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OUR 1535TH ISSUE 07.26.18 “If you hate democracy and think local governments should operate unchecked and in the dark, then today is a good day for you.” That’s a tweet from New York Daily News editor Jim Rich, in response to his newspaper’s management’s announcement Monday that it was cutting the paper’s newsroom staff in half, leaving the DN with just 45 reporters and editors. Rich was among those who got the ax. The Daily News owners, the Chicago-based Tronc, announced in a staff memo that it would refocus its remaining staff on breaking news about “crime, civil justice, and public responsibility.” Whatever that means. It’s become an all-too-familiar story in recent years, as daily newspapers around the country get squeezed for profits by out-of-town corporate owners. Most newspapers are now about as local as your nearest Walmart. The Denver Post is another example. The newspaper’s owner is “vulture capitalist” Randall Smith, whose company, Digital First Media, also owns major daily papers in St. Paul, San Jose, Orange County, California, and elsewhere. Smith’s “business model” is to lay off massive numbers of editorial staffers and wring profits from the shell of what’s left. His 17 percent profit margin is the envy of the industry. His company’s newspapers are pathetic. Closer to home, the Gannett Company has stripped The Commercial Appeal newsroom back to a small cadre of journalists and editors, most of whom you’ve never heard of. The paper still does some excellent reporting (see its recent election preview coverage), but too often it’s stuffed with Nashville-centric copy and odd non sequitur stories from around the country. Last week, for instance, readers were treated to a big story in the weekly entertainment and dining section about the Homegirl Cafe … in Los Angeles, complete with an “if you go” info box. And the Flyer’s alt-weekly compatriots around the country are not immune to corporate pressures either. Many have been corporately “chained” and, for the most part, have suffered mightily for it. Even local ownership can be perilous. At the Nashville Scene, once a proud and vital journalistic force in the state capital, new owners have forced out several respected writers, reporters, and editors, and the paper’s future direction and prospects are in question. Even so, all is not lost. Some papers have figured out a business model that works. The New York Times and Washington Post are doing fine; paywall revenues have largely replaced advertising as their primary source of funding. But will that model work for papers that aren’t national in scope? We may soon find out. Here in Memphis, for example, a new, much-discussed journalism venture is on the horizon — The Daily Memphian — staffed with a plethora of Commercial Appeal ex-pats, including Geoff Calkins, Jennifer Biggs, Chris Herrington, and many other familiar CA bylines. It will be run as a nonprofit with a paywall and charge $7 a month for access. There will be no print product. Other news options hereabouts now include the Tri-State Defender, the Memphis Business Journal, and the Memphis Daily News. None of these publications are free. In a poor city like Memphis, where 49 percent of the population doesn’t have broadband access, we at the Flyer believe having a free news option is important. Being able to pick up a free paper all over town means that access to news and information is available to anyone. Our website is free, as well. That’s been our philosophy for almost 30 years, and we’re sticking with it, thanks to our advertisers, who recognize that our 90-percent-plus pickup rate means their ads are being seen by tens of thousands of Memphians each week — and our hands-off local owners. This year, we’ve launched a series we call the “Justice Project.” Thus far, we’ve published JP cover stories on food deserts, wealth, poverty, race, and the city council’s secrecy, with three more to come in 2018, including a story tentatively titled “Information Justice,” that will take a look at how N E WS & O P I N I O N Memphians get their news, and how that THE FLY-BY - 4 process is affected by their education and NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 poverty levels. POLITICS - 7 We’ve also begun a “Frequent Flyer” EDITORIAL - 8 VIEWPOINT - 9 membership program to help support our COVER - “WHO’S A GOOD DOG? ” journalism (support.memphisflyer.com) BY FLYER STAFF - 10 and help keep it available for all, even those WE RECOMMEND - 14 who can’t afford anything but a literally MUSIC - 16 free press. AFTER DARK - 17 The Memphis media landscape is in CALENDAR - 20 flux, but I’m hopeful that all these opFOOD FEATURE - 28 tions — old and new — will help keep the FOOD NEWS - 30 city’s residents informed and enlightened, SPIRITS - 33 because the fewer of us who are left “in the FILM 34 dark,” the better off we all are. C L AS S I F I E D S - 36 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 39 brucev@memphisflyer.com
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M E D IA C LI MATE Fly on the Wall’s media coverage has been uniquely critical of Memphis’ broadcast news outlets for a tendency to overreport sensational news with little followup or context to help viewers understand what the scary-sounding information may or may not mean for us. So, it was an uncharacteristic surprise to catch three, whole, uninterrupted minutes of WMC meteorologist Nick Gunter explaining the fundamental (and non-political) difference between weather and climate.
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DAM M IT, GAN N ETT Tom Charlier, a 32-year veteran reporter for the Gannettowned Commercial Appeal, left the paper last week, bringing the number of name-brand journalists to leave there to just about everybody. Meanwhile, in Indiana, members of the Indianapolis News Guild published an open letter to the Gannett-owned Indianapolis Star. “We live here,” the letter concludes. “Our children walk the school hallways here. We join our friends by volunteering at nonprofits. We lock arms with our neighbors as we seek to build this community. We carry The Star’s values as we embed ourselves within our neighborhoods. “So please understand: We want to be treated with basic respect.” Good luck with that.
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Mud Island, Mural, & Memphian The future of our weird peninsula, “mystifying” motives, and more daily news. M U D I S LAN D D R EAM I N G Consultants explored Mud Island and its future last week and, while the crystal ball may still be dim, officials envision a bright future for the “sleepy” peninsula. “Mud Island’s future is very unresolved,” said Carol Colletta, leader of the Mississippi River Parks Partnership, noting it’s nearly 40 years old and a “sleepy” asset on the riverfront. “It’s a powerful location with a lot of challenges.” To wake up the island, Colletta brought in independent advisors to have a look around. However, she carefully pointed out that MRPP has not commissioned any formal study or master plan of the island, “we’re just really exploring what might be with some smart people.”
decided against scrubbing the artwork: “After this issue was brought to Mayor Strickland’s attention, he quickly decided that we are not removing the mural.” Commissioned to be a part of the Memphis Heritage Trail, the mural was created by Michael Roy and Derrick Dent in 2016.
AQ U I F E R S LI N K E D A contaminated aquifer is linked to the Memphis Sand aquifer, the source of the Memphis’ drinking water, but the mingling of the waters does not yet pose an immediate threat to that drinking water. The findings are from a report issued recently from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Memphis on their investigation into whether or not Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) wells drilled in the Memphis Sand aquifer posed a threat to Memphis’ drinking water. Investigators said the city’s water was not in immediate danger, but that more study was needed for the aquifer.
M E M P H I AN O N TH E WAY Official details emerged last week about the city’s newest media outlet, an online-only source called The Daily Memphian. The news agency will launch in the fall, will cost subscribers $7 per month, and will be funded initially by a nonprofit. Eric Barnes, president and executive editor of The Daily Memphian, said the need for a new local publication came as The Commercial Appeal has been reduced in size and staffing, and has lost local control. The editorial staff of The Memphis Daily News will roll into the Memphian. James Overstreet, current editor of The Memphis Daily News, will be editor in chief. Terry Hollahan, also of The Daily News, will be managing editor.
“MYSTI F YI N G” M OTIVES O N M U R AL A local group called the city’s reasons for planning to scrub a civil rights mural “shallow” and “mystifying.” Some city leaders wanted to remove a Downtown mural after complaints about its historical accuracy and its inclusion of the phrase “black lives matter.” The Midtown Action Coalition sent a letter to Paul Young, director of the city’s Housing and Community Development division. After more concerns like this emerged, Ursula Madden, the city’s chief communications officer said last week that the mayor
TH R OWI N G A X ES Civil Axe Throwing will soon launch a Memphis location of its (yep, you guessed it) axe-throwing concept. The company provides a safe space for people to come and throw axes for fun or for sport. The company will offer group events, eight-week leagues, and one-hour sessions. The exact location and opening date in Memphis has not yet been determined. Fuller versions of these stories and even more local news can be found on The News Blog at memphisflyer.com.
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Lynching Sites Project adds more markers in Memphis. Communities can’t heal from wounds of the past without facing them first. That is the premise behind the Lynching Sites Project (LSP) of Memphis, which aims to memorialize the known lynchings in the Shelby County. Over the weekend, the group and community members gathered to dedicate its third marker, which commemorates the 1893 lynching and death of Lee Walker. Walker, a young black man accused of sexually assaulting two white women, was dragged from the Shelby County Jail by a mob, beaten, and then hanged in an alley near A.W. Willis and Front. LSP was formed about two years ago, and it’s comprised of residents who “want the whole and accurate truth” to be known about people like Walker and other victims affected by racially motivated violence in the county’s history. Jessica Orians, media strategist for LSP, said the goal is to have an accurate historical marker at each site. “Without the Lynching Sites Project, these horrors of the past would never be known,” Orians said. “We try to make things right by telling the entire story.” The group is actively searching for lynching sites based on the NAACP’s 1940 definition of lynching: “There must be legal evidence that a person has been killed, and that he met his death illegally at the hands of a group acting under the pretext of service to justice, race,
The Lynching Sites Project’s marker for Lee Walker
or tradition.” Shelby County has a recorded number of 35 lynchings between the Civil War era and 1950. That’s more than any county in Tennessee. Margaret Vandiver is the lead researcher in charge of identifying the victims and sites of the county’s lynchings. By studying historical documents and old newspapers, as well as interviewing surviving family members,
Vandiver and a team of volunteers “piece together the stories of the victims,” Orians said. “It’s a tiring and critical process,” Orians said. “It’s just like detective work.” Vandiver and team are in the process of identifying two more lynching sites, which are expected to be confirmed by the end of the year. Orians said many people are weary of the group’s work, questioning if incidents like lynchings should be be dug up from the past. But, Orians said without the project, people would never know the truth of the past and the victims would remain nameless. “We try to turn on the light of truth,” Orians said, quoting Ida B. Wells. “The way to bring about racial healing is to make these sites known to the public. It’s important to us that these atrocities in history that no one knows or talks about can be brought to light so we can learn and heal the present racial tensions.” Orians said memorializing the “horrific events” aids in moving forward and bands people together, by creating a sacred place where people can learn and heal. In addition to the group’s work at lynching sites, they also meet bi-monthly, facilitating “listening circles,” where community members can come and talk through racial issues. Orians said the goal of the meetings is to figure out ways to move forward and heal the “painful wounds of the past that people are still bearing.”
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Contested County Commission Races: DISTRICT 1 (North Shelby County) — Republican Amber Mills is vying with Democrat J. Racquel Collins, a St. Jude administrator. Could turn out closer than many expect. DISTRICT 2 (East Shelby County, Collierville) — Architect David Bradford can count on well-established GOP voting habits, but political newcomer Tom Carpenter, is a surprisingly active Democratic challenger. DISTRICT 3 (Bartlett, Lakeland) — Mick Wright, a youngish political vet, is the favored Republican, but attorney Monica Timmerman, the Democrat, has picked up endorsements. DISTRICT 4 (Germantown) — Incumbent Republican Mark Billingsley seemingly has a lock; Kevin Haley, an impressive speaker, is a future pick for Democrats. DISTRICT 5 (East Memphis, Binghampton, East Shelby County) — CPA Richard Morton’s hard work won an upset in the GOP primary, but Democrat Michael Whaley has crossover support and could steal the seat. DISTRICT 7 (Frayser, Raleigh, North Memphis) — Democratic activist Tami Sawyer of Take ’Em Down 901 fame has established herself as a force; realtor Sam Goff, a “moderate Republican,” is hoping for crossover. DISTRICT 9 (Southwest Memphis, Whitehaven) — Departing City Councilman Edmund Ford Jr. looks like a shoo-in over former school board member Sharon Webb. DISTRICT 10 (South Memphis, Orange Mound, Central Gardens, Cooper-Young) — Democratic incumbent Reginald Milton appears to have enough support to hold off independent Vontyna Durham. DISTRICT 13 (University of Memphis, Greater East Memphis) — GOP newcomer Brandon Morrison ousted Republican incumbent Steve Basar and thereby probably doused the hopes of Democratic candidate, entrepreneur/former Election Commissioner George Monger. School Board Faces: There are several well-qualified candidates running for the Shelby County Schools board seats. (A review of last
week’s public candidate forum at Bridges will appear on memphisflyer.com this week.) District 1 — Incumbent Chris Caldwell, a financial consultant; Katherine Ayers, a program manager at St. Jude’s.; Michelle McKissack, editor of Memphis Parent; and charter school teacher Michael Scruggs. District 6 — Incumbent Shante Avant, activist; Pastor Percy Hunter; Minnie Hunter; and Roderic Ford. District 8 — Incumbent Billy Orgel, businessman/developer; and former teacher Jerry Cunningham. District 9 — Incumbent Mike Kernell, former legislator; Kori Hamner, former teacher; Democratic activist Alvin Crook; church secretary Joyce Dorse-Coleman; and educational consultant Rhonnie Brewer. Court Cases: Circuit Court Judge, Division IX — David Rudolph (incumbent) vs. Yolanda Kight. Rudolph, a scion of East Memphis and blue-chip law firms, was appointed in 2017 by Governor Haslam to the seat vacated by Robert L. “Butch” Childers. Kight, who holds the rank of magistrate, worked her way up from humble beginnings. In its sample balloting, members of the Memphis Bar Association gave Rudolph the edge. Circuit Court Judge, Division VI — Mary L. Wagner (incumbent) vs. Michael G. Floyd. Wagner, who worked at the firm of Rice, Amundsen & Caperton and taught at the University of Memphis Law School, was appointed by Haslam in 2016. She was the clear favorite of Bar Association members. Floyd, a native of Philadelphia and a practitioner there, has run unsuccessfully for numerous legal positions. Criminal Court Judge, Division X — Jennifer Smith Nichols (incumbent) vs. Jennifer Johnson Mitchell. Nichols, a veteran prosecutor, was appointed by Haslam to fill the unexpired term of retired Judge James Beasley. Mitchell is a veteran of the Public Defender’s office. Nichols won the Bar Association poll. Environmental Court Judge Division 14 — Patrick M. Dandridge (incumbent) vs. Price Harris. Dandridge, a former city assistant attorney and the city’s code enforcement director, was hand-picked by Judge Larry Potter to succeed him. Veteran Memphis attorney Harris has filled in as judge for numerous jurisdictions. Dandridge edged Harris in the Bar Association poll. (For more on this story, see Editorial, p. 8.)
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The Flyer does not endorse candidates, but we hope you’ll use the following thumbnail sketches for an assortment of county races as something of a guide. Assessor — SCS auditor Melvin Burgess, a Democrat, has proved his merit in two terms as a county commissioner, but the experienced Republican nominee Robert “Chip” Trouy has been a strong right arm for outgoing assessor Cheyenne Johnson and previous holders of the office. County Clerk — Democrat Wanda Halbert is the virtual definition of an experienced public official, having served both on the now-defunct Memphis School Board and on the Memphis City Council. Republican opponent Donna Creson possibly owed some of her primary vote to name confusion with former clerk Jayne Creson, but has experience in the clerk’s office. Trustee — Democrat Regina Morrison Newman, who served a partial term as trustee and won awards for her creditable service, was upset for the office in 2010 by David Lenoir, now the Republican candidate for county mayor. The case she makes for a return is probably strong enough to overcome the Republican candidate, County Commissioner George Chism. Criminal Court Clerk — Democrat Heidi Kuhn is a veteran of several positions in Shelby County government and would doubtless serve ably in this one. She is matched against Richard De Saussure, the Republican incumbent, whose past experience in the office has prepared him well. Circuit Court Clerk — Changes in the county charter are forcing longtime Register of Deeds Tom Leatherwood, among other incumbents, to consider transitioning to other offices to maintain
their careers (and retirement equity). Republican Leatherwood was widely appreciated as register. Democrat Temika Gipson can cite the advantage of her ample experience as an administrator in the Circuit Court clerk’s office. Register of Deeds — Republican nominee Wayne Mashburn, termlimited after serving two terms as county clerk, a position also held for many years by his father, is presumably well-equipped to replace Leatherwood as Register. His Democratic opponent, Shelandra Ford, has several years of service in county government, but her main hope may be the surviving cachet of her last name, though she is not a member of the political Ford clan. Probate Court Clerk — Republican Chris Thomas, who served 16 years as probate clerk, famously took a powder in 2010, fearing a Democratic sweep that never occurred, and ran instead for county commission. After serving nearly two terms, he seeks a return to his old job. Standing in his way is Democrat Bill Morrison, who is leaving the Memphis City Council. Independent Jennings Bernard could be a spoiler. Juvenile Court Clerk — The decision by previous clerk Joy Touliatos to make a mayoral run opened up the position for a newcomer. Vying are Democrat Janis Fullilove, departing the Memphis City Council after a long and often controversial tenure, and the Republican nominee, Bartlett alderman Bobby Simmons, who boasts a lengthy period of service in the sheriff ’s office.
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I asked for a paper ballot and explained why I preferred this method over the Diebold voting machines, this year. I was then given a paper ballot to look over as two poll workers got on the phone for instructions on how to proceed with my request.
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him specifically what crime the poll worker would have been committing by providing a requested paper ballot? I asked him to explain by close of business Friday (July 20th), but I have yet to receive any type of reply. Although I am not thoroughly familiar with the laws in the state of Tennessee, I am pretty sure that causing the election commission some extra work to process a live paper ballot is not a crime.
UPCOMING SHOWS September 14 | Menopause The Musical® October 12 | The O’Jays I mean, actually threatening to charge a poll worker with a crime because she was helping a citizen vote with a paper ballot? In these United States? Really? Shame on you, Joe Young. And shame on the Shelby County Election Commission. P.S. If any of you out there are game and are also concerned about the security of your vote this year, ask for a paper ballot as well. I’d be interested in comparing experiences. Elaine Farstad lives and works in Memphis.
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As a newcomer to Memphis and the American South in general, I’m used to new experiences and cultural surprises. But I wasn’t prepared for the horrific surprise I had when I went for early voting last Thursday night. I went to the Agricenter location after work. And my heart dropped when I saw the Diebold machines: We all know their code was tampered with in at least one past presidential election (remember the Gore/Bush vote-switching debacle? I’m from Ohio, so I sure do), and you have to live under a rock within a soundproof booth to not know intelligence agencies are sounding the alarm about possible meddling by Russia in this year’s elections. Armed with these concerns, I asked for a paper ballot and explained why I preferred this method over the Diebold voting machines this year. I was then given a paper ballot to look over as two poll workers got on the phone for instructions on how to proceed with my request. They were told they could only provide paper ballots for provisional voters: If the voter had ID and was registered, his/her only option was using the Diebold machine provided. I again explained why I was requesting an alternative to that option. At that point, one of the poll workers backed away from assisting me, while the other continued. As I told her, I was merely asking to exercise my civic duty. She continued with the process of offering me a paper ballot. Until she was taken aside. She came back and informed me that she had been told by Joe Young at the Shelby County Election Commission that if she continued to assist me she would be charged with a crime. At that point, I told her not to help; I acquiesced to the threat against her. I felt bullied and didn’t have the presence of mind to ask what charge she was being threatened with. My request to cast my vote in a way that couldn’t be electronically hacked was denied. But my presence of mind came back on the car ride home. I sent an email to Joe Young of the election commission that night, again detailing why I asked for a paper ballot this year and asked
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Who’s a good
Celebrating the “dog days” of summer with a special issue about our faithful canine companions.
July 26-August 1, 2018
“Who’s a good dog?” It’s the ultimate existential question for our canine friends. (See also, “Are you a good boy?” and “Who’s my good girl?”) “Who’s a good dog?” we ask, day after day, while scratching Duke’s shaggy head. “Who’s a good pupper?” They stare back into our eyes, seeking only to please us, their godlike masters. But, in truth, the question stays with them. “Am I a good dog?” they ponder, late at night, before falling into a doggy dream. “Surely, I am. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have gotten that smokey treat. Yeah, I’m a good dog.” (Dogs are good at self-affirmation.) So, yes, he’s a good dog. They’re all good dogs. And that’s because dogs just want to make us happy. That’s it. That’s what they live for. The bond between humans and dogs began 20,000 years ago or so, probably when the first wild canine — perhaps a coyote or dingo — timidly approached a human campfire, got tossed a bone, 10 and began hanging around for more. Humans soon discovered that dogs
were useful — as guards and protectors, as hunters, as faithful home companions — and as tiny furry accessories that fit into a purse. Well, the latter came much later, of course, after centuries of breeding that brought us the hundreds of varieties of dog we recognize today — not to mention the millions of cross-bred mutts of every size and hue that populate our lives. Dogs see their “owners” as pack leaders and look to us for guidance, sustenance, and affection. In return, they offer unlimited loyalty and love. And as humans and dogs alike have learned through the centuries, that’s a very good deal. — Bruce VanWyngarden
As any responsible dog owner will tell you, your dog needs a hat. And socks. The dog necklace, I will allow, may be excessive. All can be had at PetSmart. They currently carry a sweet royal blue Stetson with a red-and-blue plaid band. For socks, there’s a selection, but I’d go for the camouflage and skull-andcrossbones combo. That the dog will hate both the hat and the socks is neither here nor there. Your dog will look swell in a T-shirt that reads “Always Hungry.” Pair that with the “Player” bandana and you’ve got yourself a look. For more formal affairs, there’s the doggie tux and party dresses. Hollywood Feed also peddles somes cool T-shirts. Will it be the “Pizza is my cardio” or “Everyday is Taco Tuesday”? Let’s make it both, shall we? The real genius of Hollywood Feed, though, is all the people stuff. (I remember when that place sold food for your chicken; now they sell lamps.) I mean, how on earth will your pug know that you love him unless you’ve got the pug pillow for your couch? There are blankets made for snuggling and wine glasses etched with sayings like “All you need is love and a dog.” Of course, you can’t leave your baby behind. Hollywood Feed knows this and carries the Kurgo line of various harnesses that hook into the seatbelt, booster seats so pooch gets a window view, and canine-carrying backpacks. You can also find a lot of low-calorie treats to encourage puppy’s good
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behavior. Fromm’s food is cool because you can switch flavors without the specter of an upset tummy. You’ll really be stylish serving it in Hollywood Feed’s line of Fiesta Ware bowls. Dogs need stimulation, so make a beeline for Hollywood Feed’s extensive selection of Kong toys, perhaps the most recommended toy for dogs. They’re sturdy, come in a vast variety sizes, and many can be stuffed with treats or kibble. Some of the stuffed toy selection comes without squeakers. I endorse this, as I’ve got a little monster who loves the squeak, squeak, SQUEAK.
Tips From a Trainer Tracey Cain, of Cain9 Positive Training, offers some solid tips for getting your dog to be better behaved and socialized. What is positive reinenforcement training? It’s based on building a bond of trust between you and your dog. Creating pain or anxiety damages that trust, so I don’t believe in that kind of training. I’m about starting at young age, if possible, and creating lots of positive experiences between you and your dog What’s the best way to socialize your dog around people and other dogs? There’s no one set way for training every dog. Each dog is different. You first build the trust. And I will say that having your dog on leash is really important. There’s nothing more scary than someone else’s dog running up to my dog and the owner’s saying, “He’s friendly.” He might be, but it could be stressing me and my dog. Are some breeds naturally more aggressive? Some would disagree with me, but I think that’s a myth. Aggression is not really breed-specific. Some breeds are more reserved, but it doesn’t mean that they are necessarily less social or more aggressive. How do you stop bad habits — jumping up on people, for example? You don’t reward that behavior. If a dog jumps up on me, I shun, turn, and say “Off!” It’s important that you not let others reward this behavior, like friends who say, “It’s okay. I love dogs.” If they pet the dog when he jumps up, they’ve rewarded that behavior. Just ask them to “shun.” How about chewing up your stuff? If your dog is chewing shoes, table legs, rugs, etc., the dog is bored. Get mentally stimulating toys to help spend that energy, but don’t put them all out at once. Rotate the toys to keep them interested. There are even toys that you can put a treat into and the dog has to work for the reward. What about a dog that barks incessantly? If they’re outside by themselves, they’re probably bored, as well. Give them a toy; go interact with them. As a rule, don’t leave your dog out in your yard all day. — BV
Doggo Docs Veterinarian Jen Clay founded Utopia Animal Hospital on Madison 10 years ago. She says the most common ailments she sees in her patients are vomiting and diarrhea. Usually, it’s nothing to worry about, just a furry friend eating something that didn’t agree with them. “You can’t really prevent that,” she says, “because you’ve got to let your dog go outside sometimes or they’ll go crazy.” Usually, if the dog seems otherwise healthy, she’ll treat the symptom and call the next day to make sure the pet is feeling better. But if the dog seems otherwise unhealthy, she’ll order further tests. “There are about 20 things that can cause vomiting and diarrhea,” she says. Lacey Rush, associate vet at McGehee Clinic For Animals, says Memphis’ mild, wet climate means that allergens are everywhere. “We see a lot of dogs with itchy skin, and secondary skin infections, and ear infections that are a lot of times connected with environmental allergies,” she says. “I can tell by the amount of pollen on my car in the morning how many of those dogs I’m going to see.” If your dog is scratching frequently, Rush recommends making sure its flea prevention is up to date. “We do not have weather such that we have a flea season — it’s flea season year-round.” These days, the most effective flea prevention is oral medication prescribed by a vet. Rush says if you want to use a flea collar, the only good ones are made by Seresto. Rush says the most common injuries she sees are cruciate ruptures, which is like an ACL tear in humans. “With obesity on the rise, we see joint stress and tear as secondary to the metabolic disease. It’s pretty common. They come in holding up a back leg, and that’s one of the first things that comes to mind.” Clay says she frequently hears owners concerned about obesity. “A lot of people ask if their dog is a healthy weight. If you pet them along their side, you should be able to feel their ribs easily without having to dig too much. But you don’t want them to be so skinny that their ribs are sticking out.” Consult the label on your dog’s food to find out how much to put in their bowl every day. Don’t wing it. “A cup of food is a shockingly small amount,” Rush says. “I’ll never forget a case I had in North Carolina where this pet was gaining weight. The owner was like, ‘Doc I’m only feeding two cups a day!’ I said, ‘Bring me your cup.’ He brought in a Big Gulp from the gas station. The recommendations on the back of the package assume that’s all your pet is eating. It doesn’t account for treats. So if they’re getting a lot of treats, back off a little in the amount you’re offering.” continued on page 12
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Controlling calories is only half the equation. “Getting sufficient exercise for energetic dogs is important. People will come in and tell me their dog is tearing up the house,” says Clay. “For a lot of behavior issues, if you can just increase their exercise, that will help a lot. And it’s good for us, too. Humans, I mean.” Clay says if you’re thinking about getting a dog, “First, look at your lifestyle. Some people want a dog to be a running buddy, while some people want a dog who will hang out with them and watch Netflix. I know people who have paid $700 for a dog, then after the first weekend are like, oh my god, this dog requires a lot of attention. They didn’t realize what they were getting themselves into.” — Chris McCoy
Adopting a Dog
July 26-August 1, 2018
There are a few different places to adopt a canine companion in Memphis. One of them is Memphis Animal Services (MAS), the largest and only open-admission animal shelter in the city. During the summer, MAS takes in more than 200 dogs a week, Katie Pemberton, community engagement specialist at the shelter, says. By adopting from MAS, you make room for another dog to come in and be fostered, she says. Ten years ago, the city was euthanizing more than 80 percent of all pets that they took in. Now, that number is down to a little over 10 percent, Pemberton says. “Our goal is to never have to euthanize for space again, and we believe we can get there with the community’s support.” One way to do that is to adopt adult dogs, she says. “Puppies fly out of here,” but adult dogs are often overlooked. “Where we constantly struggle is large adult dogs, and that is the one category where we do still have to euthanize for space sometimes,” Pemberton says. “We know people want to help, and the biggest way they can do that is helping us get large adult dogs adopted or rescued.” MAS is the only open-intake shelter in Memphis. This means MAS continues to accept stray dogs even after they’ve reached maximum capacity. Because sometimes this leads to euthanasia, Pemberton says adopting a dog might save its life. “When you adopt from a shelter or rescue group, you’re saving two lives: the pet you adopted, and the next pet your adoption opened up a space for,” she says. The adoption fee for dogs is usually $75, but until the end of August it’s been reduced to $30, which covers spaying/ neutering, microchip, vaccinations, 12 a heartworm test, and deworming treatment, as well as a collar, leash, and
customized identification tag. To adopt a dog, Pemberton says just visit the shelter on Appling City Cove any time during adoption hours, which vary by day. All you need to bring is your driver’s license and the adoption fee. There isn’t a rigorous application process, Pemberton says. MAS practices an “Adopters Welcome” approach, recognizing that quality homes can be secured without “intensive scrutiny judgment.” Instead, the staff will ask a few questions to ensure the owner and the dog are a good match. If you’re not quite ready to tie the knot with Lassie, MAS also lets you foster, visit, and volunteer with dogs. — Maya Smith
potential adopters. That’s where HelperFerris comes in. “With Streetdog, there are fact-seekers calling the references and doing the home visits, so the families are already pre-chosen before I get there. What I’m looking for is, is there a yard? Is somebody gonna be around a lot? If the family already has dogs, I’m really looking at the dog behavior.” Memphis journalist Fredric Koeppel, who has fostered at least 100 dogs in the past decade, notes that fostering is more than just a local issue. “Most of the dogs we fostered have gone to homes in New England. People in the South are not very good to dogs. They tend to abandon them or abuse them.
Foster family and foster puppy
Fostering a Dog “It all started with a message on Nextdoor,” recalls Kim Koehler. “It said, ‘There’s a dog on the Greenline who’s crying in the rain and will not come to people.’” “And she immediately thought, ‘That’s a job for me!’” interjects her husband, Jim Duckworth. Once the dog was in their home, the young-at-heart newlyweds soon discovered that they had actually adopted eight dogs: The mutt they named Gracie was pregnant. “I didn’t know what to do!” says Koehler. “Luckily the Streetdog Foundation got back to me and helped me out.” The local nonprofit offered advice and arranged meetings with potential “forever homes.” Koehler and Duckworth had stumbled into the world of canine foster families. And, they discovered how complex dog care can be. Laura Helper-Ferris, who, as an “integrator” for Streetdog, helps to smooth the transition from foster families to permanent homes, notes that “foster families do more than just sheltering a dog while waiting for the forever homes. They often do a lot to get them through veterinary treatment. They socialize dogs, and even socialize them with other dogs sometimes. They’re evaluating them and seeing, are they good with kids? Who is this dog? The foster often knows that better than the rescue group, so they really are a key link in the whole thing.” Helper-Ferris adds, “There’s two kinds of fostering. There’s one where you volunteer for the organization and they give you a dog to foster. In that case, the organization pays all the expenses and provides food and medical care and everything. And the other kind is when you find a dog, and you want to help but can’t keep it. An organization like Streetdog can help find a new home for them, but they need the finder to foster the dog in the meantime.” Duckworth and Koehler ultimately started a fund-raising campaign to cover the costs of their new puppies’ veterinary care, relying on Streetdog to help vet
will you refuse to adopt to them? Is there a general cut-off number? How do you judge how many is too many? Is it against the law to own too many pets? We have a limit in our system that if someone has adopted four pets from us, a supervisor must be notified to review the record. We look at how long ago the adoptions were, see if those pets are still in the home, try and see if this person is really trying to function as a rescue (so we can have them become a part of our rescue program instead). There is no limit on the number of pets you can have (as long as you are not functioning in a commercial capacity as a breeder; there are limits
In New England, they have very strict spay and neuter laws. So there’s actually a lack of dogs to go to homes up there.” When choosing a rescue organization to work with, Koeppel notes that “you really want to make sure that any group you’re affiliated with is 501(c)(3), because then they have certain rules that they have to follow.” Beyond that, it can be an emotional roller coaster. “When we first started bringing in dogs, and we’d take the dog, after three weeks or six months, to the transport to take the dog up to Massachusetts or wherever, we were just devastated. But you get more used to it, and you realize what a good service you’re doing, although there are a few dogs in our pack that we’ve kept, just because we absolutely fell in love with them.” — Alex Greene
Full House How many pets is too many? You get one dog, then another. Then you’re thinking, Why not get them all? Before reason kicks in, you picture yourself the head of this herd, obviously leaving out the urine and poop, the fights and howling, the outrageous vet bills, and all that fur in your refrigerator. We asked Alexis Pugh, director of Memphis Animal Services, about the over-enthusiastic pet owner. If you know someone has a lot of pets,
for that in the county unified code), but the law does require proper care and conditions, regardless of the number of animals you own. What can happen to the animal if there are too many of them? Too many animals can mean a lack of basic needs being met for the animals, because the owner is not able to sufficiently care for them and/or loses the ability to see the problems with clarity. If we receive a call and our officers discover a situation where the conditions do not meet the minimum requirements under the law, we either issue a warning, a summons to court, or we seize the pets, depending on the severity of the concerns. My friend has five cats and one dog. Is that too many? No. What matters is how the animals are kept. Someone could have 10 animals and do a better job providing for them than someone with one. It is more about what the pet has access to — food, water, shelter, medical care, and hopefully, love and enrichment. — SE
The Dogs Are In. Hollywood Feed’s corporate headquarters were quiet until Kate Lancaster knocked oh-so-softly on a closed door. An unseen
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chorus of barks big and small boomed. Lancaster was unfazed; it was plain that barking dogs were a regular and accepted part of the office’s aural landscape. If you think about it, dogs at Hollywood Feed make all the sense in the world. “I guess he’s not in right now,” says Lancaster. “For some of the dogs that really like to, uh, announce themselves, people have to shut their doors, or, they’d bark at everything that walks by.” In a baby-gated cubicle, Bree Fuller researches, buys, and promotes dog food for Hollywood Feed. On the floor behind her, Max, a Jack Russell mix, steps in his water bowl and bird-dog Lilley growls at Buffy, the tiny, poofy dog under Lan-
caster’s arm. “I would hate leaving them at home,” Fuller says. “Also, it’s just nice that while you’re looking at your computer all day, you get to scratch your dog while you’re doing it.” While it makes sense that Hollywood Feed is dog friendly, more and more offices are allowing and encouraging canine companionship. Google’s code of conduct states the company’s, “affection for our canine friends is an integral facet of our corporate culture.” A 2015 survey for the Society for Human Resource Management found that 8 percent of respondents reported that their workplaces permitted
pets, an increase from 5 percent in 2013. Last year, the U.S. Department of Interior celebrated its first “Take Your Dog to Work Day.” While hard numbers on dogs in Memphis offices don’t really exist, it’s easy to tell paws are padding into more workplaces here. Memphis ad agency Archer Malmo has long had a reputation for dog friendliness. “I love to bring him because, as a dog mom, it’s nice to know he’s here with me and not sitting in a crate at home,” says Sarah Jones, an account coordinator. “Other people bring their dogs and they’ll all play. It’s a good way to make friends in the office, too.”
Bree Fuller with Lilley and Max at Hollywood Feed
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Jones says her dog, Brer, was a bad puppy with a penchant for chewing up remote controls. But bringing him into the office has helped him, and now he’s a “perfect office dog” that attends meetings. One of Brer’s office buddies, mini goldendoodle Elvis, “kind of grew up in the office, says his owner Katie Frasier, the firm’s director of integrated communications strategy. “We joke that he has all of his aunties and uncles here,” Frasier says. “In the afternoons, people will just come and sit on the couches in [a common work area], and Elvis will just hop up there and snuggle with them. It’s a nice way to end the day.” — Toby Sells
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Power to the punks
By Chris Davis
Sometimes things end. That doesn’t mean they have to stop. “There used to be this festival every year, but the guy who used to produce it left town town,” says Brando Little, reducing the sturm and drang-filled last days of the Memphis Punk Rock Fest to a single, concise sentence. To fill this void of grit, glitter, and squalling guitars, Little, aka Harry Manhole, the singer and guitar player for Memphis’ punk band The Gloryholes, concocted a plan. “I thought I’d try to bring in a bunch of queer bands from out of town,” he says. And so, from the ashes of the Memphis Punk Rock Festival, Queerfest, two-days and 14-bands worth of LGBTQ-infused punk was born. “There is a vibrant, underground queer punk-rock scene,” Little says, noting an irony in the home of Sun Studio. “Other than some of us on the fringes, Memphis’ gay community doesn’t have many aspects of rock-and-roll. “I wanted to bring that to Memphis,” Little says. Local and out of town acts scheduled to play include Kansas City’s glam and metal-inspired Wick and the Tricks, Beg, Stay Fashionable, Wailing Banshees, Boyfriend, Tom Violence, Hormonal Imbalance, Sweaters Together, The Gloryholes, Spirit Cuntz, Exit Mouse, and Midtown Queer. Loud guitars and snarling attitude won’t be the only thing on the menu. “We’ll also have comedy,” Little says. Is Memphis Queerfest a one-off, or is it an annual event in the making? “I don’t know,” Little says. “I thought we’d bring in some bands, do this thing, and see how it goes.”
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FRIDAY July 27
Booksigning by Debby Schriver Novel, 6 p.m. Book about cult leader Tony Alamo and the children who got out.
Hellcats Inc. EmergeMemphis (516 Tennessee), 6:30 p.m., $10 An appearance by Brittany Reagan and Clark Orr of the lifestyle brand Hellcats Inc. There will be beer.
The Wizard of Oz The Orpheum, 7 p.m., $8 Those flying monkeys aren’t fucking around, y’all. Screening of this old gem of a film about a girl who tangles with a tornado.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Pink Palace Museum, 4 p.m., $8 Adults get in for kids prices during this special “inner child” discount. Featuring this Star Wars film, the seventh in the series.
“Tunnel Vision” Crosstown Arts, 7-9 p.m. Opening reception for this group installation working around the concept of a tunnel card with moving and still projections of old family photos.
Al Kapone Center for Southern Folklore, 6 p.m., $5 An appearance by the local rapper.
Michael McDonald Gold Strike Casino, 8 p.m., $44-$94 Music from this former Doobie Brother and award-winning solo artist.
Dinner on Stage The Orpheum, 6 p.m., $75 Learn about the Orpheum during this tour of the theater and dinner on stage. Includes a cocktail hour and a Q&A.
SATURDAY July 28
Art of the South
No. 5
By Chris Davis
When you’re a natural fan and prompter of regional artists, sometimes the big challenge of assembling a large juried show isn’t always deciding which artists are selected. It can be more about laboring over who has to be cut. There’s only so much room in a gallery, after all. That was the struggle for Brian R. Jobe, the juror for Number: magazine’s fifth annual Art of the South exhibit. As the co-director of the state-wide not-for-profit Locate Arts, Jobe is regularly engaged in promoting contemporary art in Tennessee. “There’s excellent work being made here that stacks up with the best art being made elsewhere,” he says. Jobe describes the opportunity to choose work for this show as “an invitation to extend [the enthusiasm] to an even wider block of states.” For this year’s exhibit, the magic number is 57. From 170 submissions from states across the Southeast and the District of Columbia, that’s how many artists Jobe finally selected. Most of the selected pieces hang on a wall, but the generous exhibit also includes a healthy collection of sculpture and three films. “If there is a theme, it’s a willingness to explore any theme, any narrative, and any material in a way that feels tied into a global contemporary art dialogue,” Jobe says. “It’s exciting to see just how connected [Southern artists] are with the world.”
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National Dance Day Pink Palace Museum, 3:30 p.m. Celebrating National Dance Day with a variety of performances, including jazz, tap, belly dancing, and more. Gladys Knight Memphis Botanic Garden, 8:30 p.m., $40 A concert by this R&B legend.
Superman/Batman Double Feature The Orpheum, 5 p.m., $8 Double the super heroes, double the fun. Features the 1978 Christopher Reeve film and the 1989 film with Michael Keaton, arguably the best Batman. Top Gun Shelby Farms, 7:30 p.m., $10 Screening of this Tom Cruise film.
A History of Death Elmwood Cemetery, 2 p.m., $15 Covering such topics as folklore and funerals and the ways in which we remember our dearly departed led by Elmwood’s executive director Kim Bearden.
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Country Metal Joecephus & the George Jonestown Massacre keep on trucking.
July 26-August 1, 2018
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oey Killingsworth’s band, JoeceI cringe whenever I hear it, but it outsells phus and the George Jonestown everything we’ve ever done. I just went Massacre, has built up a good off on my boss and everybody just started bit of name recognition over the requesting it. Rock 103, the morning show, 13 years they’ve played and replayed it for about seven weeks in a row corded music. The only problem when it came out.” is, this Memphis band has very little place Momentum grew for the Massacre, and recognition. “We tried to play Minglewood most of the growth was out of town. “I’d a long time ago,” he recalls, “and the dude’s search the internet and email any bigger like ‘I’m sorry, we’ve gotta have a local band bands playing within an eight-hour radius, for this spot.’ I’ve been playing around here to get on board opening for them. You since 1993! And in Memphis band listings, can book one show with David Allan Coe most times, they don’t even spell the name or somebody like that, and then there’s right. But outta town, the name’s spelled automatically 700 or more people you’re right. It’s cool to say you’re from Memphis, playing for. Then you book your little but this is a fickle town.” shows around it.” It’s ironic, because the family name The band quickly built on two seemis about as Memphis as you can get. ingly contradictory strengths: outlaw Killingsworth’s father, Bobby Joe, was country and thrashing riff rock. This born in McNairy County and grew up eclecticism has served them well. “With playing rockabilly and country there, until the Massacre thing, we’ve been able to he aimed for the big time and moved to play with everybody from Coe to George Memphis in 1962. Not long after that, he Lynch (of Dokken), Bad Brains, Johnny joined rockabilly/country singer Eddie Winters, Jim Dickinson. A weird mix of Bond’s band in a musical partnership that people. We’ve got like 80 songs. We can would last for decades. When Bond began hosting a variety (left to right) David Wade, Joey Killingsworth, and Brian Costner show on WHBQ in 1966, his friend Bobby Joe was right there with him, taking on the nickname “Bo Jack” and a new comedic character to boot. The show was on the air for 10 years, and then another five when it was revived in the 1990s. But Killingsworth the Younger had no taste for country music during most of those years, and invitations from his father to join the Bond make it fit into a set.” band went unheeded. Later, the son grew The group has parlayed these diverse to appreciate the genres of his father, and pairings into some equally diverse coleven drummed for Bond in the last years laborations, especially on tribute albums of his career. By that time, he was kickthat Killingsworth has masterminded. ing himself for missing out. “Eddie Bond Perhaps the most popular has been a would tell me, ‘You could have met Ernest double LP tribute to Black Oak Arkansas, Tubb! He was on our show.’” which blends contributions from the MasIt was also country that gave Killingsacre and original members of Black Oak sworth his first break in the music busi(including Jim Dandy) with offerings from ness. Reluctant to trade on his father’s or the likes of Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys) Eddie Bond’s name, he created Joecephus and Greg Ginn (Black Flag). Killingsworth and the George Jonestown Massacre as an says it’s not surprising that such pioneers of umbrella group for the diverse music he punk appreciate the Arkansas rockers. preferred. Though he grew up on bands But nowadays, Killingsworth is most ranging from Black Flag to Bauhaus to excited about the latest release by the Nazareth, his newfound love of country Massacre, Death Rattle Shake. This new led to some radio play in the 2000s. outing finds them in full riff rock mode, “I got a bad job review, so I wrote a with crunching guitars underpinning song about my boss,” says Killingsworth. Killingsworth’s deadpan vocals. It’s a “That one little song, ‘Quittin Time,’ still sound that’s won fans throughout the gets maybe a couple thousand plays a region, and it’s keeping Joecephus mighty week. I recorded it by just plugging a busy — even if, as he notes, “my dad still guitar and pedals right into the board, and plays more than I do.”
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After Dark: Live Music Schedule July 26 - August 1 Alfred’s
152 BEALE 544-7011
Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 Thursdays-Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; Karaoke Thursdays, TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Mandi Thomas Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; The 901 Heavy Hitters Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Flyin’ Ryan Fridays, Saturdays, 2:30 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.
Sean Apple Thursdays, Sundays, 5 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 4 p.m. and Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m.; Live Music Thursdays-Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Blues Players Club Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Bonfire Orchestra Friday, July 27, 7-11 p.m. and Tuesday, July 31, 6-10 p.m.; DJ Ron Fridays, 11 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.; DJ Mad Efx Sundays, midnight; A.M. Whiskey Trio Mondays, 6-10 p.m.
B.B. King’s Blues Club
Handy Bar
197 BEALE 525-3711
143 BEALE 524-KING
The King Beez Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.
Blue Note Bar & Grill 341-345 BEALE 577-1089
Queen Ann and the Memphis Blues Masters Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637
Ghost Town Blues Band Thursday, July 26, 8 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m. and Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. and Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays,
200 BEALE 527-2687
The Amazing Rhythmatics Tuesdays, Thursdays-Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.
Itta Bena
Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 7 p.m.-midnight and Friday, July 27, 7 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Saturday, July 28, 7 p.m.midnight; Chic Jones and the Blues Express Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; North and South Band Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.
King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room
Nat “King” Kerr Fridays, Saturdays, 9-10 p.m.
330 BEALE 525-8981
King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille 159 BEALE
Chris Gales Solo Acoustic Show Mondays-Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/acoustic Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.
King’s Palace Cafe David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.
tion Allstars Fridays-Sundays, 4-8 p.m.; Little Boy Blues Friday, July 27, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Fuzzy Saturday, July 28, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sensation Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.
Karaoke Night Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Hillbilly Mojo Friday, July 27, 9 p.m.; FreeWorld Saturday, July 28, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and Friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.
Silky O’Sullivan’s
Earnestine & Hazel’s
183 BEALE 522-9596
Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-3 a.m., and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.
168 BEALE 576-2220
Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Baunie Band Friday, July 27, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sonny Mack Band Saturday, July 28, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
New Daisy Theatre
145 BEALE 578-3031
162 BEALE 521-1851
162 BEALE 521-1851
4B, Hodj, Ell!psis, DudeCalledRob Saturday, July 28; Jarren Benton Sunday, July 29, 7 p.m.
Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150
Eric Hughes Band Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Mr. Sipp Friday, July 27, 9 p.m. and Saturday, July 28, 9 p.m.; Sensation Band Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150
Dirty Crow Inn
The Silly Goose
855 KENTUCKY
100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915
531 S. MAIN 523-9754
Amber Rae Dunn Hosts: Earnestine & Hazel’s Open Mic Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.
Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536
Belle Tavern 117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580
The Rusty Pieces Sunday, July 29, 5:30-8:30 p.m.
Blind Bear Speakeasy 119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435
Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.; The Rusty Pieces Saturday, July 28, 11 p.m.-1 a.m.
Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813
Live Music Fridays; Carma Karaoke with Carla Worth Saturdays, 9-11 p.m.
Center for Southern Folklore 123 S. MAIN AT PEABODY TROLLEY STOP 525-3655
Al Kapone Friday, July 27, 6-10 p.m.
The Rusty Pieces Friday, July 27, 6-9 p.m.; Songwriters with Roland and Friends Mondays, 7-10 p.m.
Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700
The Lizard Kings Sunday, July 29, 8-11:30 p.m.
Paulette’s RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300
Live Pianist Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-9 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and Mondays-Wednesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.
Purple Haze Nightclub 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139
DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.
Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020
Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.
Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Planta-
DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.
Sleep Out Louie’s 150 PEABODY PL SUITE 111 ENTRANCE ON, S 2ND ST
Loveland Duren Friday, July 27, 7-10 p.m. and Saturday, July 28, 7-10 p.m.
Talent Development Complex 119 S. MAIN 435-6509
Lunch & Listen with Katie Ferren Friday, July 27, 1-2 p.m.
The Peabody Hotel 149 UNION 529-4000
Peabody Rooftop Parties Thursdays, 6-10 p.m.
The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON
Heath and Bobbie Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Rice Drewry and Three Degrees Friday, July 27, 8 p.m.; Eric Hughes Saturday, July 28, 9 p.m.
South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA
Alvin Youngblood Hart with Jeremy Pinnell Thursday, July 26, 8-11 p.m.; Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.
South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543
Patrick O’Conner and Friends Friday, July 27, 7 p.m.
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PROPOSED SUBSTATION SITE
TVA to Hold Open House on Proposed Transmission Project station proposed route existing transmission lines
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The map shows the alternative locations of the proposed transmission routes that TVA is considering. A more detailed map and additional information can be found at www.tva.com/transmissionprojects.
July 26-August 1, 2018
TVA representatives will be available at the open house to provide information, answer questions and receive comments about the project. Large maps showing the alternative locations will also be available. TVA is interested in receiving comments concerning how this project may affect the environment, historic properties or any other issues associated with this proposal. Comments will be used in reaching a decision on location of the new transmission facilities. Any written comments received, including names and addresses, will become part of the administrative record and will be available for public inspection. If you cannot attend the open house but have questions or comments, please contact Todd Moore. All written comments on this proposed action should be sent to TVA at the address below no later than Sept. 4, 2018. If you have special needs, please contact Tanya Adams at the toll-free number at least five days prior to the open house.
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Sunday Brunch with Joyce Cobb Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232
Karaoke Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.; Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.
Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.
The proposed project consists of 2.7 miles of new doublecircuit transmission line and other system improvements which would diversify the power flow to the Memphis metro area as well as increase power reliability in the Memphis area.
Contact Todd Moore Tennessee Valley Authority 1101 Market Street (MR 4G) Chattanooga, TN 37402-2801 800-362-4355 (toll free) newtransline@tva.gov www.tva.com/power/projects
Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222
903 S. COOPER 274-5151
TVA will hold an open house for public input on plans for a proposed transmission project in the Memphis area.
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Candace Mache Jazz Trio Friday, July 27, 7 p.m., Saturday, July 28, 7 p.m. and Sunday, July 29, 7 p.m.
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The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719
Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, July 26, 8 p.m.; The Skitch Friday, July 27, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck Saturday, July 28, 6-8 p.m.; Hope Clayburn & the Soul Scrimmage Saturday, July 28, 10 p.m.; David Collins Frog Squad Sunday, July 29, 6-9
p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesday, July 31, 6-8 p.m.; Ben MindenBirkenmaier Wednesday, Aug. 1, 5:30 p.m.; Karaoke with DJ Eggroll Wednesday, Aug. 1, 9 p.m.
Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904
Burn the Witch, Defy the Architect, Naildriver Friday, July 27, 8 p.m.; Our Scene United Saturday, July 28, noon and Sunday, July 29, noon; Justins vs. Brians Saturday, July 28, 8 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.
Hi-Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE
Our Scene United Thursday, July 26, 5 p.m., Friday, July 27 and Saturday, July 28; Beg, Stay Fashionable, The Wailing, Banshees, Hormonal Imbalance Friday, July 27, 8 p.m.; Zac Clark, Bob Oxblood, Andrew Elder, Tim Few Sunday, July 29, 8 p.m.; Enhailer Monday, July 30, 9 p.m.
Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372
(Some of the) Sons of Mudboy Sunday, July 29, 4-7 p.m.; Jack Sledge and the Hammers Sunday, July 29, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.
Indian Pass Raw Bar Memphis 2059 MADISON 207-7397
Paul Taylor Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.; Brandon Taylor Friday, July 27, 8-11 p.m.; One Breath Saturday, July 28, 7:30-10 p.m. and Sunday, July 29, 12-3 p.m.
Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097
The Michael Brothers Thursday, July 26, 6 p.m.; The Bar Misfits Thursday, July 26, 9 p.m.; Bluff City Bandits Friday, July 27, 6:30 p.m.; Twin Soul Friday, July 27, 10 p.m.; Steve Hopper & the Wolf Island Band Saturday, July 28, 2 p.m.; Athena McIntrye Saturday, July 28, 6:30 p.m.; Seeing Red Saturday, July 28, 10 p.m.; Tom Lonardo Quartet Sunday, July 29, 11 a.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Saliva Acoustic Sunday, July 29, 8 p.m.; Memphis Soul Remedy Monday, July 30, 7:30 p.m.; Emily Chambers Tuesday, July 31, 5:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Tuesday, July 31, 8 p.m.; 3RD Man Wednesday, Aug. 1, 5:30 p.m.; Kasey Anderson Wednesday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m.
Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502
Natalie James and the Professor Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.3 p.m.; “The Happening” Open Songwriter Showcase Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
After Dark: Live Music Schedule July 26 - August 1 6:30-9 p.m.
The Fast Mothers Saturday, July 28.
Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House
P&H Cafe
551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200
Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Memphis Queerfest Saturday, July 28; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.
The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223
The Phoenix Blues Jam Tuesdays, 8-11 p.m.
Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Mondays-Thursdays, 5-9:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.
Huey’s Poplar
Owen Brennan’s THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990
Lannie McMillan Jazz Trio Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
4872 POPLAR 682-7729
Whitehaven/ Airport Guest House at Graceland 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-3322
Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770
Eric Darius Jazz Concert Friday, July 27, 8-10 p.m.
Steak Night with Tony Butler and The Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.
Rock-n-Roll Cafe
Collierville
3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528
Elvis Tribute featuring Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays,
The Settlers Sunday, July 29, 4-7 p.m.; Dantones Sunday,
Full Circle Sunday, July 29, 5:30 p.m.; A.M. Whiskey Wednesday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m.
Huey’s Collierville 2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455
The Amy LaVere Band Sunday,
Frayser/Millington Huey’s Millington 8570 US 51 N.
Pamela K. Ward Sunday, July 29, 6-9 p.m.
Pop’s Bar & Grill 6365 NAVY 872-0353
Possum Daddy or DJ Turtle Thursdays, 5-9 p.m.; CeCee Fridays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; Possum Daddy Karaoke Wednesdays, 6-10 p.m. and Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.
Toni Green’s Palace 4212 HWY 51 N
Railgarten
Toni Green’s Palace MondaysSundays, 7 p.m.; Live DJ Thursdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.
2160 CENTRAL
Go Fever Saturday, July 28, 8 p.m.; Katie Preston and Ben Morey Tuesday, July 31, 6-8 p.m.
Germantown
Senses Nightclub
Huey’s Southwind
2866 POPLAR 249-3739
7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911
Unique Saturday Saturdays, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.
El Ced & Groove Nation Sunday, July 29, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.
Shangri-La
Huey’s Germantown
1916 MADISON 274-1916
7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034
J.D. Westmoreland “Birds of Paradigm” In-Store Friday, July 27, 6-7 p.m.
The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, July 29, 8-11:30 p.m.
Ice Bar & Grill
The Tower Courtyard at Overton Square
4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423
Unwind Wednesdays Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.
2092 TRIMBLE PLACE MEMPHIS, TN 38104
Acoustic Courtyard Last Thursday of every month, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar
Wild Bill’s
Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.
9087 POPLAR 755-0092
1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975
North Mississippi/ Tunica
Juke Joint All Stars Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony Chapman, Charles Cason, and Miss Joyce Henderson Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Juke Jam Sundays, 4 p.m.
Dan McGuinness 3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611
Acoustic Music Tuesdays.
Young Avenue Deli
Gold Strike Casino
2119 YOUNG 278-0034
1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-245-7829
Devil Train Saturday, July 28 and Sunday, July 29.
Michael McDonald Saturday, July 28, 8-9:30 p.m.
Hollywood Casino 1150 CASINO STRIP RESORT, TUNICA, MS 662-357-7700
University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND
DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; CBDB Friday, July 27; Jon Langston Saturday, July 28; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.
Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe 663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960
July 29, 8-11:30 p.m.
Summer/Berclair
Memphis Botanic Garden
Cheffie’s Cafe
750 CHERRY 636-4100
483 HIGH POINT TERRACE 202-4157
Gladys Knight Saturday, July 28.
Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321
Van Duren Solo Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Dantones Friday, July 27, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.
East Memphis
Poplar/I-240
East of Wangs
Neil’s Music Room
6069 PARK 763-0676
Lee Gardner Fridays, 6:30-9 p.m.; Randal Toma Solo Guitar Tuesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Wednesdays,
Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub
5727 QUINCE 682-2300
Eric Lewis and Friends Thursday, July 26, 7-11 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Reba Russell Trio Friday, July 27, 8
South Memphis Stax Museum of American Soul Music 926 E. MCLEMORE 946-2535
Live in Studio A Concert Series Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m.
Cordova 1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 318-3030
Arlington/Eads/ Oakland/Lakeland
1817 KIRBY 755-2481
July 29, 8-11:30 p.m.
Huey’s Cordova
Songwriter Night hosted by Leigh Ann Wilmot and Dave “The Rave” Saturdays, 5-8 p.m.
T.J. Mulligan’s
Live Music with DJ Alxandr Fridays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Live Music with Coldway Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.
8 p.m.; Live Entertainment Mondays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Karaoke hosted by DJ Maddy Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.
Live Entertainment Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
6230 GREENLEE 592-0344
Live Music Thursdays, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Fridays, 9 p.m.
Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006
Thump Daddy Friday, July 27, 9 p.m. and Saturday, July 28, 9 p.m.;
Young Petty Thieves Sunday, July 29, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.
T.J. Mulligan’s 64 2821 N. HOUSTON LEVEE 377-9997
Section 8 Saturday, July 28, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.
T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova 8071 TRINITY 756-4480
Sofa Kings Friday, July 27, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.
Huey’s Southaven 7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097
Vintage Sunday, July 29, 8-11:30 p.m.
Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576
Blues Jam hosted by Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; Open Mic Night and Steak Night Tuesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.
West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas The New Backdour Bar & Grill
m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m
1532 MADISON 726-0906
p.m.; Lifetap Saturday, July 28, 3-5 p.m.; Led Zeppin Saturday, July 28, 8 p.m.; Flashback Sunday, July 29, 4-7 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193
302 S. AVALON 596-7115
DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.
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CALENDAR of EVENTS:
July 26 - August 1
Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101. DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.
Summer 1993 at Malco Studio on the Square, Tuesday, July 31st, at 7 p.m.
T H EAT E R
EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, performance will be the culmination of EACC’s annual Children’s Theater Camp. www.eacc.edu. $5. Fri., July 27, 6 p.m.
David Lusk Gallery
EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR.
The Evergreen Theatre
Remy: From Fate There Is No Escape, at the top of her game, Remy Silva, CEO of Silva’s Interior Designs loses all the control she once had over her life and begins to unravel as her skeletons threaten to be resurrected. (652-5761), www.innercitysouth.com. $25. Sundays, 3 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m. Through Aug. 5. 1705 POPLAR (274-7139).
Germantown Community Theatre Singing in the Rain, Jr., www. gctcomeplay.org. $15-$20. Sundays, 2:30 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Through Aug. 12. 3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).
Theatre Memphis
Ladies & Legends, Songs of Stage & Screen, fun and original cabaret performance. www.theatrememphis. org. $30. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m. Through July 29. 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).
TheatreWorks
Crib, an African-American professor in the midst of a tenure fight and a star basketball player are reminded by the coach that the school is run on athletic money, not classroom achievement. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $25. Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through July 29.
July 26-August 1, 2018
2085 MONROE (274-7139).
University of Memphis, Department of Theatre & Dance
Pretty, a bold group of women of all shapes, sizes, ages, and backgrounds come together to explore the concept of beauty. From mirrors and make-up to heartache and scars. (8480111), www.femmemphis. com. $10. Fri., Sat., 8-9:30 p.m., and Sun., 6-7:30 p.m. Through July 29. 3745 CENTRAL (678-2576).
A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S
Crosstown Concourse
Opening reception for “Art of the South 2018,” exhibition presented by Number. www. crosstownarts.org. Fri., July 27, 6-8 p.m. Opening reception for “Tunnel Vision,” exhibition of collaborative installation by Frances Berry and Jenny Fine. www.crosstownarts.org. Fri., July 27, 7-9 p.m. N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.
OTH E R A R T HA P P E N I N G S
Amtgard
The Barony of Soul’s Crossing live-action role-playing game. From arts and science competitions to battle games and quests, a family-friendly group with levels of participation for any physical level. Free. Sundays, 1 p.m. 1372 OVERTON PARK, 1372 OVERTON PARK, WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ GROUPS/SOULSCROSSING/.
Art Trolley Tour
Tour the local galleries and shops on South Main. Last Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN.
Blue Star Museums Program
Free admission to Pink Palace Family of Museums for the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. Visit website for more information. Through Sept. 3. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW. MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
Casting Demonstration Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m. METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.
Gallery Talk
Museum staff speak on topics including current exhibitions and works from the permanent collection. Meet in the lobby of the main building before the talk begins. Free. Saturdays, Sundays, 2-2:30 p.m. METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.
Jazz-A-Fire
Performances, bring your own instrument to join. $12. Last Sunday of every month, 4-7 p.m. BRINSON’S, 341 MADISON (5240104), WWW.MEMPHISBLACKARTSALLIANCE.ORG.
Looking Inward: Mindfully Looking at Art Program, led by Stephen Black, delves into the restorative powers of art and meditation to help participants quiet the mind, observe art, and let go of mental clutter to experience art in new ways. Free. Fourth Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.
THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.
Paint Nite
BYOB painting party. Grab your friends and your favorite bottle of wine and let your creativity flow. $35. Twenty-eighth of every month, 6-7:30 p.m. Through Oct. 31. THE CANVAS OF SOUTHAVEN, 1765 MAIN (662-269-5511), WWW.THECANVAS662.COM.
Submissions Open for MCA 68th Annual Holiday Bazaar & Fund-raiser.
Visit website for more information. Through Oct. 1. WWW.MCA.EDU.
ONGOI NG ART
Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)
“Monster Marks,” exhibition of work from Memphis collections that make us think about how we define monsters. www.memphis. edu/amum. Through July 28. “Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection. Ongoing.
Art Village Gallery
“Somnium (Daydreams),” exhibition of 10 medium to large-scale figurative paintings on reverse canvas by Mario Henrique. www.artvillagegallery.com. Through Aug. 31. 410 S. MAIN (521-0782).
ANF Architects
“The Best of the Best,” exhibition showcasing the winners of the Memphis Camera Club’s 2017 Year End Awards. www.anfa.com. Through Aug. 2. 1500 UNION (278-6868).
Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art
97 TILLMAN (767-3800).
The Dixon Gallery & Gardens
“In the Garden,” exhibition of over 400,000 photographic objects dating back to the inception of photography as a medium. The collection explores garden imagery and humans cultivating the land. www.dixon.org. Through Sept. 20. 4339 PARK (761-5250).
FireHouse Community Arts Center
“Chinese Symbols in Art,” ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. www.belzmuseum. org. Ongoing.
Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing.
119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).
985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).
Crosstown Concourse
FocalPoint Art Show, exhibition of new work by Jason Miller, Robert Fairchild, Zoe Nadel, La’Donna Roberts, and Lester Jones inside FocalPoint. Through Nov. 30. “Number: Presents Art of the South 2018,” exhibition of works by artists from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and other Southern states. www.crosstownarts.org. July 27-Sept. 2. “Tunnel Vision,” exhibition of collaborative installation by Frances Berry and Jenny Fine. www.crosstownarts.org. July 27-Sept. 2. N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.
Graceland
“Hillbilly Rock,” exhibition featuring items from The Marty Stuart Collection. www.graceland.com. Ongoing. 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).
Jack Robinson Photography Gallery
“Eco Prints,” exhibition of prints on paper. Framed prints are $150, unframed $60. www.robinsoneditions.com. Through Aug. 31. 44 HULING (576-0708).
Jay Etkin Gallery
David Hall, exhibition of watercolor works on paper. www. jayetkingallery.com. Ongoing. 942 COOPER (550-0064).
142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).
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“Arboretum,” exhibition of drawings and sculpture by John Salvest. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through July 27. “Southern Obscura,” exhibition of enhanced photography by Jeane Umbreit. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through July 27.
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5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).
Leadership Memphis
“Trolley Night: Music, Messages, and Movements,” exhibition in partnership with The Withers Collection Museum & Gallery. Through Aug. 31. 365 S. MAIN ST. (278-0016).
Marshall Arts Gallery
“Love of Art” and “Memphis,” exhibition of work by Nikki Gardner and Debra Edge by appointment only. Ongoing. 639 MARSHALL (679-6837).
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
“Black Resistance: Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement,” exhibition focuses on and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the events from March 27 through April 8, 1968. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through Aug. 19. “African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style,” exhibition of dynamic traditions of African dress featuring colorful, boldly patterned printed cloth highlighting the interplay between regional preferences and cosmopolitanism. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through Aug. 12. “Arts of Global Africa,” exhibition of historic and contemporary works in a range of different media presenting an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through June 21, 2021. “About Face,” exhibition located in the Education Gallery highlighting the different ways artists interpret the connection between emotion and expression. www.brooksmuseum.org. Ongoing. “Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis,” exhibition of works inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in southeastern Nigeria by Victor Ekpuk. www.brooksmuseum.org. Ongoing. 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).
Metal Museum
“Forge,” exhibition of work by fifteen international metal artists whose practice has been identified as having a significant impact in the field of blacksmithing. www. metalmuseum.org. Through Sept. 16. “Tributaries: Venetia DaleNext After the First in Order, Place and Time,” exhibition of installations that refocus attention on overlooked support objects secondary to the items they hold up, contain, or aid. Appreciated as individual creations when removed from context and made in pewter. www. metalmuseum.org. Through Sept. 9. 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).
Playhouse on the Square
“DreamESCAPES,” exhibition of multi-media series of imagined, constructed landscapes of famous cities, iconic places, and sometimes rural, non-descriptive corners of the world by O. Gustavo Plascencia. www.mca.edu. Through July 29. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).
Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum “Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. Ongoing. 826 N. SECOND (527-3427).
St. George’s Episcopal Church
“Summer, Sun, and Art,” exhibition of work in oils, acrylic, watercolor, and photography by 16 local artists from Artist Group of Memphis. (754-7282), stgchurch. org. Through July 29. 2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).
Stax Museum of American Soul Music
“The Chaos and the Cosmos: Inside Memphis Music’s Lost Decade, 1977-1986,” exhibition of photography by Patricia Rainer. www.staxmuseum. com. Through July 31. 926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).
Talbot Heirs
“Tunnel Vision” by Frances Berry and Jenny Fine at Crosstown Concourse
TOPS Gallery
“Screen Door,” exhibition of work by Ann Craven, Dana Frankfort, EJ Hauser, and Margaux Ogden. www.topsgallery.com. Through Sept. 8. 400 S. FRONT.
Tops Gallery: Madison Avenue Park
“Screen Door,” exhibition of work by Ann Craven, Dana Frankfort, EJ Hauser, and Margaux Ogden. Through Sept. 8. 151 MADISON (340-0134).
Trezevant Manor
Anne Hughes Sayle, exhibition of oil on canvas realistic landscapes and figures work and fabric art pieces. www. trezevantmanor.org. Through Aug. 10. 177 N. HIGHLAND (325-4000).
Village Frame & Art
“20th Century Memphis Photographs,” exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey and Virginia Schoenster, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Gallery Artists, exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey, Virginia Schoenster, Lou Ann Dattilo, and Matthew Hasty. Ongoing. 540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).
WKNO Studio
“The Memphis I Love,” exhibition of photography by Adarryll Jackson Sr. (458-2521), www.wkno.org. Through July 27. 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).
Woman’s Exchange Art Gallery
Eighth Annual Woman’s Exchange Art Gallery Open House, exhibition of approximately 100 local and regional artists’ work in all media. (541-331-0077), www. womans-exchange.com. Through Aug. 24. 88 RACINE (327-5681).
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“Abstraction,” exhibition of work by four regional artists. www.lrossgallery.com. Through July 29.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
L Ross Gallery
Debra Edge Art. Ongoing. 99 S. SECOND (527-9772).
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The Halloran Centre
Clean Comedy Experience, www.orpheum-memphis.com. $25. Sat., July 28, 4 & 8 p.m. 225 S. MAIN (529-4299).
Meddlesome Brewing Co. Dark Match Comedy Show, featuring headliner Richard Douglas Jones. (282-5023), Free. Thurs., July 26, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Centering Prayer, opportunity for silent contemplation, followed by inspirational poetry and readings. www.epiphanylu.org. Sundays, 5 p.m., and Wednesdays, noon.
Join Elmwood Executive Director Kim Bearden for a presentation on funerals, folklore, and how we’ve come to memorialize our loved ones. Seated talk. Beer, wine, and snacks will be served. $15. Sun., July 29, 2-3 p.m.
7887 POPLAR (861-6227).
ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW.ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.
Booksigning by Cheryl Mattox Berry
Memphis Made Brewing Company Bits on the Table, a weekly comedy workshop by The Comma Comedians. www. memphismadebrewing.com. Free. Mondays, 5-7 p.m. 768 S. COOPER (207-5343).
Memphis 101
Author discusses and signs Memphis Blues. Fri., July 27, 6-9 p.m.
Interactive crash course in Memphis culture, people, and politics revealing why Memphis is the place it is today and how our history impacts where we are headed. Mon., July 30, 6-8 p.m.
SOUTH MAIN BOOK JUGGLER, 548 S. MAIN (249-5370).
Booksigning by Debby Schriver
NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (527-4625), WWW.NEWMEMPHIS.ORG.
Author reads and signs Whispering in the Daylight. Thurs., July 26, 6 p.m.
Sierra Club Discusses TennCan Deposits: Bringing Back a Good Idea
NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (9225526), WWW.NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.
P O ET RY/ S PO K E N WO R D
LECTU R E / S P EA K E R
Spillit Slam: Away We Go!, your stories. www.spillitmemphis. org. Sat., July 28, 7 p.m. 410 CLEVELAND.
A History of Death: A Suds & Stories Presentation
B O O KS I G N I N G S
7750 TRINITY (207-1147).
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Epiphany Lutheran Church
Creative Works Presents: Hellcats Inc.
Evening with Brittany Reagan and Clark Orr husband and wife team of Hellcats Inc. The beer is on us, and the first 50 tickets include a limited edition screen print. $10. Fri., July 27, 6:30-8:30 p.m. EMERGEMEMPHIS, 516 TENNESSEE (218-7135), WWW.CREATIVEWORKS.CO.
Marge Davis will speak about the new Bottle Bill and all the many benefits it can bring Tennessee. Free. Thurs., July 26, 6-7 p.m. BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700).
TO U R S
works of art or plants in the garden. Your lunch will be waiting for you after the tour. Thurs., 11:45 a.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.
City Tasting Tours
Savor tastings at five eateries, interact with chefs and managers, and sample local flavors while strolling down Main Street and enjoying new art installations and historic landmarks. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1:30 p.m. WWW.CITYTASTINGTOURS.COM.
Cutting Garden Tours
Garden docents will focus on the cutting garden each week on Saturday morning. Meet in the Catmur Foyer to see the large urn design and start tour. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.
Elmwood Driving History Tour
Purchase a paper map, audio CD, or download to phone then visit over 60 stops throughout Elmwood in the comfort of your car. $5-$10. Ongoing. ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW.ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.
Bite-Sized Tours
Order lunch from Park & Cherry, and then Dixon staff members and docents will lead a quick tour of their favorite
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Graceland Excursions Trips: Musical Landmarks of the Mississippi Delta Take a detour down the backroads and explore the deep roots of blues culture and history, while reliving a musical revolution powered by raw emotion. $119. Saturdays, 8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. GUEST HOUSE AT GRACELAND, 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322), WWW.GRACELAND.COM.
Graceland Excursions Trips: Tupelo, Mississippi – Birthplace of Elvis Presley
Experience the rural setting of Elvis’ upbringing and see where it all began in the two-room house where he was born, the church he attended in his youth and artifacts from his modest beginnings. $99. Fridays, 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. GUEST HOUSE AT GRACELAND, 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322), WWW.GRACELAND.COM.
Haunted Memphis Bus Tour
Guides will share the dark history of Memphis including murders, hauntings, and interesting history. Two stops along the way and multiple photo opportunities. $25. WednesdaysSaturdays, 7:30-9 p.m. Through Sept. 1. THE BROOM CLOSET, 546 S. MAIN (497-9486), WWW.HISTORICALHAUNTSMEMPHIS.COM.
True Story:
THE BROOM CLOSET, 546 S. MAIN (497-9486), WWW.HISTORICALHAUNTSMEMPHIS.COM.
Judge D’Army Bailey Courthouse Tours
Meet historian Jimmy Ogle on the Courthouse steps for a tour. Free. Thurs., July 26, noon. SHELBY COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ADAMS AND SECOND STREET, WWW.JIMMYOGLE.COM.
Old Forest Hike
Walking tour of the region’s only urban old-growth forest. Last Sunday of every month, 10 a.m. OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).
Old Forest Trail Hike
Assemble at the Lick Creek Bridge, just south of the Rainbow Lake parking lot or just east of the No. 2 tee of the historic Overton Park Golf Course, on Old Forest Lane for tour with Jimmy Ogle. Free. Last Sunday of every month, 10 a.m. Through July 29. OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR, WWW. JIMMYOGLE.COM.
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First Congregational Church
Church like it oughta be.
July 26-August 1, 2018
Informative and humorous walking tour of Downtown Memphis restaurants, bars, and taverns. 21+ Bring ID. Alcohol is not provided or required. $20. Fridays, 7:30-10 p.m. Through Nov. 30.
Love one another. It’s that simple.
They’d forgotten how much fun church could be. Good music. Great art. Fun people. Connection. Inspiration.
www.firstcongo.com Phone: 901.278.6786 1000 South Cooper Memphis, TN 38104 Sunday Worship 10:30 am
CALLING ALL ARTISTS! Live Creatively at South Main Artspace Lofts. Paddle through the exhibit June 2 - September 3, 2018 This exhibition was produced by the Florida Museum of Natural History with support from the AEC Trust, Lastinger Family Foundation, State of Florida and VisitGainesville.
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See what used to be, Memphis style, with Mike McCarthy. Call to schedule a personal tour. Ongoing. (486-6325), WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ YELLOWROCKGHOST/.
E X POS/SALES
Bluff City Brawl
Memphis Armored Fight Club is ready to roll out their first of many armored tournaments featuring all duel categories, pro fights with weight classes, and 3 vs. 3 melees. $5. Sat., July 28, 5:30-8 p.m. MEMPHIS ARMORED FIGHT CLUB, 3385 AUSTIN PEAY, WWW.MEMPHISARMOREDFIGHTCLUB.COM.
Body & Soul Yoga
Remington College Memphis Campus Career Fair
Senior yoga with membership, $15 per year. Fridays, 10-11 a.m.
Bringing local businesses together with potential employees. Open to the public. Tues., July 31, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. REMINGTON COLLEGE, 2710 NONCONNAH (389-5302), WWW. REMINGTONCOLLEGE.EDU.
Soul Market
Enjoy vendors with unique products, great food, music, and more. Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. THE DEN, 656 MARSHALL (773738-9019), WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ EVENTS/315928685480546/.
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Beginner Yoga Series with Libby
Four-week beginner yoga series designed to introduce yoga in a comfortable environment and take away any worries. Discuss yoga philosophies, break down postures, and explore meditation. $25. Sun., July 29, 2-4 p.m. YOUR INNER YOGI, 10 N. SECOND (5124534), WWW.YOURINNERYOGI.COM.
HOUSTON LEVEE COMMUNITY CENTER, 1801 HOUSTON LEVEE (3843885), WWW.HLCCMEMPHIS.ORG.
Circle of Love
Focus on African-derived moves that physically strengthen and tone and engage music, movement, and words to share messages in motion about love and compassion. $40. Mon., July 30, 6:15 p.m. HOUSTON LEVEE COMMUNITY CENTER, 1801 HOUSTON LEVEE (384-3885), WWW.DANCEDIMENSIONINSTITUTE.ORG.
Get Right 4 the Night
Get fit and have fun with Kellye Crawford. $10. Tuesdays, 6:45 p.m. FIREHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER, 985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522), WWW. MEMPHISBLACKARTSALLIANCE.ORG.
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Pilates in the Park
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MEMPHIS PARK (FOURTH BLUFF), FRONT AND MADISON, WWW.DOWNTOWNMEMPHIS.COM.
HI-TONE, 412-414 N. CLEVELAND (3057070), WWW.NORMLMEMPHIS.ORG.
Wednesdays, 6 p.m.
Sunrise Yoga
Start your morning in Hughes Pavilion with fitness instructor Peggy Reisser. Free for members, $5 nonmembers. Wednesdays, 6:15 a.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.
Tai Chi in Health Sciences Park Mondays, 11:45 a.m.
HEALTH SCIENCES PARK, CORNER OF MADISON AND DUNLAP, WWW. DOWNTOWNMEMPHIS.COM.
M E ETI NGS
GFWC Metro Memphis Woman’s Club
Volunteer community service organization for Memphis women. Monthly guest speaker, service project, and other activities. Projects include domestic violence, advocates for children, arts, and more. Free. Fourth Thursday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m. COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER, 3475 CENTRAL, WWW.GFWC.ORG.
NORML Memphis: Know Your Rights Cannabis is still illegal in Tennessee, and many people’s lives are ruined and families are broken up, even though over half the country calls it
The Republican Women of Purpose
Featuring guest speaker, Tennessee State Treasurer David H. Lillard Jr. Includes lunch. Reservations required by phone or email, rwoplunch@gmail. com. $25. Wed., Aug. 1. TPC AT SOUTHWIND, 3325 CLUB AT SOUTHWIND (833-1898).
free, interactive, and fun for all ages. Free. Fri., July 27, 10 a.m.-noon. STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC, 926 E. MCLEMORE (261-6338).
MCA’s 2018 Summer Art Camp
Choose a camp for children ages 3-17. New camps include The Art of Branding, Comics and Characters, Mobile App Design, Mural Collaborative, and more. Visit website for more information. Through July 31. MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.MCA.EDU.
KIDS
2018 Kids Summer Film Fest
Participating Malco Theatre locations will offer G- and PG-rated movies at a specially discounted price benefiting children’s hospitals across the Mid-South. Visit website for lineup schedule. $2. Tues., Wed., 10 a.m. Through Aug. 1.
Mini Masters
Parent-child (2-4 years) workshop designed for toddlers to explore shape, texture, color, and other sensory possibilities through art making. Free for members, $8 nonmembers. Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m.
WWW.MALCO.COM.
THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.
Fun Fridays
Ms. Annie’s ART Camp
In the Tracks & Trails and Campfire Tales Idea Garden investigate the travel trail in July, and campfire tales in August. Fridays, 10 a.m.-noon Through Aug. 31. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.
Funky Friday at Stax: Ballet Memphis
Dancing and story circles with Ballet Memphis. Activities are
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Ages 9-12 make a Mock StainGlass Project & Upcycled Material Bracelets or Shrinky Dink Jewelry & Keychains. Ages 13-18 make a Mock Stain-Glass Project & a Canvas piece titled “The Amazing Me!” For more information and registration, visit website. $140-$150. Mon., July 30, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. NESHOBA UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, 7350 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE (266-2626).
Mudpie Mondays
Use our dishes, spoons, and nature’s decorations to make your own pie creations. Leave them to bake in the sun and overnight they magically disappear. Mondays, 10 a.m.-noon Through Aug. 31. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.
One World, One Sky: Big Bird’s Adventure Join Big Bird and Elmo as they explore the night sky with Hu Hu Zhu. Together they take an imaginary trip from Sesame Street to the moon. Visit website for more information and show schedule. $8. Ongoing. SHARPE PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
paint-ology
Young-ologists trace the processes, stories, and inspirations of painters throughout the ages. Must be able to attend all three sessions. Supplies and snack included. Reservations required. $30 members, $45 nonmembers. Sat., 1:30-4 p.m. Through July 28. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.
Small but Mighty Storytime
Recommended for ages 2-5 years. Free. Wednesdays, 11 a.m. Through Aug. 31.
7505 HIGHWAY 64, STE 102
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Sprouts
For ages ages 12 – 24 months. Interactive program for toddlers and caregivers to explore the Dixon with all of their senses building social and motor skills while encouraging creative play and having fun. Reservations required. Free for members, $8 nonmembers. Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.
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2018 American Humane Hero Dog Awards®
Hudson, an 11-year-old Great Pyrenees from Memphis, will be competing against 265 other courageous canines for the nation’s highest honor recognizing mankind’s best friend. Vote online. Through Sept. 5.
Early Voting for County General, State Primary, and Special Municipal Visit website for more information including early voting locations and sample ballots. Through July 28. WWW.SHELBYVOTE.COM.
Explore Memphis
Kids from birth-18 can register for summer fun featuring art-making, book talks, sharing perspectives, and building character. Kick off on Saturday, June 2. Through July 31. BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700), WWW.MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.
Friday Night Dance Party
Themed outdoor dance parties featuring illuminated dance floor, food vendors on site, and beer and wine available with a valid ID. Free. Fridays, 6-9 p.m.
Guided Meditations
MEMPHIS PARK (FOURTH BLUFF), FRONT AND MADISON, WWW.THEFOURTHBLUFF.COM.
From Earth to the Universe
Learn about a journey of celestial discovery, from the theories of the ancient Greek astronomers to today’s grandest telescopes. For more information and schedule, visit website. Ongoing. SHARPE PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
Grant for Student Pet Owners
Maddie’s Fund has given a substantial grant to help offset surgery costs for student pet owners. For more information or to make a surgery appointment, call or visit website. #ThankstoMaddie $20. Ongoing. SPAY MEMPHIS, 854 GOODMAN (324-3202), WWW.SPAYMEMPHIS.ORG.
Includes a sitting meditation and a walking meditation designed to increase balance and stability. Visit link to download guided meditations to your mobile device. Ongoing. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG/TOUR-THE-GARDENS.
“LeMoyne-Owen College: A Beacon of Hope” Exhibition of a central institution in Memphis since its founding in 1871 as the LeMoyne Normal and Commercial School. Ongoing. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
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30 Thursdays at the Garden
On Thursday nights throughout Daylight Saving Time extended hours until sunset open to members at no cost. Thursdays. Through Oct. 31. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.
A HUGE Cash, Prizes & Promo Cash Giveaway featuring 35 winners!
Applications for 2018 Empowerment Fund Grants
Designed to provide financial assistance to grassroots leaders and organizations for community work that improves the quality of life in Memphis’ under-resourced neighborhoods. Through July 27.
Prizes continually get bigger throughout the day.
WWW.COMMUNITYLIFT.ORG.
Earn entries July 1 - July 28 Earn 1 entry for every 10 points earned.
Cerrito Trivia
Different themes each week. Free. Thursdays,
SUNDAYS MONDAYS TUESDAYS
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Cheryl Mattox Berry signs Memphis Blues at South Main Book Juggler, Friday, July 27th, at 6 p.m. 8-9 p.m.
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
MEMPHIS MADE BREWING COMPANY, 768 S. COOPER (207-5343), WWW.CERRITOTRIVIA.COM.
Dinner on Stage
Featuring a cocktail reception, tour theatre and backstage, presentation about The Orpheum’s history, a three-course meal with wine, Broadway trivia, and Q&A session with Brett Batterson. $50 members, $75 nonmembers. Thurs., July 26, 6 p.m. THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUMMEMPHIS.COM.
“Dugout Canoes: Paddling Through the Americas”
Object-rich and interactive exhibition featuring American dugouts from ancient times to present. $12.75. Through Sept. 14. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
FitzgeraldsTunica.com • 1-662-363-LUCK (5825) • Must be 21 and a Key Rewards member. See Cashier•Players Club for rules. While supplies last. Tax and resort fee not included in listed price. Advance hotel reservations required and subject to availability. $50 credit or debit card is required upon hotel check-in. Arrivals after 6pm must be guaranteed with a credit card. Management reserves the right to cancel, change and modify the event or promotion. Gaming restricted patrons prohibited. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700.
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Be part of the bicentennial exhibit scheduled for March 2019. Show up on community engagement days to be included. For more opportunities and more information, visit website. Fourth Saturday of every month, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Through Aug. 25. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW. MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
Memphis Hunger Project US Hunger is partnering with the AARP Foundation to package 500,000 meals for local seniors and veterans of the Memphis area. Looking for day-of volunteers to help execute this event. Free. Sat., July 28, 7 a.m.-12:30 p.m. & 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE STREET (407-605-2327), WWW.FEEDINGCHILDRENEVERYWHERE.COM.
Memphis Music Trivia
Hosted by Memphis Rock N’ Soul Museum featuring $50 for first place, $20 for second, $10 for third, and a secret surprise for the team with the best name. First Wednesday of every month, 7-9 p.m. Through Dec. 26. CROSSTOWN BREWING CO., 1264 CONCOURSE (364-5000), WWW. MEMPHISROCKNSOUL.ORG.
“Screen Door” by Ann Craven, Dana Frankfort, EJ Hauser, and Margaux Ogden at TOPS Gallery, through September 8th
Memphis Trivia
Come test your Memphis knowhow. Food and drink provided. Thurs., July 26, 5:30-7:30 p.m. LOFLIN YARD, 7 W. CAROLINA (5274625), WWW.NEWMEMPHIS.ORG.
Nature at Night
for show schedule. $8. Ongoing.
Each Thursday night throughout Daylight Saving Time, all 96 acres will be open to members at no cost and to guests with daily fee. Thursdays, 6 p.m. Through Oct. 18.
SHARPE PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
Senior Karaoke and Dance
MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.
Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.
Soul Retrieval Shamanic Journey with Lori Banks
To promote and foster unity, love, acceptance, and understanding with the goal of creating a city in harmony. Sun., July 29, 4-6 p.m. W.C. HANDY PARK, BEALE AT THIRD, WWW.BEALESTREET.COM/ONEMEMPHIS.
Peabody Rooftop Parties
Live music and beautiful views of the sun setting over the Mississippi River. Ladies get in free before 7 p.m. Visit website for scheduled entertainment. 21+ $10-$15. Thursdays, 6-10 p.m. Through Aug. 16. THE PEABODY HOTEL, 149 UNION (5294000), WWW.PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.
Perfect Little Planet
Discover our solar system through a new set of eyes — a family from another star system
seeking the perfect vacation spot. Visit website for show schedule. Ongoing. SHARPE PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
Phantom of the Universe
Exploration of dark matter, from the Big Bang to its anticipated discovery at the Large Hadron Collider. For more information and schedule, visit website. Ongoing. SHARPE PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
“Remembering the Dream”
Exhibit of a chronological story of the civil rights movement covered by the Ernest Withers “I Am A Man” portfolio, including MLK’s involvement in the sanitation workers’ strike. $12.75. Through Jan. 31, 2019. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
Seasonal Stargazing
Hop through constellations, learn cool star names, and groove to planetarium space music in this full-dome audiovisual experience. Visit website
Banks will lead a meditative, guided journey designed to help facilitate soul retrieval in her traditional singing journey style. Bring a pillow or blanket if you’d like, chairs provided. $10. Sun., July 29, 4-6 p.m. THE BROOM CLOSET, 546 S. MAIN (497-9486), WWW.THEBROOMCLOSETMEMPHIS.COM.
VR Gaming Date Night
$20. Fridays, 6-10 p.m.
BLUFF CITY VIRTUAL REALITY, 1026 N GERMANTOWN PKWY (585-5964).
Wonder Funder: Sneak Peek
Catch a sneak peek at new space as build-out is in progress. Play fun games, listen to live music, drink brews, grill doggies, and raise money to help open doors by September
Multiple Myeloma Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia Researchers are developing therapies that could program a person’s own white blood cells to target and destroy these types of cancer. If you have been diagnosed with one of these types of cancer, your blood cells may be useful to help with development of new ways of treating the disease in the future. The researchers would use your blood cells only for research and they would not be used to create a therapy for you. Financial compensation is provided.
July 26-August 1, 2018
Email: info@keybiologics.com or call: 901-252-3434
Yellow Dot Program for Diabetes
Get a Yellow Dot to be placed on the rear windshield for first responders if a diabetic has a medical emergency or a car accident. Free. Sat., July 28, 3:30-5 p.m. A M DIABETES CENTER, 3025 KATE BOND (691-4115).
30 Thursdays: Taste of the Garden
Blair Combest prepares a tasting of special treats using ingredients found in our (and your) gardens. Bring your favorite beverage to enjoy while you observe and taste Blair’s special demonstration. Thurs., July 26, 6 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.
The 5X5
Five drinks at $5 each. Bartender’s choice: a red wine, a white wine, a martini, a spirit, and a draft beer for $5 each. Thursdays-Saturdays, 4-7 p.m. CORNER BAR AT THE PEABODY, 149 UNION (901 529-9000), WWW. PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.
Bartlett Station Farmers’ Market Saturdays, 8 a.m.-noon
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One Memphis: A Monthly Interfaith Musical Celebration
1. $10. Sat., July 28, 6-9 p.m.
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Beer & Brats Night
Enjoy The Curb’s house-made bratwurst paired with CBC beers at Crosstown Brewing Co. Thursdays, 6-8 p.m. CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE (FORMERLY SEARS CROSSTOWN), N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.
Bike Night
$1 off whisky and wine. $3 beers, 3-7 p.m. Wed.. T.J. MULLIGAN’S 64, 2821 N. HOUSTON LEVEE (377-9997).
Bike to Dinner: Carolina Watershed
Ride to Carolina Watershed at a slow pace. Thurs., July 26, 6:30-9:30 p.m. REVOLUTIONS COMMUNITY BICYCLE SHOP, 1000 S. COOPER (INSIDE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH) (726-6409), WWW.REVOLUTIONSMEMPHIS.COM.
Burg Thursday
Enjoy $7 Baba Burgers all day with a purchase of a beverage or entrée only. Thursdays. Through Jan. 1. BABALU TAPAS & TACOS EAST MEMPHIS, 6450 POPLAR (410-8909).
Burger Monday
$5.95 Burgers with fries. Two for one till 7 p.m. Mondays. T.J. MULLIGAN’S 64, 2821 N. HOUSTON LEVEE (377-9997).
Canoes + Cocktails
Experience a sunset with guided evening paddle on Hyde Lake followed by cocktails and farm-to-table treats on the AutoZone Front Porch. Benefits Shelby Farms Park + Shelby Farms Greenline. $40 members, $45 nonmembers. Thurs., July 26. SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.
Cocktail Times
Loosen your tie and let your hair down in the lounge and enjoy cocktail time by the bottle, by the glass, and by the board. Through July 31, 4-7 p.m. CAPITAL GRILLE, THE, 6065 POPLAR (683-9291), WWW.THECAPITALGRILLE.COM.
Corner Bar Saturday Brunch
Brunch menu includes a brunch pizza and cinnamon s’mores French toast along with brunch cocktails for $5 each. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. CORNER BAR AT THE PEABODY, 149 UNION (901 529-9000), WWW. PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.
Flight Tour: A Taste of Memphis
Up to 16 people per bike enjoy a flight of local spirits and brew during this 2-hour pubcrawl with Sprock n’ Roll’s bike bar to Old Dominick Distillery and Ghost River Brewing Tap Room. BYOB, but no glass.tour. $315 - $400. Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 12-8 p.m., and Sundays, 12-5 p.m. Through Dec. 31. DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS, VARIOUS LOCATIONS (500-7101), WWW. SPROCKNROLLMEMPHIS.COM.
Food Truck Fridays
and dinner hours, $2 per taco for dine-in guests. Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.
THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.
BABALU TACO & TAPAS, 2115 MADISON (274-0100), EATBABALU.COM.
Fridays, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Through Sept. 30.
Food Truck Thursday Thursdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
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Dream Big 3D
Makeda’s Dine, Sip, Paint
Featuring dinner by Kisha’s Kitchen, dessert by Makeda’s Cookies and Meekies Munchies, and complimentary wine with dinner. Only 20 tickets will be sold for each event. $40. Last Sunday of every month, 5-8 p.m. MAKEDA’S COOKIES DOWNTOWN, 488 S. SECOND (745-2667).
Margarita Monday at Babalu Tapas & Tacos East Memphis
Beat your Monday blues. $5 Luna Ritas all day. Mondays, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. BABALU TAPAS & TACOS EAST MEMPHIS, 6450 POPLAR (4108909), EATBABALU.COM.
Margarita Monday: Babalu Tapas & Tacos Overton Square
Beat your Monday blues. $5 Luna Ritas all day. Mondays, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. BABALU TACO & TAPAS, 2115 MADISON (274-0100), EATBABALU.COM.
Memphis Brew Bus Tour
Afternoon trip into the amazing Memphis Craft Brewing Scene. Tour three local craft breweries, talk with the brewers, and drink a beer at each stop. IDs required at all stops. $49. Saturdays, 2-5:30 p.m. Through Dec. 8. THE BROOM CLOSET, 546 S. MAIN (497-9486), WWW.MEMPHISBREWBUS.COM/.
Monday Happy Hour: Oysters & Guinness
$1 Oysters: raw or char grilled and $4 pints of Guinness while there are oysters to be shucked. Mondays, 3 p.m. BRASS DOOR IRISH PUB, 152 MADISON (572-1813).
Peabody Sunday Brunch
Variety of breakfast dishes, entrees and desserts, including salads, pastas, freshlybaked breads, croissants, pastries, eggs benedict, smoked salmon, Belgian waffles, applewood smoked bacon, prime rib, and champagne. $40, $14 kids. Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. CAPRICCIO GRILL ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE, 149 UNION, THE PEABODY (529-4199), WWW.PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.
Shaves & Spirits
Barbershop services while you sip and mingle benefiting Memphis Oral School for the Deaf. 21+ $30. Thurs., July 26, 7-9 p.m. BARON’S MAN CAVE, 9289 POPLAR (505-2242), WWW.MOSDKIDS.ORG.
Taco Twosday: Babalu Tapas & Tacos Overton Square Every Tuesday during lunch
From the Great Wall of China and the world’s tallest buildings to underwater robots, solar cars, and smart, sustainable cities, this film celebrates the human ingenuity behind engineering marvels. Through Nov. 16.
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Movie Mania
Movies start at dusk. Bring chairs or blankets. For more information including titles, and activities, visit website. Free. Fridays, 6 p.m. Through Aug. 31. CARRIAGE CROSSING, HOUSTON LEVEE & BILL MORRIS PKWY. (854-8240), WWW.SHOPCARRIAGECROSSING.COM/EVENTS/.
Pink Palace CTI Theater Summer Special
Daycare
Adults admitted at the children’s price. Members and free-trial members get an additional $1. Does not include exhibit/movie combo tickets. Visit website for movies and schedule. $8. Through July 31. CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
Summer 1993
In the summer 1993, following the death of her parents, six-year-old Frida moves from Barcelona to the Catalan province to live with her aunt and uncle. She has to cope with her emotions. $10. Tues., July 31, 7 p.m.
Boarding
MALCO STUDIO ON THE SQUARE, 2105 COURT (725-7151), WWW.INDIEMEMPHIS.COM.
Summer Movie Series: Top Gun
Bring blankets to the Great Lawn for the hit movies. Food trucks will be on-site or bring your own picnic. Sat., July 28. SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.
Superman/Batman Double Feature
An alien orphan grows up to become his adoptive home’s first and greatest superhero, and the Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy, the Joker. $8. Sat., July 28, 5 p.m. THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (5253000), ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.
The Wizard of Oz
Swept away from a farm in Kansas to the magical land of Oz in a tornado, Dorothy embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home. $8. Fri., July 27, 7 p.m. THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (5253000), ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.
Come and try a variety of selections from some of Memphis Best Food Trucks.
Mutt Island Dog Daycare, Grooming & Boarding
Find out more.
(901) 275-8311 MuttIsland.com
OPEN 11AM - 3PM monday - friday
320 Monroe Avenue Memphis, TN 38103
Hours: Monday - Friday
3803 Winchester Rd. Memphis, TN 38118
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t’s no surprise cucumbers are considered a physiologically “cooling” food in the Aryurvedic medical philosophy of India, where the plant is thought to have first been cultivated. One sure-fire way to be cooled by a cucumber is to cool your cucumbers first. With all due respect to the quenching you can get from a warm cucumber in the middle of a hot, dry field, there isn’t a finer thing to do than stand in the sun and eat a crispy, juicy cucumber straight out of the fridge. Pharmacological researchers have zeroed in on several chemical compounds found in cucumbers for their potential medical benefits. Many of these are found in cucumber seed extract, but interesting compounds have been isolated from the peels as well. And from the blossom end of the cucumber, also known as the bitter end, Cucurbitacin C has emerged as a molecule of interest. It’s the very bitter flavor you sometimes taste at one end of the cucumber. The blossom end is a toxin created by the plant to ward off predators like spider mites. Chemically, Cucurbitacin C is a steroid molecule (though it isn’t currently banned by any sports leagues, so it must not be much good in that department). Nobody has gotten sick from too many cucumbers, but there have been cases of toxicity resulting from bitter melon, a relative of cucumber, and from eating unintended hybrid cucumbers, zucchini, squash, melon, or other members of the same family. Meanwhile, Cucurbitacin C is under investigation for potential pharmacological benefits and is showing promise in many arenas, including anti-tumor, anti-diabetic, anti-atherosclerotic, and anti-inflammatory activity. The cosmetics industry has latched onto several molecules in cucumber seeds, promoting their ability to hydrate, elasticize, and, you guessed it, cool and calm the skin. Now is peak cucumber appreciation season at the farmers market. Last week I brought home five different varieties from three different vendors and let the comparisons begin. The highlight was the Chinese Cucumbers, sold to me by the Russian babushkas in an uncharacteristic show of diversity; usually they sell the same gherkin pickling cukes that all the other Russians sell. The Chinese Cucumbers have thin, spikey skins like pickling cukes, a sharp crisp, and explosive water content. And don’t let the title “pickling” fool you when you want to eat a fresh cucumber. My wife (the vegetable whisperer)
prefers pickling cucumbers to slicing cucumbers, at least for raw use. For what it’s worth, I agree. If pickles are on your agenda, however, you should stick to actual pickling cucumbers. I’ve never seen anybody pull off a decent pickle with slicers. Another great cucumber is the Armenian, which is as delicious as it is enormous. And some of the plain-Janelooking normal slicing cucumbers these days can surprise you. As for preparation, there are all kinds of lovely recipes for fresh cucumbers, but if your goal is to compare and contrast, munching them straight out of the fridge is the way to go. It’s also a very enjoyable and refreshing thing to do. But if that’s too much chewing, I suggest putting your cukes in a high-speed blender with some ice cubes and whipping up some cucumber ambrosia. Cucumber Ambrosia 2 medium cukes 4-8 cubes 1/4 lime 4 mint leaves Slice the blossom ends of both cucumbers. If you can’t tell which end is which, slice them both off and nibble each end. Then you will know. If you want to remove any bitterness from the rest of the cucumber, then rub the cut face of the bitter end against the cut face of the cucumber. Rub in a circular pattern, which will extract a bitter, milky substance that you can wipe off. Cut the remaining cucumber sections into three or four pieces each and put them in the blender with the ice cubes and lime juice. Blend, starting low until it’s a chunky slurry, then turn the blender up to high. If it’s too slushy for your taste, add water. If it’s too bitter, add sweetener, or fruit, and blend again. Sipping on this milky, foamy treat is refreshing and satisfying on so many levels and is a delightful way to pass the afternoon, while loading up on vitamins and fiber. And, depending on the hour, these flavors go very well with gin. I can slip about half a shot into a glass of cucumber smoothie and barely taste a thing. And if I turn it up from there, the gin flavor creates a lovely cocktail. Intoxication and toxicity are complex phenomena that are often dependent on the dosage. One can do worse than explore these realms with cucumber in hand, and mouth.
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Reboot Shaking things up at Grove Grill and Bounty on Broad.
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hip Dunham’s given name is Jeffrey, just like his dad, Jeffrey Dunham, the chef/owner of Grove Grill. In fact, “Chip,” is short for, as it often is in these cases, “chip off the old block.” One could make a pretty good argument that this is certainly the case for Chip, who was lured back to Memphis from Charleston about a year ago to take over the kitchen at Grove Grill. Chip, who worked at such Charleston mainstays as Edmund’s Oast and the Glass Onion, recalls how he first got into the biz. Of course, it was through his dad. When he was a teenager, he needed a job. The obvious plan would be that he would work at the restaurant. Maybe as a busboy. But his dad told him that “cool people cook.” Chip was smitten with the idea, mainly because SpongeBob SquarePants was a cook. Chip went away to culinary school and then off to Charleston. As he explains it, he and his dad talk every day. The senior Dunham was telling the junior Dunham about the restaurant’s new decor and how the place needed a new vibe, something to shake things up at the restaurant, which had recently marked its 20th year. “I wasn’t sold on it,” admits Chip. But the idea of a new challenge made sense to him. It took him about six months to feel at home. He calls his dad’s style traditional, while he would describe his cooking as encompassing refined techniques in a sort of country brasseries style. He’s started to make his mark on the menu, with dishes such as the Grilled Peaches and Heirloom Tomatoes. As Chip notes, the menu already had a grilled peach salad, but the new one is a more imaginative take with whipped feta spread on the plate and locally grown micro-arugula.
Another Chiptastic dish is the House Made Charcuterie Board, where everything is made in-house — salami, duck liver mousse, country ham, etc. One thing Chip would like to do in his new role is TNT the old concept of Grove Grill, maybe draw some younger folks. “I think people forget about us,” he says. “We’ve been around so long.” He feels that folks view it as stuffy and expensive, which is not the case, he says. To combat that idea, Grove Grill recently started hosting an open house series called Third Thursdays. It features craft cocktails, local beers, and fine wines as well as a selection of seasonal small plates. The next Third Thursday is August 16th. Chip is particularly proud of the bar, which is his wife Amanda’s domain. For now, Chip says he’s “pretty content.” He says, “I’m excited to see how it goes.” Grove Grill, 4550 Poplar, 818-9951, thegrovegrill.com About eight months ago, Michael Tauer, a principal of Bounty on Broad, reached out to Mason Jambon. It seems that the ardor for the once white-hot restaurant, located in the Binghampton district, had cooled. The first thing that Jambon suggested was that they ditch the gluten-free menu. He laughs at the memory. He was told that was off the table. So, he had dinner. “It was the best meal I’ve had here in Memphis,” he recalls. Jambon’s approach was to double-down on the restaurant. Where others may have cut staff and expenses to make up for lost profits, Jambon insisted that they invest in them. They rehabbed the bar and stocked up on expensive wines. They redid the craft cocktail menu and started holding special dinners like After the Hunt,
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12 of those. This is where you scoff and say “I won’t drink 12 of those things!” Well, you say that, but try sitting through a Live at the Garden show while Boy George sweats his glitter off. If I’d had known these things existed then, I’d have put away half a case without turning around. I’m about to pack a daughter off to college, and I just gave her the “If it’s got booze in it and doesn’t taste like booze, don’t drink it” lecture. With a spirit such as bourbon or gin, you know what you are getting into, because they have a kick. With hard seltzer you’re likely to forget that crucial fact — until you stand up and your equilibrium feels like it’s been synced to a Doors song. My dad lecture aside, the hard seltzers really are great, light, and refreshing. At $1.69 a can, they won’t break the bank. We poured them over ice, and I picked some mint out of the yard and put it in the lime flavor, which worked beautifully. Of course, the question remains: What, exactly, is it? Go to the Truly website and you get a picture of two pretty ladies and the feeling that one of them just worked out. But no answers. The White Claw website has a product video that shows three outdoorsy sorts diving beneath a big wave. Then, I guess, they go back to the beach to get gassed. Which is neat, but equally useless. The website did say that White Claw employs a proprietary technique using yeast to turn sugars into alcohol. Being formally trained as an historian, I don’t know how proprietary that is as that is literally the way all booze has been made since the dawn of drunken history. How to drink it is an easier question. I did a quick poll of friends who’d tried it: Some mixed it with water, others drank it straight from the can. I even heard one person say they used it as cocktail mixer, which seems like a great way to make a weaponsgrade gin and soda.
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only here because I couldn’t stomach The Equalizer 2. Sophie is sending out invites to a grand reopening of Hotel Bella Donna, and also her mom Donna is dead. Apparently we couldn’t afford Meryl for the 10-years-after sequel. But what’s this? A flashback to 1979! Donna’s a Dancing Disco queen and also valedictorian. It takes me a minute to figure out the connection, because young Donna’s played by Lily James, who doesn’t in any way resemble Meryl. In lieu of a valedictorian speech, Donna sings “When I Kissed the Teacher,” which I have to admit is thematically appropriate. Just so happens that I stumbled across a marathon of Leonard Bernstein’s Omnibus on Turner Classic Movies last night, and watched an episode where the great composer takes a deep dive into the history of American musical comedy. The form originated in the late 1860s when a theater troupe and a minstrel group were both stranded in a town with one theater, so they took turns performing scenes and songs. People ate it up. The guy who wrote West Side Story would have despised this movie. Bernstein said the key to a good musical is that the songs must advance the
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THE LAST WORD by Randy Haspel
Pelosi Has to Go
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Dear Congressman Cohen, The Democrats are practically salivating over their chances to retake the House and possibly the Senate in November, especially since the treasonous antics of this aberration of a president in Finland with his handler, Vlad the Impaler. However, there are still some major obstacles. I believe that among the reasons that so many people sat out the last election rather than vote for Hillary was their reluctance to return Bill Clinton to the White House. Similarly, I sense that the same voters who mistrusted the Clintons, do not want to see the speaker’s gavel returned to Nancy Pelosi. You know me, Congressman. I have no special insights or inside sources to assist me in formulating an opinion. I’m like a Will Rogers for the electronic age. All I know is what I see, hear, and read from multi-platforms and trusted sources, so when I say the Democrats have problems, that’s just my perception of things, backed up with a generous knowledge of history and politics. I believe that this will be a generational election, much like 1960, when the torch was passed to JFK. Former DNC Chairman Howard Dean said, “Nancy [Pelosi] is probably the greatest speaker since Tip O’Neill,” but, in the next breath, he said it was, “time for [his] generation to get the hell out of the way.” Pelosi has been in the party’s top spot for 15 years. That’s five years longer than Tip O’Neill. She has been a familiar face since she was elected to Congress in 1987, representing most of San Francisco. That was the same year Michael Jackson released “Bad” and the No. 1 movie was Dirty Dancing. As effective a leader as I believe Pelosi has been, I fear she has stayed too long at the ball. We both know that a great deal of politics is perception. For instance, the Republicans are perceived as the Neo-Know Nothing Party, thoroughly corrupted and devoid of any social conscience, while the Democrats are perceived as either whimpering simps or simpering wimps who have allowed the word “liberal” to become a filthy epithet and have no true compass for the future of the nation. We also know that the Democrats could fuck up a mayonnaise sandwich and are entirely capable of doing it again. People are clamoring for fresh voices and new leadership, but I only hear crickets from the Dems. The ages of the House Democratic leadership are respectively: Pelosi,78; Party Whip Steny Hoyer, 79; and Assistant Minority Leader Jim Clyburn, 78. I’m not sure if these are politicians or the cast of Cocoon. During a brief discussion, you told me that Nancy Pelosi accomplished more in a day than others did in a month and that she had the energy of others “half her age.” Therein lies the problem. Representatives half her age should already be rising into positions of influence in the party. At least 20 current Democratic candidates have said they will not vote for Pelosi as speaker, causing the party leadership elections to be postponed until Thanksgiving. Matt Fuller of the Huffington Post wrote, “Pelosi was able to save face, delaying the elections herself instead of actually letting the group force her into moving the date.” It’s not all about age. We know Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker in history, a champion of women’s rights, and perhaps the greatest fund-raiser in party history. She also blocked George Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security and helped shepherd Obamacare through Congress when others had given up. Conversely, after the Bush regime misled the American people about “weapons of mass destruction” and took the country into an unnecessary war, Pelosi said impeachment was “off the table.” Concerning Trump, Pelosi said that impeachment would be “a gift to the Republicans.” She concluded, “this is not the path [the Party] should go on.” Don’t talk about impeachment? I want that lying, ill-tempered, conniving, money-laundering, puffed-up Putin punk not just impeached but arrested and jailed. Our democracy is burning. If there were ever a time to discuss impeachment, it’s now. I don’t care if it motivates the Trump cultists, the Democrats’ job is to turn out more voters than they do. The Republicans are actively involved in their favorite activity; suppressing the vote. Nancy Pelosi The right-wing perception of Nancy Pelosi is a blood-sucking San Fransisco liberal who wants to raise your taxes and give it all to MS-13 gang members and abortion clinics. The GOP spent $65 million on anti-Pelosi ads in 2010 and are gearing up to spend even more this time around. The Trumpsters need an enemy, and now that Hillary’s gone, Nancy Pelosi is the best they have. Republican ad men believe “her face on the screen stokes fear and anger.” Since Nancy Pelosi took the gavel in 2007, Democrats have lost 39 House seats, yet she still claims impeachment is a “distraction.” Former CIA Chief John Brennan tweeted, “Donald Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to and exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors.’ It was nothing short of treasonous.” The Need to Impeach campaign of billionaire Tom Steyer has accumulated over 5.4 million signatures, 60 percent of which are “registered voters who don’t vote.” Steyer said, “We believe fighting against a reckless and lawless president is not something that will turn off voters. I have immense respect for Nancy Pelosi. … I love her, but I disagree with her on this.” One representative has said, “The time has come to make clear to the American people and to this president that his train of injuries to our Constitution must be brought to an end through impeachment.” That was you, Congressman Cohen, and I respect and admire you for your courageous stance. It is imperative that the Democrats succeed in washing the poison from the body politic in November. There are excellent chances this may happen but not while Pelosi’s amped-up, hysterical backbiters blame her for everything from the wildfires in California to trapping a Thai soccer team in an underwater cave. We should honor Nancy Pelosi’s long and brilliant service as party leader, but as near-President Al Gore once famously said, “It’s time for them to go.” Respectfully, your loyal Tennessee District 9 constituent. Randy Haspel writes the “Recycled Hippies” blog.
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