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The quote above was written by Russell in 1933, in an essay in which he bemoaned the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. “What has happened is quite simple,” he continued. “Those elements of the population which are both brutal and stupid (and these two qualities usually go together) have combined against the rest.” Of course, one man’s brutal and stupid is another man’s “telling it like it is.” The principal story in American politics these days is the rise of a buffoonish businessman and reality-show star to the leading Republican candidate for president. Donald Trump’s strategy is simple: Say the kind of stuff your racist drunk uncle says after he’s had a few pops, and never admit you’re wrong, even when it’s obvious you are. The litany of Trump’s lies and absurdities is almost too long to catalogue at this point. His most recent whopper is his claim that he saw on television “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the fall of the Twin Towers on 9/11. There is no record of such a thing appearing on any television screen; New Jersey officials say it didn’t happen; the FBI says it didn’t happen. Trump says he saw it and won’t back off the claim. His supporters saw it too, says Trump. He knows because they are tweeting him and emailing him that they saw it. Apparently, Trump believes he and his supporters are entitled to their own “facts.” Trump wants to round up 11 million undocumented Hispanic immigrants and ship ’em back to Mexico. He wants to make American Muslims carry ID cards declaring their religion. He makes fun of a physically handicapped reporter, then denies it, even though the evidence is on film. He retweets a false and racist crime “statistic” chart generated by a neo-Nazi organization, then says it doesn’t matter because it was “just a retweet.” Stupid and brutal and cocksure. All boxes checked. Trump is tapping deep into the ugly vein of American xenophobia and racism that runs through the remnants of the Tea Party wing of the GOP. He’s saying exactly what they think, feeding off their ignorance and anger. He’s going to “make America great again.” The way to do this, apparently, is by demonizing anybody who is Hispanic or Muslim and tweeting fake “evidence” showing how black people are killing whites at ludicrous rates. Then, for good measure, you make fun of a handicapped guy. N E WS & O P I N I O N Because America needs to be great LETTERS - 4 again. THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 THE FLY-BY - 6 For months, pundits have been SPORTS - 11 predicting that Trump will stumble EDITORIAL - 12 and slide into ignominy after each VIEWPOINT - 13 succeeding gaffe. It’s not happening. And COVER STORY it won’t, because his supporters don’t “WINTER IS COMING” EDITED BY RICHARD ALLEY - 14 care about facts or policy or common sense. The Trump campaign is faithSTE P P I N’ O UT WE RECOMMEND - 22 based. Not in a religious sense, but in the MUSIC - 24 sense that his believers think their great AFTER DARK - 26 leader is above having to deal with pesky CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 30 annoyances like the truth. FOOD - 38 Anybody else see a pattern here? I FILM - 40 THE LAST WORD - 47 think Bertrand Russell would. Bruce VanWyngarden C L AS S I F I E D S - 43 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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About the Syrian refugee crisis and Randy Haspel’s column, “The Great Unfriending” … I had to chuckle over Randy Haspel’s column. Seems he thinks that anyone who’s worried that accepting refugees from an alien culture from an area of the world torn apart by that same culture is a Nazi, an idiot, or both. He was doing all right until the last paragraph, where he reminded us “that once our forefathers were accepted as refugees into this country by the indigenous population.” Yup, the natives 10:18:30 AM here accepted people from a completely alien culture in large numbers. Tell us, Randy, how did that work out for them? Bill Runyan

Iraq and Syria have fled because they are martyred by the same people who attack us today.” The process of selecting and vetting refugees should be as strict and rigorous as possible, and we have to err on the side of caution. But the men, women, and children, who themselves have suffered at the hands of terrorists, should be allowed to settle here. If we see refugee camps created worldwide, there could be many in them who turn to extremism and violence because of their frustration and anger. Such camps could be the breeding grounds for future terrorists, and, if so, we will be even more unsafe in the future. Philip Williams It’s a raucous chorus, led by disciples of the Republican right.“No! No! No!” they chant.“No Syrian refugees in our back yard!” Eschewing the words written on the Statue of Liberty, our cowardly Congress now has passed legislation that effectively bars any significant influx of Syrian refugees into these United States. That this is a thinly veiled act of bigotry directed toward Muslims is hardly debatable. But, more than this, it is an act of contempt aimed at the very core of our Judeo-Christian values. If there is any theme that courses through the teachings of the Old and New Testaments, it is the undeniable message of welcome to the stranger, the alien, the homeless, the outcast, the sick and 5the hungry. Those 6 7 are8 saying 9 no to10 who Syrian refugees are saying no to the very essence of the 15sacred scriptures. Such behavior can be compared to tossing the Holy Bible 18 into a roaring fire fueled by hatred and fear. Instead of being intimidated by such 21 despicable hypocrisy, we who object must name it openly for what it is and challenge it wherever it is found. 24 25 Rev. Thomas E. Sagendorf United Methodist Clergy, Retired 29

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NEKKID AGAIN Reading the news this week reminded your Pesky Fly of that fun time back in August when traffic slowed to a crawl on Union because everybody driving the route had to slow, swerve, or slam on the breaks to Instagram a photo of Marilyn Corbett, a mentally ill woman who got a little loaded and decided to forego clothing and sweep the stairs of Idlewild Presbyterian Church. Well, she’s back. On Thanksgiving, poor Marilyn was once again arrested. This time it was for being drunk and belligerent on Beale, which is strange since it often seems like those are prerequisites for being on Beale in the first place. But Marilyn stood out from all the other revelers shaking their stuff in the entertainment district because she was dancing in her trademark outfit: nekkid.

THE CORRECTIONS Last week, Fly on the Wall erroneously reported that The Tennessean had posted the mother of all accidental URLs. When accessed through social media, a dog-bites-man story about a bellicose Tennessee Republican wanting to round up Syrian refugees appeared to live permanently at this address: http:// www.tennessean.com/story/news/ politics/2015/11/17/can-youbelieve-this-asshole/75936660/ That’s very different and so much less like something the Hulk might say than The Tennesseanassigned URL: http://www. tennessean.com/story/news/ politics/2015/11/17/tennesseegop-leader-round-up-syrianrefugees-remove-state/75936660/ According to the Columbia Journalism Review, a clever internet prankster took advantage of a Gannett-wide glitch allowing anyone to “plug anything at all in the SEO keyword part of the URL.” Can you believe that asshole? By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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Tennessee Music Pathway would collect, promote state’s music sites. Tennessee’s five biggest counties drive 70 percent of the state’s tourism spending, but tourism officials hope to draw visitors to the backroads with blues, bluegrass, gospel, country, rock, and soul. On Monday, the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development (TDOTD) asked Governor Bill Haslam for $4 million in next year’s state budget to create and promote the Tennessee Music Pathway. Much like the Tennessee Civil War Trails connect tourists to historic sites and events, the Music Pathway would connect them to the state’s important musical sites, such as Stax Records or Graceland, and point tourists to live music events. TDOTD Commissioner Kevin Triplett told Haslam he expected to designate locations on the Pathway in all of Tennessee’s 95 counties.

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“There’s musical history in every county in the state,” Triplett said Monday. “There’s live music in every county in the state.” The largest portion of the $4 million would be spent on installing Music Pathway kiosks in all of Tennessee’s 14 Welcome Centers, where more than 13 million people stop each year. At the kiosks, tourists would be able to explore music sites across the state and plan their trips. Tourism officials said they hope exposing tourists to sites off the beaten path will get them to stay longer and, in turn, spend more money in Tennessee. “This is a great opportunity to take that traveler who is coming here to those five counties — to cities like Memphis, continued on page 10

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The uninsured rate for health coverage in Shelby County is 14 percent, which is only down four percent since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) launched in 2013. Additionally, Shelby County accounts for the highest percentage — 14.5 percent — of uninsured residents in the state. And most of the county residents without health coverage are either Hispanic (20 percent), African American (18 percent), or young people ages 18 to 34 (21 percent). That’s according to new data from Enroll America, a national, nonpartisan nonprofit group that aims to get uninsured people signed up for ACA health plans. Open enrollment for ACA coverage is underway now through January 31st, but Enroll America’s Tennessee State Director Jacob Flowers says those who want to start 2016 with coverage must sign up for a plan by December 15th. For assistance finding a plan, people can contact the Enroll America hotline at 844-644-5443 or go to GetCoveredTenn.org. — Bianca Phillips Flyer: Shelby County’s uninsured rate hasn’t dropped much. Were you surprised by that? Flowers: The rate in Shelby County is on par with what we’ve seen across the state with the lack of Medicaid expansion. And with such a high uninsured rate to begin with, it’s actually pretty good. There is a lot still to be done, but we’ve been really proud of what people have been able to do here in Shelby County. Why the disparity among young people, Latinos, and African Americans? Those populations are the hardest to reach, each with their own separate set of circumstances. We’ve gone through two open-enrollment cycles now, and the outreach community has been very effective at getting the general word out to the broader community, which has resulted in what you would call the lowest-hanging fruit being enrolled first.

What role has Tennessee’s failure to expand Medicaid had on our uninsured rate? When we hold enrollment events, we have a large number of people who walk in and are not eligible for coverage. And that’s tough to explain. These folks are the working poor, and they don’t understand why their friends and family members are eligible for coverage and they are not. It’s a tough issue to deal with here in the state. continued on page 10

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Hampline. We wanted to have a place where people can bike to the shop. I don’t think there’s another place in town that would be as perfect as this building is.” At the Bikesmith shop, visitors can also purchase their own bicycles and bike accessories. The shop is celebrating its grand opening on December 6th with food, beer, and a raffle giveaway for a kid’s bike. A look inside the Bikesmith shop

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When Jim Steffen started fixing bicycles in the back of his Bikesmith truck, he noticed that many cyclists liked to stick around and watch the repair process. Now, they can watch the repairs and drink beer at the same time, and all in the comfort of a brick-and-mortar shop. Steffen has expanded his mobile repair business into a shop on Hollywood, right in the heart of the Broad Avenue Arts District. In the new shop, customers can sip craft beers while they wait. For years, Steffen’s Bikesmith truck, a converted freight truck, has been serving people in neighborhoods without bike shops. But the business’ growth over the past year warranted a new shop for Steffen, who got his start fixing bikes with the Shelby Farms Park Conservancy’s bike rental program. With his Bikesmith truck, Steffen has been able to serve cyclists as far east as Collierville and in some locations in Mississippi. “For some people, going to a bike shop can be a little intimidating,” Steffen said. “I think people get nervous when they go to a bike shop if they don’t know bikes. They just want it to work. I think having the truck took some of that anxiety out of people. A lot of people wanted to come on the truck and see what I was doing.” Steffen says he’ll continue to operate his mobile business, but customers can also visit his brick-and-mortar shop. The new shop is in a renovated automotive garage, complete with repair racks and a bar. There’s also a patio and some green space in the back, which Steffen is considering adapting into a bike polo court or a “pump track,” a looping trail system for mountain bikes. Visitors are invited to ask questions about their bikes and chat while their machinery is being worked on, and they can enjoy beers and sodas while they wait. “With our repair stands, we have this bar with stools there,” he said. “When David [Evans] and I are working on your bike, you can sit there and watch us work on your bike. We wanted to have everything out in front so you can see it. We wanted to make it more than just a bike shop.” Steffen and his wife have a history with Broad Avenue: They volunteered on the street when it was going through the city’s MEMFix revitalization program, and they participated in art walks. With the implementation of the Hampline bike path along Broad, Steffen said the arts district seemed like an obvious choice. “It’s really easy for people to get their bikes down here,” Steffen said. “It’s really close to [Overton Park]. You have the

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Nashville, Sevierville, and others — to get them out of those big cities and stay an extra night to go off on the [Tennessee Music Pathway], and see what’s there,” said Brian Wagner, TDOTD’s assistant commissioner of marketing. “If we can get even a small percentage of those people to spend even one more night and venture off into [the Pathway], that’s a huge opportunity for growth and adding to the number of hotel room nights.” An average visitor to Tennessee spends three nights here, Triplett said. TDOTD’s goal is an average stay of four-and-a-half nights. That extra time here would mean another night in a hotel, more meals in restaurants, and more spending on gas, souvenirs, and more. Tourism officials in the state’s cities and counties already promote their music assets, Triplett said. The Pathway would be a way to collect those efforts and promote all of the assets outside of the state and internationally. Once the Pathway’s sites and events are collected, the state would help point the way to them with branded signs along state highways, much like the Civil War Trails. Graceland An effort similar to the Music Pathway was approved by the Tennessee General Assembly in 1999. It dubbed the 210-mile stretch between Memphis and Nashville the “Music Highway,” though little was done to promote it. The Music Pathway proposal came during the tourism office’s budget presentation to Haslam on Monday, which was the official kick-off of the state’s budget season. This year, Haslam asked each state department to present a budget with a 3.5-percent cut from last year’s. With state revenues rebounding somewhat, it is not expected that state departments will receive the full 3.5-percent cut.

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Who isn’t eligible for ACA coverage? There are people who fall completely below the federal poverty level, and they’re eligible for Medicaid, which is TennCare in our state. At the other end of the scale, you have people who just make enough money for a plan out-of-pocket. And more than 83 percent of Tennesseans receive a federal income tax credit, which makes coverage affordable for them. But in the middle are people who don’t make enough money to qualify for federal tax credits, but make too much money to qualify for Medicaid. So they’re left in what we call the coverage gap. And the lack of Medicaid expansion means they’re not eligible for Medicaid or tax credits. So they just can’t afford coverage. How many people here are in that gap? The quotes are between 400,000 and 480,000 across the state; Shelby County has the largest percentage of people in the Medicaid gap. They estimate that’s between 60,000 and 75,000 people in Shelby County. Is there any element of political protest in the lack of insurance? Are some people refusing to sign up because they’re anti-Obamacare? It’s a politically divisive issue. But we find it interesting that once you take the political divisiveness out of it and focus on the benefits that it has for individuals and the broader community, those political walls seem to come down. I’ve heard quotes from our staff out in East Tennessee where somebody will come into an event and they’ll say, “I sure am against that Obamacare, but that coverage I got through the Affordable Care Act sure is great.” There’s so much rhetoric out there.

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It’s the end of a four-year era that changed everything. Fuente’s departure feels more like a sad goodbye. He needed a program to establish credentials as a head coach. The Tiger program needed a leader who didn’t care about yesterday and who aspired to winning beyond “bowl eligibility.” And that’s the irony of Fuente, a man who made “1 and 0 this week” a mantra that helped put together consecutive nine-win seasons for the MEMPHIS SOUL — DEC 13TH — 5:30 PM first time in 65 years. Fuente, it turns out, saw the big picture better than any Come celebrate Christmas with us in a warm, welcoming of his recent predecessors. He’ll now community with a unique reverence for the arts. Paintings happen take that vision to Virginia Tech where, before your eyes. The music has a unique Memphis vibe. The competing in the ACC, he’ll find more atmosphere is casual, the tenor upbeat, the message practical. realistic odds for winning a national championship. Will Tiger fans root for the Hokies now? It’s hard to tell. Unlike Lynch’s, Fuente’s college career isn’t restricted to a certain number of eligible years. The 8500 Walnut Grove Rd HopeChurchMemphis.com/the-stirring Fuente-Memphis marriage, in a fantasy @thestirringhope /thestirring world, could have lasted 20 or 30 years, nine-win seasons becoming as customary as July thunderstorms. But there’s a prettier dance partner to the east, one with assets the U of M cannot claim, nor likely 11/24/15 will until it achieves 9856.HOPE-2015 Soul Stirring Ad.indd 1 “Power Five” status somehow, some way. presents Last April, I asked A CELEBRATION OF Fuente about his name coming up in speculation for coaching vacancies. He said something very honest, and perceptive for a coach so young: “Anybody who can guarantee you anything in this business, in terms of longevity, is telling a fib.” Fuente was hot then, and only got hotter this season. He’s in a business where selling oneself comes down to wins and losses. If Fuente returned for a fifth season in featuring Memphis, maybe he’d go undefeated, Nick Saban would get tired of crimson, with and the land’s best job would fall into CINDY BRADLEY & JULIAN VAUGHN his lap. But that’s unlikely. A very good job opened, with a higher ceiling for success, and in a place Fuente person• • PM ally feels his family can be happy. The

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s a two-year stretch of unprecedented success nears completion, the University of Memphis football program will all but certainly lose its two biggest stars. Head coach Justin Fuente is bound for Virginia Tech, the news finally made official Sunday afternoon. And recordsmashing quarterback Paxton Lynch — he of the fictional-sounding seven touchdown passes in a single half last Saturday — will likely wear Memphis blue and gray for the last time in whatever bowl game the Tigers play. Lynch is projected as a first-round pick in the 2016 NFL draft. Fuente and Lynch spent four years on the U of M campus (Lynch was redshirted as a freshman in 2012), and theirs will be the names most associated with the Tigers winning 19 games (at least) in two seasons, beating Ole Miss, and climbing to 15th in the AP poll. But their departures somehow feel different, largely for the Justin ripple effects to come. Fuente Like any Memphis college athlete who turns pro, Lynch will be “ours” as long as he wears an NFL helmet. Background stories written and told about him will have to include the 2014 Miami Beach Bowl, in which he passed for four touchdowns and ran for three more. And the 2015 season, when he tossed his 400th pass, having thrown only three interceptions, and became the first Memphis quarterback to pass for 3,500 yards in a season and throw a record 28 (at least) touchdown passes. If he passes on a fourth college season, Lynch won’t break Danny Wimprine’s career records, but he will dominate any debate over the greatest signalcaller in Memphis history. But Lynch would not have been ours had Fuente not ridden into town after the 2011 season. He brought bona fides as an offensive coordinator at TCU, but as The Man to take over a program that had lost 31 of its previous 36 games? Merely four seasons later, Fuente is the first coach to leave Memphis with a winning record in 41 years. Each of his last two teams established scoring records, this year’s bunch topping 500 points and 6,000 yards for the first time in school history.

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create bloody horror-movie fantasies in nationally televised debates, as Carly Fiorina did recently, they shouldn’t be surprised when people who buy their heated rhetoric take bloody action. Three innocent people are now dead in Colorado, one of them a devoutly Christian law-enforcement officer and father, killed while protecting helpless people from a deranged man intent on stopping the “selling of body parts.” The purveyors of heated antiabortion rhetoric — Mike Huckabee, Ted Cruz, Fiorina, and others — have spent the past few days denying that their words had anything to do with the actions of Robert Lewis Dear. Those words are as empty as their souls. Where are their demands for all Christians to denounce the actions of a Christianist terrorist? Where are the demands that we investigate the plague of gun violence by demented white loners? Where are the demands by outraged politicians and candidates that we “round up” these evil doers and give them ID cards? Unlike the theoretical dangers of Syrian refugees, our violent terrorists are all too real, their acts of bloodshed all too common. The Bible says, “They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.” Too often, these days, we’re all reaping the whirlwinds spawned by American demagogues.

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The remarkable national decline in crime rates has not skipped Memphis. Rather than shop, I spent a rainy Black Friday at home catching up on my reading and came across an intriguing editorial in that day’s New York Times. Titled “False Alarms About a National Crime Wave,” the Times’ editorial board provided detailed statistics indicating that, far from escalating, the trend in violent crime in America is in fact receding dramatically. The Times article called the long-term trend “unmistakable,” adding that “the rate of violent crime, including murder, has been going down for a quartercentury, and is at its lowest in decades. On average, it is half of what it was in 1990, and in some places even lower.” As a long-time resident of Memphis, a city that’s unfortunately known for its high crime rates, these observations piqued my interest, and sent me off into the ether to check out the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports. It’s a simple task; they’re found at: https://www.fbi. gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-theu.s/. The reports date back to 1930, although the oldest one online is from 1995. I decided to do a two-decade comparison. Despite what critics sometimes say, the FBI’s numbers do seem quite “uniform” for every metro area in the country, comparing as they do apples to apples in a dozen welldefined crime categories. So I pulled up the detailed numbers for the Memphis metro area in 1995 and compared them with the same numbers 18 years later — in 2013 — the latest full year for which FBI statistics are available. Those numbers speak volumes about what’s actually been happening here, suggesting that there’s something of a silver lining to our local crime cloud. Here are a few of the most interesting statistics: • The Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) had a population of 1,072,051 in 1995; in 2013 there were 1,347,803 of us. That’s a 26 percent increase. • Despite the fact that we had 26 percent more people in 2013 than 1995, the total number of violent crimes committed annually remained just about the same over this 18-year period: 13,432 in 1995, 13,389 in 2013. • The murder rate in the Memphis MSA declined by 35 percent, from 214 in 1995 to 139 in 2013. Rapes declined similarly, from 937 in 1995 to 617 in 2013. • Property crimes dropped 24 percent,

from 74,042 (1995) to 56,471 (2013), while motor-vehicle theft fell from 16,263 (1995) to 3,517 (2013), a remarkable 78-percent decline. These numbers suggest, pretty convincingly, that Memphis today is in fact a safer place than the Memphis of the mid-1990s. More importantly, this downward trend has occurred all while our metro-area population has grown over 26 percent over the past two decades. Even in our “worst” categories, the crime stats for our now-morepopulous area have stayed roughly the same, in raw-number terms.

These numbers suggest, pretty convincingly, that Memphis today is in fact a safer place than the Memphis of the mid-1990s. Now let’s face it: Memphis’ crime numbers, like those of similarly poor Southern cities, are still pretty miserable, overall, when compared to more prosperous places like Boston or Seattle, cities whose murder rates, for example, are one-fourth of ours. But there seems to be no question that we are a decidedly safer place than we used to be. And while it certainly is premature to declare victory in the war against crime, we should not ignore the fact that the overall trend in regard to crime in the Mid-South is positive, not negative. Mark Twain once said there are three kinds of lies: “Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” But sometimes statistics, however drab, represent indisputable facts. In 1995, the Memphis metro area endured 214 murders; in 2013, we had “only” 138. Of course, a single murder any year in Memphis is one murder too many. But does a 35 percent drop in your city’s murder rate indicate that the city is being engulfed by an all-new tidal wave of local crime? I think not. As a community, we should start by remembering to allow our discussions about crime to be guided as much as possible by factual information, not by uninformed opinion that occasionally borders on hysteria. Blind hogs may get lucky occasionally, but they rarely find acorns. Kenneth Neill is the Publisher/CEO of Contemporary Media, Inc., the parent company of The Memphis Flyer.

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There’s no waiting around in the lobby in Purgatory Gardens. Peter Lefcourt gets right down to business, letting readers know in the first sentence that the Italian wants the African whacked (and first thinks of it as his homeowners association mulls a mold problem in the laundry room). The book, Lefcourt’s latest crime novel, hits the gas from the jump, pulling readers from page to page with comic realism. But the pace is comfortable, even enough for the book’s past-their-prime cast of characters. It’s less a pedal-to-the-metal thriller and more off-path golf carting (with a chance of murder). Sammy Dee left the mob and his former life behind when he sang on his boss, Phil “Three Balls” Finoccio. The federal witness protection program relocates him to Palm Springs, California, and the less-than-luxurious Paradise Gardens Condominium Community. His low-profile lifestyle is upended when he gets his first natural erection in years. On a date at Olive Garden, Sammy glimpsed the “reasonably firm breasts” of his neighbor, Marcy Gray, a “mature” actress. The sight and a whiff of her 14 perfume dilate his downstairs blood vessels without the help of pharmaceuticals.

But Sammy’s romantic pursuits are complicated by Didier Onyekachukwu, a Coastal Ivorian neighbor who also has sights on Marcy. Sammy and Didier have the same idea, the exact same idea. Unbeknownst to the other, they hire the same hitmen to take out the other. The novel’s publisher, Skyhorse Publishing, describes the book as “Elmore Leonard meets Carl Hiaasen as directed by the Coen Brothers,” and it hits the mark. Purgatory Gardens is hardboiled like Leonard with Hiaasen’s perfectly grimy realism and the Coens’ complex slapstick. But it ain’t no Father Dowling mystery. “Kike.” “Dykes.” “Wetback.” “Fuck.” “Shit.” “Hard on.” If you don’t like these words, stay away — Lefcourt goes for them in the first chapter. But if you’re looking for a profane romp with warts-and-all characters looking for nothing close to redemption, you can’t go wrong with Purgatory Gardens. — Toby Sells Against the Grain Bill Courtney (with Michael Arkush) Weinstein Books, 220 pp., $26 You may be familiar with Bill Courtney. He played a central role — as a volunteer football coach — in the Oscar-winning documentary Undefeated, the story of the 2009 Manassas High School football team. (The title has deeper meaning than a team’s won-lost record.) Courtney has since gained popularity on the motivational speaker’s circuit, all the while running the lumber company — Classic American Hardwoods, Inc. — he started in 2001. Against the Grain (written with Michael Arkush) is a guidebook of sorts, Courtney’s lessons (both taught and learned) on living life true to one’s character, and how to maximize positive influence via character development. It’s a grounded, focused, often-gentle treatise on the two-word mantra Courtney holds dear: Do right. The author has faced the kinds of adversity that would cripple many, at least emotionally. Courtney’s father left his family when Bill was very young. Only a few years after starting his business, Courtney had to lay off several employees

to save the company. (Empathy can be cancerous for a business owner but is required for depth of character.) He even stared at a loaded gun in the hands of a family member. Perspective on “doing right” comes with sharp, often dangerous, learning tools. “Give credit to those you lead, accept blame when you mess up . . . measure your effectiveness by the success of those you are charged with guiding.” Courtney’s views on sound living (and leadership skills) are shared through the relationships he’s had on the football field, the lumberyard, and his living room. Being fatherless is no excuse for not working, striving, dreaming. The grace of a grandparent can prove to be a stronger influence than the bone-rattling skills of a star linebacker. And each can influence the other. But a solid foundation is required, one Courtney helps define. Undefeated gained acclaim for the underdog components Hollywood loves (and sells). Against the Grain celebrates the myriad details — many unseen and unheard — that help each of us find victories, small and large, when the bright lights are turned off. — Frank Murtaugh The Mulberry Bush By Charles McCarry Mysterious Press, 320pp., $26 Charles McCarry is not just one of the

best writers of spy novels today, he is one of our best novelists period. His The Tears of Autumn and The Better Angels are crackerjack books, mixing action and sociology, riddles and life studies with psychological depth. He’s more lucid than LeCarre and more serious than Ian Fleming. And, as ex-CIA, his details are authentic and his stories sometimes frighteningly realistic. His recurring character, Paul Christopher, is an agent with a heart and has the smarts to master tradecraft and still see clearly enough the foibles of his profession. Sometimes McCarry features Christopher up front, sometimes he’s tangential. In The Mulberry Bush he does not appear. “Revenge is a dish best served cold,” the maxim goes. The protagonist in The Mulberry Bush, a nameless first person I, seems to understand this in his very marrow. His father was run out of the CIA (Headquarters, it’s called here) and died under mysterious circumstances. He blames Headquarters and, in order to exact revenge, becomes an agent himself. He endures years of training and dangerous assignments, while all the time, within him, his vengeance pearls the grit. He is told, “The fact is, intelligence services exist to commit crimes on foreign soil for the benefit of a government . . . Espionage is a criminal activity, and in every country but their own, spies are felons and worse than felons.” This could serve not only as the exegesis for this plot, but for most of McCarry’s. McCarry lets his narrative unfold in a slow, cleverly articulated arc. He’s in no hurry because his hero isn’t. The structure is fairly simple; the execution of it is complex and fascinating. The hero’s scheme appears to work to the letter. After many years, he becomes one of the best agents at Headquarters. But, while utilizing his perfect ruse, he crashes into South American politics and drug dealing, a hornet’s nest that seems to engulf his original intentions. To further complicate matters, he falls head over heels in love with a woman deeply involved in the goings-on. Much of the suspense of The Mulberry Bush is generated by the reader’s ignorance of exactly what form this revenge is taking.

The desire to punish an organization as large as Headquarters, rather than any particular individual, seems naïve, even foolhardy. Is our hero stumbling around, or are the diverse machinations of the plot under his control? Who is the puppeteer and who the puppet? With great gusto, dynamite dialogue, and brilliantly fleshed-out characters, McCarry is the perfect guide, a sly Ariadne in a maze of his own diabolic design. — Corey Mesler (Corey is the author of Memphis Movie and co-owner of Burke’s Book Store.) Fates and Furies By Lauren Groff Riverhead Books, 400 pp., $27.95 Deep into Lauren Groff’s compelling third novel, where marriage is as much of a character as either spouse, the wife realizes “that there is no such thing as sure. There is no absolute anything.” This knowledge is what makes Fates and Furies such a gripping story — the reader knows what happened between Lotto and Mathilde, but what fascinates is why it happened. Like Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, Fates and Furies offers readers a bifurcated structure. The first section, “Fates,” examines in chronological order the life of the gregarious Lancelot “Lotto” Satterwhite, heir to a bottled water fortune and destined for greatness. While the second section, “Furies,” uncovers the source of Mathilde’s aloof single-mindedness by alternating stories about her isolated childhood and constructed adult life. From classic literature, Groff borrows a narrator who channels the Greek Chorus, a cascade of improbable events that befall the protagonists of tragedies (think Hecuba and Oedipus), and the unnerving understanding that mortals may not have control over their own lives. As Mathilde observes during her rumination on sureness, “the gods love to fuck with us.” Missing from Fates and Furies is the delightful liberties Groff took with realism in her earlier collection of short fiction and first novel, The Monsters of Templeton. However, by replacing the fantastical with

Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink By Elvis Costello Blue Rider Press, 674 pp., $30 Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello is a book about show business. It can be said that Costello’s career didn’t begin with the release of 1977’s My Aim Is True, but when Costello, as a young boy, accompanied his father to the Hammersmith Palais in London where he worked as a crooner with the Joe Loss Orchestra. Show business is the MacManus (Costello’s given name is Declan MacManus) family business. It was in the darkened ballrooms of his youth that Costello first learned not only how to hold a note but how to hold an audience. More than merely getting up on stage to belt out a tune, he learned about persona and character, conveying a story or emotion, and engaging a crowd. Such a life is Costello’s birthright. He shares his life with us through stories woven together over time and geography (this book is nonlinear, so while you might begin a chapter in Arizona in 1978, you may soon find yourself in 1969 Liverpool), and throughout we are schooled in the history of popular music. For anyone who thinks they know their early British rock music, Costello is here to assure you that you do not. He came on the global scene in 1977

and his namesake, Elvis Presley, would perish within months of the release of Costello’s first album. He walks us through the recording, rehearsing, marketing, and touring of that album and subsequent albums with anecdotes that read like a true rock-and-roll show — quick and raucous. He writes about those in the industry he looks up to and has played with and admires still, and just a few he never cared for at all. But the most introspective stories are saved for his family and especially the illness and recent death of his father, whose presence was a beacon for Costello throughout his life. It’s just the sort of emotion and feeling he’s put into four decades of music, and it’s that connection with the reader that makes a great entertainer and a great book. — Richard J. Alley City on Fire By Garth Risk Hallberg Knopf, 944 pp., $30 It’s New York, late ’70s. A 17-year-old girl is shot in the head in a park near a swanky building. Within that building is a party and within that party are two unhappy attendees who are connected, if somewhat distantly, to the girl. The plot of Garth Risk Hallberg’s City on Fire revolves around that girl and various other persons (punks, a journalist, a detective, a millionaire’s son and daughter, a teacher and writer, someone aka-ed the Demon Brother, and other hangers-on), and together they populate a certain New York of a certain time. Hallberg was famously offered a $2 million advance for City on Fire, his debut novel and his attempt, reportedly, to capture ’70s-era NYC the way The Wire did with Baltimore. As for whether it does succeed in bringing that turbulent time back to life, I’m too young to remember (as is Hallberg). It does seem a certainty that Hallberg used Patti Smith’s Just Kids as a reference. (It’s a charming, evocative memoir. Pick it up for the ambience.) Epic, ambitious, and sprawling are the words that come to mind, which is another way to say that the book is long as hell — 900 pages-plus. The first bit spins along promisingly; there’s hope and rebellion and rejection of mores. There are great paragraphs, hundreds maybe, throughout that read like clouds of art: “And you out there: Aren’t you somehow right here with me? I mean, who doesn’t still dream of a world other than this one? Who among us — if it means letting go of the insanity, the mystery, the totally useless beauty of the million once-possible New Yorks — is ready even now to give up hope?’’ But all that art tends to gum up the narrative. There’s just so much of City on Fire — little action compared to the pondering and the backstories and the facsimiles of letters and ’zines — it can be hard to keep up, and while I know what happens in the end, I can’t say for certain as to why it happens. — Susan Ellis

Black Wolves (The Black Wolves Trilogy) By Kate Elliott Orbit, 817 pp., $15.95 To most people, epic fantasy stories evoke a particular set of themes: ancient, powerful races, kingdoms at war, struggles between good and evil, mythical creatures, and damsels in distress. Kate Elliot’s Black Wolves contains quite a few of these elements, but Elliott masterfully deconstructs them, giving us a fresh new take on epic fantasy. The story of Black Wolves centers around five point of view characters: Kellas, one of the eponymous Black Wolves, who serves as a royal assassin and spy; Dannarah, daughter of the legendary King Anjihosh, who slayed corrupt demons and brought law to the Hundred; Sarai, a disgraced young woman from a wealthy people who enters into a political marriage; Gil, a disgraced young man from a scorned family who must marry Sarai; and Lifka, a young woman whose life changes after she steps up to save her father from an act of injustice. Each of those hallmarks above deals in some sense with power — who has power, who wants power, and how this power plays out among the powerless. Power in Black Wolves manifests itself not as magical ability, but as political might — as taxes and political alliances and rule of law, as bloodlines and cultural upheaval. Elliot examines and then uproots our expectations of how this power is expressed using deft weaves of characterization, worldbuilding, and narrative twists that will stun readers. Black Wolves is a brilliant piece of epic fantasy, and one of the best books I’ve read all year. The timeskip at the beginning of the book seems out of place at first read, but the payoff is definitely worth sticking around for. And if that’s not enough to sell you on Black Wolves, stick around for the giant eagles. — Troy L. Wiggins (Troy’s story “Tell Him What You Want” appears in the Memphis Noir anthology.) Memphis Man: Living High, Laying Low By Don Nix Sartoris Literary Group, 220 pp., $19.95 Memphis Man is the autobiography of Don Nix, the Memphis music producer and all-around rock-and-roll raconteur who worked in one capacity or another with artists like Eric Clapton, George Harrison, John Mayall, and Isaac Hayes. At just over 200 pages, Nix begins Memphis Man by describing a unique time for rock-androll in Memphis, a time when Elvis was performing at places like Messick High School and Dewey Phillips ruled the airwaves with his nightly Red Hot and Blue show. Memphis Man is an incredibly thorough look at Nix’s life, chock-full of continued on page 17

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the mythological, she resurrects catharsis — that is, lets the reader vicariously purge their failures when Lotto fails, and their grief with Mathilde’s grief. Already well-lauded (Amazon just named Fates and Furies its book of the year), this novel deserves as many readers as Gone Girl. And yet, it deserves more because, unlike more traditional pageturners, a reader of the Möbius strip that is Fates and Furies is likely to reach the end of the novel, land on the last word, “sure,” and be unsure enough about the whys of Lotto and Mathilde to begin again. — Courtney Miller Santo (Courtney is the author of The Roots of the Olive Tree and Three Story House.)

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The Witches: Salem, 1692 By Stacy Schiff Little Brown and Company, 498 pp., $32 Author Stacy Schiff’s The Witches is an exhaustive work on the history of the Salem witch trials. This is The Witches in a nutshell: Puritan ’tween girls start acting crazy, interrupting prayers, convulsing, and writhing about — you know, typical teenage girl behavior. The bratty girls call out some random nice church ladies and accuse them of “afflicting” them with their evil witchcraft. Nice church ladies are all, “I’m not a witch! I’m a nice church lady!” And the girls are all, “Are so!” And the church ladies are all, “Am not!” And then, the preachers get involved, and they’re all, “She’s a witch! Burn her!” Okay, just kidding about that burning part. All 14 of the women accused of witchcraft who were executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692 were hanged. But you get the idea — just a

bunch of minister dudes taking the word of teenage girls as gospel. It’s tragic and fascinating, and it leaves one to marvel at just how far we’ve come from our Puritanical, fundamentalist ancestors, for whom every facet of daily life revolved around religion. Schiff won a Pulitzer for her biography on the life of Cleopatra, so I had higher expectations for the readability of The Witches. It’s an incredibly comprehensive work, considering that records of that time in American history are scarce. And I’m certain Schiff may have written the most exhaustive text on the Salem witch trials ever penned. But there are so many characters —

accused witches, their accusers, authority figures, ministers, servants, townspeople — and Schiff jumps seamlessly from one person’s story to the next. It’s hard to follow what’s going on, and I felt like I needed a flow chart to keep all the Williams and the Marys and the Johns straight. To top it off, Schiff attempts to spice things up with a flowery style of prose that, at times, left me completely clueless as to what I was reading. That said, for anyone seriously interested in the history of witch trials in America, The Witches is probably the only book out there with the full story. At times, it’s more textbook than anything else. But if you can focus hard on what you’re reading,

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continued from page 15 wonderful stories and photographs that feature legendary musicians like Elton John, Carla Thomas, and Albert King. Although the majority of the book reminisces on the glory days of Memphis music and what it was like to tour in a Memphis band, the clarity with which Nix tells his stories is spot-on, making the reader feel like these events took place only days ago. His story of meeting Freddie King at Chess Records in 1970 is one of my favorites, especially when he recalls performing the song “Palace of the King,” a song that Nix and Leon Russell wrote for King. The group worked on “Palace of the King” for three or four days, “stopping only to order fried chicken from Fat Jack’s.” Maybe that’s the best part of Memphis Man: the lack of pretense gives the reader an immediate feeling of relating to the author. This isn’t some heady, word trip written by a god of Memphis rock-and-roll, but instead reads like a long-lost diary, leaving the reader with a great sense of just who Don Nix really was back in his glory days. — Chris Shaw

continued from page 17 the book combines alternate history, Dutch and Chinese folklore, and high-seas intrigue to create a rollicking adventure story the likes of which we have not seen in a while. Bren Owen is a young boy who feels doomed to a life of drawing maps instead of using them to travel the world, and his thwarted attempts to escape that fate only bind him more tightly to it. Sentenced to work in the vomitorium (yes, it’s just what it sounds like) of the cruel mapmaker Rand McNally’s prestigious adventurer’s club, Bren encounters a dying stranger who entrusts him with a mysterious engraved coin.

Bren’s wildest dream comes true when he receives an invitation to sail on The Albatross, the insignia ship of the famous Dutch Bicycle and Tulip Company, by the ship’s Admiral. He quickly befriends the ship’s boy, a small Chinese orphan called Mouse. But there is more to the handsome Dutch Admiral and his ship’s boy than Bren could have imagined, and not all of it is good. Peppered with gross-out details and bits of gory violence, this book has more to offer boys than most popular titles for this age group. However, readers of all ages and genders will enjoy rooting for Bren and Mouse as they navigate treacherous adults and mystical destinations. — Kristy Dallas Alley (Kristy is the librarian at Northside High School) Mislaid By Nell Zink Ecco, 256 pp., $26.99 In Nell Zink’s wry sophomore novel Mislaid, life in a small college town in Virginia isn’t as picturesque as the movies might have portrayed. Zink creates a satirical world populated by offkilter characters with irrational motives and complex identities in a time when white America’s homogeneity seemed most stable. Bear with me as I lay out the plot: Peggy, a closeted lesbian who also struggles with gender identity issues, is a

17 year old who doesn’t fit the mold of a prim Southern lady. She’s forced to marry a haughty gay professor named Lee after an affair leads to an unplanned pregnancy. Despite her husband’s ongoing affinity for men and her own struggles being branded “butch,” Peggy attempts and fails to live the American Dream with her philandering husband. One day, their unusual and unhappy relationship ends when Peggy runs away with her youngest child. Fearful that she will be committed, Peggy, Caucasian and blonde, adopts the identity of a dead African-American woman, and she and her daughter live a secret life in poverty until circumstances reunite

the family many years later. The story alternates between Peggy in her newfound identity as a poor black woman and Lee’s intellectual endeavors fueled by narcissism. The turmoil she faces is passed on to her daughter, who must live a life of a pariah in a small Southern town because of her fraudulent identity. Confused? In Zink’s strange world, it all makes sense. In an age of Caitlyn Jenner, Rachel Dolezal, and the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the book is very timely. I’d imagine Zink received a high five from her editor when the Dolezal story broke earlier this year. The book’s themes will resonate with modern audiences despite the time period of the story, and Zink’s emotionless, deadpan descriptions of racial and social inequality are refreshingly honest. Zink’s writing is zany and cerebral with a witty matter-of-factness that only heightens the weirdness of the world she creates. In about 250 pages, Zink is able to address issues of family, race, class, and sexual and gender identity. The thematic brevity is matched only by her ability to craft precise emotionally complex scenes. With varying shades of a Shakespearean comedy of errors and a Faulknerian Southern gothic, her prose is both accessible and highbrow. While Zink’s voice may not be for everyone, this should be considered one of the most wonderfully relevant books of 2015. — Kevin Dean (Kevin is the executive director of Literacy Mid-South.)

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If you could ask New Orleans’ soul queen Irma Thomas one question, what would it be? Would you ask about the influence of funk pioneer Eddie Bo or about her recording for Chicago’s Chess Records? Or would you ask what it was like watching the Rolling Stones turn “Time Is on My Side” into the hit single that should have been hers? If you’re documentary filmmaker Les Blank, you ask the former New Orleans waitress how to make a proper pot of red beans. The generous answer Thomas gives in Blank’s New Orleans documentary Always for Pleasure bubbles over with pure love. For Blank, a celebrated West Coast artist who lovingly chronicled a variety of American subcultures, music is sustenance, and good food is always something to sing and dance about. After watching one of his joyful films, you may come to believe that you cannot fully appreciate one of these things without the other. The Brooks Museum of Art is screening a fantastic trio of Blank’s short films as part of its American Quirk film series: A Well Spent Life, In Heaven There Is No Beer?, and Always for Pleasure, which also features New Orleans composer Allen Toussaint talking about the origins and evolution of second line dancing. A Well Spent Life chronicles the hard life of Mance Lipscomb, a poor farmer and enthusiastic rabbit hunter who also happens to be among the greatest blues guitarists of all time. In Heaven There Is No Beer? is a celebration of Polish-American culture featuring Walt Solek, the Clown Prince of Polka, talking about his song of purloined sausage, “Who Stole the Kishka.” LES BLANK’S MUSICAL SHORTS AT THE MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9TH, 7 P.M. $9. BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG

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THURSDAY December 3

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The Winds That Scatter Crosstown Arts story booth, 6:30 p.m. Screening of this film about a Syrian refugee struggling to make it in America. There will be a Q&A via Skype with the director, Christopher Jason Bell, following the screening.

A Visible Christmas Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m. Concert by the college’s student, faculty, and alumni bands, featuring traditional and original holiday songs. Nutcracker The Orpheum, 7:30 p.m., $7-$72 Annual production of this classic Tchaikovsky ballet by Ballet Memphis and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

“The Fleeting Hours” L Ross Gallery, 6-8 p.m. Opening reception for this exhibition of landscape paintings by Matthew Hasty. Lance Turner Residency Exhibition Crosstown Arts, 7-10 p.m. Opening reception for this exhibition of work by Crosstown Art’s inaugural resident artist Lance Turner. His installation is a “non-zero spatial regression” of his Crosstown studio — miniature versions of his room.

I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change Playhouse on the Square, 8 p.m., $22 Musical following the ups and downs of contemporary relationships. “Seasons Greetings” David Lusk Gallery Temporary Gallery , 6-8 p.m. An exhibition of the holiday woodcut artwork by the late Ted Faiers.

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Whatever one may think of Paula Deen, the Baroness of Butter, you’ve got to admit she’s a tenacious mistress of all media. In 2013, the Food Network star’s Southern-fried empire was sinking like a half-baked cake in a room full of buck dancers. She’d admitted to using racial slurs and stood accused of discriminatory behavior. Long-standing partnerships and endorsement deals evaporated. Her namesake Tunica buffet inside Harrah’s Casino vanished faster than an unguarded slice of granny’s pie. It looked like Deen, the cackling matriarch of the too-much-mascara set, was gone with the wind, past her expiration date, and likely to disappear forever. Only she didn’t. In the past year, a thinner and fitter version of Deen has shown her underpants to judges on Dancing with the Stars, launched Recipe Quest, a match-3 video game puzzle app with less appeal than a big ol’ bowl of Boston grits, opened a new restaurant in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and written a new cookbook, Paula Deen Cuts the Fat. It’s the last of these things that brings her to Germantown for a reading and book signing at Barnes & Noble. Deen’s latest book is a revisionist take on 250 of the Southern chef ’s favorite recipes retooled for healthier lifestyles. PAULA DEEN SIGNS “PAULA DEEN CUTS THE FAT” AT WOLFCHASE BARNES & NOBLE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8TH, 7 P.M.

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Cabaret Noel: A Holiday Musical Extravaganza TheatreWorks, 8 p.m., $20 The Emerald Theatre Company launches its latest season with this show of holiday classics, plus “serious soul and a little bit of sass.” Stumbling Santa Pub Crawl Flying Saucer, 7 p.m., gift for child 5 and under Annual event in which participants dress as Santa and Mrs. Claus (there may be a reindeer or two) and visit various bars downtown. Benefits Porter-Leath.

Disco Donnie Presents Ruby Rose New Daisy Theatre, 10:30 p.m., $25-$35 Rescheduled event from September with model/actress (Orange Is the New Black)/DJ Ruby Rose along with Dave Audé, DJ EPIC, JJ Wilson, Mylon Webb, and Tori WhoDat. Gingerbread Cottage Decorating L’Ecole Culinaire, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., $45 Decorate pre-made gingerbread houses (including marshmallow snowmen and waffle cone trees!). For everyone ages 6 and older.

Disney’s Newsies The Orpheum, 7:30 p.m., $25-$125 Tony Award-winning musical about the newsboy strike of 1899. Booksigning by Tim Johnston The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 6:30 p.m. Tim Johnston signs his novel Descent, about the trauma a family endures when the teenage daughter goes missing during a vacation.

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The Memphis Flyer: Other than a couple limited singles, there hasn’t been an Evil Army 12-inch release since 2006. Why has it taken so long for you to put out another? Rob Wilkerson: I’m not legally allowed to release another full-length unless Phil Anselmo releases it, because of the contract I signed. That’s the only reason we haven’t released another album. We have plenty of new songs to record, and we’ve been trying to get out of that contract for years. The first label that put out our record was called Get Revenge, and that guy helped us get a few shows on the West Coast, but when it came time to re-press it, he said he would rather give it to Hells Headbangers instead of repressing it himself.

How many full-lengths was Phil Anselmo supposed to get from Evil Army? The contract was only for one record, but it still hasn’t been completed. I only signed that contract because I was in a position where I really needed the money. It was supposed to be a one-album deal, but when Hells Headbangers re-pressed the first record, Phil told me we had breached the contract. He’s been holding that over my head ever since, even though he told me originally that it was cool. I’m hoping to get out of the contract. I have lawyers looking at it right now. I mean, one of the guys who signed that contract is dead now. We actually attempted to record the full-length for Housecore long ago. We went down to Folsom, Louisiana, to record, and a hurricane hit, and we had to cancel recording the album. Then about a month later, our bassist, Bones, died. So the record could have been done, and all this could have been behind you if it wasn’t for a hurricane? We were only down there for a couple days recording for Housecore when we had to stop. Hurricane Gustav wasn’t supposed to be that bad, but we ended up having to evacuate the city. We haven’t been back down there since then.

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How many records have you done with Hells Headbangers at this point? Well, they have re-pressed the first full-length like three or four times, and they did the “Under Attack” seven-inch and the “I, Commander” seven-inch. I think that’s all, but we also have those first two singles that Alicja Trout put out. You’ve been recording a lot of the newer Evil Army stuff yourself, did you record Violence and War? Yep, I’ve been recording everything myself for a while now. It might not sound as good as going to a professional studio, but I also know exactly what I want to get out of a recording. I’m definitely getting better, but I still have a lot to learn. I learned a lot from Jay [Reatard] when he was still alive, but I never really knew how tiring recording could be until I started doing it myself. Now that the new record is out, how often are you trying to tour? We were pretty much just waiting on the new record to come out before hitting the road again. We played Hells Headbash Part 2, and that was really cool. There were metal bands there from all over the world. That was in September, when Violence and War was supposed to come out, but our record got pushed back because every pressing plant in the world is backed up right now. I’m working on a Midwest and East Coast tour, and I have someone working on a West Coast tour. I didn’t want to book all these shows on just a seven-inch, but now with the new EP out, we are ready to hit the road. Evil Army’s Violence and War Release Show with No Comply, Party Plates, and Manateees. Friday, December 4th at Murphy’s, 9 p.m., $6.

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you to work with them if you’re still under contract at Housecore? Legally, I’m not supposed to do anything with another label, but I don’t think either label is worried about it, honestly. I’ve emailed Phil [Anselmo] plenty of times being like “let’s do the record, we are ready,” but I never hear back from him. Last time I heard from him, I was buying copies of our first album from him, and I told him that my brother was out of jail now and wanted to do the record, but he just ignored that part. Hells Headbangers is a great label, and if I can ever get out from under this contract with Phil, they will do a proper full-length.

ew bands have helped shape the landscape of Memphis metal over the past years like Evil Army. As the landlord of the Armory, Rob Wilkerson opened up the one-car garage in his house to bands that likely weren’t welcome anywhere else. Evil Army were on nearly every bill. And while the Armory closed long ago, its rough-around-the-edges spirit lives on in Evil Army. After dropping their incredible self-titled record in 2006 through Get Revenge Records, Evil Army gained a national following, one that grew even greater when Hells Headbangers rereleased the album to a much larger audience. That’s when things got weird. After a few run-ins with the law and a questionable record deal offered by Housecore Records (Phil Anselmo’s vanity label), Evil Army sort of disappeared. The band never broke up, but they certainly took a hiatus, occasionally selling homemade CD-Rs and singles in between sporadic live performances. I caught up with Wilkerson to learn more about the history between the band and Housecore Records, and to shed some light on the release show for the band’s first non-single release in nine years, the aptly titled Violence and War EP.

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Super Witch — Has Risen (self-released) Super Witch had the distinct honor of opening the Black Flag, Black Oak Arkansas show that went down at the Young Avenue Deli last year, a performance that pretty much served as the Midtown metal band’s coming out party. On Has Risen, Super Witch ride the line between stoner rock and modern metal, cranking out 10 songs of heavy-hitting, adrenaline-raising, metal thumpers that they call horror rock. Bands like Super Witch are what the recording studio Rocket Science Audio was made for, and so it makes perfect sense that the group enlisted Kyle Johnson to engineer four of the songs on Has Risen, giving the album a primal, live sound. The rest of the record was engineered by Dick LeDoux at M.A.P. Studios, and while LeDoux’s mixes are noticeably cleaner, the result is still pretty much the same. The song “Spaceship Cadillac” was almost certainly written by Super Witch guitarist/vocalist Eldorado Del Rey, a Memphis songwriter who’s been known to name-drop Cadillacs in his other band, Eldorado and the Ruckus. Overall, Has Risen is a solid release from a new band on the Memphis metal circuit. The songs are fully realized, with pretty amazing titles like “The House that Dripped Blood” and “Island of Lost Souls” thrown in for maximum effect. I could see them on the next Rob Zombie film soundtrack. I could also see them getting mad at me for saying that. Favorite Track: “Smash Your Own Face”

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

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

159 BEALE

145 BEALE 578-3031

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

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

Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 ongoing, 5 p.m. and ongoing, 7 p.m.; The Jason James Trio Fridays-Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Joey Trites and the Memphis Flash Saturdays, 37 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 Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall

Center for Southern Folklore Hall

162 BEALE 521-1851

182 BEALE 528-0150

119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

Mack 2 Band Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Jeffries & the Kings of Memphis Thursdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Nate Dogg and the Fellas Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; McDaniel Band Saturdays, 26 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m., and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Chic Jones Sundays, Tuesdays, 6:3010:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Wednesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

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

Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mississippi Bigfoot Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Chic Jones, Blues Express Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., and Sundays, 4-9 p.m.; Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-3 a.m., and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Blind Bear Speakeasy

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

Rum Boogie Cafe

Brinson’s 341 MADISON 524-0104

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

Riverfront Bar & Grill 251 RIVERSIDE

The Green Beetle

Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.; Urban Kings Memphis Sunday, Dec. 6, 5-11 p.m.

325 S. MAIN 527-7337

Live Music Sundays Sundays, 8-11 p.m.

Memphis Sounds Lounge 22 N. THIRD 590-4049

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

Grown Folks Music first Thursday of every month, 7:30 p.m.

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge

St. Peter Catholic Church

679 ADAMS 524-1886

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

Live Music Fridays.

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

Local Music Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

Live Music Thursdays, 7-11 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Vince Johnson and the Boogie Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

Double J Smokehouse & Saloon

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

Disco Donnie Presents Ruby Rose Saturday, Dec. 5, 11 p.m.midnight; Slaybells Fire with Sam Pottroff, Kelly Holland, and more Tuesday, Dec. 8, 5:30 p.m. 182 BEALE 528-0150

The Hebrew Hillbilly: Fifty Shades of Oy Vey! Sunday, Dec. 6, 7 p.m.

Purple Haze Nightclub

Paulette’s Live Pianist Thursdays, 5:308:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-9 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and MondaysWednesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.

The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

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

190 ADAMS 527-8282

“A Cambridge Christmas” Choral Concert featuring the Memphis Men’s and Women’s Chorales Monday, Dec. 7, 7-9 p.m.

South Main Onix 412 S. MAIN 901 552-4609

Neo Soul and R&B first Thursday of every month, 710 p.m.; Smooth Jazz Fridayds First Friday of every month, 811 p.m.; R&B first Saturday of every month, 8-11 p.m.

December 3-9, 2015

Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar

King’s Palace Cafe’s Patio

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The Buccaneer

Midtown Crossing Grille

1368 MONROE 278-0909

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

SICK THOUGHTS AT THE BUCCANEER Baltimore’s Drew Owen brings his home-recording wrecking machine to the Buccaneer this Thursday night when his band Sick Thoughts play with locals Aquarian Blood and Gimp Teeth. Since claiming the garage-punk crown from New Orleans provocateur Buck Biloxi last year, Owen has placed himself at the top of the trash heap, with his only real competition in massive-output perhaps being Martin Meyer of Lumpy and the Dumpers (St. Louis). Sick Thoughts released new music almost every month of 2014, throwing songs out in the form of singles, cassette tapes, and EPs. By the end of the year, Owen had worked with just about every relevant garage punk label in the game including Slovenly, Goner, Kenrock, Goodbye Boozy, and Going Underground. With so much recorded output released in such little time, it comes as no surprise that Owen frequently changes up his sound, dabbling in power pop, hardcore punk, and even “techno synth sludge metal.” But no matter what genre of music he’s tackling/making fun of, Owen’s approach is almost immediately identifiable. And while it might be easy to knock Sick Thoughts for taking the quantity over quality route, Owen’s prolific discography seems to be the product of one thing: he’s having fun. And I don’t mean he’s having fun in an ironic pizza-party-thrash-metal way, or a tongue-in-cheek, dance-aroundonstage-in-my-underwear type of way. His music is still authentic and believable, it’s just obvious that this perma-teen from Baltimore is enjoying what he’s doing, which is refreshing in a genre that has plenty of bands exuding a fake, tough-guy attitude. - Chris Shaw Sick Thoughts, Aquarian Blood, and Gimp Teeth, Thursday, December 3rd at The Buccaneer. 9 p.m., $5. Blue Monkey

South Main Sounds

2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

550 S. MAIN 494-6543

South Main Sounds Songwriter Night #19 Friday, Dec. 4, 7-10 p.m.

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Bhan Thai

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight.

1324 PEABODY 272-1538

Two Peace Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, Dec. 4, 9 p.m.; Terry Prince & the Principles Saturday, Dec. 5, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard James Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Anne Schorr Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

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

Rev. Neil Down, Richard James, Johnny Ciaramitaro Friday, Dec. 4, 9 p.m.; MEMPHOP JAMROCK, CCDE Saturday, Dec. 5; Eleanor Tallie’s Memphis Debut Saturday, Dec. 5, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; Lovedrug, the Incredible Hook & Other Stories Sunday, Dec. 6, 9 p.m.; Automagik, Sleepwlkrs, the Swansons Monday, Dec. 7, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Tommy Womack Wednesday, Dec. 9, 9 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

John Paul Keith Thursday, Dec. 3, 6 p.m.; Brennan Villines Thursday, Dec. 3, 9 p.m.; Alexis Grace Friday, Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m.; Graham Winchester Band Friday, Dec. 4, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturday, Dec. 5, 11 a.m.; Heath and Danny Saturday, Dec. 5, 6:30 p.m.; Magnolia Sons Saturday, Dec. 5, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.

Sunday Brunch with N OV E M B E R Joyce Cobb Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

SUSAN MARSHALL

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Artistik Lounge featuring Devin Crutcher Every third Sunday, 7-11 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Manatees! Friday, Dec. 4; Special Shoes CD Release Party Saturday, Dec. 5; Willow B-Day with Free Spankins Monday, Dec. 7.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

University of Memphis 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

Ruske, Frautschi and Chien Trio Thursday, Dec. 3, 7:309:30 p.m.

East Memphis

The Sisters Sweet, Scottie Spiegelman Friday, Dec. 4, 8 p.m.; The Warp and the Weft Saturday, Dec. 5, 8-11 p.m.

Brookhaven Pub & Grill

P&H Cafe

Dantones Band Friday, Dec. 4, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic Music 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.; Memphis Songwriters Association second Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9 p.m.

Sports Junction 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Live DJ Fridays.; Live Music Saturdays.; Karaoke Wednesdays.

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.

695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 680-8118

Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

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 Mondays-Thursdays, 59:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Howard Vance Guitar Academy 978 REDDOCH 767-6940

First Friday at Five Coffee House Concert first Friday of every month, 5 p.m.

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Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

Memphis Ukelele Meetup Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule December 3 - 9

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

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

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

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

The Windjammer Restaurant

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Band Of Brothers Rockin’ Steak Night Thursday, Dec. 3, 8 p.m.-midnight; Twin Soul Friday, Dec. 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, Dec. 5, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; The Original Sunday Funday with the Lineup Sunday, Dec. 6, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; The Nuttin’ Fancy Band Wednesday, Dec. 9, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Cordova

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

Bahama Breeze

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

2830 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 385-8744

Karaoke Mondays, 8-11 p.m.

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

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

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

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 6565 TOWNE CENTER, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-536-2200

819 EXOCET 624-9060

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

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Hollywood Casino

786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

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

Karaoke ongoing.

Poplar/I-240

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

East Tapas and Drinks

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

6069 PARK 767-6002

1021 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 800-357-5600

Carlos & Adam from the Late Greats Thursdays, 7-9 p.m.; Elizabeth Wise Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing; 3 Doors Down Saturday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m.

Neil’s Music Room

Mesquite Chop House

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplethret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

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

Tunica Roadhouse 1107 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 662-363-4900

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

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

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

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

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

Summer/Berclair

Raleigh

Barbie’s Barlight Lounge 661 N MENDENHALL RD

Mugs Pub

Possum Daddy’s Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

4396 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 372-3556

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

High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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

Maria’s Restaurant

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6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

The Other Place Bar & Grill

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

4148 WALES 373-0155

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

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub 6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

South Memphis Stax Museum of American Soul Music 926 E. MCLEMORE 946-2535

MsTish! - Fresh Tracks @ Stax Listening Gala Thursday, Dec. 3, 6-8 p.m.; Stax Fresh Trax First Thursday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

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

Bartlett Bartlett Municipal Center 5868 STAGE

Grif ’s Gifts Live - Welcome to the Stage Mondays-Sundays, 6-7:30 p.m.

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

RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

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

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

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

North Mississippi/ Tunica

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

The Crossing Bar & Grill

Frayser/Millington

7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242

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

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

Germantown 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.

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

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

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

The Fillin Station 4840 VENTURE DR., SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5423

Full Effect Band Friday, Dec. 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas 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.

The New Backdour Bar & Grill 302 S. AVALON 596-7115

Ms. Ruby Wilson And Friends Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke with Tim Bachus Mondays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101. DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.

December 3 - 9

Memphis College of Art

T H EAT E R

Artist reception for 2015 Fall BFA Exhibition, www.mca.edu. Fri., Dec. 4, 6-8 p.m. Artist reception for “Knowing Places,” exhibition of paintings by Betsy Brackin Burch. www. mca.edu. Fri., Dec. 4, 6-8 p.m.

Circuit Playhouse

A Tuna Christmas, the colorful residents of Tuna, Texas’ third-smallest town, are competing in the annual Christmas lawn display contest when a mysterious Christmas Phantom wreaks havoc. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $22-$35. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Dec. 27.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

Artist reception for 2015 MGAL Winter Exhibition, www.mgal. org. Fri., Dec. 4, 6-8 p.m.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

2425 S. GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

Landers Center (DeSoto Civic Center)

Miracle on 34th Street, www. dftonline.org/. $22. Dec. 4-20.

OT H E R A R T HAP P E N I N G S

4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120).

2016 Fiction Contest Call for Entries

Germantown Community Theatre Miracle on 34th Street: A Live Radio Play, classic tale about a department store Santa who claims to be the real Kris Kringle. The matter goes to the New York Supreme Court where the belief of one little girl could save Santa. www.gctcomeplay. org. $24. Sundays, 2:30 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Dec. 20. 3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (754-2680).

Gold Strike Casino

Celebration on Ice, original theatrical ice production featuring the beauty of figure skating and the excitement of live singers. www.goldstrikemississippi.com. $8. Dec. 8-20. 1010 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS (1-888-24K-PLAY).

Hattiloo Theatre

If Scrooge Was a Brother, businessman Eb Scroo has a surly attitude about the world, displaying no pity on the poor. Three spirits visit Scroo. With Scrooge as a brother, this Christmas will be like no other. www.hattiloo.org. $13-$26. Thursdays, Fridays, 7:30 p.m., Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, 3 p.m. Through Dec. 20.

December 3-9, 2015

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

The Orpheum

Newsies, story of a band of underdogs who become unlikely heroes when they stand up to the most powerful men in New York. A tale about fighting for what’s right and staying true to who you are. www.orpheummemphis.com. $25-$100. Tuesdays-Thursdays. Through Dec. 13. 203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, told through a series of vignettes, this fast-paced musical celebrates the ups and downs behind contemporary relationships. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $22-$35. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Dec. 19. Peter Pan, join the Darling children as they go on an adventure to Neverland and meet Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, and Tinkerbell. A trip to Neverland with Peter and his friends will make you feel like a kid again. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $35. Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Jan. 10. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

A Christmas Carol, holiday classic as Scrooge and the three spirits tell the story of a bitter old miser’s transformation into a gentler, kinder man. A Memphis tradition now in its 38th annual production. www. theatrememphs.org. $30. Dec. 4-23. 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

Night Shift, after-hours cabaret and variety show featuring Heels, Requiemma, Just Larry, Dan Castillo, and OAM Audio with hostess Katrina Coleman. (283-3814), www.theatreworks. com. $15. First Friday of every month, 11:45 p.m. 2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

Box Gallery

Closing reception for “Oh, Sanctuary!,” exhibition of new work by Anna Maranise. Fri., Dec. 4, 5-7 p.m. 3715 CENTRAL.

Collierville Library

Opening reception for Matthew Lee, www.colliervillelibrary.org. Sat., Dec. 5, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 91 WALNUT (853-2333).

Exhibit by Betsy Brackin Burch at Memphis College of Art Crosstown Arts

Artist reception for “The World in Black & White,” exhibition of works by Keysha Warr. www.crosstownarts.org. Sat., Dec. 5, 4-9 p.m. 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

Opening reception for “Seasons’ Greetings,” exhibition of holiday woodcut artwork by Ted Faiers. www.davidluskgallery.com. Fri., Dec. 4, 6-8 p.m. 64 FLICKER (767-3800).

Flicker Street Studio

“The Instructors,” exhibition of work by Elizabeth Alley, Jim Buchman, Nancy Cheairs, Maysey Craddock, Hamlett Dobbins, Melissa Dunn, Tad Lauritzen-Wright, Susan Maakestad, Sunny Montgomery, Ed Rainey, Kerrie Rogers, and Laurel Sucsy. (767-2999). Through Dec. 11. Artist reception for”The Instructors,” exhibition of work by Elizabeth Alley, Jim Buchman, Nancy Cheairs, Maysey Crad-

dock, Hamlett Dobbins, Melissa Dunn, Tad Lauritzen-Wright, Susan Maakestad, Sunny Montgomery, Ed Rainey, Kerrie Rogers, and Laurel Sucsy. www.flickerstreetstudio.com. Fri., Dec. 4, 6-9 p.m. 74 FLICKER (767-2999).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

Artist reception for “Inveterate,” exhibition of works by Toni Collums Roberts. Performance by Roberts, 5-6:30 p.m. memphis.edu/art. Fri., Dec. 4, 5-8 p.m. 3715 CENTRAL.

Jay Etkin Gallery

Opening reception for “Intersections,” exhibition of new works by Pam Cobb. www. jayetkingallery.com. Fri., Dec. 4, 6-9 p.m. 942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

Opening reception for “The Fleeting Hours,” exhibition of regional landscape paintings by Matthew Hasty. www.lrossgallery.com. Thurs., Dec. 3, 6-8 p.m.

See website for more information, rules, and entry format. Through Feb. 1, 2016. VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM/ FICTION-CONTEST-RULES/.

Agnes Stark’s Holiday Show

Annual holiday show is 10 a.m.5 p.m. on Fri. and Sat., noon-5 p.m. on Sun. Fri.-Sun., Dec. 4-6. AGNES STARK’S STUDIO, 12675 DONELSON (867-9240).

Call to Artists for “Secret Artwork in the Medicine Cabinet”

Seeking artwork for exhibitions held the last Friday of every month. $15 submission fee. Ongoing. CIRCUITOUS SUCCESSION GALLERY, 500 S. SECOND, WWW.CIRCUITOUSSUCCESSION.COM.

Call to Artists: “Mi Sur/My South”

A survey of Latino/a artists working in Memphis. See website for more information. Through Dec. 5. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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Holiday Artist Market

Features 35+ local and regional artists selling original works of art. Enjoy drinks from the cash bar, music by a cappella singing group Take Note, and free admission to the museum all day long. Sun., Dec. 6, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

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Monthly critique event where visual artists are invited to bring new and/or in-progress studio work for critical feedback and group discussion particular to each artist’s practice. Second Tuesday of every month, 5-8 p.m. Through Dec. 31. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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Exceptional and unique hand-crafted works by our region’s finest artists including a stellar collection of holiday gift ideas crafted in glass, metal, wood, fiber, and clay. MondaysWednesdays, Saturdays, 10 a.m. -6 p.m., Sundays, 1-5 p.m., Thursdays, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Fridays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Through Dec. 25. FORMER LISA KURTS GALLERY, 766 S. WHITE STATION, WWW.WINTERARTSMEMPHIS.COM.

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Ballet Memphis and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra present a beloved holiday tradition. $7-$72. Fri., Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Dec. 5, 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 6, 2 p.m. THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (5253000), WWW.BALLETMEMPHIS. ORG.

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All are invited to attend this memorial service in the Lord’s Chapel at Elmwood. Visitors will have the opportunity to light a candle in memory of those who have passed. Tues., Dec. 8, 6 p.m. ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW. ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.

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Harpist Marian Shaffer and the Westminster Singers present a serene and meditative selection of carols by candlelight. Free. Sun., Dec. 6, 6-7 p.m. SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 4055 POPLAR (454-0034), WWW.2PC.ORG.

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Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees

Animated characters set in the magical snowy setting. Santa greets guests at the end of the forest and poses for holiday photos. Benefiting Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. $6. Through Dec. 31. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.LEBONHEUR.ORG.

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Sat., Dec. 5, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (452-2151), WWW.AGRICENTER.ORG.

The Woodruff-Fontaine House is dressed for the holidays featuring the annual exhibit including old Southern Yuletide traditions and customs with a story in every room. $15. Fri., Dec. 4, 4-7 p.m.

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Holiday Choral Spectacular

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Enjoy a warm breakfast, crafts, ballet, winter farmers market, and photos with Santa. Call for reservations. $15 members, $18 nonmembers. Sat., Dec. 5, 9-11:30 a.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Cabaret Noel: A Holiday Musical Extravaganza

Musical experience featuring favorite holiday classics. The evening promises fun-filled song, serious soul, and a little bit of sass. $20. Sat., Dec. 5, 8 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 6, 2 p.m. THEATREWORKS, 2085 MONROE (274-7139), WWW.ETCMEMPHISTHEATER.COM.

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Children’s holiday gala winter wonderland with thousands of twinkling lights, magicians, visits from Cinderella, Prince Charming, St. Nick, and his elves. $25. Sun., Dec. 6, 2-7 p.m. THE PEABODY HOTEL, 149 UNION (527-5683), WWW. MEMPHISCHARITABLE.ORG.

The Magic of the Holidays Light Show Residential light show. Weather permitting. Through Dec. 27, 5:30 p.m.

EASTHILL SUBDIVISION, KIRBY WHITTEN/ST. ELMO, WWW. THEMAGICOFTHEHOLIDAYS.COM.

Memphis Arts Collective Holiday Artist Market

Vendors with photography, jewelry, textiles, vintage collectibles, prints, paintings, pottery, and more. Opening night silent auction reception benefits Alzheimer’s Day Services. Solstice party, Dec. 19. Through Dec. 24. 1501 UNION, MIDTOWN (833-9533), WWW.MEMPHISARTSCOLLECTIVE.COM.

Millington Christmas Parade Sat., Dec. 5, 3 p.m.

MILLINGTON CIVIC CENTER, 8077 WILKINSVILLE (873-5770), WWW.CITYOFMILLINGTON.ORG/.

MJCC Holiday Gift and Art Market

Regional artists help to make your holiday shopping easy. Sun., Dec. 6, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., and Mon., Dec. 7, 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG.

Music in the Galleries

Enjoy music in the galleries. Featuring Aron Shiers on guitar: Dec. 6; Jeremy Shrader on trumpet: Dec.12; Michelle Shrader on guitar: Dec. 20; Tamar Love on cello: Dec. 27. Sundays, 2-4 p.m. Through Dec. 27. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Mustard Seed Studio Holiday Showcase

Women artists holiday showcase featuring fiber arts, handmade textiles and jewelry, holiday decorations, and more. Handmade gifts made locally. Sat., noon7 p.m., and Fri., Sun., 1-7 p.m. Through Dec. 6. MUSTARD SEED STUDIO: SEWING AND CRAFTS, 1679 JACKSON (570-0488).

Polar Bear Holiday Skate

Skate with Crush the Polar Bear throughout the season featuring games and holiday trivia. For more information including dates and times, see website. Through Jan. 2, 2016. MID-SOUTH ICE HOUSE, 10705 RIDGEWAY INDUSTRIAL RD. (881-8544), WWW.MIDSOUTHICEHOUSE.COM.

Starry Nights

Biggest holiday light show and festival in the Mid-South benefiting Shelby Farms Park and Shelby Farms Greenline. $20-$150. Through Dec. 27. SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Toy Bash

Featuring live music by the Memphis Soul Review, cocktails and tasting stations, Amurica Memphis photo booth, and guest appearance by Santa and his elves benefiting Boys & Girls Clubs. $100 plus toy donation. Fri., Dec. 4, 7-11 p.m. PROPCELLAR VINTAGE RENTAL, 2585 SUMMER, WWW.BGCM.ORG/.

A Visible Christmas

Featuring student, faculty, and alumni bands putting contemporary and unexpected twists on Christmas favorites and new original holiday songs. Free. Fri., Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m. CANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 5251515), WWW.VISIBLE.EDU.

Zoo Lights

Help flip the switch on opening night. See snow at the Farm, Santa in his shop, reindeer, thousands of holiday lights, and more. $6 members, $8 nonmembers. Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Through Dec. 30. MEMPHIS ZOO, 2000 PRENTISS PLACE IN OVERTON PARK (333-6500), WWW.MEMPHISZOO.ORG.

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Decorate preassembled gingerbread houses. Must be at least 6 years old. Call or visit website for registration. $45. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Through Dec. 12. L’ECOLE CULINAIRE, 1245 N. GERMANTOWN (1-888-860-7270), WWW.LECOLE.EDU.

World Wine and Jazz

Featuring wine tasting, hors d’ oeuvres, and jazz concert. VIP tickets include early entrance, demo tasting and pairing by a local celebrity chef, meet and greet of musicians, and more. $45-$80. Fri., Dec. 4, 7 p.m. MINGLEWOOD HALL, 1555 MADISON (866-609-1744), WWW.WORLDWINEANDJAZZ.COM.

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A Wider Angle Film Series: Stations of the Cross

German Catholic fundamentalist teenager bears her own sacrificial cross in hopes of curing her autistic younger brother. Free. Wed., Dec. 9, 6-8 p.m. BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2726), WWW.MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.

The Winds that Scatter

Ahmad is a refugee from Syria who wants to start his own taxi service. When he loses employment at a gas station, he attempts to navigate through the current American economy with optimism. Skype Q&A with director Christopher Jason Bell to follow screening Thurs., Dec. 3, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

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Obviously, that involves securing more donations, both financial and material. It also means focusing their efforts on Memphis’ most vulnerable populations: groups like hungry children and home-bound seniors who can’t walk. For example, over the coming year, the Food Bank aims to triple the size of its backpack program, from 1,200 to 4,000 backpacks each week. The need is certainly there. In 2010, Gallup ranked Memphis the most foodinsecure major city in America, with 26 percent of residents saying that at some point in the past year, they couldn’t afford to buy food for their families. Among the city’s 77 low-income census tracts, only seven have access to a full-service

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Big Screen Hero Bryan Cranston plays a legendary screenwriter in Trumbo.

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s a writer, I’m always suspicious of movies about writers. The protagonist is always hailed as being exceptionally talented but probably troubled. But when our hero is called upon to read his writing that everyone in the film says is so great, it turns out to not be very impressive, because the film’s writer is not as much of a genius as his character is supposed to be. And let’s face it: The life of the writer is not very interesting. It mainly consists of sitting still in front of a laptop and fretting. But Dalton Trumbo was interesting. He didn’t just sit still in front of a typewriter — he sat in a tub surrounded by booze, ashtrays, and a typewriter. Trumbo won the National Book Award in 1939, got nominated for a screenwriting Academy Award in 1940, joined the Army after Pearl Harbor, and, after the war, became the highest paid writer in Hollywood. He was also, for five years, a member of the Communist Party of the United States, which would come to cost him dearly when the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) called him to testify in 1948. Trumbo considered himself a patriot, and thought that HUAC had no legal or ethical right to persecute an American citizen for his political beliefs, so he and his compatriots refused to answer the committee’s questions and were convicted of contempt of Congress. Trumbo became known as the leader of the “Hollywood 10” who were blacklisted and no longer allowed to work with the major Hollywood studios. Bryan Cranston plays Dalton Trumbo in Jay Roach’s adaptation of the writer’s life, and as you would probably expect, he does a tremendous job. Cranston’s work as Walter White on Breaking Bad has cemented him as one of the best actors working today, and he fully inhabits the role of the too-smart-for-his-own-good leftist with a big mouth and a precision-guided pen. Trumbo wrote scripts the old-fashioned way, buoyed by a heroic intake of scotch, nicotine, and amphetamines, and there is rarely a shot in Trumbo where Cranston is without a lit cigarette curling smoke from a long filter. There’s so much smoking going on that when Trumbo’s fellow traveller Arlen Hird (Louis C.K.) tells Trumbo he has lung cancer, it’s completely unsurprising. There are a lot of acting heavy hitters

in Trumbo, but the scenes between Cranston and C.K. are by far the sharpest. Hird sees through Trumbo’s prodigious bullshit, but he plays along because he both agrees with and respects the older man. Cranston also gets to match wits with Helen Mirren as Hedda Hopper, the arch anti-communist gossip columnist whose column in the Hollywood Reporter reinforced the blacklist. Diane Lane plays Trumbo’s wife Cleo, and Elle Fanning his daughter Niki, both of whom feel the negative effects of Trumbo’s crusade. Other welcome actors include the underutilized Alan Tudyk as Ian McLellan Hunter, Trumbo’s friend who served as a front writer for the Academy Award-winning screenplay for Roman Holiday; John Goodman as hack studio head Frank King; and Dean O’Gorman, last seen as the dwarf Fili in The Hobbit trilogy, does an absolutely uncanny impression of Kirk Douglas The actors are having such a good time that Trumbo’s weaknesses in the story department are mostly papered

over. Cranston’s huge, humane portrayal is great fun to watch, but he may come on too strong for the overall good of the picture. His confidence never wavers, even when he’s being strip-searched in prison, which means his character never changes. This is a common malady of biopics and historical dramas shared by, among others, Selma. Like Ava DuVernay in that film and F. Gary Gray in Straight Outta Compton, director Jay Roach plays it pretty safe, style-wise, choosing to focus on the characterization. Writer John McNamara’s dialogue gives the actors plenty of material to work with, but he lacks his subject’s talent for structural clarity. It would probably please Trumbo to hear a critic say Trumbo would have been better had Trumbo written it himself. Trumbo Now playing Ridgeway Cinema Grill

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The Priests and the Paper Spotlight breaks the story of the Catholic clergy child sexual abuse scandal.

in the Boston area. As Ben Bradlee Jr. (John Slattery) says, Baron is from out of town and Jewish and so has no preconceived notions about the church’s oversized role in Boston civic affairs. But once he gets Robinson and his team rolling, they methodically uncover a much bigger story than they set out to write: thousands of children, both boys and girls, who had been molested

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2015 has been a big year for movies about journalism. We’ve had a journalist try to get inside the mind of novelist David Foster Wallace in The End Of The Tour, a journalist get snookered by a manipulative psychopath in True Story, and superstar journalists fall for black propaganda in Truth. Director Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight is the best of the batch. The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team consisted of four investigative reporters: Walter “Robby” Robinson (Michael Keaton), Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James), Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo), and Sacha Pfeiffer (Rachel McAdams). We first meet the team in 2001, as new editor Martin Baron (Liev Schreiber) takes over at the paper. Baron pushes the team of reporters, whose specialty is in-depth, long-form stories, to look into the long-simmering reports of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy continued from page 41 by Catholic priests all over the world, and the church’s sophisticated and pervasive efforts to bury the story and pressure the kids and their parents into lowball settlements and nondisclosure agreements. Journalists used to be common heroes of films. Superman’s alter ego, Clark Kent, is a newspaper man, for example. But after hitting its peak in the 1970s with All The President’s Men, the stereotype of the crusading journalist slowly soured onscreen into the rumor-grubbing, ethically challenged hack. Spotlight is very much in the tradition of All The President’s Men, using the tricks of the police procedural to dramatize the often tedious job of the investigative reporter. Like a good episode of Law and Order, it’s the bit parts that make it work, such as Neal Huff as the manic advocate Phil Saviano. Michael Cyril Creighton is especially good as recovering victim Joe Crowley, who sums up the awful effect the predatory pedophiles had on the children’s longterm mental health: “It was the first time in my life anyone had told me it was OK to be gay. And it was a priest.”

Keaton, Ruffalo, and McAdams are all extremely good as the core of the reporting team, but the entire ensemble is strong, especially Schreiber, whose low-key portrayal of the editor Baron keeps you guessing right up until the story is published. McCarthy, who co-wrote the script with Josh Singer, manages to tell a dense story with a triple-digit cast of characters while maintaining tension and keeping the pace lively. There are

For people who value an open society, Spotlight is a master class on how things should be done. a few missteps, like a late Christmas montage set to a children’s choir singing “Silent Night,” but the overall effect is tight and occasionally moving. For journalists and people who care about democracy and the value of open society, Spotlight is a master class on how things should be done. Spotlight Now playing Multiple locations

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TH E LAST WO R D by Susan Wilson

Wuz That ... ?

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When my brother was a little guy, he’d look through the new Sears Wish Book and make his Christmas list. He didn’t write it down, it went more like, “I want everything on these two pages except that. That’s for girls.” As an adult, my list is just as easily made. I’d like to have the freedom of a toddler to run around and look adorable without pants as opposed to being asked to “leave quietly” because I’m “disturbing the other customers in the cheese shop.” But I am nothing if not a giver, so as I begin making a list of presents I will not buy my family and friends this holiday and instead order something at the last minute from Amazon Prime because, hey, free shipping and no pants, I have also made a list of things I want to give my beloved Memphis. Understand, I’m not offering what you fancy types call “solutions.” This is pure slacktivism. I’m just saying what I want and leaving it up to people who actually know about stuff and how to do it. I’m a facilitator. The ideas guy, if you will. My first wish is that we find another name for the flyover. That’s what it is, not what it is to us. Your old beater in high school had a name, right? Mine was the Blue Booger. I have proposed to several people that we start calling it the Grinder. We’re the home of the Grindhouse, right? And don’t you grind your teeth into meal when you’re stuck at the junction? I got those sort of blank, polite looks like when a kid in church tells the nice lady next to him that morning his daddy stubbed his toe and screamed, “JESUS HORATIO CHRIST ON A RAFT!” Then, once I drove up it, I decided on the Tower of Terror. Y’all ridden that thing yet? It’s cool as all get out. Just don’t look down. But last night I decided that Memphis should never be without the Zippin Pippin, so we could call it that. When driving along Winchester, my husband and I play a game I call Wuz That. Wuz that a Circuit City? Wuz that a grocery store? Thousands upon thousands of square feet of empty buildings just sit there. Meanwhile, a show called Memphis Beat was filmed in Louisiana. Work with me here. I’ll tie these things together. I think Memphis should be Movie City. I don’t pretend to understand the problem with giving the film industry the kind of breaks Georgia and Louisiana do, especially since we threw so much cash at another industry that upper management dances around with their tax credits making it rain in the boardroom. Those buildings could be soundstages, post-production, animation, craft services (we are a food city, after all), whatever. Memphis has a few tall buildings to be leapt in single bounds, swampy areas for battle, Rhodes College — especially in fall — looks like the perfect New England school where two awkward nerds can fall in love. Then there are those production facilities I was talking about where giant purple horses can battle blue lizards to colonize Des Moines and turn Americans into Ood-like creatures who wail to communicate. But I don’t want to give too much of my screenplay away. Cars are on my list, too. Get off the pot and build a damn parking garage for the zoo. At least allow me a bus route there that doesn’t take me to Collierville first. My husband, being a budgetand environmentally-conscious fellow, wanted to commute by bus to work. The commute involves starting in East Memphis, making three turns, and going straight down Getwell a few miles. Most of his commute is a straight shot. Right past a bus terminal. The 8-mile commute takes about 15-20 minutes in the car. By bus? TWO HOURS AND TWO MINUTES. In fairness, there is another route to get him to work by 7:30 a.m. that only takes an hour and 52 minutes. I understand that a public transportation system won’t expand and improve if people don’t use it. I also understand that if it doesn’t expand and improve, people won’t use it. If the Greenline has taught us anything, it’s that if you build it, they will come. And please, for the love of Pete, hurry up and make those trolley tracks of use for something other than getting your bike tire stuck in them and breaking a collarbone. Unless a secret cabal of Memphis’ world-class orthopedic professionals are in cahoots with MATA to shift business their way. I’m all for revenue, and I like secret plans. Also: Boscos must never ever never take the black bean and goat cheese tamale off the menu. I’m willing to trade renaming the flyover for that one. Susan Wilson also writes for yeahandanotherthing.com and likethedew.com.

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