Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2019 i Nashville Lifestyles Magazine

The Nashville State Community College Foundation will host its eighth annual Tennessee Flavors charity event March 5 at the college’s White Bridge Road campus. Uniting Music City’s top restaurants, the event invites guests to enjoy culinary samples while raising money for Nashville State’s culinary arts program. Lauren Bell, the college’s director of development and public affairs, says the goal of the foundation is: “to provide quality education, remove financial barriers, and empower students at Nashville State to achieve their dreams for a brighter future.” In its first year alone, Tennessee Flavors raised more than $40,000. Now, with more than 50 vendors, including 51 North Taproom, Bang Candy Company, and Noshville Delicatessen, event organizers hope to increase this number substantially. “It’s fun to keep each year a bit different from the…

Yola (born Yolanda Quartey) has always been naturally drawn to music. As a young girl living on the outskirts of Bristol, England (where she was born), she would look forward to visiting friends’ homes after school so she could listen to their parents’ records. Because she lived in a household with a “strictness toward anything remotely artistic,” and also because she didn’t have the disposable income to purchase albums, opportunities to experience music only presented themselves in incidental ways or through challenging means. Naturally, she developed an eclectic taste, taking in every type of music she could, with a particular fondness for Americana. Her debut album, Walk Through Fire, which arrived in February via Easy Eye Sound, showcases her singular ability to blend roots music with soul and elements of…

Enduring Southern Homes by Eric Ross (Gibbs Smith) A professional interior designer for more than 20 years, Kentucky-born and Nashville-based Eric Ross knows how to bring a timeless look and feel to each of his home design projects. Using a home’s architecture as his guide, Ross weaves in traditional fabrics, antiques, and thoughtful furniture arrangements to invite a sense of warmth and community into his French country meets Southern hospitality style. In his debut book, each chapter features a different home and the design choices made throughout, along with helpful decorating and entertaining tips. (Available March 12.) The Home Edit: A Guide to Reorganizing and Realizing Your House Goals by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin (Clarkson Potter) Home organizers to celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Mindy Kaling, this Nashville-based duo…

Constructing wallets, bags, and home goods from leather, in an assortment of shades, Michael and Sarah Stricklin of Loyal Stricklin fashion timeless, built-to-last wares that go with everything. The duo operated from Opelika, Alabama, for four years before relocating to Nashville, where they now make the majority of their goods at their Wedgewood-Houston studio. “We really love being here,” Michael says. “Out of all the Southern cities we looked at, Nashville felt the best to us.” Michael and Sarah attended Auburn University where Michael studied architecture, pursuing a master’s degree in design and construction, and Sarah studied studio art. Though they both have creative backgrounds, when it comes to leather-work, they’re self-taught. Michael says he took up leatherworking to earn cash while still in school. “I didn’t have space for…

BLAIR SCHOOL OF MUSIC Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University believes that making music is for everyone, and has offered music lessons and classes for babies, children of all ages and adults for more than 50 years. Lessons in piano, strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, voice, folk and jazz instruments are taught by Blair’s nationally acclaimed faculty. Kindermusik classes for infants and toddlers build skills of movement, language and singing as parents and children share happy times together. Suzuki violin and cello instruction teach focus and coordination in an encouraging, supportive environment. Partner Piano students learn rhythm, pitch, musical terms and notation using a variety of solo and group activities. Each student has a private and a group lesson weekly. More advanced young musicians build skill and artistry on their…

Chef Maneet Chauhan and her husband, Vivek Deora, have mused that their restaurants are like their children, each different but loved all the same. They admit, though, that Chaatable, their fourth, holds a special place in their hearts. Here, they are treating Nashville to all kinds of chaat, the much-loved Indian street food of their youth. They’ve taken the minimalist space that was Salt & Vine in Sylvan Heights and transformed it into a visual feast—a riot of colors, textures, and patterns. Sequined parasols suspend from the ceiling. Rows of bangles shimmer in every color imaginable. Framed pictures, Bollywood posters, and magazine collages hand-plastered by Chauhan and family adorn the walls. Sights, sounds, scents: It’s a microcosm of what you’d experience, emerging onto the streets of Mumbai for the first…

• Don’t call it rice wine. It’s not. It’s closer to beer in that it’s brewed and made from grain, but the similarities stop there. Sake is its own wonderful thing. • Sake is made from three ingredients: water, rice, and koji, a mold-inoculated rice that helps fermentation. • Sake is made through multiple, parallel fermentations, traditionally in the winter, allowing for a longer process. • The grades from low to high are: Daiginjo, Ginjo, Tokubetsu, Honjozo • The grades are named after how much of the special sake rice is polished down to its starch core. The more removed, the smaller the grain and the more you need to make sake, making it more expensive, but not always better. It’s a matter of taste. • If the word Junmai…

Illustrator WEYLON SMITH is originally from the San Francisco Bay area, but has called Nashville home since 2003. His interest in art goes back to his childhood—he was encouraged in part by his grandfather, a commercial artist. He cites mid-century poster art as a major influence, which shows in his work in imperfect edges and inky lines resembling traditional printmaking. Though he works digitally, Smith enjoys a process that invites the accidental. “It’s not very satisfying to finish a piece when you can predict the result. It’s far better to discover something unexpected, respond to it, and repeat,” Smith says. For this month’s cover illustration, we asked Smith to capture two locations. Editing was the biggest challenge, Smith says, as he had a hard time deciding which buildings to feature.…

Gerron Hurt won the title of MasterChef for Season 9 on the Gordon Ramsay Fox TV show, thanks in part to his Nashville hot wings made with quail, not chicken. The then-high school English teacher wasn’t an ardent viewer of the competition show that focuses on home cooks. But when auditions came to town one Saturday, his fiancée, Brandi Beckham, pointed out that he had nothing else to do, so he took his crab-stuffed salmon downtown and the rest is history. In September, Hurt became the first African American contestant to win the show. Now, with $250,000 in prize money, Hurt is looking to open a restaurant in Music City, launching a website with recipes, and brainstorming ways he can combine his love of teaching with his love of cooking,…

TODD SNIDER Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3 Eastside-repping troubadour Todd Snider returns to his barefoot roots in Cash Cabin Sessions, Vol. 3. Presented in straightforward folk style, the set takes a sharp-eyed look at a variety of current topics—politics included—with Snider’s poetic wit forcing listeners to slow down and think. STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES Guy Steve Earle pays tribute to a legendary mentor with Guy, 16 songs written by the late icon, Guy Clark. Recorded with a loose and live country-rock feel, with guests like Emmylou Harris and Jerry Jeff Walker, it includes “L.A. Freeway,” “Desperados Waiting For a Train,” and “The Randall Knife.” TONY LUCCA Ain’t No Storm Journeyman singer-songwriter Tony Lucca embraces life’s hard-earned lessons on Ain’t No Storm, fusing Nashville’s write-what-you-know ethos with Los Angeles’ cool-and-collected…

HENDERSONVILLE If you’ve been putting off a move to the ’burbs because of the “cool” factor, let’s stop right there. Johnny Cash once lived in Henderson-ville, meaning, it’s cool enough for you. Nestled 20 miles northeast of downtown Nashville on the north banks of Old Hickory Lake, Hendersonville is a fast-growing suburb with lots of opportunity for outdoor recreation balanced with plenty of indoor resources, from shopping to restaurants to Sumner County schools. The Streets of Indian Lake is the area’s mall, with movie theaters and a bookstore. According to Zillow, the median price of homes listed is just over $359,000. —M.L. WHERE TO EAT BLOSSOM AND CELLAR DOOR The combination of Thai restaurant and craft beer purveyor, located in an old skating park, makes this is a neighborhood favorite.…

CURRENTS 27 Mayumana dance troupe puts a unique twist on the “War of the Currents.” Centered around the search for electricity, Mayumana’s Currents is coming to TPAC’s Polk Theater for a special one-day performance on March 27. After forming nearly two decades ago, the multicultural dance troupe stuns audiences with its electrifying interpretation of the “War of the Currents.” Praised for its combination of movement and technology, Currents uses one-of-a-kind choreography, lights, sounds, and art to tell the tale of Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla as they battle to find the perfect energy source. Staying true to its Israeli roots, the troupe also uses digital mapping to depict images of the Old City of Jerusalem. Although Mayumana focuses on ideas of unity and synchronization, the skills of the show’s 11…

Land Derived Sentiments: Poems and Responses The Zeitgeist exhibit, Land Derived Sentiments: Poems and Responses, features the work of 11 artists inspired by the same-named book of poems and observational writings by artist Patrick DeGuira. Such visual responses to DeGuira’s book aim to foster ideas and create metaphors pertaining to natural phenomena, states of renewal and nature-human struggles. The exhibition runs from March 2 to April 27. A reception is planned for March 2nd from 6 to 8 p.m. at the gallery. (zeitgeist-art.com) PLAY Through March 30 at Julia Martin Gallery, artists who value the role of playfulness in art will exhibit work in PLAY. As participating artist J. Todd Greene explains, the show celebrates a return to what made art fun in the first place for artists. “It’s extracting…

Kylee Thatcher embodies the notion of “torn hands, mended soul.” “I like getting dirty,” she says. “I was built for manual labor and like proving people wrong and doing things that aren’t the norm.” Kylee and her husband, Jared, moved from Arizona to Middle Tennessee after picking the area on a map. She planned on being a stay-at-home mom, but her future took a different turn. Her grandfather once offered Jared an old woodworking joiner so he could try his hand at making boards and spoons. After an initial attempt, Jared veered in the direction of knives. Forging steel into exquisite blades, and crafting handles out of everything from bourbon barrels to maple burl, Jared honed his craft. It was Kylee who became the skilled woodworker. Today, she makes spoons,…

When Jess Benefield and her husband, Trey Burnette, the culinary duo behind Two Ten Jack in East Nashville (and Chattanooga), began thinking about their next new thing, they knew it was time for a trip to Japan. Joining them on this fact-finding and inculcation mission was their beverage director, Kynsey Hunter. The three all laugh and look wistful when talking about the trip three years ago when they immersed themselves in the culture, food, and drink of their adopted culinary home. One key part of the trip was learning all they could about the history and production of sake, Japan’s national beverage. Hunter is the first to admit that before working at Two Ten Jack, she knew very little about the drink that most folks, sadly, think of only in…