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rst read the above quote years ago when traveling down an internet rabbit hole con rming Brandon Lee’s (son of martial artist Bruce Lee) cause of death. It was, in fact, the result of a defective blank round red from a prop gun during lming of the 1994 movie e Crow. e excerpted text from the 1949 novel e Sheltering Sky was inscribed on the young actor’s tombstone. I’m reminded of the words when mortality creeps into view, as it tends to do from time to time. In May, I wrote in this space about my granny Clark being diagnosed with lung and liver cancer. A er a couple of weeks in hospice, she passed away in early June with her daughters at her side. In July, my uncle died unexpectedly at his home. And last week, my pawpaw Clark succumbed to, we suspect, a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, which we’d previously been told was a ticking time bomb. ese events, in such quick succession, have had me re ecting on certain a ernoons from my childhood — those deeply ingrained among the things that have made me, me. Growing up in Greenwood, Mississippi, my family was close. We gathered o en with the many branches that extend from the Clark family tree. As the rst grandchild on that side, I was doted on before my cousins were born. My aunts and uncles would have me over for weekends. My rst job was helping at the barbecue restaurant and food truck my grandparents owned and operated. Some memories have faded as the years have gone by, but there are still those — taking special trips (my rst drive-in movie, a visit to Disney World) with my aunts, being mesmerized by the color-changing lights on a ber optic lamp at my uncle’s house, smelling the barbecue smoker and preparing plates for long lines of customers with the grands — that are imprinted. We all have memories that make us nostalgic — longing, maybe, for simpler times, for the carefree days of our youth. Especially with today’s chaos, when the world seems to burn around us as people ght over student loan forgiveness, reproductive freedom, in ation, liveable wages, climate change … this list goes on (and on and on). Keyboard warriors always have something to argue over. Fewer folks actually get out and take a stand, in protest or support of what they nd worthy of ghting for. But the sobering fact is, our time is eeting. We should make the ways in which we spend it count. Whether that’s watching a hummingbird hover at a feeder, playing Barbies with your niece, running a hard-trained marathon, or writing a letter to your congressperson about an issue that’s got you red up — the choice is yours. No one but you can determine what’s best for you. We humans are inclined to think we’re going to be here forever. In ts over tra c, petty quarrels, the sink full of dishes. Large or small, these are all temporary troubles, and death is the ultimate reminder that we aren’t on this beautifully broken planet for long. We are gathered here today to get through this thing called life. Choose your battles, savor the joys, discover the lessons in loss. Heal, forgive, and nd your own peace — in whatever ways you can — before that nal full moon rises in your view. Shara Clark e Memphis Flyer is now seeking candidates for its editor position. Send your resume to hr@contemporary-media.com.
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3 memphisflyer.com CONTENTS NEW&ESTATEaquaTreasuresCENTERMARKETESTATETREASURES 1920’s Cigar Stand OPEN WED. - SAT. 10-5, CLOSED LABOR DAY PARKVIEWSALESEPTEMBERSUN/MON3BUILDINGSFULL**************LIQUIDATIONAUCTION @ THE PARKVIEW 10-3 PM SEP. 17/18 100 Window AC Pool Table, Stoves, Refrigs,Home Decor, Baby Grand, RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT, EVENT TABLES, CHAIRS CALL for APPT. 901-488-0640 10-3 ON SEPT. &TODD’S**************12/13AUCTION5:30PMSEP.20THSUMMERAVEFUN,CAFE,ANTIQUESAquaTreasures.com PARK IN REAR 3455 Summer Ave. 901-486-344438122 Todd’s Auction Services TN 5911 aquaTreasures Estate Sales, BBB “Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain a ernoon of your childhood, some a ernoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or ve times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty, and yet it all seems limitless.” — Paul Bowles, e Sheltering Sky Hello, dear readers. It’s me again, with what will surely be another introspective, somewhat sorrowful column. It’s been a rough few months for my family, and this is where my heart and head have been. So if you’d prefer not to join on this journey, please go ahead and turn the page. But know, there will be some hope somewhere. ere’s gotta be. ( at’s what I keep telling myself.)
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“Pregnancy is no place for big government. Choosing to start a family is a moral and a personal issue. Women should be trusted to start a family when they’re ready — without interference from the government.”
Tennessee Democrats sounded o on the new law last ursday, rebuking the move, calling abortion a “moral and personal issue” un t for government interference and stating that “our caucuses are committed to reproductive freedom.”“isgovernment mandate on reproductive healthcare endangers the lives of women during a crisis pregnancy and gives rapists a greater right to choose the mother of their child than a woman has to control her own future,” reads a joint statement from state Senate Democratic caucus chairwoman Sen. Raumesh Akbari (D-Memphis), House Minority Leader Rep. Karen Camper (D-Memphis), and House Democratic caucus chairman Rep. Vincent Dixie (D-Nashville). “ ere should be clear protections for mothers if their life and health are in danger, and a victim of rape should not be victimized twice.
Joey Sulipeck, former meteorologist with FOX13, announced earlier this month he would not return to the station following a May tweet in which he said a pro basketball player was “running been a “chaotic summer” that was “di cult for the family.” Sulipeck said he could not go into details of the situation but praised the city of Memphis and thanked his supporters.
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Providing abortions in Tennessee is now a felony thanks to the Republican-led state law that took e ect last week with critics calling the law “dangerous” and government overreach. e new law, the so-called Human Life Protection Act, was passed in 2019, just in case the U.S. Supreme Court ever overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that gave federal protection for abortions across the country. e reversal of the ruling earlier this summer allowed the Tennessee abortion ban to go into e ect a er 30 days. e law does not allow abortions in cases of rape, incest, or any fetal abnormality that could prove fatal to the baby. e law only allows an abortion in Tennessee if giving birth would kill the pregnant woman or would prevent “serious risk of substantial and irreversible impairment of major bodily function.” Should an abortion be performed illegally here, doctors and healthcare workers would be held responsible, not the pregnant woman.
Australian YouTuber Greg’s Kitchen took two days last week to review the Memphis Whopper and the Memphis Jack’s Fried Chicken Burger. Both are from the from the Aussie fast food chain, Hungry Jack’s, which is basically the Australian Burger King. Before he tried it, host Greg Hadley said he was “absolutely fangin’ for” the burger and gave it a score of eight out of 10.
Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi (PPTNM) was forced to stop abortion services completely on June 27th since the state was under a sixweek ban at the time, said Ashley Co eld, the group’s CEO, in a news conference last week. She said that the law will make “doctors second-guess their medical training and expertise when choosing a treatment plan or risk a felony of criminal conviction” and that “now lawyers and hospital administrators will be weighing in on life-ordeath“Politiciansscenarios.”in
PPTNM is now focusing on its patients, directing them to abortion providers in other states. rough this patient navigation service, the group is also helping patients travel to other states and helping them to pay for the trip with gas cards, hotel vouchers, and more.
Tennessee intentionally created this climate of chaos, confusion, and devastation for people who become pregnant. Banning abortion doesn’t stop people from needing abortion,” Co eld said. “It only puts more peoples’ lives in danger. Governor [Bill] Lee and the Tennessee General Assembly want to control what we can and cannot do with our bodies. At Planned Parenthood, we believe that you and only you should control your personal medical decisions, and we will keep ghting for every person to regain that right here at home, no matter what.”
Abortion Ban GOP law outlaws abortion even in cases of rape or incest.
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e Tennessee General Assembly passed the so-called Human Life Protection Act in 2019, just in case the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
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Senate minority leader Sen. Je Yarbro (D-Nashville) called the ban “extreme” and said “our already high rates of infant and maternal deaths will go up. It’s not pro-life, pro-baby, or pro-mom.”
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“ is new bail system not only brings the county in line with the [U.S.] Constitution; it establishes one of the fairest bail systems in the nation, yielding an immense, positive impact on countless people’s lives,” Yarbrough said.
e new system comes a er criminal justice reform advocates, like Just City, e Wharton Law Firm, the O cial Black Lives Matter Memphis Chapter, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee (ACLUTN), threatened to sue local o cials late last year if the county did not stop bail practices “that violate the constitutional and statutory rights of people arrested in Shelby County,” a news release from the ACLU-TN said last ursday.egroups entered a mediation process with the county. ey agreed to a new orderajudgeseralShelbythatCommission.theinhearings,courtroom$2-millionforbailpromisedaresolutionfromShelbyCountyWithpromiseinhand,CountyGen-SessionsCourtrecentlysignednewstandingbailforthecounty,an agreement that will set a new path for bail when it goes into e ect in February 2023. In the current system, judicial ofcers reach for money bail nearly 77 percent of the time, according to Josh Spickler, executive director of Just City. ey do this even though state law mandates using money bail only as a last resort. e new system will help set bail on a case-by-case basis that could include no bail, lower bail, home monitoring, or an una ordable bail to keep someone in place to ensure a court appearance. In the new system, once a person is booked in to the Shelby County Jail, they’ll be interviewed by an o cial from Shelby County Pretrial Services. ey’ll use a nancial assessment tool to determine “an amount that is nancially a ordable for the individual,” reads the Withinorder.12hours of detention, a judicial commissioner will evaluate the person to see if they can be released on their own recognizance (meaning a promise to appear at their court date), if they should be released with no money bail but with conditions (like at-home monitoring), or with money bail.A bail hearing with counsel will then be set in the new bail hearing courtroom to take place usually within the rst 48 hours of detention and not to exceed 72 hours. Under the current system, a person could be held for weeks or longer without a bail hearing with counsel.
new system unveiled here last week will transform the bail process in Shelby County next year, and advocates call the new process “one of the fairest in the nation.”
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e ACLU-TN said that under the current system, “most people never had a bail hearing at all; ability to pay was not considered when bail was set leaving those who could not a ord to pay detained inde nitely even if they were not a ight or safety risk, while those who faced the same charges but could a ord to pay money bail were freed until trial.”
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Andrea Woods, sta attorney with the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project, said Shelby County now has the “opportunity to be a national leader for pretrial justice.” “We applaud the county’s collaboration and leadership in ensuring that no one is needlessly con ned to a jail cell, that everyone awaiting trial receives fair treatment, and that community well-being is supported through alternatives to incarceration,” WoodsSpicklersaid.said the reform will yield “a smaller jail population, safer streets, and signi cant cost savings as a result.”Stella Yarbrough, ACLU-TN legal director, called the move a “huge step.”
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Shelby County’s new bail system — called “one of the fairest in the nation” — goes into e ect in February.
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Other names that are getting some mention are those of the Rev. Keith Norman of First Baptist Church-Broad, a chief lobbyist for Baptist Memorial Hospital and a former Democratic Party chair; Beverly Robertson, president/CEO of the Greater Memphis Chamber; Patrice Robinson, City Council member and former Council chair; and Worth Morgan, City Council member and defeated Republican candidate for county mayor this year. is week’s most mentioned mayoral prospect? Shelby County Sheri Floyd Bonner, who in two successive county elections has led all other candidates for o ce and has a decent-sized campaign account le over to start a mayoral campaignBonner’swith. popularity with the voters as a Democratic candidate has been such that Shelby County Republicans did not even bother to nominate an opponent for him this year and themselves endorsed him. His interest in running for the nonpartisan o ce of mayor is a very real thing, and he has de nitely had preliminary discussions about mounting a campaign next year. Bonner’s status on the eve of the Memphis city election has been likened by more than one observer to that of AC Wharton in the rst decade of this century, when Wharton was considered an inevitable candidate for, successively, Shelby County mayor and Memphis mayor, both of which o ces he would win.
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• Jason Martin, the Nashville critical-care physician who emerged as the winner of the Democrats’ three-way gubernatorial primary, was the speaker at last week’s Germantown Democratic Club meeting. Addressing an audience of 70-odd attendees at the Coletta’s restaurant in East Shelby County, Martin deplored GOP Governor Bill Lee’s policies on several counts, including Lee’s restrictive posture toward abortion rights, his refusal to countenance Medicaid expansion and the annual federal outlays of $1 billion that would come with it, his striking away of gun regulations, and his moves toward privatizing public education. Said Martin: “ e other side is so radical on these issues that most people are like, ‘ at’s not me.’ And that’s why we’re getting traction.”
• As rst reported last week on memphis yer.com, outgoing District Attorney General Amy Weirich will be taking a position as assistant DA with the o ce of Mark Davidson, district attorney for the adjoining 25th Judicial District, which serves the counties of Tipton, Fayette, Lauderdale, McNairy, and Hardeman.Apressrelease from Davidson’s o ce on Monday con rmed that Weirich will be sworn in as special counsel to his o ce on September 1st, a day a er the swearing-in of Steve Mulroy, who defeated Weirich in the August 4th county election, to replace her as Shelby DA.
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• e ever-worsening situation of Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert, under re for mishandling license-plate distribution and her o ce a airs in general, almost got even bleaker Monday when the Shelby County Commission, in its nal meeting as currently composed, failed by one vote to appoint a special counsel to begin ouster proceedings.
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niversity of Memphis football coach Ryan Silver eld is tired of answering questions about the pandemic, the transfer portal, and NILs (name-image-likeness deals for student athletes). But here’s the thing: He’ll keep answering those questions, and with a smile on his face. Because that’s college football today. e case could be made that the sport has changed more since Silver eld took over the Tiger program — in December 2019 — than it did over the previous three decades. Recruiting is di erent (what kind of NIL possibilities exist?). Retaining players is a new challenge (that pesky portal). And graduating players? Keeping a standout running back for four (or ve) seasons? You must be thinking of 2018. “ is is my 24th year of coaching,” notes Silver eld. “And the last three years have changed [the profession] dramatically. Not just for a head coach. e game has changed so much itself. at’s been what’s so dynamic. Who would have thought my rst few months on the job would be the most normal? [Silver eld made his debut at the 2019 Cotton Bowl a er his predecessor, Mike Norvell, departed for Florida State.] I couldn’t call [Alabama coach] Nick Saban up and ask how he dealt with a pandemic. I couldn’t call [LSU coach] Brian Kelly and ask how he handled the transfer portal in 1989. How did coaches deal with NIL in the late ’90s? We’re in a di erent, everchanging game. When will we ever be able to just talk football? I don’t know if we’ll be on that trajectory anytime soon. Every coach is dealing with it. “So the only constant is change.
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With a little bit of patience — as a man and a coach — I understand that every day something new will occur. You better adapt and adjust and get on the bus, or you’re going to get run over. We’re trying to stay ahead of it, to be proactive. And I believe we’re doing that here. e game’s hard enough. When you’re working 100 hours a week, to get frustrated does you no good. ere’s a lot. Nobody’s going to feel sorry for a head coach who makes a good salary and gets to live his dream. But it’s changed.” e 2021 Memphis Tigers, it can be said, broke even. ey won six games and lost six. (Memphis hasn’t had a losing season since 2013.) ey scored 30.1 points per game (a total that ranked 52nd among 130 FBS teams), and allowed 29.2. ey were strong at home (5-2) but weak on the STORY By Frank Murtaugh
“It starts with me,” says Silver eld. “I’ve got to be better. We were 3-0 a er beating Mississippi State and up 21-0 on a UTSA team that went 12-2. We had a pair of injuries and our 18-yearold quarterback threw a pick-six. At that point, the kids looked up and felt there was a chink in the armor. We were never over-con dent, but we must stay healthy. We had 47 guys out last season at some point. We played 27 freshmen and redshirt-freshmen. On paper, we’ve put together the best back-to-back recruiting classes in the program’s history, so that bodes well for theSilverfuture.”eld acknowledges the most common factor in a good program going sour for a stretch of time. “We turned the ball over too much,” he notes. “We fumbled the ball inside the one-yard line against Temple. en again on the 15. Two di erent running backs. We have to do a better job of establishing the run. We’ve been a rotational back eld, more so than I ever wanted. It will sort itself out through camp. Asa Martin has come on the last two seasons. Rodrigues Clark has shown some ashes but has to be more consistent. Brandon omas, when healthy and well, has been a force to be reckoned with. [ omas led Memphis with 669 rushing yards last season.] Marquavius Weaver started against Navy [last year]. We need to have two or three we can rely on heavily. I don’t want to play six running backs. It’s a wide-open competition.” One position the Tigers did not rotate a year ago is quarterback. When Arizona transfer Grant Gunnell was sidelined by injury shortly before the season opener, freshman Seth Henigan — merely nine months a er his last high school game — took command of the Memphis o ense. He completed 60 percent of his passes for 3,322 yards and tossed 25 touchdown passes (with eight interceptions). Silver eld is counting on an even better Henigan in 2022.“What allowed Seth to play so well as a freshman are his maturity and intelligence,” says Silver eld. “He has a lot of tools. But he threw three picksixes and at times played like a true freshman. Part of that is growing pains, but we saw growth every single game. It may not have yousituations:recognizingbutpercentage,completioninresultedthebestin‘Didseewherethat safety was?’ He’s got more comfort now. It’s not just studying the playbook. Grasp the o ense, but grow in year two. He’s had a full o season in the weight room, getting his body right.”
“We have new guys, new coaching sta ,” he notes, “and I’m just excited to see how it plays out. Playing football with the people I love.”
Caden Prieskorn should get the majority of snaps at tight end, and he checks in at 6’6”, 255 lbs. He’ll actually have a size advantage on some of the edge rushers Memphis faces. n looking at the Tiger defense, let’s start with the secondary, where safety Quindell Johnson returns for what he hopes will be a third-straight all-conference season. (Motivation? Johnson was named All-AAC each of the last two years.) Johnson’s 66 solo tackles were 17th in all of college football last season, but the numbers merely approximate his value to the Memphis “Quindell Johnson is the leader of our team,” says Silver eld. “ e leader of our defense, certainly. Intelligent. Had the opportunity to go to the NFL, but decided to come back and compete. He cares, lives at the football complex. Could have transferred, but he stayed here. Loyal to the program. His family raised him right. Usually when I get a text from a parent, it’s negative. But his mom will text me just to say, ‘Hope your day is going all right. I know you have a lot on your plate.’ He’ll need to continue to make plays on the ball. Our new defensive scheme will suit him. He wants to win. It’s not just about improving his dra stock. Let’s win a championship. I admire that in him.”
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now split coverages for the Pittsburgh Steelers a er being dra ed in the fourth round of April’s NFL dra . But Silver eld likes the group of receivers Henigan will be targeting this fall. What they may lack when compared with Austin’s aming speed, they make up for with collective size. “ is is the most depth we’ve had at wide receiver since I’ve been at Memphis. Javon Ivory has shown production. People are expecting big things from Gabe Rogers.” Joe Scates (a transfer from Iowa State) will be in the mix, as will Eddie Lewis (four touchdowns last season). Sophomore Roc Taylor brings the kind of size (6’2”, 225 lbs.) that can punish defensive backs. “ e size [of our receivers] will stretch the eld,” notes Silver eld.
e Tigers quali ed for a bowl game for the eighth season in a row (the Hawaii Bowl), but the game was canceled when their opponent (the University of Hawaii) had a Covid outbreak the day before kicko . Silver eld’s second season as a head coach was decent, but he doesn’t hesitate in emphasizing Memphis football should be better.
Johnson relishes the chance to win a conference championship before his Tiger days are complete. (He graduated with a degree in business management last December and is now working toward a master’s degree.)
this year’s defense, insisting fans will need to “watch all of us.” Johnson’s o season was spent building a more complete football player, as he puts it: “Getting faster, stronger, working on my technique, being a student of the game.”And for those wondering why Johnson stayed despite alternatives, a program’s culture made the di erence. “I’ve been so loyal,” emphasizes Johnson. “ is program has given me nothing but love. I was in a situation where I didn’t need to leave. I’m somewhere I know I can play; I’m comfortable. e love the city’s given me … it’s Johnsonunconditional.”maybethemost decorated, but the Tiger defense will have veterans at every level, with h-year seniors on the line (Wardalis Ducksworth), at linebacker (Xavier Cullens and Tyler Murray), and in the secondary (Rodney Owens). Even a sophomore like cornerback Greg Rubin — in 2020 a senior at White Station High School — brings experience, having started 11 games as a true freshman. “It’s maturity and con dence,” says Silver eld when asked how Rubin made an impact so quickly. “He’s shown an ability to work. Had the opportunity to go elsewhere, but stayed home and has found success.”eTigers will take the eld for their opener at Mississippi State under the guidance of a new o ensive coordinator (Tim Cramsey joins the program a er four years at Marshall) and a new defensive coordinator (Matt Barnes arrives a er three years at Ohio State).
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When asked for a connecting thread between the two hires, Silver eld says, “ ey’re great teachers.” Having interviewed seven candidates for each position, Silver eld chose men he feels can match his players when it comes to energy and passion. “ ey’re dynamic,” says Silver eld. “ ey both bring energy, both have a chip on their shoulder. ey have an underdog mentality and want to prove how good we can be, how great their units can be. When I interviewed [Barnes], he was getting all sweaty, uptight, jumpy. I said, ‘All right, this guy gets it.’ He wants to prove what he’s capableSilverof.”eld sees the larger picture of college football’s shi ing landscape. USC and UCLA are leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten, for crying out loud. We can erase the word geography from any equation measuring a program’s value for one “power conference” or another. e AAC is losing three of its top programs — UCF, Houston, and Cincinnati — a er the 2022-23 academic year. Joining the AAC are programs that won’t exactly sell football tickets by themselves: UAB, Rice, UTSA, Charlotte, North Texas, and FAU. (If it feels like the old Conference USA days, it should.)
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“We want to be in the best conference for football,” says Silver eld. “Football is the driving force [of revenue for an athletic department]. It’s ever-changing. We’re doing things the right way, with some of the best facilities in the country. We’re pouring money into [signi cant] renovations of Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium. Backto-back years, we’ve had the highest graduation rate of any football program in our conference. All those things will put us on display, and we’ll see what the future entails. We want to play at the highest level we can.” Before Seth Henigan was born, a 6-6 season may have been welcomed in these parts. But Memphis football has new standards now, and the sophomore quarterback is here to meet them. “I’m trying to get us back at least to the top of the AAC,” says Henigan. “ e standard at Memphis is a level of excellence, grit, grind, and all that stu . We work really hard, but we need to prove it on Saturdays. Nobody really cares if we don’t win on Saturdays.”
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Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, Saturday, September 3, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Celebrate Memphis LGBTQIA+ Pride Month at Memphis Public Libraries’ fourth-annual Pride Kicko . is free, family-friendly event will include local nonpro ts, Rainbow Family Story Time, a mini pride parade, cra s, free take-home activities, and ra e prizes. Adults (21+) can celebrate at the A er Hours Celebration on Friday at 6 p.m. e event will feature live music, trivia, and a small art sale. e trivia winner(s) will be awarded a prize. Free drinks will be provided to guests, courtesy of Grind City RegistrationBrewery.isrequired. Register at www.memphislibrary.org.
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“It’s not about my voice,” she says. “It’s about these people’s voices and how I can amplify that and make them stronger. What I do is the art form, the regalia, the spiritual power, but I can use that for the greater good.”
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As such, the pieces in her exhibition incorporate crowns, scepters, and necklaces — which she calls “mantles of responsibility” — made from a mix of what one might expect in European-style regalia, like diamonds and sapphires, and the unexpected, natural items, like bear claws and salmon bones, which are signi cant to Northwest coast culture. But the artist insists that the main focus of each piece is the Northwest coastal item, with the stones and gems serving as accents.
Overton Park Shell, Saturday, September 3, 3-9 p.m. One of the oldest and largest outdoor events in Memphis and the MidSouth, the WLOK Stone Soul Picnic o ers musical entertainment and fun for the entire family. Admission is free and open to the public. Food trucks and entertainment for children will be at the Shell throughout the Zacardievent.Cortez, a national gospel artist, will headline. e event will also feature great gospel performers, including e Mellowtones, Uncle Richard’s Puppets, e Spiritual Soldiers, and Charisse. Other star performers include Annie & the Caldwell Singers, the Melodic Truth, Roney Strong & the Strong Family, Josh Bracy & Power Anointed, Memphis Baptist Ministerial Choir, and e Sensational Wells Brothers. + 1st - 7th
e Metal Museum has rolled out its last exhibition of this year’s “Tributaries” series with Morgan Asoyuf’s “Royal Portrait.” e exhibit highlights Tsm’syen culture in the Paci c Northwest and confronts issues spurred from colonization that have affected and in ltrated Indigenous communities.
Historically, Asoyuf explains, in Tsm’syen culture, a matriarch held the special high-ranking role of maintaining the well-being of the community, but colonization dispersed patriarchal ideals, setting the traditional Indigenous power structure o -balance.“Now,you see the money go more toward men,” Asoyuf says. “A lot of times you see the chiefs dressed really well, but the matriarchs, who are actually supposed to have more power, don’t have any of those things.”
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“TRIBUTARIES: MORGAN ASOYUF | ROYAL PORTRAIT,” METAL MUSEUM, ON DISPLAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER 25TH. 901 Day Celebration Ravine, 484 Union, ursday, September 1, 5-11 p.m. In partnership with the Downtown Memphis Commission, Memphis Made Brewing Co., and Old Dominick Distillery, Choose901 will host its rst 901 Day Party since the pandemic began. e party will be poppin’ with food trucks, live music, and more. Memphis Made has brewed up a batch of 901 Day beers for the occasion, and Old Dominick Distillery will have cocktail stations set up throughout the space. TACOnganas, StickEM, Central BBQ, and Mempops will be keeping folks fed. Local vendors will be on-site, and live entertainment will provided by Stax Music Academy, the Lucky 7 Brass Band, and DJs Travi$, Breezye, and Shelby.
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“It’s challenging the European idea that [regalia] has to have things [like gems] to make it look expensive and royal,” Asoyuf says. “It’s like, we actually have our own materials and stu , and our value of royalty is so di erent.”
So Asoyuf, who works in goldsmithing, wood carving, and fashion design, has sought to rectify this through her art by upli ing the sovereignty of Indigenous women and queer and two-spirit people who advocate for land rights, for environmental custodianship, and for missing and murdered Indigenous women and two-spirit individuals.
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“ e message of art needs to be active,” she adds. And by that, she means, these pieces aren’t made for display cases; they’re meant to be part of a living culture, meant to be worn — which is why the exhibition also includes photos of various activists wearing her jewelry, dressed in full gowns and costuming. In fact, the artist o en lends, trades, or gi s her pieces to activists to wear while they do their work out in the world.
“ ey tend to shoulder a lot of responsibility in these activism spaces,” Asoyuf says. “I’m trying to highlight our activists and land defenders and show their royalty, … that royalty [means] to respect the culture and take care of our land.”
But now Falco wants to “sing and dance together and join arm in arm in what rock-and-roll is and what ballroom is and what tango is all about. And this is what we’re going to do on stage at Lafayette’s.”
Tav Falco’s Panther Burns at 7 p.m. September 8th at Lafayette’s Music Room at 2119 Madison Avenue. Tickets: $15-$25. (901) 207-5097
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“I think I’m onto what I want to be doing, other than the diversion of windsurfing that I see windsurfers doing from my balcony. I would like to learn how to windsurf over ocean waves.”
av Falco will be at his old stomping ground, Lafayette’s Music Room, but he won’t be stomping. He’ll be dancing. And singing.
Tango is “a relationship with a partner. It’s something you cultivate.” It’s “about passion. It’s about daggers.” Falco performed his tango song, “Drop Your Mask,” in Memphis at his first Panther Burns show at a cotton loft at 96 South Front Street. “I was always fascinated with the music that I’d heard. And I sang a tango in 1979 to a recording of a Xavier Cugat tango on my first Panther Burns show.”But, he says, “I didn’t start dancing tango until I came over to Europe in ’92. That’s when I met tango dancers in Vienna. I started learning with Argentine masters and I’m still learning.”Tangois also featured on Club Car Zodiac . “I wrote ‘Tango Primavera’ about my experiences performing with pianist Mirkaccio Dettori in the cabaret in Rome. I’ve adopted a
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Indeed, Falco and his band Panther Burns, who appeared in 2018 at Lafayette’s Music Room, will return September 8th to promote their EP, Club Car Zodiac . “I am going to sing and dance and celebrate like an Aztec sun worshiper,” Falco says. On previous tours, Falco dealt with “incendiary political issues.” He performed songs, including “Doomsday Baby,” and “lynching ballads,” including “Strange Fruit.”
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“While mansions are burning in the background, all of the Southern themes that we extol — brother against brother, unrequited love — we take up where Scarlett O’Hara says as her mansion, Tara, was up in flames. She said, ‘Well, tomorrow is anotherMarioday.’”Monterroso, a guitarist/ singer/songwriter whom Falco has worked with since 2014, will be the opener at Lafayette’s. “Mario was so excited about Memphis after the Command Performance tour that had ‘Memphis Ramble’ on it — a song we worked on for quite a while — that he said, ‘Tav, I want to live in Memphis.’” Monterroso now has “become a real presence on the Memphis music scene.”Those who follow Falco on social media have seen videos of him dancing the tango. “I’ve been dancing for a while and I’m still learning.”
PHOTO: COURTESY TAV FALCO Falco will be singing and dancing.
dancing cane and a matelot.” A matelot is the “flat straw hat” popularized by gondoliers and Maurice Chevalier. “I developed this character, ‘L’Ultimo Gigolo.’ I’m doing songs and dancing with that in a cabaret in Rome. After this tour, I’m going back to Rome for another short run of Falcoappearances.”isn’twaiting until tomorrow to think about his next move. “I want to come back to Memphis and collaborate with Mario Monterroso on a theater cabaret performance that, actually, we want to premiere at Theatre Memphis. That is our goal, and the objective is a creation of our album, Cabaret of Daggers . It’s going to be a musical theater production. This will be something he’s never done before. “I’m going to sing and dance. I’m going to have a shadow dancing partner with me, a female partner. I have some pretty good ideas for this and we have the content and the Anythingmaterial.”elseFalco hasn’t done?
You name it, Falco, who now lives just south of Bangkok on Wong Amat Beach, has done it. He’s also a photographer, filmmaker, actor, and author.Panther Burns, which he began with the late Alex Chilton, was “named after the legendary plantation off Highway 61 just north of Greenville, Mississippi.” Falco describes Panther Burns music as “flowery, avant/retro, psychedelic ballroom, romance. It crosses genres of blues, rock-and-roll, rhythm and blues, tango, samba, and balladry.”
THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS “The Art of Science” Over 30 local artists will pres ent a piece of art inspired by the work of area researchers and clinicians, which will also be on display alongside the works of art. Through Sept. 4.
CROSSTOWN ARTS AT THE CONCOURSE “Tributaries: Morgan Asoyuf | Royal Portrait” Contemporary Ts’ymsen art ist Morgan Asoyuf explores matriarchal power within the Northwest coast as a statement of Indigenous sovereignty. Through Sept. 25. METAL MUSEUM “Wearable Exhibition”Art Wearable art exists as an avenue for pure artistic expression within the world of fashion design. Through Sept. 30.
ART MUSEUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS (AMUM) “Wild Woods, Gardens, & Machines” Two artists exploring ideas and visions of energy from nature juxtaposed with machines cre ated by man. Through Sept. 9.
THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS “From Artisans to Artists: African American Metal Workers in Memphis” Exhibition that traces the role of Black metal workers from Central and West Africa to modern-day Memphis, bringing to the fore an often overlooked yet vital part of the city’s artistic history. Through Sept. 11. METAL MUSEUM “Itutu: Diddy Ain’t Invent The Remix” An exhibition that explores the variety of swag birthed from Black culture through the ability to remix and rein vent oneself and the meaning of the world. Through Oct. 15. TONE “Liminality” Exhibition of work by Sepideh Dashti blurring the boundaries between languages, to challenge ideas of femininity and domes ticity and to depict her diasporic experience. Through Oct. 8.
WOODRUFF-FONTAINE HOUSE MUSEUM ART HAPPENINGS Opening Reception for “POCKETS REX” The Clough-Hanson Gallery celebrates the opening of Clare Torina’s new exhibition present ed in the gallery’s windows and gaps. Friday, Sept. 2, 5-7 p.m. CLOUGH-HANSON GALLERY Read to Relate: An Interactive Play Discussion Group
THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS “Memphis Proud: The Resilience of a Southern LGBTQ+ Community” Explore the history and culture of Memphis’ LGBTQ+ community. Through Sept. 26. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & HISTORY “Metafiguration”
The group will discuss plays written by and about AALANA and/or differently abled com munities. $15. Tuesday, Sept. 6.
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CHUCKLES COMEDY HOUSE COMMUNITY A Taste of Memphis Celebrate and share the accom plishments of local neighbor hoods and what leaders are doing to make Memphis a great place. Featuring neighborhood booths, live music and perfor SeptemberEVENTS:1-7 the date,
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MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN “Otherworld” Exhibition of paintings and sculpture by Kit Reuther. Tuesday, Sept. 6-Oct. 8.
ART AND EXHIBITSSPECIAL “A Better Life for Their Children” An exhibition of photographs and stories that brings readers into the impactful yet largely unknown story of Rosenwald schools. Through Jan. 2.
“Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960” Exhibition that explores wom en’s athletic and spectating attire from the 19th and 20th centuries. Through Oct. 16.
NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM “Another Dimension: Digital Art in Memphis” Exhibition exploring the rise of mainstream interest in digi tal art. Through Sept. 11.
BEVERLY + SAM ROSS GALLERY “Love in the Club: Photographs by Michael Abramson” Exhibition of images of Chica go’s South Side underground life. Through Sept. 4. STAX MUSEUM OF AMERICAN SOUL MUSIC “Meet the Dixons” Learn about Margaret and Hugo Dixon’s personal lives, their collections, and their legacy. Through Oct. 9.
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A collection of paintings created from the beaches and sand dunes of Florida, desertscapes and canyons of New Mexico, to the mountains of Alaska. Thursday, Sept. 1-Sept. 30.
The dimly lit mansion will be staged as the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic will be re counted and martyrs remem bered. Through Sept. 3.
THEATRE MEMPHIS BOOK EVENTS
This month the Memphis Horticultural Society and MBG will discuss Lessons from Plants by Beronda L. Montgomery. Thursday, Sept. 1, 7-8 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN Meet the Author: J. Elle Novel welcomes NYT bestsell ing author J. Elle in conversa tion with Kwame Mbalia to celebrate the release of the middle-grade fantasy A Taste of Magic. As an added bonus, sweet treats will be provided. Thursday, Sept. 1, 6 p.m. NOVEL COMEDY Laughs at Lafayette’s Comma Comedians invade Lafayette’s Music Room with a comedy and variety show built to make you laugh, chortle, sigh, and guffaw. Tuesday, Sept. 6, 7 p.m. LAFAYETTE’S MUSIC ROOM Saturday Night Laughs Big Mickey headlines. $20. Saturday, Sept. 3, 8 p.m. THE COMEDY JUNT The Peel-Back StandUP Comedy Show Showcasing some of Memphis’ best local comedians with a couple more surprises. Tootie Two Times will headline. Thurs day, Sept. 1, 8 p.m. BLACK LODGE TIP “T.I.” Harris Harris is an artist, actor, comedian, Sept.andphilanthropist,entrepreneur,podcasthost,filmmaker.$35.Friday,2-Sept.3.
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MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART “Flowerful: Fashioning the Armored Feminine” Exhibition of Ramona Sonin’s couture gowns and drawings of fantastical women. Through Oct. 23.
DAVID LUSK GALLERY “Rise Up: Stonewall and the LGBTQ Rights Movement” Exhibition of artifacts and im ages that shed light on impor tant milestones of gay rights history. Through Sept. 26.
A group exhibition exploring the multifarious approaches to figuration. Through Sept. 23.
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Orange Is the New Pink: Family Health & Wellness Festival Covid-19 vaccinations and boosters, line dancing, 20+ health vendors, mobile mam mograms, giveaways, painting classes, and more. Thursday, Sept. 1, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
RAVINE 901 Day Grizz Bash Grizz Nation is invited to FedExForum for an after noon and evening filled with Memphis music, local food trucks, 901 Sneaker Expo and SneakFest, and more. Free. Thursday, Sept. 1, 5-8 p.m.
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BLACK LODGE Memphis Redbirds vs. Norfolk Tides Monday, Sept. 5-Sept. 11. AUTOZONE PARK THEATER Guys and Dolls This Manhattan-based musi cal romantic comedy tells the overlapping stories of two couples. Through Sept. 11.
HANDY PARK Main Street Festival
MALCO PARADISO CINEMA GRILL & IMAX Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown High atop one of Spain’s poshest penthouses, three women have come to the end of their mental ropes, and one of them is about to com mit murder. $5. Thursday, Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m. CROSSTOWN THEATER SPECIAL EVENTS Memphis Legends Present Motor Mayhem A live hot rod build, live mu sic, car show, fun and games for the entire family, and a double feature of The Hol lywood Knights and Death Proof. Saturday, Sept. 3, 11 a.m.
RAILGARTEN Rockwalk Uncover live outdoor per formances, new businesses, specials at restaurants and retail, and more. Thursday, Sept. 1, 5-9 p.m.
THE EDGE DISTRICT Tigers on Tour Enjoy inflatables, food trucks, food and drink specials, and free beer for the first 50 guests. Thursday, Sept. 1, 5-7 p.m.
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PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE 901 DAY EVENTS
BLACK LODGE Hot Dog CompetitionEating All-you-can-eat hot dogs. $35 to enter. $200 grand prize. Free to attend as an observer. Saturday, Sept. 3, 3-6 p.m.
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OVERTON SQUARE 901 Fest Some of Memphis’ most tal ented artists are taking the stage for a four-day music festival! Thursday, Sept. 1-Sept. 4.
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Theatre Memphis’ Guys and Dolls is a rom-com about two incompatibleseeminglycoupleswhofindloveamidchaosandshenanigans.
PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE FESTIVAL A Record Swap & Zine Fest: No. 7 An annual celebration of zines and zinesters. Saturday, Sept. 3, 10 a.m.
CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE Beale St. Cigar Festival
MALCO SUMMER 4 DRIVE-IN SPORTS 901 Wrestling “The Submission Technician” Shane Shoffner vs. Kontar the Great(c). $5-$15. Saturday, Sept. 3, 7 p.m.
HATTILOO THEATRE Something Rotten When Nick and Nigel Bottom decide their theater troupe rivals that of William Shake speare, the best way to beat him is to hire a soothsayer and write a musical about eggs … right? $30. Through Sept. 18.
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THEATRE MEMPHIS Master Harold & the Boys A white teen, who has grown up in the affectionate company of two Black waiters, learns that his viciously racist, alcoholic father is on his way home. $35. Friday, Sept. 2-Sept. 25.
ORANGE MOUND COMMUNITY CENTER WLOK Stone Soul Picnic Local gospel greats along with some of the nation’s most prestigious gospel singers will headline the six-hour musical event, fun for the entire family. Saturday, Sept. 3, 3-9 p.m.
901 Day Celebration Choose901 will host its first 901 Day Party since the pandemic began. Thursday, Sept. 1, 5-11 p.m.
FEDEXFORUM 901 Day Market Live performances by 901 bands, including Raneem and Better in Color. Plus, shop lo cal 901 artisans at the market. Thursday, Sept. 1, 6-9 p.m.
This event is open to all ages and will be a fun-filled way to spend the day, with nonprofits, Rainbow Fam ily Story Time, a mini pride parade, crafts, free take-home activities, and raffle prizes. After-hours celebration for adults on Friday. Saturday, Sept. 3, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
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This event will be filled with great networking opportunities, shopping, some of Memphis’ best food trucks, entertainment, and activities for the children. Saturday, Sept. 3, 1-6 p.m.
TIGER LANE Memphis Libraries Pride Celebration
Professionals’ Wine Night Enjoy wine with light snacks and connect with Mid-South professionals, business leaders, and startups. Free. Thursday, Sept. 1, 6-7 p.m.
Casey “developed a knack” for “what would work well together as far as any type of cuisine.” He came to work early to learn how to “butcher sh, make sauces, and braises” from the chef. Casey worked there for about four years. “I thought I knew everything and then I got into ne dining and realized I didn’t know jack shit. It’s a whole new ballReturninggame.” to Memphis, Casey eventually got a job at e Inn at Hunt Phelan. Executive chef Stephen Hassinger was a big in uence. “He was calm, but fair and stern, which is discipline. We all need that. It really motivated me to keep going. I think when you’re tired, and you don’t think you can move on, and chef is still rocking it out, and he’s got a couple of years on you, it motivates you.”
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Casey, now executive chef of the new Restaurant Iris, bussed tables when he was 13 at e Grove Grill, which was where Restaurant Iris now is located. He majored in English at the nowcalled Western Colorado University, but he decided to stay in the culinary eld a er working at a local restaurant. “I liked the versatility of working in a kitchen. I knew I could travel and I could always feed myself.”
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Casey learned a lot from Hassinger. “I don’t know if ‘spirituality’ is the word, but just respecting the abundance of food we have access to and not wasting it, as opposed to spoiling it or throwing it away. Always pack sh in ice the way they’d swim in the ocean. Respect the fact that if a living thing was slaughtered or died so you can eat it, you need to respect that and take care of it, and use everything you possibly can to make it sort of a way of being thankful for what we Chefhave.”Vishwesh Bhatt, who Casey worked under at Snackbar in Oxford, Mississippi, was another in uence. “Here he comes from India, and he has this kick-ass, unique French fusion where he’s using spices and things I’d never known before. It reignited my passion for cooking.”Bhattin uenced Casey to “grab a bull by the horns” and move up in his career.
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Russell Casey brings New Orleans air to Restaurant Iris. By Michael Donahue
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“Because the last thing I want to do is get stuck.” Casey didn’t want to become a “60-year-old, burned-out line cook.” He returned to Memphis and eventually got a job as executive chef at Bounty on Broad.Hearing about the opening of the new Restaurant Iris, Casey pulled no punches when he told owner Kelly English, “Look. We can own this mutha fucka: your brand — and you market yourself so well — and I can kill it in the kitchen. I’m your guy. Let’s go get co ee.” Restaurant Iris fare will be “classic New Orleans” with some Iris staples, including the lobster knuckle sandwich. “With the exception of three or four staples, everything is kind of ‘think Galatoire’s’ type of menu with my ngerprints all over it. “What people keep saying sounds like me is the pan-roasted ounder with speckled lima beans and succotash. It kind of screams, ‘Russell Casey.’ I think it’s all those classic, comforting di erent techniques throughout the dish, and it’s cool.”Casey sees his Restaurant Iris position as the “culmination of all the blood, sweat, and tears” he’s endured working his way up the ladder. He remembers when he made and sold mozzarella cheese to supplement his chef’s income. He made the cheese on Friday nights a er a long day’s work at the restaurant. He then had to be at the farmer’s market at 5 a.m. Becoming a chef is “de nitely a younger man’s ambition, for sure. But all that, I think, gets wrapped up into teaching you how to be tough. And that the sky’s the limit. Go for the Restaurantgold.”Iris is at 4550 Poplar Avenue in Laurelwood Shopping Center.
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eorge Miller’s ree ousand Years of Longing attempts to be a master class in the art of lm narrative at the end of Miller’s long career, a re ection on his work. Instead, like most movies and human endeavors, it is an exercise in what not to do and shaggy-dog in nature. e story has all the weight of a hummingbird. ere are pleasures to be had in its misshapen structure, but they areLonelyeeting.asthmatic narratologist (a professor of stories and legends) Alithea (Tilda Swinton) goes to a mythology conference in Istanbul, where she buys a bottle containing a genie, or djinn, in a thri store. She opens it and discovers Djinn (Idris Elba), who grants her three wishes and heavily pressures her to make them now. Having read every story about djinns, Alithea is suspicious and notes the ill fate of most magic lamp users: “ ere’s no story about wishing that isn’t a cautionary tale.” e pair hang out in her hotel room and trade tales about their lives, Scheherazade-style. Elba is composed of magical CGI dust — he notes accurately that djinns are not powder but “subtle re.” e plot is based on the much better e Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt. Stories about storytelling put the audience at a precious remove. Everything is in quotes to serve as examples of frequently expounded precepts. (“Mythology is what we knew back then. Science is what we know so far.”) Even the sensory details (the djinn’s bottle pulled out of sh guts, a spear stuck in a horse’s haunch clotheslining a soldier on a battle eld) feel a bit too considered. e stage-bound nature of the sets and CGI add to this, as does the retro fairy-tale treatment given to the medieval Middle East. Alithea’s love of stories is born of childhood isolation. Her overcompensation then led to her job now, but the problem remains: loneliness. Djinn is a digni ed ancient creature who speaks with new-to-English pauses and has red palms and a vermillion dot at the center of his chin. e tension should come from Alithea’s unique preparedness for Djinn’s possible traps, but instead we get some sad tales of random hereditary monarchy succession drama seen from his perspective. e movie is about stories yet does not succeed at that part of them that edges butts on seats. e real oddity begins when it winds down and seems to be about to end about a half hour before it does. It posits that the march of science, from Einstein to the ubiquity of media and communication, now is at odds with myth-making and therefore storytelling, as myths were ways to explain the world, giving gods quarrelsome attributes as placeholder explanations for what science lacked. ere’s a whole scene devoted to the djinn’s bottle being X-rayed by airport security and fear over the damage.
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Myth and science can coexist. The universe is unexplored. You and I will rot beneath the ground before humans know half of what there is to know. Our oppos ing capacity for irrationality is bound less. The film’s suggestion (via Djinn’s allergy to contemporary Britain with its “raucous air” filled with wireless signals) that modern tech is killing our imagina tion makes sense insofar as social-media manipulation might have added to the xenophobia of Alithea’s racist neighbors, but only Wonderthere.positioned against science as something to be traded off in return for learning about how the world works is always silly. (The Sandman’s recent adapta tions of Neil Gaiman’s Hob Gadling and “A Dream of a Thousand Cats” stories are much better intersections of the mytho logical and modern.) Life is more unpredictable than stories, and it’s a Luddite impulse that shuts out advances, rather than addressing their positives and negatives. The film does have Djinn witness brain surgery and the Large Hadron Collider, and it does compromise in a realistic way with Alithea’s intense need for love, extending via a series of fade-outs past a fairy-tale ending into a more regular one, a romantic compromise emphasizing consent. It’s just that those fade-out segments have the narrative con sistency of melted butter, the coherency of a mumble, and are gone from the mind as soon as seen. Thousand Years of Longing Now
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What has become apparent in recent years is that the perception of ex-o enders as a un-hirable undercuts a valuable opportunity to employ certain members of this population. As industries and businesses of every size have struggled mightily with securing dependable, quali ed employees during the Covid-19 pandemic, the training and hiring of select groups of ex-o enders has resurfaced as a viable workforce strategy for certain organizations. To this end, interested businesses could bene t from programs that help to train and prepare ex-o enders who meet certain criteria for job opportunities. Such programs, with eligibility requirements and training shaped by employers, are tting onramps for businesses seeking to shore up their workforce.
In response to concerns from investors, MLGW president J. T. Young suggested the formation of the MLGW Business Advisory Council to bring business and industry leaders together with key members of MLGW’s sta to discuss systemic issues and potential remedies.
In an extraordinary move following the August 2022 Shelby County general election, in which the incumbent county clerk was reelected, the Shelby County Commission voted to o cially request the intervention of the state of Tennessee into the operations of the Shelby County Clerk’s O ce. is action punctuated previous requests for state intervention from the Greater Memphis Automobile Dealers Association and other concerned o cials from West Tennessee.
e Greater Memphis Chamber’s annual priority list seeks solutions on the clerk’s o ce, MLGW, worker shortages, and more.
With the high-pro le attention on the challenges receiving car tags, interviews conducted in preparing the Metro Advocacy Agenda also revealed other problems in the processes and function of the Shelby County Clerk’s o ce. ese items include:
• Inactivity of the Shelby County Alcohol Commission resulting in businesses not being able to obtain alcohol licenses or to clear alcohol-related violations
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• Substantial delays in the issuance of business licenses
Ongoing news reports during the spring and summer of 2022 have focused on delays and historic backlogs in the Shelby County Court Clerk’s O ce with respect to the issuance of vehicle tags and licenses.
• No updates in system with respect to business transfers
A er a number of delays due to weather events and e orts to ensure overall diversity of the council, an inaugural meeting for the MLGW Business Advisory Council will convene in September 2022. Cleanup In addition to an overall communitywide commitment to regaining our status as the Cleanest City in America, code enforcement, cleanup, landscaping, and overall beauti cation projects should be prioritized along major thoroughfares and around signi cant landmarks and tourist destinations in support of economic development.
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Additionally, clients waiting for hours to be served at the Downtown and satellite o ces for the county clerk, many times in scorching summer heat, has been especially concerning when considering how strategies to assign appointment times, extend business hours, and leverage simple technology were not instituted to avoid months of excessive wait times.
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ese reports have highlighted the months-long delays in mailing out tags and licenses to clients who have already paid for the service. Car dealers have been especially impacted, given how temporary car tags issued with newly-purchased vehicles are not being replaced by new car tags sent to them from the county clerk’s o ce.
• Backlog of refunds for overpayment
MLGW A recurring theme for a number of businesses and industry sectors has been the communication, inconsistency, and delays they have faced in having operational issues and challenges addressed and tracked by MLGW.
On-ramps for ex-o enders Ex-o enders (individuals who have been previously convicted of a crime) have traditionally been di cult to place in employment due to policies, liabilities, and [human resources] practices governing many businesses.
Each year the Greater Memphis Chamber sets out the Metro Advocacy Agenda, a list of positions and priorities from local business leaders and stakeholders. is year’s agenda seeks to clean up the disorganized Shelby County Clerk’s O ce (for more than just delays in license plates); expand the hiring of ex-o enders; improve relationships with Memphis Light, Gas & Water (MLGW); clean up the city; organize leadership on transportation planning; and more. Here are some details from this year’s Metro Advocacy Agenda.
Visit the Chamber’s website for the full list and more details.
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