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There’s two, two trains running, Well, they ain’t never going my way. One runs at midnight and the other one Running just ’fore day. — Muddy Waters I was sitting in my favorite little neighborhood bar the other night and fell into a conversation with a couple of realtors. They were bemoaning how Midtown was changing. “All we do these days,” one of them said, “is show houses to people from out east — Germantown and Collierville.” The realtors were happy to be selling homes but afraid that the invaders from the east would change the character of Midtown. “They drive more aggressively. They tear down hedges and put up big security lights,” one realtor said. “Midtown’s a special place, and we don’t want it to become just another ’burb neighborhood.” But to be honest, for Memphis, that’s a pretty good “problem” to have. And that conversation feeds one of the two central narratives that are driving Memphis these days. Here’s one: The city is changing for the better. The reinvestment and reinvigoration of Overton Square, Cooper-Young, Broad Avenue, Sears Crosstown; the downtown and Bass Pro Shops boom; the greenlines, bike lanes, the big trees and old houses of the central city, all are luring people back and fueling a renaissance. Lots of people believe this to be true. I’m one of them. So are those realtors. But there’s another narrative that also has a lot of adherents. It’s a simple credo, comprised of just one word: Crime. That’s Crime with a capital C. Crime is the most important thing ever, they say. We have to fix crime, or nobody will ever want to live in this hellhole. You can point out to the Crime People that crime rates have been falling for eight years. They will respond by telling you that the statistics are rigged. They will tell you that five people got shot last weekend and ask, “How can crime be going down?” They will cite local television news, which will give you all the crime you can handle on a nightly basis. Telling someone whose car has been stolen that crime is going down is like trying to explain to someone who’s freezing that global N EWS & O P I N I O N warming is a problem. It doesn’t matter. LETTERS - 4 THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 So we have two trains running. Two THE FLY-BY - 6 ways of looking at our city. Two trains that SPORTS - 10 both carry some truth. Crime in Memphis POLITICS - 12 is a big problem, as it is in lots of cities. We EDITORIAL - 14 need to keep trying to fix it — by improvVIEWPOINT - 15 COVER STORY ing our education system, by working to “MAKING JOYFUL NOISES” bring in more jobs, by using smarter policBY CHRIS DAVIS - 16 ing. But to focus on crime to the exclusion STE P P I N’ O UT of the other narrative is wrong and does a WE RECOMMEND - 20 disservice to all of us living here and workMUSIC - 22 ing to keep Memphis vibrant. AFTER DARK - 24 I’ve lived here 23 years, and I’ve seen a BOOKS - 28 CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 30 transformation, especially over the past few HEALTHY LIVING - 34 years. There is a momentum that’s real right FOOD - 36 now. We need to keep that train running. FILM - 41 And derail the other one. THE LAST WORD - 47 Bruce VanWyngarden C L AS S I F I E D S - 43 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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Letters and comments from Flyer readers numbers are indicative of their angst and disgust. The more Trump rants about illegal aliens, closing our borders, MarxObamacare, tax rates and structures, foreign enemies, the higher his numbers. The RNC, DNC, and media have to be scratching their heads about Trump’s poll numbers. None of their playbooks have instructions on how to deal with nonpoliticians like him. Especially ones worth $10 billion. Will Trump make it to the White House? Not likely. But candidates are definitely paying close attention to Trump — his poll numbers and his tactics — and they’re taking notes. Needless to say, the next 14 months of American politics should be interesting and entertaining. Nightcrawler

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CLEAN SWEEP Traffic slowed to a near halt on Union this weekend when a Midtown woman decided to sweep the stairs of Idlewild Presbyterian Church. It wasn’t the broom that caught motorists’ attention. It was the woman’s choice of attire, which, in this case, was no attire at all. According to reports, Memphis police took the woman to the Regional Medical Center before taking her to jail. Nobody has satisfactorily explained what she was doing with the milk crate or the bag of Kingsford Charcoal pictured below.

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NEVERENDING ELVIS Did the ghost of Elvis Presley briefly possess Madonna just at the moment of his passing? According to Joe Henry, Madonna’s songwriting brotherin-law, the King of Rock-and-Roll may have reached out from beyond the grave to give the Material Girl a birthday surprise. Madonna was born on August 16th, and, according to an Elvis Week story published on music-news.com, “when Elvis Presley died on this date in 1977, [Madonna] professed in real-time that she felt his spirit had passed out of his body and through her own in exodus.”

HAIR LOSS Fly on the Wall has asked readers to aid us in documenting the lost hairpieces littering the streets of Memphis. Some discoveries are just too important not to share in print. Take, for example, this extremely rare shot of a “scandal weave,” which was discovered in a sack of shredded documents. By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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Report reveals conflict in officers’ accounts about Steven Askew’s death. Memphis Police officers Matthew Dyess and Ned Aufdenkamp changed their stories about what happened the night the pair shot and killed 24-year-old Steven Askew in 2013, according to documents obtained by the Askew family attorney. According to a witness statement from Memphis police officer Christy Drew, who filed the police report on the scene that night, Aufdenkamp informed her that “he noticed a weapon in [Askew’s] lap. Officer Aufdenkamp then advised that the man pointed the weapon at him and fired a shot. At that point, the officers returned fire.” The officers later alleged that Askew simply pointed his gun at them and that no shots were fired. A later investigation found that Askew never fired a weapon that night, according to Howard Manis, his family’s attorney, in a civil rights claim against the city. On January 17, 2013, Aufdenkamp and Dyess responded to a loud noise disturbance call at an apartment complex in Southeast Memphis. After they were unable to locate the source of the noise, they drove to a nearby complex — the Windsor Place Apartments. That’s where Askew was sleeping

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in his car in the parking lot, waiting for his girlfriend to return home. The officers later testified that they saw Askew sleeping in the car, and they stopped to investigate whether or not his vehicle was the source of the noise, but there was no music

Forrest Rides Away? City Council to take final vote on removal of Forrest statue. The Memphis City Council was slated this week to take a final vote on the proposed removal of the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest from Health Sciences Park, even though the next steps to make that happen remain murky. The proposal to remove the statue surfaced in June, part of a national movement to remove Confederate symbols after a white supremacist shot nine African Americans at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. The council’s final vote was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, after the Flyer’s print deadline. The move would also ratify a 2013 resolution to rename Forrest Park to Health Sciences Park, Confederate Park to Memphis Park, and Jefferson Davis Park to Mississippi River Park. A separate but related proposal to move Forrest’s remains and those of his wife from the park and back to Elmwood Cemetery was approved by the council in early July. Council chairman Myron Lowery sponsored the ordinance for the statue’s removal and said last week he expected the council would take action Tuesday. Lowery said he would vote for removal. “It’s important because Memphis is not the same city it was in 1905, when the statue was put in place,” Lowery said. “It is wrong to honor a slave trader on public property in 2015.” But Lee Millar, a leader of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans group, said Saturday he didn’t see it that way. He and about 100 others gathered around Forrest’s statue, hoisting, waving, and wearing Confederate flags,

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their conversations about Southern heritage and the coming council vote only interrupted by a bullhorn that sporadically belted out “Dixie.” “We’ll be there Tuesday to let the council know they’re doing the wrong thing,” Millar said. “They don’t need to erase Memphis history.” Millar said removing the statue is a “waste of time,” that it wouldn’t “solve a single problem with gangs and crime and all of that,” and that it would only “add to the division in Memphis.” Forrest was a “prominent Memphian,” Millar said, as a city council member and an executive in an insurance company and a railroad who “hired blacks and whites alike” to help “rebuild Memphis after the [Civil War].”

“Memphis is not the same city it was in 1905, when the statue was put in place. It is wrong to honor a slave trader on public property in 2015.” — Myron Lowery Allan Wade, the city council’s attorney, said last week that he was still working on a plan for the statue’s removal and would reveal the details to the council. An official in Memphis Mayor A C Wharton’s office said the city has had “several offers” for the statue, including a very public one from the mayor of Savannah, Tennessee, who told news outlets last month his city would pay for the statue and its relocation.

coming from his car (and the noise complaint had come from a different complex). The officers approached Askew’s car and shined their flashlights in his windows. When he didn’t wake, they tapped on the window. That’s when the officers claim they saw a gun in Askew’s lap and proceeded to point their weapons at Askew. Both officers allege that Askew then pointed his gun at them, but their statements differed as to which hand Askew was using to hold his gun. And the newly produced documents show that the officers told Drew that Askew fired his gun. The officers fired 22 shots, and Askew was hit nine times — six times in the back, two in his arms, and one in the back of his neck. That witness statement from Drew, which demonstrates a conflict in the officers’ accounts of what happened, was originally withheld from Askew’s attorney. Manis made an open records request to the city of Memphis and the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office after being hired by Askew’s family. Drew’s statement was not included in the materials produced by the city, but it was included in the files from the DA’s office. Manis said the city finally produced the statement on May 21st of this year, two years after the shooting and the Memphis Police Department’s (MPD) internal investigation that cleared Dyess and Aufdenkamp of wrongdoing. “It’s obviously information that we feel like we should have been provided at the very beginning,” Manis said. Drew was recently deposed by Askew’s attorney, and she testified that, indeed, one of the officers told her that Askew fired multiple rounds at them before they returned fire and killed him. Drew testified that she never requested that Askew’s weapon be checked to see if it had been fired or to be tested for fingerprints. She also testified that she had casual, off-the-record conversations with Dyess and Aufdenkamp that night when the two admitted that they were no longer certain Askew had fired a weapon. Yet Drew failed to include that information in her report. Dyess and Aufdenkamp were relieved of duty during an MPD internal investigation in January 2013, but they were reinstated the next month. Aufdenkamp’s personnel file revealed a long history of performance problems and citizen complaints about his behavior. Askew’s family filed a lawsuit alleging a civil rights violation against their son, and that case is ongoing. “We are trying to wrap up discovery. We’ve had a great deal of witnesses deposed, and we’re moving forward,” Manis said. The MPD did not respond to multiple requests for comment on this story.

This exhibition celebrates the fascinating 40-year evolution of video games and comes to life with games you can play including Pac-Man, Super Mario Brothers, The Secret of Monkey Island, Myst and Flower. The Art of Video Games is organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum with support from the Entertainment Software Association Foundation; Sheila Duignan and Mike Wilkins; Shelby and Frederick Gans; Mark Lamia; Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk; Rose Family Foundation; Betty and Lloyd Schermer; and Neil Young. The C.F. Foundation in Atlanta supports the museum’s traveling exhibition program, Treasures to Go.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 7:00 PM Free with museum admission Join us for a fascinating talk about the culture of video games, led by Dr. Felix Kronenberg, Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Rhodes College. In his presentation, Prof. Kronenberg will present how the video game phenomenon has influenced our culture and show intersections with different areas, such as art, literature, film, music, education, business, and design. He will also discuss why video games are so engaging and motivating and how they can hold our attention for hours.

“But there is still a lengthy process that has to take place before the statue and graves can be removed from the public space,” said Dewanna Smith, a Wharton spokesperson. “At this point, it would be premature to respond to any offers.” Relocating the graves will also be a lengthy process. The matter will be decided in Shelby County Chancery Court in a case between the city and Forrest’s descendants. Millar said he has located eight Forrest descendants in the area and that “every one of them is steadfastly against moving the statue or the grave.”

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Memphis gets ready for U.S. Olympic boxing trials. The road to Rio is going straight through Memphis. In March, news broke that Memphis will play host to the 2016 U.S. Olympic women’s boxing trials and the men’s Olympic boxing trials qualifier. And last week, Congressman Steve Cohen was named as the honorary captain of the event. The trials, which will be open to the public, will be held from October 25th through the 31st at the Memphis Cook Convention Center, with the final event held at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts on Halloween night.

The women’s boxing trials will be the final step on the road to the Olympics. Female fighters who win the event in Memphis will go on to compete in Rio de Janeiro. The men’s event is a qualifying tournament, and those who win in Memphis will make the cut for the men’s Olympic trials, which will be held elsewhere. In other words, Memphis is the final step for women before the Olympics and the second-to-last step for men. Next year’s Olympics ceremony in Rio will mark only the second time women’s boxing has been included as a

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sport, following its first appearance in London in 2012. It will also be the first time in United States boxing history that a returning women’s Olympic boxing medalist, Claressa Shields, will compete in the Olympic trials. Last week’s press conference introduced new sponsors for the event, and it was announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive some of the proceeds from ticket sales for the events. After being named honorary captain, Cohen expressed enthusiasm for the boxing trials. “This will be special because the [amateur boxers] are fighting to represent our nation and to bring back gold. I hope they do, and I’ll be there with them,” Cohen said. “It’s going to be a great event for Memphis. I hope everyone will participate and cheer these young women on.”

“I can’t wait to get to Rio and stand on top of that podium and get that gold medal. That’s what I’ve been focused on doing. I put all my dedication and soul into this.” — Ginny Fuchs One of the new sponsors is City Gear, an athletic outfitter based in Memphis, which has agreed to be the title sponsor of the event. City Gear has 124 stores in 15 states, more than 10 of which are in the Memphis area. City Gear President and CEO Mike Longo stressed the national importance of Memphis hosting this event. “Memphis has a deep and rich tradition and history of supporting amateur sports. We stand with the amateur athletes. We support them. They do a great job, and we are excited to be part of that yet again,” Longo said. One of the boxers who will be competing at the trials, Ginny Fuchs, shared her excitement for the weeks ahead. “In my head, I’m just thinking I can’t wait to get to Rio and stand on the top of the podium and get that gold medal. That’s what I’ve been focused on doing,” Fuchs said. “I put all my dedication and soul into this. So when y’all see me, I will put on a great show.” Tickets for the trials, including the final at the Cannon Center, can be purchased on TicketMaster. Tickets start at $15.

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Both Packard and Evans were introduced to and have explored some of the same places, and it’s not surprising for amateur photographers to get their feet wet by capturing images from abandoned buildings. Before its recent revival, the Tennessee Brewery was one hotspot for beginning urban explorers, who were often guided by those who were more experienced. Evans found her way to urbanex through another artist, who recommended she try it after gathering exterior photos of abandoned buildings. “It seemed like [abandoned buildings] would make for interesting backgrounds for photography,” Evans said. “If we had portraits to take, for instance, we would take them there. But it’s also kind of an adrenaline rush. You’re going into this dangerous place where a piece of a staircase could fall, or you could get some really beautiful shots with natural light coming in.”

Sometimes the dangers mount even higher. Masks are required for some expeditions, as mold, dust, asbestos, and other chemicals linger in the air of some buildings. For other trips, security guards stand in the way of a complete exploration. Evans and a group of others recently visited an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Bolivar, but they had to do so during the day lest their flashlights tip off security guards circling the perimeter. The appeal for photographers like Packard and Evans is multifold. It’s not just the aesthetic, they said, though it doesn’t hurt. “A lot of the time, [we would go] because you could see something cool,” Packard said. “For the [Tennessee] Brewery, it was the view. In the hospital [in Bolivar], it was seeing all the stuff and what it was like. There was one room where if you talked, your voice disappeared. There were no echoes. There’s always something that draws you in. It’s not just, ‘Hey, let’s go into this random building we just saw.’” For Evans, there is also a creepy factor. At the abandoned psychiatric hospital, she spotted personal belongings — tennis shoes, purses, suitcases — all left behind in a check-in room. “When I see these things, it puts these items into a story that may not be real, but it gives you some context as to what went down there,” Evans said. “We found all these weird medical instruments we had never heard of. It takes you to a different time, especially if they’re so intact like this place was. There were still beds made. There are boxes of [medical] files for patients.” The most obvious risk is arrest, since urban explorers can be charged with trespassing. But it doesn’t seem to be an issue police have been cracking down on. “To the best of my knowledge, we have not had any problems with urban explorers,” Memphis Police Department spokesperson Karen Rudolph said. (Requests to elaborate were not answered.) Other risks include the potential for injury or becoming a crime victim or stumbling upon something you weren’t supposed to. Evans found a tick stuck to her back after one particular night out exploring, and she’s added “potential Lyme disease” to her list of risks.

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Ashley Evans is standing in a hospital, armed with a camera. And she’s about to point that camera at someone getting into a bathtub. The building, however, has been abandoned for decades. Evans, who asked the Flyer not to use her real name to protect her anonymity, is part of a slew of photographers, artists, and documentarians who practice urban exploration, or “urbanex,” investigating abandoned buildings. The person in the bathtub shot is a friend who went along on Evans’ recent visit to an abandoned hospital in Bolivar, Tennessee. Urban explorers generally work in groups for safety. Unwritten rules and mutual understandings of the hobby dictate that, while urbanex itself is inherently illegal, explorers should follow the hiking code: “Take only photographs, leave only footprints.” Those photographs draw explorers like Evans and Nate Packard, another photographer who said he “dabbles” in the hobby.

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1988 season) with more hits than any catcher in history. More than Bench, more than Berra, more than Dickey or Cochrane. And he can’t get into the national Hall of Fame without a ticket. The reception Simmons received at Busch Stadium was, as you’d expect, passionate and appreciative. He’s a hall of famer, whether or not a population of baseball writers knows it. • When Miami’s Ichiro Suzuki singled in the top of the first inning Saturday night in St. Louis, the crowd at Busch Stadium gave the future Hall of Famer a partial standing ovation, one long enough for Ichiro to doff his helmet in appreciation. For those with memories of a certain Cincinnati Reds legend in 1985, this is familiar and to be expected after a player’s 4,192nd hit ... one more than the great Ty Cobb had at the end of his career. Trouble is, the line drive to right field was merely Ichiro’s 2,914th hit, if you’re counting those he’s accumulated in the major leagues. The Japanese great also had 1,278 hits in Nippon Professional Baseball before crossing the Pacific to join the Mariners in 2001. I love the influence Asian players have had on the big leagues this century, but let’s not go so far as to confuse achievements on diamonds half a world away with accomplishments on MLB fields. To suggest Sadaharu Oh (868 homers in NPB) belongs above Hank Aaron or Babe Ruth on the home-run chart would be lunacy. Based on the acknowledgment Saturday night, Ichiro (with another hit in the same game) is now only 63 behind Pete Rose. Should Ichiro come back next season and get those 63 hits, it would be interesting to see how MLB handled the milestone. He’s a first-ballot Hall of Famer but still shy of 3,000 big-league hits. • The age of Mike Trout and Bryce Harper is upon us, and it would be healthy for baseball to see Trout’s Angels and Harper’s Nationals make the playoffs. Trout won last year’s AL MVP at the ripe old age of 23. Harper seems a virtual lock to win this year’s NL MVP, and he turns 23 in mid-October. As I write, the Angels are three-anda-half games back of Houston in the AL West but in position for one of the league’s two wild-card berths. Washington’s climb to postseason play will be steeper, but the sport needs familiar stars playing in its biggest games.

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Light in August There will be two more joint appearances by mayoral candidates this week. And, as if any more proof were needed that the mayoral race is a tight, tense affair, there was incumbent Mayor A C Wharton out there on Saturday, with the temperature in the 90s, going door to door and asking Whitehaven residents for permission to put his signs in their yards. This was two weeks after the mayor’s opening of a Whitehaven headquarters on Elvis Presley Boulevard (followed a week later by his opening of a Poplar Avenue HQ). To hear the mayor say it, Whitehaven has always been a proving ground for him in his various elections, especially when, as in 2011, when one of his opponents was a Ford — in that case, former City Councilman Edmund Ford Sr., a member of the prominent South Memphis-based political family. “They’ve always said I’d have trouble with Whitehaven, but I always do okay,” said Wharton, as he trundled up Whitworth Road, waiting to rendezvous with an aide in a car, headed his way with more signs. “All you gotta do is look around here and see how many signs we’ve already put up.”

Collins with daughters at Southbrook Whitehaven has the potential to be a problem area for Wharton this year, inasmuch as one of his opponents, City Councilman Harold Collins, represents the area on the council. That morning, even as Wharton was doing his door-to-door in Whitehaven, Collins was having a formal headquarters opening at Southbrook Mall, mere blocks away on Shelby Drive at Elvis Presley. The mayor did not minimize the Collins threat, but, as he said, “Only a Ford is a Ford,” meaning, presumably, that in his view the councilman lacked the well-known political clan’s lingering mystique in the area. And, as it happens, only days before, Edmund Ford Sr., Wharton’s former opponent, had released to the media a scathing letter accusing Collins of running a diversionary campaign designed not to win but to siphon African-American votes away from Wharton to help the mayoral candidacy of Councilman Jim Strickland. And, meanwhile, Edmund Ford Jr., who The Mayor does DIY with yard signs in Whitehaven.

succeeded his father on the city council and represents a part of Whitehaven adjoining Collins’ bailiwick, is one of the mayor’s major backers, speaking on his behalf at various rallies. That sort of help will surely prove useful to the mayor’s reelection campaign. Although nobody, as of yet, is releasing poll results, those you hear about are said to confirm the fact that Wharton is indeed involved in a competitive race — with Strickland the major threat — and has to meet various percentage figures among both black and white voters in order to prevail. Wharton and Strickland have enormous campaign treasuries and are in a position to spend anywhere from $200,000 to $300,000 on their campaigns between now and October 8th — much of that on print, radio, and TV advertising. Collins and a fourth candidate regarded as serious, Memphis Police Association director Mike Williams, don’t have resources on that scale, but both got positive exposure on last Monday night’s debate on WMC-TV and stand to claim an ever greater share of public attention, with several more mayoral forums yet to come. Collins’ headquarters opening on Saturday took place in a former bank building in the parking lot of Southbrook, the down-at-the-heels shopping mall which has been the

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ism” and said he would “work with the Juvenile Court system to deal with violence, making sure the perpetrators were detained and subjected to a judicial hearing within 24 hours. We will determine whether somebody is the head of some gang or if the valedictorian is at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Collins said. After pledging, “We won’t have all these CEOs and COOs in our administration,” an obvious dig at the incumbent mayor, Collins ran a few stirring phrases up the flagpole and, in an oblique reference to the Edmund Ford Sr. letter, declared, “We’re in this race to win it. Nor in this race to do anything else, but win. But win. But win!”

While all this was going on, Strickland, like the Mayor, was going door to door, something he does on weekends with fair frequency. The simple yard signs saying “Strickland” are beginning to appear in quantity along such high-visibility thoroughfares as Poplar and Walnut Grove, as are those for Wharton. Collins, too, has a fair number of signs out. With both Wharton and Strickland about to turn loose gobs of money (their first TV ads have already appeared) and Collins stepping up his fund-raising efforts, the campaign of Williams remains a true variable. He doesn’t yet have anything like the public presence of the others, but last

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subject of an on-again/off-again renovation project that was shelved back in June by the mayor. Days later, Wharton proposed a commission to look into a more ambitious $50 to $70 million renovation of the entire area, though there were cynics who saw that move as purely hypothetical and designed only for its short-term P.R. value. The mayor has been nothing if not candid about what he sees as the priorities of the city’s voters. Some weeks ago, speaking to women supporters at Waterford Plaza, he expressed regret at the benefit cuts imposed on city employees this year but said polling showed that voters overall were not exercised over the matter, whereas they expressed a great deal of anxiety about the city getting its financial house in order. Recalling the matter on Saturday, Wharton mused, “‘Getting our financial house in order’ got a 9.4 rating on a scale of 10.” Both Southbrook and the benefits cuts are integral matters to Collins’ platform and got due mention on Saturday — the former with the councilman’s promise to come to the rescue of local entrepreneurs; the latter, when local Firefighters Union president Tommy Malone told the crowd that fire employees had “lost everything that we’ve gained for 30 years” during the Wharton administration. By contrast, Collins had been the “only candidate who has consistently supported the firefighters,” Malone said. “We’ve got to work this man into office. Or we’ll get four more years of the same thing, and we can’t stand that in this city.” Collins had been preceded to the mic by his two daughters, who told the crowd how they had been reluctant to return to Memphis after college elsewhere because of limited, low-pay job opportunities back home. The councilman elaborated on that, one of his basic themes, saying that Memphis’ young people “see no future in … pull-it, pick-it, and push-it jobs” at $9 or $10 an hour. He promised, as mayor, to bring in well-paying finance, engineering, and technology jobs. Recalling last year’s youth mob attack on shoppers at the Poplar Plaza Kroger, Collins cited the specter of urban “terror-

week’s agile debate performance, which seemed to disprove that he’s a one-trick pony, has people watching. Williams spent most of Saturday at the Agricenter attending a “Pet Expo.” He materialized late in the day at a location off White Station Road, where the Police Association was collecting donations for the family of slain MPD officer Sean Bolton. Williams and the others were scheduled for a debate at the University of Memphis’ Rose Theater at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday and at Central High School for an Evergreen Historic Association forum on Thursday at 6 p.m. We’ll be watching.

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argued for a change of mind. But there were other factors, too — most of them considerably more upbeat. The bottom line is that the powersthat-be have apparently decided that, not only do we want to “be Nashville or Atlanta,” we actually are in a position to give those boomtowns a run for their money. The aforesaid Convention and Visitors Bureau in tandem with the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Memphis Commission have hatched a two-part plan: 1) to spend the aforementioned $50 to $60 million on refurbishing the existing Cook Convention Center; and then 2) to spend another $900 million in the next few years to expand the Convention Center all the way to the Mississippi River basin. All it would take, say the planners, would be a 1.8 percent increase in the city’s hotel/ motel tax (which is paid by visitors to Memphis, in the main) and a temporary $2 fee on hotel-room stays of up to 30 days. This would cover a repurposing of the current bed tax in 2017 to pay off FedExForum bonds. The Memphis City Council is considering the project right now, with every expectation of giving it the go-ahead. And we’re thinking, What! You mean, it’s really that easy? And we wonder why it is that we are always considering these complicated Rube Goldberg-like TDZs and TIFs to lift our urban bootstraps. And, by the way, have we cleared this with the Grizzlies?

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Donald Trump is blunt about his primary qualification to be president: “I’m really rich!” Yes, he is — and so are most of the other people running for the White House. All but four of the 22 prominent candidates across both parties are millionaires. The only non-millionaires are Senator Bernie Sanders, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, Senator Marco Rubio, and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. And people with even more money than the candidates are bankrolling their campaigns. The New York Times reported that “fewer than 400 families are responsible for almost half the money raised in the 2016 presidential campaign, a concentration of political donors that is unprecedented in the modern era.” The Times found an especially astounding concentration of wealth among contributors to GOP campaigns. “Just 130 or so families and their businesses provided more than half the money raised through June by Republican candidates and their super PACs,” the paper reported. The Washington Post followed up with an editorial warning of an emerging “American oligarchy.” The Post wrote that big donations from the super-rich have “the potential to warp the political system.” In this sea of money, Trump still stands out. He is so rich that he doesn’t need to raise money to run his campaign. He recently took to Twitter to slam Republican candidates for going to a conference held by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. He said the politicians who went to the event were guilty of begging for money. Trump’s derision drew lots of snickers, but his surprisingly successful campaign — built in part upon boasts about the power of big money — has traction with voters. Pew Research reported last December that the nation’s rich now have a “median net worth that is nearly 70 times that of the country’s lower-income families, [and there is now] also the widest wealth gap between these families in 30 years.” The top 1 percent now controls more than 80 percent of the nation’s wealth. Sanders gets a rousing response when he states that the gap between the very rich and everyone else in America is wider today than at any time since the 1920s. Senator Elizabeth Warren has become a folk hero on the left by calling

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Having produced business icons like FedEx’s Fred Smith and supermarket visionary Clarence Saunders, Memphis’ entrepreneurial spirit is nearly as famous as the city’s music. As Visible Music College grows its downtown campus by adding a $4 million student housing facility and expands its mission by opening new campuses in Texas and Illinois, it looks more and more like the school’s founder, Christian rocker and former Skillet guitarist Ken Steorts, has figured out a unique alchemy for combining the two. With his long hair, casual dress, and hot-pink sneakers, Steorts doesn’t look like a typical college president. Then again, with its focus on modern popular genres ranging from rock and hip-hop to jazz and Americana, Memphis’ Visible Music College isn’t a typical accredited Christian music school. On Thursday, August 20th, Visible is inviting Memphis to a free, one-day music festival to celebrate the school’s 15th anniversary. It’s as good an excuse as any to review the history of what appears to be another Memphis success story. But the going wasn’t always easy. In the spring of 2000, Steorts found himself on his hands and knees. As a Christian musician wrestling with some big life decisions, it wasn’t an unfamiliar position, exactly. Only this time, instead of praying for strength or guidance from above, the rock-loving guitar player from Bossier City, Louisiana, was scraping dead mice and rancid grease from the floors of an abandoned catfish restaurant in northeast Shelby County, wondering if he might have bitten off more than he could chew. Steorts had written songs and toured the world with the popular Christian rock band Skillet, and over the years he’d learned a thing or two about how the popular music industry works. None of those things, however, had prepared him to start a music school from scratch. “We had no resources at all,” Steorts says, remembering just how absurd circumstances could be in Visible’s earliest days, when it was called the Visible School of Music and Worship Arts. “In our first week, we only had one drum kit, so we used buckets for drums. It was completely ridiculous. It was also, probably, the most punk rock thing we ever did.” Visible has grown significantly since its unintentionally punk rock beginnings in Lakeland. Today, its main campus caters to 150 students and occupies an architecturally distinctive 40,000-square-foot building on Madison Avenue, across the street from AutoZone Park. In recent years, alumni have launched a sister

(Top left and bottom right) former Skillet guitarist and Visible Music College founder and president Ken Steorts; (bottom left) a worship service held on the eve of orientation at Visible Music College; and (top right) students at the college’s orientation

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So why is it called the Visible School? Wouldn’t a name like “The Audible School” be more appropriate for music education? At the time of the school’s founding, Steorts was reading The Cost of Discipleship by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In a chapter titled “The Visible Community,” Bonhoeffer made the case that churches and their good works need to be visible beyond the sanctuary walls. It’s a concept the students take seriously. None more so than 2011 graduate Sawyer Schafbuch. “One of the huge questions you ask at Visible is, ‘What does community look like?’” Schafbuch says. “Then we ask what a healthy Christian community looks like. And, then, ‘How do you create a community?’” Inspired by his mentor, Steorts, Schafbuch founded and runs the Visible Community Music School, which is based out of Crosstown and has community partnerships in Orange Mound, Binghampton, Graham Heights, North Memphis, and downtown. Like so many of the Visible Music College’s students, Schafbuch isn’t originally from Memphis, though he settled here after graduation and describes the city as his home. He grew up in Iowa, where he excelled in sports and had no idea that he was musically inclined, until an older friend taught him how to play guitar, which changed his life. After graduating from Visible, Schafbuch wanted to keep writing and recording music with the friends he’d made in Memphis, but more importantly, he wanted his musicianship to have some kind of mission or ministry. “And at that time, a lot of funding to do music in public schools was cut,” he says. Steorts says the community school began with a conversation about teaching some music lessons for less money than it costs, so “some kids can learn music.”

musicians and business and production people not just to work in the church but to engage in para-ministry, to go out into the world and let their gift shine,” Davis says. Although Visible’s program is built on a firmly religious foundation, he sees no conflict with a student’s “assignment” taking him or her to Beale Street from time to time. “I’m an ordained bishop,” Davis says. “But I’m also a gigging musician. My keyboard’s in the car, as we speak.” Steorts’ announcement that he wanted to open 20 new Visible campuses in 20 cities by 2020 surprised some faculty members. Simon Alexander thinks his

boss is a visionary, but the head of Visible’s percussion division candidly admits there was a moment when he thought his boss might be losing his mind. “We’ve just gotten into a comfy building,” Alexander says about his drum kits and office furniture. “We’re not in a catfish restaurant anymore,” he adds. “We’ve got lovely air conditioning and lovely shiny desks and chairs. We have equipment and soundproof rooms and all these things we didn’t have before. Everything is so good, and now you want to start a satellite in an old police station in Chicago? Are you crazy?” They probably said the same thing to Fred Smith and Clarence Saunders.

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Visible Music College’s “Memphis Is Me” birthday party is being described as a celebration of contemporary Memphis music. The one-day minifestival features more than a dozen acts on three stages, including performances by Amy LaVere, FreeWorld, Jason D. Williams, Ruby Wilson, and Star & Micey, in addition to several current and former Visible College students. “Memphis Is Me” is at the Visible Music College, 200 Madison, Thursday, August 20th, 5-10:30 p.m. Free.

What is a modern music curriculum? According to Ashley Davis, chair of the Modern Music faculty and head of the school’s keyboard division, it’s about leveling the playing ground between popular and classical performance. Before joining the Visible faculty, Davis spent five years as artistic director at the Stax Music Academy and a stint touring in Europe. “One thing was really an epiphany for me when I was touring,” Davis says. “In Europe, the lines between what’s considered sacred and what’s considered secular aren’t as defined as they are here. I could play a blues and then ‘Amazing Grace’ or ‘God Looks Beyond My Faults,’ and nobody flinched. Because they’re all interconnected. “At the college, we’re preparing

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“And our students are learning how to teach in the process, which is the final act of learning,” Steorts says. Schafbuch concurs, describing the community school as a way for Visible students to have “an outreach or ministry within the city of Memphis.” He thinks it’s a good way for the college to be visible and interface with ordinary Memphians and their families. Schafbuch has cultivated partnerships with area schools, churches, and community organizations, including Grizzlies Prep, Binghampton Christian Academy, New Hope Christian Academy, Peabody Elementary, and Orange Mound Outreach Ministries. Recitals stretch on for hours, showcasing young talent that looks like a diverse cross-section of Memphis and typically features material ranging from recent hits to Memphis soul classics, as well as original songs crafted by students. “I really don’t want to create a program that only trains a kid to play three chords or that only trains people to recycle songs that have already been done for 30 years,” Schafbuch says. “I want to create whole musicians who can create and innovate on their own.”

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First things first, I ask Tommy Oler to insult me. He is, after all, co-host along with Katrina Coleman of the monthly You Look Like a Comedy Show, where comedians are paired off in a tournament of insults. “I have to see what you look like,” he responds. Oler says that the You Look Like a Comedy Show is a natural for comedians. “We were all bullied, and we bullied,” he says. He notes that when comedians get together, the shit’s going to fly. These gladiators of put-downs are local comedians and comedians from around the Southeast. Competing at Saturday’s show are: Kaia Hodo from Fayetteville, Arkansas; Brandon Perel Sams of Memphis; Amy Sulam from Nashville; Mitchell Dunnam from Memphis; returning champ Ozzy Jackson of Little Rock; and Lila Bear of Memphis. Oler and Coleman knew they were on to something even before the first show, such was the excitement. Oler says that every comedian knows his laughs, and the laughs they were getting were “so large … I don’t get this alone.” Oler says that it’s impossible to hurt a comedian’s feelings, and if it is possible, then maybe this is not the show for them. The insults range from the absurd to the downright lewd. Oler and Coleman have been shocked at some of the jokes. One comedian who hurled such a foul jewel said later, “I’m pretty sure I’m going to hell.” As co-hosts, Oler and Coleman take jabs at each other. Oler is ribbed about his youthful looks, and one thing they both riff on is that they look alike. Says Oler, “I told her she looks like my after-picture on Faces of Meth.”

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Pizza, Pints, and More Memphis Made Brewing Company, 6:30 p.m., $40 A five-course beer dinner featuring food from Aldo’s and brew from Memphis Made.

Buyer & Cellar The Circuit Playhouse, 8 p.m., $22 A one-man show about a man who accepts a job working in Barbra Streisand’s basement (!).

Booksigning by Tiffany Quay Tyson The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 6:30 p.m. Part of the Booksellers’ Novel Pairing series with wine and a discussion by Tiffany Quay Tyson about her debut novel, Three Rivers, which follows a member of a Christian pop band who returns to her family and their farm in the Mississippi Delta.

The Producers Theatre Memphis, 8 p.m., $30 A staging of the musical comedy adaptation of the Mel Brooks film about a couple of Broadway producers who scheme to create a flop but end up with a smash.

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Memphis Matters TheatreSouth, 7:30-9 p.m., $15 Playback Memphis brings stories of the community to life during this interactive production. Vintage Affair Gala Memphis Botanic Garden, 6-11 p.m., $250 A fund-raiser with a Great Gatsby theme for the American Cancer Society. Includes food, dancing, and an auction. Drop the Mic Poetry Slam National Civil Rights Museum, 5-7 p.m. A voting-themed poetry slam with Mid-South poets, ages 14 to 35, competing for prizes.

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The year is 1576, and Queen Elizabeth I and her entourage are traveling through the countryside. They’ve stopped for a little R&R in the Shire of Shelby, where the local villagers are throwing a festival in the queen’s honor. The Shire of Shelby is actually Shelby Farms Park, and the queen is being played by local drama teacher Jennifer Wood-Bowien. And those villagers? They’re Memphians attending the inaugural Mid-South Renaissance Faire this weekend (August 22nd-23rd) and next (August 29th-30th). The city’s first Ren Faire will feature archery, full-contact jousting and other fighting demonstrations, and merchants peddling wares that range from soaps to swords. Attendees can play historical games, such as horseshoes, Jacob’s ladder, and even something called “Veggie Revenge,” where people hurl tomatoes at a man as he hurls insults at the crowd. And, of course, there will be turkey legs as well as steak on a stake, meat pies, and plenty of mead and beer. “In the queen’s pavilion — Gloriana’s Glade — you’ll be able to learn Elizabethan dancing. We’ll have John Ross, a guitar professor at Rhodes College, playing lute,” said Mid-South Renaissance Faire founder Beth Kitchen. The Faerie Queen’s Grove will feature storytelling, singing, and maypole-winding. An area of the festival dubbed the Silk Road will feature cultural highlights, such as henna and belly dancing from Middle Eastern and Asian countries. And the Mid-South Buccaneers will be repping the pirate life in Sea Beggar’s Bay. MID-SOUTH RENAISSANCE FAIRE AT SHELBY FARMS, SATURDAY-SUNDAY, AUGUST 22ND-23RD AND 29TH-30TH, 9 A.M. TO 6 P.M. $13 PER DAY ADULTS/$8 PER DAY KIDS 6-12/FREE KIDS UNDER 5; $35 4-DAY PASS ADULTS/$20 4-DAY PASS CHILD. MIDSOUTHRENFAIRE.COM

Paw Prints Party Racquet Club of Memphis, 5:30-11 p.m., $150 Annual fund-raiser for the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County during which guests can meet the dogs up for adoption. There will be both a live and a silent auction with items including a barbecue for 25 from One & Only BBQ and a basketball signed by Mike Conley.

Sock Hop Crosstown Arts Gallery, 6:30-10:30 p.m., $7 A ’50s-themed fund-raiser for the University of Memphis Dance Alliance with root beer floats, ’50s tunes, and lots of dancing with DanceSmiths Ballroom and Red Hot Lindy Hop. FOMOfest Memphis Levitt Shell, 3-10 p.m., $20-$50 A music festival focusing on the local indie scene. Bands performing include Chinese Connection Dub Embassy, the Memphis Dawls, Paul Taylor’s Merry Mobile, and more.

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Ted Horrell and the Monday Night Card — Sputnik (self-released) Eight years after his previous band, the Central Standards, played their final show, guitarist Ted Horrell has released a new album of original music. Named after the Memphis wrestling legend Sputnik Monroe, Sputnik features 11 new songs from Horrell, Casey Smith (bass), Marty Christopher (drums), and Joel McGinness (keys). Recorded at Bryan Hayes’ Farmhouse Studio in Moscow, Tennessee, Sputnik features a sound firmly rooted in classic rock with hints of Stax-era soul present throughout the album. Recorded over the course of three days and two nights at the Farmhouse, Horrell claims that Sputnik is less folky than his other recordings, and there’s even a touch of early R.E.M. or the Wallflowers on songs like “Waking Up Is Hard To Do” and “Tension in This Town.” But make no mistake: This is still very much contemporary rock-and-roll, even if there are other genres mixed in. Sputnik is Horrell’s first venture into releasing an album since 2007’s The Central Standard’s Folly, and while there might be some parts of the album that lag, it’s still a solid debut from this new Memphis band of familiar faces. Favorite Track: “Style” Preauxx — Forever. I Will (TRDON) We’ve been keeping close tabs on Memphis rapper Preauxx ever since he unleashed his new album Forever. I Will and the hype that came along with it. Forever. I Will is the rapper’s second record in two years, following 2014’s Die Winning (also released on TRDON). The album features production from IMAKEMADBEATS and Alexander Odell, two longtime collaborators of Preauxx and the TRDON family. While the beats and production on Forever. I Will maintain the upbeat vibes of Preauxx’s earlier work, the lyrical content on his new album sees the rapper tackling social issues like homelessness on the song “Monday Morning” and the Black Lives Matter movement on the song “Benjamin.” Along with artists like Cities Aviv and Tori WhoDat, Preauxx is redefining what it means to be a Memphis rapper and delivering a positive message of self-reliance in the process. Forever. I Will is available for download and in physical form, and Preauxx should have copies of the 14-song album when he plays the Hi-Tone this Friday night with Cities Aviv.

The Shoe Birds recently released Southern Gothic on WaxSaw Records. One can only hope the two will perform “Re$ults,” the closer on Forever. I Will that has the two verbally destroying an IMAKEMADBEATS production. Favorite Track: “Re$ults” The Family Ghost — No Dreams (selfreleased) The Family Ghost claim to have been playing to sparse audiences since the summer of 2001, and the fact that I haven’t covered the band in the music section of this paper before might lend some credibility to that proclamation. No Dreams is the fourth album from the Family Ghost, a noise-rock/postpunk band made up of Paul Blanda, Jacques Granger, Ryan Sisung, and Robert Traxler. After nearly two minutes of noise, the album’s first song, “Fall Behind,” kicks in, introducing the listener to the Family Ghost’s brand of progressive noise rock. Staying within one genre isn’t exactly part of the Family Ghost’s agenda, and the 12-song album sees the band trying on all types of genres while staying within the overall sound they develop on No Dreams. The fact that this band has been around since 2001 is noteworthy in itself, as anything over a few years is impressive for a local band. But the Family Ghost have stuck it out long enough to know what they are doing, and the fact that this album was recorded in Robert Traxler’s apartment is a testament to the control the Family Ghost have over their sound. No Dreams is available now, and since the Family Ghost play live fairly often, go check them out and call their bluff about usually performing in front of a sparse audience. Favorite Track: “Battle Chant”

The Shoe Birds — Southern Gothic (WaxSaw Records) Named after the Eudora Welty children’s book, the Shoe Birds recently released their debut record, Southern Gothic, on Mississippi-based WaxSaw Records. We premiered the video for “Life on the River” (the album’s debut single) this month on our music blog, and that served as a primer for what the first Shoe Birds record would be all about: modern folk rock. Southern Gothic was produced by Scott Coopwood (cofounder of the Shoe Birds) and recorded by Mike Iacopelli (Aretha Franklin, George Clinton, Jennifer Holliday, and Stevie Wonder) at Court Street Records in Cleveland, Mississippi, and by Mike Stankiewicz (Kenny Chesney, Gavin Degraw, Lindi Ortega, Willie Nelson) at Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville. The record features an all-star cast of musicians: guitarist Pat Buchanan (Amy Grant, Faith Hill, Chesney, Cyndi Lauper, Hall & Oates), drummer Greg Morrow (Sheryl Crow, Alan Jackson, Darius Rucker, Blake Shelton, Brooks & Dunn), keyboardist Tony Harrell (Grant, Don Henley), and Nashville studio musician Alison Prestwood (bass). Nashville steel guitar player Russ Pahl (Elton John, Kings of Leon, John Hiatt, and Luke Bryan) also played on the record. According to Coopwood, all of the songs on Southern Gothic were recorded in two takes or less and were taken from a 1985 demos session when Coopwood and Norman Adcox (lead guitar, vocals) first wrote each track. While the debut album from the Shoe Birds has been a long time coming, fans of local folk rock will agree that it’s been worth the wait. Favorite Track: “Life on the River”

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Eldorado and the Ruckus — “Cadillac Green Vikings” b/w “Chet” (Miku Records) Eldorado and the Ruckus have been kicking up dust in Memphis for a while now, and the “Cadillac Green Vikings” single was released in 2013 but given to me by Eldorado himself a few weeks ago. Apparently, the two songs on this Miku Records single were part of a soundtrack to the unreleased movie Cadillac Green Vikings, the A-side presumably being the film’s theme song. According to the band, Cadillac Green Vikings (the film) is “a story filled with maraudering space Vikings, a kidnapped princess, a stolen death ray, and a young hero from Mississippi who must save the entire universe.” Sounds pretty heavy. The song itself is a thundering blast of ’70s rock, sitting somewhere between Cheap Trick and Thin Lizzy. The B-side is an alternate take of their song “Chet,” a mellow instrumental that clocks in around the three-minute mark. The record is housed in a full-color sleeve that features stills from the movie, and a download code for the entire soundtrack to Cadillac Green Vikings comes with the record as well. Sadly, the hard drive containing the film that Eldorado Del Rey (writer) and guitarist John Pickle (director) were working on crashed, and the movie has been lost. Perhaps if the single sells well, the movie will be re-created? I’d watch it.

Nots — “Virgin Mary” b/w “Shelf Life” (Goner Records) With as much touring as Nots have been doing, it’s pretty impressive that they found time to record a new single at all. Released on Goner Records, this Keith Cooper/Natalie Hoffmann production picks up where the band’s debut, We Are Nots, left off, with swirling synth hovering over guitar stabs and howled vocals. Synth player Alexandra Eastburn created the artwork for “Virgin Mary,” and this new cover has a lot more going on than the stark NOTS logo that’s all over their other records, but the vinyl still comes housed in the standard Goner Records paper sleeve. The B-side, “Shelf Life,” was first heard on a web series called Pressure Drop earlier this summer, and the song also stays in the lane of the band’s debut. A limited version of the single was available on clear vinyl, but those are probably long gone by now. If you enjoyed We Are Nots, chances are you’ve already got this one in your collection, but if not, copies are available at the Goner storefront. Nots have tour dates spanning the rest of the year, and Goner Fest 12 may be the only chance to see them in Memphis anytime soon.

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The seven inch is still one of the best formats to release new music. Just ask local bands Eldorado and the Ruckus, Nots, or the Sheiks. While the Eldorado single might have been out for a while, the new material from Nots and the Sheiks is still hot off the vinyl press. It’s been an exciting year for local releases, but we are still a few months away from recapping all the awesome records of 2015, so here’s some more information on three new(ish) 45’s from the Memphis music scene.

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Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

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

1st Floor: Mercury Blvd. Mondays-Thursdays, 7-11 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.

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

Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Saturday, Aug. 22, 12:30-4:30 p.m.; The Memphis 3 Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007

Paul Loren & the One Night Only Band Thursday, Aug. 20, 9:30-11 p.m.; Brandon Cunning & the Hard Rocks Friday, Aug. 21, 7-10 p.m.; Memphis Jones Friday, Aug. 21, 7-10 p.m.; Adam Hambrick Saturday, Aug. 22, 7-10 p.m.; The Moxies Saturday, Aug. 22, 9-11 p.m.; Chelsea Chandler and the Crystal Crown Band Sunday, Aug. 23, 7-9 p.m.

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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

Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cafe & Honky Tonk

and the Memphis Flash Saturdays, 3-7 p.m., and Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and 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, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Sundays, 2-6 p.m., and Mondays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Chic Jones Sundays, Tuesdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; 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

p.m.; Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

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

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Blues Band Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

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

Double J Smokehouse & Saloon

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.

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

Silky O’Sullivan’s

Deering & Down Sunday, Aug. 23, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

183 BEALE 522-9596

Barbara Blue Thursdays-Fridays, 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

Roxie Love Thursday, Aug. 20, 7-11 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

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.

South Main Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Paulette’s RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

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

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

DJ Dropout Boogie Friday, Aug. 21; Maitre D’s with DJ Busterbandit Saturday, Aug. 22.

Quarter Page Vertical on week of The Plexx

380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

Old School Blues & Jazz Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m. 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

Blind Bear Speakeasy

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 347-2648

Purple Haze Nightclub

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ing, 5 and 7 p.m.; The Jason James Trio Fridays-Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Joey Trites

Brinson’s 341 MADISON 524-0104

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.

Riverfront Bar & Grill 251 RIVERSIDE

Bhan Thai

1324 PEABODY 272-1538

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

Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Local Music Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

The Sheiks Friday, Aug. 21; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.

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Celtic Crossing 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

Band Sunday, Aug. 23, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard James Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; The Pistol & the Queen Friday, Aug. 21, 10 p.m.; Generation Jug

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

The Incredible Hook, Buffalo Rodeo, Chief Scout, The Lagoonas Thursday, Aug. 20, 10 p.m.; Diarrhea Planet, China Gate Thursday, Aug. 20, 10 p.m.; Preauxx and Cities Aviv Friday, Aug. 21, 8 p.m.-3 a.m.; Revive the Night Saturday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m.; The Dangerous Idiots Saturday, Aug. 22, 10 p.m.; The Cry! with Lost Element Sunday,

4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

Bluesday Tuesday Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Dead Irish Blues Sunday, Aug. 23, 4-7 p.m.; Dikki Du & the Zydeco Krewe Sunday, Aug. 23, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

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

Lafayette’s Music Room

The Phoenix

2119 MADISON 207-5097

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Chris Johnson and Landon Moore Thursday, Aug. 20, 6 p.m.; Dead Soldiers Thursday, Aug. 20, 9 p.m.; John Paul Keith Friday, Aug. 21, 6:30 p.m.; American Fiction Friday, Aug. 21, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall and Friends Saturday, Aug. 22, 11 a.m.; Pam & Terry Saturday, Aug. 22, 6:30 p.m.; Nashville All-Stars Saturday, Aug. 22, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Riverbluff Clan Sunday, Aug. 23, 4 p.m.; The Chaulkies Sunday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Monday, Aug. 24, 8 p.m.; Susan Marshall Band Tuesday, Aug. 25, 8 p.m.; Midtown Hoedown Wednesday, Aug. 26, 8 p.m.

Levitt Shell OVERTON PARK 272-2722

1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Sing for Your Supper Last Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9 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.

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Blues + Brews V: An Evening With ... Kingfish Saturday, Aug. 22, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

El Toro Loco 2809 KIRBY PKWY. 759-0593

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

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

Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Mondays-Thursdays, 5-9:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Six String Lovers Sunday, Aug. 23, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

Van Duren Thursdays, 6:308:30 p.m.

FOMOfest Memphis Saturday, Aug. 22, 3-10 p.m.

Second Presbyterian Church

Memphis Acoustic Music Association (Overton Chapel)

Bach Vespers Concert Series Wednesdays, 6:30-7:15 p.m.

53 E. PARKWAY 274-1626

Dinner with Acoustic Guitarist Bill Mize Friday, Aug. 21, 6-10:30 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

The Railers with Corey Smith Friday, Aug. 21, 8 p.m.; 45th UNCF Gala Concert with Jeffrey Osborne Saturday, Aug. 22, 7-9:30 p.m.; Artistik Lounge Featuring Devin Crutcher Every third Sunday, 7-11 p.m.

4055 POPLAR 454-0034

University of Memphis Juicy Jim’s Pizzeria 551 S. HIGHLAND 435-6243

Objekt 12 Thursday, Aug. 20, 9 p.m.-midnight.

Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

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

East Memphis

Murphy’s

Brookhaven Pub & Grill

1589 MADISON 726-4193

695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 680-8118

Nick Black, Indeed We Digress Saturday, Aug. 22; Ballroom Wednesday, Aug. 26.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Ben Callicott Friday, Aug. 21, 8-11 p.m.; Graber Grass Saturday, Aug. 22, 8-11 p.m.

Live Music Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Friday, Aug. 21, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Six String Lovers Saturday, Aug. 22, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

TJ Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Mystery Machine Friday, Aug. 21, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.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.; Backstreet Crawlers Saturday,

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Aug. 23, 9 p.m.; Faux Killas with Vamos Monday, Aug. 24, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule August 20 - 26 continued from page 25 Aug. 22, 8 p.m.; Sax on Sunday: Straight-Ahead and Mainstream Jazz Fourth Sunday of every month, 6:30-9:30 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.

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

Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Mondays

Surf Turkeys Saturday, Aug. 22, 8-11 p.m.

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

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

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

1801 EXETER 751-7500

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

Jimmie Vaughan & the Tilta-Whirl Band Saturday, Aug. 22, 8 p.m.

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

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

Maria’s Restaurant

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

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

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing; Kenny Rogers Friday, Aug. 21, 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.

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

Memphis All Stars Sunday, Aug. 23, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Whitehaven/ Airport

J.R.’s Bar & Grill 4788 BETHEL 662-890-5612

Full Effect Band Friday, Aug. 21, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

Mesquite Chop House

Winchester/ Hickory Hill LoVe Lounge 7144 WINCHESTER

Melodic Mondays Fourth Monday of every month, 4-10 p.m.

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

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

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Charlie Belt Unplugged Thursday, Aug. 20, 8 p.m.midnight; Friday Nite with Almost Famous Friday, Aug. 21, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Bluff City Bandits Saturday, Aug. 22, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Sunday, Aug. 23, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Jonez’n Wednesday, Aug. 26, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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.

6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

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

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

Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Side Car Cafe 2194 WHITTEN 388-0285

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

819 EXOCET 624-9060

The Dantones Sunday, Aug. 23, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Huey’s Cordova

Huey’s Germantown

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

Buckles and Boots Sunday, Aug. 23, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Brian Johnson Band Saturday, Aug. 22, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

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The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Huey’s Collierville

Frayser/Millington

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, Aug. 23, 8-11:30 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

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

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

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

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

Jerry Braxton Friday, Aug. 21, 9-1 a.m.; Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Saturday, Aug. 22, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Lucas Jack Brings Upright Piano Rock to Huey’s! Sunday, Aug. 23, 8:30-11 p.m.; Ghost Town Trio Wednesday, Aug. 26, 5 p.m.

The Crossing Bar & Grill

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

4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

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

Mesquite Chop House 3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

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

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

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

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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

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

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t’s been a busy year for writer and publisher Tom Graves, and August has been an especially busy month. Best of Enemies, a documentary on the famed series of television debates between William Buckley and Gore Vidal by filmmakers Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville, premiered in Memphis on August 14th, and a book signing for the print edition of Graves’ Buckley vs. Vidal: The Historic 1968 ABC News Debates — published by the DevaultGraves Agency (Graves’ Memphis-based publishing house, co-founded by Darrin Devault) — was a few days earlier. Graves was consulting producer on Best of Enemies, but the other news this month is the arrival in print form (an e-book edition with “bonus” material is also available) of another title, again published by Devault-Graves. This one, though, is all Graves. It’s a “retrospective” of his journalism over the past several decades, a collection that, as Graves says, “reflects me and my muse and my years of toiling away at this thing called writing.” The book opens with a muse by the name of Louise Brooks and what, by anyone’s measure, was a real coup for a young journalist in Memphis in the early 1980s: Graves’ meeting with Brooks in Rochester, New York, where the reclusive silentscreen actress was living. Graves had planned on writing a full-scale biography of Brooks, and, as Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & Dreamers explains, that biography never happened. But the beginnings (and background) to that project are here, as is an interview with Frank Zappa, which ran in 1987 in Rock & Roll Disc, the magazine Graves edited and published. Among the writers who appeared in that magazine and who also appears in a Q&A conducted by Graves in the e-book edition of Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & Dreamers: music critic Dave Marsh. There are other musicians featured to reflect Graves’ wide taste: the Blackwood Brothers, Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & the Raiders, and what Graves calls “a guilty pleasure”: Tennessee Ernie Ford. For another muse, though, go to actress Linda Haynes. Graves did, thanks to the contact information he received from

another Haynes fan: Quentin Tarantino. But when it comes to literature (third in the trio of Graves’ ongoing interests), see the Q&A Graves conducted with Southern grit-lit master, Harry Crews. Turns out, Graves’ collection is right in line with the mission of the DevaultGraves Agency: bringing out-of-print but deserving titles back to the screen (in e-book form) or into readers’ hands (in traditional print form). That’s what Devault-Graves will be doing next month with a new print edition of Sun Records: An Oral History by John Floyd, former music editor of the Flyer. (The e-book is available now from Amazon and the Barnes & Noble website.) It’s what Devault-Graves did earlier this year when it received major media attention for publishing Three Early Stories by J.D. Salinger. The company is also restoring, in uncensored print form, Maggie Cassidy by Jack Kerouac. This week, however, the focus of attention is Tom Graves, journalist. He’s a novelist too (Pullers), a biographer (Crossroads: The Life and Afterlife of Blues Legend Robert Johnson), and co-author (with Devault) of a photography book (Graceland Too Revisited). Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & Dreamers fulfills a dream that is entirely the author’s. “I wished there was something I had that people could focus on me as a writer — the way I tell a story, my style,” Graves says. “I’d like to think that when people think of Memphis writers that I’d be in that group.” Not only in that group but in a subset of local writers known for their long-form journalism. From a writer who’s done decades of interviews, there’s really nothing to it. But in Graves’ words: “You’ve got to be very super prepared going in. If you’ve got 50 or so questions, you have to be prepared to not touch ’em once you start the ball rolling. A conversation takes on a life of its own.” And no telling where a series of such conversations can lead. In the case of Tom Graves, it could amount to an impressive career — and to more than a few greatest hits. Tom Graves will be signing Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & Dreamers at the Booksellers at Laurelwood on Saturday, August 22nd, at 2 p.m.

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

August 20 - 26

T H EAT E R

Circuit Playhouse

Buyer and Cellar, this oneman show explores the world of Alex More, a struggling L.A. actor who accepts a job working in Barbra Streisand’s basement. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $22. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Sept. 6. 51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

The Evergreen Theatre

Remy: From Fate There Is No Escape, successful and driven business woman, Remy Silva, is at the top of her game where it’s lonely and hard to trust anyone. $18. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Aug. 23. 1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

First Congregational Church

Playback Memphis presents Memphis Matters, audience members volunteer to share personal stories and then watch as the Playback actors interpret the story through experimental theatre. (2640841), www.playbackmemphis.org. $15. Sat., Aug. 22, 7:30 p.m. 1000 S. COOPER (278-6786).

Hattiloo Theatre

In the Heights, this dance spectacular brings the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan to the stage as the residents get a dose of what it means to be home. www.hattiloo.org. $18. Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, 3 p.m. Through Sept. 6. 37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Playhouse on the Square

Billy Elliot the Musical, a young boy trades his boxing gloves for dancing shoes. www.playhouseonthesqare. org. $15-$40. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Sept. 6.

August 20-26, 2015

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101. DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY. crosstownarts.org. Aug. 21-Sept. 19.

Theatre Memphis

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

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

David Lusk Gallery Temporary Location

“Price is Right,” exhibition of art for under a grand. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through Aug. 22.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

Making Folk Happy, sisters Vinette and Willetta leave the hard times of farm life for Memphis to make a living, find husbands, and be happy only to find out that life in the big city may not be all that happy. (946-6140), www.bluffcitytriart@zohosites.com. $20. Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Through Aug. 31.

64 FLICKER (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

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

Eclectic Eye

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

Crosstown Arts

Opening reception for “In a Violent Way,” exhibition of installation art including oil painting, collage, tube televisions, and archival video footage by Lawrence Matthews III. Performance to follow reception. www.crosstownarts. org. Fri., Aug. 21, 6-9 p.m. 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Eclectic Eye

Opening reception for “Classroom Daydream,” exhibition of sculptured paintings by Angelina Mazzanti. www. eclectic-eye.com. Fri., Aug. 21, 6-8 p.m. 242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Ross Gallery

Opening reception for “Crosscut,” exhibition of new paintings by Nick Peña, associate professor of art at CBU. www. cbu.edu/gallery. Fri., Aug. 21, 5:30-7:30 p.m. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).

Various locations

Artist reception for “Terrain Biennial,” exhibition organized by Rhodes College as part of a national effort to bring temporary art installations in the front yards of friends and neighbors. The installations

will be on view 24 hours a day. www.rhodes.edu. Sun., Aug. 23, 4-7 p.m. SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Wings Gallery

Artist reception for “Images of Healing, Images of Hope,” exhibition by past artists of the year. www.wingscancerfoundation.org. Thurs., Aug. 20, 5:30-7 p.m. WEST CLINIC, 100 N. HUMPHREYS (322-2984).

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

Spark: The Child Romantic

Community conversation about arts education and arts programs that are impacting the lives of Memphis young people from dance and music to literature and visual art organized by Ballet Memphis. Wed., Aug. 26, 6 p.m. CROSSTOWN STORY BOOTH, 422 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW. CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Playback Memphis presents Memphis Matters, Sat., Aug. 22nd, at First Congo. ONGOI NG ART

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

Samuel H. Crone, exhibition of 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).

ANF Architects

Matthew Hasty, exhibition of landscapes of the South. www. anfa.com. Through Sept. 3. 1500 UNION (278-6868).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

“Chinese Symbols in Art,” exhibition of ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. www. belzmuseum.org. Ongoing. 119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School “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,” exhibition of mixedmedia works by Elayna Scott, inspired by nature and her travels. Ongoing.

“Classroom Daydream,” exhibition of sculptured paintings by Angelina Mazzanti. www.eclectic-eye.com. Aug. 21-Nov. 4. 242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Fratelli’s

“Nature Inspired,” exhibition of paintings on paper and canvas by Lee West. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Aug. 26. 750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Gallery 1091

Memphis/Germantown Art League Juried National Exhibition, www.wkno.org. Through Aug. 28. WKNO STUDIO, 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Jay Etkin Gallery

Nathan Yoakum, exhibition of recent paintings and sculptures. Through Sept. 2.

314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

942 COOPER (550-0064).

Circuitous Succession Gallery

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Thomas Murray, James Bockelman, Kelli Tilton, and Baleigh Kuhar, exhibition of work by multiple artists. www. circuitoussuccession.com. Through Aug. 24.

Ron Lace and Bill Bailey, exhibition of artwork. www. krocmemphis.org. Through Aug. 24.

500 S. SECOND.

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

Crosstown Arts

“In a Violent Way,” exhibition of installation art including oil painting, collage, tube televisions, and archival video footage by Lawrence Matthews III. www.

800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007).

L Ross Gallery

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

CALENDAR: AUGUST 20 - 26

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Metal Museum

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“20th Century Color Woodcuts: Japonisme and Beyond,” exhibition of American and British prints. org. Through Sept. 8. “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,” exhibition of murals which riff upon popular video games, major characters, and the gamers themselves by Michael Roy. Through Sept. 13. “Surreal Kingdoms,” exhibition combining acrylic paint and digital collage by Kenneth Wayne Alexander II. Through Sept. 13. “British Watercolors from the Golden Age,” exhibition of 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,” exhibition

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

The Performing Arts Center at Trezevant Manor “Trez Jolie!,” exhibition of photography, ceramics, and paintings by Artists’ Link. Through Sept. 29. 3437 WAYNOKA.

Ross Gallery

“Crosscut,” exhibition of new paintings by Nick Peña, associate professor of art at CBU. www.cbu.edu/gallery. Aug. 21-Oct. 8. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).

Music

Stax Museum of American Soul

“Stax: Visions of Soul,” exhibition of visual art celebrating

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songs from the iconic Stax catalog. www.staxmuseum. com. Through Dec. 31.

The Cove

Comedy with Dagmar, open mic comedy. www.thecovememphis.com. Sundays, 7-9 p.m. Through Aug. 31.

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

Sue Layman Designs

2559 BROAD (730-0719).

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

Hi-Tone

Tuesday Show Comedy featuring Jordan Jensen and Josh Lewis. $5. Tues., Aug. 25, 8-10 p.m. 412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE).

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

P&H Cafe

Various locations

You Look Like a Comedy Show, comedians go head to head in a battle of insults. $5. Sat., Aug. 22, 9 p.m.-midnight. Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

“Terrain Biennial,” exhibition organized by Rhodes College as part of a national effort to bring temporary art installations in the front yards of friends and neighbors. The installations will be on view 24 hours a day. www.rhodes.edu. Aug. 23-Sept. 20.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

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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).

DA N C E .

“Classroom Daydream” opens at Eclectic Eye on Friday, August 21st.

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Memphis Comedy Fest, featuring Joe Clair, Tyler Craig, TK Kirkland, Rodney Perry, Nick Lewis, Bo P, and Lomax. $25. Sat., Aug. 22, 7:30 p.m. MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 525-1515).

410 CLEVELAND.

National Civil Rights Museum

Drop the Mic Poetry Slam, featuring poets performing original works before an audience and a judging panel.

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“Vertical Plant Portraits,” exhibition of oil and acrylic paintings by Randy Burns. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Through Aug. 26.

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

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Author discusses and signs Three Rivers. Thurs., Aug. 20, 6:30 p.m. THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (6839801), WWW.THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

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Author discusses and signs Louise Brooks, Frank Zappa, & Other Charmers & Dreamers. Sat., Aug. 22, 2 p.m.

Climate Change and Our Health: What Memphians Need to Know

Join the School of Public Health and local experts and discuss what air pollution and climate change mean for our health and what we can do about it. Sat., Aug. 22, 1-2:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER, 255 UNIVERSITY CENTER, PARIS THEATER (423827-6964).

Get Connected Memphis

Local resources and social service agencies will be available during a special community fair. Sat., Aug. 22, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700), WWW.MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.

Memphis Gift and Jewelry Show Fri.-Sun., Aug. 21-23.

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (576-1200).

Professor James Small: Rebuilding Black Families in Memphis

The Summer VIB (very important bride) Open House

AFSCME LABOR CENTER, 485 BEALE (864-5008), WWW.MENNEFERPROJECT.COM.

WHISPERING WOODS HOTEL AND CONVENTION CENTER, 11200 GOODMAN, OLIVE BRANCH, MS (368-6782), WWW.MIDSOUTHWEDDINGSHOW.COM.

Professor Small speaks on this topic featuring music, food, and entertainment. $20. Sat., Aug. 22, 4-9 p.m.

Summer of Faith: Justice and Faith

Hear what six present-day prophets have to say about faith and justice. Aug. 23: Rev. Eric Posa; Aug. 30: Rev. Eyleen Farmer. Free. Sundays, 11 a.m.noon. Through Aug. 30. CHURCH OF THE RIVER, 292 VIRGINIA (526-8631).

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American Bead Show

Sat.-Sun., Aug. 22-23, 10 a.m. AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (452-2151), WWW.AGRICENTER.ORG.

Featuring food tastings, prizes, wedding professionals, and more. Free. Tues., Aug. 25, 7-9 p.m.

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Celebrate our local independent music scene and bring awareness to the great new and accessible music being produced by the best up-and-coming artists in our city. $20-$50. Sat., Aug. 22, 3-10 p.m. LEVITT SHELL, OVERTON PARK (272-2722), WWW.FOMOFEST.COM.

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CALENDAR: AUGUST 20 - 26 Mid-South Renaissance Faire

Family-friendly gathering emulating the Renaissance period. Featuring jousting, roaming queen and court, entertainment, vendors, games, demonstrations, and more. $12.50. Saturdays, Sundays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Through Aug. 31. SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (692-2372), WWW. MIDSOUTHRENFAIRE.COM.

S P O R TS/ F IT N ES S

Memphis Redbirds v. El Paso Chihuahuas Through Aug. 22.

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

News Channel 3/BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Sunset 5K

Run, food and beverage, and concert benefiting United Negro College Fund and LeMoyne-Owen College. $10-$25. Fri., Aug. 21, 7-9:30 p.m.

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F O O D & D R I N K E V E N TS

August Wine Dinner

Five-course dinner with wine pairing. $60. Thurs., Aug. 20, 6:45-8:30 p.m. BLEU, 221 S. THIRD IN WESTIN MEMPHIS BEALE ST. HOTEL (334-5950), WWW.DOWNTOWNBLEU.COM.

Blue Point Beer Dinner

Try these tasty brews with an inspired menu. $55. Tues., Aug. 25, 7 p.m. SCHWEINEHAUS, 2110 MADISON (347-3060), WWW. SCHWEINEHAUS.COM.

Dinner with Acoustic Guitarist Bill Mize Pre-concert dinner catered by Just for Lunch. See website for more information. $15-$20. Fri., Aug. 21, 6-10:30 p.m. MEMPHIS ACOUSTIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION, 53 EAST PARKWAY (692-2587), WWW.MAMAMUSIC.ORG.

Aldo’s Pizza Pies in Midtown is teaming up with next door neighbors Memphis Made Brewing for a five-course beer dinner. $40. Thurs., Aug. 20, 6:30-9 p.m. MEMPHIS MADE BREWING COMPANY, 768 S. COOPER (7257437), WWW.ALDOSPIZZAPIES.COM.

Ten ’Til Ten Dinner Series

and Scentsy shopping. $25 members, $35 nonmembers. Tues., Aug. 25, 6-8 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

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Stanley Kubrick’s classic dystopian crime film. $9. Thurs., Aug. 20, 7-9:15 p.m.

Part of a special dinner series by chef-owner Patrick Reilly leading up to the restaurant’s 10th anniversary. $65. Tues., Aug. 25, 6 p.m.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (5446200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

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

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Vine to Wine at the Garden: My Big Backyard BBQ

Down-home (but grown-up) party in My Big Backyard with a sampling of wines and beers, food, music, door prizes, tree readings, and Esbe

Magic, fantasy, and Celtic mythology come together in this story about the power of imagination and faith. $9. Sat., Aug. 22, 2-3:15 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (5446200), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

LEMOYNE-OWEN COLLEGE, 807 WALKER (435-1527), WWW.LOC.EDU.

KIDS

Hattiloo on the Playground and Magic Carpet Ride

Explore the performing arts with Roudnev Youth Ballet and whimsical events. Free. Sat., Aug. 22, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483), WWW.STMARYSSCHOOL.ORG.

Park+Pajamas

Family sleepover featuring nocturnal nature hike, stargazing with the Memphis Astronomical Society, science activities, campout in the Woodland Discovery Playground, breakfast with the buffalo, and more. $8 members, $10 nonmembers. Fri.Sat., Aug. 21-22, 6-9 p.m. SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW. SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

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In the Spirit of ASALH

Tribute to Universal Life Insurance Company, Nat D. Williams, Perre Magness, and William “Nick” Nelson who have fought tirelessly on behalf of the mission of Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH). Through Sept. 8.

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t is strangely gratifying that pioneering hip-hop group N.W.A still has the power to shock and provoke 27 years after their first album was released. But here we are, in 2015, and the film based on their career, Straight Outta Compton, has been greeted with denunciation from police unions and a level of security around the screenings that borders on the absurd. And yet, the R-rated film, which lacks any superheroes, defied all expectations by more than doubling its $29 million budget in three days of release. The takeaway here is that Ice Cube knows what the hell he’s doing. Twenty years into his producing career, his company Cube Vision has never lost money on a movie. Not even legends like Robert Evans can say that. Cube knows what his audience wants, and he gives it to them. He’s content to take a safe base hit rather than swing for the fences and risk a strikeout, and you can see that thinking play out in Straight Outta Compton, a bythe-numbers musical biopic in the tradition of Ray and Coal Miner’s Daughter. But there’s a reason formulas become formulaic: They work. Director F. Gary Gray, whose credits begin with Ice Cube’s music video “It Was a Good Day” and his first feature film, Friday, executes expertly on all levels without succumbing to the temptation to get flashy. Of the two shots that stuck with me — one, a tracking shot through a crowded parking lot in front of a Los Angeles skating rink, echoes a scene in Hustle & Flow; while the other, a rack focus down a line of Nation of Islam recruits, would be at home in an ’80s Ridley Scott perfume commercial. If it sounds like I’m slagging on Gray, I’m not. This isn’t Love & Mercy, the Brian Wilson biopic that used structural tricks and psychedelic sound design to depict the inner life of an artist struggling with mental illness. Straight Outta Compton is disciplined, professional filmmaking where the director has enough sense to know his subject matter is so epic that telling the story straight is enough to make it work. Gray introduces Easy-E (Jason Mitchell) and the setting of 1987 L.A. with an opening scene in a crack house where Easy barely escapes a tank-assisted police

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don’t think writers are smarter than other people, they’re just more compelling in their stupidity.” Wallace is played by Jason Segel, the Freaks and Geeks alum who has had a decent but understated career in comedies such as Knocked Up and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I didn’t think he had the depth to play Wallace, but, boy, was I wrong. He’s got Wallace’s hulking physicality and intense mannerisms down pat, and with the trademark bandanna (“It keeps my head from exploding”) firmly in place, he fully sinks into the writer’s persona. He’s incredibly intimidating and approachably humble. Confronted with over-the-top praise for Infinite Jest he says, “It was the best I could do between 1992 and 1995.” This is the best two-hander I’ve seen in recent memory. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see The End of the Tour lauded by the Academy with acting and writing nominations come January. Would Wallace himself like this film? Probably not. He and Lipsky bond over their love of Die Hard, and they drag some girls to see the John Travolta stinker Broken Arrow. But if you’re a fan of Wallace’s work, or if you just like good writing, The End of the Tour is a must-see. The End of the Tour Now showing at multiple locations

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LEGAL NOTICE Pursuant to TCA55-16-105, be on notice that the following property has been abandoned at Riverside Park Marina on McKellar Lake Drive, in Memphis, Shelby County, TN. A 2009 Freightliner Serial # 1FUJRBDR2ADAN1945. The property may be redeemed by you within 10 days of this notice by payment of $7,401.59 for preservation fees, late fees and dockage fees. Plus storage fees of $25 per day since completion of repair on 6/13/2015. Your failure to redeem shall be deemed a waiver by the owners and all lien holder of all rights, title and interest in boat and consent to its relinquishment.

LIT RESTAURANT SUPPLY: Freezer Associates, stocker and cashier positions available. Do you have experience organizing inventory in a freezer? Fantastic Opportunity with Established Memphis Company! If you are a goal-driven person with strong leadership skills, please email your resume to: pboxer@ litsupply.com PHONE ACTRESSES From home. Must have dedicated land line and great voice. 21+. Up to $18 per hour. Flex HRS./ most Wknds. 1-800-403-7772 Lipservice.net (AAN CAN)

PUBLIC AUCTION Aamco Transmissions, 2439 Covington Pike, Memphis, TN 38128. August 20, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. 1996 Ford Ranger, VIN: 1FTCR15XXTTA65195, $2779.11. Owed By Danny Fitch

HELP WANTED COPELAND SERVICES, L.L.C. Hiring Armed State Licensed Officers/ Unarmed OfficersThree Shifts AvailableSame Day Interview1661 International Place 901-258-5872 or 901-818-3187 Interview in Professional Attire.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES MAKE $1000 WEEKLY!! Mailing Brochures from home. Helping home workers since 2001. Genuine Opportunity. No experience required. Start immediately. theworkingcorner. com (AAN CAN)

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SALON SPACE for 2-3 hairstylist. Prime location. Poplar/Perkins area. Flexible weekly or monthly rental. 901.685.9879. POLISH GIRL NAIL CAFE Aesthetician suite is available for $175 a week. Call Wynter @ 901.650.7484 2852 Poplar Ave 38111.

AIRLINE CAREERS Begin here- Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance. 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN)

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RAFFERTY’S We are looking for service minded individuals, that don’t mind working hard. We work hard, but make $. Apply in the store. 505 N Gtown Pkwy

SALES/MARKETING 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@contemporarymedia.com No phone calls. SPORTS TALK RADIO Advertising/Sponsorship Sales. Excellent part-time income. Earn up to $10,000. Great Opportunity. Call 901-527-2460

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