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7 Murfreesboro Renews Flock Gunshot Detection System Through 2028 Watchdog: The system raises troubling questions about who becomes a suspect BY NICK PIPITONE

8 BlackOut North Opens as YouthRun Community Store A small teenage core will manage and staff a renovated corner market from anti-violence nonprofit Gideon’s Army

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31 Life Can Be So Nice Revisiting the daffy, delightful experience of Prince’s Under the Cherry Moon BY JASON SHAWHAN

31 Indecent Proposal The Invite is a hilarious return to form for Olivia Wilde

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9 Pith in the Wind

BY IAN MATTHEWS

This week on the Scene’s news and politics blog

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11 Uphill Battle

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MURFREESBORO RENEWS FLOCK GUNSHOT DETECTION SYSTEM THROUGH 2028 Watchdog: The system raises troubling questions about who becomes a suspect BY NICK PIPITONE Lawrence explained how license plate readers, gunshot detection and public safety cameras work. They cited 30-day data retention, restricted access to eight of the city’s 361 sworn officers, a requirement for search justification, and no collection of facial recognition or personally identifiable information. Bowen noted that he and Lawrence are “personally available” to address residents’ concerns directly. “So anybody watching this council meeting that has questions and wants to call either of us directly, we’re willing to talk and discuss any concerns,” Bowen said at the June 18 meeting. “We’re not hiding anything.” Murfreesboro officials say license plate readers and gunshot detection are critical to solving violent crime. Lawrence offered numerous examples, including the use of gunshot detection sensors in apprehending three suspects in a Rushwood Drive drive-by shooting and attempted homicide in June, where no 911

searching through that massive data set later.” The result, Guariglia says, is that “everyone is effectively under suspicion all the time.” During the council meeting, Murfreesboro officials said the Raven gunshot detection units do not provide continuous audio recording. The units provide only a five-second audio snippet with each alert, which narrows officer response from a “multi-block area” to a precise zone. “It cannot be tapped for any type of live audio surveillance,” Lawrence said. “So if you have one that’s deployed next to a bus stop, we in the crime center can’t tap into that and listen to conversations or anything like that.” Yet while police departments often emphasize transparency in how they deploy gunshot detection technology, Guariglia says much less is known about how the systems actually function on the back end. “Many of these systems rely on probabilities rather than certainty,” he says. “For example,

“INSTEAD OF COLLECTING INFORMATION ABOUT A SPECIFIC SUSPECT, THEY’RE COLLECTING INFORMATION ABOUT EVERYONE AND THEN SEARCHING THROUGH THAT MASSIVE DATA SET LATER.”

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THE MURFREESBORO CITY COUNCIL voted in June to renew the city’s contract with Flock Safety for the company’s gunshot detection system. The Atlanta-based surveillance company’s gunshot-detection sensors and license plate readers have become among the most contested pieces of policing technology in the country. While police surveillance tech has been hotly debated in Nashville, the contract renewal in Murfreesboro was approved with relatively little controversy. The only vote tied to Flock-related surveillance technology at the June 18 Murfreesboro City Council meeting was approval of a twoyear, $243,898 renewal of the city’s contract with Flock Safety for the “Raven” gunshot detection

system. Murfreesboro Police Department Chief Michael Bowen confirmed that gunshot detection is a separate system from license plate readers, and that the detection system covers roughly five of Murfreesboro’s 64 square miles, based on violent crime data. The system was originally purchased in January 2024, making this a service extension rather than a new acquisition. The renewal passed the City Council unanimously by roll-call vote. Murfreesboro officials addressed its use of Flock’s license plate readers separately in an informational presentation — not a funding or contract vote. Bowen and the police department’s Real-Time Crime Center supervisor Ryan

call was made. Officials say gunshot detection sensors alerted officers, leading to the arrests, and two of the suspects are facing attempted first-degree murder charges. “We hear that argument all the time,” says Matthew Guariglia, a senior policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on defending civil liberties in the digital world. “They can show cases where the technology contributed to solving a crime, but they usually can’t show that there was no other way to solve it.” Guariglia adds that police already have many investigative tools available that don’t require the surveillance of everyone in a jurisdiction. He says the core problem with police tech like gunshot detection is that the systems are designed to replace “individualized suspicion.” “In our legal system, if police suspect someone committed a crime, they go to a judge, obtain a warrant, and then investigate that person,” Guariglia tells the Scene. “These technologies invert that process. Instead of collecting information about a specific suspect, they’re collecting information about everyone and then

instead of telling officers, ‘This was definitely a gunshot,’ the system might indicate a 60 percent or 80 percent likelihood that it was a gunshot.” The stakes of those errors can be significant. Gunshot detection systems have been known to mistake fireworks, car backfires and other loud noises for gunfire. In 2024, Chicago police responding to an alert from ShotSpotter fired at an unarmed teenager after the system incorrectly flagged fireworks as gunshots. Chicago later canceled its contract with ShotSpotter amid criticism over the technology’s inaccuracy, racial bias and misuse. ShotSpotter is a gunshot detection technology similar to Flock’s Raven product. Guariglia says incidents like the one in Chicago raise a fundamental question about the presumption of innocence. “If a sensor is triggered and officers rush to the area, what happens to everyone nearby?” he says. “Do police suddenly believe they have probable cause to stop or search everyone in the vicinity? They shouldn’t. But in practice, police sometimes act as though simply being near a sensor alert justifies additional scrutiny.” ▼

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NOISE BOUNCES OFF the glossy blue concrete floor at BlackOut North, a modern convenience store designed and conceived by Nashville anti-violence nonprofit Gideon’s Army. “First, we got a studio, and we make good food,” says 15-year-old Zachariah, a rising Hillsboro High School sophomore. “I got started here because of my brother. At first I was too young to join, but then this year I was able to join up.” Zachariah sits across the table from his brother JB during a brief break from the immense workload ahead of BlackOut North’s grand opening on Saturday. Teenage staff had hoped to bring in the public for a Juneteenth celebration, but had to postpone planned festivities — opening has come with its share of obstacles and slowdowns. This year’s $6,000 tax bill brought a hefty dose of small-business reality. Another co-worker had to shift his focus away from BlackOut North to prepare for a new baby. Steady victories, like the store’s active business license and excellent health score, have helped sustain momentum. “We wash the dishes and mop the floor, clean up around the building, work the register, and make sure the kitchen is straight, every day,” adds JB. “We want people to be around this area again, like how it used to be. It’s about bringing Jefferson Street back, in a way. But not just Jeffer-

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son Street — this whole area.” Like most other teenagers, Zachariah and JB think Nashville can be boring. Zachariah says the young people he knows gravitate toward public housing as social spaces, especially large complexes off of Jo Johnston Avenue and “Dodge

“IT’S ABOUT PERSONAL REFLECTION AND PERSONAL GROWTH IN THE MOMENT. YOU’RE NOT JUST LEARNING A LESSON ABOUT LEADERSHIP — YOU HAVE TO PUT IT INTO ACTION.” —RASHEEDAT FETUGA, GIDEON’S ARMY City” in North Nashville — a nickname for the Cumberland View Apartments off Clarksville Pike. “It’s really in the projects where all the kids hang out,” Zachariah says. “If you have nothing else to do, that’s where you go to see who’s out.

And downtown. I think they’ll come here instead for the studio.” Along with a tight core of friends-turned-coworkers, the two have helped transform the former convenience store at the corner of Osage and 23rd Avenue North into a multipurpose space aimed at their peers. Beyond the basic snack-and-beverage offerings expected of a corner market, BlackOut North offers a hot food menu and, yes, a small recording studio already painted with the portraits of forerunning Black cultural figures in North Nashville. Gideon’s Army, the nonprofit that serves as BlackOut North’s financial umbrella, hopes the community store can turn into a modern social hub in an aging neighborhood that was severely damaged by March 2020’s historically devastating tornado. “They are really learning how to become leaders, not just what you have to do to open a kitchen,” says Rasheedat Fetuga, a teacher who formed Gideon’s Army in 2010 to serve area youth. “It’s about personal reflection and personal growth in the moment. You’re not just learning a lesson about leadership — you have to put it into action.” As she’s speaking with the Scene, Fetuga opens up a thick ringed binder. At the top of each page is a shield logo for Gid University, a

NEWS PITH IN THE WIND leadership curriculum she developed that takes small groups through weeks of discussion-based training. At Pearl-Cohn High School, she ran programs focused on community healing and nonviolence and organized Gideon’s Army in the same mold. She says she’s tried to be hands-off as BlackOut North prepares to open. That decision has likely slowed down the process, Fetuga says, but it keeps intact the youth-led, learn-bydoing mission at the core of Gideon’s Army. BlackOut North is the group’s latest project. Past and ongoing initiatives include a violence interruption program and a universal basic income experiment that Gideon’s Army officially completed this spring, Fetuga says, after years of twists and turns. Private donations and city money fund the group, which the Metro Council awarded with a $375,000 grant from the city’s Community Safety Fund in April. BlackOut North’s grand opening — an open house event slated for noon to 6 p.m. this Saturday, July 11 — aims to bring some life back to the corner of Osage and 23rd. Artists Kasumi Bledsoe, Elisheba Israel Mrozik, Michael “Ol Skool” Mucker and Kammarah Stevens collaborated on an exterior that blends imaginative Afrocentric portraiture and street art styles. Block letters reify the unofficial Gideon’s Army slogan: “We All We Got.” ▼

NASHVILLESCENE.COM/NEWS/PITHINTHEWIND Weeks away from Tennessee’s next scheduled lethal injection, all six Democrats in the state Senate and nine of the body’s Republicans favor an immediate pause on state executions after the state’s second failed attempted killing in four years. In May, a state doctor botched the lethal injection meant to kill Tony Carruthers, bloodying the death row prisoner with puncture wounds in an episode Carruthers’ attorney likened to torture. Carruthers’ attorneys have pursued legal recourse against Gov. Bill Lee, including their own appeal for a pause on executions. Tennessee is scheduled to execute Darrell Hines in August. Citing Hines’ physical and cognitive impairment following a stroke, his lawyers asked Lee to grant a reprieve for the “profoundly disabled” prisoner in a letter sent June 22. These nine Republicans now “respectfully but firmly” call on Lee to commission an independent review of Carruthers’ failed execution, order independent drug testing and publicize both to repair the state’s credibility. Neighbors for Safety BMH (Belle Meade Highlands) is continuing its legal fight related to the under-construction Cheekwood Estate & Gardens Parking Pavilion and Welcome Plaza, with the group now suing the Metro government. Filed in Davidson County Chancery Court, the lawsuit focuses on what NFS contends is Metro improperly allowing Cheekwood Estate & Gardens officials to begin work on the parking facility. Cheekwood officials have said the parking facility will satisfy Cheekwood’s agreement with the Metro Parks Department, which allows for Cheekwood overflow parking on adjacent Warner Parks property until the facility opens in 2027. The Cheekwood Board of Trustees, led by chairman Matt Kisber, notes in a letter addressed to the general public that, if the Neighbors for Safety BMH effort to stop work on the parking facility is successful, the action could jeopardize Cheekwood’s efforts to continue operations. Vonda McDaniel, president of the Central Labor Council of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, died on June 30. The CLC announced the news Thursday, commemorating McDaniel’s decades of work in labor movements across Middle Tennessee. McDaniel was planning to retire from the CLC at the end of 2026. In February she had been appointed a co-executive director of The Highlander Research and Education Center — a historic institution dedicated to training social justice leadership.

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Trump-loving John Rose and liberal Jerri Green share one thing: wanting to beat Marsha Blackburn By Eli Motycka

TWO CAMPAIGNS — one on either side of Marsha Blackburn — have tried to stop the Tennessee Republican’s path from senator to governor. Paved with campaign experience, well-connected allies and plenty of money, Blackburn’s race to succeed term-limited incumbent Gov. Bill Lee looks like hers to lose. Or at least, to win less convincingly than the U.S. Senate reelection campaign she ran less than two years ago. Now, like then, Blackburn declined the Scene’s multiple requests for an interview. Donors and party insiders say Blackburn coveted the governor’s seat even before her second Senate campaign. Blatant job-hopping fuels the “professional politician” label that has become her major opponents’ strongest weapon. “Marsha Blackburn’s number one funder is a voucher schemer out of Pennsylvania, who’s already given a million dollars to her campaign — it’s political insiderism, big money and PACs having their say with our elected officials,” says Memphis City Councilmember Jerri Green, the Democrats’ likely nominee for governor. “She continues to be in the big pocket of big lobbyists outside of Tennessee, and she doesn’t listen to Tennesseans. There’s nastiness on the national level that Tennesseans are just sick of.” From the right, U.S. Rep. John Rose attacks Blackburn as out of touch, inexperienced and insufficiently pro-Trump. Rose is currently in his fourth term representing Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he has slipped into relative obscurity inside Republicans’ right flank. Both parties’ primaries will be held Aug. 6,

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with early voting beginning July 17. Also on the Republican primary ballot will be far-right state Rep. Monty Fritts of East Tennessee. On the Democratic primary ballot, Green is joined by four lesser-known Democrats, including Nashville steel guitarist Adam “Ditch” Kurtz.

“The Founders envisioned a citizen legislature, and it might sound corny, but eight years was good enough for George Washington, and before I first came to Congress I decided it would be good enough for me too,” Rose tells the Scene,

who turn around and immediately search for another job,” explains Rose. “Sen. Blackburn just took a six-year job as United States senator — I think Tennesseans are skeptical of that.” Since rising from the U.S. House of Representatives to the Senate in 2018, Blackburn has avoided public appearances and press. Just last week, she awkwardly avoided questions from NewsChannel 5 outside an elevator at a Nashville event. Blackburn makes frequent appearances on Fox News and flooded airwaves during her last election cycle with campaign ads that focused on culture-war topics like trans people and wokeness.

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plaint from Knoxville Republican activist Gary Loe alleging misuse of funds. The public relations runway set up the August 2025 announcement of her gubernatorial campaign. Rather than discussing D.C., Rose is more comfortable borrowing business terms to describe his CEO qualifications, his résumé for governor and voters’ task of hiring the state’s next executive. It’s a message he hopes draws in like-minded Democrats too, though Rose warns about the state’s bona fide test — a misdemeanor penalty introduced in 2024 meant to eliminate cross-party meddling in primaries. An IT entrepreneur by trade, Rose served as the

with three words (“faith, family and freedom”) and casts himself as the conservative problem-solver who will help preserve the nature and character of Tennessee — a key issue he says he’s heard from voters at events across the state. On the campaign trail, Rose touts his own vote against certifying Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential victory — part of Republicans’ failed soft coup accompanied by Capitol riots on Jan. 6, 2021 — in an attempt to peel hardcore Trump voters from Blackburn in the party’s ongoing primary. He still doubts the integrity of the 2020 election based on what he calls “irregularities” in six swing states that sealed Joe Biden’s elec-

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referring to the first president’s self-imposed two-term precedent. “I believe that even more firmly now. The environment in Washington is very corrosive, and if you stay here too long, you lose touch with the voters who sent you here to represent them.” Rose levels the same accusations at Blackburn, whom he considers his only relevant opponent. First elected to U.S. Congress in 2002, Blackburn has spent years inside the Beltway “deciding whether to push a red or a green button,” as Rose describes the job of a legislator. “I’ve had the unpleasantness of hiring people

“It’s my belief that she ran for Senate simply as a way of raising money and raising her profile,” continues Rose. “I think it has become clear that she has intermingled her effort for Senate reelection and her effort for running for governor and used resources to advance the gubernatorial candidacy that were really probably more appropriately targeted to her Senate reelection in 2030.” In the months after she won reelection in 2024, Blackburn spent more than $3 million in Senate campaign money on ads, travel and political consultants, prompting a formal com-

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state’s agriculture commissioner for six months under Gov. Don Sundquist more than 20 years ago, the happenstance result of a last-minute phone call after a sudden resignation. Rose’s personal life has been the subject of criticism regarding the significant age gap between himself and his wife — who was 17 when she met Rose, then in his 40s and on the board of the Tennessee FFA. He stitches together farm chores and CEO experience in ads that mimic the outsider-common-sense approach that propelled Lee’s 2018 winning campaign. He describes his campaign

tion victory. Intense public scrutiny from a raft of investigations, audits, reporting and probes have all failed to substantiate the so-called Big Lie that persists with Rose and a major faction of the Republican Party. “In my view, it was very easy to come to the conclusion that I should still vote the way that I believe the facts indicated,” Rose explains. “Now, you know, people ask me sometimes to dig deeper into that and what would have happened — there was a whole process laid out in law for how that should have worked, and had enough members objected, it would have set

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in motion a set of processes and procedures for how we then determine who the next president of the United States would be.” Rose, who frequently praises the country’s Founders and Framers throughout his half-hour interview with the Scene, calls the associated violence that resulted from a Trump rally at the Capitol on Jan. 6 “very terrible.” He briefly discusses mail-in ballots and election administration laws and expresses confidence that history will vindicate his vote. As Rose travels Tennessee trying to catch up with Blackburn’s statewide name recognition, he has built a bit of momentum in the uphill primary. Blackburn recently started attacking him in ads, a badge he wears proudly. Big-picture poll numbers still cast his campaign as a looming failure that has come at great personal expense — Rose loaned his campaign some $5 million — likely marking the end of his patchwork career in politics. Rose takes some comfort in imagining his own political end: There is plenty of work waiting for him on his farm.

County Mayor Lee Harris, who recruited Green into his administration. She won her next race, a nonpartisan city council contest, by 56 votes. She’s turned the razor-thin margin into a core lesson of a budding political career. “During that race, the last house that I knocked on, I saw the guy was standing in line in front of me when I went to go vote the next day,” Green tells the Scene in late June, hours before an evening event in Clarksville. “In addition to living in all three major Tennessee cities, I’ve worked in the executive branch, the judicial branch, and I’m on city council. Then I have my full-time job of being the chief public defender with 150 attorneys and staff, and I have three

than a decade of GOP dominance has avoided policy debates or introspection. Instead, the state’s disaffected and elusive non-voters have become the party’s hope and cope. “Truthfully, Tennessee is a non-voting state, right?” Green continues. “We rank one of the last in the country for voting. People have given up because they feel like their voice doesn’t matter.” The numbers back that up. About half of Tennessee’s 4 million registered voters regularly vote, placing the state among the nation’s least active in terms of voter participation. Green insists that Democrats do not have a damaged brand in Tennessee.

Truthfully, Tennessee is a non-voting state, right? We rank one of the last in the country for voting. People have given up because they feel like their voice doesn't matter. —Jerri Green

Jerri Green sits on the other side. Raised poor in Memphis, Green has spent a career outhustling the competition, notching stops at the University of Tennessee and Georgetown University Law Center before returning south in the early 2000s. After a few years as a Nashville public defender, she moved back to Memphis, where she has raised her family and segued into politics. In 2020, Green took on incumbent Republican state Rep. Mark White for a state House seat that spans purple Memphis suburbs. She lost, but her upstart energy and closer-than-expected results turned into a phone call from Shelby

kids — that’s my most important job.” The experience and political appetite set Green up for this year’s gubernatorial run. Tennessee Democrats have taken loss after loss in statewide elections, and it will take more overachieving to beat any Republican in November — much less a proven winner like Blackburn. Blackburn won her 2024 Senate reelection campaign by nearly 30 percentage points over Democratic state Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville. Based on recent cycles — 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 — Green has to find at least 800,000 more votes than any Democrat running statewide in the past decade, including presidential candidates. “I’m 48 — I remember having a Democratic governor, and I remember having Democratic senators,” says Green. “It’s just not that long ago. We are not a solid-red MAGA state. We’re actually really purple.” Democrats’ preferred explanation for more

“The damaged reputation is on the GOP,” Green says, shifting into stump-speech mode. “Ask anybody, ‘Is your life better than it was 20 years ago?’ That’s how long they’ve had a stranglehold, a trifecta, in our government. Are your groceries cheaper? Is your gas cheaper? Are your wages higher?” Her affordability message mirrors the successful formula that has elevated the political stature of national figures like Nebraska mechanic Dan Osborn, Iowa auditor Rob Sand, Texas upstart James Talarico, party star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani — he might be a poor political match for Tennessee voters, but he’s a useful model for his clarion politicking. All are mold-breaking politicians who have defeated or significantly eroded established political power by finding new axes on which to engage voters; all have been honest and critical about the Democratic Party’s missteps. Green instead mentions

Based on recent cycles — 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 — Green has to find at least 800,000 more votes than any Democrat running statewide in the past decade, including presidential candidates.

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The Democratic and Republican primaries for governor of Tennessee will be held on Aug. 6, with early voting taking place July 17-Aug. 1

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger and New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill, who have prevented backsliding in historically Democratic states, as instructive for her campaign. “I’m not here to deprogram anybody out of their cult, and I’m not gonna change my progressive values,” Green says. “We want to end the grocery tax and put taxes back on corporations and billionaires where they belong, and freeze the gas tax while Trump’s playing war games in the Middle East. We want to make healthcare more accessible and more affordable by taking Medicaid expansion money. Vouchers are hugely unpopular across the state. I have concrete plans, people get that.” Newly gerrymandered congressional districts have boxed Democrats out of representing longtime liberal strongholds Nashville and Memphis. But more than a million Tennesseans still vote for Democrats, especially under a scandal-ridden Republican president. Blatant transgressions, like the recent special session that sliced Memphis into three new congressional districts to benefit Republicans, may provoke an even stronger backlash from voters. Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn, a progressive in East Nashville, proved valuable party momentum during a December special election that brought Democrats within 10 percentage points of a nationally significant upset. Even in the loss, all types of voters — rural, suburban, urban — moved toward the party. Keeping that momentum, says Green, is a victory in itself. She quotes voting research off the top of her head. “Hamilton County, home to Chattanooga, has been Republican for 20 years, and this year Democrats outvoted Republicans for the first time in decades,” Green says. “There is a sea change happening — people just aren’t paying attention to it in Tennessee.” ▼

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BREAKFIELD

Like the Texas alt-country band Mike and the Moonpies, which changed its name to Silverada in 2023, Nashville quintet Boy Named Banjo sought to expand their commercial reach by taking a new moniker. Now called Breakfield, the band released their first album under the new name in June. Silverada always struck me as a group that pushed the paradigm, and their 2020 release Touch of You: The Lost Songs of Gary Stewart paid tribute to a honky-tonk artist who probably would’ve looked askance at the idea of alt-country itself. Meanwhile, the sound Breakfield achieved on their 2023 album for the Mercury Records Nashville label, Dusk, was one step away from mainstream country. The album’s “Heart Attack” was Celtic-flavored country, and if you wanted to compare that incarnation of the band to, say, Old Crow Medicine Show and the Eagles, I wouldn’t argue. On their eponymous debut as Breakfield, which they cut for Rounder Records with producer Sadler Vaden, they sound like a New Wave-influenced alt-country band. The strategy works, and you might compare them to the now-forgotten altcountry-rock band The Vulgar Boatmen — maybe Breakfield could cover their 1989 tune “Drive Somewhere,” which would work in an alt-country context. EDD HURT 8 P.M. AT THE BASEMENT 1604 EIGHTH AVE. S.

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The Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies haven’t released an album of new music since 2005, but their popularity has not waned, as evidenced by their four shows this week at 3rd and Lindsley beginning Thursday night. The first two shows sold out so quickly that the band added two more. The Southern hard-rock quintet is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Magnolia, their debut album for Capricorn Records released in April 1996. “It had been four years since we had done our last shows, and I just thought it’d be a good time to get together and celebrate 30 years of Magnolia, an album that means a lot to our fans,” lead vocalist and principal songwriter Mike Farris tells the Scene. In addition to the Nashville shows, The Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies’ 30 Years of Magnolia celebration will include a pair of performances at the Gramercy Theatre in New York at the end of the month and a multi-city run of dates in Spain in October. Unfortunately, bassist Steve Burgess will not be joining Farris

and his other bandmates — guitarists Rick White and Bobby Watkins and drummer Terry Thomas — at their upcoming shows. Burgess is battling early-onset Parkinson’s disease, so Dean Tomasek, who is best known for his bass work with Bare Jr. and Valentine Saloon, is filling in. DARYL SANDERS

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WEEKEND CLASSICS: BEAT THE HEAT: CASINO

If you’re one of those people who thinks Casino is just lesser Goodfellas, you need to scoot on over to the Belcourt this weekend. The theater is showing the third entry in legendary director Martin Scorsese’s career-spanning chronicle of American criminal enterprises for its Weekend Classics: Beat the Heat series. A three-hour crime epic set in the arid desert “oasis” of Las Vegas might not be your idea of beating the heat, but crucially, that’s three hours in the Belcourt’s dark, air-conditioned 1925 Hall in the middle

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ASK E. JEAN

A lot of fucked-up things go down in Ask E. Jean, director Ivy Meeropol’s documentary on journalist/advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who took our current president to court twice for alleged sexual assault and harassment (and won — yay!). But truly, the most fucked-up thing is how Carroll was already living a doc-worthy life before her traumatic run-in with Orange Boy, which unfortunately makes up most of this picture. A former cheerleading queen who turned in racy, raucous dispatches for Playboy and Esquire back in the day, the outspoken, eccentric Carroll pivoted to advice-giving in the ’90s, stirring up garrulous, pro-feminist solutions in the pages of Elle and on her very own cable talk show. Hell, the wild time she spent as Hunter S. Thompson’s biographer sounds like a gotdamn entertaining movie. Unfortunately, we get Carroll revisiting the hell she went through: 1. keeping her assault a secret, and 2. recalling the whole thing in court depositions. Yes, the woman deserves praise for standing up to the reflecting pool ruiner. But she should also get props for being one of the most badass ladies who ever lived. Visit belcourt.org for showtimes. CRAIG D. LINDSEY OPENING JULY 10 AT THE BELCOURT 2102 BELCOURT AVE.

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THE SEWING CLUB

Members of The Sewing Club say Saturday will be their “first official Nashville headline show,” which is a surprising milestone for a band that’s been playing the Music City club circuit and touring cross-country with bands like Arlie and chokecherry since 2022. Throughout that time, they’ve released a string

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With a filmography as loaded with iconic works as Hayao Miyazaki’s, when people are asked which is their favorite, answers run the gamut from Spirited Away to The Castle of Cagliostro. Mine is My Neighbor Totoro, and I’m delighted to get a chance to view it on the big screen during GKIDS’ annual Studio Ghibli Fest. I don’t know if I’m more excited to see the magical Catbus, the first appearance of the soot-gremlin Susuwatari or Totoro himself. More Miyazaki joints will be coming later this year — Castle in the Sky,

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THE LIGHTHOUSE

of singles and EPs that showcase both dreamy, peppy indie rock (check out “Promise” from The Sewing Club, released in September 2024) and the sort of sludgy shoegaze that bands like Wednesday and Slow Pulp have made so popular (like “Strange,” released just days later). The Blue Room is a heck of a place to mark the occasion, in any case, and concertgoers can expect to hear both sides of the band as well as a handful of unreleased tracks they’ve been saving for this hometown show. Two other Nashville artists kick off the night. Melaina Kol’s upcoming Okay that’s a great idea because if I do that then uses classical instrumentation to create house music sounds that should sound right at home on Jack White’s cerulean stage, while country-tinged rocker Billy! just marked a milestone of his own by playing a Bonnaroo showcase. COLE VILLENA 7 P.M. AT THE BLUE ROOM AT THIRD MAN RECORDS 623 SEVENTH AVE. S.

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Artist Bryce McCloud calls his pop-up installation Experimart “the only experimental retail store and museum this side of the Earth’s crust.” And since we can’t think of anything remotely analogous to this family-friendly attraction, which invites visitors to try new things, invest in kindness, see the world and make it better, we’re inclined to agree with the designation. Admission is free into the painstakingly hand-crafted emporium — part carnival fun house, part philosopher’s den — where guests can explore the manufacturing history of pencils, purchase curiosities from repurposed vending machines and design bespoke hand-pressed T-shirts with elements from the woodblock archive of McCloud’s letterpress print studio, Isle of Printing. For a suggested $5 donation, a guest can follow the interactive initiation and earn an experimenter’s ID badge by completing playful tasks, such as writing and mailing a postcard and building a tower of stuffed animals. Just go with it. This one-of-a-kind landmark may be hard to explain, but early data would suggest the experiment is a success. Follow @experi.mart on Instagram for pop-up hours and future plans. CARRINGTON FOX FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS THROUGH AUGUST AT BUILDING 10 IN THE FACTORY AT FRANKLIN 230 FRANKLIN ROAD, FRANKLIN

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of a sweltering Tennessee summer. Casino is an integral entry in Scorsese’s exploration of the dark rot at the core of American life. It’s mostly remembered for the iconic suits — designed by Giorgio Armani himself — Robert De Niro’s character Sam “Ace” Rothstein wears as the ultimate middle manager in the Vegas crime syndicate. But the film zips along despite its run time thanks to characteristically outstanding work from Marty’s go-to editor Thelma Schoonmaker and some killer performances. Sharon Stone turns in off-the-walls, careerbest work as Ginger McKenna, while James Woods has never been sleazier as the pimp Lester Diamond, and Joe Pesci is terrifying as hotheaded “made man” Nicky Santoro. LOGAN BUTTS JULY 10-12 AT THE BELCOURT 2102 BELCOURT AVE.

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Living Record pairs two Nashville watercolor painters whose practices document how memory is carried in the body. Anna Wise paints luminous, layered figures, embracing a dreamy surrealism. Her work documents a somnambulant liminality where memories, dreams and the natural world all blur together at the edges. These works are purposefully mysterious but full of reassurance and hope. Anna Wallace makes her own clayboard panels before rendering hands with a process-driven intimacy rooted in a lifelong fascination with how people communicate through gesture. Every time I see an artist making a subject of hands, it always reads — in a charming way — like a flex, because every artist goes through hell learning how to draw them. The show’s centerpiece is a large-scale collaborative painting fusing Wise’s signature silhouettes with Wallace’s hands, anchoring an exhibition built on shared visual language and not just guilt by association. An interactive community engagement element of the show invites visitors to trace their own hands and add to a growing collective document over the run of the show. This is Wallace’s Nashville swan song exhibition before she relocates to Fiji, and Living Record is a hands-on send-off. JOE NOLAN OPENING RECEPTION 6-9 P.M.; THROUGH JULY 29 AT ARCADE ARTS 223 FOURTH AVE. N.

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Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Ponyo are all scheduled, several of which will make future appearances in this section. Visit gkids.com/ ghiblifest for showtimes. The film is playing at most area Regal and AMC theaters. LOGAN BUTTS JULY 11-15 AT LOCAL REGAL AND AMC LOCATIONS

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With the release of his trailer for the forthcoming Werwulf two weeks ago, writerdirector Robert Eggers re-entered the eversimmering cinematic discourse. Though the master of gothic horror and grimy period pieces isn’t for everyone, most cinephiles with a penchant for the dark and eerie agree that Eggers hasn’t had any true missteps — from his 2015 debut The Witch to 2024’s awardnominated Nosferatu. Perhaps his most divisive film, however, was 2019’s The Lighthouse, the odd and fascinating two-hander starring

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HEATED RIVALRY VINYL RELEASE LISTENING PARTY

Will you come to the Heated Rivalry Record Store Day listening party this summer? Vinyl Tap is participating in a nationwide RSD release party to celebrate the vinyl release of the TV show’s soundtrack. The show’s creator, Jacob Tierney, was recently interviewed for The New Yorker about his music taste — and he sang the praises of onetime Nashvillian Samia. Building off his scrappy song curation alongside Jared Keeso for Letterkenny, the Heated Rivalry soundtrack leans into the 2000s Canadian indie Tierney was formed by. It hinges heavily on Wolf Parade’s “I’ll Believe in Anything,” which has seen a renaissance through the show. Plus there’s “mangetout,” a groovy number from viral British provocateurs Wet Leg, as well as the show’s beloved original score from Peter Peter. Offering prizes and an opportunity to geek out en masse, the listening party is a great way to keep your support for local record stores going all summer long. ANNIE PARNELL 3 P.M. AT VINYL TAP 2038 GREENWOOD AVE.

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The Fourth of July festivities may have come and gone, but you can keep that revolutionary spirit going strong this Saturday with Off Broadway: The Room Where It Happened. Presented at the intimate Analog at Hutton Hotel, this popular cabaret series has quickly become a fan favorite, with past installments offering everything from a Wizard of Oz-inspired immersive experience to a fun That’s So High School show that wrapped up with a full-blown prom afterparty. This weekend’s edition highlights inspiring songs of protest and patriotism from big musicals such as Hamilton, Les Misérables, Suffs, Spring Awakening, Ragtime, Hair and more. Hosted by Rachel Potter (The Addams Family; Evita; Wicked national tour), the show’s lineup features an impressive blend of Broadway and local talent — including Justin Sargent, Deejay Young, Stephanie Umoh, Diana DeGarmo, Omar Cardona, MORGXN, Matt Boyd, Piper Jones, Jada Wasserman, Michael Passons, Ty Herndon, Melissa Greene, Annabelle Fox and Tyler Kohrs. Plus, guests can look forward to fun themed cocktails and a few surprises. AMY STUMPFL 8 P.M. AT ANALOG AT HUTTON HOTEL 1808 WEST END AVE.

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SAI CLAYTON: BLOOD ON MY HANDS, FISH IN MY VEINS

For an artist as young as she is, Sai Clayton is remarkably accomplished. She co-curated the Frist’s expansive exhibition In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century, she is the curatorial director of COOP, and she has her own art practice, which blends sophisticated ideas about identity and belonging into works that are both complex and accessible. All that is to say that when she exhibits new work, it’s always worth paying attention. For Blood on My Hands, Fish in My Veins, opening Saturday at the former Zeitgeist space RADAR615, Clayton is continuing her investigation into the duality of

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knows-where and who-knows-when. The mix supplies enough for everybody to get dusted, lawn chair crowd included. And, I might add, they do slip in “I’ll Fly Away” from time to time. The Last Revel opens. KEVIN BROWN (KEVBRO) 7:30 P.M. AT THE RYMAN 116 REP. JOHN LEWIS WAY N.

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Nashville music fans will have a chance to see one of the greatest singer-songwriters in popular music history July 15 when twotime Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Paul Simon brings his A Quiet Celebration Tour to FirstBank Amphitheater. Simon, who is also a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, has won 16 Grammy awards, including three for Album of the Year — a distinction he shares with Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder. He’s a recipient of Kennedy Center Honors and the inaugural Gershwin Prize for Popular Song presented by the Library of Congress. In 2019, he became the first musician to be presented the Great Americans Medal by the Smithsonian’s National

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her own multiracial heritage, this time through archival photographs of her grandfathers. It’s visually and conceptually rich subject matter — one of Clayton’s grandfathers was an American soldier in World War II, and the other was displaced by the bombing of Tokyo as a child. The exhibition also incorporates childhood drawings, wartime propaganda, cartoon imagery and self-portraits. From her exhibition statement: “The project considers the broader visual relationship between Japan and the United States, examining how personal histories become entangled with national ones.”

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community. (Her namesake theater company also is still going strong, having recently closed its 20th season with an excellent production of The View UpStairs.) Street is currently back in Nashville working on a thought-provoking new musical called The Tide, and you can check out a staged reading of the piece this weekend at The Darkhorse Theater. Featuring songs by musical duo The War and Treaty (with book by Street), The Tide follows a young man named Marcus, who returns from fighting a war overseas only to discover that “his own country has become nearly unrecognizable” due to pervasive fear, harsh restrictions and government suppression. Street has assembled a terrific cast, including Broadway’s Chris Lee (a Street Theatre alum known for his work in Hell’s Kitchen, the Chicago production of Hamilton and television’s The Chi and Legacies), along with Raven Buntyn, Isiah Rankin, Dee Hammonds, James Rudolph II, Savannah Stein and more. The reading is free, but you’ll need to reserve tickets at streettheatrecompany.org/the-tide. AMY STUMPFL JULY 9-11 AT THE DARKHORSE THEATER 4610 CHARLOTTE AVE.

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Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as a pair of bickering New England lighthouse keepers. Though the film is grim and full of unsettling imagery, Pattinson has said he considers The Lighthouse “100 percent a comedy.” I’m not sure I’d personally agree with the percentage there, but it’s certainly full of enough wild lines and shocking moments that the audience gathered for its midnight screening this weekend at the Belcourt will get plenty of laughs in.

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not bluegrass. Still, he took the gig and merely played his regular set twice as fast. Apparently the crowd was so angry they rushed the stage. “Luckily,” Ray Wiley said, “we had plenty of time to finish the song.” The insinuation, of course, is that bluegrass festival attendees are elderly folks tripping over their lawn chairs in a rage when they don’t hear enough “I’ll Fly Away” (said to be the “Freebird” of bluegrass). With the new generation of artists like Sir Billy of Strings, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, Molly Tuttle and Sierra Hull, that version of a bluegrass crowd is a rare speckled bird. The Infamous Stringdusters, OGs of jamgrass, play fairly traditional bluegrass until a couple of verses in, when they jump the tracks into tangents of full-blown, improvisational inventiveness that end who-

Museum of American History. Wednesday’s show will be presented in two parts. In the first part, Simon will perform his 2023 Grammynominated album Seven Psalms in its entirety. Then, following a brief intermission, he will return and play a set that includes some of his greatest hits, as well as deep cuts. Simon’s current band includes his wife Edie Brickell (vocals), Mark Stewart (guitar), Gyan Riley (guitar), Bakithi Kumalo (bass), Mick Rossi (keys), Matt Chamberlin (drums), Jamey Haddad (percussion), Andy Snitzer (saxophone), Nancy Stagnitta (flute), Caleb Burhans (viola) and Eugene Friesen (cello). DARYL SANDERS 8 P.M. AT FIRSTBANK AMPHITHEATER 4525 GRAYSTONE QUARRY LANE, FRANKLIN

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Zio Matto Gelato, Bar Roza and Frankies bring some Italian inspiration to drinking and dining in the Arcade BY MARGARET LITTMAN food businesses to open in the light-filled, glass-ceilinged Arcade, contributing to a new collection of locally owned and chain businesses in the remodeled historic spot between Fourth and Fifth avenues. The Arcade location is Zio Matto’s second gelateria, with the first in Memphis’ historic Central Station. With Watt, Servente opened that spot after running a food cart because of the foot traffic and the building’s historic nature. (Plus, it tugged at Servente’s heartstrings. He lived in Central Station back when it housed apartments.) When his wife got a job in Nashville, Watt moved here and began selling Zio Matto in area farmers markets as well as through shops like Cocorico, Little Hats Italian Market and New York Butcher Shop. The duo was looking for a brick-and-mortar location for expansion, and when the Arcade became a possibility, they realized it was a fit. “I fell in love with the aesthetics,” Servente

says. “We weren’t necessarily looking to be downtown, but when [Watt] looked at the projected foot traffic, it made for a good business decision. I’m certainly very happy that it’s the way it worked out because there’s a matching tie to the two locations.” In addition to around a dozen gelato flavors (some regulars, some rotating), Zio Matto serves affogatos, gelato cakes and gelato pops from what was Nashville’s first shopping center. Watt notes that beverages — such as granita in summer and hot chocolate in winter — can be ordered with or without gelato. Last month, Julia Jaksic opened her long (long) awaited Bar Roza just around the corner from Zio Matto. (Turn south on the alley that intersects the Arcade when you pass The Peanut Shop.) Under the direction of architect Dryden Studio, the space has been completely reconfigured; it’s unrecognizable from its former life as overflow seating for Manny’s

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MATTEO SERVENTE DOWNTOWN NASHVILLE’S ARCADE originally opened in 1902, modeled loosely after Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan, Italy. So it seems fitting that its three newest food-and-drink tenants have some connection to the Bel Paese. Zio Matto Gelato opened in the Arcade downtown last week. (The soft opening was July 3, with a buy-one-get-one-day taking place July 8.) Co-owner and founder Matteo Servente hails from Torino, Italy, and is committed to bringing Italian gelato to Nashville. Servente moved to Memphis 15 years ago and started the company,

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using traditional, non-machine-based processes such as hand-mixing and whipping to make the frozen treat. Before Servente and Zio Matto co-owner Ryan Watt planned to open a business together, they knew each other through the film industry. Watt was headed to the annual international art event Venice Biennale, and in a bit of foreshadowing, Servente gave him travel tips — including finding the “non-tourist gelato.” Zio Matto joins Julia Jaksic’s Bar Roza and East Nashville’s Frankies as the three newest

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A SELECTION OF FRANKIES FAVORITES BY THE SLICE House of Pizza, which closed in 2023. Jaksic leaned into an Italian Rationalism aesthetic with Italian marble — again appropriate for the Arcade’s roots — and rich, maximalist vibes. It’s not just the decor that is superlative. Jaksic and business partner Owen Gibler (beverage manager at Roze Pony in Belle Meade) created an aperitivo (Italian happy hour) program with cocktails and snacks. Instead of garnishes, drinks feature aromatic spritzes and ice cut inhouse. Emphasis is on the cocktails, but there are focaccia and other “girl dinner”-type snacks, Jaksic says. Frankies opened its Arcade location in early April inside Urban Cowboy, taking over from Roberta’s. Frankies co-owner John Burns Paterson kept the majority of the staff from Roberta’s, trained by folks at Frankies in East Nashville. The Frankies team had not been thinking about opening a second location, but when Urban Cowboy’s Lyon Porter called, Paterson picked up the phone. Urban Cowboy is Frankies’ landlord, and Roberta’s equipment

stayed put, so it was a fairly easy transition — the opening came just a couple of days after the contract was signed. Frankies is open seven days a week. Paterson says that in all his hospitality career, this is the first time staff has asked to stay open later if there’s a good crowd and good vibes. (Official hours are until 10 p.m. during the week and 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.) So far, they’ve been selling whole pies and slices and salads, but Paterson plans to expand to sandwiches and other dishes in the next few weeks. All three business owners came to the Arcade hoping to welcome locals and tourists alike, and that’s already been the case at Frankies. Paterson says customers who come to the East Side location at night are happy to go somewhere for lunch while working downtown. “There are a ton of office folks from businesses downtown,” he says, “and we’ve found so much overlap that we were not expecting.” Creating a place where locals want to hang out downtown was important to Jaksic. “We

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want locals to feel 100 percent comfortable,” she says. “It would be an honor to serve the communities from East and West when they come to the Ryman or the symphony or TPAC. I hope we can be a refuge. We want it to be fun. There are no cocktail bar rules — just come and meet people.” Over the years, the Arcade has seen lots of change, from the departure of the post office to renovation and introduction of new tenants including Savannah Bee and Ugly Bagel. This new trio is excited to be part of the next class of tenants, and to see what their colleagues are going to do. “What Julia has built in that place is worldclass,” Paterson says of Bar Roza. “People are really investing in Nashville, not

only the tourist side of Nashville,” Jaksic says, noting the work of Porter and Jamie White at Buddy’s Tiny Tonk, which is near Bar Roza. “It is amazing to be in a space downtown with people I know from the East Side.” With the artists’ spaces upstairs in the Arcade and the monthly art crawls, folks like Jaksic note an energy for locals that has been missing downtown. “For me,” Jaksic adds, “the Arcade is such a special piece of architecture. I feel honored to be a part of it and built in it.” ▼

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IN THE CLUB: POKÉMON GO NASHVILLE Pokémon Go fans celebrate the iconic franchise and build community around a hit phone game BY ALEJANDRO RAMIREZ patterned with Pokémon — pass out stickers and tell players when it’s time to move along, sometimes missing out on playing in the raids themselves, at least for the first few stops. Greer has been an avid Pokémon fan since the series hit the states, and says Pokémon Go expanded the fan base among adults, allowing many people to revisit their childhoods. “It’s really been a way to find my tribe, I guess you could say,” he says.

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A monster appeared in Centennial Park in late May. The centipede-like creature grew in size and reassembled its segmented body into a knightlike figure, complete with a lance and shield, looming over the Parthenon and other scenic sites throughout the park. A few dozen people arrived to challenge the monster and even capture it. They huddled together, staring down at their phones, and started tapping at them. If you’ve owned a smart device within the past decade, you might have an idea of what’s going on: This is a Pokémon Go event. And the monster was the newly introduced Mega Falinks, an addition to the game’s everexpanding roster of Pokémon. Centennial Park is a popular gathering spot for fans of the augmented reality mobile game. If you somehow aren’t aware, Pokémon is a mega-franchise about collecting little monsters that spans video games and trading cards. The series turned 30 this year, and remains one of Nintendo’s iconic titles — the yellow electric mouse Pikachu has as much star power as Mario. Pokémon Go was released on July 6, 2016, and was an immediate hit, scoring a record-setting 130 million downloads worldwide within a month of launching. The core gameplay loop is simple: Walk around, tap Pokémon that show up nearby, and swipe the screen to throw Pokéballs at the creatures and capture them. While the player base has dipped, the game is far from dead, still seeing millions of daily users — and Middle Tennessee boasts its own strong base of players. The Nashville PoGo crew is headed by

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While Jazzy and Greer grew up with the franchise, there are Pokémon Go players who missed the craze in the late ’90s. Cody Christensen, for example, community ambassadors Jazzy Lo-Fi (who requested we use her online gaming handle) and Galon Greer. A community ambassador, or CA, helps rally players before events, coordinates places to meet both online and in real life and shares announcements and updates from the game’s developer Niantic. CAs are volunteers, not employees of the company. “I would say that I bring people together,” says Jazzy. “If I see people tapping on their phone, I ask them if [they’re] playing Pokémon Go.” Jazzy became a CA in May 2025, but had already started building the community of players in 2024. She “revamped” an existing Discord server for Pokémon Go players and started hosting unofficial events. Jazzy says the group saw maybe four or five people regularly show up for in-person events when she got started. Now she sees about 20 to 30 people show up for semi-frequent “raids” to capture unique Pokémon, and some of the bigger weekend-long events can draw up to 400 people. And the Discord (think a casual, gaming-centric version of Slack) has more than 3,000 members and more than 40 channels for announcements, chitchat and gaming advice. The May 23 raid to catch Mega Falinks attracted a few dozen people, who trekked from the Parthenon to the park’s World War I monument and back, stopping at landmarks to battle and hopefully capture the Pokémon. Raids are big battles against strong opponents, and they require some communication and strategy between players, says Greer. Players even travel to Nashville for the extra help with raids, as one couple from Cookeville tells the Scene. Greer and Jazzy — decked out in shirts

was introduced to the trading cards first by his children, and the whole family downloaded and played Pokémon Go after its release. Another couple who spoke with the Scene say they weren’t Pokémon fans growing up, but when their young son Malik developed an interest in the games, they downloaded the app and started playing alongside him. (Malik, meanwhile, tells the Scene his favorite Pokémon is Jigglypuff, a balloon-like creature who loves to sing.) The staying power of the franchise probably helped Pokémon Go weather myriad controversies related to developer Niantic’s geomapping and data collection (including recent allegations that some data from the game made its way to a military contractor — though the company disputes the report). The brand itself is no stranger to bad press, from scalpers ruining the trading card game to an infamous seizure-inducing anime episode. Fans clamor, debate and move on with or without the franchise. Based on the handful of children following the caravan of adult players, Pokémon controversies will continue for future generations. As for the world of Pokémon Go, players are gearing up for Go Fest, which is going to debut Mega Mewtwo around the world. The free event takes place over two days, July 11 and 12. You can visit Pokemongo.com for details or look up the Nashville Pokémon Go Discord to meet other players eager to capture the powerful new Pokémon. You’ll no doubt find them that weekend in Centennial: Just look for the group of people tapping their phones, probably decked out in Pokémon gear, and ask if you can join in. ▼

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Banjo wizard Tray Wellington tells his own story with Heart on the Table BY BOBBIE JEAN SAWYER

TRAY WELLINGTON has long been drawn to musical innovations. On his 2022 full-length debut Black Banjo, the virtuoso picker delivered a stellar fusion of jazz and progressive bluegrass. He continued to push the boundaries of banjo music with his 2024 follow-up Detour to the Moon, which features a rootsy cover of Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness” — an affirming anthem for an artist who refuses to be boxed into a genre. “I’ve been a banjo player for a long time,” Wellington tells the Scene. “So for me, no matter what I do musically, that’s going to be a part of it, because it’s such a big part of my early musical identity.” His latest project Heart on the Table, out Friday, blends R&B and hip-hop production with three-finger banjo and rap. Wellington co-produced with fiddle wiz and fellow Nashvillian John Mailander, and he says he was influenced by his grandfather’s classic country records, the R&B and hip-hop his mom had on repeat as he was growing up, and artists who shaped his adolescence like J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Lupe Fiasco and Kid Cudi. “One of the biggest revelations I had doing this was when I was writing these songs and I

realized what the connectivity between all the music is,” Wellington says. “[When] we typically think of folk music, we think of acoustic music — acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, bluegrass, country all fall into this branch. A lot of times R&B and hip-hop get left out of it because it’s not considered under that [branch]. When you really look at it, you realize hip-hop and R&B are the newest forms of folk music. Because when you’re thinking about the stories, hip-hop has been telling the story of Black America primarily for a long time.” Wellington, who was awarded the Steve Martin Banjo Prize in 2024, grew up in the Southern Appalachian mountains of North Carolina. He began playing electric guitar in middle school, but after hearing a Doc Watson album from his grandfather’s CD collection, Wellington became enamored with acoustic guitar. Soon after, he joined a class that taught traditional folk music. “Two or three months into the class, the teacher pulled out a banjo and started playing the tune ‘Salt Creek,’” he recalls. “I remember just being like, ‘What is that?’ I was captivated.” As a teenager, Wellington became a staple of bluegrass festivals and conventions around Southern Appalachia.

“I was lucky enough to grow up in an area where traditional music is so big and so prevalent,” he says. “When you start to look at the different jam sessions around the world, whether it be a bluegrass jam session or a jazz jam session, you start to see a lot of similarities in terms of how learning music is like listening. … I was able to listen to a lot of music in those settings, and I was able to see how people were improvising and see how people were fitting a musical style.” Wellington joined Jake Blount, Kaïa Kater and Nelson Williams in a Black string-band supergroup called New Dangerfield (which went on indefinite hiatus earlier this year). He collaborates with several of his peers on Heart on the Table, including Lizzie No, Sierra Hull, Elora Dash, Demeanor, AG Sully and Kater. The album serves as a diary of the past 15 years of Wellington’s life. Opening track “False Idols” finds Wellington looking back on his life at age 15, while the songsmith describes “Last Days” as a snapshot of the “tailspin of my last days up to this moment.” “It’s the most vulnerable I’ve ever been on an album with telling my individual story,” he says. “I’ve always put my all into my music, but I’ve never really told my story with [my] words.”

Looking forward, Wellington says he wants to keep tapping into the childlike creativity that’s always driven his art. “When it comes to genre blending specifically, I love so many different styles of music, and I think I adapt myself to be able to play those types of music — by thinking of it not as like, ‘Oh, this is bluegrass, this is R&B, this is hiphop,’ but thinking of it as, ‘This is all music.’ I can adapt and add my voice to it. Duke Ellington is a really inspirational music figure. If you look at all the things he did in music — he had an album playing Eastern music. … He had all these different albums from different parts of the world, but you could always hear it and be like, ‘That was Duke Ellington.’ That’s kind of what my mission is, looking at all these kinds of music that I’m getting involved with and all these new fusions I’m making. … I want people to hear it and be like, ‘That’s Tray Wellington.’” ▼

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2001’s newly restored By Hook or by Crook encourages gender outlaws to be who we are BY T MINTON

THE FIRST TIME I saw By Hook or by Crook, I was looking for a good hang, but I was really looking for myself. It was 2004, and my first girlfriend introduced it to me as I was coming out as a butch dyke. The film had not yet become the queer-cinema canon it is today. Back then — before algorithms made longing searchable — queer culture often traveled hand to hand, room to room, lover to lover, friend to friend. Someone placed an object in your path and said, “Here, this might help.” More than 20 years later, I watched it again — this time as a historian of cinema, as a Nashvillian and as a transgender man looking back across the bridge between my life as a baby butch and the manhood I embody now. By Hook or by Crook lives under that bridge, watching over the crossing. The 2001 film — written and directed by Silas Howard and Harry Dodge, who also star, and produced by Steak House — returns to the Belcourt on July 15 in a 25th anniversary 4K restoration as part of the theater’s annual Queer Qlassics series. It is considered trans-butch canon and one of the first successful queer indie films shot on MiniDV. True enough. But accuracy can flatten unruly things. The film is also an on-the-road buddy story, a love letter to a disappearing San Francisco, a record of queer friendship and a rare cinematic portrait of people whose genders did not ask permission. Howard plays Shy, a grieving small-town

dreamer who comes to the city after his father’s death and slips into petty crime. Dodge plays Valentine, a funny, openhearted adoptee searching for her birth mother. Together they move through bars, streets, hustles and private wounds. They are broke, strange, working-class, tender and difficult to categorize. The film does not explain them. It lets them be. In the film’s press materials, Howard describes the film’s origin plainly: “We didn’t see people who looked like us — gender-nonconforming and trans folks — in mainstream media, and we knew waiting around to get permission to be seen was futile. So we just said, ‘Fuck it. Let’s tell our own story.’” That sentence still feels like important advice. Rewatching the film, I was struck by how deeply it understands transmasculine tenderness. Shy and Valentine mirror each other without becoming the same person. Both carry abandonment wounds, but each responds to intimacy differently. Shy runs from connection. Valentine runs toward it with devastating openness. Shy’s toughness is not confidence; it is embarrassment at needing someone. Valentine’s openness is not innocence; it is reckless bravery. Howard resisted turning that dynamic into a thesis. “It was more personal,” he said. Shy came from fictionalized parts of his life, especially “the outsiderness and the fear of connection.” By Hook or by Crook never treats transmasculinity as a lesson plan in manhood. It begins with one

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person’s ache and trusts the politics of identity to surface through the wound. Dodge said the film was always “a movie about love” and friendship, about people being “as weird as they needed to be.” Weird as accuracy, not spectacle. Weird as the truth about love: messy, imperfect and confusing, except when it suddenly is not. That weirdness came from a real world. Howard and Dodge met in 1989 while working at Cafe Commons, a San Francisco lesbian hangout, during an era shaped by AIDS activism, queer punk, performance art and direct action. By the early 1990s, Howard played guitar in the now-legendary queercore band Tribe 8, and Dodge had become a figure in spoken-word and performance art. In 1993, they helped start Red Dora’s Bearded Lady Cafe & Truckstop, an inclusive cafe and performance space. Those rooms became part of the film’s infrastructure. Before money, cameras or festival recognition, there were people who recognized one another and treated their work as valid. The film also recorded a San Francisco already changing. Howard called it a love letter. Dodge remembered the tech boom pushing people out. That contradiction haunts the movie: The same dot-com money displacing queer communities also helped finance the film. Cities often consume the people who make them interesting, then call the erasure progress. Nashville knows that story well.

The making of the film was its own survival story. In 1998, Howard’s partner and future wife Sarah Bartholomew gave Howard and Dodge $600 so they could take a week off work and write. Their last meal was hot dog buns without hot dogs and beans from a can. They saved money in shoeboxes, formed an LLC, sold shares, started a trash-removal business and shot on MiniDV because they had to. The limitation became the look. The grit belonged to their world. The restoration carries another story of near loss. Beginning in 2021, with encouragement from Jenni Olson and support from Sundance, UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Academy Museum, Outfest, Frameline, Steakhaus Productions and others, the team returned to old Final Cut timelines, obsolete formats and 20-year-old hard drives. Miraculously, they worked. The process took about four years, and the restored film premiered in 2024 at the Academy Museum. By Hook or by Crook has aged, but it has not softened into nostalgia. It remains funny, dirty, tender and politically alive. It is a film for right now, as it was back when. For younger queer and trans audiences, it proves gender complexity did not begin yesterday. For older viewers, it preserves worlds made under pressure and partly lost to money, illness, violence, migration and time. While we still live in bodies the world refuses to fully understand, the film encourages us to be the gender outlaws we are. It reminds us that not everything illegal is wrong, nor is everything legal right; that gender nonconformity is our transcestral inheritance; and that choosing to live openly remains our strongest offense.▼

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Under the Cherry Moon PG-13, 98 minutes Showing 3:30 and 8 p.m. Monday, July 13, at the Belcourt

FOR FAR TOO long wearing the kind of movie-jail cowbell that once hung around the necks of films like Heaven’s Gate, Ishtar, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me and Halloween III, Under the Cherry Moon has been waiting for its moment of reevaluation. It happens far too often: A film that doesn’t play by anything close to established rules is not only ignored at the box office, but also mocked — reduced to a punchline. But now, 40 years after the film’s original theatrical release to much bewilderment of all sorts, the time is right to take a journey with Prince and Jerome to the French Riviera, and a world of leisurely baths, copious flutes of Champagne, and a sense that fantasy holds a secret card (and possibly a jeweled headdress) for us all.

A romantic tragedy focused on big emotions and incredible outfits, a buddy comedy and a light social satire — and a musical mutation that, like its star/director, redefines itself with each cut — Under the Cherry Moon jettisons Purple Rain’s Greek tragedy of a narrative (and rapturous color scheme) for a black-and-white vibe that feels more like Éric Rohmer (or a more PG-13 Radley Metzger), with a Fassbinder/Scorsese cameraman and a healthy appetite for more. Gigolo and piano man Christopher Tracy (Prince) has a nice life working the ivories at a restaurant/nightclub with a staggering view of the Mediterranean. He slips in and out of the beds of the richest and most powerful women, staying one step ahead of the landlordress (Emmanuelle Sallet, from The Perils of Gwendoline) and a coterie of pissed-off husbands. Along

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The Invite is a hilarious return to form for Olivia Wilde BY IAN MATTHEWS OLIVIA WILDE’S directorial career has been fascinating to follow. Her 2019 breakout Booksmart surprised audiences and critics alike, showing the world that she was

an actor-turned-director to watch. But her follow-up, 2022 social thriller Don’t Worry Darling, featured a rumor-plagued production and was met with a lukewarm reception. Wilde has taken a step back to a more intimate setting with The Invite, proving that her first film’s success was not a fluke. The Invite follows married couple Joe (Seth Rogen) and Angela (Wilde), whose tempestuous relationship is already on the rocks when they decide to host their eccentric neighbors Hawk (Edward Norton) and Piña (Penélope Cruz) for dinner. What follows is a hilarious,

with sidekick/brother/manager Tricky (Jerome Benton, stealing almost every scene he’s in), he’s got the dream many would aspire to. But then, wouldn’t you know it, along comes Love to knock him down a peg or two and teach him about being something more. In this case, Love is the radiant Mary Sharon (Kristin Scott Thomas, a delight in her first on-screen role), an heiress and bonne vivante exhausted by a debutante life of beautiful holdings. And honestly, couldn’t everyone use Prince popping into their life to help figure things out? So in one corner we have Prince, the arts, music, taking your friends shopping, several peerless songs and the mad ecstasy of doing it in a seaside cave surrounded by candles. In the other corner we have Mary’s father, the angriest white man you can imagine (played by Steven Berkoff with all the seething, over-the-top rage that’s been steeping since Eddie Murphy made a fool of him in Beverly Hills Cop), and with him are henchmen, the cops, a cauldron of bats and the knowledge that to love something mortal is an inescapable cage. The Scene’s late, great film critic and editor Jim Ridley spent about 17 years of our friendship trying to convince me how awesome this movie was, and he was right. So don’t let it take a wave of heavy shit to knock out your defenses and clue you in to one of the most daffy, delightful experiences waiting to be explored. And that says what? For its 40th anniversary, Under the Cherry Moon will screen two times in 35 mm at the Belcourt on Monday, July 13.▼

awkward and emotional exploration into Joe and Angela’s marriage as they receive a proposition that could rekindle their romantic flame — or snuff it out entirely. Wilde’s direction is on point. The film’s opening is a wonderful stylistic tribute to late-’60s and early-’70s cinema, and the slick aesthetic extends into every avenue of the film’s look. Wilde constantly frames the two couples in mirrors, doorways and windows, engineering a creatively claustrophobic sense of place. In her blocking, she often cordons off Joe with Piña or Angela with Hawk, playing with the intimate spaces each character occupies and adding chuckle-inducing sexual tension. All of the film’s actions play out within a single apartment, but never once does the location feel boring or stale. With such a small cast, every performance needs to be strong, and everyone is at their best here — even if Rogen steals the show, as he gets some of the script’s wittiest lines, and delivers them drenched in sarcasm. But each actor plays excellently into their character’s quirks. Wilde’s anxious people-pleasing energy, Norton’s disarming vulnerability and Cruz’s equal balance of intelligence and seductiveness add to the whip-smart dialogue. What Wilde has done here is tremendous: She’s made a sharp, humorous dramedy with a bittersweet gut-punch of an ending — reinforced with classic cinematic stylization, making it as timeless as her inspirations.▼

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