Nashville Scene

Love/Hate Mail, Nov. 1, 2012

Go and Vote

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Politics, vote, vote, vote, VOTE!

The Times Are A-Changin', So Which Comes First: Legal Weed or Same Sex Marriage?

• by Steven Hale
• Tags: Politics, Same-sex marriage, recreational marijuana, medicinal marijuana, ballot initiatives, the times they are a-changin'

The Hippodrome: They Like You When You're Angry

• by J.R. Lind
• Tags: Sports, The Hippodrome, Nashville Predators, Tennessee Titans, Chris Johnson, Vanderbilt Commodores, Gary Glitter, Jay Cutler

State Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Memphis's Library Cards as Voter IDs

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Politics, Tennessee Supreme Court, voter ID, Shelby County library cards, Mark Goins

Tennessean, Heal Thyself

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, The Tennessean, Tennessean op-ed, voter ID, Tennessee voter ID

The NHL lockout has turned the season into purgatory for players, owners, and especially fans

H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks

• by J.R. Lind

The Great Racist Butthurt 2.0

• by Jonathan Meador
• Tags: Politics, President Barack Obama, American Third Position Party, racist bullshit, Bill O'Reilly

DesJarlatest: Mrs. DesJarlais Speaks

• by Steven Hale
• Tags: Politics, Scott DesJarlais, Amy DesJarlais, divorce records, Mrs. DesJarlais

As Tennessee Dems promote GOP scandals in state races, can mudslinging stop a landslide?

The Positives of Going Negative

• by Jeff Woods

Undocumented Youth Hit the Streets to Get Out the Vote

• by Steven Hale
• Tags: Immigration, Politics, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition. TIRRC, Mercedes Gonzalez, door-knocking, undocumented youth

Tennessee Third in the Nation for Men Killing Women They've Been Involved With

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Law and Order, intimate-partner murder, domestic violence, murder, guns, domestic homicides, David Adams, Why Do They Kill?

How Is This Not a Poll Tax?

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Politics, Cora Beach, voter ID, Tennessee election problems, Tennessee Hokey Pokey

Insert DesJarlais Joke Here

• by Jonathan Meador
• Tags: Politics, Scott DeJarlais, Family Band Comedy, Video

Nashville Votes Like It's the First Time

• by Betsy Phillips
• Tags: Phillips, Politics, 2012 election, Tennessee voting problems, Tennessee Citizen Action, John Dwyer, Hadley Park

The Morning After: Some Trophies…

• by Bruce Barry
• Tags: Politics, Conor Friedersdorf, Maggie Gallagher, Fred Thompson, Michelle Malkin, Philip Klein, Scott Johnson, David Gelernter, Dick Morris, Karl Rove, anti-Christ, the Rapture, reverse mortgages

Garrison, Munday Aiming for TNDP Chair

• by Steven Hale
• Tags: Politics, Tennessee Democratic Party, TNDP Chair, Dave Garrison, Wade Munday, Chip Forrester, lightning strikes

Rooting Against the Electoral College on Election Eve

• by Bruce Barry
• Tags: Presidential Politics, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Electoral College

You Say "Demonbreun," I Say "Demumbrine"

• by Jonathan Meador
• Tags: Around Town, Timothy Demonbreun, pronouncing Demonbreun, WPLN, Bradley George, Betsy Phillips, history porn

Undocumented immigrants urge citizens to use something they desperately want: the right to vote

The Pursuit of Happiness

• by Steven Hale

Pith to Victory: Your 2012 Election Live Blog

• by Steven Hale
• Tags: Politics, election night, live blog, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, The Civil Wars, Toledo, Ball State, supermajority

DesJarlatest: Dems Release Boring DesJarlais-to-Haslam Text

• by Steven Hale
• Tags: Politics, Scott DesJarlais, Bill Haslam, text message, meh

Your Move, TNGOP: Ala. GOP Plans Republicanest Election Night Party Ever

• by Steven Hale
• Tags: Politics

Who's Closer to the Truth? CNN or Nate Silver?

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Politics, Obama, Romney, Electoral College, 2012 election

Belle Meade Country Club Admits First Black Resident Member

• by Jonathan Meador
• Tags: Breaking News, Belle Meade Country Club, Waverly Crenshaw, racism, better late than never

Obligatory Election-Related Viral Video

• by Jonathan Meador
• Tags: Politics, Bronco Bamma, Mitt Romney, video, Video

Heading Into the Final Weekend ...

• by Bruce Barry
• Tags: Presidential Politics, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, United Counties of Ohio

Still Undecided? Really? Weird. Anyway, take our quick political quiz to see who you should vote for!

2012 Voting Quiz

What’s also on the ballot in Davidson County

Lever Fever

• by Steven Hale

High cleavage, low stakes — so it goes at the Vampire Fetish Ball, penis cages and all

The Undeath of the Party

• by Abby White

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit's 'Goddamn Lonely Love (Live)' [Fresh Vid]

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Live From Alabama, Rock You Like a Hurricane, fresh vid, performance vid, Video

King Tuff w/Gap Dream and Fletcher C. Johnson Tonight at The Stone Fox; Get in on the Cheap With Proof You Voted

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, vote or die, Critics' Picks, King Tuff, The Stone Fox, Gap Dream, Fletcher C. Johnson, Happy Election Day!, Video

William Tyler, Caitlin Rose Help Soundtrack Under the Guise's Modcloth Guide to Nashville

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: National Skyline, Under the Guise, Modcloth, Heidi Jewell, fashion, Local Honey, Third Man Records, Barista Parlor, Grimey's, The Stone Fox, Halcyon, Robert's Western World, Video

The Week in Fresh Tracks [Faux Ferocious, Andrew Combs, DJ Wick-It, Quiet Entertainer]

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Music, fresh tracks, the week in fresh tracks, Faux Ferocious, Soundcloud, Andrew Combs, DJ Wick-It, Wick-It the Instigator, Quiet Entertainer

Kendrick Lamar w/DJ Crisis and Chancellor Warhol at War Memorial Auditorium, 11/4/12

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, The Spin, Kendrick Lamar, War Memorial Auditorium, Chancellor Warhol, Slideshow

Rick Ross, Meek Mill and Wale To Play Bridgestone Arena Dec. 9

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, show announcements, Rick Ross, Bridgestone Arena, Teflon Don, Wale, Meek Mill, Machine Gun Kelly, DJ Scream, green caviar, Video

Gilberto Gil at the Schermerhorn, 11/5/12

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, Gilberto Gil, Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, the Schermerhorn, The Spin

Slideshow: A Gala of Goblins and Ghouls feat. The Features, Heypenny, Tristen and The GoldRoom at Cannery, 10/31/12

• by The Spin
• Tags: The Spin, The Spin, The Features, Halloween, Tristen, The GoldRoom, The Stone Fox, Heypenny, Slideshow

Bobby Bare Sr., Roky Erickson, Regina Spektor, David Olney and More: Inside This Week’s Music Section

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Liner Notes, Bobby Bare Sr., Roky Erickson, Regina Spektor, David Olney, liner notes

EGGS: 'Dice Grinder'

• by Daniel Pujol
• Tags: Creamtastic, Daniel Pujol, Alexa Zoe Sullivant, EGGS, "Dice Grinder"

The Civil Wars Cancel Tour Dates, Break Up?

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Hot Goss, The Civil Wars, Bummerino Metropolis, cancellations, break-ups, Joy Williams, John Paul White, internal discord and irreconcilable differences

With Your Friends Fest at The Lawn at Riverfront Park

The Spin

Kendrick Lamar at War Memorial, Steelism at The Basement, Los Straitjackets on Daytrotter [Live Bits]

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Music, live bits, newsy bits, performance vids, Kendrick Lamar, Chancellor Warhol, What R U Doin', War Memorial Auditorium, Steelism, The Basement, Los Straitjackets, Daytrotter, Video

Party & Bullsh*t: This Week in Nashville Hip-Hop [Kendrick Lamar, Rio, Kaby, D.O.U.G.H., Gummy Soul]

• by Sean Maloney
• Tags: Newsy Bits, Party & Bullsh*t, Nashville Hip-Hop, Kedrick Lamar, Rio, Kaby, D.O.U.G.H., Gummy Soul, Video

Garth Brooks deserves his spot in the Country Music Hall of Fame for history he's made, but his contemporary influence still looms large

Size Matters

• by Jewly Hight

Golden Nugget: Nashville: Music Row 1978 Historic Film

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Don King, Historic Films Archive, Golden Nugget, Joy Division, Keith Urban, Nashville Rooms, Memphis-style pompadours, Music Row 1978, Reg Lindsay, Robert Altman, Roy Acuff, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Clash, Video

New Venue Alert: The Zombie Shop and Brick Factory To Change Locations, Share a Space; Help Zombie Move

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Hot Goss, The Zombie Shop, The Brick Factory, moving on up, The Zombie Factory, The Brick Shop, The Brick Zombie, new venue alert, relocated venue alert, that pun is a huge stretch

JEFF the Brotherhood's 'Leave Me Out' [Fresh Vid]

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Moving Pictures, JEFF the Brotherhood, fresh vid, Hypnotic Nights, Infinity Cat, Video

Lake Fever Presents The Chris Crofton Show, Episode 111

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Creamtastic, The Chris Crofton Show, Hobos always have some kind of smoke inhalation, sanitary belts, you know how rockabillies are, Shut up and skate, a rope and a dish towel, Reverend Horton Heat, drinking Midori, Blow a Chesterfield puff down the old mermaid tube, deck gun, microphones that look like the grill of a Cadillac, fighting over the last bottle of castor oil

Watch Full Episodes and a PSA From Music City Shake Down

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Moving Pictures, Music City Shake Down, slow Friday, Video

Nashville Scene on Impose Magazine on Nashville Scene on Nashville

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream, Impose Magazine, Best of Nashville, Department of Meta Things Being Meta, meta

Caption Contest: Black Moth Super Rainbow Ticket Giveaway! [Updated]

• by Adam Gold
• Tags: Creamtastic, at the expense of Romney-Ryan, Black Moth Super Rainbow, caption contests, ticket giveaways, electoral politics, Exit/In, laid on Wednesday, The New York Times

Marathon Music Works Celebrates First Birthday Tonight With The Wailers and Roots of a Rebellion

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, Marathon Music Works, Happy Birthday, The Wailers, Marathon Man, Roots of a Rebellion, free show

Weekend Round-Up: Estilo de Día de los Muertos

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Cream Calendar, weekend round-up, Man or Astro-Man?, Richie, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Shane Tutmarc, Little Bandit, The Bohannons, KDSML, The Fresh & Onlys, No Regrets Coyote, Paul Burch, The Waco Brothers, The Long Players, I apologize for butchering your language

The Clutters' 'Run' [Fresh Vid]

• by D. Patrick Rodgers
• Tags: Moving Pictures, The Clutters, fresh vid, Paste, Video

San Francisco's The Fresh & Onlys return to Nashville to blow minds — and confuse them — with pop music

So Fresh and So Clean

• by Adam Gold

Groundbreaking Brazilian icon Gilberto Gil, master of inclusive pop music

Praiseworthy

• by Edd Hurt

Man or Astro-man? returns with more live transmissions, less pressure and just as much fun

From Outer Space to You

• by Randy Fox

Wine Wednesday: Flyte Makes a Prominent Wine List List

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: News, Wine, Wine lists, Flyte World Dining and Wine, OpenTable.com, Scott Sears, Doc Downs

Gobble Up Some Tofu on Tofurky Tuesdays

• by Lesley Lassiter
• Tags: Foods, Meatless Monday, Tofurky Tuesday, Tofurky, Turtle Island Foods, tofu, tempeh, beer can Tofurky, soy, non-GMO, organic

Top Chef Winner Kevin Sbraga to Cook Special Dinner at Cha Chah

• by Dana Kopp Franklin
• Tags: Events, Arnold Myint, Kevin Sbraga, Cha Chah, Nashville Food Project

The Road, No. 16: Siam Cafe [Eating Our Way Down Nolensville Pike]

• by Sean Maloney
• Tags: Restaurants, The Road, Siam Cafe, Nolensville Pike, Thai

The Weekly Open Thread Spots Paula Deen Cooking at City House

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Open Thread, Paula Deen, Jesse Kingsbury, Asheville, Savannah, City House, Cha Bella, Local 11 Ten, Marker 107

Talking with Anthony Bourdain about Southern cuisine, food trucks and irksome celebrity chefs in advance of his TPAC visit

A Cook's Tour

• by Chris Chamberlain

Buttermilk Road Sunday Supper Returns to Barista Parlor

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Events, Buttermilk Road Sunday Suppers, Lisa Donovan, Robin Riddell, Barista Parlor, Supper Clubs

Sweet Relief Too: Nashville Food Bloggers Bake Sale To Benefit Sandy Victims This Saturday

• by Lesley Lassiter
• Tags: Events, sweet relief, bake sale, sandy, the well coffeehouse

Get "A Taste of Nashville" to Benefit the Phoenix Club

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Events, The Phoenix Club of Nashville, Taste of nashville, Charitable events

Wandering Wino: Fat Bottom Brews, You Make the Rockin' World Go 'Round

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: Wine, Fat Bottom Brewing, Craft breweries, Taprooms, The Skillery, Wine Down Main Street, Midtown Wine and Spirits, Night of 65 Roses, Cystic Fibrosis, Village Wines

Celebrichefs Return for a Second Chance to Become The Next Iron Chef on Food Network

• by Chris Chamberlain
• Tags: TV Dinner, Food Network, Competitive Cooking, Next Iron Chef

The scandalous Paperboy: Nicole Kidman in a swamp of sex, fury and Southern Gothic steam

A Steamroller Named Desire

• by Jason Shawhan

Denzel Washington, drunken pilot, hits the ground hard in Robert Zemeckis' Flight

Red Eye

• by Jason Shawhan

Stacy Peralta's Bones Brigade doc celebrates skateboarding's first Dream Team

Close to the Bones

• by Joel Rice

Keep the Lights On: when loving an addict is itself an addiction

Love Jones

• by Simon Abrams

Disney's Wreck-It Ralph: a good time with a binary-coded bad guy

Wrecks-N-Effect

• by Craig D. Lindsey

Help Fund Friend, a Film Against Bullying, Starring Two Tennessee Teens

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Film, film, Friend, Elliot London, bullying, Indiegogo, crowdfunding, Video

David Sedaris makes his first Nashville visit since the release of his hilariously perverse allegorical journey Squirrel Meets Chipmunk

Animal Planet

• by Amanda Haggard

The Atlantic's Cities Blog: Vandy Prof Richard Lloyd Analyzes Altman's Nashville Versus ABC's

• by Jack Silverman
• Tags: Culture, Film, Television, Nashville, ABC's Nashville, Robert Altman, The Atlantic, Richard Lloyd, Juliette Barnes, Rayna James, Connie Britton, Hayden Panettiere, Calli Khouri

Move Over, The Room — Here Comes the Miami Connection!

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, Miami Connection, Grandmaster Y.K. Kim, Belcourt, Belcourt midnight movies, Alamo Drafthouse, Drafthouse Films, Video

Ask About Pinky: 'Vanderbilt Basketball' Book Signing at Metro Archives

• by J.R. Lind
• Tags: Books, Bill Traughber, Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt Basketball, basketball, book signing, Commodores, Clyde Lee, Will Perdue, Pinky Lipscomb

Photographer Tim Hetherington's account of wartime Liberia is haunting, eye-opening, transformative

What's Going On

• by Eric Lehning

November’s Artist of the Month: Amelia Garretson-Persans

• by Laura Hutson
• Tags: Country Life, Coop, Emily Dickinson, Spoken Nerd, By Lightning, Amelia Garretson-Persans, AOTM, artist of the month, Royal Art Lodge, Maira Kalman, Video

Got Glasses? Warby Parker Comes to Imogene + Willie

• by Abby White
• Tags: Fashion, Imogene + Willie, Warby Parker

CMA Style Leads to BINGO Win!

• by Abby White
• Tags: Fashion, Television, Eric Church, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Willie Nelson, Luke Bryan, Jake Owen, Cake Bowen, NotJakeOwen, CMA Awards

A Love/Hate Letter To Nordies ... and a Big Sale!

• by Abby White
• Tags: Fashion, Nordtrom, Mall at Green Hills, Cole Haan, Diane von Furstenberg, Eileen Fisher, Free People, Haute Hippie, Hudson, Kate Spade New York, Nike, Sam Edelman, Steve Madden, Stuart Weitzman, Trina Turk, Tory Burch.

Nashville Jewish Film Festival: Gei Oni, "A Romance, A Little Sexy"

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, Nashville Jewish Film Festival, Gei Oni, Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom, Gordon Jewish Community Center, Hava Nagila: The Movie, Roberta Grossman, Video

Keep the Lights On: Memphis Filmmaker's Steamy Gay Romantic Drama Opens at Belcourt

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, Keep the Lights On, Ira Sachs, Thure Lindhart, Zachary Booth, Bill Clegg, Belcourt, Video

The Best, Worst and Weirdest of November's Art Crawl

• by Laura Hutson
• Tags: Visual Art, Art Crawl

Circle Players and TSU team up for first local mounting of The Color Purple, with strong results

Deep Purple

• by Martin Brady

The Other Sergio: Belcourt Slings Spaghetti Lead in Honor of Tarantino's Django Unchained

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, Sergio Corbucci, spaghetti Westerns, Belcourt, Zack Hall, Burt Reynolds, Klaus Kinski, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Franco Nero, The Great Silence, Django, The Mercenary, Navajo Joe, Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained, Video

Sicko Classic Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky Tonight on TCM Underground

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Television, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, TCM Underground, TCM, The Sword of Doom, William Girdler, The Manitou, Derek Jarman, Arch Oboler, The Twonky, Video

Hava Good Time: Nashville Jewish Film Festival Starts Tonight

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, Nashville Jewish Film Festival, Hava Nagila: The Movie, Roberta Grossman, Connie Francis, Harry Belafonte, Chubby Checker, Video

Calling All Extras: The Identical Needs You Today — And Will Pay!

• by Jim Ridley
• Tags: Film, The Identical, Nashville film production, Ashley Judd, Ray Liotta, Nashville film extras

All Mod Cloths: Heidi Jewell Shows Nashville to Modcloth

• by Steve Haruch
• Tags: Culture, Under the Guise, Modcloth, Heidi Jewell, fashion, Local Honey, Third Man Records, Barista Parlor, Grimey's, The Stone Fox, Halcyon, Robert's Western World, Video

Learning Not to Shut Down: Nicole Kidman and Lee Daniels on The Paperboy

• by Jason Shawhan
• Tags: Film, The Paperboy, Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron, Lee Daniels, Macy Gray, Belcourt, New York Film Festival, Video

The November Art Crawl brings a light touch to darkening days

Crawl Space

• by Joe Nolan