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I’ve purposely avoided writing about Donald Trump in recent weeks, choosing instead to focus on local issues. But enough is enough. The president of the United States is melting down, becoming increasingly unhinged. None of us can afford to ignore this stuff.

In the past week, via tweet, Trump has declared war on the free press; compared his former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, to Al Capone; told his attorney general to stop the Mueller investigation; claimed the California wildfires are being caused by letting rivers run to the sea; launched a personal attack on LeBron James(!); and threw his own son under the bus by proclaiming that Junior — and other members of the president’s campaign team — knowingly met to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from Russian operatives but that it was “totally legal.”

This, even though Trump’s own lawyers have admitted the president dictated a cover letter claiming the meeting was to discuss Russian adoption issues. And the undeniable fact that the meeting was anything but “totally legal,” even though in the right-wing-o-sphere, “collusion is fine” is the new “no collusion!”

It’s hard to keep up, I know. It’s lie upon lie upon lie. It’s day after day. It’s mindnumbing. But the collusion — or conspiracy or treason or whatever name you give it — is right out in the open now, easy to see for anyone who’s paying attention.

And how do we pay attention? We watch the news. We read newspapers and magazines and news websites. And with the notable exception of America’s Pravda — Fox News — those media outlets are reporting things that make it clear the president’s campaign — and likely, the president himself — was thoroughly and completely entangled in the Russian meddling in our 2016 electoral process. And probably in money laundering before that.

This is why Trump’s last, best shot is to convince as many Americans as possible that they shouldn’t believe what they’re reading and seeing in the news and should instead just believe Fearless Leader. Trump knows the truth will not set him free.

The truth will destroy him.

The scariest part of all this is not the president’s behavior, though his mendacity, crassness, and xenophobia are certainly beyond the historical pale.

No, the scariest part is that so many Republicans who know the truth — who know this is wrong — are remaining silent. The best-case scenario you can make for them is that they fear alienating Trump’s base. The worst-case scenario is that they — like the NRA — have dirtied their hands with Russian money. The coming months will test the republic.

Meanwhile, Trump’s impulsive and reflexive tariffs are backfiring on manufacturers and farmers in the heartland (including Tennessee). Gas prices are rising. And Trump’s foreign policy skills make Sasha Baron Cohen look like Kissinger: Little Rocket Man got concessions then went back to building nuclear weapons; Iran’s leaders are basically calling him an empty suit; and Putin works him like a Dollar Store yo-yo.

All Trump has left is to hold increasingly smaller and more desperate rallies, where he can weave tales of his greatness and demonize the bearers of all this fake bad news. But the bad news isn’t fake, and he knows it. And the angry knownothings in his audience (and your clueless friends on Facebook) can’t save him from the long arm of the law. Or N E WS & O P I N I O N the upcoming mid-terms.

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BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN Editor SUSAN ELLIS Managing Editor JACKSON BAKER, MICHAEL FINGER Senior Editors TOBY SELLS Associate Editor CHRIS MCCOY Film and TV Editor ALEX GREENE Music Editor CHRIS DAVIS, MICHAEL DONAHUE MAYA SMITH, JOSHUA CANNON Staff Writers JESSE DAVIS Copy Editor JULIE RAY Calendar Editor

OUR 1537TH ISSUE 08.09.18 “The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it’s TRUE. I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People.

They purposely cause great division & distrust. They can also cause War! They are very dangerous & sick.” — President Donald J. Trump

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LI STE D! Cold comfort seems like the wrong way to describe this latest news.

But as we sink into August and the dog days of Summer, maybe we should all be thankful to live in Memphis, and not one of the nine American cities even beastlier, according to a new list of America’s sweatiest cities created by Honeywell Fans with Environmental Health & Engineering consultants.

The winners are: 1. Orlando, Florida — As hot and bug-infested as Walt Disney’s Orlando World may seem, it’s easy to maintain a smile and cheerful demeanor by reminding yourself that you’re not in Tampa. 2. New Orleans, Louisiana — Nothing produces more sweat for less effort, than standing roadside on Carrollton, waiting for a streetcar. But at least it’s not Orlando. 3. Phoenix, Arizona — Where dry heat meets dry heaves.

4. Dallas, Texas — Like a prison movie where the sadistic warden punishes inmates by locking them in a boiler room. 5. Las Vegas, Nevada — Like somebody covered Dallas in glitter and feathers and stuck it in a sauna. 6. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — Heat like a blazing fist that reaches down your throat and rips out your tongue. 7.

Kansas City, Missouri — Forget the heat, try the brisket. 8. Austin, Texas — Cooler than Dallas in most regards. 9. Atlanta, Georgia — Would be one of America’s most miserable rush hours if not for a proper bar at every exit. 10.

Memphis, Tennessee — Paradise (comparatively). And besides, who’s got time for weather talk when there are Bird Scooters to complain about?

By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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Licenses, Death Penalty, & Kayaks Memphis reinstates licenses, state sets first execution in years, kayak tours come Downtown.

R EVO K E D, R E I N STAT E D The Memphis City Council hosted an event last week to give about 600 randomly selected Memphians the chance to get back on the road legally with reinstated driver’s licenses.

As a part of the city council’s MLK50 initiative, the council allocated about $600,000 for the Driver’s License Reinstatement and Diversion Amnesty program.

Through the program, Memphis drivers in the Drive-while-you-pay program, as well as those with suspended and cancelled licenses, receive amnesty.

City council chairman Berlin Boyd said the goal was to reduce the number of people driving on Memphis streets with a suspended or revoked license who run the risk of getting pulled over, going to jail, or incurring more fines.

Meanwhile, state officials have stopped revoking driver’s licenses from those who can’t pay traffic-ticket fines and fees and have lifted revocations for most, but they want a halt on the process to get revoked licenses back to all such drivers.

Department of Safety and Homeland Security (DHS) Commissioner David Purkey filed an appeal last week on a legal decision made earlier this month that ruled unconstitutional the state’s process of revoking licenses because drivers could not pay fines and fees.

The order from United States District Judge Aleta Trauger mandated DHS officials to immediately stop all such revocations and reinstate any driver’s license that was revoked based solely on inability to pay.

But Purkey asked to pause a third mandate that directs his office to draft and submit a plan to identify and reinstate licenses of all of those whose licenses were taken because they couldn’t pay. Purkey argued that some “drivers may face other revocations or suspensions on other grounds.”

He’s seeking an opinion from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal on the constitutionality of parts of Trauger’s order.

E X EC UTI N G E X E C UTI O N S A panel of experts discussed the death penalty here last week as the state prepares to carry out its first execution since 2009.

Last week, a judge ruled the state’s new three-drug lethal injection protocol does not violate the Tennessee Constitution nor the United States Constitution. The drugs became hard to get as some drug makers refused sell it to anyone hoping to use it for executions.

Attorneys for 33 death-row inmates have said using it would leave inmates aware and sensate during the execution, and its effect is like “being burned alive from the inside.”

However, Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle of the Davidson County Chancery Court ruled last week that, while using the drugs may cause pain, it does not amount to torture.

The first execution could happen as early as August 9th.

K AYAK TO U R S D E WO LF Kayak tours of the Wolf River Harbor from the historic cobblestones in Downtown Memphis began last weekend.

Kayak Memphis Tours, the same company that runs Ghost River Outfitter, is now renting kayaks and stand-up paddle boards to the public for tours on Saturdays, Sundays, and weekday afternoons. Tickets for the tours are $20 (with an additional $1.83 fee).

For the new tours, the company partnered with Memphis River Parks Partnership (MRPP) “to give Memphians and visitors a new way to experience the Memphis riverfront.”

F LYE R WI N S The Memphis Flyer won three writing awards at the national Association of Alternative Newsmedia convention in San Diego last week. The Flyer competes in the “large paper” category (circulation 40,000 and over) against major city newsweeklies from around the country.

The Flyer’s winners were Bruce VanWyngarden, who won first place in the Column category for his weekly Letter From the Editor; Chris McCoy, who won second place in Arts Criticism for his movie reviews; and Chris Davis, who won third place in Beat Reporting for his story, “The Art of the Deal: What Happened at MCA?” Fuller versions of these stories can be found on The News Blog at memphisflyer.com

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Historic Status City set to vote on new guidelines for historic districts After months of delay, Cooper-Young and Speedway Terrace residents’ time in historic district limbo may be coming to an end.

The Memphis City Council voted to approve both neighborhoods’ historic overlay status earlier this year, but held the minutes pertaining to each until an ordinance with clearly defined guidelines could be drafted.

Now, the new ordinance making rules for historic districts more standardized is set for its third and final reading before the council on Tuesday.

The ordinance will make a few key changes in the process to become an historic district, as well as to the guidelines that govern established districts, Councilman Kemp Conrad, its sponsor, said.

The new law creates a threshold to apply for historic designation, something Conrad said was never in place before. It also defines what can be demolished within historic districts.

The ordinance might also shake up the structure of the Memphis Landmarks Commission, the nine-member body that currently reviews matters in historic districts.

Two home builders are to be appointed to the commission, as Conrad said “it makes sense the industry is represented.”

“Before Cooper-Young, it had been a long time since we’ve designated new historic districts,” Conrad said. “And the ones that recently came before us include thousands of acres and hundreds of properties. We needed to make

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sure some thought went into it because you are giving up property rights to another group of people.”

The new ordinance is “a document that everyone likes,” something Conrad said he didn’t think was possible. It’s important to preserve history, but the regulations to do that “can’t be too stringent.”

“We have to have infill development and growth,” Conrad said. “It’s about finding the balance.”

Justin Gillis, a member of the Speedway Terrace Neighborhood Association, somewhat agrees, calling the final draft of the ordinance a “reasonable, wellthought-out compromise.”

“It was frustrating, it was ugly, and it was sausage-

making politics at its best,” Gillis said. “But it turned out okay.”

Gillis along with leaders from other neighborhoods met with Conrad, representatives from the West TN Builders Association, and others to create the ordinance.

“Initially residents were at odds with the builders,” Gillis said. “But we were able to give and take to reach a consensus that is promising and works well for everyone.”

Robert Hatfield, with the Cooper-Young Community Association, said the ordinance may not be perfect, but he is ready for the “perpetual uncertainty” to end.

“At the end of the day, we are stuck between a rock and hard place,” Hatfield said. “In order to get permanent designation for the neighborhood, the ordinance has to pass. We just need to get it passed even though it may not be everything that we want it to be.”

Since state law says “sufficiently pending” legislation should be applied as law, Cooper-Young and Speedway Terrace have been operating as historic districts since approved. Hatfield said the Landmarks Commission has already made some good decisions: “We can already see the benefit.”

“I hope the efforts of the neighborhoods aren’t hurt or damaged, and I hope we don’t lose this tool to preserve our neighborhood,” Hatfield said.

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POLITICS By Jackson Baker

How It Went

Victorious Democrat Lee Harris on election night Rudolph and Jennifer S. Nichols — went down in defeat, despite having the advantage of being incumbents, albeit as recent interim appointees.

In a general way, the law of averages is what determined the outcomes. Yes, there are in theory more Democrats than Republicans in Shelby County; this year, unlike the case in 2010 and 2014, there was a general consensus in both parties that, quality-wise, Democratic candidates were as good as — if not better than — than their Republican counterparts, and, for a change, adequately funded. Crossover voting in the GOP’s direction, a factor in the previous two elections, was virtually non-existent this year.

Similarly, there is the related fact that there are more African Americans in Shelby County than whites, and, while post-racial results have been

known to occur in local elections (think Steve Cohen or, when he still had a bloom on, A C Wharton), it would seem to be human nature that, all else being equal, people will vote for their racial group-mates. Accordingly, in relatively close races between blacks and whites, the racial factor tilted toward African Americans.

Finally, in local politics as in state and national elections, women have steadily become a more active force, and people, including other women, who in the binary sense are yet another majority, have no compunction in voting for women.

Taking those three factors into account — party, race, and gender — a fairly reliable rule-of-thumb can be stated that, where any two are present, they can be decisive for the candidate on the majority side of the ledger.

Thus, Democrat John Boatner Jr., a white candidate in the primary for Congress in the 8th Congressional District, was at a disadvantage in his contest with Erika Stotts Pearson, an African American. And, while Boatner had more money and was clearly the more active of the two candidates (omnipresent at campaign events, and with several large yard signs bearing his name on upscale sections of Walnut Grove Road), he was a firsttime candidate, and, as a white male contending with an African American female, was on the wrong side of the arithmetic. (In his case, too, the power of the city vote, where Democrats are numerous, out-did the party’s rather scanty presence these days in the West Tennessee counties that comprise the rest of the district.)

A few other upsets reflect various versions of the Democratic/black/ female tilt.

Circuit court Judge Rudolph had, by general consent, performed well after his 2017 appointment by Governor Haslam to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Judge Robert L. “Butch” Childers, and his diligence as a candidate, often in the company of his personable wife, Elizabeth, an administrator at the University continued on page 8

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Republicans were not the only ones dismayed at the results of the August 2nd election. To be sure, the GOP took a licking in races for countywide positions, and they lost a swing district on the Shelby County Commission, giving Democrats a decisive 8-5 majority for the next four years.

But, with the exception of Democrat Michael Whaley’s win in District 5, a city swing district, Shelby County Republicans held their own in localized one-on-one competition. On a countywide scale, though, the GOP fared less well, even in nonpartisan races. Two judicial candidates bearing Republican endorsements — David

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But he was felled by Yolanda Kight, an equally impressive and diligent young black woman from a humble background in South Memphis, who had risen very much by her own efforts to attain the lesser judicial rank of magistrate. Aided also by the “upset” factor which can generate sympathy in an electorate, she ended with a narrow win over Rudolph.

Another such case was the victory in a Democratic state Senate primary race of Gabby Salinas, whose Colombian family had immigrated to Memphis so that young Gabby could be treated for childhood cancer at St. Jude. On the threshold of being a scientist in her own right, she survived three different bouts with the disease, and, though she was faced with a better-financed opponent, the able and equally appealing Le Bonheur chaplain David Weatherspoon, her backstory may have made the difference. Her next challenge will be, as an advocate of Medicaid expansion, against Republican state Senator Brian Kelsey.

There were other unexpected outcomes. The victories of Joyce Dorse-Coleman and Michelle McKissack over Shelby County Schools Board incumbents Mike Kernell and Chris Caldwell conformed to the above-mentioned formula, though McKissack’s in particular also owed much to her support from charter-school advocates. Though hardly a novice in politics, the oftcontroversial city Councilwoman Janis Fullilove, victorious as a Democrat over Republican Bobby Simmons for Juvenile Court Clerk, was expected to be shut out of the white vote entirely.

Further analysis will determine whether she wasn’t or whether she was but was able to prevail anyhow.

Most outcomes on August 2nd conformed to the form sheet. It was a Democratic year, not so much because of a better-than-usual turnout but because their candidates were measurably better than in previous years, staving off the customary flow of crossover Democratic voters to Republican candidates that had marked prior elections.

In the marquee local races, State Senator Lee Harris for county mayor was clearly an able political figure, as was Chief Deputy Floyd Bonner for sheriff, both of them sufficiently so to attract crossovers of their own to augment what was already their majority standing.

The Democratic blue wave was no surprise. In the vernacular, this was how it was ’sposed to be.

Ford Canale’s win for a a vacant city council position was due to his maintaining establishment support against a field of several candidates breaking up the dissident vote. In the statewide contests, Republican Bill Lee won his gubernatorial primary by being himself; Democrat Karl Dean won his through superior resources and fidelity to a centrist party message. The U.S. Senate primary wins of Democrat Phil Bredesen and Republican Marsha Blackburn were no-brainers.

The final win of the mid-summer election season occurred Monday night at Shelby County Republican headquarters, where a small caucus of steering committee members from the state House District 99 of late state Representative Ron Lollar elected onetime state Senator Tom Leatherwood, outgoing as register and a loser in his race for Circuit Court Clerk, as a compromise choice to run against Democratic nominee Dave Cambron in November.

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I came to work for Contemporary Media, the parent company of the Flyer, at the beginning of this year. I sensed in the team here a certain clarity of purpose that felt like cool water in an increasingly muddled and scorched climate. It’s not that the folks at the Flyer — and at Memphis magazine, our sister publication — always agree: Nope. It’s that we show up with an essential, guiding sense that local stories need telling, and need telling locally.

Globally, print advertising dropped 13.7 percent in 2009, and another 8.7 percent in 2016. In the years between and after, print advertising wasn’t soaring — just not falling quite so precipitously. Look, I’m an English major, and my graduate degree is in the super-marketable field of Renaissance poetry. But I can tell you this situation isn’t great for papers that rely on print advertising for sustenance. As this one does.

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bedroom eyes of a massively disruptive artist from the previous decade, and determine whether or not he was still the rebel rocker from Memphis, or if he’d become Hollywood’s toothless Teddy bear, cranking out another round of cheap, nonthreatening product.

You’d never know it to look at him, as the camera pulled back and the tune changed from Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller’s “Evil” to Jerry Reed’s “Guitar Man,” but nobody wanted to know the answer to this question more than Elvis.

Elvis debuted a new look and a stripped-down sound for the “’68 Special.”

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f you’re and berries. He looking for told me, ‘This is This is trouble, just look the show that NBC nobody’s right in my face,” and myself have Christmas show; Presley snarls in decided on.’” the tight opening Binder had it’s Elvis shot of Singer other ideas. daring fans and Presents … . And “In my head, it’s not like the instantly, I knew critics alike to audience watching this was a show judge him. at home ever had I’m not going to any real choice do,” he says. “So I wrote off the meeting. Drove back to my in the matter, since the singer’s famously sullen mug is framed in an extreme closeoffices on Sunset.” up, floating in pitch black background By the time Binder arrived back at an with just a splash of red at his throat. office he shared with his partner, music This is nobody’s Christmas show; producer Bones Howe, there was a surprise it’s Elvis daring fans and critics alike to message waiting for him: “Elvis is going to judge him — to gaze into the bright, blue, be in your office tomorrow at 4 p.m.”

hat if it fails?” Elvis asked Binder during the first closeddoor meeting with his new director.

Money for making Elvis movies was drying up, and the special had only come about in the first place as part of a deal the Colonel had struck with NBC while seeking backers to make more.

“If it fails, your career is over,” Binder answered, bluntly. “Nobody will forget the success you had in your early recording career and your movies, but TV is instant.

The minute you appear on TV, everybody has an opinion the next morning. If you’re successful, all the doors will open and you’ll have any choice you want. But it’s a gamble, and I can’t promise you it’s going to be successful.”

Presley distrusted TV. The medium had burned him in the past, abetting the moral panic that followed rock-androll’s big bang in the 1950s. But he was also frustrated in his role as King of B Musicals. He trusted Binder’s unvarnished answer and felt comfortable in the director’s office. Gold records on the wall, from Howe’s work with groups like The 5th Dimension and The Association, made Elvis feel comfortable enough to drop an unsurprising confession. “The recording studio’s my turf,” he told Binder, allowing that he’d always felt more at home behind a microphone than in front of a movie camera.

“You make a record,” Binder said. “I’ll put pictures to it.”

Elvis had one personal request. He wanted to put “These Boots Are Made for

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ere’s a thought exercise. As rockand-roll fans descend on Graceland for the double celebration of Elvis Week 2018 and the 50th Anniversary of Elvis’ “’68 Comeback” TV special, try to imagine what Memphis might be like today had Singer Presents … Elvis (as the career-defining NBC special was officially named) been a wholesome Christmas variety show instead of the juggernaut rock and gospel performance that it was.

Imagine if Presley’s manipulative manager, Colonel Tom Parker, had gotten his way: There would have been no iconic black leather suit. There would have been no gospel medley backed by Darlene Love and the Blossoms. And no reunion of Elvis and his original Sun Studio guitarist, Scotty Moore and drummer DJ Fontana.

If the Colonel had gotten the TV special of his dreams, the alleged King of Rock-and-Roll would have crooned his way through seasonal favorites like “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” and an old Frankie Laine song called “I Believe.”

“To this day, I don’t know why he thought ‘I Believe’ was a Christmas song because it’s not,” says the show’s producer/ director Steve Binder, in recounting his first awkward encounter with Parker.

Binder had been a logical pick to handle Elvis’ return to TV, having helmed the landmark The T.A.M.I. Show, a 1964 rock and soul concert film with a dozen emerging British and American acts, including The Rolling Stones, James Brown, The Supremes, The Beach Boys, and Marvin Gaye.

Still, credentials aside, the young director had to make a good impression on ths Colonel. Otherwise the manipulative Parker wouldn’t permit a private one-onone meeting with Elvis.

“I truck out to MGM Studios, where Elvis had just finished a movie, and where the Colonel’s offices were,” Binder told the Flyer in a recent telephone interview.

“And the Colonel hands me a quarter-inch audio tape of 20 Christmas songs that Elvis had recorded and sent out as a gift to disc 10 jockeys all over America as a present. It’s got a picture of Elvis surrounded by holly

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Steve Binder Walking” arranger and session guitarist Billy Strange in charge of the special’s music. Binder agreed instantly.

“This was really the first thing Elvis did outside the womb,” Binder says, explaining why he didn’t hesitate in regard to his star’s one major request. “[Elvis] joined our world instead of me joining his.”

There was one small problem with Elvis’ first choice though. Strange was working on an album with Nancy Sinatra, and the studio was pressuring him to complete it as fast as possible. When, after several prompts, the over-extended Strange still failed to deliver Elvis’ lead sheets in time to start rehearsals, Binder fired him.

“You can’t fire me,” Strange told Binder.

“I’ve known Elvis a lot better and for a lot longer than you.”

“Fine,” Binder answered. “Then I’ll be gone and you’ll be there. But one of us is not going to be there.”

Colonel Tom backed the original plan and said Elvis wouldn’t show up for rehearsal if Strange wasn’t there.

Nevertheless, Binder moved forward, convincing New York composer/ conductor Billy Goldenberg to take over.

“That changed Elvis’ musical life, period,” Binder says. Before that, Elvis had never sung live with an orchestra before.

He’d go into the studio to record movie soundtracks with his rhythm section only.

Then, additional musicians would be brought in to overdub all the parts.

“He loved every note he heard, and he bonded with all the musicians,” says Binder, who hired Phil Spector’s favorite studio musicians, the Wrecking Crew, and brought in The T.A.M.I. Show and Shindig alums the Blossoms to sing backup.

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lossoms singer and Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame inductee Darlene Love remembers meeting Elvis in the recording studio. “That’s where we met Elvis and became friends with him,” she told the Flyer. “Especially me because of my gospel background.”

During spare moments, Elvis, who’d already cut a pair of acclaimed gospel albums (How Great Thou Art and His Hand in Mine) grabbed his guitar and continued on page 12

Friday, August 10th Tupelo, Mississippi – Birthplace of Elvis Presley Graceland Excursion Departs The Guest House at Graceland at 8:30 a.m. and returns by 3:30 p.m. $99/adults; $79/children ages 5-12; children under 5 are not permitted.

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Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest Final Round 7 p.m. Graceland Soundstage, Elvis Presley’s Memphis. $219, $139, $59 Monday, August 13th Fan Reception 10 a.m. - noon. Elvis Presley Memorial Trauma Center at Regional One Health, 877 Jefferson Ave., Memphis. Free.

Elvis Fan Reunion 1 p.m. Grand Ballroom, The Guest House at Graceland. $10 Darlene Love in Concert 7 p.m. Graceland Soundstage, Elvis Presley’s Memphis. $55 Elvis Week Dance Party 9 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. Grand Ballroom, The Guest House at Graceland. $25 Tuesday, August 14th Conversations on Elvis: Co-stars 10 a.m. Graceland Soundstage, Elvis Presley’s Memphis.

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The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Celebration Concert 7 p.m. Graceland Soundstage, Elvis Presley’s Memphis. $55 Wednesday, August 15th Conversations on Elvis: Gospel 10 a.m. Graceland Soundstage, Elvis Presley’s Memphis. $30 A Musical Salute to Elvis 4:30 p.m. Graceland Soundstage, Elvis Presley’s Memphis. $25 Candlelight Vigil 8:30 p.m. Graceland Front Gate.

Thursday, August 16th Conversations on Elvis: ’68 Special 10 a.m. Graceland Soundstage, Elvis Presley’s Memphis. $25 Featuring “’68 Comeback” producer/director Steve Binder, music director Billy Goldenberg; writer Allan Blye; guitarist Mike Deasy; and Tanya Lemani George, the belly dancer who performed during “Little Egypt.”

Annual Elvis Memorial Service Noon. University of Memphis Main stage in the Theatre Building. Free.

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Reserved for ELITE package holders only. ’68 Special 50th Anniversary Celebration 7 p.m. Graceland Soundstage, Elvis Presley’s Memphis. $55 Friday, August 17th Conversations on Elvis: Elvis Connections 10 a.m. Graceland Soundstage, Elvis Presley’s Memphis. $25. Special guests include: Ann Moses, editor at Tiger Beat Magazine from 1965-1972; gospel singer Billy Blackwood, “In the Ghetto” harmony singer Donna Rhodes Morris; and country star TG Sheppard.

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asked the Blossoms what their favorite sacred songs were.

“We’d be over in the corner with Elvis just having a good time, and I think sometimes everybody got a little bit angry with us for taking all of his time,” Love says. “He loved what he called ‘the hymns of the church.’ Songs like ‘Precious Lord Take My Hand’ and ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘How Great Thou Art.’ He would sing the leads and we’d do the background. He would ask us, ‘Is this key all right?’ And you know, whatever key it was in was all right with us.”

Binder was fascinated with the Elvis he saw backstage, singing with the Blossoms or casually jamming in his dressing room with friends.

“I said to myself, instantly, this is better than all the big

Steve Binder (left) and Elvis Presley on the set of Singer Presents … production numbers we’re doing on stage,” Binder recalls. “We’ve got to get a camera in there.”

But the Colonel, still expecting “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” to show up in the set, inserted himself again. He wouldn’t allow cameras into the dressing room under any circumstances.

“It was insane,” Binder says. “This was the magic! I knew if we were putting out a disc, this is the one that would go platinum. So I just kept pounding the Colonel and hounding him every day.

And finally he broke down. I don’t think

he was happy that he did it. But he said, ‘Okay, Bindel [sic], if you want to recreate it on stage, you can try that. But I won’t guarantee it’ll get into the show.’”

“I don’t think they realized that part was going to be so big,” Love says of the musical improv reuniting Elvis with Moore and Fontana on numbers like “That’s All Right Mama.”

When Singer Presents … first aired in 1968, it was an hour special cut down to about 48 minutes for commercials.

Ratings were gigantic. “It was the first time, in primetime, that one guy did the whole show himself without guest stars,” Binder says.

Though he still had a few

feature films left in him, Singer Presents … marked Elvis’ transition away from Hollywood and a return to his roots, touring and recording. He’d take lessons learned from the TV special on the road with him, all the way to Vegas.

When Elvis died in Memphis in 1977, NBC decided to produce a tribute show with Viva Las Vegas co-star Ann-Margret hosting. “They sent a gopher down to the studio catacombs to track down the Elvis Presley special,” Binder says. In a twist of fate, the guy who went down to the basement pulled Binder’s 90-minute director’s cut version off-the-shelf. “That’s when they started airing the 90-minute version,” he says.

“A lot depended on luck and fate. I couldn’t be happier.”

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ecently, there was a loud buzz about the Elvis era finally drawing to a close. Las Vegas was losing interest. Firstgeneration fans were dying, changing the market, as rare collectables became less rare. The Sun Records television series failed to earn a second season. But 2018 brought a pair of critically acclaimed documentaries — HBO’s exhaustive two-part The Searcher, and Eugene Jarecki’s identity-obsessed The King. And between its fancy new facilities and the most ambitious Elvis Week schedule in the event’s history, Graceland also seems to be ready for another closeup, daring us all to look Presley in the eye one more time.

Binder, Billy Goldenstein, Darlene Love, and other artists connected to the “Comeback Special” are coming to Memphis to participate in Elvis week events at Graceland.

To read the full interviews with Steve Binder, Darlene Love, and Elvis friend and country hitmaker T.G. Sheppard, see Memphisflyer.com.

Flyer: I know the Blossoms wanted to be recording stars in their own right, but was there some sense of security in working sessions and singing backing vocals?

Darlene Love: That’s very accurate. Because there weren’t really any black groups at the time that were doing this. It was unheard of for them to be doing session work. Most of the sessions were contracted through our union, AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), and most of the people in AFTRA were white singers.

They’d call them and put together three or four girls. They didn’t have groups. But we already had a sound. So they could depend on us to have the sound they wanted.

Therefore, we became bigger than life

doing session work.

Phil Spector hires the Blossoms to sing “He’s a Rebel,” then releases it as a Crystals single.

We didn’t go in there to do it as a group.

We went in as a session. And I got paid extra for singing the lead on it. We knew it was going to be a Crystals record. It wasn’t a surprise. The surprise was when we signed with Phil, it was supposed to be my record. But he put that one out under the name of the Crystals too.

But it was a surprise to the Crystals, also, right?

A big surprise. They were out on the road

working, and the record was on the charts.

They didn’t even know the record was out.

Can you tell me about how Elvis would improvise with singers and musicians between takes or after rehearsals?

It was his down-time. Like going to your room and watching TV. It takes a while to come down after you’ve done a show like that. And [the musicians] would all just sit around and sing gospel songs. Not rhythm and blues or rock-and-roll, but gospel. I’ve been invited to come to the 50th anniversary with my group and my singers. We’re going down to Graceland to celebrate the “’68 Comeback Special.” And most of that show’s going to be gospel.

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By Susan Ellis

Scarecrows have been around about 3,000 years. The Egyptians used a version with a net that caught quail.

The ancient Greeks used to dress theirs up as a fertility god. (“That leads to a lot of questions,” says Andy Williams, manager of the Lichterman Nature Center.) Nowadays, sound and laser can help keep the birds away, but, says Williams, birds may not recognize our super-GMO’ed crops as something to eat.

The Lichterman Nature Center has been holding its scarecrow building seminars since 2008. It was suggested to Williams by a Master Gardener, and he turned to another nature center for a template.

Scarecrow builders get immersed in scarecrow lore while learning practical scarecrow building tips. They are given a six-foot-by-two-foot PVC frame and let loose to do what they will with clothes, dirt, garbage bags, or anything their imagination comes up with. They then put their creations up to compete in a contest with categories such as most creative, greenest, and most popular.

Williams says the center prefers participants steer clear of anything too gorey or too political. Celebrities are A-okay. He envisions a scarecrow with a mop wig and glasses to represent the Flyer’s own Michael Donahue.

Williams says he’s overwhelmingly impressed by what is built during these seminars, calling them astonishing. Some builders take the scarecrows home, some leave them for the garden. They will be on display through November 16th.

Williams says he’s keen on this time of year, when seminar time rolls around. It reminds him of the beginning of the school year. “It’s just fun,” he says. “It’s always been my favorite time of year.”

August 9-15, 2018

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Haunting the Green Beetle, South Main’s neighborhood bar Bar Report, p. 31

The magic of literature is that it isn’t diminished when shared.

The Last Word, p. 39

FRIDAY August 10

SATURDAY August 11

Firefly Glow Party Memphis Botanic Garden, 7 p.m., $15 Guests are encouraged to bring their light-up toys for this blacklight dance party.

Steel Magnolias The Orpheum, 7 p.m., $8 Classic Southern weeper about a tight-knit group of women, starring Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, and Sally Field.

Remembering the King Halloran Centre, noon, $45 Concert featuring Elvis tribute artists Bill Cherry and Jacob Roman.

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Playhouse on the Square, 8 p.m., $25 The Playhouse opens its 50th season with this musical about a man in line for an inheritance; all he has to do is get rid of the eight people ahead of him.

Lisa Marie Presley Graceland, 1 p.m.

An album launch of Elvis Presley’s Elvis — Where No One Stands Alone, a collection of gospel songs.

Lisa Marie will perform some of the songs with her dad’s backing vocals.

The Whispers Horseshoe Casino, 8 p.m., $118 R&B hits from the group known for “Rock Steady.”

Who Let the Dogs Out? Collierville Public Library, 2-4 p.m.

Leave the puppies at home for this talk from Bryan Bailey, of the website Taming the Wild. He will talk about training, animal aggression, and adopting a new dog.

Boyz II Men Gold Strike Casino, 8 p.m., $39 Bringing R&B with the Philly sound.

Memphis Chicken & Beer Festival Liberty Bowl, 4-8 p.m., $40 Chicken served up all kinds of ways, plus lots of beer. Benefiting the Dorothy Day house.

YouTube star and comedian Miranda (aka Colleen Ballinger)

Off-Key

By Susan Ellis

’Scuse me while I go fetch my cane to shoo the kids off my lawn. One thing I don’t get is the YouTube star — the obnoxious Pauls, the teen singers, that very depressed lady who hoards animals. (That they are pulling in six figures, while I’m, um, not is … another story.) That’s entertainment, I guess.

But, Miranda, I get you, girl.

Miranda of Miranda Sings is the brainchild of Colleen Ballinger. Her creation is rude, oblivious, and obnoxious. Ballinger based her on the talentless women from her college who put it all out there. Miranda does, indeed, sing — badly and off-key. You haven’t lived until you’ve checked out her rendition of Adele’s “Hello.” The break-out star in this video is the toilet.

Miranda also appeared in Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

Consider this a bottle episode from the usual go with the richer-than-god men puffing each other up. The younger comedian baffles her elder with her ignorant arrogance. She acts as if she’s never heard of him. Her YouTube version of the meeting is titled “How to be Famous.”

Two of Miranda’s chief traits are her overdone, outside-the-lines, brightred lipstick and her mispronounced words, like liptick instead of lipstick.

Ballinger has parlayed these tics into a book, a Netflix show, and a tour, which rolls into the Orpheum on Sunday, August 12th.

So, yes, Miranda, I get you, and as Miranda would say herself, “Haters, back off.”

“MIRANDA SINGS LIVE … NO OFFENSE” AT THE ORPHEUM, SUNDAY, AUGUST 12TH, 7:30 P.M., $39.50

MONDAY August 13

WEDNESDAY August 15

Elvis: Ultimate Gospel Halloran Centre, 10 a.m., $45 Highlighting Elvis’ love of gospel and featuring Elvis Tribute Artist grand champ David Lee.

Booksigning by Jocelyn Wurzburg Novel, 6 p.m.

Local activist Jocelyn Wurzburg signs Jocie: Southern Jewish American Princess, Civil Rights Activist.

Candlelight Vigil Graceland, 8:30 p.m.

Annual walk through the gates of Graceland and up the driveway to the Memorial Garden.

NEEDTOBREATHE Mud Island Amphitheatre, 7 p.m.

Christian alt-rock group performs on its Forever on Your Side tour, with JOHNNYSWIM and Billy Raffoul.

Auction at Graceland Graceland, 1:30 p.m.

Get you some Elvis stuff at this auction featuring a desk and chair, signed contracts, a concho belt, a gun, watch, jacket, and more.

Darlene Love Graceland, 7 p.m., $55 A concert by the lead singer of the Blossoms who sang with Elvis on the “Comeback Special.”

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MUSIC By Alex Greene

Payroll Music

Fresh off operatic success, Marco Pavé looks to get paid.

August 9-15, 2018

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arco Pavé raised the profile of political rap in Memphis considerably with last year’s Welcome to Grc Lnd album, in which he wove the narratives of Black Lives Matter activists into his lyrical flow. It proved powerful enough to spawn an opera based on the album, a segment of which was staged in April in partnership with Opera Memphis. That might seem like enough to keep an artist busy, but Pavé has already moved on. He’s now turning his voice to a more personal story, albeit with its political edge intact.

Appropriately enough, we met to speak about his latest work at his first place of employment: a McDonald’s on Union Avenue. “I got fired from here for eating food on the job,” he notes with a bemused air.

“You do that, you out. So, chicken nuggets!”

But such high school-era drama is ancient history.

“I haven’t worked a job since 2013.

And I don’t plan on going back to any job in that kinda way,” he says. “That’s really what this new music is about, being self motivated and pushing yourself to that next level.”

His new single and its accompanying video, “Sell,” can be seen as the ultimate retort to dead-end jobs, through the enterprising eyes of a dealer who’s avoided doing time. “Never seen a cell/ But I used to sell/Real n*gga DNA, all up in my cells,” he chants, celebrating the rewards of the entrepreneurial spirit. “‘Sell’ is one of my favorite records of late. It’s about the illegal or unfair drug policies that we have in places like the South, specifically Memphis. Last fall I went on a West Coast tour, all the way out to Seattle, to see what the differences are. St. Louis and Kansas City have both decriminalized, so you won’t go to jail for smoking weed. And in places like Denver or Seattle, you can get rich.”

Buying, selling, and surviving is the overarching theme to all of Pavé’s newest work, which he’s calling Payroll Music. Don’t call it an album; these tracks will be unveiled piecemeal twice

a month, for the foreseeable future.

“It’s a music series,” Pavé notes. “It’s me really just having fun and getting back to telling more of my stories. Wecome to Grc Lnd was something that needed to be responded to immediately. And that’s what we did. But other than ‘One Hunnid,’ I was not able to tell who I am as a person. So that’s what Payroll Music is really about. On the first and 15th of every month, we’re dropping a brandnew song and a brand-new video.”

This alternative approach to music marketing grew out of necessity, as Pavé, even after much critical and artistic success, had trouble drumming up local investment. As he sees it, the lack of support, even in a climate of local rappers regularly going platinum, is a Memphis thing. “In Memphis, there’s a total disconnect between what’s happening in the world and what people want to be happening in the world. Memphis made the deliberate choice in the 1970s to really not be about money over racism. Atlanta is in Georgia; it’s still a racist place, it still has a police state, it still has all these issues, but they choose money over racism. Memphis will cut its nose to spite its face, and lose all the money possible just to not support black people. You would think that hiphop would be elevated and supported, not only because they need the support but because hip-hop is a multi-million dollar industry.”

Look for the Payroll series’ next video, “Neva Lost,” next week, featuring Pavé riding herd on a couple of boxers. “The video is super fun,” he enthuses. “We shot it with real fighters. Brandon Gaitor is the main guy’s name. I think he’s undefeated in his career, so it’s really hilarious for me to be treating him like that.”

And what of the opera, which so recently generated buzz? “We had some interest from some investors. We’re still gonna try to have something on a larger scale by 2020.” In any case, the experience has left its mark on his craft. “Writing the opera put me in the mindset of character creation,” he muses. “So I think I’m gonna be there for a while, for a long while.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule August 9 - 15 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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.; The Rusty Pieces Thursday, Aug. 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, Aug. 11, 1-5 p.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.

B.B. King’s Blues Club 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

Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

Elvis Week Thursday, Aug. 9, 5-11 p.m., Friday, Aug. 10, 5-11 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 11, 5-11 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 12, 5-11 p.m., Monday, Aug. 13, 5-11 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 14, 5-11 p.m. and Wednesday, Aug. 15, 1-6 p.m.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

The Amazing Rhythmatics Tuesdays, Thursdays-Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

Itta Bena

162 BEALE 521-1851

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Thursdays, 7 p.m.-midnight, Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m. and Friday, Aug. 10, 7 p.m.-midnight; Chic Jones Saturday, Aug. 11, 7 p.m.-midnight; Baunie and Soul Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight; James Jones Tuesdays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Fuzzy Wednesdays, 7 p.m.midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’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.

Tin Roof

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

315 BEALE

Drew Erwin with Corey Smith Thursday, Aug. 9, 8 p.m.

168 BEALE 576-2220

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Friday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Saturday, Aug. 11, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Nat “King” Kerr Fridays, Saturdays, 9-10 p.m.

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

150 PEABODY PL SUITE 111 ENTRANCE ON, S. 2ND ST

Amber Rae Dunn Hosts: Earnestine & Hazel’s Open Mic Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

Songwriters with Roland and Friends Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299

Elvis: Remembering the King Friday, Aug. 10, noon.

Amy LaVere Band Sunday, Aug. 12, 8-11:30 p.m.

Belle Tavern 117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall Memphis Bluesmasters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Fridays-Sundays, 4-8 p.m.; Fuzzy Friday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Delta Project Saturday, Aug. 11, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Mud Island Amphitheatre

Kevin and Bethany Page Friday, Aug. 10, 7 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 11, 7 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.; The Po Boys Friday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m.; Katrina Burgoyne Saturday, Aug. 11, 8 p.m.

South Main Folk All Y’all Listening Room 11 W. HULING AVE

125 N. FRONT 576-7241

The Rusty Pieces Sunday, Aug. 12, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

NEEDTOBREATHE - Forever on Your Side Tour Sunday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m.

Folk All Y’all: An Evening with Travis Meadows Friday, Aug. 10, 7:30-10 p.m.

Blind Bear Speakeasy

Paulette’s

7 W. CAROLINA

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

182 BEALE 528-0150

David Bowen Thursdays, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Sleep Out Louie’s

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

Huey’s Downtown

Rum Boogie Cafe Vince Johnson and Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, Thursday, Aug. 9, 8 p.m.-midnight, Friday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 11, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Monday, Aug. 13, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sunday, Aug. 12, 7-11 p.m.; Fuzzy Tuesday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Earnestine & Hazel’s

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

182 BEALE 528-0150

145 BEALE 578-3031

162 BEALE 521-1851

and Tuesday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.midnight; Cowboy Neil Sunday, Aug. 12, 8 p.m.-midnight; James Jones Wednesday, Aug. 15, 8 p.m.-midnight.

King’s Palace Cafe Patio

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays; Carma Karaoke with Carla Worth Saturdays, 9-11 p.m.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Karaoke Night Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Bluff City Backliders Friday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.; Jack Rowell and Triplethret Saturday, Aug. 11, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

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.

Regina’s 60 N. MAIN

Open Mic Night Saturdays, 4-7 p.m.; Richard Wilson original blues, gospel, and jazz Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.

Loflin Yard Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Bill Stanek, Merit Koch, Sarah Williams, and more Friday, Aug. 10, 7 p.m.; Memphis Songwriters Association Monthly Meeting Second Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Crystal “The Sax Lady” Brown Jazz Trio Friday, Aug. 10, 7 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 11, 7 p.m.

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Nathan Belt and the Buckles Thursday, Aug. 9, 8 p.m., Friday, Aug. 10, 9:30 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 11, 9:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m. and Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Robert Washington Friday, Aug. 10,

5 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 11, 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, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule August 9 - 15 Quartet Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.; Lucky 7 Friday, Aug. 10, 7:30-10 p.m.; One Breath Saturday, Aug. 11, 7:30-10 p.m.; Ellis and Friends Sunday, Aug. 12, 12-3 p.m.

Coopertheband, The Wilderness, John Keegan Friday, Aug. 10, 6-10 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

Sunday Brunch with Joyce Cobb Sundays, 11:30 a.m.2:30 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Carson and Brewer Thursday, Aug. 9, 6 p.m.; Funk You Thursday, Aug. 9, 9 p.m.; The Cold Stares Friday, Aug. 10, 6:30 p.m.; Sushi Roll Friday, Aug. 10, 10 p.m.; Devil Train Saturday, Aug. 11, 2 p.m.; Avon Dale Saturday, Aug. 11, 6:30 p.m.; WALRUS

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe

Railgarten

Live Music with DJ ALXANDR Fridays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Live Music with Coldway Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.

2160 CENTRAL

663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

Live Up Fest Friday, Aug. 10, 6 p.m.; Ross Rice Saturday, Aug. 11, 8 p.m.

East Memphis

Wild Bill’s

Lee Gardner Fridays, 6:30-9 p.m.; Randal Toma, Solo Guitar Tuesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

Juke Joint All Stars Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; The Wild Bill’s

East of Wangs 6069 PARK 763-0676

Aug. 12, 5 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Summer/Berclair Cheffie’s Cafe 483 HIGH POINT TERRACE 202-4157

Songwriter Night hosted by Leigh Ann Wilmot and Dave “The Rave” Saturdays, 5-8 p.m.

Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Twin Soul Friday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m. and Saturday, Aug. 11, 9 p.m.; Full Circle Sunday, Aug. 12, 5:30 p.m.; Red Letter Day Wednesday, Aug. 15, 8 p.m.

Side Car Cafe 2194 WHITTEN 388-0285

Dantones Sunday, Aug. 12, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Cafe Ole 959 S. COOPER 343-0103

The Rusty Pieces Friday, Aug. 10, 7-11 p.m.

Collierville

Canvas

Huey’s Collierville

1737 MADISON 443-5232

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Charvey Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, Aug. 12, 8-11:30 p.m.

Karaoke Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.; Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.

Cordova

Celtic Crossing

Huey’s Cordova

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

Jeremy Stanfill and Josh Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 318-3030

The Chaulkies Sunday, Aug. 12, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

The Cove

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, Aug. 9, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck Friday, Aug. 10, 6 p.m.; Paul Anthony Friday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.; Petty Gene Saturday, Aug. 11, 9 p.m.; David Collins Frog Squad Sunday, Aug. 12, 6 p.m.; Timmy & the Jazz Monday, Aug. 13, 6 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesday, Aug. 14, 6 p.m.; Ben MindenBirkenmaier Wednesday, Aug. 15, 5:30 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.; Karaoke with DJ Eggroll Wednesday, Aug. 15, 9 p.m.

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Frayser/Millington Huey’s Millington 8570 US 51 NORTH,

Fingertrick Sunday, Aug. 12, 6-9 p.m.

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Soul Shockers Sunday, Aug. 12, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Huey’s Germantown

Invasion of the Candy Cane Children Friday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

The Dantones Sunday, Aug. 12, 8-11:30 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica

Hi-Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Sherman Ewing, Kevin Daniel, Logan Magness Thursday, Aug. 9, 7 p.m.; Deceased, Savage Master, Death of Kings, Shards of Humanity Thursday, Aug. 9, 8 p.m.; H.A.R.D, China Gate Friday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.; Bones Owens, Junior Year Friday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.; Healy Saturday, Aug. 11, 9 p.m.; HIGHDIVE, The Gloryholes, Indigo Child, The Everdeens Sunday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m.; SheFolks, Magnolia Wind Tuesday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Iron Mike Norton Sunday, Aug. 12, 4-7 p.m.; Chris Duarte Sunday, Aug. 12, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Indian Pass Raw Bar Memphis 2059 MADISON 207-7397

Brandon Taylor Thursday, Aug. 9, 7-10 p.m.; Paul Taylor Jazz

Gold Strike Casino Saturday, Aug. 11, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Memphis Ukulele Band Sunday, Aug. 12, 4 p.m.; Deltaphonic Sunday, Aug. 12, 8 p.m.; Memphis Knights Big Band Monday, Aug. 13, 6 p.m.; Ben Danaher Tuesday, Aug. 14, 5:30 p.m.; Royal Blues Band Memphis Music Jam Tuesday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.; 3RD Man Wednesday, Aug. 15, 5:30 p.m.; Frankie Hollie & the Noise Wednesday, Aug. 15, 8 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Riley Green Saturday, Aug. 11, 7 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Driftwood Ramblers and Oliviera Friday, Aug. 10.

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.

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Dantones Friday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; The Dantones Saturday, Aug. 11; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House 551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt MondaysThursdays, 5-9:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Marcella & Her Lovers Sunday, Aug. 12, 8-11:30 p.m.

Poplar/I-240 Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINC 682-2300

Risky Whiskey Boys Thursday, Aug. 9, 7-11 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Mojo Medicine Machine, Thornshed, The Random Band Saturday, Aug. 11, 8 p.m.; Jimmy Davis Sunday,

High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Pubapalooza with Stereo Joe Every other Wednesday, 8-11 p.m.

1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-245-7829

Boyz II Men Saturday, Aug. 11, 8-9:30 p.m.

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS 1-800-303-SHOE

The Whispers Saturday, Aug. 11.

Whitehaven/ Airport Rock-n-Roll Cafe 3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 3986528

Elvis Tribute featuring Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Live Entertainment Mondays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Karaoke hosted by DJ Maddy Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Huey’s Southaven 7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Five O’Clock Shadow Sunday, Aug. 12, 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.

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Germantown Community Theatre

Singing in the Rain Jr., www. gctcomeplay.org. $15-$20.

Sun., 2:30 p.m., and Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m. Through Aug. 12.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).

Hattiloo Theatre

Mahalia, featuring spirituals made famous by Mahalia Jackson. A joyous celebration of the life and music of the world’s greatest gospel singer: www. hattiloo.org. $22-$35. Sundays, 3 p.m., Saturdays, 2 & 7:30 p.m., and Thursdays, Fridays, 7:30 p.m. Through Aug. 26.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Mainstage Theatre (University of Memphis)

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Memphis Silhouettes, exploration consisting of choreographed dance pieces, spoken works, and a hybrid devised theater piece. (210-392-0463), www.memphis.edu. Free.

Thur.-Sat., Aug. 9-11, 7-9 p.m.

U OF M CAMPUS (678-2576).

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A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, tells the story of Monty Navarro, the black sheep of the D’Ysquith family. When he finds out he is ninth in line to inherit a dukedom, he decides to eliminate the other eight heirs

standing in his way. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $25-$40. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Through Sept. 2.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

TheatreWorks

Dependently Yours, the third and final of the trilogy of plays about the family holiday gatherings of the Stevensons, where secrets are always revealed. www.theatreworksmemphis. org. $22-$35. Sun., 3 p.m., and Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m. Through Aug. 12.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

A R T I ST R EC E PT I O N S

ANF Architects

Opening reception for “Art Conversations,” exhibition of paintings by Catherine Vaughn. www.anfa.com. Fri., Aug. 10, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

1500 UNION (278-6868).

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Art Dash 2018

Enjoy food, limited bar, and silent auction. Or ready, set, Gogh for art dash with pre-

Firefly Glow Party at Memphis Botanic Garden, Friday, August 10th at 7 p.m.

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.

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Thurs., Aug. 9, 7-10 p.m.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.FFLMEMPHIS.ORG.

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.

Friday Nights at the Gallery: Second Friday’s AB Soul Community Gathering

Featuring a short meditation to begin the evening, group painting, music, dance, and conversation with new and old friends. Light snacks and beverages provided. Free. Fri., Aug. 10, 7-10 p.m.

ART BODY SOUL STUDIO, 1024 YATES ( 901-336-7573), WWW.ARTBODYSOULSTUDIO.COM.

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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.

Open Crit

Visual artists are invited to bring new and/or inprogress studio work for critical feedback and group discussion particular to each artist’s practice. Tues., Aug. 14, 6-8 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW. CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Open Late

Galleries and gardens will be open late.

Free with admission. Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m.

from daily featured artist. www.davidluskgallery. com. Through Aug. 31.

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).

Eclectic Eye

“Through My Lens,” exhibition of high-resolution digital images that capture the beauty of nature in urban culture by Sabrina Turner www.eclectic-eye. com. Through Sept. 19.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

“In Living Color: The Butterfly Effect,” exhibition of work by Yin and Young Soul Artistry. www.mbaafirehouse.org. Through Oct. 20.

Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org.

Ongoing.

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Fratelli’s

“French County/Farmhouse,” exhibition of paintings by Rose Sitton. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Through Aug. 31.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

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,” prints on paper. Framed prints are $150, unframed $60. www.robinsoneditions.com.

Through Aug. 31.

44 HULING (576-0708).

Java Cabana

“New Beginning,” paintings by Tonya Pearce Through Aug. 31.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Female Form,” work exploring the way the female body is glorified, fractured, obfuscated, multiplied, and rebuilt through the artist’s gaze. www.jayetkingallery.com. Through Aug. 31.

David Hall, exhibition of watercolor works on paper.

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THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Oxford Writes’ “Word Perfect Selfie”

Following a panel discussion, mix, mingle, and sign books with book enthusiasts and authors. Fri., Aug. 10, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

POWERHOUSE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER, 413 S. 14TH ST., OXFORD, MS (662-236-6429).

Saturday Sketch

For ages 15+. Sketch in the gardens or galleries with a special guest instructor each month. Bring a pad of paper or a sketchbook. Pencils and colored pencils only. Free with admission. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Saturday Snap

Bring camera and a photographer will be on hand to assist you and offer tips on improving your photography skills. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m. Through Sept. 20.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

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Submissions Open for MCA 68th Annual Holiday Bazaar & Fund-raiser.

Visit website for more information. Through Oct. 1.

WWW.MCA.EDU.

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Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection. Ongoing.

142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).

Art Village Gallery

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“Somnium (Daydreams),” exhibition of 10 mediumto large-scale figurative paintings on reverse canvas by Mario Henrique. www.artvillagegallery.com. Through Aug. 31.

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

ANF Architects

“Art Conversations,” exhibition of paintings by Catherine Vaughn. www.anfa.com. Aug. 10-Sept. 6.

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“Varied Lands: New Works by Martha Kelly,” www. buckmanartscenter.com. Through Sept. 10.

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60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).

Crosstown Concourse

“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. Through Sept. 2.

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.

“Tunnel Vision,” exhibition of collaborative installation by Frances Berry and Jenny Fine. www. crosstownarts.org. Through Sept. 2.

N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

“Daily Art,” e-exhibition featuring 31 artists for 31 days. Visit website to see, discuss, and purchase art

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942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

“Shake, Rattle, and Roll,” exhibition of all things Elvis by contemporary Southern artists celebrating Elvis Week. www. lrossgallery.com. Through Aug. 31.

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 Botanic Garden

“The Hidden: Looking Isn’t Always Seeing,” exhibition of works by Leslie Ponder. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through Aug. 29.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

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.

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. 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. Through June 21, 2021.

“About Face,” exhibition located in the Education Gallery highlighting the different ways artists interpret the connection between emotion and expression. 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).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

“Awakened by the Storm,” exhibition of paintings by Sarah Megan Jenkins. www.jccmemphis.org. Through Aug. 30.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

“Forge,” exhibition of work by 15 international metal artists

Maggie Russell, and Melanie Anderson. (754-7282), www. stgchurch.org. Through Aug. 26.

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

Talbot Heirs

Debra Edge Art. Ongoing.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

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.

Trezevant Manor

Anne Hughes Sayle, oil on canvas realistic landscapes and figures work and fabric art pieces. www.trezevantmanor. org. Through Aug. 10.

177 N. HIGHLAND (325-4000).

whose practice has been identified as having a significant impact in the field of blacksmithing. Through Sept. 16.

“Tributaries: Venetia Dale-Next After the First In Order, Place and Time,” 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).

“I AM A CHILD” at the National Civil Rights Museum, through December 31st National Civil Rights Museum

“I AM A CHILD,” exhibition of photographs to shed light on the immigrant family separation at the U.S.-Mexican border.

More than 30 black-and-white images of protesting children. www.civilrightsmuseum.org.

Through Dec. 31.

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

Playhouse on the Square “Larger Than Life,” exhibition of

larger than life charcoal drawings of larger than life celebrities

by Lucien Scott Croy. Through Sept. 9.

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

“Local Color,” exhibition of colorful portraits of people and animals by Meredith Wilson,

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540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

WKNO Studio

2018 MGAL Member Showcase and Sale, www.wkno.org.

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7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Woman’s Exchange Art Gallery

Eighth Annual Woman’s Exchange Art Gallery Open House, exhibition of approxi-

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88 RACINE (327-5681).

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Miranda Sings Live … No Offense. www.orpheum-memphis. com. $39-$80. Sun., Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Cindy McMillion

Author discusses and signs One of Us. Thurs., Aug. 9, 7 p.m.

CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION, 4645 WALNUT GROVE (767-6987).

Booksigning by Geoffrey and Elaine Meece Authors discuss and sign In the Shadow of the Sun. Sun., Aug. 12, 2 p.m.

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (9225526), WWW.NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.

Booksigning by Jocelyn Wurzburg Author discusses and signs Jocie. Mon., Aug. 13, 6 p.m.

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (9225526), WWW.NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.

Eric Barnes (Executive Editor and President), Geoff Calkins, Jennifer Biggs, Otis Sanford, and Andy Cates (Chairman of the Board) will share information and answer questions.

Tues., Aug. 14, 6-8 p.m.

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (9225526).

Authors Jack Montgomery and Tony Kail look at the role that the company played in providing materials that kept the culture of African-American folk healing flourishing in Memphis and the Mid-South. Free. Sat., Aug. 11, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

LUCKY HEART COSMETICS, 939 DR. M.L.K JR. (526-7658).

Who Let the Dogs Out?

Join Bryan Bailey from Taming the Wild to answer your questions about dog aggression, training techniques, adopting a new dog, and more. Owners only. No pets. Register online. free. Sat., Aug. 11, 2-4 p.m.

COLLIERVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, 501 POPLAR VIEW PARKWAY (457-2600), WWW.COLLIERVILLELIBRARY.ORG.

TO U R S Savor tastings at five eateries, interact with chefs and

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AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (757-7777).

“Lucky Heart Cosmetics and Memphis Hoodoo History”

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Demonstrations of cutting edge early stage AgTech startups will be featured. Specialty crops and the organic resource center at Agricenter will be discussed as well as AgSTEM education discussion. RSVP required. Thurs., Aug. 9, 8 a.m.-noon.

Mid-South Hunting & Fishing Extravaganza

$10. Fri., Aug. 10, 2-9 p.m., Sat., Aug. 11, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sun., Aug. 12, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (757-7777), WWW.MEMPHISHUNTSHOW.COM.

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.

Old Forest Hike

Walking tour of the region’s only urban old-growth forest. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

Orpheum Theatre Group Tours

Tour the historic Orpheum Theatre and its sister venue, the modern Halloran Centre for Per-

Celebrating Elvis Week — events at Graceland, August 11th-18th forming Arts & Education. $10.

Mon., Aug. 13, 10 a.m. & noon.

THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour

See what used to be, Memphis style, with Mike McCarthy. Call to schedule a tour. Ongoing.

(486-6325), WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ YELLOWROCKGHOST/.

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5th Annual Art-er Limits Fringe Festival Get excited for your favorites, including the Iron Bartender Cocktail Competition and more fun, quirky events. Free-$40.

Thur.-Sat., Aug. 9-11.

DOWNTOWN OXFORD, TOWN SQUARE, WWW.OXFORDARTS.COM.

Memphis Chicken & Beer Festival

All attendees will receive a souvenir glass and beverage samples. Live music. Benefitting the Dorothy Day House. 21+ $40. Sat., Aug. 11, 4-8 p.m.

LIBERTY BOWL MEMORIAL STADIUM, 335 S. HOLLYWOOD (727-4344),

Firefly Glow Party

Featuring Illumination Station to discover nature under blacklight. Bring your light-up toys to our dance party featuring LED hoop performance. Food trucks and concessions available. $12 members, $15 nonmembers.

Fri., Aug. 10, 7-9:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

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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.

WWW.HERODOGAWARDS.ORG.

30 Thursdays at the Garden

On Thursday nights throughout Daylight Savings Time extended hours until sunset open to members at no cost and to guests paying daily fee for free and sometimes with an added cost. Thursdays. Through Oct. 31.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

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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/.

Invisible: Imprints of Racism

Poetry reading, rally for equality, youth marching band, and walk to Clayborn Temple where troupe of nine modern and hip hop dancers, three poets, and three filmmakers will perform. Thurs., Aug. 9, 6:30 p.m.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), WWW.NAFI.COM.

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.

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’68 Miles to Vegas

Ted Torres Martin performs his tribute to Elvis Presley with identical moves and astounding vocals. $45. Tues., Aug. 14, 3 p.m.

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Cody Ray Slaughter: Live in Memphis

Cody Ray Slaughter, star of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet, will perform Elvis Presley’s different career hits in this stage show that pays tribute to the greatest entertainer of all time. $45. Mon., Aug. 13, 7 p.m.

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Elvis Presley Album Release Celebration

Fans can celebrate with Lisa Marie Presley and join with her at Graceland to listen for the first time to her powerful and emotional duet with her father on the title track. $30. Sat., Aug. 11, 1 p.m.

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Elvis Tribute Artist Jacob Roman and 2009 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest winner Bill Cherry will kick off KWICK Production’s 2018 Memphis EWeek Concert Series. $45-$55.

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2015 Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest Grand Champion David Lee will bring you the best of Elvis Gospel. Elvis often said that he loved singing Gospel the most. $45. Sun., Aug. 12, 10 a.m.

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Join Ultimate Contest host Joey Sulipeck for a performance featuring some semifinalists as they show off why they will be competing for the title of Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist of 2018. $20. Thurs., Aug. 9, 1 p.m.

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y esteemed colleague and friend, the late Leonard Gill, in these pages, said this about an earlier novel by Inman Majors: “Until Wonderdog’s climactic scene, expect the unexpected: unstoppered sarcasm laced with real feeling from the mind and mouth of Devaney Degraw, a wise guy whose catalog of complaints runs just this side of stream-of-consciousness (punctuation optional) in a funny, fulltilt second novel from the author of the underrecognized Swimming in Sky.” It’s not a bad introduction to Penelope Lemon: Game On! (a clunky title), Majors’ newest. The sarcasm is still ripe and the surprises still fresh. In this, his fifth novel, the author attempts something mildly audacious: He sees through his protagonist’s feminine eyes. It’s as if Majors is channeling his inner Jodi Picoult. It works because he keeps it blithesome and because he convincingly gets inside the sensibility of a middle-aged woman. It’s a noteworthy job of literary ventriloquism.

Penelope Lemon is a recently divorced 40-yearold woman who lives with her parents and works at a faux-western restaurant called Coonskins. She has a young son, who is the worst player on his little league baseball team, and who is bullied.

He craves attention at school and seeks it in any way possible, including sequential farting. Penelope’s friends are married and have little sympathy for her. Enter Missy, the mother of another little leaguer.

She is brassy and blunt and, basically, a lot of fun. She’s a breath of fresh air for Penelope. This friendship, written with a surprisingly empathetic comprehension of how women interact, forms the turning point in the book, the fulcrum between rising action and falling action. And stodgy Penelope, when teamed with reckless Missy, begins her quest, the one given all heroes and heroines, to find her true self.

Penelope Lemon: Game On! is a sort of redneck Anne Tyler story. Many of the denizens of Lemon’s North Carolina town of Hillsboro are blue collar workers, good time Charlies, chipper housewives, trailer park dwellers, men and women who

watch Matlock and have never suffered an existential crisis. Literature is never mentioned. Walmart is. Video games are. Applebee’s and Outback are and are characterized here as good grazing spots for newly single middle-age women.

Majors writes: “On the way to Coonskins, Penelope took in the ambience of her hometown, the Walmart and Applebee’s and Target that had replaced the local employers of her youth.”

He knows this milieu like he knows his audience. The book often seems to be winking at the reader, nudging him or her with a grin and the promise of a good joke. And Majors also knows the parameters of a good yarn. His broad sense of humor, some observational and some jokey, and willingness to put his characters through rough patches, that are both absurd and hilarious, makes the book a diverting page-turner. A chapter set in Coonskins, on a night when everything goes pear-shaped, is a comical set-piece that could have come from a superior episode of Designing Women.

Missy is a catalyst for the change in Penelope as well as a way of supercharging the narrative. She puts the novel’s foot on the gas. One can sense that Majors is relishing his character’s wit, outlandishness, and lack of fear. It’s the kind of character authors live for, part scoundrel, part savior. Most of Missy’s ideas are bad ones, but they keep on coming. She’s like an NC-17 Peppermint Patty.

Inman Majors is an entertainer.

Penelope Lemon: Game On! is mostly jokey and light-hearted, but Majors is also capable of some tender writing, especially having to do with the bond between Penelope and her nine-year-old son, Theo.

And the relationships with both her exes, including Theo’s father, are engagingly and authentically rendered. Penelope is a well-drawn character, an interesting protagonist, who carries the story with her charm and aplomb. Her counsel to her son about baseball is at the book’s heart, and advice she is, simultaneously, giving herself: “Swing every time. Baseball is more fun if you’re just letting it rip.

Everything’s more fun if you let it rip.”

Inman Majors signs Penelope Lemon: Game On! at Novel Thursday, August 16th.

BAR REPORT By Meghan Stuthard

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Lurking at the Green Beetle. steps below ESPN “The Ocho” showing a ping pong game. But as Jeff pointed out, the reason that the Beetle is so popular with South Mainers isn’t owing to its status as a place to catch a game (or a rom-com); it’s because of its role as a gathering place, a bar where everyone there is a friend and neighbor.

The intimacy of the inside of the Beetle spills out onto the sidewalk, where several tables and umbrellas are out for those who prefer to drink beer al fresco. At any given point in the weekend, these tables are packed with Downtowners making the most of their days off. While Downtown is not lacking in bars, it is certainly not full of neighborhood joints that act as both the last stop on a Saturday night and the first stop on a Sunday morning.

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he popular spelling of “Bushwacker” leaves out the second H, possibly because its creator had too many of his own concoctions and didn’t care about proper spelling. That guy, likely a man named Thomas Brokamp, has “Bro” in his name, so it’s really no surprise that he created what amounts to a chocolate milkshake made with Bacardi 151. This alcoholic milkshake is not as popular here in Memphis as it would be at the beach, but it’s a popular item at the Green Beetle, where I enjoyed one this past weekend.

They’re one of the few places in town that have Bushwackers, much to the delight of Wendy’s Frosty fans everywhere. It’s hot out, so now is the time to drink something you wouldn’t normally drink like, you know, a drink made with a rum that is essentially pure gasoline.

The Green Beetle has been around since 1939, but in its most recent form for about seven years. During that revamp, the bar on the north side of the wall was torn down and the current bar, a horseshoe-shaped one, was built out of old shuffleboard tables. Behind that bar was the lovely Krista, expertly battling an onslaught of people stopping in before a show at the Orpheum. No, really, it was completely packed, and she was keeping it together, despite 100 women in rompers ordering shots, which is my personal hell.

As the crowd moved on to the show, Krista and her friend Jeff, a regular at the bar, spent some time talking to us about the Beetle and its patrons. I’ve spent a fair amount of time there; it’s affordable, always full of South Main regulars, and has great food, but I had never heard about its being haunted. Krista and Jeff said that the ghosts are mostly mischievous, leaving sink faucets on in the restrooms and overturning salt and pepper shakers on tables.

Krista said they won’t act up around just anyone, which is fine by me, as I already have enough issues without having to deal with a meddlesome ghost.

The Beetle is a small bar, with green walls and dark paneling on the ceilings, making it feel more like a lair. A bar that is a lair is a place where you lurk more than you sit, so it is fittingly appropriate that it caters to those who enjoy lurking (ghosts and people alike). It’s an awesome place to drink and eat before a Grizzlies game and it’s full of TVs for all your sports-watching needs. During the sports dead-zone that is August, however, we were treated to the Jimmy Fallon/Drew Barrymore classic, Fever Pitch, which I guess is only a few

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We all know the dry martini recipe that calls for whispering “vermouth” over ice-cold vodka. But as Pouff pointed out, “That’s not a martini; that’s just a cold hooker of vodka.” She then remarked that “martinis are made with gin.”

It’s likely that the reason most of us don’t like much, or any, vermouth in a martini is because nine times out of 10 the stuff we’re drinking is rancid. And if you are using vodka, the funk is all you will taste.

Vermouth isn’t a liquor; it’s fortified white wine — the light and dainty cousin of port or madeira. If refrigerated, it will last longer than a bottle of pinot gris, but the experts suggest you ought to throw the stuff out after a couple of months.

It’s made from grapes such as Clairette Blanche and Bianchetta Trevigiana and a few others that you’ve never heard of — mainly because they don’t make very good wine. If they did, no one would be hiding the flavor with herbs, roots, and tree bark.

So yes, vermouth is made with regrettable white wine, to which is added a neutral grape spirit, and sometimes

sugar water, which is poured into the aforementioned dry ingredients in a barrel and rolled around a bit. The first variants were made with wormwood, which the Germans called “wermut” and the French called that “vermouth.”

The Chinese were doing this 3,000 years ago, but, in 1786, a sweet wine was introduced to the royal court in Turin, Italy. They went wild and you really can’t buy word-of-mouth like that. A generation later, a pale, drier French version evolved. Both were aperitifs as well as medicine — which is as good a cure as any for sobriety. It would be another 100 years before it was so closely associated with cocktails and liquor. And, unfortunately, it got stuck behind the bar as opposed to being put in the fridge.

If you are going to stick to the classics — like martinis, Manhattans, and Rob Roys — a Tribuno or Martini & Rossi are hard to beat. Noilly Prat is a little darker and bolder, so be warned.

When the expatriates and the professionally fabulous were famously sipping vermouth on the Riviera, they weren’t drinking the stuff off the bottom shelf — and there is a difference. If you want to break out and be a little creative, Dolin has a Vermouth de Chambéry; a large bottle retails for $15. My personal favorite, a blanco Vermut Lustau, retails for $25. These are both clean and very crisp, and Vermut Lustau doesn’t have the vague bitterness that generally puts people off.

Last month, when the heat was really starting to get uppity, a friend introduced me to the following: One measure of vodka, one measure of Vermut Lustau, with tonic and a squeeze of citrus over ice. Not a twist or a thin wedge, you want a solid squeeze here, but just one.

It works beautifully with gin as well, but the vodka lets the Lustau do what it does without the botanicals. As summer drinks go, this is one of the best I’ve discovered in a long time — it just floats over the weather.

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Which made her the first person I ever met who actually liked vermouth … or had lived 75 years entirely on hors d’oeuvres.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

The Afro of Justice Spike Lee’s triumphant, true BlacKkKlansman pulls no punches.

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pike Lee is many things, but subtle is not one of them.

Some directors like to seduce you into their world by offering up a figure with whom you can relate, then putting them in jeopardy. As the relatable hero feels threatened, so do you, and the thing which threatens them becomes, by proxy, your enemy, too. When Clint Eastwood opens American Sniper with his hero killing Iraqi women and children in order to “protect his brothers,” he assumes that you will identify with Chris Kyle because he’s a red-blooded American Navy SEAL. Lee has never been like that, even when he’s doing a traditional war movie like 2008’s Miracle at St. Anna. A Lee hero is faced with an ethical dilemma and spends the film either weighing both sides before deciding to act, or explaining why he made his decision. The classic example is Mookie, the protagonist played by Lee himself in Do the Right Thing, but you can also see the same dynamic in 25th Hour. The central question is not “will our hero prevail?” so much as “will this person choose to act heroically?” The fact that, decades later, people still debate whether or not Mookie did the “right thing” speaks to the intellectual and moral

power of Lee’s approach.

But while Lee’s approach to heroism is nuanced, the way he presents his heroes’ worlds and their choices is stark, bold, and in your face. Some directors are afraid to do anything that might puncture the veil of realism.

Lee’s concern is immediate emotional impact. If a split-screen is what’s needed to drive the point home, Lee’s gotta have it. If he thinks an exaggerated, stagey performance will create the emotional beat he’s looking for, he’ll rev up his actor: Compare Giancarlo Esposito’s manic turn as Buggin Out in Do the Right Thing to his stoic, richly textured portrayal of Gus Fring in Breaking Bad. When it works, we get the majestic sweep of Malcom X. When it doesn’t, we get the disjointed, barely watchable Chi-Raq. With the republic under siege by Trumpism, the time for subtlety has long passed. Lee rises to the occasion with BlacKkKlansman. When we meet Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), he’s fresh out of the police academy when he gets a job at the Colorado Springs Police Department. At first, he’s assigned to the evidence room, but when Kwame Ture (Corey Hawkins) comes to town to speak at the university, Stallworth is assigned to infiltrate the local campus

Adam Driver (left) and John David Washington in Spike Lee’s powerful BlacKkKlansman. activists, because he’s the only black man on the force.

Stallworth just wants to keep his head down and do his job, but Carmichael’s speech pricks his conscience.

When he meets the supposedly menacing black radicals, they turn out to be nerdy kids led by beautiful student Patrice (Laura Harrier). Lee’s impressionistic presentation of Carmichael’s speech — and Stallworth’s awakening — is the film’s first transcendent moment.

To deepen Stallworth’s dilemma, his superiors are so impressed with his first undercover assignment that they promote him to detective. While perusing the newspaper at the office one day, he happens across a recruitment ad for the Ku Klux Klan, and on a lark, calls the number. Expecting to hear a recorded message, he’s shocked when someone actually picks up the phone.

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Since Stallworth’s giant natural haircut won’t exactly fit under a Klan hood, he has to send in a ringer, in the person of Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver). Flip finds that the local blood-and-soil types aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, and is instantly accepted into the haters club, despite the fact that he is clearly Jewish. Meanwhile, Stallworth works the phones until he’s on a first-name basis with the Grand Wizard himself, David Duke (Topher Grace).

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Breakfast With Books

Reading is magic.

THE LAST WORD

On Sunday mornings, when the Memphis sun blesses us with just the right amount of brilliance, my parents will have breakfast in the park. They’re regulars now, and along with their small dog, they’ll take a walk around the park before sitting down to read, eat pastries, and drink mate. (Yerba mate, as it is otherwise commonly known, is a pre-Columbia tea that is consumed in several regions in South America.)

Some days, I’ll join them and hear about what they’ve been reading recently. Papá is reading the anthology ¡Presente! Latina Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice, and Mamá is reading La Transmigración de los Cuerpos, navigating through the Mexican vernacular employed in the borderlands narrative.

Books have always been invaluable treasures in my family. Somewhat ironically, this affinity for books was sparked by a blown fuse in an old TV we had growing up in Argentina.

To fill the time, my folks subscribed to the Thursday and Sunday newspapers, the two days of the week that promised the most content for the buck. From there, they found a list of bestselling books, and in the late 1990s, Harry Potter was at the top of the list. And so, a single copy of Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosafal rotated around the family and was read and reread.

Back then, buying books was a luxury we could not afford. As a photographer, Mamá would take my 7-year-old sister and a 3-year-old me to the photo shop to get her rolls of film developed. While we waited, we went to the bookstore nearby where my sister and I would read any and all books that we could reach — well, my sister would actually read, and I would mimic her. The commute to the shopping center was $20, so we could never drop another $20 for books.

Mamá recalls that the first thing she bought with her first pay in Florida was books, which included Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. After work, she went straight to the Barnes & Noble that was on the route home. She passes me the mate. “I remember they were hard-covered books, too,” she tells me. “We never could buy a hard-covered book in Argentina.

Today, books are stacked in mix-matched shelves across the hall in their home. My collection drawn from my frequent trips to the used bookstore in the Memphis public library is in there, my favorites: Baldwin, Kumashiro, Morrison, and Ehrenreich. There are a few sets of German and French language learning cassettes and books, too. Do I know how to speak German or French? No, but I can count to 20, which for now is good enough for me.

Today, I can bring books to them as they did to me when I was young. It’s a beautiful switch in roles in many ways.

Together, we also bring our love of reading and learning to Desayuno con Libros, a free breakfast and literacy program organized by Comunidades Unidas en Una Voz, Centro Cultural, and the C-3 Land Cooperative. The volunteerrun program, like its sister program Books and Breakfast in Westwood, receives donations of books, which then are given to families in the community. These books range in genres and many include books with Spanish text that may often not be found in public libraries with limited resources. For young children growing up in spaces that often discriminate against their mother’s tongue, this visibility is important in order to pass on their language and knowledge.

Growing up, we had a few children’s books, but we read those books over and over again, wearing down the binding each time. Seeing children sprint to the tables with books reminds me of our trips to the bookstore, except here, they can actually take the books home and read and come back for more. These books can take them to other worlds, exposing them to lives that aren’t always visible to them on television. They can imagine themselves in the experiences that they read about, and even create new ones on their own.

If you want to be a part of this, of expanding the worlds that young people can experience, you can contact Desayuno con Libros Memphis on Facebook. Books are the tools, and these kids are the future.

Aylen Mercado is a brown, queer, Latinx chingona and Memphian pursuing an Urban Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies degree at Rhodes College.

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