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

OUR 1541ST ISSUE 09.06.18 So, are you ready to start boycotting University of Memphis football and basketball games? Gonna burn your Tigers jersey? How about the Grizzlies? You ready to stay home this season? Turn off the television? Get rid of that sweet throwback Memphis Sounds uni?

You’d better be ready to do just that — in addition to staying away from FedExForum and the Liberty Bowl — if you’re one of those people who’s upset with the Nike company.

Nike has contracts with all the teams you love in this town.

And why would you be upset with Nike? Well, unless you’ve been living in a cocoon the past few days, you know that the athletic super-corporation has launched a new national ad campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback who inspired the ongoing player protest movement of kneeling during the National Anthem to make a statement against police brutality and racial injustice.

Because of this audacious corporate move, many irate owners of Nike apparel have been burning their Nike sweat socks — and presumably throwing away their expensive Jordan shoes and destroying all their $75 souvenir team jerseys. Though that may be a bridge too far.

It’s a real dilemma for fans who hate the Anthem protests — and the guy who started the movement — no matter their favorite sport. For example, the NFL is contracted with Nike for uniforms and apparel for all 32 teams through 2028. Nike also has the NBA’s apparel contract, and that of most of the top-tier universities, including Ole Miss and that orangeuniformed outfit over in Knoxville.

Whatcha gonna do, Landsharks? Will it come down to MAGA versus Hotty Toddy?

This will get interesting on several fronts. How will the NFL’s mostly uberconservative, millionaire team-owners reckon with their hired guns on the field wearing equipment provided by a company that has thrown in with the athletes, rather than the owners? How do you think Dallas Cowboys owner and MAGA-Trump fan Jerry Jones is going to handle this little development? Break out the popcorn.

And, of course, it will get even more interesting once the grand Tweeter-in-Chief sinks his ALL-CAPS fingers into this issue. It’s a perfect diversion from the gathering storm over the White House — and made to order for a president who loves stirring up divisiveness and outrage.

So why would Nike make such a provocative move? Why would any profit-driven company do something it knows is going to stir controversy and anger? One theory is the old saw that any publicity is good publicity. If the mass media and the entire social media universe — and the president — are talking and tweeting about your brand, it just enhances your company’s public profile. Nike becomes national news.

Another theory, posited by TheStreet.com marketing guru Brian Sozzi, is that Nike “skates where they think the puck is going.” In other words, the company is betting that the country is heading toward more enlightened attitudes, that the future will belong to those on Kaepernick’s side of history — folks who think his right to protest is legitimate. Nike is putting real money on the idea that the current poisoned atmosphere around the kneeling issue is a short-term political exploitation that will burn out, leaving the angry “boycotters” looking foolish — and probably wishing they had that cool Ole Miss jersey back.

If you think about it, it’s a brilliant power play: forcing fans to choose between N E WS & O P I N I O N their love for their favorite teams (and their THE FLY-BY - 4 own Nike apparel) and their distaste for NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 Kaepernick and athletes who kneel during POLITICS - 7 EDITORIAL - 8 the National Anthem. It’s the ultimate “put VIEWPOINT - 9 up or shut up” move.

COVER - “THERE IS NO LINE” Upping the ante even further, Nike

BY MAYA SMITH - 10 announced that it will create a new WE RECOMMEND - 14 Kaepernick shoe and T-shirt and other MUSIC - 16 apparel, and that the company will also AFTER DARK - 18 donate money to Kaepernick’s “Know CALENDAR - 21 ART - 29 Your Rights” campaign.

BAR REPORT - 30 Cue the presidential tweets, and SPIRITS - 33 maybe even a new MAGA hat: Make FILM - 34 Adidas Great Again. It will be made in C L AS S I F I E D S - 36 China, of course.

LAST WORD - 39 Bruce VanWyngarden brucev@memphisflyer.com

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f ly on the wall { R ATS! Did anybody else catch an article in The Commercial Appeal with the headline, “Kirby High Cancels Thursday Classes Due to Pest Infestation?”

“Thursday marks the third consecutive day [Kirby] will be closed due to a ‘pest infestation,’” the story began. Nearly 400 words later, the article concluded without ever getting around to saying what kind of pests might shut down a school.

Was it scary area protesters? Or die-hard John Leguizamo fans? No. As every other media outlet in town reported, it was rats!

September 6-12, 2018

VE R BATI M “It’s a real low felony … It’s presumptive diversion eligible, probation. Probably not do any jail time on it.” — Memphis attorney Claiborne Ferguson explains “corpse abuse” to WMC news after a hospital security guard was caught having sex in the morgue. Tennessee has no laws against necrophilia. Ew.

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BIG A recent article by Robert Cassiday, editor of Building Design and Construction named Memphis as the city to watch in 2019 in an article asking, “Can this MidSouth city of 670,000 become the next Austin?”

It reminded Fly on the Wall of that time when Texas vendors were asked to cease and desist when Austin was trying to be the next Memphis.

R EC K LES S E N DAN G E R M E NT? To be fair, it was only a warning shot.

And 71-yearold Tommy Smith did verbally warn the 7, 10, and 11 year-olds to keep off his property.

By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

Questions, Answers + Attitude Edited by Toby Sells

W E E K T H AT W A S

By Flyer staff

Transportation, Trans, & Tourism Looking for that MATA money, gender identity at work, & records broken.

PAY TO D R IVE The Memphis City Council considered a transportation utility fee last week to fund roadway and transit projects.

Councilman Edmund Ford Jr. said the fee would be used to fund roadway improvement projects, such as repairing curbs and gutters, as well as supporting the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA)’s new transit plan.

The fee would be tacked on to Memphis Light, Gas & Water bills and would be similar to the stormwater fee.

The rates would be based on the amount of trips a property generates and could range from $4.75 to $15. It could generate more than $30 million in revenue each year.

That money would be used to offset the costs of road projects and create a dedicated source of funding for MATA, Ford said.

TN AG: STR I P TR AN S P R OTECTI O N S Tennessee’s chief law enforcement official wants to make it easier for employers to fire employees because of their gender identity.

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery joined AGs from 15 other states to ask for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a lower-court ruling that protected a transgender female using federal anti-discrimination law.

Slatery said the ruling “essentially rewrote federal law.”

Unless congress changes the law, such decisions should be left up to states.

He said, unless Congress changes the law, “it is up to the states, not the federal judiciary, to determine which protections, or not, should flow to individuals based on gender identity.”

TO UTI N G TO U R I S M Tourism broke records in Tennessee last year, and spending in Memphis topped totals from the previous two years.

Tourism spending in the Volunteer State reached a record high of $20.7 billion in 2017. That figure grew 6.3 percent from 2016, according to state tourism officials and the U.S. Travel Association.

Tourism spending in Memphis and Shelby County last

year grew 5 percent from 2016. The 11.7 million people who visited here last year spent more than $3.5 billion, according to Memphis Tourism. The group says the data suggests that people are staying longer and spending more money on their trips here.

Memphis Tourism, formerly the Memphis Convention and Visitors Bureau, markets Memphis to visitors across the U.S. and the world. Their pitch is focused on “a dynamic culinary scene rooted in BBQ, along with the sounds of a rich music legacy and a new Memphis beat,” according to a news release.

Increased spending in tourism here meant more jobs.

Tourism payroll in Memphis and Shelby County last year was $742 million, up $41 million from 2016, according to Memphis Tourism.

In a related note, Airbnb said last week that in its first year of a tax agreement with the city, Memphis hosts have remitted $647,000 in home-sharing tax revenue to city coffers.

From May 2016 to May 2017, 87,000 have stayed in Memphis Airbnbs. That’s 67 percent more than in 2016.

O H, YEAH, THAT B LI M P A blimp was drifting through the skies over Downtown Memphis last week.

Yes, it was a promotion for Carnival Cruise Lines; it was also raising money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Social media posts of the blimp with the hashtag #ChooseFun triggered a donation to St. Jude.

Fuller versions of these stories and more local news can be found at The News Blog at memphisflyer.com.

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Choices re-claims feminist health care with new site.

A view inside the Choices birthing center.

Rebecca Terrell is calling, um, malarkey.

Why do traditional health-care providers get to claim childbirth? No more.

Choices will break ground this week on a new, $4.2 million facility that will include more capacity for patients, a new mental health program, and a new, three-room center for birthing babies.

Midwife-assisted, out-of-hospital births are on the rise in the U.S. Choices hired midwives in January and the program is already at capacity, “so, clearly people want this,” Terrell says.

The Choices center will be the first of its kind in Memphis. Yes, the move is about offering patients more services, Terrell says. But it’s also about Choices re-claiming feminist health care. — Toby Sells Memphis Flyer: Why did Choices decide to get into child births?

Rebecca Terrell: We consider ourselves a feminist health-care provider. That is our history. We were founded right after [Roe v. Wade]. We decided that feminist health care is re-claiming birth. We were like “why do [traditional health-care providers] get that?”

The idea of segregating abortion providers off — like culling the herd — was a very specific strategy of the far right. This makes [abortion providers] easier to target, easier to harass. So, people aren’t, maybe, going to rush to their defense. In fact, that has been the case across

the country.

We also saw the maternal health outcomes in the country are not good. The OB/GYN community, as a profession, hasn’t really stepped up to the plate in terms of protecting women’s right to choose. There are some providers who have been more outspoken than others.

But, as a profession in general and especially in Tennes-

see, they’ve said it’s just too much trouble, too politically controversial.

So, we’re saying those services need to be provided in a single context. We’re going to show that this is how those services should be provided.

MF: How did the capital campaign go?

RT: It’s been a big, big challenge, but the community has — and is — stepping up. We still have about $500,000 to raise. By December, we hope to have it all.

We’re looking locally and nationally. We’ve have a number of local foundations say, “Oh, you do abortions? We can’t help you with this.” I’m like, this is a birth center. But they’ll say it doesn’t matter.

MF: Tell me about the new mental health program.

RT: Sometimes we’re like “Stigmas R’ Us.” Abortion is stigmatized. Sometimes in the South, even contraception is stigmatized.

We see a lot of transgender patients. We see a lot of gay and lesbian patients. The idea of midwifery is somewhat stigmatized in the medical community.

So, the program is about those stigmas. If you’re transitioning, or if you have any kind of sexual assault issues that we see here. We will see postpartum depression. We’ll see people with big life decisions. “Is this a pregnancy I want to continue? Or, is it not?”

Then, just like all of us, people need access to good mental health care.

Look for the full interview at memphisflyer.com.

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POLITICS By Jackson Baker

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Starting Over As county government changes faces, deeper alterations may be needed.

What separated mayor and commissioners in recent years seemed to be honest disagreement about the balance of power.

What was it that lay behind this schism? Political partisanship? That wouldn’t seem to be the case; while the commission’s Democrats quite often voted against the mayor’s will on particular cases, there was no doubting that the rebellion against Luttrell, a Republican, was led by Shafer and Terry Roland, both GOP members. Nor were personality differences the reason, though they existed.

Ditto with govermental ideology. True, Luttrell’s main concern as mayor seemed to be that of debt retirement über alles, while commission members tended to be freer spenders. But beyond all that, what separated mayor and commissioners in recent years seemed to be honest disagreement about the balance of power between branches of government. The Commission saw itself as entitled to a greater degree of oversight, especially over financial matters, while Luttrell saw his executive responsibilities to be dependent on the kind of strong-mayor role that the county charter, as currently constituted, may not fully license.

It seems clear that, as county government goes forward with a new mayor and new commissioners, the argument is likely to rear again. Further change may be called for, and not only in two leftover resolutions.

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to commit resources to it from the county’s general fund.

Some confusion persists on that latter point. Luttrell later maintained that he had authorized a disbursement from the general fund to pay for the ceremony, while outgoing commission chair Heidi Shafer said that commission funds had paid for it and that Luttrell’s offer of funding had come too late and only after he had received inquiries from the media about responsibility for the event.

It was Shafer — who, along with Commissioner Terry Roland, had been the chief organizer of resistance to Luttrell over the years — who was front and center for the swearing-in ceremony, and who made it clear to the large audience that the event was a commission project.

She identified the outgoing mayor only as “Mark Luttrell,” sans title, when, at the request of two of the new officials, he assisted in administering the oath of office.

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The change has come. There is a new Shelby County Mayor, Lee Harris, and he will serve along with a Shelby County Commission that numbers eight new members on the 13-member body.

And all these newcomers will inherit some old business — two issues that were apparently resolved last Monday, on the final meeting day of the old Commission, but became unresolved late Friday when outgoing Mayor Mark Luttrell — timing his action for the last possible moment so as to avoid a possible override — vetoed two resolutions.

One of these resolutions gave the goahead to a 390-unit subdivision, to be built in the southeastern corner of the county, adjacent to Collierville. The other resolution served to restore some post-retirement benefits, curtailed a decade ago, for county employees who serve a minimum of eight years. (Perhaps not coincidentally, eight years is the amount of time in office just served by the outgoing term-limited members of the Commission.)

In conferring his veto, Luttrell cited the expenses to Shelby County government of the two resolutions — the unspecified costs of providing county services and infrastructure in the case of the subdivision, an estimated $6 to $10 million in direct annual outlays in the case of the post-retirement benefits. The financial sum was the estimate of Harvey Kennedy, Luttrell’s CAO, and Luttrell said that, at the very least, some actuarial study ought to be given the project before final approval.

That, in a public-policy sense, was the crux of the matter as Luttrell saw it.

There was, additionally, a highly private side to the disagreement between mayor and commission, and, in taking his veto action, Luttrell had managed to strike the last blow in what had amounted to a nearly three-year power struggle between himself and the commission — one that, on Thursday of last week, only a day previously, had seen him conspicuously on the losing end.

That had been the occasion of the public swearing-in at the Cannon Center of mayor-elect Harris, along with the eight new commissioners and the clerks and charter officials who had been elected, along with them in the county general election of August 2nd. The ceremony had been pointedly organized and conducted under commission auspices, after, it was said, Luttrell himself had declined

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On EDGE Last week saw the first meeting of a blue-ribbon local board charged with reviewing the current status of the Memphis area’s economic development in general and the efforts toward that end of EDGE (Economic Deveopment and Growth Engine) in particular.

EDGE was created some years ago as a joint city/county enterprise that could coordinate local efforts to solicit new business and industry and buttress those enterprises already here. The idea was to get beyond parochial approaches to development, as well as to stifle infighting and competition between local governments and between business groups.

Though EDGE would seem to have a diligent board and a competent staff, an aura of general dissatisfaction with its accomplishments has settled over the Greater Memphis economic community.

Neighbor states and adjacent jurisdictions seem to be having their way with business and industrial newcomers and getting first dibs on many of them. There is brewing controversy over whether EDGE or the Chamber of Commerce should take the lead in selling the Memphis area.

Sentiment is growing on the Memphis City Council favoring the re-establishment of an independent Industrial Development Board, precisely the kind of would-be recruitment vehicle that EDGE was designed to supercede.

As always, various citizens grumble over what they see as over-reliance on PILOT (payment in lieu of taxes) arrangements, which, these critics contend, dissipate the tax base of local government and starve necessary human services of the funds they need.

And, even as the role of EDGE in the scheme of things is under question, local governments’ dissatisfaction with the lack of control and even the amount of input available to them has grown.

As a case in point, the Shelby County Commission has considered of late various means of amending the lines of authority within the board, increasing the number and voting power within it of members from the commission and the city council, whose involvement has been more or less of the token variety. Most recently, a resolution to strip the overall oversight of the EDGE staff from the mayors of Memphis and Shelby County or to moderate their exclusivity, assigning significant oversight to the board, including matters of hiring and firing, was introduced. Though it was not acted upon before the commissioners elected four years ago had to yield to a newly elected commission, the proposal may surface again in some form.

Meanwhile, outgoing commission chair Heidi Shafer performed what can only be regarded as a public service by appointing the aforementioned task force to look into possible changes in the status of EDGE (or presumably a successor body).

For the record, that task force consists of four returning members of the county commission — Willie Brooks, Van Turner, Reginald Milton, and Eddie Jones — and six inviduals of unquestioned capability in matters relating to the local economy — Ron Belz, Jack Sammons, Cary Vaughn, Calvin Anderson, Al Bright, Les Binkley, and Carolyn Hardy.

At their first meeting, the task force members resolved to consult extensively with other interested parties and to undertake the researches that will hopefully underpin necessary change. We wish them luck.

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The following is a screed that’s way way way too long for my Facebook page. For nearly all my friends, it will amount to preaching to the choir.

On the other hand, the people who need to read it aren’t my friends on Facebook, so they won’t read it, either.

In other words, what I write here will serve no useful purpose other than to let me vent. So here I go, spitting in the wind. …

Recently some younger Trump supporters I know — folks in their 20s and 30s — have expressed disdain toward fast-food workers who are asking for higher wages.

They claim that such low-skilled jobs don’t deserve higher wages and that a higher minimum wage for them would just devalue the work of more skilled folks like themselves — first responders, welders, mechanics, construction workers, and the like.

These young Trump folks also resent anyone on welfare and, of course, most immigrants. They see all these folks as somehow damaging their own economic prospects or undermining their own small economic successes.

Their attitude infuriates me and discourages me. Here’s what I have to say to them: If you’re a Trump supporter struggling to keep up with your rent, pay for your medicine, feed your kids, and maybe buy a small pick-up truck on long-term credit, then there’s a good chance you’re directing your anger, resentment, and disdain at exactly the wrong people.

You have bought into myths designed to protect the rich and feed their greed. You have been duped.

It’s not poor immigrants or the folks on welfare or the fast-food workers asking to raise the minimum wage who are keeping you down.

No, your enemy is the Wall Street broker and the oil tycoon and the $40 million-a-year CEO who are sponging up the wealth before it ever trickles down to you. Your enemies are folks like the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, the DuPonts, and the politicians they have in their pockets.

The super-rich want you to direct

your resentments down the economic ladder at others, like yourselves, who are simply trying to get through the month without going hungry. They want to distract you from looking up the economic ladder at those who are exploiting the labor of folks just like you in order to pad their penthouses with more gold-plated trappings.

Many of the super-rich and their enablers (Republicans mostly but not exclusively, and Fox News) want you to think that if they make millions or billions of dollars, it’s because they are smarter or work harder or are more God-blessed than the rest of us.

Many of the super-rich also want you to think of them as some kind of heroic “job creators.”

That’s not what they are. It’s not what they’ve ever been.

I’ve spent time with the superrich: They don’t work as hard as you do, and the only smarts they have is the sophistication to work a rigged system. Most of them have simply been lucky — no better than the guy who made a gazillion dollars from Beanie Babies. As for how God feels about the very rich, I refer you to the New Testament.

Many of the super-rich also want you to think of them as some kind of heroic “job creators.” That’s not what they are. It’s not what they’ve ever been.

No, the job creators are folks like you, who spend your whole income to buy the things you need and thereby keep every useful business in the country running. In fact, the super-rich are what they have always been: not job creators, but money manipulators and labor exploiters.

Yes, my young Trump-loving friends, you are being duped. When you look down at the fast-food server or the welfare mother or the immigrant farm worker, you’re looking where the super-rich want you to look — in exactly the wrong direction.

When you start looking up, so will our democracy.

A former editor of Memphis magazine, Ed Weathers is now retired and lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.

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Injustice is a problem in Memphis — in its housing, its wealth-gap, its food deserts, its justice system, its education system. In 2018, the Flyer is going to take a hard look at these issues in a series of cover stories we’re calling The Justice Project. The stories will focus on reviewing injustice in its many forms here and exploring what, if anything, is being done — or can be done — to remedy the problems.

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“THERE IS NO LINE” Much of Memphis’ immigrant community lives in fear.

A tough new law is looming, and there are no solutions in sight.

Children line up inside a U.S. immigration detention center.

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scar spent his ninth birthday alone in a Florida detention center for immigrant minors, eating tortillas and ham. He’s been detained at the Homestead, Florida, shelter and separated from his dad, Kevin, since mid-May. His father is being kept at the Port Isabel Detention Center in Texas.

The pair left Honduras in early May, hoping eventually to join their relatives in Memphis — Elizabeth and Eber (a couple who wish to keep their family’s last name 10 out of this story).

Elizabeth is Oscar’s aunt. She says

Kevin’s and Oscar’s lives were in danger in Honduras. Kevin had been receiving death threats on his job as a taxi driver, and his son was starting to be recruited by gangs at school, a common occurrence in Honduras.

“So they left to have a better life,” Elizabeth says, adding that when Kevin and his son left their home country, they planned to seek asylum at the border. “They weren’t trying to come here illegally,” she says.

“They planned to turn themselves in.”

According to Elizabeth and Eber’s attorney, Tatine Darker, this is a legal approach to seeking asylum.

“They cross the border and turn themselves in to immigration authority and say, ‘We want to apply for asylum.’ It’s too dangerous now to cross in the areas where you don’t get caught, especially with kids.”

Kevin and Oscar knew they would get caught, but they thought they would be released from detention after a couple of weeks, and then be allowed to present their asylum case in court, Elizabeth says.

Unfortunately, Oscar and his dad en-

tered the country as the Trump administration was beginning to enforce its “zero-tolerance” policy, which required the prosecution of all individuals who illegally entered the United States. The policy had the effect of separating parents from their children, because parents were referred for prosecution and their children were placed in the custody of a sponsor — such as a relative or foster home — or held in a shelter.

Several thousand children were taken from their parents under this policy.

Oscar was one of them. Elizabeth says Kevin and Oscar were immediately separated when they were apprehended by border patrol officers. “They didn’t get to say goodbye or anything.”

Elizabeth says they didn’t hear from either of her relatives for weeks, until they got a call from Oscar and a social worker.

They were relieved, but the relief was fleeting. They thought Oscar would only be detained for 15 days, but days have turned into weeks and weeks have turned into months. And nine-year-old Oscar remains

alone in a Florida detention center.

Darker says under a 1997 federal agreement, minors aren’t supposed to be detained for more than 20 days and that, in this case, they’ve “well-exceeded that.”

Elizabeth says their anxiety is compounded when they sometimes go weeks without hearing from Oscar, although, he’s allowed two phone calls per week. When he does call, he’s crying, Elizabeth says.

“He doesn’t want to stay locked up there.”

They’ve been told Oscar might be kept in detention until he can be reunited with his dad, who could have a court date coming up this month. But for now, Kevin and his son’s fates remain uncertain.

THERE IS NO LINE

Many of the 12.1 million undocumented immigrants that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) estimates lived in the U.S. as of 2014 have no legal basis for citizenship, says Jan Lentz, an attorney at Darker & Associates.

“There’s absolutely nothing they can do to fix their papers,” she says. “It’s not

just that people are lazy or that they don’t want to. That’s a misconception.

I’ve not met a single person who’s here and undocumented that wants to stay undocumented. But you can’t just jump from being undocumented to becoming a citizen. It’s a long process.”

Before applying for citizenship, generally one has to have been a Legal Permanent Resident or Green Card holder for at least five years. But, to be eligible for a Green Card, applicants have to meet specific criteria.

Legal immigration to the United States is largely limited to three categories: family, employment, and humanitarian protection, according to the American Immigration Council (AIC).

U.S. citizens and legal residents can petition to bring non-citizen family members, including spouses, children, siblings, and parents into the country. The U.S. Department of State awards a maximum of around 226,000 family-sponsored visas each year, according to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The number of employment-based visas granted are limited to 140,000 each year. In order to be eligible for permanent employment visas, immigrants must have certain skills and meet educational requirements. Additionally, in most cases, applicants must have a job lined up here with a sponsoring employer. Most of the qualifying professions for permanent immigration require high levels of education, and applicants are prioritized based on

their skills and work experience. Professions such as scientists, professors, and multinational executives are the top preference, the AIC reports.

Finally, U.S. law provides refugee or asylee status can be granted to people able to prove there is a “well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, membership in a particular social group, political opinion, or national origin.”

Multiple screenings and court appearances are usually required in order to be granted asylum and admitted as a refugee.

The grounds for receiving asylee and refugee status are the same, but the procedures for each differ. A refugee applicant applies from outside the U.S. Those seek-

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ing asylum are already in the country — or like Oscar and Kevin, have just arrived at a U.S. port of entry. To be granted asylum under this process, applicants must prove in court that they meet the definition of a refugee.

Oscar and his dad are just two of thousands of immigrants who seek asylum in the U.S. each year. The most recent data from the DHS Office of Immigration Statistics shows that in 2016, 20,455 individuals were granted asylum. Congress, in conjunction with the president, sets the number of refugee admissions allowed each year. In 2018, President Donald Trump’s administration set the number at 45,000 — the lowest it’s been since the program began in 1980.

Martha Lopez, a local immigration specialist working through the international agency World Relief, says all of the processes to immigrate here legally take “a long time and a lot of documentation” and require having an income level above the poverty line, in some cases.

“Options are limited,” she says. “It’s almost impossible for people who are trying to get legal status and do things the right way from the very beginning,” Lopez says. “It could take four, five, sometimes 15 years to go through the process. It’s not as easy as it seems.”

One of the reasons the process is so lengthy is because of the limited number of visas the country gives each year, creating backlogs of applicants, who collectively wait decades, she says.

For example, the AIC notes that, as of May 2016, unmarried children of U.S. citizens must wait more than five years, and siblings of U.S. citizens wait more than 10 years to enter the country legally.

Lisa Sherman-Nikolaus, policy director for the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC), says the country’s current immigration system is broken and outdated. There hasn’t been immigration reform in decades, she says.

“For the vast majority of people currently living here without immigration status, there is no pathway to citizenship,” Sherman-Nikolaus says. “That will take an act of Congress. What’s more, the Trump administration is eroding the limited protections that do exist for some immigrant groups, making whole communities vulnerable to deportations by revoking their legal status.”

Sherman-Nikolaus says the current system doesn’t meet the demand of the country’s employers or the number of people who want to immigrate here for family reunification or better opportunities.

“Often you hear people say ‘Well, why don’t they just get in line?’” ShermanNikolaus says. “But there is no line. The reality is there is no pathway for them to enter the country legally or for those who are already here to adjust their status.”

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Tonya came to the Renewal Place program suffering from alcohol and drug addiction with with her 3 children. Days before entering the program, she delivered and left a baby girl at Methodist Hospital.

Working with her counselors she was able to overcome the fear and shame she felt and be reunited with her 4th child. Tonya is now a successful high school chemistry teacher, finishing her PhD. Renewal Place, a signature Salvation Army of Memphis program, works in concert with the Shelby County drug court as an intensive-treatment alternative to incarceration for nonviolent drug offenders - and those charged with crimes motivated by drug dependency. All while providing wrap-around care and counseling for mothers and their children. The Renewal Place program has had more than 180 graduates, 78% remain clean and sober long-term.

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can be very challenging, says Michael Phillips, director of the nonprofit, Su Casa Family Ministries. “It’s not easy to be an immigrant no matter what,” Phillips says.

“Just learning a new system can be hard.”

That’s where Su Casa comes in, Phillips says. Formed in 2008, the organization strives to create a place where the immigrant community feels safe and is able to connect with others.

“Oftentimes, immigrants come from more familial and communal cultures,” Phillips says. “When they come to the States, not only have they literally left their family behind, but they feel lonely and disconnected. There is no sense of connectivity for them.”

Su Casa offers two primary programs: early childhood care and adult English classes, which Phillips says are in high demand. A new semester of English classes kicked off last week, with 220 students enrolled and an additional 125 students on the wait-list. Phillips says it’s the largest wait-list ever.

Su Casa students come from 17 countries, including Venezuela, El Salvador, and Mexico. Some are documented.

Some are not.

Phillips says the Spanish-speaking community now lives under “constant threat,” due to lack of clarity around their legal status. There is uncertainty as to how to proceed, depending on each immigrant’s situation, he says. “Whatever their situation is, you add in questions about legal status and ‘what’s going to happen if?’ It makes it more difficult for people to go to work, school, and have healthy and vibrant neighborhoods and communities,” Phillips says. “Everything is more complicated when you have a whole group of people concerned about how they’re going to be treated.”

People are scared to go to the police, Phillips says, recalling an incident involving an immigrant woman who was a victim of domestic abuse, but for fear of her partner getting deported, she didn’t report him to the police.

“That’s a worry that hangs over their heads,” Phillips says. “People are scared; people don’t call the police when crimes are happening, because they’re worried about the legal-status question. I’d like for it to be a less tumultuous environment for people to live in.”

Rondell Treviño the founder of the Immigration Project (a faith-based organization that works to help the immigrant community flourish) lives north of Summer in the Berclair area, which is probably the most immigrant-populated part of the city, he says.

Most of his neighbors are “always living on their toes and walking on eggshells,” he says. So much so that there is a text thread set up among his neighbors to alert each other when ICE is in the neighborhood.

“The reality is no one is sure of what will happen the next day,” Treviño says.

“There were times, I’d hear that ICE officers are slowly driving around the neighborhood in the morning waiting for families to leave for work and school.

There have been days when families have asked me for rides to church because they were scared to leave alone.”

“It’s wrong,” Treviño says. Most of the undocumented immigrants he knows have lived in the country for over a decade and “have done nothing wrong in the sense of making our neighborhoods feel unsafe,” he says. “The fact is the majority of immigrants are good people.

“I think it’s unfair that they look to detain undocumented immigrants who are good neighbors,” Treviño says. “They’re subjecting all immigrants to criminal treatment. They’re willing to detain anyone.”

And once someone is detained, Treviño says, there is a chance that they might never see their family again.

When immigrants are picked up

by ICE here, they’re detained “wherever there’s room,” sometimes here, but oftentimes in a facility in Jena, Louisiana, Treviño says. There, they await a court date, but oftentimes they don’t have money for an attorney, he adds.

“Often you hear people say ‘Well, why don’t they just get in line?’ But there is no line.”

“It’s almost automatic that, once you go through that process, that you’ll more than likely be deported,” Treviño says. “And then the rest of the family is left here by themselves. That’s a summary of what you usually see.”

Though Treviño says reports of ICE raids have been less frequent in his neighborhood, recently, “the fear is still lingering, because at any given moment, ICE can ramp up again, targeting those who can’t get right with the law because the law doesn’t allow it. It’s not a new phenomenon. These injustices aren’t new.”

TENNESSEE’S NEW “MASS DEPORTATION” LAW

Treviño, Phillips, and other leaders in the community anticipate the conditions for immigrants worsening in January, when a new bill, Tennessee HB2315, which requires law enforcement to cooperate with ICE, is set to go into effect.

The measure has been deemed a “mass-deportation” bill by many in the immigrant community. It would prohibit state and local governments from adopting sanctuary policies for undocumented immigrants, and require local law enforcement agencies to enforce federal immigration laws. This means all law enforcement officers, including campus police, could be required to inquire about immigration and citizenship status during routine stops.

“There’s this whole question of police cooperation,” Phillips says. “I’d like to know what their level of cooperation will be as it relates to what the state law says and what it doesn’t say. It’s going to come down to how willing leadership of law enforcement agencies are [to cooperate].”

Sherman-Nikolaus of the TIRRC says the legislation will only serve to further drive a wedge between local government and immigrant communities.

“By passing HB2315, the state government has given ICE the green light to commandeer our local government agencies to do the work of the federal government.

When local government officials make it easier to deport residents, immigrant cooperation and trust is lost.”

Sherman-Nikolaus says the TIRRC will be working to minimize the impact of HB2315 and will monitor its implementation when it goes into effect in January.

DREAMING ON

When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced last year that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program would be phased out, the future of around 800,000 undocumented young immigrants went into limbo. More than 8,000 of those DACA recipients reside in Tennessee, and 1,910 live in Memphis.

Under DACA, recipients receive a work permit, a social security number, and protection from deportation.

“Over the last 6 years, DACA has been a lifeline, giving young immigrants who’ve grown up here protection from deportation and the opportunity to work,” Sherman-Nikolaus says.

DACA recipients continue to receive protection because of rulings in three different court cases that forced the Trump administration to reinstate DACA renewals. But Sherman-Nikolaus says, “any day now, we’re expecting the notorious court of Judge [Andrew] Hanen to issue a ruling that could bring an end to DACA renewals and put immigrant youth at risk.”

In May, Texas and several other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government in a U.S. District Court, challenging the creation of the DACA program.

Sherman-Nikolaus says this is the same court that blocked the expansion of a similar program in 2015.

“Immigrant youth deserve a permanent solution and the opportunity to get on a pathway to citizenship,” Sherman-Nikolaus says. “That’s why we need a clean Dream Act — legislation that will grant young immigrants protection without putting their families or other communities at risk of deportation. This should be the first order of business for those we elect to Congress in November.”

It will likely be up to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the future of DACA. Meanwhile, the immigrant community lives in fear and doubt — and a nine-yearold boy awaits his fate in a Florida detention center.

Editor’s note: Attorney Tatine Darker is married to Flyer editor, Bruce VanWyngarden.

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A typographer, a stenographer, and a geographer walk into a theater. No, that’s not the setup to a joke. Nor is it the premise of the latest Errol Morris documentary. It is, however, an almost complete description of the action in Adam Bock’s unusual play, The Typographer’s Dream, which Memphis’ Quark Theatre company opens at TheatreSouth this week.

Tony Isbell describes The Typographer’s Dream as “the lightest show” his company has produced. In August, Isbell was honored with the Eugart Yerian award for lifetime achievement in Memphis theater. Quark, the producing organization Isbell co-founded with his friend and fellow actor Adam Remsen, has quickly developed a similar reputation for excellence. It’s also developed a reputation for producing tense, even troubling work.

Although it may be lighter, The Typographer’s Dream remains bittersweet and more of an experiment in contrast than a story in the usual sense. Using the format of a panel discussion, Annalise, a geographer (played by Jillian Barron), Dave, a stenographer (played by Eric Vinton Jones), and Margaret, a typographer (played by Michelle Miklosey) all talk about their jobs.

“We get to know these three people pretty well by the end of the show,” Isbell says of the 75-minute comedy. “The audience, almost literally, becomes the fourth character in the show. Because 75 to 80 percent of the show is the characters talking directly to them. It makes for a very intimate, personal kind of experience.

Not your typical play.”

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Hall After Dark Memphis Music Hall of Fame, 8 p.m.

An event honoring Isaac Hayes with music by Talibah and Veronica Hayes, Isaac’s daughter.

Disney on Ice: Frozen FedExForum, 7 p.m.

Beloved musical animated film gets iced.

Devon Gifillian Levitt Shell, 7 p.m.

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Southern Heritage Classic Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, 5 p.m.

This annual football weekend kicks off with an invitation-only VIP party and continues with a music festival, a fashion show, a battle of the bands, and, oh yeah, the football game between the Jackson State Tigers and the Tennessee State Tigers.

Gaydar TheatreWorks, 8 p.m.

Emerald Theatre Company presents their 10-minute-play festival working around the theme “gaydar.”

Kris Acklen and His Band Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School, 8 p.m., $10 Singer-songwriter, whose style has been compared to Ryan Adams and Fleetwood Mac, performs tonight.

The event also serves as a CD release party. Part of the Memphis Made series.

Hummingbird Migration & Nature Center Celebration Strawberry Plains Audubon Center (285 Plains Rd, Holly Springs, MS), 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

With speakers, nature walks, kids activities, and the star of the show — the thousands of migrating hummingbirds.

The Stompdown Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 7 p.m., $20 A touring step show and competition.

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Ballet Memphis celebrates one year in the new neighborhood.

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By Chris Davis It’s been exactly a year since Ballet Memphis loaded out of its custom-built Cordova headquarters and into its sprawling new digs on Overton Square.

“It definitely feels like home,” Ballet Memphis’ Associate Artistic Director Steven McMahon says, emphasizing “definitely.” “We’re finding our rhythm,” he says. “We want people to feel like they can come in here, you know? A place they want to be. We designed this thing to break the idea dance is only ready when we tell you it is.”

And yet, as the new season opens, a new program of dance is ready for its close up. “That’s why we wanted to have this show about shelter,” McMahon says of the anniversary. “As a way to say this is where we take care of our work. This is where we take care of our students. This is where we take care of our patrons.”

A new work by Ballet Memphis’ Ballet Master, Brian McSween, takes a temporal approach to the concept of shelter and security. “He wants people to think about what shelter means in immediate time, as well as in the future,” McMahon says.

“And also about the everlasting sense that you need a place to go to.” The season opener also revives Uri Sands meditative “Salve,” and Julia Adams’ myth-and-mushroom-inspired “Devil’s Fruit.”

“Everybody throws community around. Easy word to say,” McMahon says, describing a mature ensemble, in synch mentally and physically. “You can tell — especially in Uri Sand’s piece — this is all about togetherness.”

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“Art on the Rocks” Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 6-9 p.m., $40 Featuring cocktails and mocktails and craft beer, along with food from area restaurants.

“Four Kinds of Y’all” The Cotton Museum, 5-8 p.m.

Group photography show from Due South Co-op, which concentrates on the American South.

Big & Rich Memphis Botanic Garden, 8:30 p.m., $65 Super-star country duo performs at Live at the Garden.

Outflix Film Festival Ridgeway Four Cinema Grill, 6:30 p.m.

Annual film festival, focusing on LGBTQA issues, begins tonight with a screening of The 34th, a documentary following the fight for marriage equality in Ireland.

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“Art of Addiction” Crosstown Arts, 5:30 p.m.

Artwork by those touched by addiction.

Goat Days USA Stadium, 5:30 p.m.

Respect the goat. Annual festival with a goat parade and races, plus more goat shenanigans.

Zoo Rendezvous Memphis Zoo, 7 p.m., $200 Annual fund-raiser for the zoo with food and beverages from more than 70 area restaurants.

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tion. It’s a $150 million fund, and they’re looking for those best companies in the interior of the U.S.” Astute readers will guess where this is going: “Revolution decided they’re going to choose five winners in five different cities, based on these pitch competitions.

Well, they chose Memphis as one of the locations. I felt a lot of pressure, with

nies in the interior of the United States to invest in today.”

As the Revolution website describes it, the aim was “to spotlight and celebrate rising entrepreneurial ecosystems and to invest $100,000 in a local startup in each city.” Their quotes from Waddell are in keeping with his local pride. “Memphis’ history of innovation in music provides unparalleled insight, relationships, and authenticity in this space that could Gebre Waddell not be found anywhere else,” Waddell told them.

“Memphis places the highest value on being your true self, whatever that happens to be. That authenticity underlies our strength in music, logistics, and medical innovation.”

When we first profiled Soundways, the company expected to launch Sound Credit within weeks. But their perfectionism delayed that. “Once you get it to the level of quality that you want, and the vision is there and everything’s working, then it’s easy to see another level of quality,” Waddell explains. “So it was that kind of process: test and refine, test and refine. And now we’re past it. It’s finalized, it’s out there.”

Indeed, simply typing “sound.credit” into your browser will take users to the new website, where they’re greeted with a running scroll of albums both obscure and classic. Though “Suddenly, we’re it’s just a sample of the hoped-for universal archive planned, clicking an album image appearing to the on the site is a bit like perusing the notes investment world as one of on album covers from the golden age of the top-five companies in vinyl. Every detail is documented. And it taken long for the industry to take the interior of the United hasn’t notice. Pro Tools, the most common reStates to invest in.” cording software in music today, is already promoting it, much to Waddell’s delight. the Memphis business leadership there, “They’re going to cover Sound Credit on and all the people who came out for this a podcast, every episode, for the next 12 event. We had a morning breakfast with episodes in a row.”

Elon Musk’s brother, Kimbal Musk. And Streaming services can’t be far behind.

Fred Smith was there, the Wilson family “Spotify and Amazon and others will want was there, the mayor was there, all these to follow through with the standard that people.” He takes a breath, reliving his they helped outline,” Waddell says. “This is nervousness. “Long story short, we won it. our space now. We’re the leading voice for Suddenly, we’re appearing to the investmusic credits around the world from right ment world as one of the top-five compahere in Memphis. We built the dream.”

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ome months ago, the Flyer profiled a fast-rising local startup that is revolutionizing the way music credits, liner notes, and artwork are documented. Soundways, the brainchild of Memphis native Gebre Waddell, first made a name for itself as a creator of mastering and recording software, but when a consortium of music production and distribution giants crafted an industry-wide standard for embedding credits within sound files, Waddell and his team jumped into the fray and designed Sound Credit, software that could actually accomplish what those standards called for.

They saw how crucial it was to document all efforts that go in to a music track, and their respect for the writers, engineers, producers, and musicians who do that work paid off when their prototype was internationally embraced.

He could have moved to Silicon Valley then, but realizing his dream in his hometown has always been important to Waddell. He’s often promoted the city while pushing his own brand. “I brought Larry Crane, chief editor for Tape Op magazine, here to Memphis and interviewed him at the Stax Museum. Following the event, Memphis studios and brands, including Soundways, were on the cover of Tape Op for six months straight.”

Waddell envisions a tech renaissance here, one that his company can help jumpstart. Lately, that grounding in the MidSouth has paid off in unexpected ways.

As Waddell explains, “About 79 percent of venture capital goes to just three states: California, New York, and Massachusetts.

All the rest of the states have to fight over what’s left. Leading investors noticed this trend and wanted to support businesses in these other states. Some of them — with Steve Case, the founder of AOL, kinda leading it, but also including Jeff Bezos from Amazon, Meg Whitman, Michael Bloomberg, and about 30 others — started this investment group called Revolu-

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King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

Sean Apple Thursdays, Sundays, 5 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 4 p.m. and Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m.; Live Music Thursdays-Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Blues Players Club Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; DJ Ron Fridays, 11 p.m.; Bonfire Orchestra Saturday, Sept. 8, 7-11 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.; Brimstone Jones Sunday, Sept. 9, 7-11 p.m.; DJ Mad Efx Sundays, midnight; A.M. Whiskey Trio Mondays, 6-10 p.m.; Blues Showcase from the Memphis Blues Society Wednesday, Sept. 12, 7-11 p.m.

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Memphis Bluesmasters Mondays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; James Jones Fridays, 4-8 p.m., Sundays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Fuzzy Saturday, Sept. 8, 4-8 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Sundays, 4-8 p.m.; Baunie and Soul Tuesday, Sept. 11, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, 7 p.m.midnight and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Fuzzy Wednesdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.-midnight; James Jones Saturday, Sept. 8, 7 p.m.-midnight; Baunie and Soul Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight.

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

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Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Friday, Sept. 7, 8 p.m.-midnight; Hand Grenades Saturday, Sept.

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midnight; Vince Johnson and Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

King’s Palace Cafe Patio

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

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

Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m. and Saturdays, 5 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Saturdays, 12:30 p.m. and Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Brandon Cunning Band Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.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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Queen Ann and the Memphis Blues Masters Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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

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The Rusty Pieces Sunday, Sept. 9, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Blind Bear Speakeasy

Rum Boogie Cafe

Chris Gales Solo Acoustic Show Mondays-Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/acoustic Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

182 BEALE 528-0150

Eric Hughes Band Thursday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m.-midnight and Monday, Sept. 10, 8 p.m.midnight; Pam and Terry Fridays, Saturdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Anthony Gomes Friday, Sept. 7, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Norman Jackson Band Saturday, Sept. 8, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Memphis Blues Masters Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Fuzzy Tuesday, Sept. 11, 8 p.m.-

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN TICKETS, 525-1515

The Stompdown Friday, Sept. 7, 7:30-9:45 p.m.

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

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

Court Square AT N. MAIN AND COURT

Pop-Up Sunset Jazz @ Court Square Sunday, Sept. 9, 5-7 p.m.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

FreeWorld Friday, Sept. 7, 9 p.m.; Grape Saturday, Sept. 8, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and Friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Earnestine & Hazel’s Belle Tavern

New Daisy Theatre Moon Taxi Saturday, Sept. 8, 7 p.m.; Matt and Kim Sunday, Sept. 9, 7 p.m.; Mat Kearney Wednesday, Sept. 12, 6:30 p.m.

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

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

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

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

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

The Rusty Pieces Saturday, Sept.

8, 7-10 p.m.; Songwriters with Roland and Friends Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299

Rhonda Vincent and the Rage Friday, Sept. 7, 7:30 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Vintage Sunday, Sept. 9, 8-11:30 p.m.

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

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

Purple Haze Nightclub 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.

Regina’s 60 N. MAIN

Open Mic Night Saturdays, 4-7 p.m.; Richard Wilson Original Blues, Gospel, and Jazz Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

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

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

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Reba Russell Friday, Sept. 7, 6 p.m.; Danny Green Saturday, Sept. 8, 6 p.m.

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Folk All Y’all: An Evening with Daniel Champagne Thursday, Sept. 6, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Ethan Parker with David Francisco and McKenna Bray Thursday, Sept. 6, 7-10:30 p.m.; Small, Wesley Wolffe, the Hot Gates, Outside Source Friday, Sept.

7, 7 p.m.; Rodney Ryan, Jason Pulley, Alyssa Moore Saturday, Sept. 8, 9 p.m.; Youth & Canvas with Magnolia Wind Monday, Sept. 10, 9 p.m.; Ryley Walker Wednesday, Sept. 12, 8 p.m.

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Sept. 8, 2 p.m.; The Cold Stares Saturday, Sept. 8, 6:30 p.m.; WALRUS Saturday, Sept. 8, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Memphis Ukulele Band Sunday, Sept. 9, 4 p.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Sunday, Sept. 9, 8 p.m.; Memphis Knights Big Band Monday, Sept. 10, 6 p.m.; Scott & Vanessa Sudbury Tuesday, Sept.

11, 5:30 p.m.; Royal Blues Band Memphis Music Jam Tuesday, Sept. 11, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesday, Sept. 12, 5:30 p.m.; Memphis All Stars Wednesday, Sept. 12, 8 p.m.

550 S. MAIN 494-6543

1532 MADISON 726-0906

P&H Cafe

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe

Railgarten

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

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic Music Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.

2160 CENTRAL

Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ Friday, Sept. 7, 8 p.m.; Travis Linville Saturday, Sept. 8, 8 p.m.; Davis Coen Sunday, Sept. 9, noon.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

Juke Joint All Stars Fridays,

663 S. HIGHLAND 729-6960

East Memphis Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School 60 N. PERKINS EXT. 537-1483

Memphis Made - Center Stage.

Kris Acklen and His Band Friday, Sept. 7, 8 p.m.

Justin Bloss and Friends Friday, Sept. 7, 7 p.m.; Memphis Songwriters Association Monthly Meeting Second Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m.

THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

Lannie McMillan Jazz Trio Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

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

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

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Canvas

Whitehaven/ Airport

1737 MADISON 443-5232

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

Guest House at Graceland

Celtic Crossing

3600 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-3322

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

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Owen Brennan’s

Richard James Thursday, Sept.

6, 7 p.m.; Justin Bloss Thursday, Sept. 6, 9 p.m.; Marcella and Her Lovers Friday, Sept. 7; Sweet Knives with Model Zero Saturday, Sept. 8; Devil Train Monday, Sept. 10; Dave Cousar Tuesday, Sept. 11; Some Sons of Mudboy Wednesday, Sept. 12, 7:30 p.m.; Mugen Hoso Wednesday, Sept.

12, 10:30 p.m.

Sam Morrow Sunday, Sept. 9, 8 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

Brian Johnson Band Thursday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m.-midnight; Almost Famous Friday, Sept. 7, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Memphis Funk N Horns Saturday, Sept. 8, 8 p.m.; Ruckus Sunday, Sept. 9, 5-9 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Bar DKDC

Growlers

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

Neil’s Music Room

964 S. COOPER 272-0830

2559 BROAD 730-0719

750 CHERRY 636-4100

Big and Rich Friday, Sept. 7.

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

383 S. MAIN 578-2767

Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m.; Wayde Peck Friday, Sept. 7, 6 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, Sept. 7, 9 p.m.; J-Train Saturday, Sept. 8, 9 p.m.; David Collins Frog Squad Sunday, Sept.

9, 6 p.m.; The Tailored Renegades Monday, Sept. 10, 6 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesday, Sept. 11, 6 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesday, Sept. 12, 5:30 p.m.; Karaoke with DJ Eggroll Wednesday, Sept. 12, 9 p.m.

Memphis Botanic Garden

Poplar/I-240

Crystal “The Sax Lady” Brown Jazz Trio Friday, Sept. 7, 7 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 8, 7 p.m.

The Cove

Jamie Baker and the VIPS Sunday, Sept. 9, 8-11:30 p.m.

30 Days of Opera.

Spindini

Brunch with the Dancing Jimmys Sunday, Sept. 9, 12-3 p.m.; Kacee Russell Sunday, Sept. 9, 4-7 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

Eric Darius Jazz Concert Friday, Sept. 7, 8-10 p.m.

Rock-n-Roll Cafe Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Chaulkies Sunday, Sept. 9, 4-7 p.m.; Royal Blues Band Sunday, Sept. 9, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Indian Pass Raw Bar Memphis 2059 MADISON 207-7397

Paul Taylor Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.; Henry Swain Club Friday, Sept. 7, 7-10 p.m.; Papa Tops Saturday, Sept. 8, 7:3010:30 p.m.; Ellis and Friends Sunday, Sept. 9, 12-3 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Blackwater Trio Thursday, Sept. 6, 6 p.m.; Lost Dog Street Band Thursday, Sept. 6, 9 p.m.; Memphis Funk-N-Soul Friday, Sept. 7, 6:30 p.m.; Dantones Friday, Sept. 7, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Rice Drewry Collective Saturday,

Levitt Shell OVERTON PARK 272-2722

Devon Gilfillian Thursday, Sept.

6, 7-8:30 p.m.; Orquesta Akokán Friday, Sept. 7, 7-8:30 p.m.; Meta & the Cornerstones Saturday, Sept. 8, 7-8:30 p.m.; Reba Russell Band Sunday, Sept. 9, 7-8:30 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Lil’ Scrappy & Yung Joc Saturday, Sept. 8, 9 p.m.

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

East of Wangs 6069 PARK 763-0676

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

3855 ELVIS PRESLEY 398-6528

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

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

Black and Neon Thursday, Sept.

6; DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; The Showboats Friday, Sept. 7; DudeCalledRob Saturday, Sept. 8; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.; Stars and Guitars Wednesday, Sept. 12.

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

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

Howard Vance Guitar Academy 978 REDDOCH 767-6940

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

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland/Lakeland Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub 6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

Live Music Thursdays, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Fridays, 9 p.m.

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Frayser/Millington

Bartlett

Huey’s Millington

Hadley’s Pub

Buggaboo Sunday, Sept. 9, 6-9 p.m.

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Animal Cracker Friday, Sept.

7, 9 p.m.; Full Circle Saturday, Sept. 8, 9 p.m.; Charlie and Juno All Star Experience Sunday, Sept. 9, 5:30 p.m.; Red Letter Day Wednesday, Sept. 12, 8 p.m.

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Steak Night with Tony Butler and the Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

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

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, Sept. 9, 8-11:30 p.m.

Cordova Agricenter International 7777 WALNUT GROVE 757-7777

Delta Fair & Music Festival.

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

Soul Shockers Sunday, Sept.

9, 8:30 p.m.-midnight; On the Patio: John Paul Keith Band Tuesday, Sept. 11, 6-9 p.m.

8570 US 51 NORTH,

Old Millington Winery 6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114

Winestock VIII featuring Drew Mclillie Sunday, Sept. 9.

Toni Green’s Palace 4212 HWY 51 N

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

North Mississippi/ Tunica Gold Strike Casino 1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-245-7829

Travis Tritt Saturday, Sept. 8, 8-9:30 p.m.

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

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

Huey’s Southaven 7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Germantown

John Paul Keith Trio Sunday, Sept. 9, 8-11:30 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind

Raleigh

7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

The Sensations Sunday, Sept. 9, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, Sept. 9, 8-11:30 p.m.; Gerry Finney Wednesday, Sept. 12, 6-9 p.m.

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar 9087 POPLAR 755-0092

Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

September 6 - 12

Junk, financier Robert Merkin will stop at nothing to take over an iconic manufacturing company, changing the rules as he goes. Story that shows us how money became the only thing that mattered. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $25-$40. Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m.

Through Sept. 9.

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Landers Center

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, through the wardrobe, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy embark on a magical mystery tour to the land of Narnia. www.dftonline.org.

Sept. 7-16.

4660 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120).

The Orpheum

Love Never Dies, sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. www. orpheum-memphis.com. $25+. Thurs., Sept. 6, 7:30 p.m., Fri., Sept. 7, 7:30 p.m., Sat., Sept. 8, 2 & 8 p.m., and Sun., Sept. 9, 1 & 6 p.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Theatre Memphis

Newsies, set in New York City in 1899 and follows Jack Kelly and his fellow orphans and runaways who distribute newspapers to the public to survive. www. theatrememphis.org. $35.

Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Through Sept. 16.

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

Various locations

Shakespeare Shout-Out Series: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, performance locations include Collierville train depot, Orange Mound Community Center, Germantown Library, Wiseacre Brewery, Stax, and more. Visit website for more information and schedule. www.tnshakespeare.org. Free.

Saturdays, Sundays. Through Sept. 29.

SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Opening reception for “Finds” at Jay Etkin Gallery, Friday, September 7th, 6 p.m.

Art Body Soul Studio

Opening reception for Kevin Hutchins, exhibition of works in acrylics, color pencils, molding paste, and the canvas stacking for added dimension. www.artbodysoulstudio.com.

Fri., Sept. 7, 6-8 p.m.

Cooper-Young Art Tours For more information, featured artists, and pop-up performances, visit website.

First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

1024 YATES ( 901-336-7573).

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

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

Artist reception for “Varied Lands: New Works by Martha Kelly,” www.buckmanartscenter.com. Fri., Sept. 7, 5-7 p.m.

Gallery Talk

Museum staff speak on topics including current exhibitions and works from the permanent collection. Meet in the lobby of the main building before the talk begins. Free. Saturdays, Sundays, 2-2:30 p.m.

60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).

The Cotton Museum

Artist reception for “Four Kinds of Y’all,” exhibition of photographic work by Due South Co-op, four artists who concentrate on and live in the American South, Ashleigh Coleman, David McCarty, Ellen Rodgers, and Ryan Steed.

(531-7826), www.duesouthco. com. Fri., Sept. 7, 5-8 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 at Novel. For more information, contest rules, and submission, visit website.

Through Aug. 31, 2019.

65 UNION (531-7826).

Crosstown Arts

Artist reception for “Art of Addiction,” exhibition of original artwork from those touched by addiction. (9077684), www.crosstownarts.org.

Sat., Sept. 8, 5:30-10 p.m.

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.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

David Lusk Gallery

Opening reception for “Feral,” exhibition of paintings by Anne Siems. www.davidluskgallery.com. Fri., Sept. 7, 6-8 p.m.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Jay Etkin Gallery

Opening reception for “Finds,” exhibition of unique works by local artists, paintings from the Secondary Market (corporate and private collections), vintage art, Antique Mexican Retablos, and Tribal Art. www. jayetkingallery.com. Fri., Sept.

7, 6-9 p.m.

942 COOPER (550-0064).

WKNO Studio

Opening reception for Memphis Area Modern Quilt Guild, exhibition of quilts with bold contrasting colors, improvisational piecing, abstract and asymmetrical designs, and designs based on a modern aesthetic. www.wkno.org.

Sun., Sept. 9, 1-4 p.m.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

Agnes Stark Pottery Show and Sale

Fri.-Sun., Sept. 7-9, 10 a.m.5 p.m.

AGNES STARK’S STUDIO, 12675 DONELSON (867-9240).

Call for Artists: Beale Street Art Crawl

Email full name, phone number, and images of your work with descriptions of art

and process, social links, and website if applicable to bealestreetartcrawl@gmail.com. bealestreetartcrawl@gmail. com. Through Sept. 15.

Casting Demonstration Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.

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

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Saturday Snap

Bring camera, and a photographer will be on hand to assist you and offer tips on improving your photography skills. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m. Through Sept. 20.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

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Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

Submissions Open for MCA 68th Annual Holiday Bazaar & Fund-raiser

Visit website for more information. Through Oct. 1.

WWW.MCA.EDU.

Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

509 S. MAIN (647-9242).

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

FireHouse Community Arts Center

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

“Art Conversations,” exhibition of paintings by Catherine Vaughn. www.anfa.com.

Through Sept. 6.

“In Living Color: The Butterfly Effect,” work by Yin and Young Soul Artistry. www.mbaafirehouse.org. Through Oct. 20.

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

Ongoing.

“Varied Lands: New Works by Martha Kelly,” www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through Sept. 10.

60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).

“Consuming Passions II: A Collection of Images,” exhibition showcasing sports paraphernalia, Japanese prints, automobile art, posters and material culture from World War I and World War II, and pop-culture related artifacts. www.memphis.edu.

Through Oct. 6.

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

1500 UNION (278-6868).

Folk Artists, exhibition of work

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

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

Ongoing.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

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ANF Architects

Edge Gallery

Clough-Hanson Gallery

“What’s Gone With That Boy I Wonder,” exhibition of drawings, sculpture, and photography by Jared Buckhiester. www. rhodes.edu. Through Oct. 7.

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Germantown Performing Arts Center

“A Call to the Wild: Speak to Me of Love,” exhibition of works by Leanna Hicks. www. gpacweb.com. Sept. 10-Oct. 30.

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

Crosstown Concourse

FocalPoint Art Show, exhibition of new work by Jason Miller, Robert Fairchild, Zoe Nadel, La’Donna Roberts, and Lester Jones inside FocalPoint.

Through Nov. 30.

1801 EXETER (751-7500).

N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

3717 ELVIS PRESLEY (332-3322).

Graceland

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

David Lusk Gallery

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Feral,” exhibition of paintings by Anne Siems. www. davidluskgallery.com. Through Oct. 13.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“In the Garden,” exhibition of over 400,000 photographic objects dating back to the

inception of photography as a medium. The collection explores garden imagery and humans cultivating the land. www.dixon. org. Through Sept. 20.

Eclectic Eye

4339 PARK (761-5250).

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

“Through My Lens,” high-resolution digital images by Sabrina Turner www.eclectic-eye.com.

Through Sept. 19.

Artist reception for “Four Kinds of Y’All”

by Due South Co-op at The Cotton Museum, Friday, September 7th

“Finds,” unique work by local artists, paintings from the Secondary Market (corporate and private collections), vintage art, Antique Mexican Retablos, and Tribal Art. Sept. 7-Oct. 6.

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

942 COOPER (550-0064).

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CALENDAR: SEPTEMBER 6 - 12 Marshall Arts Gallery

“Love of Art” and “Memphis,” exhibition of work

by Nikki Gardner and Debra Edge by appointment only. Ongoing.

TOPS Gallery

“Screen Door,” exhibition of work by Ann Craven, Dana Frankfort, EJ Hauser, and Margaux Ogden. www.topsgallery.com. Through Sept. 8.

639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

400 S. FRONT.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Village Frame & Art

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

Rotunda Projects: Federico Uribe, exhibition of magical creatures and playful installations from everyday objects. Through Oct. 11, 2019.

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

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

“20th Century Memphis Photographs,” exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey and Virginia Schoenster, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

WKNO Studio

Memphis Area Modern Quilt Guild Showcase and Sale, exhibition of quilts with bold contrasting colors, improvisational piecing, abstract and asymmetrical designs, and designs based on a modern aesthetic. www.wkno.org. Through Sept. 28.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

OPERA

B O O KS I G N I N G S

30 Days of Opera

Free opera performances across Memphis and Mid-South. For more information, visit website. Through Sept. 30.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.30DAYSOFOPERA.COM.

DA N C E

Season Opener: Shelter

Featuring works that “shelter” us: Julia Adam’s Devil’s Fruit, Uri Sands’ Salve, and a new work by Brian McSween. $15-$25. Sat., Sept. 8, 7:30-9:30 p.m., and Sun., Sept. 9, 2-4 p.m.

Booksigning by Dale Martin

Author/artist discusses and signs Watusi in the Emerald City of Oz. Sat., Sept. 8, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

901 COMICS, 2162 YOUNG, WWW.WATUSITHETALKINGDOG. COM.

Booksigning by Perre Coleman Magness Author discusses and signs Southern Snacks: 77 Recipes for Small Bites with Big Flavors. Wed., Sept. 12, 6 p.m.

NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (922-5526), WWW.NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.

BALLET MEMPHIS, 2144 MADISON (737-7322), WWW.BALLETMEMPHIS.ORG.

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1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

“Horn Island 34,” works by MCA students, faculty, and alumni resulting from annual trip to Horn Island, a barrier island off the coast of Pascagoula, Mississippi. mca.edu. Through Oct. 5, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

Metal Museum

“Forge,” work by 15 international metal artists whose practice has been identified as having a significant impact in the field of blacksmithing. www.metalmuseum.org. Through Sept. 16.

“Tributaries: Venetia Dale-Next After the First in Order, Place and Time,” exhibition of installations that refocus attention on overlooked support objects secondary to the items they hold up, contain, or aid. Appreciated as individual creations when removed from context and made in pewter. www.metalmuseum.org. Through Sept. 9.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Morton Museum of Collierville History “Underwater Worlds,” exhibition created by the layered accumulation of pours, stains, and diverse mark-making techniques with acrylic, inks, and dyes on canvas and paper by Lauren Coulson. Through Oct. 2.

196 MAIN, COLLIERVILLE (457-2650).

National Civil Rights Museum

“I AM A CHILD,” exhibition of photographs to shed light on the immigrant family separation at the U.S.-Mexican border. More than 30 blackand-white images of protesting children. www. civilrightsmuseum.org. Through Dec. 31.

450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

Playhouse on the Square

“Larger Than Life,” exhibition of larger-than-life charcoal drawings of larger-than-life celebrities

by Lucien Scott Croy. Through Sept. 9.

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“Earth Ruminations,” exhibition of images and objects drawn directly from the environment, made using traditional, alternative, and hybrid photographic processes by Gustavo Plascencia. www.cbu. edu/gallery. Through Sept. 19.

“It’s not personal,” exhibition of multi-media works elevating stories from popular culture, those hidden in the archives, and everyday conversations from passersby and participants by Katie Hargrave. www. cbu.edu/gallery. Through Sept. 19.

or returning Explore Bike Share members can join by 9/13 to get one month of unlimited rides for just $9.01.

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

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum

“Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. Ongoing.

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826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

“Visualizing Nature,” multiple-media work including oil, colored pencil, and photography by Andrea Blevins and Evelina Dillon. www.stgchurch.org.

Through Sept. 30.

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“Empowering Women. In Business. In Healthcare.

In Life.”

food, shopping, and crazy kids contests. Free. Second Saturday of every month, 5-8 p.m.

Susan G. Komen Foundation president and CEO Paula Schneider and Dr. Marjorie Hass, president of Rhodes College talk about empowering women in all aspects of life.

Moderated by Stacy Jacobson.

Free. Wed., Sept. 12, 7-9 p.m.

DOWNTOWN HELENA, AR, CHERRY STREET (870-338-3300).

Delta Fair & Music Festival

Features 60 carnival rides, music, attractions, livestock, crafts, culinary & collectibles, Demolition Derby, contests, and fair food. $10. Through Sept. 9.

TEMPLE ISRAEL, 1376 E. MASSEY (761-3130), TEMPLEISRAEL.COM.

In the Spirit of ASALH

Join ASALH Memphis as we honor our founders as well as local scholars, advocates/activists, and organizations whose works are in the spirit of ASALH. Free.

Tues., Sept. 11, 6-8 p.m.

MAKEDA’S COOKIES DOWNTOWN, 488 S. SECOND (300-0340).

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Central Gardens 42nd Annual Home and Garden Tour: “Everything Old Is New Again”

Walkable tour begins on Belvedere and Peabody. Each home epitomizes the beauty of centuryold architecture but is renovated to include stunning modern additions and conveniences. $15-$20.

Sun., Sept. 9, 1-6 p.m.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (757-7777), WWW.DELTAFEST.COM.

Old Forest Hike

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

OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (2761387).

Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour

See what used to be, Memphisstyle, with Mike McCarthy. Call to schedule a personal tour.

Ongoing.

(486-6325), WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ YELLOWROCKGHOST/.

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Book Lover’s and More Marketplace Sat., Sept. 8, 12-5 p.m.

SINGLETON COMMUNITY CENTER, 7266 THIRD, BARTLETT (907-6828), WWW.YVONNEJAMES.COM.

Frayser Library Fall Book Fest

A variety of books will be available with subjects ranging from health, cooking, and self-help to romance, mystery, and children’s books. Fri., Sept.

7, 3-6 p.m., and Sat., Sept. 8, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

FRAYSER BRANCH LIBRARY, 3712 ARGONNE (336-3085).

Consignors bring in clothing, book a private party on Wed., ticketed event featuring appetizers and champagne on Thur., and open to the public Fri.-Sun. Free-$25. Through Sept. 9.

THE LAB BY MEMPHIS FASHION NETWORK, 64 FLICKER (404-583-3760), WWW.MEMPHISFASHIONDESIGNNETWORK.COM.

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Cherry Street Fair

Enjoy the sites and sounds of the Arkansas Delta at this family-friendly event featuring Southern Avenue band, classic car and motorcycle show,

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Hummingbird Migration & Nature Celebration

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Featuring speakers, nature walks, live animal shows, kids activity zone, wagon rides, nature-themed arts and crafts vendors, native plant sale, and ruby-throated hummingbirds being banded. $5-$15. Sept.

7-9, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

STRAWBERRY PLAINS AUDUBON CENTER, 285 PLAINS (662-252-1155), WWW.STRAWBERRY.AUDUBON.ORG.

International Goat Days

The event kicks off with The World’s Greatest Goat Parade on Friday followed by Opening Ceremonies. Fri., Sept. 7, 5:30-10 p.m., and Sat., Sept. 8, 7 a.m.-10 p.m.

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HOWARD BLVD. IN MILLINGTON (8728326), WWW.MILLINGTONTN.GOV.

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Clark Porteous Memphis Legends Senior Open

Benefiting the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis and is named after journalistic legend Clark Porteous, Memphis Press-Scimitar. $40. Sat.-Sun., Sept. 8-9, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

OVERTON PARK GOLF SHACK, 2080 POPLAR (725-9905 OR 443-2547100).

Guilt Free Ride Along Series

Venture through Downtown Memphis and beyond for a fun bike ride. Free. Second Sunday of every month, 8:30-10 a.m.

Through Sept. 23.

MEMPHIS FARMERS MARKET, PAVILION OF CENTRAL STATION, S. FRONT & G.E. PATTERSON AVE (602-6856), WWW.GUILTFREEPASTRIES.COM.

Horseshoe Tunica: Football Watch Parties

Doors open one hour prior to the first game. 21+ Thurs., Sept.

6, Sat., Sept. 8, Sun., Sept. 9, and Mon., Sept. 10.

HORSESHOE CASINO & HOTEL, AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS (1-800-303-SHOE), WWW.CAESARS.COM.

Southern Heritage Classic The big game between longtime rivals Jackson State

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CALENDAR: SEPTEMBER 6 - 12 continued from page 24 University and Tennessee State University. Early morning party on Friday, September 7th in Tiger Lane with the Tom Joyner Morning Show. Thur.Sat., Sept. 6-8.

TIGER LANE, 335 SOUTH HOLLYWOOD, WWW.SOUTHERNHERITAGECLASSIC.COM.

restaurants and bars, as well as entertainment on four stages benefiting Memphis Zoo. $200. Sat., Sept. 8, 7-10:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS ZOO, 2000 PRENTISS PLACE IN OVERTON PARK (333-6500), WWW.MEMPHISZOO.ORG.

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Art on the Rocks S P E C IAL EVE N TS

30 Thursdays at the Garden

On Thursday nights throughout Daylight Saving Time extended hours until sunset open to members at no cost. Thursdays. Through Oct. 31.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Amtgard

The Barony of Soul’s Crossing live-action roleplaying game. From arts and science competitions to battle games and quests, a family-friendly group with levels of participation for any physical level. Free. Sundays, 1 p.m.

Spirited cocktails, craft beers, and mocktails served with food from some of Memphis’ favorite restaurants. $40 members, $50 nonmembers. Fri., Sept. 7, 6-9 p.m.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Earthbound Brewery Launch

Welcome this St. Louis brewery coming into the Memphis market. Week-long event across the city starting at Growlers. Free. Thurs., Sept. 6, noon-2 a.m.

Monthly Wine Dinner Series

GROWLERS, 1911 POPLAR (491-6087).

Flight Tour: A Taste of Memphis

Enjoy a flight of local spirits and brew during this two-hour pub-crawl with Sprock n’ Roll’s bike bar to Old Dominick Distillery and Ghost River Brewing Tap Room. BYOB, but no glass tour. $315 - $400.

Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 12-8 p.m., and Sundays, 12-5 p.m. Through Dec. 31.

DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS, VARIOUS LOCATIONS (500-7101), WWW.SPROCKNROLLMEMPHIS.COM.

Food Truck Garden Party

Featuring live music, cash bar, and catered food from the Memphis Food Truckers Alliance. Wed., Sept. 12, 5-8 p.m.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Curated by sommelier Ryan Radish. Features a specific country or region each week, five-wine, four-course meal, tasting notes, and pairing motivations. $75. Second Monday of every month.

Through Dec. 10.

GRAY CANARY, 301 FRONT, WWW.GRAYCANARY.COM.

Sunday Supper Series

Includes new cocktails, new bar menu, and a family-style dinner. Raw bar and a list of cocktails, beer, and wine priced $10 or under will also be available. $40. Sundays, 3-9 p.m.

GRAY CANARY, 301 FRONT, THEGRAYCANARY.COM.

Wok’n in Memphis Brunch Pop-Up

Brunch pop-ups featuring American Chinese food plus delicious drinks. $12. Sundays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

THE SILLY GOOSE, 100 PEABODY PLACE (206-930-5569), WWW.WOKNINMEMPHIS.COM.

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illar of Salt: Don’t Look Back is the title of a work in “Niles Wallace: A Retrospective.”

“A little Biblical, but it would be real appropriate for a retrospective,” says Wallace, 70.

His last day as professor of ceramics at University of Memphis was August 31st, the same day his retrospective opened at the Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at U of M. The show, which runs through September 28th, features 22 works, which span Wallace’s more than 40-year teaching career.

Born in Oil City, Pennsylvania, Wallace remembered an elementary school teacher saying he “showed perspective” in his artwork. “Some kids have an understanding that things are in front of other things,” he says.

He took art in high school, but he “wasn’t in love with it. When I went to college I didn’t have any idea what to major in, but I thought, ‘Hey. I could be an art teacher.’ So, I was in art ed.”

Ceramics happened to be one of the classes he had to take. “That was something I immediately responded to,” Wallace says.

He made pottery on a potter’s wheel and “picked it up really quickly.”

In his junior year he realized, “Hey, I could actually have a career doing this.”

Wallace went to Alfred University in upstate New York to get his master’s degree. “Alfred really was the place to go at that time. It was like the major place to study ceramics in the Eastern half of the United States.”

Alfred “was a major turning point,” Wallace says. “I think going to Alfred really did transform my future.”

After he graduated, Wallace landed a job as the ceramics teacher at the State University of New York at Albany, but he lost his job when the school began cutting programs. He then got a job at U of M, which then was Memphis State University. “I didn’t think I would stay here. I figured two years max. It was just a completely

different part of the country for me.”

All he knew before he got to Memphis was that it was hot. “I was here a month and I ended up getting into an argument with somebody about the Civil War: ‘What the hell is this about? Are we still fighting this?’”

Niles Wallace favors towers, as in Pillar of Salt: Don’t Look Back (below), part of “Niles Wallace: A Retrospective,” at the Fogelman Galleries.

He mostly did ceramics, but, he says, “I think one of the things I got from working in the art department here was an exposure to a lot of other influences. I was good friends with Larry Edwards and Steve Langdon, so I was exposed to painting a lot. And,

certainly, when Greely Myatt came to teach at the university I became more involved toward sculptural ideas. By that time I was sort of doing sculptural ceramics. Not just making pottery. But all those influences mixed together and, at one point I think around the early ’90s, I essentially quit working with clay altogether and was doing painting and drawing and mixed-media sculpture and continued that until early 2000 and went back to ceramics,” Wallace says.

“Making objects that had significance was what I was trying to do. Probably still am to some extent.

Some of the sculptures have to do with the idea of a vessel. A container.

A space. Most of my sculptural pieces have some sense of volume to them.”

Around 2007, Wallace began making tower pieces after 9/11 in response to the World Trade Center attacks. Commenting on the attack was a popular theme among artists at the time, he says.

In the last couple of years, Wallace has been “embracing beauty again.

“I started with a real easy idea like flowers. Flowers are pretty and everybody loves flowers. Flowers represent life and death and rebirth and mourning. They’re central to art and have been for hundreds and hundreds of years.”

He began by making the flowers ugly. “I was painting with glaze on large platter-like bowls that would hang on the wall. So, they were like ceramic paintings. As soon as I started applying the glaze on them, sometimes the glaze would look more like an explosion or wounds more than they would look like flowers. Of course, ‘ugly’ is a really subjective term.”

In addition to his art show, Wallace is planning lots of yard sales at his Midtown home; he’s amassed a lot of his art over more than four decades.

Is the idea of retirement scary?

“Sometimes I get a little panicky. I hope I figured this out right. I hope I’m not going to have to get a job at Walmart being a greeter. ’Cause that would be a disaster because I’m not that nice.”

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n restaurants, as in life, the younger sibling seems to get all the attention. That’s why you and your pals spend your happy hour drinking beer, eating the famous Badass Nachos, and watching Sportscenter highlights at Sweet Grass Next Door. You’ve forgotten the original.

You’ve left it high and dry because you can’t watch Around the Horn on a nonexistent TV, nor can you order a plate of nachos that feeds approximately 327 people at the original (and older) Sweet Grass. Sweet Grass came along in 2010 at 937 Cooper, a year and some months before Sweet Grass Next Door opened its doors, well, next door. It’s time for Sweet Grass to take back what is theirs, and Nick Lumpkin, the Cocktail Program Director of Sweet Grass and all its sister restaurants, is leading the charge.

Nick had been employed by various other local restaurants when he landed

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a gig at Sweet Grass. Humbled before chef/owner Ryan Trimm and staff, he worked as the parking lot attendant. You know, that guy you cuss out because you don’t understand why you have to pay to park to go get sloshed at the Deli? It was a testament to his devotion to the Sweet Grass family, because he worked in the parking lot each weekend for a year. Eventually, just two and a half years ago, he began working bar shifts and there he has remained ever since. He curates a careful menu of cocktails, many under $10, which is becoming rare in the Midtown mixology scene. Competing with Next Door and its successes can’t be

easy, though, so we went to pay a visit to the restaurant that started it all.

Sweet Grass is one of many restaurants that is on the fancier side but with a bar that is decidedly more relaxed. We arrived in the middle of a rainstorm and, though the dining room wasn’t busy yet, the bar was packed.

Furthermore, it’s the type of bar where two drowned-rat-looking people coming in from a storm are welcomed.

The Sweet Grass bar boasts a deal unlike any other in Memphis: Tuesday through Friday, oysters are 50 cents each from 5 to 7 p.m. The oysters are rotating; any given day they offer oysters from the

East, West, and Gulf coasts. Think you can snag this deal at Next Door? Think again, buddy. It’s only available for patrons of Sweet Grass.

But that’s not all Sweet Grass offers!

They have an incredible selection of whiskeys and bourbons; Nick thinks the number is close to 100. My friend and I asked Rachel, who was tending bar, what she felt like making (you’ll see that this is a running theme at the Sweet Grass bar) and she served us two whiskey cocktails that were delicious. We followed those up with one of Nick’s original creations, the Rye Time, made with Wild Turkey 101 Rye, honey gastrique, and thyme. Nick,

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He also knows what the people want.

On Sunday nights, he keeps the bar open until midnight, welcoming those from the service industry. He spins records and offers a cocktail menu with $6 drink specials. Shockingly, this is not a well-known thing. He’s been doing it for nearly four months, and all us restaurant and former restaurant folk, creatures of habit, flock to the same bars each night.

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Bud Wrong Brother has already crushed our will to live and now he’s just toying with us. Bud Light Orange is the Room 101 of beer.

I do like a hint of orange in a cocktail.

Once, while having drinks with the Commander at Hog & Hominy, I thought up a concoction involving gin, a dash of simple syrup, and orange bitters.

Served with a twist. We explained it to the bartender and called it a Comedian, because that made sense at the time. They were great, and we drank too many. As far as I know, the Comedian isn’t on the H&H drinks menu; the bartender was just being amiable.

Bud Light Orange, however, failed to capture the same humor. The longsuffering Mrs. M. — a fan of regular Bud Light — was dubious when I showed her the six-pack, so I resorted to subtle and complex psychological warfare to get her to test this stuff with me. And some obvious pouting. After I’d pulled my shirt over my head, she looked down and said, “Okay, Chubs, get up off the floor and pour me that orange beer.”

I used our wedding crystal because I’m such a romantic.

Mrs. M. thought it tasted like a Jolly Rancher and beer. I quote: “This isn’t even a college girl beer. This is what a four-yearold would want with his Happy Meal.”

Wise lady, that one. In fact, it doesn’t taste like a Jolly Rancher and beer — just a Jolly Rancher. Were it not a Budweiser product, you’d be hard pressed to call it beer. Picture orangeflavored children’s medicine without the benefit of the medicine.

I paired it with Brim’s Seasoned Pork Cracklin’ Strips (small on carbs, big on hypertension), not so much for a salty/ sweet thing but to get the taste out of my mouth. Now we have four left in the fridge. If you want them, swing by; they’ll still be here.

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Fortunately, the explosion of craft beer has made the major brewers reflect on the variety of taste profiles they offer. In theory, that’s a good thing, but in practice, they might want to stop thinking so hard.

Over the summer, I had a Schöfferhofer, a German grapefruit shandy that looks like a Fanta in the bottle but tastes light and refreshing and is just a little different. Leinenkugel’s, out of Wisconsin, makes a popular shandy that’s widely available in town.

This, I think, is what Budweiser was attempting with the release of its Bud Light Orange. Given how tightly the Germans regulate beer production, Schöfferhofer doesn’t use artificial flavoring. Budweiser isn’t quite so picky, however. This is what happens when traditional brewing meets economies of scale and double entry corporate bookkeeping.

BLO wasn’t even on my radar until the underage child of a friend (both will remain nameless) suggested I review the new Bud Light Orange.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Outflix Expands Outreach The 21st edition of Memphis’ LBGTQ film festival reflects an expanding audience.

King and Barrett found that it took the two of them, along with help from Out Memphis’ Director of Development Stephanie Reyes, to replace the work Batts was doing every year. “It is a part time job that we don’t get paid for,” says Barrett.

To give the festival a fresh start, King and Barrett said they put everything on the table. The restarted Outflix’s dormant Summer Series, showing LBGTQ films that were hits at past festivals, such as the groundbreaking comedy from the dawn of the digital era, Sordid Lives.

“Especially for a gay Southern person, you look at this movie and say, ‘This is my life!’” says Batts.

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The opening night narrative is Wild Nights With Emily, a historical dramedy in which director Madeleine Olnek tells the secret history of poet Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon). Though people like Mabel Todd (Amy Seimetz), her sister-in-law who published her poems posthumously, called Dickinson a prudish spinster, Olnek reframes her heroine as a closeted lesbian doing her best to live a fulfilling life in stifling Victorian society. Shannon’s performance as the would-be libertine poet forced to wear a mask of chastity drew raves upon the film’s premiere at this year’s South By Southwest film festival.

The festival runs through the weekend and into the next week with 13 narrative features, five feature documentaries, and 32 shorts. King says its an exciting time for

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“Here’s what it’s all about: Whoever you are, we want you to be able to see yourself onscreen. That’s my life.

That’s me. I can relate to that.”

Barrett and co-director Kat King took over running the festival from Will Batts, the longtime director who moved to Houston last year. Under Batts’ leadership, the festival, which began as a fund-raiser for OUT Memphis (formerly known as the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center), grew in prestige and size. Now, it is OUT Memphis’ primary outreach event. “When I came here, I was looking for community,” says King. “I found the center. I’d always been a big movie buff, and Outflix was the first program I found. That was my introduction to Will … Then, after a year of watching films, rating films, and helping put this whole thing together, Will looked at Matt and me and said, ‘Hey, do you want to run it next year?’”

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King says it’s OUT Memphis’ goal to expand their community to all underrepresented LBGTQ groups, and the festival’s films reflect that push toward ever increasing diversity.

“We’re showing a lot of diverse transgender movies and shorts. Moreso this year, I think we tried to connect the programming at Outflix with the programs at the center.”

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One such film is Saturday afternoon’s offering, Freelancers Anonymous, a comedy about balancing work and personal lives. “It’s a super cute movie about a lesbian couple who are taking the next steps in their life,” says King. “They’re planning for a wedding. At the same time, one of them quits their job and starts a freelancer’s group with a ragtag group of people who are all out of a job.”

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In high school, I remember being tested on my ability to recite the 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. Our recitation was basically a two- to six-word summary of each amendment that we memorized from Quizlet flashcards, because who can bother with all the legal jargon, right? I haven’t sat down in one of these high school classrooms recently, so I don’t know what U.S. history and U.S. government classes look like today.

Students might well be using the same flashcards we used back then, writing down those same brief summaries of the amendments.

Considering the nationwide prison strike in protest of prison conditions going on right now, I am thinking here about the Thirteenth Amendment, often summarized as the “abolition of slavery.” But those three words don’t really tell us the whole story.

In fact, they ignore a significant loophole that has allowed for the expansion of prisons and mass incarceration as it provides a growing workforce to pull cheap labor from.

Amendment XIII Section 1 more fully states that slavery and involuntary servitude is unconstitutional “except as a punishment for crime.” That is, if you are able-bodied, then you must work. Following the Civil War, this meant that the country that institutionalized the exploitation of indigenous peoples and lands and the enslavement of black bodies now needed another coded way of continuing to do so.

This led to penitentiaries replacing plantations and to the rise of forced-labor programs. The Equal Justice Initiative, a co-collaborator in the design of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, writes: “As the end of slavery left a void in the Southern labor market, the criminal justice system became one of the primary means of continuing the legalized involuntary servitude of African Americans.”

So, the more people who are incarcerated and “punished,” the larger the available pool of unpaid workers. At that time, the convict lease system was a way of further controlling black bodies by preventing formerly enslaved folks from establishing themselves as workers with rights.

Today, we see this continued thinking embedded in the maintaining of white supremacy through policy that disproportionately incarcerates black folks. Prior to and well after the Civil War, black people were seen in contradictory ways: as a danger or threat to established systems, that is white supremacy, and yet also as a resource, a source of expendable labor. As Angela Davis wrote in 2003, “Whether this human raw material is used for purposes of labor or for the consumption of commodities provided by a rising number of corporations directly implicated in the prison-industrial complex, it is clear that black bodies are considered dispensable within the ‘free world,’ but as a source of profit in the prison world.”

In federal prisons, prison labor is a requirement, and in multiple states, this work goes unpaid. Prisoner workers in the federal prisons industries program, UNICOR, have earned a minimum of $0.23 per hour and a maximum of $1.15, according to UNICOR’s Annual Report in 2001, for making things such as office furniture and clothing and textiles. UNICOR also reported in 2001 a revenue of $583.1 million from prison-made products.

Some may argue that any wage is better than no wage — though, again, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, and Texas don’t pay for their prison labor, and don’t try to convince anyone that a multi-million-dollar industry isn’t able to match state wages for prison workers. For folks who may have limited or no access to financial support from outside of the prison, these wages are all that they have, and if you’re only paid a few cents an hour, it would take weeks to buy a phone card or a box of menstrual products.

This is one of many reasons why prisoners are engaged in work stoppages, hunger strikes, and commissary boycotts across the U.S. The recent prison strike is not the first of its kind, as prisoners have organized strikes in the past, but its success is picking up due to the prisoners’ strategic media organizing. Beginning on the 47th anniversary of the execution of Black Panther organizer George Jackson, the #August21 prison strike was in part a response to the deaths in the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina, this year. Violent conditions are created due to lack of funding for rehabilitation and development programs in prisons, and further, prison guards are active in maintaining if not advancing this violence, as was the case in South Carolina, when prison guards did not intervene for hours, which resulted in seven deaths and multiple hospitalizations.

Given the growing call for civic engagement and political participation, we must demand to know the conditions in prisons across our country. The summaries to the amendments we once recited years ago do not tell the stories of prisoners today. I hope that educators are helping make this language of our laws accessible to students, encouraging them to take a closer look and to draw connections to the relevance and impact of these texts today.

And as for our politicians, their silence and lack of response to these poor prison conditions should be seen as what it is: active participation in preserving injustice. Today, we demonstrate solidarity with prison strikers. Soon we will vote. See you at the polls.

Aylen Mercado is brown, queer, Latinx chingona and Memphian pursuing an Urban Studies and Latin American and Latinx Studies degree at Rhodes College. She is researching Latinx identity in the South.

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