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For a time when I was younger my mother, sister, and I lived with my Uncle Frank and Aunt Patty in Arizona. Frank was a manager at a Walgreens and worked long hours, so we didn’t really see him too often. But on the odd occasion when we would all go somewhere in his van, he had a little catchphrase he liked to drop on us. “Click it or ticket,” he would say. Inevitably, this prompt would be met with an eye roll from then-12-year-old me. I always buckled my seat belt. Always. But Uncle Frank’s son was an adult — already moved out, graduated, and employed — and Frank always seemed to view his sister-in-law’s offspring as perpetual toddlers. I get it. He was a few years away from retirement, with a grown kid and a house and a van he’d worked hard to pay off early, and any money he had managed to squirrel away was supposed to pay for time on the golf links, not go to a citation he got because his nephew couldn’t be bothered with wearing a seat belt. Why risk it? Better to remind us. That phrase, though, comes from a campaign to encourage seat belt use. And if you think Tennesseans see themselves as rough-and-ready, rugged individualists, that Memphians embody the “you can’t tell me nothin’” ethos, boy howdy, let me introduce you to some Arizona wannabe cowboys. They’ll talk about the Wild West, about the showdown at the O.K. Corral, about how tough you have to be to survive in the unforgiving desert. In general, it is safe to say that these are not proponents of government regulations. But no one wants to pay a fee. As far as I know, my Uncle Frank harbors no strong ideals about seat belts one way or the other, but he wasn’t about to pay Maricopa County because of them. That’s why I think President Joe Biden’s push to mandate vaccines (or weekly Covid tests) for businesses with more than 100 employees, as announced last week, is a good idea. Some people can only be motivated by tangible, predictable negative consequences. Sure, getting sick is a negative consequence, but it might not happen. Right now, Tennessee leads all 50 states for cases of Covid-19 per capita. Last week, on September 10th, we reported the worst single day and worst week in new cases in the entire length of the still-ongoing pandemic (so far). The Volunteer State is averaging more than 6,800 cases a day, about 100 cases for every 100,000 people. “We’ve had the tools in our hands,” Dr. Diego Hijano, an infectious disease expert at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, told Flyer news editor Toby Sells in last week’s cover story. “But as we keep resisting vaccination and mitigation strategies, it will prolong the time.” We have the tools to prevent this; they’re accessible. But we’re volunteering to be sick, to die, to put nurses and doctors and now teachers at risk. Not to mention anyone who has a heat stroke, car crash, heart attack, or any other accident or illness that necessitates immediate medical treatment. Sorry, folks, but the ER is full. Of course, I recognize I’m probably preaching to the choir here, but it feels wrong somehow to see this information roll in, to have this platform, and to say nothing. There are certainly other things I’d like to write about. (Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris’ panel discussion last week in which he took swings at tax breaks for businesses, for starters. In Memphis, we’re flat-out addicted to PILOT [payment in lieu of taxes] deals, and it’s a habit we need to break. But being the most dangerous place in the U.S., when it comes to contracting Covid anyway, seems to be a more immediate priority.) With a great pick-up rate, there must also come great responsibility, as the old alt-weekly editor’s credo goes. “Parents know better than the government what’s best for their children,” Governor Bill Lee tweeted last month. Governor Lee doesn’t believe the government should govern. The government isn’t a monolith though. There are different branches, different levels. The idea that it’s all one thing — all corrupt, all swamp — just absolves our leaders of the responsibility to provide for N E WS & O P I N I O N those they purport to govern. That’s why THE FLY-BY - 4 we need a federal mandate. Because the NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 6 whims of a few here are putting all of us AT LARGE - 9 at risk, on so many levels. (Again, don’t COVER STORY do anything that might land you in the “RENO MY RENTAL” BY CHRIS MCCOY - 10 ER for the foreseeable future.) WE RECOMMEND - 14 So I’m all for a federal mandate, for an MUSIC - 15 expensive ad campaign. You think people CALENDAR - 16 didn’t grumble about wearing their seat belts FOOD - 19 or stepping outside to light up a cigarette? FILM - 20 Click it or ticket, man. Vax it or tax it. C LAS S I F I E D S - 22 LAST WORD - 23 Jesse Davis jesse@memphisflyer.com
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Motley, Payne, & Refugees Court moves in shooting case, rallies against execution, and Afghans welcomed. VI D EO B LO C K E D General Sessions Judge Louis Montesi Jr. ruled video evidence of the fatal shooting of Alvin Motley Jr. would not be released until a preliminary hearing later this month. The footage was shown to Motley’s family late last month, and they have since called for it to be publicly released. Motley was allegedly fatally shot on August 7th by former Horn Lake police officer Gregory Livingston following a verbal altercation over loud music. P E RVI S PAYN E R ALLI ES Rallies were planned in Memphis and across the country last week for Pervis Payne, a Memphis man who has been on death row for 33 years. Payne’s case went national after weekly rallies caught the attention of the Innocence Project, which works to exonerate the wrongfully convicted. PHOTO: THE INNOCENCE PROJECT PHOTO: COURTESY UNIVERSTY OF MEMPHIS Payne was convicted of murdering Charisse Christopher and her twoClockwise from top left: Judge blocks release of Alvin Motley shooting video; U of year-old daughter in 1987. Payne’s M sets research grant record; rallies support Pervis Payne’s innocence. legal team argues his execution would be illegal because he has an intellectual disability. were the National Science Foundation ($8.9 million), National Institutes of Health ($6.5 million), and the U.S. Department of HAR R I S WE LC O M ES AFG HAN R E F U G E ES Education ($5.1 million). Shelby County is ready to welcome Afghan refugees, Shelby County State-funded dollars rose here by 150 percent since last year. Mayor Lee Harris said in a letter to President Joe Biden last week. This figure was pushed largely by $5.6 million in grants from the “I believe we have a moral duty to help those in dire Tennessee Department of Transportation. However, $4.9 million of circumstances who supported our troops,” Harris said. that money was invested last year in the Keep Tennessee Beautiful program housed at the U of M. It was the single largest grant given R ES EAR C H G R ANTS G R OW to any U of M researcher in 2021. University of Memphis faculty won a record-setting $50.2 million in research awards in the last fiscal year. The new total beat last B EALE B US I N ES S MAN PAS S ES year’s record of $40.7 million, up 23.2 percent. Tommy Peters, 66, a noted businessman, restaurant/club owner, Research award dollars have risen steadily at U of M since 2018. and philanthropist, died last Sunday. Peters reportedly contracted Back then, about 20 percent of the school’s faculty were responsible Covid-19 in August and had been in the hospital in Orlando for for 75 percent of research proposals. In the 2021 fiscal year, 38 several weeks. percent of the faculty brought in 75 percent of the research awards. Born in Memphis, Peters was founder, president, and CEO of In 2018, U of M began a strategy to increase research awards. Beale Street Blues Company, which includes B. B. King’s Blues Club, Federal grants have been the fastest-growing category in the U Lafayette’s Music Room, and Itta Bena. of M research mix. These grants have grown by 80 percent since Visit the News Blog at memphisflyer.com for fuller versions of these 2019, up from $20 million to just over $35 million this year. stories and more local news. The top three federal contractors of U of M research last year
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Worries about abortion rights pervade in the wake of Texas’ new law. and when to become a parent, without politicians interfering,” Weinberg said. “Today’s ruling is critical to Tennesseans’ ability to continue receiving safe and legal abortion care. We will continue to fight this unconstitutional law until it is struck down for good.” Ashley Coffield, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi, said the decision allows abortion to remain safe and legal in Tennessee despite a “national, coordinated attack on abortion rights.” “We trust our patients to make their own fully informed reproductive healthcare decisions,” Coffield said. “We are thankful that the court ruled to protect that trust and ensure that we can continue to provide expert, compassionate abortion care in our state.” A new law in Texas is even more restrictive than Tennessee’s law as it now proposed. Abortion restrictions in Texas now begin six weeks after the patient’s last menstrual period. Many in Tennessee worried that Tennessee’s conservative majority would hop at the chance to pass a law similar to the new one in Texas. Speaking to reporters last week, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee said not yet. “We have no current plans to move forward with anything beyond what we currently have relative to the existing piece of legislation we have,” Lee said.
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Reno My Rental Memphis gets a home makeover in a bold new design show from Carmeon Hamilton and discovery+.
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“I have been holding a secret for so long,” says Carmeon Hamilton. Now, the Memphis-based interior designer, lifestyle blogger, and Instagram influencer can let the cat out of the bag. She is the host, star, and driving force behind Reno My Rental, an unscripted design show premiering Saturday, September 18th, at 10 p.m. Central simultaneously on the streaming network discovery+ and cable channel HGTV.
Hamilton is a graduate of the University of Central Arkansas’ interior design program and has been improving Bluff City living spaces with her firm Nubi Interiors. First through her blog, then on Instagram, she has amassed an impressive online 10 following. Among her fans is Alicia George, a makeup artist for film and television and
vice chair of the Memphis & Shelby County Film Commission, who first met Hamilton at ArtsMemphis’ annual Art By Design fundraiser. “She has a style that’s a little Bohemian but very sophisticated. I love all the work I have seen that she has done.” Hamilton says her goal as a designer has always been to improve her clients’ lives.
“Living well, loving the way that they live, and taking those things that most people call the minutiae of life, those smaller things, and really understanding that every single element of the day, whether minor or major, really adds up to how well we live. Whether you’re eating off a paper plate or a ceramic plate, those minor moments are what allow us to understand that we can be grateful for the smallest things. That’s really the philosophy behind what I do — making sure my clients understand the importance of living beautifully.” In February 2020, the designer was concentrating on using her social media skills to build her business when she was contacted by a casting producer on
Instagram who said they were putting together talent for a new competition show. Hamilton says the process was secretive. “They just said it’s an interior design show. I had no idea what network it was for, what kind of vehicle it was, nothing. But they just keep saying, ‘We think you’re a great fit!’ I’m like, ‘A great fit for what?’” A New Design Star The show, it turned out, was Design Star: Next Gen, a reboot of the popular HGTV reality competition series that premiered in 2006 and ran for eight seasons. Hamilton says she was a fan of the original series and was shocked when the producers asked her to compete against seven other
Carmeon Hamilton introduces beauty and personal style to Memphis rental spaces in her new HGTV and discovery+ show, Reno My Rental. crowned Hamilton the winner. “During the competition, they asked all of us, ‘If you had the opportunity to have your own show, what kind of show would it be?’ I think my original idea was named Hometown Hope. From the beginning, I wanted to do a TV show in Memphis. … My husband and I had goals to go into underprivileged and underserved neighborhoods and truly elevate their homes. I want people who are part of those neighborhoods to stay and cultivate those neighborhoods, but using my talents and resources to truly elevate the way they live, so that they have that much more appreciation for where they live. “I shot Design Star in five weeks, ending in October. The show premiered in February, and I was announced the winner on March 31st. I actually have been working with the producers and the network since December, basically two weeks after I won Design Star, developing my show. I thought it was going to take a long time, but the network was excited. They’re like, ‘We’re ready to go. We want to get this show moving. We want to get you in Memphis.’
And it’s been a whirlwind ever since.” Rental Nation “Reno My Rental is the name of the show,” says Hamilton. “We’re focusing on rentals, but not from the landlord’s point of view. It’s for the people who actually live in these spaces. A lot of renters have a problem with infusing their own personal styles and aesthetics into their homes, and that is what this show is about — showing people that can be done.” Ming Lee Howell, executive producer of Reno My Rental, has been working in
unscripted television for two decades. “There’s no premiere show right now on HGTV or on discovery+ that features or highlights renters,” she says. “A lot of millennials, I think, are choosing to rent because they’re traveling light and they don’t want the responsibility or the burden of a mortgage. They don’t want the maintenance that comes along with a house. So they’re trying to turn their rentals into homes. That’s why I feel it’s really relevant right now — the timing is right. And Memphis is a great continued on page 12
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designers from all over America. The grand prize for whomever made it through the gauntlet of challenges was $50,000 and a chance to create a new show for the fledgling streaming network discovery+. At first, she was hesitant to accept the role because she didn’t want to neglect her successful business. But her husband, Marcus, encouraged her to pursue the rare opportunity. “The entire process was very surreal. But definitely one I will cherish for the rest of my life,” says Hamilton. When she got on set and met her competitors, she discovered she was not the only one with misgivings. “We were all very leery of going into a competition,” she recalls. “There’s always a villain and animosity and drama, and none of us wanted that. We all ended up being really close and really supportive, and I think that aspect made the experience that much more positive. … I walked away with seven new friends.” Hamilton says at first her goal was simply not to be the first one eliminated. But week after week, through challenges like improving the ugliest room in America, up-cycling post-industrial buildings, and creating a thriving indoor/outdoor space, the other competitors fell away, and she remained standing. Finally, guest judge Jonathan Scott, star of Property Brothers,
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continued from page 11 place because you can rent whatever you want. There are so many different types of properties, from a historic home to a highrise apartment building to a loft Downtown. And so, because there are these options, we get to play around with different types of renovations.” Last summer, Hamilton, Howell, and a team of artisans, builders, and television crew worked on improving properties all over Shelby County. “We’ve been in Frayser, Cordova, Midtown, and Downtown off of South Main,” Hamilton says. “When I said I wanted to do the show in Memphis, they were dead set on making sure we showed as much of Memphis as possible. I have a belief that you can’t tell a Memphis story without telling all of it. It’s not just Graceland and barbecue; they have to see everything. Even the stops that we made in between the projects, like going to my welder’s shop in South Memphis, fabric shopping in East Memphis, my favorite coffee shop in Overton Square, 17 Berkshire — I want people to see the greatness of all of it.” Six Memphians from all walks of life were recruited for the opportunity to upgrade their rental space. Alicia George was one of them. “A producer of a friend of mine posted that there was a design show coming
to Memphis and that they were looking for rental houses. I got really excited. I love interior design, and I had a feeling it was Carmeon’s show because of Design Star. I had been following her for a long time.” Potential guests on Reno My Rental are asked to submit two or three rooms in their home that they would like to renovate. “I have a unique story,” George says. “I’m a makeup artist that lives in the pink house in Central Gardens. … I have a sunroom that I do makeup in a lot, especially for brides and clients because there’s just a lot of good light in there. I wanted to turn it into more of a makeup studio space but still a livable sunroom, like a live-work space.” Normally, a job like this would take Hamilton a couple of months, but Howell says they don’t have that kind of time. “We have to turn things around pretty fast, so each one of these is about a two-week renovation. We have two going on at the same time in our production schedule, and we’re doing two spaces at each renovation.” Last April, Ashley Dyson and her husband Marquise moved from Midtown to a new home in Frayser, where they would have more room for their toddler daughter, Harper. Before the move, Ashley told Marquise she wanted to create a special space for him in their new home. “He was like, ‘Honey, don’t worry about me. Let’s just
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Home Work At the Dysons’ place, Hamilton chose to work on Marquise’s den and the adjacent kitchen. “We focus on things that the tenants can take with them when they leave,” says Hamilton. “So this particular home, working with Ashley and Marquise, I got to know them through the casting process before we could get started with the design process. … I know that Marquise loves to travel, but he has a very stressful job. Ashley is there to support him, but she also loves baking and cooking because she has a connection with her mother, and she has a little girl that she wants to gift with that love for cooking.” Once there’s a plan in place, the renovations begin. The renters don’t get to see the results until the work is complete. “It’s a weird thing,” says George. “You have to move out of your house for two weeks and totally trust and turn your house over to complete strangers.” Dyson says the suspense was real. “We were getting little teases of things that were happening in the space, but we still had no
real clue of what was going on.” “We try to incorporate them into small projects,” Hamilton says. “We went to the lumberyard together to pick out reclaimed wood, but they had no idea what any of this stuff was turning into or where it was going. So it’s all a surprise at the end. I’m waiting in the background, holding my breath, hoping they love it.” Dyson says, when she saw her transformed kitchen, “pleased is an understatement. I was absolutely floored. I walked in and I just could not believe it.” In Central Gardens, Hamilton
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move into the house and get settled.’” So when her friend sent her the application for Reno My Rental, Dyson knew exactly what she wanted to do. “So when it just all really started to come together, it was like prayers answered,” Dyson says.
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transformed George’s sunroom and bedroom, where she kept a special piece of furniture. “It was actually a makeup vanity of my mom’s,” George says. “I probably learned how to do makeup at that vanity, where I saw my mom do it every single day. But it was in really bad shape. The finish had worn off of it and it had been really beat up. I had talked about lacquering, which is a really trendy thing, but I’ve always been scared of actually doing anything to it myself. I didn’t want to ruin it. And so Carmeon took it and had it lacquered, and it looks beautiful. So it was a whole sentimental thing — all
the emotions were real when the reveal happened.” An Emotional Ending Howell says she believes Hamilton was a genuine discovery. “I’ve worked with a bunch of different types of people — celebrities and designers. For a first-season television designer, she is a star. She’s a natural. She knows what she wants.” Hamilton says filming Reno My Rental has helped her appreciate Memphis. “I learned that this city is so ready to be seen in a positive light. Everyone has been so willing
to do whatever they can to make this show successful because they feel like this is the best Memphis has ever been seen, and what the show could potentially do for the city. I know a lot of entrepreneurs and people who aren’t familiar with this place probably don’t understand the feeling of community. But this city does not struggle with that whatsoever.” Hamilton says throughout the whole whirlwind of the last year, her husband Marcus was by her side, encouraging her. “He has been the biggest support. He and my son are actually part of the show. You’ll see them by my side.” As Hamilton and the crew were in postproduction, preparing for the show’s debut, an unimaginable tragedy struck. On the afternoon of August 29th, Marcus Hamilton was riding his motorcycle on N. Watkins when he was struck by a Mercedes, which was making a left turn onto Chelsea Avenue. Marcus died at the scene. The driver of the Mercedes, Carl Grandberry, was charged with failure to yield, driving under the influence, and public intoxication. Hamilton, who was preparing to promote Reno My Rental, has not spoken publicly since the tragedy, except for a heartwrenching post on her Instagram. “It is with deep sorrow and an eternally broken heart that I tell you that the love of my life, Marcus
Hamilton, has passed away,” she wrote. “I am no stranger to loss, but this loss brings something beyond pain. Something I can’t describe. I’m now missing a major part of myself, and that void seems to grow more and more every second. I can’t bring myself to figure out Davin’s and my next step, because there shouldn’t be a need for one. But in the midst of this immense pain came a wave of support from the community of people that we’ve worked so hard to build. They are the only reason I have the strength and ability to put these words in writing. Thank you all for being one of the best parts of our love story, and loudly encouraging us to be the passionately flawed humans we were, living a life well lived. I only ask for grace and privacy as my family and I navigate this extraordinary loss.” A public relations representative for discovery+ says the network considered delaying the show’s premiere and reediting the episodes, before consulting with Hamilton. “She gave her blessing for it to go on as scheduled. He is, in fact, in several episodes. They wanted to keep that in to honor him.” Carmeon Hamilton’s episodes of Design Star: Next Gen are currently available for streaming on discovery+. Reno My Rental premieres simultaneously on discovery+ and HGTV on September 18th at 10 p.m. CDT.
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The baseball season is coming to an end. But that’s no reason it should go to the dogs, right? Not so fast — the Memphis Redbirds have invited all dogs to bring their humans to the last two Thursday home games for Bark in the Park on September 16th and 30th. Dogs get in free, but their humans will have to purchase a specialty ticket for $15. Included in the ticket price will be your dog’s choice of a Yadi dog bowl, St. Louis Cardinals picture frame leash holder, or a Redbirds classic logo dog blanket. Then, you get to watch the game with your furry friend. The Memphis Redbirds take on the Louisville Bats on the 16th or Charlotte Knights if you wait until the 30th. Both Thursdays will host celebrity, Instagram-famous English bulldogs Sir Meatball and Milkshake (@sir.meatball on Instagram) PHOTO: MICHAEL DONAHUE to take pictures with their fans. Since Thursday games are also Sir Meatball is making a splash for the Throwback Thursdays, you can enjoy $2 draft beers and $1 hot dogs Redbirds’ season wrap-up at AutoZone Park. all night long. The Redbirds recently released their 2022 schedule ahead of this season’s wrap-up on October 3rd. Redbirds President Craig Unger says, “We still have lots of excitement planned for the next few weeks at AutoZone Park.” That excitement includes the last post-game fireworks show on Saturday, September 18th; a Dylan Carlson bobblehead giveaway on Friday, September 17th; and of course Bark in the Park on Thursdays. Batter up for the final innings of the 2021 season with your paw-some friends. BARK IN THE PARK: MEMPHIS REDBIRDS VS. LOUISVILLE BATS, AUTOZONE PARK, 200 UNION, THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 6:45 P.M., $15, FREE FOR DOGS.
VARIOUS DAYS & TIMES September 16th - 22nd Hispanic Film Festival: Temblores (Tremors) and 7 Raons per fugir (7 Reasons to Run Away) U of M University Center Theater, 499 University, and streaming from pragada.com, Thursday, Sept. 16, and Tuesday, Sept. 21, 6:30-8:30 p.m., free Two of five films celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month will be available this week. Some in-person sessions will be followed by virtual Q&A sessions with the cast and crew of the film. Memphis Tequila Festival Overton Square, 2101 Madison, Friday, Sept. 17, 6-9 p.m., $39 Features more than 30 different types of tequila to taste, local DJs, spooky face painting, a costume photo booth, dancing, food, and more. 21+.
The Lifespan of a Fact Circuit Playhouse, 51 S. Cooper, opens Friday, Sept. 17, 8 p.m., continues Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m., and Sunday, 2 p.m., through Oct. 10, $27 Based on the book by Jim Fingal and John D’Agata, this regional premiere questions the concept of fact versus fiction and journalistic integrity.
Cooper-Young Fest Cooper-Young Historic District, Cooper and Young, Saturday, Sept. 18, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., free A celebration of the arts, people, culture, and Memphis heritage. The kick-off party will be held Thursday, Sept. 16, 6 p.m, at Epicenter Memphis, 902 S. Cooper.
Opening Reception for “On Christopher Street” Streamed live from Brooks’ Facebook page, facebook.com/brooksmuseum, Friday, Sept. 17, 6 p.m., free Exhibition of transgender portraits by Mark Seliger. Brooks Museum’s Rosamund Garrett, the artist, and four of the exhibition’s subjects will discuss the exhibition livestreamed from the museum’s Facebook page.
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Loveland Duren Now, with the October 1st release of the duo’s third album, Any Such Thing (Edgewood Recordings), both artists may have reached their pop apotheosis. “I honestly think that we’ve far surpassed anything we’ve done before,” says Duren. “It’s 10 songs and they’re all really strong. They’re all different, but there’s a thread that runs through them. They go to places we haven’t really gone before. Let’s face it, we’re not household names, so there are no expectations. That’s actually a plus.” The duo must have known they had
taken their craft to new levels when they booked time at some of Memphis’ finest studios, starting at Ardent in 2019 and ending up at Royal the next year. “I’ve been in Royal before, but never worked there,” he says. “And it just brought back the late ’70s to me, that old-school vibe.” Those environs may have also inspired the exquisite arrangements for the material. A short list of the instrumentation includes strings, French horn, flute, and the perfectly Memphian horn section of Art Edmaiston, Marc Franklin, and Kirk Smothers. And while there are some flourishes of classic rock guitar on the stompers, the album as a whole is a keyboard-lover’s dream, with Duren playing some tasty Wurlitzer, longtime friend Liam Grundy of London on grand piano, and none other than the Rev. Charles Hodges on Hammond organ. As Duren explains, the piano was more integral to his composition process than it had been for ages. Touring Australia in 2019, “we went back to those songs from 40 years ago, and that forced me to go back and readdress playing keyboards again, which I hadn’t done since before Vicki and I started working together seven or eight years ago. At that time, I didn’t want our songs sounding like the things I’d done before, so I started playing guitar only for a while.” Loveland, for her part, brings her uniquely powerful voice to the proceedings. With a mother who was a big-band singer, it’s no wonder that her singing career began when she was 14. Her youthful experience singing four-part harmonies with her mom and older siblings clearly shows here, in the vocal blends she creates with Duren. And yet she really shines as a feisty, soulful lead vocalist. That matches her penchant for writing lyrics with some teeth in them, echoing Duren’s own talents. “You tell me you love me / I think maybe you don’t / ’Cause you talk to me like I’m a second-class citizen / ’Cept when there’s somethin’ you want,” she sings. Later, she confesses, “I still love you / From a safe distance.” As with Duren’s best songs, she’ll unflinchingly dive into the complexities. The maturity of this duo pays off in the depth of their work and in arrangements that make the songs bloom with unexpected delights. The Loveland Duren band will play a record release show at The Grove at GPAC, Thursday, October 7th, 5:30-8:30 p.m., $5.
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efining pop music is a treacherous task. Today, it suggests over-produced, sample-crammed dance tracks written by committees, but long ago, a Platonic ideal of pop came to be that had nothing to do with popularity per se. Rather, it’s built on the succinct blend of lyrics, melody, and rock rhythm that was pioneered in the ’60s but was never constrained by that era, evolving according to the inventiveness of each artist. Call it “classic pop,” and Memphis has been graced with one of its finest practitioners for decades: Van Duren. The melodic and harmonic inventiveness of this restless singer-songwriter has never been easy to define. Some call his early work “power pop,” but even that limits the breadth of his imagination, which by the turn of the century had already brought a dozen albums of intriguing work, either under his own name or as the band Good Question. And when he began collaborating with fellow singer-songwriter Vicki Loveland nearly 10 years ago, things only got better, her soulful, strong voice blending seamlessly with his.
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“Enchanted Forest Fire” Sculptures by Raina Belleau. Through Oct. 16.
Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South via Zoom. Thursday, Sept. 16, 6 p.m.
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Portraits of transgender residents by Mark Seliger. Saturday, Sept. 18-Jan. 9.
TCM: Citizen Kane 80th Anniversary
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Will Austin or Memphis win? $10. Wednesday, Sept. 22, 7 p.m.
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Open mic series. $9.01. Thursday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m.; Monday, Sept. 20, 7 p.m.
Explores notions of Blackness. Through Sept. 18.
Live comedy. $65. Thursday, Sept. 16, 7:30 p.m. CHUCKLES COMEDY CLUB
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Receive a vaccine and get a free cold beverage and hot dog. Tuesday, Sept. 21, 3-6 p.m. GREENLAW COMMUNITY CENTER
HopeWorks Weekend of Hope 2021
Annual golf scramble and breakfast gathering. Friday, Sept. 17, 8 a.m.; Saturday, Sept. 18, 8 a.m.
901 Poetry Open Mic
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A Disneyfied apocalypse, “Enchanted Forest Fire” by Raina Belleau is on display at the Clough-Hanson Gallery at Rhodes College.
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Features more than 30 different types of tequila, local DJs, spooky face painting, and more. 21+. $39. Friday, Sept. 17, 6-9 p.m. OVERTON SQUARE
Features acrobats, fire performers, drag artists, and more. $10. Friday, Sept. 17, 9 p.m. DRU’S PLACE
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by viewing five Hispanic films on select dates virtually and in person. Through Oct. 5. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER THEATER
Big Top Tease: Fantasyland
Memphis Redbirds vs. Louisville Bats
Enjoy promotional games, including nacho Tuesday, throwback Thursday, fireworks, and more. Through Sept. 19. AUTOZONE PARK
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Days of Rage
Young revolutionaries make change. $42. Through Sept. 19. PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE
Hello, Dolly!
Dolly Levi is a socialite-turnedmatchmaker. $35. Through Sept. 19. THEATRE MEMPHIS
Meemaw’s Ratchet Barbeque
Comedy about Meemaw and her family. $30. Friday, Sept. 17-Sept. 26. THE EVERGREEN THEATRE
Shout-Out Shakespeare Series King Henry VI: The Wars of the Roses Civil dissent blooms into a war of ungodly proportions. Through Sept. 26.
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FOOD By Michael Donahue
“Miss Butter Roll” Amidah Saleem is known for her buttery dessert.
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Amidah Saleem But Saleem, who describes herself as “such a tomboy growing up,” preferred playing outside. “I grew up with four brothers.” Making her own butter rolls at 12 years old was a fluke. “My mom was at work, and I couldn’t go outside.” Saleem decided to make a butter roll, but she didn’t want to strictly use her mother’s recipe, which includes nutmeg, sugar, and butter. She said, “Okay, I’m going to do it a little dicier. I love it, but let’s try something new.” She added a secret ingredient, which she still uses to this day. And her mother’s words about cooking rang true. “It allowed me to put some passion and love and care
into what I was doing. It kind of calmed me down and gave me such a peace. Just rolling and kneading the dough.” Her mom’s friend tried Saleem’s first butter roll effort and said, “Now, that’s a butter roll.” Saleem didn’t make another until 12 years later when she was five months pregnant with her first child, Anthony Jordan Jr. She craved butter rolls, so she called her mother at 3 a.m. and asked her to make one for her. “My mom would not make it. She said, ‘You are grown up. You are married. It’s time for you to do your own cooking.’” Saleem immediately went to Kroger, got all the ingredients, and came home and made her butter roll. “It took me about two hours to get back home and fix everything. It quenched a thirst like the best taste ever.” Butter rolls became her thing. “I would make them for holidays. That would be my dish. I would bring it and everybody loved it.” Her butter roll is the perfect comfort food, she says. “It’s one of those desserts where you just curl up on a couch with it on a cool night — it’s so warm and buttery — and just watch a good movie.” She began selling them in 2015. “I got tired of people saying, ‘Can you make me one?’ I said, ‘I need to make some money off of this.’” In 2020, Saleem got a business license and gave out samples and her business card to friends, family, and church members. She posted photos on social media. “People would text me. I would do videos where people were eating them, so I could get reviews. The more I posted, the more people purchased them.” Her pastor, Tara Crawford, let her use the church kitchen to bake. “I started [making] maybe 10 or 15 a week. And now I do 15 or 20 a day.” She also makes caramel cakes based on her mother’s recipe, and she later added baked potatoes stuffed with steak, chicken, shrimp, her homemade Alfredo sauce — and lots of butter. Her website is nowthatsabutterroll.com. Saleem, who people now call “Miss Butter Roll,” does all the work herself. “I get up at 5:30 every morning. The first thing I do is pray and give God all the glory. If it wasn’t for him, I wouldn’t be able to provide for my children.” Then, she says, “I go straight to the church and get to rolling and cooking.”
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othing better than butter” could be Amidah Saleem’s motto. “My mom said I used to sit in the corner and eat butter,” says Saleem. “I literally would take butter out of the refrigerator and go hide.” Saleem no longer hides in the corner; she uses butter — about 12 pounds a month — to make butter rolls in her business, Now That’s a ButterRoll. “My mom has been making these butter rolls before I was born,” Saleem says. “And I took her recipe and tweaked it a little bit and made it my own. I started making them professionally 10 years ago, but I’ve been making them since I was 12 years old.” Her mother made butter rolls from a family recipe on holidays, Saleem says. Hoping Saleem would spend some time in the kitchen, her mother said, “Cooking brings you peace. Cooking allows you to focus and re-evaluate the day. Such a peace will come over you.”
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The Taika Trifecta Three comedies showcase producer Taika Waititi’s humane humor.
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In 2018,Waititi and Clement drummed up a television spin-off for Shadows that went in an unexpected direction. Instead of following the vampires, they focused on the two police officers who kept getting called to investigate disturbances in the vampires’ home. It turns out that the vamps aren’t the only weird things Officers Minogue (Mike Minogue) and O’Leary (Karen O’Leary) see on a daily basis. Wellington Paranormal deftly mixes Cops and The X-Files. Sgt. Maaka (Maaka Pohatu) serves as a low-rent version of A.D. Skinner, sending the Mulder and Scully figures out to investigate supernatural phenomena like a haunted Nissan 300ZX, alien body-snatcher replicator pod farms, and the constant menace of zombie outbreak. Wellington Paranormal was a hit in New Zealand and was only recently released in the U.S., but its success spawned a full-fledged Shadows TV adaptation, transported from New Zealand to Staten Island. Waititi helped launch the show’s first season, directing three episodes including the pilot and “The Trial,” an instant classic where the ensemble cast of Nandor (Kayvan Novak), Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Colin (Mark Proksch) are judged unworthy by a council of vampires consisting of high-powered cameos from actors like Tilda Swinton and Wesley Snipes. Waititi stepped away from
The three comedies with Taika Waititi’s touch: What We Do in the Shadows (top left), Wellington Paranormal (top right), and Reservation Dogs (bottom) the show after the first season, but it has only gotten better. Now in its third season, it has fleshed out the character of Guillermo (Harvey Guillén), added the great Kristen Schaal as a series regular, and finally acquired the budget to match its story ambitions. Waititi’s latest TV venture is also set in the United States, but not in a place that usually inspires comedies. Reservation Dogs follows four teenage friends growing up on a Native-American reservation in Oklahoma. Bear
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After watching discussions on “YouTube University” about spirituality and suicide, I now have more questions than answers. Suicides outnumber murders six to one in the white community. Suicide is the leading cause of death in the Black community among children ages 5 to 15. More guns are used to commit suicides than to protect or in self-defense. Every 73 seconds, someone in the U.S. attempts suicide. Every day, 139 of our family members, neighbors, and friends kill themselves. In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, experts are warning that the rate of suicides in America will continue to increase. My questions are: Why are we so passively silent about these very preventable deaths? Why have we created an environment where surviving family members struggle with shame and guilt? Why is the faith-based community tip-toeing around or just flat out not addressing this growing problem that persistently leaves more empty pews? Why is there a delicate effort to justify and explain suicide after it’s done, yet we observe September as Suicide Prevention Month? As a 40-year veteran of the media, I know it is an unspoken rule that we do not cover suicide deaths for fear of promoting copycats. So far, the continuing increase in the number of suicides does not indicate that this news-gathering philosophy is working. While suicide numbers continue to climb with or without media coverage, American families across ethnic and socioeconomic groups are suffering in silence. PHOTO: PIYAPONG THONGCHAROEN | DREAMSTIME.COM My family has not been spared. In 1989, I was working as a news reporter at a CBS Let open discussion replace silence before it becomes deadly. TV affiliate. Predating cell phones, my family’s tragedy was broadcast to everyone in earshot of the newsroom’s two-way radio system. “Pamela, someone from your family called to let you know that your uncle” — and they gave his name — “committed suicide.” At that moment, my heart sank. My heart was broken for my aunt and her six children, and my first cousins. However, my first response back to the assignment desk editor was a very protective reaction for my DNA. “Oh, no. Thank you for letting me know. That was my mother’s brother-in-law.” This single act of suicide continued to take its toll on our family. My mother believed her sister, my uncle’s widow, grieved herself to death, dying three years later. Nearly 20 years later, the couple’s only son, my uncle’s namesake, took his life using the same method as his father — a gun. This time, it was my DNA. My first cousin didn’t leave a note, and we still don’t know why. Ironically, I saw my cousin hours before his death. He was excited about starting a new job. I have replayed our conversation over and over, wondering what I missed and what I could have done. I recently interviewed a mom who found her 10-year-old son hanging from his bunk bed with a belt around his neck. He could no longer shoulder the teasing and bullying he suffered because of a health challenge necessitating him wearing a colostomy bag. The first 10 minutes of our conversation were filled with crying and praying, not just for her strength, but for the moms and hurting children who are reaching out to her for help. She said one young man asked her, “If you say your son is in a better place, do you think I would be in a better place, too?” “Oh, my Lord … NO,” I said. We cried and prayed some more. I am not an expert on suicide and I am not minimizing the reality of mental illness, but I will tell you that the suicide spirit is not new. In the Bible, in Matthew 4:6-7, Jesus was tempted when the Devil encouraged him to throw himself off the temple by saying, “If you are the son of God, He will send His angels to catch you.” Jesus overcame the temptation by saying that we are not to tempt God, and he resisted the voice of suicide. However, Judas committed suicide as Christ headed to Calvary to redeem Judas and all humanity of our sins. We must encourage each other by making sure that everyone knows that they do have a specific purpose that only they can carry out. What if Jesus had missed his purpose by throwing himself off the temple? When it comes to saving lives, silence is not golden — it’s deadly. Former Memphis media person Pamela D. Marshall is a talk show host at the WELLness Network and author of The Art of Forgiveness.
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