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| Drifters Tinney Contemporary | Daily from Sat., September 27 until Sat., October 25 | Downtown | |
The nascent downtown art scene has recently witnessed the loss of two of NoBro's pioneer spaces, and the emergence of the new Tinney Contemporary gallery. After a bit of a false start, Tinney seems to be finding its footing with the arrival of Nashville art vet John Reed as Director/Curator.... More>> |
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| The Admirals Club w/Symptoms & Wet Nurse The 5 Spot | Tue., October 14, 9:00pm | Five Points/Shelby Bottoms | |
For all of the raw energy that it takes to make vital heavy metal, technical proficiency has played an equal, if seemingly contradictory, role in the development of the genre. From Black Sabbath and Deep Purple to contemporary groups, metal bands have tended to flaunt their progressive... More>> |
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| Matthew Paul Turner Signing and Discussion Davis-Kidd Booksellers | Tue., October 14, 7:00pm | Green Hills | |
Growing up in a fundamentalist church and household was, in retrospect, full of absurdities. In Churched, Turner tells us of the personalities populating his childhood church and the associated school he attended, their beliefs in Satan and Hell, strict dress and appearance codes, baptism... More>> |
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| Randy Newman Tennessee Performing Arts Center | Tue., October 14, 7:30pm | Downtown | |
Success as an Academy Award-winning film composer seems to have only sharpened Randy Newmans deliciously caustic narratives and occasional romantic swoons. He no doubt relishes the fact that his melodic brilliance, once overshadowed by his sly skewering of human foibles, brought him... More>> |
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| Guatemala Through Artists' Eyes CharacterEYES Eyecare and Optical | Daily from Wed., October 1 until Fri., October 31 | Franklin | |
Guatemala is Mesoamerica's biodiversity hotspot, and the country's abundance of flora and fauna made it a natural choice when painter/instructor Gail McDaniel and her students made plans to travel to a location they could capture on their canvases. The resulting work will be displayed in a new... More>> |
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| Christmas on Mars Belcourt Theatre | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., October 11 until Tue., October 14 | Belmont/Edgehill/Hillsboro Village | |
Directed by Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne and shot by long-time Lips documentarian Bradley Beesley, Christmas on Mars hovers nowhere near rock-doc. From its trailer alone, it's clearly more like an ambitious film school project complete with cheesy costumes, low-budget special effects and... More>> |
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| Damn Yankees Boiler Room Theatre |
Thu., October 16, 8:00pm more dates/times |
Franklin | |
"You gotta have heart"--which is exactly what this year's version of the Bronx Bombers lacked. But back in the 1950s, when this Tony-winning smash was written, the New York Yankees solidified their reputation as baseball's preeminent bad guys and the team everyone loved to hate. Thus the... More>> |
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| Frankenstein Nashville Children's Theatre | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., October 10 until Sat., November 1 | Nolensville Rd./Woodbine/Murfreesboro Rd. | |
The opening of Nashville Childrens Theatre's 2008-2009 season finds the company anticipating Halloween with Nick DiMartino's adaptation of the famous Mary Shelley book. The production, under the direction of artistic director Scot Copeland, offers thunder, lightning, frightful suspense... More>> |
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| International Lens Film Series Sarratt Cinema | Daily from Wed., September 3 until Wed., December 3 | Vanderbilt | |
A series of free screenings feat. 27 films from 21 nations, each introduced by a Vanderbilt faculty member for program director and feat. a post-screening discussion. October 16's screening is of On the Map. Perhaps the first film from Barbados ever screened in Nashville, Annalee Davis's... More>> |
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| New Approaches to Figurative Art LeQuire Gallery | Daily from Sat., September 6 until Sat., October 25 | Charlotte Pike/Sylvan Park/West Nashville | |
Alan LeQuire originally opened his gallery to shine a spotlight on his work and the work of other painters and sculptors who were interested in expressing their creativity through studying the human form. Although this strictly figurative point-of-view has flown in the face of contemporary... More>> |
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| New on DVD: Oct. 14 Your Local Video Store | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Tue., October 14 until Mon., October 20 | Broadway/The Gulch/Music Row/West End | |
On the big screen, even in a doctored cut 15 minutes shorter than the initial 150-minute release version, Terrence Malick's 2005 epic about the settlement of Virginia was a staggering work of art--a rapturous vision of paradise found and lost, a movie that sent me weeping openly into the glare... More>> |
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| Yellow Kid: Works by Francois Dechamps Sarratt Gallery | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., October 2 until Thu., October 30 | Vanderbilt | |
A New York-based photographer and book artist, Deschamps uses his photography as a means of constructingor in this case, reconstructinga story. Yellow Kid Gerontion was a storyteller and con artist in Catskill, N.Y., who frequented the bars in his community but rarely... More>> |
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| Secrecy Belcourt Theatre |
Tue., October 14 more dates/times |
Belmont/Edgehill/Hillsboro Village | |
Few Americans would argue with Winston Churchill's dictum: "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." But the culture of secrecy that has developed within the Bush/Cheney White House has taken that admonition to dangerous extremes. The inherent... More>> |
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| Monuments to the Pres(id)ent Snow Gallery | Daily from Fri., October 3 until Sat., November 8 | Belmont/Edgehill/Hillsboro Village | |
A more timely exhibit we can't imagine: Just a few days before Barack Obama and John McCain duke it out at Belmont University for the title of the Real Agent of Change, Los Angeles artist Tucker Neel's Monuments to the Pres(id)ent opens just a few blocks away at Snow Gallery. Through drawings,... More>> |
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| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Tennessee Performing Arts Center |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Tue., October 7 until Sat., October 18, 6:30pm more dates/times |
Downtown | |
The last time a Nashville-area theater company took on Stephen Sondheims ghoulish masterwork, Jamey Green directed a marvelous 2004 Boiler Room Theatre production that took advantage of its intimate space, transforming the spectacle into something akin to a chamber opera. Tennessee... More>> |
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| More Events | |||
| Aaron Till Cafe Coco | Tue., October 14, 8:00pm | Broadway/The Gulch/Music Row/West End | |
| The Players w/Brent Mason, Michael Rhodes, John Hobbs, Eddie Bayers, Paul Franklin & Sunny Fitz Third & Lindsley | Tue., October 14, 6:00pm | Nolensville Rd./Woodbine/Murfreesboro Rd. | |
| Big Mike Griffin Bourbon Street Blues & Boogie Bar | Tue., October 14, 9:00pm | Downtown | |
| The Boulder Acoustic Society Norm's River Road House | Tue., October 14, 8:00pm | Charlotte Pike/Sylvan Park/West Nashville | |
| Buyout Charity B.B. King's Blues Club | Tue., October 14, 4:00pm | Downtown | |
| The Dan Hagan Project 12 South Tap Room & Grill | Tue., October 14, 9:00pm | 8 South/12 South/Berry Hill | |
| Dave Duggan Pond | Tue., October 14, 7:00pm | Franklin | |
| Dear and the Headlights w/Hannah Barbarians, Cactus's & Mean Tambourines Exit/In | Tue., October 14, 8:00pm | Broadway/The Gulch/Music Row/West End | |
| Debi Champion's Writers Night feat. Gary Talley, Zach Below, Michael Loyd, Adam Foster & more Commodore Lounge | Tue., October 14, 7:00pm | Broadway/The Gulch/Music Row/West End | |
| First Aid Live Feat. Rick Dehringer, Mike Musik, and more Limelight | Tue., October 14, 7:00pm | Titans Stadium/Main St. | |
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