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OUR 1613TH ISSUE 01.23.20 The photograph on this week’s cover is by world-renowned Memphis photographer William Eggleston, who, in the 1970s, stunned the art world when his prosaic and groundbreaking images of Southern life were shown at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Eggleston’s 1976 show is widely recognized as the singular event that brought color photography into the world of high art. Prior to Eggleston’s emergence on the scene, black-and-white images had been the only photography recognized as such since, well, the invention of the camera.

Now, nearing 81 and still living in Memphis, Eggleston has secured his status as a major American artist and pioneer with decades of subsequent work. William Eggleston, Untitled, c. 1978 Type C print His photos are celebrated and analyzed in books and essays. They are displayed in museums and galleries around the world. There is, as you may know, much discussion about a possible Eggleston museum in Memphis that would showcase his work — and works by others who’ve followed in his artistic footsteps. Read Jon W. Sparks’ story on page 10 for all the details.

I first encountered Eggleston’s photographs in the early 1990s, when I moved to Memphis. I had (and have) friends who knew him and who would delight in telling me tales of his eccentricities and his unconventional lifestyle. To be honest, I knew of him as an iconic Memphis character before I knew his work. When I first saw his photos at a gallery, I was stunned by their apparent simplicity, their depth of color, and their audacity.

Intrigued, I read more about Eggleston and discovered many more of his oddly compelling images: the front of a car parked against a brick wall, a gaudy McDonald’s restaurant next to an equally gaudy Foto Hut, a stack of tires between two vehicles, a solitary rusty tricycle in a suburban street. And there were his photos of women, often of a certain age, Southern females gone to seed, wearing gaudy bell-bottoms or floral prints, matronly types smoking in a diner or walking to a car.

There were others that struck me: a child staring from an open car door, bright tomatoes on a kitchen counter, a vase of flowers, and famously, a blood-red juke joint ceiling. Every photo was saturated with dye-transfer color that pulled the eye all over the piece. Every shot provoked questions: What exactly is happening here? Who is this person? What am I supposed to see?

That may be the point: There is nothing to see and there is everything to see. And you’re not “supposed” to see anything. The photograph is what it is — and what you get from it is up to you. Eggleston’s work sprung from his theory of a “democratic camera” — a nonjudgmental glass eye that allows us to see all-too-familiar sights as new — and look at them as long as we like.

There were those I knew in Memphis who thought it all rather silly. Eggleston’s pictures were just weird snapshots, they said. Anyone could take them. What’s the big deal? It’s just a picture of a tricycle. The emperor has no clothes.

They were wrong, I think.

The writer Richard Woodward has called Eggleson’s work “fearless naturalism — a belief that by looking patiently at what others ignore or look away from, interesting things can be seen.” Eggleston himself has said he is “at war with the obvious.” And, of course, sometimes what seems obvious is anything but. Or is that too obvious?

Maybe it’s more difficult to understand Eggleston’s impact now, when almost literally everyone you know is a photographer, when the simplest of snapshots from a phone camera can be manipulated with dozens of filters, resized, cropped, enhanced — all with the swipe of a finger. Every day, millions of people are creating often striking and compelling photos of N E WS & O P I N I O N children, cars, food, pets, sunsets, faces, THE FLY-BY - 4 NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 etc., though few would argue that they’re POLITICS - 7 creating art.

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BY JON W. SPARKS - 10 take in, using a lens through which we SPORTS - 14 want others to see us. What’s personal WE RECOMMEND - 16 MUSIC - 18 becomes very public.

AFTER DARK - 20 Maybe that’s the true secret of CALENDAR - 24 Eggleston’s genius. His art runs exactly CANNABEAT - 31 counter: What seems at first glance to FOOD & DRINK - 32 be public becomes an experience that’s FOOD FEATURE - 33 very personal.

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The Orpheum’s Kristin Bennett had a bubble-blowing contest with Zakiya Baptiste (who plays the gum-chewing champion Violet Beauregarde in the Broadway production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory now at the Orpheum) on her web show “Kristin on Cue” last week.

Baptiste admitted she chews so much gum during the performances her jaw gets tired. Bennett lost the contest.

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Memphis state Sen. Raumesh Akbari took us to her desk on the floor of the state Senate last week (via Facebook).

There, we found a pink cup and a throwback Shirley Chisholm pin with her 1972 campaign slogan “Unbought and Unbossed.”

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Refugees, Minimum Wage, & Gay Adoption

Refugees, U of M’s push toward $15, and state lawmakers fight against gays.

G O P P US H ES LE E O N R E F U G E ES A Tennessee bill introduced last week would require the state and local governments to refuse to consent to refugee resettlement.

This comes after Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee approved the refugee resettlement agreement with the Trump Administration last month.

But a bill introduced last week as the 111th Tennessee General Assembly convened would essentially reverse this move by the governor.

Rep. Bruce Griffey (RParis), who sponsors the bill, said refugees would dilute the labor pool and push wages lower, noting he’s “more concerned about Tennessee residents than Clockwise from top left: Tennessee General Assembly convenes, I am about refugees from Sen. Paul Rose (inset) gets gay discrimination bill, U of M pushes minimum wage, other countries.”

Rep. Bruce Griffey (inset) pushes back on refugee settlements here Lee said the state had to discriminate against gay couples. It passed in the House a moral obligation to accept refugees here. So did Shelby last year. It is now on its way to Lee’s desk, and he’s said he County Mayor Lee Harris last month when he sent a letter will sign it. to the U.S. Secretary of State, consenting to refugee resettleIt prohibits faith-based groups from participating “in any ment in the county. child placement for foster care or adoption that would violate the agency’s written religious or moral convictions.” The bill is U O F M P US H ES TO $15 P E R H O U R meant to shelter faith-based adoption agencies from discrimiUniversity of Memphis president M. David Rudd said last week that the university has a plan to increase the minimum nation lawsuits. Bill sponsor Sen. Paul Rose (R-Tipton and part of Shelby County) said such lawsuits in other states have wage for campus employees to $13 by July. shuttered some religious adoption agencies.

Rudd first promised a plan to raise the minimum wage However, many senators claimed last week such protecof campus employees in July after Harris vetoed a Shelby tions already exist in 2009’s Tennessee Religious Freedom County Commission decision to allocate $1 million for a Restoration Act (RFRA). During the debate, Rose admitted campus swimming facility because of the school’s failure to “that we don’t really need [the bill] in this state” because pay living wages to some employees. Rudd said he planned of RFRA. to raise the minimum wage to $15 in two years.

Even Lt. Gov. Randy McNally said, “I don’t think [the bill In 2018, the university increased minimum wage from is necessary], and the protections already exist.” $10.10 to $10.60 an hour, and then in 2019, those wages Other senators warned that passing such a bill would were increased again to $11.11.

Now, the plan is to increase the minimum wage to $12 in hurt the state’s image, enough to scare away prospective companies and conventions from choosing Tennessee and April and then to $13 by July 2020. even, perhaps, the NFL, NHL, NCAA, and others from holding events here.

G O P A P P R OVE S GAY D I S C R I M I NATI O N “If you believe in freedom, you’ll put aside the issues A bill that discriminates against the LGBTQ+ community thrown at you from the business community and look to the and one “that we don’t really need in this state,” according roots of this nation,” Rose said. to its sponsor, passed overwhelmingly in the state Senate last week.

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Memphis Bus Riders’ Union: ‘Transit is a way out of poverty.’

The Flyer caught up with Justin Davis, secretary of the Memphis Bus Riders’ Union (MBRU), this week to learn more about the union’s work and the transit issues it strives to address.

As Davis and I rode the 17 McLemore bus through South Memphis, we talked about the bus riders’ union’s efforts to advocate for better transit in the city, transit and poverty, dedicated funding for the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) and the proposed wheel tax, and other issues that regular bus riders face every day.

Memphis Flyer: Does MBRU support the wheel tax proposal?

Justin Davis: I think for a lot of our members, we don’t think that using the wheel tax is the best solution. Obviously getting a big influx of funding is necessary to get MATA where it needs to go. As a city and a county, we have a lot of funding options that have not been a part of the current conversation. Some of the things we’ve talked about are looking at trying to use shared mobility revenue, reallocate some of our revenue from the hotel/motel tax, or parking fees. When you look at other cities, there are a lot of different mechanisms cities have used to fund their transit system.

MF: What does MBRU want to see any new funding go toward?

JD: We want to see increased frequency and service hours on neighborhood routes. People have been talking a long time about having high-frequency service on the Poplar corridor and things like that, but we have a lot of parts of town where people can’t even get to those major corridors because of a lack of service and other barriers in their neighborhood.

We need to prioritize service in places like North and South Memphis and Southeast Memphis where a lot

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Justin Davis on the 17 McLemore bus through South Memphis of jobs are. One of the things we’ve been going to MATA about is why every time we have a conversation about improving MATA, it’s always Downtown and Midtown?

MF: Why is good transit so important for Memphis?

JD: Transit is a way out of poverty.

When you’re actually giving people access to resources, education, and the ability to participate in the political process and the economic life of our city, we’re going to see that on the street. We’re going to see these improvements in people’s lives. That’s part of what draws me to transit. Transit affects so many other issues that we talk about in our city. Transit can be the connector for all of those things.

MATA has a lot of benefits for citizens even if you never ride the bus a day in your life. What would it look like if congestion on Poplar went down because we had high-frequency buses going down the street?

What could it look like if we had a more concerted effort by the city and county to tackle climate change by reducing emissions? Transit has so many benefits for absolutely everyone, which is why it’s beholden on all of us to get behind it.

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As members of the Shelby County Commission prepared to meet in committee on Wednesday for one more crack at finding a solution for funding a county contribution to MATA (Memphis Area Transit Authority), they will have yet another enigma to deal with — the matter of new voting machines for Shelby County.

The question is not whether new machines will be purchased. County Election Administrator Linda Phillips is committed to that. The problem is what kind, and an aggressive complement of present and past public officials are intent upon arguing for machines that not only have paper-check capability but are based upon handmarked paper ballots, as against those marked by mechanical means.

Activists for new voting machines Meeting with reporters in the lobby of the Vasco Smith County Building last Friday to advocate for a forthcoming resolution by Commissioner Van Turner to purchase hand-marked ballots were State Representative Joe Towns, County Commissioner Reginald Milton, former Commissioner Steve Mulroy, former legislator and city council member Carol Chumney, former legislator and Memphis School Board member Mike Kernell, longtime activist Dr. Yahweh, recent council candidate Erika Sugarmon, and Germantown activist Sarah Freeman. The thrust of their argument is distilled in this issue on page 8, in the Viewpoint by Mulroy.

In the press conference, the predominant message was perhaps summed up

by Kernell, who said apropos the ballotmarking machines evidently intended by administrator Phillips, “Why replace old hackable machines with new hackable machines?”

• Besides dealing with the issue of voting

machines, the commission will use part of its committee time on Wednesday to consider a compromise version of the previously proposed wheel tax increase to benefit MATA. Sponsored by Democratic Commissioners Willie Brooks, Turner, and Republican Brandon Morrison, and reportedly supported by Mayor Lee Harris, the measure would keep the controversial $20 surcharge of the originally proposed wheel tax measure but allocate its proceeds both to MATA and toward the funding of additional sheriff ’s deputies in the recently de-annexed portions of Memphis.

• To the satisfaction of many Memphians and the dismay of others, this year’s holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King was preceded by a visit to Memphis from Vice President Mike Pence, who made ceremonial appearances at the National Civil Rights Museum Downtown and at Holy City Church of God in Christ on James Road.

At the latter venue, Pence was allowed to deliver a homily from the dais — to, in his words, “pay a debt of honor and respect to the man who, walking the dirt roads of the Deep South and speaking to hundreds of thousands on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, touched the hearts of the American people, and led the civil rights movement to triumph over Jim Crow.”

Pence also made a point of working into his remarks a series of encomia to the administration which he serves, alleging, for example, that “under the leadership of President Donald Trump, we have created more than 8,700 opportunity zones, including many here in Tennessee, creating new investment and jobs to underserved communities across the nation. I’m proud to say that today, African-American unemployment is at the lowest level ever recorded. Not long ago, surrounded by university leaders, President Trump made the more than $250 million in annual funding to historically black colleges and universities permanent under federal law.”

It was the likelihood of Pence’s imposing such self-serving remarks on the occasion that no doubt provoked a corps of protesters to the scene of the James Road event. But they, and members of the news media, were cordoned off by police to an area several blocks removed from the site of the church.

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Shelby County is getting ready to replace its aging, unsecure voting machines with new voting equipment. When we did this 15 years ago, we opted for the more expensive, shiny, new high-tech touchscreen system over the more reliable low-tech paper ballot system, causing years of election problems.

We’re about to make the same mistake again.

Hand-Marked Paper Ballots vs.

Touchscreens: Local election reform advocates argue for a hand-marked paper ballot system. A voter would fill out a paper ballot by hand, filling in the bubbles on a scantron sheet like we’ve been doing for half a century with the high school ACT test. The voter would then feed the paper into a scanner, which would record the vote and retain the paper ballots securely so they could be used as a check against the computer record.

This system is used in 38 states. Hamilton County (Chattanooga) has used it successfully for over 20 years.

Instead, the Shelby County Election Commission is considering the latest shiny, new system, the Ballot Marking Device (BMD). With BMDs, voters would press touchscreens as before, and the touchscreen computer would print out a paper receipt which the voter can then inspect for accuracy before feeding it into a machine. The BMD system is twice as expensive and half as secure.

Expense: Both BMD and hand-marked paper ballots require a scanner at each voting precinct. But BMDs additionally require at least three to four expensive BMD touchscreen machines at each precinct. Gilford County, North Carolina, recently reported saving $5 million by opting for hand-marked paper ballots over BMDs. Since their population is smaller, it’s reasonable to expect about an $8 million savings here in Shelby.

Security: The security problem is in letting a computer mark the paper receipt rather than having each voter do it himself. Any computer can be hacked.

Human beings can’t. Election security experts have already demonstrated how BMD machines can be hacked to make the computer print out bogus candidate selections. And even absent fraud, like with all computers, glitches are possible.

BMD advocates say, not to fear: Before the voter feeds the paper receipt into the scanner, she can spot any error and alert an election official. But that may not work in the real world, with a sophisticated hack or a non-obvious glitch. A recent University of Michigan study showed that over 90 percent of the time, voters failed to report

such errors when they were present. In a close race, the study concluded, these computer errors could easily change an election outcome.

Even worse, most BMD scanners actually read a bar code on the paper receipt, like the kind used at a grocery checkout line, instead of the human-readable parts of the paper showing which candidates were selected. Since human beings can’t read a bar code, even the most diligent and eagle-eyed voter won’t be able to tell if her vote’s being stolen. Colorado recently banned bar codes in its elections.

For these reasons, most election security experts recommend hand-marked paper ballots over BMDs. Since the scanners common to both systems are also not perfect, they also recommend Risk Limiting Audits (RLAs), where election officials manually examine a statistical sample of paper ballots to make sure they match up with the computer-recorded vote totals. Four states now require RLAs, with more expected.

The Other Side: BMD advocates object, saying that voters will screw up marking their paper ballots, introducing unacceptable levels of voter error. It’s also harder for some disabled voters, they argue. Finally, they say it’s unworkable during early voting in a big county like Shelby, which has over 100 different types of ballot faces (depending on which state/county/city/ school board district a particular voting precinct is in). But Hamilton County, the third-largest county in the state, with over 135 different ballot faces, has managed all these issues successfully for over 20 years.

They report low voter-error rates, smooth early voting sailing, and accommodations for disabled voters in each precinct. If they can make it work, why can’t we?

The Shelby County Commission, which has to authorize most of the $10 to $12 million in tax dollars for this voting machine purchase, is this week and next considering a resolution supporting handmarked paper ballots and not BMDs. The resolution would put the Election Commission on notice that they should move toward hand-marked ballots if they want county funding. There’s still time to get this right. Contact the County Commission this week at 222-1000 and tell them you want hand-marked paper ballots with Risk Limiting Audits.

Or, be prepared for another 15 years of unreliable elections.

Steven Mulroy, a former Shelby County Commissioner who teaches election law at the University of Memphis law school, is author of the book Rethinking US Election Law: Unskewing the System.

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Eggleston, Steinkamp exhibition blooms at the Dixon COVER STORY

BY JON W. SPARKS

January 23-29, 2020

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he story goes that there was a time William Eggleston didn’t give much of a thought to photography. And then, in the late 1950s, a friend at Vanderbilt gave him a nudge. The man who would forever change how we regarded picture taking bought his first camera, a Canon Rangefinder-35mm.

And what if he hadn’t? It’s likely that Eggleston would have picked up another camera at some other point, as he was and is possessed of a curious mind, one with a love of art and craft and beauty and a need to try everything that piques his interests.

Photography would have come along sooner or later. He once told Interview magazine that as a child he’d play the piano in his house every time he walked by it. His love of music, both listening and performing, continues to this day. He’s also a student of sound engineering. And radio astronomy. And guns.

William Eggleston at work, early 1990s. Photo by: Winston Eggleston

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But that affair with the camera launched him on a journey that has led to the highest of praise in the art world, although not without plenty of critical drubbing, particularly at the start of his career.

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Untitled, c. 1975 Dye transfer print formed the Eggleston Art Foundation and brought on Rutledge — an art historian and intellectual property lawyer — to helm it. She’s involved and well-connected in the art world, having been a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and vice president and general counsel for Creative Commons.

The purpose of the foundation is to preserve, protect, and promote Eggleston’s legacy of work and maintain the archive.

But there’s no interest in simply having a shrine to the photographer’s work. The vision is broader than that. Having conversations with other people who have their continued on page 12

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irginia Rutledge, director of the Eggleston Art Foundation, referred to the time when Eggleston was gaining wide attention for his color photographs, notably in the 1976 solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “It is difficult to imagine now, but at the time, some of his subject matter was seen to be as shocking as using that intense color in ‘art’ photography,” she says. Rutledge refers to critics who were getting the vapors over the show: “What was the point of these banal subjects in this color aesthetic that looked more appropriate to commercial advertising? Painting may have gone through several formal revolutions, but not everyone was ready for photography like this.”

The naysayers used “banal” as a pejorative but failed to understand that the everydayness of the subject matter made it widely recognizable. Add to that Eggleston’s eye and his use of color, and the photographs go beyond mere snapshots and allow viewers to construct their own story from the familiar scene.

“It’s a natural way of seeing,” Rutledge says, “but Eggleston was a real pioneer in making it visible.”

And since that breakthrough show in 1976, Eggleston’s work has influenced photographers, filmmakers, storytellers, and artists of all kinds.

Eggleston, at age 80, is certainly one of the region’s best-known artists. And though it’s not difficult to find his works, there has been no local place devoted to his works and interests. Around 2011, a group of patrons started a discussion of creating such a facility, a museum to celebrate the artist’s work and showcase Memphis as an arts center. That particular effort didn’t pan out, but the conversation had been started and eventually Eggleston’s family — Winston, Andra, and William Eggleston III —

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continued from page 11 own passions has been an essential part of Eggleston’s life. To this day, he has a stream of visitors who come to discuss a wide variety of topics.

And it’s that wide curiosity that the foundation wants to explore, certainly with exhibitions of Eggleston’s works, but also including other artists and a variety of events — music, film, performance, lectures.

“We want to be responsive,” Rutledge says. “Not to be driven by public opinion or requests, but to be ready to respond to opportunities to connect, and to help create those opportunities where we can. We love what we see with Crosstown Arts and the way that they are located in the kind of space that allows people to take in art as part of their daily routine. We’re interested in connecting Eggleston’s work to a broad creative community.”

The foundation is headquartered in a building on Poplar across from East High School, and the hope is to use that space as a center for the planned activities. But there will also be partnerships with other institutions, such as the public library and other art organizations.

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he first exhibition under the auspices of the foundation opens January 26th at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. “William Eggleston and Jennifer Steinkamp: At Home at the Dixon” has two groundbreaking artists — Steinkamp is an internationally acclaimed artist who works with computer animation — to display works related to core Dixon themes: floral, garden, and still life works.

One of the Dixon’s paintings ties the exhibit together. A Memory by William Merritt Chase hangs in the Dixon Residence Living Room. The 1910 work, as described by the Dixon, “depicts a woman seated in a genteel domestic interior opening onto a sunlit Italian garden.”

Dixon director Kevin Sharp met with the foundation and says their first conversation was a success. “I told them that photography is something that we don’t have a lot of,” he says. “We like photography and we’ve done photography shows here and we’ve done shows that have elements of photography, but we don’t have a lot of

Jennifer Steinkamp Photo by: Koto Bolofo expertise in the area. So we felt partnering with the foundation would be very high on our priority list.”

Discussions continued regarding having Eggleston’s works at the Dixon. “It wasn’t long after that that Virginia made the suggestion that we involve Jennifer Steinkamp who’s an artist I’m crazy about,” Sharp says.

“I love her work, and we’ve had her work on view. So it all came together pretty organically, and we’re very excited about what it’s going to do for us.”

Rutledge was taken with the idea of having the Chase painting anchoring the show. “Bringing in work with similar themes emphasizes the fact that you can see beauty in very different ways,” she says.

“Eggleston’s work on view is a combination of some of his virtually unknown and some of his best known images. There are two images of women that are just knockouts, gorgeous in unexpected ways.”

There are also Eggleston’s remarkable still life photographs. Not all are, as Rutledge observes, what you usually see at the Dixon. One such image is a 1978 photograph of a pot with flowers. “Much of the floral arrangement looks artificial, and it’s definitely bedraggled, crammed in a straw basket sitting in a banged-up terracotta pot,” she says. “But it’s beautiful. The colors are ravishing.”

Steinkamp is also a pioneer in her art, Rutledge says. Like Eggleston, who transformed his photos by using commercial color technology, she uses animation, a medium that still is more generally understood as being reserved for commercial uses, such as in Hollywood movies. “Instead, she’s using these computer animation tools in an art context,” Rutledge says. “All Steinkamp’s work in this show happens to use floral imagery. People often comment that her imagery is hyper realistic. But what’s fascinating is that the work is not based on anything imaged from the real world in terms of photography. Her flowers are entirely made from code. She doesn’t start with any pre-existing imagery, instead she programs the computer to generate what she sees as an artist.”

Steinkamp is an accomplished gardener,

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is bursting with shows. The Eggleston/ Steinkamp exhibition is the fifth to open in two weeks, and all are as different as they can be.

“Lawrence Matthews: To Disappear Away: Places soon to be no more” Through April 5th at Mallory/ Wurtzburger Galleries

“Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman” Through March 22nd Kong Wee Pang in the Interactive Gallery Through March 8th “William Eggleston and Jennifer Steinkamp: At Home at the Dixon” January 26th through March 22nd

Still from Jennifer Steinkamp’s Ovaries, 2017 Computer animation Rutledge says, and knows her botany. “She describes in code the look of a particular flower, but that’s only the start of the process. Because her works exist and move in a 3-D space, she also has to set rules that describe weight, the effects of gravity, of wind, the source of light. All those ‘recipes’ then ‘cook’ in the computer for several hours while the graphics are rendering.”

Steinkamp’s work can also have subtle political overtones, such as the work in the show titled Ovaries. “We see flowers and vividly colored seed-bearing fruits — literally plant ovaries — whirling around in a sky-blue space, but continually being caught up, flattened against what appears to be the window of the screen. You can read this as the artist’s comment on constraints that can still exist on women’s control of their own bodies. There’s a poignant parallel perhaps to the imagery of the Chase painting,” Rutledge says. “Although it is a gracious and priveleged setting, we know because of the time and her social milieu the woman depicted had a confined sphere in life.”

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utledge sees both artists advancing narratives that are tied to the cycle of life. Still lifes often show some aspect of mortality and Eggleston’s photographs, whether a funeral urn or everyday tree tops, suggest a certain mystery, as do Steinkamp’s floating, nebulous flora.

With the foundation’s debut event at the Dixon, Rutledge and the Eggleston family are hoping to follow with additional significant contemporary arts programming in the city.

“We want to be involved in sharing what Memphis is all about to the rest of the world. We want to offer greater access to the range of Eggleston’s work here in the city. And we know that will be a draw as well for many people who may not know about the strong visual art scene that is already here. And once they’re in town, they’ll also see the Dixon, Crosstown Arts, Brooks, newer spaces such as the CMPLX. It’s an amazingly good time to see art in Memphis and we’re excited to be part of it.”

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ou could win an NBA championship without a superstar in uniform, but it’s not the recommended approach. Over the last 40 years — since the dawn of the Magic/Bird Era — exactly one team has raised the Larry O’Brien Trophy without a certifiable, Grade-A superstar on the roster. (Definition: a player who has earned first-team All-NBA honors at least twice.) Ironically, the 2003-04 Detroit Pistons beat a team in the NBA Finals — the L.A. Lakers — that featured four such players in its starting lineup.

The Memphis Grizzlies will not win the NBA championship this year. But 43 games into the Ja Morant Era, an NBA title seems less of a stretch than it has since the 2013 Western Conference finals (a sweep at the hands of the San Antonio Spurs). The 20-year-old Morant is well on his way to Rookie of the Year recognition, but his ceiling for stardom goes beyond the numbers he’s posted to date (17.9 points and 7.0 assists per game).

There’s an eye test for basketball superstardom. Whether it’s Morant schooling a former MVP (James Harden), dunking with the nearest defender crotch-level, or draining three-pointers with a Curryesque stroke, the 20-year-old guard has Memphis in playoff contention at least a year ahead of schedule.

Morant averaged 19.3 points over the Grizzlies’ recent seven-game winning streak.

But then on Martin Luther King Day he seemed to disappear in a loss to New Orleans. The stat sheet says he had 16 points and nine assists, a fine night for mortal NBA guards. But the Griz were down 19 by halftime.

That’s the catch (for now) with Morant: Superstars don’t disappear against the Pelicans on national TV. It’s outlandish to discuss Morant among first-team All-NBA candidates, right? With Harden, Russell Westbrook, Damian Lillard, and another wunderkind — Dallas’ Luka Doncic — in the mix, such an honor will come hard-earned. But in 2021?

Perhaps 2022? In the 25 years since the Grizzlies debuted in Vancouver, only one player has earned first-team honors, and Marc Gasol did so only once (2015). A half-season is but a blip in the NBA career of a superstar, but Ja Morant appears to be fitting himself for a cape.

• A suggestion for the NBA’s schedulemakers: Why not find a way for the Atlanta Hawks to visit Memphis for the Martin Luther King Day game in the near future? It would seem to add extra meaning to an already powerful event on the NBA calendar. The Grizzlies have hosted New Orleans the last two years and four of the last seven.

Bring some variety to the game. Inviting the team that represents Dr. King’s hometown would be a poignant start.

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• Look for Isaac Bruce to finally be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame when the modern-era class is announced on February 1st. The former Memphis Tiger is a finalist for the fourth time (no more than five modern-era finalists are inducted each year). A member of the inaugural class of the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame, Bruce ranks fifth in NFL history with 15,208 receiving yards. The four men ahead of him are either already in the Hall of Fame (Jerry Rice, Terrell Owens, Randy Moss) or still active (Larry Fitzgerald).

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By Julia Baker

This Friday, the Hive Collective presents its first Scribble Exhibition, a collection of works scribbled on pizza boxes.

These works materialized from The Hive’s monthly Scribble events at Midtown Crossing Grill, where artists and creatives are invited to join and doodle their hearts out on whatever materials are around.

Shelda Edwards, founder of the Hive, says Scribble began in September 2019 when she approached the owner of Midtown Crossing about doing a type of “drink and draw” event.

“I had a relationship with Octavia, the owner of Midtown Crossing Grill, and I asked if she would be willing to let us take over half of her restaurant once a month,” she says. “She is the one who suggested, ‘Well, I can get y’all pizza boxes if you want to draw on those, too.’ So that’s where that came from. She just offered it, and we were very pleased and happy to draw on pizza boxes because, if you know creatives, they will draw on anything.”

Edwards says the subjects sketched onto these unique canvases are up to the artists’ imaginations.

“The subjects range from pizza-themed things to nothing that has to do with pizza,” says Edwards. “They’re basically just representations of the various different artists who have come together and created things.”

This and other Scribble events are free to attend, and all ages are welcome.

“We’re not there to get super lit,” says Edwards. “We just want to draw together.”

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“The One Who Looks, Looks Upon the One Who Looks Upon the One” Blount Auditorium, Buckman Hall at Rhodes College, 6 p.m.

Artist’ talk by Kuperus & Miller, discussing the collaborative exhibition, which combines visual art and audio composition and focuses on being seen and unseen.

Opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. on January 24th at Rhodes’ CloughHanson Gallery.

A Night of Candle Making with Hard Knot Designs Arrow Creative, 2535 Broad, 6:308:30 p.m., $65 Hand-pour your own soy Pristine Woods-scented candles. The fragrance has notes of cypress, moss, and bayberry with fir balsam, patchouli, and sweet incense undertones. Choose to pour either one 16-oz. three-wick candle or three 8-oz. candles.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Trivia Miss Cordelia’s, 737 Harbor Bend, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

You’re a master of karate and friendship for everyone.

The Mesmerist by Jeffrey Day Woodruff-Fontaine House Museum, 680 Adams, 7-8:30 p.m., $50 Be transported to “The Golden Age of Magic” at this one-man magic show based on the magicians of the 19th century.

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Tribute to The Beatles Show The Bluff, 535 S. Highland, 7-9 p.m.

Little darling, it’s been a long, cold, lonely winter. But here comes the sun — in the form of a Beatles tribute, where School of Rock students perform their first show of the season.

Yoga Nidra and Crystal Singing Bowls with Kris Brack Delta Groove Yoga, 2091 Madison, $16 Reach pratyahara (withdrawal of senses) with a guided meditation into yogic sleep, a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, followed by a sound bath created with crystal singing bowls and other instruments.

Dieselboy with Cyberoptics and Memphis House Mafia Growlers, 1911 Poplar, 9 p.m.3 a.m., $15/advance, $20/door Brooklyn-based drum and bass DJ and producer Dieselboy performs.

Also hear music by Memphis House Mafia, featuring Pat Allgood, FreeWill, and Brian Hamilton.

Dystopia Black Lodge, 405 N. Cleveland, 10 p.m.-2:30 a.m., $5-$10 This new goth event presented by Arcana and Black Lodge combines music, film, and dance. DJs Plastic Citizen, Ivellios, and Faust will spin goth, dark wave, and industrial tracks, from classic goth club hits to current artists.

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Talkin’ that nerdin’ out, cosplay, anime blues

By Julia Baker

Nerd Nite Memphis hosts its monthly talk series at Highland Axe and Rec this Wednesday, where speakers will talk about conventions in Memphis.

Nerd Nite was originally established in Boston in 2003 as a way for nerds and non-nerds to get together, drink, and learn. Since its inception, the series has become so popular that more than 100 cities worldwide have adopted the programming.

Nerd Nite Memphis has covered a multitude of subjects like sperm transfer, string theory, and Aztec mythology. Now, they’re bringing their first talk of 2020 with a cons (short for “conventions”) theme, featuring Jessi Gaston, adult track director of Anime Blues Con, and Danny Chamberlin, chairman of MidSouthCon. Gaston has been with Anime Blues Con since its first meeting 10 years ago at Starbucks.

“I showed up to that meeting and George [the co-founder] asked me what I wanted to do,” she says. “I told him I wanted to do programming, and he said, ‘Okay, do it.’”

Since that encounter, Gaston has stuck with the Japanese arts and culture convention crew, volunteering her time as adult track programming director and briefly as con chair.

“I think a lot of people don’t realize it’s actually pretty much a 365-days-a-year job,” says Gaston.

Despite that, Gaston says the last 10 years with the convention have been rewarding.

“One year, we brought in a famous Japanese fashion designer, and being able to meet him and see him in person was really special for me because I’ve been a fan of his work for a long time,” she says. “It was kind of like the culmination of putting in these hours, and you actually get to be a part of this.”

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Eat your heart out at this annual event in support of the National Kidney Foundation. Also music, entertainment, live auction, and games.

Read in Peace Elmwood Cemetery, 824 S. Dudley, 1-2:30 p.m., $5 Authors Chanelle Benz (The Gone Dead), John Babb (Voices of the Dead), and others will speak about and read from their published works, answer questions, and sign copies.

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TUESDAY January 28 Bleus, Blues, and Brews Wiseacre Brewing Company, 2783 Broad, 2 p.m., $20 It’s all about that funk! Beers will be paired with stinky cheese. Learn about the role fermentation plays in beer and cheese making. Live blues music to close out the night.

Finders Keepers | MCA Art Sale and Auction Memphis College of Art, 1930 Poplar, 6-9 p.m.

Huge sale featuring over 500 pieces spanning more than a century.

Featured artists include Burton Callicott, Ted Faiers, Edward Giobbi, Veda Reed, William Roberson, Ted Rust, Dolph Smith, Dorothy Sturm, and others.

International Blues Challenge Beale Street, various locations and times, $100 (IBC pass) Blues fans and artists from around the world gather at various venues on Beale Street as the best undiscovered blues talent from near and far competes. Also music industry panels, workshops, master classes, afternoon jams, late-night jams, and more. Runs January 28th through February 1st. International Blues Challenge pass grants entry into various showcases, competition venues, seminars, and more throughout the week. Admission price (for those not purchasing passes) varies across competition venues. Visit blues.org for more information.

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Choppa is protective of his hometown: “I don’t know,” he tells the Flyer. “So many good artists are in Memphis. It’s always been a lot of good artists, but we’re just kinda underappreciated.”

For Choppa, turning up comes as naturally as breathing; he’s a creature of Memphis’ strobe-lit skating rinks. Not only that, but his mother Angela seems to have passed down a rapturous and very Jamaican appetite for fun. Had it not been for her, Choppa’s sturdiest achievement so far — sprinkling patois in rap’s everyday vocabulary — might never have come to pass.

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“‘Shottas’ is really just a Jamaican thing, a Jamaican term,” he says. “And my mom being from there, I was exposed to that culture.” Asked if he was reared on dancehall music, Choppa doesn’t miss a beat: “Oh, yeah.”

Choppa had a softer landing than many in hip-hop, where broken homes far outnumber stable ones. (His father, like his mother, is, by all accounts, present and supportive.) But this dude is self-made. As he puts it, “My success mostly comes from having that independence. I never asked for nothing.”

It was Choppa who, if not pioneered, then certainly perfected one of the greatest

flows in current hip-hop, a galloping, joyously bumpy cascade of syllables. It was Choppa who built a thriving brand from scratch. And it was Choppa who proved a hard-nosed negotiator: Rare is the teenager who knows a skunk, or a lousy distribution deal, when he smells one.

(Over the summer, Choppa launched his own imprint, the Warner-aligned No Love Entertainment, but not before clearing his share of hurdles.)

“My phone was blowing up; I had all these offers, but I didn’t get overwhelmed because this is what I wanted,” Choppa says. “This is what I had been praying for for so long.”

All of which is to say young people have good reason to idolize Choppa.

And idolize him they do, ascribing a near-liturgical weight to his every public utterance. Part of it has to do with Choppa’s charisma, which is almost generational; it stopped millions of fans cold the first time they heard “Capo,” last year’s crunk-and-disorderly street anthem.

Only Choppa could paper the airwaves with a tacit endorsement of the NFL’s most reviled QB (“I got good aim in the pocket like I’m Brady”) and not catch any grief for it.

On record, Choppa sounds like he’s nearing transition from man to Tasmanian devil. In conversation, he’s much different. He speaks in a serenely undaunted drawl. He seems content — a justifiable state of mind when you consider the year he’s had. For months now, he’s sat atop Billboard’s Emerging Artists chart. His songs have been streamed over one billion times. “Shotta Flow” is at 850 million streams and counting. He’s currently touring behind Cottonwood, his EP from late December.

Cottonwood is awash in guns, gore, and splatter, but it’ll get your shoulders shimmying. It also includes a verse from the great Meek Mill, who, like Choppa, is telegenic but quarrelsome. “Meek is definitely an influence just in how true he stays to himself and how outspoken he is,” Choppa says.

If you stay apprised of his Twitter activity, you know Choppa gets asked this question more than any other: “When’s the album coming out?” Fans were hoping to ring in the new year with Choppa’s new full-length, Top Shotta; now, it looks like they’ll have to wait until spring.

Meanwhile, Choppa himself is looking farther afield.

“I wanna be the biggest artist,” he says matter-of-factly. “And I don’t see why I shouldn’t be.”

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The King Beez Thursdays, 5 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.

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

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

Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; FreeWorld Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-11 p.m.

King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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Lunch on Beale with Chris Gales Wednesdays-Sundays, 12-4 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

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

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

Sonny Mack MondaysFridays, 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.

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

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

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Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Saturdays, 4:30-8:30 p.m. and Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and Fridays, 4-8 p.m.; Jimmy James Band Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Cowboy Neil Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Soul Street Mojo Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

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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.

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Semi-Average Joe Thursdays, 6 p.m.; Andrew Cabigao Jan. 24-25, 6 p.m.; Resolution Ruiner Party with Chad Bearden Friday, Jan. 24, 7 p.m.; Chad Bearden Saturday, Jan. 25, 10 p.m.; Jerry Patton Sunday, Jan. 26, 2 p.m.; AJ McLean Monday, Jan. 27, 8 p.m.; Jennifer Westwood & Dylan Dunbar Tuesday, Jan. 28, 7 p.m.; Rodell McCord Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Royal Blues Band Sunday, Jan. 26, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

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

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN 525-1515

An Evening with Pop Superstar Amy Grant Saturday, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.

Center for Southern Folklore Hall

The Lounge at 3rd & Court 24 N. B.B. KING BLVD 930-0793

John Williams and the A440 Band Fridays, 9 p.m.; Soul Jazz Trios with Joe Restivo Sundays, 7 p.m.

Mesquite Chop House 88 UNION

Richard Wilson Saturday, Jan. 25, 7-10 p.m.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

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Rumba Room

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

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Garry Goin Presents Road to Memphis Friday, Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m.

Katrina Burgoyne Sunday, Jan. 26, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Devil Train Friday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.

Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Deborah Swiney Jazz Trio Jan. 24-25, 7-10 p.m.

679 ADAMS 524-1886

Da Crew Saturday, Jan. 25, 8-10 p.m.

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

Sunrise 670 JEFFERSON

Richard Wilson Friday, Jan. 24, 8-11 p.m.; Sunweight Saturday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m.

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.

119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

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The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

Chris Johnson Friday, Jan. 24, 8:30 p.m.; Katrina Burgoyne Saturday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m.

1884 Lounge 1555 MADISON 609-1744

Sunny Sweeney, Erin Enderlin Thursday, Jan. 23, 9 p.m.

B-Side 1555 MADISON 347-6813

Kill Vargas, Glorious Abhor, Wine Witches, Late Night Cardigan Friday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m.; Jack Oblivian Saturday, Jan. 25, 10 p.m.; BatCave Jambalaya Sunday, Jan. 26, 7 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; David Cousar Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Outer Ring Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Steve Selvidge Friday, Jan. 24, 10 p.m.; Lucky 7 Brass Band Saturday, Jan. 25, 10 p.m.; Mary Gagz and Her Gaggle of Girlz Mondays, 9 p.m.

January 23-29, 2020

Sean Apple Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m. and; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.1:30 a.m.; Landon Lane with Rodney Polk Mondays, 7-11 p.m.; International Blues Challenge Jan. 28-31, 5-10:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Ghost Town Jam Band Wednesday, Jan. 29, 10:30 p.m.

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Iris at the Brooks with Conrad Tao Sunday, Jan. 26, 3 p.m.

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

Karaoke Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.; Gutted Alive, Gutted Christ, Hate Doctrine, Epoch of Unlight Friday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.; Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.

Hi Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Dirty Mike, The Eastwoods Thursday, Jan. 23, 10 p.m.; Newscast, Super Low, Schaefer Llana Friday, Jan. 24, 10 p.m.; Late Night Cardigan, Hash Redactor, The Ellie Badge Saturday, Jan. 25, 9 p.m.; Gruph Sunday, Jan. 26, 10 p.m.; Louise Page, Shadow Year, Model

Seeing Red Saturday, Jan. 25, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Swingtime Explosion Sunday, Jan. 26, 4 p.m.; Madison Line Mondays Mondays, 6 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; John & Kory Wednesday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m.

Lamplighter Lounge 1702 MADISON 726-9916

Punky Reggae Party Friday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m.

Orion, Jack Alberson, Ben Ricketts Tuesday, Jan. 28, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Matt Hill Friday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Saturday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony Chapman, Charles Cason, and Miss Joyce Henderson Fridays,

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe Live Music with DJ ALXANDR Fridays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Coldway Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Punk Rock + Darkwave Saturday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m.; Sun Not Yellow, Blvck Hippie, Madd Well Wednesday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m.

East Memphis

Poplar/I-240

Clark Opera Memphis Center

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

6745 WOLF RIVER PARKWAY

WKNO Live Broadcast: Puccini Double Bill Tuesday, Jan. 28, 6:30-9 p.m.

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

Summer/Berclair Barbie’s Barlight Lounge 661 N. MENDENHALL

Cooper-Young District

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

CORNER OF COOPER AND YOUNG

High Point Pub

Philly’s Got-You-Covered Fest Saturday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m.

477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

The Cove

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

2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Grape Friday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.; Hope Clayburn & the Soul Scrimmage Saturday, Jan. 25, 9 p.m.; Jazz Jam with Frog Squad Sundays, 6 p.m.; Freeman Weems Mondays, 6 p.m.; Comedy with Geno Mondays, 8 p.m.; Gayland Grooms Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Whitehaven/ Airport Guest House at Graceland 3600 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-3322

Rob Haynes ThursdaysSaturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Live Music Mondays-Wednesdays, Sundays, 7-11 p.m.

Crosstown Arts at The Concourse 1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 507-8030

The Music of Joe Sample Saturday, Jan. 25, 7 p.m.

Hernando’s Hide-A-Way 3210 OLD HERNANDO 398-7496

Crosstown Theater 1350 CONCOURSE

Alex Greene & the Rolling Head Orchestra performs A Trip to the Moon and Aelita: Queen of Mars Thursday, Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts 1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 507-8030

The Reba Russell Band Friday, Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m.; KO & The Crew Wednesday, Jan. 29, 7:30 p.m.

Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Hawthorne Heights, Emery, Bad Luck, Vagrants Thursday, Jan. 23, 7 p.m.; Dieselboy, Cyberoptics, Memphis House Mafia Friday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.; Jason Hawk Harris Saturday, Jan. 25, 4 p.m.; Beitthemeans, The Devil’s Right Hand, Reframe, The Whiskey Wells Saturday, Jan. 25, 9 p.m.; British Lion, Joecephus and the George Jonestown Massacre

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

Owen Brennan’s

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

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Neil’s Music Room

THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

Dru’s Place

4029 RHODES

663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

Celtic Crossing

1474 MADISON 275-8082

Pagan Mom House

Zero Monday, Jan. 27, 9 p.m.; C.W. Stoneking, Moses Crouch Tuesday, Jan. 28, 9 p.m.; DJ Zirk B-Day and Album Release Party Tuesday, Jan. 28, 9 p.m.; Electric Animals Wednesday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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.

Huey’s Midtown

Murphy’s

1927 MADISON 726-4372

1589 MADISON 726-4193

Java Trio Sunday, Jan. 26, 4-7 p.m.; The Natchez Brothers Sunday, Jan. 26, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

The Fast Mothers Saturday, Jan. 25, 9 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room

The Infinite Calling Album Release Saturday, Jan. 25, 7-9 p.m.

2119 MADISON 207-5097

David Kurtz Thursday, Jan. 23, 6 p.m.; Three Star Revival Thursday, Jan. 23, 9 p.m.; Amber McCain Band Friday, Jan. 24, 6:30 p.m.; Almost Famous Friday, Jan. 24, 10 p.m.; Brooke Fair Saturday, Jan. 25, 10:30 a.m.; Midnight Train From Memphis Saturday, Jan. 25, 6:30 p.m.;

Oothoon’s 410 N. CLEVELAND

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rockstar Karaoke Fridays; Columbia Jones Saturday, Jan. 25, 9 p.m.; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Kai

Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.; Memphis Blues Society Juke Jam Sundays, 4 p.m.

Craft Republic 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

East of Wangs 6069 PARK 763-0676

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND 454-7771

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Animals Rock By Rock 101 Friday, Jan. 24, 6:30-7 p.m.; Tribute to The Beatles Show Friday, Jan. 24, 7-9 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Eddie Harrison Tuesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.; Lee Gardner Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.

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

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

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

GA-20 Friday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m.; Them Durrty Crooks, Jimbo Mathus Friday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.; Tanya Montana Coe, Yesse Yavis Friday, Jan. 24, 10 p.m.; Big Barton Saturday, Jan. 25, 9 p.m.; Turnstyles Sunday, Jan. 26, 9:30 p.m.; Jazzy Mondays Monday, Jan. 27, 8 p.m.; Honky Tonk Wednesdays with Dale Watson & his Lone Stars Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

Rock-n-Roll Cafe 3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

Elvis Tribute featuring Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Live Entertainment Mondays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Elvis Gospel Music Show Fridays, 1-2:30 p.m.; Karaoke hosted by DJ Maddy Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

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Sunday, Jan. 26, 9 p.m.; Jeremy Pinnell, Chrome Pony, The Minks Wednesday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m.

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Jam Cracker Sunday, Jan. 26, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland/Lakeland

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

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

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

Frayser/Millington Huey’s Millington

Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Rockstar Karaoke with Charlie Belt Thursdays, 8 p.m.

The Dantones Sunday, Jan. 26, 8-11:30 p.m.

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Dueling Pianos Friday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Hollywood Casino

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The Chaulkies Sunday, Jan. 26, 6-9 p.m.

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

Pop’s Bar & Grill

Raleigh

6365 NAVY 872-0353

Possum Daddy or DJ Turtle Thursdays, 5-9 p.m.; CeCee Fridays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; Possum Daddy Karaoke Wednesdays, 6-10 p.m. and Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2465 WHITTEN 379-1965

Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Germantown

Shelby Forest General Store

Germantown Performing Arts Center

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Steak Night with Tony Butler and the Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Open Mic Night and Steak Night Thursdays, 6 p.m.midnight; Blues Jam hosted by Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas Southland Casino Racing

1801 EXETER 751-7500

Iris Orchestra presents Classical Grit and Grind: Celebrating Memphis with Conrad Tao Saturday, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.

Collierville

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Huey’s Collierville 2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Jamie Baker & the VIPs Sunday, Jan. 26, 8-11:30 p.m.

1550 N. INGRAM, WEST MEMPHIS, AR 800-467-6182

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101.

JANUARY 23-29

DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.

Works by Daniel Rudolph and others at Mid-South Artist Gallery, Sunday, January 26th, 2-4 p.m.

TH EAT E R

Circuit Playhouse

Indecent, in 1923, a Jewish theater troupe was arrested on the grounds of obscenity.

Playwright Paula Vogel recounts the controversy surrounding this play and the lives of the actors who created it. playhouseonthesquare.org. $47.

Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Feb. 16.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

January 23-29, 2020

Playhouse on the Square

Memphis the Musical, in the 1950s, on the Downtown streets of Memphis, rock-and-roll was born.

In a seedy bar on Beale, music spoke to the soul of a local country boy. playhouseonthesquare.org. $27. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Feb. 8.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Tennessee Shakespeare Company

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, based on the children’s book by Kate DiCamillo about the voyage of a toy rabbit that travels the world, including the bustling streets of Memphis.

The journey has lessons of love, the loss of love, and how to love again. tnshakespeare.org. $15-$29.

Wednesdays, Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. Through Feb. 16.

7950 TRINITY (759-0604).

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When We Get Good Again, when a brilliant, idealistic, but poor college student is tempted by a

lucrative job selling term papers to her classmates to pay her tuition, she wonders: Is it ever okay to put being good on hold? playhouseonthesquare.org. $27.

Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m. Through Jan. 26.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

Clough-Hanson Gallery

Opening Reception for “The One Who Looks, Looks Upon the One Who Looks Upon the One Who Looks Upon…,” exhibition by poly artists Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller of the band Adult. rhodes.edu. Fri., Jan. 24, 5-7 p.m.

RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).

Mid-South Artist Gallery

Opening Reception for Daniel Rudolph, exhibition of paintings

by Daniel Rudolph and work by other area artists including Sandy Swett, Katie Lindsey, Becky Ross McRae, Jon Woodhams, Sandra Horton, Frederick Lyle Morris, and more. Sun., Jan. 26, 2-4 p.m.

2945 SHELBY.

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

16th Annual Chinese New Year Family Day and Art Contest: A Peaceful New Year for the Rat

Celebration of the first full moon on the lunar calendar. Featuring cultural demonstrations, paper cutting, origami, Chinese knotting,

calligraphy, Tai Chi, and cultural films. Sat., Jan. 25, 12-4 p.m.

BELZ MUSEUM OF ASIAN AND JUDAIC ART, 119 S. MAIN (523-ARTS), BELZMUSEUM.ORG.

Artist Talk: Creative Destination with Pam Santi

Local artist and community collaborator will discuss how she uses her artwork to engage the community and create inspired works. In conjunction with “Color Schemes: The Value of Intensity.”

Wed., Jan. 29, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 (507-8030), CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Artist Talk for “The One Who Looks, Looks Upon the One Who Looks Upon the One Who Looks Upon…”

Exhibition by poly artists Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller of the band Adult. Thurs., Jan. 23, 6 p.m.

RHODES COLLEGE, BLOUNT AUDITORIUM IN BUCKMAN HALL, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000), RHODES.EDU.

Casting Demonstration

Saturdays, Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), METALMUSEUM.ORG.

“Finders Keepers”

More than 500 works spanning a century. Opening sale and live auction on Saturday. An online catalog of high-end works will be available along with the directions to obtain a bidding number. Sat., Jan. 25, 6-9 p.m., and Jan. 27-29, 10 a.m.

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), MCA.EDU.

Jazz-A-Fire

$20. Last Sunday of every month, 4-7 p.m.

BRINSON’S, 341 MADISON (524-0104), MEMPHISBLACKARTSALLIANCE.ORG.

Looking Inward: Mindfully Looking at Art

Program, led by Stephen Black, delves into the restorative powers of art and meditation to help participants quiet the mind, observe art, and let go of mental clutter to experience art in new ways. Free. Fourth Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), DIXON.ORG.

Open on Main: My Memphis View Art & Gallery Artist Mary-Ellen Kelly will be selling “My Memphis View” products including books, prints, T-shirts, drink coasters, and posters, as well as featuring a local emerging artist every three weeks.

Ongoing.

MY MEMPHIS VIEW ART & GALLERY, 5 S. MAIN, MARYELLENKELLYDESIGN.COM.

Opening Weekend Brunch Buffet + Talk

Harlem Renaissance-inspired menu followed by lecture, “Black Women Artists and Institution Building during the ‘New Negro Movement,’” by Dr. Earnestine Jenkins. $35. Sun., Jan. 26, 12-3 p.m.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), DIXON.ORG.

Scribble Exhibition Vol. I

Exhibition of work created on pizza boxes while unwinding together.

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Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection. Ongoing.

“IEAA Ancient Egyptian Collection,” permanent exhibition of Egyptian antiquities ranging from 3800 B.C.E. to 700 C.E. from the Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology collection.

Ongoing.

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

Art Village Gallery

“Out of Africa: Inhabitants of the Earth,” exhibition of work

by Nigerian artist Uchay Joel Chima. artvillagegallery.com.

Ongoing.

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

ArtsMemphis

“Unfolding: The Next Chapter in Memphis,” exhibition of visual art by local Memphis artists, curated by Kenneth Wayne Alexander. artsmemphis.org.

Free. Ongoing, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

575 S. MENDENHALL (578-2787).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

“Chinese Symbols in Art,” ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. belzmuseum.org.

Ongoing.

119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“Reflections by the Sea,” exhibition of quilts, paintings, and photographs by Marilyn League and Frederique Zindy.

Through Feb. 24.

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

Clough-Hanson Gallery

“The One Who Looks, Looks Upon the One Who Looks Upon the One Who Looks Upon…,” exhibition by poly artists Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller of the band Adult. rhodes.edu. Jan. 23-March 21.

RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).

The CMPLX

“The Audacity: Addressing Our Representation in Popular Culture,” exhibition of original fiction worlds, stories, and characters created by black illustrators, comic and manga artists, and toymakers. Through March 21.

“Sankofa,” exhibition of work by Amber George and Nubia Yasinblend blending folklore and their own stories with elements of African spiritualism and folk magic.

Through March 21. thecltv.org 2234 LAMAR AVENUE

“Asiko: Moments,” exhibition of new work by Olaniyi R. Akindiya Akirash. Through Feb. 9.

“Color Schemes: The Value of Intensity,” exhibition of new works by by Anthony Lee, Suzy Hendricks, Justin Bowles, and more. Through Feb. 9.

“Selected Animations,” exhibition of new work by Ezra Johnson. Through Feb. 9.

1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 (507-8030).

David Lusk Gallery

“Between a Thought and a Thing,” exhibition of sculptures and paintings

by Tad Lauritzen Wright. davidluskgallery.com.

Through Feb. 8.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Renaissance Woman,” exhibition of sculpture, and legacy of one of 20th-century America’s most influential artists, Augusta Savage (18921962). Through March 22.

“Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum,” exhibition of collage by Romare Bearden.

Through March 22.

“To Disappear Away: Places Soon To Be No More,” exhibition of multimedia works including painting, collage, readymade sculpture, music, film, and photography by Lawrence Matthews whose images are an exploration of gentrification. Through April 4.

“At Home at the Dixon,” exhibition of work Inspired

by William Chase’s “A Memory” by William Eggleston and Jennifer Steinkamp. Jan. 26-March 21. dixon.org.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery

“An Unobstructed View,” exhibition of paintings by Shelley Gentry. eacc.edu.

Through Jan. 31.

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

Eclectic Eye

“The Art of My Healing,” exhibition of paintings depicting movement and color by Judy Weintraub. eclectic-eye.com. Through Feb. 26.

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. memphisblackartsalliance. org. Ongoing.

THIS WEEK AT

Germantown Performing Arts Center

“The Chosen Ones,” exhibition of works by Danny Broadway. Through March 5.

“Take A Closer Look Revisited,” exhibition of photography by Memphis native Jack Kenner. Through Feb. 3. gpacweb.com.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Graceland

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

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Jay Etkin Gallery

David Hall, exhibition of watercolor works on paper. jayetkingallery.com. Ongoing.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

“The 35th Parallel,” exhibition of works by Chuck Johnson. lrossgallery.com. Through Feb. 1.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Marshall Arts Gallery

“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

“Bicentennial Blues Bed,” new, year-long planting celebrating the Bluff City’s bicentennial, located just outside of the Four Seasons Garden. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Ongoing.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“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.

“Ernest C. Withers: Baseball Photographs,” exhibition that examines African-American identity and representation as captured through the lens of noted civil rights-era photographer Ernest C. Withers. Through July 5.

Rotunda Projects: E.V. Day’s “Divas Ascending,” artist E.V. Day has repurposed costumes from the New York City Opera archives to make a series of sculptures that transform familiar icons of women’s empowerment and entrapment into new objects that confound conventional readings of these clichés. Through July 5.

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

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ROUGAROUX RELEASE PARTY

Join Crosstown Brewing Co. for the release of a new limited beer, Rougaroux. Full Dog Food truck will be there serving food, starting at 2pm, and a music video filming and live performance by The Turnstyles starting at 6pm.

12:00pmHEALTH - 10:00pmKNITTING & CROCHETING GROUP CHURCH Crosstown Brewing Co.

9:30am - 11:30am FREE Cafe at Crosstown Arts FREE

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NO MEAT MEET-UP VEGAN POTLUCK

3:00pm - 5:00pm Cafe at Crosstown Arts

This event is open to everyone — vegans, vegetarians, and the veg-curious, but please bring a dish prepared without meat, dairy, and eggs. There’s no set standard for how many people your dish should serve, but a dish that serves 8-10 people is a good bet.

FREE CROSSTOWN RUN CREW : JANUARY 2020 FUN RUN!

5:30pm - 7:30pm Plaza FREE

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CROSSTOWN WALKERS

12:00pm - 1:00pm Red staircase in East Atrium

01.29 FREE

This winter, Crosstown Walkers will kick off a free 10-Week Indoor Walking Program, which runs from January 22-April 1st. Sign up to commit to getting your steps in around Crosstown Concourse.

Receive a health assessment, nutrition education, and swag bags.

CROSSTOWN ARTS

The Cutaway ARTIST TALK: CREATIVE DESTINATION WITH PAM SANTI Acoustic Guitar Series:

5:30pm - 6:30pm Crosstown Arts, West Gallery FREE

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ALBERTO LOMBARDI 7:30 - 9:30pm The Green Room | $15

CROSSTOWN ARTS PORTION Family Workshop:

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ONCE A STORYAND RYANUPON LEE CROSBY 10:30 12:00pm GRANT SMITH WITH SHAUN Screening | GREEN FREE ROOM MARSH Room IN THE

7:30 pm The Green Room | $10 A TRIP TO THE MOON & AELITA: QUEEN OF MARS A TRIP TO THE MOON & with live score

by Alex Greene &AELITA: The Rolling Head OF Orchestra QUEEN MARS 7:30 11:30pm with-live score by Alex Greene Crosstown Theater | $5 & The Rolling Head Orchestra 7:30 pm More This Week At Crosstown Arts: Crosstown Theater | $5 BOOKER T. JONES

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Sat Jan 18th 8:00 - 11:00pm, Crosstown Theater, $60 THE MUSIC OF JOE SAMPLE • NO MEAT MEET-UP VEGAN POTLUCK 7:00 pm at Crosstown Arts, FREE Sun Jan 19th 3:00 - 5:00pm, Cafe Crosstown Arts East Atrium | $5 • ARTIST TALK: CREATIVE DESTINATION WITH PAM SANTI Sun Jan 19th 5:30 - 6:30pm, Crosstown Arts, West Gallery, FREE • RYAN LEE CROSBY AND GRANT SMITH WITH SHAUN MARSH Wed Jan 22nd 7:30 - 9:30pm, The Green Room, $10

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MIDTOWN CROSSING GRILL, 394 N. WATKINS (443-0502), THEHIVECLCTV.COM.

Crosstown Arts at The Concourse

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“Master Metalsmith: Sarah Perkins,” exhibition of work by the 2019 Master Metalsmith.

For over 30 years, this exhibition series has honored the most influential metal artists of the day, bringing the work of internationally acclaimed metalsmiths to Memphis for solo exhibitions.

Ongoing.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Overton Park Gallery

Dorothy Northern and Jennifer Sargent, exhibition of work. Ongoing.

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

Ross Gallery

“Forge, Cast, Fabricate,” exhibition of new work by artists from the Metal Museum. cbu.edu. Through Feb. 12.

“Stitched Dissent,” exhibition of textile by Paula Kovarik. cbu.edu. Through Feb. 12.

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

Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum

January 23-29, 2020

“Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography

by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. slavehavenmemphis.com.

Ongoing.

826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“Run This Town: Memphis Women of Soul,” exhibition of never-before-seen costumes, photographs, and other memorabilia, which tells the stories of 12 Memphis women and how they continue to shape the Memphis music landscape in the 21st century.

Through March 31.

Exhibition by Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller at Clough-Hanson Gallery, Fri., Jan. 24th

Prizm Ensemble. Free with RSVP. Sat., Jan. 25, 7 p.m.

and moment-capturing talent of selected members of The Memphis Camera Club. memphiscameraclub.com.

Through Jan. 30.

PO ET RY / S PO K E N WO R D

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

OPERA

Sue Layman Designs

WKNO Live Broadcast: Puccini Double Bill

Sue Layman Designs Ongoing Art, exhibition of oil-on-canvas paintings featuring brilliant colors and daring geometric shapes. suelaymandesigns.com.

Ongoing.

Behind-the-scenes look at Opera Memphis’ upcoming production. Darel Snodgrass will lead a discussion with Ned Canty and Michael Sakir.

Cast will rehearse excerpts from the opera. Free. Tues., Jan. 28, 6:30-9 p.m.

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

Talbot Heirs

CLARK OPERA MEMPHIS CENTER, 6745 WOLF RIVER PARKWAY, OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG.

Debra Edge Art, ongoing.

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

TOPS Gallery

“Allegory of the Unnamed Cave,” exhibition of a large-scale painting installation by Corinne Jones. topsgallery.com. Through March 14.

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Argentine Tango Society

“Allegory of the Unnamed Cave,” exhibition of a large-scale painting installation by Corinne Jones. topsgallery.com. Through

Indulge Lounge

Blindfold Poetry Slam, poets will compete in three elimination rounds for the chance to win cash prizes.

Judges will be blindfolded for first round. Wear any type of camo for this camouflagethemed night of poetry. $10$20. Sat., Jan. 25, 4 p.m.

5959 WINCHESTER.

Wonder/Cowork/Create

Other People’s Poems, a gathering of people who enjoy poems and want to read and/ or recite them out loud. One rule: The poem is not one you wrote. This month’s theme is beginnings — whatever that means to you. (846-4515), Thurs., Jan. 23, 6-7 p.m.

340 MONROE.

All level dancers; everyone is welcome. $10. Wednesdays, 6-7:30 p.m.

BERT FERGUSON COMMUNITY CENTER, 8085 TRINITY (341-9282).

400 S. FRONT.

Tops Gallery: Madison Avenue Park

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483), BALLETOWHEELS.ORG.

March 14.

151 MADISON (340-0134).

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

“Enthusiasm,” exhibition of images reflecting the creativity

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Youth Classical Arts Concert

Collaborative event featuring Ballet On Wheels Dance Company, the Cordova High School Orchestra, and the

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Booksigning by By Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White Authors discus and sign All the Ways We Said Goodbye: A Novel of the Ritz Paris. Thurs., Jan. 23, 6 p.m.

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (9225526), NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.

Booksigning by April Pulliam and Amy Grantham

Author and illustrator discuss and sign the children’s books Bottom Down, Penelope Brown and Strong Is … Sat., Jan. 25, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Dr. Lisa Damour

Author discusses and signs Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls. Thurs., Jan. 23, 6:30 p.m.

HUTCHISON SCHOOL, 1740 RIDGEWAY (761-2220), HUTCHISONSCHOOL.ORG.

Read in Peace: A Book Event

Authors read and sign their published works. Featuring Chenelle Benz, The Gone Dead, John Babb, Voices of the Dead, Wayne Dowdy, Lost Restaurants of Memphis Susan Adler Thorp, Beloved:

A View of One of the South’s Oldest Jewish Cemeteries as Photographed by Murray Riss. $5. Sat., Jan. 25, 1 p.m.

personal tour. Ongoing.

ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.

E X POS/SA LES

(486-6325), FACEBOOK.COM/ YELLOWROCKGHOST.

AutoZone Park Job Fair

Hiring 2020 seasonal staff for both the Memphis Redbirds and Memphis 901 FC. Thurs., Jan. 23, 6-8 p.m.

LECTU R E / S P EA K E R

Pizza with Planners: Memphis History and Community Development

AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), MEMPHIS901FC.COM/ JOBFAIR.

Examines how Memphis histories — big and small, well-known and little-known — are shaping the lives of residents and the development of the Bluff City today. Free.

Tues., Jan. 28, 5:30-7 p.m.

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2020 International Blues Challenge

From Keeping the Blues Alive Ceremony and Brunch at Holiday Inn Select to International Blues Challenge on Beale to Awards Ceremony at Orpheum. Visit website for events schedule. Free-$100.

Jan. 28-Feb. 1.

THE CMPLX, 2234 LAMAR, BLDGMEMPHIS.ORG.

“What’s Shaking Memphis?”

Research associate Dr. Kent Moran at the U of M Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI), speaks about activity in the New Madrid fault line near Memphis. Free. Sun., Jan. 26, 1:30-3 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (216-2626), MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.

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Bicentennial History Hikes

Meet at the guest services desk in the Visitor Center.

Tuesdays, 2 p.m.

LICHTERMAN NATURE CENTER, 5992 QUINCE (767-7322), MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

City Tasting Tours

Savor tastings at five eateries, interact with chefs and managers, and sample local flavors while strolling down Main Street and enjoying new art installations and historic landmarks. WednesdaysSaturdays, 1:30 p.m.

CITYTASTINGTOURS.COM.

HEALTHY PETS HAPPY PEOPLE At Walnut Grove Animal Clinic, we make sure your loved ones are always our priority.

January 23-29, 2020

Full-Service, State-of-the-Art Veterinary Hospital. Pet Grooming and Boarding Facilities.

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Memphis: QueerAF! at Black Lodge, Saturday, January 25th, 9-11:30 p.m.

Cutting Garden Tours

Garden docents will focus on the cutting garden each week on Saturday morning. Meet in the Catmur Foyer to see the large urn design and start tour.

Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS,

4339 PARK (761-5250), DIXON.ORG.

Old Forest Hike

Walking tour of the region’s only urban oldgrowth forest. Last Sunday of every month, 10 a.m.

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour

See what used to be, Memphis-style, with Mike McCarthy. Call to schedule a

2959 Walnut Grove Road, Memphis, TN 38111 901-323-1177 • mymemphisvet.com New Expanded Hours: Mon.-Thu. 7:30a-9p Fri. 7:30a-5:30p / Sat. 8a-4p / Closed Sun.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, BLUES.ORG.

Chinese New Year Festival

Largest celebration of Chinese New Year in the Mid-South. Featuring lion dance, martial arts, fashion show, cultural dances, and Jinlinglong World Music Band from China. $20/$30.

Sat., Jan. 25, 6-8:30 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, ROSE THEATRE, 470 UNIVERSITY (468-8834), GMUCATN.ORG.

MAKE ROOM FOR MUSIC 2160 YOUNG AVE. | 901.207.6884 HALFORDLOUDSPEAKERS.COM

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HISTORIC DOWNTOWN CLARKSDALE, CLARKSDALE, MS, CLARKSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM.

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Crosstown Walkers Indoor Walking Program

AGRICENTER SHOWPLACE ARENA, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (757-7777), AGRICENTER.ORG.

KIDS

Farewell to PAW Patrol

A fun send-off party.

Nickelodeon’s Chase and Skye will be here for keepsake photos. Get a puppy tattoo, make a craft, and get a PAW Patrol goodie bag. $2 members, $19 nonmembers.

Sat., Jan. 25, 9 a.m.-noon.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS, 2525 CENTRAL (458-2678), CMOM.COM.

Kick off for 10-week indoor walking program. Meet at the red spiral staircase in the East Atrium. Commit to getting your steps, receive a health assessment, nutrition education, chance to win a gift card, and swag bags. RSVP by email porsche@crosstownarts.org.

Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, noon Through April 1.

PAW Patrol: Adventure Play

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE AVE., CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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Memphis Grizzlies vs.

Denver Nuggets

Free-flowing exhibit with activities encouraging teamwork, self confidence, and playing the roles of the rescuing heroes. Included with museum admission.

Through Feb. 2, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS, 2525 CENTRAL (458-2678), CMOM.COM.

Trivia

Always Sunny in Philadelphia

FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE, FEDEXFORUM.COM.

You’re a master of karate and friendship for everyone.

Thurs., Jan. 23, 6:30 p.m.

Memphis Grizzlies vs.

Phoenix Suns

MISS CORDELIA’S NEIGHBORHOOD GROCERY, 737 HARBOR BEND (5264772), CORDELIASMARKET.COM.

FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE, FEDEXFORUM.COM.

Back to the Moon: For Good

Tues., Jan. 28, 7 p.m.

Sun., Jan. 26, 5 p.m.

Memphis Tigers vs.

SMU Mustangs Mens Basketball Sat., Jan. 25, 3 p.m.

FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE, FEDEXFORUM.COM.

Walk ‘n’ Talk

Sip on a cup of tea or coffee from Fourth Cup while you listen to Memphians’ stories and share ideas with others.

Wednesdays, 6:45-7:30 a.m.

RIVER GARDEN, 51 RIVERSIDE DRIVE (312-9190), MEMPHISRIVERPARKS.ORG.

WWE Presents NXT Live

The next generation of WWE superstars battle it out. $25$75. Thurs., Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m.

MINGLEWOOD HALL, 1555 MADISON (312-6058).

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GFWC Metro Memphis Woman’s Club

Volunteer community service organization for Memphis women. Monthly guest speaker, service project, and other activities. Projects include domestic violence, advocates for children, arts, and more. Free. Fourth Thursday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m.

COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER, 3475 CENTRAL, GFWC.ORG.

Memphis Agricultural Club Meet in the C Wing of the Expo Building. Lunch provided for $10. Fourth Monday of every month,

Planetarium show that lets the audience relive the thrills of lunar exploration. Various times, see website for details.

Ongoing.

AUTOZONE DOME PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

BioTE Open House

Everyone who attends event will receive a 10 percent discount on any aesthetic services and will be entered into a drawing for Botox, filler, and Obagi skin care products.

Thurs., Jan. 23, 5-8 p.m.

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The Birds and the Seeds Winter Workshops and Seed Swap

Visitors will be able to swap seeds with each other and learn from birdwatching and gardening experts. Sat., Jan. 25, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

LICHTERMAN NATURE CENTER, 5992 QUINCE (767-7322), MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Breakfast with the Birds Enjoy breakfast overlooking Mertie’s Lake featuring birding basics followed by a guided bird walk through lake, meadow, and forest trails. Call for reservations or more information. $25.

Sat.-Sun., Jan. 25-26, 7:309:30 a.m.

The Chambers Escape Room

Escape room located on the second floor of the atrium.

Choose from two rooms where you can Escape Alive as a reluctant group of tourists or find stolen information in Mission Improbable. $25. Fri., Sat., 3 & 5 p.m.

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City of Hope: Resurrection City and the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign

The Poor People’s Campaign — a grassroots, multiracial movement — drew thousands of people to Washington, D.C., to demand social reforms while living side-by-side on the National Mall in a tent city known as Resurrection City. This poster exhibition explores the history and legacy of this important moment in U.S. history. Through June 30.

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362).

Dystopia

New goth event featuring music, film, and dance. DJs Plastic Citizen, Ivellios, and Faust will spin goth, dark wave, and industrial tracks, from classic goth club hits to current artists. $5-$10. Fri., Jan. 24, 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

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Star of the Osc ar winning docum entary 20 Feet from S tardom

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Fab Fridays: Laser Music Shows & Giant Screen Movies

All shows on CTI Giant Theater or AutoZone Dome Planetarium. Visit website for shows and times or more information. Fridays, 6-9 p.m.

AUTOZONE DOME PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Firepit Fridays

Friday-afternoon gathering with firepits, free s’mores, hot cocoa, and more. Fri. Through Jan. 24.

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Featuring pop-up movie theaters at Grandma’s Sports Bar and Hambone Gallery.

Panel discussions and workshops at the Delta Blues Museum and other venues.

Visit website for schedule.

Fri.-Sun., Jan. 24-26.

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Memphis: Queer AF!

Variety show with host Lisa Michaels brings LGBTQ+ performers from around the country to share their talents.

18+. legendofshelda.com. $10. Last Saturday of every month, 9-11:30 p.m. At Black Lodge.

405 N. CLEVELAND (272-7744).

The Mesmerist

Suited for an intimate theater audience, as was the case during the Victorian Era, and includes effects that have not been seen by today’s audiences. woodruff-fontaine.org. $50.

Fri., Jan. 24, 7 p.m., and Sat., Jan. 25, 7 p.m.

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Jugglers, fire eaters, sword swallower, and aerialists will entertain, astound, and amaze you during an unforgettable night of music, joy, and laughter. $50-$125. Sat., Jan. 25, 7-11 p.m.

MINGLEWOOD HALL, 1555 MADISON (312-6058), PEGASUSMEMPHIS.ORG.

Nerd Nite

Several folks give 18-21-minute fun-yetinformative presentations across all disciplines — while the audience drinks along.

18+ Wed., Jan. 29, 7 p.m.

style clowning, juggling, and balancing acts. $36. Thurs., Jan. 23, 5 & 7 p.m.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483), BUCKMANARTSCENTER.COM.

Sun, Earth, Universe

An interactive museum exhibit about Earth and space.

Ongoing.

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Take Your Dog to Bingo

Bring your dog on this special day of Cerrito Bingo. Players with a dog present will get an extra bingo card for their canine. Hollywood Feed staff will bring swag, treats, and prizes. Free. Sun., Jan. 26, 4-6 p.m.

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Nominations for the Quarterly Pick Award

Extended hours staying open till sunset. Each week will have a different highlight from plants to pets. Thursdays.

Recognize hard-working, caring professionals who show authentic Memphis hospitality.

Anyone in the hospitality and tourism industry is eligible to nominate for $100 cash prize and a trophy of recognition.

Through Jan. 24.

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Popovich Comedy Pet Theater The Moscow-born Gregory Popovich and his extraordinary four-legged stars featuring European-

Twilight Thursdays

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Yoga Nidra and Crystal Singing Bowls with Kris Brack

Reach pratyahara (withdrawal of senses) with a guided meditation into yogic sleep, a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, followed by a sound bath created with crystal singing bowls and

other instruments. $16. Fri., Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m.

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Bleus, Blues, and Brews

Beers will be paired with stinky cheese. Learn about the role fermentation plays in beer and cheese making. Live blues music to close out the night. $20. Sat., Jan. 25, 2 p.m.

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Chocolate Fantasy

Cookies, candy, ice cream, pastries, music, entertainment, live auction, and games benefiting the National Kidney Foundation. $20. Sat., Jan. 25, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Crosstown Brewing Co. Bluegrass Brunch

Get your brunch on with a rotating list of visiting food trucks and music by The Late Greats. Sundays, 1-4 p.m.

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Sat., Jan. 25, 5-8 p.m.

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Pancake Breakfast & Craft Show 2020

Join Millington Parks and Recreation for the Kiwanis Club’s annual pancake breakfast. $5 per adult and $2 per child. Entry to craft show is free. Call for more information. Tues., Jan. 28, 7 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Sunday Supper Series

Includes new cocktails, new bar menu, and a family-style, dinner. Raw bar and a list of cocktails, beer, and wine priced $10 or under will also be available. Call or visit website for reservations. $40.

Sundays, 3-9 p.m.

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Apollo 11: First Steps Edition

Film celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Check CTI Theater schedule for show times and ticket prices.

Ongoing.

CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Crosstown Arthouse presents A Trip to the Moon and Aelita: Queen of Mars

Live new score by Alex Greene & the Rolling Head Orchestra for two silent science-fiction classics, considered by many to be some of the greatest and most influential silent-era films ever made. $5. Thurs., Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m.

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House of Flying Daggers The Tang Dynasty is fighting to keep control over China, a battle they are losing. Two police deputies are ordered to investigate the dancer Mei, who is rumored to be working with the House of Flying Daggers.

But both men fall under her charms and decide to help her escape instead. Sat., January 25, 2-5 p.m. Free.

January FilmFest

Swim with a whale, walk on the moon, and go on safari with popular documentaries Journey to the South Pacific, Apollo 11, Wild Africa, and more. Visit website for schedule. Through Jan. 31.

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Pain and Glory

In the latest offering from acclaimed Director Pedro Almodóva, a film director reflects on the choices he’s made in life as past and present come crashing down around him. Starring Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz.

Wednesday, January 29, 7-9 p.m. $10.

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Superpower Dogs 3D

From hurricanes, earthquakes, and avalanches, canine rescuers use their incredible super senses to locate and rescue victims of disasters.

Various showtimes, check website for more details.

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The Memphis City Council tried to lower punishments set here for the possession of small amounts of cannabis back in October 2016. The move would have allowed Memphis Police Department officers to charge anyone in possession of less than a half-ounce of marijuana with a $50 fine or community service. However, state lawmakers voided the rule.

Sen. Sara Kyle (D-Memphis), who sponsored a raft of pro-cannabis legislation last year, is back this year with a new bill. Kyle wants to allow medical cannabis patients from other states immunity from Tennessee laws. If a person carries a medical marijuana patient identification card from another state and has less than

West Memphis Work is underway for three dispensaries to be open soon in West Memphis, according to WMCTV. The dispensary sites were approved by the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission in 2018. At the time, no work had begun on any of the West Memphis sites.

Plans were filed for the shop on OK Street in October. That one is from Body and Mind, a Vancouver-based, publicly traded company that offers dried flower, edibles, topicals, extracts, and vape pen cartridges.

West Memphis Mayor Marco McClendon told WMC that the lure of medical marijuana could help people from Memphis to move to his side of the Hernando DeSoto bridge.

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Buds of Summer ICYMI: Major League Baseball (MLB) players won’t face drug penalties from the league if they use cannabis.

MLB and the MLB Players Association announced last month that marijuana had been removed from the league’s list of banned substances, and its consumption among players will now be treated the same as alcohol.

Up to now, players were fined $35,000 if they tested positive for cannabis.

The new policy begins with spring training 2020, which starts on February 21st when the Rangers meet the Royals in Arizona.

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a half-ounce on them, they “do not commit an offense in this state.”

So, say you’re a patient from West Memphis and you carry your legally prescribed cannabis with you across the bridge. If Kyle’s bill were law, police here could not arrest nor charge you for carrying your medicine.

A number of other cannabis-related bills remain from the first part of the 111th legislative session. However, no major bill has yet been filed that would organize a medical marijuana system in Tennessee.

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The General Assembly cranked back up last week, and while it seems some new leaders may have dampened efforts toward medical cannabis, some other cannabis bills have already been filed.

New House Speaker Cameron Sexton said of cannabis legislation, “It’s against federal law. And so, until that changes, it’s hard to have a discussion.” However, other states have passed medical cannabis despite speakers’ reluctance, according to the Marijuana Policy Project.

Gov. Bill Lee said he wants to “explore alternatives before we go there.”

However, Rep. Rick Staples (DKnoxville) filed a bill last week that would allow referenda in Tennessee counties that would “authorize the growing, processing, manufacture, delivery, and retail sale of marijuana within jurisdictional boundaries.”

The bill also “decriminalizes the possession of small amounts of marijuana statewide.”

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’m a total baby about cold weather. If it dips below 50 degrees, I’ll easily opt for Uber Eats over a trip into the cold to get food. This is one reason I think places like the Arrive Hotel are so cool: Once you’re there, everything you need is in one place.

Arrive is home to Longshot restaurant, bakery Hustle & Dough, coffeeshop Vice & Virtue, and the lobby bar, Bar Hustle. Each has its own look, feel, and menu, so you can spend the afternoon wandering from one to the other without ever really leaving the building.

Ali Rohrbacher, formerly the head baker at the cafe Pablo Mata, lead bartender at Crosstown Arts and at at Arrive’s Bar Hustle The Liquor Store, runs the boutique bakery Hustle & Dough and shares the lobby with Tim and Teri jumped on that bandwagon and Perkins of Vice & Virtue. learned a lot from her.”

The bakery serves up homemade breads like For example, Bar Hustle sourdoughs and baguettes, as well as special pastries serves a cocktail with fermented and treats. Snacks for Bar Hustle are also cooked up blueberries, as well as a seasonal in the Hustle & Dough kitchen, like the mushroom kombucha. toast on porridge sourdough with basil pesto, wild Like fermentation, a focus on mushrooms, ricotta, and parmesan; or Grandma flavor is another commonality Alice’s Pecan Pie, served with an all-butter pie crust between the food and drink and dark chocolate ganache “black bottom” — the menus at Arrive. Bar Hustle offers Rohrbacher family recipe. a selection of specialty cocktails Erik Hmiel, beverage director for the hotel, says dreamt up by Hmiel, each with that fermentation is one thing the drinks and food their own unique ingredients and have in common. presentation. The Bird Graveyard is prepared with “One of the parallels that Ali [Rohrbacher], as a aquavit, Scotch, banana, carrot verjus, and marjoram chef and baker, and I share is a mutual interest and and served in a tumbler glass with one large ice cube. appreciation for fermentation,” Hmiel says. “Obviously, It tastes slightly sweet and earthy. The deep purple that’s a big part of bread-making. She’s really obsessed Fabio’s Roller Coaster is made with rye, lemon, in a great way with fermentation, and I’ve sort of fermented blueberry, pastis, dry vermouth, and

black sesame and served in a delicate coupe glass.

The cocktail menu is just as whimsical as the decor.

The lobby is filled with velvet couches, plants, and oriental rugs. It’s easy to feel like you’re in a speakeasy or in Europe or in an eccentric aristocrat’s penthouse. It certainly doesn’t feel like a hotel lobby.

And that’s, in part, because Bar Hustle is for locals as much as it is for hotel guests.

“We put a lot of time, effort, and thought into what we’re putting out there,” Hmiel says. “We also have a service industry night on Sunday. At the end of the day, we just wanted to be a fun and inviting space for everyone.

“One of the things we might do in the future is a series of pop-ups every month, or every two months. That’s something we’re thinking about right now, going into the new year,” Hmiel continues. Bar Hustle also hosts musicians on Friday nights and is looking to expand their entertainment offerings in the coming year.

So if, like me, you hate going out into the cold, but you also don’t want to feel too stir-crazy at home all winter, take a trip to Arrive. You can start your day with coffee at Vice & Virtue, have lunch at Hustle & Dough, then grab a cocktail and a show at Bar Hustle — all without leaving the hotel.

And, hey, if it’s too cold to go home, you can always rent a room for the night.

The Arrive Hotel is located at 477 S. Main.

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Breakfast Nachos, Anyone?

A chip off the old breakfast nacho — try this variation of migas.

Migas are about improvisation, and that spirit lives on in my breakfast nachos. I’ve swapped the corn chips for potato chips and would do it again. at the last minute.

Migas are about improvisation, and that spirit lives on in my breakfast nachos. I’ve swapped the corn chips for potato chips and would do it again. One thing I won’t be doing is waiting for the end of a bag to make my migas.

Breakfast Nachos Breakfast nachos are pan-fried like migas, rather than baked like nachos. You need a pan with a tight-fitting lid, preferably a heavy pan that can hold heat. Unless it’s a really big pan, you should prepare this dish one serving at a time, as you would an omelet.

In today’s rendition, I’ve included carrots and spinach, as they are currently in season, but you could prepare it with whatever vegetables you care to eat with breakfast.

Jalapeños are good. Mushrooms, too.

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Instructions: Beat the eggs and milk in an oversized bowl. Add the chips and gently toss them so they are completely coated and sitting in a pool of egg wash.

Heat the pan on medium. Add the carrot and oil (or chopped bacon), everything scattered so each piece makes contact with the pan. Give it a stir after about 4 minutes. After another 2 minutes, add the garlic, stir everything around, add the spinach on top, and cook another minute. Add the soggy chips and quickly give them a gentle stir to mix them with the carrots, garlic, and spinach.

Spread the chips evenly around the pan, then add the remains of the egg wash, sprinkle the cheese on top, and cover.

Cook for a minute with the lid on, then take a peek. If it looks like it’s setting up, with the egg on top looking close to cooked and the cheese melting, then turn it off and let it finish in place on the hot stove. If it’s not quite there, cook another 30 seconds with the lid on and check again. Repeat until it’s almost there, then turn off the heat and let the pan sit covered for about 10 minutes.

Stack it all into a steaming pile and serve with copious amounts of salsa and coffee.

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Breakfast nachos with egg, carrots, and spinach

Makes one large serving.

Ingredients: 2 eggs ¼ cup milk ½ cup (loosely packed) grated cheese 2 tablespoons oil (or bacon or side pork, chopped) 1 carrot, sliced into ¼-inch thick rounds 2 cups whole corn chips (shake the cup so they settle) 1 clove garlic, minced 1 handful of spinach or baby bok choy Serve with: salsa, coffee

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igas are a delicacy as old as tortillas.

The word is Spanish for “crumbs” — specifically the crumbs of tortillas of a certain age. North of the border, the tortilla fragments are usually served with salsa, beans, and sour cream.

The basic concept of cooking old chip shards has been independently invented countless times by folks who are weary of dipping increasingly smaller chips into their bowl of salsa and wish for some way to use those tasty, unwieldy crumbs at the bottom of the bag. At one time, that weary tortilla eater was me.

I found myself staring down the dregs of a bag of La Cocina de Josefina tortilla chips, determined to not allow that resource to go to waste. Taking the obvious route, I fried the little crumbs with bacon. The eggs followed the bacon, and the salsa followed everything. After that, and ever since, the bottom of a bag has been a time to rejoice.

These days, I sometimes don’t wait for the crumbs.

Instead, I make a migas variation with whole, unbroken chips. Breakfast nachos, as I call them, are for when migas just aren’t big enough.

I soak the chips in beaten egg and pan fry them with vegetables. This treatment gives the formerly crunchy chips a moist, pliable texture that’s somewhere between a tamale and a cheesy enchilada.

While happy hour-style nachos are a legendary beer sponge, breakfast nachos are at least as good at absorbing coffee, thanks to those eggs. And when you’ve got eggs and coffee, you’ve got breakfast. Hence the name.

This eggy tortilla matrix can absorb whatever vegetables and proteins you could think to add, with each addition cooked as needed so as to be ready when the eggs are done. Bright-green broccoli florets may not be a typical topping for nachos, but the egg helps them fit in.

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FILM By Chris McCoy

Bad Boys for Life Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for a curtain call.

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he thing you need to know about Bad Boys for Life is that Michael Bay didn’t direct it.

It’s probably unseemly for a critic to carry such a grudge against a specific director, but in my defense, Bay did waste a lot of my time. And it’s not as if my low opinion of Mr. Bay’s abilities is a controversial stance. The intro to his Wikipedia page contains the line: “Despite his commercial success at the box office, Bay’s work is generally held in low esteem by film critics.”

Yeah, you could say that. The last Michael Bay movie I had to sit through was Transformers: The Last Knight, which was considered a failure because it only made $604 million. I considered it a failure because it didn’t make a damn lick of sense. Bay recently convinced Netflix to pony up for $150 million worth of ’splody stuff for 6 Underground, but I’m not going to watch it due to my current self-care regimen.

Bay directed both the original 1995 Bad Boys and the 2003 sequel, which cast a pair of sitcom stars,

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, in a kind of Miami Vice scenario, except they’re both Tubbs. The first film made the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air a bonafide movie star. It was that very peculiar ’80s sub-genre, the buddy cop action comedy. They were once ubiquitous, but the pitch seems weird now: What if Death Wish was funny? What if Dirty Harry had a wisecracking sidekick? The buddy cop thing was pioneered by Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in 48 Hours, and then aped endlessly for 20 years. There were so many bad ones, but there was the occasional fun one, like Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines in Running Scared.

I said earlier that both Smith and Lawrence were Tubbs archetypes. That’s not entirely true. Smith’s Mike “Bulletproof ” Lowrey is definitely Tubbs-like.

He dresses, as Lawrence’s Marcus Burnett says late in Bad Boys for Life, like a drug dealer. He tears around Miami in a Porsche, and that’s where we meet him and Marcus for the first time in 17 years.

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The opening chase is a pretty impressive piece of action filmmaking. Bad Boys was the creation of one of the most toxic duos in film history, Bay and super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer. The new directors, the Belgian duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah seem to have been given instructions by Bruckheimer to “make it like Mike.” This looks like a Bay movie, only better. I get the impression that Arbi and Fallah would shoot the entire thing in 1,000 fps slo-mo if they could, like when they pause the action for a loving, extended close-up of a molotov 1/14/2020 11:12:24 AM a car. They’re not afraid to put a klieg cocktail hitting

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Bay’s signature wrap-around steadicam move appears a couple of times — the directors even use it to shoot Michael Bay’s cameo.

In Bay’s later career, what was even worse than his accidental chaos cinema was the contempt for the audience that dripped from his every putrid frame. It wasn’t just misogyny — although there was no shortage of that — it was the hatred that all of his characters had for each other, and the films had for them. Bad Boys for Life is still extremely violent (“Violence is what we do!” shouts Mike as he tries to get Marcus to break a vow of peace he made to God and mow some people down with a machine gun.) and plenty misogynistic (the villain,

Isabel Aretas [Kate del Castillo], is both a literal witch and Mike’s exgirlfriend), but that bottomless pit of bile is thankfully missing.

It’s Smith and Lawrence that redeem this film, to the extent that it is redeemed. They’re both miraculously well-preserved, their chemistry is great, and Smith’s movie-star charisma is set to stun. Sure, they’re copping licks from John Wick, Mission Impossible, Fast & Furious, and Fury Road left and right, but they’re having a good time doing it. I guess it just goes to show you, everything’s better without Bay on it.

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All the President’s Hits And the hits just keep on coming. The President killed an Iranian general in a drone strike early this month, and it’s already old news. There’s an old Southern expression you’ve probably heard. When a bad person comes to a violent end, somebody’s bound to say, “He needed killin’.” If anybody needed killing, it was General Qasem Soleimani, a brutal terrorist with buckets of blood on his hands. The president could have basked in reflected glory for a moment or two, but he couldn’t resist embellishing the event by claiming that the general was planning “imminent” attacks on at least four U.S. embassies, with absolutely no evidence. President Norman Bates then threatened to target 52 Iranian sites, one for each hostage taken 40 years ago, including cultural sites, which is against international law and considered a war crime.

A shooting war with Iran on the eve of the House of Representatives’ vote approving impeachment articles seemed inevitable, and the world held its breath waiting for the Iranian response. Everyone exhaled a bit when the Iranians shot rockets onto U.S. bases, causing no loss of life, then accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet and lied about it.

That may have tempered their retaliation for now, but you’re kidding yourself if you think this is over. Recent reports emerged saying Trump approved the strike seven months ago. That’s a long way from “imminent.” In return, the Iranians said they will no longer restrict the enrichment of uranium, something they had agreed to in the Obama-brokered nuclear deal. I’ll confess I never heard of Soleimani until they killed him, but I was stunned at how many of my Facebook friends suddenly became experts in Middle Eastern affairs.

On the cusp of the Senate impeachment trial of DonJohn the Cruel, I’d like to take back all the unflattering things I’ve written about Nancy Pelosi in the past. I sincerely apologize and freely admit that she is a badass. Her strategy of holding onto the articles of impeachment produced two beneficial results: She got under Trump’s skin, bigly, and every day that has passed has produced more incriminating evidence regarding the president’s crime ring’s dealings with Ukraine.

The two-part interview with Rudy Giuliani’s co-conspirator Lev Parnas by Rachel Maddow blew the lid off the entire shadow government conspiracy to coerce the Ukrainian president to publicly announce an investigation into the activities of Joe and Hunter Biden. An actual investigation wasn’t necessary, just the announcement would suffice to dirty up Biden.

Mr. Parnas said “everyone was in the loop,” including the president, Vice President Pence, Rudy Giuliani, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, and Attorney General William Barr. This isn’t an administration. It’s a criminal enterprise that includes the Departments of Energy, State, and Justice — and whatever and whoever Rudy represents.

Parnas claimed one of his reasons for going public was that he didn’t trust William Barr. “Am I scared? Yes,” Parnas said, making an end-run around the attorney general to get the truth in the open. I understand Parnas is under indictment for campaign finance charges, but I’d believe him before the proven serial liar who claims he doesn’t even know the guy who sat next to his personal attorney in numerous meetings together.

Now that this mess is in the Senate’s hands, I’ll never understand why the House allowed government officials and the White House to stonewall their investigation. Trump instructed his minions not to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee in any way, including providing document requests and appearances, and when nothing happened, it was — correctly — assumed that they got away with it.

Doesn’t anyone remember Susan McDougal? She was a Clinton associate prosecuted for fraud in the Whitewater investigation, which ultimately morphed into the Lewinski affair. She was offered a deal if she implicated Bill Clinton in wrongdoing. When she refused, she was declared in contempt of court and was incarcerated for 22 months, eight in solitary confinement. Shouldn’t the same fate befall Mick Mulvaney and Mike Pompeo? Getting numerous court orders might drag the process out until the election, and since the president’s noxious behavior was becoming more erratic by the hour, the House opted to just go ahead and impeach the morally challenged capo di tutti capi.

Trump tweeted in all caps, “I JUST GOT IMPEACHED FOR MAKING A PERFECT PHONE CALL!” It turned out to be the perfect justification for impeachment.

We’re about to see if the Senate will hold a real trial, including witnesses, or if “Grim Reaper” Mitch McConnell will bury the evidence and make it all go away. If witnesses are allowed and the Republicans want to call Hunter Biden, let ’em. What can he say that’s relevant to this conspiracy? Impeachment manager Congressman Adam Schiff said John Bolton’s testimony would be a “game changer,” although I wouldn’t expect Bolton to do the Democrats any favors. One positive is that a subpoena from the Senate can’t be ignored. If attempted by, say, the attorney general, the Senate sergeant at arms can forcibly retrieve him. Or he can take the Susan McDougal approach and go to jail until he changes his mind. Barr wouldn’t be the first attorney general sent to jail. Nixon’s A.G. John Mitchell holds that distinction.

The Trump bunch should take a close look at the Nixon example.

Everything always comes out eventually. Even if Trump completes his term, a plethora of books will be written by insiders ready to cash in. The senators who will decide the president’s fate have sworn an oath “to administer impartial justice, so help me God.” Since Trump is fond of quoting scripture to his rapture-crazed devotees, here’s something from Matthew 5:33: “You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.”

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