Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Nashville Scene's Top Picks for the Week

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Janelle Monae Opens for Of Montreal at Cannery Ballroom
The future of pop is here, and her name is Janelle Monae. Read more.

Next Big Nashville Opens With David Bazan, The Mynabirds, Tristen and more
This year's installment of the Next Big Nashville festival gets under way Wednesday ... Read more.

Nashville Jazz Workshop Annual Fall Fundraiser at Limelight
Nashville Jazz Workshop celebrates a decade in Music City with performances by Lori Mechem, Ritmos Picantes, Annie Sellick and more. Read more.

Parting Gifts at The Basement
Ettes frontwoman Coco Hames observed in a recent interview, “I really listen to the same 50 records over and over again, really. Read more.

Jenny & Johnny at Mercy Lounge
When I heard about the pet project of Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley, Postal Service) and her Scottish-American singer-songwriter boyfriend Johnathan Rice, I was prepared for a precious, cloying experience. Read more.

Aimee Mann at The Belcourt
Former ’Til Tuesday frontwoman Aimee Mann has been recognized as one of her generation’s most talented singer-songwriters. Read more.

Ty Segall at The End
In a recent Reaxmusic.com interview, Ty Segall explains his intentionally low-fi sound ... Read more.
“Art and Opera: From Monarchy to Modernity” at the Frist
Art and opera will join forces tonight in an exploration of the impact of The French Revolution on the social and political landscapes of France during the late 18th century. Read more.
 
TACA Fall Craft Fair at Centennial Park
It’s the time of year again when white tents descend on Centennial Park like UFOs. That’s right, put down your knitting needles. Read more.
 
Music City Sisters' Alphabet Art at OutCentral
The Music City Sisters are a missionary order of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. If that doesn’t sound especially orthodox, you’re onto something. Read more.
 
Altered Perceptions at Cumberland Gallery
Cumberland begins the awesome autumn art season with a slightly surreal showing of two talented painters. Read more.
 
Cupcake-Palooza at Fido
The cupcake craze in Nashville has settled down a bit, but happily, it has given our city a number of fine cupcake purveyors. Read more.
 
Split & Twisted at Watkins College of Art
The graphic design program at Watkins is a regional darling. The school is award-winning, the students are award winning, and now they’ve decided to give themselves some more awards. Read more.
Poet's Corner & ‘Nuestras Poesias’ at Scarritt-Bennett Center
Christina Stoddard has a way of working food into her verse, but all is not Eat Pray Love in her world, though love is part of it ... Read more.
 
International Lens: Looking for Cheyenne at Sarratt Cinema
“A beguiling comedy from a Marxist-inflected thesis.” This premise, as one reviewer describes it, indicates why the fare International Lens offers can present such a refreshing difference from Hollywood cinema. Read more.
 
Chelsea Handler at Bridgestone Arena and Signing at Davis-Kidd
For every Christopher Hitchens snarking that women just aren’t funny, there’s a Chelsea Handler trying to prove him right … Read more.
 
Matt Dellinger Signing and Discussion at Davis-Kidd
I-69 doesn’t really exist; it’s a massive and controversial highway project first proposed 20 years ago to connect the U.S. to its northern and southern neighbors. Read more.
 
James Dickerson Signing and Discussion at Davis-Kidd
For most Americans, Japanese internment camps are a vague idea, mentioned in a high school textbook but somehow not dwelt on as lovingly as those of our military victories and civil rights landmarks. Read more.
 
Yoga for the People: Let's Get It Om in Public Square Park
While we're more the “yoga at home so no one has to endure our unsightly body hair” type o' folks, we're totally intrigued by the idea of getting together with a thousand other Nashvillians in Public Square Park to kick it angry-cat style. Read more.
 
Farm to Blanket Dinner Hungry Gnome Farm
Few Nashvillians are as gaga about fresh local ingredients as Margot McCormack. Her restaurants Margot Cafe & Bar and Marche Artisan Foods regularly spotlight products from area farms … Read more.
Shades of Black Theatre Fest Presents Sista Speak at Darkhorse Theater
The Shades of Black Theatre Festival continues with this collection of drama, dance and music, compiled and directed by Mary McCallum as a celebration of women of color. Read more.
 
David Dorfman Dance at Vanderbilt's Langford Auditorium
David Dorfman Dance is headquartered in New York City and has toured throughout North and South America, Great Britain and Europe, most recently in Russia and Poland. Read more.
 
The Glass Menagerie at Lipscomb University's Shamblin Theater
For all its verbal excess, its overreaching poetic aspirations and its sad, essential tale of sad, clearly unessential people, Tennessee Williams’ Glass Menagerie yet endures. Read more.
 
The Tempest at Nashville School of the Arts
Making a U.S. visit to 12 states, the Cambridge University American Stage Tour includes Music City, where the group will stay with Nashville School of the Arts families and present Shakespeare workshops for NSA theater students during the day … Read more.
 

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