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OUR 1532ND ISSUE 07.05.18 Last Saturday, around 500 people gathered in Gaisman Park in northeast Memphis to rally against the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, which has resulted in thousands of children being placed in confinement, separated from their parents. The Memphis rally was one of several hundred held in cities around the country. The effect on the adminstration? As far as I can tell, they’ve implemented a “zero reaction” policy. Maybe we’ve grown inured to these outrages. Now we’re reading stories of three-year-old children being forced to defend themselves in court to prevent being deported. It’s like some Kafka-esque theater of the absurd that never ends. And speaking of absurd, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson was in Memphis Monday. He pitched his recent proposal to hike federally subsidized housing rents 25 percent. The plan is meant to “encourage people to work.” Its actual effect, according to most analysts, would be to push thousands of the roughly four million low-income households living in Ben subsidized housing into homelessness. Hundreds Carson of thousands of those in low-income housing are already working, almost all of them at low-wage jobs. The low rents enable them to keep a roof over their heads and keep their families intact. Roughly eight million people would be affected by the rent increase; three million of them are children. See a pattern here? The HUD proposal is simply the latest attempt by the Trump administration to reduce or even eliminate the social safety net. The theory being, I suppose, that by forcing people out of public housing, they will magically find work, because people living in public housing are lazy, and all they need is a good kick in the pants so they’ll grab their bootstraps. “It’s our attempt to give poor people a way out of poverty,” Carson said. The truth is, few people are in public housing because they lack ambition. They’re in public housing because they’re elderly and/or living on a fixed income; or they’re uneducated; or they’re physically or mentally handicapped; or they have been forced into bankruptcy due to an inability to pay medical bills. Those three million children can’t “find work,” so many will find themselves on the street with their caregivers — or be separated from their families and put into foster or institutional care. See a pattern here? But, looking at the bright side, at least now the precedent has been set: We can put children in prison, preferably private ones owned by Betsy DeVos. But seriously, forcing a 25 percent rent increase on the most disadvantaged Americans on the hypothesis that they will be forced to find work is just cruel nonsense. It is not a theory espoused by any reputable economist. In a report last month in The Commercial Appeal, Marcia Lewis, director of the Memphis Housing Authority, said 10,600 households in Memphis would be affected by the rent increase. Lewis added that the plan would strip away deductions for childcare and medical expenses, and would triple the minimum rent for Memphis’ poorest families. The proposal would also apply to assisted-living facilities and voucher-funded units. If half of those households can’t afford the increase and are forced onto the street, who do you think will pick up the tab for the increased social services? The answer is you and me, the Memphis taxpayers. This administration’s game plan is increasingly clear: Strip away the protections of the social safety net for our most vulnerable and powerless populations; reduce Medicare and Social Security under the guise that they are “unaffordable entitlements” rather than well-earned rewards of a life spent working; reduce access to medical care; and remove environmental protections. Oh, and, we need to cut taxes for the wealthy, because, well, they’ve had it N E WS & O P I N I O N rough for quite some time. THE FLY-BY - 4 The core principle of MAGA is NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 POLITICS - 7 simple, really. It’s a reverse Robin Hood VIEWPOINT - 9 philosophy: Take from the poor and COVER - “THE GOOD, THE BAD & give to the rich — and keep everybody THE UGLY” else preoccupied with issues like BY TOBY SELLS - 10 immigration, abortion, LGBTQ rights, WE RECOMMEND - 14 and Melania’s coat. MUSIC - 16 It seems to be working. Remember AFTER DARK - 18 when millions marched and blockaded CALENDAR - 20 airports to fight the “Muslim ban.” We SPIRITS - 25 thought we won. We didn’t. The fix is FILM - 27 in, from top to bottom. C LAS S I F I E D S - 29 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 31 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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VERBATIM “If Memphis gets hot on [violent criminals], they push them across the bridge. If West Memphis gets hot on them, that pushes everybody. With a small town, they know we don’t have resources to fight this crime here.” — Jericho, Arkansas Police Chief Roy Hill explaining his theory of violent crime migration to WREG. Simply put, when crime happens in Memphis, it’s Memphis’ fault. When crime happens in West Memphis, it’s also Memphis’ fault. And the most important takeaway here: When violent crime finally reaches the rural countryside, it’s still Memphis’ fault.

NEVERENDING ELVIS Since it was just a wee larvae, your Pesky Fly on the Wall has chronicled the many strange ways Memphis’ most famous dead celebrity impacts global culture. Take pet names, for example. The sheer volume of stories about animals named Elvis suggests that we live in a world where most pets are named Elvis, or one where simply naming your pet for the long deceased King of Rock-and-Roll still increases its potential newsworthiness. This week’s most noteworthy examples include a pair of exotic birds in desperate situations. If not for Edinburgh University’s Hospital for Small Animals, Elvis the South American Red-Legged Seriema might have perished in a bathroom manner similar to his namesake. The colorful bird made headlines after swallowing a metal screw that was removed in a non-invasive surgery. Meanwhile, the U.K.’s Daily Express told the story of Elvis, a three-year-old giant Emu that had to be removed because it was in danger of “loving his owner tender.” According to the Express, “Randy emus have a reputation for getting imprinted on humans and even showing sexual aggression.”

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Opioids, Handy Park, & Blues State fights epidemic, Handy Park gets a new look, and blues art museum pops up. FIGHTING THE EPIDEMIC Governor Bill Haslam signed legislation last week that will begin his “aggressive and comprehensive” plan to fight the state opioid epidemic. The plan, called TN Together, focuses on prevention, treatment, and law enforcement. It limits the duration and dosage of opioid prescriptions for new patients, with some exceptions and exemptions. “With initial opioid prescriptions limited to a threeday supply, Tennessee will have one of the most strict and aggressive opioid policies in the nation,” read a statement from Haslam’s office. The plan also creates incentives for offenders to complete substance abuse treatment programs while incarcerated. It also updates the schedule of controlled substances — notably adding synthetic versions of fentanyl — “to better track, monitor, and penalize the use and unlawful distribution of opioids.” Also, Haslam created a special commission to update how opioids are taught in the state’s medical schools. The state’s new budget includes more than $16 million to fund treatment and services “in the fight against opioid addiction.” A HAN DY P LAN Four teams won the Downtown Memphis Commission’s (DMC) contest to re-imagine Handy Park. DMC opened the challenge in March, to help transform the underutilized Beale Street park into “a first-class concert venue, public space, and Downtown amenity for our entire community.” The challenge was opened to get design ideas, but the DMC is not obligated to build any of the designs from the contest. The first-place design came from a group of designers from Kimley-Horn and brg3s. Their design, called “Handy Park: A Civic Space Revival” opens the park up to Beale Street for higher pedestrian traffic, keeps the stage, gets rid of the stadium seating, and opens up that space around it for “performances of any size.” The design has new lights, art, and keeps the existing structures as a market of shops, restaurants, and rooftop bars.

Eight designs were submitted for the challenge. They were reviewed by the DMC, Beale Street management, and the public. The DMC hopes to complete the Handy Park project by March 2019. BLUES ART POP-UP The DMC, in conjunction with artist George Hunt and LongRiver Entertainment Group, announced last week a pop-up preview of Hunt’s vision for a National Blues Music Art Museum in Memphis. The preview installation at 100 Peabody Place is part of the DMC’s “Open on Main” pop-up initiative, to give creatives and creative ideas Main Street exposure for a month. Hunt’s project will run the month of July, after a planned July 3rd opening. According to the DMC, the National Blues Music Art Museum will tell the story of blues music through artistic images from a variety of artists, sculptors, photographers, folk artists, indigenous peoples, entertainers, and festivals. F I G H T I N G S E P A R AT I O N About 400 Memphians crowded into Shady Grove Presbyterian Church last week to address the Trump administration’s policy of separating families at the U.S.Mexico border. Hosted by activist group Indivisible Memphis, the meeting served as a space for brainstorming and organizing ways to support and advocate for those seeking asylum. Emily Fulmer of Indivisible Memphis said when it comes to immigration policies, the country is experiencing a “moral and political failure.” Fuller versions of these stories and much more local news can be found on The News Blog at memphisflyer.com.

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Annual one-day paint fest returns, honoring MLK. The nonprofit group Paint Memphis is calling on artists to participate in its annual one-day paint festival. This will be the fourth annual Paint Memphis festival, where local and regional artists work together to create a collaborative mural. This year the theme is “Dream Bigger,” in recognition of the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. “We wanted to honor Dr. King and his work with the Freedom Fighters and during the civil rights movement,” said Karen Golightly, Paint Memphis director. “And our office is located on MLK, so it’s an obvious connection.” Set for Saturday, September 29th, the event will take place at 711 MLK Avenue, where 75 pieces of artwork will go up. Selected painters, writers, and muralists will be given a primed wall, a ladder, and paint to create their work. To participate, artists must submit an application, along with photos of three work samples, on Paint Memphis’ website by Sunday, July 15th. While the opportunity is open to artists anywhere, a preference will be given to local applicants, Golightly said. Additionally, Paint Memphis wants more people of color and women to apply. Selected artists will be notified by Wednesday, August 1st. “I’m really looking forward to being able to do this again,” Golightly said. “I’m also excited about the possibilities that might come out of it.”

Earlier this year, several of Paint Memphis’ murals, like one of a zombie at Willett and Lamar, drew criticism from Memphis City Council members, who referred to the artwork as “satanic.” After heated discussions with Golightly, the council voted to remove six murals they considered offensive. Instead, city workers unintentionally removed seven of the wrong murals. Golightly said many of the artists whose artwork was scrubbed sued the city and that the litigation is ongoing. Meanwhile, she said the city has agreed to keep up three murals that were voted to be removed until the legal issues are resolved. The city’s communication team chose not to respond to the Flyer’s inquiry about the murals or pending litigation, saying that “this issue is in litigation and we will not be commenting at this time.” Golightly said this time the murals will only be painted on private property to prevent similar outcomes this year. Also, “to ensure the mural reflects

Paint Memphis this neighborhood and its residents,” Paint Memphis is seeking public feedback before any artwork goes up. Golightly said the group recently worked with community leaders to create a community engagement plan. The plan includes an online survey, as well as door-to-door and mail-out surveys for all residents and business owners within a quarter mile of the mural’s future location. There is also a interactive feedback mural set up at the project site, where anyone can leave a suggestion of what should be painted there. In addition to Paint Memphis’ policy of not allowing artists to paint nudity, profanity, obscenities, drug or gang imagery, the property owner is asking that there is nothing related to weapons or politics.

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Down the Stretch Candidates are no longer making nice in the two gubernatorial primaries.

• The focus of local election concerns this week was unmistakably on a brouhaha over the Shelby County Election Commission’s abrupt alterations in the sites and scheduling of early-voting locations for the August 2nd county general election and state and federal primaries. At the center of the controversy was the fact that four of five new “satellite” sites (upping the total number from an original 21 to 26) were in easterly portions of the the county and thus, as local Democrats saw it, shifted the epicenter of voting accessibility to the suburban Republican electorate. Even more galling to Democrats was the choice of the Agricenter, in Shelby Farms, as a central polling site, operating by itself for four extra days. After heated exchanges at a special called meeting of the SCEC on Friday, three sites were named to replace the Agricenter in that role: the Election Commission’s Nixon Drive office in Shelby Farms, and two others, one each in areas dominated by voters of the two major parties. Yet as Steve Ross makes clear in “The Last Word,” p. 31, the argument lingers on.

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The Democratic race is between former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, whose financial resources and support in the party’s Middle Tennessee establishment make him the favorite in the primary, and state House Democratic Leader Craig Fitzhugh of Ripley, an endearingly folksy sort who hopes to catch up with a little whip-hand action, stinging Dean for his support of charter schools and challenging his bona fides in the use of federal flood-disaster funds. Dean does his best to ignore Fitzhugh’s attacks and meanwhile is honing his own performances, becoming ever smoother on the stump and looking calm and reasonable in ads that mimic the centrist bipartisan mode of Democratic Senate candidate Bredesen. In appearances last week in both Nashville and Memphis, Fitzhugh, understandably a favorite of party legislators, made a point of lamenting what he suggested was Dean’s tendency to echo his own language on issues like the state’s need to accept federal funds for Medicaid expansion. (See “Political Beat Blog” at memphisflyer.com for more on the gubernatorial races.)

NEWS & OPINION

In the immemorial cliché, it really isn’t news when dog bites man. In the same way, it’s S.O.P. when political opponents snap at each other, a phenomenon that normally signals the beginning of the stretch drive in an election contest. By that standard, the candidates for governor in Tennessee clearly have the finish line in sight as they jockey for position with less than a month to go in their primary contests. There are two basic narratives — one for each party primary. The Republican race is essentially a two-candidate affair — with 6th District U.S. Representative Diane Black and former state Economic Development Commissioner Randy Boyd running neck-and-neck, and having increasingly bitter battles via campaign rhetoric and attack ads. Williamson County businessman Bill Lee is running third, as a longshot newcomer, looking for one or both of the frontrunners to stumble. State House Speaker Beth Harwell, the only non-millionaire in the GOP pack, is polling a surprisingly distant fourth. The issue in the Republican race is, increasingly, about who can profess most fealty to President Trump and to rightward-tending Republican talking points. Last week, both Boyd, in actuality something of a moderate, and Black, who is anything but moderate, issued ads that made the most of ultra-minor past apostasies by their opponents, with Boyd using an old video clip wherein Black doubted the efficacy of a border wall and Black citing Boyd’s initial reluctance, in 2016, to fall in line behind presidential candidate Trump. For good measure, Black’s ad noted that upstart candidate Lee had contributed money in the past to Democrats like former Nashville mayors Phil Bredesen and Megan Barry while stiffing Trump’s 2016 campaign, financially. Meanwhile, Lee’s underdog hopes got a lift at this week’s Fayette County Republican Party “Deplorables Dinner” in Moscow, where he led a party straw poll with 72 votes to 20 for Black, 11 for Boyd, and 2 for Harwell.

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Protests and understaffing are issues unlikely to go away in this political climate. On July 9, 2017, roughly 80 people gathered in Tom Lee Park for street theater skits and speeches that focused on social injustices, including statesanctioned police killings of unarmed black Americans. The societal ills addressed in the gathering were the same as those that drove thousands of protesters to shut down the I-40 bridge one year earlier. That gathering was small potatoes for the Memphis Police Department when stacked against other thousands-strong protests in Memphis spurred by either the election of Donald Trump (the satellite Memphis Women’s March) or his policies (the now-legal travel band on majority Muslim nations). Yet, the few dozen folks that gathered in the stifling heat were under the gaze of the MPD all the same, a gaze that included one helicopter, three mounted officers, one police van equipped for multiple arrests, and several officers either on foot or driving through the park. Currently, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland finds himself defending more than $200,000 in police overtime for his personal security detail for the 2018 fiscal year. The amount is nothing to sniff at, but it’s a small sliver of the $20 million in overtime for the MPD during the 2018 fiscal year. Both the mayor and MPD Director Michael Rallings cite the need for millions in police overtime as an effect resulting from a two-pronged cause — dire understaffing of the police force and political protests. The former is an issue entirely too complex for this little space, but the latter can be boiled down to a question of police presence at protests. How much is too much? Strickland points to a December protest in 2016 wherein seven protesters staged a “die-in” on his front lawn in East Memphis as one of the events that would usher in a new era of 24hour security detail for the mayor and his family. Some of the seven or so protesters appeared to be peering into the home’s windows, causing alarm for the mayor. His security detail is an expense Strickland begrudgingly accepted when the political turned just a little too personal for his or Rallings’ comfort. The mayor also faces online threats that threaten violence against him and his family routinely, many of them spurred by those furious at the thought of a monument to slave trader,

founding Ku Klux Klan member, and Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest being removed from his place of honor in a public park. The few-dozen people monitored by a disproportionate police presence at the Bridge Protest reunion were nonviolent. Protests in front of McDonald’s that call for an end to the poverty wages they pay their employees are nonviolent. The 2017 August rally at Health Sciences Park calling for the removal of the Forrest monument was nonviolent, in spite of the police-incited chaos that ensued once protestors were randomly pulled from the crowd for arrest. It’s a verifiable truth that organized protests in Memphis since the 2016 Bridge Protest have not resulted in violence against persons or property. On occasions that protestors are arrested, their charges of disorderly conduct or obstruction of a highway are usually dropped the next morning. It’s also a verifiable truth that police often respond to protests, even ones that have a city-issued permit, with expensive tactical resources such as helicopter surveillance and Blue Crush vehicles. Rallings and Strickland must reevaluate the degree of police response to peaceful protests. Because in the months or years to come, it’s unreasonable to expect anything other than more organized actions from Memphis communities directly threatened by the Trump administration. The GOP’s rush to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy’s Supreme Court vacancy is already stoking fear among Americans concerned for abortion access, equal marriage, labor unions, or affirmative action. Should MPD continue with the same level of police response to nonviolent protests, it’s likely that overtime woes will continue to strain the city’s budget. And though MPD recruitment efforts have earmarked funds, the staffing goal of 2,300 officers by 2021 may offer little relief in overtime expenses amid the political climate that is driving Americans into the streets in numbers not seen in decades. No one should hold their breath waiting for any easement of the two primary causes of police overtime according to Rallings, but everyone who pays city taxes should ask Rallings to reevaluate the use of already strained police resources to monitor non-violent protests. Micaela Watts is a Memphis-based freelance reporter.

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Cooper-Young Gothic: Olivia Wall (left) and Patrick Durkin don’t approve of the tall-skinnies invading the city.

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sound” is the chug of diesel engines, the high whine of power tools, and the relentless thwack of air-hammers. Memphis is growing, like it or not. And, make no mistake, some do like the building boom, while others hate the change. Call it growing pains. Most of that growth is happening in the city’s core — Downtown and Midtown. Developers say they’re simply following the people — the market — as they seek urban living experiences. Memphis is not growing outward; Memphis is filling in. In fact, city leaders recently de-annexed some outlying parts of the city and cut off new sewer taps to unincorporated areas of Shelby County, meaning no new construction is likely in those areas. Developers are turning old buildings into something new. Think Crosstown Concourse, Central Station, or the myriad cotton warehouses Downtown converted into apartments. Developers are also doing “teardowns” and building something new on the site. For example, older homes in Cooper-Young are being razed and the lots are being filled with two or more “tall 10 skinny” houses. This is called infill development. And.

It. Is. Hot. How hot? Historically hot. “The renewed interest in the core over the past few years has been the most sustained and intense since the founding of the city,” says Josh Whitehead, planning director and administrator of the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Planning and Development (OPD). “I believe a renewed appreciation for urban living is driving these projects, much like is found in many other cities around the country.”

Is This Really “It”?

What’s happening in Memphis is a version of the same story that’s played out in cities such as Austin and Nashville. The city got “cool” (possibly due to its low housing costs and music cred), attracted cool people, and got all the cool-people accoutrements — lofts, bike-share and bike lanes, coffee shops, craft breweries, and, most recently, those Bird scooters. When developers see markets get hot, they jump in and ride the wave. But Austin and Nashville have something Memphis does not — lots of new people; around 100 people move to both cities every day. And those figures are down slightly from where they were

in 2016 and 2017. From 2010-2016, 8,729 people moved to Memphis, or about four people per day, according to census data. In that same time, 36,854 people moved out of the Memphis area. The U.S. Census Bureau has not yet released its most-current, city-level data sets, so current figures on Memphis’ population shifts aren’t available. But, looking at what we have, the city’s population is stagnant at best. So are we really an “It” city? Something certainly feels different. Consider another “It” metric: Home prices in Memphis rose 14 percent from May 2017 to May 2018, according to Chandler Reports. The average home price here in May 2017 was $169,540 and rose to $192,883 12 months later. Why? Because finding houses is getting harder. “Low housing inventory in Memphis and Shelby County is pushing home sales prices to record highs,” reads the report. In May, 1,779 houses were sold for a total of $343 million. That’s up 14 percent from $300 million in May 2017, according to Chandler Reports. Developers must be reading the tea leaves, right? They wouldn’t take out loans, hire architects, and go through

the city hall permitting process if they didn’t think their project — probably with some spiffy, millennialattracting name — would be profitable. Thousands of people now want to live close to the urban core. “People who are graduating from colleges and schools, they don’t want to own houses,” says Brenda SolomitoBasar, owner at Solomito Land Planning. “If they are empty nesters before children, or are empty nesters after children, you’ve got people who want low-maintenance. You have people who want to downsize.” Ed Apple, of City Cottages, the company that’s planning to build small, single-family homes in CooperYoung, says there’s a lot of demand for apartments but many of the city’s current apartment buildings are less than ideal. “I wouldn’t want to live in them,” he says. “With new, comes excitement,” Apple says. “Memphis is an affordable city. My children both want to come back here, and I’m excited about that. I’m starting to see my friends’ children come back. There are just more opportunities than I’ve seen in the past.” But as developers scout sites for new

Invasion of the Tall Skinnies

Patrick Durkin arrived at his Cooper-Young home on Bruce Street one Friday evening to find a crew demolishing the house next door. He’d had no warning. No nothing. After some digging, he learned that Memphis-based JBJ Properties Inc. planned to build four, “tall skinny” homes on the lot. Tall-skinny houses are modern, twostory structures, narrow enough to fit two or four side-by-side on traditional Midtown lots. The new tall houses often loom over the single-level bungalows nearby. In Durkins’ case, the homes’ upstairs balconies meant an end to any privacy he’d had in his backyard. One house is now built so close to his, Durkin could reach out his window and ask for a bottle of Grey Poupon. “This is ultimately destroying our neighborhood and destroying the characteristics of what Memphis is,” Durkin says. “People come to CooperYoung because it’s fun and friendly. If I saw this [motions to the tall skinnies], I’d think, well, it might as well be Nashville.” Nearby, on Carr, Rodney Nash agrees, as he looks up at another tall-skinny looming above the street, a JBJ Properties sign planted in front of it. One day, he says, “they just came and leveled everything with a bulldozer and a backhoe.” “There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people who are bothered by this development,” Nash says. “It’s coming from just a few people who are basically trying to make a lot of money off of the hard work that we’ve been doing in Midtown for years. They’re coming in, once the property values have gone up, and [to them] it’s worth it to do this

[motions at the new building].” No one from JBJ Properties responded to interview requests for this story. The company owns 77 properties across Shelby County, according to the county Assessor of Property website — including 10 properties on Bruce, where Durkin lives. JBJ Construction, which shares the same address as JBJ Properties, pulled 13 building permits for new homes in April, making it the top builder in the area that month, according to Chandler Reports. The average price for those 13 homes was $175,769. Gordon Alexander, longtime Midtown activist and president of the Midtown Action Coalition, says tall, modern homes on streets with traditional homes makes you think, “what in the hell is that doing here?” He says Cooper-Young’s reproduction antique street lights and many front porches give it a “Southern, homey feel.” Gordon calls the tall-skinnies, “atrocious, hideous-looking buildings.” “If you don’t live in Midtown, I guess it’s hard for people from outside to understand,” Alexander says. “They don’t understand. They say this [motions to the tall-skinny] is progress. To us, this is not progress.” Michael Fahy, president of Prime Development Group, which has represented JBJ Properties in several public hearings on projects, says, with “this new surge of growth, comes growing pains.” “Change to a neighborhood with new homes can be confrontational,” Fahy says. “And each new development brings site-specific conditions that make each project unique. With new homes, comes a new benefit to neighbors with increased property values, updated or new homes, and new families.” So, who wants to live in new homes in old neighborhoods? Plenty of people, apparently. Paul Morris, past president of the Downtown Memphis Commission, spelled it out plainly in a short speech showing his support for a

The Midtown Action Coalition in a meeting at Howard Hall

new development in Central Gardens to the Land Use Control Board (LUCB). “I believe there are more people that want to live in our core city and yet some people don’t choose to live in historic homes,” Morris said. “They want new construction. I think having that option available in Midtown is really important, because we can attract new citizens to our city.”

Whose Voice Gets Heard? When Lisa Toro looks out the window of her City & State coffee shop on Broad, she can see the future — and she dreads it. Across Broad, where an old warehouse sits low, under street grade, a massive, modern-looking apartment complex is slated to be built. 3D Realty, a conglomerate of Loeb Properties and M&M Enterprises, has planned a $51 million project for the north side of Broad that will raze the warehouse and put in its place several four-story buildings that will house 414 apartments. Toro, who also co-owns The Liquor Store restaurant with her husband, Luis, says she welcomes all the new people as possible customers, but she fears a massive change is coming to the street that she and other independent business owners built with risk, sweat, and hard-earned money. The massive change feels completely out of her hands, she says. “Fifty percent of Broad Avenue is about to change,” Toro says, “and not making that a community-based effort is a huge disservice to the businesses that have been here for years.” Independent business owners worked hard for many years to make Broad what it has become, she says. She thinks developers want to cash in on the organic, eclectic energy they created, and that they could destroy it in the bargain. Bob Loeb, president of Loeb Properties, told The Daily News in May that he and partner James Maclin chose Broad “because the neighborhood is

diverse and eclectic.” He told the paper he’d owned the warehouse since 1993 and they were waiting for the south side of the street to pop. “The neighborhood is often viewed as a barrier to development, but yet the neighborhood is why those developers want to come in,” says Pat Brown, coowner of T Clifton Art Gallery on Broad. “That’s what makes Memphis unique and why tourists want to come. If it’s not, why not just be Nashville or Atlanta?” Toro and Brown say they were in talks with 3D Realty for months about everything from traffic and safety to greenspace. The developers listened, they said, but didn’t really heed any of their suggestions. Maclin, principle owner of M&M Enterprises, says “conversations with neighborhood partners are absolutely ongoing” but provided no other comment on neighborhood concerns. Maclin adds, “We look forward to continuing our commitment to be good neighbors in the area through 3D Realty’s [Historic Broad Avenue Arts Alliance] membership — [Loeb Properties owner Bob Loeb] and I are already members — as well as our active community participation.” If the project is built (and there’s little doubt that it will be), Toro says property values on Broad Avenue may rise, raising rents on those independent businesses, and even driving them away. Brown wonders if there’s not a better way to give communities a voice when developers come knocking. That’s especially true, she says, when developments get millions of dollars worth of PILOT tax breaks (as the apartment complex did — $12.6 million, to be precise) from public sources.

“An Easy Decision”

Neighbors can sometimes influence the decisions of developers. On Madison Avenue, Fahy’s Prime Development Group and others plan to build 230 new apartments in four buildings on the vacant lot next to the P&H Cafe. Bar owners Matthew Edwards and Robert Fortner worried the development would have gated off the one-way alley that runs behind the P&H and limited access to their business. Last month, the developers heeded their concerns and agreed to build a private alley off Court Street to retain the access. In Cooper-Young, neighbors complained about the density Apple’s City Cottage project could bring. Originally, the company planned to build 10 roughly 1,000-square-foot rental houses on an empty lot at the corner of Elzey and Tanglewood. Apple says he could have fit 18 homes on the lot, and he says he might have gotten it approved, “if we’d gone and fought it.” But, after listening to continued on page 12

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neighbors and looking at the site, he settled on eight homes, and says they “look really good there. “At the end of the day it was an easy decision,” Apple says. “It was what was right for the property and what was right for the neighborhood.” However, when dealing with infill projects, Apple urges neighbors and activists not to “poke the bear.” Some showed up to public meetings about his project with ulterior motives, he says; others were “spreading misinformation and half-baked truths … and trying to stir the pot. “I love when people from the community say, ‘I’ve got a problem with this and here’s why,’” Apple says, “as long as it’s well thought-out and not just a personal smear. You get a lot more with honey than with vinegar.” Solomito, who has guided dozens of projects through the public process, says developments can be improved and modified by the community, if residents are willing to negotiate. “Lots of people think they shouldn’t have to negotiate,” she says. “Well, you know, A) Never move next door to vacant land; and B) Nothing ever stays the same. Property changes hands, and the best you can do is think of [new development] as an opportunity.”

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Listen to residents and neighborhood activists long enough and they’ll eventually say something like, “I can guarantee if they’d tried to build something like this in [a developer’s or local lawmaker’s] neighborhood, they wouldn’t get away with it.” Consider the case of Ivy Grove in upscale Central Gardens: Ivy Grove was a project in which Germantown’s Kircher-Uhlhorn Development wanted to tear down a 106-year-old home and build nine new houses on the old home’s two-acre lot. Neighbors said Ivy Grove would increase density, congest traffic, sap the neighborhood’s historic qualities, and lower property values. It didn’t help that the developers were from Germantown and planned to list the homes for between $650,000-$750,000. “The developers behind this project could care less about Central Gardens or Midtown,” Central Gardens resident Jan Willis wrote to city planning officials. “It’s utter greed. It’s not growth, it’s pure profit for the developers.” The neighborhood resistance was enough to cause Kircher-Uhlhorn to halt the project for a month. The company came back to the Land Use Control Board (LUCB) in March with a new plan that included saving the existing home and building two fewer houses. But the changes didn’t win the Ivy Grove project many more fans. “Central Gardens is a neighborhood with a huge tax base because of its

historical relevance,” said Barbara Sysak at that March LUCB meeting. “If we destroy this, bit by bit, the neighborhood will eventually lose its unique character.” It was hard to know if anyone on the LUCB was actually listening and considering what neighbors were saying. Then, Margaret Pritchard spoke. She’d said she’d heard “the wonderful comments” from the “passionate people who live in Central Gardens.” Pritchard sits on the LUCB and chairs one of its committees. The day of the Ivy Grove vote, she said of the Central Garden residents in the chamber, “I’m their neighbor. I live on Harbert.” Pritchard worried Ivy Grove would cause parking issues and said that she didn’t “like the precedent” it set for the neighborhood, and wondered about the “violations to the guidelines.” But, mostly, Pritchard said, drainage was the reason to reject the project. Heavy rains made the intersection of Barksdale and McLean impassible. Pritchard said she’d once seen a picture of a car floating there in The Commercial Appeal. Pritchard and nine other LUCB board members voted against Ivy Grove. The board rejected a project, even though the developer changed it, based on community feedback, and even though the city planning staff approved it. That doesn’t happen often at Memphis City Hall. At the vote’s final tally, a burst of applause and “woos” rose up against the banging gavel of the LUCB board chairman Jon McCreery, who was one of only two members to vote for Ivy Grove.

Will It Last?

Three years ago, countless articles touted the trend of “Americans Returning to Cities” the “urban renaissance.” But recently, new stories, like this one from Fortune, are emerging: “Why Millennials Are About to Leave Cities in Droves.” New Census data for the first seven years of this decade predicts a population shift back to the suburbs, especially as older millennials make more money and get ready to have children, according to analysis from the Brookings Institute. “If these shifts continue, they could call into question the sharp clustering of the nation’s population — in large metropolitan areas and their cities — that characterized the first half of the 2010s,” wrote Brookings’ senior fellow William H. Frey. So, what’s next for Memphis? In terms of crystal balls, Solomito’s is probably clearer than most in Memphis. Here’s her prediction about the next wave of big-time development: “East Memphis is done. Downtown is getting done. Guess what? It’s the middle part of the sandwich [in Midtown]. I think it’s coming there.” Buckle up.

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In the time honored spirit of the answer song, the mixed-media art exhibition “Thug” was organized to converse with a past exhibit called “Fiber,” a deep dive into black femininity. “Thug” organizers wanted to give black male artists from diverse backgrounds an opportunity explore the range and role of masculinity in black culture. Curator and photographer Ziggy Mack says The Collective’s exhibit showcases experience. “It looks at black masculinity and how society views it,” Mack says. “And it also looks at sexuality within black masculinity. “In black culture, you see this kind of appropriation happen multiple times,” Mack says, setting up context for the show’s title. “Post-slavery as a people we’d taken the word ‘boy’ and turned it on its head, substituting the word ‘man.’ Like, ‘Hey, man! How you doing, my man?’ That was a response to black men being called boy. And there’s the N-word, a more controversial word but another word we appropriated, like taking lemons and making lemonade.” Thug, a similar appropriation, was re-appropriated in white culture where it’s become a deracialized stand-in for less socially permissible slurs. “The Collective and I used it because we thought it would make people ask, ‘What’s this about,’” Mack says. “And we used it to turn it on its head again. To turn it into something else. To build a body of art around the word and black masculinity.” The closing reception for “Thug” features performances by Eso Tolson, Don Lifted, Bertram Williams, Harley Quinn, Rex Allen, Auntrion Bradford, Steve Fox, PhatMak, Tim Moore, and Rio Foster.

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FRIDAY July 6

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington The Orpheum, 6 p.m., $8 Classic film about a young senator who fights a corrupt system, starring Jimmy Stewart.

Funky Friday Stax Museum of American Soul Music, 10 a.m. Create a cool art project. For all ages.

#MEM: Made en Memphis Stop 345, 8 p.m. Music from such up and comers as Co Cash, Dee Mula, Duke Deuce, Fast Cash Boyz, and more.

Friday Nights at the Gallery Art Body Soul Studio (1024 Yates), 6-8 p.m. An artist’s talk featuring Mary Pera. Evening includes a group painting project and a drawing for a door prize.

We Believe You: A Concert to Benefit the Memphis Shield Project Memphis Made, 1-10 p.m., donations accepted Featuring music by Negro Terror, Mike Doughty, Jeremy Scott, Los Psychosis, Tiffany Harmon, and many more benefiting the Memphis Shield, which advocates for abuse victims. Spin Doctors Gold Strike Casino, 8 p.m., $10-$35 A little early-’90s jam tonight with the Spin Doctors.

Webb Wilder Railgarten, 8 p.m. A concert by this indie darling. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls Studio on the Square, 11:59 p.m. A film about three women who come to Hollywood for stardom but get mixed up with drugs and booze.

Rock + Ages By Chris Davis

Our heart goes out to slow-moving Donnie & Marie fans who can’t get tickets to their sold-out show at Horseshoe Casino. She’s a little bit country, he’s a little bit rock-and-roll, and when you’re a toothy brother and sister act with that kind of range, fans of your weird, ’70s-era TV show will come pouring out of the woodwork. But there’s still plenty of good news for vintage music fans still looking for something to do on July 6th. If you can’t see Donnie and Marie in Mississippi, the Def Leppard and Journey double concert at the FedExForum promises a similar experience, but with a clever twist. Journey’s a little bit classic rock while Def Leppard’s also a little bit classic rock. Nothing can erase the bitter sting of not getting to hear Donnie and Marie sing their hit song about the girl no one knows (from the poor side of town) and the boy no one knows (from the rich side of town) who, while suffering the pangs of anonymity, both enjoy the benefit of never getting wet when it rains, because love is their magical umbrella. But maybe Journey can scratch that itch with their inescapable mega-hit “Don’t Stop Believing,” and its unlikely story of a city boy and small town girl who both take completely different midnight trains going to the exact same non-place. Def Leppard lacks the Osmonds’ toothy wholesomeness but make up for it with raunchy MTV-era hits like “Pour Some Sugar on Me” and the hair-metal anthem, “Rock of Ages.” It’s summer. It’s hot. Go get some nostalgia to feel nostalgic about later. DEF LEPPARD AND JOURNEY AT THE FEDEXFORUM FRIDAY, JULY 6TH, 7 P.M. TICKETS FROM $45.

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“The Memphis I Love” WKNO Studio, 4-6 p.m. Opening reception for this exhibition of photography by Adarryll Jackson.

Booksiging by Jim Petipas Novel, 11 a.m. It’s a special Story Time and booksiging featuring Jim Petipas, author of The Cows Go Moo!

Growing, Cooking, & Grilling Summer Vegetables Dixon Gallery & Gardens, noon A talk by Flyer friends, Amy Lawrence and Justin Fox Burks, collectively known as the Chubby Vegetarian. Part of the Dixon’s Munch & Learn series.

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MUSIC By Chris McCoy

New Directions Michael Jasud, Marcella Simien, and Blair Combest explore new ideas at the Memphis Music Mansion.

July 5-11, 2018

arlier this year, Memphis road warriors Dead Soldiers announced an indefinite hiatus after five-and-a-half years together. Michael Jasud, singer and guitarist for the raucous folk-rock band, says it wasn’t an acrimonious breakup. “People were being pulled by life in ways it made it hard to keep doing it like we’d been doing it. People grow, people change. For the most part, it’s a better and healthier place that people are in now.” No one is ruling out reuniting in the future, but “there’s no plan. If there was a plan, I’d be thinking about that and not devoting the time and energy to the thing I’m trying to do now.” That thing Michael is a new album Jasud he’s writing. “It’s funny to say ‘solo project.’ It’s really just me writing songs. You say ‘Michael Jasud Project’ and it sounds like a prog-rock band.” He’s recording the album with producer Toby Vest at American Studios. “It’s nice,” he says, “because we’ve been working on it in real time. If we’re about to start sketching out a song that I’ve been working on, there’s a good chance that I might have heard something the day before that will influence the way we go today. You can get so hung up in creating proof of your genius that you forget that you’re just making a document of where you are at that point.” The rough mixes expand on the Dead Soldiers’ eclecticism, which seems consistent with Jasud’s state of mind, which he described as sometimes Springsteen, sometimes “thinking about mass shootings and listening to electronic music.” To shock himself further out of his comfort zone, Jasud has put together a show at the Memphis Music Mansion with two of his friends in the American Studios circle. He’ll be trading songs with Marcella Simien. “Marcella has a record that is totally finished,” Jasud says. “If it comes

out this year, it’s going to be the best record of 2018. If she doesn’t release it until next year, it’s going to be the best record of 2019.” Simien demurs. “He’s such a smooth talker.” Her new album, which should see a first single released in the early fall, is called Got You Found. “It probably took 10 years for me to write all the songs on it. I never really, until recently, had that drive to sit down and really work on a song, like a real songwriter. It’s only been in the last year, after I finished this record. I’ve written like 50 songs since then. I don’t want to stop. … And the way it came together was just magical, with all of the people who came together to play with us.”

Simien says she will perform songs from Got You Found as well as material from her post-recording creative burst. She might even strap on a guitar. “I never really play guitar in public, but it was one of the first things I learned to play as a kid.” The third name on the bill is Blair Combest, who has largely disappeared from the Memphis stage in recent years. Jasud says Combest inspired him as a young musician. “There was a moment when I was really getting into the poetry and art of songwriting, and I saw Blair play. I thought, this guy is really in control of his medium. I’m excited for people who have never seen Blair perform before. This is one of the great singer-songwriters in Memphis.” Simien agrees. “Blair needs to be doing more shows, and people need to hear his songs.” She says she’s excited to be sharing a stage with Combest and Jasud. “They both have great voices, and they’re really textural. They sing to you, not at you. You feel like you’re hearing something from a deep place.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule July 5 - 11 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 Apple Thursdays, Sundays, 5 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 4 p.m. and Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m.; Live Music ThursdaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Blues Players Club Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; John Paul Keith Friday, July 6, 7-11 p.m.; DJ Ron Fridays, 11 p.m.; Super 5 Saturday, July 7, 7-11 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.; DJ Mad Efx Sundays, midnight; A.M. Whiskey Trio Mondays, 6-10 p.m.; Bonfire Orchestra Tuesday, July 10, 6-10 p.m.

162 BEALE 521-1851

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

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

FedExForum 191 BEALE STREET

168 BEALE 576-2220

Def Leppard and Journey Friday, July 6.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

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Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Friday, July 6, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Myra Hall Band Saturday, July 7, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

New Daisy Theatre 330 BEALE 525-8981

145 BEALE 578-3031

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

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

King’s Palace Cafe

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.

The Baddie Bash Friday, July 6, 8 p.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 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, July 6, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, July 7, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sensation Band Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Fuzzy Tuesday, July 10, 8 p.m.-midnight;

Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

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.; Cowboy Neil Friday, July 6, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Little Boy Blues Saturday, July 7, 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.

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, July 8, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

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

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.; The Rusty Pieces Saturday, July 7, 11 p.m.-1 a.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

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

Center for Southern Folklore Hall 119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

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

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Karaoke Night Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Shufflegrit Friday, July 6, 9 p.m.; Jack Rowell and TripleThrett Saturday, July 7, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Stop 345 345 MADISON 507-2720

#MEM: MADE EN MEMPHIS Friday, July 6, 8 p.m. and midnight.

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.; Michael Graber Friday, July 6, 8 p.m.

Earnestine & Hazel’s

Your Inner Yogi

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

10 N. SECOND 470-344-9642

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 Friday, July 6, 6-9 p.m.; Songwriters with Roland and Friends Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Vintage Sunday, July 8, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Hip-Hop Yoga with Kandace Stewart Friday, July 6, 6:30-8 p.m.

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

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

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.

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

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

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John Paul Keith Thursday, July 5, 8 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m. and Saturdays, 5:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Friday, July 6, 9:30 p.m. and Saturday, July 7, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Saturdays, 12:30

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule July 5 - 11

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Second Hand Street Band Thursday, July 5, 7 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, July 6, 9 p.m.; Wayde Peck Saturday, July 7, 6-8 p.m.; Lickety Grit Saturday, July 7, 9 p.m.; Frog Squad Jam Sunday, July 8, 6-9 p.m.; Timmy & the Jazz Monday, July 9, 6 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesday, July 10, 6-8 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Levitt Shell OVERTON PARK 272-2722

Jonny P Thursday, July 5, 7:309:30 p.m.; Rev. Sekou Friday, July 6, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Seratones Saturday, July 7, 7:30-9:30 p.m.;

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Carson McHone Thursday, July 5, 7 p.m.; Hope Clayburn Friday, July 6, 8 p.m.; Webb Wilder Saturday, July 7, 8 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 Memphis

Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

East of Wangs

Summer/Berclair

6069 PARK 763-0676

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

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.

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, July 8, 8-11:30 p.m.

Cordova Huey’s Cordova 1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 318-3030

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, July 8, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Bruise, Sentenced to Burn, Omerta Headdrop Thursday, July 5, 9 p.m.; The WLDLFE, Scottie Spiegelman, Estes Friday, July 6, 8 p.m.; Pearl Earl Friday, July 6, 9 p.m.; Son of Priapus Saturday, July 7, 6 p.m.; Belmont, Rarity, Stickup Kid, Indeed, We Digress Saturday, July 7, 9 p.m.; Dent May, Shannon Lay, China Gate Sunday, July 8, 8 p.m.; Handmade Moments Sunday, July 8, 8 p.m.; The Red Clay Strays Monday, July 9, 8 p.m.; Jet Black Alley Cat, DBMK Monday, July 9, 8 p.m.; The Apartment Club, Reflecting Echoes Tuesday, July 10, 8 p.m.; Poncé, Caterpillars, Tiger Lake Wednesday, July 11, 8 p.m.

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

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Frayser/Millington Huey’s Millington 8570 US 51 NORTH,

The Java Trio Sunday, July 8, 6-9 p.m.

Germantown Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Five O’Clock Shadow Sunday, July 8, 8-11:30 p.m.

High Cotton Brewing Co.

North Mississippi/ Tunica

598 MONROE 896-9977

Hands of Mothers/Manos de Madres - Annual Benefit Brunch featuring Amy LaVere and Will Sexton Sunday, July 8, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Gold Strike Casino 1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-245-7829

Spin Doctors Saturday, July 7, 8-9:30 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Paul Taylor Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.; Marcella and Her Lovers Friday, July 6, 7-10 p.m.; Mighty Souls Saturday, July 7, 7:30-10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Josh Cosby Sunday, July 8, 12-3 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Swingtime Explosion Big Band Thursday, July 5, 6 p.m.; Jason Lee McKinney Thursday, July 5, 9 p.m.; Memphis Funk-NSoul Friday, July 6, 6:30 p.m.; Dantones Friday, July 6, 10 p.m.; The Hootz Saturday, July 7, 6:30 p.m.; Led Zeppin’ Saturday, July 7, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Memphis Ukulele Band Sunday, July 8, 4 p.m.; Megg Far-

Cruisin Heavy Friday, July 6, 9 p.m.; Music Boxx Saturday, July 7, 9 p.m.; Furious George Sunday, July 8, 5:30 p.m.

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Hi-Tone

2059 MADISON 207-7397

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Huey’s Collierville

Left Unsung (Memphis Grateful Dead Tribute) Saturday, July 7, 10 p.m.; Rob Aldridge & the Proponents with Grape. Tuesday, July 10, 8 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Indian Pass Raw Bar Memphis

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Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

The Chaulkies Sunday, July 8, 4-7 p.m.; Royal Blues Band Sunday, July 8, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Live Entertainment Mondays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Karaoke hosted by DJ Maddy Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel Yemen Blues Sunday, July 8, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Memphis Made Brewing Company 768 S. COOPER 207-5343

We Believe You: A Concert to Benefit the Memphis Shield Project Saturday, July 7, 1-10 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Jason Eady Friday, July 6, 7 p.m.; The PC Band Friday, July 6, 8 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

The Phoenix Blues Jam Tuesdays, 8-11 p.m.

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

Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Aquaducks and Chinese Connection Friday, July 6; The Dantones Saturday, July 7; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.; Big Something Tuesday, July 10.

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe 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.

Howard Vance Guitar Academy 978 REDDOCH 767-6940

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

Huey’s Poplar

South Memphis Stax Museum of American Soul Music 926 E. MCLEMORE 946-2535

Live in Studio A Concert Series Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m.

Donny & Marie Osmond Friday, July 6; Thunder From Down Under Saturday, July 7.

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.

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Whitehaven/ Airport

Poplar/I-240

3600 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-3322

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas

Rock-n-Roll Cafe

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

Memphis All Stars Sunday, July 8, 8-11:30 p.m.

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Pulse (A Tribute to Pink Floyd), Saturday, July 7, 8 p.m.; Benefit for Steve Cobb Sunday, July 8, 2-11 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.;

Guest House at Graceland Guitarist Nick Colionne First Monday-Sunday of every month, 8:30-10:30 p.m. 3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

Elvis Tribute featuring Michael

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

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

rell Sunday, July 8, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Co. Monday, July 9, 6 p.m.; Christopher Pietrangelo Tuesday, July 10, 5:30 p.m.; 40 Watt Moon Tuesday, July 10, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesday, July 11, 5:30 p.m.; The Memphis All Stars Wednesday, July 11, 8 p.m.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

CALENDAR of EVENTS:

July 5 - 11

T H EAT E R

Playhouse on the Square

Dreamgirls, follows the journey of a young female singing group from a revolutionary time in American music history. The trio learns that show business and stardom isn’t always as glamorous as it seems. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $25-$40. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through July 15. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

ART I ST R EC E PTI O N S

L Ross Gallery

Opening reception for “Abstraction,” exhibition of work by four regional artists. www. lrossgallery.com. Fri., July 6, 6-8 p.m. 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

WKNO Studio

Opening reception for “The Memphis I Love,” exhibition of photography by Adarryll Jackson, Sr. www.wkno.org. Sun., July 8, 4-6 p.m.

Free admission to Pink Palace Family of Museums for the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. Visit website for more information. Through Sept. 3.

July 5-11, 2018

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

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

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

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

“Eco Prints,” exhibition of prints on paper. Framed prints are $150, unframed $60. www.robinsoneditions.com. Through Aug. 31.

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

44 HULING (576-0708).

Friday Nights at the Gallery: Artist Talk with Mary Pera

Jay Etkin Gallery

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

Featuring group painting project and door prize drawing. Native Memphian who attended the University of Memphis and Memphis College of Art who began painting in her late twenties speaks. Fri., July 6, 6-8 p.m.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

L Ross Gallery

“Abstraction,” exhibition of work by four regional artists. www.lrossgallery.com. July 6-29. 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Leadership Memphis

ART BODY SOUL STUDIO, 1024 YATES ( 901-336-7573), WWW.ARTBODYSOULSTUDIO.COM.

“Trolley Night: Music, Messages, and Movements,” exhibition in partnership with The Withers Collection Museum & Gallery. Through Aug. 31.

Shoot & Splice

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE (FORMERLY SEARS CROSSTOWN), N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Blue Star Museums Program

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

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (7746380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

OT H E R ART HAP P E N I N G S

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Graceland

Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.

Monthly filmmaking forum. Tues., July 10, 7 p.m.

Visit website for more information and registration. $10 application fee. Through July 15.

Casting Demonstration

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

Accepting Applications: Crosstown Arts Residency Program

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

365 S. MAIN ST. (278-0016).

Marshall Arts Gallery

ONGOI NG ART

“The Memphis I Love” photography by Adarryll Jackson Sr. at WKNO Studio

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

Henrique. www.artvillagegallery.com. Through Aug. 31.

“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).

Art Village Gallery

“Somnium (Daydreams),” exhibition of 10 medium- to large-scale figurative paintings on reverse canvas by Mario

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

410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

ANF Architects

“The Best of the Best,” exhibition showcasing the winners of the Memphis Camera Club’s 2017 Year End Awards. www.anfa.com. Through Aug. 2. 1500 UNION (278-6868).

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).

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“Arboretum,” drawings and sculpture by John Salvest. Through July 27. “Southern Obscura,” enhanced photography by Jeane Umbreit. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through July 27. 97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“’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. Through July 15. “In The Garden,” exhibition of over 400,000 photographic objects dating back to the

inception of photography as a medium. The collection explores garden imagery and humans cultivating the land. www.dixon.org. July 8-Sept. 20. 4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

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

FireHouse Community Arts Center

Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing. 985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Arts of Global Africa,” exhibition of historic and contemporary works in a range of different media presenting an expansive vision of Africa’s artistry. Through June 21, 2021. “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. “African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style,” exhibition of dynamic traditions of African dress featuring

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“We Rise: The Final Biennial,” exhibition by Memphis College of Art’s Alumni Association. All alumni and community invited to celebrate the MCA art and artists that will continue to progress forward. www.mca. edu. Through July 15. 1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

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“DreamESCAPES,” exhibition of multi-media series of imagined, constructed landscapes of famous cities, iconic places, and sometimes rural, non-descrip-

tive corners of the world by O. Gustavo Plascencia. www.mca. edu. Through July 29.

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“Summer, Sun, and Art,” work in oils, acrylic, watercolor, and photography by 16 local artists from Artist Group of Memphis. (754-7282), stgchurch.org. Through July 29. 2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

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“The Chaos and the Cosmos: Inside Memphis Music’s Lost Decade, 1977-1986,” photography

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

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Anne Hughes Sayle, oil on canvas realistic landscapes and figures work and fabric art pieces. www.trezevantmanor. org. Through Aug. 10. 177 N. HIGHLAND (325-4000).

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e were sitting on the patio of the Celtic Crossing in Cooper-Young watching the second game of the FIFA World Cup, when Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo pulled a hat trick, tying a muchfavored Spain. The two tables next to us exploded with the cheers of a dozen Portuguese Elvis fans in Memphis for a bachelor party. Which isn’t something you see every day. Every couple of years during the Olympics, we suddenly get interested in sports like gymnastics or curling, so why not jump head-first into soccer every four years? The U.S. didn’t make it to the World Cup, but that’s no reason not to get involved, especially now that we’re in the high-stakes knockout round that Americans actually understand. Or when DJ’s hosting the party. DJ Naylor, owner of the Celtic Crossing, opens the bar for every game — every single one. When I showed up at 5 a.m. for France vs. Australia, the doors were open, about 10 fans were there, and coffee was on. So was the “World Cup of Beer” — a bucket featuring beers from the World Cup countries: Carlsberg from Denmark, Estrella from Spain, Asahi from Japan, Hoegaarden from Belgium, and Einstock White Ale from upstart Iceland. Also available in the bucket is Sol from Mexico, which pulled off an amazing upset of the German producers of Schöfferhofer. While a few of these teams are no longer in the tournament, their beers are still available for a little buzzed geopolitical diplomacy. These are all sports fan beers, drinkable lagers, except Einstock — a light ale. In Schöfferhoffer — which looks like an orange Fanta in the bottle — the Germans aren’t playing to type, but this was a weird year for them. It’s made with grapefruit, and given how picky the Germans are about beer production, it’s real grapefruit and not flavoring. It’s basically a shandy. Yes, I know, some of us need to tread carefully when ordering a beer that looks like Tang, but in the sticky heat this thing is really refreshing. Celtic Crossing’s World Cup

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General JANITORS NEEDED Outdoor retail mall. Multiple shifts avail. 901-232-0545. tangermemphis@stmoritzgroup.com _____________________

yearïInternal growth opportunities (promoting within) • Discounts to popular gyms, Weight-watchersÆ meetings and regular ﬁtness challenges by our on-staff wellness coordinator.

Hospitality/ Restaurant CAMY’S IS NOW HIRING ALL POSITIONS: Asst. Managers, Drivers, Cooks. Apply in person 2886 Walnut Grove Rd. Anytime. No Phone Calls. _____________________ JOIN OUR SUPPORT SERVICES TEAM Are you looking for an active, team-oriented and fulfilling career helping some of our nationís most vulnerable children? Our Support Services team helps take care of our residential facilities so we can better service our families and children. Maintenance Technician:Installs, maintains, and repairs machinery, equipment, physical structures, and pipe and electrical systems in a commercial establishment. Environmental Services Specialist/ Housekeeper: Maintains the assigned environment in a neat and orderly fashion, reduces hazards associated with disease transmission by using soaps/ germicides and keeps a sufficient supply of paper, cloth, and sanitary supplies for youth, staff and visitors.Prerequisites:ï High school diploma or GED (preferred) watchers • Most positions require one year of experience • May be required to life 30-75 lbs. depending on position • Desire to help children and families succeed We offer: • A comprehensive benefits package • Tuition and Licensure reimbursement • 10 paid holidays and 10 days of vacation, plus 12 days of sick leave per

YOUNG AVE DELI is looking for experienced cooks. Part time and full time opportunity available. Must be able to work in the evenings. Must be able to work on Sunday. Pay will be based on experience. Come by the Deli to ﬁll out an application. 2119 Young Avenue 38104

Professional/ Management EVELYN & OLIVE Jamaican and Southern Cuisine is now hiring for Wait Staff & Kitchen Help. Apply in person, Mon-Fri between 2-4pm. 630 Madison Ave Memphis, TN 38103. _____________________

SENIOR SALES EXECUTIVE - TISSUE needed at Buckman Laboratories in Memphis, TN. Must have Bach. of Sci. in Chemistry, Pulp/Paper or related and 5 yrs of chemical tissue sales exp., including: Managing sales representatives; Mentoring/

RAFFERTY’S HIRING - Servers & Dayshift Greeters Are you a hardworking & service mindedindividual that loves to smile & earn $$ Join us @ #65 4542 Poplar Ave. Apply Now www.raffertys.com _____________________

RAFFERTY’S IS HIRING Servers & Dayshift Greeters. Are you a hardworking & service minded individual that loves to smile & earn money? Join us @ #65 - 4542 Poplar Ave. Apply Now – www.raffertys.com _____________________

Training engineers in a production setting; Developing Continuous Improvement projects; Managing the Yankee Dryer Chemistry on a variety of paper machines. Must be available for long term assignments at Buckman client sites in the US and willing to travel up to 60% of the time. Please send resumes to hrjobs@buckman.com. Buckman Labs is an EOE - M/F/D/V.

Volunteer Opportunities IF YOU’RE A GOOD READER and can volunteer to do so please call 901-832-4530 Real Estate for Sale Acreage/Land for Sales _____________________ WOODED LOT 4/10th of an acre. Off Walnut Grove & Walnut Grove Lake Subdivision. 8567 Ericson Cove. $25,000901-517-6406

Look at this sweet smile! I’m a 1 1/2 year old boy who wants to have fun with an active family. I can sit, shake, stay, and rollover. I’m neutered, heartworm negative, and current on shots.

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to adopt me.

YOUNG AVE DELI is looking for kitchen staff.

In need of a day time prep cook and multiple late night closers (3AM) • Must be willing to work on Sunday. • Part time and full time opportunities are available. • Pay will be based on experience.

COPELAND SERVICES, L.L.C. Hiring Armed State Licensed Ofﬁcers/Unarmed OfﬁcersThree Shifts AvailableSame Day Interview1661 International Place901-258-5872 or 901-818-3187Interview in Professional Attire _____________________

Come by the Deli to fill out an application. 2119 Young Ave. 38104

RETAIL WINE SALES Downtown-Midtown Wine/Liquor store looking for PT sales associate for afternoon/evening shift. Great personality is required. Wine and spirits knowledge is a plus. Email resume to winesnob1102@gmail.com

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CLEAN AND PINK Is a upscale residential cleaning company that takes pride in their employees & the clients they serve. Providing exceptional service to all. The application process is extensive to include a detailed drug test, physical exam, and background check. The training hours are 8am6pm Mon - Thur. 12$-19$hr. Full time hours are Mon-Thu & rotating Fridays. Transportation to job sites during the work day is company provided. Body cameras are a part of the work uniform. Uniform shirts provided. Only serious candidates need apply. Those only looking for long term employment need apply. Cleaning is a physical job but all tools are company provided. Send Resume to cleannpink@msn.com

REAL ESTATE • SERVICES Housing for Rent

Midtown Apt

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Shared Housing 309 N. MONTGOMERY Room for rent with reduced rate for housekeeping assistance. Call Walter 288-7512. _____________________ FURNISHED ROOMS Bellevue/McLemore, Jackson/ Watkins, Airways/Park. W/D, Cable TV/Phone. 901-485-0897 NICE ROOMS FOR RENT S. Pkwy & Wilson. Utilities and Cable included. Fridge in your room. Cooking and free laundry

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Services HOME CLEANING SERVICE 30 years experience, dependable, low rates. Call (901)726-5976.

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25 N. Idlewild Street unit #7 and #8

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July 5-11, 2018

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THE LAST WORD by Steve Ross

Agricenter

You may think the uproar about early voting for the August Shelby County General election was just another example of Democrats saying the sky is falling. You’d be wrong. There are a lot of good reasons to be suspicious of the Election Commission. This is the same bunch, sans election administrator, who “helped” thousands of voters get the wrong ballots in 2012. So let’s go through the problems the Election Commission created for itself this time around. By state law, early voting in the August election begins July 13th. One thing state law doesn’t mandate is how many locations are open and for how many days. Higher turnout elections, like November, typically have all early voting locations open throughout the early voting term. Seventy percent of participating voters in November 2016 voted early. The August 2016 primary election wasn’t a high turnout affair. Less than 15 percent of all registered voters turned out in that election. Still, all early voting locations were open for all but two days. The May 2018 County Primary had even smaller turnout. Just 13.76 percent of voters participated. This May, all early voting locations were open for the entire early voting period. Finally, for an apples-to-apples comparison, the August 2014 election saw about 26 percent turnout. In that election, all early voting locations were open for all but two days. In fact, just about every non-November election in memory has had limited early voting on the first two days of the early voting term. Then all early voting sites open the following Monday, through the end of early voting. There should be a good deal of suspicion when the Election Commission arbitrarily cuts an additional two days of county-wide early voting from the schedule without cause or notice. The second complaint centered around the Agricenter. It was the only site originally set to be open the first four days of voting. The Agricenter is not a bad location for a large segment of the population. But it’s a less than ideal location for the majority of the county’s residents. As a sole voting location, the Agricenter would have kept tens of thousands of voters an hours-long bus commute away from the only place to vote for the first four days. The site may be in the most racially diverse precinct in East Memphis, but it is surrounded by some of the most white precincts in the entire county. There are only two majority-minority precincts within a five-mile radius. Democrats wanted all locations to be open throughout the entire early voting term, just as they were in the super-low-turnout May election. But that’s not what happened. The “compromise” means that one location, Abundant Grace Fellowship on Shelby Drive, will be open in an area that has a majority-minority population. Another, New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church on Poplar Pike in Germantown,will be open in an area that seems to have a good deal of crossover. Yet another, the Election Commission’s own Nixon Drive office at Shelby Farms, added by Administrator Linda Phillips, almost casually at the close of Friday’s public meeting on the subject (for reasons of state law, she said), will be open just around the corner from the Agricenter. There’s still a huge swath of Shelby County that’s nowhere near any of the three locations, including some areas that have the fewest public transportation options. Some of the highest-turnout GOP precincts in the county now have two early voting locations right around the corner from each other. It appears the compromise approved by the Shelby County Election Commission may have actually done more harm for Democrats, than good. Both Downtown and Midtown have viable early voting locations that serve large populations of minority voters and are close to public transportation options. For whatever reason, no core-city locations were on the table. Adding a Downtown location at a County building, which is the norm, would be a good alternative as well. But that also wasn’t on the table. Choosing not to engage stakeholders or to justify their actions is a continuing self-inflicted wound for this Election Commission. They, like so many other small boards in Shelby County, operate like a walled fiefdom, suspicious of anyone arriving at the gate. That makes them a prime candidate for skepticism. Steve Ross is a husband, father, and occasional blogger.

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

The Election Commission’s “compromise” on early-voting sites is still skewed toward Republicans.

THE LAST WORD

Pseudo-Solution

MINGLEWOOD HALL

JUST ANNOUNCED: Lil Scrappy & Yung Joc [9/8] Grateful Dead Tribute [8/4]

7/6: PC Band Jodeci Tribute 8/11: Riley Green 8/17: Memphis Burlesque 9/20: SuicideGirls Blackheart Burlesque 9/21: JJ Grey & Mofro w/ New Orleans Suspects 10/4: Whiskey Myers 10/12: Houndmouth w/ Family of the Year 10/23: Social Distortion w/ Will Hoge 10/27: Andy Grammer 11/1: Gary Clark Jr

Celebrating 75 Years JUST ANNOUNCED:

Sat Jul 28 – Daisyland presents 4B Sun Jul 29 – Jarren Benton UPCOMING:

Fri Aug 3 - Tory Lanez Sat Aug 4 –Daisyland presents Yheti Fri Aug 30 – Daisyland presents Rusko Sun Sep 9 – Matt and Kim Wed Sep 12 – Mat Kearney Tue Sep 18 – Chromeo Thu Oct 18 – Blue October Tue Dec 11 – Ministry

1884 LOUNGE

7/6: Jason Eady w/ Mark Edgar Stuart 7/13: Allman Brothers Tribute 9/20: Jonathan McReynolds 9/21: Adam Wakefield

NEW DAISY THEATRE 330 E Beale St Memphis 901.525.8981 • Advance Tickets at newdaisy.com and Box Office

MORE EVENTS AT MINGLEWOODHALL.COM

YOUNGAVENUEDELI.COM 2119 Young Ave • 278-0034

7/4: $3 Pint Night! 7/5: Memphis Trivia League! 7/7: UFC 226 Stipe Miocic vs. Daniel Cormier 7/15: Challenge Entertainment Trivia Semi Finals 7/28: Devil Train 7/29: Devil Train

SIMPLY HEMP SHOP We carry CBD oils, CBD honey sticks, CBD Teas & even CBD for Pets. Our products are available at Foozi Eats in Clark Tower. Call 901-443-7157 simplyhempshop.com

Kitchen Open Late! Now Delivering All Day! 278-0034 (limited delivery area)

BOOK REPAIR

Have an old book or bible that needs repair? Call Art, 2nd Editions Bookstore at 901.483.0478.

Coco & Lola’s

MidTown Lingerie Celebrate the 4th w/ Cossabella! www.cocoandlolas.com Finest lace - Coolest place 710 S. Cox|901-425-5912|Mon-Sat 11:30-7:00

Antiques & Collectibles

TUT-UNCOMMON ANTIQUES 421 N. Watkins St. 278-8965

21,000 sq ft. 100 + booths 5855 Summer Ave. (corner of Summer and Sycamore View ) exit 12 off I-40 | 901.213.9343 Mon-Sat 10a-6p | Sun 1p-6p

All Watches in stock is 50% OFF throughout June. 1500 sq. ft. of Vintage & Antique Jewelry. Retro Furniture and Accessories. Original Paintings, Sculpture, Pottery, Art & Antiques. We are the only store in the Mid-South that replaces stones in costume jewelryy.

$CASH 4 JUNK CARS$

Non-Operating Cars, No Title Needed.

901-691-2687

GROWLERS 1911 Poplar | 901growlers.com

7/7 - Left Unsung (Memphis Grateful Dead Tribute) 7/10 - Rob Aldridge & The Proponents w/ Grape. 7/12 - Dan Baird and Homemade Sin 7/13 - The Buffalo Ruckus 7/15 - Super Bob 7/18 - Rage Fest feat. ATTILA w/ Suicide Silence, Volumes, Rings of Saturn, Cross Your Fingers, Spite

MEMPHIS MADE BREWING Tap Room Hours: Mon, Thurs & Fri 4-10 p.m., Sat 1-10 p.m., Sun 1-7 p.m.

CBD Oil

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Vape Kits, E-Liquids, Edibles & Lotions The Broom Closet | 546 S. Main St. ThegreenmanCBD.com Free Shipping in US!

Free brewery tours Saturday & Sunday at 4 p.m

GONER RECORDS

New/ Used LPs, 45s & CDs.

We Buy Records!

2152 Young Ave 901-722-0095

Thur July 5: Carson McHone, 7p Fri July 6: Hope Clayburn, 8p Sat July 7: Webb Wilder, 8p Sun July 8: Rooster & Railcars Brunch Series, 12p Fri July 13: Freeworld, 8p Sat July 28: Go Fever, 8p Sun July 29: Sunday School with Tonya Dyson, 12p railgarten.com • 2166 Central Ave • 231-5043

Hamilton High School

Class of 1968 - 50th Reunion A benefit concert - OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

“The Sounds of Memphis!”

July 7th at 5pm The Cannon Center

The concert will feature Gospel, Country, R&B and Blues. Seven worthy organizations will be the beneficiaries of fundraiser. Tickets available on ticketmaster.com or The Cannon Center Box Office.

I Buy 45RPM Records & Old Windup Phonographs

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And Old 78 RPM’s on labels: Paramount, Okeh, Gennett, Vocalion, Champion, Supertone, Superior, QRS, Black Patti, Perfect, Romeo, Conqueror, Victor, Columbia, Edison, Sun, Meteor, Flip Many others. Call Paul: 901-435-6668