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CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE is launching a new local food delivery option for midtown and downtown Memphis. Concourse now offers free food delivery to your doorstep from the Concourse restaurants that remain open for delivery and pick-up — Curb Market (including groceries and prepared meals), Global Café, and Saucy Chicken. For now, delivery is offered within a 4-mile radius of Concourse between the hours of 11:30-7:30. To order, simply contact the restaurants or market direclty, order and pay (via phone for Curb; online for Global and Saucy), and our staff will deliver your order as soon as it’s ready.

A new online initiative organized by Crosstown Arts to support Memphis musicians.

April 16-22, 2020

Watch new, made-at-home performance videos shot by the artists, and show your support by buying a virtual ticket. 100% of the proceeds from all ticket sales on an artist’s page will go directly to the artist.

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OUR 1625TH ISSUE 04.16.20 I was driving back roads north of Memphis last Saturday, up around Shelby Forest, which, it turned out, was closed due to the COVID-19 situation. The locals, however, didn’t seem to be much worried about it.

At a country gas station/convenience store where I stopped, it could have been April 2019. There was no difference in behavior among the patrons, no evidence whatsoever that the disease that is consuming most of the country’s attention even existed. Six bikers sat at a picnic table eating sandwiches and chips. People stood in line inside, and came and went from the pumps to the store with casual indifference to the six-feet-apart warning. A couple of them looked sideways at the weirdo wearing a mask and wiping down the handle at the gas pump. I smiled at them, but they couldn’t see it.

Maybe they’re onto something. Maybe the sneaky virus doesn’t pose as much of a danger to country folks who already live separated from their neighbors, who gather only at convenience stores on a pleasant Saturday afternoon. It seemed to be a bet most of them were making.

It’s a point of view echoed by Rush Limbaugh and numerous other, er, conservatives, who contend that the economy is being closed down to ruin Donald Trump’s chances of re-election. They say that the disease threat is being exaggerated and that the “leftists” are all in on it, especially the media. According to Rush and the president’s other cheerleaders, those of us in the media are apparently so intent on bringing down the president, we’re willing to destroy our own businesses — and the businesses of all our advertisers — to spite the president. Logic!

Logical or not, it’s a sentiment that’s gaining momentum in the White House, as the president looks to “reopen the country” as soon as possible. Since the president didn’t “shut down” the country — governors and other local officials did — there is some confusion as to how exactly he’d open it up.

Trump said Monday at his daily briefing that, as president, his “authority is total.” When it was pointed out by a reporter that it’s actually the governors who have the power to decide when to open up their states, Trump fumed and turned red and insulted the reporter. The next day, he tweeted something about “Mutiny on the Bounty” and suggested the “Democratic governors” were mutineers who should remember they “need so much from the Captain.” Meaning, I suppose, that Trump will continue using federal aid for the fight against coronavirus as a political weapon, just as he has been for weeks. People are dying because the president doesn’t like the level of “respect” he gets from certain governors. History will not be kind to Captain Trump.

So, what happens when Trump gets antsy and decides to unilaterally declare the country “open for business” on, say May 15th? If past is prologue, most GOP governors will supinely follow the president’s lead and declare that their states — Mississippi, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, to name a few — are magically out of danger and ready to roll. Everything’s back to normal!

Governors who think science and medical expertise are more important markers for public safety than ideology or obeisance to the president will likely move more cautiously, hoping to avoid a resurgence of the disease in their state.

This will “open up America” in an entirely new way. A great Darwinian experiment will ensue, as Americans divide into two camps: those who believe in the president and who will gleefully return to normal activities, and those who think he’s a fool and who will keep wearing masks and distancing until scientists and medical experts say to do otherwise. Masks will become the progressive version of the MAGA hat, the mark of a socialist wussy who doesn’t believe in Trump.

My clever friend (and former Memphis magazine editor) Ed Weathers proposed this week that when Trump reopens the economy, he should hold large rallies in swing N E WS & O P I N I O N states and shake lots of hands, just to prove THE FLY-BY - 4 how right he is. For the record, I think this NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 is a brilliant plan and I hope someone sugPOLITICS - 6 gests it to The Donald.

COVER STORY So which side will turn out to be right?

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BY FLYER STAFF - 8 is correct and the disease just “goes away,” WE RECOMMEND - 14 MUSIC - 15 the maskers will look like sissies. If, on the VIEWPOINT - 16 other hand, the scientists of the world are FOOD - 18 correct, those of us who believed them will BREWS - 19 have the last laugh.

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MEMernet A roundup of Memphis on the World Wide Web. H OT C O M M E NTS! Ooh, boy, things got spicy in the comments last week, this time in the city’s Facebook broadcast of a daily briefing of the Shelby County COVID-19 Task Force.

Celina Engles took the moment to post flu death numbers over the last two years. Well, Sara Ray reminded her those numbers were from an entire year, not just a few weeks, as with the coronavirus.

“I’m so sick of seeing this ‘argument,’” Ray wrote.

Engles countered: “Sara Ray I have facts that prove someone in Texas had the covid-19 [sic] in November.”

Things spiraled hilariously out of control until Engles tried to burn the whole thing down with this scalding missive: “You’re also a sick human being for laughing at the fact that thousands die yearly from the flu.” To which Ray responded, “I was laughing at your calling me an idiot and … ” Well, it went on like that for a while.

Two others sparred briefly (but also hilariously!) in the same comments thread. Joy Brown wrote, “God protect our president n [sic] country from Obama n [sic] his cronies … ” Esbeidi Diaz Stewart retorted, “Wow, why wasn’t it ‘God may protect all of us from this virus.’”

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Timothy Thomas, a Nextdoor user in Cooper-Young, offered up a roll of toilet paper for $100,000 this week.

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Funding the press, new virus tech from U of M, and new shopping hours.

S P EC IA L H O U R S Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris extended his stay-at-home order for an additional seven days on Friday and mandated grocery stores provide special hours for certain shoppers.

All essential grocery stores must now provide at least one hour of controlled access to shoppers 55 and older and to those who have serious underlying medical conditions.

N EWS STI M U LUS News organizations are asking to include $5 billion in funding for local news agencies in the next coronavirus Clockwise from top left: Lee Harris, dead fish, D. Michael Dunavant, mContain, stimulus package.

Kevin Dean, and news stimulus In a letter sent to House and Senate leaders last week, more than 45 organizaofficer of Momentum Nonprofit Partners, a resource hub for tions and academics asked for local press to be considered nonprofit organizations in the Memphis area. The long-term an essential service, “vital to the nation’s health, prosperity, losses are surely going to be much bigger. and recovery.”

Dean said Momentum responded early to the coronavirus Since the onset of the coronavirus emergency, more than pandemic, even though some didn’t take them seriously in the 60 U.S. news organizations have announced newsroom beginning. But thanks to that early response, Momentum has layoffs, furloughs, and closures, according to the Poynter been able to stay ahead of the curve for Memphis nonprofits.

Institute. At the same time, local news outlets have lowered paywalls on their virus coverage and provided “critical M C O NTAI N YO U R S E LF information that national outlets cannot replace.”

There is now an app that can help track social distancing thanks to researchers based at the University of Memphis.

H OS P ITALS WAR N E D The free app, mContain, uses location and Bluetooth As Tennessee entered into what experts believe is the peak technologies on smartphones to detect encounters within of the coronavirus surge in hospitals here, U.S. Attorney six feet for several minutes with other app users. If users Michael Dunavant warned West Tennessee hospital leadand their COVID-19 test provider both agree to share the ers that his office is prioritizing prosecutions on equipment results, the app can notify others about their possible expohoarding and price gouging. sures to the disease.

In a letter, Dunavant warned hospital executives that he will aggressively enforce such practices. Further, Dunavant D E AD F I S H called hoarding and price gouging “morally repugnant.”

Anyone who has been near Hyde Lake at Shelby Farms Park Dunavant asked health-care officials here to help his ofrecently has likely noticed the large number of dead fish in fice identify companies hoarding these materials or charging and around the lake — and the smell that comes with it. heightened prices on them. He also asked them to look out Angie Whitfield, marketing and communications manfor anyone offering false treatment, tests, or vaccines. ager for Shelby Farms Park Conservancy, said people are seeing Threadfin shad. The fluctuating temperatures are N O N P R O F IT LOS S E S causing a natural die-off of the species, she said.

Nonprofits across Memphis have lost an estimated $32 Visit the News Blog at memphisflyer.com for fuller versions of million to the effects of the coronavirus. That’s just the these stories and more local news. immediate loss, according to Kevin Dean, chief executive

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Researchers in Brussels found that — thanks to stay-at-home orders around the world — the Earth itself is shaking less. The Earth’s plates have calmed as people stopped driving, flying, or just doing human things.

This allowed those researchers with the Royal Observatory of Belgium to hear softer seismic events, like volcanic activity. Officials in Brussels explained that some of the softening was because their testing station was originally built in a remote location but the noisy city grew around it.

Researchers in Brussels weren’t the only ones to detect a less-shaky planet.

Others reported the same quieting in London and Los Angeles.

But Memphis has not quieted to this extent. A researcher with the Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI) at the University of Memphis said it monitors earthquakes at testing sites from East Tennessee to the Missouri bootheel. Most of these, he said, are in remote locations.

“People make noise,” said Dr. Mitch Withers, associate research professor with the CERI. “That’s why, generally, we try to locate our seismic stations away from people.”

The CERI operates about 140 stations in nine states across two seismic zones. The New Madrid Zone runs from Marked Tree, Arkansas, to Dyersburg, Tennessee, and then runs all the way to the Missouri bootheel. The East Tennessee seismic zone starts in northeast Alabama and goes into northwest Georgia and on to the Tennessee/North Carolina border.

For now, Withers said he and other researchers here just aren’t seeing the calming effect seen in other parts of

Memphis is as noisy as it was before stay-at-home orders. the world. Again, it’s simply because CERI’s stations are in remote locations.

However, researchers are seeing that traditional diurnal change. Human noise levels, mainly vehicle traffic, fall at nighttime and rise during the day.

This is why Withers and researchers here can detect smaller magnitude earthquakes at night.

Withers checked rural stations across the CERI system — one at Shelby Forest and the other in nearby Obion County. Both showed the diurnal, day/night shift in noise. But neither, he said, showed an overall reduction in noise that could be attributed to stay-at-home orders.

He also checked the station based on the U of M campus. Though the lines on that graph show only 24-hour data, Withers said it does not show any noise reduction.

“It really hasn’t changed that much since early March up through to today,” Withers said. “Humans in Memphis are making just as much noise today as they were a month ago.”

Asked about the area’s “general earthquake situation right now,” Withers said there is still a 10 to 15 percent chance of a damaging earthquake in the next 50 years.

“You need to be prepared for earthquakes as you do for pandemics, tornadoes, and hurricanes,” he said.

“You need to have your couple of weeks of supplies on hand. If there’s an earthquake, you need to be prepared to drop, cover, and hold on. That still could happen. That’s why we’re continuing to be on the job during the virus.”

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For 26 years — from the time, that is, of unquestioned Democratic Party dominance in the Tennessee General Assembly to the current era of a Republican supermajority there — John DeBerry has represented District 90, a constituency that links two majority-black areas in the north and south of Memphis via a solid thread through a predominantly white Midtown area.

DeBerry, a businessman, and minister of unusual eloquence, has wielded his influence in accord with the temper of the times. From being an obedient servant of the Democratic establishment who once served as Democratic leader pro tem, he has figured in recent times as an agent of political crossover, cherry-picking his issues but supporting the now-dominant Republican position on such issues as abortion and private-school vouchers.

Though DeBerry had been much more firmly grounded in the party politics of the past, his political profile had become something like that of the late former state Senator Reginald Tate, who was defeated in the Democratic primary of 2018 by current state Senator Katrina Robinson.

More articulately than Tate did, DeBerry has defended his various heterodoxies both as reflecting the long-held views of his constituents and as a means of maintaining working relations across the political aisle.

For at least a decade, discontent against DeBerry has been building in the ranks of local progressives, and it materialized in the form of an April 1st letter to the state Democratic executive committee from Memphis activist Janeita Lentz asserting that DeBerry had “utilized the power of his office to work against the constituents in which he serves, undermining the voice of the people and the ‘vision’ of the Tennessee Democratic Party.”

The legislator’s derelictions were declared to include not only his positions on issues but his receipt of significant financial support from Republican sources, of voting for Republican Glen Casada over Democrat Karen Camper in the 2019 House Speakership race, and of making a substantial cash contribution to an election campaign of Republican state Representative Bill Sanderson.

After a debate in an online meeting of the party committee held last Wednesday, mere days after the filing deadline for

the August primary ballot had expired, DeBerry, along with four other candidates whose credentials were challenged, was declared ineligible to run under the party label. The vote against DeBerry was 41 to 18, with two abstentions.

Though he seemed stoically accepting in the immediate wake of the vote, DeBerry, who had received no prior notice about last week’s vote, subsequently complained that he had been “ambushed and blindsided” by the action against him, which had been put before the committee “after the filing deadline and in the middle of a pandemic.”

And he asserted his right to appeal at a new hearing, scheduled by the party committee to be held on Wednesday of this week. As it quickly developed, he was by no means without defenders, especially among members of the Tennessee Black Caucus of State Legislators, which issued a statement en masse calling for dismissal of last week’s action against DeBerry. State Representative G.A. Hardaway and state Senator Raumesh Akbari had been among DeBerry’s defenders during the committee vote last week, and he had also received public support from the aforementioned Camper, the House Minority Leader, who maintained, “The people of his district have sent John DeBerry to Nashville to be their voice 13 times. If someone believes their voices and values are better fits for a district, I encourage them to file for office and make their argument to the voters.”

Calling last week’s removal vote “a draconian attempt to perceive how a ‘lesser than’ people should behave or vote,” state Representative Joe Towns said “this racially motivated and bullying attempt … will not be tolerated by the black community.”

Towns also noted, “Representative DeBerry has strong relationships on both sides of the aisle, and we need his influence to continue building relationships with Republicans.”

DeBerry did indeed have support from across the aisle, a fact that could be as likely to reinforce his critics in the Democratic Party as to refute them. State Representative Mark White of House District 83, a Republican who faces a stiff challenge of his own this year from Democrat Jerri Green, called DeBerry “a moral compass for us all” and said “his ability to speak on issues with clarity and wisdom is something we do not need to lose on Capitol Hill. We need to keep Representative DeBerry, and I support any and all efforts to make sure that happens.”

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April 16-22, 2020

ast week on a Memphis Twitter thread, the subject of restaurant takeout and delivery options arose. People began name-checking dining options and dishes and service they’d tried and liked. I suggested they should begin tweeting their best experiences, and in the process, give a shout-out to local restaurants who were trying to survive in these trying times. It went — pardon the expression — viral, with dozens of Memphians tweeting out their favorites over the course of a couple days.

We decided to use that spontaneous outpouring of support and love for our local restaurant community as the basis for this story — to offer some views from the trenches and find out how some of your favorite eateries are coping. — Bruce VanWyngarden

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Pete & Sam’s I long to sit in one of those big booths at Pete & Sam’s, beneath the enlarged photos of founder Sam Bomarito, his sister Vita Gattuso, and others involved in one way or the other with the popular restaurant.

For now, the meals I love still are available, but they’re takeout only.

The restaurant is offering lunch and dinner curbside pickup, says Michael Bomarito. “We’ve got a kiosk out there,” he says. “A person sitting out there between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. with a credit

card reader.”

Pete & Sam’s also delivers all over, whether it’s Memphis, Bartlett, or Germantown, Bomarito says. “We’re coming to you. So that’s the end of that. We’ve got three or four drivers every day. We start at noon. Then we deliver all day until 8 p.m. during the week and 9 p.m. on Fridays. Back to 8 p.m. Sundays.”

As for the food, Bomarito says, “We’re pretty much doing 90 percent of the menu. A couple of things we pulled off. They weren’t big sellers. We didn’t want food to go to waste.” Available items include their frozen lasagna that serves three and frozen ravioli meat sauce. “We have people calling from all over the country wanting us to ship our stuff.”

The take-and-bake frozen pizzas are their hottest item, Bomarito says. You

can build your own pizza by adding spinach or whatever topping you want.

The pizzas are covered with shrink wrap at the restaurant, the Pete & Sam’s logo is added, and the pizza is ready to go. The frozen pizzas have been available over a year, but, Bomarito says, “The last couple of weeks people went crazy stocking up their freezer.”

— Michael Donahue 3886 Park, (901) 458-0694, peteandsams.com R.P. Tracks “Tracks has never closed,” says Mary Laws, who, with her husband Bernard, has owned the beloved University of Memphis spot for the past five years.

She’s worked there for 16. “Even when they did a huge remodel in 2000, Rick and Peter [the former owners] never closed.”

R.P. Tracks has been a haven for college-goers’ study breaks and professors’ and locals’ beer meet-ups for more than 30 years (33 in December, according to Mary).

“Tracks has always been here for the people in this neighborhood and the city,” she says, noting the many regulars who’ve come in for burgers and nachos or sat at the bar for conversation through the decades. “I thought, even if they can’t come in, at least they know they can still get their favorite food.

They’re still seeing the bartenders who have been waiting on them for years. It’s just that small interaction, I think, that gives people a little ray of sunshine.”

After a rocky start with low carryout sales the first couple of weeks, they’ve recently extended their hours. Customers can call ahead and order from the slightly limited food menu, which thankfully still includes the famous nachos (we’ll take the barbecue tofu, please!), burgers, wings, quesadillas, and more. Togo beers, cocktails, and shooters are also available.

“I cannot tell you how much I have been touched by the support of the community,” Mary says. “If I stop and think about it, I tear up because I’m so grateful, just beyond words.”

R.P. Tracks is open for curbside pickup from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

Give them a call to place your order, then call again when you arrive and they’ll bring it out to you.

— Shara Clark 3547 Walker, (901) 327-1471, rptracks.com Spindini/South Main Grocery When the restaurant industry seemed to plummet overnight, Spindini owner Jim LoSapio had to reimagine his business model — and quick. He and his partner came up with a plan to flip the Downtown restaurant into a grocery store. Thus, in late March, South Main Grocery was born.

Shoppers will now find shelves and coolers stocked with a variety of grocery offerings, to-go dishes, and more, as well as household items including soap, cleaning supplies, paper towels, and the ever-elusive toilet paper.

“We’ve incorporated the grocery store ideas with some of the things that we did well as a restaurant,” LoSapio says. “We have grab-and-go lasagna and take-home par-baked pizzas. We’ve also incorporated things we do at our other restaurants as grab-and-go items, like gumbo and red beans and rice.”

They’re also hand-cutting fresh meat, with filets and ribeyes on offer, in addition to burger meat. Current seafood options include red fish, salmon, and shrimp. Also available: milk, orange juice, eggs, pastas, sliced bread, hoagie rolls, bagels, and freshly baked cookies, muffins, and more.

Their new dinner specials have taken off. “On Monday and Friday, we’re doing $25 smoked pork butt that we slow smoke for 11 hours,” LoSapio says. “Tuesday and Thursday, we roast Spindini has become South Main Grocery for the time being.

The Bar-B-Q Shop In the South, barbecue is the unofficial food of community. It’s what Memphians pick up, by the pound, to celebrate family reunions and graduations. Out-of-town visitors usually want to know where the best barbecue joint is. And while the coronavirus has put gatherings on hold, barbecue is still grade-A comfort food, and we could all use a little comfort these days.

“Our customers have such different relationships with all of us. It’s just been challenging from that perspective because part of what we do is not just to-go food, it’s interaction,” says Eric Vernon, manager/owner of the BarB-Q Shop in Midtown. It’s been hard, but Vernon says he and his staff are adapting to providing the comfort food without the personal connection — at least for the time being.

The store is offering to-go, curbside pickup, and specially priced bulk orders, or family packs. The Boston Butt Shoulder is $11.29 per pound, and the Beef Brisket is $15.49 per pound.

Their famous Bar-B-Q Spaghetti is $21.99 per quart. To make getting your pulled pork fix easier, the folks at the Bar-B-Q Shop have designated the parking spots in front of the restaurant, marked by orange traffic cones, as the pickup area.

“We’re also, for the first time, doing DoorDash delivery, and we’re working on our online menu for our website,” Vernon adds, saying that he’s had calls and texts from regular customers with suggestions for how to best serve quarantined Memphians hungry for barbecue and how to best get the word out. “I get a tip every other day from people who are just wanting us to stay afloat.” Here’s to staying afloat through the storm — and to sharing community and comfort food once the storm passes. — Jesse Davis 1782 Madison, (901) 272-1277, thebar-b-qshop.com Ticer and Hudman Restaurants All is not lost if you still can order Maw Maw’s ravioli from Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman. Ticer and Hudman are the chef/owners of a string of

popular restaurants, which now are offering curbside pickup.

Nick Talarico, operations manager for the restaurants, described what each place is doing.

Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen “strictly does take-and-bake, and everything is cooked at [the customer’s] home,” Talarico says. “They do a family meal and an à la carte meal — like pastas and sauces. A lot of people are getting Maw Maw’s ravioli and taking it home and cooking it.”

Catherine & Mary’s and Gray Canary have teamed up at Catherine & Mary’s restaurant, he says. “They’re doing take-and-bake stuff as well as hot-and-ready items. They’re doing fun things. Like they did tamales one day. They’re doing a potato cake with neckbone gravy. Sort of a play on Hog & Hominy’s poutine. And then we also see a lot of our pastas — the hot and ready-to-eat pastas — as really successful down there.”

Bishop, he says, is “doing the same with hot-and-ready and takeout items — probably the Birdie [fried chicken, dill aioli, Calabrian honey] and the Bishop burger are the most popular.”

The restaurants are offering dinner, but Ticer and Hudman also rolled out Saturday and Sunday brunch at Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen and Catherine & Mary’s. “Like pancakes and quiche.

And we’re doing grits. Doing a couple of different things.” — MD Menus are updated daily on Instagram: @amitaliancooks, @catherine_marys, and @bishopmemphis.

Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen, 712 W. Brookhaven Circle, (901) 347-3569 Maw Maw’s ravioli from the team of Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman

Vegan Options Sure, a lot of folks are ordering takeout from restaurants, but how is that going for the Memphis vegan community?

Many vegans, of course, are accustomed to having fewer choices when dining out, and most are comfortable with cooking at home for that very reason.

The closest they come to home deliveries may be those from local farmers. But now in Memphis, vegan takeout has become fairly common.

One place making a name for itself in this regard would seem quite unlikely — a dive bar: the Lamplighter Lounge.

“We have a few unique vegan options,” says co-owner and chef Laurel Cannito. “Our curry special, our vegan sausage, egg, and cheese, our veggie burger, and our veggie dog. People are into it. We’re open every day from noon until 1a.m. After midnight, we try to get people to pick up, but if we have someone who can’t leave their house, we’re not going to tell them no. We deliver to the Midtown area, free if the order’s over $20. Under $20, there’s a $3 delivery fee. But most people who have been ordering have tended to get a good bit of stuff.”

As with all restaurants these days, a new hygiene regime is in force at the Lamp. “We got N-95 face masks before there was a shortage,” says Cannito. “We have gloves and lots of hand sanitizer and disinfectant. And we have disinfecting protocols we use every night, so everything is properly cleaned.”

Many other vegan-friendly establishments are also delivering these days, of course. Some, like the Lamplighter or Cheffie’s Cafe, use DoorDash, others use UberEats. Most vegans have their go-to restaurants in town, often non-vegan kitchens that have vegan-friendly items, as with many Asian or Mediterranean restaurants.

Crazy Noodle will tweak their standard recipes for vegans on request.

But comfort food may be the order of the day for most stressed-out Americans, and it’s in high demand.

Cannito has to put me on hold several times as orders roll in on a Thursday night. “Our most popular vegan item?” she says, when she finally has a moment. She doesn’t have to pause.

“Hands down, the veggie burger with fries.” — Alex Greene Lamplighter Lounge, 1702 Madison, (901) 567-5322 The Second Line and Fino’s It’s going to be a while before we can laugh on the patio at The Second Line, enjoy quiet conversations in the elegant continued on page 10

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chicken halves and serve them with a side for $12. Wednesdays, we’re doing pans of the awesome Spindini sausage lasagna that we’ve been doing for years.

It feeds six to eight people.”

LoSapio is grateful. “South Main and Downtown is really helping us support what we’re trying to do and helping me create job opportunities for my staff.

[A situation like this] really makes you appreciate the loyalty of the employees, the loyalty of the community — and proves that we’re strong and we’ll definitely get through it.” — SC 383 S. Main, (901) 578-2767, follow them on Facebook for more info

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can’t eat right now. Tired is nothing compared to what some people are going through.” — MD For information on menus, prices, and restaurant hours, go to irisetc.com.

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Restaurant Iris, and smile inside the bright and cheerful Fino’s Italian Deli & Catering.

For now, Kelly English, chef/owner of these restaurants, is adapting to the times. “Iris and Second Line kind of combined into one delivery and pickup service,” he says. “And we’re focusing on meals that people can eat with their families. Our most popular thing is the crawfish étouffée, gumbo, and jambalaya. I think people want to hug right now. The closest thing we can get to a hug is from food that comforts us.”

Fino’s is doing call-in/to-go and curbside. No one sandwich is the most popular, he says. “Everybody has their own favorite Fino sandwich. It really depends on who walks in that day.”

But, English says, “The most popular thing, by far, we’ve done at Fino’s is our program that lets us partner with citizens to feed first-line responders.

For groups of 400, we deliver $500 worth of food to police stations or fire departments and a lot of other places you might not think about, like the health department, as first-line responders. We’ve been doing that at least once a day.”

English also is partnering with Roadshow BMW to provide daily lunches to hospital staff members who are treating COVID-19 patients.

He posts daily reports on deliveries and other doings at his restaurants on Facebook. “I fight for my team. I fight for my people. And some of my people Crawfish Étouffée from The Second Line/Restaurant Iris

Huey’s The Huey burger is the definition of comfort food in Memphis. It’s a delicious reminder of good times.

As the chief operating officer for Huey’s nine locations, Ashley Robilio helped formulate the company’s response to the COVID-19 crisis. “We spent a good portion of the first two weeks in March just talking about strategy, and talking about all the what-ifs,” she says. “Everyone was so worried, and all of our employees were so scared. We really tried to calm them down and be as positive as we could. … We were probably one of the first restaurants that started social distancing. Even the term ‘social distancing’ was pretty unknown in Memphis for a while, so we got that part pretty quickly.”

When the shutdown orders came, the Memphis locations went first, followed a couple of days later by the suburban stores. Very quickly, Huey’s went to curb service and takeout only.

Robillio says the transition went fairly smoothly. “We have decided to not do any layoffs,” Robillio says. “We’ve got a lot of obviously very good PR and thanks from all of our employees. I mean literally, some of our employees were in tears when they heard.”

The restaurant chain tapped its savings and, after some initial confusion, secured a Small Business Administration disaster assistance loan to keep their employees on the payroll.

They kept employees at full pay with shortened hours and tweaked their togo offerings. “We did take a few of the menu items off, either ones that had a lot of prep time or that don’t travel well, like nachos.”

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Craft beer is essential. Local, state, and federal officials have (finally) confirmed this fact — one that I’ve known all along. In this virus world of isolation, I consider beer essential sanity supplies.

Now, it’s not the same. I like sitting at the bar and catching up with friends over pints. But, thankfully, you can still at least get those beers and bullshit with your buds over Zoom. (Still nope, though. Not even close to the same. Alas.)

Tons of local rules were relaxed on beers and breweries as stay-at-home orders came down late last month.

Bars, restaurants, and breweries were allowed to offer curbside pickup and delivery.

This relentless global tragedy offers little in the way of comfort and joy.

To endure, I’ve been counting every small grace I can find. One of them was the first time I ever grabbed a

to-go beer from the Young Avenue Deli. I placed a dinner order over the phone and also requested a local draft beer, a 22-ouncer. What would this look like? How would it come? On my walk to pick up my order, I reveled in a daiquiri-stand fantasy of a big-ass styrofoam cup with a piece of tape over the straw hole. However it came, I knew I’d be sipping that beer on the walk home.

My fantasy wasn’t far off. It came in that plastic, Midtown-iconic Deli cup. No tape on the top, but it did have a lid with that straw hole. Plenty good enough for me. The whole thing was just … different, and felt sort of illegal. Drinking it on the way home felt deliciously rebellious.

Most Memphis restaurants are offering up curbside beer pickup and delivery. They are allowed to, at least.

Many have wondered if that service will remain after social distancing orders are lifted. Seems like it’d be tough to walk it back now.

Most of Memphis’ craft breweries are offering pickup or delivery. Here’s a quick look at what they’re offering: Meddlesome — Curbside pickup and delivery. Call (901) 207-1147 to order.

Ghost River — Curbside pickup and delivery. One case minimum on deliveries and you must live inside Memphis city limits. Call (901) 6614976 to order.

Wiseacre — Curbside pickup and delivery. One case minimum for deliveries and only for addresses within a 10-mile radius of the brewery. Order form at wiseacrebrew.com.

Crosstown — Curbside pickup and delivery. One case minimum for deliveries with a $5 delivery fee. Order at crosstownbeer.com.

High Cotton — Stopped all pickup and delivery services Monday, April 6th. “We feel this is in the best interest of our community and employees,” reads a statement from the brewery.

Cans and growlers are still available in stores and restaurants.

Memphis Made — Curbside pickup.

Call (901) 207-5343 to order.

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a message from a saner time. The Madison Avenue burger, which adds melted swiss cheese, mushrooms, and bacon to Huey’s juicy beef patty on a sourdough bun, is a deep menu cut that’s worth it. For the non-beef options, the Cajun-seasoned, grilled tuna steak sandwich is always delicious.

Huey’s serves the classic steak cut fries, but a basket of tater tots or onion rings is an excellent alternative. Our recent order had encouraging messages handwritten on the takeout box. “We have gotten so many comments about the notes that we’ve written on these boxes, and some of them have gotten quite creative.”

In the coming days, Huey’s expects to roll out more ordering and delivery options and introduce a catering menu aimed at families and groups. They have already been filling large orders donors have bought to feed places like Hope House.

Robilio says she’s been in constant contact with others in the Mid-South restaurant community. “We’ve heard from a lot of different people, wanting our advice, wanting to know what we’re going to do, when we’re going to do it, and how we’re going to do it. We’ve obviously shared some things with anybody who asks. It is a community effort, and anything we can do to help the restaurant community, we want to do it. We’ve always been like that. My dad loved helping other restaurants. He loves helping anybody, and we’ve tried to stay with that same mentality.”

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continued from page 11 the creation of Vincent and Bridgette Correale, first-generation Italian Americans who came to Memphis from — where else? — Brooklyn. The place is still family-run, with the general manager and head chef being Giorgio Correale, son of the founders.

The entire menu, which runs from New York-style pizza to such specialties as chicken piccata, lasagna Amalfitano, portobello mushroom ravioli with shrimp, and mussels plates, is available for takeout, as well as delivery through the Postmates service. A Family Dinners menu, with numerous condiments and options, has been especially created for the stay-at-home circumstances of today. Hours are 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, and 4 to 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

Bottles of wine are 50 percent off (with house wines and Cellar Reserve excepted).

Phone lines are open each day at 4 p.m., and orders may be placed at 901755-7413. The management promises that anyone leaving a message will be called back. — Jackson Baker 1779 Kirby Parkway, Ste. 5, (901) 755-7413, brooklynbridgeitalian.com

offering delivery, in addition to its existing curbside takeout service. East Memphis, in particular, is considered a major part of the restaurant’s bailiwick.

But owner/operator Christopher Jamieson, who lives in Germantown, is doing the best he can to make available the restaurant’s goodies (including growlers, wine, and takeout cocktails) on as wide a geographic basis as he can manage, doing many of the deliveries himself.

Alas, the establishment’s oyster specials, famously available on Tuesday and Saturday nights, are not on the takeout or delivery menu, but everything else is — including copies of the current Flyer issues (Mortimer’s being one of our regular pickup points).

Not to mention the two rolls of toilet paper, still a scarce item, that go with all to-go orders.

The Jamieson family has long been in the restaurant business and operated the legendary (and now

closed) Knickerbocker’s on Poplar for many years. Christopher Jamieson, the proprietor at Mortimer’s since 2013, says business has been better than he had first expected when the orders came down to close restaurants for onsite service. “The community has been very supportive,” he says. — JB 590 N. Perkins, (901) 761-9321, mortimersrestaurant.net Direct from Farmers While sheltering in place, we’re all cooking more than ever, but how to get the raw materials for your cuisine?

Many feel the safest option is to eliminate as much of the supply chain as possible and take deliveries directly from local farms.

Randy Alexander of Tubby Creek Farm says it makes a lot of sense to take advantage of their home-delivered produce, purely from the standpoint of hygiene. They ensure that all harvesters wash their hands and wear masks.

From there, as he puts it, “The food

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Chard from Rose Creek goes directly from our field to the consumer, instead of to a warehouse chain, and then a grocery store, and through a bunch of people before it gets bought.”

Ray Tyler, of Rose Creek Farm, points out another advantage of homedelivered local produce. “Right now is when people need to be taking care of their immune systems more than ever,” he says. “Local, nutrient-dense food is not a silver bullet, but it’s a good idea to eat more of it.”

As fate would have it, Rose Creek was already ramping up its online ordering in recent years, with a small fee for home delivery. But a sense of community service caused Tyler and his wife Ashley to reconsider that.

“We really wanted to do our part in making this time a little easier,” he says. “So we started offering free delivery to everybody in Corinth [Mississippi], Selmer, Henderson,

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Luckily, the shut-in policy took hold just as farms were rolling out their spring crops. “We’re hitting our peak,” says Tyler, who notes that they now are flush with carrots, scallions, spring greens, spinach, lettuce, herbs, radishes, arugula, and beets.

Meanwhile, Tubby Creek begins making their weekly deliveries of presold subscriptions this Wednesday, even as they sell surplus crops via individual online orders. Rose Creek is mostly taking the latter approach.

“Our customer base has increased 100 percent,” says Tyler. “Especially in Memphis. So this has relaunched this new local food resurgency. I think people realize that in times like this, it’s a really good idea to know your local farmer.” — AG Tubby Creek, tubbycreekfarm.com Rose Creek, rosecreekfarmstore.com

of the bills.” Martin recently took a salary cut in order to keep all of his staff employed.

Uncle Lou’s serves a lot of travelers, he says. And the restaurant’s biggest money-maker has always been from people dining in. “First and foremost, I want to make it through this,” Martin says. “And I want my staff to make it through this with good health. When it’s over, I might have to reassess and make some changes. But we have to survive this first.” — Maya Smith 3633 Millbranch, (901) 332-2367, unclelousfriedchicken.com Buster’s Liquors & Wines Considering what a drastic change it was going from in-store to curbside sales at Buster’s Liquors & Wines, president and co-owner Josh Hammond is satisfied with how it’s going. “We shifted to just online sales, which we did for our employee safety and hopefully send a message to the community,” he says.

“It’s been sort of amazing that we’ve been able to do the curbside pickup all reliant on our eCommerce system that we already had in place.”

Just before Buster’s made the switch, they were slammed almost like holiday business. “We saw significant increase there, but it was completely hectic and stressful seeing this many people in the stores,” Hammond says. “It was just too difficult to maintain. We saw a 30 percent drop-off the first week as we adjusted, and that was just from normal business. And then we saw a 15 percent increase the following week. This third week, things were just right in line with last year. So we’ve kept up.”

A big challenge has been compliance with coronavirus standards. “Getting masks for our employees has been an incredible task. They were ordered but got delayed. But I had a customer who gave us 200 of them.”

After ordering from the website, you get a confirmation and then later a notice that it’s ready for pickup. Parking spots are designated, and they have security directing traffic. The ordering feature is cut off at 5 p.m. so they can fill all the orders for that day. They tried delivery, but the influx of orders overwhelmed what they could do.

They’re working on fixing that.

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Uncle Lou’s Fried Chicken in Whitehaven, known for its crispy chicken breast dipped in sweet and spicy sauces and honey butter biscuits, closed its dining room a day before it was mandated by Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland.

Louis “Uncle Lou” Martin, the owner of Uncle Lou’s, says since then it’s been a “weird time,” but the restaurant is working to adapt. “We are struggling along,” he says. “But I’m fortunate we’re still open.”

Apart from frying chicken to perfection, Martin says his priority has been keeping his employees and customers healthy. Last week, he says he constructed and installed a sneeze guard at the restaurant’s counter. Additionally, he says, “We’ve been sanitizing like crazy. I have one guy whose only responsibility is keeping the restaurant clean.”

The restaurant is offering carryout and delivery through apps like Grubhub and UberEats. He’s been encouraging customers to make call-in orders to minimize social gatherings in and around the restaurant.

Martin says he has been in the food business since he was a junior in high school, and in the past few weeks he’s been challenged more than he has in nearly 45 years. Sales have dropped, and Martin says the restaurant isn’t making any money, but “We are making enough to pay staff and pay most

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Last week, Crosstown Arts released its Against the Grain platform, where local musicians can submit their musical works for the public to enjoy and show support by purchasing virtual tickets. “The coronavirus pandemic is currently forcing all Memphis music venues to close for the foreseeable future — something that clearly goes against the grain of a musician’s lifestyle and livelihood,” the organization said via a press release.

A number of artists have already submitted unedited, one-take, iPhone/smartphone videos of their exclusive performances, including DJ and producer Qemist and multi-instrumentalist Paul Taylor.

Qemist, an electronic music producer known for blending genres like footwork, electronic, underground house, trap music, and Memphis rap, was among some of the first artists to submit videos to the new platform. “When they reached out to me to participate in Against the Grain, I was very excited about that,” he says. “It definitely let me know that people are still wanting creative work, even though society and the climate of today is really pushing against the working force right now, because it’s inevitable at this point. But [this is] them letting me know that even throughout all of this, they still have avenues that they can give you to help you be a little more stable with your creative work.”

Paul Taylor submitted a video within the first week of the program’s inception, as well, featuring an acoustic set of “Eye to the Sky,” an original song written by him to pay homage to the Old Forest Trail in Overton Park.

“I was disappointed to see that music and the world is canceled for the foreseeable future,” he says. “But, out of adversity always comes the greatest art.”

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Rockin’ Troubadour Jerry Phillips remembers John Prine and the Pink Cadillac sessions.

Memphis Flyer: By 1979, John Prine was well established as a folk-centric songwriter. He was expected to play an acoustic guitar with a lot of finger picking. So Pink Cadillac must have thrown the industry for a loop.

Jerry Phillips: Yeah, it did. John wanted to do something different, and he picked the right people because the Phillips family has never followed the

other things going on, too, we don’t want to talk about …

MF: I’ve read there were 500 hours of tape cut at that time.What happened with all the extra stuff that didn’t make it to the album? Has any of it come out?

JP: Well, we have it in storage.

Knox kept the tape machines running, basically, the whole time the session was going on. And a lot of that stuff, he re-cut. The next album was Storm Windows, and we had already cut that song, “Storm Windows,” in our sessions. But yeah, we’ve got lots of 16 track on John Prine.

MF: The record has proven its longevity. It’s more respected now than reviews at the time would suggest.

JP: Rolling Stone panned that album bad. They said it was the worst John Prine album ever. And The New York Times review [by Robert Palmer] said it was one of his best. So that made all of us feel kinda good. We had defied the corporate mentality in making that record, and the fact that the record company basically hated it [laughs], we thought that was great.

But we weren’t trying to be insane. We were trying to cut a good record. Just one that went off in a different direction. John loved Sam. He would talk about the evangelical fervor he had in the studio. And we can’t leave out my brother Knox, who has his own wild way of producing. Sam only came in for a couple of days. Knox called Sam and said, “You’ve got to come in. This guy sings so bad, you’re gonna love him.” And he didn’t mean he sang off key, but that he sang so different.

Like every one of Sam’s artists.

John Prine was no chicken shit, but on “Saigon” and that stuff, we had to really pull it out of him. Sam would say, “Put some sex into it!

Slow it down and put some damn sex into it!” Because he was in a different genre than what he was used to. But he pulled it off. I don’t think there was ever a record like that before or since!

John came by the studio last year, and we sat in the mastering room with Jeff Powell while he cut John a brand-new, fresh vinyl master 45 of “Saigon” and “How Lucky,” the two songs Sam recorded on him back then. Both of us had tears in our eyes, listening to that stuff. Because it was a pivotal part 15 of his life, and mine, too. m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

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beaten path on anything. We weren’t just going to cut another folk album. Those are great, don’t get me wrong, but to cut another folksy John Prine album like all the rest of ’em would have been of no interest to any of us.

You know, I don’t think John had ever cut an

(above, left to right) Billy Lee Riley, Jerry Phillips, John Prine, Knox Phillips album with his own band. So that’s what he wanted to do. We rented him an apartment, fully furnished, and he stayed in Memphis for three months, him and his whole band. It was crazy. We cut 30 songs on that session. We were supposed to cut 12! And we had everybody from the Everly Brothers to Billy Lee Riley dropping by the studio. There were some

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hen you’re with Memphis songwriters and John Prine comes up, you can tell he’s made an indelible mark on them. Last year I spoke with Keith Sykes, who recited Prine’s lyrics off the top of his head. “The first words out of his mouth, professionally speaking, were: ‘While digesting Reader’s Digest in the back of a dirty bookstore, a plastic flag with gum on the back fell out on the floor. I picked it up and wiped it off and slapped it on my window shield. If I could see old Betsy Ross, I’d tell her how good I feel.’ You ask what makes a good song. Well, when you hear something like that the first time, you don’t think. You just know this is good. It’s contemporary, even today. And that was on his first record, that he cut in Memphis — at Chips’ [Moman] studio, American.”

Sykes added, “He also did Common Sense here, and he did Pink Cadillac here. He’s done a bunch of stuff in Memphis, and he loves it down here.”

Indeed, Prine, who passed away last week from complications related to COVID-19, redefined his career more than once in Memphis, especially in the latter example, when recording Pink Cadillac at Phillips Recording Studio. Hearing stories of its making from Jerry Phillips, who co-produced the record with brother Knox (with an assist from paterfamilias Sam), sheds some light on just how much Memphis resonated with the songwriter. The album, an eclectic mix of rock-and-roll, funk, and country styles, with only half the tracks being originals, decisively stamped Prine’s identity as something more than your typical troubadour. I spoke with Phillips recently about all the juicy details.

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When I spoke to Spindini owner and restaurateur Jim LoSapio for this week’s cover story, a collection of highlights on what some of our beloved local restaurants are doing in the wake of coronavirus, he got choked up talking about his employees.

“I had to lay off about 50 people [across all restaurants],” he says. “It’s one thing to have to get rid of an employee who’s not performing, but when you’re having to terminate employees who shouldn’t be terminated … I can’t tell you how many single mothers I’ve had to lay off. I honestly have lost sleep many a night over this.”

LoSapio isn’t alone. R.P. Tracks owner Mary Laws also spoke about the pain of having to lose a large part of her staff. “Of 34 people, I have six people who are still working for me, and everybody else has been furloughed,” she says. “When I had to make the choice of who the six people were … that was the hardest business decision I’ve ever made in the five years of owning Tracks. I don’t think I have cried any harder than I cried when I had to do that.”

Both LoSapio and Laws are hopeful that their people — “my adopted kids,” as Laws calls her younger employees — will be able to come back soon, that when the virus runs its course and the world opens up again, the community will return swiftly to fill the seats now sitting empty.

These two business owners certainly aren’t the only ones struggling with the decisions they’ve had to make to keep up with payroll and operating costs after incoming revenue shrunk to naught practically overnight. And their employees are among the thousands suffering as restaurants, bars, and retail operations have been limited or shuttered indefinitely to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

Some in the service industry have gotten creative, starting new businesses like Two Broke Bartenders and a Truck, a collection of out-of-work bartenders, servers, musicians, and others who are now offering lawn-care, cleaning, handyman, shopping, and delivery services so that they can make a buck during COVID closings. (For more info or to make an appointment, visit twobrokebartenders.com.)

Edible Memphis has organized the Memphis Food Industry Emergency

Worker Assistance GoFundMe (and raised more than $32,000 at press time), and a Google search will lead you to memphistravel.com’s COVID-19 resources page, where a virtual tip jar link can be found. There, more than 700 local service industry employees have listed their Venmo, Paypal, and/or CashApp info to receive tips online while they’re out of work. Go take a look and see if your favorite server or bartender is on the list.

As for R.P. Tracks’ furloughed workers, Laws says, “I used to be a server. Servers live day to day, so I know they didn’t have a pantry full of food. For our staff that isn’t working right now, they can come here and get a free meal every day … and they all know the minute I can reopen the dining room, they all are coming back.”

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LoSapio says his employees are calling to check in on him. “They’re staying in touch,” he says. “What they want is for us to survive — for me as a boss to survive — so at the end of this, they can have their job back. It’s a blessing because these employees have given so much. For years, they’ve given to me.”

In the meantime, even though we can’t go out and be the barflies we used to be (we’re looking at you, Young Avenue Deli bar!) or dine in at our favorite food spots (read about a handful of those in this week’s cover story, starting on page 8), we can support the restaurants and workers who have come to define Memphis’ soul and culture.

Whether that be through the aforementioned fundraisers or new ventures or by simply ordering delivery or curbside pickup from a few of our city’s many beloved establishments, let’s show the world why Memphis is known for its grit. We’re a resilient bunch. Together, we will get through this.

Shara Clark is managing editor of the Flyer.

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“People were making fun of my eggs. I looked on Google how to cook scrambled eggs, and I watched Gordon Ramsay’s way, but I didn’t have the cream, so I used mayo.”

His breakfast bagel “kind of kicked off the challenge.”

Memphis Sandwich Clique administrator Stephen Hoffman tore Hopgood’s sandwich apart in his comments. “He basically one-upped me,” Hopgood says. “He went live the next day and made a breakfast sandwich. That’s how the whole thing started. It was really just the moderators challenging each other — just us checking each other — and it grew to adding more people to the challenge.”

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Membership grew faster than someone could devour a finger sandwich.

“We started out with 100,” Hopgood says. Membership now is at 12,900.

Because of COVID-19, Memphis Sandwich Clique is adapting. They now focus on “self-quarantine” and “flattening the curve,” Hopgood says. “We’re taking a focus on homemade sandwiches and using what you’ve got in the kitchen, being as creative as possible.”

Memphis Sandwich Clique now streams sandwich challenges, which feature Skahill as host.

It’s a “challenge video series,” says Skahill, who wants people to “support local businesses but still stay safe and stay in the house. We decided to still let people post their to-go order from spots that are open, but, as far as the content we’re creating, [we] focus more on a homemade sandwich challenge, where you can send a live [video] or finished product.”

The challenge streams to several places.

“I go live on my personal Facebook and then share it to the group and all these groups. And people start watch parCother elebratin g 3ties, ” Skahill says.

0 YEAR S The posts are “like TV episodes,” he adds. “At any point in time during the day people are going live.”

As for the first challenge, Skahill says, “We’re doing hashtags. This one is called #cliquebreakfastwars. That’s the breakfast sandwich one we’re doing.

“You pick three people to do the challenge. I nominated my mom who is in North Carolina, and I nominated someone in Boston. It’s not just limited to Memphis anymore. It’s good to get inspiration from across the nation.”

The three people Skahill nominated challenged three more people. “It goes on as long as the chain goes on.”

He plans to introduce a new sandwich challenge weekly. “I’ll make a new hashtag this week. So we’ll have people nominating people for the breakfast challenge while another one is going. It’s like a round. It’s very fun.”

The series initially began with Hopgood making a breakfast sandwich at home. “Ryan is by no means a professional chef,” Skahill says. “So, I believe he sparked the movement.”

The clique: Ryan Joseph Hopgood (left) and Reuben Skahill

“My submission, I think, is the best,” Skahill says. “It’s called The Tiny Breakfast Bomb, where I used an everything bagel and I put Tiny Bomb beer in my eggs and in the cooked turkey sausage. And I used Central BBQ rub on my eggs. Then avocado, cucumber, and tomato.”

Hopgood will be a semi-regular in the challenges. He doesn’t have a lot of groceries on hand at home, but he also spends time at his family’s home. “I’m going to pop up now and then,” he says. “My mom is still getting groceries.

“The main thing is we want people to keep the competitive edge going in their home kitchen, their cooking skills sharp even though they’re in quarantine. A lot of people in the groups are chefs around town, so you’ll see some great creations.”

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“That’s okay, no one has,” he yodeled back. And so it was then that your intrepid beer reporter jumped into action. Setting down my clean, COVID-19-free growler on the counter, I ordered it filled with something Beale Street Brewing calls Hop Ale and which I was assured is not an IPA. Actually, it’s exactly what it claims to be — an ale that’s been hopped to hell and back. It’s good, hoppy to be sure, but somehow (and how the people at Beale Street Brewing

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What is a bit overwhelming about the Hop Ale is the ABV, which is 7.5 percent. I told Mrs. M that if I’m sitting on the patio in the sun with a beer, it means that I’m working and I am not to be disturbed. So she instantly showed up on the patio with one of the aforementioned Bud Lights in hand.

I’ve always had the piddling fear that she doesn’t take me entirely seriously, but the more immediate issue was that I was on the hook for all 32 ounces.

Because I was working.

What the hell? It’s not like we were supposed to be going anywhere, at least not if we could help it. I’m a reasonably law-abiding citizen — so I drank an entire growler of Hop Ale late on a Tuesday morning. Driving wasn’t really the danger for me, I’ve worked at home — and written about booze — for over a decade. I wasn’t going anywhere, except to my desk, where I’m frantically trying to finish a nonbooze related manuscript, because writers don’t make squat. You try to negotiate the logistics of a firstrate coup d’état with 32 ounces of 7.5 percent ABV coursing through your system. With nonfiction you can’t just make stuff up, and mysteries of foreign policy only get more mysterious. I needed a nap.

Two days later we picked up a couple of cheeseburgers from Huey’s curbside and I tried another Beale Street Brewing sample — Space Age Sippin’ Hazy IPA. It clocks in at a marginally lighter 6.5 percent ABV, which I’d bought in cans, so I wasn’t obligated to drink the entire haul in one sitting. This hazy IPA — and I should have started with this one — is one of the best new beers I’ve had in a long time. It is hazy, but light and refreshing. It leans on some groovy hops I can’t name that give it a great citrusy floral nose and taste. I’d get into more technical details about the beer and the company, but I can’t. Their website, while pretty to look at, is more or less useless.

And to the fun-haters, I know that I could have written this column with a four-ounce pour of each, but that’s just wasteful and these are dire times.

A certain trust between correspondent and reader is essential. Besides, what sort of geopolitical analysis would you get out of a glass of lemonade?

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n these harrowing times, even something as innocuous as a trip to the grocery store has taken on an air of danger and adventure. We pad down the aisles like masked ninjas — keeping our distance from other humans, eyeballing the paper goods.

On-the-fly tabulations are turning us into mathematical savants as we calculate toilet paper usage rates.

Heady stuff, people.

I suited up and headed to the Madison Growler Shop for quarantine supplies — which included some Bud Light for Mrs. M because she’s never really supported my career choices. But just because something is possibly dangerous, that does not mean it shouldn’t be pleasant. I had a nice chat with the guy manning the taps, which, due to social distancing, was done nearly at the top of our lungs. “So what’s new?” I bellowed.

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High Fidelity The indie rock classic gains new life in this transition from the big screen.

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looking to expand their musical tastes and b) a way to push away and put down the unhip.

High Fidelity got a classic movie adaptation by director Stephen Frears in 2000 starring John Cusack, in one of his best roles, as Rob. Jack Black, in his original breakout role, was Barry, the hyperactive music enthusiast who starts his own band (the exquisitely named Sonic Death Monkeys) and moves from professional consumer to semi-pro producer. Rob eventually follows a similar arc, starting a record label of his own to help break a promising young band. But Rob’s story is complicated by his on-again, off-again relationship with Laura, his more responsible better half. Yes, Rob grows, but like Prince in Purple Rain, he advances from “self-absorbed jerk” to “slightly less self-absorbed jerk.”

I’ll have to admit, when I heard that Hulu had adapted High Fidelity into a gender-swapped limited series, I thought, this is either going to kill or be a disaster. First of all, record store (or should I say, music snob) culture ain’t what it used to

(above) Zoë Kravitz (left) and David H. Holmes in Championship Vinyl; (bottom, left to right) Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Holmes, Kravitz be. Building the perfect mixtape from your hoard of vinyl records, cassette tapes, and CDs, which so obsessed Rob, has been replaced by assembling the perfect playlist in your streaming music service. Second, I always thought of Rob’s almost pathological fear of commitment as a particularly male trait. I’m certainly not reflexively against gender-swapped remakes (that wasn’t the 2016 Ghostbusters’ biggest problem), but I wasn’t sure how this one was going to work.

The best decision the producers of the new High Fidelity made was casting Zoë Kravitz as Rob (short for Robyn). Kravitz, whose mother Lisa Bonet was one of John Cusack’s failed relationships in the 2000 film, manages to sell the parts of Rob’s personality that wouldn’t necessarily hold together on the page. She sometimes seems to be asking herself, “How would Natasha Lyonne play this scene?” (Lyonne actually directs episode 6, “Weird But Warm.”) Kravitz is, in real life, exceptionally beautiful. To play the unlucky-in-love Rob, she doesn’t ugly it up in the conventional way. Instead, she signals her lack of confidence with slouchy body language, and her over-it-all hipness with dismissing puffs of cigarette smoke.

The supporting cast is vital for this story, and here too, the series delivers. David H. Holmes as Simon replaces the film’s Todd Louisio as Dick, the

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ick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity is a story of obsession turned toxic. But it’s not just Rob Fleming’s obsession with discovering why all of his relationships have failed that’s toxic, it’s his relationship with music that’s unhealthy, too. Rob is the 30-something owner of Championship Vinyl, a record store in London, who famously asked, “Do I listen to sad music because I’m miserable or am I miserable because I listen to sad music?” Why not both?

The novel, which was a huge bestseller in England, is something of a founding document of the 1990s-2000s indie rock movement. Rob and his record store cohorts Dick and Berry are the quintessential Record Store Guys. They’ve weaponized their passions and aren’t afraid to tell you about it. The Top Five lists they competitively compile are a) a jumping off point for people

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most mild-mannered member of the Championship Vinyl team. Simon is the character who benefits the most from the expanded format. The story of how he moves on from being one of Rob’s unfortunate boyfriends to coming to terms with his homosexuality is believable, funny, and a little poignant. Of course, since he’s an employee of Championship Vinyl, his first relationship with a guy is a slow-rolling catastrophe.

The Jack Black slot is taken by Da’Vine Joy Randolph, who was so good as Lady Reed in Craig Brewer’s Dolemite Is My Name. Randolph plays Cherise, a person who, like Black, uses their bluster and cutting humor as both a shield and a bludgeon. This version of High Fidelity underutilizes

both the character and Randolph’s charisma, but there are hints that she would play a bigger part if there’s a second season.

Stretching the story out has the paradoxical effect of minimizing the novel’s major storyline: Rob’s exceedingly ill-advised quest to track down all five of her major exes and ask them what went wrong. Instead, there’s much greater emphasis on Rob’s near-miss relationship with Mac (the regal-looking Kingsley Ben-Adir) and her dalliance with the normie Clyde (Jake Lacy), which blossoms despite her best efforts to self-sabotage. High Fidelity doesn’t just survive the transition from indie snobbery to poptimism, it unexpectedly thrives.

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Greetings from Sector 7. Things have been pretty quiet around here. Too quiet. Sometimes at night all I can hear is the ticking of the grandfather clock. At times it seems so loud it makes my ears ring. I could relax if I could only stop that infernal ticking. Wait. I remember. We don’t have a grandfather clock. Then it must be a heartbeat. I’m not the only one in this house with a bass drum for a heart. Which one is doing this incessant pounding? I get it. It’s not them. It’s me. It’s just the blood pulsing in my inner ear, through the cochlea and on to the cranium. Maybe it’s time to remove the bandana.

Have I slipped into an Edgar Allan Poe story? Let me think. Oh, yes. This is more like the novel White Noise by Don DeLillo, when a chemical spill from a railroad car created “The Airborne Toxic Event,” which forces the evacuation of a college town. Time is measured as before and after the “Event.” An experimental drug called “Dylar” is used to treat the widespread fear of dying, but it has unpredictable side effects. If all this sounds familiar, it is yet another example of life imitating art. DeLillo’s novel was published in 1985.

Who knew 35 years later we would be living it?

We’re making the best of our quarantine, induced by the rampant spread of COVID-19 — or as Donald Trump called it for weeks, the flu. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee didn’t help matters by waiting about three weeks later than other states to issue stay-at-home orders. My Nashville pals tell me that Lower Broadway was still packed with partiers long after other cities had taken the health warnings to heart. When the bars finally did close, the only saloon owner determined to keep his place open was Trump devotee, Kid Rock. As a result, Nashville is now a “hot spot” for the virus. Memphis would be in better shape if the virus wasn’t being trucked in by our neighbors from Mississippi and Arkansas, whose governors have done little to nothing to encourage stopping the spread.

Do you think there might be a connection between viral outbreaks in states with Republican governors who ignored the experts’ warnings and a president who called it “the new Democratic hoax,” with the legitimate press “in hysteria mode,” designed to hurt his re-election chances? Fox News echoed the malignant disinformation for several weeks, so now the virus has been confirmed in all 50 states and shelter-in-place orders have been issued by governors nationwide while Trump is still issuing “travel guidelines.” The “fake-news” New York Times reported that the president was warned of an impending pandemic in early January, but he played down the crisis, not wishing to disturb the stock market and because of his suspicions over the motives of the “Deep State.”

All that’s left to do is to make the best of an unprecedented disaster and practice social distancing until, or if, a vaccine is found. Actually, this isn’t too much of a stretch for me. I’d make a great candidate for house arrest. Other than occasionally visiting with friends, eating at a restaurant, or going to hear live music, we didn’t leave the house that much before the pandemic. I have FaceTimed with more friends and relatives in the past month than I have in the previous year. Facebook has been a great tool to keep up with the other shut-ins, if they would only stop sending me videos on Facebook Messenger. Some of my relatively elderly acquaintances were unaware of the many food delivery services. OK, BOOMER! Download apps from Postmates, Grubhub, DoorDash, or Bite Squad and they’ll deliver meals from your favorite restaurants right to your door. In fact, they’ll leave it so no human contact is involved. But then again, some of my technically challenged friends don’t know what an app is. Such is the generational divide. Also remember, you’re not trapped in your house. You can still go for walks. If not for you, do it for the dog.

We’ve begun a walking routine after I passed by a mirror naked and saw a beer belly that suddenly appeared out of nowhere — and I don’t even drink beer. People are really friendly out there. If you see someone coming, this is the only time you can cross to the other side of the street without offending anyone.

We even stopped to talk with a couple sitting on their front porch. I don’t recall that happening, ever.

Now I understand how people passed the time during the 19th century. After the plague is over, there could be a renaissance of front porches. We’ve also been watching a whole lot of television. We got a smart TV, but we’re too dumb to figure out how to use it properly. The news reminds us that the real heroes of this scourge are the front-line medical workers who risk their lives in ill-equipped hospitals to treat the afflicted. But we’ve also realized which jobs are also truly “essential.”

They are the grocery store employees — folks who stock the shelves, mop the floors, and mostly make minimum wage. Then there are the drivers who bring you your food, chefs and cooks who prepare it, and restaurant workers, many who have been furloughed, who pack it up and send it out.

My heart goes out to the club owners and all the great musicians who have lost their venues but are posting “virtual” concerts online, because we need them now more than ever.

This virus won’t last forever. Perhaps with the arrival of hot weather, we’ll get a respite. But come November, I will crawl through an infected field of dead Chinese bats just to cast a vote against this evil, bloviating bastard who sits in the White House.

I can stand unlimited quarantine for the coronavirus, but I can’t take four more years of this man-made horror show.

Randy Haspel writes the “Recycled Hippies” blog.

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