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BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN Editor SUSAN ELLIS Managing Editor JACKSON BAKER, MICHAEL FINGER Senior Editors TOBY SELLS Associate Editor CHRIS MCCOY Film and TV Editor ALEX GREENE Music Editor CHRIS DAVIS, MICHAEL DONAHUE MAYA SMITH, JON SPARKS Staff Writers JESSE DAVIS Copy Editor, Calendar Editor

OUR 1575TH ISSUE 05.02.19 After I spread The Commercial Appeal on my kitchen table Tuesday morning, the first thing I read was reporter Daniel Connolly’s story on Criminal Court Judge Jim Lammey, who, it appears, is quite the racist. Lammey posted articles on Facebook that called Muslims “foreign mud,” criticized the school “integration craze,” and said, Jews should “get the f—k over the Holocaust.”

Connolly reported that Lammey shared numerous articles and memes of this sort on his Facebook page. Lammey said he accidentally switched his posts to public. Oops. Just the kind of guy you want making decisions about immigrants, right? Which, among other things, is exactly what Lammey does. He did say his best friend was Jewish, so there’s that. Go read the story. It’s nauseating.

This is the part where I tell you that if it weren’t for a local journalist doing some solid reporting, I wouldn’t have known any of this. And if you didn’t read the CA, you wouldn’t have known about it either, until you read this column. The larger point being, stories like this one are why local journalism matters, now more than ever. Without journalists, those who hold public office can get away with just about anything — with your taxpayer dollars picking up the tab.

For another example, read Jackson Baker’s column this week (page 7) on how fallout from the state’s absurd schoolvoucher bill could impact Shelby County’s 2020 budget. Where else can you find reporting from someone who spends a couple of days a week in Nashville covering the legislative clown show, then returns to Memphis to cover the county commission?

Nowhere but the Memphis Flyer.

There’s also fine local reporting coming from The Daily Memphian website, and at several local nonprofit reporting organizations. They’re all important. They’re all vital to a well-informed citizenry. Give them your support and your money (cough, support.memphisflyer.com). It’s a small amount compared to what a couple of crooked officials can cost you, or a boondoggle geared to a politically connected developer, or, well, you name it. There are any number of ways those in power can quietly utilize public funds for mischief.

It’s the press’ job to keep that mischief in check by bringing it into the light, which is why a report from the Governing.com website this week is so troubling.

As the report states: “One in five Americans now lacks regular access to local media coverage. Studies show this is bad for politics, municipal debt — and even the environment.”

In 2018, more than 2,000 journalists lost their jobs, a trend that has been ongoing for more than a decade: “… newspaper closures and declining coverage of state and local government in general have led to more partisan polarization, fewer candidates running for office, higher municipal borrowing costs, and increased pollution.”

That’s a hell of a laundry list. More from the report: “Since 2004, some 1,800 newspapers have closed entirely. … In many other places, newspapers are ‘ghosts’ of their former selves. … Nearly half the counties in the U.S. have only one newspaper.”

And as local media coverage dies, the void gets filled by national news and opinion, most of it spread through social media; that’s all those links to politically charged stories that appear on your friends’ Facebook pages. And that means we are becoming less informed about local issues — the ones that affect us the most — and less engaged with local government. The corollary is that we’re more engaged with national issues, which has led to more political polarization — why you now get in internet fights with that guy you used to like in high school.

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N EVE R E N D I N G LAWLE R Anticipating the opening of Avengers: Endgame last week, Memphis wrestling icon/comic book fan Jerry Lawler tweeted a picture of himself wearing Thanos’ Infinity Gauntlet.

Now, with the snap of his fingers, Lawler can pile-drive half the comedians in universe. That’s a super gimmick.

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N EVE R E N D I N G GAN N E TT Gannett Co., owner of The Commercial Appeal, may have scored a victory in its fight to fend off a takeover by MNG, the hedge fund-owned media ownership group run by Alden Global Capital.

MNG, a minority Gannett stakeholder, recalled three of the six board members the company ran for election to the Gannett board of directors. An article in the Gannett-owned USA Today said MNG’s move means it could not control Gannett’s eightmember board, “even if its candidates are elected.”

Tech and media analyst Chuck DelGrande said in the story the “smart money would conclude” that Gannett has prevailed in its effort to resist the takeover attempt. Companies like MNG have inspired changes in the industry like the consolidation of business operations, regional hubs for editing and layout, selling off physical assets like presses and real estate, and more.

Gannett shareholders, who may yet be tempted by MNG’s history of cutting its way to double-digit profits, will vote on new board members May 16th.

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A New Shelter, 5G, & Surveillance Leaders fight homelessness, new mobile speeds ahead, & an update on MPD. H O US I N G TH E H O M E LE S S City and county leaders announced a new homeless shelter for women and expanded programs to combat homelessness in the Memphis area last week.

At a joint meeting of the Memphis City Council and the Shelby County Commission Thursday, officials detailed plans for an $8 million relocation and expansion of the Hospitality Hub, an organization that assists homeless men and women, providing customized care, resources, or referrals in partnership with other organizations.

The new Hub, which will move from a spot Clockwise from top left: Hospitality hub, police surveillance, Airbnb, Verizon, near Second and Beale Pre-K, and unused medication. to the former city of Memphis Public Service Inspection Station on Washington, agreement with the Tennessee Department of Revenue in will house a resource center, an outdoor day plaza, and a January 2018 to collect and remit taxes here. Airbnb anwomen’s shelter. nounced it brought in a total of $22.4 million to state coffers in 2018.

QUICKER CONNECTION “Feature-length HD movies can be downloaded faster than P AY I N G F O R P R E - K you can read this sentence.”

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ 2020 budget proposal will That’s a quote from the Verizon website about how fast its 5G include the largest investment in pre-K in county history, Ultra Wideband mobile service will be for consumers. according to officials.

Verizon’s network is coming to Memphis and 19 other Harris announced last week that the budget, which he U.S. cities this year. Verizon’s website says 5G isn’t just presented to the Shelby County Commission Monday, alanother iteration of the wireless network. It’ll be 20 times locates $6 million for pre-K and early childhood education. faster than the current 4G network and has the potential to If approved, $5.5 million will go toward pre-K classrooms affect “artificial intelligence, education, health care, robotand the remaining $500,000 will be allocated to the Porterics, virtual reality, augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, Leath organization for Early Head Start. wearables, and the Internet of Things.”

M O N ITO R I N G M P D DRUG DROP The head of the team appointed by the court to monitor The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservathe Memphis Police Department’s (MPD) adherence to a tion (TDEC) partnered with Google Maps on a new map federal judge’s October ruling on police surveillance said at that shows exactly where you can take unwanted drugs. a hearing last week that the city has been “cooperative” and There are now 334 permanent collection bins across the “responsive” so far. state for expired, unused, or unwanted household medicaEd Stanton, who heads the team, said that over the past tions. Find them using Google Maps. Just type “drug drop three and a half months, the team has been acting as the off near me” or “medication disposal near me.” “eyes and ears of the court,” conducting a comprehensive review of MPD’s code of conduct, its on-boarding and AIRBNB EARNINGS training process, and social media practices, including a Airbnb said last week that it has nearly doubled the expectrecord of the search terms used by the department. ed tax revenues for Tennessee in its first full year here.

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Four transgender Tennesseans sued the state last week to challenge a law prohibiting them from changing the gender marker on their birth certificates.

The case was filed by Lambda Legal, a national advocacy group working for the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, and those with HIV. A lead plaintiff in the case is Kayla Gore, 33, of Memphis.

Tennessee is one of only three states, including Kansas and Ohio, that bars citizens from changing their gender on their birth certificate.

Gore told us that having incorrect information on her birth certificate has had real-world consequences and, more simply, “everyone should be respected for who they are.” — Toby Sells Memphis Flyer: How did you get involved in this lawsuit?

Kayla Gore: My birth certificate is the only identity document that is inconsistent with who I am, and I have been waiting a long time to be able to correct it.

Working in Tennessee, assisting other transgender people to correct their identity documents, including their name and gender, also made me want to get involved. Constantly telling transgender people born in Tennessee they couldn’t correct their birth certificate is not something I want to keep saying to people.

Gore speaking in Nashville last week.

I’d reached out to national organizations to see if these corrections could be possible, but Tennessee has completely prohibited them, unlike pretty much every other state. Once Lambda Legal contacted me about the possibility to sue our governor and the state of Tennessee in order to make it possible, I had to get involved.

MF: What is it like having the incorrect gender on your official documents? How does it make you feel?

KG: Not having a birth certificate that reflects my true gender makes me feel incomplete. It is a constant reminder that the state of Tennessee does not

acknowledge me for who I am.

MF: Can you give me an example of how having the incorrect gender on those documents has affected you in a real-world way?

KG: Not having an accurate birth certificate caused me to have awkward and invasive conversations about my transgender status with prospective employers, as well as dissuaded me at times from applying to other jobs.

It has also made entering school an even harder experience. Going through the process of correcting your records with the federal government, student loan officers, and, then, my old college delayed my registration date for school.

Having to expose my transgender status to strangers over the phone caused problems, and I had to explain why my birth certificate says male but my Tennessee identification card says female. These agencies treated me as if I was lying about who I was, because my identity documents didn’t match up.

MF: What would you say to someone who thinks we don’t need to change these policies?

KG: Everyone should be respected for who they are. We, as transgender and gender nonconforming people, are entitled to take autonomy over our own lives and be able to have identity documents consistent with who we are, just as everybody else does. This includes our Tennessee birth certificates.

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District 9 Commissioner Edmond Ford, who came over from eight contentious years on the Memphis City Council.

“I never saw a budget approval by any mayor that said, ‘Approve, right now,’” said Ford at the start of the meeting. If that message needed no interpretation, it got some amplification anyhow later in the meeting when Ford, a former city schools teacher, got stern with a representative of Shelby County Schools who was there to seek approval of a redesignation of SCS spending — one that didn’t call for an addition to the school budget.

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“I see a lot of items on here that aren’t correct,” said Ford after looking over an information sheet.

Regardless of who the mayor and the commissioners are as individuals, a factor assuring that this budget will be a hard time coming is that, as Harris said frankly at the very start, property tax collections for the year were well beneath advance expectations.

The battles between Luttrell and the former commission, for the most part, were about what to do with a surplus. Whatever disagreements occur between Harris and the newest commission will be over what to do with a condition of scarcity.

The commission and Harris agreed on a provisional deadline for resolution suggested by commission chair Van Turner: The commission will meet on Wednesday, June 18th, to render its judgment on the budget request. continued on page 8

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On Monday, Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris hastily scheduled an appearance before the Shelby County Commission to present an addition to the day’s agenda — his proposed budget for fiscal 2020. Harris proposes to spend $1.3 billion, including $6 million for education programs, the largest such expenditure in the county’s history. Paired with matching funds from various other sources, notably state and federal, the total educational outlays will be “well over $10 million,” Harris said.

Other mayoral priorities include increased attention to the mayor’s criminal justice reform and re-entry programs (“helping more people with a criminal history”), more emphasis on workforce development, a crash program to produce technology start-ups, and pay raises for county employees (with the percentage of the pay raise decreasing as the pay scale rises, or, as Harris put it, simply enough, “Those who earn the least will get the largest increase.”)

Harris could not have thought the commission would be ready to process his request in the course of a single evening, of course. And given that he is asking for increased expenditures in several significant areas of county government, he must have known that he had merely taken the first step in the proverbial 1,000-mile journey that will at some point culminate in a county budget for 2020.

In the preceding administration of Mayor Mark Luttrell, negotiations between the commission and the mayor’s office amounted to a war of attrition. The election of 2018 brought in a new mayor and, with eight new commissioners out of the 13, virtually a new legislative body. Moreover, relations between Harris and the commission have at no time resembled the power struggle they were in the preceding eight years.

But still, even without the carryover experience of the returning five commissioners, this is a legislative body that is aware of its prerogatives and disinclined to roll over for any chief executive. And some of the commission’s newest members are capable of taking a firm line — notably

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A peculiar aspect of debate on Lee’s voucher measure was that enthusiasm for it was inversely proportional to the likelihood that it would affect a given legislator’s district.

By this week, both chambers had voted for the bill, but the Senate version and the House version were different in several key particulars, and the House on Monday, even as the Shelby County Commission was meeting 210 miles away, refused to accept the Senate version.

Meanwhile, there will be beaucoup study.

Adding to the uncertainty was a matter that was, at mid-week, still pending in Nashville, at a state General Assembly that was getting ready to close up shop. The one matter that remained potentially intractable was one that could have, as several commissioners noted on Monday, profound consequences for Shelby County and its budget realities, in particular.

This had to do with a potential Inasmuch as both Davidson stalemate between the assembly’s two chambers, Senate and House, over the County and Shelby County last remaining hot potato of the 2019 schools are affected by the legislative session — school vouchers, or, as Republican Governor Bill Lee, voucher bill, both school who did a considerable amount of systems have threatened the arm-twisting on their behalf, calls them state with a lawsuit.

— “educational savings accounts” — allowing significant numbers of parents to enroll their sons and daughters in Pending a conference on the private schools at taxpayer expense. matter, this left the matter of passage Each voucher, to a maximum of uncertain, but, as the Shelby County 7,500 students, will be worth $7,300, commissioners noted, any version will and, though Lee’s original version of the have a serious impact on Shelby County bill promised to compensate any school Schools and on county government in district in kind for each student lost to a general. Inasmuch as both Davidson private school, debate in both chambers County (Nashville) and Shelby County caused the compensation amount to be schools (and potentially only Davidson considerably lowered. and Shelby) are affected by either Other changes were made in the version of the voucher bill, both school legislation, all of them prompted by a systems have threatened the state with a need to coax enough majority support lawsuit case of passage.

We Appreciate All Of Your TimeinSpent to pass the measure. In the House, this “We may need to join as well,” Helping Our Researchers Fight Cancer. resulted in a dramatic day of debate opined Commissioner Eddie Jones last week in which the GOP Speaker on Monday. “We’ll be fighting for of the House, Glen Casada, held our most precious commodity here, voting open long enough to persuade our children.” Chairman Turner said, a reluctant member, Representative “We’ll have to consult with County Jason Zachary (R-Knoxville) to vote Attorney [Marlinee] Iverson and the aye. Zachary’s consent was reportedly legal department. We may need to bought via a promise that Knoxville have an attorney-client meeting next schools would be kept out of the bill.

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Time to End Money Bail about reform. When black mamas and caregivers are taken from our communities, they are confined to jails that lack adequate mental health care, forced to eat food that lacks nutrition, and forced to sleep in overcrowded jail cells.

The criminal legal system often arrests and locks people in overcrowded jails while people are in their most vulnerable state, often destroying their dreams and what they’ve worked so hard to build.

Because we know this, we are committed to doing what this system cannot and will not do: meeting the supportive services needs of our mamas and caregivers. A donation to our bail out is a donation to making sure caregivers are home with their loved ones this holiday, with the support that they need. Donations from the past have helped us provide housing, health care, transportation, and job support to community members we bail out. It is our hope that our other community members will work with us again to raise money to bail out the people who mean so much to our communities.

Our families and loved ones deserve freedom.

They deserve to live in communities where public safety is an investment.

We are committed to fighting for the freedom and humanity of our people and creating communities where our people have their basic needs met. And in the tradition of our ancestors and elders, we are paying for each other’s freedom until bail and pre-trial detention are abolished and our government invests in our communities. We are working to redefine public safety so that it includes investment in our communities and divestment from systems and institutions that fail to keep us safe.

Our families and loved ones deserve freedom, not cages. They deserve to live in communities where public safety is an investment into stronger supportive services infrastructure and divestment from ineffective and inhumane policing, prosecution, and jails.

We invite people to join this movement by donating to our fund at https://midsouthpeace.org/blm. Contact blacklivesmattermemphis@gmail.com for more ways to get involved with our campaign to end money bail and pretrial detention.

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Nationally, over half a million people are held in local jails, and a majority of them are being held pre-trial because they cannot afford their bail.

Ending the practice of money bail has garnered widespread attention in recent years. Research has shown that money bail does not improve public safety and does not increase the likelihood of ensuring a person’s appearance in court.

Furthermore, jailing people because they cannot afford bail is essentially wealth-based detention, which violates established values of fairness, equal protection, and due process outlined in the constitution. Money bail and pre-trial detention have devastating consequences for individuals, families, and communities. When people are arrested and held on bail, they are put at risk of losing their jobs, housing, and custody of children. Moreover, people who are jailed because of the inability to post bail are often left vulnerable to accepting plea agreements as a way to get out of jail.

These consequences disproportionately impact low-income communities of color.

The clear injustices of the money bail system led us to launch our End Money Bail and Pre-trial Detention Campaign in 2017, starting with our Black Mama’s Day Bail Out. Since Mother’s Day 2017, we have bailed over 30 black women and other community members out of jail and provided supportive services such as housing, job support, legal support, support with paying electricity bills, and transportation.

In Shelby County, there are more than 2,000 people who are confined to jail — these are our mamas, siblings, and caregivers. Their lives, dreams, and futures matter to us, and we know that a cage is no place for the people we love. When they are locked away in pre-trial detention awaiting their trial or for their case to be resolved, our families and communities suffer. Children miss school, bedtime stories, family dinners, and meaningful time with their parents. Communities miss out on the laughs, wisdom, and care that our caregivers provide when they are confined to jail because they do not have the money to pay for bail. Just one day in jail has a huge impact on community members and their communities.

This year will be our third year bailing out black mamas and caregivers for Mother’s Day. We focus on black women (both cis and trans) because they have continuously been victims of the vicious criminal legal system, but their experiences are often overlooked and excluded from conversations

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The Triumph of the Riff “No other people in the land have as yet evolved a characteristic idiom that relects a more open, robust, and affirmative dispostion toward diversity and change. Nor is any other idiom more smoothly geared to openminded improvisation. The blues tradition, a tradition of confrontation and improvisation … is indigenous to the United States along with the Yankee tradition and that of the backwoodsman.”

— Albert Murray, The OmniAmericans We don’t want, we don’t want your kind We think you’s a dog born Fuck you, I’m America’s son This is where I come from This land is mine This land is mine — Gary Clark Jr., “This Land”

Blues may come and blues may go, but they color every facet of American culture in ways we hardly recognize.

Ironically, it’s easy to lose sight of that 10 in Memphis, where the blues in their most traditional forms rule the night,

often viewed by experimentalists and punks as part and parcel of a mainstream culture they’re trying to escape. Here, and in other hubs like Chicago and Kansas City, where the blues is “a thing,” the celebration of the blues in their most distilled expression can obscure the fact that they color all of America’s identity, even the avant garde. For Albert Murray, the music is the ultimate expression of African Americans’ contribution to the national character. Black Americans, in his eyes, are the Omni-Americans, the template for all of us, due in part the blues’ celebration of diversity in the face of dislocation and disenfranchisement.

While hipper musicians are often disdainful of Murray’s traditionalist musical tastes, one can readily see his larger point. For the blues, built on the marriage of riff, rhythm, and rhyme, have informed every aspect of our popular culture. And as American pop culture has overtaken the world, so too have the principles of the blues. Which is only a more long-winded way of saying what the ever-insightful Jim Dickinson distilled into a catchphrase, glib but true: “World boogie is coming”™.

Perhaps no contemporary artist captures the ongoing power and

The blues, built on the marriage of riff, rhythm, and rhyme, have informed every aspect of our popular culture. And as American pop culture has overtaken the world, so too have the principles of the blues. relevance of the blues as well as Gary Clark Jr. Rising from the multicultural hotbed of Austin, he’s taken a deep understanding of actual blues riffs into new territory, freely cross-referencing hip-hop, funk, soul, and rock in his all-consuming appetite for innovation.

Clark’s genius is to weave the diversity of our sound-bite universe seamlessly into a coherent vision, using the versatility of the blues.

He’ll be one of the headliners helping to close out the embarassment of riches that is the annual Beale Street Music Festival. With so much star power of such diversity converging here over three

days, the real challenge will be choosing who to see at any given time. To keep the inspiration flowing, you might challenge yourself to find common threads between such eclectic talents as Cardi B, the Killers, BlocBoy JB, the Claypool Lennon Delirium, and others.

One such thread, I would argue, is the blues. It will be most obvious at the Coca-Cola Blues Tent, which will feature such masters as Bettye LaVette and William Bell, not to mention Memphis’ own Barbara Blue backed by the legendary Bernard Purdy on drums. Beyond that, you’ll find endless variations on riff, rhythm, and rhyme.

And Clark’s Sunday appearance on the Bud Light Stage might just provide the perfect capstone to the weekend, tying it all together.

Clark isn’t working in a vacuum, of course. As trends have come and gone in American music, the blues, and its more cosmopolitan cousin, soul music, have been a constant and steadily growing presence. If the blues metatemplate has subliminally steered nearly all American music (even in hip-hop, where the riffs are often samples of others’ riffs, radically recontextualized), music wearing the blues influence on its sleeve never went away. Our city’s

International Blues Challenge and Blues Music Awards are only samples of a globally expanding interest in the genre. The North Mississippi Allstars have, for example, worked stages around the world for more than 20 years, pairing traditional blues with a thirst for other forms such as jam rock, folk, hip-hop and even EDM. They’re often to be seen at the Beale Street Music Festival, although this year we’ll have to wait until they open up the summer’s Orion Free Music Concert Series at Levitt Shell on May 31st.

They’re kindred spirits to Clark, both in the diversity of their influences and the way their fan-base cuts across traditional boundaries. If Luther and Cody Dickinson have always brought a little of their father’s punk energy to everything they do, so, too, does Gary Clark Jr. Though Jim Dickinson railed against modern day Beale Street as a “four-block theme park devoid of soul,” he never lost sight of the power of the blues to channel one’s rage against the status quo, most recently summed up by Clark: “Fuck you, I’m America’s son.”

It’s a sentiment for our times, a strident affirmation of belonging in the face of bigotry. In the song “This Land,” inspired by a real-life encounter with a white man who refused to believe Clark owned his own land, his literal ownership of property

becomes the claim he stakes on this nation as a whole. And in Clark’s case, the statement is made in the context of the olive branch he holds out to stereotypically white forms.

His heavier-than-molten-steel take on Lennon and McCartney’s “Come Together” is sure to please any Guns ’n Roses fan, and elsewhere he carries the torch of Jimi Hendrix into this century with panache.

Turning on a dime, he can also evoke earthy pre-war blues with tunes like “The Governor.” Or deftly channel the sweet sounds of soul, evoking Curtis Mayfield or Prince with his expressive falsetto. It’s all part of this virtuoso’s take on nothing less than the whole of American music. As synthesizers mesh freely with bottleneck guitar, he’s refreshing our view of the past and charting a course for our future.

— Alex Greene

St. Paul & the Broken Bones:

Working on a Process When you talk about Southern values, family certainly ranks as a significant cornerstone. For Paul Janeway, lead singer of St. Paul & the Broken Bones, it was inspiration for the collection of songs that make up Young Sick Camellia, the third studio offering from the Alabama octet.

Not unlike the two albums that preceded it, 2014’s Half the City and the 2016 follow-up Sea of Noise, Camellia is a gritty batch of gut-bucket soul framed by on-point horn arrangements and driven by Janeway’s vocal phrasing that bounces between a biting falsetto and yearning croon. Janeway, who hails from the rural Alabama burg of Chelsea, started the project by decided he wanted to record a trio of EPs inspired by the relationship between his grandfather, dad, and himself.

“I think when we got done with record two, I kind of knew where I wanted to go almost immediately. Once I’m done with a record, I want to know where I’m going next and it’s kind of what I did with this,” Janeway explained in a recent phone interview. “For me, initially, it was to make three EPs. It was going to be through my eyes, my father’s eyes, and my grandfather’s eyes.

I had a desire to do it because they are complicated relationships, which I kind of think a lot of people can relate to. It doesn’t have to be a father, but family in general. For me, I wanted to kind of work through that. This is kind of part one and I just had this desire to do it through my kind of lens. It became a bigger project than I thought.”

When it came time to tackle this considerable undertaking, Janeway and his bass-playing collaborator, Jesse Phillips, were in the middle of

trying to find a producer who would help facilitate their creative vision.

Columbia Records CEO/chairman Ron Perry suggested the duo meet with Jack Splash, best known for working with hip-hop/R&B artists like Kendrick Lamar, Goodie Mob, and Alicia Keys.

It didn’t take long to find plenty of common creative ground.

“On the musical end, it was one of those things where we worked with Jack Splash, a producer that was ‘out of our realm.’ That was musically important because it changed things for us. For him, he was just enthusiastic about the project. For us, it felt right and we just kind of led with our guts.

If it feels right, then it probably is right on the creative and artistic side,” Janeway explained. “It was kind of like a blind date in a lot of ways, when you do these kinds of things. We had our publishing company and the record company tell us to talk to this guy to see if we liked him, and we really liked him and kind of hit it off almost initially. We said it was an open canvas, that we needed to figure out what to do. Working with him, he’s an overly positive guy. He extracts the best effort out of everybody, which is really what a producer should do.”

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continued from page 11 performative fervor as equally to the studio as he does to the stage, not unlike musical forbearers/influences like Sam Cooke and Al Green did a generation before. Highlights include “Apollo,” a delectable mashup of Hammond organ, funky synth squiggles and a dash of ambient psychedelia punctuated by lyrics like “Lookin’ down from my orbit/Captain, can you get her to call me?” Elsewhere, cuts like the stop-and-stutter “Convex” and the string-kissed “GotItBad” pump up the grooves in a way that anyone who’s ever been sucked in by the late Sharon Jones or Charles Bradley will immediately gravitate to and embrace.

Equally entrancing is the dreamy soul of “Concave.”

Adding to the esoteric vibe infusing this collection of songs are snippets of dialogue from conversations Janeway recorded with his late grandfather that are interspersed throughout the album.

Camellia closes with “Bruised Fruit,” a ballad that finds Janeway dialing down and delivering a performance that builds off the slightest bit of orchestration, mournful horn charts and sparse piano accompaniment that frames couplets like “You did nothing right/you did nothing wrong/But no one seems to recall the love that you gave/The love that you forsake.” It all comes off as equal parts substantial, dark, and life-affirming.

While Janeway and Phillips had been the main ones to steer St. Paul and the Broken Bones, the decision to rope the remaining members into the creative process for the current record proved to be a successful and rewarding one.

“I think our approach this time around was just kind of open and we went many different ways. There are songs on this record that the trombone player wrote. And some of the songs were written with me, Jack, and Jesse,” he said. “We had a drop box, and anyone who had any sort of musical idea could put it in and I could choose what I was feeling. ‘Apollo’ was written in the studio, with all eight of us in the room. Honestly, it was the best because we learned over time that there are many ways up a mountain.

Obviously, if you’re afforded the time, that was what was really great about it. Honestly, this is the most prepared we’ve ever been for a record, and that’s a good feeling.”

Having spent a significant time performing live, including a memorable stint opening for the Rolling Stones, St. Paul & the Broken Bones are a roadtested bunch eager to expose fans to their latest evolutionary direction. “[We’re going to do] mostly new stuff,” Janeway said. “We’re getting to the point where we’re singing some of these songs for six years and it starts wearing thin. You don’t want to mess

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up what got you to the dance obviously, but you want to change a little bit. I think every record, you should have a different show. Even what I wear is different. We recently did a test run and went to Texas and we were doing the new show. I think the energy of the crowd and audience has never been better, and that’s a good sign because you don’t know [how it’s going to be] until you do it.” — Dave Gil de Rubio

Southern Avenue:

Threads of Blues and Soul Of all the threads of blues and soul woven through this year’s Beale Street Music Festival, few have been more inspiring than Memphis’ own Southern Avenue. From the beginning, they’ve struck many as marking a watershed moment, not only for their youthful enthusiasm for older forms, but as a flagship act for the briefly revitalized Stax label. Since their first gig in September of 2015, they’ve gone from success to success, to the point where an appearance at Memphis in May’s musical extravaganza is the norm, not the exception.

While their early days were marked by a search for their true identity, the past year has seen the solidification of both the band’s sonic stamp and its personnel, now consisting of Tierinii Jackson (lead vocals) Ori Naftaly (guitar), Jeremy Powell (keyboards), Tikyra Jackson (drums, vocals), and Gage Markey (bass). I recently spoke with Naftaly, who also writes much of the band’s material, about the changes they’ve seen in the past two years and where he thinks it’s all headed.

Of all the threads of blues and soul woven through this year’s Beale Street Music Festival, few have been more inspiring than Memphis’ own Southern Avenue.

Memphis Flyer: It seems like Southern Avenue is touring a lot these days.

What have been some of the highlights?

Ori Naftaly: In the past year or two, we’ve had so many amazing moments.

With the North Mississippi Allstars, with JJ Grey, and the Revivalists.

Galactic. Marcus King. For me, the Lockn’ Festival was definitely a huge moment, being able to play next to all of these people. There was a huge crowd, and then the other bands: Tedeschi Trucks Band, George Clinton and P-Funk, George Porter Jr. and Zigaboo Modeliste with the Foundation of Funk. So, playing the show itself, and then the green room experience.

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Tedeschi and Trucks. And Tierinii and me meeting John Mayer. That whole day was unique. And then we couldn’t stay. I hear four songs by the Dead and we had to leave for the next show. So we never felt like we really concluded the night, the day, the experience. We left with our jaws open. Lockn’ was huge, for sure, for all of us.

What’s on the horizon for you, as far as touring?

ON: Just a week ago, Tedeschi Trucks announced that we would support them on their tour in November. They were checking out a lot of bands, and we were really biting our nails until we found out that we were the ones. They take it very very seriously. I think what made it all happen was that Lockn’ show, where I got to talk to Derek for 20 minutes. A Tedeschi Trucks support tour is huge for us. I’ve been a fan since I was a kid. I’ve seen them all my life, and I’ve been playing since I was 5. Like us, Susan Tedeschi did the International Blues Challenge, years and years ago.

You’re about to release a new album, Keep On, on Concord. How has your sound evolved since the first record?

Fans have known many of the new songs for a while. Especially “Whiskey Love” and “Lucky.” Those two songs have been with us for a year now. We wrote on tour, we wrote in the van. We recorded songs on our days off. And we ended up not seeing our family like Tierinii’s kids and Jeremy’s daughter for two extra weeks. It was a lot of stress. A lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into this record.

With the first one, we were stirring the pot of what Southern Avenue is, and with this one we’re more grounded.

It’s an evolution. I remember the first record: Half of it was recorded by me and Kevin [Houston] in a studio in East Memphis, with zero budget. It was done very independently — we’re talking about a very primal version of Southern Avenue. I couldn’t afford overdubs for solos. With the new record, we had time on a lot of them to plan and have a vision. “Keep On” is a song where we wanted to have this Isaac Hayes vibe. A

retro soul sound. And then “Whiskey Love” is a perfect Southern Avenue kind of jam. Throughout the album, I wanted to bring in new elements, but I wanted them to be vintage, not new.

So I brought a Mellotron [a tape-based proto-sampler from the 1960s] and used it on specific songs. And it’s not a plug in, it’s a real Mellotron being played. I think the Mellotron, mixed with the already heavy vocals and background vocals and horns, having all that together, it really gives this album a lot of air, a lot of breathing.

You can hear a lot of space.

How was it working with William Bell on “We’ve Got the Music”?

That was so much fun. That dude is very in the know and very sharp. He still knows every corner in town. He’s very very hip. We had a great time writing together. I had a vision for the song, and he was really into it and kept taking the concept further and further, deeper and deeper into the essence of “we’re all the same, and what connects us is music.” And when everything brings you down and life is hard, it’s okay, you got the music. He loved it, and he was like, ‘Okay, let’s do this.’ I brought the bass line, and then Tikyra Jackson contributed a lot. It make us feel like we’re doing something right.

Working with him must have felt like a culmination of your being on Stax for the first album.

Being on Stax, we felt like we found a hole in the matrix, and we managed to squeeze in just in time. Because they’re not doing new releases any more that I know of. I don’t know why. Even more, we feel like we were really able to stretch the matrix and find a spot in their catalog. I think the first one is so Staxxy. That album was as Memphis as anything gets.

The new one will be on Concord.

And that’s good. I’m happy about that.

The Stax thing was amazing, but it was also limiting in the way it affected people’s perceptions and expectations.

And we just wanna be a band. We will always be Stax, but even at Stax, the sound was always changing, you know?

Now we can just be who we are.

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Two Tigers take their ground game to the NFL. on a new descriptor: edge rusher. (As in, player responsible solely for taking down the quarterback.) Three linemen from the same unit (national champion Clemson) were among the first 17 picks. These are the men Darrell Henderson and Tony Pollard will be dodging on Sundays for years to come.

• Can fans become the star attraction on game day? This seems to be reality for Memphis 901 FC, our new franchise in the USL Championship. The Bluff City Mafia has been loud and, somehow, proud, despite the local side providing little to chant about over its first four home games: three losses, a draw, and a grand total of one goal (thank you, Elliot Collier).

Passion counts, though, and tends to be rewarded in the long run. So keep singing, ye BCM. Sunnier days ahead.

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• On April 19th in St. Louis — two days after being promoted from the Memphis Redbirds — outfielder Lane Thomas became the 10th Cardinal to hit a home run in his first major-league at-bat.

No other club in baseball has seen as many players make the ultimate intro.

Remarkably, seven of those 10 players went yard immediately after a promotion from Memphis, all over the last two decades. (The Cardinals have been playing in the National League since 1892.) In case you’ve forgotten the names of the other six (and three of them are pitchers): Keith McDonald (2000), Chris Richard (2000), Gene Stechschulte (2001), Adam Wainwright (2006), Mark Worrell (2008), and Paul DeJong (2017).

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merican football is a strangely named sport.

The ball is rarely kicked and such plays only make highlight shows when they prove decisive in a game. If you paid any attention at all to the doomed Alliance of American Football, you’ll know there are efforts to remove the kickoff from the game entirely. In a sport where cranial injuries are part of the story, helmeted heads colliding on kickoffs are especially vulnerable.

Then you have the running back. You know, the guy who makes a living by carrying the football, his feet taking him through gaps (however large or small), toward the end zone, six points, and a glory dance. There was a time, not that long ago, when running backs shaped the way teams were built. Between 1977 and 1986, teams chose a running back with the first pick in the NFL draft five times.

Alas, not one of those five players took the team that drafted him to the Super Bowl and only one (Earl Campbell) now has a bust in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Last fall, the University of Memphis suited up an All-America running back, and the fastest player I’ve seen in a Tiger uniform. But Darrell Henderson had to wait until the third round when the NFC champion Los Angeles Rams selected him with the 70th pick in the draft. Ironically, Henderson will apprentice under one of the NFL’s few star running backs, twotime All-Pro Todd Gurley.

Another speed-demon who took some reps at running back for Memphis, Tony Pollard, waited even longer. The Dallas Cowboys selected the incomparable kick returner late in the fourth round on Saturday, with the 128th pick. Like Henderson, Pollard will join a team with a certifiable star at tailback, two-time rushing champ Zeke Elliott. The Cowboys also have one of the best offensive lines in football, with three All-Pros opening gaps for ball-carriers. Both Henderson and Pollard would seem to be in comfortable situations to begin their pro careers.

What are we to make of standout college ball-carriers getting the playground-nerd treatment on draft day?

It’s an aerial game. Nine NFL players rushed for 1,000 yards in the 2018 season while 21 receivers caught passes for at least 1,000. If teams aren’t drafting the next Manning or Brady, they’re looking for men to stop the league’s star passers.

Ten of the first 20 picks in this year’s draft were defensive linemen, with a premium

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“Oh, She Was Pretty” is a record collector’s dream, recorded in 1966 for Ray Charles’ Tangerine label.

Sterling Magee tells the usual story about a woman who did him wrong, and the reason he’d do it all again.

His rough and reedy voice rides a relentless tick-tock beat, accented by shimmering piano and growling, muted horns. It wasn’t a hit, but it’s a perfect dance single — the kind of obscure mover U.K. soul fanatics call “a cracker,” with raw foundations foreshadowing Magee’s future career as a street performer, working Harlem’s 125th Street as an amped up one-man-band.

By the mid 1980s, Magee, who’d backed James Brown at the Apollo, went by the name Satan — later amended to Mr. Satan — and was playing for tips just a stone’s throw from the storied music theater. That’s where he was working when Adam Gussow, an Ivy League grad on a blues pilgrimage, did that cringey thing blues tourists sometimes do and asked if he could sit in on harmonica. Only this street jam led to a kind of apprenticeship, and a chance encounter with U2 while the band was filming Rattle & Hum, led to notariety, expanded opportunity, and unforeseen dilemmas.

Today, Gussow teaches literature at Ole Miss; Satan’s retired in Gulfport. Filmmaker Scott Balcerek followed the duo for 20 years and his film Satan & Adam screens at Crosstown Arts Thursday, May 2nd, as part of a new weekly series.

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THURSDAY May 2

FRIDAY May 3

SATURDAY May 4

The Groove The Green Room at Crosstown Arts, 7:30 p.m., $10 A series of concerts highlighting Memphis’ funkiest bands (not the frontman). Tonight the featured artists are The PRVLG, twins with an indie twist on R&B, jazz, soul, and funk.

Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival Tom Lee Park, 5 p.m., $60 It’s possible but probably not likely (?) that this could be your last chance to music fest in Tom Lee Park. Tonight’s headliners are the Dave Matthews Band and Khalid.

Runs through Sunday.

Tree Tour Elmwood Cemetery, 1 p.m., $20 A tour of some of Elmwood’s 1,400 trees.

Blues Off Broadway Corner of Polk and Rhodes, West Memphis, 5-8 p.m.

This outdoor concert series kicks off tonight with performances by BB Queen and Dan Charette and Absolutely Blue.

Shaun March and the OCB The Green Room at Crosstown Arts, 7:30 p.m., $7 A night of blues music straight from the 1920s Delta.

Get Down & Derby Gala Woodland Hills Ballroom, 4-9 p.m.

A Kentucky Derby-themed party benefiting the Down Syndrome Association of Memphis.

Square Dance Crosstown Concourse, 4:30 p.m.

A class in modern square dancing.

Midsummer Night’s Dream Germantown Performing Arts Center, 8 p.m.

Fighting fairies and Athenians in love populate this Shakespeare comedy. Choreographed for Ballet Memphis.

“I am not throwing away my shot” … at scoring tickets to Hamilton.

Hamilton for Dummies It’s like clockwork. Every few weeks since The Orpheum announced that Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical Hamilton was coming to Memphis in 2019, some shocked theater fan contacts the Flyer, scandalized by exorbitant ticket costs. Thing is, until this week, no tickets to Hamilton in Memphis have actually been on sale. None will be available till May 3rd, and the Orpheum warns against using third-party websites other than Ticketmaster.

“These sites are charging what they think they can get when tickets are in short supply,” Orpheum President and CEO Brett Batterson explains. “They hope they can get tickets and fill the orders, but people who sent money six months ago could be told they don’t have a ticket. Or worse, they might be sold a counterfeit ticket.”

Scalping and third party sales aren’t uncommon, but the enormous success of Hamilton makes it a unique problem for theaters.

“Hamilton has been a phenomenon like I’ve never seen in my career,” Batterson says. “We’ve had big shows like Wicked, Book of Mormon, and Phantom of the Opera, but Hamilton has taken off like nothing before it. So we’re doing more to protect the consumer than we’ve ever done. We’re requiring people to go online and become ‘verified fans,’ which proves you’re not a robot or a scalper.

We’re not doing that to make it difficult to get tickets. We’re doing that to make sure tickets get into the hands of consumers.”

Tickets will also be available at The Orpheum May 3rd, but can only be purchased in person. To make the process fair and make camping out unnecessary, The Orpheum will give out numbered wristbands and then hold a lottery. “If you’re in line by 8 o’clock you’ll get a wristband,” says Batterson, who’s expecting the musical to sell out in three to four hours.

Those who don’t get tickets on day one may not be out of luck. “There will be other tickets released between the on sale date and the actual show,” Batterson assures. “So people should keep looking at Ticketmaster, even if they don’t get tickets on that day.”

Batterson also warns ticket buyers to cover their codes if they take selfies. Counterfitters love ticket selfies.

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Bingo Collierville Public Library, 1 p.m.

Contestants play for a free book from the Friends of the Library book store.

Jockeys & Juleps Derby Party Southern Reins Center for Equine Therapy, 3-7 p.m., $150 Wear your finest hat at this party benefiting Southern Reins Center for Equine Therapy.

SUNDAY May 5

TUESDAY May 7

“Collaborations” Memphis Jewish Community Center, 1-3 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibition of collaborative works by Tennessee Craft members.

Bike to Lunch Cossitt Library, 11:45 a.m.

Mid-day bike ride led by Revolutions Bicycle CoOp. Riders will have lunch at a restaurant within 15 minutes of the Fourth Bluff.

Booksigning by Jay Farrell Novel, 2 p.m.

The author signs and discusses his book, Abandoned Tennessee, which examines abandoned structures around the state.

Meet Your Summer Reads Novel, 7 p.m.

Appearance by three authors of hot new summer reads: Elizabeth Berg, Elizabeth Letts, and Lynne Olson.

Includes wines and hors d’oeuvres.

This is a ticketed event.

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he Memphis music community expressed shock and grief last week at the unexpected passing of Omar Higgins, 37, bassist and bandleader of reggae band Chinese Connection Dub Embassy and hardcore outfit Negro Terror.

“I’ve struggled to find the appropriate words to share with everyone about how much Omar meant to me,” says Kris Garver, a DJ who has been friends with Omar since they were “music nerds” at Kirby High School.

Joseph Higgins — who, along with another Higgins brother, David — formed the core of CCDE, says Omar learned punk rock in Brooklyn.

“He brought his skills back here, to Memphis, and we sharpened our swords like crazy.”

Higgins was an Army veteran who served in the Iraq War. “He talked about it, but it was always something that he tried to keep to himself,” says Joseph. “He loved this country.

Anybody ever try to talk bad about it, he would say nah, this is my home.”

The Higgins brothers play together in worship bands. “Omar talked about those churches as things that kept him centered. With all the wickedness and crazy stuff that went on the world, we all need that assurance, hope, and peace.”

Omar was a spiritual seeker, who found deep meaning in the uniting power of music. “If you didn’t like him, you just don’t like good energy,” says rapper SvmDvde.

He had a well-earned reputation as a demanding bandleader. “Anybody that

we have ever featured or had join us on stage, they had to do their homework,” Joseph says.

Singer Kween Jasira of Ras Empress says, “Omar taught me to be knowledgeable about what you’re doing. Some people play certain music and sing certain music, but they don’t understand it.”

CCDE drummer Donnon Johnson says, “Nine times out of 10, he was the most skilled musician in the room.

But he was the least likely to try to show somebody up or exhibit any type of attitude. He was the most skilled and the most humble on any stage he was on.”

David Higgins says Omar passed up an opportunity to sign with a label in 2009. “He didn’t want to take us through a whirlwind of B.S. I’m glad we did it the way we did, the underground way, the independent way. That’s what everybody’s doing now. Omar was ahead of his time.”

An early supporter was Eso Tolson, who booked CCDE to play his Artisk Lounge series.“That’s when I knew these guys were special. It was a rainy Sunday night. The energy was living good. There were a lot of up-and-coming musicians there,” Tolson remembers. “Right after the performance, it was sprinkling outside.

They were putting up equipment.

Donnon, on the drums, he just had his snare, and he started playing this rhythm. He’s from New Orleans, it was like a second line. Then Suavo came out with his trombone. Omar and me were outside chanting in the rain with this second-line energy.

They had just played this amazing set, and here we were, on the street in the

OMAR HIGGINS discovered him laying on the floor in their home. “He said he felt like he had a pinched nerve in his side … After a couple of days, he still wasn’t feeling well. He was still in the same spot, it looked like. Then we were like, nah man, we gotta get an ambulance.”

A sore on Omar’s back had led to a staff infection which spread quickly and caused a stroke. Joseph says, “While he was in the hospital, he did nothing but crack jokes … He said, this happened for a reason. It’s telling me that we need to keep on what I’m doing, but we need to bring light to the dark times.”

Omar was a spiritual seeker, who found deep meaning in the uniting power of music. “If you didn’t like him, you don’t like good energy,” says SvmDvde.

Omar Higgins died early in the morning of April 18th. “We were with him until he passed,” says Joseph.

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“For a couple of days, I couldn’t wrap my head around the why,” Kween Jasira says. “Now, I’m just trying to accept it and be there for his family. I want to make Omar proud.”

“I love Omar so much, as a man, and what he brought out in me as a musician, that my heart is going to have to find a new way to break,” Johnson says.

“I told somebody today, God sent him to me,” SvmDvde says. “He opened my mind completely. I could talk to him about anything. He guided me spiritually, musically, everything.”

Fields says Negro Terror cannot continue without Omar. “Negro Terror has died and been reborn. Look at what’s going on in pop culture. The Nas X kid? He’s Negro Terror … It was showing young, black kids that they could do anything they wanted to without worrying about it being a white space. There ain’t no such thing as a white space.”

“Not only did he have the skill and the talent, it was not in vain. He was using his talent to inspire and build community. He was giving of himself, sometimes not to his advantage. He was skilled, and humble,” says Eso Tolson.

“That spirit, what he was about, his music, will carry on.”

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I wanted to be involved with it,” Fields says. “He was an encyclopedia. He drilled us hard for a year. We didn’t do any shows. All we did was practice.”

The band would become Negro Terror. Their mission was to challenge the assumption that punk is an exclusively white genre. “People were very confused at first,” says Fields.

“They were used to seeing Omar play reggae … When we did our first show at the Hi-Tone, we decided to fuck with the crowd and play reggae first. Then, all the sudden, I turn that distortion on, and people were just like, whoah, shit.

It’s about to go down. Then he started singing, and people were like, is that Omar’s twin brother? Who is that?”

Negro Terror was the subject of a documentary by director John Rash, which premiered at the 2018 Indie Memphis Film Festival, with the band providing a live soundtrack. In the film, Omar revealed that he had a wife who was killed in a car accident. “I’m surprised he put that out there,” Joseph says.

Omar was hard at work preparing the release of Negro Terror’s debut, full-length studio album Paranoia. “We were about to hit the road hard, and he was ready for it.”

In mid-April, Omar fell ill at a church gig. His brothers later

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rain, chanting. It was that energy they created, and that vibe they had.”

Rapper PreauXX says, “He could hang with the hipster kids, he could hang with the grunge kids, he could hang with people who love reggae music. He could move fluidly throughout all of these communities and be appreciated.”

Musicians for LeBonheur’s Justin Jaggers arranged to have CCDE play for patients. “There was this kid who had some kidney issues. He was 19 or 20, and just a frail, small guy. We went into the room, and he just looked miserable. These guys started playing … The kid kinda lifts up his arm and starts dancing with the only body parts he could move.”

CCDE’s reputation and fan base grew with their 2013 album The Firm Foundation, named for an earlier incarnation of the group. They had a minor hit with their grooved-up cover of A-Ha’s “Take on Me.” Joseph says, “Every time, if you heard a cover we did, it’s not like the original song. If we’re going to do this, we’re going to do it our way.”

Omar recruited his friend Rico Fields and drummer Ra’id to get back to his hardcore punk roots. “When he hit me up about the idea, all I knew was

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King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

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Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

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

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

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

168 BEALE 576-2220

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

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

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

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

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

David Bowen Thursdays, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Friday, May 3, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, May 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; John Tyler and Chase May 3-4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; FreeWorld Every other Friday, Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Pam and Terry Friday, May 3, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-11 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and First Saturday of every month, 4:30-8:30 p.m.; Little Boys Blue Saturday, May 4, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Cowboy Neil Band Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Albert Castiglia’s Blues Music Awards Blues Party Wednesday, May 8, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

Dueling Pianos Thursdays, Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.-3 a.m., and Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Belle Tavern 117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

The Rusty Pieces Sunday, May 5, 6:30-9 p.m.

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

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

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

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

The Memphis Symphony Orchestra performs the Music of Star Wars Saturday, May 4, 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.; Memphis Youth Symphony Program with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra Sunday, May 5, 5:15 p.m.

Tom Lee Park

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

The Rusty Pieces Saturday, May 4, 7-10 p.m.; Cinco de Mayo with the Rusty Pieces Sunday, May 5, 12-4 p.m.; Songwriters with Roland and Friends Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

Memphis in May Beale Street Music Festival Friday, May 3, 5 p.m., Saturday, May 4, 1 p.m. and Sunday, May 5, 1 p.m.

South Main Spindini 383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Joe Restivo Jazz Trio Friday, May 3, 7-10 p.m.; Tom Lonardo Jazz Trio Saturday, May 4, 7-10 p.m.

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

Dim the Lights featuring live music and DJs First Saturday of every month, 10 p.m.

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

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

The Peabody 149 UNION 529-4000

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The MDs Friday, May 3; 19 Stones Saturday, May 4; Bluff City Backsliders Sunday, May 5; Devil Train Monday, May 6; Billie Worley & Jeremy Stanfill Tuesday, May 7; Outer Ring Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

All the Colors of the Dark Saturday, May 4.

Center for Southern Folklore Hall

Rooftop Party with Motel Mirrors Thursday, May 2, 6-10 p.m.

Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library

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The Maguire Twins Friday, May 3, 6:30 p.m.

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

Center for Southern Folklore 123 S. MAIN AT PEABODY TROLLEY STOP 525-3655

Neal Rudgley & the Blue Bandits Saturday, May 4, 8-11 p.m.

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Richard Wilson Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Open Mic Night Saturdays, 4-7 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Jason James with Rodney Polk First Monday of every month, 7-11 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

The Rusty Pieces Thursday, May 2, 7-9 p.m.

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Railgarten

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Natalie James and the Professor Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.; “The Happening” Open Songwriter Showcase Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Crawfish for a Cause Happy Hour with Mighty Souls Thursday, May 2, 5-9 p.m.; 40 Watt Moon Friday, May 3, 9 p.m.; Pearl Saturday, May 4, 8 p.m.

Minglewood Hall

Wild Bill’s

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Overkill, Death Angel, Act of Defiance, Voodoo Prophet Tuesday, May 7, 8 p.m.

Juke Joint All Stars Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony Chapman, Charles Cason, and Miss. Joyce Henderson Fridays, Saturdays,

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

May 5, 5:30 p.m.; Furious George Wednesday, May 8, 8 p.m.

East Memphis East of Wangs 6069 PARK 763-0676

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

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Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

Graceland Soundstage

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY BLVD

The Allman Betts Band Friday, May 3, 7 p.m.

Larry Cunningham ThursdaysSaturdays; Aislynn Rappe Sundays; Keith Kimbrough

Steak Night with Tony Butler and the Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Harbor Town Saturday, May 4, 12-3 p.m.; TuneAGator Sunday, May 5, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

Delta Blues Winery 6585 STEWART

Foolish Pleasure Friday, May 3, 7-10 p.m.; Cinco De Mayo Celebration with Tom Howe Sunday, May 5, 2:30-5:30 p.m.

The Groove featuring the PRVLG Thursday, May 2, 7:309:30 p.m.; Shaun Marsh, with the OCB Friday, May 3, 7-9 p.m.

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

Growlers

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Metal Mania featuring Sylar, Oh Sleeper, and more Thursday, May 2, 5:30 p.m.; Soulful Eyes, Black Pockets Friday, May 3, 8 p.m.; Music Fest After-Party with Eleanor Tallie, Dynamo, and the PRVLG Saturday, May 4, 9 p.m.; Ritch Henderson, John Butler Sunday, May 5, 4 p.m.; Messer with, Oceans Divide Us, Seeking 7 Seven Sunday, May 5, 8 p.m.; Graveyard Witch with Gromulous, Silence the Prince Monday, May 6, 8 p.m.; Circa Survive with Suburban Living, Jadewick Tuesday, May 7, 8 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Thy Art Is Murder with While She Sleeps, Ōbleak, Grimmwood Wednesday, May 8, 7 p.m.

Frayser/Millington Pop’s Bar & Grill 6365 NAVY 872-0353

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

Toni Green’s Palace 4212 HWY 51 N

Toni Green’s Palace MondaysSundays, 7 p.m.; Live DJ Thursdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center

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GPAC Youth Symphony Program Spring Concert Sunday, May 5, 4-5:30 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Hollywood Casino 1150 CASINO STRIP RESORT, TUNICA, MS 662-357-7700

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

Mulan Asian Bistro 2149 YOUNG AVE 347-3965

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

Chris Gales Sunday Brunch First Sunday of every month, 12-3 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room

Murphy’s

2119 MADISON 207-5097

1589 MADISON 726-4193

Rice Drewry Thursday, May 2, 6:30 p.m.; Graham Winchester Band Thursday, May 2, 9 p.m.; Memphis Funk-N-Soul Friday, May 3, 6:30 p.m.; Forever Abbey Road Friday, May 3, 10 p.m.; Pop 901 Saturday, May 4, 2 p.m.; Memphis Funk-N-Horns Saturday, May 4, 6:30 p.m.; Drunk Uncle Saturday, May 4, 10 p.m.; Jeffrey and the Pacemakers Sunday, May 5, 4 p.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Acoustic Tuesday, May 7, 7 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Memphis All-Stars Wednesday, May 8, 8 p.m.

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FEELS, Future Losers Thursday, May 2, 10 p.m.; Matty Matheson Friday, May 3, 5 p.m.; Randy’s Cheeseburger Picnic Friday, May 3, 9:15 p.m.; Lucky Saturday, Sedona, Accidental Fieldtrip, the Random Band Saturday, May 4, 10 p.m.; Super Low, the Pressure Kids, Wesley Wolffe Sunday, May 5, 8 p.m.; Black Pistol Fire, Emily Wolfe Sunday, May 5, 8:30 p.m.; Year of October, Rosey, Evince, Glorious Abhor Monday, May 6, 9 p.m.; Escape From the Zoo, the Cassowaries, the Wailing Banshees, Alex Moseley Tuesday, May 7, 9 p.m.; Reignwolf Wednesday, May 8, 8:30 p.m.

Shelby Forest General Store

Gally’s B-Day Bash with Richard James, Dos Bros Friday, May 3, 10 p.m.; Tony Holiday Saturday, May 4, 9 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rockstar Karaoke Fridays; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.

Private Residence CALL FOR INFO 278-6422

Backyard Benefit for Memphis Animal Services Sunday, May 5, 3-6 p.m.

Mesquite Chop House Mondays-Wednesdays.

Howard Vance Guitar Academy 978 REDDOCH 767-6940

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

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

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

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

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe

Neil’s Music Room

663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

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

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

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

Johnny Peitro Thursday, May 2, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Full Circle Saturday, May 4, 8 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Tunica Roadhouse 1107 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 662-363-4900

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Poplar/I-240 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

5960 GETWELL

The Rusty Pieces Friday, May 3, 7-9 p.m.

Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Rockstar Karaoke with Charlie Belt Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Thump Daddy Friday, May 3, 9 p.m.; Backstreet Crawler Saturday, May 4, 9 p.m.; Area 51 Sunday,

Open Mic Night Thursdays, 6 p.m.-midnight; Blues Jam with Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

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Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

Calendar Girls, after the death of her best friend’s husband from cancer, spirited Yorkshire housewife Chris Harper hatches a scheme to raise money for a memorial to him.

Utilizing a tradition from the hidebound Woman’s Institute association, Chris encourages her friends to create a calendar using the middle-aged women of their village as nude models. www.bpacc.com. May 3-5.

3663 APPLING (385-6440).

Circuit Playhouse

1984, under the close eye of Big Brother, Winston Smith has been caught struggling for scraps of love and freedom in a world awash with distrust and violence. With the brutal “help” of four Party Members, Winston is forced to confess his thoughtcrimes before an unseen inquisitor. www. playhouseonthesquare.org.

Through May 12.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

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The Evergreen Theatre

The Shrew on Wheels, based on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, Kate is now Kat, or better known by her Roller Derby name “The Mad Katter,” and the guys are so into Dungeons & Dragons that they don’t know what hit them when Kat and Bianca come rolling into their lives. www.playhouseonthesquare. org/education. May 4-8.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Playhouse on the Square

Cabaret, it’s the early 1930s in Berlin, and life is changing.

But that’s no concern for sensational Kit Kat Klub cabaret singer Sally Bowles, whose only goal in life is to have a good time. As the Nazis take control of the government, the lives of Sally and her boyfriend, writer Cliff Bradshaw, begin to change dramatically. (7253008), cabaret.pptnm.org/.

May 3-26, 8-10 p.m.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Tennessee Shakespeare Company

Boats Against the Current: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, the Tennessee Shakespeare Company’s Fitzgerald Literary Salon returns by popular demand, with readings of the Jazz Age couple’s correspondence and works, and original Gatsby cocktails. Roaring ’20s apparel encouraged. (759-0620), www. tnshakespeare.org. $25. Sun., May 5, 3-4:15 p.m.

7950 TRINITY (759-0604).

Theatre Memphis

The Man Who Came to Dinner, a well-known radio wit, Sheridan Whiteside, falls while dining at the home of prominent socialites, making him an unexpected guest for six weeks of recovery. The hosts are most in need of recovery as Whiteside invites in a three-ring circus of comic chaos which grows to include a luncheon for homicidal convicts and a complete children’s choir. www.theatrememphis. org. $25. Thursdays-Sundays.

Through May 12.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

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Reception for Veronica Randolph Batterson at WKNO Studio, Sunday, May 5th, 2-4 p.m.

TheatreWorks

Twelfth Night, presented by New Moon Theatre, Viola is shipwrecked in a violent storm off the coast of Illyria and she comes ashore

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

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2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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

Agnes Stark’s Studio

Spring Show and Sale, exhibition and sale of pottery by Agnes Stark. (867-9240), www. starkpottery.com. May 3-5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

12675 DONELSON.

L Ross Gallery

Opening Reception for “Where the Petals All Unfold/Where Light and Landscape Meet,” exhibition of works by Alan Duckworth and Dolores Justus.

(767-2200), lrossgallery.com.

Free. Sat., May 4, 6-8 p.m.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

Opening Reception for “Collaborations,” exhibition of collaborative works by Tennessee Craft members. www. jccmemphis.org. Sun., May 5, 1-3 p.m.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

WKNO Studio

Opening Reception for Veronica Randolph Batterson, exhibition of photographs by the novelist and photographer. www.wkno.org. Sun., May 5, 2-4 p.m.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Casting Demonstration Saturdays, Sundays, 1:30 p.m.

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

Cooper-Young Art Tours

For more information, featured artists, and pop-up performances, visit website. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

COOPER-YOUNG DISTRICT, CORNER OF COOPER AND YOUNG, WWW.COOPERYOUNG.COM.

Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest

Winning authors will be honored with a $200 gift certificate to Novel. For more information, contest rules, and submission, visit website.

Through Aug. 31.

WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM.

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Whet Thursday

Seasonal event with games on the lawn, food truck fare, lively music, metalsmithing demos, and a gallery talk at 6 p.m. Free. Thurs., May 2, 5-8 p.m.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG/WHET-THURSDAY.

O N G O I N G ART

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“Dear Artist,” exhibition of work on loan. Artists include Lisa Alonso, Nakeya Brown, Burton Callicott, Carroll Cloar, Jennifer Crescuillo, William Eggleston, and others. www.memphis.edu/amum.

Through June 1.

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

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

Art Village Gallery

“Visions of Illusion,” exhibition of new work by Zeinu Mudeser. www.artvillagegallery.com. Through July 31.

“Out of Africa: Inhabitants of the Earth,” exhibition of work by Nigerian artist Uchay Joel Chima. www. artvillagegallery.com. Ongoing.

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

ASU Mid-South Reynolds Center

“What We Saw,” exhibition of new works by Jimpsie Ayres and Jeanne Seagle. www.deltaarts.org.

Through May 17.

8pm

Genesis

5|17

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

Senior Thesis Exhibition, exhibition of work by Rhodes studio art majors Olivia Rowe, Charlotte Sechrist, Qian Xu, Sara Lynn Abbott, and Melissa Kiker. www.rhodes.edu/events. Ongoing.

Day of Mindfulness in Memphis

TIME: 9:00am - 4:00am PLACE: The Green Room at Crosstown Arts

5.04

Square Dancing at Concourse

TIME: 4:30-5:30pm PLACE: Central Atrium

GRACE ASKEW FEAT. MARCELLA SIMIEN

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

Clough-Hanson Gallery

5.04

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2000 W. BROADWAY.

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

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

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Crosstown Concourse

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

6:00-7:30PM • $15

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Memphis Bi-centennial Boogie with Blueshift Ensemble TIME: 7:30-9:30pm PLACE: Crosstown Theater

1350 CONCOURSE AVE.

David Lusk Gallery

“The Deep,” exhibition of work by Robert Yasuda. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through May 31.

“A Lifestyle,” exhibition of work by Joyce Gingold. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through May 31.

Burton Callicott, exhibition of serene landscapes by the acclaimed artist and influential educator. www. davidluskgallery.com. May 7-June 7.

“Soft Landing,” exhibition of new work by Emily Leonard. www.davidluskgallery.com. May 7-June 6.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“First Saturdays: Memphis Urban Sketchers,” exhibition of works by more than 20 artists. “First Saturdays” offers a creative interpretation of Memphis places and landmarks. www.dixon.org.

Through July 7.

“The Allure of Creative Self-Absorption,” exhibition of photographs of Virginia Oldoini Verasis, the

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4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Myths and Muses,” exhibition of new work by Carol Buchman. www.eclectic-eye.com.

Through May 29.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Edge Gallery

Folk Artists, exhibition of work

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

509 S. MAIN (647-9242).

May 2-8, 2019

FireHouse Community Arts Center

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

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Germantown Performing Arts Center

“Storytime,” exhibition of work by by Qwynto. (751-7500), www.gpacweb.com. Through May 5, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Graceland

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

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3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

“Where Light and Landscape Meet” by Dolores Justus at L Ross Gallery, Saturday, May 4th, 6-8 p.m.

Java Cabana

“My Life in Colour,” exhibition of new paintings by Jessica White. www.javacabanacoffeehouse.com. Through May 31.

2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

Jay Etkin Gallery

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

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

“Where the Petals All Unfold/ Where Light and Landscape Meet,” exhibition of works by Alan Duckworth and Dolores Justus. (767-2200), lrossgallery. com. Free. Tuesdays-Saturdays.

Through May 25.

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Marshall Arts Gallery

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

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Botanic Garden

Twilight Thursdays, extended hours staying open till sunset.

Each week will have a different highlight from plants to pets. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Thursdays.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“American Haiku,” exhibition of woodcuts by Memphis artist Ted Faiers. www.brooksmuseum.org. Through May 12.

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

“Native Son,” exhibition of sculpture and sound installation by multimedia artist Terry Adkins. www.brooksmuseum. org. Through Sept. 3.

Rotunda Projects: Federico Uribe, exhibition of magical creatures and playful installations from everyday objects. www.brooksmuseum.org.

Through Oct. 11.

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

Ongoing.

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

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Antepenultimatum,” exhibition of works by the Spring 2019 BFA graduates. (2725100), www.mca.edu. Through May 12, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

“Collaborations,” exhibition of collaborative works by Tennessee Craft members. www. jccmemphis.org. May 3-31.

6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

“Crafting a Legacy: 40 Years of Collecting and Exhibiting at the Metal Museum,” in honor of its 40th anniversary, the Metal Museum presents an exhibition of past, current, and future Master Metalsmiths and Tributaries artists, who represent the heights of achievement and the promising future of the metals field. (774-6380),

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“Tributaries,” exhibition of work by featured artist Jill Baker Gower. (774-6380), www.metalmuseum.org. Through June 30.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (7746380).

Overton Park Gallery

Dorothy Northern and Jennifer Sargent, exhibition of works.

Ongoing.

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

Ross Gallery

“Outside Looking In,” exhibition of works by CBU BFA graduates Erin McInnes, Darien Parsons, and Katherine Traylor. www.cbu.edu/gallery. Free.

Mondays-Fridays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Through July 8.

Art Therapy Exhibition, exhibition of works from two groups from Alzheimer’s and Dementia Services of Memphis. www.cbu. edu/gallery. Free. MondaysFridays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Through July 8.

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

“Collaborations” at Memphis Jewish Community Center, Sunday, May 5th

Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum

“Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. (5273427), slavehavenmemphis. com/. Ongoing.

826 NORTH SECOND STREET (5273427).

Sue Layman Designs

Sue Layman Designs Ongoing Art, exhibition of oil-on-canvas paintings featuring brilliant colors and daring geometric shapes. (409-7870), suelaymandesigns.com. Ongoing.

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

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TOPS Gallery

“Camera Obscura,” exhibition of new work by Aaron Suggs. www.topsgallery.com. Through May 19.

400 S. FRONT.

Village Frame & Art

“20th Century Memphis Photographs,” exhibition of work

by Charlie Ivey and Virginia Schoenster, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

Talbot Heirs

Debra Edge Art, ongoing.

Based on Shakespeare’s comedy about four young Athenians whose intertwining love lives lead them on a midnight foray into a magical forest where the fairy king and queen plot against each other out of jealousy. Choreographed for Ballet Memphis. Sat., May 4, 8-9:30 p.m.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), WWW.GPACWEB.COM.

Square Dance

Modern square dancing class.

Free and open to the public.

Free. Sat., May 4, 4:30-5:30 p.m.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, 1350 CONCOURSE AVE. (310-469-4256).

99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

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Cafe Eclectic

Poetry Society of Tennessee Open Mic, join us at Cafe Eclectic (603 N. McLean) on the second and third Wednesdays of each month for readings of original poetry. www.poetrytennessee.org.

Free. Wed., May 8, 7:30-8:30 p.m.

603 N. MCLEAN (725-1718).

Poplar-White Station Branch Library

Poetry Society of Tennessee, may meeting and discussion of eye poems at the White Station Public Library. For more information about the society, see the website at www.tnpoetry.org. Free. Sat., May 4, 2-4 p.m.

5094 POPLAR (682-1616).

Booksigning by Jay Farrell

Author discusses and signs his new book, Abandoned Tennessee. Sun., May 5, 2 p.m.

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

Booksigning by Jon Scott

Author discusses and signs his new book, Tom Petty & Me. Sat., May 4, 4-8 p.m.

CENTER FOR SOUTHERN FOLKLORE, 123 S. MAIN AT PEABODY TROLLEY STOP (535-3655).

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Calvary Episcopal Church Tours

Docent-led tours discuss stained glass windows, architecture, and symbols in Christian art. Private tours available upon request. Free.

Second Wednesday, Sunday of every month, 11:15 a.m.

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City Tasting Tours

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

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Cutting Garden Tours

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

Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon.

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Tree Tour of Elmwood

The cemetery is home to almost 1,400 trees. This tour gets beyond the trees’ scientific and common names. $20. Sat., May 4, 1-2:30 p.m.

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Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour

See what used to be, Memphis

“Where the Petals All Unfold” by Alan Duckworth at L Ross Gallery, Saturday, May 4th, 6-8 p.m. style, with Mike McCarthy.

Call to schedule a personal tour. Ongoing.

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Birmingham Legion FC Sat., May 4, 3 p.m.

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Parent’s Bike Train to Work

The Commute Options Bike Train is making local stops throughout Midtown and Downtown to help get commuters to work. Free. Fri., May 3, 8:30-9 a.m.

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Walk ‘n’ Talk

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

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

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Read and explore written works by women and LGBT authors. Second Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.

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With the help from regional artists, Bernhard Meck and Tim Pace, this medieval castle and accompanying pieces was designed and constructed almost completely of reclaimed materials. Alongside a majestic dragon, Castle Redeux features king and queen thrones, crowns and costumes, a catapult, and the sword in the stone. The Through May 4.

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Kids can put their cooking hats and aprons on and spend some time in the Urban Home Garden. Little chefs can help make their own Summer Rolls and Egg Fried Rice. MBG members $10/non-members $15. Reservations required.

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Explore the Dixon’s exciting new Liz and Tommy Farnsworth Education Building and the new surrounding gardens.

Get to know the new spaces through experiential areas, games, demonstrations and performances. Sat., May 4, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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Jockeys & Juleps Derby Party

Big hats, bourbon, bluegrass, and a live broadcast of the Kentucky Derby at this fourthannual party benefiting the Southern Reins Center for Equine Therapy. $150. Sat., May 4, 3-7 p.m.

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Ballet Memphis’ Midsummer Night’s Dream at Germantown Performing Arts Center, Saturday, May 4th, 8 p.m.

Commute Challenge

Commuters in Memphis are challenged to shift gears from riding alone to riding with friends, using public transit, walking, or biking to and from work during May’s Commute Challenge. Sign-up, track your commutes to work using alternative transportation methods, and be entered to win prizes all month long. Through May 31.

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Mid-day bicycle ride with Revolutions Bicycle CoOp. Meet at the northwest corner of Front and Monroe and ride with Downtowners to a restaurant within 15 minutes of the Fourth Bluff. First Tuesday of every month, 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

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Mid-South Derby and Ales Inaugural Race

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Volunteer Plant Sale

An extensive selection of native and wildlife friendly plants grown onsite at the nature center. Fri., May 3, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sat., May 4, 9 a.m.1:30 p.m.

May is Pokémon Night, with a Pokémon tournament. Food Trucks for May are Say Cheese, Grub, Grisanti 9 DOUGH 1, New Wing Order, and MEMPopS. Adult cover is $5 for garden members and $10 for non-members. Wed., May 8, 5-8 p.m.

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Sunday Supper Series

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Wood block car racing for grownups. Car check in is 7-7:45 p.m., and races start at 8 p.m. Free.

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Finalists present innovative prototypes, sell products, and pitch their ventures in a vendorstyle and stage pitch setup for a chance to win cash prizes. $10.

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Up to 16 people per bike enjoy a flight of local spirits and brew during this two-hour pub-crawl with Sprock n’ Roll’s bike bar to Old Dominick Distillery and Ghost River Brewing Tap Room.

BYOB, but no glass tour. $315$400. Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 12-8 p.m., and Sundays, 12-5 p.m.

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The Man

Theatre Memphis stages a screwball classic.

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t would seem that Kaufman & Hart’s barb-laden comedy, The Man Who Came to Dinner, is woven into the tapestry of Theatre Memphis’ identity. It’s the last play the company staged before leaving its old digs inside the Pink Palace pool house and moving into the custom-built space on Perkins Ext. In 2002, as the company attempted to re-ground itself under new leadership, the screwball comedy was revived, with several original cast members returning to perform.

Now, as Theatre Memphis preps for an abbreviated 100th season, and a round of major innovation, Sheridan Whiteside — an unforgettable character inspired by celebrity critic Alexander Woollcott — is back in the spotlight, and as petty and domineering as ever. It’s a first-rate production, too, with Jason Spitzer starring as the titular man.

But I’ve got to admit, I don’t entirely get it.

As a fan of the author’s, and to a lesser extent, the play, I didn’t really get the point of reviving this gossipy, name-dropping tour of vintage celebrity culture 17 years ago, and it’s not like the material is any fresher today. Still, it’s a clever thing and expertly staged. The Man Who Came to Dinner is an archetypal romantic comedy dipped in satire, but for maximum enjoyment, more than a little cultural literacy is absolutely required.

That’s not a bad thing, but those not dialed into Woollcott’s world of the rich and famous may sometimes feel left out of the conversation.

There’s not much plot to The Man Who Came to Dinner, but so much goes on it can be difficult to keep up. Guests drop in and out. Thousands of cockroaches escape their enclosure. A wacky penguin rampage adds to hilarity. It all begins with a fall Whiteside suffers while visiting a private residence for dinner. The mouthy critic is misdiagnosed, told not to leave the house and to move as little as possible until he’s better. So, sparing no pomposity or expense, he proceeds to take over his host’s suburban home and ruin his secretary Maggie’s romance for fear that she’ll leave him.

Spitzer, who starred in The Drowsy Chaperone at Theatre Memphis, seems to be specializing in “man in chair” roles.

This time around, his chair has wheels, but if you liked Spitzer in the musical,

you’ll love him for similar reasons here. Kinon Keplinger is likewise fine as a stand in for British playwright and showman, Noel Coward. The same goes for Emily F. Chateau, as Whiteside’s indispensable assistant and confidant Maggie, and Jai Johnson as Lorraine Sheldon, a lovestruck starlet looking for a good script. The whole ensemble is first rate, with several terrifically quirky character turns by local favorites like Barry Fuller and Louise Levin.

One hundred years is a long time, and a little comfort food in the face of change may not be a bad thing at all. Even if The Man Who Came to Dinner doesn’t have much to say in 2019, it doesn’t say it with gusto and real panache. And maybe, for a community in mourning, there’s more going on at Theatre Memphis than meets the eye.

Come in and stay awhile.

Beloved Memphis actor John Rone’s first performance at Theatre Memphis was in The Man Who Came to Dinner, prior to its move to Perkins. He also performed in the revival, where, during a blistering Memphis day, he famously quipped, “If you think it’s hot up there now, wait till I do my number in act 2.” Rone, who recently retired from Rhodes College after 40 years of service and who died earlier this year, was also a director, and committed fan of Memphis theater. On Saturday, April 27th, a group of Memphis actors walked onto the set of The Man Who Came to Dinner to share stories about Rone and memorialize him with scenes from past productions.

The house was packed for the perfect sendoff. He truly was “the man,” and whether it’s your cup of tea or no, TM’s latest take on The Man Who Came to Dinner is every bit as elegant and wicked as he was.

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ick Manlavi always felt drawn to bartenders.

“Bartenders are rock stars who couldn’t be bothered to learn to play instruments,” he says, paraphrasing a line from a movie.

Manlavi is bar manager at P.O. Press & Provisions, one the area’s hottest new restaurants, located near the town square in Collierville. P.O. Press has gotten raves for its creative and thoughtful treatment of ingredients, which extends to the bar.

One recent meal fully engaged all of Manlavi’s creative muscles. It was a special occasion, an anniversary dinner. It would be nine courses, paired with drinks. But, there was a wrinkle. One of the party did not drink.

P.O. Press usually has two or three “mocktails” — i.e., no alcohol — on its seasonal menu.

Manlavi says his goal to make something that is fun to drink. He’ll ask for preferences. He’ll consider a meal’s dishes and think about flavor profiles. He’ll take advantage of the restaurant’s full arsenal of ingredients and equipment.

For this dinner, he made an Arnold Palmer with pomegranate foam, a beet and carrot old fashioned, a ginger and peppercorn cordial, a coconut pina colada, and a radish and mint mule.

The mule Manlavi made to match the root vegetable sushi roll, one of the dinner’s courses. Manlavi says he had to tread carefully with this drink. “Radish is a weird flavor,” he says. “And they smell like feet.” He ended up using a lot of grapefruit in this one.

Manlavi says he’s particularly proud of the pina colada, even more so because there was no pineapple juice in the house.

To approximate pineapple juice, he used lime juice and champagne vinegar.

The old fashioned is particularly clever.

The carrot is used to simulate the dense mouthfeel usually associated with the beverage.

Manlavi says such an endeavor is much like pairing wine with a meal, and, ultimately, it boils down to a sort of customeris-always-right ethos. “Not drinking is an important thing for a lot of people,” he says. “I’m happy to take people on a tour.”

P.O. Press, 148 N Main in Collierville, popress.com Over at Alchemy in Cooper-Young, bar manager Ben Williams says they serve around 30 to 40 mocktails a week. Much of their mocktail menu, which features seven drinks, is based around their

proofier offerings, which makes sense: The cocktails have always been the big draw at Alchemy.

The Oh Clementine is Alchemy’s most ordered mocktail. It’s orange juice, lemon, sugar, and strawberry puree. The KCCO is an Alchemy landmark. KCCO stands for Keep calm, Collins on. It’s a cheeky play on both a mojito and a Tom Collins, which is achieved through the mint and lemon.

The Orange You Glad is another favorite. “It is good,” says Williams. “It’s made for those who remember growing up eating a Dreamsicle from the ice cream guy who drives by the neighborhood.”

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Bart Mallard says he created the mocktails at Crosstown Art’s Art Bar because, “I’m interested in [the Art Bar] being a place where everybody can come and not feel uncomfortable. And people who are most uncomfortable at bars are people who don’t drink. So I was like, well, let’s change that as fast as we can.”

Mallard usually goes to his favorite markets to scan the produce for inspiration. He also turned to his friend Chris Cosby, who, with his wife Stephanie, is in charge of the plants at Crosstown. Cosby turned Mallard on to herbal tinctures.

There are two mocktails on the menu now at Art Bar. The Plum the Golden Depths (with the exotic golden plum) and the Rise of Spring (with banana pepper and damiana). They are both labor- and ingredient-intensive, Mallard says.

“I would prefer the menu to be half and half,” Mallard says of alcoholic and nonalcholic drinks. “But I don’t think we’re quite there yet culturally.”

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The End of All Things

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Avengers: Endgame closes out the Marvel Decade.

.K. Rowling was a godsend for the publishing industry. Her seven Harry Potter books, published from 1997 to 2007, shifted more than 500 million units worldwide for Scholastic, and taught a generation to love reading.

But in recent years, a question has arisen: Did Harry Potter really teach a generation to love reading, or did it just teach them to love Harry Potter?

When Warner Bros. came calling to J.K. Rowling in 2001, it would prove to be a fateful moment in film history. Film franchises were nothing new, but movie audiences were not expected to keep track of plots longer than a trilogy. Rowling’s dense plotting and expansive dramatis personae made Star Wars look like a family squabble.

Like publishers before them, producers tried to reverse engineer the Potter magic. The only person to crack the problem was Kevin Feige, an associate producer on 2000’s X-Men who was hired to wring maximum value from Marvel Comics.

Feige looked at an audience raised on Rowling’s serialized storytelling, and saw that Marvel’s rotating staff of underpaid fabulists had produced ample material to feed the formula. With Marvel’s most popular characters

under the control of Sony, he turned to the Avengers to provide the spine of the 22-film story. The Marvel movies are literary adaptations, but they’re not high fantasy. A cool character on the cover is what moves comic book units. So is it with the Marvel films. Crossovers are good cross marketing, which is why She-Hulk was briefly a member of the Fantastic Four, and why the Hulk is the co-star of Thor: Ragnarok.

Like Potter, the Marvel series milked the ending by splitting the finale into two movies. Deathly Hallows put most of its sentimental character beats in part one, then loaded on the action in part two. The final two Avengers attempted the reverse: Infinity War hewed to the model Joss Whedon had laid down, until the good guys lost.

Endgame’s first hour is about dealing with loss. Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) throws himself into service. Natasha Romanov (Scarlett Johansson) numbly keeps trying to superhero in a world beyond saving. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) has hung up his super suit and had a baby with Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) has made peace with his Hulk-nature and gone green full time. Thor (Chris Hemsworth) gets drunk. Then, five years after Thanos’ (Josh Brolin) snap

Robert Downey Jr. (above) faces his fate as Avengers: Endgame closes out the Marvel Decade. heard ’round the universe, Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) escapes from the Quantum Realm with an idea. If you had “time travel” in the “How are they going to write their way out of THIS one?” pool, please collect your winnings.

Star Wars taught Generation X to love movies. Since the films were spaced three years apart, kids had to try other genres to find a fix to tide them over, thus expanding their tastes. But the average moviegoer sees four films in a theater annually, and Marvel has been averaging 2.5 movies per year for the last decade. There was no need to try other genres, because Marvel simply subsumed them.

You want a paranoid thriller? Here’s Captain America: Civil War. Space opera? Guardians of the Galaxy. Endgame shuffles through genres in its three hour running time. It’s a Steven Soderberg heist film. It disses Back to the Future, then lifts the structure of Back to the Future Part II to create a kind of clip show of the Marvel Decade. And just when you thought we’d escape without a Marvel Third Act, everybody you’ve ever met fights everybody else. Surprise!

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Endgame delivers those by splitting its gargantuan cast into unexpected pairs.

Hulk finds himself negotiating with The Ancient One (Tilda Swinton) in the middle of a raging battle. As the time war escalates and cause and effect starts to go all loosey-goosey, secret acting weapon Karen Gillan as Nebula pairs off against her past self, and Tony Stark makes peace with his father.

To say Feige succeeded in his decadal quest to perfect the formula is like saying “the atomic bomb exploded.” It’s true, but it fails to convey the scale. Endgame’s $350 million opening weekend is the most profitable three days in the 120-year history of the American movie theater industry.

Is it actually good? Not as a movie — but it’s not designed to be a movie. It’s a series finale. It’s a last chance to hang out with

your super friends. Its bladder-busting length will be much more digestible when consumed on the new Disney+ streaming service.

As the dust clears, Disney stands like Thanos astride Earth-616. They have won, but what kind of world is left behind?

The House of Mouse’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox has led to 4,000 layoffs, and dozens of projects which can’t be Potterfied have been cancelled. For all intents and purposes, the theatrical film industry is now Disney and a few minor players.

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I visited Louisville for the first time last weekend to run in the Kentucky Derby Festival Marathon. Stay there. Before you close your browser or throw your paper in the recycling bin, I swear this isn’t about running.

I’m just setting the scene. Anyway, Louisville wasn’t exactly on my bucket list, but I wanted a race in late April or early May within driving distance.

There was a race in Nashville the same weekend, but this is a hobby. The hills and humidity, with NFL Draft bros folded into the usual mix of pedal taverns and interstate chaos do not match my definition of fun, so I continued north up I-65.

My preexisting knowledge of Louisville comprised three things: bourbon, horses, and a college basketball rivalry that predates my existence.

What I discovered was a comfortably sized city next to a river, with a couple of cool bridges and some friendly people. I felt a kinship. Sorry, basketball old-timers, they’re like us.

Granted, I was only among them for a weekend. They could excel at first impressions and Southern fake-nice. But my presumptions about bourbon and horses proved accurate: It’s a city that is Proud of Their Thing. Sound familiar?

The marathon is a week before the Kentucky Derby. I had assumed Water park feature in Louisville’s it was part of a Derby Week kickoff of sorts, but it turns out those folks Waterfront Park have been partying for about a month. The Kentucky Derby Festival is, I suppose, Louisville’s Mardi Gras. Or some other month-long celebration of a city’s cultural identity and stuff.

The race started in Downtown Louisville, passed through Churchill Downs, and finished in Waterfront Park. Waterfront Park overlooks the Ohio River. A mile-long railroad bridge, converted for pedestrians and cyclists, connects the park to Indiana on the other side. I’ve seen similar in other cities, with one notable example. During the festival, the park is home to the “Kroger Fest-a-Ville,” with food vendors, music stages, bars, and beer gardens.

The Fest-a-Ville hosted a kickball game, a yoga class, a wrestling competition, two concerts, a rubber duck derby, a drag show brunch, and a fitness expo — just while I was in town. After the festival, the park no doubt returns to its regular programming: a riverside gathering spot with bike tours, food carts, summer concerts, a playground and splash pad for kids, an old steamboat, and gorgeous sunset views.

Waterfront Park is not the festival’s only venue, of course — the big to-do is at Churchill Downs — but wouldn’t it be silly to limit the festivities to one location? After all, it’s a celebration of the community, not just an 80-acre sliver of Downtown. Louisville Slugger Field (add those baseball bats to the list of Louisville pride points) hosts a food festival. Hot air balloons race from Bowman Field Airport.

Drum lines perform in the Louisville Palace theater. I think I saw that there are 70 events in all, with something for just about everyone.

By this point, I hope you’ve figured out that this isn’t about my weekend trip to Louisville. It’s May now, and a month we’ve long associated with celebrating Memphis is still tainted by uncertainty and pettiness regarding the future of our riverfront park and the Memphis in May International Festival.

We can recognize the festival’s contributions — from its role in Downtown’s revival to the enduring economic impact — while acknowledging that Tom Lee Park’s potential is shamefully unmined. Maybe we can also approach the possibility that Memphis in May’s two cornerstone events have already outgrown the park, and this is an opportunity to evolve a little.

Those barbecue “tents” can only get so tall, right? The Beale Street Music Festival can’t bring the big acts people want to see, without the space to accommodate their fans. Maybe more Memphians can participate and feel included if the festival’s footprint expands or moves.

Memphis in May can become more than Tom Lee Park, and vice versa. I’ve seen the possibilities with my own eyes. When both sides can come together on a way to make it happen, there may be some compromising and adapting — but just because something has “worked” for a long time, doesn’t mean it cannot improve.

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

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