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That does it. Let it be known, with the Memphis Flyer’s readership as my witness, that the 64th annual Grammy Awards officially obliterated the last ounce of patience I had for any argument about so-called cancel culture. No, I’m not upset that Cedric Burnside’s I Be Trying won Best Traditional Blues Album — last year, the Flyer listed it as one of our top 10 albums of the year, and I’m always pleased when this publication’s record of excellent taste is affirmed. Rather, I’m totally unsurprised but equally disgusted that comedian and serial masturbator Louis C.K.’s album Sincerely Louis C.K. won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album. A headline from The Hollywood Reporter really sums it up: “Louis C.K. Wins Grammy for First Special Since Sexual Misconduct Allegations.” For those who don’t know or don’t remember, in 2017 five women accused C.K. of sexual misconduct, including masturbating in front of them. The comedian eventually admitted that “These Stories Are True.” But I don’t want to get off track. It’s not so much that C.K. won a Grammy that upsets me, though I can’t say I’m wild about that development. Rather, it’s that a very vocal contingent of the population will undoubtedly continue to crow about cancel culture despite clear indications that it’s nonexistent. “What about former Mandalorian actor Gina Carano?” some devil’s advocates might ask. To which I would promptly respond, “Oh, you mean the woman who claimed that being a Republican — a choice one makes — is akin to being a Jewish person forcibly relocated, tortured, or exterminated during the Holocaust? Yeah, pretty tone-deaf and egregious thing to say, right? She’s the star of the forthcoming Western film Terror on the Prairie.” Oh, and she’ll be at Fan Expo in Dallas in June. She’s still getting work, still collecting checks, and I would be flabbergasted if she doesn’t publish a ghost-written book about the evils of liberalism soon. Carano vs. Cancel Culture: My Stand Against the Elites or something like that. Look, cancel culture is not real. It’s made up, a bogeyman to drum up right-wing outrage and pearl-clutching fear in Fox News viewers. “You can’t say anything these days. You can’t even publicly denigrate another person for their culture. I ask you, what is the world coming to?” But why invent a completely cuckoo culture war? It’s the easiest way to get people to vote against their own self-interests. I’ve made a point to shy away from fuming about hypocrisy — the hypocrisy is the point, it seems. It’s an expression of power, of tribal solidarity. But something about this whole cancel culture debate has really ruffled my feathers. Consider how big a fuss is made, nationally and locally, about protecting children. From critical race theory, from CBD and Delta 8, from predators, from confusion about why little Sarah’s got two mommies. And yet Tennessee state Rep. Tom Leatherwood’s HB 233, which sets up a common-law marriage between “one man” and “one woman,” has no minimum age limit. The Sexual Assault Center of Middle Tennessee said this in a statement: “The Sexual Assault Center does not believe the age of consent should be any younger than it already is. It makes children more vulnerable to coercion and manipulation from predators, sexual and other.” Does that sound like a bill presented by people overly concerned with protecting children? We have got to get beyond these cancel culture/culture war concerns. There are real, dangerous threats facing us. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just this week released a report that it’s “now or never” if we want to limit global warming. Limit. Not stop, but limit. We are wasting time, energy, and money on spurious arguments when we should be working to end climate change, to end the current pandemic and prepare for the next one, to combat the housing crisis, to focus on any number of other concerns that N E WS & O P I N I O N actually limit many people’s quality of life. THE FLY-BY - 4 If you agree, I suggest that you do as I NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 6 will, and shut down any cancel culture talk POLITICS - 8 with one little phrase. I think it will be as FINANCE - 9 AT LARGE - 10 useful as “State’s rights to do what?” — the COVER STORY question I use to nip discussions about the “FAIRS & FESTIVALS” “true” cause of the Civil War in the bud. BY ABIGAIL MORICI - 12 The next time someone tries to warn WE RECOMMEND - 18 me about cancel culture, I’m just going to MUSIC - 20 say, “Louis C.K. won a Grammy for his CALENDAR - 21 BOOKS - 24 first special since his sexual misconduct FOOD - 25 allegations.” FILM - 27 Jesse Davis C LAS S I F I E D S - 30 jesse@memphisflyer.com LAST WORD - 31

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SNL razzed Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn last weekend. Cecily Strong nailed Blackburn’s accent and hairdo during “Weekend Update.” In the segment, the not-real Blackburn took a victory lap on her performance during the confirmation hearing of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, in which the real Blackburn asked Brown Jackson to define “woman.” Strong’s Blackburn becomes befuddled when Colin Jost asks her to define “woman.” “It’s not all biology,” she said. “Woman is cheerleader, nurse, teacher, prostitute. C’mon, you’ve seen them. They’re the ones that are always cold. They’re the ones that be shopping.” TH E S LAP The Slap launched a thousand memes, and the MEMernet couldn’t resist.

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Whatever happened to the project to fix the interchange at Crump and I-55? It’s back after seven years of quiet. Construction could start soon and last up to four and a half years. During that time, it could close Riverside Drive southbound and Crump Boulevard at Third. It could close the MemphisArkansas Bridge (the Old Bridge) for two weeks. It could cost up to $184.9 million. The Flyer last wrote about this project in 2015 when state officials decided to pause their plan for the interchange. The move came amid a rising chorus of concerns from many that the project would close the MemphisArkansas Bridge for nine months, beginning in 2017. However, TDOT continued to work on the project. Meetings to find contractors began in early March this year. Bids were open on the massive project after that and closed on March 25th. The three lowest bids were from Dement Construction Company ($184.9 million), Superior Construction ($157.9 million), and Bell & Associates Construction ($141.2 million). The new plan for the interchange seems similar to the prevailing design proposed in 2015. It would replace the current cloverleaf design at Crump and I-55 with a roundabout for local traffic and a long, elevated, sweeping flyover curve to keep I-55 traffic flowing without slowing to (or below) the current posted speed limit of 25 miles per hour. No firm date for construction to begin is set. However, bidding documents show construction companies must complete the project within a maximum of four and a half years and a minimum of two and a half years. The new plan would remove the entire south portion of the existing I-55 bridge over Metal Museum Drive and build a new one. Doing this would call for a two-week shutdown of the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge, according to bid documents. The construction sequence shows the project completed over six

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stages. The bridge closure would come at Stage 4c and reopen at the beginning of Stage 5. Once construction is underway, a series of alternate routes from interstates I-55, I-40, and I-240 will be implemented for traffic driving around the city. For example, those on I-55 northbound will be routed to use I-240 northbound. The project will also involve a number of local street detours. The major detour will come in Stage 2 of construction as the plan calls for southbound lanes of Riverside Drive to be closed; they would not reopen until the project is complete. Crump would also be closed at Florida. For this, the state plan would reroute much of the street’s traffic to South Parkway and Third Street. The project comes with a set of restrictions for builders. Temporary lane closures will only be allowed between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m., and only eight of them can happen on weekends. Noise walls must be built at the beginning of the project and pile drivers cannot be used until they are. Whatever Happened To is an occasional series that explores projects and plans that were once big news but went quiet.

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State lawmakers and cannabis industry representatives began working out details of a bill that would regulate products made with hemp-derived THC. As it is written now, the bill would ban the sale or possession of products that contain Delta 8, HHC, THC-O, and any others that have a THC concentration of more than 0.3 percent on a dryweight basis, which is already the federal legal limit for such products. The bill is sponsored by state Rep. William Lamberth (R-Portland) and state Senator Richard Briggs (RKnoxville). Both bills moved ahead last Wednesday in the legislative process with positive votes from a House Criminal Justice subcommittee and the Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee. A recent fiscal review of the proposal says retailers would stop selling the products, costing state and local tax coffers $4.8 million in the next fiscal year and $1.9 million in the years following. The Tennessee Department of Corrections projected that felony incarcerations would rise by one each year if the bill was passed, adding $2,900 in state costs per year. In Wednesday’s hearing, Lamberth said there are no regulations on these products, including the Delta 8 gummies that are widely available, and there are no packaging requirements. He said 115 people overdosed on these products, specifically Delta 8 products, last year because they contain “extraordinarily” high levels of THC, and 30 percent of those people were under the age of 5.

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Bill sponsor asks for clarification. The state and federal laws already set THC levels at 0.3 percent in these products. But Lamberth said products with higher concentrations are “being sold all over Tennessee. So, we must not have made it clear enough when we passed this before.” For all of this and more, he said he wants to clear up confusion on the issue for business owners and consumers. “This needs to be a clear-cut line,” Lamberth said. “There needs to be a specific, consistent expectation for customers of this product. I have heard from folks that said, ‘Well, look, I was buying this product from this retailer and it had this effect. Then, I switched to this one over here and it had a drastically different effect.’ “Again, there’s no standards here. This needs to be clear-cut as to what is and is not legal and what exactly is on the shelves.” Tennessee cannabis company owners testified before the House committee Wednesday. Many argued the issue needs a scalpel while Lamberth’s bill was a blunt instrument. They said, if the bill were to be passed as it is now, it would constitute a ban on these products and cost many their livelihoods. “Quite frankly, there’s not as much daylight between where I am and where you guys are,” Lamberth said, speaking to the company representatives. “It’s just a matter of figuring that out.”

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One of the more closely watched Shelby County Commission races this year is that for District 5, which has been newly reapportioned so as to be a de facto Cordova district, the first time that sprawling area will have had its own distinct representative on the commission. Some 40 to 50 years ago, Cordova, via a massive redevelopment of what had been a vintage and somewhat sleepy suburban town, became the latest whiteflight mega-suburb. Some of its newer parts still correspond to that pattern and have been heavily absorbed in the deannexation struggle in recent years. But the community as a whole has ripened into the status of a large and diversified living space, accommodating a highly variegated population of several generations’ standing. Both major political parties will be contesting the seat in August, with the only Republican entry being one Todd Payne. Meanwhile most attention is focused on the Democratic primary, which has three reasonably well-pedigreed candidates seeking the party nomination. They are: Shante Avant, until recently a member of the Shelby County Schools Board; Qur’an Folsom, chief administrator of the Shelby County Board of Commissioners; and Reginald French, currently the president/CEO of the Sickle Cell Foundation of Tennessee and a former official of both Memphis city government and Shelby County government. The three gathered on Tuesday night of last week at the Flying Saucer restaurant on North Germantown Parkway for a forum sponsored by District 5 Democrats. Speaking first, Folsom pledged to deal with the area’s residual safety issues and noted that she, as a hands-

on commission administrator, is fully conversant with the district’s resources and the means to fully realize them. Noting the imminent advent of Ford Motor Company’s Blue Oval City complex in the near vicinity of eastern Shelby County, Folsom said, “Cordova is specifically positioned on I-40, to be the premium bedroom district for Shelby County. And I will ensure that we’ll push for that if I am so fortunate to become the next county commissioner of this district.” She stressed the importance of developing family housing and not allowing Cordova to become a haven for renters, thereby equating planned capital development with the idea of permanence.

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Cordova commission candidates Avant, French, Folsom In his turn, French emphasized that he was a 20-year resident of Cordova. As a former corrections officer, he argued for more attention to public safety, and specifically for the retention of sheriff ’s officers in the county schools. He said his background in both city and county jobs had given him a handle on neighborhood issues at large, including blight. Inattention to the health of neighborhoods would lead to “For Sale” signs, to mass rentals, and to the deterioration of the community, he said. Avant acknowledged that she was a recent Cordova transplant and said her work as a school board member for South Memphis had given her insights into fundamental issues of education and school overcrowding. “During that time I also served as auditor,” she said. “When you are in charge of $1.5 billion, it is your responsibility to make sure that the resources from taxpayers are put in the right place.”

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In our Observatory process, we don’t model any sort of attempt to predict or avoid these events. Instead, we model a disciplined approach of staying invested and taking opportunities to rebalance into equity markets after drawdowns. This approach has worked well in the past, and our view is that it will continue to work in the future. Nevertheless, there’s a fundamental human desire to avoid risk at all costs, especially when things seem particularly risky, and there are always a few clients eager to “get defensive until the uncertainty subsides” in every market environment. For our investors, we believe we preemptively position defensively through allocations to short- and intermediateterm bonds. Those bonds aren’t there for the good times — in fact, they are a drag on performance when stock markets are strong. Bonds shine after a serious stock market downturn when they possibly contribute some total return. More importantly, they serve as a source of cash to rebalance into equities (just when equities have declined and become more attractively priced). We believe selling stocks and adding to bond allocations or going to all cash after a big market decline is the worst time to do so.

I was listening to the radio recently, and the host asked a guest, “… but what’s the point of economic modeling at a time of such great uncertainty as this?” I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. The host was referring to the Ukraine invasion, and he seemed to be implying that a forecast made the day before Russia invaded would be much more appropriate than one made the day after since so much “uncertainty” would be introduced by the conflict. I laughed because all forecasts are equally based on ex ante information and therefore don’t incorporate the unknowable future. Forecasts made confidently when things seem certain are likely the worst forecasts of all! The situation in Ukraine has become more certain today than at any time in the last decade or so. The greatest unknown — the question of whether Russia would dare a full-scale invasion of Ukraine — is uncertain no longer. Stepping back, when in the past was there not uncertainty? Markets have performed exceptionally well for many decades, but we know that only because of the prescience of hindsight. Following the 2008 financial crisis, the U.S. stock market bottomed out quickly in March of 2009 and has provided extremely attractive returns ever since, but we sure didn’t know that was going to happen back then. There were concerns that banks would fail, cash would stop coming out of ATMs, and life as we know it would grind to a halt. The last decade was an exceptional one for investors, but who could have credibly predicted that in 2010? As Yogi Berra said, it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. We are certain that the future will contain some difficult times, and that’s okay. If we devote all our efforts to avoiding the bad times, we’ll miss the good times too. If history is any guide, the good times will continue to be good enough to offset the bad in the years and decades to come — but only if you stay invested. Gene Gard CFA, CFP, CFT-I, is Chief Investment Officer at Telarray, a Memphis-based wealth management firm that helps families navigate investment, tax, estate, and retirement decisions. Ask him your question at ggard@telarrayadvisors.com or sign up for the next free online seminar on the Events tab at telarrayadvisors.com.

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ou cannot possibly go through a day on social media in 2022 without seeing posts that feature lines of five little squares stacked in (up to six) rows. Some of the boxes are black, some are yellow, and some are green. The bottom row is almost always filled with green boxes, indicating that the poster has solved the daily Wordle puzzle. If the bottom line is not all green, the poster will write something like, “Dammit! I am not amused!” Wordle was invented by a software engineer named Josh Wardle as a birthday gift to his partner. It was released to the public in November and originally had around 90 users. But the game was free and weirdly addictive and, er, word soon spread about it. By January, when Wordle was purchased by The New York Times, millions of people were playing it daily. The Times, to its credit, has so far kept things just the way they were: No app, no ads, no payments of any kind. You just google “Wordle,” go to the website, and play. There’s a new word every day, and on most days you can finish the puzzle before your coffee is cold. Maybe that’s part of Wordle’s charm. It’s not complicated. You have six tries to guess a fiveletter word by a process of elimination. It helps to have a decent vocabulary, but you’ll be relatively competent after a few tries. Here’s the best part: There are no experts, no champions, no tournaments. You don’t “win” at Wordle. The object is to avoid losing. Someone who’s played Wordle for a week could solve tomorrow’s puzzle in fewer tries than Einstein, if Einstein wasn’t dead. There’s a whole subculture built around “starter words,” i.e. which first-guess word will give you the best chance at solving the puzzle. Favorites include ARISE, SHARE, TASER, ADIEU, etc. You get the idea. Don’t pick EPOXY or FUZZY. But honestly, the game just isn’t that difficult. Sometimes, I start with a weird word just for fun. There are 30 possible letter guesses in six lines and only 26 letters in the alphabet, so why not

live a little dangerously? This is not to say Wordle can’t get frustrating. Let’s say on your third guess you’ve got the following four letters in the correct place: SHA_E. That means you’ve got three guesses left and (depending on which letters you may have already picked) up to seven possible options for that fourth letter. SHAME? SHAPE? SHAVE? SHALE? Good luck, Albert. And, admit it or not, that’s what much of this game is: luck. Whether you get the answer in two (usually big-time luck, based on a good starter-word guess) or six always comes down to a certain element of chance. Most people don’t lose at Wordle often, but getting the answer in two or three guesses makes you feel like a winner, at least for 24 hours. And that’s where the communal sharing on social media comes in, I suppose — to commiserate over bad days and celebrate the good ones. To be honest, random Wordle posts used to make me kind of crazy. “Why would anyone think their Wordle score would be interesting to anyone else?” I groused. Then I got called out as a grinch so now I chill and just scroll past. It helps that there are now Facebook sites where you can go to share your daily scores with other Wordle-Nerdles. In fact, one local site claims to be founded (cough, Kim Gullett) on the basis of my Wordle grumpiness about score-posting. I occasionally visit and know the ropes over there, so if you’re feeling a little nervous, here’s a handy guide to what to say when posting your score: One guess: “WOW, I need to go play the lottery!!!” Two guesses: “Got lucky with my starter word today!” Three guesses: “Got it in three. Not bad!” Four guesses: “Oh well, another boring four.” Five guesses: “I was beginning to get nervous!” Six guesses: “WHEW! So close!!” If you didn’t get the answer, a good fallback is “Dammit! I am not amused!”

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Sashay! Memphis Fashion Week walks the runway. Farm to Tap Festival As part of an initiative to have more Tennessee brewers use more local farm products, the festival will showcase more than 20 guild member breweries, with tickets including unlimited samples, tasting cups, and great times with farmers, food trucks, vendors, and more. Wiseacre Brewing, April 16, farmtotap.org

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Your guide to the 2022 festival season.

For the past two years or so, our calendars have been a bit bare. But things are looking up as Memphis is going full-throttle with events once again. With food, fashion, art, 12 music, and more, it’s time to celebrate the return of the fair and festival season!

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Little Willie Farmer plays at the Juke Joint Festival. APRIL Bluff City Blues Crawfish Festival Where crawfish are red and the music is blues, this festival is perfect for a rendezvous. Benefiting A Betor Way, the festival will have

arts and crafts vendors, food, and music by Memphissippi Sounds, Mick Kolassa and the Endless Blues Band, the Eric Hughes Band, and more. Carolina Watershed, April 16, tinyurl.com/bluffcityblues

Shelby Forest Spring Fest Shelby Forest Spring Fest is going to be a hoot — at least that’s what the owl there tells me. With live music, shopping, kids zone, food trucks, and wildlife exhibits and lectures throughout the day, you won’t want to miss out. Shelby Farms, April 16, shelbyforestspringfest.com Africa in April Saluting the Republic of Malawi for its 35th festival, the family-friendly Africa in April event will be filled with live performances, food and merchandise vendors, and the International Diversity Parade. Robert R. Church Park, April 20-24, africainapril.org Double Decker Festival Oxford In 1994, Oxford, Mississippi, made the bold decision to import a double-decker bus from England. A momentous occasion for the history books if you ask the Double Decker Festival, which speaks to the momentousness, with 100+ art and 20+ local food vendors, an impressive slew of musical performances, art demonstrations, and a Best Dressed Pet Contest. Oxford Courthouse Square, April 22-23, doubledeckerfestival.com

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Juke Joint Festival The Juke Joint Festival celebrates the Delta’s past and living history. Kicking off with a 5K run/walk, the day will include blues music, racing pigs, arts and crafts, food, and a dozen free outdoor stages of blues and roots music. Clarksdale, MS, April 23, jukejointfestival.com

Memphis in May International Festival For the month of May, this annual festival brings the world to Memphis and Memphis to the world, and this year, it is saluting Ghana through cultural events and performances, museum and gallery exhibits, films, luncheons, and a gala. Various locations, May 1-31, memphisinmay.org

Taste the Rarity: Invitational Beer Festival The best and weirdest beers from breweries all over the country are coming to Memphis to celebrate the seventh Taste the Rarity with unlimited drinking, plus live music, food trucks, and other nonsense. Wiseacre Brewing, April 23, tastetherarity.com

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Beale Street Music Festival Megan Thee Stallion, Weezer, Van Morrison, Lil Wayne, and many more (60+ artists) are coming for the city’s legendary springtime music festival. Fairgrounds in Liberty Park, April 29-May 1, memphisinmay.org/BSMF

Bluff City Fair This fair isn’t bluffing when it comes to fun and excitement. You’ll be entertained with a majestic thrill show, rides galore, fair food, and an all-day petting zoo. Liberty Bowl Stadium, May 20-30, bluffcityfair.com

Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. With speakers, workshops, forays through the forest, yoga, dancing, cooking classes, and tastings — let’s just say this festival covers a lot of ground. Shelby Forest Park, May 26-30, memphismushroomfest.com

DreamFest Weekend A dream is a wish your heart makes, but this festival is doing more than just wishing for its dream of unity, collaboration, and community. For this three-day event, an impressive array of artists will come together to promote Memphis music and artist collaboration. Overton Park Shell, May 20-22, dreamfestweekend.com

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Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival has crawfish galore.

Memphis Pride Fest Weekend Spanning four days, the celebration includes a Drag N Drive, dance party, parade, and full festival with two stages, more than 150 vendors, food trucks, and so much more. Various locations, June 2-5, midsouthpride.org/pridefest Memphis Margarita Festival Sometimes all life gives you is limes, and all you can do is make margaritas. Thankfully, the city’s best margarita-makers are ready to inspire you at this festival where you can sample margaritas from your favorite restaurants alongside awesome entertainment. Overton Square, June 4, memphismargaritafestival.com

Rajun Cajun Crawfish Festival Too few occasions present themselves when you can bob for crawfish, race crawfish, and eat crawfish, but you’ll have the chance at Porter-Leath’s festival. Downtown Memphis, April 24, porterleath.org/rajun-cajun-home Art in the Loop Some of the region’s most talented artists will set up shop at this festival celebrating the arts, where you can also enjoy live music and food trucks. Ridgeway Loop Road, April 29May 1, artintheloop.org Storyfest Public Libraries for this Forty Memphians, ranging festival of author talks, in ages from 9 to 93, will activities for teens and PHOTO: COURTESY GREG BELZ share their stories through children, and 60 local Art in live performances at the authors’ exhibits. the Loop Halloran Centre. Engagement Benjamin L. Hooks activities and community Central Library, May 7, reflections will follow at the free fest. memphislibrary.org/bookstock Halloran Centre, April 29-30, orpheum-memphis.com/event/storyfest World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest May Day Festival and Memphis Children’s When May rolls in, Memphis knows that’s Theatre Festival the cue to start getting our tummies ready Theatre Memphis celebrates a century of for what USAToday calls the “Most entertaining with live entertainment, an Prestigious Barbecue Contest.” For four array of artists’ and artisans’ booths, food days, the best of the best barbecue buffs trucks, and more. On the same day, Theatre will compete in such categories as Ribs, Memphis will host the Children’s Theatre Shoulder, and Whole Hog, as well as Hot Festival as a pay-what-you-can event. Wings, Sauce, and “Anything But Pork.” Theatre Memphis, April 30, Fairgrounds in Liberty Park, May 11-14, theatrememphis.org memphisinmay.org/WCBCCtickets

Memphis Italian Festival Is it sauce or gravy? Well, the folks at this fest have taken a side, seeing that the festival boasts a Spaghetti Gravy Contest. In addition to their food-related competitions, the event will have live music, along with art vendors and, of course, tons of great food. Marquette Park, June 2-4, memphisitalianfestival.org

Memphis Greek Festival Cue the groans from children as parents inevitably evoke the phrase “It’s all Greek to me” at this family-friendly festival with scrumptious Greek food, tours of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, live music, artisan booths, and activities for kids. Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, May 20-21, memphisgreekfestival.com Beale Street Artcrawl Festival Before the barcrawlers creep onto the street we call Beale, artcrawlers can go amuck at this pop-up market of art and merchandise. Beale Street, May 21, bealestreetartcrawlfestival.com Memphis Mushroom Festival All fungi, fungals, and funpals are invited to this five-day, four-night camping festival that celebrates the foods and fungi grown in

Craft Food & Wine Festival Showcasing scrumptious, locally-produced breads, cheeses, fruit preserves, cured meats, and more, this event will raise funds for Church Health. The Columns, June 5, craftfoodandwinefest.com MidSouth Nostalgia Festival Veteran actors from your favorite classic movies and TV shows — from the likes of Leave It To Beaver and Laramie — are appearing in person to talk about their careers and give out autographs at this fest. Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center, Olive Branch, MS, June 9-11, midsouthnostalgiafestival.com Memphis Vegan Festival If you’re living on the veg, you’ll want to check out this day full of vegan food, live entertainment, and a marketplace featuring local businesses, plant-based health and beauty products, and clothing. Pipkin Building, June 18, facebook.com/901veganfestival continued on page 14

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Memphis Fashion Week Walk, walk, fashion, baby. You’re gonna want to work Memphis Fashion Week into your schedule. The live runway show will feature emerging designers and a special headlining designer guest, Amanda Uprichard. Arrow Creative, April 22, memphisfashionweek.org

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continued from page 13 Tri-State Black Pride Weekend Tri-State Black Pride presents workshops, lectures, a drag show, stand-up comedy, and a Sunday Funday of live music. Various locations, June 16-19, tristateblackpride.com Bluff City Balloon Jamboree Scheduled for Father’s Day weekend, the Bluff City Balloon Jamboree will delight its attendees with hot air balloon rides, a balloon glow event, carnival attractions, arts and crafts, and live music. Shelby Farms Park, June 17-19, bluffcityballoonjamboree.com Memphis Juneteenth Festival With Juneteenth being declared a federal holiday in the U.S. last year, the 29th Annual Memphis Juneteenth Festival promises to celebrate African-American culture, food, entertainment, and the overall significance of the holiday. Along with food, music, and entertainment, festival-goers can look forward to the annual Juneteenth Career and Health Fair Expo, the Memphis Juneteenth Lifetime Achievement Awards, the Juneteenth Ultimate Dance Showdown, Food Truck Sunday, and Praise Fest at Juneteenth. Health Sciences Park, June 18-19, juneteenthfreedommemphis.com Mid-South Air Show It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s … yeah, it’s a plane. While Superman might not be in the sky for the Mid-South Airshow, the U.S. Navy Blue Angels are just as impressive, featuring military demonstrations, aerobatic performances, static display aircraft, and local emergency response helicopters. Millington-Memphis Airport, June 18-19, midsouthairshow.com

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Performers dance at Memphis Juneteenth Festival. Memphis Crafts & Drafts Shopping is exercise. Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. So if you don’t want summertime happiness to be smothered by rising temperatures, you’ll want to head over to this market of local makers and artists. It’s called the transitive property, right? Crosstown Concourse Plaza and Atrium, June 25, memphiscraftsanddrafts.com July Summer Cocktail Festival Shake it up a bit this July with this epic dance party with summer-inspired cocktails, fresh local food, photobooth ops, and fun activities. Overton Square, July 29, memphisfestivals. com/summercocktailfestival AUGUST Memphis Chicken & Beer Fest If, like the Zac Brown Band, you appreciate your chicken fried, a cold beer on a Saturday night, a pair of jeans that fit just right, and the radio up, you’ll appreciate the Memphis Chicken & Beer Fest where you can get all that — except the jeans. With live music, interactive games, a bungee run, and more, tickets include more than 90 beverage samples, and a portion will benefit the Dorothy Day House. Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, August 6, memphischickenandbeer.com

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continued from page 14 Elvis Week 2022 This August marks the 45th anniversary of Elvis’ death and the 44th anniversary of the first Elvis Week. What began as a small group of fans gathering at Graceland’s gates has turned into the multi-day phenomenon we know today. Highlights from the week include personal tours of Graceland led by Priscilla Presley and Jerry Schilling, the Candlelight Vigil, the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, and nightly parties. Graceland, August 9-17, graceland.com/elvis-week SEPTEMBER Delta Fair & Music Festival Carnival rides, live music, attractions, livestock shows, oh boy, there’s so much going on every day at the Delta Fair. Agricenter International, September 2-11, deltafest.com Germantown Festival This festival is one of the few places in town where you’re guaranteed to see a weenie and say, “Aww, look how cute.” In addition to its Running of the Weenies race, this festival of arts has children’s activities, rides and games, entertainment, a car exhibit, community

displays, and more. Germantown Civic Club Complex, September 10-11, germantownfest.com Cooper-Young Festival There’s no need to stay cooped up in your house when you can join in on the fun at the Cooper-Young Festival, where art, music, and crafts come together to celebrate Memphis’ culture and heritage. Cooper-Young, September 17, cooperyoungfestival.com Gonerfest 19 Music enthusiasts won’t be able to resist Goner Records’ siren call, and yes, somehow, this siren call reaches all the way to Australia. Be on the lookout for the lineup. Railgarten, September 22-25, goner-records.com/pages/gonerfest Mid-South Fair At this must-do event since 1856, fair-goers can enjoy more than 50 rides, an array of ground acts, and of course favorite fair fare — funnel cakes, turkey legs, candied apples; you name it, they’ve perfected it. Landers Center, September 22-October 2, landerscenter.com/mid-south-fair

Mighty Roots Music Whatta fest, whatta fest, whatta mighty good fest. Mhhm, this event is back for year two, taking place at the same spot the famous blues singer-songwriter Muddy Waters began his love of blues music. The lineup will be announced April 11th, so keep an eye out. Stovall, MS, September 23-24, mightrootsmusicfestival.com Latin Fest We may not be talking about Bruno once September rolls around, but we should be talking about Latinx representation yearround. Though this fest takes place for just a day, it captures that spirit of appreciation with live Latin music, Latin food and drinks, crafts, and fun for everyone. Overton Square, Saturday, September 24, overtonsquare.com Pink Palace Crafts Fair The Pink Palace Crafts Fair is back to celebrate its Big 5-O with 150 artists from around the country, ready for you to explore their works. Museum of Science & History, September 24-26, moshmemphis.com

Mempho Festival Mempho never disappoints, and you know it. But so does the rest of Memphis, it seems — tickets are already selling out. Radians Amphitheater at Memphis Botanic Garden, September 30, memphofest.com OCTOBER King Biscuit Blues Festival Founded in 1986, this fest celebrates blues music with the highest regard across five stages; plus you’ll see a variety of buskers. Of course the three-day event wouldn’t be complete without the Flour Power 5K, the Tour da Delta bicycle race, and a Kansas City-sanctioned barbecue contest, all in historic Downtown Helena. Helena, AR, October 5-8, kingbiscuitfestival.com Memphis Bacon & Bourbon Festival You might ask, what’s shakin’ over at this festival? Well, bacon, that’s what’s shaking — bacon and bacon-inspired dishes to sample. Oh, and bourbon, lots of bourbon. Metal Museum, October 7, memphisbaconandbourbon.com

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Soulsville USA Festival We all know Memphis wouldn’t be Memphis without its roots in soul music, and this festival aims to remind us of that fact. In addition to educational and interactive activities, the festival will include live music, food trucks, vendors, games for kids, and free admission to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music. Soulsville USA District, October 14-16, soulsvilleusafestival.com Memphis Food & Wine Festival Benefiting FedExFamilyHouse, the Memphis Food & Wine Festival, which showcases local chefs alongside acclaimed national chefs and top global vineyards, will leave your tummy so full and happy that you’ll miss the festival dearly until its return. Memphis Botanic Garden, October 15, memphisfoodwinefestival.org

Indie Memphis Film Festival If you’re a bit more introverted, a lot of the events on this list will probably leave you needing a day to recover from the social exhaustion. And while it’s worth it in exchange for all the fun you’ll have, what if I told you there was a festival where you can have fun while being your introverted self? Yep, at this one, you get to be a semi-couch potato and watch indie film after indie film to your heart’s content while in the company of your fellow movie-lovers. Plus, enjoy behind-the-scenes panels and discussions. Midtown, October 19-24, indiememphis.org World Championship Hot Wing Fest A championship that is everything we wish it to be — dare I say, it’s the wind beneath our wings, there to bestow the glory upon the best chicken wings, content to let the winners shine and the festival-goers sample the fare, all the while supporting The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis. Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, October 22, worldwingfest.com RiverArtsFest The largest juried artist market and urban festival in the Mid-South, the RiverArtsFest brings more than 180 artists from around the country to show off and sell their fine arts. As an added bonus, the festival features

artist demonstrations, hands-on art activities for all ages, and local music. Downtown Memphis, October 22-23, riverartsmemphis.org

Dia de Los Muertos Parade and Festival celebrates the Day of the Dead.

Dia de Los Muertos Parade and Festival If you think Dia de Los Muertos is Mexico’s version of Halloween, you’re dead wrong. The Brooks Museum and Cazateatro Bilingual Theatre will show you what the day is all about: honoring ancestors and celebrating the cycle of life and death. A

parade begins in Overton Square with floats and performers making their way to the plaza at the Brooks Museum, where you can enjoy art-making activities, face painting, music, costumed performers, and more. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, October 29, brooksmuseum.com

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Edge Motorfest Start your engines and gear up for this day of more than 150 cars, food trucks, vendor booths, and more in the Edge District. Trust us when we say, this’ll be more than a pit stop in your weekend activities. Edge Motor Museum, October 8, edgemotormuseum.com

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Memphis is the next stop on comedian Gianmarco Soresi’s “Looking for the Next Variant” tour, but unlike the other cities he’s visited or will visit, this stop PHOTO: MINDY TUCKER has a bit more stakes. “I’m there to meet my girlfriend’s parents,” he says. Gianmarco Regardless of how the meeting will go, you’ll probably hear a bit about it at his show. “I really dig into my own life,” Soresi says of his style of comedy. “I Soresi find that when you’re really honest about yourself, you connect to other people’s truths because we all are very similar in the ways we can be selfish, the ways we can be fools.” Before he started doing stand-up, Soresi was a theater kid. “I was planning on being a song-and-dance man,” he says, having gone to college for musical theater. “I was doing all the acting, the singing, and the dancing in New York City and booked some stuff here and there. I was the spokesman for General Electric and Baby Bottle Pop — I used to get recognized on the playground when I was out jogging.” These days, Soresi’s work is less likely to get recognized on the playground. “I can be loud and singy-songy, but I have a dark edge, so if you want some dark humor, some jokes you probably can’t repeat to your parents or grandparents, I’m your guy,” he says. “My favorite comics are Anthony Jeselnik and John Mulaney. If you like either, I think you’ll enjoy me and find me much more affordable. Even if you hate comedy, just come, help a guy out. My girlfriend’s family is going to be there, and I’d really like to impress them by selling this out.”

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Cicada Theatre Memphis, performances through April 16, $25 This coming-of-age ghost story is deeply rooted in the life of a small Mississippi family on the verge of transformation. The unrelenting July heat presses in on 17-year-old Ace and his mother Lily as they dig their way out of the past. It’s a story about letting go and shedding what is no longer necessary in a world full of secrets, ghosts, and memories that hold on tight. Performances are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m.

Carroll Cloar: Life and Art Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Friday, April 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m., $10 Join Memphis filmmaker Willy Bearden at the Brooks for the exclusive debut screening exploring the life and art of the late Carroll Cloar. The film uniquely combines a 1986 production by WKNO and WMC with a series of interviews Bearden conducted with former Brooks curator Stanton Thomas. Thomas offers insights and examples of the artist’s work while placing in context the importance of that work some 20 years after Cloar’s death. .

The Secret World of Jack Robinson Jack Robinson Gallery, Friday-Saturday, April 8-9, 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m., $30 Tennessee Ballet Theater presents a contemporary dance concert exploring the eccentric life and astounding work of the famed New York-based photographer, who had more than 500 images in the pages of Vogue and photographed celebrities like Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Tina Turner, and Elton John. Taking place at the Jack Robinson Gallery, the performance will guide participants through four areas of the gallery.

“Isaac Hayes: Black Moses Gives Back” Grand Opening Museum of Science & History, Saturday, April 9, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Experience the new exhibit and enjoy feature musical entertainment from Ekpe Abioto, founder of the Memphis African Jazz Ensemble who performed at the funeral of Isaac Hayes. The exhibition curator will be present to answer questions. Enjoy activity stations that take a closer look at traditional African textiles, and you can make your own kufi hat. Storytime with the Memphis Library will begin at noon.

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You don’t need to grab your passport for this night in Brazil, presented by Iris Orchestra and Collage Dance Collective. “It’s really like a street party indoors in Memphis,” says Rebecca Arendt, director of community initiatives and artist fellows coordinator with Iris. The night of entertainment will consist of bossa nova melodies with “Memphis-soul seasoning” by the Deborah Swiney Quartet, a Brazilian feast by Carson Rodizio with caipirinha specialty cocktails, and a dance performance, scored by Iris musicians and artist fellows, under the artistic leadership of Iris’ Pedro Maia and Collage’s Fabio Mariano. The night will close with a samba party where guests can dance to DJ Alpha Whiskey. The two organizations have been in conversation about this event since August 2020. “We knew we wanted to partner between the Iris Artist Fellowship Program and the Collage Dance Company,” Arendt says. They didn’t have a set plan of what that collaboration would look like at first, but when they looked around the Zoom room, they noticed that a few of the dancers with Collage and Pedro Maia, one of the two Iris fellows, were from Brazil. “As we were talking about what really spoke to us artistically, that really kept rising to the surface — wanting to celebrate the mutual connection the two organizations have to that culture,” Arendt says. “We felt that was really the best choice.” The night promises to be a festive one, Arendt says. “From my perspective, it’s music that’s hard to sit still when you listen to it.” “BRAZIL BY NIGHT: WHERE ART AND CULTURE COLLIDE,” COLLAGE DANCE CENTER, SATURDAY, APRIL 9TH, 7 P.M., $75.

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Lucky 7 Brass Band Love Food Hate Waste Memphis Memphis Made Brewing Company, Saturday, April 9, noon-4 p.m., free This event will bring together local organizations who combat food waste and food insecurity in their communities Enjoy a free specialty craft beer by Memphis Made Brewing, watch live chef demos, and learn how you can reduce food waste in your home. With games for the kiddos and the young-at-heart, there is something for everyone to enjoy. This bread-totap event brings together beer, food, music, and fun in a meaningful way.

Meet the Author: Antoine F. Gnintedem Novel, Saturday, April 9, 2 p.m., free Join Novel in welcoming author and educator Antoine F. Gnintedem to celebrate the release of his latest book Alien at Home, a story about a quest for identity and belonging by a Black immigrant in an America that is marked by heightened racism and xenophobia. Gnintedem is also the author of Doom, Gloom, and the Pursuit of the Sun, a work of historical fiction.

2022 Donuts & Dogs 5-Miler Wiseacre Brewery, Sunday, April 10, 12:30 p.m. Run 2.5 miles out, eat 12 Krispy Kreme donuts, run 2.5 miles back in under one hour. The mantra of the Krispy Kreme Challenge epitomizes the test of physical fitness and gastrointestinal fortitude. The fourth annual unofficial Memphis edition of the Krispy Kreme run will raise funds for the Streetdog Foundation. Register online.

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The Iguanas

MUSIC By Alex Greene

Rocking the Cradle of American Music The Iguanas sample a rich blend of Memphis and New Orleans traditions.

PHOTO: DWIGHT MARSHALL

Doug Garrison, Joe Cabral, René Coman, Rod Hodges Coman. “There were a lot of things that I learned from Alex, that maybe took me a lifetime to really

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f The Iguanas played at Railgarten this Saturday, as planned before Covid intervened, it wouldn’t exactly have been a homecoming. But it would have felt like one. While only drummer Doug Garrison grew up in Memphis, they all savor the musical ethos that Memphis shares with their home base of New Orleans. For Garrison, it’s an ethos he lives every day. “Memphis and New Orleans are so closely tied, culturally and historically,” he says. “They’re the cradle of American music.” It shows in the rich gumbo of influences that The Iguanas explore, proffering a lean, hard-rocking (and often horn-driven) take on Chicano rock, R&B, blues, jazz, conjunto, cumbia, and more. The Chicano element comes via the band’s two singers, Joe Cabral and Rod Hodges, whose families both have deep Mexican roots, but the overall blend springs from New Orleans itself. It was something that drew Garrison to the Big Easy when he left Memphis 30 years ago to join the band. “I was never really aware of how important Caribbean music was to jazz in New Orleans until I moved down here. I got turned on to a lot of different stuff. I had to shed [practice] some new styles, like the cumbia and Mexican styles like the polka. I’d never played those before.” Even before moving there, Garrison often played in New Orleans with The Iguanas’ bass player, René Coman, and even today one hears echoes of the pair’s previous collaboration, backing up native Memphian Alex Chilton. By then, Chilton had settled in the Crescent City permanently, and his eclectic, historically informed tastes deeply affected both Coman and Garrison. “The Iguanas cover a lot of styles, and the challenge is staying true to the approaches of each genre,” reflects

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manifest, and one of those things was Alex’s understanding of these different bags and how they are their own little world. All this stuff within them is precious and important to making it what it is. We became dedicated students of these bags, understanding the language, the vocabulary of each form. It’s interesting — it’s a treasure hunt.” That treasure hunt took them up and down the Mississippi and beyond. “When I started playing with Alex and René, they were both living in New Orleans, and I was living in Memphis, and we were back and forth all the time,” Garrison says. “Alex had strong roots in Memphis, but he loved being in New Orleans. He would take me around and turn me on to stuff. The R&B and jazz, and how it dances together.” For Garrison, the key word is “dances.” As he puts it, “I used to tell people, ‘We’re a dance band.’ When The Iguanas started out, it was all about being a social band and having people come out to dance and party. Because when we start playing, people start moving.” And yet The Iguanas are a dance band with compelling songs — another similarity with the rhythm section’s 10 years with Chilton. This not only shows up in The Iguanas’ own material, which has grown into an impressive catalog after 30 odd years, but in the other singers they collaborate with. Memphis’ own Will Sexton used them as a backing band on his album, Don’t Walk the Darkness. As Coman says, “The Iguanas have always loved being a backing band. We pride ourselves on that. If someone sits in with The Iguanas on one of our gigs, we make sure to call something that they’re really going to shine on. We tee them up, so people can say, ‘God, I love that guy, but I’ve never heard him sound better than that.’ Good — that’s what we want to do.”

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

April 7 - 13

“Carol Adamec: In A Japanese Garden”

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

Exhibition of watercolors by Carol Caughey. Through April 30.

A tranquil garden of flower and kimono paintings. Through April 16. L ROSS GALLERY

“Days Like These”

Show by David Mah, reflecting the introspection of people living in confinement, disconnected from the outside world and sometimes each other. Through April 10. MEDICINE FACTORY

“Family Means No One is Left Behind” Virtual exhibition of work by Katie Jones. Through April 30. GALLERY 1091

“Isaac Hayes: Black Moses Gives Back”

An engaging exhibition that showcases Hayes’s unique dashiki collection and his humanitarian work in Ghana. Saturday, April 9-July 31. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY

“Lonesome”

Exhibition of work by Adam Higgins. Through May 7. TOPS GALLERY

“Memphis Quarantine”

An exhibition of photographs by Jamie Harmon documenting life during the quarantine period of the pandemic. Through April 10. CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE

“One Part of My Small Story”

Exhibition of paintings by Hamlett Dobbins, who reflects on moments of whole-body pleasure through his work. Through April 23. DAVID LUSK GALLERY

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Tennessee Ballet Theater presents a dance concert exploring the eccentric life and work of photographer Jack Robinson.

“You Can Dance Underwater and Not Get Wet”

Exhibition of work by Kevin Brisco Jr. that is concerned with issues of place and representation, more specifically how the two inform one another. Through April 16.

C O M E DY

Gianmarco Soresi

Gianmarco Soresi is a New York-based stand-up comedian, actor, and occasional Jeff Goldblum impressionist. $12.50$22.50. Saturday, April 9, 5 p.m.

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Pokeweed Comedy

Exhibition Opening Party - “Driven to Abstraction”

New York-based comedian Gianmarco Soresi headlines. Featuring Atlanta-based comic Katie Hughes, hosted by Charlie Vergos. $10. Sunday, April 10, 8 p.m.

Early drinks and hors d’oeuvres to celebrate this duo exhibition featuring new paintings by Congolese artist Doudou Mbemba and Cameroonian artist Romeo Temwa. Saturday, April 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

LAMPLIGHTER LOUNGE

Secret Show Comedy at Local on Main presented by Comma Comedians

UREVBU CONTEMPORARY

“I Had The Strangest Dream and You Were All In It” Opening Reception Opening reception for exhibition of works by Amy Hutcheson. Sunday, April 10, 2-4 p.m.

Memphis Flower Show: Perspectives

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS

“Isaac Hayes: Black Moses Gives Back” Grand Opening

Don’t miss the grand opening of MoSH’s “Issac Hayes: Black Moses Gives Back” exhibit and enjoy musical entertainment from Ekpe Abioto. Saturday, April 9, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY

Made in Memphis Market

Pop-up market featuring makers/vendors from in and around the Memphis area. Saturday, April 9, 1 p.m.

Features five divisions of exhibits inspired by “Sweet Sixteen.”

Wearable Art Runway Show & Exhibition

AMUM is hosting a juried student Wearable Arts design competition, runway show, and exhibition in partnership with the University of Memphis Fashion Design program. Saturday, April 9, 6 p.m. ART MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS (AMUM)

B O O K E V E N TS

Book Signing by Jackie Ross Flaum

Meet Jackie Ross Flaum, who moved to Memphis and traded reality for fiction. Thursday, April 7, 10 a.m. WOMAN’S EXCHANGE OF MEMPHIS

Book Talk: Jennifer D. Sciubba

Jennifer D. Sciubba, associate professor at Rhodes College, has a new book out titled 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World. Tuesday, April 12, 6 p.m.

Meet the Author: Antoine F. Gnintedem

Join Novel in welcoming author and educator Antoine F. Gnintedem to celebrate the release of his latest book Alien at Home. Saturday, April 9, 2 p.m. NOVEL

W. Bruce Cameron: A Dog’s Courage

Novel welcomes beloved bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron to celebrate the paperback release of A Dog’s Courage. Thursday, April 7, 6 p.m. NOVEL

Get your laughs on with the Comma Comedians! A fantastic lineup of local and touring comedians. Thursday, April 7, 8-9:30 p.m. LOCAL (DOWNTOWN)

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2022 Crosstown Brewing Company Classic Join the crew from CBC for their first annual golf tournament. This year’s tournament benefits WYXR Radio 91.7FM. $600/team. Monday, April 11, noon. LINKS AT GALLOWAY GOLF COURSE

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Habitat Creation Volunteer Work Day with Shelby Farms Park

Anime Night: Dinner & A Movie Edition - Howl’s Moving Castle

Celebrate Earth Day by helping create brush piles — nature’s apartment building! Saturday, April 9, 8-11 a.m. SHELBY FARMS PARK

Healing Night at the Garden

In honor of World Health Day, the garden is offering free admission to all Covid front-line workers, including healthcare professionals, first responders, educators, and other essential workers. Thursday, April 7, 5-8 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

FAM I LY

Fire Museum and MidSouth Derby and Ales sponsor Pinewood Derby Race Where can you see a simple block of wood travel at over 200 miles per hour? At the Fire Museum Pinewood Derby Race! Free. Saturday, April 9, 9:30 a.m. FIRE MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS

Homeschool Days

Hands-on learning that supplements your homeschool curriculum for ages 6+. Friday, April 8, 10 a.m.-noon. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

Enjoy the legendary 2004 Studio Ghibli classic and a three-course meal designed specifically for this event. Movie is free to attend; price is only for dinner. $30. Thursday, April 7, 7 p.m. BLACK LODGE

Carroll Cloar: Life and Art Join Memphis filmmaker Willy Bearden at the Brooks for the exclusive debut screening exploring the life and art of the late Carroll Cloar. Friday, April 8, 5:30-7:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART

It’s Rex Manning Day!: A Screening of Empire Records

A true day-in-the-life film, the film captures the comings and goings, the fights and the affairs, the laughs and loves of a small independent music store. Friday, April 8, 9:30 p.m. BLACK LODGE

Overton Square Movie Nights: The Wizard of Oz

Plan ahead and order your favorite meal from an OS eatery of choice, grab a blanket or chair, and meet in Chimes Square for a classic motion pic-

ture. Thursday, April 7, 8 p.m. OVERTON SQUARE

The Films of Maya Deren with Live Score by Optic Sink For this presentation, Deren’s films will be curated and performed with a live score by Memphis no-wave and Goner Records recording artist Optic Sink. $5. Thursday, April 7, 7:30 p.m.

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and fun! This event is familyfriendly and open to all ages. Saturday, April 9, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

H E A LT H A N D F IT N ES S

Fun, social, community bike rides through the South Memphis neighborhood. Saturday, April 9, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

2022 Donuts & Dogs 5-Miler

Twilight Yoga and Pilates

MUD ISLAND RIVER PARK

Run 2.5 miles out, eat 12 Krispy Kreme donuts, run 2.5 miles back in under one hour. Benefiting Streetdog Foundation. Sunday, April 10, 12:30 p.m. WISEACRE BREWERY

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Love Food Hate Waste Memphis

Enjoy a free specialty craft beer by Memphis Made Brewing, watch live chef demos, and learn how you can reduce food waste in your home. Saturday, April 9, noon-4 p.m. MEMPHIS MADE BREWING COMPANY

Toast the Tulips

Visitors to the Memphis Flower Show are invited to enjoy brunch cocktails and pastries in the gardens to celebrate spring. Food and beverage will be available for purchase from Park+Cherry. Sunday, April 10, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS

Vegan Block Party

A day filled with epic vegan food, drinks, music, vendors

South Memphis Glide Rides

Annestasis Inc.: Home, Body, & Spirit Revived

Stacey Saed Johnson teaches on the Power of Rebirth in our day-to-day lives (the Annestasis Process). Saturday, April 9, 10-11 a.m. OVERTON PARK SHELL

Body Combat

A high-energy martial artsinspired workout that is totally non-contact. Wednesday, April 13, 6-6:45 p.m. OVERTON PARK SHELL

Les Mills Core

During this 30-minute guided workout, work with resistance tubes, weight plates, and body weight exercises like crunches and hovers. Wednesday, April 13, 5-6 p.m. OVERTON PARK SHELL

SOUTH MEMPHIS FARMERS MARKET

You will feel the entire body burn in this fun, low impact workout. Free. Monday, April 11, 5:30-6:30 p.m. OVERTON PARK SHELL

Every step you take at Walk MS leads to something greater. Saturday, April 9, 10 a.m. OVERTON PARK

Yoga at the Garden

Join Amy Hutcheson for this all-levels class intended to gently stretch the body and mind. Each student needs to bring a yoga mat and water. Call 901636-4128 to register by April 7. $8/MBG members, $12/ nonmembers. Friday, April 8, 8:30-9:15 a.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

A fusion of Latin and international music and dance themes that creates a dynamic, exciting workout. Free. Thursday, April 7, 5:30-6:30 p.m.; Tuesday, April 12, 5:30-6:30 p.m. OVERTON PARK SHELL

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“How to Fight Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia”

Presented by Mehnaz Afridi and Ethan Katz, this lecture will describe, historicize, and analyze how anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish racism overlap and diverge. Thursday, April 7, 6 p.m. RHODES COLLEGE

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30 Days of Opera

30 Days of Opera returns to provide Memphis and the Mid-South with dozens of free, accessible community performances all month long. For event locations and dates, visit operamemphis.org. Through April 30. OPERA MEMPHIS

Ailey II

Ailey II, the celebrated younger company of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, is renowned for merging the spirit and energy of the country’s best young dance talent. $45. Tuesday, April 12, 7 p.m. BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL

Memphis Matters

Memphis Matters is traveling to the Binghampton neighborhood at The Village for an

ISAAC HAYES: BLACK MOSES GIVES BACK

April 7-13, 2022

OPENS APRIL 9

Isaac Hayes: Black Moses Gives Back

is an engaging exhibition that showcases Hayes’s unique dashikis collection and his humanitarian work in Ghana.

Developed in partnership with

STAX Museum of American Soul Music

CALENDAR: APRIL 7 - 13

Springloaded

New Ballet presents Springloaded, featuring original repertoire choreographed by visiting international artists and alumni. Saturday, April 9, 7:309:30 p.m.; Sunday, April 10, 2-4 p.m. THE HALLORAN CENTRE

The Secret World of Jack Robinson

Explore the Jack Robinson Gallery, as dancers breathe life into Robinson’s photographs. $30. Friday, April 8, 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m.; Saturday, April 9, 7 p.m., 8 p.m., 9 p.m. JACK ROBINSON GALLERY

Undiscovered Celebrities

Showcasing Memphis’ top undiscovered talents. $20. Sunday, April 10, 8 p.m.-midnight. BLACK LODGE

CIRCUIT PLAYHOUSE

Celebrate the 65th anniversary of one of Elvis’ most iconic films: Jailhouse Rock. Enjoy dinner and a movie plus a live band and dancing. $65. Saturday, April 9, 6 p.m.

Cicada

Set in rural Mississippi, this coming-of-age ghost story is deeply rooted in the life of a small Southern family on the verge of transformation. $25. Through April 16.

GRACELAND SOUNDSTAGE

Memphis Area Master Gardeners’ Spring Fling Garden Show and Plant Sale

Educational seminars with regional/local experts, hands-on demonstrations, 2,000+ plant sale, gardening photo exhibit, recycling products and information, gardening books, and more. Friday, April 8, 9 a.m. AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL

Brazil by Night

Midtown Con

COLLAGE DANCE COLLECTIVE

Henrik Ibsen’s classic revolutionized the concept of modern theater with his play about the Helmer family. Now, with Lucas Hnath’s Part Two, the complete story of the Helmers can be told. $27. Through April 10.

Jailhouse Rock Anniversary Celebration

S P EC IAL EVE N TS Join Collage Dance Collective and Iris Orchestra for a Brazilian-themed evening of world-class live music, dance, cocktails, and food. Saturday, April 9, 7-10 p.m.

A Doll’s House & A Doll’s House: Part Two

Comics, toys, records, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, gaming, cosplay, and more! $5. Saturday, April 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. BLACK LODGE

THEATRE MEMPHIS

The Band’s Visit

Shell on Wheels Presents: 5 Fridays of Jazz Series Shell on Wheels seeks to amplify the voices of Memphis artists and creatives and to make the performing arts accessible to all of Memphis from Overton’s historic stage to your backyard. Free. Friday, April 8, 6:30 p.m. BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY

Stargazing on the Lawn

Celebrate Africa in April with special “African Skies” short planetarium shows with intriguing stories describing the sky tonight. $10/adult, $6/child. Friday, April 8, 7-9 p.m.

workshop, milonga party, and private lessons. Wednesday, April 6, 5:30 p.m.

ORPHEUM THEATRE

THEATREWORKS

TO U R S S PO R TS

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY

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Tango Memphis

AUTOZONE PARK

Sol Orozco will be coming to Memphis for a fun week of tango, to include lessons at TheatreWorks, weekend

In this joyously off-beat story, set in a town that’s way off the beaten path, a band of musicians arrives lost, out of the blue. $29-$125. Tuesday, April 12-April 16.

Wednesday, April 13, 7 p.m.

Spring Tram Tours

Join docents from the garden for a tram tour of the beautiful grounds of the Memphis Botanic Garden. Free with garden admission. Friday, April 8, 10 a.m.-noon. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN

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The Grammy and Tony Award-winning The Band’s Visit comes to the Orpheum to sing its tale of a lost band of musicians.

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afternoon of storytelling, music, ritual, and fellowship. $15. Saturday, April 9, 2 p.m.

BOOKS By Alex Greene

A Blue-Eyed Lens A memoir of race and turmoil in 1960s Memphis.

April 7-13, 2022

hen I moved to Memphis in 1988, I took a position as a warehouse clerk. My Mississippiborn supervisor was a “polite” racist: She’d lower her voice to a whisper when she said the words “Black people.” It was my earliest lesson in how white supremacy perpetuated itself with good manners. Today, both Yankees like me and Memphians who’ve embraced multicultural values must grapple with such irksome mores, but because they’re often only whispered, those grappling can feel isolated. That’s why Shelley E. Moore’s new memoir, Through a Blue-Eyed Lens: Reflections, Snapshots, Pinholes in Black and White Memphis 19621972 (Alchemy Media), is so valuable. Moore, a white woman raised in Wyoming, Georgia, and Kansas before landing in Memphis at age 8, provides the perfect outsider’s perspective on such mores during the height of the Civil Rights movement. She fearlessly delves into matters of racial relations, as the book zeroes in on them as its central theme. After turning 18, she went on to life adventures elsewhere, but, as she writes, “I have no intention of detailing those decades.” Rather, she’s leaned in to the need to confront her formative years here, equal parts enlightening, troubling, and traumatizing. As such, the volume is a rare social history of a city in turmoil, as experienced by a teenager. It’s a little-explored window into the city’s official history as well: The author’s father, Jerry Moore, came to here to serve as senior city planner, ultimately becoming the city’s chief administrative officer under Mayor Henry Loeb in 1968. As Moore writes, “I, and many others, have questioned how Jerry reconciled working directly under a man who was an avowed segregationist and obstructionist.” While he doesn’t have much of a voice in this work, Jerry and his wife Sonya hover in the background as “liberally progressive people” who set the tone for their children’s worldview, often at odds with the assumptions of white Memphis. The resulting culture shock runs the gamut from innocent confusion to outrage to sheer terror. At first, Moore notices

the egregious commonalities of segregation — “No White People Allowed in Zoo Today” — but finer details make racial politics more vivid as she matures. When a teenaged Moore naively applies to work as a house cleaner, she’s told, “We only hire Colored maids.” Significantly, Moore saw the desegregation of schools as it happened. She writes it was “poorly executed,” and the Memphis School Board was “not invested in the process.” But her experience of it went deeper, as she began dating Dwain, a fellow eighthgrader at Bellevue Junior High School who happened to be Black. Even as she learned new dance moves to Stax 45s, she writes, “I was effectively and immediately ditched by my closest white girlfriends. Almost overnight, I became a pariah.” From there, Moore’s clash with the city’s most reactionary elements only worsened. The story’s bolstered with passages penned by her mother, siblings, classmates, and Dwain himself, the son of a respected Black clergyman. Letters she wrote and received in those years are inserted into the narrative, lending multiple perspectives. All of these voices confirm that, even then, Moore and her family were part of a larger progressive community. But that only made the violence of the era more impactful. One day after Moore’s mother, siblings, and family friends attended Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s appearance at Mason Temple, and even as Dwain’s family prepared a meal for King in their home that night, he was assassinated. With Mayor Loeb unreachable by phone, it was Moore’s father who personally found him and told him the news. It was Jerry Moore who represented the city in negotiations with the sanitation workers that King had come to champion. Yet that’s almost an afterthought in this profoundly personal story of privilege mixed with personal risk. Even her father’s clout could not prevent death threats from the White Citizens’ Council, triggered by her interracial dating. Having thus had her feet held to the fire, readers will sympathize with her desire to simply leave when she came of age. We’re lucky she’s come back now, decades later, to confront the demons of racism that still haunt her, and all of us.

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Alexia Arthur Her grandmother got into cheesecakes because she “just wanted to bake a cheesecake.” Alexia helped bake cheesecakes with her grandmother for fundraisers at her father’s church. “People started asking, ‘Hey, can we order one?’ Even when we were not doing the fundraisers.” In 2011, her grandmother opened her She Bakes Cheesecakes business. “Every time she had an order, we would tagteam on baking.” In 2016, her grandmother turned her cheesecake business over to Alexia. “She gave me her blessing to have the business.” Alexia kept her grandmother’s customers, but “did my own thing … I just modernized it. I created a Facebook page, an Instagram account. I tried to reach

people in those ways.” Her grandmother used to “have flyers that she’d leave at local stores or restaurants in Paragould. “I still use her recipes. I just add my own little thing to it just to make it more mine. I like to add my input. Like flavors, I think I have 20 to 25 flavors. I started adding lavender, candies, stuff she never used.” Alexia’s most popular cheesecake is The New York, which is “the one everybody gets, the plain one, but it has lemon zest and orange zest in it.” It also includes five packages of cream cheese instead of the usual four. “I think it’s richer and heavier.” The Turtle Cheesecake, which features pecans, chocolate, and caramel on top, is a customer favorite. The Red Velvet Cheesecake is another hit. It’s “the basic cheesecake, the original, and then I add red velvet cake batter to the mix.” The secret to making a great cheesecake is “just not to over-whip it. Cheesecake is supposed to be light and fluffy.” Alexia used to over-whip her cheesecakes as a child. “’Cause I just loved using a hand mixer, loved to touch all the buttons. So I would have air bubbles in them. Sometimes I would have to make another batch. It would be too far gone. There would be so many air bubbles, it would almost look like cheese when it was baked.” Alexia, who now lives in Millington, makes her cakes on weekends because she works a full-time job at Nothing Bundt Cakes. She wants to expand her business. “I want to open up a cheesecake cafe with coffee. That’s the goal.” Meanwhile, she is always experimenting with different ideas. Her “oddest” cheesecake is the Confetti, which is made with vanilla cake batter with sprinkles inside of it. She’s working on a Fruity Pebbles cereal idea. “I think I would probably crush the cereal and put it in a crust, put it in the batter, and have it on top.” Alexia’s go-to cheesecake is her Chocolate Cheese cheesecake. It’s basically the “classic chocolate cheesecake,” but, she says, “We add chocolate. We melt chocolate down and put it in the batter. And when we decorate it, we smother it with chocolate. So it’s like a heart attack in each bite.” To order, go to Alexia’s Cheesecakes on Facebook or Instagram.

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lexia Arthur was always artistic in the kitchen. Even as a child. “I would make homemade apple pie, but not really apple pie,” she says. “But I would imagine it was apple pie.” It might have actually been “a piece of bread with oranges on it.” Arthur, 19, is now the owner of Alexia’s Cheesecakes, an online bakery. Instead of using bread, she makes real cheesecakes and adds a variety of ingredients on top. Her grandmother, Debbie Arthur, taught her how to bake, says Alexia, who is from Paragould, Arkansas. “I grew up on a farm, so I would help her make homemade butter and all that fun stuff.” Debbie, who used to own an Italian restaurant in Paragould, mostly made Italian food. “My grandmother also used to make homemade focaccia every morning.”

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Catching Up With CODA The deserving Best Picture winner was overshadowed by awards show drama.

Ruby (Emilia Jones), the only hearing member of her family, navigates the world not only for herself as a shy teen, but for her brother (Daniel Durant) and parents (Troy Kotsur, Marlee Matlin), whom their hearing community has neglected. the middleman. But that will require communicating and cooperating with hearing folks, and after years of abuse and neglect, the Rossis have grown insular and distrustful. They need Ruby’s experience and charm to navigate the new business environment. Ruby is trapped in a no-win situation. If she pursues the dream her parents can’t understand by leaving for music school, the family will falter. But if she passes up her opportunity to go to Berklee, she could end up embittered and wasted in this small town. CODA is a classic story of intergenerational conflict spiced up with a culture clash narrative between the deaf and hearing communities. The execution is nearly flawless. The core cast is terrific, particularly the chemistry between Kotsur and Matlin (who happens to be the other deaf actor who has won an continued on page 28

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living in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with her father Frank (Troy Kotsur), mother Jackie (Marlee Matlin), and older brother Leo (Daniel Durant). Like many families living in the seaside town, the Rossis depend on their fishing boat to make a living. Unlike the other fisherfolk, the Rossis are deaf — all except Ruby, who, since childhood, has translated between her family and the hearing world. As she works on the boat, Ruby sings along with the radio, unbeknownst to her family. A painfully shy outcast at school, Ruby surprises her best friend Gertie (Amy Forsyth) when she signs up for choir instead of film club (“otherwise known as ‘put your backpack down and smoke a bowl’”). Her first audition is a disaster, but choir master Bernardo (Eugenio Derbez) hears potential in her voice. Bernardo is an alumni of the prestigious Berklee School of Music in nearby Boston, and he thinks Ruby has what it takes to get accepted, providing she works hard. One motivating factor for Ruby is Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo), a cute boy she is assigned to duet with in the upcoming school concert. Meanwhile, the family’s fishing business is in crisis. Market prices are low, and regulations to protect the fisheries are hitting the trawlers with new expenses. Frank comes up with a scheme to create a co-op and increase the anglers’ profits by cutting out

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f you want your movie to win an award at a film festival, make sure I don’t see it. When the winner of the jury award is announced at Indie Memphis, it’s inevitably the one I missed. Now, I’ve been bitten twice by the same movie — or maybe I failed the same movie twice. CODA premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2021, when the pandemic forced the event to go virtual. I watched two dozen features at that fest, but when CODA sold early to Apple TV for a record $25 million, I figured I would have plenty of chances to see it, so it fell to the bottom of my priority list. Naturally, it went on to sweep the jury prizes. When it was released last August, it languished in my streaming playlist for months until it was buried under an avalanche of Oscar screeners. The night of the Academy Awards, I realized I still hadn’t seen it, so naturally, it won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Troy Kotsur won Best Supporting Actor, becoming only the second deaf actor in history to win an Oscar. Now, writer/director Sian Heder is enjoying a theatrical victory lap, and I finally caught up with CODA. The story, which was based on the FrenchBelgian film La Famille Bélier, revolves around Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones), a high school senior

FILM By Chris McCoy continued from page 27 Oscar, for 1986’s Children of a Lesser God). Jones pulls off an extremely difficult role, in which she both has to sing and use ASL like a native signer. The characterization of the Rossis as authentically rough and rude working class people instead of saintly martyrs to their disability feels like a big leap forward in representation. This story is told from their perspective, and the hearing world are the outsiders. The disconnect between the two worlds is driven home in a masterful sequence

at the school concert, where Ruby’s triumphal performance plays in silence, as the family tries to suss out how she’s doing by watching the faces of the audience. This plucky indie’s well-deserved Oscar wins have been overshadowed by the televised bad behavior of rich movie stars. Since the Academy Awards have been increasingly seen as a way for the wider public to discover quality films that might otherwise get lost in the cultural shuffle, that’s a shame. I slept on CODA for too long. Don’t be like me.

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Though labor unions continue to rack up significant victories, the most recent being a successful organizing vote at a Staten Island Amazon facility, there are still immense challenges facing workers in an economic and political landscape strongly tilted in favor of employers. In California, some 48,000 grocery workers in 540 stores stretching from central California to the Mexican border authorized a strike on March 27th against two major chains, Kroger and Albertsons. Whether or not the strike is now in effect as you read this column, or whether it’s been averted (or is still pending the outcome of bargaining), the strike authorization itself represents a powerful response to untenable conditions for workers. These conditions underscore the deep inequality continuing to erode the quality of life for millions of people. This past year, financial stresses impacting grocery workers have drawn increasing attention. A PHOTO: FRANK ARMSTRONG | DREAMSTIME.COM recent survey of workers employed by Kroger-owned supermarkets found that almost two-thirds of the workers surveyed reported being unable to meet basic monthly expenses, and of this group, a significant number (39 percent) indicated that they were unable to pay for groceries, and 44 percent reported being unable to pay rent. Fourteen percent said that they were either currently homeless or had been homeless in the preceding year. A New York Times account began with the story of one young worker at a Kroger-owned store who has been selling blood plasma to make ends meet. These circumstances, defined by low wages and company policies favoring part-time scheduling, contrast sharply with reports of substantial profits and payouts to investors, as well as high executive compensation. Kroger, the largest grocery chain in the nation, with 465,000 workers, earned $4.05 billion in 2020, recently adopted a stock buyback program benefiting its investors and rewarded its CEO, Rodney McMullen, with $22.4 million in compensation in 2020. That executive pay is 909 times greater than the median pay of Kroger workers ($24,617). For its part, Kroger defends its compensation for workers, pointing to a 2017 increase in average hourly wages from $13.66 to $16.68 — as well as to benefits that include healthcare, retirement savings, and tuition assistance. Still, this average wage, when placed in the context of today’s cost of living, is a far cry from the pay that full-time senior workers made 30 years ago, when hourly wages (the equivalent of $28 an hour today) would help sustain a middle class existence. At issue is the concept of a living wage, a sufficient level of compensation that allows individuals and families to maintain a decent standard of living, providing enough for food, housing, medical expenses, transportation, education, childcare, and other essentials — and still provide enough to handle unforeseen expenses that can tip a precarious household into eviction and hunger. That precariousness is the subject of a new Oxfam America report, “The Crisis of Low Wages in the U.S.,” which notes that almost one in three American workers, or 51.9 million people, earns less than $15 an hour. The report reminds readers that the federal minimum wage hasn’t budged from $7.25 an hour since 2009 and that the federal tipped-minimum wage has remained at $2.13 since 1991. Considering that $15 an hour in itself hardly constitutes a living wage in many parts of the U.S., the report documents the vast extent of working poverty in a country where the top 0.1 percent of earners make 196 times that of the bottom 90 percent. This is why recent union victories, and the resurgence of interest in unions, have become critical. As political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson explain in their landmark book, Winner-Take-All Politics, unions represent a significant “organizational counterweight to the power of those at the top.” Of all progressive organized interests, they note, “labor is the only major one focused on the broad economic concerns of those with modest incomes.” The pandemic has helped raise awareness of the essential roles that millions of low-wage workers play in fields as diverse as healthand home-care, agriculture, construction, and food manufacturing and distribution. That awareness can certainly help a union like the United Food and Commercial Workers in its struggle on behalf of those 465,000 workers who voted to authorize a strike. But awareness alone won’t make up for a decline in union membership that has taken place over many decades, a decline propelled in large measure by hostile legislation and vast corporate resources spent on union busting. Much hard work lies ahead — as does the need for an ascendant narrative affirming the role that unions play in leveling the economic and political playing field of America. It is a narrative that speaks to a collective reality — but also to the individual reality of each and every worker: a world in which a person surrounded by an abundance of food at work can be compensated enough, and fairly enough, to share in that abundance at home. Andrew Moss, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is an emeritus professor (English, Nonviolence Studies) at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

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