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OUR 1528TH ISSUE 06.07.18 Buckle up, friends. This is war. We’ve finally identified our real enemies, and we’re taking strong measures to stop them from destroying us. And not a moment too soon. The Axis of Evil — Canada, Germany, Great Britain, France, and the other democracies of Europe — has for far too long been trying to undermine the very foundations of our economy with their nefarious “trade” policies and their so-called “friendship” and “mutual self-defense” alliances. Their evil leaders — Trudeau, Merkel, May, Macron, and the others — must finally face the wrath of President Donald Trump, the Master of the Deal. If it’s war they don’t want, it’s war they shall get! But we’re not going into this conflict alone. Oh, no. Thankfully, our allies — North Korea, China, and Russia — are stepping up to help. Last week, for instance, North Korea’s second-in-command (and former spy chief), Kim Yong-chol, personally delivered a letter to the White House in a really huge envelope. It was so big, the president said he liked the letter even before he read it. In that diplomatic missive, North Korea agreed to agree to discuss the possible discussion of a meeting between President Trump and Kim Jung Un. Winning! The only stipulation DPRNK made is that the U.S. would have to pay for the North Korean leader’s hotel room and parking, which is no big deal, really. I mean, it was a really big envelope, and probably expensive. Plus, we have Trivago. And let’s not forget China, one of our oldest allies, which, as a gesture of good will, has just granted licenses and permits to some of Ivanka Trump’s fabulous companies. Ivanka, of course, would love to have her clothing manufactured in the United States, but it would be such a hassle to move everything over Kim Yong-chol (left) and President Donald Trump here, so who can blame her for staying? Well, maybe Samantha Bee, but nobody normal. All we have to do in return is rescind the ban on the sale of American equipment to ZTE, China’s phone company, which was sanctioned for trading with Iran and stealing American technology. Sure, ZTE phones can be set up to collect all user data and send it back to China, and sure, Congress is almost unilaterally opposed to the deal, but I think most of us would agree with the president that it’s a small price to pay for such a terrific friendship and cheaper purses. And, of course, it goes without saying that Russia is behind us 100 percent. Russian President Vladimir Putin is just itching to help us in our efforts to destabilize the economies of Canada, England, Germany, and France. A better ally, you couldn’t ask for. Especially, since the president wisely decided not to implement any of those horrible economic sanctions against Russia for election meddling that were unanimously passed by Congress last year. That kind of forward thinking is finally paying off. Three-dimensional chess. Boom. And, as a bonus, they’ve agreed to help with our elections again this year! So, my fellow Americans, no more of those lousy Volkswagens, Mercedes, and BMWs. It’s Kias and Hyundais all the way, baby. And sure, you might like the occasional LaBatt’s and that weird Canadian “bacon,” but wait till you try Tsingtao and Korean kim chi. Plus, French wine is overrated, anyway. Two words: cheap vodka! And you won’t even miss your iPhone, once you’ve gotten your hands on a ZTE ChiPhone. The president says it’s important that we save Chinese jobs, and who could disagree with that? On the domestic front, the president’s wartime economic policy is equally N E WS & O P I N I O N forward-thinking. He’s demanding that THE FLY-BY - 4 American companies buy coal from NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 failing U.S. mining companies, despite POLITICS - 7 the increased energy prices and manufacEDITORIAL - 8 turing costs that will result. Sure, higher VIEWPOINT - 9 consumer prices are never fun, but we all COVER - “STANLEY BOOTH” have to sacrifice in times of war. Besides, BY JACKSON BAKER - 10 everyone knows that capitalistic free-handWE RECOMMEND - 14 MUSIC - 16 of-the-market stuff is old news. It just can’t AFTER DARK - 18 compete with a government-controlled, CALENDAR - 21 impulse-driven economy. Thankfully, RusTHEATER - 28 sia, China, and North Korea have shown FOOD - 30 us the way to the future. SPIRITS - 33 And with allies like that, who needs FILM - 34 friends? C L AS S I F I E D S - 36 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 39 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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B OTTO M S H E LF Diane Black, a U.S. Representative and candidate for Tennessee governor, believes grocery-store porn is a “big part” of the “root cause” of “why school shootings happen.” Fly on the Wall decided to see if there was anything to Black’s claim. Convenience stores in Midtown/ Downtown barely carry magazines at all anymore. Kroger had some, but none were dirty unless you count Cosmopolitan. And whatever you think about the “Cosmo-is-porn” billboard campaign, we’re pretty sure any smutty advice the women’s mag may or may not have printed about “polishing your partner’s assault rifle” was pure metaphor. There were some hot publications, however. They had titles like Sniper, and Precision Rifle Shooter. And the 2018 Handgun Buyer’s Guide, and Guns & Ammo AR-15 Pistol Edition with an assault pistol on the cover. Or, whatever.

Precision Rifle Shooter had yet another sexy rifle on the cover. And then there’s all the copies of 2018 Handgun Buyer’s Guide right where little hands can reach them, free from parental guidance. Long story short: Black’s weird claim just doesn’t seem to be true. Can we please get back to the timehonored business of blaming society’s ills on comic books, Atari, and Satanic messages hidden on Black Oak Arkansas cassette tapes? UPDATE: Similar porn deserts identified in Nashville. By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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A Rally for Immigrants, Bikes, & ‘Lights’ A protest against separation, classes push two-wheel culture, new lights for the “new” bridge. R ALLY AGAI N ST S E PAR ATI O N Activists called for an end to the separation of immigrant families during a rally Friday at Memphis City Hall. The National Day of Action for Children was a part of a day of rallies across the country protesting President Donald Trump’s policy of separating mothers and their children at the U.S./ Mexico border. The rally here — meant to appeal to the Trump Administration’s “sense of humanity and justice” — was organized by the American Immigration Lawyers Association Mid-South, Mid-South Immigration Advocates, the Community Legal Center, and Latino Memphis. C O -PAR E NTH O O D Two Planned Parenthood organizations that cover Tennessee’s three Grand Divisions will soon join as one. Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region announced last week it will consolidate with Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee. Together, they will operate as Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi (PPTNM) starting June 4th. Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region, will serve as CEO of the combined agency. “Given the increased attacks on Planned Parenthood nationally and locally, consolidation will allow us to serve and advocate with a strong, unified voice and is part of our longterm sustainability strategy,” Coffield said. LET’S G ET R O LLI N G Revolutions Bicycle Cooperative started offering three different biking classes around the city “to give riders the confidence” to “navigate our city” just after the launch of the city’s bike share system. In Bike Share 101, participants will learn how and when to access Explore Bike Share’s fleet, and about riding distances, time, and calorie burning as well. Commuting 101, will focus on how to commute as a cyclist, teaching participants how to route plan, navigate inclement weather, and transport items on a bike. The third class, How to Ride in the Street, will focus on bicyclists’ role when navigating traffic, including signaling,

traffic laws, and potential hazards. “M I G HTY” O N TH E M I G HTY M I S S The Memphis riverfront is in for a “mighty” new light show. The Hernando de Soto Bridge, known to some as the “M Bridge” or the “New Bridge,” will get a new lighting package much like the Harrahan Bridge did in 2016. Nightly light shows on both bridges will soon combine for “Mighty Lights.” The project “will synchronize and coordinate the Hernando de Soto bridge and Big River Crossing lighting to achieve dramatic effects that bookend the Mississippi River and highlight the entire riverfront in between,” according to a Tuesday news release from Memphis Bridge Lighting Inc., the nonprofit responsible for lighting Big River Crossing. The entire Mighty Lights package will be unveiled to the public after sundown on Saturday, October 27th in conjunction with the annual RiverArtsFest. TH E “800” I N ITIATIVE Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland announced a new program last week designed to help grow minority businesses in the city. The 800 Initiative will provide technical assistance, coaching, loans, and grants to the approximately 800 African-American-owned businesses in the city that are in between the start-up and full-scale business phase. The goal is to grow the businesses’ annual revenue by $50 million by 2023. Fuller versions of these stories and even more local news can be found on The News Blog at memphisflyer.com.

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In her fourth-floor loft near South Main, April Jones sings as loud and as often as she wants, and her neighbors don’t mind. That’s because Jones, a musician and painter, recently moved into the South Main Artspace Lofts, a newly built Downtown residence tailor-made for artists and their families. The lofts were developed by Artspace Projects, Inc, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit real estate developer that specializes in creating affordable spaces for artists and creative businesses. The group transformed the former United Warehouse and an adjacent parking lot into a 63-loft apartment complex for artists to live and work. For Jones, Artspace has been an “answered prayer.” Living situations for artists in Memphis can be challenging, she said. In the past, Jones said she struggled to find a place to live while pursuing her artwork and went through bouts of homelessness as a result. But now, she said she’s found a place to live that’s “conducive to my talent.” “I don’t have to worry about being embarrassed to do my work,” Jones said. “There’s other people around you doing the same thing. The first three questions someone asked me here are always ‘What’s your name, which floor do you live on, and what’s your art?’” Kimberly Moore, asset manager for Artspace, said residents’ artforms can vary and be anything

from painting and sculpting, to photography and animation, to culinary arts and playwriting. “A singer could be next door to a dancer who could live next to a jeweler,” Moore said. “They all build off of each other’s creative energy and are expected to support each other.” To live on the “creative campus,” Moore said residents must go through a three-step application process that can be “intensive, but worth it.” The final step, an interview with a committee of local artists, is the most important piece of the process, Moore said. Applicants must demonstrate their art form before the committee, in order to “ensure the property maintains its creative character.” The applicants aren’t judged on the quality of their art, though, Moore said. Instead, the committee is looking for passionate artists who are committed to their work and willing to be engaged in the larger art community. The goal of the project is not only to give artists a place to live, Moore said, but to also provide housing that’s affordable. Prices for the units (studio, onebedroom, two-bedroom, and three-bedroom) are

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95 COUNTY BUS TOUR Craig Fitzhugh at Monday fund-raiser • M. LaTroy Alexandria-Williams, a frequent and so far unsuccessful candidate for public office, won a signal victory last week in the courtroom of Chancellor Walter Evans, who ruled that Williams was improperly prohibited by the state Democratic Party from running as a Democrat in his planned primary race against 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen. The controversy had been accompanied by accusations of racism against Cohen and state Democratic chair Mary Mancini from such backers of Williams as Lexie Carter, chair of the Shelby County Democratic Party’s primary board. Resolution of the case restores Alexandria-Williams’ name to the ballot.

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With the coming of bona fide summer weather, the governor’s race has heated up accordingly. Last week in Shelby County saw numerous comings and goings of candidates. On Friday, Republican candidates Bill Lee and Beth Harwell checked in, Lee with a “town hall” at the newish Houston Levee Community Center, Harwell with a fund-raiser/ meet-and-greet at the Holiday Inn Express in Millington. Franklin businessman Lee, who has been running, in effect, as a fallback alternative to the heated race going on now in the GOP primary between poll leaders Randy Boyd, the former state Commissioner of Economic Development, and U.S. Representative Diane Black, is so far avoiding making precise policy commitments. But at his Friday appearance in Shelby County, Lee left little doubt that he is to be numbered among the conservatives on the Republican ballot, responding to a question about how to solve the gunviolence problem by touting the Second Amendment itself as the solution. Harwell, whose slow start in the race has left her needing to be a late bloomer and a sort of fallback candidate herself, is, like Lee, taking overtly conservative positions — opposing in-state tuition privileges, for example — but her general demeanor tilts somewhat more toward the moderate side than does Lee’s. Meanwhile, candidate Boyd took his 95-county bus tour to Millington on Monday for an early-morning meetand-greet and then launched out on a round of stops eastward, beginning in Fayette County. Friday saw Democratic gubernatorial candidate Craig Fitzhugh receive the endorsement of the Legislative Black Caucus at Fitzhugh’s Poplar Avenue headquarters, and the candidate from Ripley, who is retiring from his position as Democratic leader in the state House of Representatives, was back again on Monday for a fund-raiser at the East Memphis residence of wellknown activist Jocelyn Wurzburg. In addition to the Black Caucus boosting, Fitzhugh has also received endorsements of late from the Tennes-

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There’s no doubt about it. The Shelby County Commission, in a current configuration that is about to expire because of the forthcoming August election, has taken bold steps to confront the established order of things. As of August, when a minimum of eight members of the 13-member body are due to be replaced because of the county charter’s term-limits provision, the newly elected county legislature may not be so forward about things. But let’s enjoy this rebellion while it lasts and hope that the precedents it sets will inspire the newcomers of the next four-year term to similar innovation. This commission has achieved results in numerous spheres by challenging custom and by pioneering in new directions. It has established task forces on such problems as the under-representation of women and ethnic minorities in county contracting, and those ad hoc bodies, fueled by the commission’s own disparity report, have made enormous progress in rectifying inequalities that had been taken for granted for decades. The body elected four years ago, in 2014, has also managed to aggressively re-order its relationship with the county administration, challenging it on matters of financial oversight, among others, and, while neither branch of county government is always right and always deserving of having its opinion honored in the conduct of county business, the commission’s self-assertiveness has forced a more or less continuing dialogue on key matters. The recent establishment of a trans-governmental initiative to combat the plague of opioid addiction had its origins in actions taken by the commission, later courtapproved, that forced the hand of the county administration and enticed city government and law enforcement agencies

at large to come aboard. And such re-ordering of priorities that has taken place has left undisturbed the ongoing focus on reducing county debt that Mayor Mark Luttrell has made an overriding administration goal. This past week has seen yet another bold step by the commission. Confronted by the wish of Elvis Presley Enterprises to expand its campus to include a new, modestly sized arena so as to attract musical acts and other entertainments that would otherwise go south across the Mississippi state line or to Little Rock or Nashville, the commission was faced by the stated reluctance of the Grizzlies, backed by the city of Memphis, to give an inch on the terms of a strictly binding operating agreement that currently would prohibit the construction of an arena, containing more than 5,000 seats, that might be construed as competing with FedExForum, where the Grizzlies have proprietary status. Instead of knuckling under on the matter, the commission voted on Monday to upgrade EPE’s share of revenues from an ongoing TIF, thereby allowing the arena construction, contingent (and that’s the operative term) on the courts recognizing the expansion as consistent with the terms of the aforesaid operating agreement with the Grizzlies. That seems both a progressive and a cautious way of probing for a solution that solves the Solomonic problem of having to satisfy what commission Chair Heidi Shafer referred to on Monday as “two favorite children.” This strategy may work and it may not, but it was worth the effort to give it a try.

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later, Speaker Paul Ryan said Trump’s claim that a federal judge with Mexican heritage could not be fair fit the textbook definition of racism. As president, Trump has stirred racism, as evidenced by the spike in racial and anti-Semitic hate crimes. The hateful behavior includes his shamefully equivocal response to the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia, last summer, in which a woman was killed. It also includes his decision to focus not on last week’s racist tweet from Roseanne Barr, but on ABC’s failure to apologize for comments that he contends were unfair to him. As New York Times columnist Charles Blow put it: “It is not a stretch to understand that Donald Trump’s words and deeds over the course of his life have demonstrated a pattern of expressing racial prejudices that demean people who are black and brown and that play to the racial hostilities of other white people.” Trump’s racist behavior has continued in the past few weeks. “You have to stand proudly for the national anthem or you shouldn’t be playing. … Maybe you shouldn’t be in the country,” Trump recently said about black NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality. Sadly, the NFL buckled to Trump and set a new policy last month requiring players on the field to stand during the anthem. It is remarkable how Trump’s racism has even corroded the NFL — one of America’s most racially inclusive institutions — to the point it feels free to tell black men to shut up about racial injustice. Trump’s NFL rant came shortly after he described some illegal immigrants as “animals.” Trump and his allies tried to walk back his comments, saying he was talking only about MS-13 gang members. Even if critics are generous to the president, his words called to mind his smearing Mexican immigrants as rapists and drug mules. As if all that wasn’t clearly racist, the Washington Post reported last week that Trump once laughed it up in the Oval Office with Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller as he made up fictitious Hispanic names and crimes while editing an immigration speech. If you want more proof of how Trump’s racism is tearing apart the fragile fabric of racial comity woven by Dr. King and civil rights activists over the last five decades, just note that racist Louis Farrakhan praised Trump for “destroying every enemy that was an enemy of our rise.” Case closed. Juan Williams is an author, and a political analyst for Fox News Channel.

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“If you look at the policies of Donald Trump, anybody — Martin Luther King — would be proud of him,” former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon told the BBC’s Newsnight recently. “You don’t think Martin Luther King would sit there and go, ‘Yes, you’re putting young black men and women to work?’” No, Steve, Dr. King would not be proud of Trump for shamelessly taking credit for the economic policies of his predecessor, the first black president of the United States. As FactCheck.org reported in January, black unemployment reached nearly 17 percent in 2010, in the wake of the financial crisis that began in 2008, precipitated by President George W. Bush’s financial policies. By 2016, it had dropped under Obama to 7.8 percent — “the lowest it had been in nearly 10 years” — before Trump took office. The rate has dropped another point since then. These facts fit with the damaging reality of the Trump tax cuts. They disproportionately benefit the overwhelmingly white, wealthiest one percent of Americans at the expense of the poorest half of Americans, who are disproportionately brown and black.

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Stanley Booth at an October reading at the Stax Museum.

THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF THE WRITER STANLEY BOOTH.

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“I think it’s only fair that all those people are dead, and we’re not.” This was said on a recent evening by Stanley Booth, aged 76, and my friend for well more than half a century. Yes, we have outlived our share of contemporaries, but I am not quite sure how to take the remark, especially since Stanley promptly begins listing exceptions to this category of the justly deceased. Among them are such other longtime Booth friends as Irvin Salky and Charles Elmore (the latter known as “Charlie Brown” for his roundheaded resemblance to the Peanuts comic strip character), both gentle souls, both legendary facilitators in these parts of 10 general folk-art awareness, and both, as it happens, in on the creation of the early

Memphis blues festivals. Salky died from complications of a stroke in 2016; Elmore more recently from the ravages of a beating and maiming by street toughs. Another death to be lamented was that of Jim Dickinson, the one-man music renaissance whose legacy lives on in his two sons, Luther and Cody, both players in the North Mississippi Allstars; in the Dickinson-founded group Mud Boy and the Neutrons; and in other hell-raisers both local and in the musical mainstream at large. It has been all of nine years since Dickinson’s passing, and Booth, then living in his native state of Georgia, recalls his surprise and dismay in learning of it: “I didn’t know Dickinson was that ill. You just don’t expect your friends to die like that.” Booth remembers having a long-distance phone conversation with

Dickinson three days before his death, one that Dickinson closed out by saying, “Look, we could talk like this for hours, and we will.” Booth is the author of celebrated literary works like The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, a lengthy, sui generis chronicle of the great rock-and-roll group; and of Keith, an in-depth portrait of Stones guitarist Keith Richards; and the purposely misspelled Rythm Oil, a collection of profiles and other pieces about the music of Memphis and the rest of the American South. Booth is now readying for publication another collection of 26 pieces, to be entitled Red Hot and Blue, which might be recognized as the name of the latenight radio show presided over in the ’50s by the late redneck DJ Dewey Phillips,

who first broadcast music by Elvis Presley and who, as much as anybody else, deserves credit for bringing rhythm and blues into the musical mainstream. Booth’s recollection of Phillips, the culminating piece in the new collection, will doubtless go far toward reminding the world of Daddy-O Dewey’s contributions, and the new book as a whole may do the same for Booth himself. To talk with Stanley Booth is, at times, to encounter an unusual sense of fatalism. Or perhaps, rather, a heightened sense of the vulnerability and impermanence of the human flame. He mused recently that he befriended Phillips in the year or so before the death of the iconic DJ — then hanging on to life and credibility at a

“I was thinking of getting out, packing a bag, and going to the Ozarks, to a cave.”

Here is the appropriate spot for a little backstory. Stanley and I, both English majors at Memphis State in the ’60s, with similar tastes and vague aspirations to be famous writers, had gotten to be fairly close friends, it’s fair to say — though there was always an element of rivalry, both as fledgling wordsmiths and in other ways common to greedy and needy undergraduates of our sort. Let me confess: He was much more the classic stud, though he surprised me recently by expressing envy, ex post facto, about a time or two I’d gotten lucky. After graduation, we stayed friendly. When I had an optional operation to remove a benign bone tumor, discovered during a brief stint in the Air National

Guard, my first post-operative visitor outside my immediate family was Stanley Booth, who brought me flowers(!) and stayed for a while, meanwhile charming my mother and grandmother. We had both thought of fiction as the likely arena of our development — he a Hemingway acolyte, me fixated on Fitzgerald — but I would get a series of post-graduate jobs as a journalist (with, sequentially, the Millington Star, the Blytheville (Ark.) Courier News, and the Arkansas Gazette), and Stanley, too, in those years of the New Journalism, moved into the province of non-fiction, setting out with deliberation to master the art by tackling the subject of the street sweeper and indigenous Memphis blues artist, Furry Lewis, to whom he was introduced by Brown. Stanley tried unsuccessfully to sell that article to Esquire, the magazine which then was the epitome of hip to young writers, and was told instead that the magazine was looking for someone to write about Elvis Presley. The Furry Lewis piece, shelved, would later be published by Playboy, which would give it that magazine’s award for non-fiction article of the year. Meanwhile, Booth cast about for some way of getting close to Presley, then still in the premature mummification of B-movie Hollywood. That’s when Stanley connected with Dewey Phillips, looking for an entree to the reclusive Elvis that the disc jockey could no longer provide. And one night — this was the summer of 1967 — Stanley and I dropped some acid and killed an evening at the East Memphis apartment complex where he was then living. As he knew, my family had, for a period of months, when the young Elvis had begun to score as a Sun Records artist, lived next door to the entertainer and his parents, who were then inhabiting a modest house on Lamar Avenue. Years later, my brother Don and I had ended up at Graceland for an evening, in the company of a veritable mob of hangers-on, and on this evening in 1967, years later, I told Stanley about that and much else that I remembered about Elvis. I related in some detail a story from that surreal night at Graceland, focused around my brother’s nervously playing Elvis’ piano in the wee hours, under the gaze of a just-awakened Elvis, followed by the whole crowd’s going outside to watch the icon’s largely futile attempts to fly a model airplane. That story, rendered with artful third-person objectivity, along with my recollections of a key Presley concert at old Russwood Park, would end up as the borrowed centerpieces of an Esquire article that would put Booth on his way. The article, entitled “Hound

Dog, to the Manor Born,” was masterful, insightful, and wholly deserving of the classic status it achieved almost immediately and maintains today. Its writing owed much to the example of Gay Talese, an avatar of the New Journalism who had demonstrated in a previous Esquire article entitled “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” how one could write a profile without access to its subject, by dint of patient and probing interviews with other people who had enjoyed such access. Out of necessity, the story lacks a characteristic ingredient of virtually everything else Stanley has written, a focus on his own experience as a major leitmotif in whatever he has to say about his avowed subject. Open any page of The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones at random, for example, and you are as like to find an account of Stanley’s entertaining a passage with a lady friend as you are one of his brilliant evocations of the Stones in concert or on the prowl. With the exception of that first Esquire article, a virtuoso effort of continued on page 12

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small radio station in Millington — and that, similarly, he had met Stones cofounder Brian Jones before Jones’ death by drowning in a swimming pool, and that he had been in a room at Stax-Volt studio with Otis Redding when the great Memphis soul artist was composing “Dock of the Bay,” the classic ballad he recorded just before his touring plane went down in 1967. Booth sums it up by saying wryly, “Meet Stanley and die.” As recently as August 2012, Booth received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Smithsonian Institute, but that and a slew of like honors did not prevent him from tottering on the edge of an existential abyss. In August of 2012, his third marriage, to the poet Diann Blakely, was in tatters, and her death proved unsettling in numerous ways, including geographical. Booth ended up decamping that October from the couple’s Georgia residence and returning to Memphis,

where he had moved with his parents in 1959, studied at Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis), and lived for many years, finding our blues-soaked Delta capital to be the source of many of his early subjects and inspirations. Memphis was also the scene of numerous frustrations for Booth over the years and would continue to be even after his return. He rented a house on Belvedere and, in short order, became destitute. He befriended a homeless man, who had taken up residence in an outdoor shed. As the weather worsened one winter, Booth invited the man to come in out of the cold and spend time in the house. The man did, and, as Stanley tells it, “he went on to steal my car and a bunch of other stuff.” Over the last few years, his lifetime achievements seemed to have come to nought. He recalled: “You can’t eat reputation. If I had a nickel for every good review I’ve had …” he said, letting that sentence fade out rhetorically. He had lived for several years in the Arkansas Ozarks, where he had holed up in a cabin with the aforesaid Charlie Brown and written much of his Stones book, and that experience suggested a strategy. “I was thinking of getting out, packing a bag, and going to the Ozarks, to a cave. I had worried about becoming homeless when I was on Belvedere. I was out of money, thinking seriously of going to Arkansas and living in a cave. I know where several caves are that maintain a temperature of 65 degrees inside, year-round.” Instead, Booth ended up using the life insurance money left him by Blakely to buy his current house, a modest brick bungalow in the vintage Vollintine neighborhood, among largely AfricanAmerican neighbors. He remained carless, as indeed he is today, dependent for transportation on others.

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third-person sculpting, virtually the whole of the Stanley Booth canon is, in one sense or another, autobiographical. Though here and there a reader or critic may have carped at the method, with its component of Booth zingers and quips, picaresque moments, and wholly personal recollections, it generally works to its author’s purposes, though I have always thought its enforced absence from the Presley article is what made for a clean launch of Stanley’s career. An ironic after-effect was that, when Elvis died in 1977 and it came time for me to do my own tribute to the King, published in Memphis magazine (then called City of Memphis) as “Elvis: End of an Era,” I deemed it advisable to eschew the first person, a fact that redounded to the credit of my piece, too, which I believe has also achieved some stature, though not to the scale and circulation of Stanley’s. Incidentally, my other direct (and very temporary) involvement with a Booth opus would come in 1982 when Stanley, still struggling to fulfill a contract for a book that was already more than a decade overdue, found himself surrounded by unassembled masses of typescript of Stones material, including complete histories of the band and its members and memorable experiences with it and them, especially on the fateful 1969 tour that ended at an Altamont, California, free concert maimed by murder and mayhem at the hands of the Hell’s Angels. I volunteered my help on the editing side, and he entrusted me with the seeming thousands of pages, along with an authorizing letter. To my later regret, and probably to his ultimate benefit, I procrastinated on the awesome task of collation, and he retrieved the whole mass of materials and bore down all the harder on the task of making a book out of them. It was a truly sink-or-swim effort, and within a year’s time — aided, he has said, by structural advice from the old Beat writer William Burroughs — the final mammoth manuscript of The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones was finally ready, justly to be called a classic, though it bore the unhelpful title Dance with the Devil when first published by Random House in 1984. Now available in various editions under its original title, the book compellingly renders not only its stated subject and the ethos of the ’60s but contains unique insights on the nature of humanity and life itself on every page. It’s a hell of a read. But the true adventures of Stanley Booth himself had, as mentioned, stranded him in a kind of limbo of late. Though he would occasionally be summoned forth as a sort of human artifact, as when he gave a well-received reading from his work at the Stax Museum in October, he was largely home-bound in his residence on North Idlewild, living a kind of hermit

life within its walls, overseen by large framed photographs of Lash LaRue by his friend Bill Eggleston. In his youth, Stanley had been quick and agile, the possessor of a black belt in karate. Now he was not only stranded without wheels, on those occasions when he did get about, he was still dapper but traveled slowly, aided by a cane, a whitemaned gentleman severely hobbled by rheumatoid arthritis. The prospect, born of desperation, of his going to live in a cave in Arkansas, was sheer folly, a gallant affectation but just that, an affectation. But his mind still ground on, exceeding fine, anticipating new opportunity and waiting out adversity, like a lion in winter. His pride was fully preserved. I took him to a restaurant some months ago, and when another diner, a young woman, approached our table, brandishing some cards and asking, “Do y’all know what tarot is?” his prickly side emerged. “Do I look like a child?” he thundered, insulted by the woman’s presumption and forcing her to retreat.

His mind still ground on, like a lion in winter. His pride was fully preserved. More recently, however, on the day after he was told by his agent that his new collection, Red Hot and Blue, had been accepted for publication, he got further good news when a gentleman in Adelaide called him and asked him if he would consider traveling to Australia and delivering a series of readings in the cities of that continental nation, to the tune of, say, “ten to twenty grand.” We went out to eat a couple of times this past weekend, and Stanley was courtliness itself to the waitpeople and passers-by. After an evening at The Green Beetle, the South Main bistro once frequented by the late Dewey Phillips, he told a young huskyvoiced waitress that she ought to “cut a blues record, right now.” On the way to his home, he told me something I hadn’t known and would never have expected, that he had converted to Catholicism some 30 years ago and, in so doing, had experienced “the greatest pleasure of my life … a complete redesign.” I dropped him off at his house, where we did a hand-slap of farewell, and he said, “I’m 76 years old, very happy to have survived to this point, and I ain’t mad at nobody.” An article about Memphis photographer Bill Eggleston from Booth’s forthcoming new collection, Red Hot and Blue, will be soon published in the Flyer’s sister publication, Memphis magazine.

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Raisin — the acclaimed musical adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s groundbreaking drama, A Raisin in the Sun — won the Tony Award for best new musical in 1973, and promptly fell off the face of the Earth. A best musical win doesn’t ensure immortality. (Who remembers the 1959 winner, Redhead, or 1968’s Hallelujah, Baby!?) But ever since Kiss Me Kate picked up the first best musical trophy in 1949, a win has typically meant Broadway tours, lavish revivals, and some longevity on the regional circuit. But Raisin, for the most part, just went away. Did it go away because Hansberry’s original story of struggle, segregation, and white resistance to diversity was just more accessible? Not according to New York Times writer Clive Barnes who said the musical’s book by Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg was “perhaps even better than the [Tony nominated] play.” Raisin’s story may have been inspired by the poetry of Langston Hughes, but it was informed by the Hansberry family’s personal experience in the courtroom, fighting restrictive legal covenants that often prevented the sale of property to African Americans. The Youngers, the fictitious African-American family Hansberry wrapped her famous play around, are attempting to move into a white neighborhood for one reason — it’s cheaper. Cost and value aren’t the same, though, and the Youngers’ story is the story of black wealth in America (or rather its absence) and home ownership, which was made available more cheaply to white buyers and backed by government-insured mortgages that only white buyers could get. Though set in the 1950s and propelled by a soulful, horn-heavy score that couldn’t sound more like 1973, Americans still live with the legacy of the practices so skillfully identified in Hansberry’s original text — and given a solid beat in Raisin. Overton Square’s Hattiloo Theatre is bringing this lost Tony-winner back this month. Thursday, June 7th, prior to a preview performance of Raisin, the theater also hosts “Gentrify This,” a panel to discuss the meaning and effects of housing practices in the American city and suburbs.

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Booksigning by Antoine Gnintedem Novel, 6 p.m. Booksigning of Doom, Gloom, and the Pursuit of the Sun by this U of M prof about his efforts to succeed.

Bingo on the Bluff Metal Museum, 5-8 p.m. An after-hours event with food trucks, live music, and bingo. Part of the museum’s Whet Thursday series.

Space Jam The Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 8 p.m., $5 Screening of this 1996 animatedlive action charmer out on the lawns of the Dixon.

Bike Share 101 Memphis Made, 5-6 p.m. A discussion of what to know about the Explore Bike Share and biking in the city, presented by Revolutions Bicycle Cooperative.

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The National Civil Rights Museum’s communications director Connie Dyson describes The Lorraine Motel as a “Refuge during Jim Crow. “When you were traveling, there were only specific places where African Americans could go,” she says. “In Memphis, the Loraine was that place for people of importance like Jackie Robinson, B.B. King, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Cab Calloway. They all stayed there when they were here in town to record or perform on Beale Street. “Booker T & the MGs stayed here and played jam sessions here at the motel,” Dyson says, describing life at the Lorraine before everything changed following MLK’s assassination. “They say Wilson Pickett wrote ‘In the Midnight Hour’ here. And Eddie Floyd’s ‘Knock on Wood’ was written here at the Lorraine.” This is how Dyson sets up A Night at the Lorraine, a fund-raiser for the museum. It’s a time machine of an event created to transport guests to the mid-20th century and show them what the Lorraine meant, not just to travelers, but to the African-American community generally. “It was one of those places that people came to congregate for a night on the town,” Dyson says. Night at the Lorraine is an indoor and outdoor event with retro-themed music and decor. There will be a temporary photo exhibition, catered food, swag bags, a silent auction, valet parking, and music and dancing indoors and out. “It’s truly a celebration,” Dyson says.

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we have people who are into indie songwriting, and people who are into writing musicals, alongside people who are students of the 20th-century avant garde, and composers of electronic sound installations. It represents that gamut, and our aesthetic is that there is no one aesthetic anymore.” And, as Burtzos notes, Blueshift is a perfect fit. “What I really love about Blueshift, as an ensemble, is not just that they play at a high level, but that they do collaborations with so many different people. They are capable of playing mid-century modern music, but they also can jam with an MC. They have a passion for both styles and everything in between. So they are the perfect interpretive force for our creative force.” ICEBERG, being a loose affiliation of composers rather than a performing ensemble, relies on such versatile groups as Blueshift to realize their work — groups that are hard to find outside of New York. “The idea of engaging and collaborating with ensembles, that’s our normal mode of operation. So in our first two seasons, we partnered with four different New York ensembles. But this work in Memphis is unique. We don’t do residencies like this anywhere else.” As Davis notes, the unpredictable nature of the collaboration can be salutary for Blueshift. “Each of the composers is different,” she says. “Like Jonathan Russ — his music is very influenced by indie rock. For Drake Andersen, we play a piece of his using graphic notation. It’s challenging but also very rewarding for us to tackle so many different styles.” Having met Russ and Burtzos at a contemporary music festival in 2014, they were naturally a point of reference when Davis helped found Blueshift. “Jonathan wrote a piece for us, and he told Alex, ‘Hey, there’s something special going on in Memphis. We should see what ICEBERG can do there.’ And Crosstown Arts ended up hosting these concerts and letting us use their spaces. So we can’t thank them enough.” Beyond the performances, ICEBERG composers will be hosting discussions with the public on the following Saturday. While Cooper will offer an approach to appreciating contemporary music in general, Burtzos will share his insights into a Radiohead track, “Pyramid Song,” that is informed by music theory of the Middle Ages. These won’t be typical lectures: Dialogue is encouraged, and judging from last year, that’s what they’ll get from Memphis. As Davis reflects, this city’s fascination with

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule June 7 - 13 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, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 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

Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

Sean “Bad” Apple Thursdays, Sundays, 5 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 4 p.m.; Live Music Thursdays-Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; DJ Ron Fridays, 11 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.

FedExForum 191 BEALE STREET

WWE Smackdown Live! Tuesday, June 12, 6:45 p.m.

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

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

Chris Gales Solo Acoustic Show Mondays-Saturdays, 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 David Bowen Thursdays, 5:309:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., and Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall

162 BEALE 521-1851

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Sensation Band Tuesdays, Fridays, 7-11 p.m. and Saturday, June 9, 7 p.m.-midnight; Fuzzy Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 7 p.m.midnight and Friday, June 8, 7 p.m.-midnight; Chic Jones and the Blues Express Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; North and South Band Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

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

200 BEALE 527-2687

162 BEALE 521-1851

King’s Palace Cafe Patio

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Band Friday, June 8, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Fuzzy Saturday, June 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. and Sundays, 3-7 p.m.; Myra Hall Band Friday, June 8, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Delta Project Saturday, June 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sensation Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight. 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.

182 BEALE 528-0150

Eric Hughes Band Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; FreeWorld Friday, June 8, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, June 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sensation Band Sunday, June 10, 7-11 p.m.; Gracie Curran Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Band Tuesday, June 12, 8 p.m.midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

Belle Tavern

Memphis Songwriters Association Monthly Meeting Second Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

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

Huey’s Downtown Vintage Sunday, June 10, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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. 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

Brass Door Irish Pub

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Nancy Apple Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Blues Emergency with Paul Taylor Friday, June 8, 9 p.m.; Blackwater Trio Saturday, June 9, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

550 S. MAIN 494-6543

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

152 MADISON 572-1813

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.

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

Loﬂin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

South Main Sounds

117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

Bourbon and Jazz with Quelude Sundays, 2:30-5:30 p.m.

South Main

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

Purple Haze Nightclub

330 BEALE 525-8981

Rum Boogie Cafe

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

Silky O’Sullivan’s

New Daisy Theatre YFN Lucci Thursday, June 7, 8 p.m.

Earnestine & Hazel’s

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

The Peabody Hotel 149 UNION 529-4000

Peabody Rooftop Parties Thursdays, 6-10 p.m.

The Vault

124 GE PATTERSON

Heath and Bobbie Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Po Boys Friday, June 8, 8 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

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

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, June 7, 8 p.m.; J-Train Friday, June 8, 9 p.m.; Wayde Peck Saturday, June 9, 6-8 p.m.; Rants Saturday, June 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; David Collins & Frog Squad Sunday, June 10, 6-9 p.m.; Tim Stanek Monday, June 11, 5:30 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesday, June 13, 6-8 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

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Ghost Town Blues Band Thursday, June 7, 8 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m. and Saturdays, 5:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith Friday, June 8, 9:30 p.m. and Saturday, June 9, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Saturdays, 12:30 p.m.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule June 7 - 13 Huey’s Poplar Jamie Baker and the VIP’s Sunday, June 10, 8-11:30 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Bob Fleming and the Cambria Iron Co. Friday, June 8; Wailing Banshees Saturday, June 9; Spe-

Shelby Forest General Store

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

Memphis LIVE MondaysSundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

Shady Grove Presbyterian Church 5530 SHADY GROVE 683-7329

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Whitehaven/ Airport Graceland 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-3322

Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives Saturday, June 9, 8 p.m.

PRIZM Music Camp & International Chamber Music Festival June 11-23.

Steak Night with Tony Butler and the Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Reel McCoy Saturday, June 9, 12-3 p.m.; Cecil Yancy Sunday, June 10, 12:303:30 p.m.

Collierville Huey’s Collierville 2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Charvey Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, June 10, 8-11:30 p.m.

Cordova Huey’s Cordova 1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

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

Ghost Town Blues Band Sunday, June 10, 8:30 p.m.-midnight; John Paul Keith Trio Tuesday, June 12, 6-9 p.m.

Big Bill, Ma Holos, Cassette Set Thursday, June 7, 9 p.m.; Thanks ’Preciate It Fest Friday, June 8, 7 p.m.; Mr. Flamboyant Saturday, June 9, 6 p.m.; Tapedeck, Whoopsi, Rosey Saturday, June 9, 9 p.m.; Lady Parts Justice Taco Fest Sunday, June 10, 5-9 p.m.; Musee Musique Monday, June 11, noon; Miki Fiki, Louise Page, The Conspiracy Theory Tuesday, June 12, 8 p.m.; A Place Both Wonderful and Strange, Agriflex, Jive Talk Wednesday, June 13, 8 p.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s 64 2821 N. HOUSTON LEVEE 377-9997

Nick and Wade Thursday, June 7; Risky Whiskey Boys Friday, June 8; Groove Method Saturday, June 9, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

Frayser/Millington

House of Mtenzi

Old Millington Winery

1289 MADISON

6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114

Zigadoo Moneyclips Saturday, June 9, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

Rice Drewry Sunday, June 10.

Huey’s Midtown

Germantown

1927 MADISON 726-4372

John Paul Keith Trio Sunday, June 10, 4-7 p.m.; The Natchez Brothers Sunday, June 10, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

The King Bees Sunday, June 10, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Indian Pass Raw Bar Memphis

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

2059 MADISON 207-7397

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, June 10, 8-11:30 p.m.; Gerry Finney Wednesday, June 13, 6-9 p.m.

Paul Taylor Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.; Half Brassed with Greg Fallis Friday, June 8, 8-11 p.m.; Mighty Souls Saturday, June 9, 7:30-10 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Dan Lavoie Thursday, June 7, 6 p.m.; Jimmy DeTalente and the Electric Revival Thursday, June 7, 9 p.m.; The Cold Stares Friday, June 8, 6:30 p.m.; The Dantones Friday, June 8, 10 p.m.; Nick Dittmeier & The Sawdusters Saturday, June 9, 6:30 p.m.; WALRUS 15th Anniversary Show Saturday, June 9, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Memphis Ukulele Band Sunday, June 10, 4 p.m.; Marcella and Her Lovers Sunday, June 10, 8 p.m.; Memphis Knights Big Band Monday, June 11, 6 p.m.; Kyndle & Adam Tuesday, June 12, 5:30 p.m.; KristiLynn Worrell Tuesday, June 12, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesday, June 13, 5:30 p.m.; The Memphis All Stars Wednesday, June 13, 8 p.m.

Levitt Shell OVERTON PARK 272-2722

The War and Treaty Thursday, June 7, 7:30-9 p.m.; The Stone Foxes Friday, June 8, 7:30-9 p.m.; Nikki Lane Saturday, June 9, 7:30-9 p.m.; Brian Owens and

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WAR Saturday, June 9, 8-9:30 p.m. cial Interest Monday, June 11.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe 663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Thanks, ’Preciate It Fest Saturday, June 9 and Sunday, June 10.

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

Railgarten

East Memphis

2160 CENTRAL

Steve Selvidge Thursday, June 7, 8 p.m.; Neighborhood Texture Jam Saturday, June 9, 8 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke with Public Record Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

East of Wangs 6069 PARK 685-9264

Lee Gardner Fridays, 6:30-9 p.m.; Randal Toma, Solo Guitar Tuesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Wednesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.

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

Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt MondaysThursdays, 5-9:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

Poplar/I-240 Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

The Pokermen Thursday, June 7, 7-11 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Bluff City Bandits Saturday, June 9, 8 p.m.; David Daniels Band Sunday, June 10, 5-9 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Summer/Berclair Cheffie’s Cafe 483 HIGH POINT TERRACE 202-4157

Songwriter Night hosted by Leigh Ann Wilmot and Dave “The Rave” Saturdays, 5-8 p.m.

Rock-n-Roll Cafe

Hollywood Casino

3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

1150 CASINO STRIP RESORT, TUNICA, MS 662-357-7700

Elvis Tribute feat. Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.

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

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel

Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Music Boxx Friday, June 8, 9 p.m.; Music Boxx Friday, June 8, 9 p.m.; Full Circle Saturday, June 9, 9 p.m.; Furious George Sunday, June 10, 5:30 p.m.; The No Hit Wonders Wednesday, June 13, 8 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2465 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

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

Old Crow Medicine Show Friday, June 8.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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F.O.T.M with Sumo Tre Friday, June 8, 10 p.m.; SPICERFEST 6 featuring Big City Circus, Pezz, HEELS, and more Saturday, June 9, 6 p.m.; Josh Waddell with Chase House Sunday, June 10, 4 p.m.; Coma Cinema with Late Night Cardigan & Not Tight Sunday, June 10, 9 p.m.; Goya with Native Blood, Guaranteed Wax, Admiral Longtooth Monday, June 11, 8:30 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Band & A Beer featuring James Godwin Tuesday, June 12, 9 p.m.; Ufomammut, White Hills, Get Thee Gone Wednesday, June 13, 8 p.m.

the Deacons of Soul Sunday, June 10, 7:30-9 p.m.

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Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

My Wife Your Woman, after returning home, Marion finds that his wife Kim has been seeing a professor at the local university. Things begin to spiral out of control. www. thecannoncenter.com. $50. Sat., June 9, 8 p.m. MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 525-1515).

Read Engage Share and

Circuit Playhouse

Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf: A Parody, when a mysterious invitation brings Blanche DuBois back to New Orleans, she finds herself once again face-toface with the smoldering Stanley Kowalski. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $25-$40. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through June 24.

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51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Hattiloo Theatre

Landers Center

Godspell, prepare ye for the timeless tale of friendship, loyalty and love based on the Gospel According to St. Matthew. www.dftonline.org. June 8-17. 4660 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120).

The Orpheum

The Illusionists, www. orpheum-memphis.com. $30. Fri., June 8, 8 p.m., Sat., June 9, 2 & 8 p.m., and Sun., June 10, 1 p.m.

which relationships are most important in life. www.theatrememphis.org. $30. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through July 1. 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S

Playhouse on the Square

Opening reception for “DreamESCAPES,” exhibition of multi-media series of imagined, constructed landscapes of famous cities, iconic places, and sometimes rural, nondescriptive corners of the world by O. Gustavo Plascencia. www.mca.edu. Sat., June 9, 5-7 p.m. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse 51

Snoopy!!! The Musical, features some of the world’s most recognizable characters. The lineup includes Charlie Brown, Sally Brown, Linus Van Pelt, Lucy Van Pelt, Peppermint Patty, Woodstock, and Snoopy. www.playhouse51.com. $12. Sun., 2 p.m., and Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m. Through June 10. 8077 WILKINSVILLE (872-7170).

Theatre Memphis

42nd Street, star-struck Peggy Sawyer arrives in New York City from Allenstown, PA, hoping to become a Broadway star. She learns about show business and discovers

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Art from the Heart of Page Robbins Celebrate the art and artists of Page Robbins Adult Day Center featuring an art auction, desserts, and beverages. Free. Tues., June 12, 7-9 p.m. THE QUONSET, 178 SOUTH CENTER (854-1200), WWW. PAGEROBBINS.ORG.

Casting Demonstration

Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m. METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW. METALMUSEUM.ORG.

Eighth Annual Woman’s Exchange Art Gallery Open House

Public invited to view and purchase local art shown in the recently renovated gallery benefiting the artist and our mission “Helping others to help themselves.” June 10-Aug. 24, 2-4 p.m. WOMAN’S EXCHANGE TEA ROOM, 88 RACINE (541-331-0077).

Open Crit

Monthly critique event where visual artists are invited to bring new and/ or in-progress studio work for critical feedback and group discussion particular to each artist’s practice. Tues., June 12, 6 p.m. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW. CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Open Late

Galleries and gardens will be open late. Free with admission. Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Public Art Bus Tour

Tour of public art around the city. Hear artist inspiration, installation stories, and ask questions about how public art goes from concept to reality. Includes the tour and adult beverages. $25. Sat., June 9, 1 p.m. URBANART COMMISSION OFFICE,, 3485 POPLAR AVENUE #225 (901.454.0474), WWW. UACMEM.ORG.

Saturday Sketch

For ages 15+. Sketch in the gardens or galleries with a special guest instructor each month. Bring a pad of paper or a sketchbook. Pencils and colored pencils only. Free with admission. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Whet Thursday: Memphis Artist Meetup

Explore the museum afterhours. Browse a pop-up exhibition with local artists. Learn more about The Artist Commons and The Collective. Music by China Gate. Free. First Thursday of every month, 5-8 p.m. Through Oct. 4. METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW. METALMUSEUM.ORG.

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Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“Monster Marks,” exhibition of work from Memphis collections that make us think about how we define monsters. www. memphis.edu/amum. Through July 28. “Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection. Ongoing. 142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

“Chinese Symbols in Art,” ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. www.belzmuseum.org. Ongoing. 119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).

Bingham and Broad

“My Kin Is Not Like Yours,” exhibition of works by Debra Edge. Ongoing. 2563 BROAD (323-3008).

Crosstown Concourse

“Distilled: The Narrative Transformed,” exhibition of a 30-year survey of works by Pinkney Herbert. www.crosstownarts.org. Through July 4. N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

“Arcadia,” exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Pinkney Herbert. www.davidluskgallery. com. Through June 23. 97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Contemplating Character: Portrait Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques Louis David to Lucian Freud,” exhibition of portrait drawings and oil sketches extends almost two-and-a-half centuries organized thematically, providing the viewer with provocative visual juxtapositions. www.dixon.org. Through June 24.

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June 1 thru July 31 Programs and prizes at all library branches Free and open to the public. www.memphislibrary.org/explorememphis

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“DreamESCAPES” by O. Gustavo Plascencia at Playhouse on the Square, Saturday, June 9th

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“Lion Tamers” by Paul Edwards at Tops Gallery, through July 15th

Eclectic Eye

“Escape to the Sea,” exhibition of acrylic and watercolor paintings by Carolyn Moss. www.eclectic-eye.com. Through July 25. 242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Edge Arts

“Memphis Landmarks,” exhibition of works by John Sadowski. Through June 30. 600 MONROE (262-6674).

Harrell Performing Arts Theatre

“Where We Gather,” exhibition of works by Erika Roberts. www.erikaroberts.studio. Through June 25. 440 POWELL, COLLIERVILLE (853-3228).

L Ross Gallery

“Olly Olly Oken Free,” exhibition features playful paintings by Memphis artists Pam McDonnell and Stephanie King and tactile works by Sloane Bibb. www.lrossgallery.com. Through June 30. 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Marshall Arts Gallery

“Love of Art” and “Memphis,” exhibition of work by Nikki Gardner and Debra Edge by appointment only. (6479242), Ongoing. 639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

Memphis Botanic Garden “Seeing Green,” exhibition by the Bartlett Art Association bringing together the BAA members’ collected interpretations and visions of the many meanings of nature’s favorite color. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through June 29. 750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Black Resistance: Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement,” exhibition focuses on and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the events from March 27 through April 8, 1968. Through Aug. 19.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Metal Museum

“Forge,” exhibition of work by 15 international metal artists whose practice has been identified as having a significant impact in the field of blacksmithing. Through Aug. 19. “Tributaries: Venetia DaleNext After the First In Order, Place and Time,” exhibition of installations that refocus attention on overlooked support objects secondary to the items they hold up, contain, or aid. Appreciated as individual creations when removed from context and made in pewter. www.metalmuseum.org. Through Aug. 12. 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Playhouse on the Square “DreamESCAPES,” exhibition of multi-media series of imagined, constructed landscapes of famous cities, iconic places, and sometimes rural, non-descriptive corners of the world by O. Gustavo Plascencia. www.mca.edu. June 8-July 29. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Ross Gallery

“Connecting Memphis,” exhibition of selections from photography-and-storytelling project by Cindy McMillion. www.connectingmemphis. com/. Through July 18. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum “Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. Ongoing. 826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

Stax Museum of American Soul Music

“The Chaos and the Cosmos: Inside Memphis Music’s Lost Decade, 1977-1986,” exhibition of photography by Patricia Rainer. www.staxmuseum. com. Through July 31. 926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).

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Debra Edge Art. Ongoing.

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Tops Gallery: Madison Avenue Park

“Lion Tamers,” exhibition of paintings by Paul Edwards. www.topsgallery.com. Through July 15. 151 MADISON (340-0134).

Village Frame & Art

Gallery Artists, exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey, Virginia Schoenster, Lou Ann Dattilo, and Matthew Hasty. Ongoing. 540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

WKNO Studio

“Tennessee Craft-Southwest Fine Craft Showcase,” exhibition of fine crafts in an array of media and styles by members of Tennessee CraftSouthwest. www.wkno.org. Through June 29. 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Voices Up! Open Mic, sign up to perform original spoken word about whatever subject you choose. Or simply come and enjoy. Youth beat-making workshop will present its final culmination of work. www. crosstownarts.org. Mon., June 11, 6:30 p.m. N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

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“African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style,” exhibition of dynamic traditions of African dress featuring colorful, boldly patterned printed cloth highlighting the interplay between regional preferences and cosmopolitanism. Through Aug. 12. “About Face,” exhibition located in the Education Gallery highlighting the different ways artists interpret the connection between emotion and expression. Ongoing. “Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis,” exhibition of works inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in southeastern Nigeria by Victor Ekpuk. www.brooksmuseum. org. Ongoing.

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“’IN LAK’ECH ALA K’IN,’ Tú eres mi otro yo, You are my other self,” exhibition of installation transforming the Mallory/Wurtzburger Galleries into a work of art by Richard Lou. www.dixon.org. Through July 15.

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Mid-South Wrestling Revolution

Brings live independent wrestling to Latimer Lakes Park on the tennis courts. $10. Sat., June 9, 7-9 p.m.

B O O KS I G N I N G S

LATIMER LAKE PARK, 5633 TULANE (483-3926).

Booksigning by Lisa Wingate

WWE Smackdown

Author discusses and signs Before We Were Yours. Sat., June 9, 6 p.m. NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (922-5526), WWW.NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.

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BACC Monthly Luncheon

Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell will speak. Open to the public. Register online. Tues., June 12, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

$37. Tues., June 12, 6:45 p.m. FEDEXFORUM, 191 BEALE STREET, FEDEXFORUM.COM.

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Revolutions Bicycle Cooperative wants to help you get riding by offering information to navigate our city on a bike. Fri., June 8, 12-1 p.m. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (726-6409), WWW.REVOLUTIONSMEMPHIS.COM.

UNIQUE CATERING AND EVENT CENTER, 2751 BARTLETT (937-0828), WWW.BARTLETTCHAMBER.ORG.

How to Ride in the Street Part 2: First Congo

Revolutions Bicycle Cooperative wants to help you get riding by offering information to navigate our city on a bike. Thurs., June 7, 12-1 p.m. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (726-6409), WWW.REVOLUTIONSMEMPHIS.COM.

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2018 Kids Summer Film Fest

Participating Malco Theatre locations will offer G and PG rated movies at a specially discounted price benefiting children’s hospitals across the mid-south. Visit website for lineup schedule. $2. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 10 a.m. Through Aug. 1.

2018 Korean Culture Camp

Designed to give children exposure to the Korean culture and heritage. $50. Mon.-Fri., June 11-15, 9:30am-12:30pm. VISION TREE CENTER, 7565 MACON (292-0430), WWW.VISIONTREECENTER.ORG.

Wrench & Ride Bicycle Summer Camp

Campers learn the basics of riding on the road, maintaining a bike, and essential skills for riding safely in a neighborhood setting. $200. June 1115, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. REVOLUTIONS COMMUNITY BICYCLE SHOP, 1000 S. COOPER (726-6409), WWW.REVOLUTIONSMEMPHIS.COM.

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C O N F E R E N C ES/C O N VE N TI O N S

National Conference for Planetarium Professionals

Nearly 200 planetarium professionals will converge on Memphis to attend lectures, shows, and workshops at both the Holiday Inn University and the Pink Palace Museum. Tues.-Sat., June 5-9.

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Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour

See what used to be, Memphis style, with Mike McCarthy. Call to schedule a personal tour. Ongoing. (486-6325), WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/YELLOWROCKGHOST/.

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Bluegrass in the Beer Garden

Featuring live music, food, drinks, and tours of the historic church benefiting St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen. $50. Sat., June 9, 5:30-9:30 p.m. ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH, 155 MARKET (522-9420), WWW.STMARYSSOUPKITCHEN.ORG.

Community Health Fair and Block Party

Featuring 20 health-related organizations offering health screenings including blood pressure checks, blood glucose, body mass index, dental, foot, vision, hearing, and HIV screenings. Free. Sat., June 9, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Featuring live music, food vendors, and family fun. Fri., June 8, 6-9 p.m. BARTLETT PERFORMING ARTS AND CONFERENCE CENTER, 3663 APPLING (385-6440), WWW.BPACC.ORG.

SpicerFest 6

All-ages entertainment and silent auction benefiting FSH Society. Plus Tommy Musso’s 50th Birthday Bash. $10. Sat., June 9, 5 p.m. GROWLERS, 1911 POPLAR (244-7904).

Tupelo Elvis Festival

Featuring music, local food vendors, a carnival midway, pet parade, beauty pageant, 5K run, disc golf, and more. Wednesday-Sunday, June 6-10.

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FedEx St. Jude Classic

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LPGA - USGA Girls Golf Clinics

Developmental golf program for girls ages 7-17, beginner to advanced. $20-$95. Thurs., June 7, 10 a.m.-noon. THE LINKS AT WHITEHAVEN, 750 E. HOLMES (409-8801), WWW.PGAGGMEMPHIS.WIXSITE.COM.

FitzgeraldsTunica.com • 1-662-363-LUCK (5825) • Must be 21 and a Key Rewards member. See Cashier•Players Club for rules. While supplies last. Tax and resort fee not included in listed price. Advance hotel reservations required and subject to availability. $50 credit or debit card is required upon hotel check-in. Arrivals after 6pm must be guaranteed with a credit card. Management reserves the right to cancel, change and modify the event or promotion. Gaming restricted patrons prohibited. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700.

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June 8, 7-10 p.m.

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NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (922-5526), WWW.LITERACYMIDSOUTH.ORG.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), WWW.CIVILRIGHTSMUSEUM.ORG.

Lady Parts Justice Taco Fest

Comedy from Katrina Coleman, Azizah Shaheed, Angela Garrone, and Mary Jay Berger. Live Music from HEELS and Name and the Nouns. Drag by Moth Moth Moth. Tacos by Mariachi Tacos, El Mero Tacos, and the Hi-Tone Food Truck. All proceeds will benefit Lady Parts Justice, a national nonprofit. $5 Presale, $10 at the door. Sun., June 10, 5-9 p.m.

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3 Lives Blood Drive

Peabody Rooftop Parties

Emphasizes the need for minority blood donors and raises awareness of blood disorders. Tues., June 12, 8 a.m.-noon. REMINGTON COLLEGE, 2710 NONCONNAH (389-5302), WWW.REMINGTONCOLLEGE.EDU.

Explore Memphis

Kids from birth-18 can register for summer fun featuring art-making, book talks, sharing perspectives, and building character. Through July 31. BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700), WWW.MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.

Celebrate the vibrant history of the Lorraine Motel for the benefit of the National Civil

Outflix 2018 Summer Movie Series

Accepting nominations for October Awards issue. Include biographical or business info, why the person, business, or organization should be recognized as an innovative leader and your contact information. Email nomination to, Through July 15.

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“Remembering the Dream”

Exhibit of a chronological story of the civil rights movement covered by the Ernest Withers “I Am A Man” portfolio, including MLK’s involvement in the sanitation workers’ strike. $12.75. Through

The Departure screening and Q&A at Crosstown Arts, Wednesday, June 13th at 7 p.m. January 31, 2019.

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Father’s Day “Make and Take”

“Stop the Violence, Let Me Live”

Wear orange in support of National Gun Violence Awareness and enjoy free food, live music, entertainment, prize giveaways, and fun activities for children. Sat., June 9, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. NORTH FRASYER COMMUNITY CENTER, 2555 ST. ELMO (691-2533).

VR Gaming Date Night

Includes work on scroll or band saw, hand sanding, and finishing. Cherry and walnut wood used to construct with inlay bandings and velvet neck strap. Participants leave with completed bow tie. Free. Sat., June 9, 9:30, 11:30 a.m., 1:30 & 3:30 p.m. THE WOODWORK SHOP, INC, 8500 WOLF LAKE (755-7355), WWW. THEWOODWORKSHOPINC.COM.

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FO O D & D R I N K EVE NTS Enjoy delicacies prepared by more than 45 chefs from across the country, specially crafted cocktails from well-known mixologists, select wines, silent auction, and more. $250-$300. Sat., June 9, 6-11 p.m. CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW. LEBONAPPETIT.ORG.

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Enjoy a family-friendly movie on a big screen with state-ofthe-art surround sound. Free. Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Through June 28.

Coming-of-age drama about Assayas who revisits the outskirts of Paris in the early 1970s, telling the story of teenage lovers. $10. Tues., June 12, 7 p.m. MALCO STUDIO ON THE SQUARE, 2105 COURT (725-7151), WWW.INDIEMEMPHIS.COM.

The Departure

A former punk-turned-Buddhistpriest in Japan made a career out of helping suicidal people find reasons to live. But this work has come increasingly at the cost of his own family and health. Q&A to follow. Wed., June 13, 7 p.m. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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heater folks talk a lot about text, subtext, metatext. Blah, blah, blah. But there’s another, special kind of language that arises during rehearsals when actors are getting to know their characters and castmates. It doesn’t have a name (that I know of), so I’m going to call it the gag-text, with all implications potentially operative. No matter how serious the actor, or how intense the scene, chances are jokes will be discovered in rehearsal. Often, inappropriate ones. And if the cast is especially clever (and even sometimes when it’s not), at some point during the run, somebody inevitably suggests, “Wouldn’t it be awesome if we could do one show where we did our hilarious and vulgar version of The Sound of Music instead of the same old Do Re Mi?” Thankfully, nobody ever really thinks this is a good idea because, while some gags might transcend and tickle the audience, this stuff’s mostly inside baseball, and what’s fun for performers can leave an audience befuddled. Enter Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf, a sketchy scripted comedy developed by Second City, a company famous for improv. It’s an intermittently funny and occasionally flailing parody that takes aim at some unassailable classics of the (mostly) American stage. Full of hamfisted allusion, pop-culture reference, and winking insider-humor, it’s kind of like watching a bunch of actors performing their personal gag-text. Or maybe an episode of Family Guy built exclusively for theater nerds. Tony Isbell’s a sure-handed director, and he’s brought together an able cast that was only just beginning to gel at Thursday night’s preview before Friday’s opening. But it’s difficult to imagine this extended sketch about Streetcar’s Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois meeting up with George and Martha from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Death of a Salesman’s Willy Loman ever obtaining the essential quality all these shows obtain when banging away on all cylinders — life. Spoof is easy but not very interesting and parody’s always a dicy bargain. It’s even harder when you’re setting your sights on masterworks like Our Town and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Not because these 20th-century giants don’t have it coming, but because we’ve had more than a half-century to parody the youngest of them, and the best gags are already musty classics in their own right.

When Death/Woolf’s Stanley yells, “shut up!” and launches a running gag, it’s impossible to determine if it’s skewering Streetcar directly or retooling a better bit from Sid Caesar’s 1952 send-up on Your Show of Shows. The 70-minute script is uneven and its identity as a work of suspense never really emerges, but some of the characterizations are so perfect it almost doesn’t matter. Jonathan Christian’s a solid narrator and Mark Pergolizi cuts a fine, sad-sack profile as Arthur Miller’s tragic, prostitute-loving salesman. Not just anybody can pull off a convincingly pathetic slouch while dropping dialogue like “Pardon my distinct odor of failure.” (Or words to that effect). Dave Landis, the harddrinking George, pours himself into the role like a martini (as does his Martha, Tracie Hansom).

Kim Sanders probably deserves an actual shot at Blanche, some day (and so does Hansom for that matter), and Michael Kinslow is convincing as the sweaty, angry, and shockingly well-read Stanley. But like another Tennessee Williams character, Brick Pollitt (briefly referenced in the show as merely “a homosexual”), this material’s always waiting for a click that never arrives. Not because the show was unready, but because it is thinly written. “Gag-text” is a bonding thing, I think. Musicians I’ve known do similar things with song lyrics to keep from taking things too seriously. It’s an expression of how clever we can all be when we’re clever together, and an exercise in what we can get away with — kinda like improv, a thing Second City is really good at and which Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf most definitely is not. Death/Woolf is too cute for my taste, but if you love seeing old plays mildly tweaked with winking jokes that make you feel like an insider, make your reservations today. Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf is at Circuit Playhouse through June 24th.

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FOOD By Michael Donahue

Zach Thomason (left) and David Krog

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ach Thomason knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up. Sort of. “When I was seven years old, I told my dad, ‘I want to be a Northern Italian chef, a rock star, or a doctor,’” says Thomason, 31. Cooking was appealing. “It looked like magic. There was that science. It just popped out of a pan. I put in these ingredients, and it just developed into something really cool.” Thomason, now a chef at Next Door Eatery, wanted to go to cooking school, but his dad nixed the idea. So, Thomason studied creative writing at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. He and his brother, Ben. who lived with him, worked in the kitchen at a local restaurant. One night, Thomason covered a shift for his brother. “I was sending him these texts like, ‘Where are you? I’ve got stuff at school to do. This is ridiculous.’ I’m starting to freak out and there’s just something going on in my stomach that said, ‘Something’s off.’” He began calling hospitals. “I finally got in touch with the Police Department and I said, ‘Sir, is Ben Thomason in your custody?’ He says, ‘Yes, sir, he is.’ And I say, ‘Well, may I speak to him?’ He said, ‘No, sir, you can’t.’ I said, ‘Well, has he been arrested?’ He said, ‘No, sir.’ I said, ‘Well, if he hasn’t been arrested and he’s in your custody I have the right to speak to him.’ He said, ‘Son, your brother is dead.’” Thomason was stunned. “My

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TH E LAST WO R D by Aylen Mercado

Last week, a Harvard report estimated that 4,645 people died from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Since the hurricane hit the island in September 2017, various studies have also reported high numbers, in the thousands, that drastically surpass the official count. Eight months after Maria, the official government death toll is still at 64. But these numbers didn’t matter much to most of the America that woke up to yet another racist and Islamophobic tweet from Roseanne Barr. Her racist comments are not much of a surprise, given her past comments and years of dehumanizing black folks, Arabs, and Palestinians, and yet Barr’s small jump to less tolerable racism garnered more attention than the death toll of Hurricane Maria. Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC covered the Roseanne story for more than 10 hours, total, according to Media Matters. They spent about 30 minutes on the report of 4,600 Hurricane Maria deaths. Scroll through the tweets under the hashtag #4645Boricuas, and you’ll see all the stories that cable news is ignoring. Puerto Rican journalist Andrea González-Ramírez has been amplifying these stories by retweeting and sharing the names and stories of those who died from Hurricane Maria and the U.S. neglect of Puerto Rico. To this day, many Puerto Ricans continue to live in the dark, without electricity, without clean water, without adequate food, and without appropriate medical access. As I read through people’s account of life in Puerto Rico — again, many folks living in the dark and multiple island-wide blackouts well into eight months after the hurricane —I began to feel all these emotions. How can the U.S. wash its hands as Puerto Ricans are dying? How can it accept so much neglect toward human life? Those questions lingered for a few minutes, and then I checked myself: As with Roseanne’s tweets, I am not really surprised by the U.S. response — or lack of — toward Puerto Rico. Just check the receipts. Flint still does not have clean water; thousands of immigrant children continue to be separated from their families, many of whom are escaping from U.S.-backed state violence; and black, brown, indigenous, and LGBT+ bodies are attacked each day by people and policies for simply existing. In that case, is the U.S. neglect of Puerto Rico just part of what makes it the U.S.? Before letting that question spiral too much, let’s go back to the U.S. relationship with Puerto Rico. When I tried to fight the question of “Why should the U.S. care about what is happening to Puerto Ricans?” I used to think that “Because Puerto Ricans are Americans” would be a sufficient answer. Then I started to wonder, what is “American,” since certain folks are treated differently than others. That’s when I found the words of Jacqueline N. Font-Guzmán, professor at Creighton University Graduate School — and a Puerto Rican. She says the problem with the narrative of “Puerto Ricans are American citizens” is that it assumes that, in her words, “the solution to Puerto Ricans’ colonial predicament is U.S. citizenship.” Here’s what our history books don’t cover. Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony. After more than 400 years under Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was invaded by the U.S., which then took the island under the Treaty of Paris in 1898. In 1917, Puerto Ricans were given official citizenship. However, they have limited rights and voice. They can’t vote for president, and they have no voting representation in Congress. For years before Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico has been a U.S. “colonial subject,” used for its resources. As Nelson Denis, author of War Against All Puerto Ricans, wrote in an essay in 2017, “Puerto Rico has been little more than a profit center for the United States: first as a naval coaling station, then as a sugar empire, a cheap labor supply, a tax haven, a captive market, and now as a municipal bond debtor and target for privatization. It is an island of beggars and billionaires: fought over by lawyers, bossed by absentee landlords, and clerked by politicians.” Since the hurricane, pushes to privatize the island’s economy have intensified. Disaster capitalists claim that privatization is the solution to improving the economy of Puerto Rico, even though there is no evidence to prove privatization would do any good. Efforts to privatize education, water, roads, the government-owned electric utility system, and other services have grown, which threaten the selfdetermination of Puerto Ricans. After enduring the blatant neglect for decades, Puerto Ricans are demanding to be seen and heard. Last week, more than 1,000 pairs of shoes were set in front of Puerto Rico’s Capitol building in remembrance of those who died from Hurricane Maria, and to call for administrative transparency over the hurricane’s death count. While 4,645 deaths is not an exact number, it has brought forward the need for the U.S. to acknowledge and deal with the injustice and oppression that the island and its people experience. No matter how many miles away we may think we are from the conditions experienced by the people of Puerto Rico, we must amplify their voices and follow their lead towards decolonization and liberation. Aylen Mercado is a brown, queer, Latinx chingona pursuing an Urban Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies degree at Rhodes College. A native of Argentina, she is researching Latinx identity in the South.

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Exploiting and ignoring Puerto Rico is an American tradition.

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4,645 Boricuas

People look at hundreds of pairs of shoes displayed at the Capitol to pay tribute to Hurricane Maria’s victims after a research team led by Harvard University estimated that 4,645 people lost their lives, a number not confirmed by the government, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 1, 2018.