near-infinite variations in an apparently simple topic, Baeder's photorealist canvases ring the changes on a familiar icon of... More>>

The Works of Mandy Rogers Horton and Rocky Horton Twist Art Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., December 6 until Sat., January 31	Downtown	Art: Ongoing
While galleries often group together artists whose works look alike or deal with similar subjects, the rationale behind Twist Gallery's upcoming show is different: It brings together pieces by a husband-and-wife pair, oil painter Mandy Rogers Horton and photo painter Rocky Horton (he paints... More>>

Compared to What, I Wonder Twist Art Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., January 3 until Sat., January 31	Downtown	Art: Openings & Receptions
Artistically, the New Year is coming in strong with the addition of Arcade Space 58 to Twist Gallery. The first show of the year--and of the space--features a site-specific installation by local artist J. Todd Greene. Greene has been collaborating with students from Ravenwood High School, who... More>>

Pigxote Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., January 8 until Thu., February 26	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Art: Openings & Receptions
In his 1999 Dogme feature julien donkey-boy, Korine and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle pushed the pixelized cloudiness of digital camerawork to gorgeous realms of abstraction. A similar principle is at play in this curated Vanderbilt exhibit of Korine's print photography, a mix of sight... More>>

Who Loves Judas? Darkhorse Theater	Fri., January 9, 6:30pm more dates/times	Charlotte Pike/ Sylvan Park/ West Nashville	Theater: Opening
Back in February, Nashville playwright Dane Dakota's original play received its world premiere at the Darkhorse Theater. Who Loves Judas? proved to be a surprisingly engrossing, if structurally flawed, social satire involving the contretemps between younger and older folks--conservative... More>>

This Old World: Work by Peggy Snow Belcourt Theatre	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., December 19 until Wed., January 21	Belmont/ Edgehill/ Hillsboro Village	Art: Ongoing
In much the same way musicologists ride the back roads making field recordings of aging blues and folk artists soon to be no more, Peggy Snow has increasingly directed her prodigious artistic talents toward creating lasting visual records of older buildings scheduled for demolition. As this... More>>

Murmur Rymer Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., January 3 until Sat., January 31	Downtown	Art: Openings & Receptions
The latest show at Rymer Gallery will have Nashville seeing red as two visiting artists get down to the bare bones of what it means to be human. Murmur is the first show of the New Year for the Rymer Gallery. The gallery made waves in 2008 when it opened its new high-profile space on 5th Ave.,... More>>

Wish List Scarritt-Bennett Center	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., November 21 until Sun., January 25	Belmont/ Edgehill/ Hillsboro Village	Art: Ongoing
gallery F's Managing Director Sabine Schlunk is capping off a busy fall art season with a group show that includes portraits, narratives, multimedia work and performance. The Wish List artists--all students or graduates of TSU--flirt with the fantastic, forming new fables out of paint, print... More>>

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Alcina w/Alert the Sky, Year One, Wolverines & The Almery Rcktwn	Fri., January 9, 6:00pm	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Music

Angels Diversion w/The Sediment & Vortices The End	Fri., January 9, 9:00pm	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Music

Bawn In the Mash w/Chicago Farmer The Basement	Fri., January 9, 9:00pm	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Music

A Benefit for Alive Hospice feat. MelDiBurPho Bluebird Cafe	Fri., January 9, 9:30pm	Green Hills	Music

Big Wooly Mammoth: A Tribute to Widespread Panic Exit/In	Fri., January 9, 8:00pm	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Music

Bluegrass w/Off the Wagon Norm's River Road House	Fri., January 9, 9:00pm	Charlotte Pike/ Sylvan Park/ West Nashville	Music

Brave New Whore w/Blood Tribe & Carridale Muse	Fri., January 9, 7:00pm	Nolensville Rd./ Woodbine/ Murfreesboro Rd.	Music

Crossroads Coconut Bay Cafe	Fri., January 9, 9:00pm	Murfreesboro	Music

In the Row feat. Kurt Fortmeyer, Bo Thomas, Ray Sisk & Jen Wallwork Dominguez Bluebird Cafe	Fri., January 9, 6:30pm	Green Hills	Music

Lucky Pineapple Grimey's New & Preloved Music	Fri., January 9, 6:00pm	Broadway/ The Gulch/ Music Row/ West End	Music