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Here it is: the chance to pen the Flyer’s famed “Letter From the Editor” column. This week, I hold the keys to this journalistic kingdom and can lead off with what ever topics I deem fit. At last, an opinion column! Sounds like fun, right?
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But my existential pondering didn’t matter; deadlines still exist, and time was almost up. You may have noticed that the Flyer’s letter from the editor has featured several different names over the last month or so, mine being the fifth to appear in this “temp-editor” carousel. As we continue our hunt to find a new editor to help carry our alt-weekly forward, I like to think of us as a motley crew of mad hatters, each with a staggering variety of headgear piled high as we juggle myriad responsi bilities and adjust to the demands of 21st century journalism. The writing, editing, social media, event planning, endless conveyor belt of irrelevant emails, and who knows how many other random miscellaneous tasks every week add up to quite a bit, but we soldier on. That packed schedule that we all deal with has got me thinking about “time” lately.
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Some might say you need to be constantly productive in your spare time. They’re wrong, of course, just as I’d be wrong to say that overloading on leisure time is key, because there is no one-size-fits-all solution. I head home after work and glom in front of a TV after booting up my PlayStation 5; others might grind out a side hustle or work on a passion project. Ignore all the noise and find what works best for you. It can be hard to tune it all out, but a small respite, even just a little peace of mind, goes a long way after the years we’ve had. What we here at the Memphis Flyer choose to do with our time every day is to continue bringing you news, columns, and stories about anything and everything Memphis, and it means a lot when you pick up one of our issues and validate the hard work of our entire crew. If you really like what we do, consider becom ing a Frequent Flyer and donating to the cause. Heck, you can even just give me cash directly (my venmo is @Samuel-Cicci). And if you really, really, like what we do, then perhaps ap ply to become our new editor. If you’ve picked up this week’s issue, I hope the content is well worth your time. Any way, looks like mine’s up for today.
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The big decisions and mile stones coming thick and fast get you thinking about your time, and what you do with it. I imagine it’s been easy for many over the past couple of years to just end up drift ing as the world burns, as social media platforms demand our at tention and try to dictate our lives, and as puffed-up malcontents in government try to dismantle our country piece by piece. What you do with your work, and what you do outside of it, matters greatly. It doesn’t necessar ily mean big-picture, but rather, finding that thing which brings your zen or purpose.
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The reality is that as press day ticked ever closer, my Google Doc remained the same, a lone cursor blinking steadfast in the upper left corner. What did I want to say? Do I have anything to say for a piece like this? There are already so many voices needlessly screaming into the internet ether; do I really need to add another one? Should I even be penning such a column? I’m an editor, sure, but for our sis ter publications Memphis magazine and Inside Memphis Business. My co-workers all expect a column about soccer, but no, I won’t give them the satisfaction.
My perception of it has faded into dust since we entered Covid lockdown back in 2020, and it’s all hazy from there. That trip to Kentucky I took recently? That was actually in 2016. Didn’t I go to the Bar-B-Q Shop last month? Nope, that was back in March. But again, it’s the looming deadlines that fill me with the most anxiety. I looked up at the calendar and, wow, it’s been almost seven years at Contempo rary Media, a good bit longer than my initial two-year plan. My 30th birthday ap proaches in several months; does that milestone signal the end of fun, and a long, slow decline into bitterness? Or is that when the fun truly begins? When my lease expires in March, does that mean I buy a property and take on a mortgage that will stretch my finances to the brink, or do I re-up on an overpriced ramshackle apart ment because “the rent is too damn high”?
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LEADERBROOKS Zoe Kahr was named as the next executive director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art last week. Kahr comes to Memphis from her current position as deputy director for curatorial and planning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where she led a sta of 80 professionals and oversaw the museum’s artistic programs. At LACMA, Kahr produced more than 300 exhibitions and developed new museum partnerships in Asia, Latin America, Australia, and the Middle East. For more local news like this, check e News Blog at memphis yer.com.
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• $145,000 of direct artist support that continues the Artist Emergency Fund that helped artists of varying disciplines in 2020 and 2021. e funding was initially designed to support artists immediately impacted by the widespread shutdowns and is now aiming to support artist recovery.
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• $450,000 for unrestricted operating support sub-grants. ese went to 36 of ArtsMemphis’ operating support grantees with smaller budgets.
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A Chicago group with local backing wants to bring a $10 million zipline course to Mud Island.eForge Memphis would include a skybridge zipline tour, an aerial challenge course and climbing areas, and a food and beverage operation in the current Gulf Grill space on Mud Island.e skybridge tour would include two ziplines, with the rst carrying guests “500 feet from the top of the skybridge over the Wolf River Harbor toward the Memphis skyline, connecting with a custom-built tower and elevated rope bridge.” e second would “carry guests almost one quarter of a mile over the Wolf River Harbor at speeds up to 50 miles per hour, landing near the Mississippi River model’s Gulf of Mexico.”eplan was introduced to the Memphis City Council during a meeting last week on August 9th. e team behind the project said it would not require any public funding. at team includes members of Doug Carpenter + Associates, LRK, and Chicago’s Forge Adventure Parks. e Forge Memphis anticipates a nine- to 10-month construction period with hopes of a grand opening in the summer of 2023. “Mud Island has been looking for a solution,” Carpenter said. “It’s a really unique piece of property and requires unique responses. e feasibility of a zipline across the Mississippi River did not work out, but the Mud Island potential was really large.”
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ARTS RECOVERY FUND e pandemic dealt a brutal blow to the local arts scene, forcing arts groups and funding organizations to pull together and nd ways to survive. One of the signi cant e orts was a partnership among ArtsMemphis, the Memphis Music Initiative, and Music Export Memphis that resulted in the recent completion of a $1.8 million Arts Recovery Fund. e focus of the fund is to support individual artists and arts organizations, particularly those that had fewer opportunities for government relief funding due to capacity or revenue.About $845,000 has been distributed to various groups and individuals. e remaining funds will be given out over the next year or so. e money given out so far
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“ e wetlands, particularly in Fayette County, Tennessee, and even farther upstream in Benton County, Mississippi, and one of our target properties to protect is in Benton County. So those wetlands have a really close relationship with the Memphis Sand Aquifer.”
“Also, at least once a month we do river trips down di erent sections of the river, so you get to experience di erent sections of the Wolf from the state of Mississippi and all the way to Downtown Memphis.”
Hall explains that the rain lters through wetlands, and in about a week or less recharges the drinking water, “ensuring safe, clean, drinking water that all Memphians like. at’s the biggest impact, even if you never leave your house.”egrant is the only federal grant program that is solely dedicated to the conservation of wetland habitats for migratory birds. “It’s money set aside for the purpose of protecting wetlands and adjacent uplands, primarily for migratory bird species,” Hall adds. “ ink of waterfowl that go up and down the Mississippi Flyway. You can also think of anything else that migrates, like hummingbirds which go from the Yucatán Peninsula all the way up through the United States into ProtectingCanada.”landis not the only project keeping the WRC busy these days. “We’re building out the Wolf River Greenway throughout the city of Memphis. We’re about halfway done, about 14 miles completed out of 26. We’re trying to activate that greenway,” Hall adds. Hall describes the greenway as a “paved path through the city of Memphis along the Wolf River.”
at land recharges the Memphis Sand Aquifer. It will also be added to the Wolf River Wildlife Management Area and become public land. e next property on its list is closer to Con uence Park, which is north of Downtown, he said. “ at’s the beauty of this NAWCA grant,” Hall said. “Not in every case, but in many cases you get to grow protected land you know that the public can have access to. It also serves wildlife purposes, aquifer recharge purposes, and wetland preservation purposes. at’s the step that we are in now, administering funds to protect lands.”
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U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Memphis) called the WRC’s work “transformative.” “ is NAWCA grant underscores our government’s commitment to organizations that are committed to ensuring the viability of our ecosystems and environment for the future,” Cohen said. e WRC received its rst NAWCA grant in the late ’90s, $1 million to protect the Ghost River section of the Wolf. Hall says they are hoping to apply for another NAWCA grant at the end of next year (2023). For Shelby County speci cally, Hall says that there is going to be more protected land.
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PHOTO: COURTESY WOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY e new grant will protect land like this along the Wolf River.
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PHOTO: JACKSON BAKER Back in 2009, Joe Brown (right), then the star of a syndicated TV show and now a self-declared mayoral candidate, hobnobbed on a visit home with newly installed Memphis Mayor A C Wharton, state Representative G.A. Hardaway, and the late state Senator Reginald Tate.
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Next year’s promises to be an unusual Memphis mayor’s race.
With missionerCountyoutgoingComVan Turner’s nouncementan- last week of a pending run for Memphis mayor in 2023, another political season is on its way. Actually, Turner did not announce as such; he told the Flyer, and subsequently the world, that he would be making his formal announcement at month’s end, about the time he leaves his present o ce. If advance gossip can be trusted, Turner, whom many observers reckon as the favorite, can expect to be joined in the contest by Downtown Memphis Commission President Paul Young, who has a key speech to the Kiwanis Club scheduled this week, and Karen Camper, minority leader in the state House of Meanwhile,Representatives.localNAACP head Turner is actually the second declared candidate for the o ce, which is likely to be the object of spirited competition now that the voters have taken incumbent Mayor Jim Strickland out of the running by voting in the August 4th election not to allow a third term for mayor and council members. e rst declared candidate? None other than Joe Brown — not the General Sessions Court clerk and former councilman but the other Joe Brown, who played a judge on TV for some years a er being one for real in Shelby County back in the ’90s. You might have missed it, but Brown’s announcement was made via YouTube last fall, and if he follows through, it will be his second major nonjudicial run for o ce in these parts. Brown’s last electoral e ort, a race for district attorney in 2014, began with abundant ballyhoo and a sense among some local Democrats that his celebrity and presumed healthy bank account would allow the party to achieve a generalized success at the polls. Instead he belly- opped, badly. Coincidentally or not, so did the party.
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Among other things, the bankroll — for whatever reason — didn’t exist, nor did Brown’s actions and public positions during the campaign exactly square with many people’s ideas of political leadership. As part of his rollout, Brown had been the keynote speaker at an o cial Democratic Party tribute to former Mayor Willie Herenton. He used the occasion to denounce “promiscuous” women and make homophobic remarks. One of his next acts was to get himself arrested on a contempt of court charge for insulting a Juvenile Court magistrate in the process of a pro bono child support case Brown was handling. (Brown thereupon posted a Facebook entry in which he likened his ordeal to that of Dr. Martin Luther King’s historic con nement in the Birmingham jail.)
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• Weirich’s luck ran out this year in another reelection campaign, this time against an opponent, Steve Mulroy, not pre-ordained to fantasize or self-destruct. e two of them took turns last week in the well of the Shelby County auditorium, arguing this time for the same goal — the creation of a new bail hearing courtroom. A resolution to that end, requiring that bail issues for new county prisoners be hashed out in a hearing before a judge and with representation from both arrestee and victim of an alleged crime, was passed unanimously by the 13 members of the commission. As Mulroy noted, this was the one thing the two erstwhile adversaries had been able to agree on during this campaign year.
All this was just a lead-in to Brown’s culminating campaign act, a speech in which — sans any evidence or pretense of some, or any relevance to anything, for that matter — he accused his opponent, incumbent DA Amy Weirich, of having a lesbian a air with her next-door neighbor. Weirich won with 65 percent of the vote.
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sha Blackburn, Bill Hagerty, and David Kustoff rushed to categorize all of this Trump bad news as a Joe Biden-led assault on a potential presidential rival. But they are fools, panderers, and liars. The truth is, with any luck, we may finally be seeing the end of Donald Trump’s lifelong extra-legal dalliances, the dozens of crimes he’s skated around using high-priced lawyers and wellconnected friends. These latest charges are much more serious than paying off a porn star or setting up a fake univer sity or selling cheap steaks — or even laundering Russian mob money in real estate deals. Donald Trump is dancing on the edge of a very high cliff without a net. Sweet dreams, old man. Donald Trump is dancing on the edge of a very high cliff without a net.
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Has Trump’s decades-long run of luck finally expired?
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Judges Lynn Cobb, Lonnie ompson, and Phyllis Gardner didn’t refer any tenants to the local ERA program. Cobb said these referrals aren’t necessary, ompson questioned whether doing so would unfairly favor tenants, and Gardner said she frequently tells people about the funds, but it depends on the Expertstenant.acknowledged the value of objectivity but said the scales are currently tipped toward landlords. “[Some judges] think impartiality means getting through the process as dictated by statute,” said Jesse McCoy, a Duke University School of Law professor who spends much of his time on evictions. “ e problem is the statutes themselves are designed by people who are mostly landlords. … e system is not really designed for neutrality.” When tenants arrive at court, they go to whichever of the six courtrooms they’ve been randomly assigned. eir judge might explain all the proceedings and connect them with the federal funding. Or, their judge may tell them little about anything.
CONDUCTCOURT When eviction is on the line, some judges are helpful. Some are not.
Need rental assistance? Shelby County accepts new applications for Emergency Rental Assistance during the rst two weeks of the month, except from people who are imminently facing eviction. Check the MLK50 website to nd more information about applying, or call 211. And, because evictions are frequently caused by job loss, McCoy said evictions o en force people to search for housing and jobsDespitesimultaneously.thislarge responsibility falling on General Sessions judges, their elections received little public scrutiny, whether measured in media attention or the size of yard signs. More than 150
hen tenants on the verge of eviction show up at Shelby County General Sessions Court, most don’t know what their hearing will be like or what they’re supposed to say. And many haven’t heard that millions of federal dollars have been set aside to help people in their situation. All six General Sessions Civil Court judges — who were all up for reelection this year — know about the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) funds, but only three brought it up during court, MLK50: Justice rough Journalism journalists found. To report this story, MLK50 journalists sat through hearings in front of all six judges over the course of three weeks, observing at least 10 eviction cases in which the tenant came to court in each courtroom.
Based on the luck of the draw, tenants may leave just as confused as they came, with 10 days to vacate their home. What do these judges do? e General Sessions judges handle tens of thousands of eviction lings everyEachyear.one carries the potential to drive someone further into poverty by pushing them toward worse housing, ruining their credit, and cutting them off from the community they depend“[Peopleupon.experiencing poverty] rely on neighbors for childcare and rely on neighbors for transportation,” McCoy said. “ ey were very selective in where they signed a lease.”
(below) Foot tra c past the o ce for help with Emergency Rental Assistance funds is seen from a stairwell at the Shelby County Courthouse. (above) A view of the Shelby DowntownCourthouseCountyinMemphis
In broad terms, the judges — who each receive a salary of more than $183,000 — handle non-criminal cases that involve less than $25,000. Evictions and bill collection make up a large portion of their caseload, but they have a few other responsibilities, including emergency mental health commitments. With eviction speci cally, most of the judges spoke about being constrained by state law, which is widely considered landlord-friendly in comparison to other states. Judge Deborah Henderson agreed with this “Apparently,characterization.thelandlords have a very strong lobbyist group,” she said. “ ey have done well for the landlords in getting laws passed that are benecial to landlords. It doesn’t give us a lot of wiggle room.” Judge Betty omas Moore said the state needs new legislation, especially given the rise of out-of-town investors who show no care for their tenants and don’t maintain their properties. In the meantime, though, she says she will continue to apply the law as written but also show kindness to tenants whenever possible — including encouraging landlords to give tenants extra days to move, as MLK50 observed. Which judges help tenants get help? Emergency Rental Assistance can provide a whole lot of cash. For tenants who qualify, the program will cover up to 12 months of past-due rent and two months of future rent. If landlords are willing to accept the funds, the program sends them a check and the tenant remains in their home. If not, the program gives the money directly to tenants, to help them nd their next rental. In Shelby County, the program has covered rent more than 20,000 times, to the tune of more than $56 million since launching in MarchMany2021.ofthese tenants ended up in the program a er judges advised they stop by an o ce at the courthouse where its representatives sit. omas Moore and Mitchell Sims referred every tenant MLK50 journalists observed them interact with, and Henderson referred some as well.
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Judges ompson, Gardner, and Cobb did not. ose who introduced tenants to the program all told MLK50 they didn’t see any reason not to provide such a helpful resource. “Because I know what [the program] can do for our community, I make sure to refer to it all the time, every time,” omas Moore said. “[ e other judges] have been getting information about the program. ey know about the program. … Why they aren’t [all referring], I really can’t answer.” Henderson said she tries to consistently refer to the program unless it’s a tenant’s second time at court, in which case she assumes they were advised about the program on their rst trip. Gardner said she only refers tenants who she thinks would be a good t for the assistance. ough she didn’t bring up the program while MLK50 observed, she spoke highly of the program and its lawyers. And she was quick to let a tenant reverse her consent to an eviction when informed her application to the program was pending. Gardner, who was the only of the six judges running unopposed, says she tries to avoid being too much of a “proponent” for the program, given the need for impartiality.
ompson worries about the ethics of a judge “aggressively pushing” for the rental assistance. He said he has brought it up to tenants in the past but wants to make sure he doesn’t “legislate from the bench.” “ at’s not to say we’re not going to be helpful,” ompson said. “[But] the judge is not a social worker.” Cobb said he simply doesn’t see the need for judges to inform tenants of the program.“[Tenants] know the [ERA] program is available,” Cobb said. “[Also,] there’s a whole o ce over [around the corner].”
Cobb didn’t say how he knows tenants are aware of the program, and he declined to answer more than a few questions. Flyers for the program are posted outside all of the courtrooms except Henderson’s. But, the chair of the Memphis Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee, Danielle Woods, said most tenants don’t know about rental assistance, which isn’t surprising since it’s less than two years old. Many tenants also don’t know they can seek help from Memphis Area Legal Services despite it being around for decades, she said. When asked if there are any judges that handle eviction cases especially well, Woods praised Henderson and omas “HendersonMoore.usually does a fantastic job of making sure people understand what’s going on and then asking about the ERA program. It may not be every single time, but it is an overwhelming amount of the time,” Woods said. “Same with Betty omas Moore — she’s very good about trying to explain as much as she can from the bench. … She is probably going above and beyond.”
In a recent case before omas Moore, a Bartlett apartment complex was evicting a 20-year resident who was hard of hearing. Instead of asking the elderly man to come closer, omas Moore stood up and climbed over the low wall separating her perch from the empty witness stand. She then walked over to the man and smiled. e last time he was here she had suggested he apply for Emergency Rental Assistance and had delayed his case so he could do so. Now, he told her he didn’t know the status of his Mooreapplication.So,omassummoned a program representative from the o ce down the hall. His application had been approved, the representative said, but the landlord rejected the payment, which the landlord’s lawyer in the courtroom con rmed. omas Moore explained to the man that he would still have to move from the property and that his landlord was still going to seek back payment but that he would soon be receiving an Emergency Rental Assistance check. He didn’t seem to fully grasp what she had said, so she explained it again in a slightly di erent way. And then a third time, asking each time if he had any questions. At the end of the hearing, an eviction judgment was granted against him, but he and his son-in-law expressed gratitude for her help and patience. e whole interaction occurred in stark contrast to proceedings MLK50 watched in the courtroom next door, run by ompson. ompson worked through his cases quickly and didn’t take much time for explanations or tenants’ questions. Once, when a tenant asked what his ruling meant, he simply repeated that she could talk to her landlord’s representatives if she had any questions. When another tenant tried to talk a er he had granted an eviction judgment, he cut her o with a simple “ at’s all.” He told MLK50 that he usually does answer tenants’ questions, but he also tries to be e cient with everyone’s time. Despite large caseloads, he said he makes sure not to run his courtroom “like a Cobbfactory.”moves just as quickly as ompson, which he said is intentional; he wants to get tenants and lawyers back to their workplaces quickly. But compared to ompson, Cobb’s cadence and demeanor were much more relaxed — using folksy mannerisms and telling jokes in his deep Southern drawl — other than when he yelled at a woman who didn’t remove her mask when addressing him a er he had instructed all tenants to do so. “I hope I’m making a di erence helping people realize the law is not intimidating,” he said. Gardner — who spends more time on each case, though not as much as omas Moore — agrees that calming tenants is an important part of the job. She uses small talk, compliments, and jokes to accomplish this. “Everybody is scared when they come to court. ey think they’re going to jail,” Gardner said. “ e worst thing a judge can do is use her authority to browbeat people who are already terri ed.” Henderson and ompson didn’t necessarily “browbeat” tenants but kept small talk to a minimum and chastised tenants for things such as wearing ripped jeans or not standing up when their name was called. omas Moore cautioned against
How do they make court less scary?
STORYCOVER races were on Shelby County’s August 4th ballot, and some judges admitted that most voters will choose whether or not to reelect them based on little information.“Maybeone in 5,000 [Shelby County residents] knows what we do,” Judge Danielle Mitchell Sims said.
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drawing too many conclusions from other judges’ curt responses, saying they need to keep control of their courtrooms and are entitled to bad days. She, though, was slower to rebuke tenants, even when they spoke out of turn, MLK50 observed. She said this extra compassion toward struggling tenants is likely because she used to be closer to their situation than to her current one — back when she was raising four kids on her“Butown.for the grace of God … I could still be in that position [the tenants are in],” she said. “God has blessed me to be in a better position. And so my job is to do the best that I can for the people that come through.”
Mitchell Sims, who was appointed by the Shelby County Board of Commissioners in 2021, said she adopted the “agree or disagree” question from other judges but would like to eventually come up with a better one because tenants get ompsonconfused.saidthat while the question’s implications may not be apparent, the question itself isn’t di cult to comprehend. And if tenants con rm that they owe money, it’s up to the landlord — not him — whether or not tenants should be given extra time to work something out. A er they agree they owe money or lose their trial, tenants have 10 days to vacate their homes unless they cut a deal with their landlord. is, though, was only consistently explained to tenants by half of the judges: omas Moore, Henderson, and Gardner. And tenants coming out of the other courtrooms told MLK50 they didn’t understand they only had a week and a half to nd their next home. A er he hears “agree,” Cobb would say, “You can talk to the resident manager about working out payments.” en he would move on to the next case.
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ompson and Mitchell Sims usually didn’t tell tenants how long they had to leave their homes. A er MLK50 brought this to Mitchell Sims’ attention, she said she’ll work harder to be consistently clear with tenants. Being clear with tenants is the best way to be helpful while remaining impartial, said Vanessa Bullock, housing managing attorney for West Tennessee Legal“[Judges]Services.don’t realize that some of the speeches they’re making don’t make sense to the lay people they’re talking to,” Bullock said. Jargon is one of multiple ways judges can unintentionally favor landlords — who are almost always represented by attorneys — over tenants. She said these disparities may not be apparent to the judges themselves but certainly are to most casual observers. “If you think things are fair and just in this world, go sit in the General Sessions courtroom and watch what happens to the really poor people,” Bullock said. “Everybody deserves to at least know what’s going on and not be sitting in a room going, ‘I don’t know what’s happening.’”EveryShelby County General Sessions Court judge retained their seat in the August 4th election. MLK50 journalists Andrea Morales, Wendi C. omas, and Brittany Brown contributed to this article.
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Which judges explain what’s happening? Eviction cases o en hinge around a single moment, when judges ask the tenants whether they agree or disagree they owe their landlord money. If tenants answer “agree,” the judge grants the eviction, since Tennessee law allows for evictions whenever a tenant owes money, except in some rare circumstances. If they disagree, their case will be set for trial — with the tenants likely representing themselves — either later that day or within a couple of weeks. However, most of the judges fail to explain the question and its implications to tenants. And a er court, many tenants told MLK50 they didn’t understand what had happened. A er a case is called and the landlord’s lawyer has read the amount owed, ompson, Henderson, Gardner, and Mitchell Sims simply ask the tenant, “Do you agree or disagree?” Cobb’s wording makes it clearer that the tenant is con rming they owe the landlord money but not that their landlord will be given the right to evict if they agree.
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experience kicks o the weekend on ursday with a networking event and live performances by Buwtye and various DJs. Friday’s event — Bazaar Poses, Patterns, and Poetry — features a fashion show like no other and a delectableSaturdaydinner.willbe a fun- lled day of more live entertainment, food, and fun at the Overton Park Shell. On Sunday, indie artists can network and participate in master classes at the “im·pre·sa·ri·o” Artist University. For more information, facebook.com/BuwtyesBazaar.visit
Originally from California, Blue Suede Abbess Krisco Kringle says, “Since I was probably in my late 20s, I wanted to be a sister because I admired the work they do. But I was never in the right career, time, city, and I’m in Memphis working and I’m in one of the local bars and sisters walk in, and I was like, ‘Oh. My. God.’ … I said, ‘I’m joining now.’ For me, it’s the impact they have on society and people, and my personal mission is to spread joy [and] bring smiles.” A few years later, sisters Twinkle VanWinkle and Kat Ion would feel a similar calling. “What really lls my heart when I work with the sisters,” Twinkle says, “is the fact that I have the opportunity to work with so many di erent charitable organizations and groups.” Indeed, the group aligns itself with a number of community issues, from advocating for the unhoused community to marching for reproductive justice. “If there’s a protest or a need to bring attention to it, having a white-bearded man in a full-on nun out t with white-face, it brings attention,” Krisco says. Kat, for her part, is a novice, yet to become a full- edged sister, and part of that process is coming up with a novice project for the community’s behalf.
Serendipitously, a representative from the Museum of Science & History had reached out for the group’s insight for its exhibition about LGBTQ+ history in Memphis, “Memphis Proud.” “ ey said, ‘We want the sisters to be involved,’” Kat says, “And I said, ‘Well, I could sorta do chemistry while dressed up.’” And what unfolded from there are the Cocktails & Chemistry sessions, at which Kat, as part of her novice project, will lead participants through college-level experiments. “It’s none of the hard stu ,” she says. “It’s all the fun stu . Without giving too much away, we’re doing some really cool stu with metal — stu that you wouldn’t think that anyone would let me play with but they do.” Before the experiments, participants can mingle and enjoy cocktails with the sisters. To keep up with the sisters and to purchase tickets to one of this weekend’s sessions, go to bluesuedesisters.org. Another set of sessions will be held on September 16th.
Buwtye’s Bazaar Musical Weekend Various locations, ursday-Sunday, August 18-August 21 Buwtye’s Bazaar Musical is a weekend of eclectic performance art, music education, and community connection.e“Phantasmagoric”
COCKTAILS & CHEMISTRY, MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 6 P.M. AND 8 P.M., $25, 21+.
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Crosstown Splashdown Crosstown Concourse, Saturday, August 20, noon-4 p.m., free At this enchanting magic-themed event, the entire family can say goodbye to summer and cool down. As the magic garden blooms, there will be a waterslide, a DJ, spin-art machines, skee ball, leaping lizards, sprinklers, cotton candy, interactive bubble art, and more. Don’t Say Gay: Musings and Deep oughts about the Ridiculousness of Modern-Day Politics eatreWorks, Sunday, August 21, 6 p.m., $20 At this one-night-only fundraising event for Emerald eatre Company and eatreWorks at the Square, 20 actors in the Memphis area will perform vignettes, monologues, and musical numbers to spotlight the humor, harassment, and heartbreaking ideals and laws several states are enacting against LGBTQ+ people. Some of the performances include Debunking Disney, Don’t Pee Straight, Sober Hates and Debbie Cakes, and e Bloom Is O the Heteros Memphis state Representative Torrey Harris will make a special guest appearance.
If you’ve ever seen a loud gaggle of nuns of various genders in white face paint, you’ve come across the Blue Suede Sisters, one house of the international Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, known for their community service and advocacy (and outlandish drag). And if you haven’t met them yet, you’re missing out.
Global Climbing Day Memphis Rox Climbing, Saturday, August 20, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Memphis Rox has teamed up with e North Face and climbing gyms across the globe to celebrate inclusivity and community through climbing. Get psyched for free goat yoga, shirt tie-dye, lm screening, food, a dunk tank, and more. A few professional athletes will even join in for the celebration!
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“You don’t just make a bust of somebody that’s nobody.”
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he late Jimi Jamison will be honored August 21st at the Hard Rock Cafe. A bronze bust of the lead singer of Survivor, Target, and Cobra will be displayed in a new custom showcase. A special wall will feature Jamison memorabilia. e event also will be the release party for Rock Hard, a deluxe CD edition on the Iconoclassic Records label of Jamison’s unreleased album from 1990. Performers will include John Cafferty, Jim Peterik, Ronnie McDowell, Jimmy Davis, Todd Poole of Roxy Blue, and Deb Jam Band fronted by Jamison’s wife, Debbie Jamison. A longtime Jamison friend, Scott Innes, a promoter and a voice-over actor for movies and characters, including Scooby-Doo, was instrumental in having the bust commissioned a er the entertainer died September 1, 2014. “Jimi and I became best friends when I worked at FM-100 in 1989, and we started a 25-year friendship,” Innes said in an interview from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Jamison con ded in Innes. “ ere’s an old saying, ‘You can’t be a superstar in your own hometown.’ And that bothered Jimi. It bothered him for years. Here is the Hard Rock in Memphis and there was nothing about Jimi Jamison or Survivor in there.”
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PHOTO: SCOTT INNES Hard Rock Cafe’s bust of the late Jimi Jamison
Jamison participated in charity events Innes held for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “He had a passion for St. Jude and I did, too. “He used to tell me — he was joking — ‘Man, when I die, you’re doing my funeral.’ When he died, his family asked me to help out. I said, ‘I want to do an event at Hard Rock because Jimi always wanted to be in there. And, by golly, we’re going to put him there.’”Julien Salley, Hard Rock general manager at the time, had some memorabilia installed. But Innes wanted more. “I wanted to have a bust. When you have a bust done, that means you’re a somebody. You don’t just make a bust of somebody that’s nobody. So that, to me, solidi ed that Jamison was a rock star.”
Innes got donors, including Lynyrd Skynyrd and Johnny Van Zant, to help pay for a bust sculpted by Matt Glenn from Big Statues in Provo, Utah.
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ey held the bust unveiling, but, Innes says, “As things happen in life, there was nowhere to put it currently in the Hard Rock. It ended up living in the basement.”at’swhen Gwen Smith went to work. Smith, a longtime friend of Jamison’s, worked on tributes for the Memphis entertainer for years. Smith kept in contact with Hard Rock about putting the bust back on view. In addition to talking to Zak Abdallat, the club’s general manager at the time, Smith also met with Hard Rock vice presidents from the corporate o ce. Finally, Abdallat told her they were going to have a custom case built for the bust and hold a tribute, she says. “I don’t know anybody who’s got a voice like that,” Smith says. “It was so rich and soulful. Of course, he had that Southern drawl and everything, but he had so much feeling in the way he sang. “He was so appreciative of his fans. When I would go to shows with him, the rest of the band would go back to their room. He would stand there and get a picture made with everyone. He gave autographs to the last one. I was so impressed with that. “His fans loved him and he loved them.”Smith asked Innes to produce the tribute. Innes plans to serve bowls of jambalaya, one of Jamison’s favorite dishes, at the event. “It’s going to be a party,” he says. “A big family reunion of Jimi’s friends, bandAnd,members.”hesays, “In the end, we walk away with Jimi in the Hard Rock, where he should have always been because he was a rock star. And now that bust will solidify what I have always known: that Jimi is the eye of the tiger.” Jimi Jamison Memphis Hard Rock Reveal at 6 p.m., August 21st, at the Hard Rock Cafe at 126 Beale Street. Doors open at 5 p.m. Reveal at 7 p.m. Free admission.
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THEATREWORKS TK Kirkland Kirkland has appeared on Comic View, BET’s Mad Sports where he worked as the host, La apalooza, and La aholics $25-$45. ursday, Aug. 18Aug. 21. CHUCKLES COMEDY HOUSE FAMILY 901 Student Passport e “901 Student Passport” program allows Shelby County’s school-aged children and their families free admission to nine historic sites and cultural institutions. rough Nov. 30. MEMPHIS Back to School Self-Care Going back to school can bring a lot of pressure and stress into kids’ lives. e South Branch wants to teach strategies to deal with that stress through meditation, journaling, face masks, and more. Saturday, Aug. 20, noon-1 p.m. SOUTH LIBRARY Crosstown Splashdown At this enchanting magicthemed event, there will be a waterslide, a DJ, spin-art machines, skee ball, leaping lizards, and more. Free. Saturday, Aug. 20, noon-4 p.m. CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE Game On! Family Night From the nostalgic to the new, everyone can enjoy games galore, special activities, music, and more. Free. Saturday, Aug. 20, 5-8 p.m.
WOMAN’S EXCHANGE ART GALLERY “Wild Woods, Gardens, & Machines” Two artists exploring ideas and visions of energy from nature juxtaposed with machines created by man. Friday, Aug. 12, 8 a.m.
TOPS GALLERY “The Art of Science” Over 30 local artists will present a piece of art inspired by the work of area researchers and clinicians. rough Sept. 4. CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE “This Is Not My Beautiful House” Exhibition of paintings by Will Ferguson. rough Aug. 19. SERAPHIM GALLERY “Tributaries: Morgan Asoyuf | Royal Portrait” Contemporary Ts’ymsen artist Morgan Asoyuf explores matriarchal power within the Northwest coast as a statement of Indigenous sovereignty. rough Sept. 25. METAL MUSEUM We Art Gallery Featuring as many as 50 local artists, including well-known favorites like Jeanne Seagle, John Torina, Pam Hassler, Dale Baucum and Brin Baucum, Carol Buchman, Maritza Davila, and others. rough Aug. 29.
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“Black Fist Realization”Series:Opening e “Black Fist Series” started out as an art installation that was painted and constructed by Najee Strickland, whose goal is to upli the community, encourage the youth, and manifest change. Saturday, Aug. 20, 6-9 p.m. MEDICINE FACTORY Opening Reception Join Lewis Body and Eva Langsdon for drinks and snacks at the opening reception of an exhibition of their recent works. Friday, Aug. 19, 5-8 p.m. OFF THE WALLS ARTS Read to Relate: An Interactive Play Discussion Group e group will discuss plays written by and about AALANA and/or di erently abled communities. $15. Tuesday, Aug. 23.
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MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY Hobby FlamencoKick-Start:(ages16+) Flamenco Memphis brings you a dance class taught by Noelia Garcia Carmona. No dance experience is needed. $15-$25. ursday, Aug. 18, 6-7:15 p.m.
THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS COMEDY Summer Laughin’! An Improv Vacation Blu City Liars present an improv comedy show that’s as refreshing as a vacation. Friday, Aug. 19, 8-10 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 20, 8-10 p.m.
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MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART “From Artisans to Artists: African American Metal Workers in Memphis” Exhibition that traces the role of Black metal workers from Central and West Africa to modern-day Memphis. rough Sept. 11.
THEATRE MEMPHIS BOOK EVENTS Dixon Book Club Book club members read ction and non ction to learn about nature, the arts, and history. Free. ursday, Aug. 18, 6 p.m.
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ART AND EXHIBITSSPECIAL “A Better Life for Their Children” An exhibition of photographs and stories about the impactful yet largely unknown story of Rosenwald schools. ursday, Aug. 18-Jan. 2. NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM “Another Dimension: Digital Art in Memphis” Exhibition exploring the rise of mainstream interest in digital art. rough Sept. 11.
THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS Meet the Author: Shane Sunn Join Novel in welcoming Shane Sunn to celebrate the release of Moon and Sunn: Memoir of a Fishing Legend and His Sun Monday, Aug. 22, 6 p.m. NOVEL Memphis Reads: Noor Memphis Reads is a community-wide read each year. is year’s book is Noor by Nnedi Okorafor. Be on the lookout for speaking engagements and parallel events that are free and open to the public. rough Oct. 27. MEMPHIS Novel Turns Five + One Final Storytime with Miss Marjorie Miss Marjorie returns for one nal storytime to celebrate Novel’s h birthday. ere will be contests and other promotions that day. Saturday, Aug. 20, 11 a.m. NOVEL CLASS / WORKSHOP Cocktails & Chemistry with the Blue Suede Sisters MoSH & the Blue Suede Sisters invite you to a one-of-a-kind night of shenanigans that combines cocktails, drag nuns, and science experiments. $25. Friday, Aug. 19, 8-11 p.m.
METAL MUSEUM “Itutu: Diddy Ain’t Invent The Remix” An exhibition that explores the variety of swag birthed from Black culture through the ability to remix and reinvent oneself and the meaning of the world. rough Oct. 15. TONE “Love in the Club: Photographs by Michael Abramson” Exhibition of images of Chicago’s South Side underground life. rough Sept. 4. STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC “Meet the Dixons” Learn about Margaret and Hugo Dixon’s personal lives, their collections, and their legacy. rough Oct. 9. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS “Memphis Proud: The Resilience of a Southern LGBTQ+ Community” Explore the history and culture of Memphis’ LGBTQ+ community. rough Sept. 26. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY “Metafiguration” A group exhibition exploring the multifarious approaches to guration taken by both self-taught and contemporary artists. rough Sept. 23.
Learn about the art of mosaiculture that created MBG’s giant Wonderland friends and plant your own mini version to take home! $40-$50. Saturday, Aug. 20, 10-11:30 a.m.
MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN FESTIVAL Buwtye’s Bazaar Musical Weekend 2022 Buwtye’s Bazaar Musical is a weekend of eclectic performance art, music education, and community connection. ursday, Aug. 18-Aug. 21. MEMPHIS FILM Animation Night: I Lost My Body In a Parisian laboratory, a severed hand escapes its unhappy fate and sets out to reconnect with its body. Free. ursday, Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m.
ANF ARCHITECTS “Yellow Jack” e dimly lit mansion will be staged as the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic will be recounted and martyrs remembered. rough Sept. 3.
BLACK LODGE The Adventures of Prince Achmed with a live score performed by General Labor Taken from the tales known as the Arabian Nights, the lm tells the story of a young prince tricked by a wicked sorcerer into mounting a magical, ying horse for a direct course to his own demise. $5. ursday, Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m. CROSSTOWN THEATER
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BEALE STREET Board to Beers Turns 2 Board to Beers is turning two, with tastings from Hampline Brewing Company and For Goodness Cakes. Local game makers will be on site for demos and questions. Satur day, Aug. 20, 4 p.m.-midnight.
Laser Bruno Mars Laser Bruno Mars brings Bruno Mars’ retro showman ship and style to the dome in vibrant laser light. $13. Friday, Aug. 19, 7 p.m., 8 p.m. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY Reels on the River: Denzel & Chill This event is what happens when movie night meets the Downtown riverfront and Den zel Washington becomes the main attraction. $9. Saturday, Aug. 20, 8-10 p.m.
WISEACRE BREWERY HEALTH AND FIT NESS Global Climbing Day Get psyched for free goat yoga, shirt tie-dye, film screening, food, a dunk tank, and more. Saturday, Aug. 20, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. MEMPHIS ROX CLIMBING Living Life Deliberately: Memphis Runs for Autism 5K Benefiting the ANGEL Program, a school for chil dren with autism. Saturday, Aug. 20, 8-10:30 a.m. HOLY ROSARY CATHOLIC CHURCH PERFORMING ARTS The Comeback: An Evening of Stories from Memphis Educators and Students Join New Memphis, Chalkbeat Tennessee, and Spillit for an evening of stories from students and educators that speak to the theme, “The Comeback.” Free. Wednesday, Aug. 24, 6 p.m. 409 SOUTH MAIN The Peace Chronicles An evening of music and spoken word focused on finding peace in a violent and chaotic world. Thursday, Aug. 18, 7:30-9 p.m.
THE BROOM CLOSET Sunflower Soiree Stop by the Dixon for a tour with director of horticulture Dale Skaggs to celebrate this summer flower, a symbol of Ukrainian resiliency. Free. Thursday, Aug. 18, 5:30-7 p.m. THE DIXON -
BOARD TO BEERS SPORTS 901 FC vs. Birmingham Legion Saturday, Aug. 20, 7:30 p.m.
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BLACK LODGE Bike Nights on Beale Motorcycle enthusiasts, descend on Downtown every Wednesday night to park on the most iconic street in America. Wednesday, Aug. 24, 6-11 p.m.
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CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE SPECIAL EVENTS Back to the ’80s Flashback Dance Party Dance under the lights to a decade of legendary music, in cluding new wave, pop, dance, rock, hair metal, and hip-hop. Friday, Aug. 19, 10 p.m.
AUTOZONE PARK Memphis Armored Fight Club Hear ye, hear ye, come one, come all to the second Memphis Armored Fight Club exhibition at Lodge! $5. Satur day, Aug. 20, 4-8 p.m.
ORPHEUM THEATRE TOURS Backstage Experience Tour
Each week, the Shell is open ing up the Green Rooms for an incredible and immersive guided tour that will take you from its 1936 beginnings all the way to the present. $15. Monday, Aug. 22, 2-3 p.m.
FOURTH BLUFF PARK FOOD AND DRINK Crosstown Brewing Company Mastodon Beer Release Party Crosstown Brewing Co. and MoSH invite you to the official launch party of a brand-new beer inspired by MoSH’s Mast odon. Taste the beer and enjoy Lucky 7 Brass Band performing alongside a laser show. $35. Thursday, Aug. 18, 7-9 p.m. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY Mempho Fest Saturdays Looking for good beer, tunes, and festival tickets? Join the good people from Mempho Fest. WYXR will have special guest DJs playing your favorite Mempho Fest artists. Saturday, Aug. 20, 2-4 p.m.
BLACK LODGE Memphis Redbirds vs. Charlotte Nights Monday, Aug. 22-Aug. 28
THEATRE MEMPHIS Something Rotten When Nick and Nigel Bottom decide their theatre troupe rivals that of William Shake speare the best way to beat him is to hire a soothsayer and write a musical about eggs … right? $30. Friday, Aug. 19Sept. 18. PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE To Kill a Mockingbird A new play by Aaron Sorkin, based on Harper Lee’s classic novel. $29-$125. Through Aug. 21.
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OVERTON PARK SHELL Memphis Ghost Walk
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THEATREWORKS Guys and Dolls This Manhattan-based musical romantic comedy tells the over lapping stories of high-roller Sky Masterson and rapscallion gambler Nathan Detroit. Friday, Aug. 19-Sept. 11.
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Home Place Pastures also includes the Farm Store. “It’s a really cool butcher shop. We serve lunch four days a week, ursday through Sunday. “We’ve got house-made bologna sandwiches and our grass-fed burger. e fried pork chop sandwich is outstanding. We make all the meat, obviously. It’s raised and processed right here, so it’s pretty unique.” Memphians also can order Home Place Pastures meat via its website and have it delivered to their home. For more information on the Hill Country Boucherie and Blues Picnic, go to homeplacepastures.com.
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A native of Como, Bartlett says his boucherie is based on a family tradition at the Home Place, his family farm. In the fall, they held dove-hunt parties with “good food, good people — and we celebrated music in this area.”
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e boucherie also harkens back to the annual picnic hosted by the late Othar Turner on his farm near Sardis, Mississippi. “He’d cook the whole goat, sell sandwiches, tons of beer.” Bartlett learned “how people in the South don’t waste anything. ey cook every part of the animal and make a lot of innovations in this process — delicious innovations and discoveries. “We just wanted to gure out if we could bring all of that together in one coolBartlett,event.” who now lives in Memphis, started Home Place Pastures eight years ago. It produces “pastured pork and grass-fed beef” on 500 acres of his family’s 1,800-acre farm. He added “Pastures” to “Home Place,” Bartlett says, “because we are trying to convert the road crop operation to a full regenerative grazing operation.” Bartlett moved back to Como three years a er he graduated from Dartmouth. “I loved the farm so much ’cause I grew up there and it meant the world to me. I didn’t want to see the agricultural legacy of my family go by the wayside.” He’s the h generation on the farm, which dates to about 1871. e family grows cotton, corn, soybeans,and but Bartlett wanted to build a brand using onandanimalproduction.erativehumane,“local,regen-meat“You’reusingimpactfocusingsoilhealth to run a farm like an ecosystem rather than a linear high-production model of one product like corn and cotton. In the process of doing all that, you really enhance the health of our watershed and our environment in general to promote biodiversity and combat climate change.”
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ake a group of people, lock them away in a remote location, and start killing them o one by one. No, that’s not my plan for the weekend — it’s a time-honored formula for a thriller. Agatha Christie used it as a jumping-o point for some of her most famous and innovative mysteries. Horror lms like e Haunting adopted the device, and how could you even make a decent slasher movie without gathering your potential victims at Camp Crystal Lake? Bodies Bodies Bodies is the latest story to dust o the cozy trope and twist it to satirical ends. It comes in hot, with a close-up of Sophie (Amandla Stenberg) and Bee (Maria Bakalova) kissing passionately. A er a tryst in the woods, they drive in Sophie’s aging Land Rover to a secluded mansion. It’s the family home (or at least one of them) of David (Pete Davidson), Sophie’s best friend fromWechildhood.meettherest of the cast in the pool, competing to see who can hold their breath the longest — the rst of many edgy games this toxic friend group plays. ere’s Emma (Chase Sui Wonders), David’s attractive actress girlfriend; Alice (Rachel Sennott), the cocaine-crazed party girl; Greg (Lee Pace), Alice’s hunky beau; and Jordan (Myha’la Herrold), the no-nonsense overachiever who is the only person in this post-college clique not to come from money. ere’s a hurricane approaching, and the friends have gathered to wait out the storm with copious amounts of booze and drugs to pass the time. ey’re surprised to see Sophie, who has lost touch with the group ever since they staged an intervention and sent her to rehab. But she claims to have responded to the group text — the main arena of friendship these days — and has such a deep history with David that he welcomes her. For Bee, it’s the rst time she’s seen her new girlfriend in her natural element. She’s surprised to learn that Sophie’s family home is even bigger than this sprawling mansion. But the streak of destruction Sophie’s wild years le behind has alienated her family, and it’s obvious that the point of this trip is her return to the a uent world which exiled her. As the dynamic between the friends reveals itself, we start to wonder why she would bother. ese folks’ idea of a fun drinking game is taking a shot of tequila and then slapping the person next to you — and you’d better do it hard, or you have to go again. David is the passive-aggressive ruler of the roost, and he’s threatened by Greg’s presence. No one quite knows what to make of Bee’s Eastern European accent and proletariat mannerism. Finally, as the storm drives them from poolside, Emma suggests they play a new game: Bodies Bodies Bodies. ey draw lots to determine who is the secret murderer and then turn out the lights and scatter. e “murderer” taps a victim on the shoulder, By Chris McCoy Bodies Bodies Bodies is a murder mystery satire for the sel e set.
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‘Change is Coming’
“Change is coming. is bill is a historic commitment by the United States to regain a leadership position not only in addressing climate disruption but also in leading the clean energy technology revolution that is being unleashed.
“In almost every Climate Reality training, I include a quote from the great American poet Wallace Stevens, who wrote: ‘A er the nal no there comes a yes / and on that yes the future world depends.’
Environmentalists applaud the passage of the In ation Reduction Act.
— Al Gore, Founder and Chairman, e Climate Reality Project “ e historic passage of the In ation Reduction Act makes renewable energy — which was already a ordable and, in many cases, cheaper than gas — even more cost-e ective. Even before today’s momentous vote, an independent study found that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) would save billions by replacing its aging, dirty coal plants with clean energy as opposed to gas. Families across the Valley are seeing higher power bills this summer due to TVA’s over-reliance on fossil fuels. It should be a no-brainer for TVA to take advantage of this groundbreaking legislation by scrapping plans to recklessly spend billions on new gas plants and invest in clean energy sources instead.”
— Maggie Shober, Research Director, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
While no single entity can take credit for the roller-coaster ride that led to the Senate [and the House later] passing this signi cant legislation, much credit must be given to the voters in Georgia. By electing not one, but two climate-focused Senate leaders in a runo election in early 2021, these two Southern senators were absolutely necessary for creating this moment in history and shepherding the bill through the political tightrope in the Senate.”
Today, in Congress, there came a historic yes, with the House voting to follow the Senate and pass the In ation Reduction Act, the biggest climate bill the U.S. has ever seen. It is no great exaggeration to say that on this ‘yes’ our future world depends. To help shape the climate measures that are included in this bill, our Climate Reality leaders and chapters held more than 150 meetings with legislators. Our friends and supporters contacted their representatives and policy-makers over 180,000 times. All with one simple message: Go big. Go bold. Act now. Yes, yes, yes. ere is much to celebrate. e IRA will supercharge the just transition to clean energy that is already underway across the country, transforming our economy while creating an estimated 1.5 million jobs and cutting costs for working families. Critically, the bill invests $60 billion in frontline communities hit hardest by fossil fuel pollution and the climate crisis, bringing clean air, good jobs, and better opportunities to those who have been subject to generations of environmental injustice. e impact of this bill will ripple across continents. By putting the U.S. on the path to cutting global warming pollution 40 percent by 2030, the IRA helps keep the Paris Agreement alive and demonstrates to the world that we are committed to climate action for the long-term. But for all the progress we will achieve through the IRA, there are provisions that require urgent attention and action. Fossil fuel interests forced painful concessions in negotiations, requiring the government to o er new areas for drilling in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, as well as more oil and gas leasing on our public lands. Lawmakers are poised to take additional steps that would fast-track pipelines that communities — and Climate Reality leaders — have fought for years to block.”
Last week Congress approved the In ation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022. e bill does a lot of things, but environmentalists applauded its $350 billion package to address climate change and promote clean energy investments. Some said the bill has the potential to lower greenhouse gas emissions across the nation by 40 percent by 2030. Here’s what some of those environmental advocates had to say about it.
“ e In ation Reduction Act is by far the most consequential legislation for climate action that has ever passed. I think it will take some time to be able to process the scale and positive e ects this will have on our collective future. But the ght is not over, we’ll need to keep up momentum across the country and here in the Southeast. Paired with more federal, state, and local actions, we will be more equipped to face the most existential threat of our time: climate change.”
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