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📖 Riley Keough finishes her mother's memoir · Stopping Climate Change with Buses · Film Rundown · Much more!
Good afternoon, everyone.
If you look up to the night sky tonight, you might see a once-every-80,000-years astronomical phenomenon. For 45 minutes after sunset, the Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas will be visible in the Western part of the sky.
It should be visible through the weekend, gradually weakening until it takes another lap and returns in another 80,000 years. Info on how you can view it here.
Onward.
Less than four weeks after New York magazine published its buzzy piece about the rise of the nepo baby in December 2022, Elvis’s only child, Lisa Marie Presley, unexpectedly died of a heart attack at 54. She was in the middle of awards season appearances for Baz Luhrmann’s blockbuster Elvis with her daughter, actress and film director Riley Keough. Losing one’s mother young is tragic enough, but Keough was still reeling from the suicide of her brother, Benjamin, back in 2020.
Keough could have spiraled, but, instead, she kept on working, wowing Sundance with her performance in A24’s ribald Florida comedy Zola and winning the Cannes Film Festival’s Caméra d'Or with her directorial debut, War Pony. Then came her Emmy-nominated role as a Stevie Nicksish rock frontwoman in Amazon’s hit miniseries Daisy Jones and the Six.
Right now, Keough doesn’t want to talk about her impressive resume. She’s at Belmont this autumn Monday night to discuss a project she never intended to undertake: completing her mother’s memoir. And, given the tumult of the last few years, she’s clearly not happy about this whole child of privilege thing. “My mom’s perspective on nepo babies is that it was embarrassing, " she told the standing-room-only crowd. “You can’t just be a dilettante. I’m really grateful to her for that.”
Since her breakout role in Mad Max: Fury Road, Keough has proven herself a calm and subtle presence amid worlds gone bonkers. She’s equally at home playing Chris Pratt’s wife in the espionage series The Terminal List as a nonverbal bigfoot in last spring’s bizarrely beautiful Sasquatch Sunset. In the wake of a childhood that saw her mother become a tabloid fixture when she left musician Danny Keough for the already embattled Michael Jackson, Keough has maintained a lowkey life, marrying young after she met Aussie stuntman Ben Smith-Petersen on the set of Mad Max and remaining out of the gossip columns in her day to day as much as possible
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🌦️ Stop Climate Change…With a Fleet of Buses Yesterday Al Gore, who chairs the Climate Reality Project, did the important work of championing the fight against climate change by supporting Mayor O’Connell’s transit plan. “Last but not least on Nashville's ballot this year is [Choose How You Move]. 51% of the city's climate pollution comes from transportation,” he posted on X. “Let's support [Freddie O’Connell's] plan to invest in making our roads not only cleaner, but safer & more efficient. Vote FOR!”
The responses in the comment section reflected the former vice president’s not-so-popular standing in his home state of Tennessee. On top of a few colorful quips, many replies to his (and the mayor’s) post showed an aversion to the sales tax increase and 30-year commitment to the plan.
“No one will use it and you will have locked the city into unsustainable spending forever,” replied one commentator. “Oi! When you have a customer usage rate of more than 5% then I’ll take you seriously! Oh and when you also get a handle on crime and stop having your bus staff attacked by loons,” wrote another.
📹 A Plea For LPRs On Monday, Alyssa Lokits was shot and killed in Antioch while exercising at the Mill Creek Greenway. “I’ve been asked if the LPRs would have made a difference, and my answer is yes,” said Chief Drake in a Tuesday press conference after MNPD apprehended the suspect, Paul Park.
Chief Drake explained his reasoning:
Park lives close to an intersection where we plan to put LPRs once they're funded and we're able to use them. This would have given us information that would have been a lot more timely and given us an opportunity to deal with this sooner rather than later. And you've heard me say it many times, and I'll say it again: LPRs make us safer.
The murder is one of the latest tragedies in a string of heinous, violent crimes plaguing Nashville. District Attorney Glenn Funk has made it clear that he will not pursue the death penalty if Park is convicted.
🚔 Gangs And Recidivism During the same presser, the chief revealed that the two suspects apprehended by police in relation to the deadly shootout during TSU’s homecoming on Saturday have gang affiliations. “These shooters had no regard for human life,” he said. “There were children, there were women, there were people standing around as these individuals began firing at each other.”
At first, the media was slow to categorize the incident—where it “appeared two groups were targeting each other”—as gang violence. As it turns out, the suspects’ criminal history also reveals the familiar pattern of recidivism. “Marquez Davis was convicted just six months ago on charges of robbery, felony gun possession, and felony possession of ecstasy for resale.” explained Drake. “He received a 10 year probated sentence to the community corrections program. Even probation should have restrictions and consequences. And violent gun crimes should be treated as it is, with serious consequences.”
DEVELOPMENT
- Popular online boutique Pink Lily relocates headquarters to Nashville (NBJ)
THINGS TO DO
View our calendar for the week here and our weekly film rundown here.
📅 Visit our On The Radar list to find upcoming events around Nashville.
🎧 On Spotify: Pamphleteer's Picks, a playlist of our favorite bands in town this week.
👨🏻🌾 Check out our Nashville farmer's market guide and yearly festival guide.
TONIGHT
🎻 Stravinsky’s The Firebird @ Schermerhorn Symphony Center, 7:30p, $29+, Info
🪕 The Special Consensus @ Station Inn, 9p, $25, Info
🎸 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit with Iris Dement @ Ryman Auditorium, 8p, $59.75+, Info
🪕 The Cowpokes @ Acme Feed & Seed, 12p, Free, Info
🍀 Live Irish Music @ McNamara’s Irish Pub, 6p, Free, Info
🎸 Kelley’s Heroes @ Robert’s Western World, 6:30p, Free, Info
✹ WEEKLY FILM RUNDOWN: October 17-24
The latest releases and special screenings hitting Music City this week. For a complete list of upcoming releases, check out our 2024 Film Guide.
We Live in Time (Dir. John Crowley; Starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh) A24 hopes to bring back the Hollywood tearjerker with this marvelous decade-spanning tale of thirtysomething love by the director of Oscar-nominee Brooklyn. Read our review here. Now playing in theaters.
Rumours (Dir. Guy Maddin; Starring Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander) Canadian great Maddin has kept silent-era aesthetics alive for decades with films like The Saddest Music in the World and My Winnipeg, but his latest may well be the definitive statement on our current moment. Blanchett stars in this globalist satire about leaders at the annual G7 summit who get lost in the wilderness while trying to draft a statement about an international crisis. As we said when this one made our most anticipated films of the year list last winter, it’s an art film both Thomas Piketty and Steve Bannon could get behind. Now playing at AMC Thoroughbred 20.
Shocktober @ The Belcourt Nashville’s arthouse has our Halloween needs covered this month with a curated selection of 15 horror movies ranging from all-time greats like Night of the Living Dead to cult classic Halloween III: Season of the Witch. This week’s offerings include Jennifer’s Body with live musical intro from indie band Soccer Mommy, Twilight, Scary Movie, Don’t Look Now, and Brian DePalma’s Carrie and The Phantom of the Paradise.
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