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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR In Overton Park last Sunday, a bunch of people took off their shirts and covered their nipples with various kinds of sticky items in celebration of International Go Topless Day. It was a symbolic protest, claimed organizers, a bold stance against the cruel laws that allow men to take off their shirts in public, but not women. I just briefly glanced at the pictures posted on the Flyer website … Okay, maybe “briefly” isn’t the right word. Anyway, what I saw was a bunch of humans of many shapes and sizes with their shirts off. Many of the men wore bras to further demonstrate the absurdity of banning views of the nipple for one sex and not the other. (In a couple of cases, it appeared the men could actually use the support, but I digress.) At any rate, it was not sexy — anything but, actually — but it looked like everyone was having fun. So whatever. At least it wasn’t a total bust. Meanwhile, out at Shelby Farms, folks were dressed in Victorian garments, drinking mead (or beer), jousting, eating turkey legs, and in general having a great time at the MidSouth’s first Renaissance Faire. The turnout was great, and I hear a good tyme was had by everyone. It’s happening again this weekend, if any of ye all are still wanting to shake your bodkins. And there was also action at the cleverly named Health Sciences Park downtown, where the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest was defaced for the second time in as many weeks with spray paint. “AwGoWhat” was the message this time. And it didn’t take Memphis’ finest long to crack the case and arrest perennial wackjob mayoral candidate Leo Awgowhat for vandalism. (I’m just guessing here, but I suspect ol’ Leo is also the one responsible for defacing several other mayoral candidates’ signs around town with the same message.) The City Council also voted to move the NBF statue last week, but anyone who thinks that will happen anytime soon is just, uh, whistling Dixie. This case will be fought over in courtrooms for months, if not years. And if the city does eventually win, the moving of the statue, and the even more traumatizing move of Forrest and his wife’s bodies, will provide more ugly controversy and bring national press to town for reasons that won’t be to anyone’s liking. Maybe we need to get a little more creative about this issue. How about if we built a circular wall around the statue, tall enough N E WS & O P I N I O N to block it from easy view? Then we charge LETTERS - 4 a stout admission to those wishing to see the THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 thing. That’s a win-win, right? Nobody has THE FLY-BY - 6 to look at the Wizard of the Saddle unless AT LARGE - 10 they want to, and we make a some dough POLITICS - 12 EDITORIAL - 14 off of the Confederate fetishists. Use the VIEWPOINT - 15 money to fund scholarships for deserving COVER STORY minority students. “THE URBAN CHILD I realize that it will never happen. INVESTMENT” It makes too much sense and requires BY TOBY SELLS - 16 compromise, two things that are always in STE P P I N’ O UT short supply. But, full disclosure, I’m about WE RECOMMEND - 20 MUSIC - 22 to go on vacation, so none of this will be AFTER DARK - 26 on my radar for a couple weeks. I plan not THEATER - 31 to think about Nathan Bedford Forrest for CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 33 one moment while I’m gone. I trust all of HEALTHY LIVING - 34 you will behave and keep your shirts on ’til FOOD - 38 FILM - 41 I get back. THE LAST WORD - 47 Bruce VanWyngarden C L AS S I F I E D S - 43 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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About Jackson Baker’s post, “Council Votes Final Passage of Ordinance to Remove Forrest Statue” … If the state somehow managed to keep the statue from moving, what would stop the city from building something that encircles the entire statue, blocking the view of it from all sides, some sort of architectural monument built over the existing one? That would be a fun thumb in the eye, if state law somehow kept the city from being able to relocate the statue. GroveReb84

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In 1985, Ringo Starr recorded an album at legendary producer Chips Moman’s Three Alarm Studio in an old fire station at 200 Linden (now Dr. M.L.K. Jr. Ave.), but he later sued to prevent the album’s release, claiming he was drinking heavily when it was recorded. The building where the “Lost Ringo Album,” as it’s been dubbed by Beatles fans, was recorded has sat empty in a prime location next door to the FedExForum for several years. But its current owners are hoping to bring new attention to the former firehouse-turned-recording-studio through a planned fall beer garden, modeled after the successful Tennessee Brewery beer garden — dubbed The Revival — last spring. Beginning October 1st, Station 3: The Memphis Firehaus will be open from lunch through late night every weekend through November. The beer garden will feature live music, food trucks, and broadcasts of sporting events. The old firehouse building is owned by Shelby County Schools board member Billy Orgel, who, after attending the original pop-up beer garden at the Tennessee Brewery two years ago, ended up purchasing the long-vacant

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TED’s Excellent Adventure TEDx event launches in Memphis this week. TEDx will be arriving in Memphis this weekend, and it’s all thanks to a high school senior. Patton Orr, a senior at Memphis University School, has been interested in TED Talks — which stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design — since he was a freshman. And now Orr is the brain behind launching a Memphis version, which will feature multiple monologues of 18-minutes or less on one particular topic, on Saturday, August 29th. The one-day TEDx event will feature entrepreneur Kimbal Musk, hip-hop artist Marco Pavé, Memphis Grizzlies President of Business Operations Jason Wexler, Church Health Center CEO Dr. Scott Morris, New Ballet Ensemble founder Katie Smythe and 12 others, ranging from backgrounds of education and art to business and nonprofit. TEDxMemphis is sold out, but the event will be available to watch online around September 7th. Orr’s sister, who attends the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, attended a TED conference and eventually went on to work in their TEDx program, which helps independent organizers create a TED-like speaker event in their own cities. Orr became curious about the organization and its events. He found himself looking at a map of TEDx offerings and saw a hole.

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“To me, it looked like Memphis was really the largest market in the United States still remaining without a TEDx event,” he said. “So instead of waiting around for someone to organize that, I decided to do it myself.” After Orr got into the process, he realized he couldn’t do TEDx justice if he continued alone. “I’m only 18 years old,” he said. “I soon realized if I tried to control this conference myself or be the sole person trying to organize it, it was just not going to be the kind of large event that could really impact the city the way I wanted it to.” Ownership over the event wasn’t important to him, Orr said. Anna Mullins, the director of marketing and communications from the New Memphis Institute, attended the early committee meetings and stepped in at the request of Orr. The New Memphis Institute focuses on attracting and retaining local talent. TEDx events usually have an overarching theme. TEDxMemphis’ theme this year is “What’s Next?” “The ideas are typically thought-provoking, innovative,

provocative in some way,” Mullins said. “They’ve become very diverse in their topics. There are really popular talks that are three minutes long that talk about tying your shoes, and there are talks that are 18 minutes long that talk about food scarcity globally.” “We really see this as an opportunity for ideas to converge and challenge one another,” Mullins said. “Hopefully, it’ll spark discussion.” “So many people, and teenagers especially, are always saying, ‘Get me out of Memphis,’” Orr said. “It just makes me sad. I love to see when people take pride in our city, when people share ideas with each other, when people showcase the positives in Memphis, because there are so many. There are so many great things happening here, especially within the last couple of years.”

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brewery and is now converting the historic property into apartments. His son, Benjamin, and his friends Paul Stephens, Logan Scheidt, and J.C. Youngblood organized the second beer garden at the brewery this past spring, and they’re the team behind this next beer garden at the old firehouse/studio. While the main purpose of the beer garden is to provide a fun experience for Memphians, Benjamin said they’re also hoping the event draws a potential tenant for the building, which is for lease. “We’re hoping we find the right user for the space. And hopefully, when this [beer garden] event is successful, people will see that, and we can get the right person in,” Orgel said. “The best uses would be an office space or something like we’re doing with the [beer garden], but a more permanent solution. It would have to be upscale, like an upscale sports bar with nice food.” It wouldn’t be the first time the building has housed a bar. Years after Three Alarms Studio closed, the building was turned into a dance club — first with the name Danceplex and later called The Skybox. But those clubs were short-lived. The building sat empty for years, and, before Orgel purchased it last fall, had become an eyesore. “It was disgusting inside. People had been breaking in and living there. It was really a nuisance,” Benjamin said. “We went in and changed the locks and did a major cleanup job. We put on a new roof and lights on the building.” Station No. 3, as it was called in its firehouse days, was built in 1924, according to the Shelby County Assessor’s Office. But it seems as though an earlier incarnation of the firehouse was located on or near the property since as far back as 1857, according to Memphis Fire Department history books. After the firehouse closed, the city leased the property to Moman in 1985 for his Three Alarm Studio. Moman is best-known for producing records by Elvis Presley, Dusty Springfield, Neil Diamond, and others in the 1960s and 1970s at American Sound Studios on Chelsea. Whatever the building becomes in its next life is yet to be seen, but one thing is for certain — in October and November, Station No. 3 will be a beer garden. “We’re going to make a courtyard space on the corner of Third and M.L.K. in front of where the old fire doors are, and we’re opening the fire doors to reveal an indoor-outdoor bar. We’ll have a stage outside,” Benjamin said. “Four local beer companies are making beers just for this, and as always, it’s family-friendly, dog-friendly, and all ages.”

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Though a practitioner of Western medicine, Church Health Center (CHC) CEO Dr. Scott Morris turned to alternative therapy to deal with chronic knee pain. After several treatments from local acupuncturist Dr. Judi Harrick, Morris said his knee pain went away — at least for a while, until he eventually had to get a knee replacement. But now, through a soon-to-open community acupuncture clinic at Church Health Center Wellness, Harrick and Morris are making the acupuncture alternative available to Memphians who might not be able to afford the therapy otherwise. “Unfortunately, in America, we’ve come to believe too much that drugs will solve our health problems, and we’ve become overly enamored around issues of technology,” Morris said. “We believe our bodies are little machines and there is some technology that can fix them. And that’s just not right.” The community acupuncture clinic will treat all sorts of conditions, from pain to anxiety to allergies to digestion issues. It begins September 19th, but the CHC is already taking appointments. The clinic will be open to everyone (not just CHC patients), and fees will be based on a sliding scale from $15 to $40. There’s an extra $10 fee on the first visit. “Our mission is to provide the best possible care and make it available to everyone. There’s no need to prove your income. It’s all on honor,” Harrick said. Harrick has been in private practice in Memphis for more than 25 years, but the community clinic will operate a little differently than an appointment in her office would. “Community acupuncture is done in a group setting in big, comfortable chairs. You get the dynamic of the group energy while getting individual treatment. No one undresses. We use points from the knee and elbow down,” Harrick says. “We ask people to wear loose clothing, so they can sit comfortably.” The clinic will treat six patients at a time, and treatment can last anywhere between 20 minutes and an hour “depending on what we’re working on and the person’s energy,” Harrick says. As for how it works, Harrick explains that acupuncture is energy medicine, and the points on the body where the needles are placed are reservoirs of energy, or chi. Each point is believed to have a certain effect when it’s stimulated. “If you have symptoms, that is seen as an imbalance. And when we stimulate that innate energy, it stimulates it to move. That’s the nice thing about energy. It always wants to go toward balance,” Harrick said. “Energy can get stuck or deficient, and this brings it back to balance.” Acupuncture has been practiced as a part of Oriental medicine for centuries, and some modern medical studies have shown that it can be effective for a number of conditions. Morris doesn’t purport to understand how all that energy stuff works, but he said experience made him a believer. “I find acupuncture fascinating, but it eludes me in terms of the theory, as I think it does for most allopathic doctors,” Morris said. “But I can tell you that I would go in, and Judi would perform the [acupuncture] treatment. And when I walked out, I had no pain. I walked in with a healthy skepticism, but at least for awhile, my knee didn’t hurt, and that was consistent for every treatment.” To make an appointment for the community acupuncture clinic, call 259-4673. The clinic will be open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., beginning September 19th.

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The gentle breezes of the tropics stream through the open doors of our casa here in Belize. We leave these doors open from sunrise to sunset. It’s a far cry from our life in Memphis — bars on the windows, a security system, and two dogs who went ballistic every time the MPD blue lights flashed in front of our house for traffic stops made at the busy intersection of Jackson and McLean. That’s because there is an inherent sense of tranquility here and not the constant fear and worry generated in an urban setting. During our few weeks here, I’ve had a chance to reflect on how much the fear factor impacted our lives. I’m not just talking about our personal safety. It’s how local government, business interests, police, and prosecutors continue to exploit various forms of fear to deflect from substantive issues that could improve the quality of life for all. Memphis government dictates that city finances are in dire straits. They tell us our tax dollars are still not enough to deal with a formerly neglected pension debt. But rather than demand that audit, taxpayers are only told that city finances could be taken over by the state if pension obligations are not met. Is it better to be informed or stay afraid of shadowy consequences? Aren’t taxpayers not owed that courtesy? For years, the PILOT program run by the EDGE board, which grants millions of dollars in tax-free property initiatives, has had its hand firmly on the panic button. Since its creation, it has espoused that we must give out-of-town companies tax breaks or they will never move here. Yet women- and minority-owned businesses struggle to keep the wolves from the door on a daily basis. Granted, small businesses may not generate the potential for hiring hundreds such as IKEA, Electrolux, and Mitsubishi promised in pushing for tax breaks. But shouldn’t keeping local businesses whose home-grown allegiance to Memphis comes through only their own determination to succeed also become an EDGE board top priority? The fear factor is never more prevalent than the constant threat of crime in the Bluff City. When people are gunned down in the streets, there is very little comfort when you’re told by MPD that violent crime statistics are down from the

previous year. It is of little comfort when the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission uses stats from 2006 as the basis for a reduction in crime over nearly a decade. How do you explain that to the families of the murder victims? The media too fan the flames of anguish and fear. Get ready for a barrage of crime-related stories during the November ratings, referred to as the “sweeps.” Titles such as “Do you know who really lives down the street from you?” and “Are your children safe at their day care?” will headline every local news broadcast. Some of these stories will contain useful information; most will rely on the shock value generated by the title, meant only to hook viewers. As I mentioned before, it’s the public’s fears that serve as the driving force behind decisions that too often are based on emotions rather than logic and reasoning.

The stakes for the future of Memphis have become too high to invest our public trust in individuals with their own personal agendas. This year’s elections offer a crucial opportunity for voters to look for candidates willing to set sail on new courses of action. This is a critical time, one that will shape the city’s direction for the near future. A 20 percent voter turnout will only ensure more of the same directionless leadership. Last week, I posted on Facebook my impressions of what I’ve heard and read about the race for Memphis mayor. My suggestion that the candidates should pledge to improve the lives of all Memphians was met with derision and complaints that “it can’t be done in four years!” Those reactions completely missed my point. With the myriad of problems confronting Memphis, expansive efforts to change a culture from bottom to top over a few years is unrealistic. But demanding accountability from our elected officials should be set as a standard for a mayor or city council person. The stakes for the future of Memphis have become too high to invest our public trust in individuals with their own personal agendas. I sincerely hope that you will have the opportunity to inspire and breathe the winds of change and do so without fear of what lies ahead.

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Basar, as Luttrell had, challenged the emphasis on retail sales vs. higher-paying kinds of employment, and pointed out that Seedco had in 2012 been charged by the federal government with fraud in its New York City job-placement operation. Reaves made the point that the commission, once having made a grant to Seedco, would have no further oversight over its disposition, contrasting that with workforce development programs conducted under two existing entities, the Greater Memphis Alliance for a Competitive Workforce (GMACW), operated under the auspices of the city/county EDGE board, and the federally sponsored Workforce Investment Network (WIN). The commission would have significant input in either of those workforce development programs without having to “spend a nickel,” said Reaves, who called the proposed Seedco grant an exercise in “pork.” He offered a motion, seconded by Basar, to refer the matter of the Seedco grant back to committee while the commission

Even as most political attention locally is trained on an ongoing city election season, Shelby County government has a political crisis on its hands in the form of an ongoing power struggle between branches of government. When the Shelby County Commission concluded its last public meeting of the 2014-15 cycle on Monday, it was still in a state of uncertainty and division as to the nature of its own leadership in the year to come, having elected Steve Basar as its chairman two weeks ago, only to un-elect him in a reconsideration vote an hour later. But the commissioners seemed to have less difficulty on Monday in unifying against a common foe: the administration of Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell, which has gotten involved in a power struggle with the commission — one that consistently has put the two entities at loggerheads as to just who is the boss in the county system. The contest was joined in two ways on Monday. First, when Luttrell requested and was given the opportunity to address the commission to open the meeting, in his remarks, the mayor made an effort to review some of the differences between his

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But that’s part of the Trump magic. Not only has he been able to adjust to the overcooked atmosphere of today’s Republicanism, one gathers he could just as well proclaim himself a socialist or a vegetarian candidate and make it seem perfectly acceptable to his rabid admirers. Interestingly, Trump’s crowds are as delighted to see him come off the top of his head with the non-sequiturs that happen to occur to him on the stump as are, on the Democratic side, the throngs that are now coming out to see and hear Bernie Sanders, a legitimate and coherent bona fide socialist, who knows exactly what he thinks and why. That Trump’s extraordinary confidence is based only in himself, while Sanders’ is based on his belief in his politics is beside the point. Neither man is premeditating or calculating anything. They are just being who they are, sans focus groups, pollsters, consultants, Venn diagrams, fundraising mavens, or what-have-you. We like watching The Donald for the same reason as everybody else, evidently. He’s high-handed, vain, pompous, etc., etc., just as he was when, for the most arbitrary of reasons, he would decide which sycophantic celebrity to “fire” on his TV show. But, he is unfiltered. A rare thing, indeed, in this era of bought-and-packaged pols. Do we want him to win? Oh no, we’re not crazy, but we enjoy seeing him rattle the cages. And we have faith: There’s got to be a high side to all this. Maybe the national GOP will have to rebuild from scratch. Now that would be the ticket!

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CBU is making a worthwhile investment in the Latino population, because, according to Dr. Anne Kenworthy, “they represent the future of this city.” Trump’s national campaign is fueled by his money and a rabid, angry Republican base that is anything but Christian in its simmering hostility toward Hispanics. Trump calls for construction of a “beautiful” wall. (“I want it to be so beautiful, because maybe someday they’re going to call it the Trump wall.”) He’s called for the mass deportation of 11 million people and modification of the 14th Amendment to take away “birthright citizenship.” No serious candidate speaks like this, and, although his candidacy will fail, he has been successful in driving his fellow candidates and his party to an indefensible position on immigration. So let’s tune out Trump and focus on the good people at Christian Brothers University here in Memphis. They represent what’s true and great about America. They’re providing an excellent education to the underprivileged among us, they’re building our community, and their optimism is evident and inspiring. Bryce Ashby is a Memphis attorney; Michael J. LaRosa teaches history at Rhodes College.

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While the nation fixates on Donald Trump’s vitriolic anti-immigrant plan — a plan that effectively delivers the presidency to the Democratic candidate in 2016 — a very different and refreshing approach to immigration has emerged here in Memphis. Christian Brothers University recently announced a $12.5 million initiative to educate DACA (deferred action for childhood arrivals) kids. DACA kids are children who were born elsewhere and brought here by their parents, which makes this population ineligible for higher education federal grants and loans. Also under current Tennessee law, these students must pay out-of-state tuition. DACA kids attend our public schools. Many graduate at the top of their class and dream to achieve success through education and hard work. Enrollment for post-secondary education, however, is complicated and, in most cases, prohibitively expensive. The “Latino Student Success” initiative at CBU, founded in partnership with Latino Memphis, builds on the philosophy of the 17th-century French aristocrat Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, who gave up his fortune and dedicated his life to educating the poor. The initiative also acknowledges 21st-century American reality, i.e., demographics: Hispanics comprise 18 percent of the nation’s population; they are a potent force as consumers, as investors, and, increasingly, in the political arena. In the upcoming presidential election, the Hispanic vote will be crucial in many states but especially significant in the socalled swing states — Nevada, Colorado, North Carolina, Virginia, and Iowa. CBU has financed the program with a $3.5 million seed grant and plans to raise $9 million for a total of $12.5 million. The money will allow them to offer tuition at cost and provide no-interest loans to students who must pay back $50 per month on the loan — symbolic money for many of us, but these monthly payments inculcate financial responsibility. CBU also ingrains the mantra that students will “enter to learn, leave to serve” and that they should serve the Memphis community. This type of creative financing could be a model for all schools in the city, and Christian Brothers University hopes to grow its Hispanic population from where it was two years ago (3 percent of total students) to 10 percent next fall, with a continued climb up. This program is admirable for (at least) three reasons: First, it’s a humane

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Memphis children need help. The city is reminded of that fact each year when The Urban Child Institute [TUCI] publishes its annual report called, “The State of Children In Memphis and Shelby County.” It says that children here, from birth to age three, are some of the most vulnerable to poverty, poor health care, delayed development in their education, and early death. The report brims with grim warnings of what might happen to the children if someone doesn’t do something soon. And yet, TUCI itself has the means to affect some of the changes it so specifically defines each year. The tiny Memphis nonprofit organization sits on a gold mine — more than $148 million in investment assets as of 2013. (Data for 2014 is not yet available to the public.) But some criticize the organization, saying instead of spending this money on direct help for children, TUCI stands on the sidelines, letting its sizeable investment portfolio grow, year after year. TUCI president and CEO Gene Cashman disagrees. He says the organization has donated more than $90 million to Memphis nonprofits in the organization’s 20-year history. He says TUCI is not set up to be a grant-giving foundation, which have federal mandates on the amounts they have to give away each year. “I think in context of who we are and what we do, our contributions to the community over the last 20 years would indicate we have and do provide support for children’s endeavors, both information and knowledge, as well as support to organizations that are also endeavoring to support or advance those same children,” Cashman adds. TUCI used to grant money to an array of Mid-South nonprofits that focused on directly helping children, organizations as varied as the Girl Scouts, Youth Villages, and the YMCA. But in recent years, TUCI has turned the money spigot way down and narrowed its grant focus. The organization cut its annual grant-giving in half from 2002 to 2013, from about $4 million annually to about $2 million, according to federal tax documents. TUCI now gives money to organizations that would appear to only help children indirectly, organizations that research children’s issues or raise awareness about them. In 2013, TUCI grants didn’t go to protect children, heal them, teach them to swim, or fill their bellies. Most of 16 TUCI’s external grants in 2013 were given to places like the University of Memphis, University

of Tennessee Health Science Center [UTHSC], and the Neighborhood Christian Center. (TUCI’s board is laden with people from these institutions. More on that later.) In 2013, TUCI also gave money to organizations that don’t seem aimed at aiding urban children at all, organizations such as Victorian Village, the New Memphis Institute (formerly Memphis Leadership Academy), and the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis. Cashman says these groups help TUCI spread its message to multiple audiences across Memphis. TUCI has always been a relatively large supporter of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, the organization that gave birth to the institute. In 2005, TUCI gave the hospital $25 million to build its new hospital on Poplar. Before that, TUCI gave Le Bonheur money each year to support its operations. Cashman estimates that TUCI has given the hospital $50 million in the last 20 years. According to tax records, however, TUCI didn’t give the hospital any money in 2012 or 2013. Much of the criticism leveled at TUCI comes from the fact that Cashman, its CEO, makes a high six-figure compensation package ($633,529 in 2013), an exorbitant

sum, according to state and national compensation reports, for managing an organization with just 11 employees, including Cashman. His 2013 compensation package was nearly 10 percent of TUCI’s total expenses, including grants dispensed. For years, these facts — the huge and growing investment fund, the dwindling grant funds allocated, and Cashman’s big payout — have been whispered about at cocktail parties and have raised eyebrows in board rooms all over Memphis. Critics say that Memphis children need help and the time to act — the time for TUCI to spread much more of that money around — is now, right now. “[The Urban Child Institute] has established a thesis over the years that we need to get to kids at an extraordinarily early age. We agree,” says Andy Cates, president of RVC Outdoor Destinations. “We have an extraordinarily deep need in this city and have some incredibly strong nonprofits, and I believe those funds would be better allocated to action at this point.”

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Cashman came to Memphis in 1977. He was 35 years old, recruited away from a Washington, D.C., hospital to run Le Bonheur. He helmed the hospital until it was purchased and merged into the Methodist Healthcare system in 1995. Beginning in 1983, Cashman was also president and CEO of an organization called Le Bonheur Health Systems [LHS], which had a for-profit holding company that built successful subsidiaries focused on home health, medical equipment, infusion therapy, and specialty pharmacy products. In 1995, LHS announced it would sell its health-care businesses, all of them. Cashman said the sale yielded about $80 million to $90 million. LHS kept its name but got out of the direct health-care business. It became an organization focused on children’s health issues. LHS officials said that the money from the sell-off was to be used “to fund and support innovative child health initiatives in Memphis and the Mid-South,” according to an employee newsletter published at the time. If the mission and the organization’s leader seem familiar, they should. Le Bonheur Health Systems became The Urban Child Institute in 2004, but the core financial nest egg is still the same. TUCI has sat on most of that investment money ever since, watching it grow to its current level of nearly $150 million. Local nonprofit insiders point to the fact that that money was made by a nonprofit entity, supported by

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“Well, that’s not right.” That was the response from TUCI board chairman Dr. Hershel “Pat” Wall, a physician and former chancellor of UTHSC and now a special assistant to the president of the entire UT system, when told that sources criticized TUCI for sitting on money that could help Memphis children. Wall says he’s known Cashman since he came to Memphis in 1977 and that he was the pediatrician to Cashman’s children. Wall says TUCI is “very much involved in the community” and that Cashman is a “highly ethical, committed individual.” UTHSC has been supported by TUCI grants at least as far back as 2002. In 2013, UTHSC was TUCI’s largest grantee, getting more than $1 million, which was nearly half of all grants given by TUCI that year. As for TUCI’s finances, Wall says, “I don’t see the books,” and says he was only “vaguely aware of how much money they’ve got and how much they give out.” He says he depends on the financial savvy of other members of the board to review Cashman’s “very open and transparent management of the money.” “I can imagine what folks might be thinking about, that Gene is making a lot of money and he’s not spending as much as he ought to be in the community,” Wall says. “But I don’t think that’s the case.” Cyril Chang is an economics professor at the University of Memphis and director of Methodist Le Bonheur Center for Healthcare Economics at the U of M. He’s also a longtime TUCI board member. When asked what he thought of the way TUCI spends its money, Chang is quick to point out that he serves on the board’s investment committee, and doesn’t direct the outflow of funds. “We spend our money on very meaningful projects,” Chang says. “We support the mission of getting the community to pay attention to — and become more aware — about brain development in the first three years. That’s our mission that we have been pursuing, so I’m very comfortable with pursuing that mission.” But Chang says he can understand criticism on how TUCI spends its money. “Different organizations contribute to the welfare of children in different ways,” Chang says. “We have a lot of respect for how other institutions accomplish their missions and their ways, and we are comfortable with our

way. We’re not saying our way is the best way, but we have our way of accomplishing our mission.” Chang’s Center for Healthcare Economics was created in part by a grant from LHS, TUCI’s predecessor, in 2003. Meri Armour is the president and CEO of Le Bonheur Hospital and is a long-time TUCI board member. TUCI grant funds to her hospital dropped to zero after the group paid its $25 million commitment for the new hospital building. Armour says, though, that Le Bonheur has requested (but not received) funds from TUCI since then. “I think we’d all be well served if The Urban Child Institute saw fit to address some of these issues through more partnerships in Memphis,” Armour says. “That would be something akin to what the [Plough Foundation] does, and the [Assisi Foundation of Memphis] does, and the [Pyramid Peak Foundation] does. They really try to use their endowments to help worthy causes in Memphis.” Le Bonheur, she says, is now focused on “problems that really are unique to Memphis children,” like asthma, childhood obesity, teen motherhood, and infant mortality. With that, she says the goals of Le Bonheur and TUCI are “clearly aligned.” Armour notes that TUCI’s bylaws commit the organization to promoting the health of Mid-South children through education and scientific research. “So, I guess my answer is that I’d kind of like to see them do that. “The more I think that community philanthropy in Memphis can come together and support that, I think the better it’s going to be for the kids,” Armour says. But for now, TUCI’s huge investment fund is largely on the sidelines.

CASHMAN'S SALARY

Another long-standing criticism of TUCI is the paycheck and benefits package of Cashman, its president and CEO. In 2011, the package was worth $444,342 and was 6.4 percent of TUCI’s total expenses. In 2012, that figure skyrocketed to $778,519 and was 12.5 percent of TUCI’s total expenses. It fell modestly in 2013 to $633,529, though it was still nearly 10 percent of TUCI’s total expenses. Cashman says his compensation is vetted and approved by TUCI’s administrative board, which seeks help to determine the figure from Mercer, a national business

consultant. He says the groups arrive at the figures based on comparative analysis and performance measures such as success in strategic planning initiatives, progress with data studies, and the annual data book. Cashman contends he does not sit in on the meetings that determine his salary. When asked if he was aware of the criticism about his compensation, Cashman replies, “Yeah, but I don’t respond to that.” To some, a person’s paycheck is private, a no-no topic, up there with religion and politics. So, why is Cashman’s salary public and why should anyone outside TUCI care? Again, nonprofits are publicly supported, so pay packages on most nonprofit leaders are public information. Even though TUCI does not receive much in the way of outside donations, Cashman’s salary is publicly supported by way of its nonprofit status. That’s why the public has a right to care. “The public, which supports the nonprofit and uses its services, is interested in knowing how their charitable donations are being used and what compensation levels are being paid.” This is according to “A Guidebook for Tennessee Nonprofits,” a publication issued by the offices of the Tennessee attorney general and the Tennessee secretary of state, the two state agencies charged with nonprofit oversight. The Internal Revenue Service gives nonprofit board members wide latitude to determine compensation, formally stating that it should be “reasonable and not excessive.” But under federal law, board members who “knowingly approve excessive compensation and benefits for certain officers could be subject to penalties,” according to the Tennessee guidebook for nonprofits. The National Council of Nonprofits suggests nonprofits hire an outside entity to conduct a comparison study and document the process, including the disposition of the board’s decision to approve the compensation. TUCI has largely followed this process, according to tax documents. Armour says TUCI’s compensation committee makes this decision and is presented as a recommendation to the full board. But the compensation committee recommendation “has never specifically specified what [Cashman’s compensation] is. It has always been something that has not been really a debate question, I guess. I can’t ever remember being on the board and actually voting on his salary,” Armour says. Chang shied from the question at first and stated he wasn’t the chairman of the compensation committee. When pushed to answer why Cashman deserves his salary, he says, “He’s a very, very experienced business executive with many, many years of experience. He knows the health-care industry and also community services.”

COMPENSATION COMPARISON

So, does TUCI pay Cashman too much money? Most nonprofits are unique, and that makes for a tough apples-to-apples comparison. This is especially true for TUCI. It is a research institution, but it’s not connected to a government or academic organization like U of M or UTHSC. It does focus on children’s health research, but it’s not clinical or laboratory research such as what is done at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. TUCI is even more specialized, as it is especially focused on children’s health from birth to three years old. With all of this, it is fair to say that no one in Memphis or the Mid-South does specifically what TUCI does. So, how should such an organization be measured? The IRS breaks up the nonprofit world into groups and subgroups in much the same way science categorizes the continued on page 19

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donations from corporations, community groups, and well-meaning citizens. Nonprofits, they maintain are beholden to the public. Cashman says the organization started with about $90 million, has given away about $90 million, and now sits on investment funds worth about $150 million. That, he says, is simply being “good stewards of those funds.” So, why should anyone in the public or nonprofit sector complain about what TUCI does (or does not do) with its money? “Nonprofits are public organizations that belong to the public at large,” says Nancy McGee, executive director of the Memphis-based Alliance for Nonprofit Excellence. “Nonprofits are given tax exemption, nonprofit status, and they are able to deduct their charitable contributions. These are privileges that are granted by our publicly elected representatives to nonprofits. As such, that makes one of their stakeholders the public at large, and so [nonprofits are] accountable to the public.” Nonprofits enjoy financial and tax benefits because the government — we, the people — allows them to. In exchange, they are supposed to make their communities better places and address some of the issues that government can’t address or private business won’t address.

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animal kingdom. On its latest tax return, TUCI self-identified as a community health system. The categorization is probably out of date, a lingering vestige of its former self as an owner of a hospital and clinics. But since it’s the way TUCI still identifies itself to the IRS, we’ll have to go with that. Other Memphis institutions using the same IRS designation include Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare, and Christ Community Health Services. These are large, complex organizations that deal daily in the health-care industry, one of the most complex in the country. This, again, makes the comparison a difficult one. One way to do it is to compare CEO salaries as seen through the scale of the organization and the number of employees. In 2012, Baptist paid its former CEO, Stephen Reynolds, over $3 million for overseeing a system that employed more than 8,500. In 2012, Methodist paid its CEO, Gary Shorb, more than $2 million to manage a system that employed more than 10,500. In 2013, Christ Community paid its then-CEO Richard Donlon $189,477 to direct more than 400 employees. In 2013, TUCI paid Cashman more than $630,000 to oversee 11 employees. Using this comparison, Reynolds got $353 per employee, Shorb got $190, and Donlon got $473. In one year, Cashman got $57,545 per employee at TUCI, including himself. In the July 2015 issue of Memphis magazine, reporter John Branston compiled a report on the city’s six largest private nonprofit foundations. Among that group’s CEOs, Cashman’s annual compensation was the highest. Thomas Marino at the Poplar Foundation made $375,000 in 2013. James Boyd at the Pyramid Peak Foundation made $302,000. Teresa Sloyan at the Hyde Family Foundations made $289,000. Cashman’s salary of $633,300 was nearly twice as high as most of his nonprofit peers. The average salary of the CEO of a Memphis health organization that has annual revenues of more than $5 million is $571,483, according to the 2014 Tennessee nonprofit compensation survey, taken from a consortium of the state’s nonprofit advocacy groups. Nationally, the nonprofit watchdog group Charity Navigator said the median income for leaders of comparablysized organizations as TUCI (with expenses between $3.5 million and $13.5 million) was $148,659 in 2012.

Armour. The list also included Stanley Hyland, a researcher at U of M, which receives funds from TUCI. James Witherington, of the Neighborhood Christian Center, is on the TUCI board, and TUCI gave his group more than $630,000 in 2013. Frederick Palmer, a UTHSC doctor, served on the TUCI board in 2013. Chang says the board is a mixture of “community folks and so forth,” and defends the role of U of M and UTHSC — two of the biggest organizations that TUCI funds — noting that their members are present but that they don’t dominate the TUCI board. Armour notes that the seeming conflict of interest on the TUCI board has “been a point of some debate in the community, that the members of the board might have some vested interest.” But she says the nominations are made and the proper conflict-of-interest statements are filed. Cashman says TUCI is first and foremost a support organization and that it is prudent and legal for supported agencies to have a seat at the board. But, he says, members from

those organizations must recuse themselves of any vote related specifically to their organizations. Data, Cashman says, is the cornerstone of what TUCI does, and, he adds, data was the target focus from the very beginning. Cashman says getting that data has determined who TUCI has funded and that data has been assembled for “broad community consumption.” He says he believes TUCI’s ongoing study called “Conditions Affecting Neurocognitive Development and Learning in Early childhood,” or CANDLE, will directly change the lives of Memphis children. “It is going to reveal, we believe, some findings that will be important interventions, in the environmental sense, of where children are living, their educations, their long-term health wellbeing, and crime.” The multi-million-dollar question remains for TUCI’s critics, however: Will the organization put more of its money toward addressing the problems of the urban children it researches?

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Sister Myotis

By Chris Davis

What would the annual theater awards be without a little drama? Item: Sister Myotis, Memphis’ beloved queen of evangelitainment, is hosting the Ostrander Awards again. It’s the God-fearing prayer warrior’s sixth time presiding over a yearly bacchanal honoring the best of the best of Memphis theater. But did you know her long-standing association with the event belies a deep and abiding mistrust of thespians? In a frank 2009 interview, Myotis, the lead deaconess at Good Tidings Apostolic Holiness Christian Fellowship of Saints Church, told the Memphis Flyer that you never know what to expect when dealing with theater people. She’d read “them Jackie Collins books about showbiz types that will lay with anybody that’ll give them a starring role.” She even carried a stun gun in her purse in case she was propositioned by some modern-day whore of Babylon looking to trade bodily fluids for the opportunity to perform in her church’s famous Living Christmas Tree pageant. You’ve been warned. Item: This year’s best-musical nominees are ecumenically distributed among Playhouse on the Square, Theatre Memphis, and the Hattiloo with nods going to Assassins, Kiss Me, Kate, Mary Poppins, The Addams Family, and Once On This Island. Best-play nominees include All My Sons, Distance, Seminar, The Heiress, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, at Germantown Community Theatre, Theatre South, Circuit Playhouse, Theatre Memphis, and Playhouse on the Square, respectively. This year’s recipient of the Eugart Yerian Award for lifetime achievement: Playhouse on the Square’s Karin Barile. Item: No nominations for Theatre Memphis’ pitch-perfect production of Rapture, Blister, Burn? Scandalous. THE 32ND ANNUAL OSTRANDER AWARDS WILL BE HELD SUNDAY, AUGUST 30TH, AT THE ORPHEUM THEATRE. COCKTAILS AND GOSSIP BEGIN AT 6 P.M. AWARDS AT 7 P.M. $10

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THURSDAY August 27

FRIDAY August 28

‘‘Here All Along’’ Crosstown Arts, 10 a.m.- 6 p.m., free Collaborative exhibition featuring work by artists from the Klondike, Smokey City, New Chicago, and Crosstown neighborhoods, which asks, “What does it mean to live in a neighborhood?’’ and reflects individual and collective neighborhood experiences. A reception for this exhibit is Friday at 6 p.m. and a gallery talk Saturday at 2 p.m.

Neil Sedaka Horseshoe Casino, Tunica, 8 p.m., $42-$102 One of the most prolific and successful songwriters, with Boomerera hits including “Calendar Girl” and “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do.” He also wrote and recorded “Stairway To Heaven” — just not the one you’re humming right now.

Late-at-night in-the-know Food, p. 38 SATURDAY August 29 Booksigning by Darrin Devault and Tom Graves South Main Book Juggler, 6-9 p.m. Devault and Graves discuss and sign Graceland Too Revisited, about the oddball tourist attraction in Tupelo and its single-minded proprietor, Paul McLeod.

Over the Edge One Commerce Square, all day Cue the Spider-Man theme song. As many as 75 altruistic daredevils will rappel from the top of one of Memphis’ tallest buildings to raise money to support Special Olympics. McGregorfest Rides Again 831 S. Cooper at Evelyn, 1 p.m. till it’s over. $10 suggested donation. A slew of Memphis’ finest roots musicians are playing to support Don McGregor and his family. Over the years, Don has played in bands like the Rhythm Hounds and Crawpatch. His latest gig: fighting colon cancer.

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“Parlor Tricks’’ By Chris Davis What does super-circus-clown Larry Clark do when he has some time off from work? Clark, whose showbiz resume includes time served as a magician, sideshow geek, gentleman juggler, and stand-up comedian, has a month off from his national circus tour, so he’s putting on a one-man show exclusively for his hometown. “People always ask me why I don’t tour my shows,” says Clark, whose adult variety shows always sell out. “But this is just something I do when I’m at home in Memphis.” Clark’s new show is called “Parlor Tricks’’ and features — you guessed it — parlor tricks! “I realized the space I’d picked for this show was smaller,” he says, without complaint. While he won’t be juggling any chainsaws this time around, the intimacy of the Brass Door’s downstairs performance space allows him to do a completely different kind of show. “I love card tricks and card manipulation,” Clark says. “Barely a day goes by that a deck of cards doesn’t touch my hands.” But since up-close magic gets lost in larger theaters, he never gets to do many of his favorite tricks. “I do this thing where I swallow a needle and thread,” Clark says. “But it looks terrible on stage.” In a cabaret space he can take that sort of thing directly to the audience. “I’ve always used mentalism,” Clark says, alluding to the psychic-style performances pioneered by artists like the Amazing Kreskin. “Parlor Tricks,’’ he says, lets him put his observational skills front and center and determine the name of a volunteer’s first puppy. LARRY CLARK PRESENTS "PARLOR TRICKS" AT THE BRASS DOOR, AUG. 28-29, 8 P.M. $10

Song of the Sea Brooks Museum of Art, 2 p.m. $9/$5 Song of the Sea is a gorgeously imagined animated feature assembled by Tomm Moore, the Academy Award-winning director of The Secret of Kells. It’s based on an old Irish legend about the Selkies, a race of magical folk who live as humans on the land but transform into seals in the ocean. Song of the Sea tells the story of siblings who keep the fairy world from vanishing forever.

Live at the Garden presents Rob Thomas Memphis Botanic Garden, 6 p.m. $40-$74 The Matchbox Twenty front man tells rock-star stories and performs a selection of hits and new material. Pop-punk band Plain White T’s open the show. Sweatfest Shangri-La Records, 2-8 p.m. Shangri-La Records is pricing “tons” of CDs and 45s at $1, and throws a party with bands like James and the Ultrasounds, the Sheiks, Toy Trucks, and others.

Bowling for Balls IV: When Balls Attack Billy Hardwick’s All Star Lanes, 2-5 p.m., $100 per 4-person team Concerned bowlers drink beer, eat pizza, and knock down some pins to raise awareness and help stamp out testicular cancer. Breakaway-Bardog 5K/Street Festival Bardog Tavern, noon-6 p.m. Is there anything better than a meatball eating contest? The answer is no. Festival attendees will also enjoy live music, a dunk tank, and a 5K run benefiting St. Jude.

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World Decline The powerful documentary series returns.

fter years of only being available on VHS, The Decline of Western Civilization documentary series finally got the Bluray box-set treatment it desperately deserved. Focusing on three different eras of the underground Los Angeles music scene from 1979 to 1998, The Decline forced viewers to look past the spikes, leather, and spit and into a world of homeless teens, drug and alcohol abuse, and senseless violence. While the first installment of The Decline is definitely the most popular, all three documentaries stand the test of time. The new box set comes with a bonus disc featuring tons of outtakes, commentary, and unedited interviews, in addition to a booklet that expounds on the cultural significance of what director Penelope Spheeris (Black Sheep, Wayne’s World) calls her greatest work. In the Beginning Punk rock has always been an easy target for the film industry (Repo Man, Thrashin’, The Return of the Living Dead), but no filmmaker took the musical phenomenon seriously quite like Penelope Spheeris and her 1981 documentary, The Decline of Western Civilization. The film focuses on the early days of the Los Angeles punk world, specifically the scene that started at the Masque and then spilled into whatever clubs would host the unpredictable and often violent gigs. Quite simply, The Decline is the definitive source on the early days of punk rock and hardcore in Los Angeles, along with the Brendan Mullen and Marc Spitz oral history We Got the Neutron Bomb. Spheeris shines the spotlight on groups like Germs, X, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and Alice Bag Band and allows the editor of Slash magazine, Claude Bessy, aka Kickboy Face, to be the voice of his leather-clad generation in multiple captivating scenes. Spheeris also secured one of the last interviews with Jan Paul Beahm (aka Darby Crash), as the singer died of an overdose/suicide months before the movie premiered in Los Angeles. Other highlights include early footage of Fear front man Lee Ving’s approach to crowd interaction and the Black Flag interview at their home “The Church,” in which then-Black Flag vocalist Ron Reyes shows off the closet he calls home.

Heavy Metal Excess The second documentary in The Decline series might not be the most bleak, but it’s certainly the most cringeworthy. Spheeris had a much larger budget for The Decline of Western Civilization: The Metal Years and enlisted the help of Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Lemmy Kilmister, Ozzy Osbourne, and Steven Tyler (among others) to explain the heavy metal phenomenon that took L.A. by storm in the mid’80s. You can probably guess how the story plays out: groupies, cocaine and alcohol, more groupies, gallons of hairspray, and loads of money from record companies cashing in on a new style of rock-and-roll. Paul Stanley is literally lying in a bed of groupies whenever he appears in the documentary (sans makeup, of course), and somehow Kilmister of Motörhead got the “voice of reason” role as he ponders the social significance of heavy metal while overlooking the Los Angeles skyline. Yes, this documentary is as strange/ corny as it sounds, but it’s also extremely entertaining. While the other two documentaries in this series preach a mantra of social change, all of the subjects in The Metal Years just want to be rock stars, no matter how much of a long shot it might be. Tyler claims that he lost millions by “snorting up all of Peru,” and, honestly, anything Tyler says during his short time on camera is worth the price of admission. But it’s not all fun and games and spandex in The Metal Years, especially when Chris Holmes of W.A.S.P. appears noticeably wasted and floating fully clothed in his pool, exclaiming that he’s a full-blown alcoholic. He then confesses to drinking five pints of vodka a day before pouring a whole fifth of vodka on his face and sliding into the pool. While The Metal Years might have some big-name cameos, most of the bands that perform in the movie (except for Megadeth) never made it big. Show’s Over By the time The Decline of Western Civilization: Part III came out in 1998, Spheeris had a blueprint to work with. She’d already exposed the wayward youth of Los Angeles twice, whether she was focusing on the metal scene on the Sunset Strip or the dawn of punk rock in L.A. clubs like the Masque and the Whiskey. The Decline: III focuses

tance) still preach social change, their audience seemed to be totally missing the point. With quotes like “I live for beer” rampant throughout the documentary, Spheeris perhaps captured a group of individuals not as interested in changing the world as they are in self-destruction. While the first Decline captured the youthful spirit of a new social movement and The Metal Years captured the decadence and machismo of the ’80s L.A. metal scene, The Decline: III doesn’t find youth in revolt or with aspirations to be like the rock stars plastered on their walls. Instead, it finds youth in decay.

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on a group of outcasts known as “gutter punks.” While the punk rockers in the first Decline at least claimed to want to change their world, the street dwellers in The Decline: III just want to get drunk. Really drunk. Most of the subjects interviewed by Spheeris have either run away or been kicked out of their parents’ homes, resorting to living in the gutters, on rooftops, and in squat houses of seedy downtown Los Angeles when they aren’t taking part in delinquent behavior. Though the bands featured in The Decline: III (Naked Aggression, Final Conflict, Litmus Green, and the Resis-

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More Reatards audience to ignore it. Grown Up could be the Reatards putting ’90s garage rock to bed by creating its perfect last word, as this song cycle feels like a reimaging or corrective exercise rather than an attempt to erase the subgenre from the earth’s surface. But as Eric Friedl’s updated liner notes point out, there was some innovation here. Grown Up was either the first, or a very early effort, to mix garage rock with the late-’70s/early-’80s outlier/privatelabel punk, power pop, post-punk, and proto-hardcore associated with the soon to be highly influential Killed by Death and Bloodstains Across… compilations. The two excellent covers, King Louie Bankston’s (via his band the Persuaders) “Heart of Chrome” and “I Want Sex” by the Reactors, couldn’t have fit more seamlessly with the original material. Revisiting theme and mood, Grown Up differs from previous Reatards material by showcasing more menace and break-up pain/anger, plus a touch of the dark worldview that would come closer to fruition in Lindsey’s next band. Something else that distances Grown Up from the rest of the original-run discography is a notch up in production quality. Not quite the blown-out, in-the-red affair that is Teenage Hate, the recordings were done on analog 8-track at a home-studio setup by Lindsey and a partner in crime who would become the most important collaborator of Lindsey’s career, Alicja Trout. It is with Trout that Jay would embark upon his first and last experience splitting all creative duties with another songwriter in the aforementioned Lost Sounds from 1999 to 2005, but the pioneers of modern dark-wave/synth-punk-meets-garage punk remained relegated to side-project status until late-00. This reissue of Grown Up, Fucked Up comes as a single 150-gram LP (on white vinyl if you act fast) with a download version that includes the three-song “You’re So Lewd” 7” EP, also originally released in 1999 and the title that inaugurated the Reatards’ move to Empty Records. One side of the inner sleeve features the album’s original liner notes and credits, and, though brief, the opposite side is essential reading in the form of remembrances by Friedl and Empty Records’ co-founder Meghan Smith, along with a solitary comment by former collaborator, colleague, and close friend, Goner coowner Zac Ives.

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After years of being out of print, Goner Records has just reissued the Reatards’ sophomore full-length, Grown Up, Fucked Up, on vinyl. Almost two decades ago, Jay “Reatard” Lindsey first made home recordings under the Reatards moniker after being blindsided with a “Wait a minute … I can do that!” moment of clarity when he witnessed the Oblivians open for Rocket from the Crypt at the New Daisy. But by the time the Reatards’ second album saw release at the end of 1999 through Empty Records, the band had three 7” EPs and a debut full-length (the previous year’s Teenage Hate was the 10th release by Goner) to its credit. The first Reatards 7” EP (the eighth Goner title) had surfaced as recently as 1997 and speaks to an impressive pace and work ethic, but the remarkable fact is that the “grown-up” in the album’s title referenced Lindsey’s then-recent 19th birthday. Additionally, the Reatards’ live show had graduated into an incendiary and often chaotic experience. Going way beyond the venue ban notices and locallevel trash talk from an underground scene that hated anything it didn’t understand (and it didn’t understand A LOT), the Reatards’ live show was exported to Europe, which exported it back when the tour culminated with an audience member in Germany jumping onstage and opening up Lindsey’s arm with a broken bottle. The classic Reatards lineup, or lineups, had Lindsey backed by second guitarist Sean “Albundy” Redd (his nom de performance should silence anyone who might accuse the band of lacking a sense of humor) and Ryan “Wong” Rousseau on drums (now better known as the founder/ ringleader of the still active and crushing Destruction Unit). At some point between the recording of Teenage Hate and Grown Up, Rousseau was replaced by Mississippi transplant Rich Crook. One of contemporary underground rock’s most underrated/ underused rock-solid drummers, Crook would subsequently provide the backbone for Lindsey’s next primary musical endeavor, the Lost Sounds. Grown Up, Fucked Up, despite the age of its primary creator, displays a marked advance over Teenage Hate when it comes to Lindsey’s songwriting and guitar playing (economic but impressive leads that pop up all over this record). Teenage Hate was wholly unhinged punk fury against the backdrop of a waning 1990s garagerock underground, daring the target

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King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

209 BEALE 578-5650

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.

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310 BEALE 654-5171

182 BEALE 528-0150

Gary Hardy & Mempis 2 ongoing, 5 and 7 p.m.; The Jason James Trio FridaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Joey Trites and the Memphis Flash Saturdays, 3-7 p.m., and Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

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.

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.

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

Wet Willie’s Blind Mississippi Morris Duo Friday, Aug. 28, 7-11 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Band Saturday, Aug. 29, 7-11 p.m.

Brinson’s

The Silly Goose

341 MADISON 524-0104

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

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

Double J Smokehouse & Saloon 124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

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

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

PT 3 Sunday, Aug. 30, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Paulette’s

73 MONROE 275-8752

Monroe Avenue Street Festival Sunday, Aug. 30, 12-6 p.m.

Blind Bear Speakeasy 119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

South Main South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 521-0054

South Main Sounds Songwriter Night #12 Friday, Aug. 28, 7-9 p.m.

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

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 Bardog Tavern

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

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

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

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Jake Vest & Dream Team Friday, Aug. 28; Marcella & Her Lovers Saturday, Aug. 29; John Paul Keith & Friends Happy Hour Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538

Loveland Duren Fridays, 7-10 p.m.; Two Peace Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.

Riverfront Bar & Grill

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182 BEALE 528-0150

152 MADISON 572-1813

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Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight;

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Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Accidental Field Trip Friday, Aug. 28, 10 p.m.; 3 Generation Jug Band Rascals Saturday, Aug. 29, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard

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Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Evergreen Presbyterian Church 613 UNIVERSITY 274-3740

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

Hattiloo Theatre 37 S. COOPER 502-3486

C’beyohn & The Bill Killahs album release party Saturday, Aug. 29, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

Elder, Zach Vinson, Another Green World Thursday, Aug. 27, 9 p.m.; Live Up Fest Friday, Aug. 28, 10 p.m.; Three Star Revival Saturday, Aug. 29, 9 p.m.; Rock Eupora, The Red Thangs, Movie Night Saturday, Aug. 29, 10 p.m.; Epic Rap Battles of History Sunday, Aug. 30, 7:30 p.m.; The Sidewayz Monday, Aug. 31, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Chaulkies Sunday, Aug. 30, 4-7 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” & the People Sunday, Aug. 30, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

The Phoenix

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1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Flint Blade and Honeydew ... For a Moment On Tour Wednesday, Sept. 2, 7:30-10 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Chris Johnson and Landon Moore Thursday, Aug. 27, 6 p.m.; Planet of the Abts Thursday, Aug. 27, 9 p.m.; Young Petty Thieves Friday, Aug. 28, 6:30 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Friday, Aug. 28, 10 p.m.; RiverBluff Clan Saturday, Aug. 29, 11 a.m.; JoJo Jeffries and Ronnie Caldwell Saturday, Aug. 29, 6:30 p.m.; Magnolia Sons Saturday, Aug. 29, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Dan Montgomery Sunday, Aug. 30, 4 p.m.; Webb Wilder Sunday, Aug. 30, 8 p.m.; FreeWorld Monday, Aug. 31, 8 p.m.; Bluff City Soul Collective Tuesday, Sept. 1, 8 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Belle and Sebastian Sunday, Aug. 30, 9 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Earl the Pearl Friday, Aug. 28, 7-10 p.m.; Jim Dandy Acoustic with the Electrick Nobody Friday, Aug. 28, 10 p.m.; The Incredible Hook Saturday, Aug. 29; Abysmal Low with Ritual Decay, Process of Suffocation, Sivad Tuesday, Sept. 1.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Wisewater, Will Tell Friday, Aug. 28, 8-11 p.m.; Mason Jar Fireflies Saturday, Aug. 29, 8-11 p.m.

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P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Terry Prince & the Principles, The Conspiracy Theory, The Renault Brothers Saturday, Aug. 29; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

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

Shangri-La Records

The Settlers Sunday, Aug. 30, 4-7 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

Memphis Botanic Garden 750 CHERRY 636-4100

1916 MADISON 274-1916

Live at the Garden: Rob Thomas Saturday, Aug. 29, 6 p.m.

Strano Sicilian Kitchen

590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

Sweatfest Saturday, Aug. 29, 2-8 p.m.

Mortimer’s

948 S. COOPER 552-7122

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

Wild Bill’s

1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Davy Ray Bennett Sundays, Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m. 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

T.J. Mulligan’s Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

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University of Memphis Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

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

East Memphis Brookhaven Pub & Grill 695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 680-8118

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

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, 5-9:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant 786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

Karaoke ongoing.

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

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplethret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; The Rhythm Rockets Saturday, Aug. 29, 9 p.m.; Uncle Tony’s String Band Sunday, Aug. 30, 7-11 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

Summer/Berclair High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Delta Joe Sanders & Friends Every other Tuesday, 8-11 p.m.; Pubapalooza with Stereo Joe Every other Wednesday, 8-11 p.m.

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SWEATFEST AT SHANGRI-LA RECORDS It seems like every week there is a new music festival being covered in this section of the paper, so why should this issue be any different? If you like outdoor music festivals but don’t want to bother with the insane parking situation, then Sweatfest at Shangri-La Records on Saturday is the place for you. Similar to Purge Fest (the swap meet Shangri-La hosts to get rid of the overstock of vinyl and CDs that the tiny store collects), Sweatfest will feature cheap prices on thousands of $1 LPs, CDs, and 45s. While Purge Fest normally features only one or two bands performing during T H E S H E I KS P LAY S WEATF ES T the rummage sale, Sweatfest is equal parts T H I S S ATU R DAY AT S HAN G R I -L A R ECOR DS. swap meet and live outdoor concert. In addition to the albums on sale, everything in the store will be 20 percent off from 2 to 8 p.m. Sweatfest is free to attend, and you’ll want to get there early, because the music starts at 2 p.m. sharp. The following have been confirmed for the first annual Sweatfest: JJ Freeze, Jana Misener, Chickasaw Mound, Tall David, Ben Baker with special guests, Toy Trucks, the Sheiks, and James and the Ultrasounds. Each act will play for 30 minutes, with JJ Freeze kicking off the action. It’s called Sweatfest for a reason, so bust out the sunscreen, lawn chairs, and umbrellas, because what’s more rock-and-roll than sitting in a lawn chair while local bands sweat like crazy in front of you? There will also be a food drive for the Mid-South Food Bank, and Shangri-La will be accepting canned goods throughout the event. — Chris Shaw Sweatfest at Shangri-La Records (1916 Madison), Saturday, August 29th, 2-8 p.m.

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

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

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

Karaoke Nights at The Stack Wednesdays-Fridays, Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.; Simon Landry Band Saturday, Aug. 29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Fillin Station Grille East 5960 GETWELL 662-470-5814

Roxi Love Friday, Aug. 28, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Neon Velvet Band Saturday, Aug. 29, 9 p.m.1 a.m.

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

Horseshoe Casino Tunica 1021 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 800-357-5600

Neil Sedaka Friday, Aug. 28, 8 p.m.; In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing.

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

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The Deering & Down Trio Sunday, Aug. 30, 8 p.m.midnight.

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

J.R.’s Bar & Grill

4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

4788 BETHEL 662-890-5612

Neon Velvet Band Friday, Aug. 28, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

Mesquite Chop House

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7945 WINCHESTER 751-2345

Family-friendly Poetry and Open Mic Last Saturday of every month, 8-10 p.m.

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

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

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Wadford’s Grill & Bar

Bartlett Bartlett Municipal Center 5868 STAGE

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

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Band of Brothers Thursday, Aug. 27, 8 p.m.-midnight; Basketcase Friday, Aug. 28, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Saturday Nite with Full Circle Saturday, Aug. 29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sunday Funday with The Lineup Sunday, Aug. 30, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

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

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Re-Wine Fridays, 7-10 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 819 EXOCET 624-9060

9102 POPLAR PIKE 624-6001

Surf Turkeys Saturday, Aug. 29, 8-11 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Prime Cut Sunday, Aug. 30, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Soul Shockers Sunday, Aug. 30, 8-11 p.m.

Huey’s Cordova

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1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

Beat Generation Sunday, Aug. 30, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

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

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

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

North Mississippi/ Tunica Bally’s CASINO CENTER DRIVE IN TUNICA, MS 800-38-BALLY

Billy Jones Band Friday, Aug. 28, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, Aug. 29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

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

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

Jam Cracker Band Friday, Aug. 28, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

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

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

Raleigh Mugs Pub 4396 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 372-3556

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

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

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Three cheers for Theatre Memphis’ firstrate production of Mel Brooks’ enormously successful musical adaptation of his 1967 film, The Producers. It’s epically extravagant. It’s appropriately ridiculous. Director Cecelia Wingate and her extraordinary cast of low-brow comedians may have even out-Mel Brooksed the actual Mel Brooks. Having said all of that, I’m going to complain a little. Wingate sees details other directors miss, but she tends to underscore all of them, overstuffing her plays with so many juicy bits and clever gags, it’s sometimes hard to distinguish between the stuffing and the meat. The Producers’ success is rooted in its excess, making the overall experience more about brute force than outrageous farce. And, to be fair, it’s a pretty spectacular display of force. Philip Andrew Himebook and Lee Hudson Gilliland are perfectly suited for their roles as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, the colorfully corrupt Broadway producers who are literally and figuratively screwing all the little old ladies in town. The former is a larger-than-life blowhard and bully. The latter a nebbish who has panic attacks when separated from his little blue blanket. They’ve formed an unlikely partnership to produce Springtime for Hitler, a play so offensive and awful it’s received as a work of satirical genius. That’s bad news for B&B, since the entire con was predicated on the show’s failure. The Producers is a designer’s show, with hundreds of costume changes and a unique set of technical challenges. Theatre Memphis’ creative team has risen to the occasion and deserves top bows. From its illuminated swastikas to its spinning illuminated swastikas, The Producers’ “Springtime for Hitler” sequence is an all-you-can-eat Bavarian buffet of bold choices and bad taste. When Playhouse on the Square staged the regional premiere of The Producers in 2008, I groused that it was too understated. This time out, Theatre Memphis has erred, boldly, and often brilliantly, in the other direction. In a play where showgirls wear gigantic pretzels and sausages on their heads, that’s absolutely the side to err on. The Producers is at Theatre Memphis through September 13th.

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eople. People who need people…” Oh my god, somebody make it stop! I could go the rest of my life without hearing that awful, awful song. But I know there’s no escaping it, and that’s what makes me especially thankful for the play Buyer & Cellar. Jonathan Tolins’ wise, Barbra Streisand-inspired comedy shines fresh light on old claptrap, making otherwise intolerable things more riveting than they deserve to be. Over the course of 90 preposterous minutes, Tolins made me care more about his fictional version of Streisand than I’ve ever been able to care about the real thing. The script presents as kitschy fluff, but the whole is considerably (somewhat mysteriously) more satisfying than the sum of its many hilarious bits. Acknowledging Streisand’s litigious nature, Tolins opens Buyer & Cellar with a lengthy disclaimer. Nothing that happens in the play is real. Well, almost nothing. Babs is obviously real. She really owns a home in Malibu. In 2010, she actually published a coffee table book titled My Passion for Design, and the storage basement underneath her barn really is laid out like a shopping mall. The play transforms into fiction when it imagines what it might be like to work as the lone shopkeeper in Streisand’s artificial underground world, engaging with the lady of the house in some good, old-fashioned master-servant role-playing. With his gleefully understated performance, Jordan Nichols single-handedly counterbalances all the enormous Broadway musicals running on other area stages. He introduces himself directly to the audience as Alex, an underemployed actor who’s agreed to become the human doll in Streisand’s private collection. He also plays Streisand and Barry, Alex’s boyfriend who can’t wrap his mind around the idea that a “privileged, powerful woman” like the Babs “still acts like a Dickensian victim.” Nichols also walks the not-so-thin line separating diva and Devo by playing some of Buyer & Cellar’s more prominent

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August 27 - September 2 Parlor Tricks, Just Larry is back with an all-new show featuring sleight of hand, mind reading, vaudeville manipulations, and stunts. (861-5131). $10. Fri.Sat., Aug. 28-29, 8-10 p.m. 152 MADISON (572-1813).

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts Black Soap VIII, $40. Sun., Aug. 30, 5 p.m.

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 525-1515).

Circuit Playhouse

Buyer & Cellar, Alex More is a struggling L.A. actor who accepts a job working in Barbra Streisand’s basement. Hilarity ensues when Barbra comes downstairs to play. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $22. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Sept. 6. 51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

The Evergreen Theatre

Remy: From Fate There Is No Escape, successful and driven Remy Silva is at the top of her game where it’s lonely and hard to trust anyone. Her life unravels as her skeletons threaten to be resurrected. (652-5761). $18. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Aug. 30. 1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Hattiloo Theatre

In the Heights, Broadway dance spectacular brings the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan to the stage. www.hattiloo.org. $18. Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, 3 p.m. Through Sept. 6. 37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Playhouse on the Square

Billy Elliot the Musical, tale of a young boy who trades his boxing gloves for dancing shoes. www.playhouseonthesqare.org. $15-$40. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.,

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66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

The Producers, www.theatrememphis.org. $30. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Through Sept. 13.

STOCK&BELLE, 387 S. MAIN (442222-8972), WWW.QUESTIONTHEANSWER.COM.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

O N G O I N G ART

TheatreWorks

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

Making Folk Happy, sisters leave the farm life for Memphis only to find out that life in the big city may not be all that happy. (946-6140), www. bluffcitytriart.zohosites.com. $20. Fri., Sat., 7:30-9:30 p.m., and Sun., Aug. 30, 3-5 p.m. Through Aug. 31.

Samuel H. Crone, exhibition of drawings and sketches. www.memphis.edu/amum. Through Sept. 19.

ANF Architects

Matthew Hasty, exhibition of landscapes of the South. www. anfa.com. Through Sept. 3.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S

1500 UNION (278-6868).

AIA Memphis Office

“On the Boards: Work by Memphis Architects,” selection of digital and hand-drawn renderings from AIA Memphis member firms. www. aiamemphis.org. Last Friday of every month, 6 p.m. 511 S. MAIN (525-3818).

ArtsMemphis

Artist reception for “Public/ Art/ists, part II,” exhibition recognizing and sharing the work of artists who have participated in Memphis’ public art projects and initiatives. www.artsmemphis.org. Thurs., Aug. 27, 5:30-7 p.m. 575 S. MENDENHALL (578-2787).

Box Gallery

Artist reception for “By Other Means,” new work by Anna Irace. Fri., Aug. 28, 5-8 p.m. 3715 CENTRAL.

Crosstown Arts

Artist reception for “Here All Along,” featuring artists living/working in the Klondike, Smokey City, New Chicago, and Crosstown neighborhoods in Memphis including Calvin Farrar, Renee Hodges, Brittney Bullock, and others. www.crosstownarts. org. Fri., Aug. 28, 6-9 p.m. 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

Artist reception for “200 Miles Away,” works by five Nashville artists, including Dane Carder, Beth Foley, Rob Matthews, Hans Schmitt-Matzen, and Kelly S. Williams. www.davidluskgallery.com. Fri., Aug. 28. 64 FLICKER (767-3800).

Hyde Gallery

Opening reception for “Inaugural Faculty Biennial Exhibition,” featuring work by over 20 faculty members in media ranging from fiber to metal. www.mca.edu. Fri., Aug. 28, 6-9 p.m. INSIDE THE MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART’S NESIN GRADUATE SCHOOL, 477 S. MAIN.

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

21st Annual Orpheum Art Sale

On-stage booths where artists showcase their work. Hors d’oeuvres, soft drinks, and a cash bar. $10. Sat., Aug. 29, 1-4 p.m.

Question the Answer Indiegogo campaign at Stock & Belle

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

Art Trolley Tour

Tour the local galleries and shops on South Main. Last Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. SOUTH MAIN HISTORIC ARTS DISTRICT, DOWNTOWN.

Reception for “A Heritage Preserved: African American Art from the Kimberly and Elliot Perry Collection” Works by master artists of color from the 20th century. Free-$10. Thurs., Aug. 27.

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

Gallery Talk: “Here All Along”

Exhibition featuring artists living/working in the Klondike, Smokey City, New Chicago,

and Crosstown neighborhoods in Memphis including Calvin Farrar, Renee Hodges, Brittney Bullock, and others. Sat., Aug. 29, 2-4 p.m. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Memphis Symphony Chorus Auditions

Reservation required. Call 537-2500 or email info@ memphissymphonychorus. org. Mon., Aug. 31, 6 p.m. WWW.MEMPHISSYMPHONYCHORUS. ORG.

Orpheus Ascending Unveiling

Dedication of art installation by Richard MacDonald coinciding with the Orpheum’s 21st Annual Art Sale. MacDonald will be present. Sat., Aug. 29, 2 p.m. THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

Question the Answer Indiegogo Campaign Launch Party Local jewelry business is launching campaign to

“Fables,” new works by Brad Troxel. www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through Sept. 21. 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).

Cafe Pontotoc

“A Community Collaboration: French Fort,” artifacts and art inspired by the French Fort. Through Dec. 31. “Exploration in Imagination,” mixed-media works by Elayna Scott. Ongoing. 314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

Jun Kaneko, exhibition of contemporary ceramic sculptures. www.dixon.org. Through Nov. 22. 4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Classroom Daydream,” exhibition of sculptured paintings by Angelina Mazzanti. www. eclectic-eye.com. Through Nov. 4. 242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Fratelli’s

“Ex Voto,” exhibition of mixed-media embellished photographic prints exploring

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Gallery 1091

Memphis/Germantown Art League Juried National Exhibition. Through Aug. 28. “Right Brain Left Brain,” exhibition of new work by Angi Cooper. www.wkno.org. Sept. 2-29. WKNO STUDIO, 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Jay Etkin Gallery

Nathan Yoakum, exhibition of recent paintings and sculptures. Through Sept. 2. 942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

“It’s Good To Be the King,” exhibition of work by contemporary Southern artists celebrating all things Elvis. www.lrossgallery.com. Through Aug. 29. 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“20th Century Color Woodcuts: Japonisme and Beyond,” American and British prints. Through Sept. 8. “The Art of Video Games,” the 40-year evolution of video games through painting, writing, sculpture, music, storytelling, and cinematography. Through Sept. 13. “Buggin’ & Shruggin: A Glitched History of Gaming Culture,” murals which riff upon popular video games, major characters, and the gamers themselves by Michael Roy. Through Sept. 13. “Surreal Kingdoms,” acrylic paint and digital collage by Kenneth Wayne Alexander II. Through Sept. 13. “British Watercolors from the Golden Age,” watercolors from the late-18th through the early-20th centuries. Through Sept. 20. “Play,” the intersection of play and art using pieces from the permanent collection. Through Sept. 20. “Cats and Quotes,” felines in paintings, sculptures, ceramics, and prints paired with famous quotes about felines. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through Jan. 3, 2016. 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Horn Island 31,” work from 11-day annual trip by 40 MCA students, faculty, and alumni to barrier island off the coast of Pascagoula, MS. www.mca. edu. Through Oct. 2. 1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

“Tributaries: Seth Gould,” embellished hammers, axes, locks, and latches. Through Sept. 6. “A Kind of Confession,” critical and contemporary metalwork from AfricanAmerican metal artists. www. metalmuseum.org. Through Sept. 13. 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

“Trez Jolie!,” photography, ceramics, and paintings by Artists’ Link. Through Sept. 29. 3437 WAYNOKA.

Ross Gallery

“Crosscut,” new paintings by Nick Peña, associate professor of art at CBU. www.cbu.edu/ gallery. Through Oct. 8. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“Stax: Visions of Soul,” visual art celebrating songs from the iconic Stax catalog. www. staxmuseum.com. Through Dec. 31. 926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Sue Layman Designs

“Conclusion of Delusion,” original oil paintings by Sue Layman Lightman. www. facebook.com/SueLaymanDesigns. Wednesdays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 125 G.E. PATTERSON (409-7870).

DA N C E

6th Annual Summer Social Jazz Gala

Music by Grammy-Awardwinning artist Kirk Whalum, cuisine from Erling Jensen, and performances by Collage. $125. Sat., Aug. 29, 7-10 p.m. PROPCELLAR VINTAGE RENTAL, 2585 SUMMER (800-1873), SUMMERSOCIAL.BPT.ME/.

Cherry Burlesque

Hosted by Julie Wheeler. $10$20. Last Saturday of every month, 8 p.m. EARNESTINE & HAZEL’S, 531 S. MAIN (523-9754), WWW.THEJULIEWHEELER.COM.

Dance Night

Music provided by the Jim Mahannah Band or Wally and Friends. $5. First Tuesday of every month, 7-10 p.m. BAKER COMMUNITY CENTER, 7942 CHURCH, MILLINGTON, WWW.MILLINGTONTN.GOV.

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The Cove

Comedy with Dagmar. www. thecovememphis.com. Sun., 7-9 p.m. Through Aug. 31. 2559 BROAD (730-0719).

Flirt Nightclub

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

P&H Cafe

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

PO E T RY / S PO K E N W O R D

Brinson’s

Five Nashville artists make up “200 Miles Away” at David Lusk Temporary Location TOPS Gallery

“The Season Moved,” sculpture of over 200 bundles of discarded objects found on nocturnal walks around Memphis, large painting, and immersive sound piece by Gil Ngolé. www.topsgallery.com. Through Oct. 3. 400 S. FRONT.

Various locations

“Terrain Biennial,” part of national effort to bring temporary art installations in the front yards of friends and neighbors. On view 24 hours a day. www.rhodes.edu. Through Sept. 20.

Wings Gallery

“Images of Healing, Images of Hope,” past artists of the year. www.wingscancerfoundation. org. Through Nov. 30. WEST CLINIC, 100 N. HUMPHREYS (322-2984).

OPERA

30 Days of Opera

Free opera performaces for the public all around Memphis. Check website frequently. Sept. 1-30. WWW.OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG.

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

The HUB

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

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fertility by Katie Maish. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Sept. 1-26.

The Performing Arts Center at Trezevant Manor

515 E.H. CRUMP.

Java Cabana

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

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Darrin Devault and Tom Graves

Authors and photographers discuss and sign Graceland Too Revisited. Free. Fri., Aug. 28, 6-9 p.m. SOUTH MAIN BOOK JUGGLER, 548 S. MAIN (249-5370).

Booksigning by Jenny Milchman

Author discusses and signs As Night Falls. Sat., Aug. 29, 2 p.m. THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (6839801), WWW.THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

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CALENDAR: AUGUST 27 - SEPTEMBER 2 continued from page 35 Booksigning by John Babb

Author discusses and signs Orphan Hero. Tues., Sept. 1, 6:30 p.m. THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (6839801), WWW.THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

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

Brown Bag: Preserving Your Herbal Harvest

Harvesting, drying, and other methods of herbal preservation with recipes. Free for members with garden admission. Tues., Sept. 1, noon. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW. MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Islam 101: Between Fact & Fiction

Rhodes College Professor Yasir Kazi gives a brief overview of the theology and social customs of Islam and the American Muslim experience. Q&A to follow. Free. Sun., Aug. 30, 1:30-3 p.m. BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700).

DanceSmiths.com (901) 371 9393

Lunch and Learn

A Step Ahead Foundation’s program, the services provided, program logistics, and how to use a resource. Fri., Aug. 28, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION OFFICE, 3475 CENTRAL (729-7044), WWW.ASAF.COM.

Mayoral Forum

Moderated by WREG anchor Stephanie Scurlock. Thurs., Aug. 27, 7-9 p.m.

lunch, parking, and Tip Off party admission. $75. Sat., Aug. 29, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, ROSE THEATRE, 470 UNIVERSITY, WWW.TEDXMEMPHIS.COM.

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Downtown Tour and Investigation

Investigate a site which was the scene of a brutal murder in 1918. Hosted by paranormal investigator and TAPS family member. $25. Sat., Aug. 29, 8-10 p.m. IONS: A GEEK GALLERY, 546 S. MAIN (864-4688), WWW.EXPEDITION-UNKNOWN.COM.

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JFS at the MJCC Sr. Resource Fair

Explore the new JFS at the MJCC, visit vendor booths, and schmooze with friends. Sun., Aug. 30, 1-4 p.m. MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG.

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Throttle Fest Fun Ford Series

Horsepower, Harleys, and hard-driving rock. $35 weekend pass. Aug. 28-29. MEMPHIS INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY, 5500 VICTORY LANE, WWW. RACEMIR.COM.

Monroe Avenue Street Festival

Sun., Aug. 30, 9-11:30 a.m. BARDOG TAVERN, 73 MONROE (722-8797), HTTPS://WWW. RACESONLINE.COM/EVENTS/ BREAKAWAY-BARDOG-5K.

Forrest Spence 5K

5K, food, door prizes, music, 1-mile fun run, 100-yard dash, kids’ activity area, and more. Benefits the Forrest Spence Fund. Sat., Aug. 29, 8 a.m. OVERTON PARK, EAST PARKWAY PAVILION, WWW.FORRESTSPENCEFUND.COM.

Liberty Mutual Invitational Driving Home a Cure for PKD Golf Tournament

Top team invited to compete in LMI National Finals at Pinehurst. Random flights, $10,000 putting challenge, holes-in-one win new Infiniti and/or Old Course-experience trip to Scotland. Benefits PKD Foundation. $300 per player, $1,200 team of four. Mon., Aug. 31, 1-8 p.m. TPC AT SOUTHWIND, 3325 CLUB AT SOUTHWIND (491-4799), WWW. PKDCURE.ORG.

Memphis Redbirds v. New Orleans Zephyrs

Mon.-Thur., Aug. 31-Sept. 3. AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), WWW.MEMPHISREDBIRDS.COM.

KIDS

Registration for Rodeo Royalty Pageant

Seven-year anniversary of Bardog Tavern with dunk

Entry deadline Sept. 1. Include contestant’s name, age, and hometown information. Call 901-230-4000 or email

tank, live music, beveragetasting tent, meatball-eating contest, and more. Fun for all. Sun., Aug. 30, noon-6 p.m.

Gil Ngolé’s “The Season Moved” is at TOPS Gallery through October 3rd.

MISSISSIPPI BOULEVARD CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 70 N. BELLEVUE (729-6222).

Panel Discussion: Should Politics and Business Mix

Deidre Malone, Rod Redwing, and Tom Jones discuss politicians and their relationships with the private sector. Mon., Aug. 31, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

August 27-September 2, 2015

HATTILOO THEATRE, 37 S. COOPER (502-3486), WWW.HATTILOO.ORG.

Mike Kinman and Race & Privilege, Protest & Power

RSVP a space by email, miranda@stmarysmemphis.org. Sat., Aug. 29, 9:30 a.m.-noon. ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL, 700 POPLAR (527-3361), WWW.STMARYSMEMPHIS.ORG.

Summer of Faith: Justice and Faith

Rev. Eyleen Farmer on faith and justice. Free. Sun., Aug. 30, 11 a.m.-noon. CHURCH OF THE RIVER, 292 VIRGINIA (526-8631).

Game On: The Culture of Video Games Dr. Felix Kronenberg on the culture of video games. Thurs., Aug. 27, 7-8:15 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

TEDxMemphis: What’s Next

Full conference featuring local and visiting live speakers,

BARDOG TAVERN, 73 MONROE (275-8752), WWW.BARDOG.COM.

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Bowling for Balls IV: When Balls Attack

Bowling, beer, pizza, and prize giveaways. Benefits MMHO and the fight against testicular cancer. $100 for four-person team. Sun., Aug. 30, 2-5 p.m. BILLY HARDWICK’S ALLSTAR LANES, 1576 S. WHITE STATION (336-7700), WWW.SIGNUPGENIUS. COM.

Breakaway-Bardog 5K

Sign up to walk or run and attend the after-party. Cash prizes, burgers and beers to follow. Benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. $35.

rodeotenn@aol.com. LANDERS CENTER (DESOTO CIVIC CENTER), 4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120), WWW. MIDSOUTHFAIR.COM.

“Sing! Dance! Read!” Children’s storytelling and music event benefiting St. Jude. Sat., Aug. 29, 3 p.m.

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

Storytime

Story and activity for children of all ages. Sat., Aug. 29, 11 a.m., and Tues., Sept. 1, 11 a.m. BARNES & NOBLE, 2774 N. GERMANTOWN (386-2468), WWW. BN.COM.

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2nd Annual Doggiepalooza

Giveaways, dog adoptions, photobooth, live music, beer, arts and crafts. Tues., Sept. 1, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. COOPER-YOUNG FARMERS MARKET, CORNER OF COOPER AND WALKER (570 0565), WWW.CYCFM.ORG.

Bluff City Bash

Southern Jewish people ages 21 to 39 get together and experience Memphis life, Jewish Scene magazine, and Memphis Jewish Community Center. Fri.-Sun., Aug. 28-30. MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG.

Crosstown Mural Dedication and Block Party

Benefiting Friends For Life Corp. Sat., Aug. 29, 4-10 p.m.

Fish Fry Friday

Plates of catfish and sides benefiting Holy Community Church. $7. Fridays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. HOLY COMMUNITY CHURCH, 602 LOONEY, HTTPS://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/HOLYCOMMUNITYUMC.

The Generous Pour

Seven of California’s great female winemakers and collaborators, including Drew Barrymore. Includes dinner. $28. Through Aug. 30, 5-10 p.m. THE CAPITAL GRILLE, 6065 POPLAR (683-9291), WWW.THECAPITALGRILLE.COM.

Peabody Anniversary Dinner

Elegant five-course dinner celebrating the 146-year history of the “South’s Grand Hotel.” $65-$95. Tues., Sept. 1, 6 p.m.

Old School Movie Afternoon

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Casting Call for Arkabutla

Katori Hall short film casting roles of various ages, sexes, and races. For more information on specific roles and audition requirements, email katorihallcasting@gmail.com. Sat.-Sun., Aug. 29-30.

Gone With the Wind

American classic set in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction. $7. Fri., Aug. 28, 7-9:30 p.m.

A film from a selection of LGBT films. Hosted by Senior Services Group. Sat., Aug. 29, 1-3:30 p.m. MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

Song of the Sea

Irish legend of the last seal-child and her brother who go on an epic journey to save the world of magic. $9. Sat., Aug. 29, 2-3:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

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

CHEZ PHILIPPE, THE PEABODY, 149 UNION (529-4188), WWW.PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

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pretty far removed from the place’s Italian roots. The chef duo fell in love with ramen noodles while traveling the country cooking at places like the James Beard House. “The first guest-chef dinner we did at Hog & Hominy was with Chef Tien Ho [of Ma Peche fame],” Hudman told me. “He taught us the proper way of making ramen broth, so we put it on the latenight menu as a way of paying homage to him.” The chefs are also frying up the much lauded John T. Edge Burger, a deceptively simple-sounding sandwich with onion, yellow mustard, pickled lettuce, and American cheese on a white bun. “The ramen and burger are staples that are always on, but we also do specials like our Frito Pie from time to time,” Nick Talarico, general manager, said. Hog & Hominy is less than a mile from my house, so I dropped in around 11 p.m. on a weekend night to find an unusually quiet scene. The regulars were all at Live at the Garden’s ZZ Top concert nearby, no doubt singing along to “Sharp Dressed Man” and spinning their fuzzy air guitars. So Talarico joined me at the bar to paint a picture of the typical scene. “We’ll have people in tuxedos and evening gowns eating hot dogs, right alongside servers and cooks from other establishments slurping down ramen noodles,” he said. A look at the full dinner menu, which is also available until closing, made no mention of the John T. Edge Burger or the ramen noodles. “We make sure to tell every table ... although those in the know come here just for the ramen,” Talarico said. This is one of those rare times when procrastination is rewarded. So go out late and enjoy the creative food being served to other night owls. You could nap through your regular dinnertime or, heck, just go ahead and have another dinner. Or you could call it a really early breakfast. 707 W. Brookhaven, 207-7396, hogandhominy.com

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there’s nothing rapey about the affair that blooms between Minnie and Monroe. If anything, Minnie is the aggressor. Monroe has the notion that something’s not right, but it’s the pre-AIDS era of free love, and he and Minnie have excellent chemistry, so he goes with it. Minnie vacillates between love and hate for Monroe, but he’s little more than a featured player in her internal drama. One of the film’s best scenes takes place at the kitchen table, where Charlotte encourages Minnie to dress sexier to attract the boys at school. “You have a kind of power. You just don’t know it yet,” she says, unaware that Minnie is exploring the limits of said power by bopping her boyfriend. Powley, who is actually 23 years old and British, is a revelation as Minnie. As a character, she’s somewhere between Ferris Bueller and Enid from Ghost World. But she’s fully realized and believable as she alternately dives into adult sexuality and recoils from it. Everyone is good here, from Wiig’s empathetic rendering of a too-young mother who likes cocaine too much, to Skarsgård’s pornstached vitamin-salesman-turned-clueless-Humbert

Humbert. Heller and cinematographer Brandon Trost paint the glam-rock decadence of the 1970s with gritty affection, and when Minnie’s imagination overflows, animator Sara Gunnarsdóttir creates fluid, hand-drawn animation flourishes on the “real world.” In less-sure hands, this could have been a creepy debacle. But Heller, who first adapted the work for the stage, knows the material inside out, and with the Sundance Institute at her back, she has created an impeccably crafted film. The reason why The Diary of a Teenage Girl is able to take on edgy material with visual flair is that it cost about 200 times less than Avengers. With a lot less on the line, the producers gain the courage to let the creative team do their jobs without trying to pander to all conceivable audiences. I liked Avengers, but if the same money will buy a hundred more movies like this, I can live without another superhero sequel. The Diary of a Teenage Girl Opens Friday, Ridgeway Cinema Grill

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The Bourne Indignity Kristen Stewart and Jesse Eisenberg reunite in American Ultra. Controversial opinion confession: Kristen Stewart is a great actor. I admit I haven’t made it through more than 15 minutes of a Twilight movie, but every time I see her on-screen, she’s one of, if not the, best things about the movie. Just look at The Runaways, where she does a dead-on Joan Jett impression. Or Still Alice, where she is the only actor in Julianne Moore’s league. The woman’s got chops, I tell you. In American Ultra, she plays Phoebe Larson, a working-class girl who lives in nowhere, West

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When I’m meandering about the city by myself, I play games to keep myself company. If this sounds weird to you, please ask anyone who has ever been an only child to explain. I played a game called “Count the Accents on Beale Street” on my lunchtime walks during Elvis Week. The name could use some work, but you get the gist. When I’m driving, I also like to imagine what the other drivers on the interstate are listening to. Suburban SUV Mom? Either Mystic Stylez or some kind of Swedish death metal. Big Hemi with the truck nuts? You know he’s singing along to “All About That Bass.” True story: This game was inspired by a Lyft driver who, um, challenged my preconceptions by blaring some Reba as he pulled into my driveway. My favorite pastime is a game I call “This Would Be an Awesome _____.” The premise is simple: As I pass an empty storefront or an abandoned building, I think of a new use for it. Peabody Place would be an awesome grocery store, with a huge salad bar and prepared-foods section (and wine, of course). If H&M had consulted me, they’d be in the old Tower Records space. No offense, Collierville. Is it too soon to say the former Chiwawa, né Chicago Pizza Factory, definitely needs to be a gourmet hot dog restaurant? Because that would be awesome. If not there, then the space Pei Wei once occupied on Union. In the old Towery Building at Union and McLean, I envision a charter high school for kids who are interested in the restaurant and hospitality industries, with a working restaurant and hotel run by the students. I’ve imagined bootleg Grizzlies T-shirt shops, all-night diners that serve boozy milkshakes, a speakeasy and print shop in the Edge District, a Church Health Center for Animals, and an open-air market in a vacant church in South Memphis. Plus a cat café. And I’ve found at least three spots that would be perfect for a roller rink and bowling alley with a stage for live music. My brain is like a pop-up shop that never ends, cranking out ideas ranging from “Why isn’t that already a thing?” to “So crazy it just might work” to “Have you been drinking?” I’m not bold or wealthy enough to try to realize any of them. (If you are, feel free to borrow any of the above ideas that appeal to you.) Please don’t revoke my Memphian card for saying this, but some days this city makes me want to scream. “This Would Be an Awesome _____” grounds me, because it reminds me why I’m still here. Because the opposite, “Remember When This Was a _____” is just boring. And it seems “This Would Be an Awesome _____ But This Is Memphis So It’ll Probably Never Happen” is finally making way for “Why not Memphis?” Next Tuesday is September 1st, “901 Day.” It’s the day we doff our proverbial caps to the city where you can eat at a different barbecue restaurant every night of the week and never get the same main dish twice. Where folks are only half-joking when they say “Z-Bo for Mayor.” Where nostalgia teeters on the border between quaint and counterproductive but in an endearing sort of way. And you better learn a thing or two about basketball if you want to have a conversation with anybody. Home of Drake’s Dad, an epic love/hate relationship with trolleys, the World’s Biggest Bass Pro Shops Ever, No, Seriously, It’s a Pyramid, and First-Team All-Defense. Alas, 901 Day is not an official holiday — yet — and you still have to go to work. Who knows, maybe that will change during the Randolph administration. But if you’re looking for a way to celebrate, play a little “This Would Be an Awesome _____.” Just see what comes to mind. It might surprise you. It might inspire you. It might be the next big thing, and it might make you a million bucks, in which case I hope you think of lil’ ole me and help me open the hot dog restaurant this town deserves. Let’s get more people thinking and sharing ideas. When we see things for what they can be, “This would be awesome” turns into “This IS awesome.” It sounds crazy, but it just might work. Jen Clarke is an unapologetic Memphian and digital marketing strategist.

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With a little imagination, playing games can lead to big things.

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