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FREE OUR 1362ND / ISSUE 04.02.2015 / COVER STORY P.19 I just finished a book called Bettyville. It’s by George Hodgman, who grew up in Paris, Missouri, near my hometown, then went to the University of Missouri school of journalism in the 1970s. After graduation, he went off to New York City and became an editor at various magazines.

The book is a memoir of his return to his hometown to care for his 90-yearold mother, Betty, who is resistant to moving out of her home, though her health is failing.

Bettyville is getting lots of good reviews, as it should. It’s funny and poignant, and since it’s set in the counties and towns where I grew up, and I have a 94-year-old stepmom who still lives in my hometown, I found it very compelling. I have a lot in common with the author. Except he’s gay and I’m not.

His memories of growing up “different” in a small town in rural America are sometimes painful to read, but Hodgman writes with wit and humor and grace.

I found myself laughing out loud at some of his observations of small town life.

But Paris has changed, and not for the better. As he writes, three great forces have destroyed much of rural America: the death of the family farm, Walmart, and meth.

And homophobia, while maybe a bit distilled, is still rampant in the hinterlands.

If you need further evidence of that, see the current brouhaha about Indiana’s “religious freedom restoration” act, which basically allows people — and businesses — who feel “compelled by sincere religious beliefs” to refuse to do business with gays.

It’s institutionalized bigotry and there’s no way around it. A few decades back, people used the same “logic” to refuse service to African Americans and to those in mixedrace marriages.

The negative fallout has been spectacular and has spawned a “Boycott Indiana” movement. Several major corporations and national organizations have announced they will no longer do business in the state. The state’s governor, Mike Pence, has stumbled his way through several appearances on national television, attempting to defend the act. It’s a black eye for Indiana, N E WS & O P I N I O N and it will cost the state millions of dolLETTERS - 4 TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 lars. And, of course, most GOP presidenTHE FLY-BY - 6 tial candidates are defending it.

TRUTH BE TOLD - 12 It could have been Tennessee suffering POLITICS - 14 through this stupidity. Last February, state EDITORIAL - 16 Senator Brian Kelsey of Germantown proVIEWPOINT - 17 posed nearly identical legislation in NashCOVER STORY - “GODLESS IN ville. It was quickly dubbed by opponents MEMPHIS” as the “Turn Away the Gays” bill. The reBY CHRIS DAVIS - 19 action was vociferous — in Memphis and STE P P I N’ O UT Nashville, particularly. Local restaurateur WE RECOMMEND - 24 Kelly English vowed to hold a fund-raiser MUSIC - 26 to defeat Kelsey; LGBT activists here and LOCAL BEAT - 27 nation-wide raised a stink. Kelsey backed AFTER DARK - 30 down, withdrew his sponsorship, and the BOOKS - 34 CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 36 bill died in committee.

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Local craft beer is one of those rare issues that Memphians, regardless of political affiliation, can come together on. Right now, a Davidversus-Goliath fight is brewing in Washington between two competing beer bills. The big guys are pushing C I T Y O F M E M P H I S • D O W N T O W N N E I G H B O R H O O D A S S O C I AT I O N • L I VA B L E M E M P H I S the Small Brew Act, which essentially benefits four brewers by redefining the “small brewer” as 6 million barrels.

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spend the education money, why not give it to your pastor and his private school, or to your friends and retired mayors who are trying to get a piece of that sweet, sweet charter school grift? The money has to be spent. So spend it in the right places, not the wrong places.

That’s the whole point of charter schools and school vouchers. The longer we continue to pretend the voucher proponents and the representatives of charter schools have a legitimate desire to educate the children of Tennessee and that we merely disagree on the best method to accomplish this goal, the quicker they will accomplish their goal of destroying public education altogether. Because that is their goal.

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properly educated.” We are sure that a lot of our suburban children are getting educated pretty well. At least standardized testing says so, and they do seem to succeed when they move on to college.

Teachers are not allowed to unionize in Tennessee, either. They can have educational associations, but without the possibility of striking, these are5pretty6much7advisory 8 rather 9 than adversarial relationships with their school 15 boards.

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V E R B AT I M State Representative Micha Van Huss (R-Jonesborough) doesn’t want people giving President Barack Obama or the nonexistent King of England too much credit. Van Huss recently explained why he wants to amend the Tennessee constitution crediting “Almighty God, our Creator and Savior” as the source of our civil liberties. “As a nation, we are drifting from the morals of our Founding Fathers,” Huss was quoted as saying. “I think it’s important to reaffirm that our liberties do not come from the King of England. It does not come from Barack Obama.

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B A D S A N TA Ladarius Robinson’s underworld friends should start calling him the Grinch. Robinson was caught on camera attempting to steal more than $1,000 of designer jeans from Icon on South Highland. Robinson was wearing a Santa hat.

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New $55 million redevelopment plan promises new future for century-old train station.

A hotel, movie theater, restaurant, new apartments, shops, and maybe a grocery store are coming to the century-old Central Station in a $55 million project unveiled last week.

Henry Turley Co. and Community Capital have been working for more than a year on a plan for the South Main campus that is now home to an Amtrak station, apartments, the Memphis Railroad and Trolley museum, event space, and the Memphis Farmers Market. The companies plan to bring more activity to the area by building new access to trolleys, trains, housing, entertainment, shopping, buses, and for cyclists and pedestrians.

“Our theme as we’ve moved through this process has been to make Central Station central,” Archie Willis, president of Community Capital, told members of the Memphis Area Transit Authority’s (MATA) finance committee Friday.

The plan would transform the tower of the Central Station building into a boutique hotel. Willis said Friday he’s been in talks with the Kemmons Wilson Companies, which has been in talks with “major” hotel companies interested in the project.

Partners are “ready to go,” Willis said, and are awaiting approval from MATA to begin final negotiations.

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Bar-arcade opens in Broad Avenue warehouse.

Sure you were good at Street Fighter II in your old teenage mall arcade days, but can you still get that K.O. after a few craft beers?

Beginning this week, fans of retro arcade games will have the chance to brush off their skills at the Rec Room, a new arcade bar inside a warehouse at 3000 Broad Avenue. The venture — spearheaded by a partnership group that includes entrepreneur Taylor Berger and Buckman chemical sales executive Bill Ganus among others — will feature a number of 1980s and ’90s arcade games as well as mini-living rooms set up with retro gaming consoles.

“This is about the last 40 years of pop culture. Video games trigger such visceral memories of being a teenager or even younger than that. We have Nintendo Power. We have old [school gym] bleachers where you can sit and have a beer,” Berger said. “All of these things trigger these really cool memories.”

Standing arcade floor games include Pac Man, Street Fighter II, Donkey Kong, Tron, Burger Time, and Road Blasters, among others. But groups can also rent one of six mini-living rooms — complete with couches and chairs — by the hour to play games on gaming consoles. The games, everything from Atari 2600 to Xbox 1 and PlayStation 4, are projected onto a wall.

“We were standing in this 6,000-square-foot warehouse, and we knew it could be an arcade,” Ganus said. “But even

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The Pinch District won’t lose its listing on the National Register of Historic Places any time soon.

In January, the Pinch was in the crosshairs of the Tennessee Historical Commission (THC) to be removed from the register. The commission said the area had lost many of its buildings, and “has lost the significance for which it was listed and no longer retains integrity of location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, and feeling.”

But the THC deferred a decision on the removal in January. In a letter to state Senator Lee Harris, E. Patrick McIntyre, executive director of THC and the State Historic Preservation Office, said “I have deferred consideration for the de-listing of the Pinch District indefinitely.”

Harris said Pinch constituents asked him to get involved in the decision just as he was taking office in January. Since then, he said he’s been in talks with the THC and planned public meetings on the topic.

“For now, that fire is out,” Harris said in a Friday meeting with Pinch stakeholders.

But he warned that things could change if the THC gets new board members or a new executive director.

Listing on the National Register goes beyond words on a plaque. June West, executive director of Memphis Heritage, said Friday the degeneration allows building owners to leverage historic tax credits to renovate their properties.

“If it had been de-listed, each individual property owner would have had to nominate their building as

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station, would become a meeting space or ballroom for the new hotel. The new restaurant would be inside the hotel.

Malco Theaters would build a movie theater on the southeast corner of Front and G.E. Patterson.

The Powerhouse would be converted into the theater’s ticket counter and refreshment station, according to the plan. The theater would be a five-screen, two-story, art-house movie theater, Willis said. The building would have a modern look with glass and brick, and it would be accented with neon signage. Construction there could begin early next year with a planned opening around the end of 2016.

About 370 new apartment units would be built on the site, mainly in the big empty lot behind the station.

The plan shows that a grocery store could be built adjacent to the apartment building.

View of the Pyramid and Pinch District an independent, self-standing building to be on the National Register,” she said. “In some cases, some of the buildings probably would not be allowed to do that on their own because they may not have the significance that the National Register might require.”

The news comes as Pinch neighbors and business owners prepare for the MEMFix event (the city’s ongoing series of neighborhood revitalization festivals) happening there on Saturday, April 11th. Friday’s MEMFix meeting at the Crowne Plaza Hotel brought

The Memphis Farmers Market would be moved to the southeast corner of Main and G.E. Patterson in four new open-air pavilions.

Willis said there is no firm plan yet for the Railroad and Trolley Museum, but its move to a new location would be “as good or better” than the current location in the first floor of Central Station.

To open and connect the entire campus, the trolley stop next to the Powerhouse would be relocated, maybe to Main Street. Also, a new concourse would be opened in the big wall that fronts Main Street where the wall now meets the Central Station building.

Much of the funding for the project would come from federal government grants. MATA president Ron Garrison said local entities would only need to come up with about $600,000 to draw the remaining money to fund the $55 million project. The full MATA board will vote on the project on April 27th.

together stakeholders and volunteers to get the Pinch ready for hundreds of visitors expected at the event.

John Paul Shaffer, Livable Memphis program director, looked down at the Pinch from an 11th story window in the hotel. He pointed to lots of vacant properties there but noted the many opportunities for development. From the window, it was hard not to notice the huge, silver Bass Pro Shops sign on the Pyramid and just how close it is to the Pinch.

“The thinking on the part of the Pinch stakeholders was to get out in front of Bass Pro,” Shaffer said. “to bring attention to the Pinch to say, ‘We’re here. We’ve been here. We’ve been waiting for this for a long time.

Now’s our opportunity to show everyone where we are on the map’.”

Many of the vacant lots in the Pinch got that way by lack of restrictions on surface parking lots when the Pyramid was built. So many buildings came down as property owners looked to cash in on Pyramid parkers.

In fact, the original nomination to the National Register was comprised of 41 buildings or sites in the Pinch. The figure was bumped up to 43 in 1990 in an administrative correction. But in the time of the Pyramid’s construction and its closure, only 19 of the buildings remain in the Pinch.

“The expanse of vacant lots is distressing for what once was the cradle of the City of Memphis,” the THC petition says.

Game continued from page 6 Video games not your thing? In true rec room fashion, the bar has darts, foosball, ping-pong tables, air hockey, and cornhole boards.

Berger said they lucked onto the massive warehouse space because a friend of his is planning to open another business in part of the space.

“He had 6,000 extra square feet that he wasn’t using,” Berger said.

At first, the bar will serve four rotating styles of beer from Wiseacre Brewing Company, as well as some nationally distributed beers by Sweetwater and Oskar Blues Brewery. The Truck Stop food truck, which debuted at last year’s “Untapped” event at the Tennessee Brewery, will be on-site at the Rec Room peddling tacos. Bluff City Biscuits will sell biscuit sandwiches. The bar is open seven days a week, opening at 4 p.m. on week days but earlier on weekends.

“We’re opening at 10 a.m. on Saturday and noon on Sunday so people

can ride over on the [Shelby Farms] Greenline in the morning, eat and play, and ride home,” Berger said.

The bar, near Tillman and Broad, sits on the soon-to-be-constructed Hampline bicycle path, which will run from Overton Park to the Greenline.

The partnership group behind the venture, which includes 12 people including Berger and Ganus, is hoping the bar’s location near Tillman will help spur revitalization of the eastern side of Broad.

“There’s definitely room to expand Broad Avenue, especially as the Hampline is developed. It’s made this a really important corridor to connect the High Point area with Overton,” Ganus said.

Though the bar-arcade concept isn’t new, Berger said the Rec Room is different because it’s about transforming an outdated industrial park into something new and fun.

“This ain’t no Dave & Buster’s.

This is a warehouse in Binghampton,” Berger said.

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Teens discuss juvenile justice reform at LeMoyne-Owen College.

Youth-driven conference tackles violence and the juvenile justice system. our juvenile justice system doesn’t incentivize reforming or ending recidivism. It profits off the recidivism because most of the juvenile detention centers make their money based on how many bunks they fill each night, not how many kids leave their program and never engage with the criminal justice system again.”

BRIDGES and Memphis United are planning a second conference to take place in late August at LeMoyne-Owen College.

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black youth.” With the JCMSC’s progress so far, the community outreach branch of the court has worked with BRIDGES and Memphis United to change the conversation from punishment to prevention.

“I worked for a juvenile detention facility 16 years ago,” Watkins said. “I was working there, all those years, thinking I was a counselor until I realized, ‘This is just a private jail.’ This model that we have for

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The Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County (JCMSC) has been under scrutiny in recent years, following findings of racial discrimination and other problems in a 2012 investigation of the court by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).

Last weekend, a group of about 40 young people ranging from 13 to 18 gathered at LeMoyne-Owen College to discuss issues surrounding juvenile justice reform.

Some of them were concerned teens; others had court-ordered community service. But by the end of the day, the People’s Conference on Juvenile Justice brought forth a wave of youth-facilitated discussion — full of opinions, suggestions, and complaints.

The conference, a joint effort by Memphis United and BRIDGES, was designed not only to give a platform for these discussions but to give young people the nudge they needed to mobilize in favor of reducing youth crime and negative depictions of teenagers in media, said Bradley Watkins, the executive director of the MidSouth Peace and Justice Center.

“When we set off doing this event, we wanted to make sure that, as much as possible, it was youth-facilitated, youth-led, and youth-crafted,” Watkins said. “We say, ‘Youth are the solution, not the problem,’ but we never allow them to be a part of the solution. The fact that adults weren’t really engaging in that conversation — that it was more youth with youth — the conversation was more fruitful.”

Youth leadership program members from Bridge Builders and other young people led workshops, which included a “Know Your Rights” training seminar that set out to educate attendees about the rights they are guaranteed despite being below the voting age.

In the 2012 DOJ report, the department found that the JCMSC failed to provide adequate protection for juveniles in regard to self-incrimination, in particular “[advising] juveniles of their Miranda rights prior to questioning” in probation conferences.

That report also found the JCMSC failed to “provide constitutionally required due process to children of all races” on top of charges of administration discrimination against black children and unsafe conditions while in confinement.

Since then, the DOJ and the JCMSC came to an agreement in terms of reformation, providing timelines and goals in order to reduce the presence of black juveniles within the system in Shelby County as well as “ensuring greater equality for all youth,” according to compliance reports.

In 2014, those reports reiterated a “minority youth over-representation at almost every stage in the proceedings and evidence of discriminatory treatment of

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Teacher-turned-urban agriculturalist Adam Guerrero, along with a handful of teens, is working to make economically disadvantaged areas a bit more sustainable.

Under the moniker “Smart Mules,” a term coined to describe the collective’s persistent work ethic and intelligence, Guerrero and his young comrades are in the process of transforming around 14 vacant lots into community gardens. The lots are primarily located in the areas of North Hollywood and New Chicago. And the group also maintains a mini-farm at a residence at 2267 Shasta.

The objectives with the community gardens are to suppress the presence of blighted properties, food deserts, and poor diets in Memphis.

“With there being about 3,000-plus vacant lots in Shelby County, most of it in North and South Memphis — the places with food deserts, low education scores, and high unemployment — it just seems like a natural fit,” Guerrero said.

Costs for the lots acquired thus far have been in the ballpark of $250 to $500. An award of $1,000 from by the National Garden Association has helped cover some of the cost to obtain the neglected properties.

To transform the abandoned lots into thriving community gardens, the group removes high grass and weeds, and then they harvest and compost leaves, wood chips, and horse manure to create fertilizer for the soil. Once the soil is ready, they plant seeds for fruits and veggies such as strawberries, bell peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers.

Besides acting as gardeners, provides him and his peers with the Smart Mules are also beekeepthe opportunity to do something ers. They collect the honey and productive instead of destructive. beeswax that the hive produces at “It helps keep you out of trouble,” their Shasta location. In addition Thomas said. “You’re never bored to bottling the honey, they use it to when you’re working. There’s nomake mead. They use the beeswax body hassling you.” to make soap and candles.

Cortez Washington also started In collaboration with Growworking with Guerrero as a teen.

Memphis, all of the Smart Mules’ This has helped the 20 year old products are sold at the Evergreen learn a lot about gardening and life as a whole over the years.

Community Farmers Market “It’s opened up a whole new and Cooper Young Community view,” Washington said. “I’ve Farmers Market. learned about different types of Last year, this brought in seeds, different ways to grow, and nearly $5,000 for the small group, Honey from the Smart Mules about compost and spreading maaccording to Guerrero. Although bee farm nure. You’re able to learn and help at he funds the restoration and the same time. I’m just thankful for gardening efforts, he doesn’t the opportunity.” profit from the endeavors. Instead, he allows the teens Back in 2011, Guerrero received national attention to split all of the proceeds. after his home garden was deemed a code violation by Jovantae Thomas started gardening with Guerrero during his ninth grade year at Memphis Academy of the Shelby County Environmental Court.

Health Sciences. Guerrero was his teacher at the time A petition to save his garden garnered several thouand informed him of the opportunity to help with his sand signatures and media outlets such as the Washington home garden.

Post brought national awareness to the situation. In the Now 20 years old, Thomas is still working with Guerend, Guerrero was allowed to keep his garden but was required to make minor adjustments. rero — a proud member of his Smart Mule collective. It

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A proposed change to state law adds up to bad news for Tennessee’s public defenders.

Last year, the Shelby County District Attorney’a office touched 153,000 cases.

That’s more cases than there are people in Bartlett, Germantown, and Collierville combined.

That number is terrifying — and misleading. (More on that later.)

But it serves to conjure up notions of imminent danger, and I suspect that’s why District Attorney Amy Weirich dropped that figure two weeks ago in Nashville, when she pressed a Senate committee to kill the “75 percent” rule.

The 75 percent rule says that whatever public funding the DA’s office receives, the public defender must also get threefourths of that amount.

There’s no corollary: If the Shelby County Commission gives the public defender $10,000, Weirich complained, it doesn’t have to give the DA a dime.

Weirich argued that each office should seek funding independently. In a just world, that makes sense. But the criminal justice system is weighted toward the prosecution, which has powers public defenders don’t. At the prosecutor’s service are police and sheriff’s departments, and state investigators who collect evidence, and experts ready to give testimony.

The public defenders must rely on the veracity of those reports, prosecutors’ integrity, and the investigators and experts it can afford. The 75 percent rule is essential to leveling the playing field and protecting the indigent’s constitutional right to effective counsel.

Although the rule has been in effect for decades, it hasn’t been enforced. According to a 2011 report by the Tennessee Administrative Office of Courts, public defenders get 60 percent of state funding.

Previous attempts to kill the 75 percent rule failed, and the most recent bill was shipped to a summer study committee.

In the meantime, Senator Randy McNally (R-Oak Ridge) has come up with a budget amendment that would gut funding for public defenders.

“If a local government provides a funding increase or supplement to the office of the public defender in the judicial district,” the amendment reads, “the appropriation made by the provisions of this act to the local government or District Public Defenders Conference for the office of the public defender in that district is reduced by the amount of the local funding.”

In English: If the county commission

gave the local public defender’s office an additional $100, the state would decrease by $100 the amount of state funding for that public defender’s office. This would freeze the public defender’s budget, punish indigent clients, and boost the advantage district attorneys already enjoy.

McNally could not be reached to explain the problem his amendment solves.

But the amendment is consistent with conservatives’ narrative about the poor, whose deprivation is the result of their own failings. If the poor stand accused of a crime, it’s because they’re guilty.

To right-wingers, the volumes of evidence showing racial disparities in arrest rates, conviction rates, and sentences are figments of liberals’ imaginations.

Another reason to wreck public defenders’ offices lies in prison privatization. How do you maintain a steady supply of people to fill Tennessee’s forprofit prisons?

To right-wingers, the volumes of evidence showing racial disparities in arrest rates, conviction rates, and sentences are figments of liberals’ imaginations.

The government can make new crimes out of previously legal behavior, manufacture a phony war on drugs, set mandatory minimum sentences, and hyper-police communities of color. Now we have another way: Bankrupt public defenders.

But let’s get back to the numbers.

According to records, Weirich’s office handled 157,576 new cases in 2014. The number of cases doesn’t appear to be artificially inflated. For example, a suspect charged in connection with 14 separate robberies would count as a single case.

Of those 157,576 cases, 22 percent were traffic citations, 28 percent were misdemeanor citations, and 43 percent were misdemeanor defendants.

That means around seven percent were felony defendants accused of serious crimes like rape and murder. Suddenly, the numbers aren’t so scary.

Add to that the state Supreme Court’s recent rebukes of Weirich’s office and the reversal of two convictions, including last week’s overturned guilty verdict of accused rapist Frederick Herron, and the DA’s complaints seem less relevant.

If the legislature eliminates the checks and balances for the indigent accused, that should be a crime.

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POLITICS By Jackson Baker

On the Health-Care Front Insure Tennessee re-emerges; Cohen nabs money for hospitals; changing of the guard for Shelby County’s political parties.

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Against all odds, backers of a renewed effort to secure legislative approval for Governor Bill Haslam’s Insure Tennessee proposal hoped to steer the Medicaid-expansion measure through committees in both the state Senate and state House this week.

And, even if the proposal is stopped short of the goal, as it was in an aborted February special session, 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen and other members of the state’s congressional delegation have managed to obtain some measure of fiscal relief for the state’s beleaguered hospitals.

Cohen announced this week the passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, which, the congressman said in a press release, will “guarantee disproportionate share hospital (DSH) allotments totaling more than $530 million over the next 10 years to help the state’s hospitals and community health centers recoup expenses incurred caring for those who cannot afford to pay.”

As Cohen, who took the lead in securing the new funding, noted, Tennessee is the only state in the nation that, until passage of the act, was not in a position to receive annual DSH allotments automatically.

The reason for that has been that, when the administration of Governor Ned McWherter negotiated a waiver with the federal government to convert Tennessee’s Medicaid operation into what became TennCare, the DSH allotments were not included within the waiver. The oversight, based on an apparent overestimation of TennCare’s ability to cover all exigencies, may have kept the state from receiving as much as $450 million in DSH funding annually.

Attempts in recent years to remedy that situation have been blocked by a general atmosphere of fiscal austerity in Washington, and even the new arrangement, which secures a guaranteed amount of new federal DSH funding amounting to $53 million annually, provides but a drop in the bucket compared to the $1.4 billion that would be made available to the state’s hospitals for indigent health care through Insure Tennessee via the Affordable Care Act. Haslam’s proposal was voted down 7-4 by a specially constituted state Senate Health and Welfare committee in the special session, but, Lazarus-like, it got up and moving again last week as Senate Joint Resolution 93, passing hurdles in the Senate Health and Welfare subcommittee and the regular Senate Health Committee.

SJR 93, co-sponsored by Senators Jeff Yarbro (D-Nashville), Doug Overbey (R-Maryville), and Richard Briggs (R-Knoxville), was on the schedule to be considered this week by the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee. Meanwhile, over in the House, Rep. Larry Miller (D-Memphis) had put the House version of the measure, HJR 90 on notice in the Insurance and Banking 14 Subcommittee. Opinion of lawmakers consulted by the Flyer is divided on the extent to which

consideration of Insure Tennessee on the floor of either the Senate or the House will be determined by what happens in committee.

Some proponents of the proposal are wondering out loud if a bill passed last year requiring legislative approval of Medicaid expansion actually applies prohibitively to an executive action by the governor.

· In separate conventions held over the weekend, the Shelby County Democratic Party (SCDP) and the Shelby County Republican Party each elected a new chairperson. In both cases — a woman.

The Democrats went first, convening on Saturday at First Baptist Church on Broad, selecting first a 29-member executive committee, which in turn elected longtime party activist Randa Spears on the second ballot from a field of four aspirants.

Spears thereby became the first white female to head the local Democratic Party in its history.

Her ascension to party leadership, after 32 years in the gruntosphere, made perfect sense. It was a reward for faithful service — including a recent stint as campaign manager for Deidre Malone, the Democratic nominee in last year’s county mayor race. It was a nod to the longstanding prominence of women in party affairs (as in local social and civic life, generally). And it was a clear signal to Shelby County’s white population that the SCDP was not, as it has sometimes seemed in recent years, a monolithically black organization.

Spears thereby became the first white female to head the local Democratic Party in its history.

Asked about that last fact in the aftermath of her second-ballot win over runner-up Del Gill, Spears was discreet, diffident, and diplomatic: “I don’t know that that is important. I think it’s important that someone with my focus and experience and enthusiasm is chairman. And I think I’ve worked with almost everybody in this room, except for the new folks, on one campaign or another. So I look at this as all one group.”

Malone, who, in an exchange of roles this year, had been Spears’ campaign manager, addressed the point more freely: “I do think it’s important to have elected a white chair — and especially a white female. It makes a statement.”

Just as it might to elect a female mayor at some point, she was prodded? “Yes,” she nodded, in gratitude for the implied tribute to her pathfinding 2010 and 2014 mayoral campaigns.

For the fact is, American politics is all about constituent groups (or blocs, if you choose).

The more different ones your party can address satisfactorily, the more broadly based — and successful — your party is likely to be.

All four candidates on Saturday’s ballot had something to say for themselves. Runner-up Del Gill could boast his four decades of party work, newcomer Jackie Jackson was a fresh breath,

just a little too new to most committee members to win; and pre-convention favorite Reginald Milton, a well-respected county commissioner, was conspicuous in his efforts to unite disparate party factions.

Politics is also all about trade-offs, and Spears’ victory owed much (as did Milton’s defeat) to longtime party broker Sidney Chism, who, for whatever reason, tipped his support, and that of his still significant network, to her.

Gill, all things considered, was not that far behind Spears, at 11 to her 16 on the second ballot.

And, Gill being Gill, it was unlikely that he was prepared to fall in line behind Spears. Encouraged by his original first-ballot-leading total of 11, he put up something of a fuss at meeting’s end about a procedural issue regarding the validity of the new committee’s voice vote to continue the party’s bylaws in lieu of a full review of them.

The newly elected Spears politely but firmly disallowed the complaint and moved on to complete the day’s business. She did say later that she was willing to avail herself of the “wealth of experience” of Gill and whomever else. But it remained to be seen whether she can impose an effective measure of unity on a committee composed in large part of members potentially sympathetic to Gill’s dissident outlook.

A day later, on Sunday at the Bartlett Municipal Community Center, a throng of several hundred Republicans (including 400-odd delegates as such) witnessed what amounted to a re-assertion of the local GOP establishment’s control of the Shelby County Republican organization.

Though there was no dearth of competition — either for the party chairmanship, won by Mary Wagner over Arnold Weiner, or for the numerous other offices up for grabs — the Tea Party rebellion that flared up at the 2013 Republican conclave and in attempted power grabs at several local Republican clubs has been contained. There was no Tea Party slate as such, with adherents of that somewhat diversified, quasi-libertarian point of view to be found on both contending slates, Wagner’s and Weiner’s.

There was a message to be had, though, in the fact that the slate headed by Wagner, a relative newcomer to party politics whose last position was that of Young Republicans president, all but swept the slate led by Weiner, a longtime party veteran who had been, most recently, a party vice chair and immediate past president of the East Shelby Republican Club. And that “all but” is required mainly because Curt Cowan, the Wagner slate’s candidate for Primary Board position Number 5, was prevailed upon to drop out in favor of George Flinn, the wealthy radiologist/ broadcast executive and sometime political candidate who still maintains a high profile in the local Republican Party.

The other 35 contested positions — for chairman, at-large steering committee members, district representatives, and primary board members — were won by the Wagner slate. The message, quite simply, is that there is a Republican mainstream, and it is back in full command.

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County Sausage In a somewhat surprising take on the nature of his job, Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell on Tuesday described his relationship with his legislative body, the Shelby County Commission, as an “adversary relationship.” In an address to the members of the Rotary Club of Memphis at the University Club, Luttrell said he’d offered that description as an alternative way of looking at things to an observer who’d asked him about his “contentious relationship” with the commission.

“We do get worked over,” the mayor acknowledged about the relationship between his administration and the commission (which, it must be said, has often nursed a fair number of feuds and internal divisions within itself). “But,” said the mayor, and it was a crucial “but,” that kind of relationship “is in concert with what the founding fathers devised.”

In other words, the system of checks and balances that was built into the Constitution seems to have carried over into the governing practices of our nation’s various subordinate institutions, as well.

Everybody is everybody else’s watchdog.

A case in point was Monday’s commission meeting, when the bone of contention was a plan devised by the county administration, faced with forthcoming reductions of $1.9 million annually in state funding for the county’s incarceration here of state prisoners.

The administration had presented a plan whereby it would recoup most of that expected deficit by outsourcing Corrections Center food services to the Aramark Corporation, which would endeavor “in good faith” to re-employ as many as possible of the current 31 workers employed in food services, while the administration would seek to relocate those who were not rehired in jobs elsewhere in county government.

The commission’s discussion of this

plan was touch-and-go, especially since sincere and vociferous complaints were heard early on from some of the affected employees, and since the issue, by its nature, was the sort that would invite party-line differences on the commission, divided 7-6 between majority Democrats and minority Republicans. There was a tendency among the Republicans to mount stiff upper lips, sigh, and describe the situation as one of making the best of a bad situation. That was balanced by an outcry among several Democrats that the workers were being thrown under the bus. But there was a middle ground, made evident from the start by the fact that one Republican, Terry Roland, and two Democrats, Van Turner and Willie Brooks, headed in opposite rhetorical directions from those of their party-mates.

Not that there wasn’t some invective thrown about, along with charges of duplicity and deceit, along with intermittently serious tension between the two sides and between county CAO Harvey Kennedy and Democratic critic Eddie Jones. But in the end, with some amendments attached to the proposition that cemented the guarantees of continued employment for the food-services employees, the adversarial atmosphere had served to clarify and complete the proposed arrangement in the form of a legitimate compromise.

Critics of American government often make the comparison to law-making to the unpleasant process of sausage-making.

But ideally that very process is what makes the end result digestible and, with any luck, easy on the system.

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perspective. First, the 1959 Castro revolution in Cuba, which started out nationalist and quickly turned Marxist-Leninist, has deeply influenced United States immigration policy toward that island nation.

Essentially, Cubans who fled Cuba in the aftermath of the revolution have been welcomed and supported by the United States’ people and government.

The path of Cuban immigrants contrasts sharply with that of immigrants from the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean, many of whom suffer serious social deprivation in their homelands. For example, Haitians are treated unkindly by our immigration system despite United Nation-supplied social statistics that show deep economic despair: Life expectancy in Haiti is 64 years, compared to 80 in nearby Cuba. Public expenditure on health care in Haiti as a percentage of GDP is 6.4 percent (in Cuba it’s 8.6 percent), and the population living below minimum level of dietary energy consumption is 51.8 percent in Haiti, in Cuba it’s 5 percent.

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People of Mexican descent living in the United States are neither impressed nor energized by the Cruz anti-immigration rhetoric. Of the roughly 54 million Hispanics living in the U.S., 64 percent are of Mexican descent. By comparison, 3.7 percent are of Cuban descent.

Mexican Americans, Haitian Americans, and others who wish to come to the U.S. recoil against sanctimonious speak from those who have enjoyed special immigration privileges. Cruz, like any candidate seeking to win a national election, can only succeed by building a strong coalition with Hispanics across racial, cultural, and socio-economic boundaries. He’s unlikely to sway anyone in the U.S. with tired, hollow talk of militarizing the border. Only bipartisan, thoughtful, comprehensive immigration reform can help create a sane, equitable, and humane system. The Texas senator has energetically fought against this sort of reform. For this reason alone, Ted Cruz seems determined to lose.

Bryce Ashby is a Memphis-based attorney and board member at Latino Memphis, Inc. Michael J. LaRosa is an associate professor of history at Rhodes College.

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We doubt that Senator Ted Cruz will win the 2016 Republican nomination, much less the presidency, and he’ll lose because of the hypocritical position he’s adopted on immigration. Everyone who follows politics can see this, except Ted Cruz.

Cruz is a well-educated man with an undergraduate degree from Princeton, a law degree from Harvard, and a judicial clerkship with former Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Despite this, and the fact that Cruz and his family have benefited from generous immigration laws and policies in the United States and Canada (his father emigrated from Cuba to the U.S. in 1957, Ted was born in Canada), he offers zero creative leadership in addressing a broken U.S. immigration system.

Senator Cruz’s focus is on “border security.” He sponsored a bill to increase, by 300 percent, the number of immigration agents at our southern border. He’s also called for abolishing the Internal Revenue Service and sending all revenue agents south to secure the border. We really don’t need an army of accountants at the border, and Cruz, of course, ignores the fact that the border patrol is already five times larger than it was 20 years ago.

Next, Cruz calls for overturning President Obama’s executive orders on deferred action, which allows millions of undocumented people to live, work, study, and keep their families together (at least temporarily) in the U.S. Cruz also signed onto a friend of the court brief in support of the lawsuit brought by 26 states that has halted the President’s “Deferred Action” program.

Cruz’s gaze south is disconcerting at best and racist at worst. His emphasis on militarization of the southern border suggests that threats to our national security originate in our geographic south, though there’s no real evidence to support this.

Cruz’s position of more security and penalties for undocumented immigrants who have “jumped the line” to come to the U.S. will not play well with Latino voters. Such voters want Latino citizens, visitors, and the undocumented treated respectfully by American politicians and citizens. They want educational opportunities — such as tuition equity policies — they want access to basic health care, and they want a pathway to succeed in our nation through hard work, not via handouts. Cruz’s inability to grasp the extent of his own immigration privilege has led him into a Latino lasso from which there is no escape.

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ast September, WMC-TV news anchor Joe Birch turned to the camera and told his viewers that Memphians were “raging” because the Peabody Hotel was hosting a “controversial” convention over Easter weekend. “American Atheists are coming, and with them a guest speaker from the Satanic Temple,” Birch warned, before tossing the story to reporter Sasha Jones, who further framed the event as a “slap in the face,” to area Christians.

Nobody at Channel 5 differentiated between satanists and atheists. Neither did anybody clarify that members of the Satanic Temple aren’t devil worshipers either.

The Temple was founded by activists who use parody, public sculpture, and satirical coloring books to defend the separation of church and state.

WMC’s breathless appeal to viewer emotions, conflating atheism with satanic activity, was a textbook example of what Danielle Muscato, public relations director for American Atheists describes as “the stigma.”

“People have this opinion that you can’t possibly be moral if you don’t believe in God,” Muscato says. “And this isn’t a just a passive conclusion that they come up with on their own, it’s something that is actively being taught to religious people by religious leaders.”

Muscato’s comments are in line with the findings in a 2012 University of British Columbia (UBC) study published by the Journal of Personal and Social Psychology. The study showed that

nonbelievers, one of America’s fastest growing demographics, is also one of the nation’s most misunderstood and mistrusted groups. The UBC study found that 55 percent of religious people wouldn’t vote for an atheist political candidate, no matter how qualified he or she might be. They don’t want their children marrying atheists, and in some cases Americans are even more likely to trust rapists over nonbelievers.

Study co-author, Will Gervais, has described the antipathy toward atheists as being especially “striking” since this isn’t a visible or politically powerful group.

Evidence of that distrust and antipathy surfaced recently in a highly publicized rant

by Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame. Robertson, a vocal Christian, spoke at a prayer breakfast in Florida and shared a terrifying parable about an atheist who’s bound to a chair and forced to watch while two men molest and murder his daughters and his wife.

“You’re the one who says there is no God, there’s no right, there’s no wrong,” Robertson’s imaginary rapists tell the atheist, after cutting off the man’s hypothetical “manhood.”

“Our national conventions are always on Easter weekend,” Muscato says, dispelling any rumors that the date was chosen as a personal affront to Robertson or anybody else celebrating the holiday. “We choose Easter for practical reasons: We can get a great deal on hotel and convention space. And we’re atheists, continued on page 20

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so we don’t have anything else to do.”

Peabody Hotel publicist Kelly Brock Earnest corroborates Muscato’s story. She describes the atheist booking as a “good piece of business” for a holiday weekend that is a historically slow time for local convention and hospitality industries. “For us, this is like hosting a Canadian group over the Fourth of July. It’s not their holiday.”

Some local media may have attempted to induce an old-fashioned satanic panic, but Muscato says Memphis and the Peabody have made the group feel welcome. “The Peabody is the first hotel that’s ever wanted our business,” he says. “Because we’re an atheist group, it’s not unusual for people to be wary of working with us. Sometimes they just outright decline to work with us.”

“Business as usual” is how Earnest describes the relationship. “We don’t discriminate for religious reasons. We’ve hosted all kinds of groups: Methodist, Baptist, Jewish, and others.”

From the Peabody’s perspective, the Easter atheists represent almost 1,000 “room nights,” filling half the hotel at its peak. “It’s good for Memphis,” Earnest says. “This is a group that doesn’t have a lot of evening events scheduled, so you know they’ll be going out to Beale Street and eating in downtown restaurants.”

American Atheists and its outspoken president, David Silverman, have been known to openly court controversy. This spring, for example, while Tennessee lawmakers worked in relative obscurity on HB566, a measure that empowers medical students with strong religious convictions to say no to ideas and patients they object to, the 51-year-old advocacy group for non-believers made headlines with one of its irreverent billboard campaigns.

The “Looks like we’re skipping church again!” slogan that appeared on billboards in Memphis got American Atheists banned in Nashville for being disrespectful. “We were told that using the words “Easter” and “church” was aggressive and offensive to another group,” Muscato says, allowing that there must be a different set of standards governing another towering billboards in the Nashville suburb of Portland, Tennessee, that quotes a flagrantly anti-gay passage from the book of Leviticus: “Thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman. It is an abomination.”

Tweaking theists isn’t the only thing American Atheists does, nor is it the group’s primary objective. The national conventions, like the one being held in Memphis this week, promote the concept of an atheist community and serves to remind those who feel isolated after leaving religion that they aren’t alone.

Muscato describes the American Atheists’ convention as having a “party atmosphere.”

There’s a costume component. Comedians are scheduled to entertain. Actors Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff, best known for their various roles in the sci-fi comedy show Mystery Science Theater 3000, will perform a live show riffing on the film God’s Not Dead starring former Hercules actor Kevin Sorbo.

The convention, which runs April 2nd-5th, also boasts an educational component. “We have 30 or 40 of the biggest names in atheism speaking about various topics,” Muscato says. Notable guests include Dr. Paul Offit, author of Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine, and controversial Somali-born women’s rights activist and Harvard fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the convention’s keynote speaker. Ali’s dramatic personal story and commitment to women’s justice issues are as compelling as her uncompromising 20 views on Islam are divisive.

Godless in Memphis

“Where do you go to church?”

If you live anywhere in the Bible Belt, you’re probably familiar with this line of inquiry.

It’s one of those little “getting to know you” questions Southerners ask, right alongside, “Where ya from?” and “What do you do?”

It’s a question that, according to a Pew Research poll, more and more Americans are having trouble answering. One-fifth of the U.S. public and a full third of adults under 30 now describe themselves as being religiously unaffiliated. Six percent of all adults describe themselves as being atheist or agnostic. The newly irreligious trend younger. They’re more likely to be single white males. Income and education levels are in line with the general population, though fully committed atheists and agnostics are more likely to have at least one college degree. Geographically speaking, non-religious Americans are more scattered than one might imagine, though the density is greatest in Western states. And, as one might expect, the numbers drop considerably in the South, which is more heavily populated with evangelical protestants.

That’s what makes the “Where do you go to church” question tricky, because many members of this small but growing population choose to remain at least partially closeted due to a lingering stigma brought about by generations of religionfueled mistrust and misunderstanding.

According to one member of the Memphis Atheists meetup group, it’s sometimes even more difficult for African Americans to live openly as atheists. The African-American church played such a large role in the civil rights movement that, for the faithful, leaving religion is seen as a double betrayal.

It’s difficult to gage how many atheists live in Memphis. But as Jason Grosser of the Memphis Freethought Alliance says, the best way to push back against preconceived ideas is to be open and engage people. What follows is a snapshot of Godless Memphis based on interviews with a handful of atheists, humanists, and irreligious people who live here.

Recovery

Nick Saites wanted his traditional 12-step recovery program to work. “I wasn’t resistant to the idea of humbling myself in any way,” he says, recalling how difficult it was to communicate with his sponsor, a Christian man who volunteered to walk Saites through the steps and always brought the conversation back to Jesus Christ. “I literally got down on my knees in front of my bathroom toilet exactly as my sponsor instructed,” Saites, a research assistant at the UT Health Science Center, recalls. “I put my hands together right there in the bathroom and I said the prayer that he asked me to pray.”

But no matter how perfectly Saites went through the motions, nothing changed. He knew he was just another alcoholic kneeling in front of the toilet.

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GODLESS IN MEMPHIS continued from page 20 with God. I tried to make it work for me. I’d say ‘Okay, God is the wisdom of the group.’ My sponsor fired me. He literally told me, ‘I’m firing you!’

“I come from a family with addictive behaviors,” Saites says, recounting his own struggle, the multiple blackouts he suffered, and a desperate decision to seek help. “I was afraid for my life, my sanity, my well being, and my quality of life for my future. It was all dependant on the next course of action that I took. Someone in that state, whose beliefs are already congruent can come into a 12-step program and it’s optimal. But for somebody who doesn’t have those beliefs, it can be a very dangerous place.”

Unable to locate any secular meeting groups in the region, Saites decided to start his own. He also founded Memphis Comprehensive Recovery Network (MemphisCRN. org) with the help of two previously existing programs, Secular Organization for Sobriety (SOS), and SMART Recovery, a self-management and recovery training program.

“We’ve averaged about eight people a meeting,” Saites says. He estimates that as many as 200 people have sampled his program since it launched in 2014. “A lot of people don’t show back up after the first meeting, but that’s true of support groups generally. What we do know now is that there’s a demand for this kind of group in Memphis.”

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The Memphis Atheists group describes itself as “the party wing” of Memphis’ godless community. The group, which has more than 600 Facebook contacts but only about 40 dues-paying members, organizes good movie nights, bad movie nights, and Dungeons & Dragons nights. They also organize frequent meetups that take place at area restaurants and bars like Schweinehaus, Wiseacre, and LBOE, where members can get together for drinks and conversation. Although the community defines itself by its disbelief, religion and atheism are less likely to be discussed than topics related to the latest craft beers and where one might find the best handmade spanakopita.

Oompah music blares and beer steins clink together at Schweinehaus, a German restaurant on Overton Square, as it fills up for the dinner rush. In comparatively hushed tones, a man sitting at the end of the Memphis Atheists’ table recounts the time when his children started Muscato describes the expressing their own doubts about American Atheists’ God. “I told them to keep their mouths shut,” he says, describing convention as having a their suburban neighborhood and “party atmosphere.” school as a potentially unfriendly There’s a costume environment for atheists.

He’s immediately scolded by his component. friend Liz Hoffmaster, an area nurse, Comedians are scheduled and an out and proud nonbeliever.

She runs the Memphis Atheists to entertain. meetup website and has watched the group grow and evolve.

“Nearly everybody who joined the Memphis Atheists group was raised religiously,” Hoffmaster says. “It’s very rare to find someone in the South who wasn’t raised with religion. Inevitably, at their first meetup, they want to tell their story about coming out of religion, and so they do and we say, “Oh that’s cute, we don’t like that either. And then we get on to the party, which is what it’s really all about.”

Hoffmaster describes the Memphis Atheists meetup group as being mostly younger people, though there appears to be considerable age, race, and gender diversity. “When I first took over the group, most of the members came from somewhere else. Now a surprising number come from Memphis,” she says. “Many of them are still afraid to be open with their family and work.

“There’s a lot of social awkwardness,” Hoffmaster says of Memphis Atheists. “And there’s a lot of fun. … The friends I have made through the group are more like family than my actual family.”

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Paul Ringer couldn’t find a date. Not in Memphis, anyway. Not using online dating services. It didn’t matter that he’s a smart, accomplished guy, who’s traveled around the world twice. The data didn’t line up. This is, apparently, a common lament for nonbelievers seeking nonbelievers in the South.

Ringer’s a lifelong Memphian. He was raised in the Lutheran church and attended religiously affiliated schools, but he says he’s not sure that he ever believed in God. “I’ve been an altar boy, I have experience,” says Ringer, whose family owned a bookstore, providing him with uncommon access to information even in the dark days before the internet. He also grew up across the street from his uncle, William Eggleston, the celebrated photographer and famous bon viviant.

He developed a questioning, occasionally combative nature that made some people uncomfortable, including his Sunday school teachers. One adult even accused him of being, “possessed by demons,” when she heard he’d been talking about Eastern religions.

“I could be a little disruptive,” he says.

Ringer occasionally attends church and sings from the hymnal. He finds value in cultural literacy and sometimes takes advantage of volunteer programs at Calvary Episcopal.

“Volunteering isn’t a big part of my life,” he says, but allows that civically minded churches like Calvary can be a welcoming place for humanists who want to help out and a good place for believers and nonbelievers to mingle while making breakfast for the homeless.

“Every time someone asked, ‘What church do you go to,’ I would tell them I don’t believe in God. I’m an atheist really.’ Good conversations resulted.”

After his divorce, Ringer started looking into online dating services like eHarmony and OkCupid. He wanted to meet new people with a similar cultural background and see what it might be like to go out on dates in the Memphis area with people who shared his interests. “I did a questionnaire for eHarmony. I’d seen it on TV and thought I’d check it out,” Ringer says. “They said, ‘Sorry there’s no one compatible with you on here.’

“I’m a nerd,” Ringer says, laying out his next move. He went online and found user forums that collected data from dating sites related to things like education, religion, and how far a person has traveled from their home over the course of his or her life. Using that information, he created a series of dating maps. And then he combined them in photoshop in order to discover just how far he’d have to travel for a match.

“It was like I lived in this black hole,” he says, describing what the map told him about his pitiful hometown prospects.

It’s not all bad news for nonbelievers looking for a date online. OkCupid ran an analysis of 500,000 first contacts and discovered that mentioning one’s religion helps, but paradoxically, it helps atheists more than believers.

Un-Church

What’s the biggest myth about atheists? Jason Grosser, the driving force behind Memphis Freethought Alliance (MFA), says he thinks it’s that all atheists are out to destroy religion.

“I think people would be surprised by how many of them are strong supporters of religious liberty.” Grosser allows that every group has its fundamentalists and firebrands, but finds that the majority of people he encounters just want religion out of government.

Grosser, a behavioral analyst and consultant by trade, says he’s thankful for his religious friends. “They give me tips,” he says, enjoying both the irony, and the perspective. “When I’ve complained about certain growing pains [with the group], my friends have assured me that small churches go through all the same problems.”

The MFA is a not-for-profit organization that creates opportunities for the variously unaffiliated to find community and intellectual stimulation. The group holds two book club meetings weekly, and two “Occam’s Cafe” groups, where participants discuss current events.

The 445 people connected to Memphis Freethought are connected by way of Meetup. com. “We used to be a much smaller group,” Grosser says. “A lot of people are hesitant to admit that they’re atheist. But it gets bigger every year by 50 or 60 members.

“It’s really fulfilling when somebody says, ‘I’m so glad this is in Memphis.’ Because here we are, in the center of the Bible Belt, and usually these are people who are trying to connect to a community. Churches are very community-oriented, so what we’ve been doing is setting up an alternative community.”

It’s difficult to pick an atheist out of a crowd. Eric Gotlieb, a Memphis math professor, is a soft-spoken dog lover who only discusses his non-belief when he encounters a kindred spirit and the subject somehow arises. He doesn’t belong to any atheist clubs or organizations.

“I really appreciate people whose beliefs motivate them,” he says recalling the good works his Presbyterian neighbors have done and the generosity they’ve shown to troubled kids they’ve taken in and helped. He says he hasn’t experienced much in the way of intolerance. As far as intolerance goes, I don’t think Memphis is the worst place you could live,” he says, allowing that respect is sometimes another matter.

Shortly after moving from Miami to Memphis, Gotlieb experienced a bit of culture shock. “My wife and I were in Pottery Barn, when this kid who couldn’t have been more than 10, maybe younger, asks if I’ve accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I said, ‘No.’ Then he asked if he could pray with me. I said, ‘No.’ This kid was persistent and really had his patter down. After about five minutes, he finally said, ‘Well, if you want to go to Hell, I can’t save you.’”

Gotlieb was gobsmacked. “If I’d have picked my jaw up off the floor and put it back in my head I might’ve said something like, ‘That’s rude for you to make these assumptions about me and my beliefs.’”

Gotlieb isn’t an “in your face” person but he does think “in your face” atheists and activists make a good point. “It’s like being gay,” he says. “If someone doesn’t know any gay people, it’s easier for them to say, ‘Those people shouldn’t be allowed to get married.’

But if your brother or your sister is gay, and you see them in a relationship and they’re kind to each other and have kids that they’re trying to raise and you understand what challenges it poses for them, that makes you more sympathetic, more empathetic.

“I think it’s important for people to know atheists,” Gottlieb says. “I guess I see that as being a solution — for atheists to be respectful but open about their own views.”

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There has not been a want for “eggstravaganzas” around these part. Case in point: the Eco EGGstravagnza at Shelby Farms (Saturday, April 4th, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.), which kicks off the park’s month of Earth Day events. This family-friendly event includes an egg hunt, environmental exhibits, eco crafts, a fishing rodeo, nature hikes, live music, food trucks, and more.

The park’s new Treetop Adventure course and zipline will be open as well. The Memphis Botanic Garden is holding a Family Egg Hunt (Saturday, 1-4 p.m., $10), with age-specific hunts. The Easter Bunny will be there for photo opportunities and there will be a magic show and crafts. The Dixon’s also in the egg-hunt game (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-noon, $10).

Reservations are required for this one: 761-5250.

Also happening Saturday are the annual Bunny Run in Audubon Park (9 a.m.), a 5K and fun run benefiting SRVS, which helps children with special needs, and the Easter Eve Concert at Levitt Shell (6-9 p.m.) featuring family-friendly music by the Passport and more from the students of Visible Music College.

All that egg-hunting can build up an appetite, so head downtown for eighty3’s Easter brunch (Sunday, April 5th, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.). The special menu includes an andouille sausage pie, brown sugar smoked ham, and a trio of desserts to choose from, including carrot cake ice cream sandwiches with ginger ice cream and lime caramel dipping sauce. Reservations: 3331224. The Peabody will be having its annual Easter brunch (10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., $22 for children 5 to 12, $64 adults). This is a massive feed with 100s of dishes to choose from and a 32-foot-long dessert table. Reservations: 529-4183.

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Tedeshi Trucks Band The Orpheum, 8 p.m., $45-$79 A performance by this 11-member jazz/blues/soul band collective led by husband and wife team Derek Trucks and Susan Tededshi.

“It Is What It Is” Minglewood Hall, 8:30 p.m., $25-$35 Comedy show starring Memphian K-Dubb and featuring Darryl Damn, Chestnut, Tiny, and OD.

Laurelwood Unplugged Laurelwood Shopping Center Courtyard, 6-8 p.m.

This springtime concert series returns tonight with a performance

by American Fiction.

First Friday Acoustic Café Howard Vance Guitar Academy (978 Reddoch), 5 p.m., $5 This month’s concert is bluesand jazz-themed and features performances by Tom Nunnery, Scott McMillen, T-Bone Lawless, Paul Masinelli, Howard Vance, Steve Black, and Beverly Vance.

SATURDAY April 4 Rapture, Blister, Burn Theatre Memphis, 7:30 p.m., $25 A comedy about two women — one a successful author, the other a stayat-home mother — who both envy the other’s life.

Booksigning by Vanessa Hoffman The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 2 p.m.

Memphis-based author Vaness Hoffman signs and discusses her thriller about three men tangled in a very dangerous endeavor involving millions of dollars.

CYCM Crawfish Boil Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Annual crawfish boil with live music, demos, and more. You get 2 pounds of crawfish for $12, a donation gets you beer from Memphis Made.

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By Chris Davis

Edna Pontellier, the tragic heroine at the heart of Kate Chopin’s groundbreaking 19th-century novel The Awakening, is spiraling out of control. She’s fallen in love with a younger man and under the influence of artists. She’s also taken up painting, and the more marks she makes with her brush the more she begins to shake off restrictive attitudes regarding femininity, marriage, and motherhood in the American South.

“We’re looking at society in 1899,” says Swaine Kaui, the director of a quasi-musical stage adaptation of Chopin’s novel for Voices of the South, the adventurous independent company that was originally founded for the purpose of bringing classic works of Southern literature to the stage. “You feel the cage and you get the manners and all of that,” Kaui says of a story that prefigures the work of authors like William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor. “What we’re really watching is a woman who wants to express herself for the first time. Only she doesn’t know how, and she doesn’t know why.

“She has her first awakening through art and she has her second awakening through sex,” Kaui says.

Voices of the South is entering into a period of transition with a new executive director and board. The Awakening, which stars founding company member Alice Berry, is part narrative theater, part straight play, and part musical. It is, at once, a nod to the company’s roots and an attempt to try something new.

“The music starts very classical, then I begin to infuse it with techno,” Kaui says, explaining one of the ways he’s building bridges to the past and bringing the story into the 21st century. “So by the end, we’ve taken a universal journey. The message reads to this day.”

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Ghost Town Blues Band release Hard Road to Hoe.

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host Town Blues Band isn’t just a group of blues enthusiasts on the local nightclub circuit.

Since forming six years ago, the band has been recognized by the International Blues Challenge (twice), toured the country numerous times, and been praised by blues societies nationwide. The band crowd-funded their latest album, Hard Road to Hoe, but still enlisted six-time Grammy-nominated producer Kevin Houston to man the controls.

We sat down with chief songwriter Matt Isbell to find out more about the band’s latest album, recording live animals in the studio, and their extensive summer tour, which includes a stop at Beale Street Music Fest.

Flyer: Where did you get the idea to open the album with a recording of a push broom?

Matt Isbell: I make cigar box guitars, and I’ve learned over the years that not everyone has $300 to spend on a cigar box guitar. I’ve learned to make smaller things like shakers and other cheap homemade instruments and somehow that has evolved into using a broom as an instrument. Basically, I just take a door buzzer and reverse the polarity of it, and it becomes a little tiny speaker for the broom. It was kind of a cool idea that actually worked, so we decided to mess with it in the studio. We use the broom live now too, and it definitely gets some weird comments from sound guys when they see us plugging it in on stage.

It’s paired with a cigar box guitar on the opening track, which made a lot of sense.

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How did you hook up with producer Kevin Houston?

We’ve done every record with him. He’s the North Mississippi Allstars’ engineer and he worked under Jim Dickinson. He grew up with the Dickinson boys and he learned everything he knows from that family.

Kevin has a real good approach as a producer and he’s amazing to work with. We recorded the latest album on tape, and he was all about us getting technical with stuff like the push broom. He looks at the studio like

a giant playground and that makes it really easy to work with him.

What does the expression “hard road to hoe” mean to you? Is that an expression you’ve heard a lot before?

The original saying is “hard row to hoe,” and I guess it’s an old farmers saying. I changed it up a little bit because we aren’t farmers, we’re drivers. We drive around from town to town playing music, so it applies to what we do as a band every night.

The album starts and ends with some pretty heavy lyrical content. Was that a conscience decision?

Nah, not really. The last album was a lot softer as far as lyrics go, but I think each album is a reflection of my life at the point it was recorded. Our next album will probably be a little bit more jovial, but that’s not where I was when we made this latest record. I lost my mom recently and my dad has Parkinson’s and I guess that title track is about me losing my mentors, so to speak. I didn’t mean for it to be really deep or anything, but that’s just how stuff comes out sometimes. I’ve been sober for over nine months, but I still have a lot of experience from drinking and that comes out on the last song “Road Still Drives the Same.” A lot of things have changed since we started this band, and I think that’s reflected on this record too.

How else is Hard Road to Hoe different than your last album Darkhorse?

We didn’t have a piano player or a horn section when we made Darkhorse, but we wrote that album so that we could grow into having one. The 2012 album was kind of a blueprint for what the future of our band would be, and now we have those extra members and are writing songs with them as a full band.

Tell me more about the decision to record your dog on the track “My Doggy.”

I figured out that my dog can sometimes howl in a

certain pitch depending on how I’m singing or what I’m playing. I have an old Wurlitzer organ that she will howl to, and she also howls when someone plays the harmonica. As soon as I figured that out I was like “we have to get this dog in the studio.” She’s just a rescue dog, but she can sing.

The band is going to be touring almost all summer long in support of Hard Road to Hoe. How do you prepare mentally for a trip that long?

Man, honestly I look at each tour date like it’s just another show. We’ve been doing this band for more than six years now and I don’t take it for granted, but there’s not a whole lot of mental preparation that goes in it for me at this point. People are honestly really excited to see good music from Memphis no matter where we play. When we play Canada, we get treated like rock stars because they don’t get to see bands like us very often. Pretty much anywhere we go we get treated like we are a lot bigger than we really are.

What are you most looking forward to in regards to playing Beale Street Music Fest again this year?

Just being asked to play again is a huge honor. That was the music fest to end all music fests when I was a kid. I didn’t know there was anything other than that — I thought that was the biggest music fest in the world. For us to play the Blues Tent and the same stage as some of my favorite childhood musicians, it’s still surreal.

Ghost Town Blues Band, Thursday, April 9th at Lafayette’s Music Room, 9 p.m. Free Admission.

A SeaWorld of Trouble Tim Zimmermann, Associate Producer and Co-Writer of the documentary Blackfish, will speak about animal cruelty as well as the process of compiling a documentary.

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Leo Bud Welch — I don’t Prefer No Blues (Big Legal Mess) I Don’t Prefer No Blues is the followup to last year’s Sabougla Voices, a gospel album that marked Welch’s debut as both a recording artist and a songwriter. “I don’t prefer no blues” is apparently what the preacher at Welch’s church said when he found out the 82-year-old guitarist was making a blues album. Up until last year, Welch had only performed in church and at big tent spirituals, but after signing with Big Legal Mess and releasing the acclaimed Sabougla Voices, Welch has performed all over the United States and ventured into Europe. He’s also playing this year’s Beale Street Music Fest.

When label owner Bruce Watson first signed Welch, the two agreed that the first album they made together would be a gospel album and the second would be a blues album. While it certainly is a blues record, there’s more than a little bit of rock-and-roll going on in I Don’t Prefer No Blues. From the opening track “Poor Boy” (produced by Jimbo Mathus) to the buzz saw riffs on “Too Much Wine,” it’s evident that Welch’s time in church sure didn’t spoil his ability to drag a song through the Mississippi mud.

By not recording his first album until he was over 80 years old, the Sabougla, Mississippi, native still has plenty of stories left to tell on I Don’t Prefer No Blues. Welch’s long history as a blue collar worker (he worked as a farmer and a logger for 35 years) is recalled on “So Many Turnrows,” a song about plowing behind a mule in the hot Mississippi sun. Even when he’s doing blues classics like “Sweet Black Angel” and “Cadillac Baby,” Welch has a way of playing them as if his listeners were hearing the songs for the first time. I Dont Prefer No Blues is available now.

Leo Bud Welch performs at Beale Street Music Festival on Saturday, May 2nd.

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of Beale Street Saturday Night, out April 14th on Omnivore records. A limited version on clear vinyl will also be for sale.

Beale Street Saturday Night Record Release Party with special guests Sons of Mudboy and Luther Dickinson, Sunday, April 19th at Shangri-La Records, 2 p.m. Free admission.

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Various Artists — Beale Street Saturday Night (Omnivore) Originally released in 1978, Beale Street Saturday Night was produced

by Jim Dickinson in an attempt to take back the reputation of the downtown street as the place where both the blues and rock-and-roll originated. Dickinson gathered up past and present Beale Street legends for the recordings, and everyone from Furry Lewis and Teenie Hodges to Sid Selvidge and Mud Boy and the Neutrons (Dickinson’s own group) got in on the action.

Recorded in artists’ homes, Ardent Studios, and even the Orpheum Theatre, Beale Street Saturday Night was originally created as a fund-raiser for the Memphis Development Foundation to help restore the Orpheum. This reissue serves a similar purpose, as a portion of the proceeds will go to the Beale Street Caravan radio program.

The reissue of Beale Street Saturday Night was approved by the Dickinson family and features a cover photo by William Eggleston, plus all new liner notes from producer Jim Lancaster who worked on the original release.

In his new notes, Lancaster recalls what the Furry Lewis recording session was like: “It was bitter and cold in 1977 when we went into the Orpheum on Main and Beale with our trusted group of soldiers. In 1890, the Grand Opera Palace was built on this site, the classiest joint outside of New York City! Vaudeville shows were the main attraction there until it burned down in 1923. The building we are in now was built in 1928 with the addition of the mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ. It had been sitting empty overlooking the decay and decline, but today we went to record Furry Lewis for the Beale Street Saturday Night project. Furry had performed in this building, on this stage in the 1930s.

The Orpheum, just recently purchased by the Memphis Development Foundation, had no heat either. Poor ole Furry in his 70s was cold, sipping on a pint, and explaining that you couldn’t hardly tune a guitar when it was cold. When he exhaled, you could see and feel his breath. Furry had worked out a way to sip whiskey and smoke a cigarette while playing “Furry’s Blues” and keep a running joke all the while.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule April 2 - 8 Hard Rock Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe’s Tap Room

126 BEALE STREET - 529-0007

Alfred’s 197 BEALE - 525-3711

Karaoke Thursdays, SundaysMondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., and Tuesdays-Wednesdays, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Jim Wilson Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; DJ J2 Fridays, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.5 a.m.; Kevin and Bethany Paige Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

B.B. King’s Blues Club 147 BEALE - 524-KING

B.B. King All Stars Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. and Sundays, noon; Preston Shannon Sundays, 7:30 p.m. and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; Memphis Jones Wednesdays, 5 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill 341-345 BEALE - 577-1089

Queen Ann & the Memphis Blues Masters Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE - 526-3637

Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Mondays, 7 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar 159 BEALE

Fingertrick Friday, April 3, 9:30 p.m.; Hard Rock Rising: Global Battle of the Bands Saturday, April 4, 8 p.m.; Chris Johnson Sunday, April 5, 4 p.m.

Itta Bena 145 BEALE - 578-3031

Susan Marshall Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

Jerry Lee Lewis Cafe & Honky Tonk 310 BEALE - 654-5171

The Jason James Trio FridaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Joey Trites and the Memphis Flash Saturdays, 3-7 p.m. and Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE - 521-1851

David Bowen Fridays, Thursdays, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Tuesday, April 7, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe’s Patio 162 BEALE - 521-1851

Mack 2 Band MondaysFridays, 2-6 p.m.; Sensation Band Thursday, April 2, 6:3010:30 p.m. and Friday, April 3, 6:30-10:30 p.m.;Wednesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., McDaniel Band Saturdays, 2-6 p.m.; Darrell Wilson Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m. and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Chic Jones Sundays, Tuesdays 6:30-10:30 p.m.

168 BEALE - 576-2220

Mississippi Big Foot Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; The Professor and the Eclectic Friday, April 3, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Snake Doctors Saturday, April 4, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sonny Mack and the Mack 2 Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE - 528-0150

Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Gracie Curran and the High Falutin’ Band Friday-Saturday, April 3-4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; A Benefit for Dennis Falanga: Memphis Blues Society Jam Sunday, April 5, 8 p.m.midnight; Eric Hughes Band Monday, April 6, 8 p.m.midnight; Ghost Town Blues Band Tuesday, April 7, 8 p.m.-midnight and Wednesday, April 8, 8 p.m.midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE - 522-9596

Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 79 p.m., Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., and Sundays, 4-9 p.m.; Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.3 a.m., and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Wet Willie’s 209 BEALE - 578-5650

Roxi Love Thursday, April 2, 7-11 p.m. and Sunday, April 5, 7-11 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; The Bonfire Orchestra Friday, April 3, 7-11 p.m.

341 MADISON - 524-0104

Brinson’s

Onix Restaurant & Jazz Lounge

Double J’s Smokehouse & Saloon

Neo Soul and R&B Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.; Smooth Jazz Fridays, 8-11 p.m.; Old School R&B Saturdays, 8-11 p.m.

Melting Pot: Artist Showcase Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 335-0251

Live Music Thursdays, 711 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Paulette’s

Evan Farris Fridays, 6-10 p.m., Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 6-10 p.m., and Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND - 527-2700

The Ori Naftaly Blues Band Sunday, April 5, 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

Kudzu’s 603 MONROE - 525-4924

Blackberry Wednesday, Echo Parade, and Ego Slip Friday, April 3; Java Trio Saturday, April 4.

Grown Folk’s Music 7:30 p.m.

182 BEALE - 528-0150

Live Music Fridays.

152 MADISON - 572-1813

Tedeschi Trucks Band Thursday, April 2, 8 p.m.

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE - 260-3300

Memphis Sounds Lounge

Brass Door Irish Pub

The Orpheum 203 S. MAIN - 525-3000

Grawemeyer’s

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE - 417-8435

Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.

412 S. MAIN - 552-4609

520 S. MAIN - 526-6751

Blind Bear Speakeasy

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall Memphis Bluesmaster Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Darren

Chris Gales noon-8 p.m.; Karaoke ongoing, 8:30 p.m.

Jay and the Delta Souls Friday-Saturday April 3-4, 8 p.m.-midnight; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

22 N. THIRD - 590-4049

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS - 524-1886

Dim the Lights featuring live music and DJs first Saturday of every month, 10 p.m.

Live Pianist Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-9 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and MondaysWednesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.

The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP - 744-2225

Old School Blues & Jazz Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.

Purple Haze Nightclub 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.; Neo Soul Saturdays featuring Tamara Jones Monger, Carmen, Pat Register, and more first Saturday of every month, 7-10:30 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN - 523-0020

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

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903 S. COOPER - 274-5151

2170 YOUNG - 272-7210

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

The Cove 2559 BROAD - 730-0719

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER - 272-0830

The Sheiks Friday, April 3; James and the Ultrasounds Saturday, April 4; John Paul Keith Wednesday, April 8, 6-9 p.m..

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY - 272-1538

Two Peace Saturdays, 710:30 p.m.; Loveland Duren Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON - 272-BLUE

THE WAR ON DRUGS AT MINGLEWOOD HALL The War on Drugs play Minglewood Hall this Saturday night, so prepare for the second coming of dad rock packaged as something cooler.

The band has also been described as “beer commercial rock” and the heir to the throne held by blue-jean rockers like Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen. If your favorite era of American rock-n-roll involves either one of the aforementioned artists, then The War On Drugs is probably already on your radar. The band broke away from the pack on last year’s Lost in the Dream, an album that mostly sees front man and chief songwriter Adam Granduciel dealing with depression, anxiety, and lost love. Granduciel’s definitely not the first sad guy to ever pick up a guitar, but that didn’t stop multiple critics from calling The War on Drugs things like “band of the year” and Lost in the Dream one of the best albums to come out this decade. 2014 definitely belonged to The War on Drugs, and after touring almost non-stop, the band is picking up right where they left off.

Joining The War on Drugs on a short stint of tour dates is fellow Philadelphians Hop Along. The indie-folk/pop-punk band has been around for more than a decade, but recently signed to Omaha, Nebraska-label Saddle Creek.

Saddle Creek has introduced the world to bands like Cursive, Bright Eyes and Azure Ray, but Hop Along are more on the pop punk side of the roster (along with Pujol) rather than the “I hate myself and I want to die” side.

Painted Shut, the first Hop Along album with their new label, will be released on May 5th while the band is on tour. The show is all ages. — Chris Shaw The War on Drugs, Hop Along, Saturday, April 4th at Minglewood Hall, 8 p.m. $25.

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Brad Birkedahl and the Burnin’ Love Band Friday, April 3, 10:30 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Saturday, April 4, 10:30 p.m.

Boscos Squared 2120 MADISON - 432-2222

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

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE - 278-0909

John Paul Keith and Dave Cousar Thursday, April 2, 10 p.m.; Discolux Friday, April 3, 10 p.m.; Nots, Aquarian Blood, Leg Tits, and Kool 100s Saturday, April 4, 10 p.m.; Dan Montgomery Sunday, April 5, 5-7 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.; Andrew Bryant, the Gun Shy, and James and the Ultrasounds Wednesday, April 8, 10 p.m.

Camy’s 3 S. BARKSDALE 725-1667

Live Music Fridays.

Jazz with Jeremy & Ed Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Tyrannosaurus Chicken Friday, April 3, 10 p.m.; The Subtractions Saturday, April 4, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Jam Sundays, 6 p.m.; Justin White Monday, April 6, 6 p.m.; Juke Joint Blues Jam Tuesday, April 7, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON - 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Evergreen Presbyterian Church 613 UNIVERSITY - 274-3740

First Tuesdays at 4 Concert Series: Music of Samuel Barber featuring Rhodes College music faculty first Tuesday of every month, 4 p.m.

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

Jaezus Thursday, April 2, 8-11:45 p.m.; I Love HipHop Series: U901 Live Performance Thursday, April 2, 9 p.m.; Peelander-Z Friday, April 3, 9-11:45 p.m.; In the big room: Swamps with Vice, Chaos Order, and Reserving Dirtnaps Saturday, April 4, 9-11:45 p.m.; In the small room: Clankys Nub reunion, The Rough Hearts Saturday, April 4, 9:3011:45 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Seratones Tuesday, April 7, 9-11:45 p.m.; In the small room: Holy Ghost Electric Show Wednesday, April 8, 9-11:45 p.m.

Hanna Star & the Teenage Teenagers Sundays, 1:30-3 p.m.

Levitt Shell OVERTON PARK - 272-2722

Easter Eve Concert featuring the Passport with Lance Cook Saturday, April 4, 6-9 p.m.

Lindenwood Christian Church 2400 UNION - 458-8506

“Wing and a Prayer” Sundays, 9:45 a.m.

The Midtown Crossing Grill 394 WATKINS - 443-0502

Creative Crossing Art Show featuring Roger Wild Thursday, April 2, 6-9 p.m.; JuJu Bushman Saturday, April 4, 8 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

The War On Drugs, Hop Along Saturday, April 4, 9 p.m.; A Live One: Exploring the music of Phish Saturday, April 4, 10 p.m.; Welcome to Night Vale featuring Mary Epworth Wednesday, April 8, 8 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Street Arabs with Berkano and Liquid Teens Thursday, April 2; Uncle Tony’s String Band Thursday, April 2, 69 p.m.; Lately David, Space Age Friday, April 3; Brestror Jon, Stone Senate Saturday, April 4; Goner Presents: ExCult, The Golden Pelicans, Spray Paint, Unholy Two Wednesday, April 8, 8 p.m.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER - 278-4994

Ben Callicott Friday, April 3, 8-11 p.m.; The Warp and the Weft, Jack Moran, and Hazel Lockhart Saturday, April 4, 8-11 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON - 726-4372

Iron Mike Norton Sunday, April 5, 4-7 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Sunday, April 5, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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Spindini 383 S. MAIN - 578-2767

Chris Johnson first Thursday of every month, 10 p.m.; DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Charvey Mack Tuesdays, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

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“Sundown on the Square” Friday, April 3, 6-9 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON - 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; The Angel Sluts Saturday, April 4, 9 p.m.; Open Mic with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Richie Ramone, the Queers, the Atom Age, and Capgun Wednesday, April 8, 9 p.m.

Strano Sicilian Kitchen

Ubee’s

948 S. COOPER - 552-7122

521 S. HIGHLAND - 323-0900

Davy Ray Bennett Wednesdays, Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE - 207-3975

The Soul Connection Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG - 278-0034

An Evening with Backup Planet Saturday, April 4, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

University of Memphis

University of Memphis, Harris Concert Hall

Amro Music Store

INSIDE THE RUDI E. SCHEIDT SCHOOL OF MUSIC - 678-5400

2918 POPLAR - 325-6403

A Celebration of the Arts: A Tribute to the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Saturday, April 4, noon-2 p.m.

The Phoenix

East Memphis

Memphis Pink Palace Museum

Brookhaven Pub & Grill

3050 CENTRAL - 636-2362

695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE - 680-8118

Underground Open Mic Night Sundays, 6:307:30 p.m.

1015 S. COOPER - 338-5223

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.

Sound Fuzion Thursday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.; The Dover Quartet Wednesday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.

Live Music Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Dan McGuinness Pub 4698 SPOTTSWOOD - 761-3711

Acoustic with Charvey Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Make out like a bandit!

El Toro Loco 2809 KIRBY PKWY. - 759-0593

Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

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

Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Thursdays, Mondays-Wednesdays, 59:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill 5101 SANDERLIN - 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Howard Vance Guitar Academy

Fridays and Saturdays in April

978 REDDOCH - 767-6940

First Friday at Five Coffee House Concert first Friday of every month, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR - 682-7729

The King Beez Sunday, April 5, 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

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Laurelwood Shopping Center 422 S. GROVE PARK - 682-8436

American Fiction Thursday, April 2.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS - 761-9321

Van Duren Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY - 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant

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786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE - 683-9044

Karaoke ongoing.

Poplar/I-240 Neil’s Music Room

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5727 QUINCE - 682-2300

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplthret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Harrison and the Short Kuts 50th Anniversary Celebration Saturday, April 4, 8 p.m.; Mother Lode Sunday, April 5, 8-11 p.m.; Eddie Harrison and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Owen Brennan’s THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR - 761-0990

Lannie McMillan Jazz Trio Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Summer/Berclair Maria’s Restaurant

6439 SUMMER - 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

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Collierville

4148 WALES - 373-0155

Huey’s Collierville

Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.1 a.m. and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

2130 W. POPLAR - 854-4455

Jeffrey and the Pacemakers Sunday, April 5, 8-11:30 p.m.

Old Millington Winery

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114

Bob and Susie Salley Sunday, April 5.

9087 POPLAR - 755-0092

Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 710 p.m.; Half Step Down Fridays, 7-10 p.m.

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill 6565 TOWNE CENTER, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-536-2200

Live Music Thursdays, 5 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays.

Horseshoe Casino Tunica 38664 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS - 800-357-5600

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing.

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

Afterglow Sunday, April 5, 8 p.m.-midnight.

South Memphis Stax Museum of American Soul Music

Lyric Theatre 1006 VAN BUREN, OXFORD, MS - 662-234-5333

926 E. MCLEMORE 946-2535

Stax Fresh Trax first Thursday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Delta Spirit with Avid Dancer Tuesday, April 7, 8 p.m.; SoMo Wednesday, April 8, 7 p.m.

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Whitehaven/ Airport

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Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant 4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

Mesquite Chop House 5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS - 662-890-2467

Pam and Terry Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.

Tunica Roadhouse

Karaoke with DJ Stylez Thursdays, Sundays, 10 p.m.

1107 CASINO CENTER DRIVE, TUNICA, MS - 662-363-4900

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Wadford’s Grill & Bar 474 CHURCH, SOUTHAVEN, MS - 662-510-5861

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland

662DJ, Karaoke/Open Mic Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

Raleigh

6230 GREENLEE - 592-0344

Live Music Thursdays, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Fridays, 9 p.m.

Mugs Pub 4396 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 372-3556

Karaoke Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Bartlett

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Hadley’s Pub

2951 CELA - 382-1576

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Karaoke with Ricky Mack Mondays, 10 p.m.1 a.m.; Open Mic with Susie and Bob Salley Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Mondays Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Ghost River Saturday, April 4, noon-3 p.m.; Robert Hull Sunday, April 5, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

GOSSETT VOLKSWAGEN GERMANTOWN

7420 WINCHESTER ROAD • 901.388.8989 • GOSSETTVWG.COM Cordova

Germantown

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill

7677 FARMINGTON - 318-3034

847 EXOCET - 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Cordova 1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

Soul Shockers Sunday, April 5, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova 8071 TRINITY - 756-4480

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Frayser/Millington Haystack Bar & Grill 6560 HWY 51 N. - 872-0567

Karaoke Nights Wednesdays-Fridays, Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

Huey’s Germantown Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, April 5, 8-11:30 p.m.

Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

Unwind Wednesdays Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.

Mesquite Chop House 3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

Pam and Terry Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica The Crossing Bar & Grill 7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS - 662-893-6242

Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Dan McGuinness 3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS - 662-890-7611

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Fitz Casino & Hotel 711 LUCKY LN., TUNICA, MS 800-766-5825

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

Ground Zero ZERO BLUES ALLEY, CLARKSDALE, MS 662-621-9009

Steve Kolbus and the Clarksdale Blues Revue Thursday, April 2, 9 p.m.; Ricky “Da Soul Man” Burton and Soul Ingredient Friday, April 3, 9 p.m.; 901 Blues Band Saturday, April 4, 9 p.m.

Hollywood Casino 1150 CASINO STRIP RESORT, TUNICA, MS - 662-357-7700

Live Entertainment Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Open Mic Blues Jam with Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

West Memphis Southland Park Gaming & Racing 1550 N. INGRAM, WEST MEMPHIS, AR - 800-467-6182

DJ Crumbz Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Club Night Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Boot Scootin’ Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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Gone to the Dogs David Williams: sports editor; fiction winner; dog lover.

April 2-8, 2015

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tta Bena Slim … sounds to a his teenage son, soon to head to college, waitress named Trish like the recommended that Williams and his name of a light beer. Or maybe it’s wife adopt from Southland that the a cigarette marketed to women. couple got one dog. Eight months later, Or a lullaby, “child’s play on the they adopted another. tongue.” Or perhaps it’s the title of “We’re empty-nesters, and it was my a soft tune for slow dancing. son who planted the seed,” Williams said.

But no, Itta Bena Slim is the name “Now we have two greyhounds, and of a greyhound, and Trish’s date for the they’re such good dogs … really mildevening, a middle-aged liquor distributor mannered, not high-maintenance at all.” in Memphis by the name of Duane, thinks No surprise then, if you need a strong Itta Bena Slim is a good bet. Old Willie proponent of Southland’s adoption Graham, who’s sitting next to Trish and program, that Williams is your man.

Duane at the bar of the Kennel Club at “It’s a very, very good program,” he Southland in West Memphis, isn’t so sure said. “My wife and I also do meet-andabout that bet, and mark his words. A greets at pet stores once a month. We’re widower and retired dog-trainer himself, involved in fund-raisers. And once a year, Old Willie is an old hand at this: picking a the program has a reunion — owners go winner — whether it’s a first-place finisher back to Southland with their dogs for a on the racetrack or a brief winning sit-down banquet for 100, 200 people, the moment for Trish and Duane to share. dogs at their feet. The dogs actually seem That’s the setup in “Itta Bena Slim,” to enjoy being back. And when they hear a short story by David Williams, sports the whirl of the lure during a race, they’re editor at The Commercial Appeal and excited. When we cross the bridge to West grand-prize winner in this year’s Memphis Memphis, they even seem to know where Magazine Fiction Contest. Marilyn Sadler, they’re going. Amazing.” senior editor at Memphis (sister publication of The Memphis David Flyer) and coordinator of the Williams magazine’s annual fiction contest, announced the firstplace and runner-up winners earlier this week, but it wasn’t the first time Williams has won.

He took the grand prize (which includes a check for $1,000) in 2011, and as he told Sadler when she let him know of this year’s contest results: “Awesome news!

The contest is dear to my heart, because it’s really the first break I got, Dogs under foot also describes the first real sign that what I was writing Williams’ early-morning writing routine: was worthy.” In a phone interview with “As sports editor at The Commercial the Flyer last week, Williams admitted Appeal, I spend a lot of time attending again to being surprised by the win, but meetings, planning, working with other he also added: “I get so many rejections I writers. But all of that is separate from my just assume I’ll get rejected. But I haven’t fiction writing, which I do because I love become jaded at all.” it. It’s my favorite part of the day — every Williams has one novel, Long Gone morning from 7 to 8:30 or so, with the Daddies, under his belt, and the characters dogs there at my feet.” in “Itta Bena Slim” (which you can read in And that closing scene in “Itta Bena the June issue of Memphis magazine) also Slim,” with Trish and Duane, eyes closed figure in the novel he’s shopping to agents and simply listening to the sound of and publishers now. But what Williams greyhounds racing? talked about most in our interview was “It’s my favorite part of the story,” dogs — his own.

Williams said. “I’ve stood there too, at the Williams and his wife Barbara have rail to the racetrack, where my characters adopted two retired greyhounds from are standing and being taken by … it isn’t Southland, and he didn’t know until he a stampede, like you’d think. You’re only got them that he’d be such a dog lover. He a few feet from the dogs. I was amazed at didn’t have a dog growing up in Kentucky. the sound, but it isn’t loud. It’s more like a And Williams didn’t follow dog racing heartbeat. It’s the image I had before there either. (Horse racing, yes.) It wasn’t until was even a story.”

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April 2 - 8

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Work by Jan Kransberger at L Ross Gallery

Hattiloo Theatre

King Hedley II, set in 1986, drama about a man reaching for success, colliding with the limitations of the world around him and those within himself. www.hattiloo.org. $18-$24. Thursdays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., Saturdays, 2 p.m., and Sundays, 3 p.m. Through April 12.

Spring Holiday Arts Pop-Up Shop

Featuring local artists selling jewelry, paintings, handpainted gourds, and more.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Through May 2.

New Moon Theatre Company

MAIN STREET WEST MEMPHIS, 113 BROADWAY (870-735-8814), WWW.BROADWAYWESTMEMPHIS. COM.

Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, the “Disciples of James Dean” gather for their 20th reunion. The arrival of a stranger sets off confrontations that smash their delusions and expose bitter disappointments. www. newmoontheatre.org. $12-$15.

Fridays, Saturdays, 810 p.m., and Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Through April 12.

O N G O I N G ART

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

AT THEATREWORKS, 2085 MONROE (484-3467).

Playhouse on the Square

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

Rapture, Blister, Burn, comedy about two friends who, decades after college, reconnect only to discover the career academic and the housewife want the other’s life. www.theatrememphis. org. $25. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Through April 19.

TheatreSouth

The Awakening, play adapted from the 1899 novel by Kate Chopin, set in New Orleans and centering on Edna Pontellier and her struggle to contain her unorthodox views of femininity and motherhood. www.voicesofthesouth.org. $23. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Through April 19.

INSIDE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (726-0800).

TheatreWorks

Legally Blonde, Jr., The Musical, based on the movie that follows the transformation of Elle Woods as she tackles stereotypes, snobbery, and scandal in pursuit of her dreams. www. theatreworksmemphis.org. $15.

Thur.-Sat., Apr. 2-4, 6:30 p.m.

The FreakEngine, variety show featuring improv comedy, performance art, dance, music, and torturous human experiments. www. memphisfreakengine.com.

First Friday of every month.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library

Opening reception for “A Growing Body of Work,” exhibition of folk art by Chris Little. Thurs., April 2, 6-8 p.m.

3030 POPLAR (415-2700).

L Ross Gallery

Opening reception for “Layer and Mark,” exhibition of paintings by Lisa Weiss and sculptor Jan Kransberger. Fri., April 3, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

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Wednesdays, noon-1 p.m.

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

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Call to artists for “NewWorks@TheWorks” competition, writers have an opportunity to submit new scripts for competition. For more information, guidelines, and rules, visit website. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $15. Through May 30.

Munch and Learn

Crosstown Arts

Artist reception for “She’s Silver and Orange,” exhibition of work by Brittany Vega, Courtney Whitlow, Emily Miller, Kristen Rambo, and Amanda Nalley. A portion of sales proceeds will benefit Girls, Inc. of Memphis. www. crosstownarts.org. Fri., April 3, 6 p.m.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

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The Artful Flea

Seeking Grant Applications for Arts Build Communities (ABC) Program

Application available online.

Through July 1.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.TN.GOV.

Cooper Young Art Tours

For more information, featured artists, and pop-up performances, visit website. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

COOPER-YOUNG DISTRICT, CORNER OF COOPER AND YOUNG, WWW.COOPERYOUNG.COM.

The Artful Flea features art, photography, jewelry, and other items in a flea market setting. First Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Gallery Talk by Siphne Sylve

COOPER WALKER PLACE, 1015 S. COOPER (338-5223).

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Artist talks about her current exhibition. Thurs., April 2, 6:30-8 p.m.

Beth Van Hoesen, exhibition by artist/printmaker. www. memphis.edu. Through July 2.

“What I Kept,” exhibition revolving around the objects that international women brought over from their home countries. Through July 2.

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

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

ANF Architects

“The Collective,” exhibition of work by Jimpsie Ayres, Valerie Berlin Edwards, Anne Davey, Carol DeForest, Gwen English, Mary Norman, Peggy McKnight, Jeanne Seagle, Carol Sams Schreiber, and Lisa Tribo. www.anfa.com.

Ongoing.

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center “Guitarts Gone Wild,” exhibition of “guitarts” by Nancy Apple. www.bpacc.org.

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3663 APPLING (385-6440).

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Cleveland Street Flea Market

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

438 CLEVELAND (276-3333).

“Chinese Symbols in Art,” exhibition of ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. www. belzmuseum.org. Ongoing.

119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).

Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library

“A Growing Body of Work,” exhibition of folk art by Chris Little. April 2-30.

3030 POPLAR (415-2700).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School “Horn Island: Paint & Metal,” exhibition of new works by Richard Prillaman and Bill Nelson. www. buckmanartscenter.com.

Through April 7.

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

Cafe Pontotoc

“Exploration in Imagination,” exhibition of mixed-media works by Elayna Scott, inspired by nature and her travels. Ongoing, 4-11 p.m.

314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

“New Work,” exhibition of installation work by sculptor Mark Nowell. www. crosstownarts.org. Through April 30.

David Lusk Gallery

“Last Light,” exhibition of new works by Veda Reed. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Through April 18.

4540 POPLAR (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Hail, Britannia! Six Centuries of British Art from the Berger Collection,” exhibition of 50 paintings from the medieval period to the 21st century by luminaries such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Anthony van Dyck, and others. www.dixon.org.

Through April 19.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Crossroads,” exhibition of folk-art style mixed-media paintings by Ron Olson. www.eclectic-eye.com.

Through May 6.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Found Studio

“Blind Date,” exhibition of new work by Alex Warble.

Through April 30.

2491 BROAD (652-0848).

Fratelli’s

“Outside In,” exhibition of works by Rick Barnard. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through April 30.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Hyde Gallery

“Imaging Now: Collected Visions,” exhibition of photography by seven photographers and curated by Dani Cattan. Through April 4.

INSIDE THE MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART’S NESIN GRADUATE SCHOOL, 477 S. MAIN.

L Ross Gallery

“Layer and Mark,” exhibition of paintings by Lisa Weiss and sculptor Jan Kransberger.

April 1-28.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“From News to Nature,” exhibition of photography

by Karen Pulfer Focht. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through April 30.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

“No Cigar,” exhibition of work by BFA students. www. memphis.edu. Through April 3.

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CALENDAR: APRIL 2 - 8

“Arp, Man Ray, and Matta: Surrealists,” exhibition of Surrealist artists’ books by Hans Arp, Man Ray, and Matta. Through July 12.

“Art Builds Creativity,” exhibition of student work.

Through May 3.

“Artists/Activists: Marcellous Lovelace, Frank D. Robinson, and Siphne Sylve,” exhibition addressing a variety of social, cultural, and political issues.

Through May 10.

“This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement,” exhibition of 157 black-and-white images

by Bob Adelman, George Ballis, Bob Fitch, Bob Fletcher, Matt Herron, David Prince, Herbert Randall, Maria Varela, and Tamio Wakayama.

Through May 10.

“20th Century Color Woodcuts: Japonisme and Beyond,” exhibition of American and British prints.

Through Sept. 8.

“British Watercolors from the Golden Age,” exhibition of watercolors from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries. Through Sept. 20.

“Cats and Quotes,” exhibition featuring felines in paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and prints paired with famous quotes about felines from a variety of periods. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through Jan. 3, 2016.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

2015 Spring BFA Exhibition: Part I, work from more than 50 BFA candidates and includes a variety of media from painting to sculpture to digital media. Through April 20.

“Commonplace,” exhibition of paintings by Marc Rouillard. www.mca.edu. Through May 9.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Memphis Jewish Community Center

The Tennessee CraftSouthwest Chapter Exhibit, participating artists will collaborate with a fellow artist who works in a different media and together they submit a piece for the show. www.jccmemphis.org.

Ongoing.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

“Iron and Gold,” exhibition of work by Karin Jones, Ben Dory, and Rob Jackson whose work combines the delicate and the sturdy. Through April 19.

“Art Is an Accident,” exhibition of an amalgamation of American imagery, toys, and other found objects by J. Fred Woell. Through June 12.

“Tributaries: Vivian Beer,” exhibition of furniture combining contemporary design, craft, and sculptural aesthetics. www. metalmuseum.org. Through June 12.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

“It’s an Art Show: A Passion for Process,” exhibition of new works in acrylic, pastel, oil pastel, and pencil by Melanie Pyron. (901.278.4994), www. otherlandscoffeebar.com.

Through April 29.

641 S. COOPER (278-4994).

Painted Planet

Gallery Artists on View, exhibition by gallery artists.

(338-5223), TuesdaysSaturdays, 11:45 a.m.-6 p.m.

1015 S. COOPER (725-0054).

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“Soul: Memphis’ Original Sound,” exhibition of photography by Thom Gilbert. www.soulsvillefoundation.org.

Through June 13.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Sue Layman Designs

“Conclusion of Delusion,” exhibition of original oil paintings by Sue Layman Lightman. Wednesdays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

125 G.E. PATTERSON (409-7870).

Unity Church of Practical Christianity

Gallery in The Grove, exhibition of work by Netta Casciano and Kevin Chasing Wolf Hutchins. www. unitymemphis.org. Through May 3.

House of Mtenzi

The Soul Experience, featuring poetry, open mic, Reggae, Neo Soul, and more. $7. First Friday of every month, 7-11 p.m.

1289 MADISON.

The HUB

LoveSpeaks, Fridays, 11 p.m.2 a.m.

515 E.H. CRUMP.

Java Cabana

Open Mic Nite, www. javacabanacoffeehouse.com.

Thursdays, 8-10 p.m.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

Memphis Pink Palace Museum

Underground Open Mic Night, come experience amazing and creative artists as they showcase their uplifting gifts of spoken word, song, dance, and Christian rap.

(461-4911), free. Sundays, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

3050 CENTRAL (636-2362).

Poplar-White Station Branch Library

Poetry Society of Tennessee, the oldest Poetry Society of Memphis meets monthly featuring speakers, workshops, readings, and the Mid-South Poetry Festival in October.

(361-0077), free. First Saturday of every month, 24 p.m. Through June 6.

5094 POPLAR (682-1616).

9228 WALNUT GROVE (753-1463).

Shrine Tea Dance

Featuring Noble Sounds Orchestra and the Bankers.

Semi-formal attire. BYOB. Includes popcorn and soft drinks. $10. First Sunday of every month, 2-6 p.m.

3659 S. MENDENHALL (485-1119).

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“The Civil Rights Leaders of Elmwood”

Join Dr. Beverly Bond of the University of Memphis as she explores the lives of civil rights pioneers A.W. Willis, Maxine Smith, Benjamin Hooks, Marvin Ratner, and others. $7.

Wed., April 8, noon.

ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW.ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (636-6857), WWW.MEMPHISMUSIC.ORG.

Shoot & Splice

Ever wonder what it takes to produce an independent film or commercial project? Explore this topic with directors Waheed AlQawasmi, Laura Jean Hocking, and Ryan Watts. Tues., April 7, 6:30 p.m.

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

Tours at Two

Join a Dixon docent or member of the curatorial staff on a tour of the current exhibitions. Free for members. $5 nonmembers. Tuesdays, Sundays, 2-3 p.m.

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

Tuesday Tour: Union Avenue Manhole Cover & History Tour

Meet Jimmy Ogle outside the entrance to the Cotton Museum. Free. Tues., April 7, 11:45 a.m.

THE COTTON MUSEUM, 65 UNION (604-5002), WWW.JIMMYOGLE.COM.

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Opportunity to shop with several small businesses and home-based businesses. Free bags to the first 50 customers Sat., April 4, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

5K Bunny Run and 1K Family Run/Walk

K-Dubb’s “It Is What It Is” Comedy Tour featuring Darryl Damn, Chestnut, Tiny, and OD, Fri., April 3, 8:30 p.m.

Featuring the Easter Bunny, egg hunts, games, music, food, and prizes benefiting SRVS Kids & Families. Free, $15-$25 race entry. Sat., April 4, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

1555 MADISON (866-609-1744).

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

AUDUBON PARK, OFF PARK AVENUE (312-6801), WWW.SRVS.ORG.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

8457 TRINITY (REGISTRATION, 754-8443).

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), WWW. THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

Kick-off with the legal aspects of the music industry featuring guest speakers Carlee McCullough and Michele Howard-Flynn.

Following sessions address other aspects of the music business. Free. Wed., April 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

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

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Minglewood Hall

National Poetry Month Open Mic & Poetry Slam, featuring poetry reading, adult and teen poetry competition, and door prizes. (415-2764), www. livingbreathingpoetry.com.

Sat., April 4, 2-4 p.m.

Author discusses and signs Treasure: A Trilogy. Sat., April 4, 2 p.m.

Music Business Forum

Short guided tour around the Dixon grounds. Garden docents will highlight currently blooming plants and other points of interest.

Tuesdays, Sundays, 2 p.m.

Through June 30.

COOPER-YOUNG FARMERS MARKET, CORNER OF COOPER AND WALKER (570-0565).

Trippin on Thursday, hosted

by K-97 Funny Man Prescott.

Thursdays, 6 p.m.

Cordova Branch Library

Booksigning by Vanessa Hoffman

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3272), WWW.CBU.EDU.

Garden Tours

Enjoy crawfish, local beer from Memphis Made Brewing Company, live bands, performances, demonstrations, and more. $12/2 lbs. crawfish and veggies. Donations for beer.

Sat., April 4, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Flirt Nightclub

341 MADISON (524-0104).

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), WWW. THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD. COM.

Dr. Jim Bailey will discuss “The Industrial Giants of Modern Healthcare Whose Time is Past” and the servant-leader champions of person-centered health care to replace them. Free. Tues., April 7, 7-9 p.m.

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3rd Annual CYCFM Crawfish Boil!

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Melting Pot: Artist Showcase. $5. Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

Author discusses and signs Klandestine: How a Klan Lawyer and a Checkbook Journalist Helped James Earl Ray Cover Up His Crime.

Tues., April 7, 6:30 p.m.

M. L. Seidman Memorial Town Hall Lecture Series

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Brinson’s

Booksigning by Pate McMichael

APPLEHEADZ CANDY APPLZ AND SWEETZ, 7140 STAGE ROAD, SUITE 112 (352-1193).

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K-Dubb’s Comedy Tour at Minglewood Hall on Friday, April 3rd

Couch to Earth Day 5K Running Program

Designed to prepare runners for the Earth Day 5K on Sunday, Apr. 19, 2 p.m. The program will consist of a weekly plan and an organized group run every Saturday morning at 8 a.m. $115 members, $125 nonmembers.

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Memphis Redbirds v.

St. Louis Cardinals Exhibition Game

$15-$75. Fri., April 3, 6 p.m.

AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), WWW. MEMPHISREDBIRDS.MILB.COM.

Tai Chi

Classes held near Woodland Discovery Playground. $8.

Wednesdays, 3 p.m.

SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Tai Chi at Quan Am Monastery

Newcomers and beginners welcome. Thursdays, 5:45 p.m.

QUAN AM MONASTERY, 3500 S. GOODLETT (679-4528), WWW.BUDDHISTMEMPHIS.COM.

Walk in the Park

Meet at the temporary Visitor Center near the Woodland Discovery Playground.

Sundays, 2:30 p.m.

SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Zumba

Thursdays, 6:30 a.m., and Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

BRIDGES, 477 N. FIFTH ST.

Lindenwood Church’s “Service of the Cross” on Friday

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Being Spiritual and LGBTQ: Group Conversation

Ongoing discussion group facilitated by a rotating group of local clergy supportive and encouraging of LGBTQ people. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m.

April 4th Commemoration Candlelight Vigil

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. including a march.

Sat., April 4, 10:30 a.m.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), WWW.CIVILRIGHTSMUSEUM.ORG.

Meditation and Dharma Talk Featuring chanting, silent “sitting meditation,” and Dharma talk with Q&A or book discussion. Fridays, 6 p.m., and Sundays, 10 a.m.

Brunch and Sew

Join Andrea Fenise and team at the Andrea Fenise Lifestyle Design Studio for brunch, conversation, and interactive sewing and design. Leave with a spring fashion staple piece. $60. Sat., April 4, noon-4 p.m.

QUAN AM MONASTERY, 3500 S. GOODLETT (679-4528), WWW.BUDDHISTMEMPHIS.COM.

Meristem Women’s Book Club

1015 S. COOPER (303 990-3999).

Read and explore written works by women and LGBT authors. Second Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

Uptown Breakfast Club No agenda, just a chat with neighbors, partners, elected officials, and friends.

First Friday of every month, 7:30 a.m.

THE OFFICE@UPTOWN CAFE, 594 N. SECOND, WWW. UPTOWNMEMPHIS.ORG.

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Animal Grossology

10th Annual Fishes for Wishes

Interactive exhibition that takes science information and incorporates it into interactive entertainment featuring some of the stinkiest, slimiest, and downright yuckiest creatures.

Free for members, $12.75 nonmembers. Through April 19.

Crawfish boil benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Mid-South Chapter. $45. Sat., April 4, 7 p.m.

SNOWDEN GROVE HOUSE, 6205 OLD GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS.

Antarctica Revisited Challenges

A Celebration of the Arts: A Tribute to the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pink Palace Manager of Education Alex Eilers is going to Antarctica this winter to study Weddell Seals. Join in on special challenges at the museum. Ongoing.

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW. ANTARCTICAREVISITED.COM.

Featuring local musicians and current music students, photo display by Rome Withers dedicated to the civil rights movement, and the Temprees will be honored. Free. Sat., April 4, noon-2 p.m.

AMRO MUSIC STORE, 2918 POPLAR (679-6082).

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

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Exhibit centered on an original “I AM A MAN” sign from 1968 as an icon for social, political, and artistic expressions featuring signs, photographs, and the painting “IM.” $12.75. Through Oct. 11.

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (6362362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Memphis Magazine Faces of the MidSouth Reception

Honoring the 2015 “Faces of the Mid-South” and launching of the April issue. Wed., April 8, 57:30 p.m.

ALCHEMY, 940 S. COOPER (726-4444), WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM.

National Trail Day

Mon., April 6, 8-11 a.m.

SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Easter eggs with the residents at Silver Creek Senior Living. Fri., April 3, 1:30 p.m.

SILVER CREEK SENIOR LIVING, 6630 CRUMPLER (662-895-8952).

Eco EGGstravaganza

Featuring egg hunting, Treetop Adventure course, kids’ fishing rodeo, nature hikes, live music, food trucks, and more. Sat., April 4, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Family Egg Hunt

Featuring hidden eggs with prizes for grownups and children. Children’s age-specific hunts take place at designated times. Family egg hunt until all eggs are found. $6 members, $10 nonmembers. Sat., April 4, 1-4 p.m.

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

Holy Week Lunches and Services and Easter Sunday

Services will be at noon in the sanctuary. Lunch will be available in the Fellowship Hall for $7 each. For a full schedule of events, visit website.

Mon.-Thur., Mar. 30-Apr. 2.

SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 4055 POPLAR

“Service of the Cross”

Featuring the Lindenwood Chancel Choir, Orchestra, and soloists performing Lenten Motets and selections from the Requiems of Mozart, Dubois, and Rutter. Fri., April 3, 5:30 p.m.

LINDENWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 2400 UNION (458-8506), WWW.LINDENWOODCC.COM.

(454-0034), WWW.2PC.ORG.

“The Passport”

Easter eve concert presented by Visible Music College. Free. Sat., April 4, 6 p.m.

LEVITT SHELL, OVERTON PARK (272-2722), WWW.LEVITTSHELL.ORG.

Peabody Easter Brunch

Call for reservations. $64, $22 for children 5-12.

Sun., April 5, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

THE PEABODY HOTEL, 149 UNION (529-4183).

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Cooper-Young Community Farmers Market

www.cycfarmersmarket.org. Saturdays, 8 a.m.1 p.m.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (278-6786).

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Tulipmania: 150,000 Blooms

Take advantage of the best way to welcome spring, the blooming of the bulbs planted in the fall. Through April 20.

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

Carriage Crossing Easter Bunny Through April 4.

CARRIAGE CROSSING, HOUSTON LEVEE & BILL MORRIS PKWY. (854-8240), WWW.SHOPCARRIAGECROSSING.COM.

Earth Month at the Garden

In the spirit of Earth Day’s “Think Globally, Act Locally” motto, the garden is celebrating throughout the month. See website for schedule of events and information. Through April 30.

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

Easter Brunch at eighty3

Weekend brunch favorites and Easter specials including andouille sausage Easter pie, brown sugar smoked ham, carrot cake ice cream sandwiches, and more. Sun., April 5, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

EIGHTY3, 83 MADISON (333-1224), EIGHTY3MEMPHIS.COM.

Easter Egg Hunt at the Dixon

Reservations required. $8 members, $10 nonmembers. Sat., April 4, 10:30 a.m.

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

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Memphis Farmers Market

Saturdays, 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

MEMPHIS FARMERS MARKET, PAVILION OF CENTRAL STATION, S. FRONT & G.E. PATTERSON AVE, WWW.MEMPHISFARMERSMARKET. ORG.

Roots Memphis: Farm Drinks

Meet and greet with farmers, staff, friends, and members of the Roots Memphis family.

Share recipes, learn about farmer development and sustainable agriculture, and more. Free. Tues., April 7, 6-9 p.m.

THE SLIDER INN, 2117 PEABODY (482-9616), WWW.ROOTSMEMPHIS.ORG.

Shelby Farms’ Eco Eggstravaganza on Saturday

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Hidden Universe 3D

Documentary that combines dramatic readings with newsreel footage to create a powerful record of Dr. King’s legacy and the civil rights Movement. $9. Thurs., April 2, 7-10:15 p.m.

Experience stunning highdefinition 3D images of celestial structures in deep space. $9. Through Nov. 13.

CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

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Found Footage Fest

Touring showcase of odd and hilarious found videos celebrates its 10th anniversary with a brandnew show hosted by Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett. $11.

Thurs., April 2, 7 p.m.

MALCO STUDIO ON THE SQUARE, 2105 COURT (725-7151), WWW.FOUNDFOOTAGEFEST.COM.

Close encounters with Humpback Whales and their ecological survival in the world’s oceans. Through Nov. 13.

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There are three per order, and it is a hearty dessert.

He didn’t always pair them with a big scoop of his coconut sorbet, but once he did he found it was the perfect match and provided balance. The final touch on the dish is a light coating of ginger syrup, also made with fresh ginger. “It’s a double whammy of fresh ginger,” says Smith.

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inger Donuts with Coconut Sorbet “When my family eats at the restaurant, they always get the ginger donuts,” says Tsunami’s owner and chef Ben Smith.

The ginger donuts with coconut sorbet ($8) at Tsunami have been a solid seller for five or six years.

Smith says they tie nicely into the restaurant’s Pacific Rim theme, while also honoring the South’s love of deepfried foods.

The ginger donuts are about the size of golf balls and have a crusty exterior and a cakey, gooey interior and are dusted with powdered sugar. They aren’t too sweet. Their deliciousness lies somewhere between coffee cake and funnel cake.

Smith says they aren’t your standard donut as they are a bit denser and are

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What make Strano’s Zappolies really special are the accompanying dipping sauces. The “Berry sweet sauce” includes a little Campari and is devilishly sweet. As a bonus, a heavenly hazelnut dipping sauce also accompanied my order. Imagine a thinner, warmer Nutella. It was hard to say which sauce was better for dipping, but it was fun trying to figure it out.

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The presentation is quite festive — so much so that it seemed like it was my birthday. Or someone’s!

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Locality ✴ Guide BARTLETT Abuelo’s Bruno’s Italian Restaurant Coletta’s Colton’s Steakhouse Dixie Cafe El Porton Firebirds Fresh Slices Gridley’s La Playita Mexicana Los Olas Del Pacifica Memphis Mojo Cafe Pig-N-Whistle Saito Steakhouse Sekisui Side Car Cafe Side Porch Steakhouse

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Jasmine Thai Java Cabana Kwik Chek LBOE Le Chardonnay Local Gastropub Memphis Pizza Cafe Midtown Crossing Molly’s La Casita Muddy's Grind House Mulan Murphy’s Old Zinnie’s Otherlands P&H Cafe Peggy’s Healthy Home Cooking Petra Cafe Express Restaurant Iris Robata Ramen & Yakitori Bar Saigon Le Sean’s Cafe The Second Line Sekisui Side Street Grill Slider Inn Soul Fish Cafe Stone Soup Cafe Strano Sicilian Kitchen Sweet Grass Tart Tsunami Young Avenue Deli PARKWAY VILLAGE/FOX MEADOWS Blue Shoe Bar & Grill Leonard’s Pancho’s POPLAR/I-240 Amerigo Benihana Blue Plate Cafe Brooklyn Bridge Capital Grille Chao Praya Fleming’s Frank Grisanti’s Humdingers Mister B’s Moe’s Southwest Grill Mosa Asian Bistro Owen Brennan’s River Oaks Rock ’n’ Dough Pizza Co. Romano’s Macaroni Grill Salsa Seasons 52 Wang’s Mandarin House RALEIGH Asian Palace El Siete Mares Hideaway Restaurant & Club SOUTH MEMPHIS Coletta’s Four Way Restaurant Interstate Bar-B-Q Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Uncle Lou’s Southern Kitchen

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VHS Wonderland

The Found Footage Festival returns with more home video hilarity. hands of the people, and this idea that you could be the next Jane Fonda’s Workout, there was a gold rush. You had a lot of amateurs hopping on board with this new technology that they didn’t really know how to use. So there’s a sort of wide-eyed innocence about that era that is endearing, but really hilarious.”

Prueher and Pickett founded the Found Footage Festival in 2005. “Ten years ago, we thought maybe people beyond our immediate circle of friends would find this funny, too. So we just kind of took a leap and put on a show in the back of a bar in Manhattan,” Prueher says. “We edited together some of our favorite moments and gave people a sort of guided tour through our collection. You know how they say things come back into style 20 years after the fact?

Maybe VHS was like that. There was enough distance for people to look back at these old exercise videos and training videos and little nuggets that fell through the cracks and laugh.”

2005 was also the year YouTube launched. “It’s really retrained people’s minds, in a way,” he says. “Early on, when we were doing our live shows, we had to explain why you’d want to come see a video that isn’t done very continued on page 48

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ick Prueher and Joe Pickett have spent the past decade making audiences laugh with weird and wonderful clips from the golden age of VHS. “Like a lot of good ideas, it sprang from boredom,” Prueher says. “Joe and I have known each other since the sixth grade. We grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, and there wasn’t a lot going on. We kind of had to make our own fun.”

Their idea of fun was trawling thrift stores for weird and obscure VHS tapes from the 1980s and 1990s.

“We’d find stuff like Mr. T’s Be Somebody, a kids video Mr. T put out in the ’80s. We started buying these to see what was on them, and we ended up having viewing parties at my parents’ house before any of us had driver’s licenses, and we would make running commentaries of jokes.”

Most of their collection, which now numbers more than 6,000 tapes, came from the home video explosion of the 1980s. Since they were marketed to video rental stores, movies on tape were expensive, with a single title sometimes costing more than $100. But in 1982, Jane Fonda’s Workout was released for the affordable price of $24. It sold more than 17 million copies and inspired an army of imitators. “This was the first time you could buy a VHS camcorder and shoot something without having to get it developed or spool it up,” says Prueher. “All the sudden, with the technology in the

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FILM REVIEW continued from page 47 well. But now, we just have to say, ‘You know those bad exercise videos you see on YouTube?’ And people get that you can extract funny parts from something that was much longer.”

Over the years, the Found Footage Festival has become an international success. “I couldn’t believe I was in Paris showing a video I found while I was taking the trash out at my apartment!” Prueher laughs.

Memphis is one of their favorite stops on the tour because they always seem to find new material here. “The very first DVD we included in the show was from Memphis,” Prueher says.

“We found it at the AmVets store on Elvis Presley Boulevard. It’s supposed to be the world’s largest thrift store. We

make sure to book shows in Memphis specifically to come back to it.”

This year, Memphis video collector Ilene Markell will join the crew onstage for one segment. “We have created the greatest public access montage ever. It’s 4 1/2 minutes of incredible footage she had.” Prueher says.

Prueher says the key to the show’s success is getting the tone just right: “If it was just dismissive or snarky, it would get old really fast. We obsess over these videos. Sure, we’re making fun of them, but it comes from a loving place. We look at it as a celebration of this weird part of our history. We’re continually amazed that people love it.”

Found Footage Festival Thursday, April 2nd, 7 p.m.

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I could go on at great length about the dark subtexts swirling underneath It Follows, but the most important thing is that the surface is genuinely terrifying. It’s an instant classic, and Mitchell just shot to the top of my list of directors to watch.

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$2 million in Detroit, the indie production debuted at Cannes in 2014, where it earned praise from virtually everyone who saw it and landed a distribution deal from a Weinstein Company subsidiary. The Weinsteins famously backed Quentin Tarantino’s career, and it’s not hard to see what attracted their attention here. Like Pulp Fiction, It Follows is something of a pastiche of films from a specific genre.

In this case, it’s horror. But like Tarantino’s masterpiece, It Follows transcends its cut-and-paste methodology to become a work of true self-expression for Mitchell.

Like the great horror films of the 1980s, the premise is simple. A mysterious creature is stalking teenagers.

It is invisible to everyone except its prey, to whom it appears as horrible versions of people they know. Once it sets its sights on you, the only way to get rid of The Follower is to have sex with someone. Then, the creature will turn its attention to your paramour, and once it has killed him or her, it will return for you.

The slasher flick has always had an undertone of sexual guilt and punishment. If a teenager has sex in a Friday the 13th movie, odds are they’re about to die in a gruesome fashion. It Follows foregrounds and comments on the trope. Jay (Maika Monroe), the college girl whose attempts to flee from the demon form the story, is not a classic ’80s chainsaw fodder slut. She’s been seeing Hugh (Jake Weary) for a while when she finally decides to go all the way with him after a date to a classic movie palace is cut short when he sees someone who isn’t there. But their late night tryst turns very ugly in a way that invokes the constant fear of sexual violence that hangs around in the back of every woman’s mind. This is not a sadistic slasher flick that invites the viewer to take vicarious pleasure in the murder of a woman. We’re in her shoes from the very beginning, and when her friends band together to try to save her, we’re genuinely rooting for them to succeed.

The list of Mitchell’s sly references to classic horror films reads like a greatest hits of the genre — Cat People, Frankenstein, Halloween — but foremost is The Shining. Remember the scene with the two ghostly little girls at the end of the hall? If you extended it out to feature-length, it would approximate the atmosphere of It Follows. Mitchell directs cinematographer Mike Gioulakis’ camera moves with Kubrickian precision, as in the bravado, one-shot opening sequence.

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So in the past week or so I’ve received numerous emails

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bottoms like most of my other elastic-waist pants from Sears that are draped over a chair in my bedroom. It’s the curse of being not only portly but also kinda short.

Of course, these aren’t really true invitations. It’s a contest and a fund-raiser. I’m not sure what the funds are President for, since he’s nearing the end of his presidency, but I assume the money just goes into a big pool to help keep Obama repugnant trolls like Ted Cruz at bay. The Prez and his staff keep telling me that I need to send him “my story,” and that there will be a drawing for all of the other people they’ve invited and that if my name gets pulled out of the hat, they will take care of my airline ticket and hotel costs. Nothing about meals and taxis and such, but it’s still a pretty good deal, especially given the hotel rates in the nation’s capital.

Oh, and speaking of the nation’s capital. Why is it that having and smoking marijuana in the capital of the United States of America is now legal and has garnered less press than Monica Lewinsky’s recent TED Talk or Kim Kardashian’s blond hair? People, IT IS LEGAL TO SMOKE WEED IN THE CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Did you even know that? The catch is that it’s still against the law to buy or sell it, but if you grow it, you can smoke all you want with no repercussions. I was reading an article the other day on the online Washington Post about a restaurant that was giving away free pot seeds to people who were lined up around several blocks in the middle of the night. And while that was fascinating enough on its own, the brilliant part was that halfway through the article, there was an advertisement about a new product designed to prevent you from losing your keys, cell phone, wallet, or any other item that people tend to lose on regular basis. I praise the agency that was smart to figure out that brilliant ad placement! But back to “my story” and my invitation to visit with President Obama: Mr. Obama, my story begins with my birth in Memphis in July 1959. Yes, I am older than you. I have only a vague and selective memory of my early years on Earth, but I do recall almost choking my infant baby brother to death on the day he came home from the hospital by trying to feed him by stuffing a maraschino cherry down his throat. I was 3 and just trying to make him feel welcomed into the family. Not long after that, I again tried to do a good deed by attempting to brush our Chihuahua’s teeth. I thought it would improve his dental hygiene.

Unfortunately, for both the pooch and me, I was trying to brush his little teeth with thick, brown glue. He bit me in the eye and my father shot and killed him in our backyard. Does that rhyme with “emotionally scarred?”

The next thing I knew I was ripped out of my grandmother’s arms in the middle of the night, leaving bloody scratch marks on her neck, and was kidnapped. Actually, my father, who shot the Chihuahua, had been transferred by his employer to Charlotte, North Carolina, where I would spend the next six years, attend elementary school until grade three, and live with a 40-pound cat named Herman and a pet squirrel named Mr., who lived in the lining of our den curtains and slept on my pillow beside my head every night — all while living a few houses away from the neighborhood bully who was killed by electrocution and whose parents went insane because their talking bird kept screaming the boy’s name from its cage on their patio every day when school was dismissed because the bird was expecting the boy to come home.

Skip ahead a few years and my family moved back to Memphis in the summer of 1968, just months after the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Tanks were still in the streets and there were curfews, and I was starting the fourth grade at Coro Lake Elementary School and I have no clue why there were riots in the cafeteria every other day and why the kid who lives a few houses down on the lake continually picks up cottonmouth snakes by their tails and hurls them at me.

Skip a few more years ahead to my life in a Memphis neighborhood known as Parkway Village, where I lived from seventh grade until moving out of my parents’ house at age 17 into a part of Memphis known as Midtown. It was 1977 and I was transitioning from an overweight high school hippie into a very skinny hippie (please don’t ask how) who is torn between the folk-music genius of Joni Mitchell and the new disco vibes of Thelma “Don’t Leave Me This Way” Houston. What was I supposed to do? I had no idea. Still don’t. It gets only crazier from there, Mr. President, so just put the ticket in the mail. I’ll rearrange my schedule to fit yours.

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