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24 A Half-Century of Service

The Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association celebrates 50 years.

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29 Tiger True

For five decades, Harold Byrd has waved the flag of his beloved Memphis Tigers. And football season has never felt better.

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32 Japan

Hotel-hopping and tourist-gawking in the very cosmopolitan and distinctly local cultures of Osaka and Kyoto. ~ by jon w. sparks

36 Photo Synthesis

Dixon’s “In the Garden” explores the history of photography and our connection to nature. ~ by shara clark

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In 2015 the mayor promised to be “brilliant at the basics.” How’s he done, and what happens next? ~ by jackson baker LIVING TREASURES

Band of Brothers How Brother Terence McLaughlin helped transform Memphis.

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self-described “health weirdo,” 44-year-old Holly Charnes admits, “I definitely feel the difference between now and 10 years ago.” You might never know it to look at her — Charnes was the swimsuit model for this magazine’s fashion shoot last summer — but she knows she has to work harder than ever to maintain her appearance and health.

A former career as a trauma nurse at Regional One Health and her current roles as full-time mom and pharmaceutical sales representative keep her busy. The secret to a healthy lifestyle, she says, is to constantly monitor what you eat, and to remain active. Charnes studied kinesiology at Mississippi State University and graduated from nursing school at Mississippi University for Women. “I know from my nurse’s training that proper diet and exercise go hand in hand,” she says. “I check the labels of everything I eat and avoid food with lots of sugar, sodium, and carbohydrates. I’m really not into red meat, so several times a week I eat salmon or tuna — they’re much better for you, and they are both packed with omega-3 oils, which are very healthy for you.” Charnes has two children, and it’s not easy when they visit friends’ homes and find the kitchen cabinets stuffed with what she calls “kid food” — Twix, Oreos, candy. “But we don’t have them in our house. If they’re not readily available, it’s a whole lot easier to avoid them.” And no Cokes or sugary drinks, she says. “I drink only water, all day long. I keep it with me all the time; I’ve got a bottle right now in my car.” She also recommends small meals throughout the day: an apple, a cup of yogurt, a pack of string cheese. “When I do eat out, I try to find places like Panera, because they have healthy items on their menu, especially their soups.” To maintain her model’s figure, Charnes stays active every day and, for that matter, every hour. “No matter where I am or what I’m doing, I can’t just sit still,” she says. “I’ve gotten pretty creative with ways to exercise. If I’m at work, or even while I’m cooking at home, I’ll find a hallway or someplace to do stretches, leg lifts, whatever I can do.” “I’ve been a runner since junior high,” she says, “and I still find time to do it every day.” At the same time, she emphasizes the importance of “interval” training. “Don’t get on a treadmill and run for a half-hour,” she says. “Your body gets used to that. Break it up by running two miles, then stop and do push-ups, run some more, stop and do sit-ups. It really makes a difference.” Charnes cautions about running long distances on concrete sidewalks or hard asphalt, which can damage knee joints, especially, but she laments that her own neighborhood doesn’t have suitable running trails. She also recommends that runners buy new shoes on a regular basis; even though they may still look okay, the padding wears out after several months. Every night, she lifts weights to strengthen her muscles and also her bones. “I’m constantly exercising,” she says. “I know some friends think I’m a health weirdo, but I enjoy the results because I can feel the results.” Her clients with Colors modeling agency have apparently noticed her hard work. She participates in many photo shoots and trunk shows for Joseph, Macy’s, Oak Hall, and other retailers. “I really love modeling because I get to dress up in wonderful clothes and pretend I’m somebody else for the day,” she says. “It’s just so much fun, and I’m glad I’m still able to get jobs that normally go to girls 20 years younger than I am.” — Michael Finger N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 5 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 71

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Jim Strickland is a thousand days into his job, while Lee Harris is just getting started.

editor’s note: The political-football season is now hard upon us, as our country and our state approach November elections that will determine Tennessee’s governor, state senators, and representatives, along with a successor for retiring U.S. Senator Bob Corker and all nine of Tennessee’s members of the U.S. House of Representatives. With national politics a 24/7 fixation of all three cable-news outfits, this gave us an opportunity to take time out from all that, and reflect (p. 40) upon the first three years of Jim Strickland’s term as mayor of Memphis. As with most things political in this magazine, the cover story’s author is the inimitable Jackson Baker, longtime contributing editor and the Memphis Flyer’s political editor for the best part of three decades. Baker has a full plate this election season, but happily he’s put one contest behind us already, the August Shelby County elections that resulted in a virtual sweep for Democrats locally. Here’s Jackson’s take on the main event, the election of Lee Harris as Jim Strickland’s county counterpart:

hen all votes were counted on the night of August 2nd (and it took a while, thanks to the glitch-as-usual performance of the Shelby County election apparatus), Democrat Lee Harris had won his election as county mayor going away. That had to be quite a satisfying evolution, both for UofM law professor Harris and for the Democratic Party, whose losing streak in county elections had continued almost from the very advent of county partisan elections in 1992. Harris’ own first election victory, in a 2011 and, after that, who knew? He will have to special election for a vacancy on the city coun- swallow his ambition; not so Harris, who has, cil, had required a run-off to resolve a virtual rightly or wrongly, achieved a certain fame tie with opponent Kemba Ford. Harris’ next for floating future electoral goals while still win, in 2014, was by a more comfortable mar- exploring whichever one he had been newly gin over another Ford, state Senator Ophelia, elected to. City mayor? Congress? And after whose most noticed act in the state capital in that, who knows? He will need to restrain that Nashville had been to fall off a bar stool while impulse for at least a term to retain the faith of bonkers. Harris would go on to be elected independents and those fellow Democrats of leader of the Democrats’ tiny five-member both races who reversed what had become a rump contingent in the Tennessee Senate quadrennial habit of crossing over and voting by a single vote, something of GOP in county elections. Not a booby prize under the cirto mention the need to reassure cumstances, but still a win. his open-minded Republican But he made a point there of constituents. pushing such party goals as Harris proved during this campaign, especially in his parity for minorities and womhead-to-head debates with en, unrestricted voting rights, environmental protection, Lenoir, that he had acquainted and sensible gun laws, all the himself with the nuts-and-bolts while managing meaningful matters of governing Shelby County, which differ in kind collaboration with members and in quality from the big of the Republican super-majority on such practical matissues that permeate so much ters as criminal justice reform. political rhetoric, especially the October 1995 In short, Harris managed nationalized kind. the difficult feat of upholding progressivism Now, having gained, with help from othfrom a standpoint in the political center — no ers and through his own effort, the engine mean trick and analogous in a way to an up- of local government, Lee Harris must be its bringing that stretched all the way from what mechanic — not so glorious a role as raising he described as an “insular” African-Amer- one’s personal flag above the ramparts in a ican boyhood to Yale Law School and the campaign but the only sure way to secure London School of Economics. That a larger further advances, both for himself and the than usual ambition flowered in the wake of total community he must now unify and repthis rise is unsurprising, even a mite inspiring. resent. It will be fun to watch him try his County Trustee David Lenoir, the Repub- hand and satisfying to see him succeed. Cross lican beaten by Harris, was known to have your fingers. Jackson Baker charted a course that would lead from the Contributing Editor county mayor’s office to the governor’s chair,

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esus Martinez, MD, sees patients dealing with a range of neurological issues, including those who suffer with headaches. He sees patients at Regional One Health’s Multispecialty Care Clinic where he works with a team of providers who offer a person-centered approach to care. Dr. Martinez guides patients suffering with headaches and enables them to get control of their condition. “I think information and education empowers the patient to better manage their problem,” he said. “It’s not just me telling them to take this or that, but how to avoid situations to prevent headaches. “It depends on symptoms, but a person with headaches taking pain meds more than twice a week needs to be seen by a doctor,” he continued. “You can be helped so you don’t have to take so many pills. That’s the patient with a simple issue who goes from doctor to doctor. But most others with symptoms like passing out, weakness, getting episodes of abnormal sensations or losing vision can be straight forward nervous system issues.”

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If a person has two or more headaches per week they need preventative medication, Dr. Martinez said. It’s important to learn what will stop the next headache. Dr. Martinez doesn’t treat the pain, he searches for the cause of the headaches to prevent them from occurring. “It’s more important to find what stops the next headache from coming,” he said. “That’s the fine tuning to find what works for you to cut down the number of headaches, or if you have them maybe they won’t be as severe.” The later in life a person develops recurring headaches the more worrisome it is, Dr. Martinez said. “You may still have migraines but after age 50 we want to look to make sure we’re not missing something else,” he said. “It could be an inflammatory issue, tumor or

Dr. Martinez consults with nurse practitioner Amanda Best and pharmacist AhYoung Wah to use a team approach to care for his patients.

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Dr. Martinez said he enjoys being part of the Multispecialty Care Clinic where he has the opportunity to work with other practitioners in a range of specialties to provide the best care for the patient. Located at Regional One Health’s East Campus, the clinic is staffed with medicine services such as internal medicine, cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology, neurology and rheumatology. There’s also a pharmacy and imaging center in the building. It’s a one-stop shop for a range of primary and specialty care needs. “We have other providers here so if I need to ask an internist to consult or a

rheumatologist – and there are very few of them in town – I have that here,” he said. “It’s beneficial for the patient. “I had a gentleman here recently for something and he told me about swelling in his right ankle. I decided to send him over for an ultrasound and we discovered a blood clot. He didn’t have to drive somewhere else. We could take care of it in the same building.”

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Gambling on the Games Sports betting comes to the Mid-South, but how long will it last?

by john branston to win that night’s NFL preseason opener against the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens were favored by 2.5 points but I took the Bears straight up in what was going to be a meaningless game involving rookies who would soon be cut, giving the underdogs an edge. I could have also bet on the first team to score eight points, the first player to score a touchdown, the longest field goal, and various other exotica, but I had no edge.

Trying to understand sports betting without doing it is like trying to understand

our team. Our Turf.” That’s what the marquee outside Gold Strike Casino in Tunica said on opening day of legalized sports betting in Mississippi in August. That sports betting will be a big hit in the football-crazed Mid-South is a gimme. That it will be confined to anyone’s particular turf is doubtful. The odds are that sports betting will spread to all eight Tunica casinos plus the dog track in West Memphis, which is half an hour closer to Memphis and where dog-track customers are familiar with the intricacies of sports betting. Once that happens, probably by late fall, there will be pressure to expand to smartphone betting, eliminating the need to go to anyone’s turf. The history of gambling in the South can be summarized in three words: more, expansion, and faster. In 1990, Mississippi legislators thought there would be one or two casinos on the river at Tunica. Within five years there were nine of them, all but

one of them on barges at the end of canals away from the river. Farm roads became four-lane highways. Cotton fields became 1,000-room hotels, golf courses, and parking lots. The slot machine crank and the bucket of coins became an anachronism, replaced by a plastic card and a button. An airport that served crop-dusters was transformed by federal funds into one capable of serving jets. Long before Facebook and Russian hackers, casinos refined “player tracking” into a very profitable art form. Easy come, easy go. Harrah’s Tunica, the biggest and most expensive casino, closed and was demolished in 2014,

leaving three hotels empty and its golf course overgrown and literally gone to seed. The roads between casinos are deserted, the airport terminal empty, with most of the eight remaining players consolidated. The big new thing is sports betting. Legal only in Nevada and New Jersey until 2018, it can now be legalized in any state, with Mississippi at the front of the line. Trying to understand sports betting without doing it is like trying to understand food without tasting it. A loyal follower of the Tunica story since its inception, I drove to Gold Strike on August 2nd to place my bets. “You need an edge,” a savvy gambler friend told me, but I was clueless about most of the teams, players, and terminology. The place wasn’t busy, and a friendly cashier gave me a crash course in the basics. I bet $10 on the Chicago Bears

I stood to win $21.50, including my ten bucks. Getting the hang of it, I put another $10 on the University of Memphis football team to win the conference championship, a tall order since the conference includes Central Florida, unbeaten last season. But the Tigers, remember, scored 55 points against them and shoulda won. My edge! At 9-5 odds, I could win $28 (including my original $10). “Take a picture of your ticket in case you lose it,” the cashier told me as I crammed the ticket into my wallet where it is certain to be lost in the next four months. A sports future bet such as this is a good way to develop serious fandom as well as a gambling habit. The odds are always changing and the possibilities are virtually infinite. The Grizzlies are 400-1 to take the NBA title, Tennessee is 250-1 to win the national championship in football, and the Titans are 40-1 to win the Super Bowl. Make a bet and you are likely to remain at least mildly interested as the season progresses and will perhaps tune into a game or two on television, which is the whole point, of course. The Bears, by the way, lost by a point, beating the spread but losing my $10.

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Gonerfest 15

9.27-9.30 Gonerfest 15

his four-day music extravaganza, hosted by Goner Records, features more than 30 bands, including The Oblivians and Carbonas, from Memphis and other parts of the world. Shows will occur at four different Midtown locations: Goner Records, Murphy’s, Memphis Made, and HiTone. Various locations, eventbrite.com

8.31-9.9

Delta Fair & Music Festival

The Delta Fair provides the Mid-South magic with carnival rides, Redneck Yacht Rides, Delta Dash 5K/10K, Disney Meet & Greets with Asher Angel and Sky Katz, and more. Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove Rd. deltafest.com

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International Goat Days Festival

A Millington tradition, International Goat Days Festival celebrates — you guessed it — goats with live music, food, games, rides, and more. USA Stadium, 4351 Babe Howard Blvd. millingtontn.gov

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Big and Rich

Save a horse and ride on over to Live at the Garden to catch country music duo Big & Rich as they belt out tunes old and new, including “Comin’ To Your City” and “California.” Live at the Garden, 750 Cherry Rd. liveatthegarden.com

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Levitt Shell kicks off its fall concert series with gospelblues and soul artist Devon Gilﬁllian. Born in Pennsylvania but now based out of Nashville, he combines classic sounds, derived from his inﬂuences that include Jimi Hendrix and Al Green, with his own modern take on danceable soul. Levitt Shell, 1928 Poplar Ave. levittshell.org

9.8

Jackson State vs. Tennessee State

The Tigers battle it out in this year’s Southern Heritage Classic Football Game, preceded by an allday Classic Tailgate. Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, 335 S. Hollywood St. southernheritageclassic. com

stories of their trials and tribulations through from their latest collaborative album No Mercy in This Land. Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main St. orpheum-memphis.com

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For two days, the 47th Annual Germantown Festival provides free fun for families, complete with arts and crafts, food vendors, a kid zone, weenie dog races, an auto show, and more. Germantown Civic Club Complex, 7745 Poplar Pike germantownfest.com

Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite

Multi-instrumentalist Ben Harper and Memphisraised blues artist Charlie Musselwhite share

9.18

Chromeo

Canadian electro-funk duo Chromeo makes a stop at the New Daisy Theater on their Head Over Heels tour, presenting new songs from their latest album, including “Must’ve Been” and “One Track Mind.” New Daisy Theater, 330 Beale St. ticketfly.com

9.20-9.30

Germantown Festival

9.11

International Goat Days Festival

Big and Rich

Mid-South Fair

Cooper-Young Festival

Cooper-Young Business Association celebrates arts, culture, and Memphis heritage for the 31st consecutive year, showcasing the work of more than 435 craftsmen from around the country. Cooper St. and Young Ave. cooperyoungfestival.com

Families will have no shortage of fun activities to participate in at the Mid-South Fair, including agricultural exhibits, Luna Brothers Big Top Circus, midway rides and games, fair food (fried oreos, anyone?), and live music featuring Steve Azar and Justin Moore. Landers Center, 4560 Venture Dr. Midsouthfair.com

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9.28-9.29 Bartlett Festival

Collierville Brewfest

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Collierville Brewfest

At this 21-and-up event, guests can sample food from the various restaurants in Carriage Crossing and try out local and regional craft beers while enjoying live

Take the family out to W.J. Freeman Park in Bartlett for two days of fun, beginning with the Judge Freeman Panther Pride 5k run, followed by a barbecue festival, music, kids activities, and arts and crafts. W.J. Freeman Park, 2629 Bartlett Blvd. www.cityofbartlett. org

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Teams of volunteers from ServiceMaster pack bags of shelf-stable meals for distribution to MIFA’s Meals on Wheels clients. PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY MIFA

Service I A Half-Century of

The Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association

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by m ic h a e l f i n ge r t’s a Monday morning in August, and Judy Royal parks next to a spacious building on Vance that had

once been a supermarket, where she quickly loads the coolers in the back seat of her car with hot meals, complete with drinks and dessert. That day, she will visit 17 homebound senior citizens in north Memphis, many times bringing them their only meal of the day, and their only chance to see a friendly face.

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Meanwhile, in an office of that same building on Vance, Stephanie Williams is on the phone with a young woman from Texas, who moved to Memphis hoping to live with relatives here until she could strike out on her own. But that situation didn’t work out, and now the woman, with two kids, has no place to stay. Williams calls a nearby motel to arrange emergency housing and arranges for the woman to meet her the next morning for a follow-up. Between them, and maybe by working with mediators who will help with her family problems, the young woman won’t join the ranks of the homeless in Memphis. The building on Vance, hard to miss with the giant letters MIFA marching across the roof, serves as headquarters for the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association, a group that has touched almost everybody in this community. Royal is one of more than a hundred volunteers involved with Meals on Wheels, perhaps MIFA’s best-known and longest-running program, and has been bringing those meals to seniors for more than three decades. Williams is a paid 12-year employee, director of MIFA’s emergency housing program. What began with a group of ministers eager to confront the racial problems of Memphis has evolved into a social services agency that pays special attention to seniors and families in need. This month, MIFA celebrates its 50th birthday, and its president, Sally Jones Heinz, feels her staff and volunteers are needed now more than ever. “In a city once again divided by fear, hate, suspicion, and misunderstanding, MIFA offers a remedy that is both profound and practical,” she says. “We can know our neighbors. We offer opportunities for people to get to know somebody who is not like them, and maybe we can build bridges and provide community aid and understanding.”

“There is a legacy of volunteerism. That dynamic was here at the beginning and is still present today.” — Jim Seacat

Murray have contributed several histories of MIFA, and though each says this simple proclamation can be considered the beginning of the organization as we know it today, each also admits the “Appeal to Conscience” was met with disregard, if not outright disdain. Lewis wrote that the response was “generally unfavorable. They were advised to let the mayor run the city, while they attended to religion.” After all, over the years, various churches had tried to organize similar ventures: the oddly named Cross Cut Club in the 1920s, the Association of Church and Professional Social Workers in the 1940s, the Greater Memphis Race Relations Committee in the early 1950s, and the Memphis Committee When Sally Jones Heinz was named president and CEO of MIFA in 2011, she said, “I felt I had come home.” PHOTOGRAPH BY KAREN PULFER FOCHT

eaders of THE COMMERCIAL A PPEAL and the Memphis Press-Scimitar noticed an unusual announcement in the February 4, 1968, editions of those newspapers. Headlined, “An Appeal to Conscience,” a group calling itself the Memphis Ministers Association asked, “Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us?” Noting that Scripture commands, “You must love your neighbor as yourself,” the group invited readers to observe Race Relations Sunday the following week. Even though they felt racial issues here had somewhat improved, they worried this was “largely the result of legislation, judicial decision, and executive orders.” Obeying the law was not enough, claimed the ministers, who asked “the people of our community to look into their hearts and purge their souls of prejudice and intolerance” and live by the simple rule, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Local historians Selma Lewis and Gail S. S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 8 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 25

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on Community Relations in the late 1950s. At the time, the prevailing attitude was that the church was acting outside its bounds. After all, when it was established in 1967, the Memphis Ministers Association, though spearheaded by such key figures as Rabbi James Wax of Temple Israel and the Reverend Nicholas Vieron of the Greek Annunciation Church, had only 125 members (out of some 700 houses of worship in Memphis); only 15 of those were African American. Even so, the group had persuaded seven congregations to form the Downtown Churches Association. Those ministers, working with an activist group called the Association for Christian Training in Service, had concluded that Memphis needed a well-structured organization to deal with this city’s problems with race, poverty, and other issues. In fact, wrote Lewis, “the Downtown Churches Association specifically requested that the ACTS help them consider how a metropolitan agency might be formed to help them in their urban ministry.” All plans were put on hold, however, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated just months later. The Memphis Ministers Association had stepped in and attempted to mediate the sanitation workers’ strike, to no avail, and the aftermath of King’s death saw a city polarized. Even so, a bond had been established between the ministers — white and black. The Reverend Berkeley Poole, a Methodist minister from Jackson, Tennessee, observed that “injustices that had long prevailed could no longer be ignored.” Thirty members of the clergy attended a special meeting on September 15, 1968, at St. Mary’s Cathedral to draw up a charter for a “metropolitan inter-faith association,” a need that was supported by the Chamber of ComFor decades, MIFA volunteers have been taking the time to visit with senior clients, many of whom live alone.

merce. A racially diverse board of directors approved the charter and name, so the Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association was born that day, though it really had no specific goal. In fact, wrote Murray, “the directors found resistance and even some hostility from some congregational governing boards [so] they moved to enlist individual members instead.” As a result, she continued, “MIFA brought to Memphis a new model for meeting social and urban problems. Churches and individuals found themselves being asked to participate

“The community’s needs have changed over time, but MIFA’s desire to be the vehicle of change is constant.” — Sally Jones Heinz in a different kind of ministry, one based on Christian service through an interdenominational organization that utilized secular funding sources and social service models.” Reverend Poole was named MIFA’s first director, taking no salary and working out of a one-room office donated by the Catholic Diocese. The new group, however, finding itself with no clear identity, formed various committees designed to improve police and community relations, establish an Afro-American studies conference, create an “orientation to the city” for new clergy, and form a “Task Force on Juvenile Delinquency.” In those

early days, the Reverend Frank McRae of St. John’s United Methodist Church admitted, “we were weak and limited. We knew we were doing Band-Aid work, but that was all the power we had.” Poole resigned after two years, and most members thought MIFA was finished. But they weren’t counting on the energy and vision of Gid Smith, associate pastor of First United Methodist Church, who took over as director. He was given quite a task, wrote Murray: “invigorate the infant organization within six months or they would deem the experiment a failure.” Smith hired Julia Allen with Idlewild Presbyterian Church as his assistant, and soon added a co-director, Robert Dempsey, a former Catholic priest. These three, and other hard-working staff members, soon got MIFA on solid ground. They began working with a federal program called VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America), and Dempsey would later say that this was “the key to MIFA’s success — working with people who are intelligent, mature, creative, and with initiative … who want to do things.” That element of MIFA has endured. “There is a legacy of volunteerism,” says Jim Seacat, director of marketing and communications. “The whole volunteer dynamic that was here at the beginning is still present today.” By 1975, MIFA had expanded to larger offices at 149 Monroe, later moving into space at First Presbyterian Church downtown. The group landed federal funds for Project MEET (Memphis Encounters Eating Together), which formed the basis for the long-running Meals on Wheels program. They established programs throughout the city to help people in need, regardless of race, sex, faith, or age. Among them: opening senior centers in local high schools and churches, beginning the Literacy Council, administering Coats for Kids, starting the Center for Neighborhoods, opening a refugee resettlement program, organizing Latino Memphis, starting the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center, and publishing the Mid-South Senior newspaper. That’s not all. With VISTA’s help, MIFA started the Memphis Food Bank and the Child Advocacy Center. The group purchased properties around the city — Estival Place, Ramesses Place, Cossitt Place, among others — and developed them into emergency housing. They set up a clothing center at Idlewild Presbyterian Church called “Dress for Success” so people going for job interviews would have proper outfits, and helped youngsters find summer jobs with its City Slickers program. The list goes on and on.

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from the Plough Community Foundation. By this time, a Commercial Appeal editorial observed that MIFA’s “reputation is rock solid. … Wherever people are hurting, MIFA is there.” Smith retired in 1989, replaced by Allie Prescott, who helped shepherd a long series of popular programs and fund-raising events, such as “Starry Nights,” the illuminated display at Shelby Farms. When Prescott resigned in 1997 to manage the Memphis Redbirds, Margaret Craddock, who had begun her career at MIFA as a VISTA volunteer, took over as director. She spearheaded the construction of the ultra-modern MIFA headquarters building, designed by the Memphis firm of Williamson & Pounders Architects, and honored with several national design awards. The structure houses offices and other facilities, along with a massive kitchen used daily to prepare food for Meals on Wheels. Other major changes were on the horizon. As the new century began, the board took a close look at its various endeavors to decide if they were indeed helping MIFA meet what it called its “Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal” — namely, were they viable components that helped make “the organization that inspires significant change in each client’s life.” The answer, in many cases, was NO. Most of the residential units were sold; maintenance costs were simply too high, as MIFA found itself in the property-management business without wanting to be there. The popular MIFA Thrift Store, which had originally opened as the Clothing Closet in 1994, was closed. Latino Memphis, Mid-South Senior (renamed the Best Times) the Literacy Council, and the Memphis Food Bank were spun off to other organizations, which had more time and resources to run them. (A newspaper designed for families, Memphis Parent, was sold to Contemporary Media, publisher of Memphis magazine.) In 2010, Craddock announced her retirement, after nearly three decades at MIFA. The Commercial Appeal saluted her as a “servant leader” and observed she was “the primary architect of this social service agency.” After a national search, the board selected Sally Jones Heinz, the group’s former director of development, as the new president and CEO. She certainly had strong Memphis connections; her father, Jameson Jones, was a dean at Rhodes College and later president of Memphis College of Art, and her uncle, the Reverend Paul Tudor Jones, was the minister of Idlewild Presbyterian Church. “When I came to MIFA,” she recalls, “I felt I had come home — my faith, my background, my work experience — everything fit together to prepare me for this place.” After all those early years of uncertainty, MIFA today is sharply focused on assisting two groups: seniors and families. On the se-

On Veterans Day MIFA honored veterans who were Meals on Wheels clients.

nior side, the organization offers three major programs. The best-known is Meals on Wheels, which in fiscal year 2017 delivered more than 554,000 meals to more than 3,700 seniors who otherwise would not have a decent meal that day. “The wonderful thing about the meals delivery is the volunteer forms a relationship with the person they are delivering to because they see them regularly,” says Jones. “People’s lives really are changed.” Some of those connections can be unexpected. Judy Royal was introduced to a new person on her route, a 94-year-old woman, and after chatting with her discovered the senior had been a classmate of her mother at Central High School. The Senior Companion Program matches low-income seniors with their peers, “helping clients with activities of daily living and providing family caregivers much-needed respite.” And the Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program is for anyone who has a loved one in a nursing home and seeks help with their care and quality of life. The group has also narrowed its focus over the years on the needs within Shelby County. Meals on Wheels is a good example. “We used to cover four counties,” says Jones, “but we looked at the cost analysis and thought, “We’re cooking a meal at MIFA and taking it to Ripley. That made no sense, so we worked with groups in the rural areas to do that.” On the family side, MIFA stresses Emergency Services: helping families in desperate need of housing, medical assistance, utility payments — whatever they need in the shortterm. They work with motels in the area to provide short-term housing when the need arises, and help the family “get back on their feet” after situations, such as domestic issues, leave them searching for a new place to live.

“Emergency Services is designed to be a light touch,” says Jones. “If the family only needs a Band-Aid, we give them a Band-Aid; we don’t give them a full-body cast.” Many families who call or even visit MIFA, sometimes bringing along their luggage, require only temporary assistance, and that’s one reason MIFA sold its apartments. “MIFA’s program did very well, but families in transitional housing still felt unrooted because they knew they wouldn’t stay there very long,” says Jones. “Now we work with families to help them find a place where they want to live. We may help with their deposit and utilities, just to get them on their feet.”

he Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association will mark its 50th birthday with events, programs, and even a new website. During the first week of September, a series of CommUNITY Days will partner more than 60 congregations for a variety of community-service projects. “It’s a way to pair different faiths and different congregations,” says Seacat. On Legacy Day, September 14th, MIFA will unveil a historical marker at its Vance Avenue headquarters. The following month, on October 11th, a Golden Gala at the Hilton Memphis will salute MIFA’s past, present, and future. At this time, the new, fully interactive website will be unveiled, which will serve as the hub for all of MIFA’s programs, and help people take part in them. “MIFA began as a way to bring people and congregations together to impact the social issues in our city,” says Jones. “Those needs have evolved over time, but our desire to be the vehicle for change is constant, and in the next 50 years we hope to continue to respond to our community’s most pressing needs.” S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 8 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 27

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For a half-century now, Harold Byrd has waved the flag of his beloved Memphis Tigers. And football season has never felt better.

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o football team would ever call itself the Swans. “Fighting Swans” would be both awkward and an oxymoron. But for decades, the University of Memphis football program has been an ugly duckling in a large pond of prettier SEC waterfowl. Drive along Poplar Avenue on a fall Saturday and you’ll see as many flags of red (Arkansas or Ole Miss), maroon (Mississippi State), purple (LSU), or orange (Tennessee) as you will the blue and gray of this city’s lone representative in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

With blue and gray coursing through his veins, Harold Byrd readies himself for another Tiger season in Memphis.

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But there is a contingent of devoted fans who have only shown blue and gray, year after year, regardless of the Memphis Tigers’ record (often poor) or the heights climbed by SEC programs (11 national championships over the last 20 years). The face — usually smiling — of that Tiger-true contingent is Harold Byrd. “Any success my brothers, sisters, and I have enjoyed, we owe to our educations at the University of Memphis,” says the longtime president of Bank of Bartlett (founded by Byrd and his brothers in 1980). As the Highland Hundred marks its 60th season in support of Tiger Football, Byrd personifies a fan base somehow emboldened by its ugly-duckling status. He emphasizes the booster club had more than 200 members when he joined in the early Seventies and has retained an energy not found in many programs outside the mighty “Power Five” conferences. “Even in lean years,” notes Byrd, “the Highland Hundred has been a vibrant group of people who gather for the Tigers.”

(he was in 6th grade) when his family moved to Memphis and enjoyed, for the first time, indoor plumbing, a telephone, and air conditioning. Byrd played football (quarterback) and basketball (guard) at Bartlett High School, but only for two years, graduating at age 16 in 1967. He enrolled at Memphis State without so much as considering another institution. And that fall — in his very first game at the Liberty Bowl — Harold Byrd assumed his Tiger stripes. For life. “The first football game I saw in person,” reflects Byrd, “was Memphis State and Ole Miss at the Liberty Bowl [on September 23, 1967]. We beat them, 27-17. People were sitting in the aisles. I believe the Liberty Bowl then had a capacity of 50,149 people. There were probably 60,149 people in the stands. Nothing could have been more exciting for a 16-year-old guy. The Liberty Bowl was newly built, beautiful. Planes flying overhead. I later became friends with quarterback Ricky Thurow.” Byrd likes sharing the story of legendary Coming off a 10-3 season in which they ﬁnished ranked 25th in the AP poll, Mike Norvell’s Memphis Tigers enter the 2018 campaign as favorites to win the American Athletic Conference’s West Division.

Mike Norvell enters his third season as the Tiger coach with a record of 18-8.

yrd grew up the youngest of seven siblings in rural McNairy County, his childhood devoted to school, church, and his family’s farm (cotton and soybeans). The Tigers of what was then known as Memphis State University first captured Byrd’s attention when the basketball team reached the 1957 NIT championship game (they lost to Bradley). A member of that team — James Hockaday — had played with Byrd’s brother, John, at Selmer High School. Byrd’s earliest memory of Tiger football is the scoreless tie with second-ranked Ole Miss on September 21, 1963. He didn’t see the game or listen to it on the radio, but Harold Byrd found himself attached to a local underdog. He realized a measure of salvation in 1961 30 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 8

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September 1 — Mercer September 8 — at Navy September 14 (Friday) — Georgia State September 22 — South Alabama September 28 (Friday) — at Tulane October 6 — UConn October 13 — UCF October 20 — at Missouri November 3 — at East Carolina November 10 — Tulsa November 16 (Friday) — at SMU November 23 (Friday) — Houston

Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant severing the Crimson’s Tide relationship with the Tigers after a pair of narrow victories (in 1958 and ’59). There were better ways to spend fall Saturdays, in Bryant’s view, than butting heads with a gritty nonconference foe to the north. Memphis State enjoyed winning seasons in all four of Byrd’s undergraduate years (going 8-2 in 1969), and five straight winning campaigns in the mid-Seventies under coaches Fred Pancoast and Richard Williamson. After completing studies for his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business, Byrd won a seat in the Tennessee legislature (he served from 1976 to 1982). During his first full year in Nashville, Byrd introduced a bill that would obligate the University of Tennessee to play

Memphis State every year, in both football and basketball. The bill didn’t pass (Byrd notes that it did get out of committee), but it raised an important issue, particularly from Byrd’s perspective, on the importance of Tennessee — the state government — acknowledging and caring for its major university in the southwest corner.

he Tiger football program has had its fallow periods, some lengthy. During the 1980s, Memphis State suffered six seasons with no more than two wins, and that on top of the tragic plane crash that killed coach Rex Dockery, defensive back Charles Greenhill, and offensive coordinator Chris Faros on December 12, 1983. Byrd acknowledges a chip on the shoulder of many, if not most, longtime Tiger football fans, one due largely to the disparity between college football’s “haves” (Power Five programs, particularly those in the SEC) and “have-nots” (programs that must vie for relevance from second-tier conferences, like the Tigers’ American Athletic Conference). “There are so many good universities,” says Byrd, “that are the heartbeat of a city and community, and they don’t get the same chances another university might just because they’re not in the Big Ten, the Big 12, or SEC. It makes you hunger for equity. When you look at what the University of Memphis has done in football, basketball, and other sports — on a budget that’s a twentieth of what UT, UCLA, or USC has — it’s an inequity that needs to be addressed and leveled.” When it comes to sports, Byrd sees an advantage his alma mater enjoys that has little to do with budget or facilities. “This city seems to create basketball stars, and now football stars,” he says. “Local kids love playing for the Tigers. When you play for the University of Memphis, five or ten or twenty years after your career ends, you are somebody in Memphis, Tennessee. Go all the way back to James Earl Wright or Russell Vollmer in the Sixties. Bob Rush. Isaac Bruce is a legend in this town. He lives in Florida, but he comes back regularly.” When asked about high points — his favorite memories as a Tiger football fan — Byrd chuckles, as so many games and players leap into his thoughts. He’s relentlessly positive and manages to smile even when reflecting on the “Ground Chuck” days under coach Chuck Stobart or the toothless offenses under Stobart’s successor, Rip Scherer. Record-shattering tailback DeAngelo Williams (2002-05) holds a special place in Byrd’s heart, as does All-American receiver Anthony Miller, drafted last April by the Chicago Bears. That first game he attended at the Liberty Bowl (in 1967) remains near the top of Byrd’s blue-andgray memories. But there are other game days that gain life through tales and legend. PHOTOGRAPH BY LARRY KUZNIEWSKI

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“In 1975, we went down to Auburn, and they were ranked 7th in the country,” ref lects Byrd. “We were ahead at halftime, 24-0, with Terdell Middleton, and three unbelievable receivers: Ricky Rivas, Keith Wright, and Earnest Gray, who went on to the NFL. It was a helluva team. [Memphis State won the game, 31-20.] Shortly thereafter, we had a boycott under coach Richard Williamson and it seemed like things started to deteriorate.” Byrd hosted a blowout party in the MidSouth Fairgrounds cattle barn prior to the 1996 opener against Miami. He actually found himself in hot water, having blown most of Bank of Bartlett’s marketing budget on the bash. (The Tigers got whipped, 30-7.) Two months later, new athletic director R.C. Johnson asked Byrd if he could host another party — back in the cattle barn — before kickoff against Tennessee. The feeling was that such a pregame celebration might help numb the pain of what was sure to be an ugly loss to the 6th-ranked Volunteers. The Tigers beat Peyton Manning and friends that November night. Byrd’s party served as a warm-up — the weather was cool and damp that day — to the most memorable Tiger upset in at least a generation.

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ooking back more than two decades now, Byrd’s role as booster, cheerleader, and faithful follower of an often-maligned program seems magnified, even brightened. “I never felt like we could not be what we are today,” says Byrd. The Tigers open their 2018 season — September 1st against Mercer at the Liberty Bowl — as the favorites to win a second-straight West Division title in the AAC. Memphis has finished in the nation’s Top 25 two of the last four seasons (2014 and 2017) and has set season scoring records three of the last four years. They have one of the hottest young coaches in the country, and Mike Norvell signed a five-year contract extension last December, adding a dose of stability to a program still aiming for the prestige of a New Year’s Six bowl appearance. “I prefer to sit outside, to be part of the action,” notes Byrd when asked about the view of Tiger football from a booster’s suite. He and 17 others — family and friends — sit on a 40-yard line, right behind the Tiger bench, one fall weekend after another. Big wins, ugly losses, bright sunshine, or heavy rain, Byrd is there. This, of course, is the truest measure of fandom. Being there. “It’s so darn fun now, with Coach [Justin] Fuente, and now Norvell,” says Byrd. His is a rather fundamental devotion and actually has less to do with winning football games than it does the attachment between person and place. “I love the University of Memphis,” says Byrd with a smile. “And I love this city.”

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It’s a workable strategy for those of us who enjoy what I call sensible spontaneity. It’s not a paradox; we go for the gusto while also appreciating naps.

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Kimonos are common in Kyoto for celebratory occasions and bicycling is a heavily used form of transport.

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That outlook might get you through a modestly adventurous weekend in the Mid-South, maybe an Oxford jaunt, a Delta jook joint, or the Coal Miner’s Daughter Museum just up from Bucksnort, Tennessee. But my wife and I took our minimalist planning practice a few notches up, embarking on a ten-day trip to Japan. “Let’s just go,” I said to her. “Temples, museums, panchinko, sushi, samurai cosplay, matcha ice cream, Zen everything — everywhere you turn!” She returned my comment with, let’s say, a certain Zen calm. I must clarify here that “our” minimalist planning method is entirely mine. She did research, buying books, marking places to see, and noting things to do. She allowed me some flexibility in scheduling which, I still contend, allowed us to experience unforgettable exploits that did not turn into regrettable moments. We did have a reason for going. Maritza, a professor emeritus of the Memphis College of Art, is a printmaker and art book maker who had an opportunity to attend a papermaking workshop at the Awagami Factory in Yoshinogawa, a town that is nothing like

Bucksnort. It’s one of those impossibly green and beautiful places, perfectly suited for quiet contemplation when not participating in the violent-sounding stripping of tree bark followed by endlessly cooking, bleaching, beating, drying, and dyeing the pulp until it turns into the prettiest and most delicate of papers. The decision was made to leave about 10 days before her workshop so that we could explore the sublime culture in the cities of Osaka and Kyoto. We did, in fact, find temples, art galleries, castles, exotic foods, remarkable fashion, street markets with unimaginable goods, buskers, storytellers. We found all of these as well as the most orderly and formally polite society, a transit system that ran virtually flawlessly, some terrible piped-in breakfast music, astonishing architecture, and what were absolutely the finest toilets anywhere in the world. With this wide-open ambition, my rationale for not booking a single hotel ahead of our trip was that I really couldn’t decide where to stay. This waffling turned, as often happens, into a steely resolve to embrace my indecision

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and declare that we’d just grab hotels randomly as needed. This is why we stayed in five of them. But oh, the variety and the charm! Our hotel tour began with the Kansai First, near the Osaka airport, which was important as we were needing respite from that interminable journey: flights from Memphis to O’Hare to Tokyo Narita, then bus to Tokyo Haneda, then flight to Osaka. The hotel was plain but clean and pleasant although for a small inn, I never could figure why we had to go from the lobby to take an elevator to the annex lobby and take another elevator and be mindful of “Watch your Head” signs. I would say it was cozy, although that would be true of every one of our hotels, from the fancy RIGHA Royal Hotel at the Osaka convention center to the capsule hotel at Narita. If there was an exception to the squeeze, it was our accommodations at the Ally Hotel, which was billed as an adult-only facility. I figured that meant it was for grownups who didn’t want children running up and down the hallway, but what it actually signified, as practically everyone but me knew, was that the hotel was an assignation station. I hasten to add: nothing like the hourly motels in this part of the world, of which I have no knowledge except what I read in the police reports. But the Ally had a big bed, a whirlpool/shower room as big as the bed-

Street markets have a variety of food, including fish, but not this one from the Osaka Aquarium.

Looking up at the Umeda Sky Building’s escalators from one of the sculptures at ground level.

room, along with a vending machine (no clue as to what it vended), and a closet-sized door that was tightly locked and gave no hint as to what was on the other side. A motel of mystery. But it and the neighborhood were perfectly pleasant. We walked about a lot, finding the Ikutama Shrine, a beautiful building and gardens but a block away, the National Bunraku Theatre nearby, and other adult hotels with names like Hotel the G, Hotel Casablanca, Hotel Zen, and the Fine Aroma. No, I am not kidding. The tiniest hotel we inhabited was Mitsui Garden, and our room, after the bed was figured in, left space for one small chair, a desk that allowed one modest laptop, and … well, that’s about it. Maritza and I had to coordinate whenever we wanted to, for example, go to the tiny bathroom. However, there was a restaurant across the street that gave us the most satisfaction of our entire trip and was the one place we visited several times so we could try everything. The hole-in-the-wall eatery was inviting, not fancy in the least, had artistic touches in decor and food, and piped in contemporary jazz. We bonded with the owner, who made sure we knew how to prepare our own beef on a little table cooker and sampled new (to us) dishes. She was, as is typical, reserved but friendly, although when I complimented her on

the excellent jazz, she became animated and took credit for making that happen. As we left (each time), she’d follow us out into the street, saying “arigatou” over and over, and we responded in kind, and never got hit by a vehicle. (Not everyone in Osaka was prim and proper. I was on an elevator one time with a refined middle-aged Japanese lady who complimented me on my beard and then reached over and tugged on it, asking, “American?” “Yes, indeed,” said I, and she just giggled.) We did touristy things, such as visiting the Osaka Aquarium and the somewhat disappointing Osaka Castle. But the city also has the extraordinary Umeda Sky Building, two 40-story towers that connect on the two top stories and have bridges and escalators crossing near the top. It’s architecturally astonishing and a bit terrifying. Inside one of the towers, an entire floor is given to the Koji Kinutani Tenku Art Museum, devoted to the works of Kinutani and his 3-d art, fantastical paintings and sculptures, and inviting workshop. It is, to use a sophisticated art term, trippy. The other city we fell in love with was Kyoto, which on the whole is a lovelier place than industrial Osaka. (Godzilla trashed Osaka twice, Kyoto only once, if you’re counting.) There is the Imperial Palace, bursting with history, and hundreds of temples

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apan doesn’t get many travelers from Tennessee, although some 190 employers of Japanese origin have hired nearly 50,000 Tennesseans with another 150,000 jobs sustained indirectly. If you can’t make the trans-Pacific jaunt to say thankya verra much (doumo arigatou gozaimasu), there is a way to sample Japanese culture this month — at the Memphis Japan Festival on the grounds of the Memphis Botanic Garden September 30th. The commercial presence of Japan in the state gained a foothold in Memphis in the mid-1970s with Datsun Forklift. When the Memphis in May International Festival got going in its present form, it chose Japan as its first honored country in 1977. Industrial giants like Sharp and Mitsubishi came later, and Memphis in May played a role in bringing them here, honoring Japan again in 1986. The festival is presented by the Japan-America Society of Tennessee that, along with the Botanic Garden, are the nonprofit beneficiaries of the event. It’s a daylong family-oriented celebration with music, dance, martial arts, cuisine, and more, but the underlying purpose is to boost the region to prospective investors as a welcoming business location. More than 5,000 people attended last year and organizers are hoping even more will come by this year to take in traditional and contemporary Japanese music and dance, martial arts demonstrations, cultural lectures, arts and crafts, merchandise, children’s activities, sumo-suit wrestling, a cosplay contest, a roving Japanese Candyman, and a variety of Japanese cuisine featuring special menus from local restaurants and food trucks.

are all over the city. Kyoto is also where people break out the traditional garb and you’ll see many people in kimonos, usually worn for special occasions. We took in a market (we Sake-ﬂavored Kit-Kats are a thing took in several in Japan, along with apple vinegar, green tea, and sweet potato ﬂavors. markets, let’s be honest) and were repeatedly astonished. Growing certain fruit is an art form, where you might find a baseball-sized strawberry for around $4,000. We managed not to make that investment, but did marvel at the

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meticulously grown and beautifully packaged delicacies. We did bring home some spices and teas that were irresistible. Other market booths and stores carry elegant kitchen cutlery, fans (and only fans, by which I’d say thousands of them in a single store), Pokemon, Hello Kitty, and Kit-Kats. I kid you not about the Kit-Kats. They are hugely popular maybe because the phrase Kitto Katsu means “you will surely win,” and students scarf them down before exams for luck. Yeah, maybe. But whatever it is, there are flavors of Kit-Kats that you can scarcely imagine, including wasabi, ginger ale, caramel macchiato McFlurry, and sake. Why these haven’t traveled here is baffling. And something else that hasn’t gained great popularity in American: Washlets. contin u ed on page 81

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Brad Moore (American, b. 1958), Trini Circle, Westminster, California, 2006. Inkjet print. Courtesy Brad Moore & Klompching Gallery © Brad Moore right:

Justin Kimball (American, b. 1963), Phoenix, Arizona, 1997. From the series Where We Find Ourselves. Chromogenic development print. George Eastman Museum, gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press © Justin Kimball 2007 far right:

Lori Nix (American, b. 1969), Wasps, 2002. Chromogenic development print, printed 2005. George Eastman Museum, gift of the photographer © Lori Nix 2005

Dixon’s In the Garden explores the history of photography and our connection to nature.

by shara clark

n early August, the last of my resurrection lilies burst forth, their pale pink splendor blooming only a few brief days before withering back into

the earth. More than any summer before in the nine years spent at my home, I felt close to those lilies — they bloomed for me. Soon I’ll be uprooting, moving into a new home. A few bulbs will come with me, but next year, someone else will enjoy this backyard’s lineage of lilies.

I took plenty of photos of them through the years: one with my oldest dog, Doogie, as a young pup, nonchalantly hiking his leg against a stem; another with a bee alighted, busily prodding a stamen. Others were snapped to capture different phases of their magic — from bud to blossom. Each year, as if by clockwork, pastel beauties sprang up in a perfect line against the fence. Each time, an additional stalk would appear; offspring had even migrated several feet away to the porch’s edge. Without a green thumb, these “surprise lilies” — who’d done all the work on their

own — were the closest I’ve ever come to having my own garden. Many others, however, have much greener thumbs than I. Throughout history, humans have tilled the land, farming vegetables or growing flowers and fruits, to beautify spaces or for sustenance. And as documented by photographers — a process explored in The Dixon Gallery and Gardens’ current exhibition, In the Garden — it has expanded their relationships with both nature and community. We transform mundane landscapes — drab lawns, barren fields, bleak rooftops — into swaths of living art, colorful, useful, and serene.

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Many of the 150 photographs in the exhibition came from the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, one of the largest and oldest collections of photography in the world. The exhibition, assembled by George Eastman Museum associate curator Jamie Allen, was first shown there in 2015. Earlier this year, In the Garden was hosted by The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

well represented in our collection,” Allen says. “So, more contemporary photography, or in one case, Karl Blossfeldt, who is a very important photographer in the history of photography.” Blossfeldt’s photographs (selections on view were taken in 1928 and 1929) showcase minute details of plants as seen through a microscope. Delphinium. Larkspur, for example shows part of a dried leaf enlarged six times,

almost stays the same, too.” The same can be said of our collective fondness for nature and cultivated landscapes. Woman reading in garden, a 1912 inkjet transparency from a digital file of the original autochrome, shows just that: a woman in a white dress, seated at a garden table, reading against a backdrop of green vines and red flowers. More than 100 years later, our gardens are desirable

2007 chromogenic development print. Gersht aimed to explore the dichotomy between violence and beauty. To do so, he treated botanical specimens with liquid nitrogen and rigged them with explosives, and with multiple cameras captured the detonation at various angles. The resulting series of photographs, a confetti of petals and color, shows there can be beauty in destruction.

in Jacksonville, Florida, and the Dixon is its final stop. As for the collection of images presented, Allen says, “I wanted to look at what photography tells us about our relationship to the land, particularly the cultivated landscape. I dove into [the George Eastman Museum] collection and was noticing various themes, like botanicals or landscapes or how people interacted with the land.” While Allen dug for photographs that fit those themes, she found some gaps. “Some of the things that are on loan were things I noticed were not very

its veins pronounced and ends curled like grasping tendrils. With photographs dating back to the late 1800s up through the 2010s, the exhibition is as much a lesson in the history of photography as it is a look at plants and our relationship to them, displaying a variety of photographic processes (chromatype, cyanotype, daguerreotype, autochrome, photogravure) and prints (inkjet, gelatin silver, platinum, tintype, salted paper). “Almost 200 years of photography,” Allen says. “[You see ] how it’s developed over those different eras, but it’s interesting how it

places for such still moments as relaxing with a good book. Autochrome images such as Woman reading in garden give us a look at one of the first color photographic processes. Patented in 1903 by the Lumière brothers and popularized by amateur photographers from 1907 to the early 1930s, the process uses a screen of dyed potato starch grains to create color — blue-violet, green, and orange-red. Some modern photographs in the exhibition find photography used in purposely artful ways, such as shown in Ori Gersht’s Blow up: Untitled 07, a

A series of prints, titled Allotments, shot by British photographer Andrew Buurman in 2009, shines a light on modern British communal gardens. While these “allotments” hit their peak in 1943, with 1.4 million plots of English land producing 10 percent of the nation’s food, these communal gardens, very much in decline today, still remain an important part of the country’s culture. With Allotments, Buurman sought to reveal the diversity of and social bonds built within these micro-communities, which hold weekly gatherings and host annual flower and vegetable shows.

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Other photographs on view explore different cultures and eras — from farmers in sprawling fields or friends gathered in small garden clubs to victory gardens and the rationing of crops during wartime. Among the curator’s favorite images — and among her longtime favorites from the history of photography in general — is Calla, 1929, by Imogen Cunningham. “She took interesting, artistic photo-

cals, vases of flowers, through photography. It’s interesting to see how she’s speaking about the role of photography in regard to painting and art in a new and different way.” While the exhibition as a whole asks us to view photography in a different way, it also transforms our ideas of what a garden can be and the odd places natural beauty can be found, if sometimes overlooked. This can be seen in

ray came from the United States, so he goes out to Giverney on a lark, not knowing whether he’d find Monet there or not.” He does, and interestingly, Sharp notes, “Muray shoots him, not in his studio surrounded by his paintings, but instead out in his garden. It gives an indication of how much Monet loved his gardens. And that may well be the last photograph ever made of Monet because he dies just a few weeks later.”

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Unidentified photographer, Two Japanese women in flower garden, ca. 1900. Albumen silver print with applied color. George Eastman Museum, acquired by exchange 1974 right:

Ori Gersht (Israeli, b. 1967), Blow up: Untitled 07, 2007. Chromogenic development print. George Eastman Museum, purchase with funds from Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation © Ori Gersht 2014

graphs of flowers that really moved her work from the era of photography that we call pictorialism to a new era that we call modernism,” says Allen. “Looking at these photographs that really changed her practice — they were important to include in this exhibition.” Allen made delightful discoveries along the way as well, such as works by Sharon Core, loaned by the artist. “Her ability as a gardener is as important in those photographs as her ability as a photographer,” Allen says. “She’s recreating paintings through photography and looking at still life of botani-

images such as Brad Tempken’s photograph of a rooftop garden on Chicago’s City Hall or Brad Moore’s Trini Circle, an artful snapshot of a dead bush whose branches sprawl, bare, in front of a stone wall, but behind, the top of a billowing evergreen peeks over; the two connect, visually, to form a whole. Dixon director Kevin Sharp’s favorite image in the show may be that of Claude Monet in his garden, taken by Nickolas Muray in 1926. “It was happenstance that Muray was able to get that shot,” says Sharp. “Because he’d written to Monet, and Monet didn’t respond. Mu-

Sharp adds, “These days we are all photographers by virtue of the smart phones we carry around with us at all times … in this case, we’ve gone to one of the greatest photography collections in the world, the collections of the George Eastman Museum, and their holdings are extraordinary. Of course, a project on photography of gardens was a perfect match for a place like the Dixon, and hopefully our visitors are thinking the same thing.” In the Garden runs through September 30th at The Dixon Gallery and Gardens. S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 8 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 39

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the first 1000 days of

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In 2015 the mayor promised to be “brilliant at the basics.” How’s he done, and what happens next?

by jackson baker hen Jim Strickland enters a public place after hours — say, a restaurant — he does so most

often by himself. Though he has, like any major official, an abundance of aides (whose competence he’ll brag on with minimal provocation), he has no Bobby Lanier, that being the name of the genial, knowledgeable, and self-sacrificing aide who, over several decades, made it a practice to accompany several county mayors in a row to whatever evening or weekend events had them out around town.

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Mayor Jim Strickland at work in his ofﬁce in City Hall. PHOTOGRAPH BY BRANDON DILL

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The mayor visits friends in Orange Mound during America’s Night Out 2018. PHOTOGRAPH BY JACKSON BAKER

“People have lives of their own,” says Strickland, explaining his disinclination to deputize anybody for such overtime duty. And the mayor of Memphis, who considers it his duty to be a familiar presence “in every area of town,” does not lack for company. Entering a full-to-the-rafters Pete & Sam’s on Park Avenue on a recent evening, to meet with an interviewer, he is greeted by several patrons and restaurant staffers on the way to a table. And during the hour or two he spends there, several more people will amble over for a bit of conversation. At one point, a diner at the table behind Strickland and his dinner companion says something that turns the mayor around. He chats for a while, discharges one of his world-class horse laughs, says some more, then turns back around. Asked what the discussion was about, the mayor relates his conversation with the man. “He wondered, ‘Can I ever just have a private dinner without being interrupted?’ I said, ‘Like you are?’” That had to be when the horse laugh came. Strickland, whose talent for geniality is among his chief political skills, is preternaturally courteous and can make a point like that without being in the least offensive.

In fact, he is pleased at such recognition. He remarks on the fact that, as he was told, the late Elvis Presley had been unable to “go to the cafeteria,” for fear of being mobbed, when the entertainment icon was with his then-wife Priscilla prior to the birth of their daughter Lisa Marie. “I’m not as popular as Elvis,” Strickland says self-effacingly. Maybe not, but he seemed popular enough on the night in early August when he and several City Hall staffers made the rounds of neighborhood events for this year’s “America’s Night Out,” an annual observance designed to connect law enforcement officers and heads of local government with their constituents. Piled into two city-owned SUVs, Strickland’s group started out in north Memphis and hit five stops before ending up in Whitehaven at an event well-attended by numerous other local political figures. At all the stops, the T-shirted mayor became the instant center of attention, and Strickland, who stands 6 foot 5, would often end up towering over a ring of awed children, looking like a good-natured Gulliver from another planet. At one event, held in a basketball gym, he took part in an impromptu game of Three Horses, graciously losing to two young shooters half his size. That the kids,

and the admiring adults at all the neighborhood stops were mainly African Americans had to be a reassuring point, given that the 25-percent share of the black vote he won in a multi-candidate race in 2015 was essential to his upset win over then incumbent Mayor A C Wharton, and he believes he can better that “if and when” he runs for reelection. That “if and when” is somewhat obligatory, part of the ceremony of pol-speak; no one doubts that the mayor, who has launched several initiatives requiring follow-through, will seek reelection in 2019 — to crown a city-government career that began with a loss in a city council race in 2003 and continued with victories for the same East Memphis seat in 2007 and 2011.

trickland is one of those natural politicians who got started early, in his case as student government president in the 1980s at what is now the University of Memphis, where he also got his law degree. (For many years after, he was the law partner of David Kustoff, another student pol at the U of M, and now the Republican Congressman from the nearby 8th District.) Strickland’s appeal, then as now, was based more on a disarming Everyman persona than

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on any dazzling personal charisma. Appropriately, “Brilliant at the Basics” is the slogan used by Strickland to denote both his methodology and his goals. For most of the eight years that he served on the council, Strickland was best known for his dedication to budgetary frugality, even to the point of advocating a reduction in the salaries of city employees. By 2015, though, the cuts and retrenchments that had been forced upon Wharton by the 2008 economic crash had made Strickland’s proposed austerities moot, freeing him to run on a platform — poll-tested by his chief consultant, Stephen Reid — that emphasized blight control, accountability, and public safety. That triad of issues — the “basics,” as it were — remain as the essence of Strickland’s vision for the future. There has been some embroidery on those points, however, one of them being the mayor’s stated determination — on behalf of a city government that had long since opted out of spending on public schools — to improve the status of early childhood education. One of his recent accomplishments was the devising of a formula to pay for universal pre-K out of funds as they became available by the retiring of PILOT (payment-in-lieu-of-taxes) incentives previously granted to relocating businesses and industries. Indeed, it had been Strickland’s advocacy of a public financing referendum in 2014 for pre-K that had softened his image as a budget-cutter. The referendum would fail, but it reminded potential future voters that this one-time chairman of the Shelby County Democratic Party was not averse to primingthe-pump measures in a worthy enough cause. In the event, however, Strickland’s successful pre-K formula was achieved “without raising taxes or infringing on other programs,” a fact he takes pride in.

trickland is a true believer in pre-K. “Currently 24 percent of our third-graders read at the third-grade level. That’s awful,” he says. He cites statistics demonstrating that quality pre-K “followed by a remarkable K-through-3,” gives a child, even one raised in poverty, a “90 percent chance of graduating.” There’s the advantage of “socialization,” and Strickland suggests that one of pre-K’s long-term

effects is the reduction of crime and poverty down the line. In any case, he had made sure to send his own children, Kathleen, now 12, and James, now 16, through the process, at his own expense, and, as he says, “everyone who can afford pre-K sends their kids.” At a certain level, it seems clear, Jim Strickland is as much a homebody as he is a family man. “My kids are still relatively young,” he says, “and that means I have to give attention to ballgames, recitals, and homework. “The 16-year-old has aged out of my ability to help him out, especially with new math and that sort of thing, but I can still help my daughter.” He touches base with his two children and his wife Melyne, a pharmaceutical assistant, as often and in as many ways as he can. A onetime tennis fanatic, Strickland has been obliged pretty much to give up the game by the circumstances of his office but still sneaks in a little net time once in while with James, “who is so much better than me.” With daughter Kathleen, the thing is to go to the zoo. “We all still try to have dinner together, and we try to go the movies.” Strickland’s attachment to family and a concomitant sense of privacy are surely things that keep him in touch with the hopes and fears of his electorate, for better and, as it happens, for worse. They may, for example, also help to explain the troublesome — and still unresolved — saga of the City Hall Blacklist. In

February 2017, it was revealed that some 80odd Memphians were listed in a “security book” of people requiring a police escort to be in City Hall. And 43 of those people had also been named in an “authorization of agency” form signed by Strickland in January forbidding them to set foot on his personal property. That last action had been prompted by a highly public protest in December 2016, at the mayor’s East Memphis residence (a comfortable but modest bungalow which is an almost literal stone’s throw from his U of M alma mater). The participants in what they chose to call a “die-in” were shown on local television alternately playing dead on the lawn and peeking into Strickland’s house through its windows. “I’ve really forgotten what they were protesting,” Strickland maintains today. He says nobody was kept from entering City Hall; the people listed were merely subject to surveillance and “escort” by the building’s police security force. Beyond that, he observes a silence on the matter, noting that a lawsuit had been filed against the city by attorney Bruce Kramer on behalf of the protesters and had yet to be heard and attributing both the idea for the list and its execution to the MPD. Beyond the matter of surveillance, that suit, in U.S. District Judge Jon McCalla’s court, revealed undercover ruses and provocations, under the guise of “homeland security,” that resembled those attributed to the Russian hackers of 2016. Once exposed, the names added of participants in the “die-in” at Strickland’s house had been removed from the security book virtually as soon as it had been made public. Critics of the mayor point out that Kramer is one of two members of the watchdog group CLERB (Civilian Law Enforcement Rev iew B oard) that Strickland recently declined to reappoint. The other is attorney John Marek, a sometime mayoral critic and a longtime activist for striking or modAt Ernest Withers’ studio, erating penalties for mariStrickland poses before a juana possession. photo of Elvis and B.B. King. contin u ed on page 46 PHOTOGRAPH BY JACKSON BAKER

Blight control, accountability, and public safety. That triad of issues — the “basics,” as it were — remain as the essence of Strickland’s vision for the future.

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Strickland’s Team Here’s a quick overview of some of the major players in the mayor’s “cabinet.”

compiled by maya smith Shirley Ford

CURRENT POSITION: Chief Financial Ofﬁcer BIRTHPLACE: Crossville, Tennessee PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Memphis

Development Foundation FAVORITE THING TO DO IN MEMPHIS: Garden

Before serving as the city’s CFO, Shirley Ford was the city comptroller for two years. Now, she’s responsible for “all things financial in the city.” That includes debt management, capital improvement plans, and cash investments, as well as the budget, treasury, and business diversity and compliance offices. One of the challenges in managing the city’s budget, Ford says, is balancing limited resources. “We’re all fighting for the same pennies,” she explains. “What can we do in innovative and creative ways to stretch every penny across as many citizens as we can?” Moving forward, Ford hopes to continue to look for new ways to take advantage of tax credits and grants, while focusing on being more efficient internally. “You never know what the market is going to do,” Ford says. “What we have to do is be poised to take advantage of opportunities when they’re here and to tighten our belt to be more efficient.”

ground up, and it’s still an ongoing process, she says. “For the ﬁrst time in 200 years, there is a communications team that helps every division with how they communicate to the public and internally.” That team is responsible for advising the mayor and division directors on messaging and marketing, as well as overseeing the city’s website and social media sites. Madden says she never has a typical day, but most of her time is composed of decision-making about marketing, crisis communication, and answering media questions. “I make plans and they get crushed,” Madden says. “You never know what’s going to happen.”

that also have to be handled.” The department also reviews contracts, issues permits for public assemblies, assesses claims, vets legal decisions, and advises each city division.

Doug McGowen

Twenty-eight years ago, Michael Rallings was a patrol ofﬁcer, working undercover in narcotics. Today, he’s head of the Memphis Police Department. Being in charge of a police force in one of the country’s poorest cities is no easy task. “Other chiefs say I have the hardest job in the nation,” Rallings explains. “And I usually say, ‘Yep, I know.’” One of the key challenges he faces is maintaining enough staff to serve the community. To his credit, Rallings and his 1,955 ofﬁcers were able to keep the peace in Memphis over the past year during events like MLK50 and the removal of Confederate statues, when other American cities were dealing with riots and violence. Moving forward, Rallings says the department is focusing on recruitment, retention, gang intervention, and improving community policing initiatives. “Our crime is a symptom of socio-economic conditions, poor educational outcomes, and poor healthcare,” Rallings asserts. “Too often we treat crime and not the root causes.”

Chief Operating Ofﬁcer/Chief Administrative Ofﬁcer BIRTHPLACE: Meadville, Pennsylvania PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: U.S. Navy, Innovate Memphis FAVORITE THING TO DO IN MEMPHIS: Peoplewatch downtown CURRENT POSITION:

As both COO and CAO, Doug McGowen is responsible for overseeing the city’s operating divisions. “I make sure that the mayor’s vision is translated into action,” McGowen says. “My job is to make sure that we improve the quality of life for all Memphians every day.” He sees that all employees know what is expected of them, and that they have the resources to meet those expectations, all while “relentlessly measuring, managing, and making sure we’re all accountable for results.” Apart from improving public safety, creating jobs, and strengthening youth programs, McGowen says the Strickland administration is heavily focused on increasing the city’s density, by “growing up and not out,” to attract more businesses and people in order to grow the city’s tax rates. “There is quite a bit more work to do, though,” McGowen adds.

Bruce McMullen

Ursula Madden

CURRENT POSITION: Chief Legal Ofﬁcer

CURRENT POSITION: Chief Communications Ofﬁcer

BIRTHPLACE: Atlanta, Georgia

BIRTHPLACE: Oakland, California

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: The Baker Donelson law ﬁrm

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: WMC News

FAVORITE THING TO DO IN MEMPHIS: Attend sports

FAVORITE THING TO DO IN MEMPHIS: Sit by the river

When Mayor Strickland asked her to serve on his administration, 17 years into her career as a reporter for Channel 5, Madden was ﬂattered. And though the offer was surprising, she felt like it would be the “ultimate way to serve the city.” “It was an actual shock to me,” Madden says. “If someone had told me that I would be working for the city of Memphis, I probably would have fallen out laughing.” Before Madden came along, there had never been a centralized communications team for the city of Memphis, which she says is “unheard of in the modern era.” Madden built her communications team from the

games with my kids Any time the city gets sued — about 1,000 times a year — Bruce McMullen, the city’s chief legal officer, and his department have to respond. “Twenty-five percent of my day is spent putting out fires and the other 75 percent is routine,” McMullen says. Recent fires he’s dealt with include the legal battle surrounding the removal of Confederate monuments displayed and housed downtown, an accomplishment McMullen says he is most proud of since taking over the city’s legal department. “That took a lot,” McMullen says. “That was not a routine project that you do every day. But there are lots of legal issues that don’t necessarily make the front page

Michael Rallings

CURRENT POSITION: Memphis Police

Department Director BIRTHPLACE: Memphis PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: U.S. Army FAVORITE THING TO DO IN MEMPHIS: Spend

time with my family

Alex Smith

CURRENT POSITION: Human Resources Director BIRTHPLACE: Gary, Indiana PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Microsoft, Brightstar,

Target Corporate FAVORITE THING TO DO IN MEMPHIS: Getting to know

different Memphians Though she calls herself a “bread and butter HR person,” Alex Smith says that Mayor Jim Strickland took a chance when he hired her, as she had no previous public-sector experience. Smith says Strickland trusted her to bring a fresh perspective to tackling the challenges the city was facing to attract and retain talent. “I was able to bring my wealth of experience from corporate companies into city government to make a difference in critical areas, like attracting and retaining talent, building the point of engagement, and building up the HR function so it can be more of a strategic partner to the city,” Smith says. Smith’s policies and procedures now govern the acquisition, training, development, and performance analytics of the city’s roughly 8,000 employees. One of those policies is a student-loan repayment program for city employees, which Smith helped launch last year.

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Smith says Memphis was one of the ﬁrst American cities to implement this type of incentive. She believes it’s important to strengthen the ﬁnancial wellness of each employee: “I’m looking to make investments in those areas to help our employees be wholistically healthy.”

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guide” when family and friends come to town Sweat says she doesn’t always like the attention that can come from being the city’s first woman fire chief, a position she took over in 2016, after 24 years with the department. She’s one of only a handful of female chiefs in urban fire departments across America. “I have educated and prepared myself for this moment,” Sweat says. “What I wasn’t prepared for is all of the attention I would get. Sometimes I’m a little embarrassed by that, but I don’t let it distract me.” As chief, Sweat now oversees a fire-fighting force of more than 1,700. “As a batallion chief, I got to know [firefighters’] families. I maintain those relationships to this day. You have to care about people to lead them, and they have to know you care about them.”

Paul Young

CURRENT POSITION: Housing Community

Development Director BIRTHPLACE: Memphis PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT: Legislative Affairs for Shelby

County, Memphis and Shelby County Office of Sustainability FAVORITE THING TO DO IN MEMPHIS: Run in Shelby Farms Paul Young finds it hard to describe the HCD division because it’s so “wide-ranging.” As director, he’s responsible for managing about $14 million in federal funds and overseeing roughly 80 staffers. Large-scale major development projects like the Fairgrounds and the Riverfront Development Corporation could have a large economic impact, Young says, but he wants the smaller housing development projects within communities to be “equally elevated and appreciated.” A large portion of the division’s time is spent working to provide better housing for residents, through projects like Mason Village, a new 76-unit affordable housing complex near Crump Blvd. “Projects in the neighborhoods give families safer and better-quality houses to live in,” Young says. “We have to find enough suitable housing units for families to be able to thrive, and we don’t have enough of those. I think that’s what I take the most pride in.”

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oes all this add up to undue sensitivity on the mayor’s part to criticism, or merely an awareness of the need in our time for strict security for a highly visible public person? Proponents of the former view might cite Strickland’s less than enthusiastic regard for media coverage. During the course of an interview at the Shelby County Republican Party’s 2017 Lincoln Day banquet (Strickland makes a point of attending the ceremonial functions of both major political parties), the mayor allowed as how he avoids reading newspapers or watching TV news reports. “Never. I find out what I need by going to the source of things, the people I represent,” he insisted, acknowledging, though, that he is kept informed by his highly capable communications assistants. More recently, Strickland admits to sampling various Twitter feeds and maybe “two stories a day” from the local media. He vaunts his own procedure for routing news to the people via his regular emails to an extensive list of constituents, including the media. “Mayor Strickland’s Weekly Update,” it is called. It is issued every Friday, and its contents have an uncanny resemblance to the mayor’s verbal talking points. A recent issue, for example, has been the uneven garbage pickup service given some 20 percent of Memphis residents on the eastern edge of the city. Strickland’s newsletter for Friday, August 3rd, outlines his response to the matter. But, first, he outlines, via a self-report card of sorts, on how he has dealt with his campaign promises of 2015: Friends, When I was sworn in as mayor two and a half years ago, I promised you that I would apply fresh eyes to the old problems of City government. That’s exactly what we’ve done. When we took office, it took us an average of 60 seconds to answer a 911 call. We dug in, figured out the issues, and we fixed it — we’re now consistently at 8 seconds. When we took office, the live release rate at Memphis Animal Services was around 50 percent. We made it a priority, hired the right people to be in charge, and we fixed it — we’re now consistently at 90 percent. When we took office, we had an antiquated system to handle people who wanted to apply to become a Memphis police officer — which contributed to our staffing problems and public safety challenges. We cut the red tape, and now we’re much more efficient in working to rebuild our force — with the first net annual gain of police officers in seven years coming last year. When we took office, the City had no plan or strategy to contribute funding to a need long iden-

tified for the health of our community: Pre-Kindergarten. In March, we fixed that by finding a creative way to do that without raising taxes. Strickland’s campaign themes of blight, accountability, and public safety all get their due in that list. After those initial points, Strickland explains that he has changed contractors for the offended eastern sectors of Memphis, arranged to ramp up the city’s own trash-collection facilities, and avoided raising taxes to pay for the upgrades by tapping general revenues. He acknowledges that, after the first year of the upgrade procedures, the matter of raising rates to pay for it will have to be re-evaluated. Just as both he and the council strained to ensure that the city’s forthcoming 2018-19 budget will require no new taxes, it is difficult to imagine — the politics of governing in a democracy being what they are — that a rate increase for garbage collection will be announced at any point during the runup to voting in the October 2019 city election.

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ut, to give Strickland his due, he does seem determined to attend to his city’s basic issues — whether brilliantly or not is in the eye of the beholder. He makes every effort to document his successes by metrics: e.g., “we pick up dead animals within 24 hours of being called;” the city’s stepped-up MWBE program of extending contracts to business enterprises owned by women and minorities has increased the percentage of such contracts from 12 to 24.7 percent; the MPD’s January graduating class of about 80 new officers (augmented by a kitty of some $6 million from private donors) had brought the Department to the first period in seven years that more officers were hired than had left; the “right-sizing” de-annexation plan he has begun pursuing voluntarily, in order to thwart more Draconian plans imposed from Nashville, will result in a loss of only 1 percent of the city’s population rather than the 20 percent that would leave under the originally proposed legislative formula. It should be said, by the way, that forced de-annexation by legislative fiat was avoided by a massive diplomatic effort on Strickland’s part — one of several achieved on his watch. The severely punitive bill alluded to above had already virtually passed in 2016, at the behest of an influential state Representative from the environs of Chattanooga. It had come to rest for one final step in a Senate committee on a Monday. But when that Monday came, Strickland, in tandem with the Chamber of Commerce, had organized a resistance in depth, consisting of testifiers from Memphis’ business elite and governmental

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representatives from other threatened urban areas in Tennessee. That original bill was tabled and eventually replaced, a year later, by one that allowed municipalities to suggest their own deannexations. Hence, the Strickland Right-Sizing Plan — designed to satisfy mutinous recent annexees on the city’s periphery and to diminish the cost of city services, with minimal real loss to the city. Another such triumph had come early in Strickland’s tenure when he learned, from a chance remark by Governor Bill Haslam, that ServiceMaster intended to leave Memphis for greener pastures. The new mayor had responded quickly and without let-up to that emergency as well, organizing the rest of the business community to lobby the departing corporation on its way out the door and doing his own share of jawboning with the ServiceMaster management. Result: The corporation stayed and was ushered into the roomy downtown —and conveniently empty — Peabody Place complex. One of Strickland’s most difficult tasks was getting the management and proponents of the Memphis Zoo to unbend long enough to agree on a formula with “Save the Greensward” activists and the Overton Park Conservancy that basically split the difference, Solomon-style, between them, cost-wise and space-wise, on how much green space could be used for zoo parking. ut Strickland’s supreme accomplishment on the crisis front was his patient search for an agreement on how to dispose of downtown statues of Confederate leaders in time for MLK50 Day on April 4th of this year. Taking care not to be goaded by activists into breaking state law with an arbitrary act or bowing down in defeat to unyielding state authorities, Strickland, working with city attorney Bruce McMullen, came up with the perfectly legal expedient of selling the parking properties containing those statuaries — Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford Forrest — to an ad hoc non-profit, which in turn removed them. All that is arguably some pretty fair urban statecraft from a mayor who promised only to take care of “the basics.” Says Strickland: “I think we’ve done a good job and communicated successes but also challenges. The public wants somebody who improves things but will acknowledge and be honest about challenges like crime, poverty, and the lack of educational achievement, set out what to do, and give people hope that you’ve got a plan.” As far as urban planning goes, the next thing up is Memphis 3.0, the forthcoming blueprint Strickland has promised as the

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Local High School Adds a New Dimension to this Year’s Show

or the past few years Covington High School Interior Design teacher Abbie Lindsey toured the new homes In the VESTA Home Show with her students to introduce them to the latest interior design trends. It was at the 2018 Show when Abbie and Show Manager Don Glays had a conversation about getting the students involved. That led to Abbie and the students meeting Mack Andrews, the builder of The Dunn, a 4,000 -square-foot, multigenerational house that features a total of 15 rooms. The first stop for the team was at Decadent Avenue, a fine-furniture store located in Memphis where they met Steve Ennis, a professional interior designer who has won several VESTA awards for past shows. Then it was on to the house in Piperton Preserve to see various stages of construction. Finally, back in the classroom the students put their ideas on paper, collaborated with both Mr. Andrews and Mr. Ennis, and came up with very appealing interior design and decorating. Another teacher at Covington High School, Liz Flanagan, wanted her students in the Landscape Design class to also get some real-world experience, so they teamed with Dave Moore,of The Dave Moore Companies, the builder of The Taylor, a four-bedroom, two-story house. Ms. Flanagan’s students will work with landscape professionals — Cameron Ruddle of Home Enhancers Landscaping & Morgan Venson of Digger O’Dell Nursery — to design and install the landscaping for this house.

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FACT SHEET

FIRST FLOOR

Heated sq. ft: 3,071 Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 4.5 Total number of rooms: 9 Number of stories: 2 Garage size: 2 cars Realtor: Stephanie Hooker and Pam Van de Vuurst, Crye-Leike (901) 754-0800 Plan designer: Mike Trexler, Trexler Group List price: $619,000.00

SECOND FLOOR

The BALLARD SUPPLIERS LIST Builder: Derek Eller Appliances: Ferguson Kitchen, Bath and Lighting Gallery Concrete: Cordova Concrete Counter Tops: F&H Stone, Inc. Doors & Millwork: Thrifty Building Supply, LLC Drywall: MW Construction Electric: Banks Electric Inc. Faucets: Ferguson Kitchen, Bath and Lighting Gallery Fireplaces: Wells Building Supply Fixtures: Magnolia Lighting, Inc. Flooring: B & C Flooring LLC Garage Doors: Precision Door Service of Memphis HVAC: Hensely Heating & Air Conditioning Insulation: County Line Insulation Lighting: Banks Electric Inc. Locks: Magnolia Lighting, Inc. Masonry/ Brick: General Shale Brick Roofing: Wells Building Supply Security: Banks Electric Inc. Siding/ Carpentry: WD Miller Trim, Inc. Sound & Video Systems: Banks Electric Inc. Trim Carpentry: WD Miller Trim Inc. Windows: Thrifty Building Supply, LLC

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Lot 55

901-550-3984 derek@ellerconstruction.com

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The

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EGG FARM CIRCLE

Appointed with impeccable finishes and luxury appliances, The Ballard farmhouse is where distinction meets simplicity. Four airy bedrooms and four-and-a-half baths comfortably accommodate a large family or guests. Beneath solid beams, the cozy living room view is one of serenity and privacy. The outdoor living space rests among a wood-burning fireplace and flowing wading pool. Situated on an estate-size lot, this 3,071-squarefoot home also features an inviting front porch with copper lanterns and two-car garage trimmed in thoughtful cypress detail.

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FIRST FLOOR

Heated sq. ft: 4,000 Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 4.5 Total number of rooms: 14.5 Number of stories: 1.5 Garage size: 2 cars Realtor: Nancy Huddleston with C.B. Collins Maury (901) 484-9494 Plan designer: Ed Yendrek, Classic Home Designs List price: $650,000 List price of this plan (without the lot): $540,000

SECOND FLOOR

The DUNN SUPPLIERS LIST Builder: Mack Andrews Appliances: Ferguson Kitchen, Bath and Lighting Gallery Cabinets: Batesville Cabinets Ceramic Tile: Acme Brick, Tile and More Concrete: Mireless Construction Doors & Millwork: Thrifty Building Supply Drywall: MW Construction Electric: B & R Electric Faucets: Ferguson Kitchen, Bath and Lighting Gallery Fireplaces: Wells Building Supply Fixtures: Ferguson Kitchen, Bath and Lighting Gallery Footings & Foundation: Mireles Construction Framing/ Carpentry: Riley & Evans Garage Doors: Precision Garage Doors HVAC: William Cannon Heating and Air Insulation: County Line Insulation Lighting: Magnolia Lighting Locks: Magnolia Lighting Masonry/ Brick: Christie Cut Stone Painting: CDT Painting Plumbing: All About Plumbing Roofing: Wells Building Supply Siding/ Carpentry: Riley & Evans Windows: Thrifty Building Supply

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Lot 57

The

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901-301-2924 mackann@aol.com

Andrews Investments

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This spacious, well-designed, multi-generational home features two separate living areas. The main house has four bedrooms and three-anda-half baths. The master bedroom bath has a walk-in shower, large walk-in closet, and double vanity. The inlaw wing has one bedroom and one bath in addition to a modern kitchen and comfortable living area. With its private entrance, this wing is essentially self-contained. The interior decorating of this home was a handson project for the students in the Interior Design Class at Covington High School under the direction of teacher Abbie Lindsey. Furniture provided by Decadent Avenue of Memphis.

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For Mike Russell, president of RusDun Farms, Inc., his role as a developer in Piperton keeps work close to home. The three developments — Greenbrier, Lakes of Greenbrier, and the newer Piperton Preserve — are all located on what used to be the Russells’ family farm dedicated to grazing dairy cows and then chickens. Melvin D. Russell, who initially started the egg farm, renamed the land RusDun in honor of his ancestors, the Russell and Dunn families.

Mike Russell stayed in the Memphis area while growing up, eventually attending the University of Memphis and receiving an MBA in finance. In the mid1990s, he returned to the farm to work alongside his dad. By 2000, only a few farm activities remained and the family transitioned into full-time developers.

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With a few Collierville developments under his belt, Russell moved to working on his current project: Piperton Preserve. “It’s right in the heart of Piperton and is meant to be the focal point of the city going forward,” says Russell. “The city does not have an identifiable core when you drive through it now since it’s so small and rural, and still in the early stages of this development.” The 200acre property runs right by I-57 and Poplar, one of the stronger corridors in the Shelby County area. Russell’s goal is to have 250-300 homes in the area, along with a small commercial downtown hub that he likens to Collierville. “It won’t be as large and extensive, but mostly residential with commercial aspects, and then some senior living involved. It will probably take another 10 to 15 years to totally build out.” The Piperton Preserve development is currently in its second phase. RusDun created 35 lots and, within a year, 33 of the lots had finished houses or started

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construction. All but one have since been purchased. Russell isn’t surprised at the quick turnover, noting that Piperton has a specific appeal. “Piperton Preserve is unique because it blends into the countryside,” says Russell. “We’ve left pockets of green space throughout the subdivision with a master-plan walking trail that takes everyone from different parts of the neighborhood to a central park that will be built, as we get to that phase, to what will ultimately be the town center.” The homes near Piperton Preserve’s southern border are large estate homes near Greenbrier and Lakes of Greenbrier, and they gradually become smaller as construction moves toward Poplar and the planned commercial area. The five VESTA models are part of Piperton Preserve’s second phase, which includes homes between 2,500 and 3,500 square feet. Russell is focused on providing a rustic, yet timeless, template for his homes. “We’re doing a modern farmhouse design. Almost all the houses have front porches, and they often have a metal roof somewhere. They’re usually gables as opposed to hip roofs, and those give it an appearance of an agriculturally-oriented home. Beyond that, we plan to have cottages, zero lot lines, senior living, and ultimately it will be a neighborhood that we hope will be a blend of things and won’t age like some subdivisions do.”

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While Piperton Preserve is proceeding smoothly, Russell is delighted to have the opportunity to showcase the development and give his builders some of the spotlight. “I joined VESTA mainly to support our five builders in the show and to support the industry in general. It’s a great way for people to see what’s new and what’s going on in the housing industry. It’s been good to my family for the past 20 years, so I thought it would be a great way to give some credit to our builders and the community.” In addition, Russell believes that presenting real homes is a much better way for buyers to see what developers have to offer. “A showroom is a showroom; they’re good, but they tend to be overly artificial. The great thing about seeing a house is that it’s 3D. As soon as the show’s over, someone will be living in that house.” The five Piperton Preserve homes are able to show off more features than normal due to collaboration with VESTA. “The suppliers are anxious to show off their goods,” says Russell, “so they’re going to be very good to the builders

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FACT SHEET Heated sq. ft: 3,531 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 3.5 Total number of rooms: 10 Number of stories: 1.5 Garage size: 3 cars Realtor: Main Street Realtors 901-853-5077 Plan designer: Don Conway of Conway Design Group List price: $619,900 List price of this plan (without the lot): $549,900

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The PIPER SUPPLIERS LIST Builder: Inglewood Homes 901-362-6268 Appliances: Ferguson Kitchen, Bath and Lighting Gallery 662-895-4795 Cabinets: Prostone Kitchen & Bath 662-874-8307 Ceramic Tile: Memphis Tile & Marble 901-461-8205 Concrete: Cordova Concrete 901-853-4920 Counter Tops: Prostone Kitchen & Bath 901-759-3820 Doors & Millwork: Thrifty Building Supply, LLC 901-853-2200 AREA CALCULATIONS Drywall: Skill Pro Paint & Drywall 2,696 sqft HEATED 1ST FLOOR 901-361-0030 OVERALL WIDTH: Banks 64'-2" Electric Electric: 693 sqft HEATED 2ND FLOOR901-647-5198 OVERALL DEPTH: Ferguson 73'-9" 3,379 sqft Faucets: Kitchen, Bath and Lighting Gallery TOTAL HEATED 731-610-6366 CDG# 3379-64-74 Fireplaces: Wells Building Supply 901-363-4999 319 sqft covered porches Fixtures: Ferguson Kitchen, Bath and Lighting Gallery garages 901-466-8118 766 sqft Flooring: B & C Flooring 901-843-0187 5240 POPLAR AVE. 4,464 sqft gross footage -Third FloorMemphis, TN. Footings & Foundation: Concrete Specialties 662-429-0416 first floor ceiling hgt. 10'-0" 38119 Garage Doors: Precision 901-382-6242 second floor ceiling hgt. 9'-0" DES IGN G R ODoors U P INC. 901.567.5526 HVAC: Waller Heat & Air 901-508-4587 Insulation: County Line Insulation 901-853-0403 Irrigation: A & W 901-794-4636 Lighting: Magnolia Lighting 901-861-1728 Locks: Graham's Lighting 901-853-4920 Masonry/ Brick: Christie Cut Stone 901-853-4920 Painting: Sherwin Williams 901-335-7603 Roofing: Wells Building Supply 662-874-8307 Security: Banks Electric 901-794-7370 Sound & Video Systems: Banks Electric 901-266-5685 Windows: Thrifty Building Supply, LLC 901-853-2200

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Lot 54

901-737-0028 eric@inglewood-homes.com

Inglewood Homes

ERIC TUCKER

The

PIPER

155

EGG FARM CIRCLE

With 3 bedrooms downstairs and a three-car garage, The Piper is designed for ground-floor living. It is a spacious and open floor plan with tall ceilings and exceptional natural light. This sprawling one-and-a-halfstory farmhouse has 3,531 square feet of heated space with custom details throughout. The Piper has 3.5 baths, a separate dining room, and specialty ceilings with custom millwork throughout the entire home. The kitchen is equipped with professional built-in appliances, tile backsplashes, a brick wall in the breakfast room, and a custom range hood hand-crafted from zinc. The master bath contains his and her vanities, his and her closets, a free-standing soaker tub, and separate shower area. Upstairs is a separate bunk room and bath adjoining a spacious media area. Finally the front and back covered porches with their bluestone flooring give a warm and inviting feel for entertaining friends and family.

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Continued from pg. 16 and probably give them things that they probably wouldn’t ordinarily put into those homes. Maybe you can quickly see features that would normally take you 25 homes to go through since the suppliers have discounted those products to help the builders with different things. People won’t do everything that’s in one of the houses, but they’ll see a particular sink, a particular tile, a particular wall color and say, ‘That’s it.’”

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With many attendees interested in different aspects of the houses, the builders have adapted to answer any questions, keeping lists of information detailing each type of material and color so that potential homebuyers can walk away knowing exactly what they want for their next home. Since Piperton Preserve is just over the Fayette County line, Russell says that many people have expressed surprise about the development being there. However, that may not be the case much longer with Piperton’s steady growth rate. “It’s a chance to learn more about the city. We’re also busy, but even though it’s five minutes from Collierville, you sometimes don’t get here or have an excuse to be here, and VESTA gives them that. For a small community, it’s very well-planned. We started with 500 people and are up to 2,000. If we continue that process, it’s a debt-free town, a town with full-time fire and police forces, and a small town that’s run well and has grown at a rate that’s sustainable.” With the city having progressed so much, the VESTA Home Show is the perfect way to cultivate interest in the community. “People are naturally curious about new homes,” says Russell. “Rent or own, it’s the most essential thing we’ll have in our lives.”

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Presenting Sponsor:

The Bank of Fayette County By Julia Baker From October 6th through 28th, The Bank of Fayette County will serve as presenting sponsor for this year’s VESTA Home Show in the new Piperton Preserve at RusDun Farms in Piperton. The VESTA Home Show, hosted by the West Tennessee Home Builders Association, will feature five modern farmhouses displaying the newest technologies, products, and goods on the market. The Bank of Fayette County helped to finance these five model homes built by The Dave Moore Companies, Inglewood Homes, Eller Construction, East Construction, and Andrews Investments, LLC. H. McCall Wilson, Jr., the bank’s president, thought sponsoring this year’s VESTA Home Show was imperative. “VESTA is in our backyard,” says Wilson. “I could almost hit a golf ball into the development. We had to become the sponsor because it’s in our community.” The Bank of Fayette County is dedicated to serving its community and developing deep relationships with their customers. Not only do employees know most of their customers by name, the bank goes out of its way to provide the best possible service to each customer. “We’ll work with people who need money to get their teeth fixed for $200, to get their transmission fixed, or people who need to buy a $1,500 car so they can get to work,” says Wilson. “We take care of those people.” Even during the Recession, The Bank of Fayette County took its customer service very seriously. “Instead of badgering people about paying us back [on loans], we would call and ask if they were okay,” says Wilson. “If they couldn’t pay us back in full, we would work with them and let them pay half.” Wilson says the bank’s business model is different than other banks. “Our model is do the best you can for somebody,” says Wilson. “You don’t serve 114 years by taking advantage of people, or only thinking about yourself.” It was because of this business model that the bank has been able to withstand both World Wars, the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, hyperinflation, and countless regulations.

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The bank was first established by seven local businessmen in 1905 in Moscow, Tennessee, under the moniker Moscow Savings Bank to create commerce in the town. “It wasn’t about getting rich, and it wasn’t about growing the bank,” says Wilson. “It was about helping the community grow and making it a better community. We still live by that philosophy today.”

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Wilson and the entire staff at the bank strive to put a personal touch wherever they can and to be all about the community. The bank’s four other branches have been named to represent the communities they serve: The Bank of Hardeman County, The Bank of McNairy County, The Bank of Mason, and The Bank of Collierville. Although each branch has a different name, customers from one branch are able to use the other four branches interchangeably.

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The bank thrives off filling customers’ needs in any way possible. On top of offering home, car, used-car, motorcycle, unsecured, and business loans, the bank offers online and mobile banking, bill pay, and insurance (car, home, and life). The Bank of Fayette County offers five-percent prime lending rates and gives customers one percent back on savings accounts. Wilson is excited that The Bank of Fayette County will be this year’s presenting sponsor for the VESTA Home Show. “There are going to be people walking through the gate who have never heard about us before, and I want to be there to meet them and shake their hand,” he says. “We don’t do a lot of advertising. It’s just not who we are. We would rather be out in the community, talking with people.”

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Ambassadors will be present to answer any questions, show people around, and inform attendees about the services the bank provides. Wilson says the bank has sponsored four other VESTA Home Shows over the last 13 years: Windsor Park, Shaws Creek, Saunder’s Creek, and Hickory Withe. He’s very fond of the featured subdivision, RusDun Farms, which was formerly an egg farm. “It’s a great neighborhood, and it’s very established,” says Wilson. “And it’ll appeal to a larger group of people. It’s right off Highway 385 — you can be wherever you need to be in a short amount of time.” And Wilson adds, “Because the subdivision is close to Collierville, residents will receive the amenities of Collierville without the taxes.” This will be Piperton’s second VESTA Home Show with an estimated attendance of 15,000 to 16,000 attendees. Proceeds will benefit the Carl Perkins Center, a program for abused children.

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FACT SHEET

FIRST FLOOR

Heated sq. ft: 3,500 Number of bedrooms: 3 downstairs, 1 upstairs Number of bathrooms: 3.5 Total number of rooms: 12 Number of stories: 1.5 Garage size: 3 cars Realtor: Melissa Thompson, Crye-Leike 901-729-9526 List price: $609,900

SECOND FLOOR

The RUSSELL SUPPLIERS LIST Builder: East Construction Co. Inc. Appliances: Ferguson Kitchen, Bath and Lighting Gallery Cabinets: Designer Cabinets Ceramic Tile: Daltile Closets: Inspired Closets Counter Tops: Pro Stone Concrete: Cordova Concrete Doors & Millwork: Thrifty Building Supply Drywall: M&W Construction Electric: Goodman Electric Faucets: Ferguson Kitchen, Bath and Lighting Gallery Fireplaces: Wells Building Supply Fixtures: Ferguson Kitchen, Bath and Lighting Gallery Magnolia Lighting Flooring: Smith Tile Company Framing/ Carpentry: Richard Allen Garage Doors: Precision Door HVAC: Cordova Heating & Air Insulation: Country Line Lighting, Landscaping, & Irrigation: Memphis Irrigation & Lighting Locks: Magnolia Lighting Masonry/ Brick: Christie Cut Stone Painting: CTD Painting Plumbing: Epstein Plumbing Co. Roofing: Wells Building Supply Security: Williams Security Siding/Carpentry: Richard Allen Sound & Video Systems: Williams Security Trim Carpentry: Magnolia State Construction Windows: Dyke Industries

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Lot 58

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All bedrooms have large walk-in closets and a split layout gives the master suite privacy. The laundry room is located by the master suite and is accessible from the hallway as well as the walk-in closet. As an extra feature, an upstairs bonus room space with five-foot knee walls perfectly provides the media room and living space. The Russell also has a three-car garage.

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FACT SHEET Heated sq. ft: 3,860 Number of bedrooms: 4 Number of bathrooms: 4 Total number of rooms: 8 Number of stories: 2 Garage size: 3 cars (with stairs to attic storage) Plan designer: Classic Home Designs (901-854-6900) List price: $630,000 List price of plan (without lot): $525,000

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Small statues with red bibs are frequently seen in Japan, which represent deities that protect children.

Even the teeniest hotel room is outfitted with some version of this cleansing toilet set with adjustable water spray features for the nethers. The better ones not only allow you wide options, angles, and temperatures for sanitary functions but will provide a heated seat should you so desire. Why this hasn’t caught on in this country is, like the paucity of Kit-Kat flavors, a mystery to me. It was helpful that every restaurant we visited had pictures on the menus, making it easier for fumbling tourists to choose their fare. We discovered that the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, headquartered in Dallas but Japanese-owned, has stores everywhere and is the one reliable place to exchange currency as well as grab whatever else you might need should you fancy Jack Daniel’s, exotic desserts, analgesics, or a white shirt and tie, although, guys, you won’t find a shirt that fits if you’re bigger than L. And we were delighted to attempt conversations, which isn’t always easy in such a formal culture. A peanut vendor in one of the markets sized us up, asked where in America we were from (how could he tell?) and when I told him, he started singing a remarkably beautiful rendition of “The Tennessee Waltz.” He followed that with a serious comment, which took me a few moments to understand — a plea that the United States do all it could to keep the peace. This was when the North Koreans were tossing missiles over the Japanese mainland, and all I could do was bow and promise that we’d do our best to keep the mad men in check. Finally, Maritza went to her workshop and I went to Narita airport where I missed my plane. So I stayed overnight in the Nine Hours capsule hotel at the airport, a place where you store your belongings in a locker and sleep in a four-foot by four-foot by eight-foot cubicle. Bigger than a coffin, it was as clean, comfortable, economical, and restful a place as I’ve ever enjoyed. And I could meditate on the remarkably eclectic journey Maritza and I had enjoyed, from the Zen gardens to the exhibition of works by Bosch and Bruegel at the Osaka Art Museum. Maybe we’ll squeeze in a visit to Tokyo next time.

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Band of Brothers How Brother Terence McLaughlin helped transform Memphis.

by jane roberts

y some cosmic sweep of coincidence, Brother Terence McLaughlin has spent more time in Memphis than at any other Christian Brothers’ outpost in the world. And in early 1960s Memphis, his no-nonsense manner and good judgment quietly and utterly changed the lives of first one boy, and then a trickle that grew to a stream.

The boy was Jesse Turner Jr., who grew up to earn his undergraduate degree and MBA from the University of Chicago and returned home to one day be named president of the long storied TriState Bank, later acting on the national stage as a member of the NAACP’s board of directors. But in the summer of 1963, Turner was an average 13-yearold from the south side of Memphis. He had just finished eighth grade at St. Augustine’s Catholic School, one of a handful of Catholic elementary schools for black children in Memphis. The logical path, pursued by hundreds before and after him, was to begin his

freshman year at Father Bertrand High School at 1169 Kerr, a few blocks from the Turners’ home at South Parkway and Bellevue. If young Jesse Turner was a regular kid, his parents, Jesse Sr. and Allegra, were decidedly irregular. The fall before, they had taken the audacious step of trying to get their oldest son admitted to Christian Brothers High School, the all-white Catholic high school the Brothers established here in 1871. Brother McLaughlin, a firsttime college/high school administrator, accepted the application, not because he was a liberal from the North bent on chang-

ing the South, but because he saw no reason why an earnest, hard-working boy of any color should not have the right to go to a Brothers’ school. “I was sympathetic because it was the right thing to do, as the president of the college-high school complex. And here was a good student who wanted to come,” Brother Terence explains, remembering the turmoil he deliberately unleashed more than 55 years ago. At 95, Terence McLaughlin is the oldest living Christian Brother in a stretch of Catholicism from New Orleans to Minneapolis. He’s straight as a pole,

above: Brother Terence McLaughlin (left) and Jesse Turner Jr. stroll on the Christian Brothers campus.

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“The Brothers’ mission is to educate the poor.” — brother terence

Brother Terence with the restored statue of St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle on the campus of CBU.

more than 6 feet tall, inclined to drab colors, but still takes satisfaction in his work. He lives with 10 other Brothers in a commune of sorts on the Christian Brothers University campus. Each of them has a single bed, dresser, chair and desk, in a series of individual rooms so close to the busy railroad tracks on Avery that their nights, in truth, are a series of three or four quiet intervals. Every day of the year, the Brothers rise at 6 a.m. for morning prayer and breakfast. And then, as McLaughlin has done for the 78 years he’s been a Christian Brother, he goes to work. For more than 55 years, he started, taught, and led various Christian Brothers’ schools in the Midwest — first their high schools, then their colleges. In

2000, he retired at 78 and was sent by the Lasallian Order to live out his retirement at Lambert Hall on the CBU campus. He’s now been back in Memphis for 18 years. The restored statue of St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, in front of the Brothers’ home, is an example of his ingenuity in retirement. Until it was crushed by falling trees in Hurricane Elvis, the statue oversaw the comings and goings on campus. McLaughlin, known affectionately among his fellow Brothers as the “dean,” had the pieces hauled to the garage while he looked for someone in town who could put the statue back together. “That’s just an example of what he will do,” says Brother Joel McGraw, a stalwart in the leadership and faculty at Christian Brothers

High School for 50 years. “That’s always been his way; he’ll do the things people won’t see. That’s what Brothers do.” McLaughlin smiles at that, then shakes his head in feigned contempt with McGraw who, at 73, is one of the youngsters in the order here. Even with its two new young recruits, the average age now easily approaches 80. “You gotta watch Joel,” he says. When he dies, McLaughlin will be buried at Calvary Cemetery, in a plot the Brothers own, surrounded by Irish Travelers, and at least a thousand miles from his closest relative. If anything makes McLaughlin sad, it’s that the brotherhood of men that numbered at least 400 in the Midwest District in his day has dwindled to about 130. He’s also quietly devastated that the eight Jubilee Schools, the network of inner-city Catholic schools that reopened in Memphis just as McLaughlin was retiring, are slated to close for good when this school year ends. There are plans to reopen them as charter schools, but McLaughlin knows public schools can never teach Catholic theology or ethics, and he wonders what will come of the mostly poor black and Hispanic children the schools have served for the last 18 years. “The Brothers’ mission is to educate the poor,” Brother Terence says, shaking his head. “We’ve also relied on those schools to provide diversity at the [Christian Brothers] high school.” In 1963, Christian Brothers High was a school for white boys. Today, about 10 percent of its 900 students are African American. Like other private schools in Memphis, it would have naturally integrated on its own without the Turners. With them, integration happened a full 10 years before Plan Z, approved by Judge Robert McRae, set in place the forced busing of 40,000 Memphis City Schools children. McLaughlin remembers fondly the grace and courage of Allegra Turner, a communicant at St. Augustine Catholic Church. So intent on getting a good education for her children in the segregated South, in 1961 she single-handedly picketed Immacu-

late Conception, pushing a baby in a carriage back and forth in front of the elementary school with another child in her arms, when it refused to admit Jesse’s younger brother, Eric. “The hero of this story is Mrs. Turner,” McLaughlin says. “She’s a modern-day saint.” After Jesse Jr. was admitted to the high school, the Turners’ other two sons followed. Ray was the first to integrate the school’s football team, (although older brother Jesse is quick to say he quit when he was not allowed to play) and Eric, the youngest boy, was the first African American elected student body president in the East Memphis private school. It’s hard to describe how restlessly Allegra and her husband waited after the 1954 Brown v. the Topeka Board of Education decision for Memphis to comply. For every year that passed, at least one of their five children was attending a substandard school. “I had never spoken about integration up North. There wasn’t a question, really,” says Brother Terence, who taught school in the Midwest before he was sent to Memphis. “Down here, it was different,” he says. McLaughlin arrived for his first of three Memphis stints in 1949. He stayed a few years, teaching ethics, mechanical drawing, American history, and serving as athletic director and freshmen basketball coach before he was reassigned to another school in the North. In 1962, he was sent back to Memphis. That fall, the National Guard massed in the city for the march to Oxford, Mississippi, and the standoff at the University of Mississippi. “Into this, Mama applies for acceptance at CBHS, and Brother Terence says ‘Yes,’” says Jesse Turner, now 68. “We think, ‘He doesn’t probably understand what he is doing.’ If you move into an area, you usually don’t make waves. “There were no hoops to jump through. ‘Yes, you have to take the entrance exam and show you went to grade school,’ he told us. In other words, you have to do what everyone else does. But there is no one standing in the schoolhouse door saying,

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‘There will never be a black person at Christian Brothers.’” The Turners could not believe how profoundly their fortunes had changed. “My father’s thinking was: ‘We believe in America. And you who are white Americans, do what you say you believe. Don’t talk about it and not follow through. Racial discrimination is un-American. You don’t need a revolution. You just need to get people to follow the laws that are here.’” “At last someone comes up and, not being forced, pushed, or sued, says, ‘OK.’ I think my father was so proud of Brother Terence. He has to have great credit for doing what he did.” But the fight wasn’t over yet.

rother Terence was born John Patrick McLaughlin in 1922, to Catholic immigrants from Ireland and Scotland trying to make a living in the windswept and frigid port of Duluth, Minnesota. His father was a construction foreman; his mother, a homemaker. They sent their son to Catholic schools. Young McLaughlin was so impressed by the Brothers who ran his high school at the height of the Depression that by the middle of his sophomore year, he was ready to join them. “I admired the life of the Brothers. I think I told my parents I would like to join them. I got great encouragement from my mother. Irish mothers were strong influencers of their sons entering religious life,” he says with a chuckle. He left Duluth on the train, headed to Glencoe, Missouri, in the foothills of the Ozarks. Glencoe had been the spiritual home of the Lasallian Christian Brothers since 1886. All young men who wanted to pursue a life in the order started out there in dorms marked with long rows of single beds, each accompanied by a chair and foot locker. Every boy had a hook for his clothes and later, his Brother’s habit. McLaughlin and the rest of the 101 recruits emptied out their pockets. “It was understood that you turned your money in because really, there was no place to spend it,” McLaughlin says. The Brothers take a vow of celibacy and poverty. Brother Terence doesn’t like the word poverty and wishes the vows would be rewritten to better reflect the reality of their lives, noting that he and several others have televisions in their rooms. “Poverty isn’t the right word,” he explains. “Community is a better word because we share what we have with each other. We give of ourselves and what we own. That forms the brotherhood.” But he’s the first to say that living every day, celebrating every holiday, and sharing possessions with a group — of now elderly men — is one of the hardest parts of the discipline. “That’s why we speak so much about what

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After graduating from the University of Chicago, Jesse Turner Jr. would serve as president of Tri-State Bank.

we do! We bring back ideas from the people we meet. We invite instructors in for lunch with us. “We need this. We have to keep alive and know what the young people are thinking. But we also have to keep our professional life together. Maybe in the early days of the religious orders, they kept to themselves. It can’t be that way now.” He wonders occasionally what his life would have been like if he hadn’t joined the Christian Brothers. “Truthfully, I think I would have died in the front lines,” he reflects. “We had a guy in the novitiate [first] year whom I’d known since we were in elementary school. He left us the summer of 1940; he thought the brotherhood was not for him. At that time, we didn’t talk among

ourselves about why someone left. We figured he didn’t have a vocation and would do something else.” The man was drafted and died in the European theater. “Really, being a Brother gave me opportunities in education and religious life that I do not think I otherwise would have had. It really put me on track to carry out the mission of the Brothers,” McLaughlin says. And it was good for the Brothers, Brother Joel McGraw says. “Nothing has failed under Terence’s leadership. He’s respected as the dean. No one dislikes Terence. He’s a good community Brother, and a good school man. He has a religious dimension, and he’s plain as an old shoe.”

t’s difficult to understand what the possibility of a fine education for their children meant to Jesse and Allegra Turner without knowing their own struggle for education. Both earned graduate degrees at the University of Chicago in the 1940s while Jim Crow segregation lay like a smog across the South. Jesse was six months short of finishing his undergrad degree at LeMoyne College when he was drafted in 1941. “He appealed the draft decision,” says Turner Jr., who recounts the details of the family’s stories with deliberate order. “The Army assigned him to Memphis to finish his education. “There are these moments where not everyone acts the way you expect them to act,” he says quietly and then smiles. “That allowed him to get his degree.” Allegra did well in elementary school, but black children in New Roads, Louisiana, did not go to high school. Her parents found a way. “She went to Baton Rouge, 30 miles away, as a ninth-grader and lived and worked in an orphanage,” Turner explains. “The family feared reprisals if folks learned she was going away to school. People were told she was working and not getting an education.” When she graduated, Allegra enrolled at Southern University, the historically black college in Baton Rouge. After graduation, she went to work for the War Department in Washington and saved her money to go, she hoped, to the University of Chicago. She had enough for one semester when she decided to go until the money ran out. About that time, Turner says, a relative discovered that, in those “separate but equal” days in Louisiana, state taxpayers paid for black students to attend school elsewhere if the graduate program they wanted was at Louisiana State University. “Louisiana paid to send her to the University of Chicago, rather than to let her go to LSU,” he says. There Allegra earned a master’s degree in human development and met Jesse Turner.

n a terse handwritten note to Brother McLaughlin dated May 22, 1963, Bishop William Adrian, head of the Diocese of Nashville, chastised the Memphis Brother for his “unfortunate” decision to “register a negro student” without consulting the head of the Catholic schools in Memphis. The policy on mixing the races in the parochial schools in Memphis, the bishop reminded Brother Terence, then a 40-yearold first-time college administrator, was that this would happen when priests in Shelby County said it was time. “Evidently, you misunderstood or ignored this,” Bishop Adrian wrote in a series of letters McLaughlin has saved. He made it clear that he was turning the issue over to Father John Elliott, superintendent of the Catholic schools in Memphis. “We will await his decision.” Adrian was not unsympathetic to the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision. In Nashville, he immediately oversaw the integration of the city’s Catholic schools. But Memphis, he feared, was a totally different situation. Brother Terence believes Bishop Adrian didn’t want controversy. “He said it would be up to the priests in Memphis to decide,” McLaughlin says, remembering the agony he felt about the issue, playing out at the same time he was trying to raise money to build the new Christian Brothers High School on Walnut Grove. “Then the superintendent of the schools says, ‘No, it’s up to the bishop,’” McLaughlin says, shaking his head and laughing. “No one wanted to be the fall guy.” By March of 1963, Bishop Adrian had come up with a plan to gradually and peacefully integrate the church’s Memphis schools. Starting that fall, African-American children in grades 1 through 4 would be allowed to enroll. Two years later, the schools would accept non-white children through the eighth grade. In the fall of 1966, Memphis Catholic High and Christian Brothers High School would be integrated.

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Memphis priests were instructed to read the plan from the pulpit. Allegra Turner heard it and wondered what it meant for her son, Jesse, whom Brother Terence had already accepted. In the meantime, Brother Adrian was getting an earful of fretting from a cadre of Memphis priests who saw nothing but trouble if the Turner boy was allowed to enter. “It was certainly possible that some of their parishioners would be upset, and this is what they feared,” McLaughlin says in Silent Acceptance, the book he wrote in 2012 about his experience. “It was this silent acceptance that I found so hard to take, a going along with the status quo without speaking out on Gospel values.” Brother Terence still had hope, mainly because he knew some Memphis priests were on his side. He went to visit Allegra Turner at her home. When she saw him at the door, she quickly escorted her children out of the house. “‘Brother,’ she said, ‘I will not permit my children to hear what you are going to tell me,’” McLaughlin recalls. “She thought I was going to tell her that Jesse would not be allowed to

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“I realized the door had been opened for me. My job was to go through it.” — jesse turner jr. enroll. [But] we wanted Jesse at the school. We strategized about how to get him in. One of the ways was to involve the NAACP. I encouraged them to sue,” he explains. Besides being president of Tri-State Bank, Jesse Turner Sr. was also president of the Memphis branch of the NAACP. In 1957, the Turners sued the Memphis Public Library when its staff refused to allow Allegra to check out a book. The Turners made it clear that they considered Brother Terence’s signed letter of acceptance a binding contract. They filed their suit against the school and Bishop Adrian. About a week later, McLaughlin got a call from a very agitated Father Elliott, superintendent of schools. “It was as much to say, ‘You got us into this trouble. Those people said you said things you couldn’t have said,’” Brother Terence recalls, smiling as he remembers the conversation. “I told him that I said all those things.” Young Jesse Turner watched the back and forth as it played out in his parents’ hushed conversations. “It was out of our hands, but that summer, I decided the thing I could do was say the Rosary every day, and to add to it, I would go up in the attic to do it. Some days, it was 80, 100 degrees up there,” he says, smiling at the fervency of his prayer. When the Catholic hierarchy realized that the senior Turner was head of the local NAACP, they told McLaughlin to quietly admit the boy “with as little publicity as possible.”

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“I wanted to go. At first, it was the novelty of going,” Turner Jr. says today. “I knew my parents had done their part. Brother Terence had done his part. I realized the door had been opened for me. My job was to go through it.” McLaughlin remembers Allegra Turner coming to school on the first day and searching his face for reassurance that her boy would be safe. “Brother, do I have to stay or may I go home?” she said. “This is not a young kid coming to school for the first time,” McLaughlin says when he tells the story now, nearly six decades later. “I said to her , ‘Don’t worry. There will be no trouble.’” Brother Terence, for reasons he will never know, was transferred to Chicago at the end of the 1962-63 school year. It’s possible, he says, the bishop thought he needed to be taught a lesson. But in his optimism, McLaughlin says the hierarchy did him a favor by sending him to a tough assignment in Chicago, where public and Catholic schools were in a fiercely pitched battle over sharing taxpayer-funded facilities. McLaughlin was named head of the school, St. Paul Dual Enrollment School, which eventually meant 500 parochial students had access to chemistry and other expensive programs in the Chicago public schools. “It worked,” McLaughlin says. “I think we did some real good work there.” In Memphis, where a large batch of Catholic schools are now scheduled to close, some days, Brother Terence admits, it’s harder for him to see that the work here has paid off as much. Jesse Turner Jr. sees it differently. His brother, Ray, became a psychologist; one of his clients is the Memphis Police Department. His little brother, Eric, earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Harvard University, and in the 1990s, was executive director of the Massachusetts State Lottery. Turner Jr.’s youngest son, Brian, a recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, is headed to Columbia University this fall after wrapping up a paid internship in architecture at Askew Nixon Ferguson. “I was talking to one of the principals and I asked why they decided to offer my boy this chance,” he says. “The response was that the firm — this old white firm in Memphis — believes its internship program has had success in getting talented young people to return home. “No one was thinking that way in 1962 when Brother Terence did what he did. The stone he dropped in the water ripples out with every generation,” Turner says. “Things have changed immensely.” A former reporter for The Commercial Appeal, Jane Roberts is minister of communications at Church of the Holy Communion.

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Selecting a school that best fits a child’s needs is one of the most important decisions a parent can make. In the MidSouth, families have a wide variety of high-quality educational opportunities, both public and independent. The Memphis Association of Independent Schools (MAIS) represents 35 of the region’s finest private schools, each of which is unique, and all of which share a commitment to educational excellence, meeting the needs of individual students, and building a stronger community. What does “independent” mean? Each MAIS member school is guided by its own mission, selects its own curriculum, creates its own educational environment, and is governed by its own board. We are independent in our educational offerings and differ in whom we serve. Among our members, you will find schools designed for specific age groups, co-education, and single gender. Some are secular in their approach to education while others are religiously affiliated. Some are designed to address children with special needs; some are progressive, while others have a more traditional teaching and learning environment. All MAIS schools nurture intellectual curiosity, encourage critical thinking, and promote personal growth through hard work, leadership, personal responsibility, and good citizenship. Bound by neither national nor state curricular standards, independent schools have the freedom to create their own distinctive curricula and extracurricular programs for their particular community of learners. Most importantly, they have the autonomy to meet individual needs within a community where student, teacher, and parent work together for each student’s success. Students from all socioeconomic backgrounds attend independent schools, and many schools work with families to help meet the costs associated with an independent school education. Most independent schools have low student-teacher ratios that encourage close connections between students and teachers and between the school and

home. Because the classes tend to be small, teachers at independent schools develop an understanding of their students’ learning and potential, inside and outside the classroom. They expect all students to succeed and encourage students to explore and value perseverance and achievement. Often, these relationships transcend the school day as teachers become life mentors for students. All of our schools prepare students for the challenges they will face in life. Independent schools nurture not just students’ intellectual ability and curiosity but also their personal and social growth and civic conscience. Opportunities extend well beyond the classroom for athletic competitions, artistic pursuits, and school leadership experiences. Students and teachers of independent schools are committed volunteers and engaged citizens throughout the MidSouth. Community service, whether required or voluntary, is a core component of MAIS schools. When choosing a school, parents are wise to seek out a school whose mission, philosophy, values, and teaching approach are right for their family, to consider the culture, curriculum, and extracurriculars that answer the essential question, “Is this school a good fit for my child?” The purpose of this publication is to provide you with information about the outstanding educational opportunities that exist at the 35 independent schools that comprise the Memphis Association of Independent Schools (MAIS). We are grateful for the opportunity to partner with Memphis Magazine in presenting this information. MAIS is proud to represent the thousands of area families who have chosen an independent school education for their children. For those who would like to learn more about our schools, I invite you to schedule visits and tour their campuses. We will welcome you!

Albert L. Throckmorton Head of St. Mary’s Episcopal School

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Q&A

Albert With Throckmorton

Head of school at St. Mary’s Episcopal School and president of the MAIS Memphis: What does a school need to do in order for it to be accepted into MAIS? With all the member institutions working under the same organization, does that make MAIS the best resource for parents trying to find the best educational fit for their child? Throckmorton: Member schools meet the Association’s criteria for educational objectives, philosophy, policy, length of the school day and year, financial stability, and facilities. They all subscribe to a federal non-discriminatory admissions policy. To apply for membership, a school must either be approved by the Tennessee Department of Education, Southern Association of Independent Schools, or accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS/CASI). Presently, over 35 schools in the greater Memphis area are now members of the association. They represent approximately 13,000 students and 1,000 staff members. MAIS membership, therefore, is a helpful indicator for parents when looking for a quality independent school. It gives them confidence that the schools are accredited and meeting important academic, financial, and safety standards.

There are a wide variety of schools that are members of MAIS. How is the organization able to unite a diverse group of institutions with different demographic and religious aims to serve towards a common purpose of offering high levels of education to the community? We are united by our common goal to educate our students well within our particular educational missions. The Memphis Association of Independent Schools promotes the role of independent schools to the public and provides school leaders with a forum for discussion of common concerns. This collaboration strengthens the total educational program of the member schools by sharing best practices about teaching and learning, governance, admissions, curriculum, health and safety, technology, hiring, and ethics. MAIS also keeps its member schools aware of legislative developments at the state, regional, and national level. As an association of schools, we are also better able to encourage cooperation between public schools and independent schools. The Association is invited to participate in federally funded projects and to meet with the city and county schools on these matters. Because MAIS is the representative body for independent schools in the greater Memphis area, it also

Many MAIS schools have community service programs or offer service opportunities. How do the service programs offered by many MAIS schools contribute to students’ overall education? Independent schools education seeks to teach the whole individual in mind, soul, and body. Part of that mission includes developing students’ sense of their community and their responsibility to serve and understand their neighbors—locally and beyond. Community service programs are ubiquitous in independent schools— some are mandatory and some are voluntary. This kind of hands-on, experiential learning is integral to our schools’ missions of teaching the whole child, which includes ethics, civics, and, for many faith-based schools, loving your neighbor through acts of service and mercy. Many independent schools place a heavy emphasis on preparing their students for the future. What are some of the curriculum choices MAIS schools make to prepare their students for college, adulthood, and the workforce? Most independent schools describe themselves as “college-preparatory” and expand their goal to preparing them for lives as responsible, productive citizens. To accomplish this far-reaching goal, schools adopt an array of choices that include learning difference accommodations, standardized test preparation, socioemotional curricula, drug and alcohol awareness programs, mind and body wellness instruction, college readiness courses, and career counseling. In addition to curriculum, many independent schools create a student culture that instills mindsets and skills for communication, collaboration, and problem solving. One of the most important skills that independent schools provide their graduates is the love and ability to be a lifelong learner. A 2017 report published by Dell Technologies, authored by the Institute for the Future (IFTF) and a panel of 20 tech, business, and academic experts from around the world, estimates that 85 percent of jobs in 2030 haven’t been invented yet. The pace of change will be so rapid the ability to gain new knowledge will be more valuable than the knowledge itself.

What makes independent education stand out from the standard public education system? What are the benefits of choosing to attend an independent school? First, I must emphasize that Memphis needs all its schools to thrive—both public and independent. Parents deserve a choice when finding the school that will best fit their children’s needs. Independent schools are different from public schools because they are governed by a board of trustees, not a public school board. They are primarily supported by tuition payments, charitable contributions, and endowment revenue. Independent school teachers have the freedom to create educational experiences that meet each child’s needs, without state mandates on curriculum, textbooks, and testing. Independent schools are close-knit communities that provide students with individualized attention. They challenge students to stretch their minds and go beyond academics to develop them into responsible, independent, and communityoriented adults. As a result, more students

in independent schools enroll in advanced courses than in public, parochial, and other private schools. Also, graduates of independent schools have a greater likelihood of completing a bachelor’s degree or graduate degree. Since independent schools are directed at the campus-level, not by a district, they can make nimble decisions in the interest of their students. Low student-teacher ratios encourage close connections between teachers and students and promote more frequent communication with parents about the unique potential and paths of their children. Whether co-ed or single sex, day school or boarding school, faith-based or secular, each independent school is driven by its own unique philosophy, values, and approach to teaching. The wide diversity among independent schools allows parents to find one that is the right fit for their children.

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Christ the King Lutheran School 5296 Park Avenue, Memphis, TN 38119 • 901.682.8405 Equipping Children for Christian Leadership. • ctkschool.com Founded in 1956, Christ the King offers a strong Christ the academic foundation with one primary goal: “Equipping Children for Christian Leadership”. From 18 months to Grade 8, we provide a nurturing classroom environment that enhances the spiritual, emotional, and academic growth of our students. Accredited by AdvanceED and NLSA, students receive opportunities to become all they can possibly be. Our traditional curriculum offers a challenging, integrated approach that enables all types of learners to be prepared to advance with confidence. Lea d er ship d eve l o p men t is achieved through the numerous opportunities our students have to serve local, regional, and world wide communities in various capacities: athletics, art, and student service council.

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Lower School (PK-5th): 1920 Forest Hill Irene Road, Germantown, TN 38139 • 901.754.4420 Shelby Farms Campus (6th-12th): 7600 Macon Road, Cordova, TN 38018 • 901.754.7217 Exemplary Academics. Uncompromising Mission. • ecseagles.com Since 1965, Evangelical Christian School has been the premier discipleship-based private school in the Memphis area. One of only 15 schools in the nation to hold ACSI’s Exemplary Accreditation, we aim to provide the Christian family a Christcentered, biblically directed education that challenges students to know the Lord Jesus Christ and to develop the vision and practice of excellence in academics, character, leadership, and service to others. ECS prepares students to be world- and collegeready, exemplified by our 2018 graduating class receiving over $15 million in scholarships to 80 colleges and universities across the country with the top 25 percent averaging a 30 on the ACT. At ECS, we seek to truly know our students and families on a deeper, more personal level, and in return, they get to know us in the same way — from teachers to administration. ECS currently serves students in pre-K through 12th grade on two campuses — the Lower School campus in Germantown and the Upper and Middle School campus near Shelby Farms in Cordova.

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At Memphis’ Dominican Community of Schools, we have long been committed to creating an environment where every student feels the love and confidence that fuels achievement and success.

We are two schools.

The verdict is in on single-gender education, and there is little doubt that boys-only and girls-only classrooms can unlock potential and achievement in ways that co-ed instruction just cannot. Boys and girls learn differently, behave differently, and are developing emotionally in very different ways. Our two schools — St. Agnes Academy, designed just for girls, and St. Dominic School, created just for boys — are proof of what is possible in environments that take these differences into account. And because we have two single-gender schools, we have the unique ability to bring boys and girls together when it can help them develop. Co-ed opportunities — including our outstanding early childhood and junior-high experiences - are something that you just won’t find at other single-gender schools.

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We are a community founded on the Dominican tradition of study, prayer, community and service. While we maintain two schools to drive academic development, we are — above all — united and defined by a common purpose. Come visit our school. There’s no better way to see and feel what makes the Dominican Community of Schools so extraordinary. You’ll see our stellar facilities, you’ll meet our impressive and engaging students, and you’ll leave knowing this very special place is where your family belongs.

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Parents choose CMDS because of our goal to educate the whole child – ing. They are challenged academically, academically, spiritually, physically, socially, and emotionally. Located in the they As know middle of Memphis, CMDS is for boys and girls, 2K to 6th but grade. anthey are in a place where safe to elementary school, we invest all of our time and resources it’s solely inspeak the up, to take chances, and curriculum and development of young children. Our environment provides a to make mistakes. Such an environment Educating the whole child .to. .take all inrisks, oneexplore place their nurturing, safe place for students God-given encourages independent of acceptance talents, and become leaders.Program And our(6curriculum foster all thepromotes self-confidence, and Early Education wks–2 yrs)is designed tothinking things that set children up for success as they move past their primary years; laying the groundwork for future success. Early Childhood (Grades 2K–SK) things like imagination, invention, and exploration. In short, we make learning Since 1958, our “Devotion to Direction” has child’s play! Elementary (Grades 1–6) been shining through the accomplishments

Before & After Care of our graduates, We encourage you to come see firsthand why we are the primary choice for who finish strong and Summer Camp Program go on to excel local families. Email admissions@cmdsmemphis.org with questions or toin the area’s finest middle register for one of the following events. schools and high schools. Music Academy

C.A.R.E.

(Concord Academy Redefines Education)

Sneak Peeks

Oct. 23 and Dec. 6

Open House Nov. 13

Discovery Days Nov. 27 and Dec. 4

Where every student is a success story Grades 6-12 • State Approved Special Education

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Fayette Academy 15090 Highway 64, Somerville, TN 38068 901.465.3241 • fayetteacademy.com

Inspiring Minds for Learning and Hearts for Christ

First Assembly Christian School 8650 Walnut Grove Road • Cordova, TN 38018 o901.458.5543 • f324-3558 • facsmemphis.org At FACS, our mission is more than educational excellence. Our goal is to build a culture of strong and determined people who reflect God’s righteous character and redemptive grace. This goal is evident in our classrooms. It is obvious in our faculty and coaching staff, and it is unmistakable in our graduates. As our students go on to college, as they occupy industry leadership positions, as they marry, build families, and advance their communities, they carry a priceless treasure. In all of life, regardless of where they live or how high they rise, they

Founded in 1965, Fayette Academy is a college preparatory school based on Christian beliefs and is dedicated to providing a quality education for students in PK3 through grade twelve. The school is committed to the development of each student with emphasis placed on academic, personal, moral, social and physical development in a safe environment.

The Academy Quick Facts • In 2018, 3 out of 4 Graduates were eligible to receive the Tennessee Hope Lottery Scholarship • 1 in 3 of Fayette Academy students taking the ACT test earns a score of 30+ in at least one subtest. • Apple One-to-One school • 15:1 Student Teacher ratio • 21 Honors, AP and Dual Enrollment classes offered • Ranked #11 in Memphis area for ACT composite scores in 2017 Fayette Academy welcomes students and families year round. Go to our website, fayetteacademy.com to schedule a tour or shadow day. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter

know how to honor God and others. Families visiting our 55-acre campus for the first time certainly notice the exceptional facilities and strong academic, athletic, and fine arts programs, but what they remark about is the atmosphere—a culture of honor that is distinct, even palpable. Visit today and see for yourself. PreK-12

Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School

Northpoint Christian School

246 S. Belvedere • Memphis, TN 38104 901.278.0200 • gslschool.org learnmore@gslschool.org

7400 Getwell Road, Southaven, MS 38672 662.349.5127 • 662.349.3096 ncstrojans.com

Grace-St. Luke’s Episcopal School is a coed, independent school located in the heart of Midtown’s beautiful Central Gardens neighborhood. Since 1947, GSL has been preparing boys and girls 2 years old through 8th grade to become creative problem solvers, confident lifelong learners, and responsible citizens in their communities and the world. The school’s ongoing success is rooted in its long tradition of educating the whole child. Come see firsthand why so many Mid-South families choose to make GSL their Anchor for Life.

Visit GSL Preschool Open House Nov. 10, 9 a.m.

Senior Kindergarten Open House Nov. 10, 10:30 a.m.

Tours are available year-round. To learn more about GSL’s Preschool, Lower School, or Middle School, call Director of Enrollment Shelly McGuire at 901.273.1085 or email learnmore@gslschool.org today!

Northpoint Christian School is a Christ-centered college preparatory school located in North Mississippi just minutes from Memphis, Collierville, and the surrounding area. Our students are taught to know and honor Jesus Christ, grow in knowledge and wisdom, and reach their God-given potential through every aspect of student life. We provide a distinctive Christian education for students in Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grade in a safe, nurturing environment with low teacher-pupil ratio. Our fully accredited program offers well-rounded extracurricular opportunities through academics, athletics, and arts at the elementary and high school level. We seek to enroll well-rounded, academically motivated students without regard to race, color, creed, sex, ethnic or natural origin. Call today to set up an appointment to tour the campus and meet with our admissions department. SEPTEMBER 2018 • MAIS GUIDE • 7

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St. Francis of Assisi School

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School

2100 Germantown Pkwy • Cordova, TN 38016 901.381.2548 • sfawolves.org

8151 Poplar Avenue, Germantown, TN, 38138 901.753.1181 • fax 901.754.1475 • olphowls.org

Building a Better World, One Student at a Time

At St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School, excellence in education, guided by love and service to God, underscores our mission. Through our Faith, our faculty, and our families, we remain committed to embracing each child’s individual talents and providing them an Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School is a co-educational Catholic engaging, and safe learning School dedicated to providing an accredited child-centered school of environment. Our commitment to academic excellence was recognized developmentally appropriate excellence, serving all qualified children of any by the U.S. Department of Education race, creed, national or ethnic origin. OLPH offers accredited programs for in 2010 when SFA was named a Blue preschool through eighth grade. In addition to the robust academic offerings, Ribbon School of Excellence. OLPH offers a variety of extra curricular and extended day offerings for all Our commitment continues today with a 21st Century digital and age levels. Our Lady of Perpetual Help School is firmly rooted in Christian values and collaborative learning approach. This approach provides academic offers an environment designed for the optimal development of the whole experiences for our students that are child a emphasized throughout the school program. It is the mission of Our challenging, relevant, and helps Lady of Perpetual Help School to instill in our students the fundamental them build relationships while beliefs of the Roman Catholic faith, ensuring quality learning experiences with making real-world connections. the highest regard for individual differences, while preparing them to live in St. Francis offers 1:1 technology in all a changing world as selfdirected, caring, responsible citizens.

grades using Apple iPad minis in grades 3K – 3rd and MacBook Air Laptops in grades 4-8. We offer advanced classes in middle school and gifted classes in the lower school to develop creative, critical thinking skills. Students who struggle in a traditional classroom setting receive remediation and differentiated instruction through our PLUS Program for children with diagnosed learning differences. We invite you to visit our school and see for yourself all that St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School has to offer your child.

Open Houses: Tuesday, Oct. 23rd 5-7pm Tuesday, Jan. 29th 9-11am

Play. Passion can’t be taught. But it can be nurtured and directed. Our balanced approach to education encourages your child to find and follow his passion to places he may never have dreamed. To schedule a tour, call 901.765.4605 or visit www.briarcrest.com.

OPEN HOUSE: Mon, Oct. 1st at 6:30pm–High School • Thurs, Nov. 1st at 9:30am–Elementary & Middle School Thurs, Nov. 1st at 6:30pm–High School • Thurs, Nov. 8th at 6:30pm–Elementary & Middle School

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One Campus

for Sr. K–Grade 12 in the Heart of the City Life with children is busy. We want to help. Our co-ed campus for sr. kindergarten–grade 12 offers a one-stop shop in the heart of East Memphis. Do you need care before and after school? We’ve got it 7:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Schedule a tour to see firsthand how we build strong students in a diverse Christian environment.

901-767-4494 | HARDINGLIONS.ORG

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FACTS

Parents often worry whether their children are provided the education needed to succeed in today’s fast-paced world. There are a number of schooling options for parents to choose from, including public, private, and home schools, but independent schools (specifically National Association of Independent Schools) may be the best option yet. In a 2015 research study, NAIS students were compared to students from other types of schools (public, public charter, public magnet, private religious, and homeschool) on a number of subject areas, including social integration and acceptance, academics, and engagement.

at a

GLANCE BY J U LI A BA K E R

SOCIAL INTEGRATION & ACCEPTANCE

Studies show that NAIS students prove to be highly socially integrated. Students are more likely than their counterparts to socialize with other ethnic groups, be tolerant of individuals with other beliefs, look at the world through other people’s perspectives, and work cooperatively with diverse people.

NAIS graduates were more likely to expect to participate in study abroad programs and have roommates of different ethnicities in college. Additionally, NAIS graduates were more likely to be in favor of same-sex marriage laws and for preferential treatment in college admissions for students of socially disadvantaged backgrounds.

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ACADEMICS

8.6:1

Teachers at NAIS Member Schools

NAIS schools have an 8.6:1 student-to-teacher ratio and a mean class size of 15, as well as a majority of teachers with more than 21 years of experience, making for a highly effective learning environment for students. NAIS students had a higher mean grade point average than their peers (3.52 vs. 3.38) and were more likely to have B+ averages. Students were more likely than their counterparts to have taken a probability/statistics or calculus class and were more likely to have finished four years of foreign language and physical science. This was reflected in students’ SAT and ACT scores, which were higher than students from other types of schools. SAT scores averaged 588 (vs. 494) in critical reading, 602 (vs. 508) in mathematics, and 587 (vs. 484) in writing. ACT scores averaged 28 (vs. 26). Independent school students rated themselves highest in abilities that included leadership, public speaking, and social self-confidence; and they were more likely than other students to show strength in critical thinking skills, interpersonal skills, and time management skills. NAIS graduates were more likely than graduates of other types of schools to graduate from college in four years or fewer, and they expected to graduate with at least a B average.

Average Student/ Teacher Ratio

Median Class Size

Number of Teachers in NAIS Member Schools, By Range of Teaching Experience 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 0

0-5 Years

6-10 Years 11-15 Years 16-20 Years 21+ Years

$12,166

Median Financial Aid Grant

Students Receiving Aid

$22,301

22.5%

Median Tuition, Day Schools (all grades)

$50,801

Median Tuition, Boarding Schools (all grades)

Based on 1,093 NAIS member schools that responded to the annual Data and Analysis for School Leadership (DASL) statistics survey for the 2014-15 academic year.

AVERAGE

S AT S C O R E S

NAIS STUDENTS EARN HIGHER SAT SCORES THAN THEIR PEERS IN OTHER TYPES OF SCHOOLS

NAIS Students

588

All Students Nationally

494 0

400

602 508 800

CRITICAL READING

Although average math scores were higher for males than females at all types of schools, NAIS students had smaller performance gaps.

587 482 1200

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MATHEMATICS

2000 WRITING

Source: “2015-2016 SAT Test Scores: National Averages and NAIS Schools”

ENGAGEMENT

NAIS students were found to be more likely than their peers to ask questions in class, seek solutions to problems and explain them to others, and seek feedback on academic work.

NAIS students from all income groups out-scored their peers nationally, but performance benefit was greatest among students from the lowest income brackets. NAIS students who took the SAT and at least one SAT subject test scored 209 points higher on the SAT than their peers who took no subject tests.

Students were more likely to be engaged with teachers by being guests in teachers’ homes, asking teachers’ advice after class, and talking with teachers outside of class.

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agile teaching

to build disciplined minds, adventurous spirits, and brave hearts

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Woodland combines small class sizes, dedicated teachers, and personalized instruction to help grow your child’s success. Call 901-685-0976 to schedule a tour, or email admissions@woodlandschool.org. A co-ed, 2-year-old – 8th grade independent school in the heart of East Memphis. | woodlandschool.org

ADMISSION

QUEST APPLYING TO INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS

Independent schools ask students to apply for admission, and the admission process typically begins almost a year before the student wants to enroll. In the fall, families investigate school websites, visit school open houses, and narrow down a list of the schools they’d like to apply to. Most applications are due in the winter, but deadlines vary from school to school. It’s important to check the deadline for each school. Independent schools often require:

• A completed application form, available from the school website or by calling the admission office • Your child’s most up-to-date academic transcript with grades from his or her current school • Teacher recommendations • Results of a standardized admissions test and/or a school-administered entrance exam

A FORMAL INTERVIEW WITH YOUR CHILD

Depending on your child’s age, some schools may also ask for parent statements describing the child, student essays, and/or student artwork, writing, or portfolios. The admission office is also the best source of information about various options for paying for an independent school education. Many schools ask families to submit an application for financial aid at the same time as the admission application. Admission interviews with students and their families take place in the fall and winter. For very young children, schools often conduct group interviews or have the child visit a class to help gauge whether the school is the right fit for the student’s needs. Each school works hard to assemble a student body that will benefit most from the type of education it offers. They also look for students whose strengths and personalities will complement those of other admitted students. Some schools weigh academic performance most heavily, but other schools look primarily at a student’s potential. Overall, each school aims to admit students

who are the right fit for the school, just as parents are looking for schools that are the right fit for their children and families. Independent schools typically send notification about admissions decisions in the spring, but some schools offer rolling admissions (offers of admission are made until the class fills up). For a student who’s accepted into several schools, a new challenge emerges — how to choose which to attend. Many schools allow admitted students to visit on a special day or provide some opportunity for students to visit the campus again. Sometimes, shadowing a current student can give the best sense of what it would be like to attend. For parents of prospective students, talking to current parents may help, too. Many schools provide contact information for parents who’ve agreed to speak about their experiences at the school. Reading the school’s newsletters and following it on social media can also help you get a sense of the school’s offerings and culture.

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MAIS DIRECTORY 2018 Bodine School 2432 Yester Oaks Drive Germantown, 38139 bodineschool.org 754-1800 Grades/gender: 1st-6th/coed Religion/specialty: Nondenominational/dyslexia Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 85; 10:1 Tuition: check with office; financial aid available Before- and after-school care: yes

Bornblum Jewish Community School 6641 Humphreys Boulevard, 38120 bornblum.org 747-2665 Grades/gender: K-8th/coed Religion/specialty: Jewish Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 108; 6:1 Tuition: $18,750 (grant given to every child; $6,500$9,500 parent responsibility per child) Before- and after-school care: yes

Briarcrest Christian School 76 South Houston Levee Road, Eads, 38028 briarcrest.com 765-4600 Grades/gender: PK2-12th/ coed Religion/specialty: Nondenominational Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 1,600; 11:1 Tuition: $$7,095-$15,695 Before- and after-school care: yes

Christ Methodist Day School 411 South Grove Park Road, 38117 cmdsmemphis.org 683-6873

Grades/gender: 2K-6th/coed Religion/specialty: Christian Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 510; 9:1 Tuition: $2,450-$12,995 Before- and after-school care: yes

Christ the King Lutheran School 5296 Park Avenue, 38119 ctkschool.com 682-8405 Grades/gender: 18 months8th/coed Religion/specialty: Lutheran Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 220; 15:1 Tuition: $7,210-$8,703 Before- and after-school care: yes Christian Brothers High School 5900 Walnut Grove Road, 38120 cbhs.org 261-4900 Grades/gender: 9th-12th/boys Religion/specialty: Roman Catholic Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 850; 14:1 Tuition: $14,000 Before- and after-school care: no

Collegiate School of Memphis 3353 Faxon Avenue, 38122 collegiatememphis.org 591-8200 Grades/gender: 6th-12th/coed Religion/specialty: Christian Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 363; 13:1 Tuition: $10,000-10,150 Before- and after-school care: yes, after- only

Concord Academy 4942 Walnut Grove Road, 38017 concord-academy.org 682-3115

Grades/gender: 6th-12th/coed Religion/specialty: Nondenominational/School for students with disabilities Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 65; 7:1 Tuition:$11,946-$12,515 Before- and after-school care: yes

Evangelical Christian School (ECS) Shelby Farms Middle & Upper School Campus 7600 Macon Road, 38018 ecseagles.com 754-7217 Grades/gender: 6-12th/coed Lower School Campus 1920 Forest Hill-Irene Road, 38139 754-4420 Grades/gender: PK-5th/coed Religion/specialty: Christian/ Non-denominational College Prepatory Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 700; 9:1 Tuition: $5,900-$16,470 Before- and after-school care: yes

Fayette Academy P.O. Box 130 15090 Highway 64, Somerville, 38068 fayetteacademy.com 465-3241 Grades/gender: PK3-12th/ coed Religion/specialty: Nondenominational Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 600; 15:1 Tuition: $6,000-$7,350 Before- and after-school care: yes

First Assembly Christian School (FACS) 8650 Walnut Grove Road, Cordova, 38018 facsmemphis.org 458-5543

Grades/gender: PK3-12th/ coed Religion/specialty: interdenominational Christian Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 660; 10:1 Tuition: 5,293-$10,381 (resource additional fee) Before- and after-school care: yes

Grades/gender: PK2-12th/girls Religion/specialty: Nondenominational Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 850; early childhood, 8:1; lower school, middle school, upper school, 16:1 Tuition: $5,200-$20,912 Before- and after-school care: yes

Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal School

Incarnation Catholic School

246 South Belvedere Boulevard, 38104 gslschool.org 278-0200

360 Bray Station Road, Collierville, 38017 goics.org 853-7804

Grades/gender: 2 years-8th/ coed Religion/specialty: Episcopal Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 515; 9:1 Tuition: $4,615-$17,075 Before- and after-school care: yes

Grades/gender: age 1-8th/ coed Religion/specialty: Catholic Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 310; 10:1 Tuition: $5,500-$7,300 Before- and after-school care: yes

Harding Academy

Lamplighter Montessori School

K-12 Campus 1100 Cherry Road, 38117 hardinglions.org 767-4494 Grades/gender: K-12/coed Cordova Little Harding Campus 8360 Macon Road, 38018 757-1008 Grades/gender: 18 monthsJr. K(4-years-old)/coed White Station Little Harding Campus 1106 Colonial Road, 38117 767-4063 Grades/gender: 18 months-Jr. K (4 year old)/coed Religion/specialty: Christian Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 700; 9:1 Tuition: $5,940–$14,495 Before- and after-school care: yes

Hutchison School 1740 Ridgeway Road, 38119 hutchisonschool.org 762-6672

8563 Fay Road, Cordova, 38018 lamplighterschool.org 751-2000 Grades/gender: 18 mos.-6th/ coed Religion/specialty: Montessori Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 120; 6:1/12:1 Tuition: $4,750-$14,075 Before- and after-school care: yes

Lausanne Collegiate School 1381 West Massey Road, 38120 lausanneschool.com 474-1000 Grades/gender: PK-12th/coed Religion/specialty: Nonsectarian Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 870; 7:1 Tuition: $14,115–$22,470 Before- and after-school care: yes

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Madonna Learning Center

New Hope Christian Academy

Rossville Christian Academy

7007 Poplar Avenue, Germantown, 38138 madonna-learning.org 752-5767

3000 University Street, 38127 newhopememphis.org 358-3183

280 High Street, Rossville, 38066 rossvillechristian.com 853-0200

Grades/gender: Non-graded/ ages 4 to adult/coed Religion/specialty: Nondenominational/special needs, including autism, down syndrome, developmental delays, and intellectual disabilities Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 78; 4:1 Tuition: $13,400 Before- and after-school care: yes

Grades/gender: PK3-6th/coed Religion/specialty: Christian Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 430; 16:1 Tuition: Sliding scale based on family size and income Before- and after-school care: no/yes (after- only, K-6th)

Grades/gender: 4K-12th/coed Religion/specialty: Nondenominational Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 300; 12:1 Tuition: $5,800-$6,600 Before- and after-school care: no

Northpoint Christian School

St. Agnes Academy-St. Dominic School

7400 Getwell Road, Southaven, MS 38672 ncstrojans.com 662-349-3096

4830 Walnut Grove Road, 38117 saa-sds.org 435-5819

Grades/gender: PK-12th/coed Religion/specialty: Christian Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 962; 15:1 Tuition: $6,500-$9,925 Before- and after-school care: yes

Grades/gender: 2K-12th/girls (St. Agnes), 2K-8th/boys (St. Dominic) Religion/specialty: Catholic Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 775 (combined); 9:1 Tuition: $6,130-$16,950 Before- and after-school care: yes

Margolin Hebrew Academy - Feinstone Yeshiva of the South 390 South White Station Road, 38117 mhafyos.org 682-2400 Grades/gender: PK-8th/coed Upper School: Goldie Margolin High School for Girls Grades/gender: 9th-12th/girls Cooper Yeshiva High School for Boys Grades/gender: 9th-12th/boys Religion/specialty: Jewish/ college preparatory Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 160; 4:1 Tuition: $7,376-$19,553 Before- and after-school care: after- only

Memphis University School 6191 Park Avenue, 38119 musowls.org 260-1300 Grades/gender: 7th-12th/boys Religion/specialty: Nondenominational/college preparatory Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 630; 8:1 Tuition: $21,150 Before- and after-school care: after- only (7th-8th grade)

Our Lady of Perpetual Help 8151 Poplar Avenue, Germantown, 38138 olphgermantown.org 753-1181 Grades/Gender: PK-8th/ coeducational Religion/specialty: Catholic Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 215, 1:11 Tuition: $6,300-$7,000 Before- and after-school care: yes

Presbyterian Day School 4025 Poplar Avenue, 38111 pdsmemphis.org 842-4600 Grades: YK-6th; boys Religion/specialty: Presbyterian Enrollment: 550; ratio: 9:1 Tuition: $5,260-$19,990 Before and after-school care: yes

St. Benedict at Auburndale High School 8250 Varnavas Drive, Cordova, 38016 sbaeagles.org 260-2840 Grades/gender: 9th-12th/coed Religion/specialty: Roman Catholic/PLUS (learning differences program) Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 704; 16:1 Tuition: Traditional: $11,375, PLUS: $11,925 Before- and after-school care: no

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School 2100 N. Germantown Parkway, Cordova, 38016 sfawolves.org 388-7321 Grades/gender: age 2 years8th/coed Religion/specialty: Catholic Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 540; 14:1

Tuition: $6,885-$10,920 Before- and after-school care: yes

St. George's Independent School Collierville Campus 1880 Wolf River Boulevard, 38017 sgis.org 457-2000 Grades/gender: 6th-12th/coed Germantown Campus 8250 Poplar Avenue, 38138 261-2300 Grades/gender: 2 years old5th grade/coed Memphis Campus 3749 Kimball Avenue, 38111 261-3920 Grades/gender: PK-5th/coed Religion/specialty: Episcopal Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 1,115; 9:1 Tuition: $8,945-$21,295 Before- and after-school care: yes, PK-8th

St. Mary's Episcopal School 60 Perkins Extended, 38117 stmarysschool.org 537-1405 Grades/gender: 2 years-12th/ girls Religion/specialty: Episcopal Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 822; 8:1 Tuition: $3,230-$21,660 Before- and after-school care: yes

Tipton-Rosemark Academy 8696 Rosemark Road, Millington, 38053 tiptonrosemarkacademy.net 829-6500 Grades/gender: 3 years-12th/ coed Religion/specialty: Christian Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 500; 11:1 Tuition: $5,140-$9,061 Before- and after-school care: after care only, 3k-6th

Trinity Christian Academy 10 Windy City Road, Jackson, 38305 tcalions.com 731-668-8500 Grades/gender: infant-12th/ coed Religion/specialty: Christian Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 700; 15:1 Tuition: $3,985-$9,975 Before- and after-school care: yes (including holidays)

University School of Jackson 232 McClellan Road, Jackson, TN 38305 usjbruins.org 731-664-0812 Grades/gender: 6 weeks-12th/ coed Religion/specialty: Nondenominational/college preparatory Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 1,030; 13:1 Tuition: $4,039-$10,762 Before- and after-school care: after-school and summer daycare

Westminster Academy 2520 Ridgeway Road, 38119 wamemphis.com 380-9192 Grades/gender: 4K-12th/coed Religion/specialty: Classical Christian Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 341; 7:1 Tuition: $7,435-$13,240 Before- and after-school care: yes (after- only)

Woodland Presbyterian School 5217 Park Avenue, 38119 woodlandschool.org 685-0976 Grades/gender: 2 years-8th/ coed Religion/specialty: Presbyterian Enrollment/student-faculty ratio: 340; 7:1 Tuition: $4,000-$14,410 Before- and after-school care: yes

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culmination of numerous fact-finding meetings all over town. Some Memphians expect nothing but boilerplate to come from all the build-up; others have confidence that Strickland will indeed emerge with a plan, maybe a visionary one. He already has his slogan: “Brilliant at the basics.” And he adds, “My vision is that we reverse the trend of losing population, that we do that by growing up and not out, avoid costly sewer extensions, de-annex, invest in poor neighborhoods, pave the streets, hire police, and clean up blight — all of it making Memphis a greater place to live in.”

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The removal of public monuments to Confederate leaders has been one of the most controversial accomplishments of Strickland’s tenure to date.

And he also knows a re-election campaign is just a year away: “No mayor has ever run unopposed, so I’ll have at least one opponent. I can’t control it.” For all the matters alluded to above, Jim Strickland knows there is one keyword that, mantra-like, he must focus on between now and the election of October 2019. That word, mundane as can be: “Potholes!” Strickland says his administration’s alacrity in patching over these literal bumps in the road, as soon as they are spotted and known about, is the single thing he gets most compliments about. And he sees them as not only problems in themselves but as metaphors for the other misadventures, large and small, that, out of nowhere, come to plague his city and its citizens. You can’t get much more basic than that.

he Very Short Story Contest welcomes entries up to 750 words, maximum. Beginning in October 2018, winning stories will be published in Memphis and will be archived on memphismagazine.com. Whereas the fiction contest was in years past a once-a-year event, the Very Short Story Contest will recognize ten winning entries annually, every month except February and August. The Very Short Story Contest is presented by Novel, Memphis’ newest independent bookstore. Winning authors will be honored with a $200 gift certificate at Novel.

CONTEST RULES: 1. Authors are strongly encouraged to bring Memphis or the Mid-South into their stories. How to do this is open to your interpretation. 2. Entries will be accepted throughout the year. The winning entry in any given month must have been received by the end of the second month prior (i.e. October’s winner must be received by the end of August). 3. Each story should be typed, double-spaced, and should not exceed 750 words. 4. With each story should be a cover letter that gives your name, brief author bio, address, phone number, and the title of your story. Please do NOT put your name anywhere on the manuscript itself. 5. Manuscripts may not have been previously published. 6. Manuscripts should be sent to fiction@memphismagazine.com as .doc, .rtf, or .pdf files. S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 8 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 113

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Duke Bowers Our trivia expert solves local mysteries of who, what, when, where, why, and why not. Well, sometimes.

by vance lauderdale

DEAR VANCE: An old building on Jackson has a painted sign with the words “Mr. Bower” below what seems to be an image of a dog. Who was Bower, and what kind of business was this? — g.h., memphis.

Whenever anyone talks about the grocery business in Memphis (there, I gave away part of the answer, didn’t I?), the name that always comes up is Clarence Saunders. And with good reason: With his Piggly Wiggly chain of stores, Saunders pretty much invented the modern self-service supermarket, built the impressive Pink Palace mansion, and then developed the automated Keedoozle grocery stores. But there were obviously other grocers in town at the same time, and one of the most successful and bestknown (not just for selling groceries, but for his civic concerns) was Duke C. Bowers. With an “s” on the end of his name, G.H. That “ghost sign” you’ve noticed is missing several elements, but I’m glad the little bulldog DEAR G.H.:

survived, complete with his muzzle, because it was Bowers’ symbol and slogan. “You Won’t Get Bit,” his ads proclaimed, “If You Buy of Mr. Bowers.” I always assumed Duke was a nickname, but it was apparently his first name, and Bowers was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1874. Other sources say his birthplace was Columbus, Kentucky. I know this because my pal Gene Gill, who maintains a very fine website called Historic Memphis, has a complete section devoted to Bowers, with vintage photographs and a few articles where Bowers spelled out his business principles. Much of what I’m about to tell you here is taken from that, along with a column written by noted Memphis historian Paul Coppock. But I have a few Bowers items of my own, tucked away in the world-famous Lauderdale Library and Sno-Cone Parlor, and I’ll get to them, if you’re patient. When Bowers’ parents died at a young age — wait, I mean he was at a young age, not his ma and pa — he was taken in by his aunt and uncle, who ran a grocery store in Hickman, Kentucky. Surely you’ve been there. It was a hard way to make a living, and Bowers decided it was (as we might say today) a flawed business model. Too much merchandise, he figured, was sold on credit. You’ve seen all the old movies, where somebody told the store clerk to “put it on my bill” or promised to pay “as soon as my crops come in.” It’s a crucial scene in classic films, such as Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again. Anyway, when he was old enough, Bowers and his wife, Ethel, moved to Memphis in 1903 to open a store of their own here, and he decided it would be a cash-only enterprise. What’s more, he declared he would never sell alcohol or tobacco, and he would make no deliveries. It was strictly cash-and-carry. There was nothing fancy about these groceries. They were the old-fashioned kind, with the clerk at the counter, who fetched your order from shelves behind him. Saunders may have been dreaming of a way for shoppers to do all the work, and he gave his new enterprise a catchy name (what does “Piggly Wiggly”

“You Won’t Get Bit, If You Buy of Mr. Bowers.” A pair of bulldogs that served as the company’s “mascot” still guard the entrance to a former Bowers store on Florida Street.

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even mean?). But by sticking to his basic principles, Bowers’ first store, located at the corner of Polk and McKinley, was a success and he began to open others all over town, at first calling all of them exactly what they were: Mr. Bowers Little Stores. It’s not clear — not to me, anyway — how he came up with the idea of the cute little muzzled bulldog, but that puppy showed up in all of his advertising, and he even had two of them (carved in stone, I mean) mounted above the entrance of the big store and warehouse that he opened in 1905 on Florida Street. “I buy for cash and I sell for cash,” he said in a 1911 article. “And each night the empty spaces on my shelves represent dollars and cents in the cash drawer.” He measured his costs down to the penny, and even the half-penny, because his profit margin was set at precisely 12.5 percent. Anything over that, he said, was “extortion and injustice.” Mr. Bowers Stores were run so efficiently, he thought, that he began to promote them as “Temples of Economy” and he spread that message in a variety of ways. Newspaper advertisements were, of course, effective at announcing his many store locations, but Coppock noted that though he also listed his products, he rarely bothered to tell customers his prices: “Sometimes he said he was ‘passing prosperity around.’” Well, it certainly came back to him. Just four years after moving to Memphis, he owned 21 stores; four years later, that number had grown to 39. He would eventually operate more than 60 stores in our city. By the way, that old sign you noticed on Jackson, G.H., marked the location of Mr. Bowers Store #12. Bowers placed ads everywhere he could, such as the 1911 yearbook of the Higbee School, where he urged those students, “Attention Young Ladies: Won’t you get your mother to buy groceries from me? I believe she can save enough to pay your tuition. Duke C. Bowers.” In the Lauderdale Library is another, more unusual promotion. I’m not sure how this was distributed, but a brochure called “Bowers Hymns” included popular songs with the lyrics revised to promote Mr. Bowers Stores. For example, sung to the tune of “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” was a song called “Bowers’ Men” with these lyrics: “Who makes the housewife’s burden light? The Bowers Stores! / Whose service does she know is right? The Bowers Stores!” It went on like this for some time, then concluded with the remarkable line, “For we’re Bow-wow-wow-wow, all of us Bowers’ men.” There were other hymns, but you get the picture.

I earlier mentioned his civic concerns. Duke and Ethel donated money to many local charities and provided the funds to build nice wading pools in Overton and Health Sciences parks, which Coppock claims were the city’s first public pools. He would take a busload of orphans on trips to Hot Springs, or to the circus, much as the Lauderdales have done for years. But his main cause was the complete elimination of capital punishment, running full-page newspaper ads proclaiming “Capital Punishment Is Murder.” In 1915, he had enough clout to persuade state senators to pass what became known as the “Bowers Bill,” which, as explained on the Historic Memphis website, “substituted life imprisonment for the death penalty in case of murder. The General Assembly passed the bill by a vote of 51 to 44 in the House and 20 to 11 in the Senate.” Even so, the law was overturned less than four years later. I can’t even guess what else Bowers might have accomplished in Memphis, if his health hadn’t failed him when he was in his forties. He was forced to sell his grocery chain to a business partner, Joseph M. Fly, who ultimately sold the stores to the Kroger company in 1928. I bet you didn’t know Kroger had been around that long, did you? Bowers and his wife moved to the town of Dresden, Tennessee, some 90 miles east, to escape the hectic pace of life in the “big city.” Even then, he didn’t slow down. Ever the businessman, he bought real estate, “at various times owning large portions of the town,” according to Gill. Bowers died from a stroke in 1917, after returning from Washington, D.C. His obituary in the Dresden newspaper reported, “He had held a conference with Herbert Hoover [then in charge of supplies for the U.S. Army during World War One] about food conservation and would probably have been asked to serve the government in some capacity if he had lived. This action was only one of thousands showing his unswerving loyalty and desire to serve his fellow man and his country.” He was just 43 years old. Bowers was so popular in Dresden that all businesses closed for his funeral. His wife lived another four decades after his death. When Ethel passed away in 1958, she was buried in the Bowers family plot in Dresden’s Sunset Cemetery, and a granite obelisk there marks Duke Bowers’ last resting place. I’ve studied photos of the monument, and it looks nice, but I wish they had carved a little bulldog on it somewhere.

In his short lifetime, Duke Bowers made a fortune with his little “Temples of Economy” grocery stores, eventually opening more than 60 in Memphis in just a few years.

“I buy for cash and I sell for cash. And each night the empty spaces on my shelves represent dollars and cents in the cash drawer.”

— du k e c . b o w e r s

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DINING OUT

Prime Time Chef Ryan Trimm Adds a Dash of Southern Soul to an Upscale American Steakhouse.

Chef Ryan Trimm

porterhouse (I can’t stop myself). She explains: 28 ounces, dry-aged 61 days, tenderloin on one side, New York strip on the other. Three oven-roasted marrow bones seasoned with cracked pepper also share the plate. “The bones are an added bonus for ordering the $84 steak,” she says, and without hesitation, I jump in. “Tony and I will take that,” I proclaim, with a sheepish grin. (Make the rule, break the bank.) Truth be told, I’ve never ordered a porterhouse at a restaurant, and when the colossal steak arrives, I feel a little breathless. It is everything I imagined: seasoned with salt, pepper, and olive oil; flame-grilled over oak; charred a little on the outside, but rosy in the middle like the blush of rosé. Other dishes appear as well, and we share everything: grilled sourdough; King salmon with lemon parmesan risotto; a tower of buttermilk fried onion rings; oyster mushrooms from Bluff City Fungi, sautéed with thyme, parsley, sherry, and sage; and that creamy bone marrow, which melts into our luscious steaks like an unexpected magic trick.

cused on steaks in a classic fine dining setting, a restaurant void they saw downtown. “An American steakhouse is that thing that goes across generations,” Trimm says. “I wanted no frills, just the traditional things we’ve been eating since the Fifties.” A mid-century veneer does pervade 117 Prime with its stately bar, tufted banquettes, and captain’s chairs on casters. Steaks and their accoutrements also abound: six different prime cuts, classic toppings such as béarnaise with asparagus and lump crab, and many dipping sauces ranging from demi-glace to gribiche, a mayonnaise-style French classic with a briny kick. But the kitchen, led by sous chefs Alex Switzer, Gregg Strope, and Jose Reyes, also excels with seafood and updated seasonal vegetables, like young heirloom carrots, rubbed with harissa, roasted, and served with pesto and yogurt. Overall, the menu at 117 Prime is lighter and brighter than its traditional models, and Trimm’s love for Southern soul food, cooking he explains as heartfelt and reminiscent, shines through. Dinner is expensive, but no

by pamela denney ph otographs by justin fox burks

hile stealing sips of my husband’s cocktail — a smoky chipotle-infused mescal concoction — I lay out the ground rules for dinner ahead at 117 Prime, Chef Ryan Trimm’s new downtown steakhouse on Union Avenue. “You’re on your own for drinks,” I explain to my friends about the upcoming check. “And no one can order the porterhouse. It’s too expensive.” We have arrived early for our Saturday evening reservation to investigate Belle Tavern, tucked behind 117 Prime off Barboro Alley. The neighborhood speakeasy shares a kitchen with Prime, and the stopover provides time to study the steakhouse menu. For us, it’s the stuff of dreams: beef tartare, iceberg wedge, lobster corn chowder, jumbo lump crab cakes, oysters from three coasts, and surf and turf with names like the Duke, a choice of prime cut topped with maître d’butter, house-made Worcestershire, and four large grilled shrimp.

By the time we sit at our table with a view of Prime’s busy kitchen, we are ready with our appetizer order: smoked salmon, traditionally prepared and served in thin, translucent slices with grilled marbled rye, and lobster remoulade, an impeccable version of the 1960s classic. The remoulade — thick with lobster knuckle and tail — tastes luscious but not heavy. “We use some creole mustard to give it moisture without all the oil,” Trimm explains. We pass around the appetizers, and I ask our server about the

The porterhouse steak with roasted bone marrow. Opened since early May, 117 Prime is a collaboration from Across the Board Restaurant Group, composed of Trimm and Central BBQ’s Craig Blondis and Roger Sapp. The collective skill set of the three restaurateurs is integral to Prime’s success, Trimm says: “It’s amazing what we can do together.” From the start, the group fo-

more so than other top-quality steakhouses. Lunch, by contrast, is not. I’ve eaten lunch at Prime several times, and ignoring the Draper, the restaurant’s lunchtime special, is not easy for me. I like the tip, tax, and vodka martini included in the Draper’s $16 price and the spontaneity of entrees that change every day. But on my most recent visit, I

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PAM’S PICS: THREE TO TRY

PRIME BURGER: Beef is locally sourced from Claybrook Farms for the burger at Prime, a marvelous coming together of caramelized onions, sautéed mushrooms, Jarlsburg cheese, and dijonnaise piled inside a milk bun made in-house. ($12)

SMOKE ON THE SHORELINE: Cocktails at Prime are traditional with a modern twist, and Smoke on the Shoreline — mescal, tequila, citrus juices, and lemongrass tincture — is my favorite. Thank you, Nick Lumpkin! ($11)

GRAND MARNIER CRÈME BRULEE:

push pass my proclivity to order favorites and happily embrace peaches, the leading lady of summertime fruit. I start with chilled peach soup, puréed with coconut milk and flecked with amber from saffron, turmeric, and peaches, diced into teeny cubes. More peaches, caramelized on a grill to a cheery sweetness, direct my entrée of grilled quail, which peeks out from a tumble of arugula, fennel slices, and cherry tomatoes. The quail is diminutive in size but feisty in flavor, thanks to a

coffee-based barbecue sauce called Black Jack. My husband orders fragrant French onion soup. On top, melted Jarlsburg hugs sourdough garlic croutons, plumped up from veal stock, and inside the bowl, enough caramelized onions to fill every spoonful. A black and bleu salad comes next, a mix of greens — iceberg, romaine, and spinach — grilled peppers and crispy onions tossed with Stilton bleu cheese dressing. Generous slices of coullote steak straddle the salad, like a protective trellis

of protein. The cut is new to us, and we are impressed. The steak is tender like filet mignon, but its robust flavor aligns more with New York strip. For dessert, we skip key lime pie, citrus vanilla cheesecake, and raspberry sorbet for crème brulee. We scoot the ramekin back and forth, reluctant to share, finish our tea, and marvel at the affordable price of lunch. Trimm explains: “If we get people out the door for $15 or $16, then maybe we can change perceptions of what a healthy lunch can be.”

Crack the crème brulee’s crystalized topping and imagine the citrus of orange groves before digging into the dessert’s creamy interior, rich and saturated like the Florida sun. ($7)

A varied selection of dishes at 117 Prime includes buttermilk-fried onion rings, harissa-rubbed carrots, porterhouse steak, grilled eggplant and local squash, tomatoes with basil, goat cheese, and olive oil, and classic surf and turf.

The Draper Special: tuna with purple hull peas.

117 PRIME 117 Union Ave. 901-433-9851 ★★★★

★★★★ ★★★ ★★ ★

Exceptional Very good Satisfactory Skip it!

FOOD: At its heart, 117 Prime is a classic

steakhouse with Southern leanings. The seafood and vegetarian options are excellent, but please, oh please, don’t miss the ﬂame-grilled steaks. No steaks in Memphis are more expertly prepared. DRINKS: Try a Beefeater martini Mac’s way, a tribute to general manager David Moore’s grandfather, who lived to be 108 years old. A comprehensive list (red wine heavy) offers more than 80 wines, with some available in 3 and 6-ounce pours and large format bottles. ATMOSPHERE: Ceramic oyster plates, gilt-frame mirrors, and striking wildlife paintings by Oxford-based artist Bradley Gordon cover Prime’s walls, adding to the restaurant’s sophisticated but comfortable setting. EXTRAS: A comprehensive bar menu (French onion soup, ﬁsh sandwich, butcher’s platter, and burgers, both plant-based and beef) is served at Prime’s bar and at the adjoining Belle Tavern. PRICES: Lunch: soup, salad and sandwiches ($5-$13); entrees ($13-18). Dinner: appetizers ($14 to $18); steaks ($27-$84); entrees ($24-$43); sides ($7-$12). OPEN: Monday-Wednesday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Thursday and Friday, 11 a.m.-midnight; Saturday, 5 p.m.-midnight; Sunday, 5-10 p.m.

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Napa Café owner Glenda Hastings, pictured above with a summer cocktail, is celebrating the restaurant’s 20th anniversary with a new “Taste Around the World” bar menu. Service for the menu’s small plates starts at 4 p.m., and the diverse selection includes a slice of Smoked Trout Tart, Millionaire’s Bacon, a recipe name Hastings remembers from her mother’s cooking, creamy rosemary Parmesan gnocchi, and ﬁsh and chips with lemon and tartar sauce.

Tidbits: At Napa Café, happy hour gets happier.

he new bar menu at Napa Café in East Memphis offers a number of memorable small plates, but to start, remember three words: Smoked Trout Tart. Although dainty in appearance, the tart is rich and satisfying from a blended filling of mascarpone, cream cheese, and smoked trout inside a delightful pecan crust. On top of each slice, horseradish whipped cream and a sprinkle of capers shape a playful finish, and alongside, a peppery salad of arugula and crispy leeks is dressed with a bright vinaigrette. Owner Glenda Hastings calls the shareable plates a “Taste Around the World” because each dish explores ingredients and cooking techniques from different global cuisines. Consider the menu’s goat cheese, coated with tempura batter, deep-fried, and

drizzled with black pepper honey, or Zen Guacamole, inspired by Asian seasonings and served with taro root chips. Blackened catfish, a Southern favorite, gets re-imagined, as well, stuffed into wontons and plated with tomato bacon gravy. And for a mini-trip to Thailand? Try Thai Basil Steak on rice with spicy “pucker up” sauce. “I love Thai food,” Hastings says, with her signature enthusiasm. “It’s my favorite.” Hastings, who opened Napa Café 20 years ago, credits her collaborative cooking team, headed by Victor Williams and Mike Schwarz, with interpreting her vision, inspired by travel and her own eclectic tastes. Candied Millionaire’s Bacon, served slightly chilled in a copper mug, followed a trip to San Francisco where Hastings tried a sim-

ilar dish made with pork belly. For Napa, she used bacon and added more spice for a feisty nibble with seasonal cocktails or the restaurant’s celebrated wine list: “It’s a little savory, a little sweet, and a little spice. One bite, and you’ve got what you need in life.” Priced from $5 to $9, the menu’s dozen or so plates (tacos! creamy gnocchi! firecracker shrimp tacos!) are served at Napa’s horseshoe-shaped bar and at the armchair seating and row of banquettes nearby. As Hastings explains: “We want people to come in, not just for special occasions and rehearsal dinners, but for a quick bite to eat from a menu that has a little bit of everything.” Napa Café, 5101 Sanderlin Center (901-683-0441)

We celebrate our city’s community table and the people who grow, cook, and eat the best Memphis food at M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M / F O O D - D I N I N G

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JUSTIN FOX BURKS

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A Curated Guide to Eating Out

emphis magazine offers this curated restaurant listing as a service to its readers. Broken down alphabetically by neighborhoods, this directory does not list every restaurant in town. It does, however, include the magazine’s “Top 50” choices of must-try restaurants in Memphis, a DINING SYMBOLS group that is updated every August. Establishments open B — breakfast less than a year are not eligible for “Top 50” but are noted as L — lunch “New.” This guide also includes a representative sampling D — dinner of other Bluff City eating establishments. No fast-food SB — Sunday brunch facilities or cafeterias are listed, nor have we included WB — weekend brunch establishments that rely heavily on take-out business. X— wheelchair accessible Restaurants are included regardless of whether they ad MRA — member, Memphis vertise in Memphis magazine; those that operate in multi Restaurant Association ple locations are listed under the neighborhood of their $ — under $15 per person without drinks or desserts original location. This guide is updated regularly, but we $$ — under $25 recommend that you call ahead to check on hours, prices, $$$ — $26-$50 and other details. Suggestions from readers are welcome; $$$$ — over $50 please contact us at dining@memphismagazine.com.

CENTER CITY 117 PRIME—Restaurateurs Craig Blondis and Roger Sapp teamed up with Chef Ryan Trimm to recreate the traditional American steakhouse. Serving oysters on the half shell and a variety of surf and turf options. 117 Union. 4339851. L, D, X, $-$$$ 5 SPOT—Tucked behind Earnestine & Hazel’s, features Memphis barbecue, Italian, and Creole-inspired dishes, such as polenta incaciata, barbecue spaghetti, and a fried chicken plate with collards, slaw, and skillet cornbread. 531 S. Main. 523-9754. D, X, $-$$ ALDO’S PIZZA PIES—Serving gourmet pizzas — including Mr. T Rex — salads, and more. Also 30 beers, bottled or on tap. 100 S. Main. 577-7743; 752 S. Cooper. 725-7437. L, D, X, $-$$ THE ARCADE—Possibly Memphis’ oldest cafe. Specialties include sweet potato pancakes, a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich, and breakfast served all day. 540 S. Main. 526-5757. B, L, D (Thurs.-Sat.), X, MRA, $ AUTOMATIC SLIM’S—Longtime downtown favorite specializes in contemporary American cuisine emphasizing local ingredients; also extensive martini list. 83 S. Second. 525-7948. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ BARDOG TAVERN—Classic American grill with Italian influence, Bardog offers pasta specialties such as Grandma’s NJ Meatballs, as well as salads, sliders, sandwiches, and daily specials. 73 Monroe. 275-8752. B (Mon.-Fri.), L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ BEDROCK EATS & SWEETS—Memphis’ only Paleocentric restaurant offering such dishes as pot roast, waffles, enchiladas, chicken salad, omelets, and more. Closed for dinner Sun. 327 S. Main. 409-6433. B, L, D, X, $-$$ BELLE TAVERN—Serving elevated bar food, including a butcher board with a variety of meats and cheeses, as well as daily specials. 117 Barboro Alley. 249-6580. L (Sun.), D, $ BLEU—This eclectic restaurant features American food with global influences and local ingredients. Among the specialties are a 14-oz. bone-in rib-eye and several seafood dishes. 221 S. Third, in the Westin Memphis Beale St. Hotel. 334-5950. B, L, D, WB, X, MRA, $$-$$$ BLUEFIN RESTAURANT & SUSHI LOUNGE— Serves Japanese fusion cuisine featuring seafood and steak, with seasonally changing menu; also, a sushi bar and flatbread pizza. 135 S. Main. 528-1010. L, D, X, $-$$ BRASS DOOR IRISH PUB—Irish and New-American cuisine includes such entrees as fish and chips, burgers, shepherd’s pie, all-day Irish breakfast, and more. 152 Madison. 572-1813. L, D, SB, $-$$ CAFE KEOUGH—European-style cafe serving quiche, paninis, salads, and more. 12 S. Main. 509-2469. B, L, D, X, $

CAPRICCIO GRILL ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE— Offers prime steaks, fresh seafood (lobster tails, grouper, mahi mahi), pasta, and several northern Italian specialties. 149 Union, The Peabody. 529-4199. B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$$ CAROLINA WATERSHED—This indoor/outdoor eatery, set around silos, features reimagined down-home classics, including fried green tomatoes with smoked catfish, a buttermilk fried chicken sandwich, burgers, and more. 141 E. Carolina. 321-5553. L, D, WB, $-$$ CATHERINE & MARY’S—A variety of pastas, grilled quail, pâté, razor clams, and monkfish are among the dishes served at this Italian restaurant in the Chisca. 272 S. Main. 254-8600. D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ CHEZ PHILIPPE—Classical/contemporary French cuisine presented in a luxurious atmosphere with a seasonal menu focused on local/regional cuisine. The crown jewel of The Peabody for 35 years. Afternoon tea served Wed.-Sat., 1-3:30 p.m. (reservations required). Closed Sun.Tues. The Peabody, 149 Union. 529-4188. D, X, MRA, $$$$ COZY CORNER—Serving up ribs, pork sandwiches, chicken, spaghetti, and more; also homemade banana pudding. Closed Sun.-Mon. 745 N. Parkway and Manassas. 527-9158. L, D, $ DIRTY CROW INN—Serving elevated bar food, including poutine fries, fried catfish, and the Chicken Debris, a sandwich with smoked chicken, melted cheddar, and gravy. 855 Kentucky. 207-5111. L, D, $ EVELYN & OLIVE—Jamaican/Southern fusion cuisine includes such dishes as Kingston stew fish, Rasta Pasta, and jerk rib-eye. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun.-Mon. 630 Madison. 748-5422. L, D, X, $ FELICIA SUZANNE’S—Southern cuisine with low-country, Creole, and Delta influences, using regional fresh seafood, local beef, and locally grown foods. Entrees include shrimp and grits. Closed Sun. and Mon. A downtown staple at Brinkley Plaza, 80 Monroe, Suite L1. 523-0877. L (Fri. only), D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ FERRARO’S PIZZERIA & PUB—Rigatoni and tortellini are among the pasta entrees here, along with pizzas (whole or by the slice) with a variety of toppings. 111 Jackson. 522-2033. L, D, X, $ FLIGHT RESTAURANT & WINE BAR— Serves steaks and seafood, along with such specialties as bison ribeye and Muscovy duck, all matched with appropriate wines. 39 S. Main. 521-8005. D, SB, X, $-$$$ FLYING FISH—Serves up fried and grilled versions of shrimp, crab, oysters, fish tacos, and catfish; also chicken and burgers. 105 S. Second. 522-8228. L, D, X, $-$$ THE FRONT PORCH—Beale Street Landing eatery serves Southern-inspired appetizers, such as Crispy Grit Bites, along with burgers, sandwiches, and salads. Closed Monday. 251 Riverside Dr. 524-0817. L, X, $

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THE GRAY CANARY—The sixth restaurant from chefs Andy Ticer and Michael Hudman, offering small plates and entrees cooked on an open flame. Oysters, octopus, and hearty steaks are among the menu options at this eatery in Old Dominick Distillery. Closed Mon. 301 S. Front. 4666324. D, WB, X, $-$$$. GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN—Serves chicken with signature spicy batter, along with homemade beans, slaw, and pies. 310 S. Front. 527-4877; 215 S. Center St. (Collierville). 853-6005; 2965 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 373-9111; 730 S. Mendenhall. 767-2323; 505 Highway 70 W., Mason, TN. 901-2942028. L, D, X, MRA, $ HAPPY MEXICAN—Serves quesadillas, burritos, chimichangas, vegetable and seafood dishes, and more. 385 S. Second. 529-9991; 6080 Primacy Pkwy. 683-0000; 7935 Winchester. 751-5353. L, D, X, $ HUEY’S—This family friendly restaurant offers 13 different burgers, a variety of sandwiches and delicious soups and salads. 1927 Madison. 726-4372; 1771 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 754-3885; 77 S. Second. 5272700; 2130 W. Poplar (Collierville). 854-4455; 7090 Malco Blvd. (Southaven). 662-349-7097; 7825 Winchester. 624-8911; 4872 Poplar. 682-7729; 7677 Farmington Blvd. (Germantown). 3183030; 8570 Highway 51 N. (Millington). 873-5025. L, D, X, MRA, $ ITTA BENA—Southern and Cajun-American cuisine served here; specialties are duck and waffles and shrimp and grits, along with steaks, chops, seafood, and pasta. 145 Beale St. 578-3031. D, X, MRA, $$-$$$  KOOKY CANUCK—Offers prime rib, catfish, and burgers, including the 4-lb. “Kookamonga”; also late-night menu. 87 S. Second. 578-9800; 1250 N. Germantown Pkwy. 1-800-2453 L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ KREWE OF DEJAVU—Serves Creole, soul, and vegetarian cuisine, including po-boys, jambalaya, and shrimp and grits. Closed Sun. 936 Florida. 947-1003. L, D, X, $-$$ THE LITTLE TEA SHOP—Downtown institution serves up Southern comfort cooking, including meatloaf and such veggies as turnip greens, yams, okra, and tomatoes. Closed Sat.-Sun. 69 Monroe. 525-6000, L, X, $ LOCAL—Entrees with a focus on locally sourced products include lobster mac-and-cheese and ribeye patty melt; menu differs by location. 95 S. Main. 473-9573; 2126 Madison. 7251845. L, D, WB, X, $-$$ LOFLIN YARD—Beer garden and restaurant serves vegetarian fare and smoked-meat dishes, including beef brisket and pork tenderloin, cooked on a custom-made grill. Closed Mon.-Tues. 7 W. Carolina. 249-3046. L (Sat. and Sun.), D, $-$$ THE LOOKOUT AT THE PYRAMID—Serves seafood and Southern fare, including cornmeal-fried oysters, sweet tea brined chicken, and elk chops. 1 Bass Pro Dr. 620-4600/2918200. L, D, X $-$$$ LUNA RESTAURANT & LOUNGE—Serving a limited menu of breakfast and lunch items. Dinner entrees include Citrus Glaze Salmon and Cajun Stuffed Chicken. 179 Madison (Hotel Napoleon). 526-0002. B, D (Mon.-Sat.), X, $-$$$ LYFE Kitchen—Serving healthy, affordable wraps, bowls, sandwiches, and more; entrees include herb roasted salmon and parmesan crusted chicken. 272 S. Main. 526-0254. B, L, D, WB, X, $ MACIEL’S—Entrees include tortas, fried taco plates, quesadillas, chorizo and pastor soft tacos, salads, and more. Downtown closed Sun. Bodega closed Wed. 45 S. Main. 526-0037; 525 S. Highland. 504-4584; Maciel’s Bodega, 584 Tillman. 504-4749. B (Bodega only), L, D, SB (Highland), X, $ THE MAJESTIC GRILLE—Housed in a former silent-picture house, features aged steaks, fresh seafood, and such specialties as roasted chicken and grilled pork tenderloin; offers a pre-theatre menu and classic cocktails. Well-stocked bar. 145 S. Main. 522-8555. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$

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McEWEN’S ON MONROE—Southern/ American cuisine with international flavors; specialties include steak and seafood, sweet potato-crusted catfish with macaroni and cheese, and more. Closed Sun., Monroe location. 120 Monroe. 527-7085; 1110 Van Buren (Oxford). 662-234-7003. L, D, SB (Oxford only), X, MRA, $$-$$$ MESQUITE CHOP HOUSE—The focus here is on steaks, including prime fillet, rib eyes, and prime-aged New York strip; also, some seafood options. 5960 Getwell (Southaven). 662-890-2467; 88 Union. 527-5337; 3165 Forest Hill-Irene (Germantown). 249-5661. D, SB (Germantown), X, $$-$$$ MOLLIE FONTAINE LOUNGE—Specializes in tapas (small plates) featuring global cuisine. Closed Sun.-Tues. 679 Adams Ave. 524-1886. D, X, MRA, $ PAULETTE’S—Presents fine dining with a Continental flair, including such entrees as filet Paulette with butter cream sauce and crabmeat and spinach crepes; also changing daily specials and great views. River Inn. 50 Harbor Town Square. 260-3300. B, L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ PEARL’S OYSTER HOUSE—Downtown eatery serving seafood, including oysters, crawfish, and stuffed butterfly shrimp, as well as beef, chicken, and pasta dishes. 299 S. Main. 522-9070; 8106 Cordova Center Dr. (Cordova). 425-4797. L, D, SB, X, $-$$$ PONTOTOC—Upscale restaurant and jazz bar serves such starters as chicharone nachos and smoked trout deviled eggs; entrees include Mississippi pot roast with jalapeno cornbread and red fish with Israeli couscous. 314 S. Main. 207-7576. D, WB, X, $-$$ REGINA’S—New Orleans-inspired eatery offering po boys, Cajun nachos topped with crawfish tails, catfish platters, oysters, and more. Closed Mon. 60 N. Main. 730-0384. B, L, D, SB, X, $-$$ RENDEZVOUS, CHARLES VERGOS’— Menu items include barbecued ribs, cheese plates, skillet shrimp, red beans and rice, and Greek salads. Closed Sun.-Mon. 52 S. Second. 523-2746. L (Fri.-Sat.), D, X, $-$$ RIZZO’S DINER—Chorizo meatloaf, lobster pronto puff, and lamb belly tacos are menu items at this upscale diner. Michael Patrick among the city’s best chefs. 492 S. Main. 304-6985. L (Fri.-Sat.), D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ SABOR CARIBE—Serving up “Caribbean flavors” with dishes from Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and Cuba. Closed Sunday. 662 Madison. 949-8100. L, D, X, $ SLEEP OUT LOUIES—Oyster bar with such specialties as char-grilled Roquefort oysters and gulf oysters on the half shell with Prosecco mignonette; also serves flatbread pizzas and a variety of sandwiches. 150 Peabody Place, Suite 111. 707-7180. L, D, X, $ SOUTH MAIN MARKET—Food Hall featuring a variety of vendors serving everything from bagels and beer to comfort food and healthy cuisine. 409 S. Main. 341-3838. $-$$ SOUTH MAIN SUSHI & GRILL—Serving sushi, nigiri, and more. 520 S. Main. 249-2194. L, D, X, $ SPINDINI—Italian fusion cuisine with such entrees as woodfired pizzas, gorgonzola stuffed filet, and fresh seafood; large domestic whiskey selection. 383 S. Main. 578-2767. D, X, $$-$$$ SUNRISE MEMPHIS—From owners of Sweet Grass and Central BBQ. Serves breakfast all day, including house-made biscuits, frittatas, kielbasa or boudin plates, and breakfast platters. 670 Jefferson. 552-3144. B, L, X, $ TART—Combination patisserie and coffeehouse serving rustic French specialties, including baked eggs in brioche, topped with Gruyere, and French breads and pastries. One Commerce Square, 40 S. Main #150. 421-6276. B, L, WB, X, $-$$ TERRACE—Creative American and Continental cuisine includes such dishes as filet mignon, beef or lamb sliders, chicken satay, and mushroom pizzetta. Rooftop, River Inn of Harbor Town, 50 Harbor Town Square. 260-3366. D, X, MRA, $$ TEXAS DE BRAZIL—Serves beef, pork, lamb, and chicken dishes, and Brazilian sausage; also a salad bar with extensive toppings. 150 Peabody Place, Suite 103. 526-7600. L (Wed.-Fri.), D, SB, X, $$-$$$

UNCLE BUCK’S FISHBOWL & GRILL—Burgers, pizza, fish dishes, sandwiches, and more served in a unique “underwater” setting. Bass Pro, Bass Pro Drive, 291-8200. B, L, D, X, $-$$ THE VAULT—Oysters, shrimp beignets, flatbreads, stuffed cornish hen, and Smash Burger featured on “Late Nite Eats” are among the dishes offered at this Creole/Italian fusion eatery. 124 G.E. Patterson. 591-8000. L, D, SB, X, $-$$

COLLIERVILLE CAFE PIAZZA BY PAT LUCCHESI—Specializes in gourmet pizzas (including create-your-own), panini sandwiches, and pasta. Closed Sun. 139 S. Rowlett St. 861-1999. L, D, X, $-$$ CIAO BABY—Specializing in Neapolitan-style pizza made in a wood-fired oven. Also serves house-made mozzarella, pasta, appetizers, and salads. 890 W. Poplar, Suite 1. 457-7457. L, D, X, $ EL MEZCAL—Serves burritos, chimichangas, fajitas, and other Mexican cuisine, as well as shrimp dinners and steak. 9947 Wolf River, 853-7922; 402 Perkins Extd. 761-7710; 694 N.Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 755-1447; 1492 Union. 274-4264; 11615 Airline Rd. (Arlington). 867-1883; 9045 Highway 64 (Lakeland). 383-4219; 7164 Hacks Cross Rd. (Olive Branch). 662-890-3337; 8834 Hwy. 51 N. (Millington). 872-3220; 7424 Highway 64 (Bartlett). 417-6026. L, D, X, $ EMERALD THAI RESTAURANT—Spicy shrimp, pad khing, lemongrass chicken, and several noodle, rice, and vegetarian dishes are offered at this family restaurant. Closed Sunday. 8950 Highway 64 (Lakeland, TN). 384-0540. L, D X, $-$$ FIREBIRDS—Specialties are hand-cut steaks, slow-roasted prime rib, and wood-grilled salmon and other seafood, as well as seasonal entrees. 4600 Merchants Circle, Carriage Crossing. 850-1637; 8470 Highway 64 (Bartlett). 379-1300. L, D, X, $-$$$ JIM’S PLACE GRILLE—Features American, Greek, and Continental cuisine with such entrees as pork tenderloin, several seafood specialties, and hand-cut charcoal-grilled steaks. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 3660 Houston Levee. 861-5000. L, D, X, $-$$$ MULAN ASIAN BISTRO—Hunan Chicken, tofu dishes, and orange beef served here; sushi and Thai food, too. 2059 Houston Levee. 850-5288; 2149 Young. 347-3965; 4698 Spottswood. 609-8680. L, D, X, $-$$ OSAKA JAPANESE CUISINE—Featuring an extensive sushi menu as well as traditional Japanese and hibachi dining. Hours vary for lunch; call. 3670 Houston Levee. 861-4309; 3402 Poplar. 249-4690; 7164 Hacks Cross (Olive Branch). 662-8909312; 2200 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 425-4901. L, D, X, $-$$$ RAVEN & LILY—Eatery offers innovative Southern cuisine with such dishes as onion ring and pork rind salad, chipotle hot chicken with spiced cabbage, and shrimp and grits benedict. Closed for lunch Monday. 120 E. Mulberry. 286-4575. L, D, SB, X, $-$$ THE SEAR SHACK BURGERS & FRIES— Serving Angus burgers, fries, and hand-spun milkshakes. Closed Mon. 875 W. Poplar, Suite 6. 861-4100; 5101 Sanderlin, Suite 103. 567-4909 ; 6518 Goodman (Olive Branch). 662-408-4932. L, D, X, $ STIX—Hibachi steakhouse with Asian cuisine features steak, chicken, and a fillet and lobster combination, also sushi. A specialty is Dynamite Chicken with fried rice. 4680 Merchants Park Circle, Avenue Carriage Crossing. 854-3399. L, D, X, $-$$

CORDOVA BOMBAY HOUSE—Indian fare includes lamb korma and chicken tikka; also, a daily luncheon buffet. 1727 N. Germantown Pkwy. 755-4114. L, D, X, $-$$ THE BUTCHER SHOP—Serves steaks ranging from 8-oz. fillets to a 20-oz. porterhouse; also chicken, pork chops, fresh seafood. 107 S. Germantown Rd. 757-4244. L (Fri. and Sun.), D, X, $$-$$$ FOX RIDGE PIZZA—Pizzas, calzones, sub sandwiches, burgers, and meat-and-two plate lunches are among the

dishes served at this eatery, which opened in 1979. 1769 N. Germantown Pkwy. 758-6500. L, D, X, $ GREEN BAMBOO—Pineapple tilapia, pork vermicelli, and the soft egg noodle combo are Vietnamese specialties here. 990 N. Germantown Parkway, #104. 753-5488. L, D, $-$$ KING JERRY LAWLER’S MEMPHIS BBQ COMPANY—Offers a variety of barbecue dishes, including brisket, ribs, nachos topped with smoked pork, and a selection of barbecue “Slamwiches.” 465 N. Germantown Pkwy., #116. 509-2360. L, D, X, $ JIM ’N NICK’S BAR-B-Q—Serves barbecued pork, ribs, chicken, brisket, and fish, along with other homemade Southern specialties. 2359 N. Germantown Pkwy. 388-0998. L, D, X, $-$$ MISTER B’S—Features New Orleans-style seafood and steaks. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. and Mon. 6655 Poplar, #107. 751-5262. L, D, X, $-$$$ PRESENTATION ROOM, THE—American bistro run by the students of L’Ecole Culinaire. Menu changes regularly; specialties may include such items as a filet with truffle mushroom ragu. Service times vary; call for details. Closed Fri.-Sun. 1245 N. Germantown Pkwy. 754-7115. L, D, X, $-$$ SHOGUN JAPANESE RESTAURANT—Entrees include tempura, teriyaki, and sushi, as well as grilled fish and chicken entrees. 2324 N. Germantown Pkwy. 384-4122. L, D, X, $-$$ TANNOOR GRILL—Brazilian-style steakhouse with skewers served tableside, along with Middle Eastern specialties; vegetarian options also available. 830 N. Germantown Pkwy. 443-5222. L, D, X, $-$$$

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(INCLUDES POPLAR/ I-240) ACRE—Features seasonal modern American cuisine in an avante-garde setting using locally sourced products; also small-plates and enclosed garden patio. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 690 S. Perkins. 818-2273. L, D, X, $$-$$$ AGAVOS COCINA & TEQUILA—Camaron de Tequila, tamales, kabobs, and burgers made with a blend of beef and chorizo are among the offerings at this tequila-centric restaurant and bar. 2924 Walnut Grove. 433-9345. L, D, X, $-$$ AMERIGO—Traditional and contemporary Italian cuisine includes pasta, wood-fired pizza, steaks, and cedarwood-roasted fish. 1239 Ridgeway, Park Place Mall. 761-4000. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ ANDREW MICHAEL ITALIAN KITCHEN— Traditional Italian cuisine with a menu from two of the city’s top chefs that changes seasonally with such entrees as Maw Maw’s ravioli. Closed Sun.-Mon. 712 W. Brookhaven Cl. 347-3569. D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ ANOTHER BROKEN EGG CAFE—Offering several varieties of eggs benedict, waffles, omelets, pancakes, beignets, and other breakfast fare; also burgers, sandwiches, and salads. 6063 Park Ave. 729-7020; 65 S. Highland. 623-7122. B, L, WB, X, $ BANGKOK ALLEY—Thai fusion cuisine includes noodle and curry dishes, chef-specialty sushi rolls, coconut soup, and duck and seafood entrees. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. at Brookhaven location; call for hours. 715 W. Brookhaven Cl. 590-2585; 2150 W. Poplar at Houston Levee (Collierville). 854-8748. L, D, X, $-$$ BENIHANA—This Japanese steakhouse serves beef, chicken, and seafood grilled at the table; some menu items change monthly; sushi bar also featured. 912 Ridge Lake. 767-8980. L, D, X, $$-$$$ BLUE PLATE CAFÉ — For breakfast, the café’s serves old-fashioned buttermilk pancakes (it’s a secret recipe!), country ham and eggs, and waffles with fresh strawberries and cream. For lunch, the café specializes in country cooking. 5469 Poplar. 761-9696; 113 S. Court. 523-2050. B, L, X, $ BRYANT’S BREAKFAST—Three-egg omelets, pancakes, and The Sampler Platter are among the popular entrees here. Possibly the best biscuits in town. Closed Mon. and Tues. 3965 Summer. 324-7494. B, L, X, $

BUCKLEY’S FINE FILET GRILL—Specializes in steaks, seafood, and pasta. (Lunchbox serves entree salads, burgers, and more.) 5355 Poplar. 683-4538; 919 S. Yates (Buckley’s Lunchbox), 682-0570. L (Yates only, M-F), D, X, $-$$ BUNTYN CORNER CAFE—Serving favorites from Buntyn Restaurant, including chicken and dressing, cobbler, and yeast rolls. 5050 Poplar, Suite 107. 424-3286. B, L, X, $ CAPITAL GRILLE—Known for its dry-aged, hand-carved steaks; among the specialties are bone-in sirloin, and porcini-rubbed Delmonico; also seafood entrees and seasonal lunch plates. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. Crescent Center, 6065 Poplar. 683-9291. L, D, X, $$$-$$$$ CASABLANCA—Lamb shawarma is one of the fresh, homemade specialties served at this Mediterranean/Moroccan restaurant; fish entrees and vegetarian options also available. 5030 Poplar. 725-8557 ; 7609 Poplar Pike (Germantown). 4255908; 1707 Madison. 421-6949. L, D, X, $-$$ CIAO BELLA—Among the Italian and Greek specialties are lasagna, seafood pasta, gourmet pizzas, and vegetarian options. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 565 Erin Dr., Erin Way Shopping Center. 205-2500. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ CITY SILO TABLE + PANTRY—With a focus on clean eating, this establishment offers fresh juices, as well as comfort foods re-imagined with wholesome ingredients. 5101 Sanderlin. 729-7687. B, L, D, X, $ CORKY’S—Popular barbecue emporium offers both wet and dry ribs, plus a full menu of other barbecue entrees. Wed. lunch buffets, Cordova and Collierville. 5259 Poplar. 685-9744; 1740 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 737-1911; 743 W. Poplar (Collierville). 405-4999; 6434 Goodman Rd., Olive Branch. 662-893-3663. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ ERLING JENSEN—For over 20 years, has presented “globally inspired” cuisine to die for. Specialties are rack of lamb, big game entrees, and fresh fish dishes. 1044 S. Yates. 763-3700. D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ FLEMING’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE—Serves wetaged and dry-aged steaks, prime beef, chops, and seafood, including salmon, Australian lobster tails, and a catch of the day. 6245 Poplar. 761-6200. D, X, MRA, $$$-$$$$ FOLK’S FOLLY ORIGINAL PRIME STEAK HOUSE—Specializes in prime steaks, as well as lobster, grilled Scottish salmon, Alaskan king crab legs, rack of lamb, and weekly specials. Now celebrating their 40th year. 551 S. Mendenhall. 762-8200. D, X, MRA, $$$-$$$$ FORMOSA—Offers Mandarin cuisine, including broccoli beef, hot-and-sour soup, and spring rolls. Closed Monday. 6685 Quince. 753-9898. L, D, X, $-$$ FRATELLI’S—Serves hot and cold sandwiches, salads, soups, and desserts, all with an Italian/Mediterranean flair. Closed Sunday. 750 Cherry Rd., Memphis Botanic Garden. 766-9900. L, X, $ FRANK GRISANTI’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT— Northern Italian favorites include pasta with jumbo shrimp and mushrooms; also seafood, fillet mignon, and daily lunch specials. Closed for lunch Sunday. Embassy Suites Hotel, 1022 S. Shady Grove. 761-9462. L, D, X, $-$$$ THE GROVE GRILL—Offers steaks, chops, seafood, and other American cuisine with Southern and global influences; entrees include crab cakes, and shrimp and grits, also dinner specials. Founder Jeff Dunham’s son Chip is now chef de cuisine. 4550 Poplar. 818-9951. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $$-$$$ HALF SHELL—Specializes in seafood, such as King crab legs; also serves steaks, chicken, pastas, salads, sandwiches, a ”voodoo menu”; oyster bar at Winchester location. 688 S. Mendenhall. 682-3966; 7825 Winchester. 737-6755. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ HIGH POINT PIZZA—Serves variety of pizzas, subs, salads, and sides. Closed Monday. A neighborhood fixture. 477 High Point Terrace. 452-3339. L, D, X, $-$$ HOG & HOMINY—The casual sister to Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen serves brick-oven-baked pizzas, including the Red-Eye with pork belly, and small plates with everything from meatballs to beef and cheddar hot dogs; and local veggies. Closed for lunch Mon. 707 W. Brookhaven Cl. 207-7396. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$

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HOUSTON’S—Serves steaks, seafood, pork chops, chicken dishes, sandwiches, salads, and Chicago-style spinach dip. Farmous for first-class service. 5000 Poplar. 683-0915. L, D, X $-$$$ INTERIM—Offers American-seasonal cuisine with emphasis on local foods and fresh fish; daily chef specials. Closed for lunch Sat. 5040 Sanderlin, Suite 105. 818-0821. L, D, SB, X, $-$$$ THE KITCHEN BISTRO—Tomato soup, pan-roasted ribeye, sticky toffee pudding, and dishes made using in-season fruits and veggies are served at this establishment at Shelby Farms Park. 415 Great View Drive E., Suite 101. 729-9009. L, D, X, $-$$ LA BAGUETTE—An almond croissant and chicken salad are among specialties at this French-style bistro. Closed for dinner Sun. 3088 Poplar. 458-0900. B, L, D (closes at 7), X, MRA, $ LAS DELICIAS—Popular for its guacamole, house-made tortilla chips, and margaritas, this restaurant draws diners with its chicken enchiladas, meat-stuffed flautas, and Cuban torta with spicy pork. Closed Sunday. 4002 Park Ave. 458-9264; 5689 Quince. 800-2873. L, D, X, $ LIBRO AT LAURELWOOD—Bookstore eatery features a variety of sandwiches, salads, and homemade pasta dishes, with Italian-inspired options such as carbonara and potato gnocchi. Closed for dinner Sun. 387 Perkins Ext. (Novel). 800-2656. B, L, D, SB, X, $-$$ LISA’S LUNCHBOX—Serving bagels, sandwiches, salads, and wraps. 5030 Poplar, 761-4044; 5885 Ridgeway Center Pkwy., Suite 101. 767-6465; 2659 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Suite 1200; 166 S. Front. 729-7277. B, L, $ LOST PIZZA—Offering pizzas (with dough made from scratch), pasta, salads, sandwiches, tamales, and more. 2855 Poplar. 572-1803; 5960 Getwell (Southaven). 662-892-8684. L, D, X, $-$$ LYNCHBURG LEGENDS—This restaurant with a Jack Daniels’ theme and Southern cuisine serves such entrees as Bourbon Street salmon, buttermilk-fried chicken, and grilled steak and wild mushroom salad. DoubleTree Hotel, 5069 Sanderlin. 969-7777. B, L, D, X, $- $$$ MARCIANO MEDITERRANEAN AND ITALIAN CUISINE—Veal Saltimbocca with angel hair pasta and white wine sauce is among the entrees; also steaks, seafood, and gourmet pizza. Closed Sun. 780 Brookhaven Cl. 682-1660. D, X, $-$$  DAN MCGUINNESS PUB—Serves fish and chips, shepherd’s pie, burgers, and other Irish and American fare; also lunch and dinner specials. 4694 Spottswood. 761-3711; 3964 Goodman Rd. 662-890-7611. L, D, X, $ MAYURI INDIAN CUISINE—Serves tandoori chicken, masala dosa, tikka masala, as well as lamb and shrimp entrees; also a daily lunch buffet, and dinner buffet on Fri.-Sat. 6524 Quince Rd. 753-8755. L, D, X, $-$$ MELLOW MUSHROOM—Large menu includes assortment of pizzas, salads, calzones, hoagies, vegetarian options, and 50 beers on tap. 5138 Park Ave. 562-12119155 Poplar; Shops of Forest Hill (Germantown). 907-0243. L, D, X, $-$$ MOSA ASIAN BISTRO—Specialties include sesame chicken, Thai calamari, rainbow panang curry with grouper fish, and other Pan Asian/fusion entrees. Closed Mon. 850 S. White Station Rd. 683-8889. L, D, X, MRA, $ NAM KING—Offers luncheon and dinner buffets, dim sum, and such specialties as fried dumplings, pepper steak, and orange chicken. 4594 Yale. 373-4411. L, D, X, $  NAPA CAFE—Among the specialties is miso-marinated salmon over black rice with garlic spinach and shiitake mushrooms. Closed Sun. 5101 Sanderlin, Suite 122. 683-0441. L, D, X, $$-$$$ NEW HUNAN—Chinese eatery with more than 80 entrees; also lunch/dinner buffets. 5052 Park. 766-1622. L, D, X, $ OLD VENICE PIZZA CO.—Specializes in “eclectic Italian,” from pastas, including the “Godfather,” to hand-tossed pizzas, including the “John Wayne”; choose from 60 toppings. 368 Perkins Ext. 767-6872. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ ONE & ONLY BBQ—On the menu are pork barbecue sandwiches, platters, wet and dry ribs, smoked chicken and turkey platters, a smoked meat salad, barbecue quesadillas, Brunswick Stew, and Millie’s homemade

desserts. 1779 Kirby Pkwy. 751-3615; 567 Perkins Extd. 249-4227. L, D, X, $ ONO POKÉ—This eatery specializes in poké — a Hawaiian dish of fresh fish salad served over rice. Menu includes a variety of poké bowls, like the Kimchi Tuna bowl, or customers can build their own by choosing a base, protein, veggies, and toppings. 3145 Poplar. 618-2955. L, D, X, $ OWEN BRENNAN’S—New Orleans-style menu of beef, chicken, pasta, and seafood; jambalaya, shrimp and grits, and crawfish etouffee are specialties. Closed for dinner Sunday. The Regalia, 6150 Poplar. 761-0990. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ PARK + CHERRY—Partnering with CFY Catering, the Dixon offers casual dining within the museum. Menu features sandwiches, like truffled pimento cheese, as well as salads, snacks, and sweets. Closed for breakfast Sun. and all day Mon. 4339 Park (Dixon Gallery). 761-5250. L, X, $ PETE & SAM’S—Serving Memphis for 60-plus years; offers steaks, seafood, and traditional Italian dishes, including homemade ravioli, lasagna, and chicken marsala. 3886 Park. 458-0694. D, X, $-$$$ PF CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO—Specialties are orange peel shrimp, Mongolian beef, and chicken in lettuce wraps; also vegetarian dishes, including spicy eggplant. 1181 Ridgeway Rd., Park Place Centre. 818-3889. L, D, X, $-$$ PHO SAIGON—Vietnamese fare includes beef teriyaki, roasted quail, curry ginger chicken, vegetarian options, and a variety of soups. 2946 Poplar. 458-1644. L, D, $ PYRO’S FIRE-FRESH PIZZA—Serving gourmet pizzas cooked in an open-fire oven; wide choice of toppings; large local and craft beer selection. 1199 Ridgeway. 379-8294; 2035 Union Ave. 208-8857; 2286 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 207-1198; 3592 S. Houston Levee (Collierville). 221-8109. L, D, X, $ RIVER OAKS—Chef Jose Gutierrez’s French-style bistro serves seafood and steaks, with an emphasis on fresh local ingredients. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 5871 Poplar Ave. 683-9305. L, D, X, $$$ RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE—Offers prime steaks cut and aged in-house, as well as lamb, chicken, and fresh seafood, including lobster. 6120 Poplar. 761-0055. D, X, $$$-$$$$ SALSA—Mexican-Southern California specialties include carnitas, enchiladas verde, and fajitas; also Southwestern seafood dishes such as snapper verde. Closed Sun. Regalia Shopping Center, 6150 Poplar, Suite 129. 683-6325. L, D, X, $-$$ SEASONS 52—This elegant fresh grill and wine bar offers a seasonally changing menu using fresh ingredients, wood-fire grilling, and brick-oven cooking; also a large international wine list and nightly piano bar. Crescent Center, 6085 Poplar. 682-9952. L, D, X, $$-$$$ STAKS— Offering pancakes, including Birthday Cake and lemon ricotta. Menu includes other breakfast items such as beignets and French toast, as well as soups and sandwiches for lunch. 4615 Poplar. 509-2367. B, L, WB, X, $ STRANO BY CHEF JOSH—Presenting a Sicilian/Mediterranean mix of Arab, Spanish, Greek, and North African fare, Strano serves hand-tossed pizzas, wood-grilled fish, and such entrees as Chicken Under the Earth, cooked under a Himalayan salt block over a seasoned white oak wood-fired grill. 518 Perkins Extd. 275-8986. L, D, WB, X, $-$$$ SUSHI JIMMI—This food truck turned restaurant serves a variety of sushi rolls, fusion dishes — such as kimchi fries — and sushi burritos. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Mon. 2895 Poplar. 729-6985. L, D, X, $ TENNESSEE TACO CO.—From the creators of Belly Acres, offers such appetizers as crawfish and chorizo mac-ncheese and homemade guacamole and specializes in street tacos. 3295 Poplar. 207-1960. L, D, X, $ THREE LITTLE PIGS—Pork-shoulder-style barbecue with tangy mild or hot sauce, freshly made coleslaw, and baked beans. 5145 Quince Rd. 685-7094. B, L, D, X, $ TOPS BAR-B-Q—Specializes in pork barbecue sandwiches and sandwich plates with beans and slaw; also serves ribs, beef brisket, and burgers. 1286 Union. 725-7527. 4183 Summer. 324-4325; 5391 Winchester. 794-7936; 3970 Rhodes.

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323-9865; 6130 Macon. 371-0580. For more locations, go online. L, D, X, $ WANG’S MANDARIN HOUSE—Offers Mandarin, Cantonese, Szechuan, and spicy Hunan entrees, including the golden-sesame chicken; next door is East Tapas, serving small plates with an Asian twist. 6065 Park Ave., Park Place Mall. 763-0676. L, D, X, $-$$ WASABI—Serving traditional Japanese offerings, hibachi, sashimi, and sushi. The Sweet Heart roll, wrapped — in the shape of a heart — with tuna and filled with spicy salmon, yellowtail, and avocado, is a specialty. 5101 Sanderlin Rd., Suite 105. 421-6399. L, D, X, $-$$ WOMAN’S EXCHANGE TEA ROOM—Chicken-salad plate, beef tenderloin, soups-and-sandwiches, and vegetable plates are specialties; meal includes drink and dessert. Closed Sat.-Sun. 88 Racine. 327-5681. L, X, $ ZAKA BOWL—This vegan-friendly restaurant serves buildyour-own vegetable bowls featuring ingredients such as agave Brussels sprouts and roasted beets. Also serves tuna poke and herbed chicken bowls. 575 Erin. 509-3105. L, D, $

GERMANTOWN BLUE HONEY BISTRO—Entrees at this upscale eatery include brown butter scallops served with Mississippi blue rice and herb-crusted beef tenderloin with vegetables and truffle butter. Closed Sun. 9155 Poplar, Suite 17. 552-3041. D, X, $-$$$ BROOKLYN BRIDGE ITALIAN RESTAURANT— Specializing in such homemade entrees as spinach lasagna and lobster ravioli; a seafood specialty is horseradish-crusted salmon. Closed Sun. 1779 Kirby Pkwy. 755-7413. D, X, $-$$$ FARM & FRIES—A burger-centric menu features 100 percent grass fed and finished beef served in creative combinations like roasted portobellos and Swiss cheese. Try the Brussels with cheddar, bacon and quick-fried sprout leaves or fries, house-cut with dipping sauces. Closed Sun. 7724 Poplar Pike. 791-2328. L, D, X, $ FOREST HILL GRILL—A variety of standard pub fare and a selection of mac ‘n’ cheese dishes are featured on the menu. Specialties include Chicken Newport and a barbecue salmon BLT. 9102 Poplar Pike. 624-6001. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ GERMANTOWN COMMISSARY—Serves barbecue sandwiches, sliders, ribs, shrimp, and nachos, as well as smoked barbecued bologna sandwiches; Mon.-night all-youcan-eat ribs. 2290 S. Germantown Rd. S. 754-5540. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ LAS TORTUGAS DELI MEXICANA— Authentic Mexican food prepared from local food sources; specializes in tortugas — grilled bread scooped out to hold such powerfully popular fillings as brisket, pork, and shrimp; also tingas, tostados. Closed Sunday. 1215 S. Germantown Rd. 751-1200; 6300 Poplar. 623-3882. L, D, X, $-$$ MISTER B’S—Features New Orleans-style seafood and steaks. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. and Mon. 6655 Poplar, #107. 751-5262. L, D, X, $-$$$ THE PASTA MAKER RESTAURANT—This Italian eatery specializes in artisanal pasta. Entrées include Spaghetti allo scoglio, Penne Boscaiola, and Fusilli Primavera. Gluten-free options available. Restaurant closed Mon. and Sun. (cooking classes by reservation Sun.). 2095 Exeter, Suite 30. 779-3928. L (Thurs. only), D, X, $-$$ PETRA CAFÉ—Serves Greek, Italian, and Middle Eastern sandwiches, gyros, and entrees. Hours vary; call. 6641 Poplar. 754-4440; 547 S. Highland. 323-3050. L, D, X, $-$$ PIZZA REV—Specializes in build-your-own, personal-sized artisanal pizza. Choose from homemade dough options, all-natural sauces, Italian cheeses, and more than 30 toppings. 6450 Poplar. 379-8188. L, D, X, MRA, $ RED KOI—Classic Japanese cuisine offered at this family-run restaurant; hibachi steaks, sushi, seafood, chicken, and vegetables. 5847 Poplar. 767-3456. L, D, X $-$$ ROCK’N DOUGH PIZZA CO.—Specialty and custom pizzas made from fresh ingredients; wide variety of toppings. 7850 Poplar, #6. 779-2008. L, D, SB, X, $$

ROYAL PANDA—Hunan fish, Peking duck, Royal Panda chicken and shrimp, and a seafood combo are among the specialties. 3120 Village Shops Dr. 756-9697. L, D, X, $-$$ RUSSO’S NEW YORK PIZZERIA AND WINE BAR—Serves gourmet pizzas, calzones, and pasta, including lasagna, fettuccine Alfredo, scampi, and more. 9087 Poplar, Suite 111. 755-0092. L, D, WB, X, $-$$ SAKURA—Sushi, tempura, and teriyaki are Japanese specialties here. 2060 West St. 758-8181; 4840 Poplar. 572-1002. L, D, X, $-$$ SOUTHERN SOCIAL—Shrimp and grits, stuffed quail, and Aunt Thelma’s Fried Chicken are among the dishes served at this upscale Southern establishment. 2285 S. Germantown Rd. 754-5555. D, SB, X, $-$$$ WEST STREET DINER—This home-style eatery offers breakfast, burgers, po’boys, and more. 2076 West St. 757-2191. B, L, D (Mon.-Fri.), X, $

MIDTOWN (INCLUDES THE MEDICAL CENTER) ABYSSINIA RESTAURANT—Ethiopian/Mediterranean menu includes beef, chicken, lamb, fish entrees, and vegetarian dishes; also a lunch buffet. 2600 Poplar. 321-0082. L, D, X, $-$$ ALCHEMY—Southern fusion, locally grown cuisine features small and large plates; among the offerings are pan-seared hanger steak, quail, and lamb chops; also handcrafted cocktails and local craft beers. 940 S. Cooper. 726-4444. D, SB, X, $-$$ ATOMIC TIKI—Island-inspired dishes such as barbecue nachos with pineapple mango relish, Polynesian meatballs, and shrimp roll sliders are served in a tiki bar atmosphere. Closed Mon. 1545 Overton Park. 279-3935. D, $ BABALU TACOS & TAPAS—This Overton Square eatery dishes up Spanish-style tapas with Southern flair; also taco and enchilada of the day; specials change daily. 2115 Madison. 274-0100; 6450 Poplar, 410-8909. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ BAR DKDC—Features an ever-changing menu of international “street food,” from Thai to Mexican, Israeli to Indian, along with specialty cocktails. 964 S. Cooper. 272-0830. D, X, MRA, $ BAR-B-Q SHOP—Dishes up barbecued ribs, spaghetti, bologna; also pulled pork shoulder, Texas toast barbecue sandwich, chicken sandwich, and salads. Closed Sun. 1782 Madison. 272-1277. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ BARI RISTORANTE ENOTECA—Authentic Southeastern Italian cuisine (Puglia) emphasizes lighter entrees. Serves fresh fish and beef dishes and a homemade soup of the day. 22 S. Cooper. 722-2244. D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ BARKSDALE RESTAURANT—Old-school diner serving breakfast and Southern plate lunches. 237 Cooper. 722-2193. B, L, D, X, $ BAYOU BAR & GRILL—New Orleans fare at this Overton Square eatery includes jambalaya, gumbo, catfish Acadian, shrimp dishes, red beans and rice, and muffalettas. 2094 Madison. 278-8626. L, D, WB, X, $-$$ BEAUTY SHOP—Modern American cuisine with international flair served in a former beauty shop. Serves steaks salads, pasta, and seafood, including pecan-crusted golden sea bass. Perennial “Best Brunch” winner. Closed for dinner Sunday. 966 S. Cooper. 272-7111. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ BELLY ACRES—At this festive Overton Square eatery, milkshakes, floats, and burgers rule. Burgers are updated with contemporary toppings like grilled leeks, braised tomatoes, and sourdough or brioche buns. 2102 Trimble Pl. 529-7017. L, D, X, $ BHAN THAI—Authentic Thai cuisine includes curries, pad Thai noodles, and vegetarian dishes, as well as seafood, pork, and duck entrees. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. and all day Mon. 1324 Peabody. 272-1538. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ BLUE NILE ETHIOPIAN—Kabobs, flavorful chicken and lamb stew, and injera (flatbread) are traditional items on the menu, along with vegetarian options. 1788 Madison. 474-7214. L, D, X, $-$$ BOSCOS—Tennessee’s first craft brewery serves a variety of freshly brewed beers as well as wood-fired oven pizzas, pasta,

seafood, steaks, and sandwiches. 2120 Madison. 432-2222. L, D, SB (with live jazz), X, MRA, $-$$ BOUNTY ON BROAD—Offering family-style dining, Bounty serves small plates and family-sized platters, with such specialties as chicken fried quail and braised pork shank. 2519 Broad. 410-8131. L (Sat. and Sun.), D (Mon.-Sat.), SB, X, $-$$$ BROADWAY PIZZA—Serving a variety of pizzas, including the Broadway Special, as well as sandwiches, salads, wings, and soul-food specials. 2581 Broad. 454-7930; 627 S. Mendenhall. 207-1546. L, D, X, $-$$ CAFE 1912—French/American bistro owned by culinary pioneer Glenn Hays serving such seafood entrees as seared sea scallops with charred cauliflower purée and chorizo cumin sauce; also crepes, salads, and onion soup gratinée. 243 S. Cooper. 722-2700. D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ CAFE BROOKS BY PARADOX—Serving grab-and-go pastries, as well as lunch items. Menu includes soups, salads, and sandwiches, such as the Modern Reuben and Grown Up Grilled Cheese. 1934 Poplar (Memphis Brooks Museum of Art). 544-6200. B, L, X, $ CAFE ECLECTIC—Omelets and chicken and waffles are among menu items, along with quesadillas, sandwiches, wraps, and burgers. Menu varies by location. 603 N. McLean. 725-1718; 111 Harbor Town Square. 590-4645; 510 S. Highland. 410-0765. B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, $ CAFE OLE—This eatery specializes in authentic Mexican cuisine; one specialty is the build-your-own quesadilla. 959 S. Cooper. 343-0103. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ CAFE PALLADIO—Serves gourmet salads, soups, sandwiches, and desserts in a tea room inside the antiques shop. Closed Sun. 2169 Central. 278-0129. L, X, $ CAFE SOCIETY—With Belgian and classic French influences, serves Wagyu beef, chicken, and seafood dishes, including bacon-wrapped shrimp, along with daily specials and vegetarian entrees. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 212 N. Evergreen. 722-2177. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ CELTIC CROSSING—Specializes in Irish and American pub fare. Entrees include shepherd’s pie, shrimp and sausage coddle, and fish and chips. 903 S. Cooper. 274-5151. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ CENTRAL BBQ—Serves ribs, smoked hot wings, pulled pork sandwiches, chicken, turkey, nachos, and portobello sandwiches. Offers both pork and beef barbecue. 2249 Central Ave. 272-9377; 4375 Summer Ave. 7674672; 147 E. Butler. 672-7760. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ CHEF TAM’S UNDERGROUND CAFE—Serves Southern staples with a Cajun twist. Menu items include totchos, jerk wings, fried chicken, and “muddy” mac and cheese. Closed Sun. and Mon. 2299 Young. 207-6182. L, D, $ THE COVE—Nautical-themed restaurant and bar serving oysters, pizzas, and more. The Stoner Pie, with tamales and fritos, is a popular dish. 2559 Broad. 730-0719. L, D, $ THE CRAZY NOODLE—Korean noodle dishes range from bibam beef noodle with cabbage, carrots, and other vegetables, to curry chicken noodle; also rice cakes served in a flavorful sauce. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 2015 Madison. 272-0928. L, D, X, $ ECCO—Mediterranean-inspired specialties range from rib-eye steak to seared scallops to housemade pastas and a grilled vegetable plate; also a Saturday brunch. Closed Sun.-Mon. 1585 Overton Park. 410-8200. L, D, X, $-$$ FARM BURGER—Serves grass-fed, freshly ground, locally sourced burgers; also available with chicken, pork, or veggie quinoa patties, with such toppings as aged white cheddar, kale coleslaw, and roasted beets. 1350 Concourse Avenue #175. 800-1851. L, D, X, $ FRIDA’S—Mexican cuisine and Tex-Mex standards, including chimichangas, enchiladas, and fajitas; seafood includes shrimp and tilapia. 1718 Madison. 244-6196. L, D, X, $-$$ FUEL CAFE—Focus is on natural dishes and pizzas, with such options as vegetarian “anchovy” and vegan carrot Hawaiian. Closed Sun.-Mon. 1761 Madison. 725-9025. L, D, X, $-$$

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GOLDEN INDIA—Northern Indian specialties include tandoori chicken as well as lamb, beef, shrimp, and vegetarian dishes. 2097 Madison. 728-5111. L, D, X, $-$$ GROWLERS—Sports bar and eatery serves standard bar fare in addition to a pasta, tacos, chicken and waffles, and light options. 1911 Poplar. 244-7904. L, D, X, $-$$ HATTIE B’S—Fried chicken spot features “hot chicken” with a variety of heat levels; from no heat to “shut the cluck up” sauce. Sides include greens, pimento mac-and-cheese, and black eyed pea salad. 596 Cooper. 424-5900. L, D, X, $ HM DESSERT LOUNGE—Serving cake, pie, and other desserts, as well as a selection of savory dishes, including meatloaf and mashed potato “cupcakes.” Closed Monday. 1586 Madison. 290-2099. L, D, X, $ HOPDODDY BURGER BAR—Focus is on locally sourced ingredients, with freshly baked buns and meat butchered and ground in-house. Patty options include Angus or Kobe beef, bison, chicken, and more; also vegetarian/ vegan. 6 S. Cooper. 654-5100; 4585 Poplar. 683-0700. L, D, X, $ IMAGINE VEGAN CAFE—Dishes at this fully vegan restaurant range from salads and sandwiches to full dinners, including eggplant parmesan and “beef” tips and rice; breakfast all day Sat. and Sun. 2158 Young. 654-3455. L, D, WB, X, $ INDIAN PASS RAW BAR—Focus is on fresh Florida Gulf Coast seafood, including raw, Cajun, and char-grilled three-cheese jalapeno oysters, shrimp, and crab legs. 2059 Madison. 207-7397. L, D, X, $-$$ INDIA PALACE—Tandoori chicken, lamb shish kabobs, and chicken tikka masala are among the entrees; also, vegetarian options and a daily all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. 1720 Poplar. 278-1199. L, D, X, $-$$ JASMINE THAI AND VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT—Entrees include panang chicken, green curry shrimp, and pad thai (noodles, shrimp, and peanuts); also vegetarian dishes. Closed Mon.-Tues. 916 S. Cooper. 725-0223. L, D, X, $ LAFAYETTE’S MUSIC ROOM—Serves such Southern cuisine as po boys and shrimp and grits, and wood-fired pizzas. 2119 Madison. 207-5097. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ LBOE—Gourmet burger joint serves locally sourced ground beef burgers, with options like the Mac-N-Cheese Burger and Caprese. Black bean and turkey patties available. 2021 Madison. 725-0770. L, D, X, $ THE LIQUOR STORE—Renovated liquor store turned diner serves all-day breakfast, sandwiches, and entrees such as Salisbury steak and smothered pork chops. Closed for dinner Sun.-Mon. 2655 Broad. 405-5477. B, L, D, X, $-$$ LITTLE ITALY—Serving New York-style pizza as well as subs and pasta dishes. 1495 Union. 725-0280, L, D, X, $-$$ LUCKY CAT RAMEN—Specializes in gourmet ramen bowls, such as Bacon Collards Ramen, made with rich broth. Bao, steamed buns filled with various meats and veggies, also grace the menu. 247 S. Cooper. 633-8296. L, D, X, $-$$ MAMA GAIA—Greek-inspired dishes at this vegetarian eatery include pitas, “petitzzas,” and quinoa bowls. 1350 Concourse Avenue, Suite 137. 203-3838; 2144 Madison. 2142449. B, L, D, X, $-$$ MARDI GRAS MEMPHIS—Serving Cajun fare, including an etouffee-stuffed po’boy. Closed Mon. 496 Watkins. 5306767. L, D, X, $-$$ MAXIMO’S ON BROAD—Serving a tapas menu that features creative fusion cuisine; entrees include veggie paella and fish of the day. Closed Mon. 2617 Broad Ave. 452-1111. D, SB, X, $-$$ MEMPHIS PIZZA CAFE—Homemade pizzas are specialties; also serves sandwiches, calzones, and salads. 2087 Madison. 726-5343; 5061 Park Ave. 684-1306; 7604 W. Farmington (Germantown). 753-2218; 797 W. Poplar (Collierville). 861-7800; 5627 Getwell (Southaven). 662-536-1364. L, D, X, $-$$ MOLLY’S LA CASITA—Homemade tamales, fish tacos, a vegetarian combo, and bacon-wrapped shrimp are a few of the specialties. 2006 Madison. 726-1873. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ NEXT DOOR AMERICAN EATERY—The Kitchen’s sister restaurant serves dishes sourced from American farms.

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Menu features chorizo bacon dates, spicy gulf shrimp, and dry-aged beef burgers. 1350 Concourse Avenue Suite 165. 779-1512. L, D, X, $ ONIX RESTAURANT—Serves seafood dishes, including barbecued shrimp and pecan-crusted trout, and a variety of salads and sandwiches. Closed Sun. 1680 Madison. 552-4609. L, D, X, $-$$ PAYNE’S BAR-B-QUE—Opened in 1972, this family owned barbecue joint serves ribs, smoked sausage, and chopped pork sandwiches with a standout mustard slaw and homemade sauce. About as down-toearth as it gets. 1762 Lamar. 272-1523. L, D, $-$$ PEI WEI ASIAN DINER—Serves a variety of Pan-Asian cuisine, including Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Thai. Noodle and rice bowls are specialties; a small plates menu also offered. 1680 Union Ave., #109. 722-3780; 2257 N. Germantown Pkwy. 382-1822. L, D, X, $-$$  PHO BINH—Vietnamese, vegetarian, and Cantonese specialties include lemon tofu and spring rolls. Closed Sunday. 1615 Madison. 276-0006. L, D, $ RAILGARTEN—Located in a former rail station space, this eatery offers breakfast items, a variety of salads and sandwiches, and such entrees as short rib mac-and-cheese and fish tacos. Also serves shakes, malts, floats, and cream sodas. 2166 Central. 231-5043. B, L, D, $-$$ RED FISH ASIAN BISTRO—From the former 19th Century Club building, serves sushi, teriyaki, and hibachi. Specialities include yuzu filet mignon and Chilean sea bass. 1433 Union. 454-3926; 9915 Highway 64 (Lakeland). 729-7581; 6518 Goodman (Olive Branch). 662-874-5254. L, D, X, $-$$$ RESTAURANT IRIS—French Creole-inspired classics are served at this newly remodeled restaurant owned by Chef Kelly English, a Food and Wine “Top Ten.” 2146 Monroe. 590-2828. D, X, $$-$$$ ROBATA RAMEN & YAKITORI BAR—Serves ramen noodle bowls and Yakitori skewers as well as rice and noodle dishes. 2116 Madison. 410-8290. L, D, X, $ SABROSURA—Serves Mexican and Cuban fare, including arroz tapada de pollo and steak Mexican. Closed Sun. 782 Washington. 421-8180. L, D, X, $-$$ THE SECOND LINE—Kelly English brings “relaxed Creole cuisine” to his newest eatery; serves a variety of po-boys and such specialties as barbecue shrimp, and andouille, shrimp, and pimento cheese fries. 2144 Monroe. 590-2829. L, D, WB, X, $-$$ SEKISUI—Japanese fusion cuisine, fresh sushi bar, grilled meats and seafood, California rolls, and vegetarian entrees. Poplar/Perkins location’s emphasis is on Pacific Rim cuisine. Menu and hours vary at each location. 25 Belvedere. 725-0005; 1884 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 309-8800; 4724 Poplar (between Perkins & Colonial). 767-7770; 2130 W. Poplar (Collierville). 854-0622; 2990 Kirby-Whitten (Bartlett). 377-2727; 6696 Poplar. 747-0001. L, D, X, $-$$$ STONE SOUP CAFE—Cooper-Young eatery serving soups, salads, quiche, meat-and-two specials; and daily specials such as Italian roast beef. Closed Monday. 993 S. Cooper. 922-5314. B, L, SB, X, $ SOUL FISH CAFE—Serving Southern-style soul food, tacos, and Po Boys, including catfish, crawfish, oyster, shrimp, chicken and smoked pork tenderloin. 862 S. Cooper. 725-0722; 3160 Village Shops Dr. (Germantown). 755-6988; 4720 Poplar. 590-0323. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ SWEET GRASS—Chef Ryan Trimm takes Southern cuisine to a new level. Low-country coastal cuisine includes such specialties as shrimp and grits. Closed Mon. Restaurant’s “sister,” Sweet Grass Next Door, open nightly, serves lunch Sat.-Sun. 937 S. Cooper. 278-0278. D, SB, X, $-$$$ TROLLEY STOP MARKET—Serves plate lunches/dinners as well as pizzas, salads, and vegan/vegetarian entrees; a specialty is the locally raised beef burger. Also sells fresh produce and goods from local farmers; delivery available. Saturday brunch; closed Sunday. 704 Madison. 526-1361. L, D, X, $ TSUNAMI—Features Pacific Rim cuisine (Asia, Australia, South Pacific, etc.); also a changing “small plate” menu. Chef Ben Smith is a Cooper-Young pioneer. Specialties include Asian nachos and roasted sea bass. Closed Sunday. 928 S. Cooper. 274-2556. D, X, $$-$$$

SOUTH MEMPHIS (INCLUDES

PARKWAY VILLAGE, FOX MEADOWS, SOUTH MEMPHIS, WINCHESTER, AND WHITEHAVEN)

COLETTA’S—Longtime eatery serves such specialties as homemade ravioli, lasagna, and pizza with barbecue or traditional toppings. 1063 S. Parkway E. 948-7652; 2850 Appling Rd. (Bartlett). 383-1122. L, D, X, $-$$ CURRY BOWL—Specializes in Southern Indian cuisine, serving Tandoori chicken, biryani, tikka masala, and more. Weekend buffet. 4141 Hacks Cross. 207-6051. L, D, $ DELTA’S KITCHEN—The premier restaurant at The Guest House at Graceland serves Elvis-inspired dishes — like Nutella and Peanut Butter Crepes for breakfast — and upscale Southern cuisine — including lamb chops and shrimp and grits — for dinner. 3600 Elvis Presley Blvd. 443-3000. B, D, X, $-$$$ DWJ KOREAN BARBECUE—This authentic Korean eatery serves kimbap, barbecued beef short ribs, rice and noodles dishes, and hot pots and stews. 3750 Hacks Cross, Suite 101. 746-8057; 2156 Young. 207-6204. L, D, $-$$ THE FOUR WAY—Legendary soul-food establishment dishing up such entrees as fried and baked catfish, chicken, and turkey and dressing, along with a host of vegetables and desserts. Around the corner from the legendary Stax Studio. Closed Monday. 998 Mississippi Blvd. 507-1519. L, D, $ INTERSTATE BAR-B-Q—Specialties include chopped pork-shoulder sandwiches, ribs, hot wings, spaghetti, chicken, and turkey. 2265 S. Third. 775-2304; 150 W. Stateline Rd. (Southaven). 662-393-5699. L, D, X, $-$$ LEONARD’S—Serves wet and dry ribs, barbecue sandwiches, spaghetti, catfish, homemade onion rings, and lemon icebox pie; also a lunch buffet. 5465 Fox Plaza. 360-1963. L, X, $-$$ MARLOWE’S—In addition to its signature barbecue and ribs, Marlowe’s serves Southern-style steaks, chops, lasagne, and more. 4381 Elvis Presley Blvd. 332-4159. D, X, MRA, $-$$ UNCLE LOU’S FRIED CHICKEN—Featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives for good reason: fried chicken (mild, hot, or home-style); jumbo burgers four patties high; strawberry shortcake, and assorted fruit pies. 3633 Millbranch. 332-2367. L, D, X, MRA, $

SUMMER/BERCLAIR/ RALEIGH/BARTLETT ASIAN PALACE—Chinese eatery serves seafood, vegetarian items, dim sum, and more. 5266 Summer Ave. 766-0831. L, D, X, $-$$ ELWOOD’S—Casual comfort food includes tacos, pizza and sandwiches. Specialties include meats smoked in-house (chicken, turkey, brisket, pork), barbecue pizza and steelhead trout tacos. 4523 Summer. 7619898. B, L, D, X, $ EXLINES’ BEST PIZZA—Serves pizza, Italian dinners, sandwiches, and salads. 6250 Stage Rd. 382-3433; 2935 Austin Peay. 388-4711; 2801 Kirby Parkway. 754-0202; 7730 Wolf River Blvd. (Germantown). 753-4545; 531 W. Stateline Rd. 662-3424544 (check online for additional locations). L, D, X, MRA, $ GRIDLEY’S—Offers barbecued ribs, shrimp, pork plate, chicken, and hot tamales; also daily lunch specials. Closed Tues. 6842 Stage Rd. 377-8055. L, D, X, $-$$ LA TAQUERIA GUADALUPANA—Fajitas and quesadillas are just a few of the authentic Mexican entrees offered here. A bona-fide Memphis institution. 4818 Summer. 685-6857; 5848 Winchester. 365-4992. L, D, $ LOTUS—Authentic Vietnamese-Asian fare, including lemon-grass chicken and shrimp, egg rolls, Pho soup, and spicy Vietnamese vermicelli. 4970 Summer. 6821151. D, X, $ MORTIMER’S—Contemporary American entrees include trout almondine, chicken dishes, and handcut steaks; also sandwiches, salads, and daily/nightly specials. A Memphis landmark since the Knickerbocker closed.

Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 590 N. Perkins. 761-9321. L, D, X, $-$$ NAGASAKI INN—Chicken, steak, and lobster are among the main courses; meal is cooked at your table. 3951 Summer. 454-0320. D, X, $$ PANDA GARDEN—Sesame chicken and broccoli beef are among the Mandarin and Cantonese entrees; also seafood specials and fried rice. Closed for lunch Saturday. 3735 Summer. 323-4819. L, D, X, $-$$ QUEEN OF SHEBA—Featuring Middle Eastern favorites and Yemeni dishes such as lamb haneeth and saltah. 4792 Summer. 207-4174. L, D, $ SIDE PORCH STEAK HOUSE—In addition to steak, the menu includes chicken, pork chops, and fish entrees; homemade rolls are a specialty. Closed Sun.-Mon. 5689 Stage Rd. 377-2484. D, X, $-$$

UNIVERSITY NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICT (INCLUDES CHICKASAW GARDENS AND HIGHLAND STRIP)

A-TAN—Serves Chinese and Japanese hibachi cuisine, complete with sushi bar. A specialty is Four Treasures with garlic sauce. 3445 Poplar, Suite 17, University Center. 452-4477. L, D, X, $-$$$ THE BLUFF—New Orleans-inspired menu includes alligator bites, nachos topped with crawfish and andouille, gumbo, po’boys, and fried seafood platters. 535 S. Highland. 454-7771. L, D, X, $-$$ BROTHER JUNIPER’S—This little cottage is a breakfast mecca, offering specialty omelets, including the open-faced San Diegan omelet; also daily specials, and homemade breads and pastries. Closed Mon. 3519 Walker. 324-0144. B, X, $ CHAR RESTAURANT—Specializing in modern Southern cuisine, this eatery offers homestyle sides, char-broiled steaks, and fresh seafood. 431 S. Highland, #120. 249-3533. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ DERAE RESTAURANT—Ethiopian and Mediterranean fare includes fuul, or fava beans in spices and yogurt, goat meat and rice, and garlic chicken over basmati rice with cilantro chutney; also salmon and tilapia. Closed Monday. 923 S. Highland. 552-3992. B, L, D, $-$$ EL PORTON—Fajitas, quesadillas, and steak ranchero are just a few of the menu items. 2095 Merchants Row (Germantown). 754-4268; 8361 Highway 64. 380-7877; 3448 Poplar, Poplar Plaza. 452-7330; 1805 N. Germantown Parkway (Cordova). 624-9358; 1016 W. Poplar (Collierville). 854-5770. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ JOES’ ON HIGHLAND—This recent edition specializes in fried chicken and comfort sides such as warm okra/green tomato salad and turnip greens. Entrees include salmon patties and chicken fried steak. Closed Mon. 262 S. Highland. 337-7003. L, D, X, $ MEDALLION—Offers steaks, seafood, chicken, and pasta entrees. Closed for dinner Sunday. 3700 Central, Holiday Inn (Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality). 678-1030. B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$

OUT-OF-TOWN TACKER’S SHAKE SHACK—This family-run establishment offers plate lunches, catfish dinners, homemade desserts, and a variety of hamburgers, including a mac ‘n’ cheese-topped griddle burger. Closed Sun. 409 E. Military Rd. (Marion, AR). 870-739-3943. B, L, D, $ BONNE TERRE—This inn’s cafe features American cuisine with a Southern flair, and a seasonal menu that changes monthly. Offers Angus steaks, duck, pasta, and seafood. Closed Sun.-Wed. 4715 Church Rd. W. (Nesbit, MS). 662-781-5100. D, X, $-$$$ BOZO’S HOT PIT BAR-B-Q—Barbecue, burgers, sandwiches, and subs. 342 Hwy 70 (Mason, TN). 901-294-3400. L, D, $-$$ CATFISH BLUES—Serving Delta-raised catfish and Cajun- and Southern-inspired dishes, including gumbo and

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fried green tomatoes. 210 E. Commerce (Hernando, MS). 662298-3814. L, D, $ CITY GROCERY—Southern eclectic cuisine; shrimp and grits is a specialty. Closed for dinner Sunday. 152 Courthouse Square (Oxford, MS). 662-232-8080. L, D, SB, X, $$-$$$ COMO STEAKHOUSE—Steaks cooked on a hickory charcoal grill are a specialty here. Upstairs is an oyster bar. Closed Sun. 203 Main St. (Como, MS). 662-526-9529. D, X, $-$$$ LONG ROAD CIDER CO.—Specializes in hard apple ciders made with traditional methods. Cafe-style entrees include black eye peas with cornbread and greens, chicken Gorgonzola pockets, cider-steamed sausage, and housemade ice creams. Closed Sun.-Wed. 9053 Barret Road. (Barretville, TN). 352-0962. D, X, $ MANILA FILIPINO RESTAURANT—Entrees include pork belly cutlet with lechon sauce, and shrimp and vegetables in tamarind broth; also daily combos, rice dishes, and chef specials. Closed Sun.-Mon. 7849 Rockford (Millington, TN). 209-8525. L, D, X, $ MARSHALL STEAKHOUSE—Rustic steakhouse serves premium Angus beef steaks, seafood dishes, rack of lamb,

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and more. Breakfast menu features griddle cakes, and lunch offerings include hamburger steak and oyster po’ boys. 2379 Highway 178 (Holly Springs, MS). 628-3556. B, L, D, X, $-$$$ MEMPHIS BARBECUE COMPANY—Offers spare ribs, baby backs, and pulled pork and brisket, along with such sides as mac and cheese, grits, and red beans. 709 Desoto Cove (Horn Lake, MS). 662-536-3762. L, D, X, $-$$ NAGOYA—Offers traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi bar; specialties are teriyaki and tempura dishes. 7075 Malco Blvd., Suite 101 (Southaven, MS). 662-349-8788. L, D, X, $-$$$  PANCHO’S—Serves up a variety of Mexican standards, including tacos, enchiladas, and mix-and-match platters; also lunch specials. 3600 E. Broadway (West Memphis, AR). 870735-6466. 717 N. White Station. 685-5404. L, D, X, MRA, $ PIG-N-WHISTLE—Offers pork shoulder sandwiches, wet and dry ribs, catfish, nachos, and stuffed barbecue potatoes. 6084 Kerr-Rosemark Rd. (Millington, TN). 872-2455. L, D, X, $ RAVINE—Serves contemporary Southern cuisine with an emphasis on fresh, locally grown foods and a menu that changes weekly. Closed Mon.-Tues. 53 Pea Ridge/County Rd. 321 (Oxford, MS). 662-234-4555. D, SB, X, $$-$$$ STEAK BY MELISSA—Aged, choice-grade, hand-cut steaks are a specialty here. Also serving fresh seafood dishes, plate lunches, burgers, and sandwiches. 4975 Pepper Chase Dr. (Southaven, MS). 662-342-0602. L, D, WB, X, $-$$$ WILSON CAFE—Serving elevated home-cooking, with such dishes as deviled eggs with cilantro and jalapeno, scampi and grits, and doughnut bread pudding. 2 N. Jefferson (Wilson, AR). 870-655-0222. L, D (Wed. through Sat. only), X, $-$$$

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Aretha Franklin Remembering the Queen of Soul.

retha Franklin, who died last month in Detroit, where she lived most of her life, was born in a small house in South Memphis in the spring of 1942. Over a six-decade musical career, Franklin wove soul with jazz and blues and gospel and opera. She died having recorded some 20 number-one R&B singles, received 18 Grammys, amassed an estate somewhere between 60 and 80 million dollars (depending on whom you ask), and performed at the funeral of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. An expansive life. Throughout her career, she insisted on being paid in cash, in full, on the spot. Aretha, the Queen of Soul, was not about to be disrespected. The afternoon of August 16th, after hearing news of her death from pancreatic cancer earlier that day, crowds of Memphians began to gather at a little boarded-up house at 406 Lucy. Franklin lived here until she

was 2 with her father, the Baptist minister C.L. Franklin, and her mother, Barbara, herself an accomplished singer and vocalist who divorced C.L., then died when Aretha was 10. By evening, a crowd of assembled Memphians had come together to sing, to remember, and to write notes to Franklin on the plywood covering the house’s windows.

boards symbolize, a connection The next day, on my way out between this place, this city, of town, I took a detour to the and the singer who changed so house on Lucy, drawn to it like much. a magnet and a pilgrim at once. Aretha’s music could change Crowds were still processing the atmosphere in a room. In a in and out, everyone a little nation. Her voice was mighty hushed, quiet on the broadly as the Mississippi when women sunny day. Neighbors sat in singers were expected to be lawn chairs on the sidewalk smaller, silvery, decorative; her across the street, watching the work ranged freely and hungricomers and goers, the pholy across genres when artists tographers and musicians, the were expected to stay in their single police car, and everyone places. else who had been pulled to Fifty years ago, in 1968, this little house to pay their Aretha Franklin sang in Paris, respects, leave their flowers, at the Olympia Theatre. In the add their voices to the chorus recording, she’s on, bearing witness. Aretha’s music and the crowd sparks Someone had could change the and scintillates with lashed a tip bucket the electricity kin— cash only, please atmosphere in a dled onstage. Since — next to a teddy room. In a nation. her death, I’ve been bear on the chainvisiting this half-cenlink fence. The Her voice was tury-ago evening house on Lucy is in mighty as the often. It’s in the disrepair, and has Mississippi when middle of the album, been the subject of but the song where legal wrangling for women singers I keep starting is years. In 2017, the were expected to “Night Life.” Aretha City erected a historic marker in the be smaller, silvery, didn’t write the song — that was Willie front yard; visitors decorative. Nelson and company posed for photos — but she wrote herself into with the sign. And added signs it, occupying every inch of the of their own: The house was words and chords. covered quickly with love notes “Oh, the night life,” she sings, and notes of respect, notes from spending as much time explorfar afield and close to home, ing the vowels as she damn well notes of gratitude. As I drove pleases, “ain’t no good life / Oh, away, a woman danced slowly, but it’s my life.” All her own. solo, in the yard; like Aretha, unafraid to occupy her space, No one owned Aretha Frankon her time. lin, not for one moment: not a A few people, reading later record label, not a manager, not online about the crowds of a city, not her fans. She eluded people who had the audacity that sort of eager grasping. As to write all over the house, Memphis remembered Aretha commented about a lack of this particular week, we did respect. Just the opposite. The so knowing full well she was house, whose future remains never really ours, and respectuncertain, is only a collection ing her all the more fervently. of boards. What is certain: the Memphis claims the King: The force of the connection those Queen was all her own.

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