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OUR 1504TH ISSUE 12.21.17 There’s been much discussion over the past few days about “banned words” in the wake of reports by the Washington Post and other media outlets that multiple agencies in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), have been told by Trump administration officials that they cannot use certain words and phrases in agency documents. The words purportedly banned for used in official agency reports being prepared for the 2019 budget were: entitlement, diversity, vulnerable, transgender, fetus, evidencebased, and science-based. Several sources at HHS also told the Post that they’d been told to use “ObamaCare” as opposed to the “Affordable Care Act” and to refer to “marketplaces” where people purchase health insurance as “exchanges.” “The assertion that HHS has ‘banned words’ is a complete mischaracterization of discussions regarding the budget formulation process,” said HHS spokesman Matt Lloyd to The Hill. So, in conclusion, we have reports arising from multiple sources in several federal agencies to multiple media outlets saying they’d been given instruction as to what words they could and couldn’t use in government documents, followed by a denial that any of it ever happened from an official spokesperson. Your call. This semantic kerfuffle should serve to remind us that whoever controls language controls the message. George Orwell famously illustrated this in his novel 1984, set in a dystopian then-future world, wherein citizens of Oceania were constantly exposed by their government to such slogans as “War is Peace,” “Freedom is Slavery,” and “Ignorance is Strength.” Thirty-three years after Orwell’s future tome, there is little doubt that a battle is raging in this country to control the message. It seems quaint to think that until as recently as 1987, licensed broadcasters in the U.S. were required to observe something called the Fairness Doctrine, a policy of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that required broadcast license holders to present controversial issues of public importance in a manner that was — in the FCC’s George Carlin view — honest and equitable. It was imperfect in its execution, but its intention was to guarantee that U.S. citizens would be able to rely on their broadcast media to present a fair and balanced picture of the news of the day. (“Fair and balanced”? I’ve heard that somewhere.) National news networks, and even local news and affairs programs, were constrained from the kind of partisan cheerleading that passes for news and analysis these days. Broadcasters were required by law to grant equal time to opposing views. Crazy, right? Nowadays, if you want both sides of an issue, you have to watch and listen to several news outlets. MSNBC is reliably left of center; CNN is slightly left, but usually makes an attempt to present both sides; Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has basically disintegrated into state media, wholly in service to the Trump/GOP agenda — even going so far as to suggest this week that the FBI was staging a “coup” by pursuing its investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible Russian connections. What’s next? Alex Jones as Sean Hannity’s new sidekick? I’m still trying to figure out how being “conservative” has come to mean siding with our arch-enemy, Russia, against our own U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies. This is weird and dangerous turf. The late, great comedian George Carlin had a blistering routine about the “seven words you can’t say on television.” I urge you to dial it up on your local YouTube and watch it. It’s hilarious and scary good. But again, “forbidden words.” How quaint. One night’s channel surfing will make it clear that there are no words that can’t be spoN E WS & O P I N I O N ken on your television. THE FLY-BY - 4 Oh, sure, Wolf Blitzer still can’t just NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 pop off and rhetorically ask, “How the POLITICS - 8 f**k can Kellyanne Conway say that EDITORIAL - 10 with a straight face?” (Though that VIEWPOINT - 11 would be refreshing.) According to the COVER - “PEGGY’S GIFT” BY MICHAEL DONAHUE - 12 FCC, there are still “forbidden words” WE RECOMMEND - 18 for licensed broadcasters. But there are MUSIC - 20 no forbidden ideas; no forbidden lies; AFTER DARK - 22 no FCC policy to monitor fairness or CALENDAR - 24 equity or balance. It’s the wild west; BOOKS - 30 every viewer for themselves. BAR REPORT - 31 Choose what’s fake. Choose what’s SPIRITS - 33 real. Choose your truth. Ignorance is not FILM - 34 strength. C LAS S I F I E D S - 36 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 39 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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YEAR I N F LY 1 Fly on the Wall is such a tiny little column, and so many weird things happen in Memphis, it takes more than one week to run down the best of the worst. Let’s begin.

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LI STE D Every year, Memphis winds up on a variety of B.S. lists. This year, Wallethub.com named Memphis as America’s 68th most sinful city, ranked it low on a list of places to celebrate Halloween, but relatively high on a list of places to celebrate Easter. Tennessee’s most misspelled word, according to Google, is “chaos,” which came as no surprise to Fly on the Wall readers.

M E D IA There were too many big media stories in 2017 to focus on funny typos. The Commercial Appeal faced more layoffs and off-site product control. Richard Ransom left Channel 3 for Channel 24. A controversial FCC ruling made it possible for Sinclair Broadcast to acquire Tribune Media and WREG in the package. WMC’s longtime consumer advocate, Andy Wise, retired to become a Florida man. Who can forget this classic Wise tweet?

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Wright, Trump, and Memphis Pork The Wright case rolls on, Trump spurs Memphis arrests, and (government) pork abounds. WR I G HT’S WI F E AR R ESTE D Last week, federal agents arrested Sherra Wright, former wife of Lorenzen Wright, for allegedly conspiring to murder the basketball player. Indictments against her claim she conspired with Billy Turner, who was arrested here two weeks ago, to kill her husband, Lorenzen Wright, who was shot to death in 2010. The case was cold until earlier this year. C O O P E R -YO U N G G ETS “H I STO R I C” Cooper-Young got a step closer to becoming a historic overlay district last week with a vote from the Land Use Control Board (LUCB). The final vote on the matter, though, lies with the Memphis City Council. TR U M P E D The priorities of President Donald Trump showed up in Memphis last week, in the shape of indictments handed down for 20 undocumented workers arrested late last month. The indictments came from the office of Michael Dunavant, the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, who was nominated by Trump in June. He said the arrests fulfill the priority of the Trump adminstration to crack down on immigration. D R I N K I N G O N MAI N The Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC) and the South Main Association (SMA) sought feedback last week on a city proposal that would allow open-containers of alcohol on Main Street. A final vote on the move is set for January. N EW BAI L F U N D LAU N C H E D Just City, the Memphis-based criminal justice reform advocacy group, has helped launch another standalone group … in Nashville. On Wednesday, Just City announced the formal organization of the Nashville Community Bail Fund. The Memphis group helped to start the bail fund program in Nashville in June 2016.

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R AT E I N C R EAS E S D E F E N D E D Memphis Light, Gas & Water (MLGW) CEO Jerry Collins defended the proposed utility rate increases last week on YouTube before the council was set to vote on them this week. “Transformers, circuit breakers, the pipes that carry the

natural gas and the water, office supplies — you name it, they have all gone up in prices,” Collins began, “But yet our rates have been flat. That’s a mathematical equation that just won’t work.” P ETE & SAM’S C LOS E D AF TE R F I R E Pete and Sam’s Italian restaurant may be closed for one or two months after a fire burned part of the restaurant last week. No one was hurt in the fire, which broke out around midnight last Tuesday. M E M PH IS POR K A free market think tank found a lot of pork in Memphis last week, and we don’t mean the barbecue kind. The Nashville-based Beacon Center’s annual “Pork Report” took aim at wasteful government spending across the state. In Memphis, the report found pork in the FedExForum, the Riverfront Bar & Grill, the Memphis Film & Tape Commission, and the UrbanArts Commission. “I AM A MAN” P LA Z A Ground broke last week on the $1.5 million I Am A Man commemorative plaza. The plaza is set to open downtown by April 2018, in time for the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death. I MA X R ETU R N S IMAX returned to Memphis last week with a new theater in the Paradiso Cinema Grill, just in time for the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Memphis has not had an IMAX theater since the Pink Palace Museum closed its in 2014. For fuller versions of these stories and even more local news, visit The News Blog at memphisflyer.com.

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“ring road” reaching almost to the park’s Formal Gardens. The main difference between Concept Z and the others is that it reconfigures the main zoo lot into a sort of hand fan shape, or maybe the shape of half a wagon wheel. The spaces in the concept roughly face north and south. The other plans keep the familiar bookshelf design with spaces aligned generally east to west. Concept Z also easily has more pedestrian walkways than the other plans. It has pedestrian entry points from McLean, along Prentiss Place, and an entrance from the Greensward. The survey feedback will be studied by the Powers Hill

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City-County Accords on Education The twain meet on several issues, including opposition to school vouchers, as advocate Kelsey backs away from his annual legislative proposal. The subject of education figured large at Monday’s meeting of the Shelby County legislative delegation at the Pink Palace. One subject of accord between the attending legislators and representatives of the county’s various school districts was the need for the Tennessee Department of Education to comply with previously promised levels of funding under the state’s Basic Education Plan. Shortfalls in such funding have occurred routinely in recent years. That was only one of the ways in which the Memphisbased Shelby County system and the six districts maintained by the county’s suburban municipalities — divided by a serious schism during the years of merger and demerger of the past decade — have come to make common cause in matters of public education. Another indication of the new comity figured in a surprise declaration by state Senator Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) that, for the first time in more than a decade of trying, he will desist in the coming 2018 legislative sessions from his annual efforts to pass legislation authorizing school vouchers for private schools. Residents of the Republican-dominated suburbs of

Germantown, Collierville, Bartlett, Arlington, Lakeland, and Millington — all of which have hardened their commitment to public education by voting for school taxes — have made their own disaffection from the voucher concept increasingly clear. The point was underscored last year by a unanimous vote opposing vouchers by city and county representatives alike on the Shelby County Commission.

The subject of education figured large at Monday’s meeting of the Shelby County legislative delegation. Further, chair Heidi Shafer communicated to legislators the will of the commission that the state Achievement School District remand back to the Shelby County School District’s iZone program the 31 under-performing county schools currently administered by the ASD, on grounds that the special state-run district established early in the tenure of Governor Bill Haslam has failed to improve their scores. Another significant point of city-county unity on an education-related matter was expressed Monday by a unanimous vote on the commission to oppose county

involvement in Haslam’s proposed State Facilities Management concept, an out-sourcing program. As Commissioner David Reaves said, “I’m confused. The state is swimming with surplus money. Why do they need to out-source?” Prior to the commission’s vote, various citizens had testified about the prospective loss of jobs at the University of Memphis and other public entities under the governor’s program. • Bill Giannini, who was killed in a car crash on Interstate 40 last Thursday afternoon, en route to Nashville after touching base with friends in Memphis at holiday gatherings, had in recent years been living in Mt. Juliet, a near suburb of the state capital. His choice of residence, made after his 2011 appointment by Governor Haslam to serve as deputy commissioner of Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance, was a practical one. But native Memphian Giannini, who left that job late last year to seek the chairmanship of the state Republican Party and had meanwhile founded the Resolve Consulting Firm, was meditating seriously on a return home. For some months, he had been expressing keen interest in a race in 2018 for the District 32 state Senate seat which state Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris of Collierville, now a

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federal judge-designate, will be vacating. In fact, when he first floated the idea of running for the seat last summer, at the time of Norris’ appointment, Giannini had made the case that he was the only serious candidate for the seat who had been raised in the east Shelby County area encompassed by District 32, and expressed concern that Norris’ successor might be someone who “hasn’t lived a day in the district.” (That was aimed at two likely candidates: Shafer and state Representative Mark White, each of whom has actively considered a move into District 32.) In his time, Giannini had made a serious imprint on local politics, both as chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party a decade ago and later as chairman of the county Election Commission during a period of protracted controversy over the 2010 countywide election, which saw the members of a defeated Democratic slate challenge the results of that election, a Republican sweep. Ironically, prior to that election, Giannini, foreseeing a Democratic wave that has still not occurred locally despite a theoretical Democratic majority in the county, had been among those Republicans arguing stoutly for a return to nonpartisan elections in Shelby County. At a Republican club meeting in November 2009, Giannini had joined with his then newly elected successor as GOP party chairman, Lang Wiseman, in advocating a reversion to the status quo before local Republicans took the initiative and held the first local partisan primary in 1992. “Shame on us for initiating those … now we are left with that albatross,” Giannini bemoaned at that 2009 meeting. Giannini was known as a stout partisan, though he had numerous friendships across party lines, one of them being nominal Democrat Jim Strickland, the Memphis mayor for whom Giannini had done some consulting work for of late and who would profess himself “shocked and saddened” at the news of Giannini’s death. Giannini, who was in a band during his high school days in Bartlett, was a talented guitarist, a fact which he demonstrated some years ago from a local stage in an extended guitar duet on Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” with another unexpected virtuoso, former Arkansas Governor and erstwhile presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. The accident that took Giannini’s life last Thursday occurred when his car swerved across a median into the westbound lanes of Interstate 40 in Decatur County, colliding with the car of Cordova resident Dennis Tolivar Jr., who was injured. It was the second fateful accident on I-40 for Giannini, who had been involved in a multi-car pile-up in December 2012 that resulted in a fatality. Giannini was absolved of any responsibility in that accident by the state highway patrol.

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Tennessee Republicans who, eight years ago, were faced with choosing between candidates for governor, may remember one Zach Wamp, then a U.S. Congressman from Chattanooga, who ran in a stoutly contested Republican gubernatorial primary against Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey and Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, the ultimate winner of both the GOP primary and the general election. On Tuesday, with state voters already seriously mulling over the would-be candidates to succeed the term-limited Haslam, Wamp was once again before a local audience, as he had been scores of times in 2010. Only this time, as he addressed members of the Rotary Club of Memphis at Clayborn Temple, Wamp was conspicuously no longer a party man. As he told the Rotarians, “In 2017, I dislike the Republican Party almost as much as I dislike the Democratic Party.” Wamp’s appearance was under the auspices of Issue One, a national nonprofit group of which he is co-chair and which espouses a return to nonpartisan voting, the singular issue which Wamp and his cohorts in the movement believe is what the nation’s founders had in mind. As Wamp remembers it, the years of the 1990s, during which Democratic President Bill Clinton and Republican House of Representatives Speakers horsetraded back and forth on measures such as one calling for a balanced-budget, constituted the last hurrah of the twoparty system. After that, things became more tribal in Washington, with members hunkering down within their respective parties and spending half their time raising money. They ceased even getting to know members of the opposing party; still less were they inclined to make common cause with them, as Wamp remembers doing in working out TVA matters along with then-

Vice President Al Gore. The result, Wamp said, has been an increasing tendency to put party ahead of country, a sea change that has left the country’s voters dissatisfied and unrepresented and that accounted for the success of the outlier candidacies of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump in 2016. Hence the call of Wamp’s group — and like-minded groups such as No Labels — for a new nonpartisan politics and non-affiliated candidates, the core of whom would come, not from aging baby boomers like himself, but from millenials, some 71 percent of whom are professed independents. To boost that possibility, Issue One has scheduled a two-day event, entitled “Restoring the Founders’ America,” for next spring in Philadelphia. Wamp may be correct about the fact of ongoing alienation from politics-as-usual, especially among the young, and his organization may also be onto something with its call for independent citizen-candidacies. But, as he acknowledged, the current system — especially in the wake of the “Citizens United” Supreme Court ruling — is held fast to its moorings by lavishly committed special-interest money, and the only real way to change that is by changing the Court, which requires in its turn the kind of altered voting pattern Wamp advocates. It’s a chicken-egg question, but Wamp and those like him who would be mentors to a new electorate still believe they can redeem the process. Right on, we say.

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In August, President Trump asked for a certain newspaper clipping, thus throwing the White House into the Trump version of Defcon 2. Chief of Staff John F. Kelly assigned two aides to investigate how the clip made its way to the president without being “cleared.” These aides, anonymous but clearly brave, determined that Keith Schiller, a former New York City police officer and Trump’s longtime body man, had slipped the “contraband newsprint” to the commander in chief. Soon, Schiller was gone from the White House. Kelly, a retired Marine general but an American sniper at heart, had picked off another. This account of the “contraband newsprint” came from the New York Times last week and was written by three of the paper’s top reporters. Their reporting brings to mind Napoleon on St. Helena — his newspapers coming three months late and his days so empty that he took four hours’ worth of baths. Trump’s newspapers arrive promptly, but the rest of his reading is censored and, instead of taking four-hour baths, he devotes as much time to watching TV. We also learned from the Times that Trump consumes about 12 Diet Cokes per day. A new book by former Trump campaign staffers added other culinary details. On the road, the future president typically ate for dinner two McDonald’s Big Macs, two Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, and a chocolate shake. Because the McDonald’s delivery system is both quick and direct, this diet poses a greater threat to the nation than the North Korean nuclear program. But it is not, apparently, what the president eats that concerns Kelly. It is what he sometimes reads. Understandably, Kelly is constantly on the alert for a presidential friend slipping Trump a highly unauthorized news article. This happened over Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago. Some of Trump’s guests “passed him news clips that would never get around Kelly’s filters,” the Times reported. These guests were probably Trump’s old pals from New York and Palm Beach, billionaires with a nose for the oncoming socialist apocalypse who fear the president does not know how crooked Hillary Clinton really is or that the press is still insisting that Trump lost the popular vote or maintaining that it was his voice on that Access Hollywood tape when, upon repeated hearing, it just could be Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Peggy’s Gift

December 21-27, 2017

The life and times of the queen of Memphis soul food.

eggy Brown was 7 when a pot of coffee fell off a table and severely burned her foot. “My grandma was so upset,” Brown says. “She made me stay out of the kitchen.” But that didn’t stop her. “As soon as my foot healed, I was back in the kitchen. I got a whipping about being in the kitchen, but that didn’t deter me.” She’s been in one kitchen or another ever since. Brown, 69, is owner of Peggy’s Healthy Home Cooking on Cleveland Street near Peabody Avenue in Midtown, and she recently opened another thriving restaurant, Peggy’s Homestyle Cooking, on Brooks Road. Brown has a reputation for putting out some of the best and healthiest soul food in town. But the road to success was long and difficult. Until she had her own restaurants, Brown worked in many Memphis kitchens, including one at The Peabody, where she shared cooking tips with noted chef/journalist Burt Wolf. “I think God gave us all a gift,” Brown says. “And I think my gift was cooking.” But, she says, “Let me tell you something. I think the things that you go through in life — God shapes you. You don’t understand at that point in time when it’s all happening, but when you get grown and you look back, all these things served to make you strong. I’m telling you. I have survived stuff that would kill anybody else. Believe me.” Brown grew up on a farm in Arlington. “My mom was part Indian … white, black, and I don’t know what else. My dad was black as these shoes I got on. When we got old enough, we’d go to the field and pick cotton and chop cotton. The sun didn’t like me. I would welt up and be at home at night crying.” She made her kitchen debut at the age of 8, because her parents made her “stay at home and cook.” Brown’s mother and grandmother — her father’s mother who lived with them — did the cooking. “My mom was a good cook, but my grandmother was a great cook. I don’t know what it was, but she could make anything taste good.” Brown says her grandmother was “what you called a Mississippi cook. That’s old South. Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas. All of it is going to Through a succession of kitchens — from her grandmother’s to The Peabody to her own restaurant — Peggy Brown (above) has spent her life sharing her gifts with others.

“You might as well forget about the salt and pepper shaker. It’s ready to eat. All you need to do is add fork and knife." — AC Wharton Brown’s mother finally returned, and she had remarried. At that point, Brown says, “Everything — as old people say — went to hell in a handbasket. Nothing was ever the same again. Everything was just different. Basically, we had a stepdad who wanted to be married to our mom, but didn’t want to be bothered with her children. It was just one of those things.” Brown and her brother continued to live with their grandmother. Their stepfather “was very mean to us. My mom did not allow him to hit us, but, you know, words hurt worse than nicks sometimes. That’s the reason I tell people, ‘You have to be careful what you say to children. You can damage children by talking down to them all the time.’ That’s what he did. He always said, ‘Well, your children ain’t going to be nothing because their dad wasn’t nothing.’” Brown was raped when she was 15. She refused to have an abortion and gave birth to her first child, Marvin

Anderson. After he was born, she took a job washing dishes at the old Shelby Restaurant. But even then, she couldn't resist the lure of the kitchen. “The frozen pies they would buy, they were just plain old pies to me. I would always take butter and sugar and everything, kind of dress them up and put them in the oven and make them taste good.” After her stint at Shelby Restaurant, Brown worked at a Chinese restaurant and, later, at a doughnut shop. Then she got a job cooking at Shoney’s, where she “doctored on a lot of things,” including their meatloaf and soup. Brown left home at 18. “For the longest time, I didn’t speak to my mother. I felt like she should have left that fool and taken her children. She shouldn’t have let us be abused and talked to that way.” Brown had another son, named David Nelson, who has since passed away. She got married in 1972 and had a daughter, Tina Brown. But after her marriage didn’t work out, she moved to Indiana and began cooking for a division of Ford Motor Company. The company paid for her to take cooking classes at a local college. But fate — and her family — intervened. “My mom got sick,” Brown says, “and I ended up moving back home.” By then, she had forgiven her mother, influenced by a woman at church who told her “hatred is one of the worst diseases you can have. It’s a disease that can destroy you.” Then came a career change that would shape the rest of Brown’s life. In the early 1980s, Brown got a job as a cook in the employee cafeteria at The Peabody, where she met Wolf, who was then head chef. “I thought he was the most amazing person I had ever met in my life,” Brown says. “I still do. Because he knew so much about food. I knew things that he didn’t know. And he knew things that I wanted to know. “He knew about filleting fish. He knew about pork chops. He knew how to marinate meats and everything to make them taste good, make them tender. He just knew so much, but he knew nothing about Southern cuisine. That was not his thing.” After she got off work, Brown would stay and watch Wolf cook. He asked her what she was doing in the kitchen after hours. Brown said, “I’m up here hanging with the chefs because I want to know what y’all know.” And before long, that’s what began to happen. “[Wolf] started showing me things. He’d show me how to cut up this and how to marinate this and what to put in this. And we just started sharing things.” There was the “turkey fiasco during Thanksgiving time,” Brown remembers. Wolf made “stuffing” for the employee continued on page 14

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taste similar because the recipes were passed down from one generation to the next generation.” Cutting out biscuits with an empty jack mackerel can was Brown’s first kitchen duty. “It was like playing with Play-Doh for me.” She progressed to making the biscuits and, finally, making lunch. “I knew how to make things because my grandmamma made them.” Brown cooked lunch until she was 15, when her mother and father separated. “They went their separate ways,” she remembers. “And everything just seemed to fall apart. After that, I stayed with my grandmamma. My mom disappeared for about three or four years. “My brother was a baby when my mother left. I was a child raising a child. My grandmother was a fantastic cook, but she was also an alcoholic. That’s who my mom left us with — my dad’s mother. She drank like a fish. And half the time I don’t think she knew if we were living or dead. Because the older she got, the more she drank.”

continued from page 13 holiday dinner. “I said, ‘Chef, what in the world is this? People in the South don’t eat this.’ It wasn’t anything but just dough. Dough rolls. People in the South eat cornbread dressing.” Wolf told her to serve it anyway. “So, we wheel all this stuff downstairs to the employee cafeteria. Phones start ringing upstairs. ‘Chef, what’s this mess you sent down here?’” Wolf, knowing when he was licked, told Brown to make her dressing. She made cornbread stuffing with sage, onions, celery, bell peppers, butter, and margarine. “I had to make my giblet gravy and everything. I don’t know what kind of gravy chef made, but it was a mess.” She added some turkey meat to her dressing and took a cup to Wolf in his office. “I said, ‘Chef, here you go, dude. This is what you have in the South for Thanksgiving.’” Wolf ate the dressing and then asked her for another cup, Brown says. Wolf kept passing along his knowledge to Brown. “If you admire a person for what they know,” she says, “a lot of times they don’t mind teaching you.” After Wolf left Memphis to open the Peabody Orlando, Brown stayed at the Memphis hotel another year and then went to work as the chef at Stonebridge Country Club. When the

club was sold, the former owner wanted Brown to relocate to a club elsewhere in Tennessee, but she refused. “I wouldn’t because my mama was still sick and I wasn’t going to leave her.” Brown briefly went to work for a diner, but says she “got tired of the racism.” At that point, she decided to open her own restaurant. “I kept telling everybody I was going to have my own business and work for myself. I was serious as a heart attack. One of the other girls asked me, ‘Miss Peggy, what are you going to name your place?’ I said, ‘I don’t know, but it’s going to be ‘heavenly’ something ’cause you have to put God first.’” As for the kind of food she’d serve? Brown says, “I just wanted people to have a good, home-cooked meal. Because everywhere I went to eat food, most of it was out of a can and people can’t cook worth a crap.” Brown opened her first restaurant in 1996 — Heavenly Hash on Highway 51. She closed it three years later, after her mother died. “When I opened that restaurant,” she says, “it was because I wanted to buy my mom a house. She always wanted her own house. After mom died, it just didn’t have any meaning for me anymore.” Brown then bought a restaurant in North Memphis and named it Peggy’s Just Heavenly Home Cooking. After a

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“You know if it’s good on Monday, it’s going to be good on Tuesday. It’s one of the best soul food restaurants in Memphis.” — David Porter Noted songwriter/producer David Porter is a big fan of Brown’s restaurant. “The consistency and the quality of the meals is just something you can be comfortable with,” he says. “You know if it’s good on Monday, it’s going to be

good on Tuesday. It’s one of the best soul food restaurants in Memphis.” Former Memphis Mayor A C Wharton is also a fan. “You might as well forget about the salt and pepper shaker,” he says. “It’s ready to eat. All you need to do is add fork and knife. It reminds you of back home, watching your mama cook in a small pan. And every morsel tastes the same way.” Of Brown, Wharton says, “She’s always willing to sit down and talk a minute and catch up on the news. Just a lot of good common sense talk. So, it’s just like being home around the kitchen table.” “I think God allowed me to go through all the hardships and all the hurt and all the pain and anger and stuff that I went through,” Brown says. “I couldn’t understand why it was happening then, but I think I understand it now. Because I feel like God has put me in a place where I was going to meet people that had been through the same things I’ve gone through. “One day I was praying, talking to the Lord. I talk to God the same way I talk to you. I said, ‘Lord, just let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man. Because [there are] so many hurting people. And I think I know how people feel. Just give me a little house by the side of the road.’ “Well, he didn’t give me a house by the side of the road, but he gave me a restaurant by the side of the road.”

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Less than five minutes into The Muppet Movie, Dom Deluise flashes a knowing grin and delivers a completely filthy joke. Playing a Hollywood agent lost in Kermit the Frog’s swamp, Deluise shows Jim Henson’s famous flyeating puppet an ad for Worldwide Studios announcing open auditions for frogs wishing to become rich and famous. “If you get your tongue fixed, who knows,” Deluise says. “You could make millions of people happy.” They say, getting there is half the fun. But when we’re talking about The Muppet Movie, getting there is everything. Jim Henson’s 1999 film functions as an origin story for the beloved puppet troupe, a buddy picture about a frog and a bear seeing America, and a loving satire of all things show-biz. It’s also a never-ending stream of celebrity cameos and groan-inducing one-liners. In addition to Deluise, the parade of 1970s-era superstars includes Richard Pryor, James Coburn, Madeline Kahn, Telly Savalas, Carol Kane, Paul Williams, Milton Berle, Mel Brooks, Steve Martin, Orson Welles, and a big yellow bird on his way to New York to make it big in public television. The collection of one-liners is even more impressive, and it starts right out of the gate when Muppet critic Statler notes that he and his companion will be attending a “private” screening. “Yeah,” his companion Waldorf answers. “They’re afraid to show it in public.” Contrary to Waldorf ’s opinion The Muppet Movie will be screened in public December 26th-31st on Pink Palace’s big screen. Come for the stars. Stay for the “Wokka, wokka, wokka!” THE PINK PALACE SCREENS “THE MUPPET MOVIE” IN ITS CTI 3D GIANT THEATRE DECEMBER 26TH-31ST AT 4 P.M. 901-636-2362, MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG

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Jason Isbell & Amanda Shires Germantown Performing Arts Center, 8 p.m. Americana royalty Jason Isbell and wife Amanda Shires perform tonight. The Prince Experience New Daisy Theatre, 8 p.m. A tribute act of the one and only Prince.

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The Miracle: Christmas at Hope 2017 Hope Presbyterian Church, 5 p.m. Sermon on the Christmas Miracle.

Christmas Day Dinner Chez Philippe, 3-8 p.m., $95 Celebrate the holidays in style with dinner at the Peabody.

Memphis As Fuck XMAS Jam Hi-Tone, 9 p.m. Christmas jam hosted by Al Kapone, Lil Wyte, and Frayser Boy.

Super T Christmas Spectacular Hi-Tone, 9 p.m. Bringing the Funk tonight with Super T.

Snowglobe Holiday Show Railgarten, 8 p.m. A concert from hometown favorites Snowglobe.

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In June 1970, an article slugged “Memphis Flunks the Acid Test” was published by Tennessee Roc, an alternative newspaper of the day. “Memphis once again cheated itself out of a truly psychedelic experience,” the article stated, describing the crowd’s cool response to sets by Country Joe and the Fish and the Grateful Dead. “It seems like it just can’t happen here,” the author lamented. Whatever. Memphis may not have been ready for the “real freaks” of San Francisco, as the article suggested. And the Dead, who caught such a nasty vibe off the Bluff City they steered clear till 1995, certainly weren’t ready for Memphis. But has Memphis ever really been short on freaks? Nearly 50 years after that first show, some of the city’s Deadest players are making more occasions for tribes to congregate, have whatever kind of experience they want, and sing along to tunes like “Sugar Magnolia,” “Friend of the Devil,” and “Truckin.” The latest installment — Christmas with the Dead — is a gathering of Dead-inspired bands including FreeWorld, Highway Hi-Fi, Devil Train, Left Unsung, and DAMFOOL. “All the bands involved have a penchant for playing improvisational music,” Christmas with the Dead organizer Jamie Davis says. The last time all these players came together, the goal was to play five hours of straight music with no set brakes — musical chairs with people coming in and out, one or two at a time. They played 45 songs over a stretch of six hours and 20 minutes. Davis anticipates a similarly fluid approach this time around. “But we’re going to break it up a little with an acoustic set,” he says.

MUSIC By Alex Greene

Pushing Back

Cameron Bethany emerges from gospel traditions to a more personal musicality.

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s the son of leaders in the local Christian community, Cameron Bethany had to struggle with a unique set of influences and expectations to find his musical identity. “Being in the church is really, really tough growing up, and it was a big influence,” he says. “Gospel was at the forefront, and God was the standard. Yet musically, I saw something larger for myself. I saw something different. And I didn’t have backing from my dad, being a bishop of his own congregation.” The fact that Bethany’s mother was a locally respected gospel singer only compounded the expectations for him. A few years ago, Bethany discovered the avenue to his independence: the Unapologetic collective. As artist/producer and founder James “IMAKEMADBEATS” Dukes told the Flyer earlier this year: “Unapologetic is my stand against being what you’re supposed to be, externally, and just being what you are, which is what you’re supposed to be.” Such a brief dovetailed nicely with Bethany’s efforts to define himself, and in 2014, he began working with IMAKEMADBEATS on some of his first secular music. “This entire project was to ‘break out into Cameron’,” he notes, crediting IMAKEMADBEATS with being a crucial supporter of his self-realization. “I was already working on separating into a genre called Mod Fusion, where I create the standard of what music comes from myself, as opposed to me identifying with R&B, neo-soul, hip-hop, whatever. I could just create this umbrella and put all of my music underneath it, so wherever it falls it has a home, without having to be categorized.” YOUMAKEMENERVOUS, the album released on Unapologetic last month, was the result of their collaboration, and listeners can hear the team striving to mix eclectic influences. While the soaring emotions and melodies might be considered neo-soul to a casual listener, deeper listening reveals darkly atmospheric beats and soundscapes more associated with contemporary hip-hop or trap. Yet unlike those styles, most of the songs have been consciously composed, rather than being built from samples. “On ‘Black and White’ and ‘Brand New’, I actually co-produced those. I started those in GarageBand and showed up to the studio, like, ‘Hey, look what I did.’ And we just kinda took it from there,” says Bethany.

“There were some tracks where I would come in and he’d say, ‘Hey, what do you think about this? I just wanna see what you do to it.’ And I would go in the booth and just start with one line and then add something else. And then add something else. I love the idea of being able to create from a lot of different aspects as opposed to just having one specific way of doing everything. That’s one thing that I can be grateful for with working with Mad.” The project pushed Bethany to stretch his thematic boundaries, partially aided by collaborators like PreauXX and Ali AbuKhraybeh. He also received an assist from his much older brother, Steve Bethany, who also cast his lot with secular music decades ago, and has worked as a bassist and guitarist with the likes of Jill Scott and Angie Stone. “Some of the songs aren’t

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necessarily my situation,” Bethany explains. “I put myself in people’s shoes when I hear their problems. I instantly attach to those feelings. If someone loses a loved one, I instantly feel that, or if somebody’s pissed, I’m mad, too. I portray a lot of feelings in the way that I sing; that’s the first thing I want people to do, feel me. I don’t care about you saying ‘Oh, he can sing.’ I don’t think people will necessarily remember you just because you can sing. People remember how you make them feel.” Cameron Bethany will perform at the Wishing Carols holiday concert for the homeless, Saturday, December 23rd, 5 – 8 p.m., Memphis Slim Collaboratory.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule December 21 - 27 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

Gary Hardy & Memphis 2 Thursdays-Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; Karaoke Thursdays, TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Mandi Thomas Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; The 901 Heavy Hitters Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Flyin’ Ryan Fridays, Saturdays, 2:30 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

B.B. King’s Blues Club 143 BEALE 524-KING

The King Beez Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.; B.B. King’s All Stars Thursdays, Fridays, 8 p.m.; Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays,

5 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Saturdays, Sundays, 12:30 p.m.; Blind Mississippi Morris Sundays, 5 p.m.; Memphis Jones Sundays, Wednesdays 5:30 p.m.; Doc Fangaz and the Remedy Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill 341-345 BEALE 577-1089

Queen Ann and the Memphis Blues Masters Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

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

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Live Music WednesdaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Live DJ Wednesdays-Sundays, 11 p.m.; Third Floor: DJ Tubbz Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.; The Rusty Pieces at Club 152 on Beale Wednesday, Dec. 27, 6-9 p.m.

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

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

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

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Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sensation Band Friday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m.midnight and Saturday, Dec. 23, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eric Hughes Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Tuesday, Dec. 26, 5:30-7:30 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Tuesday, Dec. 26, 8 p.m.midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. and Sundays, 3-7 p.m.; Little Boy Blues Friday, Dec. 22, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m. and Saturday, Dec. 23, 8:30 p.m.-12:30

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule December 21 - 27 a.m.; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

Karaoke Thursdays, 9:30 p.m.; Jason Middlekauff of Short in the Sleeve Friday, Dec. 22, 9 p.m.; Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

21, 9 p.m.; Epps Friday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m.; Hot Gates, Wesley Wolffe, The Clinics Saturday, Dec. 23, 8 p.m.; 4th Annual Memphis As Fuck Xmas Jam Saturday, Dec. 23, 9 p.m.; Super T Christmas Spectacular Monday, Dec. 25, 9 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Settlers Sunday, Dec. 24, 4-7 p.m.

p.m.; “The Happening” Open Songwriter Showcase Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

21 Savage Friday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m.; Memphis Tributes the Grateful Dead featuring FreeWorld, Highway Hi-Fi, Devil Train, Left Unsung, DAMFOOL Saturday, Dec. 23, 7 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony Chapman, Charles Cason, and Miss. Joyce Henderson Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Ghost Town Blues Band Friday, Dec. 22, 10 p.m.

Wang’s East Tapas 6069 PARK 685-9264

Lee Gardner Fridays, 6:30-9 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Tuesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.

Poplar/I-240 East Tapas and Drinks 6069 PARK 767-6002

Eddie Harris Thursdays, Fridays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Van Duren Solo Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Tommy Cathey CD Release Party Thursday, Dec. 21, 6-8 p.m.; Triple X Friday, Dec. 23rd. 8 p.m.; The Pokermen Monday, Dec. 25, 8 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Nancy Apple Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Chris Johnson Friday, Dec. 22, 9 p.m.-midnight; Adam McClelland Saturday, Dec. 23, 9 p.m.midnight; Bobbie Stacks & Her Assets Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Bobbie & Tasha Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

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Cheffie’s Cafe

531 S. MAIN 523-9754

483 HIGH POINT TERRACE 202-4157

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

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

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

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Hadley’s Pub

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

The Pistol and the Queen Sunday, Dec. 24, 4-7 p.m.

Furious George Friday, Dec. 22, 9 p.m.; Cruisin’ Heavy Saturday, Dec. 23, 9 p.m.

Paulette’s

Collierville

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

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

Tony’s Trophy Room 929 W. POPLAR 457-7134

Dantones Band Friday, Dec. 22, 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Cordova

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

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

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

Frayser/Millington

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON

Adam McClelland Friday, Dec. 22, 8-11 p.m.

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Toni Green’s Palace The Cove

Lafayette’s Music Room

2559 BROAD 730-0719

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

The Bar Misfits Thursday, Dec. 21, 6 p.m.; Memphis Soul Remedy Thursday, Dec. 21, 9 p.m.; Royal Blues Band Friday, Dec. 22, 6:30 p.m.; Michael John Hayes Friday, Dec. 22, 10 p.m.; Turnstyles Saturday, Dec. 23, 6:30 p.m.; Carlos Ecos Band Saturday, Dec. 23, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, Dec. 24, 11 a.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Monday, Dec. 25, 9 p.m.; Michael Brothers Tuesday, Dec. 26, 5:30 p.m.; Christopher Pietrangelo Tuesday, Dec. 26, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesday, Dec. 27, 5:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Wednesday, Dec. 27, 8 p.m.

Hi-Tone

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David Collins & Frog Squad Thursday, Dec. 21, 6-9 p.m.; Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney & David Collins Frog Squad Thursday, Dec. 21, 8-11 p.m.; Marc Chando & Jerry Has No Skates Friday, Dec. 22, 9 p.m.; Hope Clayborn & the Soul Scrimmage Saturday, Dec. 23, 10 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesday, Dec. 27, 6-8 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

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GT, Lady Legs Thursday, Dec.

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Natalie James and the Professor Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-3

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Murphy’s St. John Thursday, Dec. 21; 40 Watt Moon Saturday, Dec. 23.

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P&H Cafe

The Bluff

1532 MADISON 726-0906

535 S. HIGHLAND

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

The Phoenix

East Memphis

1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

The Phoenix Blues Jam Tuesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

Railgarten

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

2160 CENTRAL

Dale Watson Wednesday, Dec. 20, 9 p.m.; Snowglobe Holiday Show Saturday, Dec. 23, 8 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke with Public Record Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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

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

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

Jason Isbell Friday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Blues Jam hosted by Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; EMN (Every Mother’s Nightmare) Friday, Dec. 22, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Twin Soul Saturday, Dec. 23, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Mic Night and Steak Night Tuesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.

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Circuit Playhouse

The Santaland Diaries, with a healthy dose of sarcasm and snark, Crumpet manages to reveal the shortcomings of the hustle and bustle surrounding the holidays while reminding us of the true meaning of the season. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $25-$40. Thurs.Sat., 8 p.m. Through Dec. 23. Junie B. Jones, The Musical, adaptation of four of Barbara Park’s best-selling books brought to life in a genuinely comical musical. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $25-$40. Sat., Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs., Fri., 7 p.m. Through Dec. 23. 51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Playhouse on the Square

Peter Pan, life will never be the same for Michael, John, and Wendy Darling after Peter Pan visits their nursery window offering to take them to the magical world of Neverland. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $25-$40. Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m., and Fridays, 7 p.m. Through Dec. 31. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

A Christmas Carol, www. theatrememphis.org. $30. Through Dec. 23. 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

Universal Parenting Place December 21-27, 2017

PlayBack Memphis, bringing

stories to life in a safe space to unlock healing, transformation, and joy. Families welcome. (207-3694), Free. Third Thursday of every month, 4:30-6 p.m.

Drew & Ellie Holcomb at the Orpheum Theatre, Friday, December 22nd

Galleries and gardens will be open late. Featuring light refreshments, entertainment, and a cash bar. Free with admission. Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW. DIXON.ORG.

p.m. Through Dec. 24. PARK PLACE CENTER, 1215 RIDGEWAY (260-7486), WWW. WINTERARTSMEMPHIS.ORG.

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Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“Desert to Delta: Saudi Contemporary Art in Memphis,” exhibition by 20 artists and a video artist collective from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. www.memphis.edu/amum. Through Jan. 6, 2018. “Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection. Ongoing.

Casting Demonstration

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

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

ANF Architects

Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.

Sonnet Contest

Shelby County students are invited to submit their original composition for Rhodes College’s inaugural Sonnet Contest. Winners will receive a prize book and have their poem published. Submit by email, yearwoodl@rhodes.edu. Through March 2, 2018.

“Flying Colors,” exhibition of works by Sally Hughes Smith. www.anafa.com. Through Jan. 12, 2018. 1500 UNION (278-6868).

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

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

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“Stargazer Garden” Flower-Folding

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Stop by and fold a paper flower for collaborative art installation. Mondays-Fridays, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE (FORMERLY SEARS CROSSTOWN), N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

WinterArts

Unique hand-crafted work by regional artists including a stellar collection of holiday gift ideas crafted in glass, metal, wood, fiber, and clay, plus jewelry and more. Sun., 12-5 p.m., Fri., 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Thurs., 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Mon.-Wed., Sat., 10 a.m.-6

“Christmas in Memphis,” exhibition of photos. www. memphislibrary.org. Through Jan. 6, 2018. 3030 POPLAR (415-2700).

Bingham and Broad

“My Kin Is Not Like Yours,” exhibition of works by Debra Edge. Ongoing. 2563 BROAD (323-3008).

Crosstown Concourse

“Art/Race/Violence: A Collaborative Response,” exhibition of multidisciplinary art in collaboration with visual culture

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CALENDAR: DECEMBER 21 - 27 continued from page 24 historian Dr. Earnestine Jenkins and artist Richard Lou. www.crosstownarts.org. Through Jan. 14, 2018. “Lavender’s Landscape,” exhibition of latex and urethane on panel, triptych large works by Anthony Lee. www.crosstownarts.org. Through Jan. 14, 2018. N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

“Angst,” exhibition of painted photographs by Catherine Erb. www.davidluskgallery.com. Through Dec. 23. 97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Isabelle de Borchgrave: Fashioning Art from Paper,” exhibition of recreated historic fashions. www.dixon.org. Through Jan. 7, 2018. “Boukay,” exhibition of mixed-media works by Justin Bowles. www.dixon.org. Through Jan. 7, 2018. 4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Skyward,” exhibition of ceramics and oil by Melissa Bridgman and Martha Kelly. www.eclectic-eye.com. Through Dec. 29. 242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing. 985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Fratelli’s

“From My Garden and Other Places by Zoe Nadal”, www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Jan. 3, 2018.

and illustration combined creating brightly colored cartoon style imagery. www.metalmuseum.org. Through Jan. 14, 2018. 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Overton Park Gallery

“Visual Poetry: Mundane Made Magical,” exhibition of photography by Jenn Billy Brandt. www.overtonparkgallery.com. Through Dec. 29.

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“Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. Ongoing. 826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

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“Passages,” exhibition of landscapes by Robert Malone. (662-234-9090). Through Jan. 6, 2018.

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“Wild in the City: Animals Real and Imagined,” exhibition of assemblages and paintings by Angi Cooper. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. Through Dec. 31. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

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Debra Edge Art. Ongoing. 99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

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“Man Finds Meteorites in His Yard (This Is Planet Earth),” exhibition of new works by Josef Bull. Through Jan. 12, 2018. 151 MADISON (340-0134).

Trezevant Manor Art Gallery

Artists’ Link Group Exhibition, through Jan. 4, 2018. 177 N. HIGHLAND (325-4000).

“From Grandma’s Attic to Now,” exhibition of needlework by the Memphis Chapter of the Embroiderer’s Guild of America. www.stgchurch.org. Through Dec. 31.

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“The Paper Show,” exhibition of new work on paper by Roy Tamboli, Mary Long, Nathan Yoakum, Pam Cobb, Juan Rojo, Jay Etkin, Stephanie Brody-Lederman, and others. Through Jan. 15, 2018.

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“Love of Art” and “Memphis,” exhibition of work by Nikki Gardner and Debra Edge by appointment only. (647-9242). Ongoing. 639 MARSHALL (679-6837).

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“Coming to America: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach, 1914-1945,” exhibition of sculptures. www.brooksmuseum.org. Through Jan. 7, 2018. “About Face,” exhibition located in the Education Gallery highlighting the different ways artists interpret the connection between emotion and expression. www.brooksmuseum.org. Ongoing. “Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis,” exhibition of works inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in southeastern Nigeria by Victor Ekpuk. www. brooksmuseum.org. Ongoing. 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

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“Everyday Objects: The evolution and innovations of Joseph Anderson,” exhibition of works by artist-blacksmith and sculptor highlighting utensils and functional objects. www.metalmuseum.org. Through April 22, 2018. Master Metalsmith: David Secrest, exhibition by sculptor and blacksmith well known for his incorporation of textures and patterns in forged iron, fabricated steel and bronze sculptures, and furniture. www.metalmuseum.org. Through Dec. 31. “The Tributaries: Zachery Lechtenberg,” exhibition of enameling techniques applied to jewelry

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Students can reenact the historic “I Am A Man” photograph as part of MLK50 Campaign. School representatives must call the museum to schedule sessions. Through Dec. 31. ERNEST WITHERS COLLECTION GALLERY & MUSEUM, 333 BEALE (523-2344), WWW.THEWITHERSCOLLECTION.COM.

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Show of support for The Peanut Shop, 4305 Summer Avenue, closing at the end of the year. Scheduled when school lets out so that kids of kids who enjoyed the Shop can have their day too. Fri., Dec. 22, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

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s women across the country publicly opened up about harassment and assaults by politicians, actors, and news personalities, I cracked open Manhattan Beach, the new novel from Jennifer Egan. And there it was in black-and-white: the systematic belittling of women harkening back to a time when the phrase “boys will be boys” might have been coined. Who says fiction is fake? Who says novels are mere fantasy? The fiction writer casts an eye on society with a perception — and with the advantage of time and space — like few others can. Anna Kerrigan works in a Brooklyn Naval yard during World War II, inspecting the delicate instrumentation that will find its way into the battleships under construction around her. She relishes feeling useful and her newfound sense of freedom, but craves more. When she happens upon a training exercise for Navy divers, she sets her sights on the task. It was a time that saw unprecedented independence for and dependence upon women as they went to work doing the jobs men had occupied before shipping off to war. Despite such reliance, the respect offered these women was fleeting. Egan writes: “ . . . unmarried girls didn’t live alone — unless they were a different sort of girl, which Anna was not. What would the neighbors think? Who would meet her at the end of each day? Fix her breakfast and supper? Suppose an intruder climbed in from the fire escape? Suppose she fell sick or got hurt?” The third-person omniscient narrator’s insistence on using “girl” instead of “woman” throughout underscores how resistant society was to granting respect. Even as Anna is begrudgingly allowed on the diving team, “most of her assignments had this air of the domestic.” Based on the description of Anna in marketing materials — “She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war” — Manhattan Beach is not the story I was expecting. But that’s my fault and what I

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brought to the book, rather than any fault of Egan’s masterful storytelling. What we’ve come to expect in fiction is a revolution, a Norma Rae moment that turns the tide of an unacceptable social norm. In this case, Anna would’ve changed the thinking and ways of her superiors at the Naval yard, the men she worked alongside, her neighborhood, and her family. But Egan tells a far more real story. While the geopolitics of the world evolved during WWII, the world of women and minorities in the United States did not. Responsibility and respect were fleeting. Anna’s father is a low-level member of a crime syndicate and constantly on the hunt for a better way to care for his family. Her mother was on the road to fame as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies before children came along. Anna’s sister, Lydia, was born with a birth defect and is dependent on others. The fate of the Kerrigan family is tugged, unknowingly, by the strings of syndicate boss Dexter Styles. Her father goes missing and Anna becomes the first female diver, and this is when a habitual reader of fiction, a consumer of storytelling, might expect her world to change. But it doesn’t because real life doesn’t turn so quickly. Families still struggle to care for those with special needs, and women still struggle for equality. In this way, Egan tells a very real story and one we’re not used to reading in fiction — there is no pretty bow on a neatly wrapped package. In 2010, female authors, including Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Weiner, lamented the attention lavished on their white, male counterparts (in particular Jonathan Franzen), while women went largely unheralded. The following year, Egan won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her second novel, the experimental A Visit From the Good Squad. Since then, only one woman, Donna Tartt (The Goldfinch) has won. (In fairness, no winner was named in 2012, though Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! was a runner-up.) Is a woman due? Will Manhattan Beach be the next as Egan’s second? We’ll find out next year. Until then, the story remains the same, and the struggle persists.

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A Real Gem The High Point Pub is 70.

dead pecker table, where a group of septuagenarians used to hang out as they waited for their turn at the barber shop next door. The barber would bang on the wall to let them know when he was ready for another of them to come over and get their nose hairs trimmed. Fun fact: There also used to be a secret door in the wall to pass beers from the bar to the barber shop, which is probably why your grandpa ended up with that sweet fade in 1971. One owner, Jerry, grew up in Milwaukee, where every neighborhood had a bar like the High Point Pub. When he discovered the Pub here in Memphis, he knew he was home. “It’s like Cheers,” he says, which is the best compliment you can give a bar, as any of us with a favorite haunt know. The bar has 57 (or 58, depending on who you ask) beers available, which is quite an assortment for a bar the size of a living room.

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The Force Is Strong With This One The Last Jedi is epic filmmaking at its most humane.

n his review of The Phantom Menace, Roger Ebert wrote “I wish the Star Wars characters spoke with more elegance and wit (as Gore Vidal’s Greeks and Romans do), but dialogue isn’t the point, anyway: These movies are about new things to look at.” Ebert gave The Phantom Menace 3 ½ stars. Had he been around to review The Last Jedi, he would have had to add several more stars to his scoring system. Ebert, like everyone, was dazzled by the visuals, which heralded the maturation of CGI. But the elemental, mythological storytelling that had made Star Wars a cultural phenomenon in 1977 was missing, the dialogue was awful, and the acting ranged into the embarrassing. The Last Jedi feels like the fulfillment of missed potential. It is the most visually stunning of the eight Star Wars films, the characters speak with the elegance and wit that Ebert wanted, and the acting is outstanding. It is exciting, funny, cute, tense, melancholy, smart, goofy, unexpected, and occasionally profound.

Writer/director Rian Johnson, whose 2005 debut film Brick is an indie classic, is a first-generation Star Wars geek skilled and clear-eyed enough to craft a universal story. His eye for composition is in the same league as Spielberg and Hitchcock, creating mathematically precise frames without succumbing to Kubrickian coldness. He’s not afraid to swoop the camera around, but there’s a reason for every movement. Where The Last Jedi exceeds all previous Star Wars movies is the use of color. Deep reds, lustrous golds, and vibrant greens reflect and reinforce the characters’ emotions. In the tradition of the 1930s sci-fi serials that inspired Star Wars, Johnson’s screenplay is full of red herrings, hairpin reversals, and betrayal. He was given too large a cast and too complex a situation, and he left the story better and tidier than he found it. Ebert’s Phantom Menace review closes with: “I’ve seen space operas that put their emphasis on human personalities and relationships. They’re called Star Trek movies. Give me transparent underwater cities and vast hollow senatorial spheres

Most of the audience’s tears are reserved for Carrie Fisher (above) as General Leia Organa. any day.” The Last Jedi delivers on both fronts in a way Abrams’ nü-Trek simply doesn’t. Not all actors in The Last Jedi are created equal, but Johnson enabled everyone to give their best. Daisy Ridley’s physicality carried her through The Force Awakens; here, she’s relaxed and playful, even if her default mode is still “scary intensity.” Oscar Isaac stretches out into Poe Dameron, filling the Harrison Ford-shaped hole in the cast. John Boyega’s Finn is unleashed with a new partner, Rose (Kelly Marie Tran). Their subplot bounces them off Benicio Del Toro as DJ, one of the shady underworld figures that Star Wars loves. The biggest lesson the Marvel and DC teams can learn from The Last Jedi is that you need quality villains to make epic stories work. Johnson’s excellent script gives Adam Driver the juiciest role, and he grabs it with both hands. Caught between Supreme Leader Snoke, Andy Serkis’

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