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Is Donald Trump trying to win my vote? I ask because the Orange One has been making some statements lately that are almost, well, progressive. Most notable was his recent attack on the most holy of Republican shibboleths, that “George W. Bush kept us safe” from terrorism during his presidency. Trump contended, as have many Democrats and liberals since 2001, that Bush shouldn’t get a pass on the 9/11 attacks, because he was warned repeatedly about Osama bin Laden’s plans to strike the U.S. and ignored them. As Trump put it: “That’s [like saying] the other team scored 19 runs in the first inning, but after that, we played well. I don’t think so.” Zing. In last Saturday night’s debate, Trump also defended Planned Parenthood, saying that the organization does some “good things for women’s health.” You could almost see the other GOP candidates’ heads explode. Trump is the honey badger candidate. He really doesn’t give a sh*t. And therein lies his power, as the GOP party establishment is discovering, much to its horror. A lot of folks aren’t buying the usual party lines this year. Things aren’t much different on the Democratic side, as maverick social democrat Bernie Sanders continues to disrupt Hillary Clinton’s second preordained waltz to that party’s nomination. The fiesty septuagenarian is winning votes from a coalition of old hippies, social leftists, and perhaps most surprisingly, young people. But it really isn’t that surprising when you remember that a major plank in Bernie’s platform is free tuition at public universities. This message resonates powerfully for the millions of twenty-somethings who’ve left college with a massive tuition-loan debt hanging over their lives. It remains to be seen whether Trump and Sanders can sustain momentum through the eight-month slog of primaries ahead, but it’s not unprecedented for a candidate from the far wings of either party to grab the nomination. Barry Goldwater carried the flag for GOP ultra-conservatives in 1964 and got trounced by Lyndon Johnson. The pendulum swung the other way in 1972, as left-wing Democrats threw the nomination to George McGovern, who got destroyed by Richard Nixon. The American electorate usually breaks to the center. But there could be another dynamic in play. Trump flirted again this week with running as a third-party candidate if the GOP didn’t “treat him fairly.” You don’t have to go too far back in history to see how that development can alter a presidential election: See Ross Perot, N EWS & O P I N I O N LETTERS - 4 circa 1992, or Ralph Nader, circa 2000. THE TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE - 4 Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were THE FLY-BY - 6 the beneficiaries of those quixotic ego SPORTS - 10 trips. POLITICS - 12 EDITORIAL - 14 It’s still possible, of course, that both VIEWPOINT - 15 parties will eventually pick a “safe” COVER STORY candidate, which could lead to another “MAKING A PRESIDENT” Bush vs. Clinton race. (Please, no.) But BY JACKSON BAKER - 16 it’s also possible that we could get a STE P P I N’ O UT WE RECOMMEND - 20 contest between Sanders and Trump, MUSIC - 22 which would be equal parts mindAFTER DARK - 26 boggling, entertaining, and terrifying. THEATER - 30 Super Tuesday is only two weeks ART - 31 CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 32 away. If you want to have a say in the FOOD - 38 electoral process, please vote. The stakes FILM - 41 have seldom been higher. Or weirder. THE LAST WORD - 47 Bruce VanWyngarden C L AS S I F I E D S - 43 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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Letters and comments from Flyer readers About Chris Davis’ post, “Memphis Zoo’s Tiger Says He Isn’t Sorry” … I blame the parents. Jeff Watching the slow-speed chase on CNN right now, with Mohan in a white Bronco. I think a zebra is driving him. Dave Clancy

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About Jackson Baker’s post, “Bill Clinton Touts His Wife’s Virtues in Memphis” … That big blue arrow on Hillary’s logo, sticking out there horizontally, looks suspiciously like a piece of Bill’s anatomy in a blue dress. An unfortunate choice. OakTree

I think part of the problem is forcing the cats to mate in such a confined setting. If only there were a large open green space adjacent to the zoo … CL Mullins About Jackson Baker’s post, “Trump’s No Pussy” … Who is doing the most celebrating for Bernie Sanders’ big win in New Hampshire? Republicans are ecstatic. They know that Sanders could not win in November; any Republican nominee could beat him and his socialist pie-in-the-sky ideas. That one word, “socialist,” has doomed Bernie Sanders’ chances of winning, and Republicans would make sure by crucifying him as “socialist.” Why can’t Democrats figure this out? Lowell Robbins

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About Lesley Young’s food column, “Mardi Gras in Memphis” … How can you have a story on Memphis Mardi Gras food without mentioning a place that’s called Mardi Gras? Located at Cleveland and Galloway in Edited by Will Shortz No. 0416 Crossword 40 Chicken ACROSS 64 Flower parts that 1 to2remind3 me of old 4 Crosstown, 5 6 7 8 the most 9 10 Bill Clinton is starting Mardi Gras has 33 How the Across 56 One of several ACROSS preference? open to release answers appear at a toll plaza man Herbert on Family Guy. authentic Louisiana home cooking north 1 Die 1(out) Rule ending in the bottomin 57 Search hard half of this 6 Pro ___ 15of the border! 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HAI R TO DAY... It’s like the old saying goes. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people. With guns. To steal weaves, wigs, and hair extensions. Last Wednesday, two thieves wearing dark ski masks shot and killed the manager at Bundles of Hair on Millbranch. Bundles of Hair is a “virgin human hair” dealership, and instead of stealing money, the culprits drove off with a box of small, unmarked hairpieces. The encounter is the latest in a series of deadly hair-related crimes. It comes only a month after 18-year-old Shelby Isaac shot and killed EJ Tate and his pregnant girlfriend Edwina Thomas. Tate ran the company VirginHair4US.com, and bags of human hair valued at up to $200 each have been listed as a possible motive for the homicide. In a follow-up to TV reports about the Bundles of Hair shooting, Commercial Appeal reporter Yolanda Jones noted that thieves have stolen between $12,000 and $15,000 worth of fancy Brazilian weaves from Frayser wig store Beauty and Beyond in the past year. That just seems a lot of trouble and tragedy for something that’s just going to end up tumbling down the sidewalk anyway.

VE R BATI M Fly on the Wall is calling for a moratorium on all descriptions of Bill Clinton as America’s first black president since: a) it’s always been a silly thing to say, and b) according to Clinton himself, that honor probably belongs to some other white guy, maybe even George Washington. From Clinton’s recent visit to Memphis: “The other thing I want to make a funny comment about is Steve Cohen’s remark that I was just a stand-in for the first black president. … We learned that unless your ancestors, every one of you, are 100 percent from sub-Saharan Africa, we are all mixed-race people.” The comment earned applause, so take that historical relevance! By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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A look into the life of Memphis comic strip artist and illustrator Greg Cravens. If you’ve ever picked up fried chicken at Jack Pirtle’s, requested a maze or crossword puzzle for your kid at Shoney’s, or seen the balloons depicting a top hat with shoes in front of a Jim Keras car dealership on Covington Pike, you’re familiar with the work of cartoonist Greg Cravens. In fact, you probably see Cravens’ work every week in this very paper. Cravens illustrates the Flyer’s “What They Said” column, and he occasionally creates graphics for the cover. He’s been working with the Flyer on a freelance basis since the paper was founded in 1989. But Cravens’ work extends across the city (and even the globe). Cravens illustrates and authors the syndicated comic strip The Buckets, which runs in about 40 papers across the globe, including papers in Australia and Thailand. He’s the guy who designed the Jack Pirtle’s logo, boxes, and cups, and years ago, he created the iconic top-hat-with-eyes “Mayor of Covington Pike” logo. For years, he drew the Shoney Bear in that restaurant chain’s children’s activity books. He used to draw the Piggly Wiggly pig in the former Memphis-based grocery chain’s line of children’s books. He illustrates Homewood Suites’ line of children’s books that are sold in their hotel gift shops.

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He’s designed comic books for Backyard Burgers. He’s created artwork for the Peabody. His work is everywhere. In the past couple of weeks, he wrapped up work on two murals. One depicts a wine cellar inside the new Pinot’s Palette location in Cordova. And the other mural is for the birds — literally. Cravens painted the Memphis skyline and the marshy Mississippi River inside The Peabody’s duck enclosure on the hotel rooftop.

Q&A with Cassie Smith Ellis Member of a local family to appear on Family Feud

Cassie Ellis (left) with family and Steve Harvey

Steve Harvey isn’t terrifying, says Cassie Smith Ellis. In fact, he’s pretty easygoing. Ellis and four of her Tennessee relatives (two of whom — Natalie and Ryan Jeans — are from Memphis) recently competed on the long-running televised game show Family Feud. The episode airs on February 19th at 2 p.m. on WHBQ, and Ellis was barred from giving away too many details. Ellis did, however, tell the Flyer that despite the pressure of having to think on her feet, the show was a rewarding experience. And she said Harvey, the broad-grinning comedian and host of the show, offered an array of “teachable” moments. — Joshua Cannon Flyer: How did the opportunity to be on the show come about? Cassie Smith: [My cousin] heard there was an audition in Nashville. We were the first contestants of the day [at the audition]. Immediately after we got off of the stage from the mock Family Feud, they called us right back to meet the producers. They just wanted to know about our

personalities and a little more about us. How did you prepare for the auditions? We watched a lot of Family Feud. We downloaded apps on our phones and played the games together. We just kept our minds wrapped around the whole concept of the show

But Cravens would rather be illustrating comic strips or newspaper articles. “Murals are not my thing,” Cravens says. His primary thing is The Buckets, a comic strip about a family with “two boys, a dog, and a mortgage.” It ran in The Commercial Appeal for years until it was suddenly dropped without explanation a few years back. “They ran it until they dropped six cartoons from the paper, and mine was one of those,” Cravens said. The Buckets was created by cartoonist Scott Stantis in the early 1990s, but Stantis handed the baton to Cravens in 2000, when Stantis’ kids — the inspiration for the comic — grew up. Cravens had two young kids at the time, and thanks to a background in advertising illustration, he was skilled in mimicking the styles of other artists. He was able to draw The Buckets characters in Stantis’ style for several years before adding a few tweaks in his own style. He also authors and illustrates his own webcomic called Hubris (http:// hubriscomics.com), which highlights all the outdoorsy things Cravens wishes he was doing — bike riding, skateboarding, rock climbing, kayaking. “I started Hubris so I could own something when I sell books at [cartoonist] conventions or sell sketches or doodles. When I started doing The Buckets, syndicates still owned all the work. Later, creator rights kicked in, and you can now copyright it with your name. So The Buckets is mine now too,” Cravens said. Cravens began his work as a cartoonist when he was just 14 years old. And, as he tells it, he’s been leaving a trail of destruction ever since. “When I was 14, I got my first comic strip in the newspaper. It was a little weekly newspaper in Jackson, Tennessee,” Cravens says. “Three weeks later, the newspaper folded. I went off to Opryland and did caricatures when I was 16 or 17. When I left, they shut it down and turned it into a shopping mall. “Then I went off to Memphis State and got a graphic design degree. I left there, and they changed the name of the university on me. Having left that trail of destruction, I went into advertising, thinking there’s an industry that needs a good kneecapping. You can’t kill advertising, so I went back into comic strips, and you see where newspapers are now.” In the next few months, Cravens will be turning his attention to the 70th Annual National Cartoonists Society Reuben Awards — “like our Oscars,” he says — which will be held in Memphis on Memorial Day weekend. Hundreds of cartoonists will be flying into the city to attend the show, and Cravens has entered some work to be considered for a nomination.

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Do you have a memorable experience from meeting Steve Harvey? He’s very easygoing actually. He’s comedic and liked to joke with the audience a lot. It was like he was part of the family. He would give advice to the audience as a whole. He would have a teachable moment where he would tell about his life and things he had gone through. What was the most challenging aspect of the show? Thinking on your feet — if you have so many answers on the board and your family has gone through them, if you’re here, and all of your answers have been called out. It’s hard to think on the spot to get something a little different from what [was already] said. Are there any other game shows you’d like to be on now that you’ve got Family Feud on your resume? I’ve always wanted to be on Whammy. I’ve watched it since I was little.

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What was your favorite aspect of being on the show? We got to be a part of the studio audience as well. There is a guy who comes on before Steve Harvey to get everyone warmed up. Throughout the whole show, even while we were in the audience before it started, there was always singing and dancing. We were clapping or we were yelling and chanting something. It was a lot of fun. But meeting Steve Harvey was what topped it off.

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“There is opposition to my bill that says we are overturning the will of the voters in Nashville, and, in fact, we are overturning the wishes of the voters in Nashville,” Johnson said during the Senate’s Commerce and Labor committee last week. “I would submit to you that there are thousands and thousands of people living in my district and other areas around Nashville, and they didn’t have an opportunity to vote on whether or not they would be allowed to work on jobs that are contracted by Metro Nashville.” Nashville’s local-hire amendment is against state law, according to an opinion issued by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slattery III. Once contractors are licensed by the state, he said, no municipality can put additional requirements upon them. If passed, Johnson’s bill would allow any company to bid on municipal construction jobs, but local governments would still have the right to score those bids and approve those bids however they like. Still, Memphis City Council members Berlin Boyd, Edmund Ford, Jr., and Martavius Jones see the bill as a state imposition on a local government’s control of its business. The three council members urged the defeat of the bill, which they say would undermine a local government’s right to boost jobs within its own borders. The three filed a resolution that was scheduled to be reviewed by the full council Tuesday. The resolution said the city of Memphis and other municipalities have a “compelling interest” in developing

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business and workforces within their boundaries, citing the recent Shelby County study that found only about 41 percent of county contracts were awarded to county businesses. Memphis already has a local preference ordinance on the books. Since 2005, local businesses have been favored by law in most city contracts. However, that mandate is not as strong as the local-hire amendment passed in Nashville last year. “The local preference ordinance has been absolutely necessary, and we need it to continue to tackle issues such as poverty and job creation,” said Ford, the council’s vice-chairman.

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State lawmakers want to tell local governments who they have to consider for construction jobs, and three members of the Memphis City Council are fighting back. In August, 58 percent of Nashville voters elected to change that city’s charter to say that 40 percent of the hours done on construction jobs contracted by the city government must be done by residents of Metro Nashville, which includes all of Davidson County. The local-hire amendment was proposed to create jobs for Davidson County residents on taxpayer-funded projects. Nashville Mayor Megan Barry is readying a workforce training program to help residents there get prepared for those jobs. But last week, state Senator Jack Johnson (R-Franklin) proposed a bill to nullify Nashville’s charter amendment saying it discriminates against certain companies and pits counties against each other.

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Grizzlies at the Break A troubled season will tell us much about how the organization reacts to adversity.

t’s been an interesting season for the Memphis Grizzlies. From the rough start — which included the only 50-point loss in franchise history — to Marc Gasol’s likely season-ending broken foot against Portland, it seems the season has been a progression of obstacles. No doubt the Gasol injury now casts the season — its goals, its methods for getting there, its ultimate value in a Western Conference where there’s very little doubt as to who will emerge victorious — in a new light. Coming as it did right before the All-Star Break, the prospect of playing out the stretch without the team’s best player provides maybe the ultimate opportunity for evaluating, for taking stock.

The Foot of the Spaniard There’s no question that Marc Gasol had been struggling this year. It’s been one of the worst seasons of his career, with a

defensive rating worse than any season since 2009-10. And yet, he’s had some of the best single games of his career. A new career scoring mark, several 30-point games, the first triple-double by a Grizzly since his older brother did it, and some huge plays in close games. When I talked to Gasol during the preseason for a Memphis magazine profile, he said team practice was the first time he’d played basketball all summer. I think he thought he could play his way into shape, taking it easy at the front of the season in order to be in his best shape at the end of it. That’s not how conditioning works, though. Going from “no work” to “trying to play the same way I always do” is a guaranteed recipe for fatigue, for injury, and for strain, and Gasol’s movements on the court had been labored since the first night. That’s not what you want from a 31-year-old in the first year of a five-year, $110 million deal.

In the short term, a Griz team that was already a little light in the frontcourt — with a rotation that Dave Joerger was already leaning on Ryan Hollins to bolster — is now even lighter and will have to rely on either Hollins to play productive minutes or JaMychal Green to 1) be played by Joerger and 2) keep his foul rate down during the minutes he gets. Given that this is a team with a long history of deep playoff runs and that just about every player on the team is playing below his career averages, it’s still entirely possible that they make the playoffs, albeit as a seventh or eighth seed. But it’s also possible that they just can’t play .500 ball without Gasol, and that some of the other teams around the middle of the substantially weaker West get it together just in time to push them into the lottery. I hope this injury puts to bed forever whatever notion Gasol has that he has to play through every injury. Sometimes doing the right thing means missing two

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or three games so you don’t miss two or three months. He and Mike Conley both have been playing through injuries big and small for years now, and there’s no question that it’s probably cost both of them years off their careers. But this is the first example (that we know of) of one of them playing on an injury, aggravating it, and missing serious time that he might not have, otherwise. Going forward, it’s important for the training staff, the players, and the coach to be on the same page about this stuff. “If Marc Gasol says he can play, he’s going to play” isn’t going to cut it anymore. Ah, Trade Deadline. Ah, Humanity! The interesting wrinkle to the Gasol injury is that it’s happened just before the trade deadline. It’s no secret that the Grizzlies would like to see if they can turn some of their expiring contracts into some sort of future asset. Between Jeff Green, Courtney Lee, Matt Barnes, a partially-guaranteed

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G R I Z Z L I E S AT T H E B R E A K Vince Carter, Mario Chalmers, and (well, it’s got to be said) Mike Conley, the Griz have a lot to work with here. In the interests of preserving this season, though, it’s probably safe to say that Conley, Barnes, and Chalmers are off the table, so that leaves Green, Lee, and Carter as the most likely expiring deals being shopped. Expiring contracts aren’t worth as much with the cap projected to rise dramatically this summer, and since the Grizzlies have been holding their own as of late (albeit against weaker competition than at the start of the season), the front office is probably more likely than not to hold on to what they’ve got, unless they can persuade another GM into giving up draft picks for a player on an expiring deal. Conventional wisdom among some of the NBA commentariat is that the Gasol injury provides the Griz all the reason they need to look for a deal for Conley that nets them young players on long contracts. I get the argument, but I think that’s a worse and riskier alternative than re-signing Conley to the right deal and absolutely not what the Grizzlies are interested in doing. What About the Draft Pick(s)? Because of the trade made in 2012-13 that sent Marreese Speights, Wayne Ellington, Josh Selby, and a pick to the Cavaliers in exchange for Jon Leuer

(remember JONNY BASKETBALL?), a salary dump that cleared the way (ostensibly) for a better Rudy Gay trade, the Grizzlies owe their first round pick to the Denver Nuggets this year if it is higher than 5th but lower than 15th. Basically, if the Grizzlies are horrible or make the playoffs, they get to keep their draft pick this season. If the pick doesn’t convey this season, it’s likely to next year when it’s only top five protected.

Sometimes doing the right thing means missing two or three games ... “If Marc Gasol says he can play, he’s going to play” isn’t going to cut it anymore. Because of the Jeff Green deal, the Grizzlies also find themselves owing Boston a pick that can’t be conveyed until two seasons after the Denver pick conveys. Granted, I don’t think they’re worried about whether it conveys in 2018, 2019, or 2020 at this point, but it is on the radar. From everything I’ve gathered, the Griz have no intention of tanking to miss the

playoffs. They want to make the playoffs, keep the pick, and get a quality guy on a rookie contract for next year to add to their growing roster of young guys (Jordan Adams, Jarell Martin, and James Ennis). There also seems to be a fear that a pick in 2017 will cost them a lot more money than a 2016 rookie contract because of changes to the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement (CBA). I’ve heard that from more than one Griz executive, and they seem pretty confident that they can grab a player with this year’s pick. Given that if they make the playoffs, it’ll probably be as a very low seed (7th or 8th), they’ll probably be picking in the 16-20 range, and good talent is almost always available in that range. I find it very unlikely that they’ll do anything to bolster this year’s playoff odds at the expense of future cap flexibility. What all of This Means for Now I think you’re going to see the Grizzlies’ — the players’, I mean — backs against the wall, trying to win every game they can. They’ve been playing much better lately, even if it’s been against non-elite teams. The schedule is still fairly relaxed through the rest of February and early March, but then it ramps up again. If they can still make the playoffs, I’m not sure they’ll have much of a chance of advancing, but that was likely against the Spurs or Warriors,

even with Gasol playing. This year, from opening tip, was not going to be a championship year. The worst thing the Grizzlies could do would be to sacrifice future flexibility or ability to acquire talent in a misguided effort to make the playoffs for no real reason this year. Unless six Warriors and three Spurs break their ankles, the Western Conference title isn’t really up for grabs. I’d like to see them try to flip expiring contracts for players on rookie deals, or maybe some extra picks. If those deals aren’t there, and I don’t expect them to be, they might as well just hang on to those guys and try to keep the pick this year. No player making more than $4 million or $5 million next year is really worth the future cap space. Gasol’s injury is a weird blow to a weird year. How the Grizzlies react to it, and whether they’re able to use it to shore up their position for next season and seasons beyond will tell us a lot about the the organization’s ability to set a course and stick to it. The rest of the year should be used by everyone involved to win as many games as possible while figuring out who they want to be, and how they want to get there. Kevin Lipe writes the Flyer’s Grizzlies blog, Beyond the Arc.

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for polluting the fields and streams adjacent to his property with massive amounts of waste, nearly a million gallons of it, produced by his animals. He was also the sponsor of legislation aimed at penalizing whistleblowers who reported instances of animal cruelty. In a press release issued Friday, Holt made an effort to set himself apart from the Shelby County candidates, saying that “to me, the idea of deciding (within mere moments of hearing Congressman Fincher isn’t running for reelection) to run for Congress without truly taking the time to fall on my knees and pray to God for his guidance with family and friends seems selfentitled and reckless. I simply am not that person.” McCusker is a wholly different kind of outlier. An assistant D.A. for the past several years, he is a retired Army major whose military career was prompted by the 9/11 attacks in 2001. He served in Afghanistan as combat

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The race for the 8th Congressional District, due to be vacated following incumbent Republican Stephen Fincher’s surprise announcement of non-candidacy this year, has turned into a free-for-all on the Republican side, with controversial Republican state Representative Andy Holt joining the already full ranks of GOP hopefuls. At least one Democrat, Shelby County assistant District Attorney Michael McCusker of Germantown, has announced his interest in running for the seat, thereby serving notice that there may well be a general election contest in the district, once counted safe for Democrats but considered Republican property following the easy victory of Fincher over veteran Democrat Roy Herron in 2010, a GOP sweep year almost everywhere in Tennessee. A flood of Shelby County Republicans responded almost immediately to Fincher’s withdrawal statement, made two weeks ago. Within an hour of hearing the news, five local GOP hopefuls had their hats in the ring. In order of their announcement, these were: George Flinn, the wealthy radiologist, broadcast executive, and former Shelby County commissioner; former U.S. Attorney David Kustoff; Shelby County Register Tom Leatherwood; state Senator Brian Kelsey of Germantown; and County Commissioner Steve Basar. Of those five, three had made previous races for Congress — Flinn in both the 8th and 9th Districts and Kustoff and Leatherwood in the 7th, when that district lapped into the eastern portions of Shelby County the way the 8th does now after reapportionment. The new lines drawn after the 2010 census resulted in 55 percent of the 8th District’s population residing within Shelby County. Holt is a decided contrast to the more urbanized aspirants from Big Shelby. A pig farmer who hails from Dresden, in Northwest Tennessee, Holt has been under investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency

Holt (left); McCusker advisor to the Afghan National Army and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for Meritorious Service and the Army Commendation Medal. Upon resuming civilian status after 2006 and joining the D.A.’s staff, McCusker attempted to file for D.A. himself as a Democrat in the election of 2010 but was denied the opportunity to do so by a faction on the Shelby County Democratic executive committee that questioned his party bona fides because he had supported Republican Mitt Romney during the 2008 GOP presidential-primary process and had pulled a petition to serve as a Romney delegate at that year’s Republican National Convention. McCusker, who grew up in a Roman Catholic Democratic family in East Tennessee, would explain his flirtation with the GOP as a consequence both of his wartime service under a Republican

• As noted in this week’s cover story (“Making a President,” p. 16), Tennessee is preparing to have its say in determining the presidential nominees for both political parties, as of Tuesday, March 1st — dubbed “Super Tuesday” because of the number of states holding primaries or caucuses that day. A harbinger of what is expected to be a flurry of local activity on behalf of several campaigns was the visit to Whitehaven High School last Thursday of former president Bill Clinton, who, on behalf of the candidacy of his wife, Hillary Clinton, addressed an overflow rally of several hundred in the school’s gymnasium. On the same night that former first lady, senator, and secretary of state Clinton was tangling in a TV debate in Milwaukee with her Democratic rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, her husband was making her case in Memphis, a potential hotbed of Democratic primary votes on account of the city’s large black population. Memphis congressman Steve Cohen introduced the former President variously as “the greatest president this area has ever seen” and (reprising a onetime honorary title) as “the first black president” and (in a more accurate variation on that trope, considering Barack Obama’s later election) as “a stand-in for the first black president.” The point was that both Clintons had developed important connections with black voters over the years, and a large part of Bill Clinton’s mission in Memphis was to demonstrate that, even on populist issues where Sanders’ campaign might have obvious appeal to African Americans, Hillary Clinton’s positions were equally compelling, if not superior.

quoted Lyndon Johnson on the notion that anyone spurning “half a loaf ” solutions is someone “who’s never been hungry.” Clinton spent considerable time demonstrating his wife’s commitments to criminal justice reform and her intercessions, going as far back as her time in Arkansas, against federal funding for white-only schools. He touted her as able to “stand her ground” on principle and “seek common ground” on issues, noting that she was able to team up with former Republican House leader Tom DeLay on legislation facilitating post-infant

adoptions. As Hillary Clinton herself has done of late, the former president made efforts to endorse the actions of the Obama presidency and to associate her with the president’s accomplishments, which are “far greater than he’s been given credit for.” Her goal was to make “the American dream” available to everybody, to people of all races, classes, and stations in life — “Yes, we can,” he said, invoking a well-known Obama phrase — and the course of her life, he proclaimed, had been one of “always making something good happen.”

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commander-in-chief and his sympathy with Mormon Romney as a member of a religious minority. He accepted his temporary banishment from the Democratic ticket in good grace and was rewarded with a position on the party’s ballot in 2014, when he ran unsuccessfully for Criminal Court clerk. Here he is again, considering both a personal comeback try and one for his party, which has been diminished to the point of near-extinction in Tennessee, except in Memphis and Nashville. As McCusker put it in a statement released over the weekednd, “At this time, I am exploring whether or not we can conduct a campaign that meets the needs of the hardworking people of the 8th Congressional District. Ultimately, my decision will be to do what is in the best interests of the constituents and my family.”

The former president argued that his wife’s means-based plan for reducing tuition costs in college was more realistic than Sanders’ call for universal free tuition, and contended further that her proposals to build upon the already existing Affordable Care Act was economically feasible, while the Vermonter’s espousal of “Medicare for all” was not. He cited Hillary Clinton’s jobs proposals, coupled with stout raises in the minimum wage, as commonsense solutions to a stagnant consumer economy in which “somebody’s got to earn something to buy something.” He

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(in every sense of that metaphor). Memphis has had the sad experience, within the last year, of prominent cases involving life-threatening and even life-ending violence by citizens against police and the converse, of police against citizens. And it scarcely reduces the anxieties that have been aroused that these instances, as has been the case elsewhere, are not simple cases of black versus white. There has arisen a fundamental distrust between the supposed guardians of civic law and order and the host population which, in theory, is being protected by the police. As it happens, blacks are likely to be on both sides of the dividing line between victims and perps, and so are whites. Further complicating the issue is the increasing danger of organized terrorist activity, which, by its very nature, can happen anywhere — not just in Paris or San Bernardino. And where it happens, these outbreaks clearly require the existence of police responders — SWAT teams or the equivalent — capable of suppressing them. That need runs directly counter to an argument, equally wellreasoned, that urban police units have in our time become too militarized in equipment and attitude, and need to be reduced to a more human scale, less provocative to the communities they serve. In short, the problem is complicated. One of the answers that is increasingly put forward — again, here as elsewhere — is for there to

be a systematic use of body cameras for police so as to provide a record of police-citizen interactions for the mutual protection of both. It is no accident that body-cam footage of a street youth’s death in Chicago, once pried loose from attempts at suppression by city authorities, turned out to incriminate the officers on the scene — and to place the mayor of that city, Rahm Emanuel, in direct jeopardy of losing his job. But, as was reported on the Flyer’s website Tuesday by reporter Toby Sells, there will be further delays in the city’s employment of the 1,700 or so body cameras it has acquired for the Memphis Police Department’s force of around 2,000 active officers. Last fall, in the hurly-burly of a city mayoral campaign, the prospect of putting the cameras to immediate practical use was made to seem possible. Now, according to MPD officials, the city will have to appropriate money to hire 10 part-time video analysts to review body-cam footage before it can be made public. And there are likely to be even more prohibitive delays and training regimens and costs over the long haul before an effective program will be truly up and running. “We’re not there yet,” MPD interim director Michael Rallings said. We hear that. But we would advise both the department and the Memphis City Council to act with all deliberate speed. The meter is running.

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Making Justice The Making a Murderer case illustrates the need for prosecutions in Shelby County that are ethically sound. of Professional Responsibility. Unfortunately, the misconduct being explored in the current proceedings is not isolated. This is not the first time that Weirich and senior attorneys working under her supervision have faced public censure for withholding exculpatory evidence during a murder trial. In the capital murder trial of Michael Rimmer, a judge found that senior prosecutor Tom Henderson blatantly lied to defense counsel, claiming that the state was unaware of any exculpatory evidence, even though he had evidence that a police sergeant had identified someone else as the murderer. The judge blasted Henderson, saying he “purposefully misled counsel with regard to the evidence obtained in the case.” Rimmer, who had been on death row since his conviction in 1998, was granted a new trial in 2012. A public censure was issued by the Tennessee Supreme Court against Henderson in 2013. Henderson pleaded guilty, but was only ordered to pay a fine, and still practices in Weirich’s office. Weirich has refused to discipline Henderson for this conduct.

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Federal Judge Gilbert Merritt perhaps said it best in 2008. Having presided over Shelby County cases for years, he wrote: “This set of falsehoods is typical of the conduct of the Memphis District Attorney’s office during this period.” These examples indicate that what was true of Weirich’s office in 2008 is still true. Making a Murderer has outraged people across the country, but what those of us who study wrongful convictions know is that the problems plaguing the Avery case are not extraordinary, but shockingly common. And we know that once a case has been contaminated by bad evidence or prosecutorial abuse, it’s almost impossible to find the truth, unless it’s one of the small minority of cases where newly found evidence can be subjected to DNA testing. Every jurisdiction in this country deserves prosecutions that are ethically and legally sound. The residents of Shelby County would do well to direct their concern about Making a Murderer not on Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, but on the daily realities in their own county. Daniel S. Medwed, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law.

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Making a Murderer has outraged people across the country, but people don’t seem to notice when similar concerns exist in their own communities. Shelby County is a good example. Making a Murderer is a Netflix documentary series that shines light on the questionable conviction of Steven Avery and his nephew, Brendan Dassey, for the rape and murder of Teresa Halbach. This close examination of a murder investigation and trial shows how hard it often is to know if the person accused of a murder is actually the one who did it, even when the police and prosecutors express certainty. Solving any murder is hard enough. But when evidence is gathered through dubious means and when a prosecutor disregards ethical and legal boundaries in order to secure a conviction, we cannot know if a wrongful conviction has occurred. What’s worse, such actions also obscure the evidence that might have revealed the truth. Since Making a Murderer debuted, friends have been asking me if Avery’s story is an outlier. They are surprised and angry when I tell them that unethical and illegal prosecutorial practices can contribute to injustices around the country. Shelby County is an illustrative example of how prosecutorial misconduct leads to unjust outcomes. When prosecutorial misconduct occurs, it’s typically not apparent. And even when revealed, prosecutorial misconduct is difficult to prove. It is all the more notable then that courts have found District Attorney General Amy Weirich and her office to have committed numerous injustices. Separately and together, they raise serious questions about exculpatory evidence being hidden from defendants, juror perceptions being improperly influenced, and unreasonably harsh and unjust punishments being pursued. A current example is the murder conviction of Noura Jackson. In that case, D.A. Weirich and Assistant District Attorney Stephen P. Jones failed to turn over critical exculpatory evidence to the defense until after the trial. Weirich made improper and prejudicial comments during her closing argument, imploring the defendant to tell the jury where she was that night, in flagrant violation of Jackson’s constitutional right not to testify. The missing evidence was so important and Weirich’s conduct so improper, that the Tennessee State Supreme Court unanimously overturned Jackson’s conviction and ordered a new trial. As a result, Weirich is one of the few prosecutors in the country facing public censure by a state Supreme Court’s Board

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New Hampshire thinned the ranks of Democrats and Republicans. As Super Tuesday approaches, it will soon be Tennessee’s turn.

MUSINGS FROM MANCHESTER AND MEMPHIS — Not to overstate the omens, but the past two weeks have seen some lousy weather, both in New Hampshire, whose presidential primary accomplished some crucial winnowing down of the candidate field, and here in Tennessee, where voters get to make what could be an even more defining choice in less than two weeks. In the meantime, along with more cold, rainy weather, and maybe even some sleet and snow, we are quite likely to get some close encounters with the candidates — like Donald J. Trump, the reality TV star and Manhattan real estate mogul, who, on the eve of the New Hampshire voting, addressed a rally of his supporters with the following exhortation: “I want to finish up, because you’ve got a bad evening out there. You have to do me a favor. I 16 don’t really care if you get hurt or not, but I want you to last ’til tomorrow. So don’t get hurt!”

That characteristically cheeky bit of tough love was uttered at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, before an audience of thousands who had crammed into the arena on the night of what Trump, more or less accurately, had called a blizzard, one which, he had proclaimed upon arriving late, had caused at least seven accidents outside. Not that Trump’s exhortation had been his most memorable statement of the night. Just minutes earlier, following half an hour or more of heady ego-tripping boasts (all free of any taint of political-platform logic), The Donald lambasted Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican rival Ted Cruz for taking issue with the “tone” of his stump speeches. Whereupon, via a reference to Cruz’s performance at a just-concluded debate event of GOP candidates, Trump upped the verbal ante. TRUMP: “They asked Ted Cruz a serious question:

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What ensued from the crowd, not all of whom had thorough-going could make its way past Republican road sense of the term), Clinton is with equal appropriateness heard the interloper distinctly but all of whom now heard blocks in Congress. But it is real pie, all the same. Or, to best considered a liberal. Her politics are avowedly those Trump loud and clear, was first shock, then awe, then amend the metaphor, food-wise, it is whole-loaf reform, of compromise, and in several different senses of that delight, then pandemonium and chants of “TRUMP! reasonably close to everything the term “socialism” implies. word. As her husband pointed out in last week’s Memphis TRUMP! TRUMP!” It was Donald Trump’s latest It is no accident that Bill Clinton, spouse of candidate rally (held at Whitehaven High School), she is one who Gettysburg moment in his campaign to Make America Clinton and a former president who still commands wide can work across the aisle (or, as the former president put it, Great Again. popularity, both within Democratic ranks and without, can “stand her ground” while seeking “common ground”). It would surely be a waste if the surprise front-runner played off on that metaphor last week during a hastily President Clinton cited as an example her cosponsorship, in Republican ranks should — in the interval between called rally for his wife in Memphis, citing a saying of with arch-conservative GOP House majority leader Tom now and Tuesday, March 1st, when Tennessee and almost another former Democratic president, Lyndon Johnson, DeLay, of legislation to facilitate post-infancy adoptions. a dozen other states hold primary or caucus events — that anyone who would spurn half a loaf “has never And Secretary Clinton is, for better or for worse, choose to bypass Memphis, known to music-lovers and been hungry.” willing to render unto Caesar —accepting the insuranceNBA fans alike as a citadel of Grit ‘n’ company proprietorship and not Grind, wide open to down-homey talk quite universal health-care coverage and artists of the vernacular. of the Affordable Care Act as the Caucuses in Nevada and primaries continuing basis of health-care reform, in South Carolina will have intervened and advocating the means-testing of between now and March 1st, and each college tuition aid rather than blanket of those states will have had an effect guarantees of free education, while on candidate fortunes, but nothing endorsing both choices as limited but comparable to the scale of what will feasible in their application. She is happen on “Super Tuesday,” as the date consistently faulted by Sanders for her is called on the 2016 political calendar. acceptance of both large speaking fees By the close of voting on March from organizations like the Goldman 1st, we should know if Trump has Sachs financial house and campaign maintained his edge over Texas Senator assistance from a “Super-PAC.” Cruz, a chilly avatar of the hard right For all that, there is significant almost as unpopular with the GOP policy overlap between the two establishment as Trump himself, Democrats, both of whom seek the grand interloper, and we should significant criminal justice reform, know also which one of the three a raise in the minimum wage, and establishment-friendly candidates — workplace equality for women, while former Florida governor Jeb Bush, approving same-sex marriage. Florida Senator Marco Rubio, and Ohio governor John Kasich — has been able There is a sameness of outlook among to survive for an expected three-way the Republicans, too, along with Hillary Clinton among the crowd at Henniker (above); battle that could last all the way ’til some distinguishing gradations. All Bernie Sanders lays out his plan for a revolution. July, when the Republican National by himself, Trump largely scuttled Convention convenes in Cleveland. the GOP’s expressed resolve, after the There’s an ongoing battle between party’s debacle in the 2012 presidential Democratic contenders, too — race, to court the nation’s growing former First Lady, Senator, and Latino vote. When on June 16th, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at his own Trump Tower in New and septuagenarian Senator Bernie York, he rode down on an escalator Sanders of Vermont, a self-professed for a ceremonial announcement of “democratic socialist” whose advent as candidacy, Trump also descended into a a serious competitor in 2016 has been round of vigorous bashing of Mexicans as breathtakingly unexpected as was as rapists and boundary breakers. Trump’s, but whose proposed reform When his invective not only did policies are as rigorously defined as not damn his candidacy but instead Trump’s are amorphous. resulted in good poll numbers, the Both Trump and Sanders are other Republican candidates basically considered outliers, both have followed suit, and stiff-necked developed bona fide followings, and resistance to any form of immigration both have been identified by political reform is now a given among them, pundits, somewhat lazily, as exponents including the two sons of Cuban of an undefined “anger” in the body emigres, Cruz and Rubio, the latter of politic. The term may fairly characterize whom had once sponsored, but has Trump’s generalized complaint that “we since renounced, a path to legalization [Americans] don’t win at anything any for selected illegal immigrants. more,” and Hillary Clinton has attached Other aspects of the GOP candidates’ it to Sanders in a widely publicized litany include a resolve to terminate sound bite suggesting that anger is all well and good, but It is no accident, either, that former president Clinton “Obamacare,” their preferred name for the Affordable “Where’s the plan?” chose to come to Memphis in the run-up to Super Care Act; a pro-life stance on abortion; continued tax Arguably, Sanders’ plan is fairly specific. Among Tuesday. Hillary Clinton’s game plan is to prevail here and cuts for the corporate sector; opposition to same-sex other things, his version of a “political revolution” would in other so-called “SEC’ [for Southeastern Conference] marriage; holding the line on the minimum wage; and provide for free education at public colleges, universal states on March 1st, thereby putting a comfortable condemnation of the deal reached with Iran, forestalling health care (under the rubric “Medicare for All”), a return distance between herself and Sanders (who tied her in the that country’s pursuit of nuclear weapons while phasing to strict controls over both political spending and banking Iowa caucuses and beat her soundly in New Hampshire), out economic sanctions against it. practices, and a crash program to renew the nation’s and to do so largely on the basis of massive support from Of the Republicans still running, only Kasich, infrastructure. All this to be paid for in large part by “a tax black voters, whose loyalty to the Clintons has been who finished a respectable second to Trump in New on Wall Street speculation.” assumed for the last generation and a half. Hampshire, attempts to take moderate versions of these It may be pie in the sky, as Clinton and her supporters Whereas Sanders is correctly considered a socialist 17 imply, since it is hard to see how any program so (though hardly in the now-obsolete Marxist-Leninist continued on page 18

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Carolina debate, can regain his former status. The real unknown quantity is Jeb Bush, yet another scion of a dynastic GOP clan, who hasn’t won, placed, or showed yet in any poll or vote for the record but putters along in striking range on the strength of his blue-ribbon connections, the family name, and enough of a campaign bankroll to hang in, right up to what could turn out to be an oldfashioned brokered convention. If Trump and Sanders had not existed, they might have had to be invented. The mere presence of these two outliers in the 2016 presidential race, not to mention their wholly unanticipated viability, has utterly confounded the expectations of party regulars and the pundit class. Sanders’ vision of a revolution directed at what he sees as control of the social and

political process by an oligarchy has not only generated the beginning of a movement among Democrats and independents, it has had unexpected resonance in Republican ranks as well — and where you would least expect to find it. The first week of February, which was also the last week of the New Hampshire primary, was an especially brutal one, weather-wise. Temperatures flirted with single digits all week (they would eventually get there), snow fell in fouror five-foot heaps almost everywhere, visibility largely vanished along with the day’s light, and ice coated the state’s highways and walkways in thick and perilous veneers. One reason for the New Hampshire primary’s historical relevance has been the state’s relatively small size, with most of the major towns and cities located in its southern rim, a circumstance that makes candidates and their campaign events unusually accessible to anyone who cares to seek them out. What is remarkable is that, even when the weather was at its most treacherous, people still turned out in droves, not only New Hampshire natives, but imports from neighboring and even distant states, all anxious to catch the final act of this quadrennial New England drama. I found this out on Friday, February 5th, when I decided to brave the elements and check out a Ted Cruz town hall in a school gymnasium some six miles from my Red Roof Inn in Salem, New Hampshire, hard by the border with Massachusetts. Creeping along on the moonless night with a death grip on the steering wheel of my rental car, I finally got to the site after a half hour’s driving along roadways that the town’s fleet of snowplows were even then trying to work in shape. I was astonished to find that, even on this night and even for Cruz, who was not considered a real contender in the primary despite his victory in the previous week’s Iowa caucuses and so heavily influenced by religious fundamentalists, there was a turnaway crowd, with no parking available except on especially slippery side streets, blocks away. Once inside, I found a place in an overflow room and heard Cruz go through his usual hard-nosed litany of conservative positions on social,

Where I disagree with Bernie is in the solution. If government is corrupt, the answer isn’t a heck of a lot more government.” OK, so those last two sentences amount to a rhetorical bait and switch — a take-out, away from the idea of radical public action toward old-fashioned notions of laissez-faire. The point is that Cruz, too, can sense the revolution in the air. It means something that even this dark knight of the right can recognize it. It means something, too, that Trump, the same Trump who in last Saturday’s GOP debate unloosed the kind of intense attack on the G.W. Bush administration’s “lies” about WMDs in Iraq that most partisan Democrats have shied away from (think John Kerry … or Hillary) … that that Donald Trump begins and ends his speeches to the opening guitar strains of the Beatles’ “Revolution.” Who knows? Maybe, lousy weather or no in this often toxic political season, some version of that hopey-changey stuff so decried by Sarah Palin might just win out after all.

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Relationship issues? Memphis Symphony Orchestra (MSO) conductor-in-waiting Robert Moody is here to help. With his assuring South Carolina drawl, the man chosen to replace departing MSO music director Mei-Ann Chen offers this piece of advice: “If you’re in the doghouse because maybe you didn’t get your wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, or partner exactly what you were supposed to for Valentine’s Day, now is your chance to make up for it and buy tickets to the symphony this weekend.” The concert is built around romantic themes with performances of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, and Ravel’s Boléro. “There’s something to be said about rhythm,” Moody opines, working to explain why Ravel’s 16-minute workout on a single theme is so frequently coupled with erotic imagery. “The one instrument that plays from the first note to the last, without ever stopping, is the snare drum. It starts at four-p, the softest it’s possible to play. By the end, it’s blowing the roof off. There’s just something about that incessant, driving beat. You don’t have to take too much time to explain it. People understand.” Moody thinks Bernstein’s score for the musical West Side Story may be the greatest sonic achievement of the 20th century. “It’s groundbreaking on every level,” he says. “This is a tour de force work for the orchestra. It’s so poignant and one of my favorite pieces to conduct.” The MSO and Moody have been courting since 2006, when he was first invited to guest conduct a special concert in honor of Elvis Presley’s birthday. They flirted hard when the orchestra was searching for David Loebel’s replacement in 2010 and will be joined together at last when Chen steps down at the end of the 2015-16 season. THE MEMPHIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PLAYS “BOLERO!” SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20TH, 7:30 P.M. AT THE CANNON CENTER, AND SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21ST, 2:30 P.M. AT GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, $15-$79

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Pretty Things Peepshow Hi-Tone, 10 p.m., $15 Vaudeville show with magic, puppets, knife-throwing, burlesque, and more.

“Visual Reverberations” Crosstown Arts, 6-9 p.m. Group show featuring abstract works incorporating sound.

Talk by Mel Chin McCallum Ballroom, Rhodes College, 6 p.m. Contemporary artist Mel Chin serves as the keynote speaker of the Memphis: Art and Place symposium, which focuses on how the arts have defined and shaped the city.

For the Love of Haiti Church of the Holy Communion (4645 Walnut Grove), 5:30 p.m., $30 The West Tennessee Haiti Partnership hosts this evening of music, Haitian food, and original artwork benefiting children in Haiti with disabilities.

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“The Marketing of Perception” Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, 5-8 p.m. Opening reception for this show exploring race, image, and appropriation by Lawrence Matthews III. Good Boys and True McCoy Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $10 A prep school senior’s life explodes after a sex tape surfaces.

Doktor Kaboom! Live Wire! Halloran Centre, 7 p.m., $15-$30 An interactive science comedy show. Contra-Tiempo The Orpheum, 6:30 p.m., $15-$30 This dance troupe presents Agua Furiosa with call and response, a live vocalist, water themes, and more.

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Booksigning by Mark Greaney The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 2 p.m. Mark Greaney signs the latest in his Court Gentry series, Back Blast. This time, the one-time CIA agent has stumbled upon a secret that may get him killed. Let’s Square Dance Bartlett United Methodist Church (5676 Stage), 7-8 p.m. An open house for beginning square dancers. Continues February 27th and March 5th.

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ince her debut album 1835 Madison was released in 2013, Faith Evans Ruch has been one of the most distinct voices in the Memphis music scene, teaming up with bigname players like Rick Steff, Roy Berry, and Luther Dickinson to create her soulful brand of folk rock. I sat down with Ruch to find out more about the two singles she’s releasing on Tuesday, February 23rd, at Lafayette’s Music Room, how recording at Royal Studios influenced her as a songwriter, and how getting your heart broken might be a blessing in disguise. - Chris Shaw Memphis Flyer: Your new song “Sugar” is a lot more soulful than some of your earlier work. Was that an intentional transition? Faith Evans Ruch: Yes, it was. My first couple of albums were very much on the folk side of Americana music, and I really wanted to venture out and explore some other areas. I started focusing more on soul music

and Memphis music. I set out to write a song that wasn’t “folk-y,” and I sat down and wrote the chorus first. I was listening to a lot of Nina Simone and Etta James, and I think I captured that pretty well. I was trying to channel Memphis. This was the first time you’ve worked at Royal Studios. What was that experience like? It was awesome. I’m kind of a creature of habit, and I did my first two albums at Music+Arts over on Nelson and Barksdale. When I played the stuff for producer Kevin Houston, he said the songs were really soulful and suggested that we go to Royal. You can really feel the soulful spirit in that room, and I think these are some of the best vocal performances I’ve ever recorded. Lyrically, “Sugar” is a pretty classic love song. Can you explain the inspiration behind it? When I started writing the hook, I was honestly just thinking about how all my other love songs are really sad, and I just wanted to make something more positive. I came up with the

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I really liked the horns throughout “Thank You.” It definitely has a soul vibe to it, but there are also some elements of classic country. Is that how you’d describe it? I’m from the South, and I grew up listening to soul music, but, as I said earlier, I’m also very inspired by folk music. There are times when I have to tell myself, “OK, we are not writing a folk song today!” But I think you’re right, there are elements of soul, but it also has some classic country going on, which is why I think it sounds so unique. There’s a line in “Thank You” that says “Thank you for breaking my heart.” That’s kind of an interesting line in the sense that most people wouldn’t be thankful for something like that. I wrote that song after the last Folk Alliance, and it was a very personal experience. I started to play the first song I ever wrote at the Alliance, and started explaining that I had my heart broken and I loved music and it just wasn’t enough to listen to it anymore. For a while, I was so heartbroken, it was all could I write about. I had to meet someone and have my heart broken to experience all the cool things I’ve done with my music, and I started to think I ought to say thank you to the person that broke my heart, because what I’ve been able to do with my music is way cooler than that relationship could have ever been. Faith Evans Ruch, Tuesday, February 23rd at Lafayette’s Music Room. 8 p.m. Free

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Both of the singles that you’ll be releasing on Tuesday were recorded in one day. Was it intimidating to try and have them completed in one recording session? I’m a nurse, so I’m used to working strict, regimented days. We did “Sugar” and “Thank You” in about 10 to 12 hours, but I wasn’t worried about the time. I’ve never had any issues with getting things done in the studio. The creative process can take longer sometimes, though. At times the songs just flow, but other times there are cases of serious writer’s block. These two singles got written at different times. I had “Thank You” done for over a year, but “Sugar” had most of the parts written in one day.

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Barbara Blue ThursdaysFridays, Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 5-9 p.m., and Sundays, 4-9 p.m.; 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.

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN TICKETS, 525-1515

Memphis Symphony Orchestra First Tennessee Masterworks Series: Bolero! Saturday, Feb. 20, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Earnestine & Hazel’s 531 S. MAIN 523-9754

Amber Rae Dunn Hosts: Open Mic Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Tin Roof 315 BEALE

Roxi Love Tuesday, Feb. 23, 6-10 p.m.

Sassy Jones Sunday, Feb. 21, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

Blind Bear Speakeasy 119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Brass Door Irish Pub 152 MADISON 572-1813

Live Music Fridays.

Brinson’s 341 MADISON 524-0104

Melting Pot: Artist Showcase Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

Live Pianist Thursdays, 5:308:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-9 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and MondaysWednesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.

The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP 744-2225

Old School Blues and Jazz Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.

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

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.; Neo Soul Saturdays featuring Tamara Jones Monger, Carmen, Pat Register, and more third Saturday of every month, 7-10:30 p.m.

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Detective Bureau Thursday, Feb. 18; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

DROPKICK MURPHYS AT NEW DAISY Dropkick Murphys will return to Memphis on February 24th to celebrate the band’s 20th anniversary. The Celtic-punkers formed in Massachusetts in 1996, and, after signing to the independent label Hellcat Records, the band gained recognition after five albums and heavy touring. Dropkick Murphys didn’t enjoy mainstream success until 2004, however, when the band’s single “Tessie” became one of their highest charting songs to date. “I’m Shipping Up to Boston,” a song released on 2005’s The Warrior’s Code, was featured in the Academy Awardwinning film The Departed and would become the band’s first and only single to go platinum. Dropkick Murphys have long-been politically active and use their music to raise awareness for charities as well as various issues. Showing support for American labor, the band only sells union-made T-shirts and has close ties to the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. Additionally, they released a two-song single in 2005 to honor the memory of Andrew K. Farrar Jr., a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant who died in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2007, the band started Born & Bred, an imprint label supported by Alternative Distribution Alliance, and released three albums that landed on Billboard charts. 2007’s The Meanest of Times debuted at No. 20 and 2011’s Going Out in Style caught even more attention at No. 6. Signed and Sealed in Blood, their 8th album, debuted at No. 9 in 2013. Now after 20 years of touring, the band is stopping at the New Daisy as part of a stacked late winter lineup that features Whitey Morgan, Ghastly, Bryson Tyler, and Atreyu all making stops at the Beale Street venue. Tiger Army and Darkbuster will support Dropkick Murphys on all dates. - Joshua Cannon Dropkick Murphys, Tiger Army, and Darkbuster Wednesday, February 24th at the New Daisy Theater, 6:30pm $27.50

DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Rumba Room

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538

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

Two Peace Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Incredible Hook Friday, Feb. 19, 10:30 p.m.; Dirty Streets, Mighty Souls Brass Band Saturday, Feb. 20, 9 p.m.; Clay Otis & Friends Wednesday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.

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Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Mofl featuring Paul Taylor Friday, Feb. 19; La Pistola Monday, Feb. 22.

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Marlowe Shepherd Sunday, Feb. 21, 8-10 p.m.

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Jazz with Ed Finney and Friends Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Richard James Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Anne Schorr Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Live in the Galleries: Escher String Quartet Wednesday, Feb. 24, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

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412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Bands For Bernie Saturday, Feb. 20, 7 p.m.; WARM, Cricket Orchestra, Spencer Kellum Saturday, Feb. 20, 9 p.m.; Ty Segall & the Muggers with Ex-Cult, AXIS: SOVA, and Goner DJs Sunday, Feb. 21, 8 p.m.; Lolo with Tiffany Harmon Monday, Feb. 22, 9 p.m.; Peter Case Tuesday, Feb. 23, 8:30 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Donovan Wolfington with Small and Melinda Wednesday, Feb. 24, 10 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Lamplighter Lounge 1702 MADISON 726-9916

The Sandy Carroll Band Sunday, Feb. 21, 4-7 p.m.; The Chaulkies Sunday, Feb. 21, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Amy LaVere and Will Sexton Thursday, Feb. 18, 6 p.m.; Dead Soldiers Thursday, Feb. 18, 9 p.m.; Heath N Danny Friday, Feb. 19, 6:30 p.m.; Will Tucker Friday, Feb. 19, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturday, Feb. 20, 11 a.m.; Pam and Terry Saturday, Feb. 20, 6:30 p.m.; Graham Winchester Band

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The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Sing for Your Supper last Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9 p.m.

Sports Junction 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Live DJ Fridays.; Live music Saturdays.; Karaoke Wednesdays.

Trinity Methodist Church 447 N. EVERGREEN 274-4091

Beethoven Club’s Grace Chamber Players - Shakespeare Concert Sunday, Feb. 21, 3-4:15 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

The Soul Connection Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

HONEYHONEY Thursday, Feb. 18, 7 p.m.; Dylan LeBlanc Friday, Feb. 19, 7 p.m.

University of Memphis Spin Street Music 3484 POPLAR 327-8730

Marlowe Shepherd live instore performance Sunday, Feb. 21, 12-1 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Grasping Straws, Emily Einhorn Thursday, Feb. 18, 10 p.m.; Ground Water Mafia Friday, Feb. 19; Aquarian Blood, NOTS, Trampoline Team Saturday, Feb. 20; Dawn Patrol Tuesday, Feb. 23; Warbringer Tuesday, Feb. 23.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Terry Prince & the Principles Friday, Feb. 19, 8 p.m.; Scottie Spiegelman Saturday, Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m.

P&H Cafe

East Memphis Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

Acoustic with Charvey Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House 551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

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

1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight; Tail Light Rebellion Tuesday, Feb. 23.

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

Saturday, Feb. 20, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Jeffrey and the Pacemakers Sunday, Feb. 21, 4 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Sunday, Feb. 21, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Friends Monday, Feb. 22, 6 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesday, Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m.; Faith Evans Ruch - “Sugar” Single Release Show Tuesday, Feb. 23, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesday, Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m.; Bryan Hayes and the Retrievers Wednesday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.

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Van Duren Thursdays, 6:308:30 p.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s

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

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

RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Mondays Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

Germantown Performing Arts Center

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

1801 EXETER 751-7500

Jazz in the Box presents Michelle Walker, vocals Friday, Feb. 19, 7-8 and 8:30-9:30 p.m.; Memphis Symphony Orchestra First Tennessee Masterworks : Bolero! Sunday, Feb. 21, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.; Half Step Down Fridays, 7-10 p.m.

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

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Aaron Lewis Sunday, Feb. 21; In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing.

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

Carlos & Adam from the Late Greats Thursdays, 7-9 p.m.; Elizabeth Wise Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.

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

Juno Marrs Sunday, Feb. 21, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Backstage Pass Saturday, Feb. 20, 8 p.m.; Memphis Connection 901 feat. No Pressure, Erin Webb, and Bob, Mandy, & Angela Sunday, Feb. 21, 3-6 p.m.; Gene Nunez and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Owen Brennan’s THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

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

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Karaoke with DJ Stylez Thursdays, Sundays, 10 p.m.

Winchester/ Hickory Hill LoVe Lounge 7144 WINCHESTER RD

Melodic Mondays fourth Monday of every month, 4-10 p.m.

Bartlett Municipal Center 5868 STAGE

Grif ’s Gifts Live - Welcome to the Stage Mondays-Sundays, 6-7:30 p.m.

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

Soul Shockers Sunday, Feb. 21, 8-11:30 p.m.

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2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

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Charlie Belt and Friends Thursday, Feb. 18, 8 p.m.midnight; Cruisin’ Leroy with Mandi & Brian Thursday, Feb. 18, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cruisin’ Heavy Friday, Feb. 19, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Backstreet Crawlers Saturday, Feb. 20, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Charlie Belt, Juno, Keith & Dave Shot Jam Wednesday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Karaoke with Ricky

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, Feb. 21, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

JoJo Jeffries and Ronnie Caldwell Sunday, Feb. 21, 8-11:30 p.m.

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2 Mule Plow Sunday, Feb. 21, 4-7 p.m.; The Dantones Sunday, Feb. 21, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

Unwind Wednesdays Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.

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8071 TRINITY 756-4480

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

Pam and Terry Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.

Landers Center 4660 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-280-9120

Lee Brice - Life Off My Years Tour Thursday, Feb. 18.

Mesquite Chop House 5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

Pam and Terry Thursdays, 7-10 p.m.

Tunica Roadhouse 1107 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 662-363-4900

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Roxi Love Thursday, Feb. 18, 9-11 p.m.

Live Entertainment Wednesdays-Sundays, 6 p.m.

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant

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Roxi Love Friday, Feb. 19, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Saturday, Feb. 20, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.;

The Crossing Bar & Grill 7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242

Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Section 8 Band Saturday, Feb. 20, 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

Dan McGuinness 3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

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Karaoke Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Open Mic Blues Jam with Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

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DJ Crumbz Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Club Night Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Boot Scootin’ Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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production of Mothers and Sons on Theatre Memphis’ NextStage. Jack Yates’ design is lush, and the talent is sharp and polished. Many ideas, presented in the awkward script like items to be checked off a to-do list, seem like they should be interesting enough to build a play around. Unfortunately, these ideas are only hissed, snapped, or delivered with polite restraint but never explored in a parlor game so contrived no drama can take root. Every review I’ve ever written has started with me sitting down in front of the keyboard and asking myself the same three questions: 1) What was the play supposed to do? 2) Did it do the things it was supposed to do? 3) Did it do the things it was supposed to do in an interesting way? Objectivity can be elusive, but those questions help to keep me honest and

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al and Will live in an enormous, gorgeously appointed, clearly expensive apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They’ve got nice things and a view of the Metropolitan Opera. They are married with a son named Bud, and they live like a 1950s-era sitcom couple where the breadwinner (Cal) has a lucrative job doing something so boring his young, creatively minded spouse doesn’t pretend to understand. They are perfect parents who sometimes squabble over perfect things like who bought Bud the wrong bubble bath or why it’s better to say “Inuit” than “Eskimo.” This is the enviable picture into which Karen Mason Riss’ Katherine enters, overflowing with rancor and wearing her fur coat like armor. Her actor son Andre and Cal (Gregory Alexander) were a couple in the early 1990s, when life was not quite so lush, and AIDS — the disease that killed her son — was still decimating the gay community. It’s the first time she and Cal have seen each other since the funeral, and the protracted icy silence that begins Mothers and Sons, playwright Terrence McNally’s flawed experiment in grief nostalgia, lets audiences know on the front end that they’re in for a long, uncomfortable 90 minutes. By contrast, Katherine has lost everything. Her son left her to pursue a lifestyle she never condoned or attempted to understand. He moved in with Cal, and now he’s dead. Her husband is also dead, though he took his time getting that way. She’s got some money but no family or friends, and back home in Dallas — a city she seems to loathe — she finds herself riding the bus with “the help.” She’s on her way to Europe to get away for a spell and has paid a surprise visit to Cal for reasons that are never entirely clear. Katherine is, rather ham-fistedly, identified early on as a stand-in for Shakespeare’s Hamlet. She’s an occasionally suicidal would-be avenger, more angry than mad, and obsessed with the idea that she can find out who infected her boy with HIV and — something. Otherwise it’s difficult to understand why this unpleasant woman showed up on Cal’s doorstep. It’s even harder to understand why she didn’t leave — or wasn’t asked to leave — five minutes later. Director Jerry Chipman has brought together a strong creative team and installed a handsome, technically fine

Karen Mason Riss does her thing.

make these review columns about something other than what I do and don’t like. But every now and then a play like Mothers and Sons comes along and throws a monkey wrench into the process. Because after much consideration and considerable reading, I still don’t know what the playwright wants his play to do. Is Mothers and Sons just a portrait of a hater wallowing in the minky hell she deserves? Is it like going through a box of photos from the good old days when we all looked so young and an entire generation was dying? Is living well the best revenger’s tragedy? Did I mention how badly written the kid’s part is? Fictional children who only say perfectly precious things like, “You can be my grandmother,” while blinking their big doe eyes and glowing radiantly, are creepier than clowns. Mothers and Sons has its moments, and any opportunity to watch Riss do her thing is worth considering. Through February 28th

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f someone were to draw a Venn diagram that had, on one side, a circle that held within it “truly funny stuff” and, on the other side, a circle that contained “contemporary painting,” the realm of overlap would be next to nonexistent. If you don’t immediately think, “Wow, contemporary painting, LMAO,” that is because the kind of contemporary painting that makes it to museums and galleries is not usually very funny, and when it tries to be funny, it is often becomes even more un-funny. Your standard art jokes are up there with the worst forms of humor — self-referential, often elitist, dumb. We need funny art. Not knee-slap funny, George-Carlin-as-a-painting funny. Not puns. (Never puns.) What we need is the kind of work that makes you feel like someone has opened a window to let air into the room. What contem-

poraneity demands of us is art that is heavy as a Rothko chapel but light as a Kanye meme. The best local entrants in the category of “it makes you laugh, but you’d also frame it” are painters Alex Paulus and Clare Torina, whose exhibition, “Blind Navigator,” is currently on view at Crosstown Arts. Both Paulus and Torina have a talent for making work that is visually and conceptually depthy and feels drawn from some kind of long-lost iPhone scroll. We need paintings like Paulus’ Forever Dog, which features a panther-like canine harbinger of an unknown apocalypse, infinitely looped into his own black shadow. Or Torina’s outsized Wet Wipe in Paradise, an LP-shaped version of a wet wipe, which neatly draws a through-line between Jimmy Buffett, sterile Floridian resorts, and bottom-of-your-pocket paper refuse.

Torina, who lives and works in New York but got her bachelor’s degree in Memphis, makes paintings that feel digitally collaged but with none of the tautness and restraint of Photoshop. In Torina’s paintings, shadows appear without whatever or whoever cast them. Dreamlike elements — temples, pets, Paulus’ Rig King at Crosstown Arts as part of “Blind Navigator”

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pants, bones, and flowers in Styrofoam — coexist in an unnaturally immediate space. There is a feeling of the surrealin-the-sharable that lends the work a familiarity. Paulus has been making and showing paintings around Memphis for years. The work in “Blind Navigator” is his best to date. Paulus’ style, which is plasticky, grotesque, and always a tinge nihilistic, really hits its stride in paintings like No more P bear (a polar bear with a red “X” painted over its face) and Rig King (a goony blond guy shouldering a missile.) As far as names go, both Torina and Paulus follow Los Angeles-based artist Jim Shaw, whose sardonically titled “Thrift Store Paintings” recently merited a retrospective in New York’s New Museum. Paulus’ work, like Shaw’s, feels down-to-earth, only in a universe that has flipped its shit. Paulus’ work exists in a world of internet tabloids and Reddit. To quote the title of a Paulus painting that shows a series of messily skewed celestial paths: That seems not right. Paulus and Torina arranged “Blind Navigator” so that nothing feels quite to-scale: a toilet paper roll the size of a toddler holds a silk flower while handpainted human bones lie in a pile nearby. Another work by Torina is a pair of checkered pants, Freudian in proportion, called For Grandpa’s Ghost. These details chock up to a subtle Wonderland effect. “Blind Navigator” is an uncommonly good show. It takes risks. It joins a dry sense of humor with an “only in Vegas for the night, baby,” bring-it-on sensibility. It is critical without being cynical. Paulus and Torina meet the challenges of making paintings in an image-saturated age smartly, and with warmth. At Crosstown Arts through February 27th

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Circuit Playhouse

The Other Place, a successful drug company scientist finds her life falling to pieces. Fact blurs with fiction, and the past and the present collide with devastating results. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Feb. 21. The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi, clever adaption of the Kipling classic. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $12. Sat., Feb. 20, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. 51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Landers Center (DeSoto Civic Center)

The King and I, www.dftonline. org. $18-$30. Feb. 19-28. 4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120).

The Evergreen Theatre

Los Monólogos de la Vagina en Español (The Vagina Monologues in Spanish), a poignant and hilarious tour of the last frontier, the ultimate forbidden zone. www. theatreworksmemphis.org. $15. Fri.-Sat., Feb. 19-20, 8 p.m. 1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Harrell Theater

My Son Pinocchio: Geppetto’s Musical Tale, a fresh retelling of the classic tale of the little wooden boy and his creator. Student weekday matinees and weekend public performances. (457-2780), $7-$20. Sundays, 2:30 p.m., Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m., and Feb. 24-26, 10 a.m. Through Feb. 28. 440 WEST POWELL ROAD.

Hattiloo Theatre

A Stroll Down Black Broadway, special benefit production. www.hattiloo.org. $100. Sat., Feb. 20, 7 p.m.

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MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , all performances are paywhat-you-can. www.stagedoormemphis.org. Sundays, 2:30 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 7 p.m. Through Feb. 28.

CAC New Member Opportunities

Seeking new members to be a part of art exhibits and stage productions. All positions are volunteer. See website. Through Feb. 29.

800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007).

McCoy Theatre

CRITTENDEN ARTS COUNCIL, 1800 N. MISSOURI, SUITE 14C (870-7326260), HARRELLTHEATRE.ORG.

Good Boys and True, at an exclusive prep school, Brandon Hardy is Ivy League-bound and has his life plan set. An explicit sex tape begins a city-wide scandal. An equally disturbing possibility emerges. www.rhodes.edu/ mccoy. $5. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Through Feb. 28.

Call to Artists: ArtWorks Exhibition

Fine-craft and art disciplines only for show Mar. 3-6. Exhibition fee is $250, no application fee. Email four photos of work and a booth shot, winterarts@ bellsouth.net. Through Feb. 29.

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

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, CALL FOR INFORMATION.

The Orpheum

Stomp, www.orpheum-memphis.com. $20. Sat., Feb. 20, 2-4:15 and 8-10:15 p.m.

“History of the Chair”

Spalding Nix will trace the development of the chair using images from old masters, contemporary artists, and work in the Brooks’ collection of decorative arts. Sat., Feb. 20, 10:30 a.m.

203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Playhouse on the Square 4th Annual “NewWorks @ TheWorks” Competition, two scripts will receive full productions during the 2017-18 season and cash prizes. See website for full details. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $15. Through May 30. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

University of Memphis

Oklahoma!, musical that celebrates the American frontier spirit of community, optimism, and patriotism. www.memphis. edu/theatre. $20. ThursdaysSaturdays, 7:30 p.m. Through Feb. 27. THEATRE AND COMMUNICATION BUILDING, 3745 CENTRAL.

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S

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Box Gallery

Pretty Things Peepshow, a naughty bawdy variety show where nostalgia meets new. Vaudeville at it’s best. (2788663), www.prettythingspeepshow.com. $15. Thurs., Feb. 18, 10-11:45 p.m.

Opening reception for “Psi Ops,” exhibition of photography by Jesse DeLira. Fri., Feb. 19, 5-7 p.m. 3715 CENTRAL.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Works by Emily Ozier at St. Mary’s

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

Opening reception for “Artworks by EMYO,” exhibition of works by Emily Ozier. www.buckmanartscenter.com. Fri., Feb. 19, 5:30-7:30 p.m. 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).

Crosstown Arts

Artist reception for “Visual Reverberations,” exhibition by multiple artists of abstract work incorporating sound. (773-9462691), www.crosstownarts.org. Fri., Feb. 19, 6-9 p.m.

“in-form” Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

Opening reception for “The Marketing of Perception,” recent works exploring issues of race, image, and appropriation by Lawrence Matthews III. www. memphis.edu/fogelmangalleries/. Fri., Feb. 19, 5-8 p.m. 3715 CENTRAL.

Fratelli’s

Closing reception for “Perchance 2,” by Chere Labbe Doiron. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Sun., Feb. 21, 2-4 p.m. 750 CHERRY (766-9900).

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

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Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101. DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS, ONGOING WEEKLY EVENTS WILL APPEAR IN THE FLYER’S ONLINE CALENDAR ONLY.

OT H E R A R T HAP P E N I N G S

Art After Dark

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.

“Botticelli and Devotional Images: The Workshop and Production”

Michelle O’Malley looks at how Botticelli deployed his workshop to produce a specific category of pictures and proposes new ideas for creativity that existed for assistants in Renaissance workshops. Sun., Feb. 21, 2 p.m.

Accepting work through Feb. 19 from art teachers for exhibition. Opening reception Feb. 26 and viewing during regular gallery hours, Feb. 27. See website for submission information. Through Feb. 19. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Working Writer’s Cocktail Hour

College and MFA students to early/mid-career/accomplished (meaning published and not-yetpublished) writers who live and work in Memphis are welcome. Mon., Feb. 22, 5:30-7 p.m. CROSSTOWN STORY BOOTH, 422 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection. Ongoing. 142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).

Art Village Gallery

“Out of Africa,” exhibition kicking off Black History Month with work by Noel Jones, Kayode Karunwi, Anthony Lee, Zeinu Mudeser, Joshua Strydom, and Kiersten Williams. www.artvillagegallery.com. Through Feb. 26. 410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

Banks House Gallery & Gift Shop DeSoto Arts Council Winter Show, www.desotoarts.com. Ongoing. 564 W. COMMERCE.

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

“Chinese Symbols in Art,” ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. www.belzmuseum.org. Ongoing. 119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).

The Blues Foundation

“Cast of Blues,” exhibition of blues musician life casts by Sharon McConnell-Dickerson. www.blues.org. Through April 30. 421 S. MAIN.

Cafe Pontotoc

“Exploration in Imagination,” exhibition of mixed-media works by Elayna Scott, inspired by nature and her travels. Ongoing. 314 S. MAIN (249-7955).

Circuitous Succession Gallery

Lawrence Jasud, www.circuitoussuccession.com. Through March 14. 500 S. SECOND.

Clough-Hanson Gallery

“de|constructing home,” exhibition of multi-media work by Brent Green and Heather Benning. www.rhodes.edu. Through Feb. 20, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).

Crosstown Arts Gallery

“Blind Navigator,” exhibition of new individual and collaborative work by New York-based artist Clare Torina and Memphis-based artist Alex Paulus. www.crosstownarts. org. Through Feb. 28. 422 N. CLEVELAND.

“Works on Paper,” exhibition of works by Anne Siems. www. davidluskgallery.com. Through Feb. 27. 64 FLICKER (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Amalgamations,” exhibition of digital reimagining of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens permanent collection by Joshua Brinlee. Through April 3. “Painting American Progress: Selections from the Kattner Collection and More,” exhibition of The Nina and Keith Kattner Collection of American paintings, on long-term loan to the Dixon, offering incredible examples of American art. Through April 3. Pinkney Herbert, exhibition of abstract paintings. Through April 3. “The Voyage of Life,” exhibition of four allegorical landscapes by Thomas Cole (1801-1848). www.dixon.org. Through April 3. 4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“The Blues,” exhibition of Memphis vignettes printed in cyanotype by Jennifer Balink. www.eclectic-eye.com. Through Feb. 24. 242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

Mosal Morszart, exhibition of work by Black Arts Alliance artist celebrating Black History Month. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Through Feb. 29. 985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Hyde Gallery

2016 Art Education Thesis Exhibition, www.mca.edu. Through March 8. INSIDE THE MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART’S NESIN GRADUATE SCHOOL, 477 S. MAIN.

Jay Etkin Gallery

David Hall, www.jayetkingallery.com. Through March 10. 942 COOPER (550-0064).

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

Memphis Camera Club, exhibition of photographs. (7298029), www.krocmemphis.org. Through Feb. 29. 800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007).

L Ross Gallery

10th Anniversary Exhibition, paintings, sculpture, and mixed media by gallery artists. www. lrossgallery.com. Through Feb. 27. 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Light and Shadows,” exhibition of painting and sculpture by Agustin Díaz and Francisco Gonzalez. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Feb. 27. 750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“Clare Leighton and Thomas W. Nason: Common Threads,” exhibition by masters in the medium of wood engraving, exceptional in expressing the simplicity and integrity of rural

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1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis Jewish Community Center’s Shainberg Gallery

“Tennessee Craft: Southwest Show.” www.jccmemphis.org. Through Feb. 28. 6560 POPLAR (761-0810).

Metal Museum

“Residence of the Heart,” exhibition of jewelry using contemporary gold granulation techniques by Douglas Harling. Through March 6. “Taiwan International Metal Crafts Competition,” exhibition of objects and jewelry promoting the metal crafts of Taiwan. www.metalmuseum. org. Through March 13.

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Morton Museum of Collierville History

“Slaves and Slaveholders of Wessyngton Plantation,” exhibition of personal accounts, artifacts, and films from a 13,000-acre tobacco plantation that existed in Robertson County examining the institution of slavery and its impact on the state and the nation. www.colliervillemuseum.org. Through March 5, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

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196 MAIN, COLLIERVILLE (457-2650).

National Civil Rights Museum

“Cultural Heroes,” exhibition of oversized sculpture by Alan LeQuire. www.civilrightsmuseum.org. Through Feb. 25. 450 MULBERRY (521-9699).

NJ Woods Gallery and Design

“Dog Gone It,” exhibition of work by Debra Edge. Ongoing. 2563 BROAD.

Playhouse on the Square

“An Exploration in 3D Printing,” exhibition of work by MCA instructor Adam Hawk. www.mca.edu. Through Feb. 21. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Ross Gallery

“Interwoven,” exhibition of textiles and drawings by Jennifer Sargent. (321-3243), www.cbu. edu/gallery. Through Feb. 25. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).

Soulsville, USA Towne Center Building

“Frozen Landscapes,” exhibition of multi-media work by Judith Dierkes. www.judithdierkes.weebly.com. Through March 31.

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“Viewfinders: Music & Motion,” exhibition featuring work by Peter Barta, SJulian Jenkins, Jenn Billy Brandt, Dr. Tom Gettelfinger, Fred Toma, and Ebet Roberts. A portion of the proceeds benefit Church Health Center. www.annesdaleparkgallery.com. Through March 8.

subjects. Through March 13. “Families in Art,” exhibition featuring images of family at work and play, as well as quiet depictions of the complexities of those unique human connections. Through Feb. 21. “Wonder, Whimsy, Wild: Folk Art in America,” exhibition of American folk art from New England and the Midwest made between 1800 and 1925. www.brooksmuseum.org. Through Feb. 28.

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“Trophies Through the Lens: African Wildlife Safari,” exhibition of over 50 photographs by Jack Kenner and students taken in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. www.wkno.org. Through Feb. 29. 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Members of the Argentine Tango Society give lessons and tango demonstrations in the rotunda. Included with museum admission. Third Wednesday, Thursday of every month, 6:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Dance and Movement

Open to the general public including people with disabilities. Minimum age 18. Stephanie Hill instructs free-form dancing, line dances, partner, and solo dance routines. Free. Last Tuesday of every month, 10 a.m.-noon Through May 31. LEWIS CENTER FOR SENIOR CITIZENS, 1188 N. PARKWAY (289-4968), WWW.SRVS.ORG.

Places

Crossroads Arena

The North Mississippi All Star Comedy Jam, comedian Rodney Perry and friends including Marvin Hunter, Shawn Harris, and other special guests from Shaq All Star Comedy Jam. (662-287-7779), $23. Sat., Feb. 20, 8-11:30 p.m. 2800 SOUTH HARPER RD.

Flirt Nightclub

Trippin on Thursday, hosted by K-97 Funnyman Prescott. Thursdays, 6 p.m. 3659 S. MENDENHALL (485-1119).

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel

Rodney Carrington, www. horseshoetunica.com. $37-$47. Sat., Feb. 20, 8 p.m. AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS (1-800-303-SHOE).

P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m. You Look Like a Comedy Show, the biggest and best roasting tournament in Memphis. Comedians and im-

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Dr. Jakobi Williams

Author reads, discusses, and signs From the Bullet to the Ballot. Thurs., Feb. 18, 6-8 p.m. NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), WWW.CIVILRIGHTSMUSEUM.ORG.

Booksigning by Katy Simpson Smith

Author discusses and signs Free Men. Wed., Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m. THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801),THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

Booksigning by Mark Greaney

Author discusses and signs Back Blast. Sat., Feb. 20, 2 p.m. THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801),THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

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Mixed-repertory show of new works by Jennifer Archibald, Joshua Peugh, and Gabrielle Lamb. Spark! pre-show discussion with the choreographers Fri., 6:30 p.m. $10-$72. Fri., Feb. 19, 8 p.m., Sat., Feb. 20, 2 and 8 p.m., and Sun., Feb. 21, 2 p.m. PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (726-4656), WWW.BALLETMEMPHIS.ORG.

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Cafe Eclectic

The Wiseguys Present: Storytellers Unplugged, combines fast-paced improv, guest storytellers, and scenic improv. $5. Third Saturday of every month, 10:30 p.m. 603 N. MCLEAN (725-1718).

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Chuckles Comedy Club

LOL Memphis Sketch & Improv Comedy Show, featuring improv games and sketch parodies. Cast members perform small sets throughout the show to introduce what’s coming next. (654-8594), $10. Fourth Monday of every month, 7-9 p.m. 1700 DEXTER.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

The Cove

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provisers from here and abroad all come together to tear each other down. Hosted by Tommy Oler and Katrina Coleman. (726-0906). $5. Third Saturday of every month, 9-11 p.m.

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Comedy with Dagmar, open mic comedy. www.thecovememphis.com. Sundays, 7-9 p.m. 2559 BROAD (730-0719).

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Words of Hope, Inspiration, Celebration, hope and healing through poetry. Adult poets can perform one piece of poetry with an uplifting and inspiring message. (415-2764), www.livingbreathingpoetry. com/spartan-city-poetry-club. Free. Sat., Feb. 20, 3-5 p.m. 8457 TRINITY (REGISTRATION, (754-8443).

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Dad School

Expectant dads learn pregnancy basics, how to be supportive during labor, what to expect after the baby comes, and baby care basics. Q&A and eer and refreshments. $85. Fri., Feb. 19, 6-9 p.m. TRILLIUM WOMANCARE, 2610 AUTUMN (292-5354).

Forum on Islam

John Kaltner will conduct a two-part forum on Islam. Kaltner is the Virginia Ballou McGehee Professor of MuslimChristian Relations at Rhodes. Free. Sundays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Through Feb. 28. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 166 POPLAR (525-5619), WWW. FIRSTPRESMEMPHIS.ORG.

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“Memphis: Art and Place”

Mel Chin speaks on topic Thursday. Full slate of discussions will continue on Friday across sites in Memphis including a plenary lecture by Dr. Maria Rosario Jackson. Concludes with a performance of Jazzy Miller’s one-woman show Thirteen on Saturday. See website for full details. Thurs., Feb. 18, 5:30 p.m., Fri., Feb. 19, 9 a.m., and Sat., Feb. 20. RHODES COLLEGE, MCCALLUM BALLROOM OF THE BRYAN CAMPUS LIFE CENTER, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000), WWW.RHODES.EDU.

Munch and Learn

Bring your own lunch; sodas and water will be supplied. Guest speakers talk about various subjects in the Hughes Pavilion. Free with gallery admission. Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Black History Month Day Trippin’ Bus Tours

Start in downtown Memphis and head throughout West Tennessee to learn about African-American heritage. For more information and reservations, call or email heritagetours@bellsouth.net. $40. Tuesdays, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Through Feb. 29. VARIOUS LOCATIONS, CALL FOR INFORMATION (527-3427).

Signs of Spring Walk Participants will meet in the visitor’s center and then walk the garden with Master Gardener Judith Hammond. Free with garden admission. Sun., Feb. 21, 1:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

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Mid-South Sports & Boat Show Fri.-Sun., Feb. 19-21.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (452-2151), WWW.MEMPHISBOATSHOW.COM.

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Oxford Film Festival

Celebrating the art of independent film featuring over 130 quality films from across the globe. $10. Through Feb. 21. DOWNTOWN OXFORD, TOWN SQUARE, OXFORDFILMFEST.COM.

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Black Heritage Tour of Memphis

31st Annual Bowlin’ on the River Bowl-A-Thon

Visit historical black landmarks and learn the real history of the city including Slave Haven, Martyrs Park, Mason Temple, and more. $23-$32. Sun., Feb. 21, 2-5 p.m. W.C. HANDY MUSEUM, 52 BEALE (527-3427).

Participating bowling centers include Billy Hardwick’s All Star Lanes and Winchester Bowl. Proceeds benefit Junior Achievement. Saturdays, Sundays. Through Feb. 28. VARIOUS LOCATIONS, CALL FOR INFORMATION (507-2068), WWW.JAMEMPHIS.ORG.

Let’s Square Dance

Open house for beginners who want to get fit dancing. Saturdays, 7 p.m. Through March 5. BARTLETT UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 5676 STAGE (373-4497).

Rodney Carrington at the Horseshoe Casino Saturday Memphis Roller Derby Amateur women’s flat-track roller-derby league. $10. Sat., Feb. 20, 7-9 p.m.

PIPKIN BUILDING, MID-SOUTH FAIRGROUNDS, MEMPHISROLLERDERBY.COM.

Spring Fishing Classic

Offers sportsmen and women, kids, and families interested in fishing the opportunity to enjoy the latest fishing gear, tips, outdoor celebrities, giveaways, and more. See website for full details. Through Feb. 21. BASS PRO PYRAMID, 1 BASS PRO (291-8200), WWW.BASSPRO.COM.

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Coffee & Conversation with Just City

Join the conversation to learn more about the mission of Just City and the real statistics on crime in Memphis, perception vs. reality. Thurs., Feb. 18, 8 a.m. THE OFFICE@UPTOWN CAFE, 594 N. SECOND, WWW.UWMIDSOUTH.ORG.

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For toddlers to 5 years. Fun-filled stories, music, and movement, nature-inspired art, and adventure hikes in My Big Backyard. Six-class semester price. $45 members-$75 nonmembers. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 10 a.m. Through Feb. 29. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

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UPCOMING SHOWS February 20 | Rodney Carrington

May 28 | Foreigner

March 5 | Merle Haggard

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Multi-lingual Los Angelesbased dance company is dedicated to transforming the world through dance with their newest work, Augua Furiosa, confronting harsh realities of race in our country. $15-$30. Fri., Feb. 19, 6:30-8:15 p.m. THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

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Film reveals impact of Canadian universal healthcare and continuing struggle in the U.S. between fear of government intervention and right to quality health care for all. Facilitated discussion to follow. Free. Wed., Feb. 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

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Kids and kids-at-heart will enjoy cookies, free ice cream with three-bag purchase, and pictures with Cookie Monster. Saturdays, noon-4 p.m. MAKEDA’S COOKIES DOWNTOWN, 488 S. SECOND (644-4511), WWW.MAKEDASCOOKEIS.COM.

Dixon 1970s Family Day

Celebrate the Dixon’s 40th anniversary, 1970s-style. Transport back in time to 1976, the year the Dixon opened its doors. Create groovy art, enjoy far-out music, rad activities, and explore exhibitions. Sat., Feb. 20, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Doktor Kaboom!: Live Wire!

Interactive science comedy show for audiences of all ages blending theater arts with the wonders of scientific exploration. $15-$30. Fri., Feb. 19, 7-8:15 p.m. THE HALLORAN CENTRE, 225 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

Shrine Circus

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Sing Along: The Muppet Movie

Metamorphosis Project

Featuring drinks, appetizers, live auction, and musical performance by Alex da Ponte benefiting the Metamorphosis Project and the MGLCC Youth Services program. $40. Sun., Feb. 21, 4 p.m.

Family-friendly, raucous interactions with the classic, timeless Jim Henson film. Goodie bag purchase includes free admission. Goodie-bag purchase required by everyone. $15. Sat., Feb. 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

MEMPHIS HILTON, 939 RIDGE LAKE (684-6664), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

GERMANTOWN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 1801 EXETER (751-7500), WWW.GPACWEB.COM.

Redbirds Seasonal Job Fair

Flexible hours and schedules, with shifts ranging from four to six hours in length and hourly wages that vary by position. Applicants must be at least 16 years of age. Come ready to interview. Fri., Feb. 19, 3-7 p.m., and Sat., Feb. 20, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

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4th Annual Evergreen Ball and Auction

Featuring food from neighborhood restaurants India Palace, Cafe Society, Midtown Crossing, Mardi Gras, and ECCO, dancing, and silent auction. $60. Sat., Feb. 20, 7-11 p.m. STONEWALL HALL, 1583 OVERTON PARK (406-1182) EVERGREENHISTORICDISTRICT.ORG.

The American Advertising Awards: Decision 2016

Ricky F. Pickler and Paige Turner debate who will win while you eat and drink at the open bar. Winners will be announced live. Sat., Feb. 20, 7 p.m. THE COLUMNS AT ONE COMMERCE SQUARE, 120 MONROE, WWW.THEDECISION2016.COM.

Art After Dark: Movie Night

Celebrate the Dixon’s 40th anniversary with a movie from 1976, Pink Panther Strikes Again directed by Blake Edwards. Light refreshments and cash bar. Thurs., Feb. 18, 6-8 p.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (481-7706), WWW. DIXON.ORG.

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Benefiting Ronald McDonald House of Memphis and presented by Memphis Area Ford Dealers. $20. Through May 18.

Doktor Kaboom!: Live Wire! at the Orpheum Friday For the Love of Haiti

Evening of live music, Haitian food, and artwork benefiting children with disabilities in Haiti. Hosted by the West Tennessee Haiti Partnership. $30. Fri., Feb. 19, 5:30-8 p.m. CHURCH OF THE HOLY COMMUNION, 4645 WALNUT GROVE (767-6987).

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Memphis Film Prize Launch Party

Film competition promoting the creation of great short films shot in Memphis showcasing local talent and providing opportunity for growing the film community through cooperation and competition. Free. Thurs., Feb. 18, 6-9 p.m. LOCAL GASTROPUB, 2126 MADISON (496-0313), MEMPHISFILMPRIZE.COM/.

Submissions for Redefining Home Challenge

Monetary awards will be made to three juried winning entries. The first place winner’s designs will be incorporated into a currently existing home and publicly unveiled. See website for more information and submission guidelines. Through April 19. AIA MEMPHIS OFFICE, 511 S. MAIN (525-3818), AIAMEMPHIS.ORG.

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C A L E N DA R: F E B R UA RY 1 8 - 2 4 “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement”

Interactive exhibit featuring two video archives within a walk-up kiosk combining two media projects and commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Ongoing. NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (5219699), WWW.CIVILRIGHTSMUSEUM.ORG.

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Preaching Series and Waffle Shop

Talks by spiritual leaders from all denominations and a menu featuring waffles and salad plates. Waffle Shop After Dark will be offered every Wed., speaker beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 5:15 p.m., and Tuesdays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Through March 18.

Once in a Lifetime

A history teacher at a French high school teaches lessons of the Holocaust in an effort to motivate her troubled students. Based on a true story. $5 members, $7 nonmembers. Tues., Feb. 23, 7:30-9 p.m.

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Oscar Shorts: Documentary

Opportunity to see the nominated films prior to the 88th Academy Awards ceremony presented in two segments, with a 10-minute intermission. $9. Wed., Feb. 24, 1-4 and 7-10 p.m.

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Come and see all the nominees in the categories of animation, documentary, and live action. Sun., Feb. 21, 3 p.m. MALCO STUDIO ON THE SQUARE, 2105 COURT (725-7151), WWW.ONLOCATIONMEMPHIS.ORG.

Humorous and dramatic rags-to-riches story of Sophie Tucker, the superstar who ruled the worlds of vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television, and Hollywood throughout the 20th century. $5 members, $7 nonmembers. Wed., Feb. 24, 7:309:30 p.m. MALCO RIDGEWAY FOUR, 5853 RIDGEWAY CENTER PARKWAY (761-0810), WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG.

Feature-length documentary presents the broad religious and cultural diversity that is Israel and illustrates how sports can be both metaphor and unifier for the world around it. $5 members, $7 nonmembers. Sun., Feb. 21, 1-2:30 p.m. MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG.

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Bendy Brewski Yoga

Yoga and beer pairing. Beginner-friendly, fun yoga followed by a pint. No experience necessary. No watchasana. $15. Thursdays, 6-8 p.m. HIGH COTTON BREWING CO., 598 MONROE (896-9977).

Joe’s Passport to Oregon

Sample from 24 Oregon wineries and interact with winemakers and winery owners from the Willamette Valley and beyond. $60. Thurs., Feb. 18, 4:30-7 p.m. UNIVERSITY CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 1346 CENTRAL (722-3700).

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See website for more information and guidelines. $10. Through July 15. MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), OUTFLIXFESTIVAL.ORG.

Deli Man

Explores Jewish culture as it reflects the heart of a vital ethnic history. In Houston, Texas, third-generation deli man Ziggy Gruber has built arguably the finest delicatessen restaurant in the U.S. $5 members, $7 nonmembers. Sun., Feb. 21, 6:30-8 p.m. MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG.

Dorothea Lang: Grab a Hunk of Lightning

Explore, through her granddaughter’s eyes, the life story of Dorothea Lange, photographer who captured the iconic “Migrant Mother.” Never-beforeseen photos, film footage, and more. $10. Wed., Feb. 24, 7-9:15 p.m. THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

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The Last Mentsch

Having spent a lifetime concealing his heritage, an aging German Holocaust survivor finally tries to come to terms with his past. $5 members, $7 nonmembers. Sat., Feb. 20, 8-9:30 p.m. MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG.

The Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival

See website for a full lineup, trailers, and to purchase tickets. Opening night will be at the Malco Paradiso with the film Dough. $5 members, $7 nonmembers. Through Feb. 28. MEMPHIS JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, 6560 POPLAR (761-0810), WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Oxford Film Festival 2016 The 13th time is the charm for Mississippi’s biggest film gathering.

T.C. Sharpe in Memphis director G.B. Shannon’s Broke Dick Dog (bottom); Syderek Watson, Marcus Hamilton, and Jose Joiner.

Memphis Connections Bluff City filmmakers will be out in force at this year’s festival. Friday night at 7:45 p.m. is the Mississippi premiere of The Keepers, Sara Kaye Larson and Joann Self Selvidge’s documentary about the people behind the scenes at the Memphis Zoo. It’s another chance for Mid-Southerners to see the film that won Best Documentary at the 2015 Indie Memphis Film Festival, playing to a pair of sold-out crowds. Self Selvidge also codirected the documentary Viola: A Mother’s Story of Juvenile Justice, with Sarah Fleming. The moving short film is just one success story from what is planned to be a feature-length documentary about the Memphis juvenile justice system. Drew Smith’s charming short Snow Day, which, along with Viola, won special jury awards at Indie Memphis, will screen on Friday night, as will Edward Valibus’ music video for Faith Evans Ruch’s “Rock Me Slow,” which will compete in the music video bloc. This year’s Oxford Film Festival will also see the premiere of the first completed film funded by the Memphis Indie Grant program. G.B. Shannon’s short film proposal for Broke Dick Dog won the $5,000 competition in 2014. “The story that it originated from was actually a feature script,” Shannon says. “When the grant came around, I kind of pitched a truncated version of the feature script, which is a road trip movie about this guy who comes home from his mom’s funeral and finds out from a letter she gives him that he has two brothers. Her last wish is for them to track their father down and meet him and give him this letter.” Shannon says truncating the concept from feature length to short helped refine and illuminate the story. The bulk of the action takes place at the ’50s-era offices of radio station WREC. “It’s on 240 around Frayser. continued on page 42

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that has captured the imagination of the current spirits revivalists. Using a number of interviews with Big Easy historians mixed with some careful photographic research and a little snazzy animation, Martin takes the audience all the way back to the dawn of the cocktail age in 1839, when apothecary Antoine Amédée Peychaud first mixed his family’s secret recipe of bitters with brandy, measuring portions with an egg cup known as a coquetier, from which we get the term “cocktail.” The film is detailed and informative, but brief enough that it doesn’t outstay its welcome, which means it will go down easy with one of its titular cocktails. Other films at the opening-night event include Vish by Danny Klimetz, Oxford Canteen by Brett Mizelle and Heather Richie, and a pair of films about barbecue by filmmaker Joe York. “It’s a big eating and movie-watching festival,” Addington says.

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he 13th year of the Oxford Film Festival marks the beginning of a new era for Mississippi’s premier film gathering. Since its inception in 2003, the festival had been run as an all-volunteer organization. But last year, executive director Molly Fergusson, operations director Michelle Emanuel, and hospitality director Diala Chaney decided to hang up their clipboards. The festival had gotten too big and needed a new infusion of support to continue. “When the directors left, the community decided that it was important to continue,” new executive director Melanie Addington says. “The board of directors did some fund-raising to create a full-time position, and that also expanded our sponsorships so we could grow the festival. Basically, we doubled our sponsorships this year as everyone rallied around the idea of letting the festival continue.” Addington takes over as the festival’s first fulltime executive director after more than a decade of volunteering. “I’ve always been a fan of independent film, and I was really glad Oxford had something like this when I moved here. I liked getting involved, and I saw places that I could provide skills I had and help the festival grow. And then I just kept taking on more and more duties, as you do. It’s nice to be doing this full-time instead of on the weekends and instead of sleeping,” she says.

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy continued from page 41 I’d seen it for 20 years, and I always wanted to shoot something there. So when I decided the father was going to be a DJ, I thought oh, we gotta shoot it there. And they were open to it.” Changing the father character to a radio DJ also changed the complexion of the cast. “I know more about classic soul and funk than I do oldies rockand-roll, so I thought it needed to be a soul station. And I’m glad, because it broke me out of my comfort zone, and I got to audition people whom I had never worked with before.” The all-black cast includes great performances from T.C. Sharpe, a veteran of three Craig Brewer films, Jose Joiner, Rosalyn Ross, Syderek Watson, and Marcus Hamilton. “Marcus had never been in anything

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For Lent this year, I’ve given up paying attention to election coverage. Just kidding! Instead of staying engaged, I’m hate-watching “Decision 2016” like it’s the last season of How I Met Your Mother. Hopefully I won’t hate the ending as much. The story lines haven’t changed much since last summer. Ted Cruz is still the poster child for backpfeifengesicht. Seriously. Google “punchable face.” There is actual science behind this. Donald Trump hasn’t run out offensive things to say, nor has he suffered any consequences for saying them. Hillary Clinton hasn’t worn the same pantsuit twice. Jeb Bush? Pretty sure he’s the inspiration for Arrested Development’s Buster Bluth. I’m still waiting for Marco Rubio’s alleged charisma to make its debut. Oh, and Ben Carson’s still out there giving hope to aspiring brain surgeons who are, um, not smart. Somebody call me when someone manages to hold Bernie Sanders down long enough to get a comb through his hair. Or when the primaries are over. Whichever comes first. Election Day is more than eight months away, and I am already over it. It’s going to be a long year, and not because there is an extra day in February. I’m over the constant emails with the ambiguous subject lines, always asking me for a dollar, or $27, like the world’s most persistent panhandlers. I have opened exactly one of these messages, from James Carville, titled “whackadoodles.” Spoiler alert, it wasn’t actually from the Ragin’ Cajun. I only opened it because I wanted to reward the copywriter for capturing my attention. Game recognize game, or something. Then there are the debates. Surely after nine episodes of the GOP Clown Car Hour, the candidates must be weary of trying to think of new and innovative ways to express how much they hate Obama, Muslims, women, minorities, immigrants, taxes, and poor people, and love guns, Jesus, corporations, and Reagan. We get it. Yet there are three more scheduled. Might I suggest a Thunderdome format? Or the Eliminator from American Gladiators? Let’s just get this thing over with already. Of course the Democratic debates are more substantial in terms of policy discussion — there are only two candidates. They still have to talk it out a dozen times, though, so every network gets a piece. And the debates are no more illuminating or informative unless you consider the number of millennials who probably had to Google “Henry Kissinger” during the last one. Because he’s relevant in 2016. Thanks for reminding us how old you are, Bern and Hillz! Your Snapchats and emoji tweets are bae and so on fleek, it’s easy to mistake you for fellow youths. Thanks to the internet, social media, and TV news, we have rapid access to just about everything there is to know about every candidate. Why is it that, when technological advancements have streamlined and simplified every other facet of life, national elections take longer and longer? That’s a rhetorical question, of course. It’s money. It’s always money. Ted Cruz was the first to declare his candidacy last March, and it wasn’t to give us extra time to learn to like him. No, he needed to start raising money. Because running for president is really, really expensive. Which contradicts the whole idea of government being “by the people” and “for the people.” Good thing that line is from the Gettysburg Address, not the Constitution, or we’d be in big trouble. Candidates spent more than $70 million on advertisements in Iowa, a state that is 90 percent white and one that has little impact on the outcome of the general election. It derives its “importance” from the fact that its caucus system is so complex and convoluted it has to go first. Local businesses — restaurants, hotels, coffee shops and the like — reap economic benefits. All together, the candidates spent $27,000 on pizza. That’s a lot of pepperonis. Jeb Bush spent $15 million in Iowa and placed sixth. If I were him, I would have bought fewer ads and more pizza. Instead he went and spent more than $30 million in New Hampshire. He placed fourth! These are supposed to be the “fiscal responsibility” guys! Think of all the problems $30 million would solve. The amount losing candidates spent in that tiny state could have bought new pipes for the entire city of Flint, Michigan. The longer the election takes, the more it costs. That’s why everyone who runs for president is either a millionaire or a corporate puppet, or is constantly in your email begging for money. Or all of the above. It’s the American way, until it’s no longer profitable. Jen Clarke is an unapologetic Memphian and digital marketing strategist.

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MURPHY’S

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Largest Martial Arts Supplier Since 1979

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BUCCANEER LOUNGE since 1967 2/18: Detective Bureau 2/19: Upper Middle (Nashville), Toy Trucks 2/20: Delta Nomads 5-7pm, The Maytags, Karen Meat & The Computer 2/22: MArk Bryan 5-7pm 2/22: Devil Train 2/23: Dave Cousar

1368 MONROE • 278-0909

DOG GROOMER IN TRAINING I will groom your small to medium size dog for free in exchange for the experience it will offer me. Call Judy 901-491-4391.

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Hair Weave 1/2 price, Dreads 25% Off Spa Package: Mani/Pedi $30, Facials $15. Call for appt, walk-in welcome. M-F, 9a-6p. 7 N. Third | 901.292.8835. Specials with this ad only.

14th ANNUAL SOUTHERN HOTWING FESTIVAL

$5000 Cash Prize to Grand Champion! Sat. April 23, 2016 at Mississippi River Park & Riverside Dr. Benefiting the Ronald McDonald House. Kids Get in Free! www.southernhotwingfestival.com

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