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That old Marty Robbins ballad fills my head almost every time my plane descends into El Paso over the trackless scrub-brush-and-mesquite desert that stretches to the jagged brown mountains west of the city. I’ve been flying to El Paso once or twice a year for more than two decades. My mother and a brother live in Las Cruces, New Mexico, just 40 miles away, on the other side of those brown mountains. I was there last weekend. On Saturday morning, we took a drive into the mountainous Mescalero Apache country, where the temperature was a brisk 61 degrees. At lunch, on a television screen in a restaurant, I saw a chyron that read, “10 dead in El Paso mall shooting.” On the drive home, as the temperature returned to a balmy 101 near White Sands, my brother read more details on his phone. It was bad. Try to imagine your favorite local television reporters dealing with a bloodbath beyond imagining. That’s what we saw on El Paso TV news when we returned to my mother’s apartment: the interviews with police, witnesses, and grief-stricken family members, all struggling to cope, to explain the inexplicable — this country’s ever-recurring horror show, where 10 dead becomes 18 becomes 22, where children see their parents die, where mothers, fathers, sons, and daughters fall in shock and agony, writhing on a shiny mall floor, wondering what happened and why, victims of a blind and ignorant hatred, carried out with a weapon of war. The American cancer. The recipe is familiar: a white male infected with white supremacist beliefs slaughtering an “other” with an AR-15 or the like with a high-capacity magazine. It was Hispanics who paid the price in El Paso, but Muslims, Jews, African Americans, and LGBTQ folks have all felt the deadly wrath in recent years. The El Paso killer drove 11 hours from Dallas to find Hispanics to kill. He posted a manifesto online that spoke of stopping the “invasion” of Hispanics, similar to language used by hate groups — similar to language used by President Trump in his rally speeches. This was a planned slaughter, carried out with malice aforethought, not the impulsive act of a madman. Later that night, the plague of violence and hate struck again in Dayton, Ohio, where nine people were indiscriminately murdered and 21 injured — most of them black. The president issued a “thoughts and prayers” tweet on Sunday, then played golf. On Monday, the president read a statement that used all the right words and phrases, even condemning white supremacists, which he had been loath to do previously. He will have visited El Paso and Dayton by the time you read this, which is also the right thing to do — at least, it is if their citizens want him to. Our Congressional and Senate leaders issued the standard thoughts and prayers tweets, but the Senate and House are on leave until September. No legislation will pass. Nothing will change. Nothing changed after Sandy Hook. Nothing changed after Parkland. Nothing changed after Las Vegas. Nothing will change after El Paso and Dayton. Nothing will change until we change the lawmakers who suckle at the teat of the NRA, and who value their elective office and their blood money more than the lives of their constituents. After 9/11, President Bush went to Ground Zero and said: “I want you all to know that America today is on bended knee in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here, for the workers who work here, for the families who mourn. The nation stands with the good people of New York City and New Jersey and Connecticut as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens. I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!” However imperfectly the war against terror was conducted — and it was a monumental fustercluck in many ways — the president and Congress took action, creating a Department of Homeland Security and a Director of National Intelligence. DHS N E WS & O P I N I O N agencies screened suspected terrorists’ THE FLY-BY - 4 phone calls and emails; new air travel NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 POLITICS - 7 regulations were instituted. SPORTS - 9 Three thousand people died on 9/11. COVER STORY “BRIAN More than 30,000 Americans will die BANKS AND THE ROAD TO from a bullet this year. It’s a national REDEMPTION” emergency that should have the presiBY CHRIS MCCOY - 10 WE RECOMMEND - 14 dent’s and Congress’ hair on fire. But it MUSIC - 16 doesn’t, and it won’t. They have failed us, AFTER DARK - 18 and they need to go.

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Talk show host’s homophobic tirade, FedEx invests more in Hub project, and MLGW posts low rates.

HAC K M E M P H I S Last week, Reddit user runfreedog asked the internet for pro-tips or life hacks for living in Memphis. Memphisvol8668: If you want to feel alive, drive in the lane closest to the sidewalk on Poplar in either direction. KimJongHard-un: Or, alternatively, ride in the middle lane between a MATA bus and an 18-wheeler. PenBandit: There’s no such thing as jaywalking in Memphis. If there’s no traffic, go on and cross. No one cares. We joke about turning your flashers on to park anywhere. This is not true. The parking enforcement people Downtown are some MFing, grade-A ninjas. plentyinsane: If you grocery shop on weekends, do it (Sunday) morning when everyone is at church. Posted to Memphis subreddit. August 8-14, 2019

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HOMOPHOBIC TI R AD E A local talk show host’s recent statements about an openly gay man running for Memphis City Council were labeled “cringe-worthy and insidious” by a gayrights group last week. On two of his shows last week, Thaddeus Matthews targeted Davin Clemons, the Memphis Police Department’s LGBTQ liaison. Clemons is running for the council’s District 6 seat. If he wins, Clemons will be the council’s first openly gay member. The LGBTQ Clockwise from top left: FedEx invests, MLGW’s low rates, Bird (and other) scooters, Victory Fund, a Davin Clemons, and TVA’s “Energy Democracy” listening tour national organization dedicated to electing LGBTQ leaders to public office, has and San Antonians paid $240.98. been monitoring Matthews’ attacks on Clemons closely. The group condemned the remarks, calling them POWE R TO U R “homophobic comments and false accusations targeting” Memphis was the first stop of the “Energy Democracy” Clemons. listening tour aimed to put more of the public in Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) “public power.” H U B I NVESTM E NT The tour stop was to give community members a chance FedEx Corp. will invest an additional $450 million in its to discuss the history and impacts of the TVA energy $1.1 billion Memphis Hub modernization project, according system, evaluate decision making, and “to envision how our to state and company officials on Friday. public power could better serve communities in the Valley.” The company announced the modernization project Dennis Lynch, chairman of the Sierra Club Chickasaw in March 2018. That project includes a new sort facility, Group Memphis said utility customers have high energy installation of state-of-the-art systems, and construction burdens, meaning they spend a large portion of their of a new bulk truckload building to support changing paychecks on power. Memphians also have relatively small e-commerce needs, according to the company. amounts of low-cost clean energy sources, like solar, he said. The total investment is now more than $1.5 billion over the next six years. The project is expected to be complete by M O B I LITY M O N EY 2025. The hub now employs more than 11,000 people. Memphis officials project that the city will collect $500,000 from scooter and bike operators during the first year of its LOW R ATES Shared Mobility Program. Memphis has the third-lowest energy rates among the Officials said that the fees collected from each operator biggest cities in the country, according to the latest figures will be used to support targeted safety and educational from Memphis Light, Gas & Water (MLGW). programs. Nicholas Oyler, the city’s bikeway and pedestrian Only Oklahoma City and San Antonio had better program manager, said the content and structure of those rates as of January. That’s when MLGW surveyed power programs is yet to be determined. companies across the country to see how Memphis stacks The fees collected from the operators will also go up on energy rates. toward improving and expanding the city’s bikeway In January, MLGW customers paid $260.54 on 1,000 network, Oyler said. kilowatt-hours of electricity, 200 cubic feet of gas, and 10 Visit the News Blog at memphisflyer.com for fuller versions of cubic feet of water. Oklahoma City customers paid $226.70, these stories and more local news.

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The Memphis Police Department responds after back-to-back mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.

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In light of the recent deadly mass shootings in the country, the Memphis Police Department (MPD) has upped its presence at shopping centers, malls, and Walmart stores here. Over the weekend, the department implemented this directed patrol to maintain high visibility of law enforcement officers and to assure the safety of shoppers in these areas, MPD director Michael Rallings said. “We know that with all these recent shootings, a lot of folks are on edge,” Rallings said. “We are reassuring the community that we are taking proactive steps to keep you safe.” However, Rallings said the department is currently hindered by the 1978 Kendrick Consent Decree that prohibits political surveillance. A federal judge ruled the department had violated that decree last year and appointed a team to monitor MPD’s compliance to the decree. “Law enforcement needs to know what’s going on,” Rallings said, citing a manifesto posted online by the El Paso gunman shortly before the shooting. “As we continue to work with the courts and work with our monitor, we’ll come up with some solutions, some methods, some measures to do what law enforcement does all over the nation to keep people safe.” Rallings said the department has done “a number”

of active shooter trainings and plans to increase those in the future. “This is something that we do all the time,” Rallings said. “But obviously with these situations coming up more and more, we’ll do more of that.” There have been 255 mass shootings in the United States so far in 2019, according to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA). The latest mass shootings took place last weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, resulting in 31 total deaths. The GVA is a not-for-profit corporation that collects data for law enforcement, media, government,

and commercial sources in an effort to provide real-time data on gun violence. The GVA is one of a handful of organizations that track mass shootings and publish the data. The GVA defines mass shootings as a shooting in which four or more people, not including the shooter, are injured or killed in a single location. Based on that definition, there have been three mass shootings in Memphis this year, according to the GVA. One person was killed as a result, and 13 people were injured. None of the shootings here were considered active-shooter incidents, which the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) defines as a situation in which “an individual is actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” Since 2015, three active-shooter incidents have occurred in Tennessee, according to the FBI. In 2016, one person was killed and three were wounded after a gunman opened fire at a Days Inn in Bristol. In 2017, a man shot and killed one person and wounded seven after opening fire in the parking lot of Burnette Chapel Church of Christ in Antioch. In 2018, a gunman opened fire in a Nashville Waffle House, killing four people and wounding four others.

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One of the more intriguing rivalries on the 2019 city election ballot features a race between a father and daughter.

There was one exception: the District 6 City Council race, in which two candidates named Bond are competing — Perry Bond and Theryn Bond. They are father and daughter, as it happens, and when the two of them, along with candidates for other offices, turned up at AFSCME headquarters on Beale Street last Thursday for a forum sponsored by various Demoratic Party groups, the only reference to the pairing came from the senior Bond, who noted for the audience, “My daughter is in this race, too, and she has every right to be there.” In her turn, Theryn Bond described her race as a venture in courage — appropriately enough, since, as she explained, she has in the last several months faced and overcome cervical cancer. Even before that, Theryn Bond made something of a name for herself at council meetings as an articulate and consistent opponent of the established order of things on the current council.

• Yes, it’s true: Steve Cohen has an opponent. The 9th District Congressman, who has knocked off a serious string of Democratic challengers since 2006, when he first emerged victorious from a multi-candidate primary field, now faces a 2020 bid from Corey Strong, the former Shelby County Democratic chairman. Strong acknowledges that Cohen has made the appropriate votes in Congress, supported legislation that a Democrat should have supported, properly backed up Democratic President Obama, and has correctly opposed Republican President Trump. Further, says Strong, the congressman has successfully become a factor in key national dialogues. What he has failed to do, Strong maintains, is to bring jobs to a home region that desperately needs them. Strong even finds evidence of this alleged failure in a well-publicized stunt staged by Cohen last spring on the House Judiciary Committee. That was the occasion in May when the congressman ridiculed the failure of Attorney General William Barr to answer a subpoena by wolfing down pieces from a Kentucky Fried Chicken basket at his seat on the committee. Cohen got headlines, both pro and con, and, says Strong, “I have no problem with that. What I have a problem with is that we’ve got all kinds of local fried-chicken enterprises here in Memphis, and he could have made his point with them if he wanted. But he didn’t.” Strong is well aware that Cohen, who is white and Jewish, has easily dispatched all previous would-be party continued on page 8

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Alphabetical order being what it is, the two Bonds lead the list of candidates on the October 3rd ballot. That should help their vote totals in a district race which already has some drama. Edmund Ford Sr., the former holder of the seat, is attempting to regain it, and Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, engaged in a running feud with Ford’s son, Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr., has endorsed yet another candidate, Davin Clemons, a minister/policeman who serves as the MPD’s liaison with the LGBTQ community.

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While the Memphis city election was still in the petitionpulling phase, it looked for a while that there might be several family members — mostly named Ford — who might be running against each other in pursuit of the same office. By the time last month when both the filing and the withdrawal deadlines had come and gone and the Election Commission had certified an official candidate list, however, most of those intriguing matchups had failed to materialize. They were cases, generally, in which various candidates had considered a variety of races before settling on one, and, when the settling occurred, the potential familial rivalries disappeared from the election roster.

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POLITICS continued from page 7 rivals in his predominantly AfricanAmerican Memphis district since that first victory in 2006. He has triumphed over Justin Ford, Willie Herenton, Tomeka Hart, Ricky Wilkins, and Nikki Tinker, all of whom had either name recognition or financial support or both. He has done so, as Strong acknowledges, by careful attention to the needs of his constituency in most ways — save the aforementioned inability to raise the income level of his district. Strong believes he can succeed at that task, where, he says, Cohen has not. And one way of demonstrating his prowess will be to raise a campaign budget that will allow him to compete with the financially well-endowed incumbent Congressman on relatively even terms. “I will do that,” says Strong, a Naval Reserve officer who in 2017 became the renovated Shelby County Democratic Party’s bounce-back chairman after it was decommissioned by the state Democrats a year earlier during a period of internal stress and discord within the local party. Strong acknowledges that Michael Harris, his successor as local party chairman, has had a difficult problem arousing support from party cadres because of issues stemming from his suspended law practice. But, says Strong, local Democrats have a duty to support their party. The future congressional aspirations of current Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris have become so obvious as to make Harris’ ambitions something of a public proverb, and a good race next year by Strong, even if unsuccessful, could serve the purpose of setting up a future challenge against Mayor Harris.

But Strong insists he is in the 9th District race this year to win. • The 2019 session of the Tennessee General Assembly is over, but one of the key pieces of legislation that emerged from it — a bill to permit private school vouchers via public money — is apparently still subject to change. It will be remembered that the bill barely passed the state House of Representatives, and did so only because then-House Speaker Glen Casada held open the vote for an hour, during which time he bargained with members opposed to the measure in an effort to change at least one vote. That vote turned out to be that of Representative Jason Zachary (R-Knoxville), who succumbed to a pledge from Casada that the voucher bill would be rewritten to exclude Zachary’s home city. With an eye toward future potential opposition in the state Senate, the bill was rewritten, in fact, to exclude all localities except Memphis and Nashville, which became the sole subjects of what was now styled as a “pilot” program. A vigorous opponent of the bill, which was a pet project of Governor Bill Lee, was Representative Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville), who has now become Speaker in the wake of a scandal that forced Casada out of the position. Sexton continues to oppose vouchers and wishes at the very least to delay their onset. Lee, meanwhile, has reacted to the change of circumstance by expressing a desire to speed up the implementation of vouchers from 2021 to 2020. The coming legislative session may well come to focus on the struggle over the issue between the two leaders.

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Clipped Wings? Can the Cardinals win MLB’s Mecca of Mediocrity division?

Last week at AutoZone Park, Memphis fans were able to cheer fully half of last season’s Cardinal everyday lineup: third-baseman Matt Carpenter, outfielders Marcell Ozuna and Harrison Bader, and veritable catching legend, Yadier Molina. Due either to injury rehab (Ozuna and Molina), hitting struggles (Bader), or both (Carpenter), players required for any hopes of a championship in St. Louis were battling the Albuquerque Isotopes and El Paso Chihuahuas. A Memphis team well out of the hunt for a playoff berth suddenly found itself with unprecedented big-league star power. Perhaps not coincidentally, the TripleA club won 12 of 16 games through Sunday, its longest sustained winning stretch of the season. Will the Cardinals find a roster capable of competing with the Cubs or, deep breaths, the Los Angeles Dodgers in a playoff series? As with every baseball team that’s ever won a championship, it boils down to pitching. As of now, St. Louis has an inadequate starting rotation. Michael Wacha was

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among the primary names discussed as trade bait before the deadline came and went. Adam Wainwright has been 2009 Waino at Busch Stadium and very much 2019 Waino when he pitches on the road. Rookie Dakota Hudson leads the club with 10 wins, but has been uneven at best. Jack Flaherty has pitched like an ace of late, but it took him 13 starts before earning his most recent win (over the Cubs last week). Who can Memphis send north to help from the mound? Lefty Génesis Cabrera looked strong last Saturday, striking out nine in seven innings against El Paso. Is the 22-year-old ready to eat innings in the cauldron of a September pennant chase? That’s hard to envision. Jake Woodford started the Triple-A All-Star Game last month but allowed a combined 14 earned runs in his last two starts. The sad truth for St. Louis is that the club’s best starting pitcher may be the man now closing games for the team (Carlos Martinez). Carpenter returned to the Cardinals Sunday and re-assumed his spot as the club’s leadoff hitter and third-baseman. (This led to Cardinal manager Mike Shildt starting former Redbird Tommy Edman — a career infielder — in rightfield.) Ozuna is also back, hoping the bat that delivered 20 home runs over the season’s first three months will resume thumping as Labor Day approaches. And Molina will soon take over behind the plate for the Cardinals, forcing Shildt to get creative in finding at-bats for Matt Wieters, the veteran backup who helped St. Louis climb into first place in Molina’s absence. The Redbirds have one, lengthy (11 games) home stand remaining on their schedule. AutoZone Park will not host playoff baseball this season. What remains to be seen is whether or not the Cards’ top farm club might provide a difference-maker for the parent club. Those two minor league player-of-themonth awards for outfielder Randy Arozarena — to date not on the Cardinals’ 40-man roster — can take up only so much space on a wall. He wants to play in the major leagues. With a .381 batting average through 47 games with Memphis, perhaps it’s time he should.

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he St. Louis Cardinals essentially stood pat at baseball’s trade deadline. This means what you saw in July in St. Louis — and to some degree, in Memphis — is what you’ll see in October, should the Cards be able to catch the Chicago Cubs, win the National League Central Division, and end a three-year postseason drought. When the Cardinal brass chose not to make a significant deal on July 31st, they did so from a first-place perch in the NL Central. Trouble is, St. Louis has been bunched with the Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers (and at times, the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds) all season in what can best be described as baseball’s Mecca of Mediocrity. So how will the season’s final two months play out?

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Brian Banks and the Road to Redemption

Director Tom Shadyac’s comeback picture is made in Memphis.

n 2007, Tom Shadyac fell off his bike. “I thought everything was fine, but within a few hours, everything wasn’t fine,” he recalls. “I couldn’t see in a room full of light because the light was too sharp. I couldn’t be in a room with sounds because sounds were torturous, whether it was a clanking plate or a car going by. I quickly knew something was wrong, and it wasn’t getting any better, it was getting worse. I looked it up online, and I checked every box of postconcussion syndrome.” Shadyac spent the next three years 10 recovering from his injury. “I’m a

pretty athletic guy. I’ve had a number of concussions before. You only get so many concussion chips, then when your chips are out, you develop traumatic brain injury (TBI). And that’s what happened. I fell off my bike, and I’d had too many concussions. It wasn’t a terrible concussion, but it just never went away. I was sensitive to light and sound, I had to sleep in a closet. I had mood swings. I couldn’t engage in any kind of social life. It took a long, long time to heal. It’s one degree a day of a thousand degrees that have to be recalibrated.” In 2007, Brian Banks got out of

prison. Five years earlier, he had been an outstanding high school linebacker with scholarships on offer from the University of Southern California (USC) and a possible future in the NFL. When he got out, he was facing life as a felon and a registered sex offender. Banks had proclaimed his innocence of the charge of rape a high school classmate brought against him. But he never got a chance to present a jury with his exculpatory DNA evidence or to challenge his accuser’s shifting story in court. The DA and his lawyer cooked up a plea bargain where Banks, who was facing

more than 40 years in prison, pleaded no contest to a single charge in exchange for probation. The 16-year-old was given 10 minutes to decide his fate — and then, after he accepted the deal, the judge sent him to jail anyway. Faced with a bleak future of ankle monitors and menial jobs, he had little choice but to set out on an improbable quest to clear his name. “I COULDN’T PICTURE MYSELF IN A SUIT AND TIE” Tom Shadyac’s first exposure to show business was from comedian Danny

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Aldis Hodge (left) plays Brian Banks in the new film by Tom Shadyac. Sherri Shepherd plays his mother, Leomia.

INNOCENCE PROJECT Brian Banks spent the first years of his post-prison life just trying to survive. His mother had sold their house and her car trying to finance his legal defense. He tried to get back into football, with limited success. His accuser had sued the Long

Actor Aldis Hodge had to possess both the physicality and emotional depth to portray Brian Banks. “Aldis was that combination in one person,” says director Tom Shadyac.

Beach School District for creating an unsafe situation and won a $1.5 million settlement. Banks pursued rumors that his accuser had told her friends that he hadn’t raped her, but to no avail. He had made repeated appeals for help to the California Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization based in San Diego dedicated to overturning wrongful convictions, but since he had already served his sentence, they denied him assistance. A “CHILDLIKE” FILMMAKER In 1993, “I had gotten out of film school, and I was taking some meetings,” Shadyac says. “There was a script for Ace Ventura, but it was more of just an idea. It had some storytelling challenges, so I came up with a way to rewrite it.” Shadyac had first seen a young comedian named Jim Carrey at The Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. He was a breakout star of the sketch comedy show In Living Color. “He was literally just this genius, bright light chewing up every scene he was in.” Shadyac’s decision to cast Carrey would be a watershed moment in both of their lives — and in the annals of

American film comedy. “Jim acted the movie out at the Hamburger Hamlet, a restaurant on the Sunset Strip,” Shadyac recalls. “I was there, and we put on a little show for the Morgan Creek executives, and they financed the movie.” Ace Ventura: Pet Detective became a sleeper hit, earning $107 million at the box office on a $15 million budget. It made a superstar out of Carrey and put Shadyac on the Hollywood map. Shadyac would go on to work with Carrey again in 1997’s Liar Liar and 2003’s Bruce Almighty. “He’s got gifts and skills that I am in awe of — his intelligence, his specificity, his work ethic,” Shadyac says. Shadyac’s skills with comedy talent didn’t go unnoticed by other actors. He made Patch Adams with Robin Williams and Evan Almighty with Steve Carell. In 1996, he directed Eddie Murphy in a remake of The Nutty Professor. “I think Eddie’s probably the most brilliant actor in the history of our business when it comes to becoming another character — creating a life, a specificity, a rhythm, an emotional history,” Shadyac says. “And he can do it on the spot.” The director could have gone on Director Tom Shadyac

making goofy (“I use the word ‘childlike,’” Shadyac says.) comedies indefinitely. But he was on the lookout for something different. “I always want to grow as an artist, so growth is its own challenge. I’ve tried not to repeat myself. Yes, there is a certain pressure that comes with success. Your last movie made this much money, so your next one needs to make more,” he says. “Success can breed stagnation. You stop listening. You feel your own power. You get less collaborative. For me, the challenge has always been, how do you keep those negative ideas at bay and try to grow as an artist?” In 2002, he wrote and directed a drama called Dragonfly. “If you knew me, you would know that I’m not walking around yukking it up all the time,” he says. “I’ve got a spiritual side. I’m interested in what we call fate and God. What is this universal energy that puts the space and time drama in motion? Dragonfly was a way to express something different.” EXONERATED Brian Banks had been on probation for four years when something unexpected happened. He was contacted on Facebook by the woman who, almost a decade earlier, had accused him of rape. She wanted to meet up and talk to him. Banks was wary at first — meeting his accuser face to face would be a violation of his parole. But it turned out to be worth it. The accuser admitted to Banks that, fearing she would get into trouble after being discovered out of class, she had lied about the rape. Banks, with the assistance of a private detective, recorded the confession. Armed with new proof, he finally got the California Innocence Project to take his case. In May 2012, the DA who had convicted Banks moved to dismiss all charges against him and expunge his record. The next year, Banks signed with the Atlanta Falcons, becoming one of the oldest rookies in the history of the league. THE ROAD TO MEMPHIS “The bike accident made me want to express other parts of myself,” says Shadyac. “I realized my time was limited. I was staring death in the face, and death is the great clarifier.” After years of recovery, he directed continued on page 12

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Thomas. “My dad [attorney Richard C. Shadyac Sr.] and he were good friends, and my father, of course, helped to found St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital,” he says. “But I saw what entertainment could do, especially for people like my mom. My mom was handicapped, and she had some issues with pain and spasms. She was paralyzed — a semi-paraplegic. We used to watch the Johnny Carson show together, and I saw how that lifted her up. I think that was sort of my rooting in the power of what entertainment, humor, and storytelling can do in a life.” While in high school, in the mid-1970s, Shadyac started a joke-of-the-day series with a friend, and started writing short comedy skits for talent shows. He went to the University of Virginia with the stated intention of being a lawyer like his father, but says, “I couldn’t picture myself in a suit and tie for the rest of my life. So I took a shot at writing some humor.” His first break came in the early 1980s, when his uncle introduced him to comedian Bob Hope. “While he wasn’t exactly my style — I was from a different generation — it was an opportunity to work with someone at the top of their field and to learn the building blocks of how to write a joke.” Writing for the workaholic Hope was a comedic trial by fire. “It was kind of like being a doctor on call,” Shadyac says. “He would reach out at all hours of the day, any day of the week. He would say, ‘I’m at Walter Annenberg’s estate tonight, and the Queen of England is going to be there. Can you write me some jokes?’ Once, I was skiing with my friends on the weekend. I came off the mountain, and I wrote jokes.” After writing for Hope for three years, Shadyac bounced around Hollywood until 1989. “I had tried nearly everything in show business,” he says. “I had written jokes, I had written sitcoms, I had written scripts. I had done some acting, I had done stand-up comedy, I had taught acting and improvisation. I decided to go back to film school to make a short film. I went to UCLA film school, and the first day of making my student film, I was squatting under a sink in the bathroom, doing the first shot of someone looking in a mirror. And it hit me — this is what I’m going to be doing the rest of my life.”

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the documentary I Am, which he calls “the most personal picture I have done.” He started a homeless shelter in Charlottesville, Virginia, sold his house, and moved into a trailer park in Malibu. He started teaching film at Pepperdine University until his brother, Richard Shadyac Jr., CEO of ALSAC, asked him to come to the University of Memphis. “So I did, and it’s turned into seven years. I never left,” he says. “There’s a soul to this place. There’s a reason that soul came out of here, and rock-and-roll. There’s a soul to this place that’s deep and dark, bright and rich. It can get ahold of you … I came here to teach, and I ended up being the one who was taught. I learned about my students’ stories and what they face with such courage and perseverance. It inspired me and changed me.” Shadyac bought property in Soulsville and opened Memphis Rox, which was the first climbing gym in Memphis. “It’s a safe space for kids from all over Memphis to recreate,” he says.

“It felt very much like the stories of my students, who had faced challenges with courage.” As he taught, he was still trying to get back in the director’s chair. “There’s this misconception that I took 10 years off,” he says. “But the past 10 or 11 years, I’ve faced more than my share of rejection. … It was all part of me needing to be reinvented as an artist.” In 2016, while he was teaching at LeMoyne-Owen College, Shadyac was contacted by producer Amy Baer. “She met Brian Banks and thought his film had to be made,” he says. “It felt very much like the stories of my students, who had faced challenges with courage and positivity. Because of my experience in Memphis, I felt that I might have the credibility to tell this story. I certainly was passionate about social justice issues, and young people that I cared about had been facing so many injustices and doing it with positivity. I started to explore it and think about the possibilities. “When I met Brian, it sealed the deal. Brian is such a unique, brilliant soul, who has faced the darkest possibilities that a society can impose on a person. He remained positive and came out of it shining like the sun. That light that Brian is changed me, and we hope that it will change others. They’ll see a part of America that they didn’t know existed, and they’ll also see the power of an individual who can meet a challenge with such persistence that it can change everything around them.” In the film, Aldis Hodge plays Banks. “I didn’t pick him. He seized the role,” says Shadyac.“It’s a really difficult role. There’s a physicality to it, so that automatically

eliminates about 90 percent of the actors. Brian was a linebacker and destined for the pros. You have to have that strength and physicality. You have to have that depth of experience and soul. Aldis was that impossible combination in one person.” Brian Banks was shot here at Shadyac’s Memphis Mountaintop Media, a film campus he developed in Soulsville. “In L.A., the gates are closed,” he says. “Here, we’re keeping the gates open. We want to serve the community with our art, and we want the community to be part of that art. … I believe accessibility is important. The misunderstanding about the movie industry is that everyone is a writer/actor/ producer. No. Cooking is an art form. You have to feed a crew of 150-200 people. Makeup is an art form. Hair is an art form. Construction is an art form. There’s this myriad of jobs available, and communities like South Memphis need jobs.” LeMoyne-Owen College graduate Jeffrey Garrison was one of 30 young Memphians who interned on the Brian Banks set. “I shadowed the different departments and ended up staying with the camera department. I even took off work to be up there almost every day,” Garrison says. “That was the first time I was around people shooting films. Everything was new to me, everything was just breathtaking. … That was 2017. Ever since then, I have been working in the film industry. Right now, I’m an office production assistant for the TV show Bluff City Law. So I’m still in it, and I have aspirations of becoming a producer. There’s no turning back for me. I made my mind up.” JUSTICE FOR ALL When Brian Banks premieres this weekend in Memphis and all over the country, it will be the culmination of a long journey. Banks and California Innocence Project attorney Justin Brooks (played in the film by Greg Kinnear) are co-executive producers of the film. “I’ve screened a lot of movies in my day and have had a lot of strong reactions. This movie is about the strongest reaction I have ever had from a film,” says Shadyac. “I think it’s an important picture, especially for people who want to see a part of America that they’re not familiar with. There’s not yet a system of justice for all. I think it’s important to see the AfricanAmerican experience, where the scales of justice are not weighted in their favor. They’re forced to take pleas and serve sentences that are not just. We all have to look at it and take responsibility for it. “The reason I did this picture was that Brian reflected such positivity in the face of such darkness. It’s a metaphor for whatever we’re going through. Brian was put into prison physically, but we’re all dealing with some kind of prison in our own lives. Brian provides a role model to meet those challenges with light and courage and positivity. If he could get through what he got through, most of us could certainly get through what we’re going through.”

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Peace, Love, & Streetdog Streetdog Foundation (SDF), a local nonprofit pup rescue organization dedicated to keeping at-risk and endangered dogs off the streets, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. And to ring in a new decade of saving canines, SDF hosts Peace, Love, & Streetdog at Loflin Yard this Saturday. “At any given time, we have between 60 and 75 dogs available for adoption,” says Laura Lines, media coordinator for the foundation. Around 10 of these puppers will come to represent the many dogs looking for homes. “Volunteers will be available to talk about and answer questions about the dogs,” Lines says. “We will have a multimedia slideshow to show the rest of the dogs available for adoption and all the other dogs who have been adopted through Streetdog.” With a donation of $15, guests will receive a tie-dye pint glass, which can be filled with any specialty drink. Guests will also be able to participate in activities including a best dog collar contest, silent auction, and raffle. Prizes include a tour and tasting at Old Dominick Distillery, pet grooming products basket, Hollywood Feed gift basket, and artwork. A large anniversary cake for everyone to share serves as icing on the cake. Since the foundation’s opening in 2009, more than 1,200 dogs have been rescued, and to keep the mission going, they’re always looking for volunteers, adopters, and foster parents. For more information, visit their website at streetdogfoundation.com or find them on Facebook. PEACE, LOVE, & STREETDOG 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, LOFLIN YARD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10TH, 2-5 P.M., FREE TO ATTEND.

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An Evening with Emily Bazelon & Noura Jackson 438 N. Cleveland, 7:30-9 p.m., $10 (general admission), $35 (admission and book) Author Emily Bazelon discusses her latest book, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, alongside Memphian Noura Jackson, whose story of being wrongfully convicted of killing her mother is featured.

Elvis Week at Graceland Graceland, cost varies by event Celebrations for Elvis Week kick off Friday, with a ticketed group excursion to Tupelo and an Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest at the Graceland Soundstage. Festivities continue through August 17th.

Crosstown Arthouse: Do the Right Thing Crosstown Theater, 1350 Concourse Avenue, 7:30-9:30 p.m., $5 Special 30th anniversary screening of Spike Lee’s debut film.

Soulin’ on the River Mud Island River Park, gates at 6 p.m., music at 7 p.m. This edition of the free summer concert series in The Grove on Mud Island features the Lucky 7 Brass Band. Bring coolers, chairs, and blankets for a picnic with Memphis music and the Mighty Mississippi as a backdrop.

Cole O’Keeffe’s “God is Real and Other Perceptions” is on view at Jay Etkin. Arts, p. 28 SATURDAY August 10 Kinky Boots Playhouse on the Square, 66 S. Cooper, 8 p.m., $15-$27 Musical, based on the 2005 British film of the same name, featuring the story of Charlie, who’s inherited a failing shoe company. Enter Lola, a drag queen and cabaret performer who just might save the day with her line of stellar high-heeled boots. Runs through September 1st. FreeWorld Dirty Crow Inn, 855 Kentucky, 9 p.m.-midnight Get down and dirty at the Crow with Memphis’ longest-running jam band. Order up a plate of Jay’s Sweet Heat smoked wings and jamonit!

Pasta for Pups St. Agnes Academy, 4830 Walnut Grove, 4-7 p.m., $10 Annual fund-raiser with spaghetti dinner, cake walk, and silent auction benefits Tails of Hope Dog Rescue. Do it for the dogs. Cupcake and Beer Pairing Meddlesome Brewing Company, 7750 Trinity, Suite 114, 4 p.m., $12 Cake and beer — an odd couple? See for yourself. Admission fee includes five 4-ounce craft beers and five mini cupcakes baked by The Middle Rack. Event runs until there’s nothing left but crumbs.

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Eve of Great Battle By Julia Baker Memphis Armored Fight Club throws down the gauntlet for an eve of great battle Saturday night at the Hi Tone. A few of their 25 armored men will showcase the sport of full-contact steel fighting by pummeling each other in the heads with blunted weapons, which may or may not include polearms, axes, or swords. Despite the way it sounds, co-founder Nicholas Homa says the sport is relatively safe. “It’s an extreme sport,” he says. “It’s safe compared to boxing, where you have no equipment preventing injury. But accidents happen sometimes.” Risk always comes with reward, though, according to Homa, who says there are numerous benefits to armored fighting. “We have members who range from their early 20s up to their mid-50s, and they’re getting themselves in shape and receiving cardio they’ve never had before,” he says. “They’re also establishing healthy habits, like losing weight and eating better, to better help support themselves in the sport.” Each set of armor members wear weighs between 40 and 70 pounds, and a lot of strategic research goes into ensuring replicas stay true to medieval times. “Most of our armor is all from the 14th to 16th centuries,” he says. “Everything we use, we have to be able to document it from an actual source from a museum. So we’ll have to find images of something that we want to have made and put together a complete kit that’s within a 50-year time range.” MEMPHIS ARMORED FIGHT CLUB, HI TONE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10TH, 8 P.M., $10.

Electric Watershed Carolina Watershed, 141 E. Carolina, 5 p.m.-1 a.m. This EDM “festival in your backyard” features music by Nodus Defect, Don Twan, DrewBeats, and more — until the wee hours of the morning. Are your robot ears ready for this? Obscura: Dressed to Frill – Cosplay Redux Growlers, 1911 Poplar, 10 p.m.3 a.m., $7 Obscura - A Gothic Affair hosts this Harajuku-inspired event. Don your best cosplay or J-fashion and enjoy ’80s, goth, dark rock, and synth music from DJs Alpha Heather and Plastic Citizen.

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George Klein Tribute Show Lafayette’s Music Room, 2119 Madison, 4 p.m., $50-$100 Celebrating the life of beloved Memphis radio DJ and Elvis’ longtime friend George Klein, who passed away earlier this year. Live music by Carla Thomas, Jason D. Williams, Joyce Cobb, William Bell, Kelly Lang, the Royal Blues Band, and more.

E-Week Concert Series Halloran Centre, 225 S. Main, 4 & 10 p.m., $50-$60 Two tribute shows this Monday. Elvis: Memories in the Making (4 p.m.) features performances from a trio of award-winning tribute artists. Class of ’56 and Friends (10 p.m.) is a musical celebration, with songs that brought the Million Dollar Quartet into the spotlight.

Sunset Jazz at Court Square Court Square Park (at N. Main and Court), 6-8 p.m. Free family-friendly concert featuring music from Jamille “Jam” Hunter. Food trucks on site and seating available.

Stepping Out for Company D Napa Cafe, 5101 Sanderlin, 6 p.m., $150 Four-course wine pairing dinner benefits the dancers of Company d, a pre-professional dance company for young adults with Down syndrome.

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building,” with lyrics by Elvis Costello. Portraying the very mixed blessing of a job surge that follows a nation’s return to war (in the Falkland Islands), the song’s hope for decent work in the shipyards is always undercut with ambivalence over what’s creating a demand for ships in the first place. “I’ve been wanting to do that song since the first time I heard it,” says LaVere. “But it’s not the world’s easiest song to play and sing. I actually gave up playing bass on it. Will had figured it out, and as soon as I stopped playing bass on it and could just focus on singing it, it became a real moment in the live show. I really get out of my head when I sing it. It’s a very emotional song. And Rick Steff playing accordion on there broke my heart.” Amy LaVere

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hen speaking with Memphis musical stalwart Amy LaVere about her new album, Painting Blue (Nine Mile Records), I hesitate to pin it down as “dark.” There are plenty of light, lovely moments on it. But there’s no denying that, after tapping into the darker side of hopefulness with album opener, “I Don’t Wanna Know” by John Martyn, she returns to that well again and again. “Waiting for the towns to tumble/Waiting for the planes to fall/Waiting for the cities to crumble/Waiting to see us crawl,” she sings, tweaking the original lyrics subtly, setting a stage where even moments of love are framed by the shadows of a world confronting disaster. “There’s a real melancholy feeling to the record,” I finally say, and LaVere can’t help but agree. It was born of melancholy, though recording it ultimately helped her find a way out, as she adjusted to the joys of her marriage to guitarist and songwriter Will Sexton. “When Will and I first got together,” she recalls, “there was this euphoria, and I went through this really weird transition period of learning how to be happy. Allowing myself to be happy. I was pretty depressed. It was around the elections in 2016, and I just wasn’t creating or working. Anything I would write just seemed so trite compared to what was going on in the world. It took me a really long time to find my voice. It was working through being 45, I think.” Still, hopefulness crept into the album in unexpected ways. The song “No Battle Hymn,” for example, seems to despair at the lack of unification among those who know something must be done. “No one’s ready to admit we may be out of time,” she sings, and, put so succinctly, it’s a sobering thought. “That song kind of bummed me out for a while, until I wrote the very last line,” LaVere notes. “When I sing ‘We need a battle hymn in our hearts,’ it’s the last thing I say in that song, and I just happened to do that when we were playing it live. I fell in love with the song after I did that. It’s not just the statement of ‘We don’t have one,’ it closes with ‘We need one,’ like asking for one. It went from being a defeatist song to one with more hope.” But hope can cut both ways, as profoundly expressed in one of the most ambitious tracks on the album, LaVere’s interpretation of Robert Wyatt’s “Ship-

Indeed, the threat of a broken heart, whether inspired by lovers or crumbling cities, is a common thread to this collection. The much-needed love song to our city, “You’re Not in Memphis,” is a lilting, wistful paean to our trains and planes, full of soulful guitar hooks and spot-on organ fills, yet couched in a lament over a lover’s absence. Even the record’s most devotional song, “Love I’ve Missed,” which conjures up love’s euphoria, seems to lament the time wasted before romance entered the narrator’s life. The lament comes to a head with “No Room for Baby,” the singer’s blunt confrontation of the winding down of her biological clock. “I’m only gonna do it live one time at the album release show, and then I’m never gonna do it again,” LaVere notes. And yet, for all that, the deft flourishes of musicality in the ensemble playing and the string and vocal arrangements make for an enchanting journey. “You once had the full color scheme,” she sings on the title track. “Now you’re painting blue on everything.” And yet the result, like the album cover itself, is a thing of blue-tinted beauty. Amy LaVere and band celebrate the release of Painting Blue Saturday, August 10th, at Crosstown Theater, 8 p.m., $20.

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The King Beez Thursdays, 5 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m. and Fridays, Saturdays, 9 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

Handy Bar

King’s Palace Cafe

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

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

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

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

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

Sean Apple Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, Saturdays, 5-9 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Tuesdays, 7 p.m. and Saturdays, 12:30-4:30 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Lunch on Beale with Chris Gales Wednesdays-Sundays, 12-4 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 Tap Room 168 BEALE 576-2220

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project

Friday, Aug. 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Eric Hughes Band Wednesdays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m. and; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Mondays, Tuesdays, 7-11 p.m.

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Memphis Blues Masters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight and Friday, Aug. 9, 4-8 p.m.; Jeff Jenson Friday, Aug. 9, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturdays, 4:30-8:30 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Band Sundays, 8

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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.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

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

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Sunset Jazz with Jamille “Jam” Hunter Sunday, Aug. 11, 6-8 p.m.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule August 8 - 14 FreeWorld Friday, Aug. 9, 9 p.m.midnight; Jack Rowell Saturday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.-midnight; The Accessories Sundays.

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 525-3000

Elvis: Ultimate Gospel Sunday, Aug. 11, 11 a.m.; Elvis: Memories in the Making Monday, Aug. 12, 4 p.m.; Elvis: Class of ’56 and Friends Monday, Aug. 12, 10 p.m.; Elvis: Aloha from Memphis Tuesday, Aug. 13, 3 p.m.; Elvis: Donny Edwards Live in Memphis Wednesday, Aug. 14, 3 p.m.; Elvis: Cody Ray Slaughter: This Man from Memphis Wednesday, Aug. 14, 9 p.m.

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1911 POPLAR 244-7904

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

Music Is My D.O.C. Friday, Aug. 9, 6 p.m.; Ted Horrell and the Monday Night Card Album Release Saturday, Aug. 10, 5:30 p.m.; Obscura: Dressed to Frill Saturday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.; Hunks: The Show Tuesday, Aug. 13, 8 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Lounging with Gill-Yum Wednesday, Aug. 14, 9 p.m.

Ed Finney & Neptune’s Army

Lafayette’s Music Room

Otherlands Coffee Bar

2119 MADISON 207-5097

641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Tony Manard and His Big Ole Band Thursday, Aug. 8, 6 p.m.; The Super 5 Thursday, Aug. 8, 9 p.m.; Rice Drewry Collective Friday, Aug. 9, 6:30 p.m.; Almost Elton John & the RocketMen Friday, Aug. 9, 10 p.m.; Chris and Sarah Duo Saturday, Aug. 10, 2 p.m.; Navajo Joe Saturday, Aug. 10, 6 p.m.; Ocean to Goshen Saturday, Aug. 10, 9:30 p.m.; WALRUS Saturday, Aug. 10, 11 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; George Klein Tribute

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Me & Leah, Black Bettie, Josh Cosby Saturday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

P&H Cafe

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

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Steve Selvidge Friday, Aug. 9, 8 p.m.; LAPD Saturday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m.

Larry Cunningham ThursdaysSaturdays; Aislynn Rappe Sundays; Keith Kimbrough Mondays-Wednesdays.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

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

Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

The Peabody 149 UNION 529-4000

Rooftop Party with Ghost Town Blues Band Thursday, Aug. 8, 6-10 p.m.; Marian Cocke’s Elvis Presley Memorial Dinner Monday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m.

Whitehaven/ Airport

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Amber McCain Duo Friday, Aug. 9, 8-11 p.m.; Rev Neil Down and Band Saturday, Aug. 10, 8-11 p.m.; Rev Down Band Saturday, Aug. 10, 8-11 p.m.

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Ronnie Milsap Tuesday, Aug. 13, 6-9 p.m.

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Brian Sable Sunday, Aug. 11, 10 a.m.

Rock-n-Roll Cafe Elvis Tribute featuring Michael Cullipher Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Live Entertainment Mondays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Elvis Gospel Music Show Fridays, 1-2:30 p.m.; Karaoke with DJ Maddy Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

South Main Sounds 550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Tony Manard, Nancy Apple, Delta Joe Sanders, Ben Abney, Luke Fisher Friday, Aug. 9, 7-9 p.m.; Nashville Songwriter’s Assn. Intnl. (NSAI) Memphis Chapter Meeting Every third Tuesday, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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Lannie MacMillian Friday, Aug. 9, 7-10 p.m.

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Dirty Mike Thursday, Aug. 8, 10 p.m., LAPD Friday, Aug. 9, 10 p.m.; Clanky’s Nub Saturday, Aug. 10, 10 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays; David Cousar Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Outer Ring Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Ross Johnson, Javi Arcega, Richard James Friday, Aug. 9, 10:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Tribute to Dr. John’s Gris-Gris Saturday, Aug. 10, 10:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; Mary Gagz and Her Gaggle of Drags Mondays, 8:30-11 p.m.; Lahna Deering Tuesday, Aug. 13, 9 p.m.; Tennessee Screamers Wednesday, Aug. 14, 7:30 p.m.

NEW VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION AUGUST 17 | 12PM | MAS at 2350 Appling City Cove with Deb Swiney Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck Fridays, 6 p.m.; Blackwater Trio Friday, Aug. 9, 9 p.m.; Cassette Set Saturday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.; Jazz Jam with Frog Squad Sundays, 6 p.m.; Silver Seven Band with Ron Shuman Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Crosstown Theater 1350 CROSSTOWN 507-8030

Amy LaVere Album Release Saturday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m.

The Green Room at Crosstown Arts 1350 CONCOURSE, SUITE 280 507-8030

Larry Springfield Saturday, Aug. 10, 7:30 p.m.; Kafé Kirk with Michael Lington Sunday, Aug. 11, 6-9 p.m.

Hi Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Muticult, Pressed, Deep Paul Thursday, Aug. 8, 9 p.m.; The Vandoliers, Short in the Sleeve Friday, Aug. 9, 10 p.m.; Shep Treasure, Elf Rage, Outside Source Sunday, Aug. 11, 10 p.m.; Wolf King, Hate Doctrine, Knoll Monday, Aug. 12, 8 p.m.; Memphis Songwriter Showcase Tuesday, Aug. 13, 9 p.m.; Deal Me In, No Comply, The Cassowaries Wednesday, Aug. 14, 8:30 p.m.

House of Mtenzi 1289 MADISON

DOA Pop-Up Show Saturday, Aug. 10, 6-10 p.m.

Show Sunday, Aug. 11, 4 p.m.; Memphis Knights Monday, Aug. 12, 6 p.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Acoustic Tuesday, Aug. 13, 7 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Memphis All Stars Wednesday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.

Lamplighter Lounge

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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.

1702 MADISON 726-9916

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Judah & the Lion Friday, Aug. 9, 8 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 312-6058

Skillet and Sevendust: Victorious War Tour Sunday, Aug. 11, 6-11:30 p.m.

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Rockstar Karaoke with Charlie Belt Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Full Circle Friday, Aug. 9, 9 p.m.; MusicBoxx Saturday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Sunday, Aug. 11, 5:30 p.m.; Triple Annie Wednesday, Aug. 14, 8 p.m.

Hillwood at Davies Manor 3570 DAVIESHIRE

Music at the Manor Sunday, Aug. 11, 2-6 p.m.

Sunrot, Autolith, Shed Tuesday, Aug. 13, 8:30 p.m.

Memphis Botanic Garden

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University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND 454-7771

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Seth Walker Friday, Aug. 9, 7 p.m.; Bluff City Bandits Saturday, Aug. 10, 9 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

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Tony! Toni! Toné! Saturday, Aug. 10, 8-9:30 p.m.

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Cameo Saturday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m.

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The Evergreen Theatre Murder at Hotel Le’ George, when their bus breaks down, the Krisko County ladies end up at the luxurious seaside resort, Hotel Le’ George. All is well until one of the guests turns up murdered. Everyone has a motive, as secrets and lies are uncovered. Will Mary Kay make it to the Nascar museum? Will L’Oreal find true love? Will Delta’s latest facelift hold? $25. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m. Through Aug. 10. 1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Hattiloo Theatre

Jelly’s Last Jam, he wore a diamond in his tooth, denied he was black and claimed to have single-handedly invented the genre we know as jazz. Jelly Roll Morton, jazz pioneer, reinvented himself so as to conquer the vast American expanse. Born a Creole of color in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, he came of age playing piano in the bawdy houses of Storyville. Aug. 9-Sept. 1. 37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Playhouse on the Square

Kinky Boots, in this musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, Charlie has inherited a shoe factory from his father. It sounds like a great deal, except the factory is failing and on the way to being shut down. Enter Lola, a cabaret performer and drag queen, who sees what Charlie can’t – and it’s all in the heel. playhouseonthesquare. org. Aug. 9-Sept. 1. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

“Memphis Germantown Art League Showcase,” featuring K. Gopal Murti, at WKNO Studio

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Making Folk Happy, two sisters leave Mississippi for the big city life in Memphis. Given the ultimatum to find a job or find husbands in one year, the girls live with a family friend, but soon find out that big city life may not be all that “happy.” $22. Sundays, 3 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Through Aug. 25. 2085 MONROE (274-7139).

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Memphis Botanic Garden

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. and submission, visit website. Through Aug. 31. WWW.MEMPHISMAGAZINE.COM.

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.

O N G O I N G ART

Opening Reception for “Summer in the City,” the Artist Group of Memphis returns this summer with many new and vibrant works by local artists. Sun., Aug. 11, 3-5 p.m.

David Lusk Gallery

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

WKNO Studio

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“The Architecture of Herzog & de Meuron”

Senior partner at Herzog & de Meuron and partner-in-charge of “Brooks on the Bluff ” will provide an overview of this Pritzker-Prize-winning firm based in Basel, Switzerland, with built projects completed all over the world. Wed., Aug. 14, 6:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Casting Demonstration Saturdays, Sundays, 1:30 p.m. METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

Memphis Magazine Fiction Contest

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

“Daily Art,” exhibition of new works by 31 contributing artists. All August long, 31 days, 31 artists. Through Aug. 31. 97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

“Memphis Germantown Art League Showcase,” exhibition of new works by the MGAL. wkno.org. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Aug. 28. 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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All level dancers; everyone is welcome. $10. Wednesdays, 6-7:30 p.m. BERT FERGUSON COMMUNITY CENTER, 8085 TRINITY (341-9282).

Tropical Thursdays

Come to the river to dance or listen to Latin music while the sun sets over the Mississippi River. Hosted by Seda Latin Dance. Open to all dancers, with or without experience. Free. Thursdays, 7-9 p.m. Through Aug. 29. RIVER GARDEN, 51 RIVERSIDE (312-9190).

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Waltz on in for all the ice cream you can eat with sundae toppings and DJ-recorded ballroom music. Members $9/nonmembers $13. Second Saturday of every month, 7-10 p.m. ADVENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 1879 N. GERMANTOWN PARKWAY (853-1413 OR 662-340-3720).

Velvetina’s Blue Moon Revue

A dazzling dinner show featuring live, local music and the best in glamorous, classic burlesque. $30. Every other Thursday-Saturday, 7-9 p.m. Through Aug. 31. MOLLIE FONTAINE LOUNGE, 679 ADAMS (917-705-0945), BLUEMOONREVUEMEMPHIS.COM.

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Theo Von: Dark Arts Tour, cohost of The King and the Sting brings his dark arts to the Bluff City. $28. Wed., Aug. 14, 7 p.m. 1555 MADISON (312-6058).

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Poetry Society of Tennessee Open Mic Poetry Reading, original traditional and performance poetry is welcome. For more information, see poetrytennessee.org. poetrytennessee. org. Wed., Aug. 14, 7-8 p.m. 603 N. MCLEAN (725-1718).

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Booksigning by Philip Mudd

Author discusses and signs his new book Black Site: The CIA in the Post-9/11 World. Fri., Aug. 9, 6 p.m. NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (922-5526).

Do the Right Thing at Crosstown Theater, Thursday, August 8th, 7:30 p.m. TO U R S

Old Forest Hike

Walking tour of the region’s only urban old-growth forest. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.

Summer Camp

Each week-long session includes rental gear, four hours of games, instruction, and climbing each day. A healthy snack and drink is provided each day. Participant ages range from 5-14. $189. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Through Aug. 30. HIGH POINT CLIMBING AND FITNESS, 21 N. HUMPHREY’S (2036122), HIGHPOINTCLIMBING.COM.

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WHER and Marion Keisker Historical Marker Unveiling with Jimmy Ogle

In its 37th year, this benefit honors individuals and organizations who exemplify the healing mission of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare through their efforts to improve the health of their community locally and beyond. Ticket: $150, table of 10: $1,500, sponsorships: $2,500 and up. Thurs., Aug. 8, 6-9 p.m.

Celebration honoring the nation’s first radio station to staff only women as disk jockeys and the first person to recognize Elvis Presley’s talent. Fri., Aug. 9, noon.

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Educational recreation for adults and children of all ages. Second Sunday of every month, 2-4 p.m. SHELBY FARMS, VISITOR’S CENTER, 6903 GREAT VIEW DRIVE N. (767-7275), SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Memphis 901 FC vs. North Carolina FC Sat., Aug. 10, 7:30 p.m.

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In this cooking class, kids will spend some time prepping and preparing with ingredients from the garden. MBG members $10, non-members $15. Sun., Aug. 11, 2-4 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4115).

Nature Week

Participants will explore all things nature with a family-friendly, free craft and game every day. Free. Through Aug. 9, 9-10:30 a.m. RIVER GARDEN, 51 RIVERSIDE (312-9190).

Seventh annual fund-raiser spaghetti dinner and silent auction — all for the rescue dogs of Tails of Hope Dog Rescue. $10. Sat., Aug. 10, 4-7 p.m. ST. AGNES ACADEMY, 4830 WALNUT GROVE (767-1377).

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Barber Motorsports Museum Presents: A Century of the American Motorcycle

Exhibition, curated by the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, exploring a century of the American motorcycle. Mondays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Through Nov. 23. GRACELAND EXHIBITION CENTER, 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY BLVD. (3323322), WWW.GRACELAND.COM.

Fab Fridays Laser Light Show

State-of-the-art laser light tribute shows, featuring Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and more. Fridays, 7, 8 & 9 p.m. AUTOZONE DOME PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

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Exhibition celebrating Muhammad Ali’s rise from humble beginnings to becoming the three-time heavyweight champion of the world. MondaysSundays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Through Sept. 15. GRACELAND EXHIBITION CENTER, 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY BLVD. (332-3322), WWW.GRACELAND.COM.

Herbal Work Study: Herbal Gifts

he first two hours will be spent weeding, grooming, thinning, planting, or whatever else needs doing in the Herb Garden. The last hour will be spent learning about using herbs to make gifts, and how to package them. Sat., Aug. 10, 8:30-11:30 a.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100).

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Film celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Check CTI Theater schedule for show times and ticket prices. Ongoing. CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Crosstown Arthouse: Do the Right Thing

Special 30th anniversary screening of Spike Lee’s debut film. Mookie is the pizza delivery man for Salvatore. Salvatore has owned his pizzeria for 25 years and seen a change from being a neighborhood made of Italian immigrants to one mostly inhabited by African-American and Puerto Rican residents. Salvatore loves the community but is rooted in his own traditions. The pizzeria features

a Wall of Fame that only highlights Italians. $5. Thurs., Aug. 8, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

an underground cavern in search of lost treasure. Saturdays, Sundays, 4 p.m. Through Aug. 31.

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Marianne leaves Abel for Paul, his best friend and the father of her unborn child. Eight years later, Paul dies and Marianne returns to Abel. However, things have changed for the both of them and feelings of jealousy surround their new relationship. Wed., Aug. 14, 7 p.m.

Comis’ narrative carries us through his final year of farming pigs, the struggle to reinvent his life, and the ghosts that will haunt him forever. $5. Thurs., Aug. 8, 6:30 p.m.

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Series of movie screenings, documentaries, art films, and more. The Lineup includes Fela Kuti, Maya Angelou, Miles Davis, and Nina Simone. Beverage and popcorn provided. $10. Saturdays, 3-5 p.m. Through Aug. 17.

The Goonies

A band of adventurous kids take on a property developing company that plans to destroy their home to build a country club. When the children discover an old pirate map in the attic, they follow it into

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Bicentennial celebration, the exhibit illustrates how the threads of Memphis history form a larger story or web of history. Through Oct. 20. Must be 21 years of age or older. Play responsibly; for help quitting call 800-522-4700.

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Memphis Armored Fight Club

Real steel — this medieval tournament-style combat is refereed and full-contact, not just a theatrical reenactment. $10. Sat., Aug. 10, 8 p.m. HI TONE, 412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE), MEMPHISARMOREDFIGHTCLUB.COM.

National Geographic Presents: Earth Explorers

Hands-on, family-friendly exhibition that allows visitors to learn and use methods employed by Nat Geo explorers in the field. Mondays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Through Sept. 9. GRACELAND EXHIBITION CENTER, 3717 ELVIS PRESLEY BLVD. (332-3322), GRACELAND.COM.

Real Memphis Wrestling

Real, live wrestling returns to Memphis, presented by 901 Wrestlin. $5. Sat., Aug. 10, 7-9 p.m. REC ROOM, 3000 BROAD (209-1137), 901WRESTLING.COM.

Sun, Earth, Universe

A new interactive museum exhibit about Earth and space. Ongoing. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362).

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Live music, burlesque performances, and dinner from the Lounge. $30. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 7-9 p.m. Through Sept. 28. MOLLIE FONTAINE LOUNGE, 679 ADAMS (917-705-0945), WWW.BLUEMOONREVUEMEMPHIS.COM.

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Marian Cocke’s Elvis Presley Memorial Dinner

Annual dinner celebrating the King of Rock-andRoll, with a candlelight memorial service, a highend gift raffle, a live charity auction, and a special tribute to George Klein. $100. Mon., Aug. 12, 7 p.m.

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Four-course dinner fund-raiser for dancers of Company d, a pre-professional dance company for young adults with Down syndrome. $150. Mon., Aug. 12, 6-10 p.m. NAPA CAFE, 5101 SANDERLIN, SUITE 122 (335-8388).

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Cole O’Keeffe’s emotionally expressive art is on view at Jay Etkin.

ole O’Keeffe, shirtless and barefoot, painted red streaks on his face and yelled, “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”when he played the young savage, Jack, in a Lord of the Flies production his senior year at Christian Brothers High School. A year later, he stopped acting and began painting on canvas. His oneman show, “God is Real and Other Perceptions,” is on view through August 10th at Jay Etkin Gallery. “I wanted to be a movie star ever since I can remember,” says O’Keeffe, 22. His uncle, actor Miles O’Keeffe, appeared shirtless and barefoot in the title role in the 1981 movie, Tarzan the Ape Man. “I had coaches coming up to me in sixth grade being like, ‘You’re Tarzan’s nephew, right?’” He was proud of that. “I don’t know why that just inspired me so, but it did.”

O’Keeffe flunked out of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. “My parents said, ‘Go become a movie star, please. Chase this thing.’” He moved to California, got a job as a bartender in a strip club on Sunset Strip, and worked on a screenplay. Six months later, he began working as an assistant at an art gallery in Echo Park. Living at the gallery and being around the owner, a painter, gave O’Keeffe the impetus to become a painter. He realized, “I have this in me — this voice that wants to express itself.” O’Keeffe eventually decided to return to Memphis and go back to school. His first painting was of a woman he met. “I tried to write about her, and all the words were crap,” he says. A friend told him to paint it instead. “I got a bunch of paint supplies, set up my space, and started painting what I was feeling, what I saw within her.” That did it. “I jumped into a painting

for the first time that night and came out of it four hours later crying. Like a guy who just Cole O’Keeffe (above) paints what he feels. discovered a new hand.” within this canvas. It’s two lines coming O’Keeffe painted Mouth Ajar after together and then, suddenly, this a breakup. “I was super sad because, explosion of paint starts to just come of course, I wanted to love her forever. from this connectivity.” But, also, I felt a cool relief of it all. Away His style is “not abstract and it’s from the chaos of love.” He then saw an not expressionism, and it’s not just Instagram photo of a woman with her contemporary, and it’s not minimalism. mouth ajar. “And she was embodying that It’s combining all of these sensibilities and very energy,” he says. O’Keeffe’s subjects aren’t always people. the respect of them into something that maybe has a little more narrative.” “Sometimes they’re moments,” he says. O’Keeffe doesn’t paint every day. “I “Mountain-top moments when things let life knock me around a little bit until click and then I paint that moment. But a point where I have a whole painting mostly it’s people.” “Pop-punk simplistic” is how O’Keeffe knocking on every beam and fiber of my defines his style. “It’s this confident use body,” he says. “And that night I go home of loud color, but in a way that respects and paint it.” predominantly white, negative space,” “God is Real and Other Perceptions” is he says. “I don’t have any piece that is on view through August 10th at Jay Etkin painted corner to corner. It’s all moments Gallery, 942 Cooper, 550-0064.

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he conventional wisdom is that Las Vegas is to blame for the ultimate demise of the King of Rock-and-Roll. Though Elvis Presley was at his home in Memphis when he died, some fans and music historians trace his downfall back to his tenure as a star in Las Vegas, Nevada. Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Vegas Show (Simon & Schuster), the new history by Richard Zoglin, argues differently. “Las Vegas saved Elvis, at least for a little while,” Zoglin writes, “and Elvis showed Vegas its future.” In Elvis in Vegas, Zoglin sets up what he calls “the greatest comeback in music history” with the precision of a patiently plotted thriller. Rather than offer a blowby-blow account of the minutiae of Elvis’ career as a Vegas performer, the author gives an overview of Vegas’ history as an entertainment town, starting with the showgirls of Minsky’s Follies and the jazz-and-boozeflavored machismo of the Rat Pack. It’s a useful overview, for one must understand what Las Vegas represents in the American unconscious to understand the King’s rebirth there. “It was naughty entertainment for sheltered middle America, helping to loosen the Puritanical standards of the Eisenhower-era ’50s and opening the door to the more audacious taboo-breaking of the late ’60s,” Zoglin writes of Vegas’ early years as more than just a destination for gambling. Not to fear, diehard Elvis fans; long before the formation of the TCB Band and his stint as a Vegas entertainer, Elvis appears on the pages of Elvis in Vegas. He performed in Sin City early in his career, and he returned again and again to cruise the strip and take in the shows, even before his trendsetting tenure as a Vegas performer. Elvis was drawn back by the late nights and carnival atmosphere, a drastically different environment than the one he was used to in Memphis. In fact, it was a member of the Las Vegas tabloid press who coined the term “Memphis Mafia” as a nickname for Elvis and his coterie of friends and hangers-on,

who enjoyed cruising the city in black mohair suits and dark sunglasses. As Elvis ushered in the age of rockand-roll, he helped bring about a sea change in Las Vegas, long before his tenure there. The Vegas of the Rat Pack was segregated, somewhat salacious, and dangerous. And, as they always do, the tides of culture changed. “By the late 1960s, Vegas was beginning to lose its juice,” Zoglin explains. “Beatlemania was hardly the passing phase that Vegas thought — hoped — it might be.” Changes in culture and in appetites reflected behind-the-scenes shifts in Vegas’ business landscape as Howard Hughes bought up property and subverted, to a degree, the mob’s influence. And Elvis, in the process of reinventing his career after spending years filming 31 motion pictures and not touring, was poised to fill the entertainment vacuum. The stage was set for Elvis, and, fresh from his reinvigorating ’68 Comeback Special, the King was ready to ascend to his throne, not just as the King of Rock-andRoll, but of America’s collective fantasyland. Always a gifted arranger, Elvis set about cultivating his TCB Band with a renewed energy. “This was the deprived musician, who had not been able to control his music either in the recording studio or in the movies, and now he was going to satisfy all his musical desires on that stage,” Zoglin quotes Jerry Schilling, one of Elvis’ longtime friends. Elvis incorporated elements of all his interests into his Vegas show. Gospel, rhythm & blues, symphonic pop, his friendship and admiration of Liberace — Elvis was more vivid than any time since before joining the Army. At last free of, as Zoglin calls it, manager Colonel Tom Parker’s “non-stop movie treadmill,” Elvis crafted a dynamic, sensual stage show backed by a full band and back-up singers. Where the Rat Pack had been cool and removed, a booze-fueled boys’ club, Elvis was passionate and direct, as tangible as a sweat-stained scarf thrown to the crowd. In Vegas, with its Elvis impersonators, tribute shows, and Elvis-themed wedding chapels, Zoglin writes, “Elvis, of course, never really left the building.”

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Born in Hopewell, Virginia, Hopson graduated from mud pies to making cakes out of clay in her Easy Bake Oven. “Nothing I could eat,” she says, “but I loved looking at it and making it pretty. You eat with your eyes first. Making something look pretty was always the goal.” Her aunt helped her make her first batch of real cookies when Hopson was in the third grade. “It seemed like dessert was the thing that made people a lot happier than regular food,” she says. “I thought if I had sugar cookies everybody would be my friend.” Hopson, who moved with her parents to Memphis when she was in middle school, told her high school teachers and guidance counselor her plan to go to culinary school. “They shot all of my ideas down,” she says. “They told me cooking wasn’t a career. That it was a hobby and I needed to go to a real college to get a background and I could cook on the side.” She majored in hotel restaurant management and tourism at the

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University of Tennessee at Knoxville. “I was absolutely miserable,” she says. “I didn’t have my hands in food the way I wanted to.” She then applied and was accepted to Johnson & Wales University in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she became a baking and pastry major and learned to make French pastries, ice cream, pies, and tarts. “My parents were relieved I made the decision and was finally going to live my dream,” she says. Hopson loved learning new flavors. “I’m like a mad scientist in the kitchen. I’m able to mix flavors that most people would never want to put together.” After she graduated, Hopson worked as a pastry chef at Amelie’s French Bakery in Charlotte and, later, as pastry chef at Charlotte’s Wells Fargo headquarters. Hopson then returned to Memphis, where she worked in pastry at Restaurant Iris. It was there she thought, “I need to stop being afraid of my own talent and see what I can do for myself — give the old business owner thing a shot.” She got her business license and opened Sundaze Gourmet Desserts. She received orders the first day, she says. “I had a Dutch apple pie and an order for my brown butter and sea salt chocolate chip cookies.” Sundaze became her business name because, growing up, Sunday was when her family ate dessert at home. “We knew that was the day we were going to get some brownies or a yellow cake with chocolate frosting,” she says. Hopson makes nostalgic desserts for adults. Her banana pudding cupcakes, for example, are made with fresh bananas, pastry cream, and salted caramel drizzle. But in place of vanilla wafers, she adds salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and butter, which add the crunchiness. She currently is working out of her home, but Hopson hopes to open a dessert food truck. The hand-painted — by Hopson — cardboard boxes for her baked goods are an extra Sundaze bonus. “It’s actually something that gets my brain regrouped if I’m baking too long and need to take a break,” she says. The boxes are decorated with flowers and abstract designs. “Before they even get to the good stuff, they see something nice, something worth remembering. That whole package is what I’m selling. It’s me in a box.” For more information on Sundaze Gourmet Desserts, find the business page on Facebook.

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sha Hopson’s first pastry creations were made with mud. “I would decorate them with berries from holly bushes and try to sell them to my neighbors,” she says. She was 6 years old. “My dad said he would go cut the grass and all the good silverware would be outside from me digging in the mud.” Hopson, 26, now is owner of Sundaze Gourmet Desserts. Instead of mud, her creations are made with flour, eggs, milk, and sugar. They include cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, blueberry muffins, Danishes, and eclairs, but they all have “an adult twist.” They’re made “with flavors we long for: brown butter, salted caramel, coffee, spices like cardamom and cinnamon.”

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Awkwafina (left) and Tzi Ma star in Lulu Wang’s dazzling film The Farewell.

Awkwafina steals the show in the Chinese-American family dramedy The Farewell.

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hen I interviewed Tom Shadyac for this week’s cover story about the making of Brian Banks, I asked the director about a certain phenomenon I and others have commented on over the years. Why is it that actors who started off in comedy have a much easier time transitioning to drama than vice versa? Tom Hanks, America’s stalwart everyman actor, started off in the groundbreaking, cross-dressing TV comedy Bosom Buddies. Robin Williams, whom Shadyac directed in Patch Adams, started out in stand-up and on the classic comedy Mork and Mindy and then found great success in character-driven dramas like The Fisher King. “Comedians always act,” Shadyac says. “We’re putting on a face, putting on a character. That is a much easier transition than teaching a dramatic actor the rhythms and the comedy timing it takes to be funny. It’s a point of view, it’s a delivery, it’s a worldview, it’s everything. It’s a gift. I

believe you can cultivate that gift, but you can’t give the gift. You’ve either got the gift or not.” After seeing The Farewell, I can tell you that Awkwafina has the gift. Born Nora Lum in New York, she first attracted attention as a YouTube rapper with a satirical flow called “My Vag.” She broke into film as the funniest thing in the dire comedy Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising and provided comic relief in the female-driven heist romp Ocean’s 8. Her role as the wisecracking best friend to the reluctant bride in last year’s Crazy Rich Asians threatened to overshadow star Constance Wu. Her vocal prowess and physical control in that film are a wonder to behold — playing the floppy party girl is a lot harder than it looks. When we meet Awkwafina as Billi in The Farewell, she’s in a familiar context — walking down the street in New York City, doing a comedy bit. She’s talking on the phone with her grandmother (Shuzhen Zhao), whom she calls Nai Nai, and both of them are lying their assess off. Billi says her career as a writer is going great, when in fact it’s going nowhere and she’s in danger of getting kicked

out of her apartment for not paying rent. Nai Nai says she’s at her sister’s place (named Little Nai Nai, and played by Hong Lu), when in fact she’s at the hospital getting a CAT scan. The results of the scan are very bad. Nai Nai has Stage 4 lung cancer, and the doctor tells Little Nai Nai her sister has only months to live. But instead of telling her the truth, Little Nai Nai lies and says the tests only returned a “benign shadow” in her lungs — shades of the ludicrously shoddy “brain cloud” from Joe Versus the Volcano. Instead of helping her make arrangements and peace with her life, her family decides to just not tell Nai Nai she’s sick, citing an old Chinese folk belief, “It’s not the cancer that kills you, it’s the fear.” They pressure cousin Hao Hao (Han Chen) to marry his Japanese girlfriend Aiko (Aoi Mizuhara) so the far-flung family will have an excuse to gather at the matriarch’s side one last time. At first, Billi’s dad Haiyan (Tzi Ma) and mother Jian (Diana Lin) insist that she not come to the wedding because she can’t be trusted to conceal her emotions. But

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy she can’t bear the thought of never seeing her grandmother again, and she shows up anyway — only to be greeted by Nai Nai as “stupid child.” Written and directed by Lulu Wang, The Farewell plays out around dinner tables like an Ira Sachs family drama with a cutting, deadpan sense of humor. Billi can’t believe that no one is going to tell Nai Nai the truth, and at first, she seems determined to find the right time to break the news to her feisty grandmother. But opportunity after opportunity passes, and Billi finds herself playing along with the epic gaslighting. The internal conflict plays out over Awkwafina’s face and body language in the way her shoulders slump a little when Nai Nai’s back is turned and how she steels herself before giving a fake cheerful speech at the wedding. Wang not only knows how to get the

best performance out of her star, but, in keeping with the film’s themes of Asian collectivism versus Western individualism, she spreads the love around the ensemble. Tzi Ma, a veteran character actor who played opposite Tom Hanks in The Money Pit, shines as Billi’s alcoholic father who has been beat down by the domineering women around him. Aoi Mizuhara gives a mostly wordless performance as the hapless bride-to-be who doesn’t speak either of the film’s two languages and seems to have only a vague idea of the drama that’s swirling around her wedding. But ultimately, it’s Awkwafina who walks away with the picture, and it feels like the revelation of a major new talent. The Farewell Opens Friday Ridgeway Cinema Grill

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Enough, Already Thirty seconds. Nine people killed, 27 injured. Thirty seconds is all it took with an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and a high capacity magazine to wreak that kind of havoc in Dayton, Ohio, last weekend. Local police took the suspect down in record time. But still. Thirty seconds. How long before this happens in Memphis? When could it be “our turn”? It is a terrible thought, but isn’t that on everyone’s mind right now? We are going to have to stand up and say “enough is enough.” And it isn’t going to be easy. No single solution is going to wipe out all of this violence. But something — anything — needs to be done. I honestly thought Sandy Hook would do it. Then I thought maybe Vegas would surely knock some common sense into our elected leaders. But no. It is time for our government to institute real change, and it is going to take ordinary citizens like all of us to force the change. Our voices do indeed matter. It doesn’t matter what side of the political spectrum you are on, and it has nothing to do with your “platform.” These are people’s lives in the balance, and tomorrow, it might be your kid. We have to take an honest look in the mirror and realize that no other country in the Western civilized world has the massive amount of issues with gun deaths as our own country. Over 30,000 dead each year! The statistics overwhelmingly point to a serious issue, yet Americans’ undying love of our gun culture somehow overrules common sense when it comes to keeping the public safe. People talk about our “freedom” that we have in the U.S. And we do have a lot of freedom. Maybe too much sometimes? I’m sorry, but there are just some folks who should never have the opportunity to own a lethal weapon — especially something that can kill nine people in 30 seconds. As a former cop in the military and, for a while, in civilian life, I can state without a doubt that these types of weapons should not be in the hands of civilians. And I am here to say that no, folks, Democrats do not want to “take your guns away.” What Democrats and, in fact, about 70 percent of the country’s voting public want, according to a recent poll, are sensible gun laws, including:

These are all sensible, reasonable ideas that will help cut down the carnage. And if not an outright ban on these high-capacity, rapid-firing weapons, why not do it just like the military? Require people to store them in an armory at a gun range, and they can check them out when they want to target shoot. This is what we did in the military. Not one of us took home our M-16s. It should be no different, if not more strict, in civilian life. Let me put it this way. We have to take a test to drive a car, which can be lethal but rarely kills nine people in 30 seconds. And if you can’t pass a written or practical test, guess what? You don’t get to drive on public roads. Sensible firearm regulation should be the same, just as it is in so many countries around the world who have strong gun regulations and very little gun crime. My next statement will no doubt piss a few people off — maybe more than a few — but it is true: The Second Amendment was written during a time when our country was brand-new, and the founding fathers sought to arm a “well-regulated militia” (i.e. a military unit) to ensure that the checks and balances that were put in place would stand and that no foreign powers could easily come and overthrow our fledgling nation. The times have changed. It’s been 250 years. The Second Amendment should be amended, or other laws should be put in place around it. I am a responsible gun owner, and I am more than happy to take any test you throw at me. If you aren’t willing to take and pass a test or to undergo a simple background check, you don’t deserve to own a lethal weapon. The right to live peacefully in our country, without fear of getting mowed down by someone with a gun, supersedes the Second Amendment. Zach Bair is CEO of Music Technology Company VNUE, a Mid-South recording artist, and owner of two live music venues in Memphis.

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