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OUR 1360TH / ISSUE 03.19.2015 / COVER STORY P.16 Portland, Brooklyn, Nashville, and Memphis. Those aren’t four cities you typically see referenced in the same sentence, but last week a Wall Street Journal story cited a Cushman & Wakefield national real estate report that lumped Memphis in with those three hipster-friendly cities as one of the country’s top four markets offering “the right live/work/play environment for millennials.” It was a pleasant surprise to see it in print, but the WSJ story just validates what anyone who’s been living in Midtown or downtown in the past few years has seen firsthand: Craft beer breweries popping up like March daffodils, bike paths proliferating, residential and retail developments in Overton Square, Crosstown, South Main, downtown, the Edge District, Cooper-Young, and on Broad Avenue — all signaling a serious revitalization of the city’s core. Last Sunday dawned bright and clear. The incessant rain had moved out and spring arrived, seemingly overnight, with temperatures in the 70s and a sky of porcelain blue. My daughter and her boyfriend and I decided to ride our bikes in search of a friendly patio for brunch. It proved to be a struggle. We rolled down Peabody Avenue to the Slider Inn. Nope. Patio full. Sorry. So we pedaled our way north on Cooper to the Second Line. The front porch was full, meaning there would be a wait. So on we went to Overton Square, home to at least 10 patios. It was the same story there. Patio-mania had set in. Not a seat to be had outside. So we went to Boscos and resigned ourselves to sitting inside. And it was a good thing. A great thing, actually. For many years, Joyce Cobb and a crew of local musicians have played at Boscos’ Sunday brunch. It’s a wonderful gathering, where mimosas flow and you get to hear one of the city’s best singers doing jazz standards while you munch on your eggs Benedict. But this week, Joyce was singing while sitting down. Her voice was strong, but she is not these days, having gone through a number of chemo treatments in recent weeks. N E WS & O P I N I O N The place was packed — with families, LETTERS - 4 couples, black and white — all united in THE FLY-BY - 6 support of Joyce. When she sang “Danny TRUTH BE TOLD - 11 Boy,” there were more than a few tears POLITICS - 12 shed, despite the seeming incongruity of EDITORIAL - 14 an African-American woman singing a VIEWPOINT - 15 Cover Story - “Getting Schooled” sad Irish standard. by Bianca Phillips - 16 My daughter, who recently moved here from Austin, was impressed. “Look at STE P P I N’ O UT WE RECOMMEND - 20 this place,” she said. “In Austin, this room MUSIC - 22 would be filled with hipsters. I love this AFTER DARK - 26 town.” So do I. BOOKS - 30 After all, it’s one thing to be hipsterART - 31 friendly. It’s quite another to have heart CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 32 and soul. FOOD - 36 Bruce VanWyngarden FILM - 39 brucev@memphisflyer.com C LAS S I F I E D S - 42 There will be a musical fund-raiser for FEATURING - THE NEW YORK Joyce Cobb at Boscos on Sunday, TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE March 29th, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Go.

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About Jackson Baker’s cover story on Mike Matthews, “It Only Hurts When He Laughs” … I commend Jackson Baker for this article. Mike is a compelling enough personality by himself, but he becomes even more larger-than-life thanks to the excellent writing in this piece. Very nice work, Jackson, and welcome back, Mike. You can’t keep a good Watchdog down. Ken Jobe Wonderful story about a real reporter with a heart and courage. As a photographer and videographer in Memphis for over 40 years, I have often found myself at news events, back in the line of cameramen and reporters. The people we all know from TV sometimes are very different off-camera. Some are not very nice. Over the years, I have seen some offensive behavior from reporters who magically transformed when they picked up a mic and stood in front of a camera. Most are not like this, but Mike Matthews is even better off camera. He is exactly what we need on the air — and in our city: depth, truth, humility, humor, and most of all, love. Peter Ceren About Toby Sells’ post, “MATA Hopes for May Return of Trolleys” … So MATA’s short-term solution is returning some trolleys to service 11 months after they were supposed to be down for only three or four months? As the late Don Poier used to say, “Only in the movies, and in Memphis.” Midtown Mark

About Les Smith’s column, “The Natural” … Right on point. I agree about Lee Harris and Berlin Boyd, too. We have too much talent in Memphis just sitting around on their hands, waiting for a chance at the plate. We shouldn’t settle for another retread, no matter how great a guy he is. There is, quite simply, too much at stake. It’s time for fresh people and fresh ideas. OakTree About Bruce VanWyngarden’s column, “Sammons ‘R Us” … I’m available to take over the airport authority. I’m totally unqualified, so I can give it my full, unqualified attention. Jeff About Bruce VanWyngarden’s column, “The Museum of Terrible Ideas” … Surely there was a typo in the statement that the Riverfront Development Corporation put up $200,000 and got $800,000 more from the Feds to study that goofy water taxis on the river idea. If it was not a typo, what in the world are they spending the money on? Is the contractor one of the decision-maker’s brother-in-law? Harry Freeman About Chris Davis’ Viewpoint, “The 75 Percent Rule” ... I am writing on behalf of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to request a correction to the op-ed “The 75 Percent Rule,” which appeared on the Memphis Flyer website on March 5th. Specifically, the piece states: “The proposed legislation, in the long run, benefits nobody but Todd’s fellow ALEC member, the Corrections Corporation of America, a private company that operates three of Tennessee’s 14 prisons.” This is false. CCA’s nonvoting membership with ALEC ended in 2010. As such, CCA is not a current member of ALEC. Jonathan Burns Senior Manager, Public Affairs, CCA

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City will get its first bicycle crossing light at Sam Cooper and Tillman. Earlier this month, a bicyclist was killed after being hit by a vehicle just a block west of Sam Cooper and Tillman, the same intersection that, in about a year, will boast the city’s first bicycleonly traffic light. The special traffic signal for cyclists is part of the planned Hampline bicycle path stretching from Overton Park to the Shelby Farms Greenline. Zachary Walls, 40, was hit and killed by a vehicle driven by 50-year-old Solomon Johnson. Johnson stayed on the scene but was arrested for driving on a suspended, revoked, or canceled license. The scene of the accident was closer to Lipford, about a block from the traffic light at Tillman, so it’s hard to know whether the completed Hampline and its planned bike traffic signal could have made his route safer. But Livable Memphis Program Director John Paul Shaffer believes the planned bike path will improve bicycle and pedestrian safety overall. “Sam Cooper right now screams ‘You’re not safe no matter what happens,’” Shaffer said. “Getting across Sam Cooper is terrifying sometimes.” Once complete, cyclists will approach the Sam Cooper and Tillman traffic signal, and a sensor in the street will detect the

bike. An extra traffic signal with red, yellow, and green lights projected through a cutout of a bicycle will tell cyclists when it’s safe to cross. Part of the Hampline is already constructed. It begins at Overton Park and crosses East Parkway onto an existing sidewalk along Sam Cooper that leads to Broad Avenue. From there, the path travels down Broad’s existing bicycle lanes. In the past few months, city crews have erected flexible bollards along Broad between Hollywood and Collins to separate the lane from the parking area. Before those were installed, drivers would often park cars partially inside the bike lane. City Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator Kyle Wagenschutz said crews are still putting the finishing touches on that stretch of the Hampline project. “They’re about 85 percent done. They can only operate on days when it’s warm enough to put the paint down,” Wagenschutz said. But for now, the Hampline ends at Collins. That’s because that first stretch of the Hampline was paid for through city funds, but the rest of the project — the lane from Collins to Tillman, the continued on page 10

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The judge in the retrial of Noura Jackson was in no hurry to order her a bond hearing last week, noting that she has already been in jail since 2005 and that there was no need for “an emergency bond hearing.” Jackson was convicted in 2009 of the second-degree murder of her mother, Jennifer Jackson, in 2005. The conviction was overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court last year on violations by Amy Weirich, the Shelby County District Attorney General. Jackson remains charged with the murder and has a constitutional right to a bond. But Jackson went back to jail last Friday after a special prosecutor was appointed to her case. The chance of a bond hearing dissolved as the new prosecutors and Jackson’s attorney need to work out the details of moving the case forward. That will take another court hearing, scheduled for Wednesday, April 8th. Valerie Corder, Jackson’s attorney, reminded Criminal Court Judge Chris Craft of Jackson’s constitutional right to a bond. “She’s been in jail since 2005,” Craft said, in response to Corder. “This is not an emergency bond hearing. We have to take things in order and let both sides be represented.” Corder responded by saying that Jackson’s stint in jail should be a reason to expedite the matter instead of delaying it once more. Craft did not respond to Corder’s suggestion. Instead, he asked brusquely, “Is there anything else we need to take up?” And, with that, Jackson’s hearing was adjourned. Outside the courtroom, Corder said she would not speak to the judge’s

thought process on the matter but repeated Craft’s words. “My client’s been in jail for nineand-a-half years, and, at this moment in time, she’s innocent of all charges,” Corder said. “She needs to be able to proceed to a resolution of these charges as expediently as possible. Just as any other citizen in this state, she has a right to bond while doing so.” A bond for Jackson could come at the April 8th hearing. But more likely than not, the hearing and her possible release will be postponed to a date later in April. Should she be released in April, Jackson would have spent eight months behind bars after the Supreme Court overturned her conviction. Jackson and her attorney were ready for a bond hearing last month as her new trial was to kick off. However, Weirich announced at that hearing that she would recuse herself and her office from Jackson’s retrial. That action automatically got Jackson another 30 days in jail as a special prosecutor was found. Last week’s court action was the official beginning of Jackson’s new trial. Special prosecutors were assigned in what is likely to be a months-long court case. The assignment came as a surprise to Corder, who said she learned of the move only when she got to court last Friday morning. The special prosecutors said they got word of the assignment that morning from the Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference. The special prosecutors are from the Tennessee’s 25th judicial district, which includes Fayette, Hardeman, Lauderdale, McNairy, and Tipton Counties. The team includes the district’s Attorney General Mike Dunavant.

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the fact that many extremist ideas have been co-opted by mainstream politicians.” “The drop in the number of extremist groups hasn’t been accompanied by any real reduction in extremist violence,” Potok said. “The level of extremism – and the danger of radical terror – seems just as high as ever.” The groups listed in the SPLC’s report include neo-Nazis, white nationalists, neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, Klansmen, and black separatists. Other hate groups on the list target LGBT people, Muslims, or immigrants, and some specialize in producing racist music or propaganda denying the Holocaust.

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The number of U.S. hate groups fell in 2014, according to new figures from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The group’s annual census showed a 17 percent decline in far-right extremist groups operating in America in 2014 than in 2013. The number fell from 939 groups in 2013 to 784 groups in 2014. It’s the lowest number since 2005. That figure peaked in 2011 at 1,018 groups. The SPLC’s annually revised “Hate Map” shows three extremist groups operating in Memphis: the Ku Klos Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Nation of Islam (which SPLC deems a black separatist group), and The Political Cesspool radio show (which the SPLC deems to be “white nationalist”). The map shows 29 extremist groups operating in Tennessee. While the number of hate groups has dropped overall, the SPLC said “terrorist plots and other acts of deadly violence committed by the radical right have not abated.” “The drop in the number of extremist groups doesn’t tell the entire story,” said Mark Potok, senior fellow at the SPLC and editor of the Intelligence Report, the SPLC newsletter. “It appears that extremists are leaving these groups for the anonymity of the internet, which allows their message to reach a huge audience.” For example, the online neo-Nazi forum Stormfront has about 300,000 users, according to the report, which is up about 60 percent over the past five years. A domestic terrorist incident has occurred, on average, once every 34 days over the past six years, the report said. Extremist violence continued at levels comparable to the 1990s. The difference, however, is that 90 percent of the attacks have been carried out by “lone wolves” or pairs of extremists. “Domestic terrorists and other extremists with criminal intentions also are increasingly acting alone, choosing to commit lethal attacks without the help of an organized group,” Potok said. About 149 anti-government groups, which tout themselves as “patriot” groups, operated before the election of President Obama. But that number surged, and by 2013, about 1,096 such groups were operating, the report said. However, that figure fell in 2014 to 874. According to the SPLC, these are conspiracy-minded groups that view the federal government as their enemy. The SPLC said the movement to the internet deserves much of the credit for the decline in the number of hate groups and patriot groups. But other factors include a strengthening economy, law enforcement crackdowns, “and

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bicycle traffic signal at Sam Cooper and Tillman, and the north-south stretch of lane from Tillman to the Greenline — will be funded using federal money. The designs must be approved by the Tennessee Department of Transportation and the federal government before that part of the project can move forward. “If the design approval process goes smoothly, we’ll be able to bid the construction for those [final] phases sometime in 2015, but whether or not the physical construction begins before next winter, I don’t know at this point,” Wagenschutz said. From Collins west to Tillman and from Tillman south to the Greenline, the lane will be buffered from traffic with a concrete median, some of which

will be planted. “I think there’s even a rain garden in one spot. It just depends on how wide they are as to whether or not the curbs have plantings,” said Shaffer, whose organization raised $72,000 for the Hampline’s design through the crowdfunding website, ioby.org. Despite the recent bicycle fatality near the Hampline’s path, Wagenschutz said bicycle accidents have actually decreased since 2008. Most years, the city only has one or two accidents. So far this year, there have been two, both within the past month. The city doubled the miles of bicycle infrastructure by 2010, and that number is projected to double again by 2016.

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When the students in the study were asked as adults how they found their jobs, “Whites were more likely to say through family and friends,” Alexander said. “Blacks said [they found their jobs] on their own and being on your own isn’t a good place to be. The people who had the advantage back in the day still have the advantage today and that’s where race comes into play.” The institutional, legal racism that once strangled African Americans’ job prospects is largely gone, thanks to equal opportunity employment laws. Still, the African-American unemployment rate is reliably twice that of white Americans. In codified racism’s place are informal networks of access and opportunity that produce virtually the same result. Here’s one example: More and more companies rely on current employees to find new hires, which in itself isn’t a problem. But people tend to refer people who look like them, which is worrisome for groups historically shut out of the job market. According to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, job candidates who are referred are twice as likely to get an interview. Just over 70 percent of employees recommended job candidates of the same race and 63 percent recommended candidates of the same gender. Hiring biases could help explain part of why the poverty rate in Memphis is so divergent: Less than 10 percent of white families are poor, compared to 33 percent of African Americans, 47 percent of Latinos, and nearly 15 percent of Asians. This is not a problem that can be fixed in public schools. That brings me to another set of questions: Is it only education reform we need or should we add some workplace reform too? Who will train hiring managers to recognize and correct for their biases? Can we adapt the tools used to measure teacher effectiveness to track how well employers do at hiring people who don’t look like them? Can we convince charitable foundations that sink millions into education reform to also invest in creating equitable workplaces? It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. When it comes to finding a job, we unquestioningly accept that as fact. But when it comes to education reform, we insist the reverse is true. That leads me to my last question: When will we resolve that dissonance?

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Honest conversations about education reform generate more questions than answers. Are charter schools the answer to what ails poor children? What will it take to turn low-performing schools around? How can public schools best prepare disadvantaged students for college and careers? To those queries, allow me to add another: What if we’re asking the wrong questions? Is it possible that what happens in classrooms doesn’t matter nearly as much as education reformers say it does? What if it’s not public schools that need fixing? What if the problem is hyper-segregated neighborhoods and a job market riddled with race and gender favoritism? What if the problem isn’t poor children who struggle to learn but middle- and upper-class parents who hoard opportunity for their kids? What if we viewed economic and educational inequality not from the stoop where the disadvantaged sit, but from the perch of those who inherit advantage that they rarely share? If you weren’t pondering those things before, you will after reading The Long Shadow, which chronicles a groundbreaking study of 790 first graders in the Baltimore public schools. Starting in 1982, Johns Hopkins University researchers Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson followed these students’ education and career path for nearly 25 years. Some of the students were white, some were black, some of low socioeconomic standing (measured by household income, the parents’ education level and their occupation) and some of relatively higher standing. The short version of the study’s findings: Children who are born into poor, disadvantaged families almost always end up where they started, especially when the poor children are black. For the overwhelming majority of the disadvantaged students, “the promise of upward mobility through educational success has proven to be an empty one,” the book’s authors write. If you understand how efficiently inequality was designed to reproduce itself, this comes as no surprise. But what surprised Alexander most was how much a family’s access to informal job networks mattered.

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The Council District 5 Race A preliminary laundry list, including the usual suspects, plus one bona fide surprise. longtime progressive activist Happy Jones, who noted that Annesdale was an ancestral home. Between the two of them, Marrero and Jones symbolized the broad appeal Wilder hopes to demonstrate along the Poplar Corridor. In brief remarks, Wilder cited her 11 years as United Methodist services director and her work on behalf of preservation initiatives and environmental causes. She also served as facilities director at MIFA. A candidate with similar appeal and who, like Wilder, was an early entry is Charles “Chooch” Pickard, an architect who also has evinced a strong interest in preservationist issues and strategies for dealing with blight. Pickard has served as executive director of the Memphis Regional Design Center and currently serves on the MATA board. He has signed on some seasoned campaign pros to help his race. In her introduction of Wilder last week, Marrero challenged Wilder’s supporters to work hard because, as she said, “there’s a lot of money on the other side.” There are several candidates that remark could describe, but one of them is certainly Worth Morgan, a member of a well-known brokerage family, if at this point still something of an unknown quantity. Morgan is an executive at SunStar

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The District 5 City Council seat, which has been occupied for two terms by Jim Strickland, who is vacating it to make a mayoral run, is a crucial one for several reasons, including the fact that the Midtown/East Memphis district contains both substantial commercial and residential turf and several different hotbeds of politically active citizens. It bears repeating that it will be a solid month before April 17th, the first date on which candidate petitions can even be drawn, and that any list of candidates is, of necessity, only a preliminary one. But there are several individuals who are campaigning already and have to be taken seriously. There is Mary Wilder, for example, a veteran political and civic activist and longtime presence in the Evergreen Vollintine neighborhood, who has political credibility and name recognition from a previous race or two and from having served as an interim state Representative in state House District 89. Wilder was the beneficiary last Thursday of a wellattended fund-raiser at Annesdale Mansion, hosted by former state Senator Beverly Marrero (whose vacated House seat Wilder assumed temporarily in 2007), and

On the supposition that all of you reading this are sitting down, I can announce that, er, somewhat to my surprise, I was informed this week that yet another contestant — and an unexpected one, at that — is waiting in the wings with a definite hankering to enter the already crowded District 5 City Council race. Joe Cooper. Wow, that was noisy — all those chairs falling! Well, pick yourselves up, and I’ll say it again. Joe Cooper. “I don’t want anybody thinking this is a joke” said Cooper, on the telephone. And I can assure you, Cooper is no joke. Yes, Cooper has taken some hits — more than his share, maybe. He has two felony convictions, and there’s no hiding that. The first one, back in the 1970s, when he was a ubiquitous and influential member of the county court, is regarded in some quarters as having been payback for breaking ranks with a local Republican Party that was just beginning to feel its oats as a political force. The offense was technically a species of

waters, Cooper has survived some significant physical ailments in recent years, and he, unquestionably and in a very unique sense, bears the aura of a survivor. For all his derogators — and they are many — he has his defenders, also numerous, although many of them, perhaps most, may be loath about boasting the fact publicly. Cooper is what he is. He can make the case that he’s learned the hard way about staying on the beaten path, and it’s a path that he knows something about. He isn’t likely to win, but, in the crowded field that the District 5 race is becoming, who knows? He can at least hope to make a runoff (permitted in district races, though not for at-large positions).

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Shaffer can count on serious backing from organized labor, but his support does not end there. In past races for a council superdistrict, he has enjoyed good across-theboard support from Democratic political figures of note, and he could well get a lion’s share of them this time, too. As other political observers have noted, the District 5 picture could be complicated by the recently much-rumored prospect of a retirement from the Council by Super District 9 member Shea Flinn, to assume executive duties with the Greater Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce. If that should come to pass, several of the names mentioned here, along with various others, could well end up on the ballot as potential successors to Flinn. In any case, the District 5 field indicated here is likely to experience both pluses and minuses, and several other potential candidates have floated preliminary trial balloons. (Candidates omitted in this list should fear not; as indicated, we’ve got time, and they shall get their due.) One of those who talked about making a District 5 race early on but who has been dormant of late is Mike Ritz, the former two-term county commissioner from Germantown who, as commission chairman, played a major role in important stages of the school merger/de-merger controversy. On the eve of a move into Memphis last year, Ritz, a sometime businessman-banker with a long-term pedigree in both city and county governmental affairs, discussed his desire to seek the District 5 seat in the event that Strickland, as expected, chose to vacate it for a mayoral run. Ritz has, however, decided against a council race. The reason? “I couldn’t find much interest out there — not only for my race but for anybody’s race.”

poses resource — “the world’s greatest concierge” — as he called himself. Do you need an autographed picture of President Chester A. Arthur by 2 p.m. tomorrow? Cooper is your best bet to get it. And much else. In 2008, he got nailed again for selling Cadillacs to drug dealers, who paid cash for contracts that bore other people’s names — money laundering. While Cooper ended up doing more time, his punishment was mitigated by his subsequent assistance to the FBI in making bribery cases against local officials, and his cooperation netted him a sentence of only six months on the money laundering charges. Besides treading these dangerous legal

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mail fraud, in which Cooper, clearly hard up for cash, arranged some personal loans for himself in the name of friends, many of them influential government players. Irregular, to be sure, and he (but not they) got nailed for it by an unsympathetic D.A.’s office. Cooper did some time, and for several years afterward divided his time between attempts at reestablishing a political career and several business start-ups, none of which endured for very long. He remained knowledgeable about government, however, and served in other people’s campaigns and offices and as a man-to-see about working the system and as an all-pur-

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It has only been a few weeks since the speaker of the House of Representatives, without seeking the concurrence of the president of the United States or even bothering to consult him, chose to invite the head of state of another nation to address a joint session of the Congress. And it was on a matter, moreover, which was even then the subject of delicate negotiations between this country and a potential adversary, Iran. As expected, that leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, had a view of the issue that was diametrically opposed to that of President Obama. No problem on that point: People and nations differ. The timing, however — just as negotiations with Iran were reaching the crucial point and (no accident, either) just before Netanyahu faced an election back home — was atrocious. And the issue — the very sensitive one of a deal with Iran to restrain that country’s ability to make a nuclear weapon — was no small matter. Neither was the matter of this country’s constitutional checks and balances, which Speaker John Boehner’s partisan power move, at the very least, put in jeopardy. Steve Cohen, the 9th District congressman who happens to represent Memphis, more or less said all the above back then, and we were happy to quote his words editorially, deferring to him as a Jewish American, a lifelong supporter of Israel, and a patriot. Putting all the breaches with tradition and good sense aside, the fact is that Netanyahu spoke well and forcefully in his address, the point of which was to condemn the proposed agreement with Iran as a “bad deal,” which, in his view, made it worse than no deal at all. But there was something terribly wrong with his logic, as there is, to an

even worse degree, with a follow-up letter by 47 Republican senators to the reigning Ayatollah of Iran instructing him, in essence, to disregard the proposed deal — to reject it, rather, on grounds that the Republican Congress had the power to strike the deal dead by not ratifying it and would almost certainly do so. Now this effort to scuttle a pending treaty, to further hobble the elected chief executive, and to nullify, not just weaken, the checks and balances of our political system, is not only egregious, it is patently in violation of the Constitution, both in letter and in spirit. It is in fact, borderline treasonous. Once again, though, leaving that aside, it ignores the fundamental point of view, as did Netanyahu, that the five other nations participating in negotiations with Iran — Britain, France, Russia, China, and Germany — have made it clear they will not join the United States if it should follow Netanyahu’s advice and jettison the pending deal. They, in fact, are likely to forgo the existing multi-national sanctions they have adopted in deference to the U.S. position and to resume trade with Iran, leaving the United States out of the loop and Iran home free to do as it chooses with its nuclear program. That’s what’s wrong with Mr. Netanyahu’s logic and with that of the GOP barn-burners in Congress. And, along with a trampling of the Constitution, that’s the bottom line of what “no deal” actually means. Iran wins outright.

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Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million people, many from Republican states that refused to start exchanges, will be at risk of price hikes that could eventually torpedo the entire law. But cajoling 13 Democrats in the Senate to override a veto seems far from likely. So does refusing to extend subsidies, because millions of those possibly affected are from red states Republicans represent or blue ones they want to keep or win. The 56th vote in the House to repeal the ACA saw three new GOP defections, from Republicans in swing districts. States potentially affected by the King v. Burwell decision include 2016 battlegrounds like Florida, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. There are Republican senators running for reelection two years from now in all five. Five years after passage, ObamaCare is a paradox. It’s deeply unpopular — but just not enough to destroy it. A. B. Stoddard is a columnist and editor at The Hill newspaper, where this column first appeared.

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For Republicans, it sure was fun while their hopes lasted, but many have concluded the Supreme Court might not be able to kill off the Affordable Care Act (ACA) after all. When the high court rules this spring in King v. Burwell, even a decision that would invalidate subsidies to cover health insurance in 37 states where the federal government operates exchanges may not necessarily spell doom for those subsidies or the system at all. Republicans are already anticipating President Obama’s response would be an executive order directing federal marketplaces to immediately belong to those states or a bill asking Congress to do the same, or at least to extend the subsidies in some form. Somewhere between 5 million and 7 million people, many from Republican states that refused to start exchanges, will be at risk of price hikes that could eventually torpedo the entire law. The GOP is scrambling for an appropriate response as a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows, in the case of a ruling against the law, that 64 percent of Americans want Congress to extend subsidies in affected states — including 40 percent of Republican respondents. Over time, ObamaCare has morphed into a zombie Republicans cannot extinguish. First, there were the angry town halls in August of 2009, but then the bill passed in March of 2010. There was a historic, nationwide victory for Republicans in the midterm elections of 2010, resulting largely from antipathy toward ObamaCare. Then, to conservatives’ horror, in June 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that the taxes in the ACA were constitutional, with the deciding vote of Chief Justice John Roberts. Then, when there was hope of electing a GOP president to repeal the law, the party nominated someone who had created the very model for the law in Massachusetts and wouldn’t denounce it, and Obama was reelected in 2012. Now, Republicans have expanded their majority in the House, taken control of the Senate for the first time in eight years, and the law faces a high court review that could obliterate its very structure. The Affordable Care Act’s approval, at 40-46 positive/ negative, stinks. Yet the law, no matter the ruling in June, not only could

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Inside a kindergarten classroom at Cornerstone Preparatory School in Binghampton, a little boy is seated at his desk, working diligently on an iPad. A handful of other kids are also working on iPads, while others are gluing paper cutouts of numbers to a worksheet. Cornerstone’s Principal Lisa Settle, who is visiting the classroom, approaches the boy with the iPad and asks him to open his word games app. The boy eagerly opens the app, excited to show his principal what he can do. The screen displays a cartoon image of a tin can and an image of a piece of wide-ruled notebook paper where he’s supposed to use his finger to spell out what he’s looking at. “Do you know what that is?” Settle asks. “It’s a can!” he says, as he begins to spell out the letters C-A-N with his tiny index finger. He spells the word correctly, but the app doesn’t accept his answer. “It doesn’t like that ‘a,’ does it?” says 16 Settle, taking the iPad and writing a perfect lowercase “a” with her finger. She hands

it back to the boy and says, “You need to make sure you make your letters neat, okay? Good job. Keep going.” Settle and her staff’s emphasis on perfection have helped the failing school make some headway. Since the 2012-13 Cornerstone Prep Principal Lisa Settle

school year, charter school Cornerstone Prep has operated the school under the state’s Achievement School District (ASD), the state’s answer to improving schools with scores that fall in the bottom five percent statewide. Schools operated by the ASD are ASD Superintendent Chris Barbic

removed from the local school district and taken over by charter school operators. Before Cornerstone took over, the school was a Shelby County School (SCS) known as Lester School. In 2011, before the state takeover, only 10.5 percent of Lester’s students were proficient in math, 7.9 percent in reading and language arts, and 12.8 percent in science. Cornerstone has since made modest gains. “When we came into the building, most of our third graders were below pre-K [level]. We had a lot of students with undiagnosed needs, and that’s heartbreaking,” Settle said. “We had to go back and do a lot of back-filling and teach a lot of foundational skills. We still have a lot more work to do.” “We still have a lot more work to do” could probably be the motto for the ASD. It could also be the tagline for SCS’ Innovation Zone (iZone), the countyrun alternative for dealing with priority schools. Since the 2012-13 school year, both have made gains overall, but some schools were so behind that it’ll take a few

ASD: How It Works When SCS merged with Memphis City Schools (MCS), it inherited a long list of failing schools, most of which are in low-income, inner-city neighborhoods. “It’s not all about money. There are poor children who do well in school, but many of these children have some type of dysfunctional family structure. It could be related to unemployment, imprisonment, or having a parent on drugs,” said SCS Board Chairwoman Teresa Jones. “We’re trying to educate those children, and we don’t have parental involvement.” To deal with the issue of failing schools, the ASD was created in 2010 as part of Tennessee’s Race to the Top grant. The state gave the ASD charter authorizing authority, meaning the ASD can match failing schools that once belonged under control of the local school district with charter operators from across the country. Currently, the ASD operates 22 schools in the state, but they’ll have 28 in the 2015-16 school year. Six of those new schools are in Shelby County — SCS schools Denver, Brookmeade, and FloridaKansas elementary schools and Airways and Wooddale middle schools, and a new charter school operated by KIPP Memphis. The ASD only runs one school in Nashville now, and it’s taking over one more there next school year. “If you look at where the bottom five-percent schools are statewide, they’re clustered in four places — Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville. And there are a small handful of rural schools,” said ASD Superintendent Chris Barbic. “We’re only three years old in terms of running schools, so we wanted to start where there was the biggest need. That was in Memphis, and we’ve added some in Nashville. We want to get those sites working well before we look at adding additional parts of the state.” Here’s how it works: “Every three years, the [Tennessee] Department of Education runs a list of priority schools. They give us the list and say, ‘This is the list of schools we’re expecting you to improve,’” Barbic said. “Any school on that list could come into the ASD.” The bottom five percent of the state currently represents 85 schools, 69 of which are in Shelby County. So Barbic says they look at a few criteria to determine which schools to take over each year. “We look at things like recent growth — how many more kids were proficient in reading, math, and science this past year than the previous year? And we look

at whether or not the school is on the list for the first time or if it was on the list the previous time it was run,” Barbic said, citing that priority is given to those schools that are on the list more than once. A short list of available schools is given to the ASD’s charter schools, and a volunteer group known as the Achievement Advisory Council weighs in. “We get input from communities and families on the short list, and we give charter operators opportunities to have large or small group meetings with folks in the school communities, so they can get to know the charter operators and what they provide,” Barbic said. Once the charters are matched with schools, all faculty from the former county school are laid off, but they’re invited to apply with the charter operator. There’s no one model for how an ASD school is run since they’re all run by independent charter operators. Some schools, like Cornerstone, have two teachers per classroom and apply a blended learning model, meaning kids work at their own pace. At Cornerstone, each child has an iPad set up with lessons appropriate for their current skill level. By law, the ASD has 10 years to turn a school around, but Barbic says the ASD’s goal is to move those bottom five percent schools to the top 25 percent in five years. “We look at the charters in threeyear increments to make sure they’re tracking toward what we want to see,” Barbic said. “At the end of the 10 years, the charter comes up for renewal, and then we move the schools back into local control. The intent was never for the state to run these schools forever.” iZone: How It Works A first grade teacher at Cherokee Elementary, an iZone school in Orange Mound, is quizzing her students on vowel sounds. She calls one boy to the front of the class and asks him to read aloud a question that’s projected onto a white board. Below the question are a set of four multiple choice answers. “I need a collegiate voice,” the teacher instructs the boy before he speaks. “Which word has the same vowel

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sound as cook?” the boy reads. Only one of the choices rhymes with cook, and the class of 10 or so students all know the answer. They enthusiastically shout: “shook!” Something the teacher and her colleagues are doing has worked, because Cherokee shot up to 26.7 percent proficiency in reading in the past three years since the iZone took over. In 2011, before the takeover, only 11 percent of its students were proficient in reading. The same thing has happened with math scores — up to 43.8 percent in 2014 versus 16.5 percent in 2011. “When we first brought the staff in, the way we framed it was, in 2011, only 16 percent of the children at Cherokee were proficient [in math], which is almost like saying that 84 percent of the patients who went to this doctor died. That really paints a picture of how students were dying at Cherokee academically,” said Cherokee Principal Rodney Rowan, who was hired when the iZone took over the school in the 2012-13 school year. The science gains are even more impressive — 41.9 percent proficient in 2014 versus 7 percent proficient in 2011. “I was not at Cherokee in 2011, but I’m convinced they didn’t open a science book. We’re talking about 93 percent of the children failed a TCAP test in science,” Rowan said. Shortly after the creation of the ASD, the state allowed SCS to create its own method for dealing with priority schools. Each year, the ASD gets first pick of the failing schools it wants to takeover, and then SCS can pick a few to run through its iZone model. Like the ASD, the iZone also began operation in the 2012-13 school year. There are 17 iZone schools. “Our iZone is our district’s version of the ASD,” said SCS Superintendent Dorsey Hopson. “In those schools, we give the principals the autonomy to select their staff and the curriculum design.” The way the school is run is primarily set by its principal rather than dictated by SCS’ central office. As with the ASD, faculty at schools chosen for the iZone are let go, but they’re invited to reapply. New principals are hired for those schools, and they are in charge of hiring teachers. Only teachers with Teacher Effectiveness Measure (TEM) scores (SCS’ system for evaluating teachers) of three, four, or five are eligible for jobs at iZone schools (TEM scores range from one to five, with one being the worst and five the best). Rowan retained only two of the former teachers from Cherokee. “If you’re interviewing someone for a teaching job, and they’re saying, ‘Well, the parents are blah, blah, blah,’ that’s not good,” Rowan said. “We know the parents aren’t as active as we would like them to be, but I say to my teachers that it may be a parent’s responsibility, but it’s your job.” Parents Just Don’t Understand At an SCS boarding meeting in

December, a number of parents and school faculty in the standing-roomonly board room held up hand-made signs calling for a moratorium on state school takeovers. During the public comment period, a woman named Hattie Woodard approached the podium, proudly displaying her “Moratorium Now” sign. “Let’s put a stop to it! These are our children. Let’s stop the ASD takeover!” she exclaimed as she addressed the SCS board. Since last fall, parents of SCS students and faculty have flooded the board meetings with cries against the ASD’s plan to take over six more county schools in the 2015-16 school year. One would think parents would be pleased that more attention is being paid to the district’s failing schools. But it’s not that simple. “I think some parents are hearing that their school is failing for the first time,” Barbic said. “That’s on us and SCS to do a better job getting that information out to families prior to the [charter] matching.” Hopson agrees: “I think we haven’t done a good job at all with community engagement because there are so many misconceptions about school data. People will show up [to an SCS board meeting] and say, ‘This is a great school. My kid is doing great.’ But when you go inside the numbers in most of the schools on the priority list, less than one in six kids is proficient in math and reading.” There’s also some misunderstanding about how the law works. The cries to the board for a moratorium are useless. “You say ‘Save our schools. Place a moratorium on [the ASD].’ If this board had the opportunity to do that, we would. But we are bound by certain legal obligations,” Jones told those gathered at that December board meeting. “The state tells us what we can and cannot do. Just because you elected us doesn’t mean we can do whatever you want us to do. It’s not about us not wanting to fight. Legally, we don’t have that option.” Jones said she doesn’t have a problem with charter schools, but she does feel like the state takeovers create more chaos for students already affected by the shake-up of the SCS/MCS merger. “It seems like, for the first time in [a couple years], the suburbs are finally calming down [since they’ve created their own districts]. But we’re still in flux,” Jones said. “Every year, we’re still trying to figure out how many schools we’ll have and who is being educated where. Children need stability.”

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more years to see real improvement. As both districts work to improve the schools they’ve taken over, another 23 SCS schools that have not been taken over by the state or the iZone remain on the state priority list, meaning they fall in the bottom five percent statewide. Those schools are eligible for takeover by the state or the iZone in the future, a prospect that has some parents and faculty fighting mad.

ASD vs. iZone: The Scores Another reason for the anger may lie with the ASD’s performance thus far. Although the ASD is making gains as a whole, the iZone schools are outperforming the ASD. “The iZone had 13 schools before last year, and 7 of those 13 were on track to go from the bottom five percent to the top 25 percent in the state,” Hopson said. 17 continued on page 18

continued from page 17 According to SCS’ statistics, iZone schools made 28.8 percent gains in math, 21.6 percent gains in reading, and 41.2 percent gains in science in 2014. Compare that with ASD’s 21.8 percent gains in math, 17 percent gains in reading, and 24.6 percent gains in science in 2014. Barbic believes it’s a little too early to judge the overall ASD scores since some schools have only been in state control for a year. But he says the ASD schools they’ve been running for two years are showing growth. “Last year, we had 17 schools, but only six of them were in their second year. We’re really encouraged by the progress those [second year] schools are making. Those schools were making 11-point gains in just two years time,” Barbic said. At a recent meeting at South Side Middle, an SCS priority school that may merge into iZone school Riverview Middle next school year pending board approval, one parent suggested that all SCS schools be run as iZone schools. But the state funding allotted for iZone simply won’t cover that, Griffin said. “You pay more to go to the orthodontist than you do the regular dentist,” she said. State Representative Antonio Parkinson believes it’s up to the state to pour more funding into the iZone. “The performance of iZone schools has outpaced the performance of ASD schools, so that begs the question from the

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state level as to why we’re not shifting more resources into the iZone model versus that of any other model,” Parkinson said. But Barbic believes that turning schools around should be a multipronged approach. “It shouldn’t be left up to the district alone because, if we followed that logic, they would have already turned these schools around [before the creation of the ASD], and we wouldn’t be having this conversation in the first place,” Barbic said. “But there still needs to be a place for the district to have some skin in the game for solving this problem on their own. In Memphis, where you’ve got a large portion of these [priority] schools, we could have never taken them all on ourselves. By working together, we can spread capacity across more schools than we can by fighting with each other.” The Future of Priority Schools Not everyone agrees with Barbic’s attitude of “working together.” State Representative Bo Mitchell of Nashville has filed a bill to abolish the ASD at the end of the 2015-16 school year. The bill would give control of the schools the ASD has already taken over back to their local districts. Representative Raumesh Akbari of Memphis has filed a bill that would stop the ASD-approved practice that allows some charter operators to phase

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a school in grade by grade. For example, Cornerstone is phasing in Lester School — the first year, it only ran pre-kindergarten through the third grade, while SCS ran the rest of the grades. In the second year, Cornerstone added grades four through six, and next year, it’ll have grades six through eight. “With phasing in, you’re not considering the [older] students at the school who led to the school being placed on the priority list to begin with,” Akbari said. “It’s almost like you’re turning around a building rather than a school. If this bill passes, charter operators will have to take an entire school.” Akbari is also sponsoring a piece of legislation that would rank schools on the priority list from poorest-performing to highest-performing and would require the ASD to work from the bottom up. In the past, the ASD has been accused of cherrypicking schools that have higher scores. That was the case with SCS’ RaleighEgypt High School, which was already making gains from the year prior when it made ASD’s short list last year. After pushback from the community, however, the charter school set to match with RaleighEgypt pulled out. It will remain an SCS school next year. Last week, State Representative Mike Stewart of Nashville called on Governor Bill Haslam to conduct a review of the ASD following the release of a Department of Education audit that found some issues

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with mismanagement of federal grant funds and other financial irregularities by the ASD. The issues involved the ASD inappropriately charging a grant program for expenditures incurred before the grant award was effective and failing to properly review invoices paid to charters in the 2012-13 school year. But ASD General Counsel and COO Rich Haglund said the findings have been addressed, and charter schools have been asked to pay back the state about $66,000. “[The findings] were not allegations of illegal activity. They’re just findings of [how we need to be] tightening practices,” Haglund said. With so much legislation on the table relating to the ASD, coupled with the intense pushback from SCS parents and faculty over the state takeover announcements last fall, Hopson said SCS is ramping up its efforts to improve the priority schools not under ASD or iZone control. “We’ve decided to hire more reading and math personnel to give those schools in the bottom five percent some additional support,” Hopson said. “And I envision having an authentic discussion with the community about the state of the schools. There’s a disconnect between the performance of these schools and the perception of these schools, and it’s incumbent on the district to make it better.”

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Last Thursday, Joel Parsons was going through the 70 or so entries for the annual “Best of Memphis” show at the University of Memphis’ student-run Box Gallery. The show is open to all area college students taking art classes. Represented at this year’s show are Christian Brothers University, Rhodes College, Memphis College of Art, and the University of Memphis. “It’s a really good mix of photos, paintings, and sculpture,” says Parsons. He was at the moment pondering certain groupings. He was intrigued by how artists were treating the head, everything from the selfie to portraits. Landscapes were up for consideration as well. Another was the abstraction of the body — broken or made strange. Parsons, who is the gallery director of Rhodes’ Clough-Hanson Gallery, serves as the third juror of “Best of Memphis.” The first was David Lusk of David Lusk Gallery and the second artist Tad Lauritzen Wright. Caitlin Hettich, of Box Gallery, says that the jurors are selected by committee, and they aim to get someone who has the time, an interesting aesthetic, and who can draw people to the gallery. She says the Lusk show was more inclusive, while Lauritzen Wright picked works that fit more into his own aesthetic. Some of the works in the past shows Hettich found amazing, some not so much. Is it the best of Memphis? That’s in the eye of beholder, and “That’s the beauty of it,” says Hettich. “BEST OF MEMPHIS” AT BOX GALLERY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS. OPENING RECEPTION FRIDAY, MARCH 20TH, FROM 5 TO 7 P.M.

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Local Hutchinson School (1740 Ridgeway), 7 p.m., $10 A collaboration between Company d, a company of dancers with Down syndrome, and members of Ballet Memphis, Project Motion, and Collage. The production is described as “dancing through time … places in Memphis.”

“Last Light” David Lusk Gallery, 6-8 p.m. Opening reception for an exhibition of abstract sky paintings by Veda Reed.

King Hedley II Hattiloo Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $14-$24 Part of August Wilson’s “living time-line” plays, about a scarred exconvict fighting societal limitations.

A review of Lester Merriweather’s “Nothing Is For Ever Last” at the Dixon. Art, p. 31

Spring Fling Agricenter International, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. A garden show and expo presented by Memphis Area Master Gardeners and featuring seminars, a plant sale, hands-on instruction, cooking demos, and more.

SATURDAY March 21 Charlie Wilson FedExForum, 7 p.m., $50-$120 R&B artist Charlie Wilson brings his Forever Charlie tour to Memphis tonight. Special guests include Kem and Joe. The Color Purple The Orpheum, 8 p.m., $42.50-$49.50 Musical based on Alice Walker’s novel and starring Jennifer Holliday.

Red Shoe Gala Columns, 6 p.m. $150 Annual gala benefiting the Ronald McDonald House of Memphis. The event includes a fashion show from the shops of Laurelwood Shopping Center, and guests are encouraged to wear red shoes. Cosmic Trunk Show Metal Museum of Memphis, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Artisan market featuring the works of Virginia Fisher, Helen Russell, Theresa May Childress, and Don and Louise Coulson. The open bar features cosmos and the Stickem food truck will be there.

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B y E i l e e n To w n s e n d Some advice from frontwoman Leah Wellbaum of Brooklyn-based band Slothrust delivered in the song “Crockpot”: “Don’t shake hands with the lonely kids, ’cause I hear that shit’s contagious.” The lonely kids, contagious or not, will be in high form this coming Monday at the Lamplighter Lounge. Julien Baker, known around town for heading the band formerly known as the Star Killers (recently renamed Forrister), will play a set from her recent solo project — heartbreaking send-offs about lost love and stalled feelings; music for driving alone without knowing your destination. Also on hand will be Small Fires, an indie-emo-inspired acoustic project led by Ryan Azada (also of DADS) that sometimes includes Baker. Slothrust’s set (that is Sloth-rust) will emotionally graduate from longing into careworn apathy. Impose Magazine, in a review of the band’s most recent album, wrote: “Combining Leah Wellbaum’s slurring malaise with her punchy, postgrunge guitar, everything about Slothrust’s sound feels both earnest and cathartic, like a heart that pumps raw after a winter run.” Slothrust — a three-piece that also includes bassist Kyle Bann and drummer Will Gorin — is technically tight as hell, with lyrics to match. Local Goner act Toxie will round out the evening in their underwhelmed, post-riotgrrrl style. Toxie, fronted by Alexandra Burden, smokes a cigarette, asks you to dance, and refuses to break eye contact. SLOTHRUST, JULIEN BAKER, SMALL FIRES, AND TOXIE AT THE LAMPLIGHTER MONDAY, MARCH 23RD, 9 P.M., $5 OR PAY WHAT YOU CAN 21+.

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Booksigning by Stacey Wiedower The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 6:30 p.m. Stacey Wiedower, a contributor to The Commercial Appeal, signs her novel 30 First Dates, about a woman determined to have 30 first dates before her 30th birthday.

Mojo of Midtown Awards Circuit Playhouse, 6 p.m., $40 (cash or check only) An awards ceremony honoring people, events, and organizations that have changed Midtown for the better. Included on the list are the Levitt Shell, the CooperYoung Festival, and the Citizens to Preserve Overton Park.

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March 19-25, 2015

hile Memphis musicians are gearing up to head down to South By Southwest this week, local venues like the Hi-Tone are already experiencing the surge of shows that come along with the more than 2,300 bands traveling to the festival in Austin, Texas. “I start getting emails in December from bands that are trying to come through Memphis on their way to South By Southwest,” said Hi-Tone owner Skinny McCabe. “On our calendar for March, 29 of the 30 dates are booked, mostly by bands traveling to the festival.” McCabe said that Memphis probably gets more South By Southwest traffic than other cities because of its location. “Being off of I-40, Memphis is an attractive place for bands to stop and play music, and us having two rooms to do shows has really helped some of the smaller bands still have a good show.” With so many bands coming through town, the Hi-Tone can’t host everything (McCabe said he’s had to turn down around 100 bands wanting to play the venue in March after filling his schedule), and local venues like Murphy’s and Bar DKDC in addition to house venues like Carcosa have also hosted bands making the annual trip down to Austin. So if all of these great groups are coming through Memphis, why even bother going down to Austin? Two words: unofficial showcase. Sure you can purchase the $895 wristband when you get to Austin, but be prepared to stand in line for a very, very long time. That experience will get you ready for the rest of the official side of SXSW, a freak show complete with never-ending lines, not enough port-a-johns and enough drunk college students to rival an MTV Spring Break party. Any show that has “official showcase” listed next to it means that without a wristband, you’re probably not getting in. “Unofficial showcase” means get there early, and it will probably be free. While I’m not sure which rebellious soul held the first ever unofficial showcase, it didn’t take long for Austin business owners to figure out that they could get in on some of the action that mostly takes place downtown. Every single place with electricity in Austin

now hosts unofficial showcases, and you pretty much can’t do anything without hearing some form of music. Think that coffee shop is going to be a quiet place to start your day at South By Southwest? They’ve got bands booked ’til midnight. That barbecue food truck you’ve been meaning to check out? They’ve got 15 bands playing there too. This is what South By Southwest has become, a nearly 24-hour concert held all over Austin. Goner Records has hosted an unofficial showcase for more than five years at Beerland, a venue in the heart of downtown Austin and directly in the chaos of South By Southwest. In addition to using the festival as a way to check out new bands for the annual Goner Festival, Goner Records publicist Madison Farmer said they also use their showcase to expose the label to new listeners. “We like to see a band live before we invite them to play Goner Fest, and South By Southwest provides a great chance for us to do that,” Famer said. “Because we have the Friday night slot, we end up drawing a lot of people into Beerland who may not have seen any of our bands before, and that’s exciting especially for the bands who are only playing one show.” Farmer said that Goner Records plans to keep their annual showcase unofficial: “We’ve been working with Beerland for as long as I’ve been at this label, mostly because they approach South By Southwest the way we do. They don’t plan on working with the official side of the festival and neither do we.” Some of the Memphis artists playing South By Southwest this year: Luther Dickinson at SXSW: Thursday, March 19th at Threadgills, 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 20th at Continental Club, 12:40 a.m. Friday, March 20th at Auditorium Shores, 7 p.m.

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The Memphis Dawls at SXSW: Thursday, March 19th at the St. Vinny Freebirds stage, 2:15 p.m. Thursday, March 19th at Lamberts, 11 p.m. Amy LaVere at SXSW: Tuesday, March 17th at Ginny’s Little Longhorn, 10 p.m. Wednesday, March 18th at Goorin Brothers Hatshop, 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 19th at the Broken Spoke Twangfest, 1 p.m. Thursday, March 19th at Threadgills, 6:30 p.m. Friday, March, 20th at the Continental Club New West Showcase, midnight Friday, March 20th at One 2 One’s Memphis Showcase, 11 p.m. Saturday, March 21st at The Roost, 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. Mark Edgar Stuart at SXSW: Thursday, March, 19th at Lamberts, 7:25 p.m. Friday, March 20th at St. Vincent DePaul, noon Saturday, March 21st at St. Vincent DePaul, noon Nots at SXSW: Thursday, March 19th at the Yellow Jacket Social Club Brixton Party, 4 p.m. Thursday, March 19th at the Casa de Reyna She Shreds Party, 5:10 p.m. Friday, March 20th at the Beerland Goner Party, 1 a.m. Saturday, March 21st at the Hotel Vegas Burgermania Party, 2:45 p.m. Saturday, March 21st at the Third Man Records Rolling Record Store Party, 5:30 p.m. Goner Records Friday night showcase at Beerland: Friday, March 20th at Beerland, 7 p.m. $10. 8:30 p.m. - James Arthur’s Manhunt 9:15 p.m. - Spray Paint 10 p.m. - Aquarian Blood (only Austin show) 10:45 p.m. - Lake City Tigers 11:30 p.m. - Manateees 12:15 a.m. - Giorgio Murderer (only Austin show) 1 a.m. - NOTS

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Alfred’s 197 BEALE - 525-3711

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.1 a.m., Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., and TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Jim Wilson Fridays, Saturdays, 69 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

King Beez Thursday, March 19, 7 p.m. and Tuesdays, 8 p.m.; B.B. King All Stars Thursday, March 19, 9:30 p.m., Mondays, 8 p.m.; The Will Tucker Band Friday-Saturday, March 20-21, 5 p.m.; The Ori Naftaly Band Friday, March 20, 10 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. and Sundays, noon; Blind Mississippi Morris Sunday, March 22, 4:30 p.m. and Tuesday, March 24, 5 p.m.; Preston Shannon Sundays, 7:30 p.m. and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; Memphis Jones Monday, March 23, 5 p.m. and Wednesdays, 5 p.m.

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

Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar 159 BEALE

Chris Gales noon-8 p.m.; Karaoke ongoing, 8:30 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 Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Wednesday, March 25, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe’s Tap Room 168 BEALE - 576-2220

Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mississippi Big Foot Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Delta Project Saturday, March 21, 8 p.m.midnight; Sonny Mack and the Mack 2 Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight;

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

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

Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Friday, March 20, 7-11 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

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Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Patrick Dodd Band Friday-Saturday, March 20-21, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Monday-Tuesday, March 23-24, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall 182 BEALE - 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmaster Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; McDaniel Band Friday-Saturday, March 20-21, 8 p.m.-midnight, Tuesdays-Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

901 Blues Band Sunday, March 22, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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Rhythm Hounds Friday, March 20; One Word, Surreel Saturday, March 21; Open Mic Mondays; Blues Jam Tuesdays; Jobu Wednesday, March 25.

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WAND LIVE AT THE HI-TONE Los Angeles psych band Wand play the Hi-Tone next Monday, their first time back at the venue since opening for the Ty Segall Band last fall. Wand come from the same school of psychedelic rock as California bands Thee Oh Sees and White Fence, representing the softer side of sun-bleached rockand-roll. Front man Cory Hanson also played in the Meatbodies and Together Pangea, two other prominent garage rock bands from southern California. While those two bands can easily be pinned to a genre, Wand’s music takes a little bit longer to digest. On the band’s debut album Ganglion Reef, Hanson and company focused heavily on guitar tone, running their riffs through multiple synthesizers and effect pedals to create the spaced out, Frippertronics-influenced songs. Ganglion Reef goes pretty deep into the nerd zone with its references, with song titles like “Generator Larping” and the cover image essentially being fan art for the video game Final Fantasy VI. After touring for much of 2014, Wand found time to record their second full-length record Golem, and the album will be released while the band is on this month-long tour. Touring with Wand is New Orleans party rockers Babes, a band that is pretty much impossible to search for on the internet. Babes has a record on New Orleans label Pizza Burglar Records, and they’ve already developed a following in Memphis after stopping through town on several occasions. While they don’t have any songs about larping, Babes do have catchy garage rock hits like “We are the Babes” and “My Poor Friends Suck,” and they shouldn’t be missed. Locals Aquarian Blood open the show. — Chris Shaw Wand, Babes, and Aquarian Blood in the Hi-Tone Small Room, Monday March 23rd at 9 p.m. $8

Dan Johanning Saturday, March 21; Doghouse Swine Sunday, March 22; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.; Jason James and Gun Safe Wednesday, March 25.

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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.

The Cove 2559 BROAD - 730-0719

Jazz with Jeremy & Ed Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Royal Blues Band Friday, March 20, 10 p.m.; Bluff City Backsliders Saturday, March 21, 10 p.m.; Open Jam Sundays, 6 p.m.; Justin White Monday, March 23, 6 p.m.; Open Mic with Justin White Mondays, 6-10 p.m.; Juke Joint Blues Jam Tuesday, March 24, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Hawthorne Heights with Courage My Love, Mark Rose, Shane Henderson and Dayseeker Thursday, March 19, 9 p.m.; In the small room: the Mobros Friday, March 20, 10-11:45 p.m.; Nate Hall (USX) with Dangerous Idiots Saturday, March 21, 9 p.m.; Hotel Books with Pillow Talk and Yet Sunday, March 22, 9-11:45 p.m.; In the small room: the Jag with Faux Killas Sunday, March 22, 9-11:45 p.m.; Wand, Babes, Aquarian Blood Monday, March 23, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; In the small room: Laser Background with Unisex and the Lagoonas Tuesday, March 24, 9-11:45 p.m.; DAIKAIJU with Moon Tooth Tuesday, March 24, 911:45 p.m.; Rabid Villain with La Pistola and the Devils Right Hand Wednesday, March 25, 9-11:45 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON - 726-4372

The Chaulkies Sunday, March 22, 4-7 p.m.; The Ori Naftaly Band Sunday, March 22, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Java Cabana 2170 YOUNG - 272-7210

Hanna Star amd the Teenage Teenagers Sundays, 1:303 p.m.; Music with Matt Harlan Tuesday, March 24, 7:30-9 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON - 207-5097

Young Petty Thieves Thursday, March 19, 6-8 p.m.; Cody Canada and the Departed Thursday, March 19, 9-11 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby every other Friday, 6:308:30 p.m.; Devil Train Friday, March 20, 10 p.m.-midnight; Den of Strings Saturday, March 21, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Chris Johnson & Landon Moore every other Saturday, 6:308:30 p.m.; The Broadcast Saturday, March 21, 10 p.m.midnight; RiverBluff Clan Every other Sunday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; The Settlers Sunday,

Lamplighter Lounge 1702 MADISON - 726-9916

Toxie, Slothrust, and Julien Baker Monday, March 23, 9 p.m.

Lindenwood Christian Church 2400 UNION - 458-8506

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

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Alabama Shakes, Promised Land Sound Friday, March 20, 9 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON - 726-4193

Rough Hearts with Super Witch, Strengths Friday, March 20; Mars and the Massacre Saturday, March 21; Cheapwine Records Show featuring Sold Under Sin, Slate Dump, and Sleepy Eyes Nelson Monday, March 23; Birthday Candles Wednesday, March 25.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER - 278-4994

Alexis Grace, Kris Acklen, and Michael Joyner Friday, March 20, 8-11 p.m.; Dan Montgomery’s Storytime Hour, Lynn Drury Saturday, March 21, 8-11 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON - 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER - 338-5223

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

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Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

March 22, 4-6 p.m.; Cabinet Sunday, March 22, 7:309:30 p.m.; New Memphis Hepcats with Jeremy Shrader Monday, March 23, 7-9 p.m.; The Memphis Dawls Wednesday, March 25, 7-9 p.m.

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Young Avenue Deli

Memphis Pink Palace Museum

2119 YOUNG - 278-0034

3050 CENTRAL - 636-2362

Deep Fried 5 Saturday, March 21, 10 p.m.

2586 POPLAR

The Pistol and the Queen Thursday, March 19, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Big City Circus with special guest Tori Tollison- Fluff on the Bluff 2 Friday, March 20, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Strano Sicilian Kitchen 948 S. COOPER - 552-7122

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

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE - 207-3975

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

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

Metropolitan Baptist Church 767 WALKER - 946-4095

University of Memphis

The Dillard University Concert Choir: Spring Tour 2015 Thursday, March 19, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Juicy Jim’s Pizzeria

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe

551 S. HIGHLAND - 435-6243

L.G.B.T. Sunset Sundays Sundays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; “Toke Up Tuesdays” Open Mic & Hookah Nite Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Wet Wednesdays Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

663 S. HIGHLAND - 729-6960

Live DJ Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND - 323-0900

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

University of Memphis Harris Concert Hall INSIDE THE RUDI E. SCHEIDT SCHOOL OF MUSIC - 678-5400

Faculty and Friends Chamber Music Sunday, March 22, 3 p.m.; Andrew Rummel Monday, March 23, 5:30 p.m.; University of Memphis Wind Ensemble Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 p.m.; James Gourlay and David Spencer Wednesday, March 25, 7:30 p.m.

East Memphis Booksellers Bistro THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINDS EXTD. - 374-0881

Michelle Bush Shrader Saturday, March 21.

Brookhaven Pub & Grill 695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE - 680-8118

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

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Los Lonely Boys Friday, March 20, 8-10 p.m.

Dan McGuinness Pub

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4698 SPOTTSWOOD - 761-3711

Open Mic Night with Frankie Hollie Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Acoustic with Charvey Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

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, 5-9:30 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.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR - 682-7729

Memphis All Stars Sunday, March 22, 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS - 761-9321

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

Second Presbyterian Church 4055 POPLAR - 454-0034

Lenten Concert: Memphis Children’s Choir and the Second Conservatory of Music Students Tuesday, March 24, 6:30 p.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY - 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

March 19-25, 2015

The Windjammer Restaurant 786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE - 683-9044

Karaoke ongoing.

Poplar/I-240 Neil’s Music Room 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.; Seeing Red Saturday, March 21, 9 p.m.; Sax on Sunday Jazz Series: Straight-Ahead and Mainstream Jazz fourth Sunday of every month, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Eddie Harrison and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

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

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Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

The Other Place Bar & Grill 4148 WALES - 373-0155

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

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.

Cordova

Germantown

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill

9102 POPLAR PIKE - 624-6001

847 EXOCET - 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Belmont Grill The County Liners Saturday, March 21, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Huey’s Cordova

Huey’s Southwind

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

7825 WINCHESTER - 624-8911

Terry and the Wallbangers Sunday, March 22, 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, March 22, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Grill 1686 MAIN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-470-6549

Live Music Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Fridays, Saturdays, Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

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

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

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1482 E. SHELBY DR. 922-8839

Laidback Mondays featuring Live Music and Karaoke Mondays, 7 p.m.

Club Superior

Lyric Theatre Big K.R.I.T. Wednesday, March 25, 9 p.m.

1542 ELVIS PRESLEY 569-3217

Main Street Pizza 1800 MAIN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-253-8451

Happy Hour with live DJ Thursdays, Mondays-Wednesdays, 4-6 p.m.

Gary Wayne and the Mainstreet Band Saturdays, 9 p.m.midnight.

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

Mesquite Chop House

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS - 662-890-2467

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

GOSSETT VOLKSWAGEN GERMANTOWN

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3663 APPLING - 385-6440

Bartlett Community Concert Band Saturday, March 21, 7 p.m.

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN - 266-5006

Twin Soul Duo Thursday, March 19, 8 p.m.-midnight; Almost Famous Friday, March 20, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Saturday, March 21, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Nuttin Fancy rocking Sunday FUNday Sunday, March 22; Justin from the Liberty Bowlers Wednesday, March 25, 8

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

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

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

Raleigh Mugs Pub

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

Huey’s Southaven

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

Hawaiian Isle Bar and Grill

Bartlett

The Beach Boys Saturday, March 21; In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing.

County Line Sunday, March 22, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Old School and Blues Fridays, 7 p.m.; Hottest Track Show with various artists Sundays, 6 p.m.

Live Music Thursdays, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Fridays, 9 p.m.; Reverend Edge Band Saturday, March 21, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

38664 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS - 800-357-5600

7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

1459 ELVIS PRESLEY 503-5544

6230 GREENLEE - 592-0344

LaLa Thursday, March 19, 8 p.m.; Charlie Burgin and the Southbound Train Friday, March 20, 9 p.m.; Heavy Suga and the SweeTones Saturday, March 21, 9 p.m.; Blues Gate Jamz Wednesday, March 25, 8 p.m. 1150 CASINO STRIP RESORT, TUNICA, MS - 662-357-7700

Whitehaven/ Airport

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland

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

RockHouse Live

Loose Goose Bar & Grill

Huey’s Germantown

Club Emotions 2.0

5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

8014 CLUB CENTER 343-0860

7677 FARMINGTON - 318-3034

143 BRICKHOUSE DR., SLAYDEN, MS 662-551-1522

Karaoke with Ricky Mac Thursdays, 8 p.m.; 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.; Robert Hull Saturday, March 21, 12-3 p.m. and Sunday, March 22, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Collierville Huey’s Collierville 2130 W. POPLAR - 854-4455

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, March 22, 8-11:30 p.m.

Charvey every fourth Friday; DJ Tree Saturdays.

T.J. Mulligan’s 64 2821 N. HOUSTON LEVEE 377-9997

Nick Garrison Thursday, March 19; Twin Soul FridaySaturday, March 20-21; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.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 at The Stack Thursdays-Fridays, Sundays, and Wednesdays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

The Dantones Sunday, March 22, 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.

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar 9087 POPLAR - 755-0092

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

DJ Ty Sundays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

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

Karaoke with Buddha Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Graham Road Band Saturday, March 21; Acoustic Show Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

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 ThursdaysSundays, Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

4396 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 372-3556

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

Precious Moments 2794 COLEMAN

Therapeutic Thursdays third Thursday of every month, 7 p.m.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA - 382-1576

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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Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER - 356-2324

p.m.-midnight; Justin Moore Unplugged Wednesday, March 25, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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reston Lauterbach called it “a revelation.” The former Memphis magazine staff writer and onetime contributor to the Memphis Flyer was referring to his research into the life of Robert Church Sr., a man who helped make Beale Street the Main Street of black America beginning in the late 19th century and for several decades to follow. Lauterbach, author of The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ’n’ Roll (2011), tells the story of Church (born to a white father and black mother) and of his son, Robert Church Jr., in the pages of his latest book, Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis (W.W. Norton), and it’s Beale Street — and the city of Memphis itself — as you probably never knew it or would hardly recognize it. There were saloons, gambling, music, and brothels on and around Beale, for sure. But the street was a commercial hub too and a center for black newspaper publishing, churchgoing, and political organizing. For many black Americans, it was, in short, “the place to be, the place to get to,” Lauterbach said in a recent phone interview. “It was Harlem 30 years before the Harlem Renaissance. It was vital to national culture.” It was also the key to political power in Memphis and beyond. “Mr. Crump wouldn’t have been able to build his machine without Beale,” Lauterbach said. “Beale won the state of Tennessee in the 1920 presidential election for the Republican Party! That blows me away.” As Beale Street Dynasty makes plain, the influence of African-American voters in Memphis — organized through the efforts of Church Sr. and Jr. and righthand man Lt. George W. Lee — was well recognized by black and white politicians alike, and it worked both ways. According to Lauterbach in his book, “Crump needed votes to get his candidates into office, and Church aimed to help his people.” Both Churches, father and son, did indeed help their people. It was no paradise for black Memphians, Lauterbach was quick

to add in our interview. This was still the period of Jim Crow and lynchings, which were reported on most notably by African-American journalist Ida B. Wells, who started her career on Beale, site of the city’s first black-owned printing press. But it was the black vote that set Memphis apart and made it, in Lauterbach’s words, “unlike virtually every other place in the South.” “We know Beale is a powerful place,” he said. “It has a reputation, a mystique. But who were the people behind it? We know about Ida B. Wells and W.C. Handy and the music. But what was the ‘backbone’ to Beale history? How do we put all this together?” Those were questions Lauterbach asked himself when he began looking into Beale Street’s long history. And Beale’s a long way from San Diego, where Lauterbach grew up. It’s his “outsider” status, however, that’s helped him in his 100-year history of Beale, from the Civil War to World War II. There have been previous histories, but none so deeply researched or definitive in the telling. “I didn’t go into this with an agenda,” Lauterbach said. “You know, Memphis has had its ass kicked in recent decades, we gotta make this look as good as possible for the rest of the world. And no, I don’t have a greatgrandfather who owned a cotton firm. But history is so heavy in Memphis that in certain respects it does take an outsider to see it.” Not quite such an outsider. Lauterbach lives today in Virginia with his wife, Elise (who grew up in Memphis), and their children, but he’s currently a visiting scholar at Rhodes College, so he and his family return to the city regularly. As he said, “We’re all still part-time citizens.” Thursday, March 19th, is the official launch date of Beale Street Dynasty, and to mark the occasion Lauterbach will be speaking inside Rhodes’ McCallum Ballroom of the Bryan Campus Life Center at 6 p.m., booksigning to follow. For more on Rhodes’ three-day “Beale Street Symposium,” see this week’s Flyer calendar or go to rhodes.edu/bealestreetsymposium.

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Rock the Boat “Nothing Is For Ever Last” at the Dixon.

Merriweather’s work untitled (commercial vessel)

of painters who were not half bad at painting seascapes. Maybe this implied “conversation” would have more going for it if there weren’t about 10 times more paintings in “Hail Britannia!” than are in “Nothing Is For Ever Last” or if Merriweather’s work pulled off the grandiosity it has in past exhibitions. Or maybe if the exhibition literature, which alludes to “statements” that Merriweather’s work makes about “urban” life in America (must we tiptoe so lightly?), had been braver. “Nothing Is For Ever Last” suggests a void in the conversation on race and wealth in America that it doesn’t attempt to fill. It left me wanting more. Through March 29th

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painting of a ship — The Resolution — capsizing in a storm. Merriweather collages a model’s arm into the waves, seamonster-style. This work is simple, but it stands out because it is so directly related to what’s across the hall in the Dixon; an exhibit called “Hail Britannia!” that features a lot of paintings of ships and the aristocrats who owned them. I imagine the point of putting exhibitions like “Hail Britannia!” and “Nothing Is For Ever Last” next to each other is to create what curators like to call “a conversation” between two different kinds of work. Merriweather’s work says: British colonialism spawned centuries of waste and human casualty and wrought havoc on the globe. “Hail Britannia!” says: The British Empire employed lots

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’m a fan of Lester Merriweather’s art. His intricate collages, built out of carefully arrayed clippings from luxury magazines, are both bleak and sumptuous. They looked great in 2013 at TOPS Gallery, as a part of his exhibition “Black House | White Market” and again in 2014 in his Crosstown Arts solo exhibition “Colossus.” Merriweather is also an active curator who currently heads the University of Memphis’ Fogelman Galleries. “Nothing Is For Ever Last,” Merriweather’s latest solo exhibition at the Dixon, is not his best. The work is similar, in both subject matter and approach, to that shown in previous exhibitions. Many of the works depict colonial-era ships on crested seas beneath mythologically bright blue skies. Others are gilded assemblages of luxury magazine ads, flowers, and jewels arranged ornamentally on matte canvases. The best work in the show, hydra, is a seascape composed of glossy female hair. A monster built from the nude arms of white models emerges from the hair-sea only to be flattened against a glitchy sky. In hydra, Merriweather recasts takenfor-granted images of (white) female beauty into something disorienting and unexpected. Merriweather’s works are best when they awe with scale and shininess. The work in “Nothing Is For Ever Last” feels undercooked compared to past exhibitions. Collages are mixed in with a variety of model ships. Merriweather replaces the ships’ sails with red and blue bandanas (crip ship and blood vessel) or else he dips them in plaster to ghostly effect (dipped ship). These pieces succeed more in the description than the execution; Many look shabby where they should gleam. Elsewhere, Merriweather replaces the hulls of ships with Louis Vuitton and Chanel Bags. untitled (commercial vessel) doesn’t need a title; it is all designer monograms, afloat in dark waters, its crew overboard and grasping from the depths. Hip-hop-influenced high fashion intersects Euro-colonialist imagery for an overarching comment on the violent legacy of global luxury trade. One of Merriweather’s smaller, untitled collages is built from the spread of a historical magazine. Page left is a description of the British Navy’s defense strategies. Page right is a romantic

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Circuit Playhouse

Assassins, a (shooting) gallery of American assassins who have attempted to kill American presidents including John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme. www. playhouseonthesqare.org. $22$35. Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs.Sat., 8 p.m. Through March 22. 51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

The Evergreen Theatre

A Dragnificent Fundraising Event for the Historic Evergreen Theatre, featuring sketch comedy, talk shows, game shows, musical productions, and campy performances. www. friendsofgeorges.org. $20. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m. Through March 21. 1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Germantown Community Theatre All My Sons, based on a true story and set just after World War II, the story of two partners accused of selling defective airplane parts causing the death of many men. Themes of justice, morality, and family. www. gctcomeplay.org. $21. Sun., 2:30 p.m., and Fri., Sat., 8 p.m. Through March 22. 3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (754-2680).

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. 37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

The Orpheum

The Color Purple, hugely successful as a novel, on screen, and on Broadway. Production features Jennifer Holliday, one of R&B and Broadway’s greatest voices. www.orpheum-memphis.com. $42.50 - $49.50. Fri., March 20, 8-10:15 p.m., and Sat., March 21, 3-5:15 and 8-10:15 p.m.

Playhouse on the Square

The Artful Flea

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Vanya and Sonia have frittered their lives away in their family’s farmhouse. When their movie star sister Masha visits with her 20-something boy toy, the stage is set for an absurd weekend. $35. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through March 29. The Seagull, famous but aging actress Irina Arkadina is obsessed with a callous younger lover, dismissive of her son the frustrated playwright, and suspicious of an admiring ingénue. $35. ThursdaysSaturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through March 28. 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. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

The Boy from Oz, story of Peter Allen’s rise from an intro act for Judy Garland to an Oscar-winning songwriter and Radio City Music Hall concert star. www.theatrememphis. org. $30. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Through March 29. 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

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

Call to Artists: “Belongings”

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

IAMCN Art & Photo Contest

Public voting March 16-31. For more information, visit website. Through March 31.

Visiting artist Gregory Euclide at MCA A R T I ST R E C E PT I O N S

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

Opening reception for Beth Van Hoesen, exhibition by artist/printmaker. Fri., March 20, 5-7:30 p.m. Artist reception for “What I Kept,” exhibition revolving around the objects that international women brought over from their home countries. www.memphis.edu. Fri., March 20, 5-7:30 p.m. 142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).

Box Gallery

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

Opening reception for “Last Light,” exhibition of new works by Veda Reed. www. davidluskgallery.com. Fri., March 20, 6-8 p.m.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW. IAMCREATIVENETWORK.WEEBLY.COM.

Eclectic Eye

Opening reception for “Crossroads,” exhibition of folk-art style mixed-media paintings by Ron Olson. www. eclectic-eye.com. Fri., March 20, 6-8 p.m. 242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

3715 CENTRAL.

David Lusk Gallery

A multi-sensory event including vintage furniture, fashion and entertainment, and live music by Chuck and Nora are Retroactive. Free. Fri., March 20, 6-9 p.m., and Sat., March 21, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Memphis Belle Essay Contest

Open to high school students, grades 9-12. See website for more information. Through March 27.

3715 CENTRAL.

Opening reception for “Best of Memphis,” exhibition of work by University of Memphis, Memphis College of Art, Rhodes College, and Christian Brothers University students. www.facebook.com/boxgallery. Fri., March 20, 5-7 p.m.

“Indirect Lighting”

CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (833-9533), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Opening reception for “No Cigar,” exhibition of work by BFA students. (678-2216), www.memphis.edu. Fri., March 20, 5-8 p.m.

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.LAUSANNESCHOOL.COM.

Art After Dark

Munch and Learn

Galleries and gardens will be open until 8 p.m. featuring light refreshments, entertainment, and cash bar. Free with admission. Every third Thursday. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250). WWW.DIXON.ORG

Bring a brown bag lunch; sodas and water will be supplied. Wednesdays, noon1 p.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON. ORG.

4540 POPLAR (767-3800).

Featuring wood artisan work. Mon.-Fri., Mar. 16-20, 10 a.m. WOMAN’S EXCHANGE TEA ROOM, 88 RACINE (327-5681), WWW.WOMANS-EXCHANGE.COM.

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

Beth Van Hoesen, exhibition by artist/print-maker. 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. Through May 1. 3663 APPLING (385-6440).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

“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).

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).

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Artists are invited to participate by purchasing any object of inspiration from the Cleveland Street Flea Market to transform into (or use as inspiration for) a new work of art. Through March 24.

Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, puts a human face on a hot-button issue and delivers laughter and tears without propaganda. March 21 performance benefits the Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center www.etcmemphistheater.com. $20. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through March 22.

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“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).

Clough-Hanson Gallery

“Roxanne’s Rescue,” exhibition of works using a range of materials by Terri Phillips. www.rhodes.edu. Through March 28. RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3442).

Crosstown Arts

“you+me,” exhibition of work exploring a range of relationships by Kathy Barnes, Melissa Farris, Keiko Gonzalez, Richard Lou, Lester J. Merriweather, Haley Morris-Cafiero, and others. www.crosstownarts.org. Through March 28.

Memphis Jewish Community Center

The Tennessee Craft-Southwest 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).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

2015 MGAL Star Artist Exhibition, (921-1767), www.mgal.org. Through March 30. 6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

“Art is an Accident,” exhibtion 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. Through June 12. “Iron and Gold,” exhibition of work by Karin Jones, Ben Dory, and Rob Jackson whose work combines the delicate and the sturdy. www. metalmuseum.org. Through April 19. 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Otherlands Coffee Bar

“It’s an Art Show: A Passion for Process,” exhibition of new works in acrylic, pastel, oil pastel, and pencil by Melanie Pyron. www. otherlandscoffeebar.com. Through April 29.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Painted Planet

Gallery Artists on View, exhibition by gallery artists. (338-5223), Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11:45 a.m.-6 p.m. 1015 S. COOPER (725-0054).

Rhodes College, Buckman Hall

“Cuban Détente,” exhibition of photographs by David LaFevor. www.rhodes.edu. Through March 31. ROOM 110.

Ross Gallery

Bartlett Art Association, exhibition of work by Sheila Bentley, Jeanie Box, Gene Callaway, Carol Caughey, Nancy Crossett, Rita Datillo, Lynda Davison, Becky Deaux, Sandra Horton, Lyle, Becky Ross McRae, and others. www.cbu.edu/

641 S. COOPER (278-4994).

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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

“Nothing Is For Ever Last,” exhibition of collage works by Lester Julian Merriweather. Through March 29. “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.

JACK HANNA INTO THE WILD LIVE!

PRESENTED BY NATIONWIDE

APRIL 25 — 3 PM & 7 PM

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).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

See Jungle Jack and his animal friends in a live stage show... perfect for the whole family!

“No Cigar,” exhibition of work by BFA students. www.memphis.edu. Through April 3. 3715 CENTRAL.

Fratelli’s

“All Things Great and Small,” exhibition by the students of the Fred Rawlinson Gallery. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through March 25. 750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Gallery Ten Ninety One

Works by Ron Lace, exhibition of works in acrylic, oil, watercolor, and mixed media. www.wkno.org. Through March 30. WKNO STUDIO, 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

L Ross Gallery

“Water and Light: Two Visions,” exhibition for regional landscape artists Jeanne Seagle and Pam Hassler. www.lrossgallery.com. Through March 28.

Memphis Botanic Garden

Artists’ Link Exhibit, www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through March 26. 750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Art Builds Creativity,” exhibition of student work. March 21-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. “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.

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1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Excuse Me...,” exhibition of paintings by Jed Jackson. www.mca.edu. Through March 27. 1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

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5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

CALENDAR: MARCH 19 - 25 continued on page 33 gallery. Through March 26. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).

603 N. MCLEAN (725-1718).

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

LOL Memphis Sketch & Improv Comedy Show, featuring improv games and sketch parodies. Cast members perform small sets throughout the show to introduce what’s coming next. (654-8594), $10. Fourth Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

“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. www.facebook. com/SueLaymanDesigns. Wednesdays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 125 G.E. PATTERSON (409-7870).

Talbot Heirs

Edge Art, exhibition and private showing of works by Debra Edge. www.talbotheirs. com. Through March 31. 99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

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. 9228 WALNUT GROVE (753-1463).

University of Memphis

“Woven Into Words: Tennessee Women Making History,” exhibition of documents and images from the University Libraries’ special collections and government publications in the Ned R. McWherter Library, 4th Floor. www. memphis.edu/whm. Through March 31. MEMPHIS (678-2000).

DAN C E

Brooks Milongas

Members of the Argentine Tango Society give lessons and tango demonstrations in the Rotunda. Included with museum admission. Third Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

March 19-25, 2015

Local

Company d performs, featuring guest choreographers Rafael Ferrarras, Ballet Memphis, Wayne Smith of Project Motion, and Kevin Thomas of Collage dance Collective. $15. Thur.-Fri., Mar. 19-20, 7 p.m. HUTCHISON SCHOOL, 1740 RIDGEWAY (761-2220), WWW.COMPANYDDANCERS.ORG.

Tango Buenos Aires

Argentina’s great cultural export and the most authentic and uncompromising representative Tango. $30. Thurs., March 19, 7:30 p.m.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), GPACWEB.COM/SEASON/ITEM/ TANGO-BUENES-AIRES.

guest storytellers, and scenic improv. $5. Third Saturday of every month, 10:30 p.m.

Chuckles Comedy Club

1700 DEXTER.

Flirt Nightclub

Trippin on Thursday, hosted by K-97 Funny Man Prescott. Thursdays, 6 p.m. 3659 S. MENDENHALL (485-1119).

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m. 1532 MADISON (726-0906).

POETRY/SPOKEN WORD

Brinson’s

Melting Pot: Artist Showcase, open mic night hosted by Darius “Phatmak” Clayton. $5. Thursdays, 7-11 p.m. Strictly Hip Hop Sunday, featuring open mic, live band, and DJ. $5, ladies free. Sundays, 5 p.m. 341 MADISON (524-0104).

Cleveland Street Flea Market

Soul Drive: Invest in our Seeds, spoken word, rapping, and musical performances benefiting 901Evolutions. $3 with canned goods. www. crosstownarts.org. $5. Sat., March 21, 7 p.m. 438 CLEVELAND (276-3333).

Cordova Branch Library March Museness: Creativity & Inspiration, network with other poets featuring fun creative writing exercises. Showcase your poetry. (415-2764), www. livingbreathingpoetry.com. Sat., March 21, 2-4 p.m. 8457 TRINITY (REGISTRATION, 754-8443).

House of Mtenzi

The Soul Experience, featuring poetry, open mic, Reggae, Neo Soul, and more. $7. Third Friday of every month, 7-11 p.m. 1289 MADISON.

The HUB

LoveSpeaks, Fridays, 11 p.m.2 a.m. Live.Seed, Third Saturday of every month, 6-8 p.m. 515 E.H. CRUMP.

Java Cabana

Open Mic Nite, www. javacabanacoffeehouse.com. Thursdays, 8-10 p.m. 2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

Memphis Hilton

“Love Unplugged” Poetry Slam Tournament, for married couples to express their love through the art of poetry. Featuring original work and cash prizes. (907-6828), $5 for nonparticipants. Wed.-Sat., Mar. 25-28, 6 p.m.

C O M E DY

939 RIDGE LAKE (684-6664).

Cafe Eclectic

Memphis Pink Palace Museum

The Wiseguys Present: Storytellers Unplugged, combines fast-paced improv,

Underground Open Mic Night, experience creative artists

showcasing their spoken word, song, dance, and Christian rap. (461-4911), Free. Sundays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362).

The Midtown Crossing Grill Poetry Slam, Tuesdays, 7 p.m. 394 WATKINS (443-0502).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Stacey Wiedower

Author discusses and signs 30 First Dates. Tues., March 24, 6:30 p.m.

cussions and breakout sessions. $25. Thurs., March 19, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, FEDEX INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, 365 INNOVATION DR., WWW. MEMPHIS.EDU/SETWC.

TO U R S

Riverfront Park Series 1: Chickasaw Heritage Park to Crump Park

L E CT U R E / S P E A K E R

Walking tour of the lands on the south bluffs including Chickasaw Heritage Park, Metal Museum, Marine Hospital, and Crump Park. Park is located at Exit 12C from I-55 North. Free. Sun., March 22, 2 p.m.

“Generosity: The Best Choice”

CHICKSAW HERITAGE PARK, EXIT 12C ON METAL MUSEUM DRIVE, WWW.JIMMYOGLE.COM.

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

Charles Best will discuss his position as CEO of DonorsChoose.org, an online charity in which people make alturistic donations. Wed., March 25, 7 p.m. RHODES COLLEGE, BRYAN CAMPUS LIFE CENTER, 2000 N. PARKWAY, WWW.RHODES.EDU.

Lenten Preaching Series

Featuring daily inspiration from world-class preachers whose perspective will challenge and motivate in the journey toward Easter. Tuesdays-Fridays, noon12:45 p.m. Through March 28. CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 102 N. SECOND (525-6602), WWW.CALVARYMEMPHIS.ORG/ LENTENPREACHING.

On This Day in Memphis History

Historian, librarian, and author Wayne Dowdy give a presentation of his book in the Lord’s Chapel. Bring a lunch; drinks provided. Register online or by phone. $7. Thurs., March 19, noon. ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW.ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.

Talk: Celeste-Marie Bernier, Hohenberg Chair of Excellence

Drawing on unpublished archival materials and artist interviews, this talk will trace issues related to representation, memory, and the body in the past 50 years of African American and Black British Art. Sun., March 22, 2-4 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Visiting Artist Gregory Euclide

American contemporary artist details the development of his relief landscape work. Thurs., March 19, 7 p.m.

Shelby County Courthouse Tour

Cameras allowed for this unique tour. Meet on the Southwest steps at Adams Avenue and Second Street. Free. Thurs., March 19, noon.

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Cosmic Trunk Show

Artisan market featuring jewelry, housewares, and sculpture by artists affiliated with Tennessee Craft-Southwest, cosmos at cash bar, and snacks from Stickem! food truck. Sat., March 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

Memphis Flea Market: The Big One

$3. Sat.-Sun., Mar. 21-22, 8 a.m. AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (452-2151), WWW.AGRICENTER.ORG.

Spring Swap Meet

A place to sell or buy motorcycle parts for powersport projects. Free to attend or to vend with food and beverage sales benefiting Urban Bicycle Food Ministry. Sat., March 21, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. FRS POWERSPORTS, 2175 WHITTEN (385-9366), WWW.FRSPOWERSPORTS.COM.

F E ST IVA LS

Chalk Fest Block Party

Explore the galleries, work on hands-on activities inside and outside, enjoy performances, and collaborate with artists and other visitors to turn the plaza into a colorful work of chalk art. Sat., March 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.MCA.EDU.

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

C O N F E R E N C E S/ C O NVE N T I O N S

Memphis Area Master Gardeners Spring Fling 2015

“Choosing Transportation: Attracting Women to the Profession”

Regional transportation conference with a focus on improving efforts to attract, retain, and advance a diverse transportation workforce. Includes panel dis-

“No Cigar” exhibition at Fogelman Galleries

SHELBY COUNTY COURTHOUSE, ADAMS AND SECOND STREET (604-5002), WWW.JIMMYOGLE.COM.

Featuring presentations from experts, hands-on instruction, healthy cooking demonstrations, educational seminars, Kid’s Corner, and more. Free. Fri.-Sat., March 20-21, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (752-1207), WWW.MEM-

Tupelo Craft Beer Festival

Sample more than 100 craft beers from 30+ breweries, enjoy great local food, live music, and craft beer educational seminars. $40. Sat., March 21, noon-5 p.m. FAIR PARK DISTRICT, 108 S. BROADWAY (615-479-1583), WWW.TUPELOCRAFTBEERFEST.COM.

S PO R TS/ F IT N ES S

Couch to Earth Day 5K Running Program

Designed to prepare runners for the Earth Day 5K on Sunday, April 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. Saturdays, 8 a.m. Through April 18. SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW. SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Daffodil Dash

Run through the garden in full bloom. $8 members, $12 nonmembers. Sat., March 21, 8 a.m.-noon. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4131), MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Guided Birding Hike Sat., March 21, 7:15 a.m.

SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW. MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Kosten Foundation Kick It 5K Sat., March 21, 2 p.m.

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

KIDS

Campfire Party

Celebrate with campfires, songs, stories, a craft, and outdoor fun. Registration is required. $8 members, $12 nonmembers. Fri., March 20, 6-8 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN,

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

Magic Carpet featuring Salsa with the Rumba “Romper” Room

Children ages 2 to 8 are invited to the Rumba “Romper” Room for salsa dancing with Edgar Mendez and friends. $5 for kids, free for adults. Sat., March 21, 10-11 a.m. BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483), WWW.BUCKMANARTSCENTER.COM.

PB&J: Bluegrass Jam

Explore bluegrass, country, and gospel tunes with some of Memphis’ finest musicians. Kids will have an opportunity to strum a banjo, pluck an upright bass, or dance a jig. Sat., March 21, 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), WWW.GPACWEB.COM.

Shrine Circus

$13. Thur.-Sun., Mar. 19-22. AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (452-2151), WWW.AGRICENTER.ORG.

S P EC IA L EVE NTS

The Beale Street Symposium

Featuring book launch, panel discussion, Calvin Newborn, walking tour, and more. Thur.Fri., Mar. 19-21. VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.RHODES.EDU/NEWS/ CICSPRING2015.

Dinner on Stage

Dine on the stage where the stars perform including an inside peek into the stories and history of the historic Orpheum as told by Pat Halloran. $50-$75. Thurs., March 19, 6-9 p.m. THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUMMEMPHIS.COM.

CALENDAR: MARCH 19 - 25 MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (576-1200), WWW.NAACPMEMPHIS.ORG.

Memphis Fashion Week

Full week of fashion showcasing local and national designers. Joseph will host the opening party. Have the chance to vote on the audience choice winner. $50-$200. Mon.-Sat., Mar. 23-28. VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW. MEMPHISFASHIONWEEK.ORG.

Midtown Mojo Awards

Party and ceremony honoring individuals and organizations who have made a difference in promoting and preserving Midtown. $40. Wed., March 25, 6 p.m. CIRCUIT PLAYHOUSE, 51 S. COOPER (725-0776), WWW.MIDTOWNMEMPHIS.ORG.

“Oh What Love”

Dynamic worship experience by members of the Watoto Children’s Choir who were once orphans. Free. Fri., March 20, 7 p.m. LINDENWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 2400 UNION (458-8506), WWW.WATOTO.COM.

The Pinch Journal’s Spring Release Party Featuring readings, food, music, and refreshments. Schuler Benson, Kendra Atleework, and Heather

Dobbins will be reading and Hot Mess Burritos will be present. Fri., March 20, 7 p.m. CLEVELAND STREET FLEA MARKET, 438 CLEVELAND (276-3333), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Red Shoe Gala

Black tie and red shoe optional with complimentary valet, libations, and food by local restaurants. Dance the night away in those ruby red shoes to Memphis Soul Review. $150. Sat., March 21, 6-10 p.m. THE COLUMNS AT ONE COMMERCE SQUARE, 120 MONROE, WWW.REDSHOEGALA.COM.

the bunny photo experience. Sun., March 22, 9-10:30 a.m.

speakers. $3-$10. 11 a.m.1 p.m. and 5:15-7 p.m.

OAK COURT MALL, 4465 POPLAR (682-8928), WWW. OAKCOURTMALL.EVENTBRITE.COM.

CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 102 N. SECOND (525-6602), WWW.CALVARYMEMPHIS.ORG/ LENTENPREACHING.

Ten ’til Ten Dinner Series

FOOD & DR I N K E V E N TS

AAF Luncheon: The Future of Retail

Featuring Lucie Greene. $10 members, $25 nonmembers. Thurs., March 19, 11:30 a.m.1 p.m. LAFAYETTE’S MUSIC ROOM, 2119 MADISON (207-5097).

THE MAJESTIC GRILLE, 145 S. MAIN (522-8555), WWW.MAGESTICGRILLE. COM.

Artini H O LI DAY EVE N TS

Carriage Crossing Easter Bunny March 21-April 4.

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

Easter Egg Spectacular

Celebrate the arrival of spring and Easter with arts and crafts, interactive games, raffle prizes, and more. All kids will receive a set of bunny ears. Free for members; $5 membership. Sat., March 21, 1-3 p.m. WOLFCHASE GALLERIA, 2760 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. (372-9409).

Magical Visit with the Caring Bunny

Offers families of children with special needs a subdued environment to participate in

Celebration to kick off 10th Anniversary in May. Special menu by Chef/owner Patrick Reilly and wines introduced by sommelier Michael Hughes. Call for reservations. $65. Tues., March 24.

Young at Art event. Sat., March 21, 6-8 p.m.

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Enjoy more than 50 wines from around the world, cuisine from local restaurants, silent auction, and live entertainment by the Plaintiffs. $100. Fri., March 20, 7 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.MEMPHISWINE.ORG.

Lenten Preaching Series and Waffle Shop The most unique lunch experience in Memphis featuring some of the same recipes from 1928. Benefiting outreach ministries of organizations throughout Memphis. Featuring guest

Five-course meal with wine pairings from new spring wine list. Reservations required. $50. Tues., March 24, 6 p.m. AMERIGO, 1239 RIDGEWAY, PARK PLACE MALL (761-4000), WWW.AMERIGO.NET.

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Movies meant to open a discussion of faith, the culture of our time, and cultivate fellowship of searching hearts and minds. Snacks will be provided. Thurs., March 19, 1 p.m. MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW. MGLCC.ORG.

Midtown Mojo Awards at Circuit Playhouse The Jungle Book

Abandoned after an accident, baby Mowgli is raised by a family of wolves. Saturdays, 4 p.m. Through March 20. CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Little White Lie

Documentary about filmmaker Lacey Schwartz, raised white and Jewish, who questions her lifelong identity when she discovers that her biological father is black. $9.

Thurs., March 19, 7-8:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

“Meet the Storyteller”

Screening of Inside Stories and meet and greet with filmmaker and storyteller Elaine Blanchard who will lead a retreat the following weekend. Sat., March 21, 10 a.m. QUAN AM MONASTERY, 3500 GOODLETT (679-4528), WWW.BUDDHISTMEMPHIS.COM.

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Food for Thought New books from Joy Bateman and Gerald Duff.

ver the past 10 years, Joy Bateman has written and illustrated seven books about food, overflowing with recipes from notable chefs in cities such as Memphis, Nashville, and New Orleans. It’s an astonishing literary outpouring, and it prompts the question — why? Why write about food? In Bateman’s case, the answer turns out to be pretty astonishing. Growing up in East Memphis, she was always hungry. Her family wasn’t poor, but her mother had an eating disorder, so there was never any food in the fridge. “She would go to Knickerbocker Restaurant at least once or twice a day,” Bateman remembers of her mother. “But she wouldn’t eat. She would just order a coffee and read The New York Times and Women’s Wear Daily.” To keep food in her belly, Bateman

would dine with neighbors or bike to Shorty’s Barbecue on Summer. But her culinary awakening came later, at age 18. She was visiting Palm Beach, Florida, when she ordered the sautéed calves’ livers at Petite Marmite. “I can still remember it like I’m sitting at that table,” she recalls. “So fragrant. It was fried with onions and bacon, and it was just delicious. Crispy on the outside and tender.” Those livers launched Bateman, who sells ads for Memphis magazine, on a culinary adventure that took her from the desert of her childhood to the oasis of maturity. Because, she freely admits, no one can appreciate good food like a girl who grew up without it. Bateman’s latest book, The Art of Dining in New Orleans 2, features recipes from celebrity chefs such as Susan Spicer and John Besh, plus restaurants like Antoine’s and Galatoire’s. Each page is enlivened by Bateman’s own illustrations, oil paintings executed in a bright,

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whimsical style. Looking for a place to start? The author recommends the Whole Roasted Head of Cauliflower from the Domenica Restaurant in the Roosevelt Hotel. Delicately flavored with lemon and bay leaf, it is baked until golden and served with whipped feta cheese. “Lots of folks know the Roosevelt for its famous Sazerac bar,” muses Bateman. “But they ought to know it for Domenica, which is a real culinary treasure.” The Art of Dining in New Orleans 2 is available at the Booksellers at Laurelwood, Menage Fine Stationery and Gifts, the Woman’s Exchange, and at

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Ploughshares and St. Andrews. He has also been nominated for a PEN/Faulkner prize and an Edgar Allan Poe Award. In other words, this is literary fiction masquerading as a police procedural. And it’s actually pretty good. Entertainment Weekly praised Duff ’s “unerring ear for dialect,” and Booklist pronounced Memphis Ribs “as sweet and satisfying as a barbecue dinner, without the fat.” Take the following passage, which describes the construction of the famed

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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

CHICKASAW GARDENS/ UNIV. OF MEMPHIS A-Tan Avenue Coffee Bella Caffe Brother Juniper’s Derae Restaurant The Farmer El Porton El Toro Loco Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Just for Lunch La Baguette La Hacienda Los Compadres Lost Pizza Co. Lucchesi's Beer Garden Medallion Newby’s Osaka Penn’s Pete & Sam’s Raffe’s Deli Republic Coffee R.P. Tracks Woman’s Exchange COLLIERVILLE Bangkok Alley Bonefish Grill Booyah’s Cafe Grille Cafe Piazza Ciao Baby! Corky’s El Mezcal El Porton Fino Villa Firebirds Gus’s Fried Chicken Huey’s Jim’s Place Grille La Hacienda Mary’s German Restaurant Memphis Pizza Cafe Mulan Pig-N-Whistle Sekisui Shanti Steak House Silver Caboose Square Beans Coffee Vinegar Jim’s Whaley’s Pizza Wolf River Cafe CORDOVA Bahama Breeze Bombay House Bonefish Grill Butcher Shop Cafe Fontana Corky’s East End Grill El Mezcal El Porton Flying Saucer Fox & Hound Fresh Slices Friday Tuna Golden Coast Gus’s Fried Chicken Huey’s I Sushi Jim ’N Nick’s Bar-B-Q La Hacienda Pasta Italia Petra Cafe Presentation Room Salty Dog Sekisui Shogun Skimo’s T.J. Mulligan’s Zaytos COVINGTON Marlo’s Down Under DOWNTOWN Alannah’s Breakfast Kafe Alcenia’s Aldo’s Pizza Pies

Alfred’s The Arcade Automatic Slim’s Bangkok Alley Bardog Tavern B.B. King’s Blues Club Belle Diner Bleu Blind Bear Blue Monkey Blue Plate Cafe Bluefin Blues City Cafe Bon-Ton Cafe The Brass Door Cafe Keough Cafe Pontotoc Capriccio Central BBQ Chez Philippe City Market Cordelia’s Table Coyote Ugly Cozy Corner Dejavu Double J Smokehouse & Saloon Earnestine & Hazel’s Eighty3 Felicia Suzanne’s Ferraro’s Pizzeria & Pub Flight Flying Fish Flying Saucer Frank’s Market & Deli Grawemeyer’s The Green Beetle Gus’s Fried Chicken Happy Mexican Hard Rock Cafe Huey’s Itta Bena Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cafe and Honky Tonk King’s Palace Cafe Kooky Canuck Little Tea Shop Local Gastropub Lunchbox Eats The Majestic Marmalade McEwen’s on Monroe Mesquite Chop House Miss Polly’s Mollie Fontaine Lounge Nacho’s New York Pizza Office at Uptown Café Onix Oshi Burger Bar Paulette’s Pearl’s Oyster House Rendezvous Rizzo’s Diner Rum Boogie Cafe Rumba Room Sekisui Silky O’Sullivan’s Silly Goose South of Beale Spaghetti Warehouse Spindini Tamp & Tap Texas de Brazil Tug’s Westy’s Yao’s Downtown China Bistro Zac’s Cafe

EAST MEMPHIS 4 Dumplings Acre Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen Asian Palace Bangkok Alley Belmont Grill The Booksellers Bistro Broadway Pizza Brookhaven Pub & Grill Buckley’s Fine Filet Grill Carrabba’s Italian Grill Casablanca Cheffie’s Café Ciao Bella City East Bagel & Grille Corky’s Dan McGuinness Pub Dixie Cafe El Mezcal El Porton El Toro Loco Erling Jensen Folk’s Folly Foozi Fox & Hound Fratelli’s The Grove Grill Gus’s Fried Chicken Half Shell Happy Mexican

Hog & Hominy Houston’s Huey’s Interim Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Jim’s Place Restaurant & Bar Las Delicias Lisa's Lunchbox Lynchburg Legends Marciano Mayuri Indian Cuisine Mellow Mushroom Memphis Pizza Cafe Mi Pueblo Mortimer’s Mosa Asian Bistro Napa Cafe New Hunan Newk’s Express Café Old Venice One & Only BBQ Patrick’s Porcellino's Prime Time Sports Bar Rafferty’s Rotis Indian Cuisine Sakura Sekisui Pacific Rim Skewer Soul Fish Cafe Sports Bar & Grille Swanky’s Three Little Pigs Tokyo Grill Whole Foods Market GERMANTOWN Asian Eatery Asian Palace Belmont Grill Chili’s Doc Watson’s Elfo’s Grisanti El Porton Germantown Commissary Las Tortugas Maui Brick Oven Mellow Mushroom Memphis Pizza Cafe Mulan New Asia Newk’s Express Café Petra Cafe Royal Panda Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar Sakura Soul Fish Cafe Swanky’s West Street Diner MEDICAL CENTER Arepa & Salsa Evelyn and Olive Kudzu’s Trolley Stop Market MIDTOWN 3 Angels on Broad Abyssinia Alchemy Alex’s Al Rayan Bar-B-Q Shop Bar DKDC Bar Louie Bari Ristorante e Enoteca Barksdale Restaurant Bayou Bar & Grill Beauty Shop Beeker’s Belly Acres Bhan Thai Blue Monkey Boscos Squared Bounty on Broad Broadway Pizza The Brushmark Cafe 1912 Cafe Eclectic Cafe Ole Cafe Society Camy’s Celtic Crossing Central BBQ Chiwawa The Cove The Crazy Noodle The Cupboard Dino’s Ecco on Overton Park El Mezcal Evergreen Grill Fino’s from the Hill Frida’s Fuel Cafe Golden India Huey’s Imagine Vegan Cafe India Palace Jack Pirtle’s Chicken

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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Wish Fulfillment Lily James stars in Disney’s hit Cinderella remake.

is Cinderella’s Castle. It’s built right into their corporate logo. And no one has been more successful with musicals in the 21st century than Disney, as hordes of parents who can’t get “Let It Go” from Frozen out of their heads will be the first to tell you. So why strip out the music from the corporate flagship, dooming it from the very beginning to be a tinny echo of the original? Branagh does his best, as he always does, and over all, the production benefits from his taste and style. Cinderella reads Pepys to her melancholy father (Ben Chaplin) after her mother (Hayley Atwell of Agent Carter fame) dies. The diction is much higher than with most movies aimed primarily at preteen girls, with narrator and Fairy God Mother Helena Bonham Carter opining about how “economies were taken” when Cinderella’s father dies offscreen, leaving her stepmother (Cate Blanchett, who steals every scene

she’s in) and stepsisters Drisella (Sophie McShera) and Anastasia (Holliday Grainger) without any means of support. James’ Cinderella and the Prince (Richard Madden from Game of Thrones) actually have good chemistry, and they appropriately share some of the film’s best scenes together, such as when Branagh has them circle each other on horseback when they first meet in the forest, and when they steal away during the ball so he can show her his “secret garden.” Visually, the director takes frequent inspiration from the animated version, from the color coding of the wicked stepsisters to the way Cinderella’s pumpkin coach dissolves when the Fairy Godmother’s spell wears off. Branagh’s swooping camera and sumptuous CGI palaces look good enough, but they can’t replace the classic, hand-drawn animation of the old-school continued on page 40

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t was strange to watch Disney’s new, live-action Cinderella so soon after seeing Into the Woods. In Stephen Sondheim’s fairy tale musical mashup, Cinderella, who was played in last year’s film adaption by the extraordinarily talented Anna Kendrick, is a flighty, witty presence who toys with the Prince because she can’t seem to make up her mind about much of anything. But the new Disney Cinderella played by Downton Abbey’s Lily James is none of those things, which is why Sondheim’s take on the character is labeled “revisionist.” For better or worse, this Cinderella is as familiar and unthreatening as Disney’s branding department needs her to be. The director Disney chose to revamp the intellectual property Walt appropriated from the cultural commons of fairy tale land is Kenneth Branagh. A prolific Irish stage actor who was hailed as the second coming of Sir Lawrence Olivier, Branagh is no stranger to screen adaptations, having began his film career in 1989 the same way Oliver did in 1944, with a reimagining of Shakespeare’s Henry V. And while he has done yeoman’s work adopting the Bard over the years (Much Ado About Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet), lately, he’s found success adopting Marvel heroes (Thor) and Tom Clancy novels (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit). Even working within the Disney corporate environment, Branagh’s hand is evident in Cinderella. He approaches this adaptation in the same classy way he approaches Shakespeare. But here’s the thing: It’s not the Grimm version of the tale he’s adopting, like Sondheim did in Into the Woods. Nor is it the 17th-century French version of the tale Cendrillon, which introduced the Fairy Godmother and the glass slippers. Branagh’s balliwick is to adopt Disney’s 1950 animated musical Cinderella into a live-action, nonmusical version. I’m still pondering why anyone thought this would be a good idea. Cinderella is extremely important to Disney. It’s widely credited as being the film that saved the studio, reversing Walt’s sliding fortunes after a decade of war and bad luck had pushed him to the brink of bankruptcy. After all, Disneyland’s centerpiece

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FILM REVIEW continued from page 39 Cinderella. And even without the songs, this version is almost 50 minutes longer than the classic. Most of the extra running time comes in the beginning, when Branagh spends time exploring more of the family’s backstory, although he wisely gives Blanchett’s Wicked Stepmother as much screen time as possible. Cinderella’s not a bad movie, per se, it’s just turgid, overly long, and desperate for a reason to exist beyond the boffo box office numbers it put up last weekend. But we all know that, for the House of Mouse, $132 million is reason enough. Cinderalla Now playing Multiple locations

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oppression, corporate injustice, government corruption, sexual betrayal, and just plain meanness to create a tapestry of human folly. The stories’ setups are all fairly banal and believable: Two strangers on a plane discover they know the same man, a hack musician named Gabriel Pasternak. A waitress at a roadside diner recognizes a man who wronged her family in the past. A man driving through the desert gets cut off by another car, so he flips him the bird and calls him a “redneck asshole.” A demolition engineer stops by a bakery after a successful implosion to pick up a birthday cake for his daughter, but his car is towed by a corrupt wrecker service, causing him to miss the party. A rich kid, drunk-driving his dad’s BMW, kills a pregnant woman in a hit-and-run accident. A happy newlywed couple is enjoying their

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huge (and expensive) reception when a flash of jealousy intrudes. Revealing more than the barest plot information about the individual segments would spoil the wicked pleasure of watching things quickly escalate into the realm of the absurd. Szifron’s characters don’t just make bad decisions, they make the worst decisions possible. And yet, everything seems reasonable while they’re doing it, right up until the bottom drops out, and the film’s deliciously wicked sense of humor takes over. Working with cinematographer Javier Julia, Szifron uses his eye for clean, meticulous composition to quickly paint character portraits and impart plot points. When Mauricio (Oscar Martinez), the wealthy father of the drunk driver, finds himself boxed in by corrupt lawyers, prosecutors, police, and his own family, Szifron and Julia frame him ominously in the window of his expensive, modernist home. The filmmakers know how to get light to do their bidding as well. When the wedding reception of Romina (the outstanding Erica Rivas) and Ariel (Diego Gentile) is at its most festive, the room is at its darkest, giving the scene a sense that a Caravaggio painting has come to life. It’s rare, but extremely refreshing, to see such visual craftsmanship brought to bear on a comedy. The rich, the powerful, the vain, and the corrupt are the particular targets of Wild Tales’ avenging spirit, but the plucky little guy is not spared his share of the pain, either. Szifron’s tone walks a harrowing tightrope between Black Mirror social commentary and the anarchy of the 2004 Spanish comedy El Crimen Perfecto. Even though it has multiple story lines, it’s not preachy or self-important like Crash. The film has become an international hit after premiering at Canne and becoming Argentina’s top grosser of 2014. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Feature at this year’s Academy Awards, and it’s not hard to see why. If there’s one shot that sums the whole thing up, it’s when Ariel, the groom, looking out across the horrible mess his wedding reception has become, cuts himself a big slice of wedding cake and shoves it into his mouth with his bare hands. The world is going to hell. All bets are off. Might as well enjoy it.

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