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OUR 1554TH ISSUE 12.06.18 Notoriety is a funny thing, and when it comes, you’d better be prepared to roll with the flow. Get your people ready. When the public turns its eyes to you, anything can happen. Andy Warhol famously said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, but these days fame does not arrive and depart with such tidal efficiency. It sloshes and roils like choppy surf. One day, you’re on top of the news cycle; 24 hours later, no one remembers your name, as you sink beneath the waves. (See, Scaramucci, Priebus, Hicks, Tillerson, McMaster, Spicer, et. al.)

When you’re a corporation, like, say, United Airlines, notoriety can eat your lunch.

A couple bad PR moments — a passenger dragged off a plane, say, or a dog dying in an overhead bin — and your reputation is shot. The only good news is that expectations are lowered, as in, “Oh, we were on the tarmac for three hours and they sent my bag to Milwaukee, but what do you expect? It was United.”

There are ways around this peripatetic cycle, of course. One way is to become president. When you’re president, you can be famous 24 hours a day, if you want to be. You can be famous every 15 minutes, nonstop. You can turn every news cycle into your own reality show, filled with people talking about what you said and how you said it, where you went and what you did. It can be all about you. Which is how President Donald Trump appears to like it.

But this week, Trump is having to take a seat in the gallery and watch as the nation pauses to remember President George H.W. Bush, who passed away at 94 last weekend. Bush 41 was not without flaws during his presidency; some of his domestic policies, his “Willie Horton” ads, and his ignoring of the AIDS crisis were marks against him. But Bush and Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev together engineered the end of the Cold War and brought down the Berlin Wall, a monumental achievement that will remain his enduring presidential legacy.

Bush was, by most accounts, a decent and honorable man who loved his family and served his country with dignity.

During Bush’s presidency, he was plagued — unfairly, given that he was a World War II combat pilot and played college baseball — by what was called the “wimp factor.” He was compared, on occasion, to George McFly, the hapless character played by Crispin Glover in Back to the Future, to whom Bush bore some resemblance. George McFly’s nemesis was the evil bully, Biff Tannen, who delighted in giving George noogies and shouting, “THINK, McFly!” It’s not a stretch to see the parallels between blowhard Biff and Trump, who, at a rally just a few weeks back, took great delight in making fun of the elder Bush’s volunteer program, “a thousand points of light.”

“A thousand points of light. What the hell was that?” Trump smirked to his adoring cult. “Can somebody explain that to me? I don’t think anyone ever understood that.” He might as well have added, “THINK, McBush!”

Ha. Ha. Nothing says class more than making fun of a dying 94-year-old former president and war hero for a cheap laugh. But time has a way of evening scores. In Back to the Future, George found his courage, gave Biff a shot to the jaw, and won the girl, demonstrating that the fearsome bully was all bluster and bravado. Time may do the same to Donald Trump.

I believe the next few weeks will test the country’s resolve — and the rule of law — as Robert Mueller’s Russian investigaN E WS & O P I N I O N tion brings to light more unsavory conTHE FLY-BY - 4 NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 nections between the Trump organization POLITICS - 7 and Russian intelligence during the 2016 VIEWPOINT - 9 campaign. We’d best batten down the COVER STORY hatches. Trump’s American reality show “21 VOICES” will reach new heights of drama and inBY TOBY SELLS- 10 trigue — and maybe even a season finale.

SPORTS - 13 But no matter what happens, it helps WE RECOMMEND - 16 MUSIC - 19 to remember that notoriety fades in a AFTER DARK - 20 flash and history is written in indelible CALENDAR - 22 ink. If Donald Trump lives to 94 and BOOKS - 30 his body is brought to the Capitol RoTHE BAR REPORT - 31 tunda, I suspect the years will not be as SPIRITS - 33 kind or as forgiving as they have been FILM - 34 to George Herbert Walker Bush.

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f ly on the wall { O N TH’WR EG Sinclair failed to break into the Memphis market earlier this year when WREG’s parent company, Tribune Media, backed out of a controversial, hotly contested deal with the conservative media giant.

In June, Atlanta-based media giant Gray Television Inc. agreed to acquire WMC’s parent company, Raycom, pending FCC approval.

Now, with Sinclair solidly in the rearview mirror, Tribune has entered into a new agreement with another giant, Nexstar. This latest development could alter the Memphis media landscape considerably.

According to a Bloomberg report, Nexstar plans to stay just below the FCC ownership cap by divesting in 13 markets. One of these markets will almost certainly be Memphis, where the company already owns WATN-24, and WLMT-30, which function as a content/staff-sharing duopoly.

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O N TH’WR EG 2 One of the more annoying/amusing artifacts of media consolidation is online content that initially appears to be local, but isn’t. Like this Tribune story out of Texas about a wedding photographer who was arrested for intoxication after allegedly having sex with a guest and peeing in public.

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Council, TVA, & Guns Boyd criticized, TVA cleans up, & fighting gun crime.

COUNCIL C O N F LI CT Some members of the public have questioned Memphis City Council Chairman Berlin Boyd’s leadership during the council’s November 20th attempt to fill the vacant District 1 seat, which, as of press time, is still vacant.

Boyd said last week his decision not to vote was a measure to keep the decision nonpartisan.

As of press time, Boyd had not decided if he would vote during the Tuesday, December 4th Clockwise from top left: City Council Chair Berlin Boyd, Attorney General Whitaker council meeting, in announces task force, a TVA coal ash pond, Downtown bus terminal. which either Rhonda Logan or Lonnie Treadaway will likely be appointed.

Protection Agency.

MATA announced last week that it is cutting ties with the TVA C LEAN S U P AR S E N I C security agency and is immediately launching an internal The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) announced last week systemwide agency review of public safety and security it will remove the arsenic found in groundwater near its now- procedures. shuttered Allen Fossil Plant and begin forming a plan for the But, in a letter to the CEO of MATA, members of future of the coal ash there that caused the contamination. the Memphis Bus Riders Union (MBRU) said that Last year, investigators found 300 times the legal limit of they have been asking MATA to end the contract with arsenic in an alluvial aquifer that sits above the Memphis the Ambassador Agency since 2015 because of its Sand Aquifer, the source of Memphis’ famously pure discriminatory practices. drinking water. TVA will pump water from the alluvial The group is looking to collaborate with MATA officials aquifer and treat it to remove the arsenic. on the safety and security at the terminal moving forward.

State officials found that the contaminated aquifer and the Memphis Sand Aquifer were connected, posing a G U N C R I M ES TAS K FO R C E possible threat to the city’s drinking water.

A new task force focused on reducing gun crimes is Until January 4th, 2019, TVA will accept public forming in Memphis, acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew comments on a plan, called an Environmental Impact Whitaker announced here last week.

Statement, “to consider the potential environmental effects The Crime Gun Strike Force will be headed by the Bureau of various options for closure” for two coal ash storage sites of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and at the Allen plant. comprised of “highly experienced” ATF agents and officers from the Memphis Police Department (MPD), Whitaker said.

MATA SAF ETY Working with the Shelby County District Attorney After a Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) passenger General’s Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the was shot by a contracted security guard late last month, Western District of Tennessee, the task force will focus Memphis bus riders want the Downtown bus terminal’s on investigations involving those actively involved in gun safety issues addressed. violence, the “trigger pullers, and the gun-traffickers that Following an argument with a bus driver near the supply them,” Whitaker said.

William Hudson Transit Center, the victim was shot by Milz For fuller versions of these stories and more local news, visit Mayhorn, a security guard with Ambassador Worldwide The News Blog at memphisflyer.com.

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States and cities along the Mississippi River will see billions of dollars worth of climate-related impacts unless “major changes” are made in the near term, according to a group of 85 mayors in cities and towns up and down the river.

The Congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment (NCA) issued last week paints a bleak picture for the Mississippi River Valley and the entire Mississippi River Basin with rising temperatures and rising waters.

Mayors with the Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative (MRCTI) said that “infrastructure, manufacturing, agriculture, and vulnerability are all implicated in this new report with effects alarming to even mayors that have been dealing with these impacts for a number of years already.” The group has pushed for changes to fight climate-related catastrophes in the region since 2012.

“The first duty of government is to help ensure the safety and health of the people it represents, so leaders should heed the report’s calls for action,” said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey in a statement.

“Minneapolis is already charting a course toward 100 percent renewable electricity.

“To better protect the Mississippi River — a major force for economic justice and a key source for drinking water — we need to partner with communities, neighboring jurisdictions, and states

by following the data and taking meaningful steps to curb climate change.”

The Mississippi River Corridor has already sustained over $200 billion in disaster impacts since 2005, according to the MRCTI, with six of the 10 Mississippi River states incurring more than $10 billion in losses for each state.

Bettendorf, Iowa, Mayor Bob Gallagher said, though he thought he was prepared, “I was taken aback by some of the findings in the report.”

“The NCA states the annual cost of adapting urban storm water systems to more frequent and severe storms is projected to exceed $500 billion for the Midwest by the end of the century,” Gallagher said.

“More important to my state of Iowa, the assessment says projected changes in precipitation, coupled with rising extreme temperatures before mid-century, will reduce Midwest agricultural productivity to levels of the 1980s without major technological advances.”

Like Memphis, other cities in the Southeast are experiencing more and longer summer heat waves, according to the NCA. Of the five cities already reporting more extreme heat waves, three of them are in the South — Birmingham, Raleigh, and New Orleans.

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Matters of Time for its Tuesday public meetings has, for several years, been 4:30 p.m., a time that strikes something of a mean between the needs of public and city government staffers, but seems mainly to be of advantage to the 10 o’clock newscasts of local television stations, by providing them with relatively fresh newsbreaks.

On Monday, Wright earned a bit of teasing from colleague Edmund Ford Jr., who noted that several of Wright’s initiatives involved clock time, including another matter up for discussion on Monday — that of Daylight Saving Time. Wright had suggested that the back-and-forth shifting — back an hour at one time of year and up again later on — creates unnecesary dislocation in people’s lives.

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Don’t miss the Grand Re-Opening of the Pink Palace Mansion December 8th.

County Commission Chair Van Turner (right) congratulates Commissioner Tami Sawyer for 2018 Ebony magazine Community Crusader Award.

Wright first proposed including the state’s abandonment of Daylight Saving Time as an item in the commission’s recommended legislative package for the General Assembly but later said he’d be satisfied with the imposition of year-long Daylight Saving Time. The idea in either case, with or without DST, was to maintain a year-long consistency.

Ultimately, the commission approved an amended version of Wright’s resolution, one that would urge the General Assembly to reconsider the issue of Daylight Saving Time without recommending a particular course.

• As befits a local legislative body, perhaps, the incidence of partisan continued on page 8

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Toward the end of Monday’s meeting of the Shelby County Commission, second-term member Mark Billingsley, looking out from his seat on the stage of the Vasco Smith County Administration Building, swept an arm out toward the auditorium’s row of seats, all virtually empty, as Billingsley pointed out, save for a few isolated staff members.

Billingsley went on to suggest to his colleagues that the commission’s recent decision to change the start time of its meetings from 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. — ostensibly, on the initiative of new member Mick Wright, to enable more members of the general public to attend meetings — had failed, and that maybe the commission ought to revert to its previous start time.

A couple of things struck at least one observer as unusual: 1) that the effective half-hour difference did not seem all that consequential; and 2) that it had been Billingsley himself, at the beginning of his first term, four years ago, who had moved for a change in the body’s start time, from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.

And his reasoning back then? That such a change would enable more members of the general public to attend meetings.

In one sense, given the number of reasonably significant matters that have occupied this commission in its first couple of months, the matter of starting time might have seemed relatively unimportant. But is it? Commissioner Wright, who represents Bartlett, had originally suggested an even later start time, 6 p.m., but that was shaved back during later consideration, on the grounds that, while the public might indeed be freer to attend in the evenings, staff members — whose presence on many matters is essential — would be inconvenienced by having to stick around.

There is no perfect time for a public body to meet, of course. The Memphis City Council’s start time

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continued from page 7 disagreements is not large, but it does exist. It showed itself on a few matters Monday.

One instance concerned the meaning of a resolution asking the General Assembly to amend the state’s Basic Education Program (BEP) “to fund additional school Resource Officers, Social Workers, and Counselors.”

A debate of sorts erupted over the meaning of the term “Resource Officers.” Amber Mills, the resolution’s original sponsor and a Republican, wanted the term construed to denote security officers. Or, at least, she accepted commission Chairman Van Turner’s paraphrase of her intent to mean something such-like.

Other commissioners, including the body’s Democrats, wanted a looser definition, and they prevailed in a partyline vote, in which Wright, Billingsley, and Brandon Morrison, all Republicans, sided with Mills on the losing side. The final resolution, with the looser definition intact, then passed 12-0.

Another Mills resolution asked the General Assembly “to avoid the adoption of Legislation, Policies, Rules of Regulations requiring the implementation of unfunded mandates.” This one, arguably reflecting a traditional Republican concern, was approved unanimously once it was reworded to specificy “unfunded education mandates” — which Mills accepted as expressing her basic intent.

A third matter reflected this commision’s apparent inclination to skirt possible divides in the interests of unity. This was regarding an ordinance, up for the second of three required readings, to amend the

requirements of the Shelby County Minority and Women Business Enterprise Program (MWBE).

As outlined by Shep Wilbun, chief county diversity officer, the ordinance went into minute detail defining the terms, numerical and otherwise, that either permitted or encouraged the awarding of contracts in greater numbers to firms owned by women and/or African Americans. In the end, there appeared to be general agreement on the commission that the accretion of new detail was such as to make an already abstruse process even more “cumbersome” — an adjective supplied by Commissioner Morrison.

And thus the ordinance was routed back to committee to undergo a process of simplifcation.

• Last weekend saw a visit here by Tennessee Democratic Party chair Mary Mancini, one of several planned for statewide under the head, “Analyze, Organize, Mobilize,” to discuss party affairs and strategy. A group of 30 to 50 local Democrats met with Mancini at the headquarters building of U.S. Pipefitters Local 614 in Arlington.

On hand to assist in the process, in the wake of what has been a highly successful year or two for the party, was Shelby County Democratic Party chair Corey Strong, who confided that he intends to focus on his job as special project director at Shelby County Schools and does not plan to seek reelection in March, when local Democrats meet in convention.

The forthcoming convention will re-inaugurate a cycle that was interrupted when the Shelby County party, having fallen into disunity and ineffectiveness, was dissolved by Mancini in 2016.

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Seeking asylum isn’t a crime, but denying asylum is.

President Trump’s frustrations with immigration and his inability to build (or even finance) a wall at our southern border has led to the unimaginable: the United States military at the border firing teargas at asylum seekers — most of whom are women and children. It was disconcerting to watch from the comfort of our Thanksgiving holiday as the gas drifted toward Tijuana into the eyes of the innocent.

But it did happen. It’s almost all illegal. And it’s a crisis created entirely by President Trump.

The United States, since the conclusion of the Second World War, has led the Western world in offering protection to asylum seekers. The horrors of the European holocaust forced America to listen more carefully to the pleas of those running (literally) for their lives. Current asylum law, encoded in international treaty and national law, mandates the United States government to consider asylum pleas from people who fear for their lives in foreign lands.

The president and his team of nationalists/nativists have declared, in certain violation of international and federal law, that asylum seekers from Central America shall not set foot on U.S. soil, which makes it impossible for people to file a petition.

An asylum petition can only be made upon arrival in the United States.

To deter people from filing, Trump has sent active duty military troops (deployed on U.S. soil) as a sort of shield. But even before deploying troops, the Trump administration had been laying the groundwork for this inhumane spectacle by stalling the procedure and refusing to process families seeking asylum along the border.

The president, of course, would be fully authorized to send the military to defend against an invading foreign army or other bellicose actors, but no one believes that a few thousand unarmed, poor Central Americans represent any sort of threat to this nation’s sovereignty or democracy.

There is a long history of hostilities and disproportionate responses at the border: In 1916, Pancho Villa raided the town of Columbus, New Mexico, and some innocent bystanders were killed.

The U.S. responded by spending $130 million to send a cavalry force (under the command of General John Pershing) that could never capture the wily Mexican revolutionary. Seventy years prior, the U.S. government annexed half of our neighbor’s territory in a war declared after the Mexican government refused to give up their territory voluntarily.

President Trump is the only serious threat to our democracy, not poor

and desperate immigrants from Central America. The Trump administration (and all administrations) are prohibited by the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act from using the army for policing activities within United States territory. Soon, we believe, the courts will hear challenges to the president’s use of the military and judges will certainly question how long-standing, settled asylum laws and traditions can be tossed aside based on the whims of a capricious president, a rogue government.

We can drown in this sea of lawlessness, or we can fight back. We don’t recommend responding with violence, but these times require action and we draw inspiration from the civil disobedience developed in 19th-century New England.

Henry David Thoreau famously went to jail for refusing to pay the taxes that he knew would be used to finance the 1846 war against Mexico (mentioned above); Thoreau — rightfully — declared that war immoral and illegal.

President Trump is the only serious threat to our democracy, not poor and desperate immigrants from Central America.

Good people in Memphis, right now, are fighting against the madness; they’re still paying their taxes but have adopted the role of the good Samaritan by helping people (mostly women and children) who have faced illegal family separation and dubious detentions here in America.

This group known as “Migration Is Beautiful” (a.k.a. The Mariposa Collective) consists of about 25 people here — most of whom speak Spanish. They organize, and meet the five buses that arrive to Memphis each day carrying people recently released from detention. Released to relatives across the country, the U.S. government forces these travelers to wear ankle monitors, and most have no possessions, no money, and no food.

Greeting these weary families with sandwiches, medicine, and toys for the children, the best of Memphis meets those who have seen and suffered the worst of the federal government. These Memphians are the people who define and sustain our democracy; these are the people who, again and again, make America great.

Bryce Ashby is a Memphis-based attorney and the Board Chair of Latino Memphis. Michael LaRosa teaches history at Rhodes College.

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21 Voices

A group of former employees say charges they made against Dick Hackett led to his departure from CMOM.

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hey don’t want to talk about it.

They say they can’t talk about it, in fact. Leaders with the Children’s Museum of Memphis (CMOM) say a non-disclosure agreement prevents them from talking about how and why Richard “Dick” Hackett, the museum’s former executive director and former mayor of Memphis, left the organization in June 2017. In an off-the-record meeting with leaders last week, they said they have nothing to hide but refused to talk about a formal investigation at the museum last year or that non-disclosure agreement.

“The board of directors and leadership at CMOM are excited about our future and have no interest in revisiting the departure of prior CEO Dick Hackett two years after the event,” interim CMOM executive director Reed Cochran said in a statement written on behalf of the museum’s board.

Leaders said they “would be more than happy to discuss” the one-year anniversary of the carousel restoration, new board members, new programming, and the museum’s upcoming search for a new, permanent executive director. The future seems bright, inviting, and brimming with promise, like the museum itself.

But a group of former CMOM employees formed an organization called “21 Voices,” and described turmoil behind the scenes, particularly during Hackett’s 10 years. They cite nepotism, casual racism, and sexism — a good-ole-boy’s club with

frat-house rules, bloated paychecks, and random bonuses. They claim Hackett made adversarial employees “sweat” if they crossed the boss or his friends. They complain that long-time staffers who had just helped CMOM win an important, national accreditation were fired for seemingly little cause.

Members of the 21 Voices group say they petitioned the CMOM board, but the board didn’t listen. Group members said only when they threatened to launch a formal complaint to the national accreditation group did the board hire an external investigator, get some facts, and, eventually, part ways with Hackett.

It’s a much different story than Hackett told at the time. In an interview with the Memphis Daily News’ Bill Dries in May 2017, Hackett said he was stepping aside and simply shifting his focus to fund-raising.

“I’ll shift my emphasis to, on my own, raising money for the Carousel building,” Hackett told Dries. “It’s two businesses and there’s no way one person could do both.”

Scroll to the bottom of that story online, though, and you’ll find comments pointing at that other, darker narrative.

(The Daily News only allowed comments through a Facebook plug-in, so, the names and people are who they say they are, on Facebook, at least.)

“He [was] nothing but a leech off the museum,” wrote Loni Wellman. “You should really be thanking the staff — who he has forced out. Look at the 990s.”

Wellman’s LinkedIn profile says she was the program manager at CMOM from 2007 to 2011.

“Evidently he will continue to leech and plunder as a ‘consultant,’” wrote Amanda

McEachran LaMountain. “And, yes, please look at the 990s, although they only paint an incomplete picture of the racism, nepotism, and general incompetence that Hackett’s ‘leadership’ represented.”

LaMountain’s father was Angus McEachran, former editor of The Commercial Appeal and also a former board chairman of CMOM. “He claims to have made the decision to resign on his own,” wrote Jim Hyde.

“Strangely, it was made just after the organization, 21 Voices, forced the board of trustees at CMOM to conduct an investigation into their claims of racism, nepotism, sexual discrimination, and workplace bullying.

“The board at CMOM chose to tell 21 Voices that Hackett would resign due to money problems and refused to address the issues that were investigated nor will they discuss the investigation conducted by [Burch], Porter and Johnson,” wrote Hyde. “Sounds like 21 Voices were correct in their beliefs. Hey CMOM, how about some transparency?”

CMOM leaders say they are transparent, and a Charity Navigator document provided to the Flyer last week gives the museum a four-star ranking (its highest) on accountability and transparency and a score of 100 out of 100.

Hackett retired from CMOM in June 2017. By September, he was the new executive director at Catholic Charities of West Tennessee, the service arm of the Catholic Diocese of Memphis, which serves 21 counties in West Tennessee. In a guest column in The Commercial Appeal in October 2017, Hackett said, “I feel closer to God every day I walk into our building or deliver a meal to a disabled

Veteran or senior.”

Hackett said he is “proud of my body of work at CMOM” and “with the help of employees, board members, and generous donors, we were able to bring CMOM from the brink of closing its doors to a thriving, nationally accredited museum.

“All of the changes that I made, my personnel decisions, and my management approach were approved by the numerous members of the board of directors, respected members of our community,” Hackett added. “I am well aware of the false allegations made by a group of former employees and I am aware of some of their criticisms that sound [word missing] in reality but are misunderstood by the group.”

Back to the Beginning Planning for the Children’s Museum of Memphis began in 1985, led by a group of three women — Mars Child, Polly Glotzbach, and Harriet McFadden.

The Boston-grown and Harvard-educated Child moved to Memphis in 1984 and wanted to see a children’s museum reflecting her childhood here. About the same time, Memphis native McFadden read about Boston’s children’s museum in an in-flight magazine, flew north to see it herself, and decided she wanted a similar museum in Memphis.

“It was there that a Boston museum trustee told Harriet about Mars’ interest in the same idea and that Mars was in

Richard “Dick” Hackett Memphis,” reads a section about the women on the Women of Achievement website. “Was it fate? Coincidence? Magic?”

Others pointed the two women to Glotzbach, a Vanderbilt graduate and former Junior League of Memphis president who had toured the children’s museum in St. Louis.

In 1987, the three incorporated the Children’s Museum of Memphis as a private nonprofit organization. The next year, the three “found a friend in [then-Memphis Mayor Dick Hackett] who helped them find the old [National Guard Armory]” complex on the MidSouth Fairgrounds, according to the Historic Memphis website.

In 1988, the museum signed a 25-year lease with the city of Memphis on the complex, paying $1 a year. Tax documents show the lease was renewed in 2000 for $1 a year for the next 37 years. Another CMOM tax document puts the worth of the buildings at $10.1 million. A 2016 audit document put the annual fair value of the

Hackett History Hackett looms large in Memphis history.

Elected mayor at age 33 in 1982, he was the youngest mayor of a major U.S. city. He was elected three times by Memphis voters.

He made history again in his incredibly narrow loss (by only 172 votes) to the city’s first African-American mayor, W.W. Herenton, in 1991.

Hackett reduced the city’s debt and only raised taxes once during his term in office.

He appointed African Americans to some of the city’s highest offices, including James Ivey as Memphis Police Department’s first African-American director, and Greg Duckett as chief administrative officer.

Hackett also founded Wonders: The Memphis International Cultural Series.

He served as senior vice president at the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC), the fund-raising arm of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Hackett served on the board for Christian Brothers High School, the Wesley School for Children, and more.

In July 2006, Hackett was named CMOM’s chief executive officer, the third in the organization’s history. As mayor, he’d helped the museum secure the $1-per-year lease deal on the old Armory buildings.

“It is great to again have Dick as an important part of the museum,” Angus McEachran, CMOM board of trustees president, said in a statement at the time. “He brings a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and contacts to catapult the museum to an even higher level of excellence.”

By the Numbers Maybe the first public red flag of Hackett’s turn at the CMOM helm came in a regular, annual financial audit of the museum in 2014 by Zoccola Kaplan, PLLC. “The museum routinely utilizes a vendor who is a relative of the Chief Executive Officer for various repairs, maintenance, and capital projects,” reads the audit. “For the year ended June 30, 2014, the vendor was paid a total of $46,581 by the museum.”

That same line is in audits for 2015, 2016, and 2017.

CMOM’s 990 for that year explains the payment was made to Mark Hackett, the CEO’s brother. The next year, Mark Hackett was paid $69,022 for “improvements to exhibits.” The next year, Mark Hackett was paid $106,031, a figure

higher than the salary of the museum’s Chief Operating Officer.

That year, too, Jason Hackett, Dick Hackett’s son, was paid $23,600 for “improvements to exhibits.” In 2016, Mark Hackett was paid $81,567, and Jason Hackett was paid $19,739. For all of this, the tax documents say “the conflict of interest disclosures are updated annually and monitored by the board of directors.”

“Those who criticize this decision fail to recognize, or perhaps do not even know, that my brother’s value was his ability to get most of his building materials donated in-kind by his supplier contacts,” Hackett said. “I feel the decision to hire him was because this benefit outweighed any appearance of nepotism.”

Further, Hackett said knowing his brother offered “additional assurance of character and decency over and above background checks and references.”

that “the board of directors annually reviews CEO compensation paid within the industry and inside and outside the area.” Hackett’s pay was approved by a CMOM compensation committee and the full board of directors.

In 2016, Jackson’s Mississippi Children’s Museum, with revenues of $4.7 million and 92 employees, paid its president and CEO Susan Garrard $129,288. In 2015, Thinkery, the Austin Children’s Museum, with 80 employees and revenues of about $5 million, paid its CEO, Troy Livingston, $108, 446. In 2015, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, with 135 employees and about $5 million in revenues, paid its president and CEO, Stephanie Hill Wilchfort, $204, 711. All of this is according to these organizations’ 990s.

Another, non-Hackett-related anomaly found in tax records is on a

“You can never be too careful about who is around children,” he said. “Safety and protection of our child patrons was my No. 1 priority.”

During that time, Dick Hackett saw his salary and benefits package increase, too. In 2014, he had a pay package worth $268,495. The museum employed 61 people that year and ended the year $132,120 in the red, according to tax documents.

Revenues in 2015 remained largely flat over the previous year ($2.6 million in 2014 to $2.7 million in 2015) though the museum had shed 18 employees. Hackett’s pay and benefits package rose to $305,521, including a $20,000 bonus from the board.

The museum ended 2015 in the red by $234,762, according to tax documents.

In 2016, revenues were slightly down ($2.6 million), and the museum added one employee for a total of 44. Hackett’s pay package swelled to $328,569, which included a $45,000 bonus from the board.

CMOM explained in tax documents

form CMOM filed with the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis’ nonprofit search site, wheretogivemidsouth. org. The document has warning asterisks emblazoned around the words “Do Not File” and “Not Open to Public Inspection.”

But CMOM officials did file them with the Community Foundation, and one document in the latest 990s shows payments to the museum from what the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) calls “disqualified” people, “any person who was in a position to exercise substantial influence over the affairs of the [nonprofit organization] at any time during” the reporting period.

These documents show John Dobbs made payments to the museum of $10,775 in 2014, $320,000 in 2015, and $10,000 in 2016, while his wife Katherine Dobbs was listed as a CMOM trustee. Another CMOM trustee, Dick Tillman, made a $19,870 payment to the museum in 2016, according to tax documents.

21 Voices Public numbers tell one part of the story.

For the day-to-day, we’ll turn to interviews with three former CMOM employees who said they left or were forced to quit during the time after the museum won its national accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Twenty-one of those employees formed 21 Voices to draw attention to Hackett’s behavior.

In a January 2017 letter to the CMOM board, the 21 former employees said “Hackett repeatedly engaged in behavior with staff and visitors that is unacceptable to a man in his role as CEO. “The behavior has also been witnessed by museum visitors, donors, and others who have had to deal with him,” reads the letter, noting the complaints are backed by documents and recordings.

“The complaints include sexual harassment by other staff members, unprofessional behavior, intimidation, verbal abuse, gender, racial, and age discrimination, conflicts of interests, and nepotism (hiring friends and family members — all white males).”

CMOM leaders discounted this narrative last week. But when asked for their side of the story, they would not comment, pointing to the terms of the investigation and the non-disclosure agreement.

But in May 2017, 21 Voices received a letter from then-CMOM board chairman Jon Bascom. It said Hackett would retire on June 15th and “will cease being an employee of the museum.” However, the museum had taken on a debt load of $4.5 million for the Carousel building.

So, the museum would keep Hackett as an independent consultant, given his “significant experience in fund raising.”

“We appreciate your desire not to harm the museum and that is a top goal of the board as well as paying for the expansion,” Bascom said in his letter. “Due to confidentiality and attorney-client privilege, I am not at liberty to discuss any details of the investigation or the resulting actions. I hope you understand.”

Bascom said it had been a “trying year so far for the museum” and that “this begins a new chapter for CMOM on the road to being ever bigger and better.”

“For years and years, we’d see [Hackett] doing something dirty but he might do something dirty to one person at a time,” said one former employee. “It was in 2016, he really messed up. He built an army against himself. I knew we were the last bit of defense for the museum. So, I started organizing all the people he got rid of.”

One employee was told not to come out of the basement. But the person worked with the exhibits, which were, well, upstairs.

“I was forced to quit,” the employee said.

“I was called up out of the basement and they said, ‘Are you ready to sign a deal?’

What was I supposed to do, wait until they fired me and there was no deal?”

As the employee tells it, the banishment continued on page 12

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$1 rent at $324,378.

The three founders raised $3 million for construction, and the museum opened to the public on Saturday, June 16, 1990. Eleven years later, CMOM had raised $7.2 million for an expansion project that added 16,000 square feet to the museum. The expanded museum opened on August 3, 2001.

In 2013, the museum opened its H2Oh! Splash Park. In 2014, it opened the Outdoor PlaySpace.” In 2015, the museum agreed to restore the 1909 Dentzel Grand Carousel and opened the $4.5-million Grand Carousel Pavillion in 2017.

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came because the person helped a fellow employee (one whose English wasn’t very good) to write a resume to get a new job. The employee had been a CMOM employee for nine years without a raise, the person said.

“Once I got him that job, they really came down hard on me,” the former employee said.

That was a classic Hackett move, according to another former CMOM employee.

“He’d strip away your job duties and say, ‘we’re not doing this anymore,’” another former employee said. “Then, you’re just sort of sitting there. Then, he tells the board you’re not doing anything.”

The employees also told of Hackett’s practice of hiring his fellow Mississippians for jobs at the museum, people he “knew from the gym” or knew from restaurants. They described a team of cronies built around Hackett who felt they could not be fired, “because of their relationship with Dick.”

It created a work atmosphere that the employees said allowed for racist remarks to go unchecked. One employee recalled a Martin Luther King Day event in which Hackett proclaimed the museum didn’t “have enough black people working here” and offered the employee $250 “for every black person you find and we hire.”

Another employee recalled Hackett and the museum’s senior staff gathered around a security monitor waiting to watch a gag. A male employee was to wait until a specific female employee stood close to him and he’d make a show of pulling down his pants in front of her, an an attempt to make the woman feel uncomfortable and to delight his buddies watching on the monitor.

Another female employee lodged a sexual harassment complaint at a Hackett-hired employee. The woman was sent home. Later, she was told she could some back to work, but Hackett said to “make her sweat,” according to another former employee.

During this period, one former employee decided to speak directly to the board. The person remembered that, according to the CMOM employees’ handbook, employees were covered under the federal Whistleblower Act. The person said they made the request to speak and the request for protection to Cliff Drake, then the museum’s COO. While Drake said he’d get back to the person, he never did, the person said.

“That’s the whole thing,” the former employee said. “We didn’t really have human resources because Dick controlled [Drake], and he controlled [now Chief Financial Officer Randall McKeel], and [current COO Art Davis].

He controlled them to where they did whatever he wanted them to do.”

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changes for the greater good.” He said it’s not “an enviable job” and one that often “draws the ire of those who wish to maintain the status quo.”

“I’ll be the first to admit that I am not easy to work for,” Hackett said. “I ask for a level of dedication and hard work that some cannot give. I can be harsh.

“In our society today, too often our leaders refuse to admit their humanity. I am human. I am not perfect. I hope that someday those who have criticized me will come to realize that my intentions were always good and with the aim of bettering the lives of the children that we served.”

21 Voices went somewhat public recently in an attempt to block McKeel from becoming CMOM’s new CEO in an undated petition at change.org. In it, Jim Hyde says, “our organization, 21 Voices, has helped remove the former CEO of CMOM, Dick Hackett, and we’re glad to see this necessary change.”

To get there, a former employee said they contacted the AAM, the group that had awarded CMOM its national accreditation, to lodge a formal complaint.

The person was told by an official at AAM that many times change could happen by just simply letting board members know that the accrediting agency had been contacted with a complaint.

“We hold the future of your accreditation in our hands and we’re watching you,” described the employee.

“Just to give them a warning shot.”

That move spawned an investigation

by Lisa Krupicka, an attorney with Birch, Porter and Johnson, a former employee said. Krupicka said she could not share a copy of her investigation. Sometime after that, Hackett and CMOM parted ways.

When asked for an interview about this story, CMOM’s current interim director Cochran said “an interview is unlikely due to the non-disclosure agreement related to the separation.”

Looking to the Future In March 2018, the CMOM board hired Stephanie Butler, a graduate of Rhodes College and Columbia University who had been the Chief Strategy Officer with the United Way of the MidSouth, as its new executive director.

Butler told Daily News reporter Don Wade in March that her vision was to “… open the museum up to the community” and that she wanted the museum “to be a town square for early childhood education.” Butler left nine months later, in November.

In her time there, Butler expanded the educational programming offerings at CMOM, including bi-weekly story times, movement classes and sensory play opportunities for toddlers, created a new “Night at the Museum” evening event, and created the “Experience Wakanda” day, featuring Marvel’s Black Panther.

Executive Director Reed Cochran will lead the museum until a new, permanent director can be found. A national search is expected to commence in spring of 2019.

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• An ugly detail of the 2018 Tiger season: Memphis has beaten only one team that finished its regular season with more wins than losses (Houston). And this won’t change even with a win in the Birmingham Bowl (Wake Forest is 6-6). The Tigers will suit up some extraordinary players on December 22nd, but as a group, does this team want its legacy win to be the upset of Houston (minus its star quarterback) at the Liberty Bowl? These Tigers desperately need a win in their bowl game, the more thorough the better. For all the program’s recent success, Memphis has lost its last three postseason games. I’m not sure any previous Tiger team has needed a bowl victory more.

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• Memphis-UCF is no rivalry. The Knights have now beaten the Tigers 13 times in a row. That’s a big dog treating a little dog like a chew toy. UCF has owned Memphis in seasons of misery (2009-12) and in seasons of success (the Knights are responsible for half of the Tigers’ eight defeats the last two years). And we were reminded in last Saturday’s championship game that UCF’s Josh Heupel is a better halftime coach than the Tigers’ Mike Norvell.

Memphis led their regular-season meeting at halftime, 30-17, but didn’t score after the break. Memphis led last weekend at halftime, 38-21, but scored only three points after the break. Those first halves were cruel teases. UCF is the standard that Norvell, his staff, and players must aim to reach. Don’t call it a rivalry yet.

• I’m not convinced UCF needed any help from officials to beat the Tigers last Saturday. Touchdowns on five straight Knight possessions in the second half made for a thorough drubbing. But the officiating was, at best, cloudy. Flags picked up (that would have benefited the Tigers).

Flags thrown for borderline infractions (that penalized the Tigers). To the critics and conspiracy theorists, I’d say . . . speak louder. Holding — offensive or defensive — can be called on virtually every snap of a football game. It’s as common as touch fouls in basketball (which occur on every single drive to the basket if a team is actually defending). This makes for an easy method to sway a game in one team’s favor should an officiating crew be tasked with doing so. The AAC had much to gain from a UCF win, namely a lengthy undefeated streak for the country to analyze (now 25 games) and another berth for the Knights in a New Year’s Six bowl game. Did the officials discuss this in their pregame meeting? I doubt it. But their shoddy performance begs the question. So keep asking the question.

• For the first 85 years of Memphis Tiger football (1912-96), the program pro-

duced precisely one 1,000-yard season from a running back: Dave Casinelli’s 1,016 yards in 1963. Since 1997, Gerard Arnold, DeAngelo Williams, and Curtis Steele added a total of six such four-figure seasons. But here in 2018, the University of Memphis has two 1,000-yard rushers in the same season.

Whatever you take from the 2018 Tigers, absorb this, for it will not likely be seen again. Darrell Henderson will enter the Birmingham Bowl with 1,909 yards (and a Tiger-record 25 touchdowns). With 56 yards against Wake Forest, Henderson will break Williams’ single season record of 1,964. (Williams carried the ball 310 times in his 2005 record-setting campaign. Henderson has 214 carries to date.) And when Henderson hasn’t been sprinting past linebackers and safeties, Patrick Taylor has, to the tune of 1,012 yards (and 16 total touchdowns) on 178 carries. It’s a good time to salute the Tiger offensive line that has blasted cartoonish holes for this duo: (from left to right) Trevon Tate, Dylan Parham, Drew Kyser, Dustin Woodard (first-team All-AAC), and Roger Joseph. Football is a pass-happy game these days. Until you combine the talent Memphis compiled this season in its backfield and offensive line.

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ast summer, many people — some of them experts — predicted the Memphis Tigers would repeat as American Athletic Conference West Division champions but lose to UCF in the league’s title game. By that measure, the Tigers’ 2018 season has been as predictable as Alabama and Clemson making the College Football Playoff. By other measures, though, this Tiger team will be as memorable as any that played before.

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This holiday season, we’re encouraging our readers to support local businesses by shopping right here at home. Consider these Memphis-area establishments for your gift-giving needs.

South Main Book Juggler Please the bookworm on your gift list with something from the Book Juggler.

The shop offers new and used books and a selection of books authored by local and regional writers, in addition to locally sourced gift items and art. On the shelves, you’ll find My Memphis View ($40), a collection of photography by mixed-media artist Mary-Ellen Kelly. Visit South Main Book Juggler at 548 S. Main or southmainbookjuggler.com.

B. collective Featuring creations from more than 25 local artists, B. collective has something for everyone on your gift list. From woodworking and paintings to jewelry and clothing, support local makers with your holiday purchases.

We’re fans of this Memphis skyline sweatshirt ($45; artist Johanna Wayland-Smith pictured). Original skyline artwork is also available. Visit B. collective at bcollectiveshop.com or 147 S. Main.

Walking Pants Curiosities This downtown shop offers a variety of oddities and unique items, many crafted by local artisans. Inside, you’ll find books, decor, handmade bird houses, and more.

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We Recommend: Culture, News + Reviews

By Chris Davis

Nicole Mitchell doesn’t identify as a beatmaker or an electronic artist, although she’s begun to add more electronic elements to her solo performances. The genre-defying flutist and educator has roots in improv and experimental hip-hop, and branches that stretch toward jazz, classical, gospel, pop, and African percussion. Mitchell’s a composer and the founder of Black Earth ensemble. She’s regularly named Flutist of the Year by the jazz journal Downbeat Magazine. Threads of futurism and transcendentalism tie all the pieces together.

This week, Crosstown Arts and the electronic music podcast Sonosphere are teaming up to bring Mitchell to town to perform and lead a panel discussion titled Afrofuturism: Building Communities.

“A lot of my projects are inspired by science fiction,” Mitchell says, describing her relationship to the idea of Afrofuturism, and naming groundbreaking author Octavia Butler as a direct influence on performances and recordings dating back to 2007.

“Nobody knew what Afrofuturism was back then, but then the movie Black Panther came along,” she says.

“Afrofuturism is about taking science fiction and using it as a tool to help us have a better or different understanding of the social issues we’re dealing with right now,” Mitchell explains. “But it’s set more in a fantasy realm, so people are open enough to accept different points of view. Also, Afrofuturism places black folks in the center of the narrative, unlike traditional science fiction that omits black people most of the time.”

Memphians joining Mitchell on the panel include James Dukes, Danian Jerry, Troy L. Wiggins, and Sharee Renée Thomas.

PANEL DISCUSSION, “AFROFUTURISM: BUILDING COMMUNITIES” AT CROSSTOWN ARTS GREEN ROOM, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8TH, 6:30 P.M. FREE. NICOLE MITCHELL PERFORMANCE, 8 P.M. $10.

The Red Bar, where patrons can lounge or get rowdy.

The Bar Report, p. 31

Millennials killed motorcycles — or rather, they can’t afford them.

The Last Word, p. 39

December 6-12, 2018

FRIDAY December 7

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Holiday Memories TheatreSouth, 8 p.m.

Based on the short stories of Truman Capote, revolving around a small boy in Depression-era rural Alabama and the elderly cousin who befriends him. Presented by Voices of the South.

Cabaret Noel III: We Wish You the Merriest TheatreWorks, 8 p.m., $15 Humor and music join forces during this performance presented by the Emerald Theatre Company.

SATURDAY December 8 Victorian Yuletide Open House Woodruff-Fontaine House, 5-8 p.m.

The house will be dressed in its Southern holiday best. Includes refreshments and pictures with Santa at the Mallory-Neely mansion.

A Very Merry Beer + Carols Midtown Crossing Grill, 5:30-7 p.m.

Christmas carols and holiday songs are on the agenda tonight during this Beer & Hymns event (they drink but do not preach).

Beers and Gears Memphis Made Brewing, 7-10 p.m.

A bicycle pub crawl, where cruisers get to check out the holiday lights.

Peanut Butter and Jammies Germantown Performing Arts Center, 6:30 p.m., $8 A holiday-themed pajama party featuring Farmer Jason, who’ll perform “All I Want for Christmas (Is a Punk Rock Skunk)” and other seasonal tunes.

Booksigning by Carolyn Hardy Novel, 2 p.m.

Carolyn Hardy signs her book Look Up: Five Principles for Intentional Leadership, outlining what she learned when she became the boss.

Jammies and Jingles Children’s Museum of Memphis, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., $20 Holiday fun for the kids with movie screenings, cookies and cupcakes, crafts, photo booths, and more.

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Afrofuturist

Afrofuturist flutist Nicole Mitchell

It’s raining good ideas.

Pitching Staff Have you ever wondered what it might be like if reality TV was authentic, or at least a little bit inspirational? Pitch Night, a twice-yearly event hosted by LITE Memphis, provides Memphis-area high school students with an opportunity to sell their ideas to potential investors. It’s a little like Shark Tank, only nobody gets eaten and the competitors are all young Memphians with big ideas.

This year’s Pitch Night presenters include Jordan Isaiah, who identifies himself as a product of special education and an ambassador for the special education community. He wants to redevelop academics to suit individual needs for “people who dream and process differently than others.” His business is called R.A.I.N. Danielle Butler was inspired by her volunteer work at the Germantown Animal Shelter. Her Pampered Pets business is a partnership that makes leashes, collars, food, treats, and hygiene products available to new pet adopters. “Many families looking to adopt a pet don’t always have what they need for pet care,” she explains.

Isaiah and Butler are just two of 35 students who’ll present their business plans at LITE’s Pitch Night. Ideas up for grabs range from a custom PC business to a personal pastry chef who wants to recreate your family’s favorite recipes.

“We’ll have students with ideas from basically every industry,” says LITE outreach coordinator Alexandra Thomson. “Anyone in Memphis can find a connection,” she says.

LITE stands for Let’s Innovate Through Education. The Flyer profiled the incubator in an April cover story about the racial wealth gap in Memphis. Determined to play a role in narrowing that gap, LITE identifies and addresses historic obstacles to inclusive urban growth.

LITE PITCH NIGHT AT MCALLUM BALLROOM, RHODES COLLEGE, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6TH, 5:30-7:30, $5-$10 LITEMEMPHIS.COM

SUNDAY December 9 Booksigning by Christopher Knott-Craig Barnes & Noble, 11 a.m.

Christopher Knott-Craig signs and reads from his book series, Weird Animal Club, about dealing with differences.

Sippin’ with Santa Paws Carolina Watershed, 1-4 p.m.

A fund-raiser for the Street Dog Foundation with live music, brunch specials, and the debut of a new beer from Memphis Made Brewing.

A Positive Black Christmas P&H Cafe, 8-10 p.m.

Comedy from Richard Douglas Jones, Jowa Horn, John Miller, Abayneh Cunningham, and Latoya Polk.

Restless Heart Christmas Gold Strike Casino, 8 p.m., $15-$40 A holiday concert from this country group.

White Christmas Malco Paradiso, 2 p.m.

Comedy musical starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye with music by Irving Berlin.

Cookies & Crafts with Santa Woodruff-Fontaine House, 2-4 p.m., $15 Kids can make an ornament to take home. Did we mention the hot chocolate bar?

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Viggo Mortensen (left) and Mahershala Ali cruise through the U.S. in Peter Farrelly’s Green Book.

Film, p. 34

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ACOUSTIC SUNDAY LIVE! PRESENTS THE CONCERT TO

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FEATURING BOBBY RUSH TOM CHAPIN SHEMEKIA COPELAND DAVID BROMBERG WITH JOHN KILZER PRODUCED BY BRUCE NEWMAN FOR PROTECT OUR AQUIFER TICKET INFO (901) 237-2972

SUNDAY DECEMBER 9 7:00P ST. JOHN’S METHODIST CHURCH 1207 PEABODY AVENUE MEMPHIS, TN 38104

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Water Music

JOE DEL TUFO

Dave Bromberg

Each show in the series is a benefit for a different local institution. “It’s always for a cause,” Newman notes. “Like last year’s show at the Halloran Centre was for Indie Memphis.”

The artists tend to be of the ilk featured on Newman’s weekly radio show on WEVL, Folk Song Fiesta. And this year is no different, with this Sunday’s concert featuring Dave Bromberg, Tom Chapin, Shemekia Copeland, Bobby Rush, and John Kilzer. The beneficiary will be Protect Our Aquifer, a nonprofit “dedicated to protecting and conserving the Memphis Sand Aquifer,” the source of Memphis’ drinking water.

Newman notes that this year’s beneficiary is more “political” than most.

“Even though,” he adds, “I don’t even see why it should be a political issue.

It’s our water, right? This is an asset that just has to be protected. Doesn’t matter what side you’re on.”

One of Sunday’s star performers is Dave Bromberg, who’s no stranger to combining politics and music, being one of the most distinct voices to emerge from the New York folk scene of the 1960s. Still, that association doesn’t quite sit right with Bromberg. “I don’t know that I was ever really a folkie, past 1960, but I’ve always been accused of that,” he says. “The term is very limiting, because there are many radio stations who have decided that’s who I am.”

Ironically, Bromberg’s love of all things musical played a role in his leaving show business for an extended time.

After writing and performing with the likes of George Harrison and Bob Dylan, among others, he notes, “I got really burnt out from performing too much.

And at the point where I was really doing the most, and playing for the largest audiences, and getting the most radio play, I completely stopped playing for 22 years. All I knew was, when I wasn’t on the road, I wasn’t practicing, I wasn’t jamming, and I wasn’t writing. I questioned that and decided I didn’t wanna be one of these guys who drags himself onto the stage, doing a bitter imitation of what he used to love.” He changed course into work that he does to this day. “I decided I had to find another way to lead my life.

What I wanted to learn was how to identify different violins. It’s like art appraisal.

You have to recognize not only the brush strokes but the chisel strokes to really get an idea of what’s what.”

In recent years, Bromberg has eased back into recording and performing.

Two years ago he released The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing But the Blues, which, with its full-band, Chicago-style jams, should break the “folkie” tag once and for all. Yet he remains a master of solo performance and plans to play acoustic versions of many of the album’s tracks Sunday night. And as for the politics of our aquifer, Bromberg’s only too happy to support the cause. “The water thing is only now beginning to be important,” he notes.

“It’s gonna get a lot more important. We’re almost over oil. But water, I don’t know if there’s a way past water.”

The Concert to Protect Our Aquifer, Sunday, December 9th, 7–10 p.m., St. John’s United Methodist Church, 1207 Peabody Ave.; Tickets, $50-$100.

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estled between Memphis’ many music festivals, Acoustic Sunday Live doesn’t always get much attention. But don’t let that lull you into indifference. For a quarter century, this labor of love has been bringing some serious talent to town, always to the benefit of local causes.

Bruce Newman, the founder and chief organizer of the series, describes its origins: “We started out about 24 years ago with a Woody Guthrie tribute. I had Richie Havens, Odetta, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and Tom Paxton.

And then, over the years, we’ve had Guy Clark, Gretchen Peters; last year, we did Kathy McCay and Tom Paxton again. Jonathan Edwards one year. Just acoustic artists.”

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Acoustic Sunday Live presents some folk giants, including Dave Bromberg, this weekend.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule December 6 - 12 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 Thursdays-Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; Karaoke Thursdays, TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Mandi Thomas Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; The 901 Heavy Hitters Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Flyin’ Ryan Fridays, Saturdays, 2:30 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

B.B. King’s Blues Club 143 BEALE 524-KING

The King Beez Thursdays, 5 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; P.S. Band First Wednesday, Sunday of every month, 7 p.m.

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

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

Sean Apple Thursdays, 5 p.m.; Blues Players Club Thursdays, Sundays, 8-10 p.m.; DJ Ron Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.; DJ Mad Efx Sundays, midnight; A.M. Whiskey Trio Mondays, Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m.midnight, and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Wednesdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Baunie and Soul Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight.

Handy Bar

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

200 BEALE 527-2687

The Amazing Rhythmatics Tuesdays, Thursdays-Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007

Charles Edmunson Saturday, Dec. 8, 7-10 p.m.; Lance and Madison Sunday, Dec. 9, 7-10 p.m.

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

Nat “King” Kerr Fridays, Saturdays, 9-10 p.m.

King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille 159 BEALE

Lunch on Beale with Chris Gales Wednesdays-Sundays, noon-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/ acoustic Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

168 BEALE 576-2220

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Saturday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m.-midnight.

David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Atmosphere Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.; The Jeff Forber Fusion Saturday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m.; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Sunday, Dec. 9, 7 p.m.; Ministry Tuesday, Dec. 11, 7 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmasters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; James Jones Fridays, 4-8 p.m., Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Saturday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Saturday, Dec. 8, 4-8 p.m.; Delta Project Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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.

Tin Roof 315 BEALE

The Purple Madness: A Tribute to Prince Thursday, Dec. 6, 9 p.m.

Regina’s

152 MADISON 572-1813

60 N. MAIN

Live Music Fridays; Carma Karaoke with Carla Worth Saturdays, 9-11 p.m.

Open Mic Night Saturdays, 4-7 p.m.; Richard Wilson Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Center for Southern Folklore Hall

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

Delta Cats, Billy Gibson & Linear Smith First Friday of every month, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Rev Neil Down Thursday, Dec. 6, 7 p.m.; Someday Now Friday, Dec. 7, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and Friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Earnestine & Hazel’s 531 S. MAIN 523-9754

Amber Rae Dunn Hosts: Earnestine & Hazel’s Open Mic Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Eric Hughes Band Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, 4:30-7:30 p.m.; FreeWorld Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Saturday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m.-midnight; Little Boy Blues Saturday, Dec. 8, 4-7 p.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson and Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Brass Door Irish Pub

Songwriters with Roland and Friends Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

Belle Tavern 117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

The Rusty Pieces Sunday, Dec. 9, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Blues City Pastry Shop & Coffee Bar 153 S. MAIN 576-0010

Hi-Jivers Thursdays, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Fingertrick Sunday, Dec. 9, 8-11:30 p.m.

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

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

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Sleep Out Louie’s 150 PEABODY PL SUITE 111 ENTRANCE ON, S 2ND ST

The Rusty Pieces Saturday, Dec. 8, 6-9 p.m.

St. Mary’s Catholic Church 155 MARKET 522-9420

A BealeCanto Christmas V Sunday, Dec. 9, 4-5:15 p.m.

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

Heath and Bobbie Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Shufflegrit Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.; Short in the Sleeve Saturday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m.

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Old Dominick Distillery 305 S. FRONT

Acoustic Sunday Live! presents: The Memphis Concert to Protect Our Aquifer Sunday, Dec. 9, 7-10 p.m.

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Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

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WWE RAW MONDAY, JANUARY 14

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HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS FRIDAY, JANUARY 18 Returning to North America and bringing their one-of-a-kind show to FedExForum.

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CIRQUE DU SOLEIL JANUARY 31 – FEBRUARY 3 One of the best-loved Cirque Du Soleil productions, Corteo, is coming to Memphis.

Tickets available!

After Dark: Live Music Schedule December 6 - 12 South Main Sounds

Huey’s Midtown

550 S. MAIN 494-6543

1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Fabulous Doo-Vays Sunday, Dec. 9, 4-7 p.m.; The Rev. Neil Down Band Sunday, Dec. 9, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

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

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Positive Black Christmas Comedy Show Saturday, Dec. 8; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

Howard Vance Guitar Academy 978 REDDOCH 767-6940

Live Music with DJ ALXANDR Fridays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Live Music with Coldway Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

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

Open Flame Bar & Grill

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

3445 POPLAR AVE. SUITE, 1

Randal Toma Fridays, 7-9 p.m.

Dale Watson Christmas Show with John Paul Keith Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.; Pyscho Sideshow Saturday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m.; Magic

Karaoke hosted by DJ Maddy Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Huey’s Poplar Frankie Holly & the Noise Sunday, Dec. 9, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

AM Whiskey Friday, Dec. 7, 9 p.m.; Full Circle Saturday, Dec. 8, 9 p.m.; The Amber McCain Band Sunday, Dec. 9, 5:30 p.m.; The Brian Johnson Band Wednesday, Dec. 12, 8 p.m.

Collierville

Canvas

Huey’s Collierville

1737 MADISON 443-5232

Karaoke Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.; Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Celtic Crossing

Cordova

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, Dec. 9, 8-11:30 p.m.

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

The Cove

Frayser/Millington

2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursday, Dec. 6, 8 p.m.; Big Baron Friday, Dec. 7, 9 p.m.; Jeff Pruitt & Friends Saturday, Dec. 8, 9 p.m.; David Collins Frog Squad Sunday, Dec. 9, 6 p.m.; Jonathan Wood Tuesday, Dec. 11, 6 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesday, Dec. 12, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Millington 8570 US 51 NORTH,

The John Paul Keith Band Sunday, Dec. 9, 6-9 p.m.

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

Germantown Symphony Orchestra & Chorus: Holiday Concert Saturday, Dec. 8, 7-9 p.m.

Crosstown Arts at The Concourse 1350 CONCOURSE AVE., SUITE 280

Huey’s Southwind

Sound Observations: Nicole Mitchell Saturday, Dec. 8, 6:30 p.m.

7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

El Ced & Groove Nation Sunday, Dec. 9, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Growlers

North Mississippi/ Tunica

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

The Joe Marcinek Band Thursday, Dec. 6, 7 p.m.; No Name Blues Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.; Krantz with Mama Honey and Blvck Hippie Band Saturday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m.; Crowbar with Onus, Reserving Dirtnaps, Burn the Witch Sunday, Dec. 9, 7 p.m.; Thadeus Gonzalez Monday, Dec. 10, 7 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

Shipwrecker Thursday, Dec. 6, 7 p.m.; Winston Ramble Friday, Dec. 7, 9 p.m.; The Kickback Friday, Dec. 7, 9 p.m.; The HoHoHo Burlesque Show & Silent Auction Saturday, Dec. 8, 9 p.m.; Heavens Die, Foreign Hands, Overstayer Monday, Dec. 10, 7 p.m.; Broncho, Yip Deceiver, Tigers and Monkeys Monday, Dec. 10, 8 p.m.; Lauren Gilbert (Of Thelma and the Sleeze), Andrew Elder, and the Everdeens Tuesday, Dec. 11, 8 p.m.; Sunny Sweeney, Brennen Leigh, Bri Bagwell Wednesday, Dec. 12, 7 p.m.

Gold Strike Casino 1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-245-7829

Restless Heart Christmas Saturday, Dec. 8, 8-9:30 p.m.

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Memphis Ukulele Band Sunday, Dec. 9, 4 p.m.; Meg Williams Band Sunday, Dec. 9, 8 p.m.; Memphis Knights Big Band Monday, Dec. 10, 6 p.m.; Royal Blues Band Memphis Music Jam Tuesday, Dec. 11, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesday, Dec. 12, 5:30 p.m.; The Memphis All-Stars Wednesday, Dec. 12, 8 p.m.

Brunch Sunday, Dec. 9, noon.

East Memphis

Poplar/I-240

Wild Bill’s

Balmoral Presbyterian Church

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

Juke Joint All Stars Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony Chapman, Charles Cason, and Miss. Joyce Henderson Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Juke Jam Sundays, 4 p.m.

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Holiday at Hogwarts: The Tour

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

60 N. PERKINS EXT. 537-1483

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

Whitehaven/ Airport

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

Rock-n-Roll Cafe

Larry Cunningham ThursdaysSaturdays; Aislynn Rappe Sundays; Keith Kimbrough Mondays-Wednesdays.

Tower of Power Saturday, Dec. 8.

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

The Chaulkies Sunday, Dec. 9, 8-11:30 p.m.

Raleigh

A Joyful Season Friday, Dec. 7, 7-8:30 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill A Very Merry Beer + Carols Friday, Dec. 7, 5:30-7 p.m.; Natalie James and the Professor Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; “The Happening” Open Songwriter Showcase Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

6413 QUINCE

A BealeCanto Christmas Saturday, Dec. 8, 7-8:15 p.m.

Neil’s Music Room

AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS 1-800-303-SHOE

3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

Elvis Tribute feat. Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Live Entertainment Mondays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.;

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Open Mic Night Thursdays, 6 p.m.-midnight; Blues Jam hosted

by Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; From Within with Gate Hates Me Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

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Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

Nathan Kalish and the Lastcaller Thursday, Dec. 6, 6 p.m.; Derryl Perry Thursday, Dec. 6, 9 p.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Saturday, Dec. 8, 2 p.m.; Cassette Set Saturday, Dec. 8, 6:30 p.m.; The Dantones Saturday, Dec. 8, 10

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Jimmy Stephens Annual Christmas Jamboree Friday, Dec. 7, 7 p.m.; Memphis Songwriters Association Monthly Meeting Second Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 11, 8 p.m.

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THE

TEMPTATIONS Holiday Show

CALENDAR of EVENTS: DEC. 6 - 12 T H E AT E R

Circuit Playhouse

Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, www.playhouseonthesquare. org. Through Dec. 23.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Hattiloo Theatre

If Scrooge Was a Brother/A Sistah, actress and playwright Flo Roach plays Ebenita Scroo a successful African-American businesswoman so set in her vile ways that she has allowed her heart to grow cold, displaying no pity for the poor. Through Dec. 23.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

SATURDAY DECEMBER 15 l

See The Temptations live at Resorts Tunica on Saturday, December 15 at 8pm. Enjoy the classic hits and soulful holiday songs in a way only The Temptations can deliver. Tickets are available now.

Visit ResortsTunica.com/Temptations.

The Orpheum

Les Misérables, set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice, and redemption. $25-$125. TuesdaysSundays, 7:30 p.m. Through Dec. 30.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square

For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday, www.playhouseonthesquare.org. Through Dec. 22.

Peter Pan, www.playhouseonthesquare.org. Through Dec. 30.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

PREMIUM GENERAL ADMISSION $49.99

December 6-12, 2018

GENERAL ADMISSION $29.99

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Tennessee Shakespeare Company As You Like It, www.tnshakespeare.org. Through Dec. 16.

7950 TRINITY (759-0604).

Theatre Memphis

41st annual production: A Christmas Carol, www. theatrememphis.org. Through Dec. 23.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreSouth

Holiday Memories, drawn from two beloved short stories by Truman Capote, “A Christmas Memory” and “A Thanksgiving Visitor,” and adapted for the stage by Russell Vandenbroucke. (726-0800), voicesofthesouth.org. $18-$23.

Dec. 7-8, 8-9:30 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 9, 4-5:30 p.m.

INSIDE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (726-0800).

TheatreWorks

Cabaret Noel IIII: We Wish You the Merriest, start the holiday season with Emerald Theatre Company as they continue the tradition of bringing songs and laughs to the stage. www. etcmemphistheater.com. $15.

Dec. 7-8, 8 p.m., and Sun., Dec. 9, 2 p.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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. A R T I ST R EC E PT I O N S

Art Body Soul Studio

Matthew Lee Opening Reception, exhibition of new works.

Artist talk at 7 p.m., door prize drawing, group painting, and wine, beer, and hors d’oeuvres.

(207-4161), www.artbodysoulstudio.com/art-shows.html.

Fri., Dec. 7, 6-8 p.m.

1024 SOUTH YATES (207-4161).

EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery

Artist Reception for “It Just Turned Out That Way,” exhibition of photography by Norman Soskel. Sat., Dec. 8, 5 p.m.

EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR.

Germantown Performing Arts Center

“Fabricadabra,” exhibition of works by Phyllis Boger and Constance Grayson. The exhibit’s title acknowledges the magic that happens when the everyday component of fabric is painted, dyed, stitched, and manipulated into art. (751-7500), www.gpacweb.com. Free. Sat., Dec. 8, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

continued on page 24 “Fabricadabra” by Phyllis Boger and Constance Grayson at GPAC, Saturday, Dec. 8th

CHRISTMAS WITH ELVIS at Graceland

Friday, Dec. 14 • 8:00 pm Graceland Soundstage The show, conducted by Robin Smith of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, features Elvis’ holiday favorites performed live on stage, with the full, rich sound of a 32-piece orchestra, including members of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, the Tennessee Mass Choir and Havenview Middle School Choir.

AN ELVIS GOSPEL CHRISTMAS

Live at Graceland Saturday, Dec. 15 • 5:00 pm Graceland Soundstage Enjoy an evening of Elvis' favorite Christmas and gospel classics performed by former members of JD Sumner and the Stamps Quartet and the Blackwood Brothers Quartet.

ELVIS LIVE IN CONCERT with

All-Star BAND Saturday, Dec. 15 • 8:30 pm Graceland Soundstage An unforgettable concert experience featuring Elvis live in concert on the big screen performing his greatest hits, backed by an all-star band featuring legendary TCB Band guitarist James Burton.

In addition, concert ticket holders will receive free admission to Elvis Presley’s Memphis at 3:00 p.m. where they can visit two newly expanded exhibits: ICONS: The Influence of Elvis Presley and Presley Cycles.

For tickets or package options, including complimentary special events, visit Graceland.com/Holiday or call 800-238-2000.

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There’s no place more magical than Elvis Presley's Graceland at Christmas. On December 14 and 15, Graceland will host a special weekend of holiday music and activities highlighted by three incredible live concerts on the Graceland Soundstage at Elvis Presley’s Memphis.

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December 14 & 15, 2018

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CALENDAR: DECEMBER 6 - 12

Saturday, October 20th, 10am-1pm, Art and Advocacy workshop Saturday, December 8th Sunday, October 21st, 3pm-6pm, Exhibition Opening Saturday, October 20th, 10am-1pm, Art andreception Advocacy workshop Saturday, December 8th, 4pm-6pm 4pm-6pm, Posada “Truth & Dare piñata”

Sunday, October 21st, 3pm-6pm, Exhibition Opening reception Posada “Truth & Dare piñata” “Truth & Dare piñata” Saturday, December 8th, 4pm-6pm, Posada

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SINsin BARRERAS POR LAS LIBERTADES barreras por las libertades

Saturday, October 20th will information, contest rules, Topics to be covered: feature the workshop and and submission, visit website.

Using your artistic voice for advocacy and activism. panel discussions outlined Through Aug. 31, 2019.

Tools to give your art a shift to advocate for an to the left of this type box.

WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM. issueThe you workshop are passionate about. and panel discussion is offered to the creative local community as part of Advice create art provoking thoughts.Project with the 50 State Initiative. *Sunday, October is 21st will “Meraki” thetoBarrier Free: For Freedoms Seating limited. be the exhibition opening Mistakes active community artists have experienced.

Exhibition of photographs by and refreshments will be Kaneadra Wed., Saturday, October 20thCampbell. will Topics to be covered: served.

10 AM - Networking and welcoming Panelists: Dec. 12, 6-10 feature the workshop and p.m. your artistic voice for advocacy activism.

430 GALLERY, 10:30Using AM - Concurrent workshops Ekundayo,and Hattiloo Theatre panel discussions outlined430 N. CLEVELAND *Saturday, December 8th will (507-8030).

Tools to- give art a shift toNed advocate for an Canty, Opera Memphis 12 PM - 1 PM Panelyour discussion to the left of this type box. be the Posada celebration

#ForFreedoms #50StateInitiative #WeAreForFreedoms

Saturday, December 8th will be the Posada celebration with breaking of the issue you are passionate about.

Advice to create art provoking “Truth & thoughts.

Dare piñata” Mistakes active community artists have experienced. and performance by 10 AM - Networking and welcoming 10:30 AM901.678.2224 - Concurrent workshops questions: Opera Memphis.

12 PM - 1 PM - Panel discussion Concurrent Workshops: Vanessa Gonzalez, Visual Arts Leslie Barker, Performing Arts Andrea Morales, Journalism Carl Moore, Digital Media & Visual Arts

Virginia Murphy, Playback Memphis Yancy Villa-Calvo, Barrier Free Moderator: Susan Nordstrom

with breaking of the “Truth & “New Work” Dare piñata” and performance *Sunday, October 21st will Exhibition of paintings by Barby Opera Memphis.be the exhibition baraopening Whitmire and Bill Steppe.

Fri., Dec. 7, 6-8 p.m., and Sat., and refreshments will be *food and festivities

Dec. 8, 12-4 p.m. served.

Events are free Panelists: 430 GALLERY, 430 N. CLEVELAND and open to all.

Ekundayo, Hattiloo Theatre (507-8030). *Saturday, December 8th will Ned Canty, Opera Memphis be the Posada celebration Virginia Murphy, Playback Memphis with breakingOofNthe “Truth GO I N G &A R T Yancy Villa-Calvo, Barrier Free Concurrent Workshops:Food and festivities.

Dare piñata” and performance Moderator: Art Body Soul Studio Vanessa Visual Arts of memphis 3750 Art Museum ofGonzalez, the University Norriswood 38152 Memphis. are free and open to all.Ave, Memphis,byTN,Opera Susan Nordstrom Matthew Lee, exhibition of Leslie Barker,Events Performing Arts new and works.

Through Dec. 31. *food festivities Andrea Morales, Journalism 1024 SOUTH YATES (207-4161).

Carl Moore, Digital Media & Visual Arts Events are free Art at the andMuseum open to all.

Learn more on our online calendar: https://www.barrierfreeart.org/for-freedoms/

questions: 901.678.2224

University of Memphis (AMUM)

“Africa: Art of a Continent,” Learn more on ourquestions: online calendar: https://www.barrierfreeart.org/for-freedoms/ 901.678.2224 permanent exhibition of Afri-

can art from the Martha and Art Museum University of memphis 3750 Norriswood Ave, Memphis, 38152 RobertTN, Fogelman collection.

Learn more on of ourthe online calendar: www.barrierfreeart.org/for-freedoms/

December 6-12, 2018

ART MUSEUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS | 3750 NORRISWOOD AVE, MEMPHIS, TN, 38152

142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

“Chinese Symbols in Art,” 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

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Monday-Wednesday, Friday-Saturday 10a-6p Thursday 10a-8p Sunday 1-6p

Over 21,000 sq ft / Over 100 Booths 5855 Summer Avenue (Corner of Summer & Sycamore View) Exit 12 off I40 | 901-213-9343

“It’s About Time,” exhibition of new works by Lisa Williamson. www.buckmanartscenter.com.

Through Dec. 14.

60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).

Crosstown Concourse

“R&D,” a collection of artwork from the fall 2018 University of Memphis sculpture students.

Ongoing.

1350 CONCOURSE AVE.

David Lusk Gallery

“Understory,” exhibition of work by Maysey Craddock.

Through Dec. 22, 6-8 p.m.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery

“It Just Turned Out That Way,” exhibition of photography

by Norman Soskel. Through Dec. 21.

EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR.

Eclectic Eye

“Year One,” exhibition of work

by Jill Samuels that utilize acrylic, watercolor, maps, and embroidery thread in their creation. Through Jan. 2, 2019.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Edge Gallery

Folk Artists, exhibition of work

by Debra Edge, John Sadowski, Nancy White, Bill Brookshire, and other folk artists. Ongoing.

509 S. MAIN (647-9242).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing.

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

“Absorption,” exhibition of MFA thesis work by Kaitlyn Dunn, exploring the psychology and physiology of architecture, light, and space. Through Dec. 7.

3715 CENTRAL.

Graceland

“Hillbilly Rock,” exhibition featuring items from the Marty Stuart Collection. www.graceland.com. Ongoing.

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

Black Winter Artist Reception, exhibition of work by Ollie Rodriguez, reflections of feminine strength that emphasize the beauty in women of color.

Through Jan. 31, 2019.

44 HULING (576-0708).

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Masquerade,” exhibition of work by Juan Rojo. Through Dec. 12.

David Hall, exhibition of watercolor works on paper. www.

The Nutcracker at EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery, Saturday, December 8th at 6 p.m. jayetkingallery.com. Ongoing.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

“The Show Must Go On,” exhibition of works by gallery artists. The holiday group exhibition is the final show curated by gallery owner Linda Ross, with paintings, sculpture, and mixed-media. (7672200), www.lrossgallery.com.

Through Dec. 22.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Marshall Arts Gallery

Young, Gifted, and Dope, Episode 2, Lyfe Is Dope and Alivepaint present an exhibition curated by Jamond Bullock featuring artists from across the U.S. and Canada.

Through Dec. 19.

“Love of Art” and “Memphis,” exhibition of work by Nikki Gardner and Debra Edge by appointment only. Ongoing.

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Origami in the Garden,” exhibition of 24 museum-quality outdoor sculptures depicting origami-inspired works crafted by artists Kevin Box, Te Jui Fu, Beth Johnson, Michael G. LaFosse, and Robert Lang. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Through March 24, 2019.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Outings Project,” exhibition of paintings from museum walls onto the streets, creating an opportunity to discover, appreciate, and understand artwork in a new way by French artist Julien de Casabianca. Through Jan. 6, 2019.

“Arts of Global Africa,” exhibition of historic and contemporary works in a range of different media presenting an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry. Through June 21, 2021.

“A Buck & a Half Apiece,” exhibition of photographs

by Ernest Withers. Through March 20, 2019.

Rotunda Projects: Federico

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At the Memphis Farmers Market Location

Holiday shopping, hot coffee, cocoa and food vendors.

South Main Sounds

When: Sundays through Nov. 23rd - Jan. 3rd Time: 2 - 5pm Place: West Retail Corridor

12.08 Sound Observations: Nicole Mitchell Join us for a panel discussion and performance

by Nicole Mitchell, a creative flutist, composer, and educator whose music celebrates African American culture while reaching across genres and integrating new ideas. Purchase tickets at crosstownarts.org.

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DA N C E

C O M E DY

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Uribe, exhibition of magical creatures and playful installations from everyday objects. Through Oct. 11, 2019.

“Talking Continents,” exhibition of large-scale sculptures and installations that use language, history, literature and psychology to draw attention to the barriers that separate and divide humanity by Jaume Plensa. Through Jan. 26, 2019.

“About Face,” exhibition located in the Education Gallery highlighting the different ways artists interpret the connection between emotion and expression. www.brooksmuseum.org. Ongoing.

“Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis,” exhibition of works inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in southeastern Nigeria by Victor Ekpuk. www. brooksmuseum.org. Ongoing.

Karsilama Winter Raqs Show

P & H Cafe

Booksigning by Carolyn Hardy

Featuring belly dance, Odissi, folk, fusion, and more. Live music, food, and vendors. $20. Sat., Dec. 8, 6:30-9 p.m.

CORDOVA COMMUNITY CENTER, 1017 SANGA.

The Nutcracker

A Positive Black Christmas, hosts Richard Douglas Jones and Jowa Horn give the gift of live stand-up comedy with guests John Miller, Abayneh Cunningham, and Latoya Polk. Produced by Judaea Driscoll Comedy. $5. Sat., Dec. 8, 8-10 p.m.

Dance Alive National Ballet’s full-length production will feature an international roster of award winning dancers, and area children will play a role. $25, $15 kids. Sat., Dec. 8, 6 p.m.

1532 MADISON AVE, MEMPHIS, TN 38104.

EACC FINE ARTS CENTER GALLERY, EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR, WWW.EACC.EDU.

Impossible Language Reading Series: Roach-Freiman, Mulroy, and May, a reading featuring former and current hosts of the Impossible Language Reading series. (278-4994), 0. Sat., Dec. 8, 6-8 p.m.

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

Otherlands Coffee Bar

641 S. COOPER (278-4994).

Author reads and signs her new book, Look Up: Five Principles for Intentional Leadership. Sat., Dec. 8, 2 p.m.

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (922-5526).

Booksigning by Dr. Christopher Knott-Craig

Story time and booksigning with the author of the Weird Animal Club series. Sat., Dec. 8, 11 a.m.

BARNES & NOBLE, 2774 N. GERMANTOWN (386-2468).

LECT U R E /S P EA K E R

Talk About It Tuesday

Monthly panel discussion with Q & A designed

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1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Metal Museum

“Master Metalsmith: Lisa Gralnick,” exhibition of jewelry and sculpture in addition to previous work from the series, “Scene of the Crime.” Shown publicly for the first time and featuring oversized jewelry as sculptural installations. www.metalmuseum.org. $6. Through Jan. 13, 2019.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

National Civil Rights Museum

“I AM A CHILD,” exhibition of photographs to shed light on the immigrant family separation at the U.S.-Mexican border. More than 30 blackand-white images. www.civilrightsmuseum.org.

Through Dec. 31.

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

Overton Park Gallery

Exhibition of works by Dorothy Northern and Jennifer Sargent. Ongoing.

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

Playhouse on the Square

“The Dance of Color,” exhibition of work by Dottie Harness in the lobby gallery. Through Jan. 1, 2019.

“The Financiers and Other Fanciful Creatures,” exhibition of mixed-media collage assemblages by Angi Cooper. Through Jan. 1, 2019.

“I Can See Clearly Now,” exhibition of paintings by Jan Carnall in the cafe lobby gallery. (726-4656), Through Jan. 1, 2019.

“Quiet Moments,” exhibition of paintings by Joy Phillips Routt in the downstairs west gallery.

Through Jan. 1, 2019.

Saturday, December 8 Great Hall, 8pm Tickets start at $40

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Purchase tickets at Fitz or call Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com.

Includes a deluxe room and two reserved show tickets.

Call 1-662-363-LUCK (5825) and mention code: CPAR8

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Proud Mary

“Maddie Stratton: Women & Florition,” exhibition of 16 paintings by New Orleans-based artist. (2492532), Through Jan. 3, 2019.

433 CLEVELAND (249-2532).

Ross Gallery

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“The Death of Fear,” exhibition of work by Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton and Nelson Gutierrez. www.cbu.edu/gallery. Free. Through Dec. 14.

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum “Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. Ongoing.

826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Diocesan Art Exhibit, the free exhibit will feature works from artists throughout the diocese and will range in form from painted pottery to photography to mixed media. (754-7282), Through Dec. 31, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

Talbot Heirs

Debra Edge Art. Ongoing.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

Village Frame & Art

“20th Century Memphis Photographs,” exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey and Virginia Schoenster, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

WKNO Studio

December Show, exhibition of works by members of the Bartlett Art Association. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Dec. 28.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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KIDS

to bring people from the local community together to inspire discussion. Free. Every fourth Tuesday. Through Dec. 18.

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Savor tastings at five eateries, interact with chefs and managers, and sample local flavors. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 1:30 p.m.

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Nicole Mitchell at Crosstown Arts, Saturday, December 8th, at 6:30 p.m.

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Now in its 10th year, the Contemporary Club has again organized a memorable tour of Collierville homes. $25. Sat., Dec. 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

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onathan Lethem is one of our most versatile writers. From his early sci-fi novels to his National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Motherless Brooklyn and his The Fortress of Solitude, his restless imagination has never settled; he’s not written the same book twice.

This new novel, The Feral Detective, belongs to what you might call the smart-ass noir subgenre, novels that use the tropes of the detective story with heartfelt respect, leavened by a wink to the audience.

Other writers who have done this include Thomas Pynchon, Thomas Berger, and William Kotzwinkle. Lethem can make with the hardboiled patter: “That coffee was a wiper blade, cutting a window for my brain to peer through.”

The first-person narrative comes via Phoebe Siegler, who seeks out the titular detective, Charles Heist, to help her find a friend’s daughter, Arabella, who has disappeared, either kidnapped or a runaway. It’s as if Brigid O’Shaughnessy is telling the tale of The Maltese Falcon and Sam Spade is a secondary character. It’s an interesting set-up, made believable by Lethem’s ability to take on a female character’s voice. Plus, this story takes place just after Trump has won the election, and that colors everything that happens, casting an irreal, dark penumbra over events already bleak and daunting.

Phoebe fantasizes about her adventure and then says, “That such thinking was fucking insane didn’t make it less consoling. We lived in a fucking insane world.

Such thinking might be the right gear for my expedition through it.”

Charles Heist, Private Investigator, never really solidifies for the reader, partly because Phoebe can’t get a handle on him, and it’s her story. He seems like the Marlboro Man who’s read Nietzsche and Reich and Camus, an unlikely hero for an incongruous time. We’re not given much of him because he speaks little. Sometimes he seems like only a reflection of our narrator’s romantic leanings, or the hero she believes she needs when she really only needs herself.

Phoebe thinks that Arabella may have gone in pursuit of Leonard Cohen’s ghost, so the search for the missing girl begins with a trip up Mount Baldy, where Cohen studied Buddhism under his spiritual guide Roshi. Eventually, their exploration takes them into the Mojave Desert and into a survivalist cult that is in the midst of a civil war between Bears (mostly men) and Rabbits (mostly women). Partly, Phoebe takes up this idealistic expedition out of despair and depression engendered by the squatter in the White House. Out of the nation’s miasma she is trying to find something that makes sense, and rescuing a friend’s daughter from bad guys seems to have sincere meaning for her.

Phoebe falls hard for the laconic Heist, and she loses sight of the prize as she begins an affair with the detective. This complicates their dangerous, desert sojourn, and the original case becomes something else, something more personal and, hence, thornier. “I felt closer than ever to Heist,” she says.

“We had different styles. I made myself candid in fickle bursts, he reciprocated with marathon ruminations or silence.

He’d led me into his desert.” Here, Heist becomes even more of a wavering mirage, flickering into view because of Phoebe’s reheated passion.

For a while, their target is the leader of the Bears, a mountain of a man, who goes by the moniker of Solitary Love. (“Crazy-ass Love’ll never be brought down alive, and to kill him outright might require a bazooka.”) But this is a quest with numerous hairpin turns. What is sought keeps changing as the story mutates and zigzags.

The denouement of this rollicking, sometimes absurd tale is a wild ride through perilous territory. It’s like The t Rockford Files crossed with a Pynchonian search for something numinous. It’s also occasionally very funny. Lethem keeps the Mad Max action in the forefront and the philosophy as backwash. We care what happens because Phoebe is believable, appealing, and endearing. Ultimately, Lethem proves that the phrase “literary page-turner” is not an oxymoron.

BAR REPORT By Meghan Stuthard

Take a Shot The Red Bar: lounge-y to the max.

Drinks at the Red Bar — make that martini a large, please.

The night we blew into the Red Bar, Tyler already had a small crowd of regulars seated in front of him. We weren’t there for two minutes before we got to know them and fell into the kind of spirited discussion that’s normally reserved for close friends. That speaks to the feel of the place, though; it’s an amiable crew of close friends that will still welcome visitors into their circle. No one is afraid to have the sort of conversation that turns a stranger into a friend, and in Overton Square, a district slowly becoming a little too sterile in some places for some longtime residents, that’s just the feel that I’m seeking.

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they walk past the bar. There’s a gentleman nearby drinking a well whiskey and Fireball on the rocks and Tyler is even making this without judgment.

(Then again, after a few Cooter Shooters, martini-style, I wouldn’t be opposed to trying it for kicks.) Everyone should be so lucky to encounter such an able and affable bartender, a man who knows those kinds of secrets about you.

The Red Bar doesn’t just corner the market on shooters; they provide a plethora of delightful daily specials. On Martini Mondays, enjoy their martinis at a discounted price of $5 for small and $10 for a large. Tuesday is Draft and Pasta Night, a carb-laden indulgence of $2.50 pints and $22 pasta dinner for two that includes an appetizer. On Wednesdays, it’s Steak Night. For $34, you’ll get an appetizer and two steaks plus sides and salads. On Thursdays, all import beers are $2.50. There is a two-drink minimum to take advantage of those food specials, but bear in mind they have a reputation as a bar to uphold.

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ig or small?” is normally the question used to shame tourists into buying larger sizes of beer on Beale, but at the Red Bar it’s just the standard follow-up question when someone orders a martini. Although I’m used to varying sizes of martinis depending on where I am, I never get different options within the same establishment. Enter the Red Bar, the lounge counterpart to Side Street Grill in Overton Square, where size variety is the spice of life.

The Red Bar is lounge-y to the max.

It’s dark and smoky with mostly red lights (so it’s not just a clever name), a small, intimate bar of only eight seats, and a raucous, close-knit group of regulars. The night we arrived, Tyler, the bartender, told us it was close to getting very busy because of the Saints-Cowboys game that evening.

“Are you a Saints bar or a Cowboys bar?” I asked, since nearly every Overton Square bar has a designation. “Neither,” Tyler said. “Hell, we’re just going to get rowdy at this place anyway, even if no one has a dog in the fight.”

Sure enough, the lounge fills up, with the most motley of the crews taking over the community table near the TVs. Why so rowdy? Having not visited the Red Bar in a couple years, I forgot about their legendary drink menu that lends itself to rowdiness. The drink menu is full of various shooters, all of which can be made into either a small or jumbo-sized martini. The Red Bar doesn’t slack in the shooter department; it contains mixtures that have never before been seen, concoctions immediately forgotten about after leaving college or the Florida panhandle, and abominations normally consumed after losing a bet. Factor in the possibility of any of these drinks being served in a three-ounce martini glass and it stands to reason why, suddenly, the Saints-Cowboys game on the TV is the most important life event ever. I took note of the “Hennything is Possible,” a mixed drink made from Hennessy. If we can fabricate a mixed drink out of Hennessy, then colonizing Mars can’t be far behind.

Tyler, the man at the helm of the bar most nights per week, is the kind of guy everyone wants at their neighborhood watering hole. He greets each person by name as they walk in and immediately pours their drink, handing it to them as

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or reasons never fully explained to me, my in-laws kick off the holidays by having Thanksgiving on the Sunday before the rest of the country. I assume this is because the engaging Mrs. M’s grandfather was English and never took the whole Pilgrim thing very seriously. So I served crawfish étoufée, because nothing says “America” like some French/Spanish colonial fusion dish served to the English.

It got me thinking about the avalanche of facing several Christmas parties, actually Christmas, a non-denominational mid-winter shindig or two, and that perennial amateur night for bad drunks, New Year’s Eve. Which is exactly why your holiday wine list is different — the hootenanny is coming, and you’ll want to brace yourself. Since last January you’ve been on and off diets and cleanses, avoided starches, red meats, sugars, and everything else that makes life bearable.

Your wines — even the reds — have likely been light, drinkable little numbers that would never think of getting into a brawl with a three-bean salad. Now the holidays are here and it’s no jaunt, but a grueling slog of bon homme and good damn cheer.

I was contemplating this and other terrifying ordeals while wandering that intriguing maze that is Gaslight Liquor Shoppe on Summer Avenue, when I happened upon a liquor rep named Jacques having a tasting of some newto-the-market reds: specifically a cabernet sauvignon called Merf. The wine is the brain-child of a restless man named David “Merf ” Merfeld — a former Iowa farmer, brewer, and now, evidently, vintner in Washington State. I just liked the name, for obvious reasons. At $10.99, I liked the price, too.

Now, this is a nice, workable holiday wine — a fruit-forward cabernet that’s big on plum and dark cherry. I tend to favor the earthy cabernets; this was jammy. Despite the fruit, Merf managed

to stay somewhat dry with little hints of vanilla and toffee. Even if the big, fruitforward thing isn’t entirely your bag, remember what you are up against, food wise, for the next month. Your system is in for a shock, and you’ll need to stay in the proper humor of the thing if you want to be invited back. This is a bottle that will stand up to barbecue, ham, liver pâte, dips, swell stinky cheeses, or anything a sane person is likely to throw on the Big Green Egg. For dessert, refill your glass and dive into enough rich dark chocolate to fill a mop bucket.

Granted, Merf Cabernet just may overpower and brutalize your kale salad with vinaigrette, but if we’re going to be honest with ourselves, that is pretty much a non-issue until sometime in mid-first quarter of 2019, at the earliest.

Which makes me glad that I broke down and tried some, because I have something of a low-key dislike for people trying to sell me anything.

That, and I can’t shake the feeling that Washington State is a second rate place to make wine — I keep thinking of rain and those sparkling vampires my daughter used to be into. Of course, I feel wrong: The difference between the southeast corner of Washington and Northern California is just a squiggle on the map, and it is becoming one of the major wine-producing regions of the country. So they showed me.

Being a successful liquor rep, Jacques ignored my concerns about Washington State wine and started talking about holiday food. He mentioned that his mother (presumably the same nice lady that named him Jacques) was serving up her special étoufée. I admitted that I’d just terrorized my in-laws with my less-special version of the same. Then a bond was formed, some tiny fraternity of people who stew shellfish for the holidays as opposed to pretending to honor those constipated political refugees up in Plymouth.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Green Book Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen hit the road in this acclaimed dramedy.

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holidays coming up, underground competitive eating contests aren’t going to cut it. Then he gets a job interview with a doctor who needs a driver.

Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) couldn’t be more different than Tony, who has lived his whole life in the same Bronx neighborhood where his father and grandfather also lived. Dr. Shirley’s got three PhDs, none of which are in medicine.

“He’s a doctor of piano playing,” Tony says later.

“Can you be that?” asks his wife Dolores (Linda Cardellini).

Yes, you can. But it was not common in 1963 for a black man to have a PhD in the arts; to have studied in Russia, Germany, and Italy; or to have a comfortable career playing his own neoclassical jazz compositions for the rich and powerful. Dr. Shirley needs a driver because he’s embarking on a two-month tour, where he and his trio will play both cavernous concert halls and intimate chamber recitals. The catch is, the tour will swing through the deep South, and Dr. Shirley knows at some point there’s going to be the kind of trouble where a beefy,

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That’s more or less the theme of Green Book. It’s 1962 in New York City, and Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) has a pretty good gig as a bouncer (“I’m in public relations”) at the legendary Copacabana night club. It’s a beautiful and elegant place populated by the rich and famous — and also a bunch of mobsters. That means Tony has to occasionally mix it up it with a well-heeled but rowdy Italian guy in order to keep the peace. But after an incident with a don’s hat goes a little sideways, the club gets shut down for the last two months of the year, so Tony’s got to find a new job.

He makes a few bucks betting fat guys he can eat more hot dogs than they can, but with the

Viggo Mortensen (left) and Mahershala Ali take to the road in Peter Farrelly’s Green Book. mobbed-up Italian from the Bronx is going to come in handy. After some negotiation, Dr. Shirley meets Tony’s price, and they’re off. But not before Tony is forced to become acquainted with the Green Book, a publication from the Jim Crow era that listed black-friendly hospitality establishments all through the segregated South. Once they’re on the road, however, the odd couple will discover that just sticking to the book is not enough to avoid bigotry, discrimination, and outright violence.

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Divorce, American cheese, and boob-themed restaurants. Banks, motorcycles brunch, cable television, the workplace, and the rules of written English. What do all these things have in common?

Millennials.

They killed them, and they’re coming for you next. At least, that’s the thesis behind scores of lazy articles that blame a generational cohort for the decline of traditional American institutions like mortgage debt and new car purchases. Millennials’ bloodlust for destruction is surpassed only by their appetite for avocado toast. 2018 is not like 1988, and the only difference is millennials! That’s it, and nothing else.

Capitalist failures fall at the feet of 22-to-37-year olds, who now comprise the second-largest generation and therefore, apparently, bear the largest share of responsibility for all cultural disruption and the fates of brands such as Applebee’s and Harley-Davidson. And why not?

They’re so entitled, with their participation trophies, safe spaces, and other assorted tropes.

Except none of those things impact millennials’ spending decisions.

I can’t wait to hear what Generation Z, which has already surpassed millennials in number, has in its crosshairs.

Millennials don’t spend money on road hogs, first, because they can’t afford them, but they’re also not the target audience for a $25,000 motorcycle. And chain restaurants: Offering two four-course dinners for two for under $20 isn’t a convincing pitch for the quality of your food.

Millennials aren’t the only ones turning up their noses. We can cook our own frozen processed dinners, and we’ve been trying to tell y’all. Well-compensated CEOs would rather run bajillion-dollar brands into the ground than start producing products that don’t suck, and it’s a lot easier to blame consumers than face the real reasons people aren’t giving them our money.

Last week, the Federal Reserve Board released a working paper, humorously titled “Are Millennials Different?” that sets the record straight. The short answer is no, not especially. All generations are different. It’s kind of the point. The long answer is that any differences in millennial spending behaviors are attributable not to finicky desires, but to the economic disaster during which they entered the workforce. “Millennials are less well off than members of earlier generations when they were young, with lower earnings, fewer assets, and less wealth,” the study concludes. And the Great Recession could have a permanent impact on them.

I’m no economist, but it sounds to me as if millennials are the victims here, not the villains. Full disclosure: I’m a millennial, and I’m tired of being framed.

Pity validation has no cash value, but at least the truth is finally out there.

The full paper can be found at the Federal Reserve Board’s website under “Economic Research,” but here are a few bullet points. Good news: Millennials, on average, have lower debt balances than Generation X did at the same age. However, that’s because it’s a different kind of debt.

Millennials have lower mortgage debt because fewer of them have mortgages, because one typically needs credit to procure a loan. Instead, they have more than twice as much student loan debt than their Gen X equivalents did 20 years ago.

On the bright side, millennials are better educated than previous generations … because they came of age at a time when jobs were unattainable without a degree. Their education expenditures are higher, because college tuition costs rose at a higher rate than general inflation. Millennials hold more in their retirement savings than previous generations — but that’s only because pensions are no longer offered. Oh snap, did millennials kill pensions, too? There’s no mention of the percentage of millennials who actually have retirement savings, versus Generation Xers and boomers, by the way. But since millennials have significantly lower net worth than their forebears, one can make an educated guess.

There’s no evidence that millennials’ vehicle preferences are generation-specific tastes, and the study says older generations are responsible for recent shifts in car-buying demographics.

Keep that in mind when millennials allegedly kill another vehicle model. (Bet it’ll be minivans.) A lower share of millennial expenses is dedicated to garments and apparel. But not because they killed the mall! Clothing prices just haven’t increased at the same rate as other goods, thanks to imports.

Next time you see a “Millennials killed (fill in the blank)” headline, swap “millennials” for greed, tariffs, technology, robots, or the passage of time. Any of those would be more accurate.

Jen Clarke is an upapologetic Memphian and a digital marketing specialist.

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