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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR What difference a day makes. In one day — overnight, actually — a man’s career and name are ruined. Now let’s look at the flip side of that: What a difference a day doesn’t make. A teen walks into a police precinct and describes a crime — and then nothing. Not a day, not days, not months … years until the claim is truly pursued. This week’s cover story is about the charges leveled at Robert Lipscomb. The only truth we have at this point is that someone isn’t telling the truth. Rumor has it that this is a plot to clear the mayor of any unpleasantness before October’s elections. Rumor has it that this is a plot to defile the mayor before October’s elections. And then there’s the Cosby Effect people have been throwing around about the additional alleged victims. Are others latching on for attention? Are they for real? Maybe they aren’t, but let’s note that no one believed Cosby’s victims until it was nearly in the double digits. Whatever shakes out in this case, maybe something positive will come. Maybe someone inclined toward abuse will think twice. Maybe some kid who’s been abused will say, Enough! I recently profiled Tami Sawyer and her business Power Box for Memphis magazine’s 901 blog. She saw promise in turmoil. We can all learn from her example. Sawyer is a native Memphian and a social activist. She lived in Washington, D.C., for 10 years. She jokes that she aged out of D.C., but admits that family and a new spark in the city drew her back home. Last November, two days before Thanksgiving to be exact, a grand jury moved not to indict Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Social media erupted. There were calls to boycott Black Friday. Sawyer saw a different path. Instead of boycotting, she tweeted out, we should buy black on Black Friday. She began Instragramming black businesses. A germ of an idea for Power Box was formed. Power Box, which launched on August 18th, connects black-owned businesses with consumers. Each week, Power Box profiles businesses, offering giveaways of N EWS & O P I N I O N products from those businesses. LETTERS - 4 THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 Sawyer has recruited nearly 800 THE FLY-BY - 6 black-owned businesses for the site. She SPORTS - 10 says between 400 and 500 more are in POLITICS - 12 her queue to check out. EDITORIAL - 14 Sawyer says the name of Power Box VIEWPOINT - 15 COVER STORY was very deliberate. She latched onto “THE LIPSCOMB AFFAIR” the idea of including “power” early on, BY TOBY SELLS, JACKSON but the box came later. As she explains BAKER, BIANCA PHILLIPS, AND “power box” has meaning. “It’s the ALEXANDRA PUSATERI - 16 transformer. It’s the light in everybody’s STE P P I N’ O UT head.” WE RECOMMEND - 22 She says of Power Box, “This is a way MUSIC - 24 AFTER DARK - 26 to have a collective impact. For me, this is ART - 30 true social activism.” CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 32 Susan Ellis FOOD - 38 ellis@memphisflyer.com FILM - 41 THE LAST WORD - 47 Bruce VanWyngarden’s column returns next week. C L AS S I F I E D S - 43
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Letters and comments from Flyer readers from people not caring if he is gay? Are you implying that people should have suspected something like this was going on because he is gay? It sure seems like it. I am in no way supporting Mr. Lipscomb, but I expect better from the Flyer. Evil
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On Frank Murtaugh’s Tiger Blue post “The Tigers’ Five Biggest Wins at the Liberty Bowl” … That 1996 W over the Vols is without a doubt the most incredible, satisfying game I’ve ever attended. Memories of that day will keep me warm and fuzzy the rest of my life. After the game, the 18,000 UT fans left in total silence without saying a word. You talk about surreal. … Midtown Mark
On Les Smith’s “A View from Afar” … I have found Les Smith’s column both enlightening and refreshing. That is why when I read his last column “A View From Afar,” I felt compelled to clarify a point made regarding the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission statistics. The Crime Commission uses the year 2006 as a basis of our reporting for a strategic reason. In 2005 our community came together to create a plan of action to reduce crime. The plan, Operation: Safe Community (OSC), is a strategic initiative to reduce crime in Memphis and Shelby County, spearheaded by the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission. The underlying philosophy of this plan was best stated by John F. Kennedy in his inaugural address: “United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do — for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.” The crime-reduction initiative, chaired by Attorney General Amy Weirich now has 26 strategies, 45 accountable partners, and more than 100 public and private agencies engaged in its implementation. The goal is to make Memphis-Shelby County one of 6 7 8 9 the safest communities of its size in the nation — a truly powerful challenge. Yes, we have 14 a long way to go, but we are making progress and holding ourselves17 accountable, as Mr. Smith recommended in his article. Each month, we20 compare where we are in the crime 21 rate now to where we were when we started on this endeavor. news 24 So far, the 25 in good but not great. As of the last reporting period, violent crime rate is 27 down 19 percent, and property crime is down 35 percent. 33 stated, those 34 But as Mr. Smith statistics are of little comfort to a victim 36 of crime, so let me put those 37 statistics in 38 real terms. There were over 1,600 fewer victims of41 violent crime in the first seven 42 months of 2015 than there were in the first44seven months of the 45 year our plan began, 2006, including 24 fewer murder victims. President Kennedy’s words are as 47 true today as they were in 1960, and we’re out to prove it. 53Masson 54 55 Rick Interim Executive Director 58 Memphis Shelby Crime Commission
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HEART TROUBLE According to the website allhiphop. com, “WREG News, a local Memphis station, has been charged with aggravated rape in a case where and and another man allegedly raped and intoxicated woman.” All typos are theirs, and we’re reasonably certain the author is alluding to a WREG news report about “Hit the Quan” rapper iHeartMemphis, who was recently accused of sexual assault. The budding performer, who shares his name with a series of Midtown murals and a proMemphis blog, denies the charges. Presumably, WREG does as well.
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TE LE P H O N E TO NY When Griz super-hooper Tony Allen live tweets his favorite TV shows, people take notice. When he calls a bunch of people in the morning before their second cup of coffee, they take issue. The automated Allen-voiced phone call that launched thousands of snarky comments went something like this: “Hello everyone, this is the Grindfather, Tony Allen, from the Memphis Grizzlies. Being successful takes a lot of hard work and dedication. And it includes going to school every day. Go get that education! Grit and grind, go to school!” What an a-hole. N E V E R E N D I N G E LV I S “The Elvis coffin has definitely become a talking point amongst the public and is showing them that not every funeral has to be the same.” — funeral director Christopher Sample explains how he’s shaking up the death industry to U.K.’s Shields Gazette. By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.
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As murders skyrocket in parts of the country, Memphis homicides continue to decrease. On September 1st, police found 25-year-old Sontonio Brown lying on the ground near 5486 Oak Bark Drive in Whitehaven suffering from a gunshot wound. He died at Regional One Health shortly after. The investigation quickly netted a father, son, and grandfather — 35-year-old Anthony Cleveland, 15-yearold Anthony Cleveland Jr., and 67-year-old Robert Cleveland — who allegedly fired the fatal shots from a green SUV. The motive has not yet been revealed. Brown’s murder is one of many to occur in Memphis this year. But despite what seems like constant news reports of homicides in Memphis, the numbers are actually down a bit from last year, with 75 homicides year-to-date this July versus 79 year-to-date last July, the most recent numbers available from the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission. The numbers are way down from 2006, when the city launched data-driven policing, and the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission started its Operation: Safe Community initiative. Year-to-date through July in 2006, there were 99 homicides.
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Benjamin Flores Jr., better known as Lil’ P-Nut, has moved up the Hollywood ladder since his days of appearing as the cute kid sidekick to Memphis car dealer Mark Goodfellow in the It’s All Good Auto Sales commercials. These days, the 13-year-old native Memphian, who got his start as a rapper at age 4, is a budding star living with his parents in L.A. He’s starring as a rapper’s son on a new Nickelodeon show called Game Shakers that premieres on September 12th. The show is produced by fellow Memphian Dan Schneider. It’s Lil’ P-Nut’s second series for the network. Since 2013, he’s starred as a ghost on Haunted Hathaways. Lil’ P-Nut has also appeared in the film Ride Along with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart, and he was the voice of Atticus in Happy Feet Two. — Bianca Phillips Flyer: So tell me about your new show, Game Shakers. Lil’ P-Nut: The show is about a group of kids who come together and start making [video] games. There are these two girls called Babe and Kenzie, and they make this game for a science project. They use this specific song in the game, and the song is from my dad [on the show] Double
G, played by Kel Mitchell. He hears the song, and he flies to New York, and he tries to sue them. But I help everybody resolve the issue. I say, let’s become a team, and let’s make games together. So we travel all over the world making games. My character Triple G is a gamer. He’s a rich kid, but he likes to be around people his own age. Are you a gamer? Were you able to draw on your own experience? I play Sky Whale a lot. It’s the game we made on the show, and if you want to play it, you can go on the App Store and download it. How did you get this role? I auditioned for Haunted Hathaways. I got the role, and I did the show. And after that, Mr. Dan Schneider and his team called me and said they wanted me to do an audition for them [for Game Shakers]. They liked it, and they wanted me to be on the show. The show’s producer, Dan Schneider, is a Memphian, too. What’s it like working with him? Every time I get to talk to him, we always talk about how much we miss the barbecue and how much we want to come back.
What do you miss the most? I miss smoked sausages, Jungle Juice. I miss riding my bike down the street. I miss the bus picking me up with the broken leather seat. I miss my teachers. I miss friends. I miss my grandma and her eggs. I miss everything out there. I miss Southland Mall. I just miss Memphis. Are you still filming for the show? We’re still filming, and we have a long way to go. Acting is so fun for me. I don’t see it as a job. I see it as something I like to do. When I get up in the morning and I have to go there, it’s not like a job. I usually spend about nine hours [on set]. But they break it up into my schooling, too.
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How do you balance school with acting? You have to go to school on set. They have this classroom for you, and all the kids on the show go do their classwork. You just go to school for five hours. I’m pretty busy, but you got to keep the grades up. Are you still rapping? I’m so focused on acting right now. Maybe if I get the urge to rap again, I will. I still love rapping. That’s what got me here. But I like acting, and that’s where my main focus is right now. It’s hard for a kid to do two things at one time. Weren’t you up for a Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award earlier this year? This was my second time being nominated. Hopefully, next time I’ll win, though. Do you want to add anything else? Make sure you guys watch the show on September 12th. Make sure you download the Sky Whale game. I want to give a shout-out to Memphis. And I want to give a shout-out to my cast. Peace!
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Last week, The New York Times reported that major cities across the nation are seeing a spike in homicides. Milwaukee jumped from 59 murders year-to-date last year to 104 so far this year. Other cities in the top 10 included St. Louis, Baltimore, Washington, New Orleans, Chicago, Kansas City, Dallas, New York City, and Philadelphia. Memphis didn’t make the list. “I was pleased,” said Memphis Shelby Crime Commission Interim Director Rick Masson, when asked his reaction to seeing that Memphis wasn’t included in the Times article. Masson said homicides are hard to predict, since many are crimes of passion. But he believes Operation: Safe Community is at least partly responsible for an overall drop in crime. The reported major violent crime — murder, rape, aggravated assault, robbery — rate for January to July 2015 was down 4.6 percent countywide and 3.9 percent in the city, compared to the same period in 2014. That same rate was down 20.7 percent countywide and 16.4 percent in Memphis compared to the same period in 2006. Property crimes and domestic violence crimes are also on the decrease. “You have to deal with this from a prevention standpoint,” Masson said. “You have to keep people who haven’t stepped onto that road of crime from stepping onto that road. That involves more of the community than it does the police force, but the police force still serves as a deterrent.” Operation: Safe Community is a plan with 61 initiatives that deal with everything from violence in the home to gang and drug crimes, blight, youth violence, truancy, and prison recidivism. There’s a heavy emphasis on datadriven policing, which the Memphis Police Department (MPD) employs, targeting crime hotspots based on how often they occur in certain areas of the city. The MPD did not respond to requests for comment. Masson says that while he thinks Operation Safe Community, which partners with the MPD, the Shelby County Sheriff ’s Office, and about 100 partner agencies, is working, it’s important to note that there is much work left to do. “Our crime is still high. I don’t want anyone to think I’m being Pollyanna about this,” Masson said. “But we’re making progress. The numbers are down, but we still have a long way to go. The numbers are still higher than a lot of other cities.”
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New signs will soon point the way to downtown’s biggest attractions, replacing faded, sometimes illegible, and even out-of-date signs installed a decade ago. Last week, the Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC) asked for bids from companies to make and install 62 signs to be placed throughout the downtown core to help direct automobile traffic and 14 signs for pedestrians to be placed along the Main Street Pedestrian Mall. “We have a lot of new attractions that have come on board in the last year,” said Leslie Gower, the DMC’s vice president of marketing and communications. “We have [Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid]. We have the Blues Hall of Fame. We have the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, and we also have some attractions that are no longer around, so it’s just a matter of going in and making all the signs correct.” Also, Gower said, the existing signs have faded “to the point [that] they are embarrassing.” A casual survey of some of downtown’s way-finding signs last week found them washed out and, at times, completely blank if the sun struck them a certain way. Some signs pointed the way to the Peabody Place Mall, which closed in 2011. Those signs were placed there in 2005, the product of a 2000 planning effort called the “Downtown Wayfinding Effort.” That plan was pushed by the Center City Commission, the forerunner to the DMC, and called for a “consistent and uniform system of tourism-oriented directional signage” to “find attractions and landmarks, minimize confusion, and create awareness of things to see and tour.” Before those signs were posted, there were none. Few know the streets of downtown Memphis like Josh Whitehead. He’s the planning director and administrator of the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Planning and Development. His daily commute to his office downtown includes exiting I-40 onto Second Street. “I often think that if I was a visitor, I’d be lost if I was trying to go back north to [St. Jude Children’s Research Center], or Mud Island, or Bass Pro,” he said. Whitehead said the new signs are “great news,” because downtown is a mix of cut-off streets and one-way streets. He said this “historical phenomena” makes the area somewhat hard to navigate. Also, he said the new signs will replace old signs and won’t add to the visual clutter of the street. But are physical signs necessary in the Digital Age? A quick survey of tourists last week found most of them looking down at smartphones as they navigated the streets downtown, instead of looking up at signs. A tourist mother held up her smartphone when asked how she led her family to Beale Street. A couple standing at a plaque at the National Civil Rights Museum said they plugged the location’s address into their car’s GPS system. Even so, Gower said the new signs will help people find their way around, and they’ll serve another purpose, too. “We know most people are using their smartphones to get to and from places,” Gower said. “[The signs] are sort of a reassurance that you’re heading in the right direction. It’s nice to have some pretty signage in the streets, and it touts all of the things we have to offer on the sign. Seeing Beale Street, the National Civil Rights Museum, Beale Street Landing, the Orpheum — seeing all those things up over and over again, it reminds people that we have a lot to offer.”
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One new hire by the public defender’s office is already making her mark. Public Defender’s Office adopted early on. Part of the organization dedicates new public defenders to training, offering a threeyear program for those who have worked three years or less. As to why she originally got into public defense, her roots in the suburbs of Baltimore originally shielded her from economic and racial injustices, but once becoming privy to those issues, she “couldn’t ignore it.” “There are some similarities [between Memphis and Baltimore],” Francik said. “It’s a big metropolitan area with a smalltown feel. It just felt like the right place to be.”
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A recent hire by the Shelby County Public Defender’s Office has already made waves in the criminal justice system, and she hasn’t even received her bar exam results yet. Courtney Francik is awaiting her bar results, but she already jumpstarted her career with a high-profile case covered by The New York Times last year, in which President Obama granted clemency in a push to commute sentences for nonviolent drug offenders. Rudolph Norris, who had served 22 years in prison, was convicted of the possession and sale of crack cocaine in the early 1990s. Francik was apparently instrumental in the process of his clemency, according to The New York Times article. She worked with the law clinic at George Washington University, where she got her law degree, to get Norris his clemency. “Miss Courtney, y’all kept telling me I was a primary person the clemency was about,” Norris told her, according to the Times. “I kept hearing how confident y’all were. That’s what made me make it. Y’all were the vessels to get me home.” Before seeking her law degree, Francik completed her bachelor’s at Harvard University in political science and government. “I went to law school knowing I wanted to focus on racial and economic injustice, so I really didn’t know what shape that would take,” she said. “I ended up focusing on the criminal justice system and deciding that I wanted to be a public defender.” In her job search, Shelby County came up on lists of public defenders that were client-focused; that is, she explains, maintaining the same level of service despite the high number of caseloads “just like private representation would.” She had already heard of the office because of the Jericho Project, which is dedicated to serving those with serious mental illnesses and substance-oriented disorders who are stuck in a criminal justice loop, by providing them with recovery options and support systems. The Jericho Project boasts a 40 percent recidivism rate for that population, compared to 80 percent without the program. “Shelby County was the first public defender’s office to [implement the program],” Francik said. “It actually served as a model.” The more she learned about the office, she said, the more she felt drawn to Shelby County. Francik is now one of the new fellows with Gideon’s Promise, an organization that focuses on public defense reform that the Shelby County
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• Considering the shortcomings of the Tigers’ opponent Saturday night, I’ll refrain from measuring individual performance until Memphis takes the field this Saturday at Kansas. (If Missouri State had 63 players in uniform — the limit for FCS programs — the Tigers had 130.) But the most inspiring sight in the lopsided Tiger win was actually multiple sightings of tailbacks landing in the end zone.
Doroland Dorceus and Jarvis Cooper each scored a pair of touchdowns, the latter gaining 102 yards on just 18 carries. Add Sam Craft to the mix (72 yards on 12 carries) and freshman Jamarius Henderson (73 yards on 15 carries), and the Memphis offense has four sturdy wheels for an offensive machine set up more for lengthy strikes than the quick variety. With holes carved by a veteran offensive line and multiple targets downfield for a veteran quarterback (freeing up space beyond the line of scrimmage), I don’t see a ceiling for the Tiger ground game. • This Saturday’s game at Kansas will be just the fourth in Tiger history against teams currently in the Big 12. (Memphis beat TCU in 2002 and has gone 1-2 against Kansas State.) And the Jayhawks — losers to South Dakota State last weekend — may finish 10th in the Big 12 this season (that would be last). But the Tigers need to play motivated, to treat this game like one of two they’ll play against “Power Five” competition. (Kansas would likely finish in the bottom half of the AAC.)
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aturday night was a wholesome welcome back to football season at the Liberty Bowl, and for a team gaining traction (finally) with a population of local sports fans accustomed to looking forward to basketball season in September. Excluding games involving Ole Miss or Tennessee, the crowd of 41,730 was the 12th-largest in 50 years (and one game) of football at the Liberty Bowl. It was the third time since Justin Fuente’s arrival in 2012 that the Tigers have drawn more than 40,000 fans to a cavernous stadium that seats more than 60,000. (For some perspective, in last season’s opener — against an FCS foe — the crowd topped out at 27,361.) Over the three seasons before Fuente arrived (2009-11), the Tigers averaged 23,263 for home games. The empty seats were a direct reflection of miserable play on the field, the collective sense being that a program could be dying right before the (precious few) eyes of its most devoted fans. Now, you’d be surprised if the Tigers don’t have 40,000 in the seats on September 24th, when a rival for the American Athletic Conference (AAC) championship (Cincinnati) comes to town for a Thursday-night tilt. In a half-century of football at the Liberty Bowl, Memphis has averaged 40,000 fans only three times: 1976, 2003, and 2004. (The latter two were at the height of DeAngelo Williams’ college career, and the average his senior year — 39,991 in 2005 — fell just short of the mark.) Football season has arrived for the University of Memphis.
Should the Big 12 expand in the near future to 12 teams (imagine that), Memphis wants to be on the radar. The Tigers’ performance in Lawrence could help create a blinking red dot that grows into something larger than mere distraction on that radar screen. How best to motivate a heavily favored team? If I were Fuente, I’d find time to run a clip of a certain basketball game played on April 7, 2008. Most of the current Tigers were in middle-school (or younger) when Mario Chalmers broke a region’s heart. They play for that region now, though, and aim to become the first Memphis team in 11 years to open a season 2-0. Gloves off.
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Coattails — and More Come next year, 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen is almost sure to have opponents in his bed for a sixth straight election to House of Representatives — one (at least) in the Democratic primary and another running as a Republican nominee in the fall election. Whoever these opponents turn out to be are likely to be wasting their time. Since Cohen, then a longtime state Senator, won his first congressional race in 2006, he’s easily turned away all comers in the Democratic primary, many of them bearing famous political names, by prohibitive margins ranging from a mere 2 to 1 to 8 to 1. As for the obligatory biennial Republican challenge to Cohen’s reelection, those pro forma efforts usually get the GOP candidate no more than a third of Cohen’s total. This is in a district that is both overwhelmingly Democratic and overwhelming African American — the former of which Cohen is, the latter of which he isn’t (though the Republican sacrificial victim for each of the past two elections was). All of which is to note that Cohen, who has a fair share of influence in Washington, for that matter (see next page), has standing in Memphis, and increasingly he is willing to put it on the line in favor of this or that candi-
date running for office. Cohen has issued several endorsements in the 2015 Memphis city election, each of them in a race that is close enough for the congressman’s choice to matter. The most important endorsement — for incumbent Mayor A C Wharton, who has serious opposition for reelection— came last week, a most opportune time for Wharton, who a) faced the unpredictable fallout of a crisis involving former city planning czar Robert Lipscomb, whom the mayor effectively discharged after Lipscomb became the central figure in a scandal; and b) was demonstrated in a Commercial Appeal poll to have only a narrow lead (30 percent to 25 percent) over Councilman Jim Strickland, his closest competitor. (The same poll showed Councilman Harold Collins and Memphis Police Association president Mike Williams to be tied with 12 percent each.) The congressman made it a point to say kind words about Strickland, whom he called a “friend,” but said Wharton’s experience, passion for progress, and reputation in Washington and other “circles outside Memphis” all made him the right choice. Cohen’s other endorsements could
also shift voter sentiment. In the District 5 City Council race where, it is generally conceded, any of five candidates have enough potential strength to get into a runoff election, the congressman has opted in favor of youthful attorney John Marek, his former campaign manager and one of three serious contenders (the others: Charles “Chooch” Pickard and Mary Wilder) for the district’s “progressive” vote. The congressman’s other public choices are for: Mickell Lowery, who hopes to succeed his father, longtime Councilman and current Chairman Myron Lowery, in a Super District 8, Position 3 seat that is also sought by former School Board member Martavius Jones and Jacqueline Camper; and another former school board member, Rev. Kenneth Whalum Jr., who is in a hotly contested race for the Super District 9, Position 2 seat with four other candidates. As indicated, all these races are close enough to be influenced by Cohen, the ranking non-mayoral city politician, and, collectively, the outcomes in each of them could be a significant yardstick for measuring the extent of the congressman’s coattails. Steve Cohen
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County Democratic Executive Committee intends to make its own endorsements. • As a reminder, the aforesaid Whalum has an endorsement list of his own — an “education slate” of council candidates he hopes to sweep into office along with him. They are: Detric Golden in District 1; Keith Williams in District 3; Kristin Cheers in District 4; Marek in District 5; Anthony Anderson in District 7; and Victoria E. Young in Super District 8, Position 2. (For earlier endorsements by the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce JOBS PAC, the AFL-CIO Labor Council, the Tennessee Equality Project, and oth-
ers, see Politics Beat blog, memphisflyer. com.) • Rotary Debates: Candidates for the Super District 9, Position 2 seat will be featured in a forum of the Rotary Club of Memphis at noon next Tuesday at the University Club on Central Avenue. The candidates are: Whalum; Spinosa; Moss; Stephanie Gatewood; and Paul Shaffer. One week later, September 22nd, will see the traditional Rotary mayoral debate, always a culminating feature of a city election year. The participants will be Wharton, Strickland, Collins, and Williams. Same venue, same time: high noon.
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• Meanwhile, even as Cohen is putting his local clout to the test, he is getting kudos nationally as having been a significant congressional player in the battle over sustaining the deal that President Obama and other Western leaders have cut with Iran to restrain that country’s drive toward acquiring nuclear capability. In a Washington Post article of Thursday, September 3rd, Cohen is singled out as one of the Jewish members of Congress who had stood out in resisting strenuous efforts by the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu himself to have the Iran deal fail of congressional support. The article cites Cohen as having described “weathering a barrage of attacks from passionately opposed constituents and others on social media, who questioned his religion, his intelligence, and called him a kapo — a term used to describe prisoners of Nazi concentration camps who were assigned to supervise forced labor. …” Cohen is quoted as saying that Netanyahu’s acceptance of an invitation from Republican leaders to speak against the deal before a congressional joint session, “without the president’s knowledge and/ or approval,” had backfired. “Having him come and try to influence the members of the Congress and lobby against what the president was working on set the tenor,” Cohen said. “Netanyahu should not get himself involved in American politics in the future, and AIPAC played a stronger hand than they should have.” • Cohen was by no means alone last week in attempting to influence voter judgment in the forthcoming city election by means of endorsement. The Shelby County Republican Party steering committee met last Thursday night to consider the prospect of endorsements and emerged with majority votes for six endorsees. As has been its practice in recent election years, the local GOP guiding body cherry-picked from the full ballot, only selecting in specific races. The steering committee’s picks: • City Council, District 2 — Frank Colvett Jr. • City Council, District 5 — Dan Springer • Council Super District 9 Position 1 — Kemp Conrad • Council Super District 9, Position 2 — Philip Spinosa • Council Super District 9, Position 3 — Reid Hedgepeth • Mayor — Jim Strickland The choice of Strickland, who addressed the committee, was technically a “recommendation” rather than an endorsement — a fact presumably stemming from the fact of Strickland’s having been the Shelby County Democratic
chairman for a year in the mid-’90s. Strickland’s partisan activity has been largely dormant during his council years, however, and there had been little doubt of his popularity with the GOP rank and file, who turned out in quantity for his July headquarters opening in Poplar Plaza. Lynn Moss also had a fair amount of support for the Super District 9, Position 2 endorsement, but the real battle on the steering committee was between Springer, who is especially well-regarded among Republican office holders, and newcomer Worth Morgan, who has significant support in business circles. No word yet as to whether the Shelby
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Yes, we mean the Lipscomb affair, for sure — a saga, rivaling anything in Sophocles or Shakespeare, of a sudden and dramatic fall from the heights of power to the depths of apparent ruin and disgrace. And one, moreover, that leaves a slew of unanswered questions in its wake: How was one man allowed, through two successive city administrations, to accumulate so much power and influence that, to all intent and purpose, he was unbossed at City Hall, able not only to chart his own course but, it would seem, to decide the direction of city government itself in matters of development? It was Lipscomb single-handedly who came up with the Bass Pro solution to the riddle of an empty but debtconsuming Pyramid. He committed the city to sticking with that strategy in the face of other suggestions, some of which might have had merits of their own, and through year after year of what seemed never-ending delays. As of now, it appears that Lipscomb was right, that his gamble paid off. (Ask us again in 10 years.) Other projects, like the apparently abandoned Heritage Trail TIF (Tax Increment Financing) proposal of a few years back, would have put enormous swaths of the city in potential hock to pay for what seemed, finally, disproportionately modest developments within a limited geographical area. The purpose, to pay homage to the city’s civil rights legacy while upgrading a depressed area, was fine, but the whole thing seemed out of scale, and it would have involved
the disingenuous premise of having the entirety of downtown — which, all things considered, has been enjoying a boom — classified technically as a slum. That project, like Bass Pro, might have paid off, too, but it ultimately seemed too much a gamble — one in which the ante seemed out of scale with the potential payoff. The jury is still out (another cliché that somehow seems wholly appropriate) on another Lipscomb leftover, an ongoing Fairgrounds TDZ (Tourism Development Zone) proposal, which the administration of Mayor A C Wharton evidently still hopes to win state approval for, though there have been abundant objections to it from citizens’ groups and preservationists. Don’t misunderstand. Lipscomb had a certain genius for dreaming up these projects, all of which aimed artfully at snagging state or federal monies (or both) that our cash-poor city would have trouble coming up with otherwise. Maybe Memphis needed — and needs — to take a few risks. But it now seems clear that some obvious cautions are in order, as well. When we mentioned scratching the surface of a problem, we didn’t mean the Lipscomb affair alone. We meant that civic tendency, so much in evidence that a state comptroller was forced to upbraid us for it not along ago, to live entirely at risk, without sufficient oversight, like a giddy Mr. Micawber with a habit for playing the lottery. We can still dream; we just need to have enough wakefulness about us to know what’s going on in reality.
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Talking about you dopes who tried to cheat on your wives with those non-existent Ashley Madison slinkies. counts, roughly zero percent had ever shown any kind of activity at all, after the day they were created. The men’s accounts tell a story of lively engagement with the site, with over 20 million men hopefully looking at their inboxes, and over 10 million of them initiating chats. The women’s accounts show such little activity that they might as well not be there. I find this equal measures sad, distressing, and hilarious. Looking for women in a space you should have known — if you actually thought about things from the perspective of women — was probably very unlikely to have a lot of women in it. I have heard the names of somewhat prominent Tennesseans with Ashley Madison accounts and have checked to see that, yes, indeed, their email addresses do match up to ones with accounts. I didn’t go wading in the raw data to see if those email addresses actually linked up with those Tennesseans’ home addresses, because, in truth, whether you specifically cheated on your partner or tried to is not the public’s business.
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But I, and other women, have to live with you in this society. We have to be real, ordinary, flawed people in a society where you’d so rather have the fantasy that you don’t even realize that no women are there in your fantasy land. I have to assume that real women are invisible to you, if you don’t even notice our absence. And that does affect me. So, dear Ashley Madison users, I ask you for this one favor: Practice seeing us as real women. The next time you’re out and you notice a woman, get beyond “Sure, I’d nail her/Ugh, no” and consider the world from her perspective. I’d like you to do this, because I think you’d be better off with a little more empathy toward women, but you, you poor fools, should do it if only so that you can be smarter than to try to meet women on a website few women actually use. Betsy Phillips is a columnist for the Nashville Scene, where a longer version of this essay first appeared.
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I, and other women, have to live with you in this society. We have to be real, ordinary, flawed people in a society where you’d so rather have the fantasy.
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Hi guys. Yes, you six guys from tn.gov who signed up for Ashley Madison with your work email, the seven guys who work for the city of Memphis, the eight guys who work for the city of Nashville, the two Chattanooga city workers, the rumored political operatives and ex-political operatives — I am talking specifically to you, but also, in general, to all men who might find this helpful. First, if you’re going to cheat on your spouse, get an email that is something other than yourname@gmail.com or yourname@tn.gov. Second, don’t cheat on your wives, you dickbags. If you want some strange, tell your wife you want some strange. Give her the opportunity to divorce you before you bring home something she can’t live with (or, hell, maybe she’ll be cool with it; stranger things have happened). But here’s what I really want to say to you guys: Women are people. For thousands of years, men have tried to insist that women were less than whole people, that our only jobs were to be pretty, baby-making machines that will cook and clean for you. And for thousands of years, we have disappointed you by failing to be only those things. There’s no magic place you can go — not Russia, not Asia, not Ashley Madison — where you can open your wallet, choose all the characteristics you want in a sentient sex toy and come up with a woman who will actually care about you. You can’t buy love and affection. You can only buy the appearance of love and affection. Also, women, by and large, are terrified of being raped. So, and again, I’m speaking generally here, we’re not going to hang out at some secret place no one knows we are at and hook up with men we don’t know, especially men who have already indicated by their willingness to hang out on a cheaters’ website that they don’t care that much about treating women well. If you took even five seconds to think about Ashley Madison from the perspective of the women you were trying to meet on that site, you’d realize that it’s very unlikely that actual women would hang out on that site waiting for the likes of you. And, lo and behold, most of you were not interacting with actual women. According to a Gizmodo analysis of the personal data the hackers released, almost none of the women on the site were real. Overall, the picture is grim indeed. Out of 5.5 million female ac-
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THE LIPSCOMB AFFAIR A shocking accusation forces the resignation of the city’s most powerful unelected official, with consequences yet to be determined. It’s likely that, since the allegations surfaced, anyone who ever had contact with Lipscomb has completely reassessed the man who seemed to have all the puzzle pieces and knew how they fit together. Even as the allegations against Lipscomb remain to be investigated and very probably adjudicated, a new and unflattering light has begun to shine upon Lipscomb. To many in the public, he is now like a comic-book villain walking half in the bright light of polite society and half in a private darkness with the demons that may lie there. And for all these years, if the accusations against him are true, he would have been carrying a disturbingly divided self around, one with unfettered access both to the city’s most innocent as well as to its most powerful — and with only a thin veil separating his competent and somewhat wonky public personality from an alleged private self that was both violent and profane.
Tuesday, Sept. 1 — Wharton taps HCD Deputy Director Debbie Singleton to run that agency in the interim. He recommends Maura Black Sullivan, the city’s deputy chief administrative officer, to temporarily lead MHA. Even more Lipscomb accusers are said to come forward. Wednesday, Sept. 2 — MHA suspends Lipscomb with pay, appoints Sullivan as temporary director. Sammons tells the press that Wharton’s office is going quiet on the investigation to let the MPD do its job.
The Rundown Nearly two weeks have passed since the original allegation surfaced about Lipscomb. Here’s what we know so far. First, the publicly known chronology: Sunday, Aug. 30 — A late-night memo was sent to the press noting that a man had accused Lipscomb of rape and that Lipscomb had been relieved of duty at HCD. Monday, Aug. 31 — Lipscomb resigns as HCD director. More Lipscomb accusers reportedly call City Hall. The MPD searches Lipscomb’s house and takes computers, folders, and a camcorder as evidence.
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Robert Lipscomb has been called the most powerful man in Memphis. Power player. Power broker. Dealmaker. Deal breaker. Planning czar. Point man. Puppet master. Shadow operator. Rapist. Motherfucker. He earned the first set of names from the powerful friends and opponents he made in a nearly 20-year career in two roles, the director of the Memphis division of Housing and Community Development (HCD) and as director of the Memphis Housing Authority (MHA). With those jobs, he directed the flow of hundreds of millions of dollars of government funding to the biggest and highest-profile projects in Memphis. This is how he — an unelected official, a behind-the-scenes operative known largely only to those in government and business — became so powerful. The last two names in the first paragraph are from a man whose accusations have burned that power to the ground. The man, now 26 and living in Washington State, told Memphis Police Department (MPD) investigators that Lipscomb raped him. The accuser said that Lipscomb lured him into his SUV and then forced him to perform oral sex on him. This was in 2003, according to a police report, while the accuser said he was a homeless teenager walking the streets of Memphis. The accuser said Lipscomb made him perform oral sex on him more than a dozen times after that, giving him money and promises of a better life to keep him quiet. Since the accuser’s first allegations surfaced two weeks ago, more accusers have called Memphis City Hall with similar stories about Lipscomb, city officials said. Nine by the end of last week, according to their count, though no further details have been forthcoming, either from City Hall or the MPD. Indeed, they have gone seriously mum on what is presumably an ongoing investigation. At this point, the allegations are just that, and Lipscomb hasn’t been charged or arrested for anything. But the stories about him have packed a powerful punch. Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, called the allegations “disturbing.” Jack Sammons, the city’s Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), called them “sickening.” MHA Chairman Ian Randolph called them “horrendous.” Lipscomb quit his job at HCD. He was suspended with pay from the MHA. Investigations have been launched into the criminal aspects of the case, of course, but financial investigators are also shining their lights on the books of every agency Lipscomb directed. Meanwhile, the ousted Lipscomb maintains his innocence. Although he quit talking to the press under orders of his attorney, Ricky Wilkins, he was telling reporters who showed up at his front door two weeks ago that the allegations are false. 16 From certain points of view, it hardly matters; the damage is done.
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Thursday, Sept. 3 — Lipscomb’s initial accuser talks with several media, including the Flyer, adding a detail here or subtracting one there, but always insisting that Lipscomb promised him a job and a house in return for sexual favors, with the relationship souring, as the accuser put it to the Flyer, after he realized “the motherfucker” was “pulling my leg.” Tuesday, Sept. 8 — Still no charges filed against Lipscomb. Conversations with Wharton and Sammons, among others, have subsequently filled out these bare-boned details somewhat. The first warning signal had come into City Hall on Thursday, August 20th, with an explicit phone call to the mayor’s office from the Seattle man, who, as was later learned, was a Memphis native with a fairly lengthy police record locally. Wharton was out campaigning, and the first to learn about the call was CAO Sammons, who had just returned from official business in Nashville. The most riveting aspect of the call, that which convinced Sammons — and later Wharton and Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong — that the matter had to be taken seriously was the caller’s insistence that he had Western Union receipts of blackmail payments from Lipscomb. The caller had also spoken of a police complaint he had filed against Lipscomb in 2010, one that was virtually identical to his renewed complaint in 2015. The 2010 complaint was dismissed — on the basis, police records showed, that the complainant, who was homeless at the time, could not be located. The similarity of the two accounts, five years apart, was a convincing fact to Sammons, who explained further that the complainant chose to repeat his charges again as a form of release recommended by a therapist in Seattle. Acquainted with the basic facts upon his return to his office, Wharton called in Director Armstrong, on Friday, August 21st, and the two of them contacted the Seattle man, who repeated his tale and also
forwarded photostats of the Western Union receipts. As the mayor would explain to the Flyer, he deferred to the judgment of his seasoned police director, who decided the matter was serious enough to merit a personal visit to Seattle to meet with the accuser. Armstrong would arrange for such a visit, by himself and a group of investigators, for the middle of the next week. Between that weekend and the Armstrong party’s return from Seattle on Sunday, August 30th, there were meetings about various pending projects in City Hall involving Lipscomb, Wharton, and Sammons. They were conducted in a business-as-usual manner, with nothing said to Lipscomb about the caller from Seattle. But on Sunday, Armstrong and his assisting officers were back in town, and they met with Wharton and Sammons at City Hall with a full briefing on what had been two full days of investigation in Seattle. The convened group then learned that the accuser from Seattle had contacted Fox-13 news with his accusations, and a reporter from that station had called, wanting details. That fact sped up an itinerary that otherwise might have taken days or even weeks to develop. Lipscomb was called and asked to come to the mayor’s office for a meeting, which, he apparently presumed, had to do with some hitch in one of his ongoing projects. When he arrived, however, he found out otherwise, and arrangements were made in the tense atmosphere of that meeting for him to begin the process of separating himself from city service. The Upshot Heading into its third week, the Lipscomb affair has seemingly settled into an incubation mode, with dormant legal and political implications that could either simmer quietly or explode into an everexpanding crisis. On the legal front, the deposed planning czar’s attorney, Wilkins, an able veteran who is as familiar both with Lipscomb and with the way city
government operates as anybody around, was keeping his cards — such as have been dealt — close to his chest, with the full expectation that more surprises might be yet to come. Wilkins has made it clear, though, that he felt his client’s rights had been put in jeopardy and that he will have much to say about several aspects of what has so far transpired at some point in the future. Meanwhile, the implications of the affair for city business and the mayoral race that was just entering its stretch drive are still being assessed. Politically, it is too early to tell. Wharton was receiving credit in some quarters for acting quickly and decisively in dealing with the problem, once it came up. Others were prepared to fault the mayor for not seeing the situation develop under his nose or for even looking the other way from potential trouble. Further development in the Lipscomb saga could determine which view would prevail, at a time when polls show the mayor with only a slight lead over his closest opponent, Memphis City Councilman Jim Strickland. On the governmental front, it has long been a fact of life in City Hall that Lipscomb was calling the shots on city planning ventures, which included numerous neighborhood developments, the just-completed Bass Pro Shops at the Pyramid attraction, and a $200 million pending TDZ (Tourism Development Zone) project involving the Fairgrounds. Under two mayors, former city chief executive Willie Herenton and now Wharton, Lipscomb has been influential to the point that a common jest was to suggest that Herenton and Wharton had worked for Lipscomb rather than the other way around. It was no joke, however, that under both his titles, Lipscomb had extraordinary power and bargaining ability, which left most members of the city council, even some who were privately critical of him, unable to say no to Lipscomb when pressed for a vote. Among other things, he had the ability to route continued on page 18
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(Left to right) Lipscomb at an earlier County Commission meeting; Jack Sammons during last week’s MHA meeting; Mayor Wharton at a recent event.
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Kayfabe: The pretense that anything in professional wrestling is real. Wrestlers used to have to maintain their beefs in the ring and out of it, but now that we are in the “reality era” of wrestling, what’s really real is communicated as much through reality shows, social media, and podcasts as anything else. Reality proliferates. Legit: Pro wrestling that is actually real. You could say current superstars Brie and Nikki Bella are “legit twins” rather than makebelieve siblings, as is the case with many in-ring alliances. Babyface: a good guy; someone the crowd is supposed to like. (See: John Cena, the cherubically corn-fed world champion who recently appeared alongside Amy Schumer in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck.) The Spanish announcer table: The table that wrestlers most commonly destroy mid-match. It has been broken so many times the WWE calls it “The Spanish announce table Massacre.”
“It’s not like I sit at home and miss being hit by chairs. It’s just something I think I do well.”
Crimson mask: A face covered in blood. A face covered in blood! If someone purposefully bashes their head into barbed wire for greater dramatic effect, is the pain still real? As infamously paininsensitive wrestler Mick Foley (aka Mankind) once said, “It’s not like I sit at home and miss being hit by chairs. It’s just something I think I do well.” If you’re going to start somewhere with wrestling, you might as well start with The Undertaker. There is little to no chance that the veteran wrestler — known variously as The Deadman, The Master of Pain, Dice Morgan, The Punisher, American Bad Ass, The Commando and Texas Red — will appear this weekend in Memphis. But he unquestionably has one of the best gimmicks of all time, as a zombified Big Man whose longtime manager was a histrionic ghoul named Paul Bearer (get it?), and who regularly drags opponents into the beyond. His last major appearance was during WWE SummerSlam, where he faced off with Brock Lesnar, wearing eyeliner and shaking with posthumous strength. Pro-wrestling freshmen, go back and watch The Undertaker fight Jake “The Snake” Roberts (a man whose tortured life is well-documented in the 1999 documentary Beyond the Mat). Then watch him in a Casket match, a Body Bag match, a Buried Alive match, a Rest in Peace match, a Hell in a Cell match, and a Last Ride match. Then, gentle reader, ask yourself: Are we having fun yet? WWE Monday Night Raw at FedExForum Monday, September 14th m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m
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aybe you are good Southern rasslin’ kin, strong of gait and wild of tongue, versed in all things WWE. Maybe you were raised ringside, held high upon your father’s shoulders as he shouted, “This is a total schmoz! Get those mid-carders out of here!” You are the sort of man or woman who knows The Rock from a rock. A dead man from The Deadman. If the above is true, stop reading now. This article is meant for those gentler readers who heard that the nation’s largest pro-wrestling franchise (now worth over a billion American smackeroos) will be in town this weekend and thought, “Wrestling? But isn’t that, like, fake and stuff ?” The short answer is yes, wrestling is fake. Vince McMahon, WWE’s ancient but somehow totally ripped CEO, declared it to be fake in 1989 before a New Jersey court, in a successful effort to get the sport deregulated. But to call it fake is to gloss over how much of pro wrestling is real: lives lost, noses broken, careers ruined or made. Sure, the punches are choreographed, but the forces that drive that choreography are a Shakespearean negotiation between gimmicky theatrics, audience participation,
purity of that!” For your guidance, here is a brief and randomly selected glossary of professional wrestling lingo.
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What started as an obscure joke on Facebook has turned into a rare treat for Memphis theatergoers and fans of actor/ director Tony Isbell. Isbell created a lively Facebook discussion when he posted a status update saying, “I’ve just eaten, I regret to say, three donuts and have only with difficulty refrained from a fourth.” Some commenters liked donuts. Others liked them a lot. But Isbell wasn’t really casting about for snack affirmation. He was dropping a nerdy hint to fans of absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett. Actor Adam Remsen, who’d been directed by Isbell in productions of Glengarry Glen Ross and Six Degrees of Separation, recognized the allusion and answered, “Oh Krapp.” A conversation started that has resulted in an independently mounted production of Beckett’s mini-masterpiece Krapp’s Last Tape. “It’s like one man’s entire life in 40 minutes,” says Isbell of a play that finds its elderly title character listening to a tape of his somewhat younger self talking about an even earlier tape of his much younger self. It’s not quite 60 years old and maybe even more relevant thanks to Instagram and Facebook. “When people think of Beckett, they think of Waiting for Godot,” Isbell says. “They think of abstract characters dealing with huge issues. But this play is the most naturalistic thing he ever wrote. It’s exactly what it is: An old man sitting at his tape recorder listening to old tapes of himself and making a new one. It happens in real time. That’s it.” Remsen shares directing duties with Isbell and joins him onstage for a production of Ohio Impromptu, another rarely seen Beckett sketch with similarly nostalgic threads. “I’m not really doing that much directing,” Remsen says. “For me, the best part of the process has been getting to watch Tony Isbell perform Krapp’s Last Tape three or four times a week.” “KRAPP’S LAST TAPE” WITH “OHIO IMPROMPTU” AT FIRST CONGO SEPTEMBER 11TH-20TH, $15, 877-4482.
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Gladys Knight The Orpheum, 8 p.m., $62.50-$82.50 The R & B legend takes the stage as part of the Southern Heritage Classic weekend. Kick-off for game, pitting Tiger against Tiger, is 6 p.m. Saturday.
“Church” Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, 6-8 p.m. Opening reception for this largescale installation “combin[ing] elements of skate park with suburban, vernacular, and sacred architecture” by Sebura and Gartelmann. Art on Tap Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 6 p.m., $40 Annual event featuring lots of beer, food from local restaurants, and music by the Mason Jar Fireflies.
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Bedrock Eats & Sweets offers paleo and gluten-free delights. Food News, p. 38 SATURDAY September 12 Outflix Film Festival Ridgeway Cinema Grill, 7 p.m., $10 The annual Outflix festival kicks off tonight with two screenings. First up is Baby Steps, about a couple who wants to have a child through a surrogate. Also involves a controlling mother and a trip to Bangkok. At 9 p.m., it’s Girltrash: All Night Long, about rockers making their way to a Battle of the Bands. Check out this week’s film section for more, page 41. Continues through September 17th. For more info and the full schedule, go to outflixfestival.org.
Germantown Festival Germantown Civic Club Complex, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Annual huge festival returns. Tons of crafts, kiddie rides, food, entertainment, etc. But, let’s be real, one of the main attractions is the Running of the Weenies Dachshund Race, because that shizz is adorable. Continues Sunday, noon-6 p.m. Living in the Age of Airplanes CTI 3D Giant Theatre, 9:45 a.m., 11 a.m., and 1 p.m. Opening day of this exploration of how airplanes changed the world, narrated by Harrison Ford.
Ballet Memphis’ The Little Prince
On Pointe By Chris Davis There are two notable ballet events this weekend: New Ballet Ensemble’s (NBE) annual FreeFall concert featuring a new contemporary ballet by NBE alum Maxx Reed and Ballet Memphis’ production of The Little Prince. Reed was 13 years old when NBE founder Katie Smythe first saw him performing on a street corner in Cooper-Young with other dancers from Graffiti Playground, a neighborhood program offering free performing-arts training for kids. When Smythe asked Reed if he’d like to visit her studio and dance with some ballerinas, the teenager didn’t even need to think about it. “Nope,” he said. That just didn’t sound fun at all. But Smythe eventually changed his mind, and Reed’s mix of street smarts and classical training have since resulted in a number of professional dance opportunities, including a chance to perform as Spider-Man on Broadway. NBE’s FreeFall also features a German-inspired dance created by Elizabeth Corbett, and a French and Spanish piece with choreography by NBE flamenco instructor, Noelia Garcia Carmona. Tickets are free, but proceeds from donations support scholarships for NBE students. Ballet Memphis launches its 2015 season in the Memphis Botanic Garden with an adaptation of The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic children’s book for adults. And where better than under the moon and stars to take in the bittersweet story of a little boy from another planet who has met many peculiar grown-ups on his way to Earth. The Little Prince will be followed by a special New York tour preview Water of the Slippery Flower Mill. NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE PRESENTS “FREEFALL” AT THE HATTILOO THEATRE, SEPTEMBER 11TH-12TH AT 7:30 P.M. AND SEPTEMBER 13TH AT 2:30 P.M. FREE. NEWBALLET.ORG. BALLET MEMPHIS’ “THE LITTLE PRINCE” AT THE MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH, AT 8 P.M. $10-$25. BALLETMEMPHIS.ORG.
Pancakes and Booze Art Show Hi-Tone, 8 p.m., $5 Traveling art pop-up event featuring — you guessed it! — pancakes and booze. Includes the work of some 40 up-and-coming artists.
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Booksigning by Edwin E. Meek The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 6:30 p.m. Edwin Meek signs and discusses his book Riot. Meek was a student and staff photographer for the University Information Office at Ole Miss when the school’s first black student, James Meredith, enrolled.
Haunted Pub Crawl Ions: A Geek Gallery (546 S. Main), 7:30-10 p.m. A paranormal investigator leads this tour of bars while sharing ghost stories.
Summons to Memphis The Peabody Hotel, 11 a.m., $50 Annual luncheon hosted by Memphis magazine featuring forward-thinking individuals. Today’s featured speaker is Mick Cornett, mayor of Oklahoma City.
RIP Book Club Elmwood Cemetery, 10 a.m. Up for discussion is Richard Alley’s novel Five Night Stand, about the intersection of lives of a jazz pianist, a journalist, and a piano prodigy.
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Flyer: So, how did you guys get together? Brennan Whalen: I met Josh through being a regular at P&H at the time he worked there. We’ve been good friends ever since, and he eventually started playing drums for my band the River Rats. Josh McLane: I saw the River Rats play at the Hi-Tone one night and was blown away, because I’m not a big fan of that genre usually. I’m not usually a fan of male, acoustic singersongwriters, but he was magnetic. Then he made his solo record, and I was blown away again. So I got him to sing for Hombres, but then I missed him doing his acoustic stuff, so Heels was born. Brennan, what about Josh’s playing
drew you toward working with him? Whalen: I’ve been a fan of Josh’s drumming since before we ever met. I’ve watched him in many bands and have always really admired his work. The reason Josh is perfect in the setting we currently have is because he has a range that most people just don’t. He can absolutely destroy you or he can play as lightly as possible, all without giving away that he’s making an effort. He’s fantastic. He also has a really great voice and an ear for harmonies, which helps add to live
Brennan Whalen (left) and Josh McLane
performances. Why did you choose the name “Heels?” Whalen: A “heel” is a bad guy in professional wrestling. I guess it seemed fitting because one, we love wrestling; and two, we’re two people who aren’t very good at cutting ourselves any slack. If I’m being honest, I’d say Josh and I are two very nice people, but you wouldn’t know it if you asked us to describe ourselves. How would you describe your approach to songwriting? Whalen: Our goal with this project has been to be almost completely collaborative. While I came to this with a lot of songs already written — some of which Josh had played with me before — they were just base songs that took on a completely different tone when Josh put his stamp on them. At the moment, we’re working
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How do you feel about the finished product? Whalen: I’m very happy with the E.P. We knew when we set out to record it that making a record with just acoustic guitar and drums could have ended poorly. If we didn’t perform well and the mix was off or the sound wasn’t right, the whole thing would’ve sounded hollow and unpleasant. But I feel, especially thanks to Matt’s production, that we pulled off what we set out to do. I couldn’t ask for more. So, while we’re on the subject — why only acoustic guitar and drums? McLane: Why not just acoustic guitar and drums? Rules are for suckers. Whalen: Being a two-piece is really nice. Practice is easy to schedule, there’s less equipment, and we can really do whatever we want creatively. I definitely see utilizing electric instruments on future recordings and live shows, but I don’t see us adding another member. We’ve just really got something between the two of us that I wouldn’t want to risk. What else do you guys have going on? McLane: We’re planning on touring this spring, and doing another record next year, hopefully. Right now we’re also the house band for the monthly “Night Shift” show with [local comedian] Katrina Coleman at Theatreworks. Whalen: We just want to keep making music that we enjoy and have fun playing live and recording. We really hope people enjoy it, but I’d say the primary focus is entertaining ourselves. For more information on Heels, visit www.heelsmemphisband.com. Heels and Dead Soldiers, Saturday, September 12th, at the Young Avenue Deli. Doors open at 9:30 p.m., and admission is $10.
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on new material together instead of writing songs separately and bringing them to each other at practice. It works because there’s really nothing that we will say no to. If it’s a good song, it doesn’t matter if it feels out of our wheelhouse. We’re going to give it a shot.
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After Dark: Live Music Schedule September 10 - 16 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711
Karaoke Thursdays, TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Jim Wilson Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; DJ J2 Fridays, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.-5 a.m.; The 901 Heavy Hitters Fridays-Sundays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.
B.B. King’s Blues Club 143 BEALE 524-KING
The King Beez Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.
Blue Note Bar & Grill 341-345 BEALE 577-1089
Queen Ann & the Memphis Blues Masters Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637
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Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.
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152 BEALE 544-7011
162 BEALE 521-1851
1st Floor: Mercury Blvd. Mondays-Thursdays, 711 p.m.; 1st Floor: Super 5 Fridays, Saturdays, 10:30 p.m.-2 a.m.; After Dark Band Sundays, 7-11 p.m.
Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar 159 BEALE
Chris Gales Tuesday-Saturday, noon-8 p.m.; Karaoke ongoing, 8:30 p.m.
Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007
Next 2 The Tracks Friday, Sept. 11, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; School of Rock Memphis Presents “A Tribute to Heart” Saturday, Sept. 12, 4-5:30 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 13, 67:30 p.m.; School of Rock Memphis Presents “The Genesis Tree” Saturday, Sept. 12, 6-7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 13, 4-5:30 p.m.
Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031
Susan Marshall Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.
Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cafe & Honky Tonk 310 BEALE 654-5171
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.
David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.
King’s Palace Cafe’s Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851
Mack 2 Band Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Jeffries & the Kings of Memphis Thursdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Nate Dogg and the Fellas Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; McDaniel Band Saturdays, 26 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m., and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Chic Jones Sundays, Tuesdays, 6:3010:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Wednesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.
King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room 168 BEALE 576-2220
Don Valentine Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mississippi BigFoot Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Chic Jones, Blues Express Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.
Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150
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.
Rum Boogie Cafe’s Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150
Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; Low Society Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Mondays, 8 p.m.midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596
Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., and Sundays, 4-9 p.m.; Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-3 a.m., and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.
Wet Willie’s 209 BEALE 578-5650
Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.
Brinson’s
Purple Haze Nightclub
341 MADISON 524-0104
140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139
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
DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.
Riverfront Bar & Grill 251 RIVERSIDE
Local Music Friday Fridays, 6-8 p.m.
Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020
77 S. SECOND 527-2700
Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.
Maria Montessori School
100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915
Grady Champion Sunday, Sept. 13, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. 740 HARBOR BEND 527-3444
Impala, James & the Ultrasounds, DJ Hot Tub Eric Saturday, Sept. 12, 6-9 p.m.
The Silly Goose DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.
South Main
The Orpheum
Spindini
203 S. MAIN 525-3000
383 S. MAIN 578-2767
Gladys Knight Thursday, Sept. 10, 8-10:15 p.m.
Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.
Paulette’s RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300
Blind Bear Speakeasy 119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435
Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.
Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813
Live Music Fridays.
Live Pianist Thursdays, 5:308:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-9 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and MondaysWednesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.
The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225
Old School Blues & Jazz Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.
Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830
Joe Restivo 4 Friday, Sept. 11; John Paul Keith & Friends Happi Hour Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m.
Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538
Loveland Duren Fridays, 710 p.m.; Two Peace Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.
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Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.
Hi-Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE
Dawn Patrol, Protest Thursday, Sept. 10, 9 p.m.; The Band of Beans, Carlos Beans Friday, Sept. 11, 7 p.m.; Skinny Lister, Buckles and Boots Sunday, Sept. 13, 9 p.m.; Blis, The Passport, Forrister, Sleeping Seasons, Forsake Your Nets Tuesday, Sept. 15, 7 p.m.; Wicked World, Creux, Our Dearly Departed, Dismay Dismember Tuesday, Sept. 15, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.
HOMETOWN THROWDOWN II AT THE NEW DAISY This Saturday, six local bands will attempt to revive the local modern hardrock scene at the newly renovated New Daisy Theater on Beale Street. The Hometown Throwdown is now in its second year, but the premise is simple: throw a single night showcase that features some of the best of the harder rocking bands in Memphis (known in some circles as Guitar Center rock). Festival promoter Gary Segars (and member of the band Prosevere, who headline the event) said that the main goal of the Hometown Throwdown II is to prove that people still care about hard rock in Memphis, which is alive and well here. “The Memphis music scene used to have Crippled Nation and Piston Honda and Logic 34, and they could play to several hundred people any time they performed,” Segars said. “Now it’s really difficult for kids to go and see shows because everything is 21 and up. The New Daisy was one of the only places younger music fans could go to see local bands.” So far Prosovere, One Less Reason, Empire City, Surrender the Fall, the Passport, and Devices Divide Us have been announced for the one-night-only event, and the gig also serves as a coming-out party for the new local label Tattooed Millionaire records. “Basically, we want to showcase the local rock scene and show that we can still pack this place out,” Segars said. “We want to give these local bands a chance to play in front of a new, all-ages crowd, to get them in front of new fans, and show that there are still a lot of different things going in Memphis.” — Chris Shaw The Hometown Throwdown II, Saturday, September 12th, at the New Daisy. $15, all ages. Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON 272-BLUE
The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909
Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight.
Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.
Boscos
Celtic Crossing
2120 MADISON 432-2222
Sunday Brunch with Joyce Cobb Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
903 S. COOPER 274-5151
DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.
The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719
Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Poodle Brandy Friday, Sept. 11, 10 p.m.; The Janks Sunday, Sept. 13, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard James Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Anne Schorr Wednesday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.
Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372
Le Tumulte Noir Sunday, Sept. 13, 4-7 p.m.; Deering and Down Sunday, Sept. 13, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.
Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097
Chris Johnson & Landon Moore Thursday, Sept. 10, 6 p.m.; Brennan Villines Thursday, Sept. 10, 9 p.m.; Roman/Peel Friday, Sept. 11, 6:30 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Friday, Sept. 11, 10 p.m.; RiverBluff Clan Saturday, Sept. 12, 11 a.m. and Tuesday, Sept. 15, 8 p.m.; Pam & Terry Saturday, Sept. 12, 6:30 p.m.; Atlas Road Crew Saturday, Sept. 12, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Nashville Pussy, Joecephus & the George Jownstown Massacre Sunday, Sept. 13, 9 p.m.
The Levitt Shell 1928 POPLAR 272-2722
Big George Brock Frday, Sept. 11
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 30 Days of Opera: All Your Opera Are Belong To Us Thursday, Sept. 10, 6-7 p.m.
Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744
JJ Grey & Mofro Saturday, Sept. 12; Artistik Lounge Featuring Devin Crutcher every third Sunday, 7-11 p.m.
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Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994
New Artist Weekend Friday, Sept. 11, 8 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 12, 8 p.m.
Overton Square MIDTOWN
Bluesday Tuesday Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906
Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.
The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223
Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.
Strano Sicilian Kitchen 948 S. COOPER 552-7122
Davy Ray Bennett Sundays, Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m.
Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975
The Soul Connection Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.
University of Memphis Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900
Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.
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Conspiracy Theory Friday, Sept. 11; River City Cadillacs Friday, Sept. 11, 6-9 p.m.; Ese, The Hoax Sunday, Sept. 13.
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
Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House 551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200
Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Mondays-Thursdays, 59:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.
Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013
Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.
Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729
Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, Sept. 13, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.
Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321
Van Duren Thursdays, 6:308:30 p.m.
T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481
Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 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.; Butler-Ingle Band Saturday, Sept. 12, 9 p.m.; Benefit for James Lott featuring John Kilzer, Jeffrey & the Pacemakers, Van Duren, Nikki Loveland, and more Sunday, Sept. 13, 4-10 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.
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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.
Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324
Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.
The Other Place Bar & Grill 4148 WALES 373-0155
Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.1 a.m., and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Whitehaven/ Airport Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant
RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222
Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Mondays Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Shelby Forest General Store
Huey’s Cordova
Huey’s Germantown
1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885
7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034
The Dantones Sunday, Sept. 13, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.
T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova 8071 TRINITY 756-4480
The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.
Charvey Mac’s 6-String Lovers Sunday, Sept. 13, 811:30 p.m.; The Dantone Trio Wednesday, Sept. 16, 5-7 p.m.
Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423
Unwind Wednesdays Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.
North Mississippi/ Tunica Bally’s CASINO CENTER DRIVE, TUNICA, MS 1-800-38-BALLY
1-900 Band Friday, Sept. 11, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, Sept. 12, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770
Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.
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Live Entertainment Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
Horseshoe Casino Tunica 1021 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 800-357-5600
In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing.
Huey’s Southaven 7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097
Soul Shockers Sunday, Sept. 13, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Mesquite Chop House 5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467
Pam and Terry Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.
Tunica Roadhouse 1107 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 662-363-4900
Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.
Wadford’s Grill & Bar 474 CHURCH, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5861
662DJ, Karaoke/Open Mic Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.
Raleigh Mugs Pub 4396 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 372-3556
Karaoke Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
Arlington/Eads/ Oakland
Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576
Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub
Open Mic Blues Jam with Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.
6230 GREENLEE 592-0344
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Hadley’s Pub D.J.A.M. Unplugged Thursday, Sept. 10, 8 p.m.-midnight; The Nuttin’ Fancy Band Friday, Sept. 11, 9-1 a.m.; Full Circle Saturday, Sept. 12, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; The Lineup Sunday, Sept. 13, 5:309:30 p.m.; Sunday Funday with the Lineup Sunday, Sept. 13, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Brian Johnson Band Wednesday, Sept. 16, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965
Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Karaoke with Ricky Mack Mondays, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Mic with Susie and Bob Salley Wednesdays, 8 p.m.
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The Pistol and the Queen Sunday, Sept. 13, 4-7 p.m.; JoJo Jeffries & Ronnie Caldwell Sunday, Sept. 13, 8-11:30 p.m.
Cordova Bahama Breeze 2830 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 385-8744
Karaoke Mondays, 8-11 p.m.
Delta Blues Winery 6585 STEWART
Re-Wine Fridays, 7-10 p.m.
Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 819 EXOCET 624-9060
Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 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.
Old Millington Winery 6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114
Susie and Bob Salley Sunday, Sept. 13, 3-6 p.m.
Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911
The Sensations Sunday, Sept. 13, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.
Mesquite Chop House 3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661
Pam and Terry Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.
Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar 9087 POPLAR 755-0092
Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 710 p.m.; Half Step Down Fridays, 7-10 p.m.
The Crossing Bar & Grill 7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242
Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight.
Dan McGuinness 3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611
Acoustic Music Tuesdays.
Fitz Casino & Hotel 711 LUCKY LN., TUNICA, MS 800-766-5825
Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.
Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 6565 TOWNE CENTER, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-536-2200
Live Music Thursdays, 5 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays.
DJ Crumbz Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Club Night Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Boot Scootin’ Wednesdays, 7 p.m.
The New Backdour Bar & Grill 302 S. AVALON 596-7115
Ms. Ruby Wilson And Friends Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke with Tim Bachus Mondays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.
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his past June, San Francisco-bred artist Joshua Short came to Memphis to build a pirate radio station, a task that he describes as combining his two favorite things, “self-defense/reliance” and “sticking it to the man.” Short built the radio station — a mix between a mock-up bomb shelter and truck topper — in the back of Crosstown’s Amurica photo studio. When he wasn’t living inside the station (“I was this kind of weird hobo living in this weird sculpture”), he welcomed local bands in for interviews and concerts. This month, Short was back in town to complete a mural, also at Amurica. We sat down to talk about his past work, which includes fake plane crashes, off-the-wall installation work, and an ongoing fixation with cars, dinosaurs, and Cold War ephemera. Short, a tall man in his early 40s, had just finished pasting some final pieces of cut paper (“garbage”) to a radial wall of quilted colors. We talked about gender, punk, politics, and Memphis.
doing this, actually. Why do I care about this? Is this my fight?” During grad school, I sort of unravelled a lot of that. I’m a Cold-War kid. I came from this fear. This fear-mongering about there being a great enemy out there. Destruction was imminent. Nuclear war was gonna happen. The other thing was that I had a rough upbringing. I was abused. My mom was abused, and I was raised by a single mom. I had a slew of men in my life, and none of them were good father figures. So I gravitated toward martial arts growing up. There were a couple things that led to that. One was this fear I had, like “Oh, fuck, I gotta learn how to take care of myself. I’ve gotta defend myself.” The other side of that was trying to find a masculine identity that worked for me.
Joshua Short: “Being a good artist is about discipline.”
What about your more recent installation work, your 3-D drawing with string and assembled parts. I started off drawing, because those were my influences. My friends were all super drawers. We were interested in comics and horror movies and junk like that; underground culture. I do draw a lot, and it is a tool in my tool box. Maybe sometimes things need to be drawings straight up, and sometimes they don’t. I am more interested in making art that does something, that has a life beyond its objectness.
Flyer: Do you consider your art to be political? Joshua Short: I used to be more overtly political. San Francisco has always been kind of a political town, especially for artists. In the early 2000s, street art and doing things in the service of antigentrification, and, at the time, anti-war was a huge part of the conversation that artists were having. You’d associate with the movements you aligned yourself with — whether it was being queer or a part of an anti-war movement or a pro-Chicano movement. That’s the school I came from, but at some point, I sort of hit my end with being that overt. Why? My art was really reactionary for a long time, and then I kind of got to a point where I was like “I don’t know why I am
Do you see similarities in your martial arts practice and your art practice? It is definitely there. I think being a good artist is about discipline, but it is also about endurance. There is a quote that I really enjoy that talks about misery and malcontent and suffering on all human beings, you know? Is this the world we live in? Endurance. The fact that you can endure and you can survive is a true expression of what it means to be human. Being able to get up and take care of yourself and not be dependent on other people or let yourself become dependent on other people.
What brought you to Memphis? I’ve been in San Francisco too long. I get all mad when I am there and I don’t even know why anymore. Coming to Memphis has been really great, because I’ve just felt so loved here. I’m in this place in my life where I want to build a little bat cave. Memphis feels like the kind of place where you can do that.
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Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center A Party to Murder, six people have come in secret to a Halloween party to play a murdermystery game at a rustic island cottage. A 25-year-old unsolved mystery has an unexpected and terrifying conclusion. www. bpacc.org. $10. Sept. 10-12, 7 p.m., and Sun., Sept. 13, 2:30 p.m. 3663 APPLING (385-6440).
Buckman Performing Arts Center at St. Mary’s School
Nutcracker auditions, all children ages 5 and up will be guaranteed a role. Older dancers will have the opportunity to be placed in some of the most popular roles. For more information and audition reservation, call or email info@balletrussian.org (773-510-4410), www.buckmanartscenter.com. Sat., Sept. 12, 2 p.m. 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).
Germantown Community Theatre Rumors, the craziest dinner party of the season. An innocent anniversary party becomes a tangle of gunshots, affairs, politicians, and rumors. Written by Neil Simon. www.gctcomeplay.org. $24. Sundays, 2:30 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Sept. 27.
A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S
“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. Through Oct. 16.
The Annesdale Park Gallery
Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art
630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).
575 S. MENDENHALL (578-2787).
Artist reception for “Finding Center,” exhibition of of composition work by Dolores Justus. (208-6451), www.theannesdaleparkgallery.com. Fri., Sept. 11, 6-8 p.m.
“Chinese Symbols in Art,” exhibition of ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. www. belzmuseum.org. Ongoing. 119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).
1290 PEABODY (208-6451).
Box Gallery
Clough-Hanson Gallery
Opening reception for “Church,” exhibition of largescale installation by Sebura and Gartelmann. www.rhodes.edu. Fri., Sept. 11, 6-8 p.m. RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3442).
DeSoto Arts Center
Artist reception for Fall Art Show, (662-404-3361), www. desotoarts.com. Fri., Sept. 11, 6-9 p.m. 660 W. COMMERCE, HERNANDO, MS.
Memphis College of Art
Artist reception for “Horn Island 31,” exhibition of work resulting from an 11-day annual trip by 40 MCA students, faculty, and alumni to a barrier island off the coast of Pascagoula, Miss. www.mca.edu. Sat., Sept. 12, 5:30-8:30 p.m. 1930 POPLAR (272-5100).
Hattiloo Theatre
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37 S. COOPER (502-3486).
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The Producers, www.theatrememphis.org. $30. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m. Through Sept. 13.
3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (754-2680).
Radio Golf, set in 1997 Pittsburgh, Wilson’s life’s work comes full circle as Aunt Ester’s one-time home is slated for demolition. History, memory, and legacy challenge notions of progress and country club ideals. www.hattiloo.org. $13-$26. Sundays, 3 p.m., Saturdays, 2 and 7:30 p.m., and Thursdays, Fridays, 7:30 p.m. Through Oct. 11.
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Annual Horn Island exhibition at Memphis College of Art with work by 40 artists
West Tennessee. Registration for artisans available at www. ecwwtn.org or call 299-6061 for more information. $100 for 10X10 space. Sat., Sept. 12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Agnes Stark’s Summer Pottery Show
CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION, 4645 WALNUT GROVE (299-6061), WWW.ECWWTN.ORG.
Summer pottery show and sale. Fri. and Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sun., noon-5 p.m. Sept. 11-13. AGNES STARK’S STUDIO, 12675 DONELSON.
Artist Lecture for “Church”
Meet in Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall for a lecture about this large-scale installation by Sebura and Gartelmann. Thurs., Sept. 10, 6-7 p.m. CLOUGH-HANSON GALLERY, RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3442), WWW.RHODES.EDU.
Call to Artists for 2015 MGAL Winter Exhibition All active Memphis/Germantown Art League members in good standing are eligible. Entry deadline is Nov. 13, show dates are Nov. 24-Dec. 28. Each artist may submit two works, any medium. Through Nov. 13. ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 2425 S. GERMANTOWN (921-1767), MGAL.ORG.
“By Other Means,” exhibition of new works by Anna Irace. Through Sept. 28.
Call to Artists for “Secret Artwork in the Medicine Cabinet”
Seeking artwork for exhibitions held the last Friday of every month. $15 submission fee. Ongoing. CIRCUITOUS SUCCESSION GALLERY, 500 S. SECOND, WWW.CIRCUITOUSSUCCESSION.COM.
Crafts n’ Creations in the Community
Arts festival benefiting the Episcopal Church Women of
Desoto Arts Council Fall Show and Reception Featuring local music and Southern-themed art. Free. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 5-7 p.m. Through Oct. 23.
Sept. 12-13, 10 a.m. OVERTON SQUARE, MIDTOWN, WWW.SOUTHERNJUNKERS.COM.
Thomas Kinkade Master Highlighter Event Specially trained artist adds oil embellishments to your painting, enhancing the depth and texture. Limited number of 15-minute appointment times available. Free. Sept. 11-12, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
THOMAS KINKADE INSPIRATION GALLERY, IN WOLFCHASE GALLERIA (257-1212), WWW.THOMASKINKADEMEMPHIS.COM.
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The Pancakes and Booze Art Show Featuring more than 40 artists, free pancake bar, live audio and visual performances, live body painting, art battles, and more. 21 and up event. $5. Sat., Sept. 12, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. HI-TONE, 412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE), WWW.PANCAKESANDBOOZE.COM.
Southern Junkers Fall Show
Juried show, featuring many longtime favorites and new vendors. Minor Street Strings will perform and free admission to shoppers on Saturday from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sat.-Sun.,
The Annesdale Park Gallery
“Finding Center,” exhibition of composition work by Dolores Justus. Sept. 11-Oct. 14. 1290 PEABODY (208-6451).
Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)
Samuel H. Crone, drawings and sketches. www.memphis.edu/ amum. Through Sept. 19. “Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection. Ongoing. 142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).
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Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School “Fables,” exhibition of new works by Brad Troxel. www. buckmanartscenter.com. Through Sept. 21.
60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).
Cafe Pontotoc
“A Community Collaboration: French Fort,” exhibition of artifacts and art inspired by the French Fort by Cafe Pontotoc, City South Ventures, and local artist Elayna Scott. Through Dec. 31. “Exploration in Imagination,” mixed-media works by Elayna Scott, inspired by nature and her travels. Ongoing. 314 S. MAIN (249-7955).
Circuitous Succession Gallery
Saj Crone and Jeff Mickey, exhibition of photography. www.circuitoussuccession.com. Through Sept. 21. 500 S. SECOND.
Clough-Hanson Gallery
“Church,” large-scale installation by Sebura and Gartelmann. www.rhodes.edu. free. Through Oct. 10. RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3442).
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The Dixon Gallery & Gardens
Jun Kaneko, contemporary ceramic sculptures. www.dixon. org. Through Nov. 22.
242 S. COOPER (276-3937).
1930 POPLAR (272-5100).
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750 CHERRY (766-9900).
“A Kind of Confession,” critical and contemporary metalwork from both tenured and emerging African-American metal artists. www.metalmuseum. org. Through Sept. 13.
Gallery 1091
374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).
WKNO STUDIO, 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).
Hyde Gallery
“Inaugural Faculty Biennial Exhibition,” featuring work by over 20 faculty members in media ranging from fiber to metal. www.mca.edu. Through Sept. 26. INSIDE THE MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART’S NESIN GRADUATE SCHOOL, 477 S. MAIN.
The Salvation Army Kroc Center
Memphis Camera Club, exhibition of photography. www. krocmemphis.org. Through Sept. 28. 800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007).
L Ross Gallery
Leslie Barron, exhibition of mixed-media works. www. lrossgallery.com. Through Sept. 26. 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200). facebook.com/
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“Horn Island 31,” work resulting from an 11-day annual trip by 40 MCA students, faculty, and alumni to a barrier island off the coast of Pascagoula, Miss. www.mca.edu. Through Oct. 2.
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the Golden Age,” watercolors from the late-18th through the early-20th centuries. Through Sept. 20. “Play,” exhibition exploring 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 from a variety of periods. www. brooksmuseum.org. Through Jan. 3, 2016.
Memphis Botanic Garden
“The Secret Light of Trees,” colored paper and paint celebrating trees by Miriam Oliphant. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Through Sept. 28. 750 CHERRY (636-4100).
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
“The Art of Video Games,” exhibition exploring the 40year evolution of video games through painting, writing, sculpture, music, storytelling, and cinematography. Through Sept. 13. “Buggin’ & Shruggin: A Glitched History of Gaming Culture,” murals that riff upon popular video games, major characters, and the gamers themselves by Michael Roy. Through Sept. 13. “Surreal Kingdoms,” combining acrylic paint and digital collage by Kenneth Wayne Alexander II. Through Sept. 13. “British Watercolors from
The Performing Arts Center at Trezevant Manor
“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.
of friends and neighbors. The installations will be on view 24 hours a day. www.rhodes.edu. Through Sept. 20. SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFO.
Wings Gallery
“Images of Healing, Images of Hope,” exhibition by 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 performances for the public all around Memphis. Events added and changed throughout the month. Check website frequently. Through Sept. 30. VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.30DAYSOFOPERA.COM.
30 Days of Opera: All Your Opera Are Belong To Us
Join Opera Memphis at the Brooks for a progressive performance through The Art of Video Games that showcases examples of opera in video games, including Final Fantasy VI. Free Admission. Thurs., Sept. 10, 6-7 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.
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Dance Night
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).
Evening of dancing with music provided by the Jim Mahannah Band or Wally and Friends. $5. Third Tuesday of every month, 7-10 p.m.
Shady Grove Presbyterian Church
BAKER COMMUNITY CENTER, 7942 CHURCH, MILLINGTON, WWW.MILLINGTONTN.GOV.
“From Here to There,” abstract expressionist paintings by Jill Samuels. www.shadygrovepres. org. Through Sept. 30. 5530 SHADY GROVE (683-7329).
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Stax Museum of American Soul
“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).
TOPS Gallery
“The Season Moved,” sculpture comprised of over 200 bundles composed 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,” exhibition organized by Rhodes College as part of a national effort to bring temporary art installations in the front yards
FreeFall
New Ballet Ensemble & School showcases eclectic dance pieces performed by students and the ensemble. Proceeds support scholarships for students at New Ballet Ensemble & School. Fri., Sept. 11, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m., and Sun., Sept. 13, 2:30 p.m. HATTILOO THEATRE, 37 S. COOPER (502-3486), WWW.NEWBALLET.ORG.
The Little Prince
Water of the Flowery Mill, part of the repertory Ballet Memphis on tour in New York this October to follow. Food trucks, cash bars, and children’s activities onsite, picnics welcome. $10-$25. Sat., Sept. 12, 6:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.BALLETMEMPHIS.ORG.
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Booksigning by John Floyd
Author discusses and signs Sun Records with special guests Monsieur Jeffrey Evans and Ross Johnson reading. Wed., Sept. 16, 6:30 p.m. THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), WWW.THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.
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Summons To Memphis: A Luncheon with Mayor Mick Cornett of Oklahoma City
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TO U R S
39th Annual Central Gardens Home & Garden Tour
Featuring eight homes on Vance, Kimbrough Place, and Linden and a display of antique cars. $12. Sun., Sept. 13, 1-6 p.m. VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION. WWW.CENTRALGARDENS.ORG.
Haunted Pub Crawl
Enjoy the macabre history with the spirits exploring two types of Memphis traditions: ghost stories and alcohol. Featuring a real paranormal investigator with historical tales of Memphis. $20. Wed., Sept. 16, 7:30-10 p.m. IONS: A GEEK GALLERY, 546 S. MAIN (864-4688), WWW.HISTORICALHAUNTSMEMPHIS.COM.
Tuesday Tour with Jimmy Ogle: Union Avenue Manhole Cover & History Meet in front of the Cotton Musuem at the corner of Union and Front. Free. Tues., Sept. 15, 11:45 a.m.
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Walk with the Incredible State Naturalist Opportunity to walk through the garden as Randy Hedgepath shares stories and expertise bringing a unique understanding of the natural world to his audience. Sat., Sept. 12, 9-11 a.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW. MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.
Yellow Fever: A Tour of the Plague
Join Assistant Director Bob Barnett for a walking tour through the cemetery grounds. Learn the stories and history of the Yellow Fever epidemics of 1873, 1878, and 1879. Register online. $15. Sat., Sept. 12, 10:30 a.m. ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW.ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.
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Join like-minded developers, hackers, and makers. Bring your own idea or project to work on. Pitch it to attendees and form teams to make your idea a reality. Demo your progress the next day. $10-$30. Fri.-Sun., Sept. 11-13. COWORK MEMPHIS, 902 S. COOPER (505-0675), WWW.PEATIX.COM/EVENT/105091.
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Germantown Festival
Featuring more than 400 vendors, food, games, kiddie rides, community attractions, live entertainment, car exhibits and The Running of the Weenies Dachshund Race and Costume Contest. Festival begins at 9:30 a.m. on Sat. and noon on Sun. Sat.-Sun., Sept. 12-13.
Booze, free pancakes, and art at the Hi-Tone during the Pancake and Booze Art Show Mid-South Book Festival
Featuring writer’s conferences, summits, book signings, street fair, and more. Some events will be held at Circuit Playhouse. For more information and schedule of events, visit website. Wed.-Sun., Sept. 9-13. PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (726-4656), WWW.MIDSOUTHBOOKFEST.ORG.
Southern Junkers Fall Market
Over 30 vendors featuring outdoor vintage, antique, repurposed, upcycled, handmade, jewelry, architectural salvage, cool junk, music, vintage photo booth, and more. Sat., Sept. 12, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sun., Sept. 13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. OVERTON SQUARE, MIDTOWN (412-5485), WWW.SOUTHERNJUNKERS.COM.
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BikeMS FedEx Rock-NRoll 150 Two-day bike ride between Memphis and Tunica, Mississippi, benefiting medical research and other programs to support people living with multiple sclerosis and their families. Sat.-Sun., Sept. 12-13.
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Teams may be comprised of up to six members with four bowling each week. Individuals can form teams with others at registration. For more information, email cadillackent@aol. com. $15. Sun., Sept. 13, 6 p.m.
International Goat Days Festival
BILLY HARDWICK’S ALL STAR LANES, 1576 S. WHITE STATION (683-2695).
Local community festival featuring all kinds of goats and all kinds of people. Some of the events include children’s activities, goat parades, rodeos, cooking, and all sorts of entertainment. Fri.-Sat., Sept. 11-12. USA STADIUM COMPLEX, 4351 BABE HOWARD BLVD. IN MILLINGTON (872-8326), WWW.MILLINGTONTN.GOV.
Cotton Pickin’ 5K
Runners and walkers will enjoy a musical warm-up and a scenic journey with views of historical homes, churches, Somerville City Cemetery (circa 1829), and more, benefiting Fayette Cares. Sat., Sept. 12, 8:30 a.m. FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 205 S. EAST (465-3802 X221), WWW.FAYETTECARES.ORG.
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Artspace Consulting Services Public Meetings
Exploration into the idea of bringing MCA graduate programs back to the Overton Park campus. Tues., Sept. 15, 5:30 p.m., and Wed., Sept. 16, 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART DOWNTOWN GALLERY, 477 S. MAIN (272-5100), WWW.MCA.EDU.
Just City Book Club: Exploring Just Mercy By Bryan Stevenson
members, $40 nonmembers. Fri., Sept. 11, 6-9 p.m.
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Dinner with folk and gospel musician featuring New Orleans cuisine catered by Just for Lunch. $15$20. Sat., Sept. 12, 8 p.m. MEMPHIS ACOUSTIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION (OVERTON CHAPEL), 53 E. PARKWAY (274-1626), WWW.MAMAMUSIC.ORG.
Outflix Film Festival
Seriocomic reimagining of Flaubert’s literary classic Madame Bovary, life imitates art in uncanny ways when Bovery and her husband Charles move to a charming ramshackle old farmhouse. $9. Sat., Sept. 12, 2-3:45 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.
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Wafflemania Grand Opening
Free mimosas, chocolate espresso wafflemania, and a brand new menu. Sat., Sept. 12, 8:30 a.m. BEDROCK EATS & SWEETS, 327 S. MAIN (409-6433), WWW.BEDROCKEATSANDSWEETS.COM.
Experience the age of flight and its impact upon commerce and culture. $9. Sept. 12-Nov. 13. CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
Celebrating the rich diversity of artistic, cultural, and intellectual achievements within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community, their friends, and allies. For more information, schedule, and tickets, visit website. $10, $99 festival pass. Fri., Sept. 11, 7-11 p.m., Sat., Sept. 12, 1-11 p.m., Sun., Sept. 13, 1:30-9:30 p.m., and Sept. 14-17, 6:3010:30 p.m. RIDGEWAY CINEMA GRILL, 5853 RIDGEWAY CENTER PKWY. (278-6422), OUTFLIXFESTIVAL.ORG..
THX 1138
Depicts a dystopian future in which the populace is controlled through android police officers and mandatory drugs suppressing emotion. $9. Thurs., Sept. 10, 7-8:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.
Discussion of what justice means to us and our fellow Memphians. Sat., Sept. 12, 2:30 p.m. PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).
RIP Book Club
Discussion of local author Richard Alley’s novel Five Night Stand. Wed., Sept. 16, 10 a.m. ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212)
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ANF’s 40th Anniversary Party
Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with live music by the Memphis Snake Doctors blues band. Fri., Sept. 11, 5:30-8:30 p.m. ANF ARCHITECTS, 1500 UNION (278-6868), WWW.ANFA.COM.
Caribbean Escape USA Dance
Ballroom recorded DJ music, dance mixers, and entertainment. Dress up in Caribe attire. $10 Members, $13 nonmembers. Sat., Sept. 12, 7-10 p.m. COVENANT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 8350 WALNUT GROVE (662-349-3720 OR 853-1413), USADANCEMEMPHIS.COM.
Cloud901 Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Creative production space for teens offering stateof-the-art equipment and programs to develop 21stcentury skills. Opens with dedication ceremony. Wed., Sept. 16, 11 a.m. BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700), WWW.MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.
Delta Fair and Music Festival
For more information, schedule of events, and listing of musical acts, see website. $10. Through Sept. 13.
Captain William Lozier shows Downtown from a whole different perspective, while historian Jimmy Ogle shares his historical knowledge. Alex Turley will DJ local music. $20. Sun., Sept. 13, 4 p.m. RIVERFRONT BAR & GRILL, 251 RIVERSIDE, WWW.MEMPISDNA.ORG.
Halloran Centre Community Open House
The Orpheum Theatre will present a special community-wide event to celebrate the new Halloran Centre for Performing Arts & Education. Free. Sat., Sept. 12, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. THE HALLORAN CENTRE, 225 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.
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FOOD NEWS By John Klyce Minervini
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randi Marter doesn’t have much time for instruction manuals. Back in 2009, she decided it was time to leave her job in medical software. So she did what anyone would do: She responded to a Craigslist ad and took a job as a pastry chef in a nursing home. “That’s my approach,” she confesses. “I dive in, and then I have no choice but to figure it out. I have to figure it out right then. “Thank God for YouTube,” she adds. That might sound like an episode of I Love Lucy, but Marter made it work. Cakes turned into waffles, and before long, she was cooking Paleo food for some of the highest-performing athletes in the city. This Sunday, she will celebrate the grand opening of her new café on South Main, Bedrock Eats & Sweets. So what’s Paleo? It’s a diet based on
fruits, vegetables, nuts, and lean meats — one that cuts out things like grains, dairy, sugar, and processed foods. The name comes from Paleolithic man, and the diet is supposedly based on what our prehistoric ancestors would have eaten. But Marter says she has her doubts. “I get really tired of the caveman thing,” she admits. “We don’t eat like cavemen. That has almost nothing to do with it. “The main thing is, it’s gotta be fun,” she continues. “These Paleo guys will tell you we eat to fuel our bodies. But if I couldn’t have a brownie every now and then, I would quit.” You can taste the fun in dishes like the Peanut Butter and Banana Waffle ($8.50). Here, ingredients like organic almond flour, grass-fed butter, and coconut sugar take the place of traditional baking staples, and the results are off the hook. Despite being gluten-free, the waffles are impossibly light and fluffy, with a nice, crunchy crust. The combination of peanut
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FILM By Chris McCoy
Outflix 2015 The annual LGBT film festival seeks out positive portrayals of marginalized groups.
Cut Snake Unique Offerings This year’s festival includes offerings from Australia, Canada, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, Belgium, United Kingdom, and India, as well as films from all over the United States. The selections also include genres new to Outflix. Cut Snake (Sun. Sept. 13th, 7:30 p.m.), directed by Tony Ayres, is a noir thriller with a bisexual love triangle that debuted at the Melbourne
International Film Festival. “We’ve never had a movie like this before, which is a crime thriller,” Harwood says. “It’s very good, very gritty.” Closing night film Margarita With A Straw (Thursday, Sept. 17th, 8:30 p.m.) is also a different sort of film for Outflix. “The last few years, we’ve managed to have a film about developmentally challenged individuals,” Harwood says. The Indian film, directed by Shonali Bose, centers on the struggles of Laila (Kalki Koechlin), a college student with cerebral palsy trying to make it in New York.
genetics of her grandchild on an online matching service for surrogate mothers, she gets squeamish. Ah Leh’s well-modulated performance as a mother trying to adapt to new circumstances is the heart of the film. “She’s very well-known in Taiwan, but unknown here,” Harwood says. “[Baby Steps] is not just focused on the two gentlemen wanting to have a baby, but the main focus of the movie is on her. It’s her struggle to come to terms with her son and his homosexuality, and his choice of how to live his life and have a family, and how does she fit into that?” The globe-trotting film is classified as a drama, but it has a light touch and is not afraid to make comic hay out of situations like trying to get a cryogenic container of frozen embryos onto a plane in carry-on luggage, which leads to the should-be immortal line “I’m not having our baby FedExed!”
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Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (Sunday, Sept. 12th, 3:30 p.m.) is a compelling, fast-paced trip through 85 years of pop-culture history. “This one is also a bit different for us,” Harwood says. “While there are LGBT people in the movie, it’s not particularly focused on LBGT themes. It is focused on themes that are important to our community, like feminism and how women are portrayed in the media. It’s important to all of our community, because in the struggle for equality, we all face the same obstacles.” Director Kristy Guevara-Flanigan starts with the origin of the Amazon myth in ancient Greece. When former psychologist and inventor of the lie detector William Moulton Marston was hired to create a female superhero during World War II, he took the stories of the “ruthlessly violent” matriarchal warrior society and created Wonder Woman, a protector of women and implacable enemy of fascism and sexism. Wonder Woman would become an international icon of female empowerment. As one comics scholar in the film says, “Women of the 1940s comics were always getting tied up so they could get rescued. But Wonder Woman rescued herself!” Buried in obscurity after the 1950s anti-comics hysteria caused by the book Seduction of the Innocent, she appeared on the cover of Gloria Steinem’s first Ms. magazine and became the valkyrie of the geek world when Lynda Carter portrayed her on television from 1975 to 1979. The film is fun, informative, and inspiring, tracing Wonder Woman’s influence on subsequent women protagonists in film, TV, and comics as it bemoans the industry’s stubborn reluctance to put women front and center in action, adventure, and sci-fi roles, even in the face of evidence that audiences want to see them. “It shows that you can have a strong female character in a lead role, and it’s not just about her sexuality and femininity. But we’re not seeing those kinds of portrayals,” says Harwood, who invites everyone to come to the screening dressed as their favorite comic-book character for a cosplay fashion show preceding the film. The 2015 Outflix Film Festival will run from Friday, September 11th to Thursday, September 17th, at the Malco Ridgeway Cinema Grill. Tickets for individual screenings are $10 each, and a full festival pass is $99, available at outflixfestival.org.
LEGAL NOTICE • HELP WANTED NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE WHEREAS, ATS Holdings, LLC, by Deed of Trust (the Deed of Trust ) recorded April 17, 2015, of record, at Instrument Number 15035147, Register’s Office for Shelby County, Tennessee, conveyed to Renasant Bank and Michael E. Goldstein, Trustee, and thereafter to Adam G. LaFevor, as Successor Trustee, the hereinafter described real property to secure the payment of a certain Promissory Note (the Note ) described in the Deed of Trust, which Note was payable to Renasant Bank. Recorded contemporaneously with said Deed of Trust was an Assignment of Rents and Leases, recorded on April 17, 2015, and of record in Instrument Number 15035148, in said Register’s Office; WHEREAS, Renasant Bank is the current owner, holder and beneficiary of said Note aforesaid, secured by the Deed of Trust aforesaid; WHEREAS, Renasant Bank maintains interest in this Note and Deed of Trust; WHEREAS, default has occurred with respect to the Note; and WHEREAS, the owner and holder of the Note has demanded that the hereinafter described real property be advertised and sold in satisfaction of indebtedness and costs of foreclosure in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Note and Deed of Trust. NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that Renasant Bank, pursuant to the power, duty and authority vested in and conferred upon it, by the Deed of Trust, will on September 28, 2015, on or about 11:00 A.M., at the SOUTHWEST CORNER, ADAMS AVENUE ENTRANCE OF THE SHELBY COUNTY COURTHOUSE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, offer for sale to the highest bidder FOR CASH, and free from all legal, equitable and statutory rights of redemption, exemptions of homestead, rights by virtue of marriage, and all other exemptions of every kind, all of which have been waived in the Deed of Trust, certain real property located in Shelby County, Tennessee, described as follows :Being Lot 292, of Section E Northaven Subdivision, as shown on the plat of record in Plat Book 45, Page 37, in the Register’s Office for Shelby County, Tennessee, to which plat specific reference is hereby made for a more particular description of said property. Being the same property conveyed to ATS Holdings, LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company, by Quitclaim Deed of record at Instrument Number 14059045, and as re-recorded at Instrument Number 14061971, in the Register’s Office for Shelby County, Tennessee.THIS IS IMPROVED PROPERTY KNOWN AS 504 ELMFIELD COVE, MEMPHIS, TN 38127. The above described property will be sold subject to any and all unpaid taxes, any matter on any applicable recorded plat, restrictions, easements and building setback lines, and to any prior or superior liens, judgments or Deeds of Trust. The proceeds of the sale will be applied in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Deed of Trust. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the terms of the bid at the public sale, then the Trustee shall have the option of accepting the second highest bid, or the next highest bid with which the buyer is able to comply. The right is reserved to reject all bids as insufficient. The sale held pursuant to this Notice may be rescinded at the Successor Trustee’s option at any time. The right is also reserved to adjourn the sale to another day certain, without publication, upon announcement before or during the sale. Interested parties include: Renasant Bank, the Shelby County Trustee, Citizens Bank Automobile Finance, Inc., and Northaven Homeowners Association. DATED this 26th day of August, 2015. Adam G. LaFevor, Successor Trustee 513 3rd Avenue South Nashville, TN 37210 (615) 988-9911
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE WHEREAS, an Order on Judgment da ted October 22, 2012, of record, as Instrument Number 15048608, Register’s Office for Shelby County, Tennessee, was entered by the Chancery Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District in Shelby County, Tennessee, in favor of Plaintiff, Crown Title Corporation against the Defendants, Mary Brooks McCray and John L. McCray. WHEREAS, Crown Title Corporation is the current owner, holder and beneficiary of said Order on Judgment. WHEREAS, Crown Title Corporation maintains interest in this Order on Judgment. WHEREAS, the owner and holder of the Order on Judgment has demanded that the hereinafter described real property be advertised and sold in satisfaction of indebtedness and costs of foreclosure in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Order on Judgment. NOW, THEREFORE, notice is hereby given that Crown Title Corporation, pursuant to the power, duty and authority vested in and conferred upon it, by the Order on Judgment, will on September 28, 2015, on or about 10:00 A.M., at the SOUTHWEST CORNER, ADAMS AVENUE ENTRANCE OF THE SHELBY COUNTY COURTHOUSE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, offer for sale to the highest bidder FOR CASH, and free from all legal, equitable and statutory rights of redemption, exemptions of homestead, rights by virtue of marriage, and all other exemptions of every kind, all of which have been waived in the Deed of Trust, certain real property located in Shelby County, Tennessee, described as follows: BEING LOT 23, FIRST ADDITION TO ALCORN VILLAGE SUBDIVISION AS SHOWN ON PLAT OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 30, PAGE 10, IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE OF SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE, TO WHICH PLAT REFERENCE IS MADE FOR A MORE PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF SAID LOT. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO JOHN L. MCCRAY BY QUITCLAIM DEED FROM JOE WESTLY MCCRAY, DATED JUNE 4, 1999, AND OF RECORD IN INSTRUMENT JK9272, IN THE REGISTER’S OFFICE FOR SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE. PARCEL NO: C02-44H-A-00001 The above described property will be sold subject to any and all unpaid taxes, any matter on any applicable recorded plat, restrictions, easements and building setback lines, and to any prior or superior liens, judgments or Deeds of Trust. The proceeds of the sale will be applied in accordance with the terms and provisions of the Order on Judgment. Should the highest bidder fail to comply with the terms of the bid at the public sale, then Crown Title Corporation shall have the option of accepting the second highest bid, or the next highest bid with which the buyer is able to comply. The right is reserved to reject all bids as insufficient. The sale held pursuant to this Notice may be rescinded at the Crown Title Corporation’s option at any time. The right is also reserved to adjourn the sale to another day certain, without publication, upon announcement before or during the sale. Interested parties include: Crown Title Corporation, The Shelby County Trustee, Universal Builders and Supply LTD and Household Financial Center, Inc. DATED this 26th day of August, 2015. This is improved property known as 121 West Street, Collierville, Tennessee 38017.Crown Title Corporationc/o Adam G. LaFevor, Esq. SoBro Law Group, PLLC513 3rd Avenue South Nashville, TN 37210 (615) 988-9911
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MEMPHIS COUNTRY CLUB is now seeking team players who are professional, honest, well mannered, neat in appearance. Background check and drug screen required. Houseman/Janitorial- FT w/ benefits. Must be able to lift heavy furniture and have experience in detail cleaning. Bartender - FT with benefits PT/ Call In. Restaurant or private club experience a plus.Server Assistant PT. Setting and clearing tables as well as other duties.Men’s Locker Room Attendant- PT. Must detail clean all showers, toilets and locker rooms. Grounds Maintenance- PT. Some experience required. Must be well rounded in using all types of lawn equipment.Apply in person at 600 Goodwyn Street Memphis, TN 38111 No phone calls please.
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Galloway Golf Course 3778 Poplar– large updated 3BR/2BA, upstairs Townhome, all appl. C/H&A $2250 Frayser 2703 Chatsworth – 3BR/1BA, f/f heat $565 3076 Signal – 3BR/1BA, H&A $605 3106 Dahlia– 3BR/1BA, C/H&A $625 3338 Stella – 3BR/1BA, Den, C/ H&A, carport $745 Hickory Hill 5961 Whisper Valley – 3BR/2BA, C/H&A $765 Kirby/Raines 4063 Briarway Circle– 3BR/2BA, Den, C/H&A $925 Raleigh Forest Valley 4757 Kendall Place – 3BR/2BA, Den C/H&A $875 South Memphis 96 Vaal – 4BR/1BA, C/Heat $550 U of M Area 996 Walthal Circle– 2BR/1BA, C/H&A $565 3823 Maid Marion– 3BR/2BA, C/H&A, garage $765
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CONTEMPORARY MEDIA, INC. (CMi), the locally owned publisher of Memphis magazine, Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent and MBQ is seeking a creative and talented Sales Executive. This is an integrated position, selling both print and digital solutions to a variety of businesses in the Memphis area. At CMi, we have created an environment where out-of-the-box thinking is honored and where hard work is rewarded. We believe you should love coming to work every day. And we believe you should delight in finding solutions for your customers. The Sales Executive is accountable for prospecting for new business, assessing existing clients’ ongoing print media, digital media, event and marketing needs and creating solutions to support these. CMi is looking for a strategic, resultsoriented, highly motivated self starter, who has the ability to develop relationships, create and deliver proposals and close business. Preferred Qualifications: Proven track record of generating new business, Outside sales experience, Initiate and foster new business relationships by networking, prospecting and coldcalling, Ability to nurture and grow existing client relationships, Goaloriented, assertive and very wellorganized, Excellent presentation skills, History of consistently exceeding sales goals, Experience participating in and coordinating Marketing initiatives and client events, Media/Publishing Sales a big +. Compensation: Base salary, commensurate with experience, plus commission. Please send resumes to: HR@contemporary-media.com No phone calls. THE UPS STORE the nation’s leading franchisor of business and postal services has an excellent opportunity for a sales and service associate in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have at least six months retail experience, with excellent customer service, sales and/or print skills. Must be well-organized and professional. We offer a competitive wage, supportive management, and a fun work environment. E-mail your application to us at staff 3489@theupsstore.com.
1995 MADISON AVENUE For Sale/Office Building1995 Madison Ave. Located in Midtown/ Overton Square Area Sale Price of $249,900 Features New Central A/C., Ceiling fans, Paint, Siding, Plumbing & Electrical Newly restored Hardwood Floors & 3 Updated Restrooms Lots of Storage with Full Attic & Basement (No Water Retention) Security Gate, to rear Parking Lot of 14-16 Spaces Zoning: CMU-3ACTIVE Alarm System to be deactivated prior to Showing Sentrilock Keybox Contact Dean Fowler To Schedule Showing 901-237-6699 dean. fowler@svn.com Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate Advisors WATERBED BUSINESS For Sale: Only one in Memphis area. Turn Key Operation. Retiring Call 901-496-0492
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TH E LAST WO R D by Susan Wilson
One Man’s Trash …
THE LAST WORD
My husband found four shrubs and a palm tree by the side of the road. Well, it’s not really a palm. It’s some kind of giant fern with a weird hairy trunk. And it’s like four-feet tall, except now it’s dead. Or maybe it’s just resting, what do I know about plants? Neighbors who own a lawn-care business left the carcasses of shrubs and other assorted flora in the Designated Trash Spot, which was the fence at the culvert. This was the best place in Memphis to find and leave stuff. My husband Chuck and his friend Alan once hauled out our busted washing machine, and by the time they’d finished a beer to reward themselves for the manly job they’d done, the sucker was gone. I once saw a Tory Burch-swathed middleaged woman in a Mercedes sedan try to pick up two club chairs and put them in her trunk. It was like the Filene’s Basement of junk. You might have noticed the past tense when describing my magical happy place. Some of our neighbors didn’t like the idea of people coming through the neighborhood and pillaging our hard-earned trash. Do you have the Nextdoor app? It’s the one where your neighborhood can post notices of garage sales or lost dogs. It’s also an excellent way to find out which of your neighbors are racist busybodies. In other words, it’s the worst. I had to mute all the alerts except for lost children and pets, because I couldn’t take anymore posts about someone seeing a black man driving a white panel van slowly down the street. Did anyone else see him? Did you get the license plate number? For the love of all that is holy, has anyone called Tillman Station yet? Maybe I’m naive, but I live in a neighborhood where many of the houses are being renovated by young couples. I see a white panel van moving slowly, I assume it’s a plumber looking for the correct address. But as I said, I’m probably being naive. Nextdoor is a great forum to passive aggressively shake your virtual fist at your neighbors who obviously don’t recycle because you never see the bin out and what kind of monster are they? Being the good neighbor he is, Chuck went with the mob, I mean neighborhood, decision not to use the area as an ersatz swap sale. I will admit, it got a little ridiculous there for a while when someone dumped a truckload of red dirt and concrete blocks at the culvert. I really miss putting out boxes of books and seeing that they were gone by dinner. The street doesn’t actually look any better because now there are piles in everyone’s yards rather than two central locations, which only two of us could actually see from our homes. Also, it means that the scary outsiders stop at several houses to see if we’ve left anything good rather than one place, thereby increasing the time these trash thieves stay in our neighborhood. But I’m not allowed to talk about it anymore, because my husband says I’m making a mountain out of a molehill, which I’m totally not. I want ALL the molehills turned into one mountain. I don’t know why these particular plants were put out to pasture. The four shrubs have been sitting in their pots in front of Chuck’s garden forming a nice hedgerow. But I’m Southern. I must decorate my porch in some fashion. Generally, I just stuck some leaves in a basket and called it a day. Recently, I had an epiphany and stuck a shrub in an ice cream freezer. We have an old White Mountain ice cream freezer. You know the one: wooden bucket, loud motor. I really liked the bucket, so I stuck it at my front door and threw some greenery in it. It was very Pinterest. Then, of course, I let the greenery turn brown. You’ll know my house because there’s generally an ice cream freezer full of sticks adorning the front porch. Oh, and last spring a squirrel nested in it. So that was nifty. But that particular morning, I looked at the black aucuba leaves that were once a jaunty mottled green and yellow and some crackly taupe Nandina and thought I should be embarrassed. I mean, I wasn’t. But I should have been. So I grabbed a shrub, threw out the nest, tossed my crunchy foliage, and now my porch is about a quarter of the way to being ready for a photo shoot for a really bad Southern Living knockoff. Now I’m just waiting for a really pissed-off squirrel to come banging on my door wanting to know why I thought I could evict him without proper legal notice. Susan Wilson also writes for likethedew.com and yeahandanotherthing.com. While not Memphis natives, she and her husband Chuck Elliott have lived here long enough to know Midtown does not start at Highland.
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MINGLEWOOD HALL 9/12 Hometown Throwdown 2 9/18 SoMo 9/25 Here Come The Mummies 9/25 Ruby Rose (Late Night) 10/9 Tommy Lee & DJ Aero 10/10 Borgore 10/13 Nothing More 10/14 Seether 10/16 Paul Thorn 10/17 Ben Rector 10/18 Rusted Root 10/21 Cannibal Corpse 10/23 Drive By Truckers 10/24 blessthefall 10/27 Joey Badass 11/1 Public Image Ltd. 11/2 Allen Stone 11/4 Everclear 11/17 Steve Earle 11/20 Houndmouth 11/28 Dustin Lynch 4/10 Disturbed (SOLD OUT)
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Visit our website for live music listings or check the AfterDark section of this Memphis Flyer KITCHEN OPEN LATE, OPEN FOR LUNCH! 1589 Madison • 726-4193 www.murphysmemphis.com
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2119 Young Ave • 278-0034
9/9: $3 Pint Night! 9/10: Memphis Trivia League 9/12: Dead Soldiers 9/19: Cooper Young Fest 9/20: School of Rock Concert 9/25: Willie and the Giant Kitchen Open Late! Now Delivering All Day! 278-0034 (limited delivery area)
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710 S. Cox | 901-425-5912| Mon-Sat 11:30-7:00
Porcelain Crowns Bridges/Veneers SPT Dental Smile Clinic. Dr. Brown. Immediate Appointments. Call 901.744.2225 Near Downtown
GAME-ONFITNESS.COM BOOTCAMP IN COOPER-YOUNG! 901.319.1018
I BUY RECORDS! 901.359.3102
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BUCCANEER LOUNGE since 1967 9/9: Pill (New York City) 4-7p, Lady Le Panto, Chickasaw Mound, Los Cantadores 9/10: Detective Bureau 9/11: J.D. Westmoreland & Friends, Richard James & Friends 9/12: Rifer 4-7p, Crocket Hall w/ Radio Ghost, Xanthe Mumm 9/13: Candy Company 4-7p, Elzabeth Wise 9/14: Devil Train 9/15: Dave Cousar
1368 MONROE • 278-0909
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FABULOUS CARPET CARE Steam Clean 3 Rooms For $99. Free deodorizer. We are the master sanitizers. 901.282.5306 www.fabulouscarpetcare.com
SELL YOUR HOUSE, TODAY! 273.7007
Cosplayers, Models, Actors Needed for storybooks, photoshoots, etc. Will be paid. Email photos, etc. to alfreddreamer@gmail.com for consideration.
RIVER SERIES at The Harbor Town Amphitheatre
Sept 12: Impala, James & The Ultrasounds, DJ Hot Tub Eric $5 | doors @ 6pm | bands @ 7pm
WaterBed Supplies & Sheets Call (901) 496-0492
TREES FOR SALE: $5 EACH.901.396.0451
TUT-UNCOMMON ANTIQUES 421 N. Watkins St. 278-8965
DOWNTOWN VAPE SHOP
111 S. Court Ave. 901.517.6451 Next Door To Blue Plate Cafe’ www.GetFreeEjuice.com
1500 sq. ft. of Vintage & Antique Jewelry. Retro Furniture and Accessories. Original Paintings, Sculpture, Pottery, Art & Antiques. We are the only store in the Mid-South that replaces stones in costume jewelry.
DACH ORIENTAL IMPORTS Largest Martial Arts Supplier Since 1979
Kung Fu DVD’s $10.00 www.dach.us • 4491 Summer • 901.685.3224 Tues – Sat 11:00 – 6:00
Daily Lunch Specials $5.99! Happy Hour 11AM-7PM Daily! RHL MIDTOWN: 2586 Poplar - 901.324.6300 Daily Lunch Specials $5.99! Happy Hour 11AM-7PM Daily! RHL MIDTOWN: 2586 Poplar - 901.324.6300 Free Lunch Delivery Mon - Open Mic, Tues- Parker Card, $2.50 Pints, $5.99 Steaks Thurs - Bob Boccia & Karaoke RHL SYCAMORE VIEW: 5709 Raleigh Lagrange - 901.386.7222 5709 Raleigh Lagrange - 901.386.7222 Mon - Karaoke, Tues - $2.50 Pints Tues - New Open Jam Tuesdays Wed - Bob Boccia Thurs - $5.99 Steaks & Karaoke www.rockhouselive.com
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New/ Used LPs, 45s & CDs. We Buy Records! 2152 Young Ave 901-722-0095
9/18: Marek for Mayor Fundraiser 9/23: Jeff Austin Band w/Devil Train 10/6: Meg Myers w/ Jarryd James 10/17: Nava Sanctum’s Villians Variety Show 10/21: The New Mastersounds 10/27: The Sheepdogs 10/30: Zoogma MORE EVENTS AT MINGLEWOODHALL.COM
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Pool Table • Darts • WI-FI • Digital Jukebox
GONER RECORDS
1884 LOUNGE
S O U T H E R N H E R I TA G E CLASSIC
See Band Line Up Info on page 23 • newdaisy.com
9/9- Whipstriker/Rawhide/Panzerbastard/SVU, 9/10-DAWN PATROL / PROTEST, 9/11- Too Ugly Ent. Presents: The Band Of Beans feat Carlos Beans, 9/12- Pancakes & Booze Art Show, 9/13- Skinny Lister w/ Buckles and Boots, 9/14- Movie Night w/ Holy Gallows, 9/15- Blis w/ The Passport / Forrister / Sleeping Seasons / Forsake Your Nets, 7pm, Wicked World // Creux // Our Dearly Departed // Dismay Dismember (small room) 8pm, 9/16Wicked World // Creux // Our Dearly Departed // Dismay Dismember (big room), 8pm, The Ongoing Concept (small room), 9pm, 9/17- Nate Fredrick w/ Andrew Manzardo & Short In The Sleeve, 9/18Jack Alberson *CD Release Show*, 9/19- Wolf River Conservancy Benefit, 9/20- BIG SCARY w/ Forrister (big room) 8pm, Chrome Pony w/ Behold The Brave (small room) 9pm, 9/21- Diet Cig w/ Taylor Loftin & Boyscott, 9/22- Author / D. Clea / Forrister / Citycentral (big room) 8pm,Curt Oren w/ Dubb Nubb, Chandramama & Sunshine, and Monticello (small room) 9pm.
1555 Madison Ave • 901-312-6058 9/12: JJ Grey & Mofro w/ Last Bison 9/17: Travis Tritt - Methodist Hospice Fundraiser 9/18: Godspeed You! Black Emperor w/ Xylouris White 9/26: V3Fights Live MMA 9/27: 98.1 The Max Presents: Bacon & Beer Fest 9/28: Beach House w/ Jessica Pratt 10/1: Death Grips 10/3: Breaking Benjamin w/ 10 Years - SOLD OUT 10/6: Run The Jewels (Killer Mike & El-P) 10/7: Danzig w/ Superjoin, Prong, Veil of Maya & Witch Mountain 10/8: Rhiannon Giddens w/ Birds of Chicago 10/9: Father John Misty w/ Tess & Dave 10/10: Leela James w/ Raheem DeVaughn & V Bozeman 10/15: Toro Y Moi w/ Astronauts, etc. 10/20: Third Eye Blind 10/21: Walk the Moon w/ Holychild 10/23: Mac Miller w/ Gold Link, Domo 10/30: The Lacs w/ Hard Target
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Non-Operating Cars, No Title Needed. 901-691-2687