The Nashville Scene's Top Picks for the Week

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She & Him at The Ryman In probably the most memorable scene in last year's 500 Days of Summer, a luminous Summer ... Read more. Chromeo at Cannery Ballroom A funny thing happened at Bonnaroo this summer: A half-Jewish, half-Arab duo from Montreal turned a field in Tennessee into a living, grinding shrine to '80s-era blue-eyed Philadelphia R&B. Read more. Bell Biv DeVoe at Limelight The concept of "hip-hop, smoothed out on the R&B tip with a pop feel — appeal — to it" — New Jack Swing ... Read more. Chris Scruggs Band at Station Inn The multi-talented youngest Scruggs has been doing a semi-formal monthly residency at Station Inn for most of the year now. Read more. Snap on 2 & 4 at The Nashville Jazz Workshop Sometimes the line about being "raised in the music" proves true. That's certainly the case with dynamic and masterful drummer Duffy Jackson ... Read more. Ttotals Record Release Show at Open Lot Those with ears in the local psych/noise scene should remember former Scene staffer and guitarist/singer Brian Miles ... Read more. Armed Forces 7-Inch Release Party at 8 off 8th at Mercy Lounge Incendiary local-rock lightning rod Brandon Jazz — the attention-starved auteur behind once-maligned Nashville glam-punk outfit Armed Forces ... Read more. Wayne Moss at Family Wash The Family Wash is a favorite hangout for local studio aces and sidemen ... Read more. "Emile Zola in the House of Worth" at the Frist “Emile Zola in the House of Worth: Fashion and Scandal in the Second Empire” is a lecture that revisits the rise of Haute Couture in mid-19th century Paris through the eyes of Emile Zola, the celebrated novelist. Read more.   TSU's Faculty Biennial at the Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery The art faculty at Tennessee State University is so cutting-edge that they are teaching a class in prison this fall … Read more.   Printervention at Open Lot Printervention is an exhibition of prints and a display of the printmaking process that seeks to underscore the importance of public funding for the arts. Read more.   Cumberland Valley Tennessee Association of Craft Artists Juried Exhibition at the Centennial Art Center In some circles, “craft” can be a dirty word, suggesting macramé flower pot hangers or framed needlepoint “Home Sweet Home” signs — not that there’s anything wrong with that. Read more.   Diorama-o-Rama at Billups Art Barbie Dolls and G.I. Joes never served a more noble function than when placed inside makeshift, miniature, three-dimensional retellings of classics. Read more.   Histories Are Mirrors: Path of Conflict Through Afghanistan & Iraq at Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery Photographic documentation of the horrors of war in Iraq and Afghanistan isn’t what we expect to see when we step into an art gallery. But it makes perfect sense to view Tyler Hicks’ shots as art as well as journalism. Read more. Sunset Safari: A Walk on the Wild Side at the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere The zoo’s 20-year mark renders this month’s version of their annual major fundraiser all the more symbolic. Read more.   Poet's Corner at Scarritt Bennett Center Feat. Leslie Collins Poets, perhaps more than painters, are a notoriously cash-poor bunch … Read more.   The Good, The Bad, the Weird at Sarratt Cinema Cleverly dubbed a “kimchi Western” by one critic, Kim Ji-woon’s 2008 film is a retelling of Sergeo Leone’s iconic Western. Read more.   Music City BBQ Festival at Riverfront Park To a pig, this event must look like all six Saw movies and both Hostels condensed into one infernal maelstrom of butchery. Read more. The Rules of Comedy at Lamplighter’s Theatre Lamplighter’s Theatre winds up its summer program of lighter offerings with this show that aims to define, test and prove the rules of comedy by applying them to one of the most tragic pieces of literature in the English language. Read more.

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