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OUR 1513TH ISSUE 02.22.18 Remember all that racial tension and the resultant marches and protests and outrage at the University of Missouri a couple years back? There were reports of a swastika painted on a door and of black students being racially harassed. Students went on the march. Protests spread on campus. Social media was filled with stories about local cops marching with the Ku Klux Klan. A photo of a bleeding young black man was circulated with the claim that local police had beaten him. The football team went on strike. The university president resigned. I wrote a column at the time wondering what on earth was going on at my alma mater. Well, according to a report released late last week in Strategic Studies Quarterly, many of the more outrageous claims on social media during the unrest in 2015 were being initiated and reposted by — wait for it — Russian bots. The Russian troll farmers ran a bot operation, perhaps as a test, to heighten tensions and escalate unrest at Mizzou. The cops didn’t march with the Klan. The photo of the young man was a fake. The report, written by Lieutenant Colonel Jarred Prier of the United States Air Force, documents how the false social media posts contributed to the fear and anxiety on campus. Prier wrote about how the bots avoided detection in part by using an existing hashtag, #PrayforMizzou, to spread fake news and disinformation which were then reposted by students and others in the community. According to another article about the Russian bots at Mizzou in Inside Higher Ed, university officials repeatedly appealed for calm and stressed that they could not confirm some of the reports coming in, but this “took place at a time when many black leaders on campus and in the state were not feeling trust in the university.” Huh, wonder why. Score another one for the Russian “hoax.” Folks, we have got to get a handle on this Russian situation. We are at war. There were no bombs or missiles or tanks, but we have been invaded — and we’re being invaded as I type this. The heads of the FBI, the CIA, and the NSA all testified to Congress this month on the extent of the Russian hacking in this country — and warned that it was going to continue. And just last week, Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued indictments to 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies for their involvement in the 2016 presidential election. The indictments detailed a troll farm hacking operation that was spending millions of dollars a month, with hundreds of employees, many using fake U.S. IDs. The Russians even set up demonstrations and counter-demonstrations, working with unwitting campaign workers to create chaos and dissension and spread false information. And what was the response to this threat to our democracy and national sovereignty from President Donald Trump, the man charged with the responsibility to protect and defend the country? Several tweets assuring us that he was innocent of collusion with the Russians. And another tweet disparaging the FBI for spending time on the Russian investigation instead of monitoring the Florida school shooter. Essentially, when it comes to fighting the Russian threat, we are leaderless. No one is in charge. Trump has not issued a single response that shows he is taking the Russian invasion as anything but a personal affront. He’s taking it about as seriously as he does allegations from porn stars and Playboy bunnies. Which is to say, he’s ignoring it. He has support, of course — from the NRA (also being investigated by the FBI for possibly funneling Russian money into the 2016 campaign) — and from his friends at Fox News and various right-wing websites. And he has tacit support from Republican Congressional and Senate leaders, who are complicit by their continued inaction and silence. So, here are the teams: On one side, N E WS & O P I N I O N you have Trump and his enablers, Fox THE FLY-BY - 4 NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 News, the NRA, and Vladimir Putin POLITICS - 7 and his spy network. On the other side, EDITORIAL - 8 you have Mueller, the FBI, the NSA, VIEWPOINT - 9 the CIA, and the U.S. Department of COVER - “SO CHEESY!” Justice. Which side do you think is BY MICHAEL DONAHUE more likely to have our national interest & SUSAN ELLIS - 10 at heart? WE RECOMMEND - 14 If you’re a fan of that first team MUSIC - 16 up there, look at your roster and ask AFTER DARK - 18 yourself why all these guys are playing CALENDAR - 22 BAR REPORT - 31 together. If you’re rooting for the other SPIRITS - 33 team, well, stay woke. The game of our FILM - 34 lives is afoot. C L AS S I F I E D S - 36 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 39 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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DAM M IT, GAN N ETT Has the time come for your Pesky Fly to just give up and rename this whole column “Dammit, Gannett”? This week’s atrocities at USA Today’s Memphis Commercial Appeal include running the same obituary for two different men. It’s possible, of course, that Jerry Lynn Gunn of Oakland, TN, lived a strange parallel life with Tom Manning of Cherokee Village, AR. It’s conceivable that both were Navy men born on October 8, 1942, in San Francisco and that they shared the name Jerry Lynn Gunn. But that almost never happens.

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And then there’s this masterfully crafted “First thoughts on Memphis 2018 football schedule” tweet, which reads, “This year’s schedule is much more friendlier getting people to show up and avoiding the Tigers have to do a quick turnaround like last year.”

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E I G HT C O U LD B E S ET FO R E X EC UTI O N Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery asked the Tennessee Supreme Court last week to set execution dates for eight Tennessee death row inmates and to set them before June 1st. The request originally came from the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC), which Slatery said is “required by law to carry out death sentences by lethal injection.” But getting that done after June 1st is “uncertain,” Slatery said, “due to the ongoing difficulty in obtaining the necessary lethal injection chemicals.” Most of the death row inmates were convicted more than 30 years ago. One of the men, Donnie Johnson, was convicted in Shelby County for murder in 1985. M U R ALS G ET R EVI EW Mayor Jim Strickland ordered a stay on painting over murals last week to give Paint Memphis leaders a chance to ask the Memphis City Council to change their minds on many mural projects. City officials unintentionally painted over seven Paint Memphis murals two weeks ago. Council member had deemed some of them offensive, even “satanic.” Paint Memphis director Karen Golightly was slated to talk at city hall on Tuesday. TVA LIVI N G “H I G H O N TH E H O G” Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) officials confirmed last week that they have spent about $30 million over the last three years on corporate jets, airplanes, and a “Mercedes-Benz-style helicopter.” Since 2015, TVA has bought two Cessna Citation Excel jets, one for $11.2 million and another for $10.6 million, according to Jim Hopson, TVA’s manager of public relations. Hopson said TVA bought a $6.9 million helicopter, one with hardwood floors and an interior meant to look like a Merceds-Benz. He explained the aircraft promotes safety, serving the Tennessee Valley, and economic development.

But the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE), the group that originally reported the purchases, said they look like they are actually for “fat cat bureaucrats living high on the hog at the expense of electric ratepayers.” C O M PTR O LLE R O K AYS PAR KS SALE After investigating Memphis’ December sale of two public parks, the state comptroller’s office announced last week that the city’s actions were in accordance with the law. Lt. Gov. Randy McNally (R-Oak Ridge) and House Speaker Beth Harwell (R-Nashville) requested that the comptroller’s office determine if the city acted in compliance with the Tennessee Open Meetings Act. The review showed that the Memphis City Council did give sufficient notice of its meetings and agendas and did not violate the state open meeting laws. Bruce McMullen, the city’s chief legal officer, said, “The state audit reinforces what we have stated all along — the sale of the parks and statues was proper and legal.” MAR C H ES F I N D S P I R IT O F ’68 Exactly 50 years after the 1968 sanitation workers began their strike and marched from Clayborn Temple to Memphis City Hall, hundreds gathered in Memphis to march the same route last week. As the mass of marchers made their way through the streets of downtown, stepping to the rhythm of a small marching band, they chanted, holding picket boards resembling those carried in 1968. The marchers, who were from two dozen cities around the Mid-South, were demanding $15-an-hour minimum wage and fair working conditions. Fuller versions of these stories and even more local news can be found on The News Blog at memphisflyer.com.

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The city wants to redevelop the northern part of the Fairgrounds into a private mixed-use space with retail stores and a hotel, and it’s looking for someone who can pull that off. City officials issued a request for qualification (RFQ) last week, seeking a developer who can transform the 19 grassy acres that front Central. Near the hotel and retail spaces, the city intends to construct a 500-spot parking garage that would be available for game day parking and could house a small bus transfer station for Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) passengers. Through the RFQ, the city is also accepting concepts for reactivating the Mid-South Coliseum, which has been vacant for close to a decade. As the city previously announced, the centerpiece of the Fairgrounds redevelopment is a 22-acre youth sports and event complex slated for the southwest corner of the site, which the city is currently designing. Proposed to be a“first-class competition facility,” costing between $60 and $80 million, the complex would house indoor playing courts and a track, as well as space for trade shows and other special events. Youth sports competitions can bring up to 1 million people annually to a city, according to Paul Young, director of the city’s Housing and Community Development (HCD) division. “And it’s not so much what happens in the build-

ing, it’s more of what happens in the area around it,” Young said. Based on a preliminary analysis done by Sports Facilities Advisory, the new complex would likely have 77 events in its first year resulting in about 66,000 hotel stays, and an economic impact of close to $27 million. The city also plans to renovate the Creative Arts building that sits directly north from the proposed sports complex. The building will be turned into a museum similar to St. Louis’ City Museum featuring “an eclectic mix of found objects transformed into

The youth sports complex proposal climbable structures.” To fund the redevelopment, the city is in the process of pursuing a Tourism Development Zone (TDZ) so that tax revenue collected in the three-square-mile zone around the Fairgrounds can be allocated toward the project. The city plans to submit an application for TDZ approval to the State Building Commission by June, and officials expect to receive approval before the end of September. Construction on the sports complex could begin as early as April 2019. Other components of the redevelopment will be completed within 10 years after the initial construction begins. According to the RFQ, the goal of the redevelopment is to “build on the legacy and existing attributes of this historic site,” while creating jobs, attracting tourists, and filling a retail deficit in the area. “Often times we forget about the fact that when we’re able to draw large numbers of people to spend time in our community, to lay eyes on our community, that helps with economic development,” Young said. Developers have until Friday, March 23rd to respond to the RFQ. The responses should note relevant project experience, preliminary concepts, and financial capacity. From there, those selected will be able to participate in the city’s Request for Proposals early this summer, in order to further develop their initial ideas.

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One deadline down for the Election 2018 cycle. All candidates who will be running in the May 1st Democratic or Republican primaries for a variety of countywide positions managed to get their petitions into the Shelby County Election Commission and validated by last Thursday’s noon deadline. The next deadline, for candidates having second thoughts to withdraw, is this Thursday, a week later. Beyond that, there is a deadline of April 5th for candidates wishing to run in the August primaries for state and federal offices. That deadline also applies to independents wanting to run in the August 2nd countywide general election. As usual, there were some last-minute surprises in Thursday’s filings. Chris Thomas, the former Probate Court clerk, qualified to run against his successor, Paul Boyd, in the GOP primary, thereby hoping to correct the error he made eight years ago when he opted against reelection, apparently assuming that the growth of the local Democratic demographic, as of the 2010 cycle, made his return to office impossible. Thomas guessed wrong. In an upset pattern that continued for the next several county elections, the Republicans swept the 2010 county elections. Boyd replaced Thomas, who meanwhile ran successfully for the Shelby County Commission, where he served the better part of two terms before leaving to pursue other livelihoods. Other candidates for Probate Court clerk are Republican George “Dempsy” Summer, Democrat Bill Morrison (currently serving on the Memphis City Council), and independent Jennings Bernard. Another last-minute entry was that of Wanda Halbert, a veteran of the old Memphis School Board and of the Memphis City Council, as a Democrat for county clerk. That office is being sought by two other Democrats, Jamal Whitlow and Mondell B. Williams, and four Republicans, Arnold Lee Weiner, Donna Creson, Maurice Denbow, and Sohelia N. Kail. There were no great changes in previously reported races, including the closely watched one for county mayor, which features Republicans Terry Roland, David Lenoir, and Joy Touliatos,

and Democrats Lee Harris and Sidney Chism. (Independents Charles Nelson and Thorne Peters will also be on the ballot.) Sheriff candidates include Democrats Bennie Cobb and Floyd Bonner, with Dale Lane the only Republican running. Vontyna Durham White, the candidate for the Shelby County Commission District 10 seat who originally filed as a Democrat, withdrew that petition last week, following criticism from Democratic party members that she had accompanied Republican mayoral candidate Roland as a supporter on his visit to the Election Commission office to pick up a mayoral petition. But White, who re-filed for the commission seat as an independent, still has a live petition for a position on the state Democratic executive committee. The Democrats’ primary board was scheduled to meet this week to consider White’s viability for the committee seat. Lee Mills, the acting chairman of the Shelby County Republican Party, sounded a note of caution to his party members last week at a meeting of the Lunch Hour Republicans at Owen Brennan’s Restaurant. Obviously hoping to counter any sense of overconfidence, Mills foresaw more contested circumstances at the polls this time around, in which Democrats are contesting every one of the 13 positions on the Shelby County Commission (often with multiple candidates in their primary) and seem certain to have nominees with substantial financial support and name recognition in this year’s statewide races. Mills had this to say: “Since 2010, we’ve been lucky in Shelby County. Thanks to the leadership we’ve had, we’ve had good organization and we’ve had good candidates. The Democrats, on the other hand, have had just the opposite. They haven’t had good candidates and they haven’t had good organization. But for the first time in a long time, they have both of those things. They have a good organization. They have a good leader. And they have decent candidates at the top that’ll drive all the way down to the bottom. So we have got to turn our voters out.” Mills’ warning came just before Shelby County’s Republicans will hold their Lincoln Day banquet on Saturday evening at the University of Memphis Holiday Inn, featuring North Carolina’s U.S. Senator Tim Scott as speaker.

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Council Duplicity Are they kidding? There can be several legitimate arguments adduced for and against the process of voting known as both Instant Runoff Voting and Ranked Choice Voting, but the Memphis City Council’s current campaign against the process has gone way out of bounds. It was strange enough that the council found it necessary late last year to authorize a public citywide referendum on whether Ranked Choice Voting — to use the term adopted by county election administrator Linda Phillips and the County Election Commission — should be allowed the trial run in the 2019 city election that was authorized by the commission. The process was overwhelmingly approved by Memphis voters in a 2008 referendum, and only a period of uncertainty as to whether the Shelby County election machines could accommodate RCV had delayed implementation. In scheduling the 2019 trial run, Phillips provided assurances that the machines now in use were sufficient. The point of Ranked Choice Voting, already in use in several places in the United States, is to make unnecessary the expensive, inconveniently scheduled, and low-turnout runoff elections that occur when the first round of an election race has failed to yield a majority winner. Voters are presented with ballots that allow them to rank their preferences in order — usually for only three places. Should no majority winner emerge, the ballots are progressively resampled, with no change in the voters’ data, to produce an eventual outcome in which one candidate demonstrates enough support, across the board, to be adjudged a legitimate winner. On a smaller scale, this is the process by which Academy Award winners are

chosen by the Motion Picture Academy. Not only has the council chosen to try to prevent the fair trial by voting to schedule a follow-up referendum on Ranked Choice Voting this November, it has confused the issue with spurious and easily disproven claims — comparing the RCV process to the old Jim Crow poll tax, for example, as Councilman Ed Ford did in a recent public appearance. Worse, the council has further complicated and confused things (perhaps intentionally) by scheduling a second referendum for November — this one abolishing all runoffs of any kind. If successful, this would abandon the idea of consensus winners and leave us governed by candidates who, like Donald Trump in the multi-candidate 2016 Republican primaries, manage to eke out mere pluralities. Meanwhile the council that has theoretically arranged for Memphis voters to take a second-chance vote on RCV this fall has chosen to use our taxpayer money to pay a Nashville lobbying firm to work on behalf of a state law in the current legislative session that would ban the use of Ranked Choice Voting statewide. Should such a law pass, the referendum would be rendered null and void. “Duplicity” almost seems too mild a term to describe this action. Do current council members fear that RCV, by insuring that closely contested election results can be resolved by the votes of a full electorate, might be a threat to their incumbency? We’re betting yes.

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party to jettison years of tradition — fealty to the FBI and respect for state secrets — and back the president? Some of it has to do with political opportunism. The GOP is now the party of Trump. If he goes down, it goes down. McCarthyism was the product of seismic shifts in world events. In the postwar period, the Soviet Union expanded into Eastern Europe and successfully tested an atomic bomb, while communists also took control in China. Similarly, today’s nuttiness is more than a reflection of mere politics. It is the emotional and knee-jerk conservative reaction to unwelcome change. During the McCarthy era, the Soviet Union’s colonization of Eastern Europe, its scientific successes, and the triumph of the Chinese communists were ascribed to treasonous conspiracies here. There was a smidgen of truth to that. The Soviet atomic program had indeed been aided by American and British traitors, but the Harry S. Truman administration had not “lost” China, as McCarthy and others charged. The Soviet Union was also not as scientifically backward as many Americans thought. It was capable of building an atomic bomb on its own. Today, conservatives reel from jarring cultural changes such as the widespread acceptance of same-sex marriage and tussles over who gets to use what bathroom. Competition from abroad and the encroachment of automation have cost jobs — while, at the same time, immigrants have become the functional equivalent of communists. To conservatives, the present feels unfamiliar and the future appears frightening. Something has gone wrong. Trump said he would make America great again — “again” being the past posing as the future. Ultimately, McCarthy overreached when he attacked the Army, accusing it of harboring communists. Trump may have overreached by going after the FBI. McCarthy threatened to attack his fellow GOP senators if they opposed him. Trump intimates as much. Over time, however, McCarthy’s weird behavior put steel in the spine of his colleagues, and they turned against him. The GOP of today is acting like the GOP of old, and moderate Republicans are once again running scared. History can indeed repeat itself. McCarthy, an alcoholic, wrecked himself, but I wouldn’t count on Trump doing the same. This time around, the voters will have to act. Otherwise, political cowards will carry the day. Richard Cohen writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.

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From time to time, the Republican Party goes off the rails. It did so back in the McCarthy period in the 1950s, when it either failed to stand up to the demagogic Wisconsin senator and/or cheered him on in the name of anti-communism. It did so just recently when it elevated Hillary Clinton from political opponent to absolute evil. And it is doing so now, by attempting to purge the FBI and the Justice Department of officials who, for some reason, are restrained in their enthusiasm for President Trump. These Republicans see plots where others see only common sense and a dedication to duty. McCarthyism was a cure for which there was no disease. Domestic communism was no threat to America by the time Joseph McCarthy joined the Senate in 1947. To meet the threat, he first had to invent it. He proclaimed the State Department was rife with communists, giving precise numbers — sometimes 205, sometimes 57, sometimes 81. He was promiscuous in his accusations of treason, once blaming the entire Democratic Party. “Twenty years of treason,” he said. Many in the GOP applauded. Many in the Democratic Party cowered. Things are far different now, of course. Breaking with tradition, Republicans have taken on the FBI, which — especially under longtime director J. Edgar Hoover — gladly served the needs of the GOP. Hoover passed classified information to McCarthy and his counsel, Roy Cohn, who in later years became Trump’s mentor and lawyer and was eventually disbarred before his death in 1986. Trump says he misses Cohn to this day. Today’s McCarthy figure is not a mere senator, but the president. Still, the modus operandi is similar. McCarthy railed against communists in government, and Trump and his allies inveigh against something called “the deep state.” As it was in the 1950s, they allege that the government has been seized by some nefarious force and is the enemy of the people. What’s more, Trump is, like McCarthy was, a liar. After a while, though, McCarthy, in the view of historian David M. Oshinsky — his A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy ought to be required reading — came to believe in his cause. An anti-communism that started out as political opportunism and a way to discredit Democrats became an obsession. Trump, however, believes in nothing. His intent is to derail the investigation of special counsel Robert S. Mueller. Trump’s cause is Trump. So, what is it that has compelled other members of Trump’s

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So Cheesy!

Behind the Scenes at Pancho’s Cheese Dip Factory.

Tim Wallace

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We Rate 6 Local Dips. “Pancho Man” is the guy with the big mustache and sombrero on the cartons of Pancho’s cheese dip. Tim Wallace, who also sports a mustache, is the other Pancho Man. He’s president of Pancho’s manufacturing plant and the man who keeps the Pancho’s South Memphis cheesedip operation running smoothly. You might say Wallace lives and breathes Pancho’s. “I can’t go into a grocery store without turning the face of the Pancho Man out,” he says. “I run the dayto-day operations of the whole company,” Wallace said. “I’m the salesman. I’m the whole nine yards. You might say,” he grins, “that I’m the big cheese.” Wallace began working for Pancho’s in 10 1988, and was responsible for introducing

“I run the day-to-day operations of the whole company,” Wallace said. “I’m the salesman. I’m the whole nine yards. You might say,” he grins, “that I’m the big cheese.”

the brand’s white cheese dip and the chipotle cheese dip. He also scaled down the plant and helped create new machinery to make more dip — and make it faster. Wallace also created the cheese dip’s “Best Dip on the Planet” slogan. “We actually have that trademarked. We were ‘liquid gold’ before Velveeta took it. We just never trademarked it.” Clemmie and Morris Berger, both deceased, opened the first Pancho’s Mexican restaurant in 1956 in West Memphis. They also owned the legendary Plantation Inn club, also in West Memphis. The current West Memphis Pancho’s stands on the site of the Plantation Inn. Wallace says the company’s origin story is a simple one: “The family took a

trip to Mexico, and when they came back, they said, ‘We’re going to open a Mexican restaurant.’” Brenda O’Brien, Morris Berger’s daughter, says her father was also the creator of “Pancho Man.” O’Brien says she was with him when he made the first drawing. “Daddy wanted to get a mascot for the restaurant. Daddy could draw really well.” Early on, Pancho’s featured cheese dip with their chips on the menu. “Cheese dip is not a Mexican dish,” Wallace says. “If you Google it, you’re going to see some historians say it started in 1935 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. And then you’re going to find just as many historians who say, ‘No, it started in 1956 at Pancho’s in West

The Flyer staff ranks six local dips. Somehow, someway cheese dip has come to work its way into Memphians’ imaginations with an almost barbecue-like intensity. Specifically, Pancho’s Cheese Dip. A Twitter search reveals folks eating Pancho’s for breakfast, fantasies involving a Pancho’s bath, declarations of devotion wide and deep. Hi-Tone had a Pancho’s fountain for New Year’s Eve. Arkansas lays claim as the birthplace of cheese dip (not to be mistaken for queso). As the story goes, it was invented by an Irish man in the 1930s. Nowadays, there’s the World Cheese Dip Championship held each fall at the Clinton library in Little Rock. Interestingly enough, Pancho’s also swears they invented cheese dip. (See accompanying story.) Is Pancho’s all that? We decided to see for ourselves. We dug deep on this one, ranking six local cheese dips: Pancho’s Original Cheese Dip; Pancho’s White Cheese Dip; Tom’s Tiny Kitchen Chipotle Bacon; Tom’s Tiny Kitchen No So Spicy Thai; Tom’s Tiny Kitchen Classic White; and El Terrifico Tamale Co. White Cheese Dip. We judged the dips on taste/flavor, texture/consistency, aroma/color and appearance, and spice/seasoning. Service journalism at its finest, y’all. Ranked from favorite to least favorite:

Pancho’s Original

Pancho’s White Cheese Dip

Tom’s Tiny Kitchen Chipotle Bacon

Tom’s Tiny Kitchen Not So Spicy Thai

1. Pancho’s Original No surprise here. Like a newborn can crawl up its mother’s belly for the nipple, our crew instinctively recognized this classic much-loved dip. “I know this dip. My heart knows this dip,” wrote one of our raters. “I think this is Pancho’s, so it’s the best,” said another. More: “Yeller/orange, almost a clockwork orange.” “Perfect. Cheesy.” “Ideal.” “Straight-ahead what you’d expect from a good-ass Memphis cheese dip.”

Tom’s Tiny Kitchen Classic White

2. Tom’s Tiny Kitchen Classic White A new contender to the dip wars, Tom’s Tiny Kitchen introduced three dips to the market last spring: Classic White, No So Spicy Thai, and Chipotle Bacon. Classic White ranked second in our tasting, with its seasoning getting the most praise. “Actually tastes like something,” said one ranker. “Yum!,” went another. “Best to me,” noted one of our crew.

El Terrifico Tamale Co. White Cheese Dip

3. Tom’s Tiny Kitchen Chipotle Bacon Most notable for its bacon flavor. “Spicy, smoky, like country ham. For a country boy, country ham = f*ckin’ good,” enthused a ranker. Another wrote the dip’s prominent bacon flavor was a game-changer. “Odd at first, but tasty!” and “Gets on my chip nicely,” said another. More: “Robust and tasty — best of the bunch.” 4. Tom’s Tiny Kitchen Not So Spicy Thai Close on the heels of the number-three Chipotle Bacon, the Not So Spicy Thai got points for its texture and palate-pleasing spiciness. “Not too thick, not too thin,” commented one ranker. “Like the hot seasoning,” said another. One said the spice level was “right on.” One said it was “model thin” but with a “nice tang.” 5. El Terrifico Tamale Co. White Cheese Dip This dip is used on Corky’s barbecue nachos. It’s a beast, with a viscous consistency like cake batter. One wrote, “Total chip breaker.” Though most noted the thickness, many didn’t mind it.

Memphis.’” Wallace says. Della Gonzales, whom the Bergers brought back with them from Mexico, was the cook who came up with the cheese dip. Over the years, Pancho’s restaurant franchises kept expanding over the MidSouth, and all of them served the cheese dip. Now, only two Pancho’s restaurants remain: one in West Memphis and one on Summer Avenue at White Station in Memphis. Pancho’s began manufacturing its cheese dip in the late 1970s, Wallace says, adding that it used to come in a “little cardboard container.” These days, the dip, now packaged in plastic containers, is big business. “We’ve increased our business 20 percent each

year for the last five years,” Wallace says. “We’re in 18 states now. We just went into Michigan. All of Michigan’s Sam’s Clubs. Fifteen years ago, a guy told me that we would never go past Forrest City, Arkansas. I just laughed. We’re in every Walmart, every grocery store in the state of Arkansas. We’re in Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, part of Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia.” Wallace isn’t planning on stopping at 18 states. “We want to be all over the place. And you know what we’re going to do? We’re going to do it right here in Memphis.” The Memphis plant still makes taco

meat, beans, rice, and gravy for the two restaurants, but four days a week, it concentrates on one product — cheese dip. “We’re a family-run business. We’re a small business. And we’re trying to keep it simple,” Wallace says. “We’re just trying to concentrate on what we do best.” So what makes Pancho’s Cheese Dip so good? Wallace is glad you asked. “What makes our cheese dip so superior is that we just put cheese in it. We don’t do fillers and additives and junk. I have people call me all the time: ‘Hey, I got this additive that you can put in your cheese dip and you can add more water.’” None of that for Wallace. No thickening agents, either. “We use a high-quality cheese. It’s ‘extra melt American process.’

And I promise you, as long as I’m breathing air, we’ll never change our recipe.” And that recipe, as you might guess, is a trade secret. “If you pulled up ‘Pancho’s’ on the Internet,” Wallace says, “you’ll see hundreds of people, thousands of people, say, ‘I’ve got the recipe.’ Trust me. They do not have the recipe. They can get it close, but they’re always leaving out a couple of key ingredients.” Is there a secret ingredient? “Yes. There’s a secret ingredient.” And, as you also might guess, it’s going to remain a secret. continued on page 12

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6. Pancho’s White Cheese Dip Surprising last-place finish for this name brand (though voting was close). The issue was consistency and flavor, though the damning among all these dips amounted to faint praise. One summed it up, “I like a thick dip, but not with this flavor.”

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Seventeen years ago, Wallace came up with the white cheese dip. “It’s just a white cheese versus a yellow cheese. It doesn’t taste the same because it doesn’t have tomatoes in it. I make it a little bit thicker.” Pancho’s came out with a chipotle cheese dip a year and a half ago. “It’s got just a little bit of a smoky flavor to it,” says Wallace. “And it has that kick that says, ‘Mmmm. Wait a minute. This is a little spicy.’” Pancho’s goes through a truckload of cheese every week, Wallace says. “An 18 wheeler.” Each week, 70,000 to 100,000 cups of dip are made — in 8-, 16-, and 32-ounce cups. You might think this would take a massive factory with hundreds of employees, but you’d be wrong. “I’ve got 10 employees back there,” Wallace says. The company originally used fivepound blocks of cheese, which came six to a box. People had to take the blocks out of the box and other people had to grind it. “I was thinking, ‘Why don’t we just get a 40-pound block — one block — open the box, cut it, grind it?” A supplier developed a 45-pound block of cheese for Wallace. “It simplified the process, and it made the quality of the cheese better because it was bigger volume. The consistency didn’t do anything but improve.” Wallace came up with other time-savers. “I started looking at a cheese-grinding machine, so we didn’t have to grind it by hand. So, I got some big old machines over here that I stuff with 45-pound blocks. It grinds it in five seconds. We were probably doing 3,000 tubs a day before. We’re doing 16,000 to 17,000 tubs a day now. “All of our food is cooked in these pressurized kettles,” Wallace says, pointing to a batch of white cheese dip. “We’ve got two steam agitators in there to mix and to process it. It’s a steam jacketed kettle. It’s a unique design.” Spices are added after the cheese melts. “When the blue lights comes on, that’s letting them know that the cheese is ready.” The cheese then goes to a holding pot before it goes into a “heat exchange”

Julia Eason (below) with containers stamped with “Pancho Man,” the mascot for the famous cheese dip.

machine that Wallace and Howard Jones, who works at the plant, created. The heat exchange cools the dip before it goes into the refill machine, so it won’t splatter around the rim of the carton after the dip is poured into the containers. “I have a new machine coming midMarch that’ll do two cups at a time,” Wallace says. “Two lanes!” Kelly Robinson, a native Memphian who moved to Portland in 2016, is a die-hard Pancho’s cheese dip fan. Whenever he visits his home town, he packs dip in his carry-on when he flies back to Portland. “I don’t leave Tennessee without it,” he says. “I usually take two or three. They freeze, so they can keep for a while.” A caterer, Robinson said he likes the dip because it’s “a cold cheese dip.” And, he says, “I’ve eaten it my entire life. It reminds me of my childhood.” And it’s true, Memphians love Pancho’s. Wallace likes to tell about the time the Food Channel did a story on their cheese dip. The producer and her team went to a Kroger store in Germantown to film. “The manager came in, and they said, ‘What does Pancho’s mean to Kroger?’” Wallace says. “He said, ‘Are you kidding me? It’s right behind milk.’” — Michael Donahue

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In a 2017 column titled “What the Hell Is Flute Rap and Why Is It So Good,” GQ called Future’s “Mask Off ” both the “best song in the world” and “one of the strangest songs to hit the radio in a long time.” What made the Atlanta rapper’s song so great and so strange at the same time? According to the mystified writer it was an unexpectedly “banging” flute sample lifted from the original cast recording of a seldom produced Broadway musical called Selma, a 1970s-era funk and gospel-laden fantasia reflecting on the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Future wasn’t the first artist to dig a copy of Tony Butler’s musical out of a used record bin and give it an afterlife. Samples also show up in tracks by Method Man and King Little G. For a piece of musical theater that fell through the cracks, Selma, and its banging flute, has reached a lot of contemporary ears. Now the Hattiloo Theatre is dusting off the source material to see how a blunt, badly-reviewed musical that toured during America’s self-congratulatory bicentennial year speaks to audiences in 2018. “We’re using masks,” says Selma director and choreographer Emma Crystal, explaining how she’s made the most of a 12-person cast — and pop culture. Butler’s idiosyncratic musical tells the story of the Montgomery bus boycott using a mix of historical figures and allegorical archetypes like Sheriff Barnside and James Crow. “He starts the play out with the sanitation workers strike in Memphis even though that didn’t happen until years later,” Crystal says. “I guess theatrically it worked for him.” Crystal says she also took a bit of license. “The show is supposed to end with ‘We Shall Overcome.’ I was just tired of hearing that every February because we ARE overcoming. So I chose ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ to give it a little swing at the end.” “SELMA” AT THE HATTILOO FEBRUARY 23RD-MARCH 18TH. $26-$35. HATTILOO.ORG

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An Evening of Irish Whiskey Tasting Celtic Crossing, 7 p.m., $40 A tasting of four Irish whiskeys with light hors d’oeuvres.

Creedence Clearwater Revisited Horseshoe Casino, 8 p.m. $47-$67 A concert by this iconic group.

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Magic Men Live! Minglewood Hall, 7 p.m., $24.99 and up Interactive dancing with a ticketed meet and greet after the show. “The Laser Show” Playhouse on the Square, 6-8 p.m. Opening reception for new works by Adam Hawk.

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Women Who Rock I.T. Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 11 a.m., $15 A talk featuring women in the technology industry. Includes Jackie Lucas, CIO of Regional One.

The Race between the Bridges Big River Crossing, 9 a.m. A series of three bike races making a loop via the Big River Crossing through Arkansas and downtown Memphis.

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There’s a moment near the very beginning of Marvel’s Black Panther film when the camera pans up to show all the citizens who’ve come out to see Prince T’Challa’s elevation to the throne of Wakanda. It’s a colorful moment of pure Afrofuturist eye-candy as the camera scans up a cliff-face dotted with people wearing every color of the visible spectrum. The movie’s costumes are a pan-African blend of tropes and style mixing sci-fi profiles with traditional fabrics and accessories. It’s difficult to imagine a fashion-forward hit this big won’t make an impression on ready-to-wear, making the Brooks Museum’s timing just about perfect for the opening of a remarkable, eye-popping exhibit assertively titled “African Print Art Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style.” “African Print Art Now!” is a comprehensive exhibit collecting samples from more than 100 archival cloth patterns in addition to runway videos, a collection of black-and-white portraits from the golden age of African studio photography, and related work by contemporary visual artists. “African print designs have been an important way of expressing political views, social values, and popular culture,” says exhibit curator Suzanne Gott, who’s been studying the artform and industry since 1990. “Sometimes cloth designs are named after a popular song or the latest colors that are capturing people’s imagination,” she says, explaining how patterns become a means of indirect communication. The Brooks’ chief curator Marina Pacini says the museum’s proud to mount an exhibition “that celebrates the creativity, the culture, the artistry, and the global reach of African print fashion and the designers themselves.” “AFRICAN PRINT ART NOW! A STORY OF TASTE, GLOBALIZATION, AND STYLE” AT THE BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART FEBRUARY 24TH-AUGUST 12TH. BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG

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hen songwriter Jim Lauderdale takes the stage at the new listening room in the Old Dominick Distillery this week, it will renew a long but under-recognized relationship he’s had with Memphis. While he’s played gigs here since the early 1990s, his ties to the city go deeper. That becomes obvious as he lists some of the Memphians he’s worked with, including drummers Chad Cromwell and Greg Morrow and banjo player Richard Bailey. But sessions at the late Jim Dickinson’s Zebra Ranch Studio in Mississippi were what led him even deeper into the Memphis Sound. After cutting his Black Roses album, written in cahoots with former Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, and featuring Cody and Luther Dickinson, David Hood, and Spooner Oldham, he ran into Luther in Nashville. “I was intending to do a country thing at the old RCA Studio A the next day,” he recalls, “and I thought it was an omen when I ran into Luther. I said ‘Hey, let’s check and see if Cody’s available.’ He was, and we got some other guys together, and were about halfway through that album when Luther said, ‘Man, you really ought to finish that soul stuff at Royal [Studios].’ So, I flew in, and Boo [Mitchell] let me use the old control room to write. I went in the next day, and there were Luther and Cody, Boo, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Charles and Leroy Hodges. After the first song went down, I finally relaxed — I was terrified of working with these great guys!” Those sessions, begun in Nashville and finished in Memphis, became the double album, Soul Searching, with a disc named for each city. The “Memphis” slice of the record features songs that, despite Lauderdale’s signature alt-country baritone drawl, evoke nothing so much as classic 1960s horn-driven soul. But that shouldn’t come as a surprise to his fans. Lauderdale has always had eclectic influences. Early in his career, he dove deep into bluegrass, harmonizing with Ralph Stanley and recording his first (still unreleased) album with mandolinist Roland White. He’s also toured and co-written with Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello. The common thread was a love of beautifully crafted songs. A few years ago, Lauderdale found himself in London. “I wanted to go to a different place and just kinda catch the vibe over there. Like I do when I come to Memphis. I just kinda soak in something

that’s in the air.” He cut a record with Lowe’s touring band and co-producer/ engineer Neil Brockbank, but it sat on the shelf before being released last year as London Southern. The results, like Lauderdale’s songwriting itself, shied away from the obvious. Instead of nods to Liverpool or London, what emerged was, well, more soul music. “Those musicians over there grew up listening to the same thing,” notes Lauderdale. “They just live in a different place. And they’re really great players.” His work in London, oddly enough, brought him around yet again to the Bluff City. “I got to co-write with Dan Penn. He’s a hero of mine, and we have a couple co-writes on London Southern. That’s another guy who I really wanna hook up with and write some more.” It’s not that Lauderdale has moved

Jim Lauderdale away from his roots in classic country, bluegrass, or folk. It’s more that he sees all of it as a continuum of the American songwriting tradition. As an important figure in the Nashville-based Americana Music Association (AMA), he applauds the inclusion of soul in the “Americana” category, by both the AMA and the Grammys. And he applies this hybrid approach to his own work. Referring to more (still-unfinished) sessions he did at Royal Studios last year, Lauderdale notes, “We ran out of time on this batch, but sometime I wanna come back and also add some pedal steel guitar to some things. Kinda do that countrysoul blend.” And, he adds, he wants to work again with Memphis musicians. “There seems to be a camaraderie and not a competitive thing going there. The musicians that I’ve met are just real. They’re into the music and not overly concerned about the superficial stuff.” Jim Lauderdale will perform a careerspanning solo set at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, February 22nd, at the listening room at Old Dominick Distillery.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule February 22 - 28 Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blues City Cafe 138 BEALE 526-3637

Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011

Live Music WednesdaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Live DJ Wednesdays-Sundays, 11 p.m.; Third Floor: DJ Tubbz Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

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

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

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

Chris Gales Solo Acoustic Show Mondays-Saturdays, noon-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes solo/acoustic

Thursdays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Sensation Band Tuesdays, Fridays, 7-11 p.m.; Fuzzy and the Kings of Memphis Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Chic Jones and the Blues Express Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; North and South Band Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room 168 BEALE 576-2220

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Friday, Feb. 23, 8 p.m.-midnight; Myra Hall Band Saturday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE 528-0150

Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; FreeWorld Friday, Feb. 23, 8 p.m.-midnight and Saturday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.midnight; Eric Hughes Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Cowboy Neil Tuesday, Feb. 27, 7-11 p.m.; Gracie Curran Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. and Sundays, 3-7 p.m.; Myra Hall Band Friday, Feb. 23, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Delta Project Saturday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Sensation Band Monday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m.midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule February 22 - 28 Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

Belle Tavern

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

117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

2559 BROAD 730-0719

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MMT Speaker Series with Platinum Boy Music Thursday, Feb. 22, 6-7:30 p.m.

2119 MADISON 207-5097

The Bar Misfits Thursday, Feb. 22, 6 p.m.; Jocelyn & Chris Arndt Thursday, Feb. 22, 9 p.m.; November Friday, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m.; Miles Flatt Friday, Feb. 23, 10 p.m.; Eric Hughes Saturday, Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m.; Aquanet Saturday, Feb. 24, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, Feb. 25, 11 a.m.; Deltaphonic Sunday, Feb. 25, 4 p.m.; The Southern

ShameFinger EP Release Show with OC45 Friday, Feb. 23, 10 p.m.; Amy LaVere and Will Sexton Sunday, Feb. 25, 2-4 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; 3 Teachers & 1 Angry Parent Saturday, Feb. 24; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Ruckzuck, Joybomb, Mystic Light Casino, Nonconnah Wednesday, Feb. 28.

University of Memphis, Rose Theatre 470 UNIVERSITY

Music of the Movement: Stax Music Academy Black History Month Show Wednesday, Feb. 28, 10 a.m. and 7:30-9:30 p.m.

East Memphis

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

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

Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Settlers Sunday, Feb. 25, 4-7 p.m.; Dantones Band Sunday, Feb. 25, 8-11:30 p.m.; The Dantones Sunday, Feb. 25,

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Bartlett Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center 3663 APPLING 385-6440

Nancy Apple Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Savannah Long Friday, Feb. 23; Shad Dorsey Saturday, Feb. 24; Bobbie Stacks and friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Stephanie Adlington Saturday, Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m.

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Backstreet Crawlers Friday, Feb. 23, 9 p.m.; 5th Kind Saturday, Feb. 24, 9 p.m.; Juno Marrs Wednesday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

Frayser/Millington

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

Huey’s Millington

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John Paul Keith Trio Sunday, Feb. 25, 6-9 p.m.

119 S. MAIN 435-6509

Lunch & Listen with the Wealthy West Friday, Feb. 23, 1-2 p.m.

Shake Rag Bar 8902 RANKIN BRANCH 876-5255

The Vault

Brian Johnson Band Friday, Feb. 23, 9 p.m.-midnight.

124 GE PATTERSON

Katrina Burgoyne Friday, Feb. 23, 8:30 p.m.

Germantown

Visible Music College

Germantown Performing Arts Center

200 MADISON 381-3939

Visible Bands Showcase Wednesday, Feb. 28, 7-8 p.m.

1801 EXETER 751-7500

Robert Earl Keen Thursday, Feb. 22, 7:30 p.m.; Beethoven Seven Saturday, Feb. 24, 7:30-9:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 25, 2:304:30 p.m.

South Main Ghost River Brewing 827 S. MAIN 278-0087

Huey’s Germantown

Sunday Evening with Misti Rae Holton Sunday, Feb. 25, 5-7:30 p.m.

7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Charvey Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, Feb. 25, 8-11:30 p.m.

Old Dominick Distillery

North Mississippi/ Tunica

305 S. FRONT

Old Dominick Pure Memphis Music Series: Jim Lauderdale Thursday, Feb. 22, 6:30-10 p.m.

Gold Strike Casino 1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-245-7829

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Jack Oblivian Friday, Feb. 23; Marcella and Her Lovers Saturday, Feb. 24; Mark and Art Show Sunday, Feb. 25; Devil Train Monday, Feb. 26; Dave Cousar Tuesday, Feb. 27; Some Sons of Mudboy Wednesday, Feb. 28.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

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

Russell Lee Wheeler Monday, Feb. 26, 6 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Hi-Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Airside Thursday, Feb. 22, 7 p.m.; Piano Man Pictures Roadshow Friday, Feb. 23, 7 p.m.; Tom Skeemask: 2 Wild for the World 20th Anniversary Show Friday, Feb. 23, 9 p.m.; The Weeks Saturday, Feb. 24, 9 p.m.; Hovvdy, Harlan Sunday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.; Alterbeast, The Grindmother, Aetheres, Inferi Tuesday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m.; The Midnight Echo, Fall of Rome, Where Thieves Dare Wednesday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.

Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

The Chaulkies Sunday, Feb. 25, 4-7 p.m.; The Heart Memphis

Belles Sunday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.; Swingtime Explosion Big Band Monday, Feb. 26, 6 p.m.; The MD’s Tuesday, Feb. 27, 5:30 p.m.; McKenna Bray Band Tuesday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m.; 3RD Man Wednesday, Feb. 28, 5:30 p.m.; Cary Morin Wednesday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.

Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL

Carson McHone Friday, Feb. 23, 8 p.m.; Star & Micey Saturday, Feb. 24, 9 p.m.; Marcella & Her Lovers Sunday, Feb. 25, noon; Live Band Karaoke with Public Record Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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

University of Memphis

Minglewood Hall

535 S. HIGHLAND

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Magic Men Live! Thursday, Feb. 22, 7 p.m.; Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ Saturday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m.; The Lone Bellow Wednesday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.

The Bluff Memphis LIVE MondaysSundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

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Poplar/I-240 Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; U of M Jazz Orchestra Friday, Feb. 23, 7-8:30 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Memphis Funk ‘N Horns Saturday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.; Mo Boogie Sunday, Feb. 25, 6-10 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 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.

Robert Cray Band Saturday, Feb. 24, 8-9:30 p.m.

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS 1-800-303-SHOE

Creedence Clearwater Revisited Friday, Feb. 23.

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

The King Beez Sunday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, Feb. 22, 8-11 p.m.; Petty Gene Friday, Feb. 23, 9 p.m.; Hope Clayburn & the Soul Scrimmage Saturday, Feb. 24, 10 p.m.; David Collins & Frog Squad Sunday, Feb. 25, 6-9 p.m.;

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

February 22 - 28

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.

T H E AT E R

First Baptist Church

Sunday Morning, the Young Actor’s Guild Theater and Dance Academy will commemorate African-American Heritage Month and MLK50 with a theatrical stage production that takes a spiritual journey from the 1800s to the Civil Rights Movement. (337-8598), Free. Sun., Feb. 25, 5-8 p.m. 2835 BROAD (323-2429).

Germantown Community Theatre

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, www.gctcomeplay.org. Through Feb. 25. 3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).

Hattiloo Theatre

Selma: A Musical Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., originally written in 1976 to honor Dr. King’s bravery, many of the messages still resonate with activists today. www.hattiloo. org. Feb. 23-March 18. 37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

Landers Center

Disney’s Aladdin Jr., based on the animated film, with an Academy Award-winning score by Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, and Tim Rice.

Audiences soar on a flying carpet ride filled with romance and adventure. www.dftonline. org. $10. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m. Through March 4.

performer who was incapable of producing two notes in tune consecutively. www.theatrememphis.org. $25. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m. Through Feb. 25.

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

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

New Moon Theatre Company

Elephant’s Graveyard, true tale of the tragic collision of a struggling circus and a tiny town in Tennessee, which resulted in the only known lynching of an elephant. (726-0800), voicesofthesouth. org. $15. Fri., Sat., 8-9:30 p.m., and Sun., 4-5:30 p.m. Through Feb. 25.

Eurydice, myth of Orpheus reimagined through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young on her wedding day, Eurydice journeys to the underworld, reunites with her father, and struggles to remember her lost love. www.newmoontheatre. org. $20. Fri., Sat., 8-9:30 p.m., and Sun., 2-3:30 p.m. Through Feb. 25. AT THEATREWORKS, 2085 MONROE (484-3467).

The Orpheum

Guess Who Showed Up at Dinner, hilarious tale of Sugarbread Robinson, a quirky musician who decides to journey to his roots in the Deep South to find inspiration for his new music project. www. orpheum-memphis.com. $53. Fri., Feb. 23, 8 p.m., and Sat., Feb. 24, 3 & 8 p.m. 2018-2019 Broadway Season Reveal, enjoy special performances. Learn all about the shows and how you can secure your seats sooner by becoming a season ticket holder. www. orpheum-memphis.com. Free. Mon., Feb. 26, 6 p.m. 203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Theatre Memphis

Souvenir, a Fantasia Based on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins, comedy about a wealthy eccentric, self-promoted

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INSIDE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, 1000 S. COOPER (726-0800).

University of Memphis, Rose Theatre

Music of the Movement: Stax Music Academy Black History Month Show, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, an original, Broadway-style musical production about MLK, WDIA, and the Sounds of the Civil Rights Era. Early show for Shelby County Schools is free, reservations required. (946-2535 ext 250), www.soulsvillefoundation.org. Free-$25. Wed., Feb. 28, 10 a.m. & 7:30-9:30 p.m. 470 UNIVERSITY.

A R T I ST R EC E PT I O N S

Clough-Hanson Gallery

Opening reception for “The CLTV,” exhibition motivated by the question, “What does liberation mean for a young black artist in Memphis?” www.rhodes. edu. Fri., Feb. 23, 5-7 p.m. RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).

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Crosstown Arts

Artist reception for “Black Art *Ish,” exhibition presented by artist Kelvin Woods in honor of Black History Month. Featured artists include Kelvin Woods, Eso Tolson, and Carl Hess. www.crosstownarts.org. Fri., Feb. 23, 6:30-9:30 p.m. 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis

Artist reception for “Reflections,” exhibition of UofM Art Education Alumni Juried work by area K-12 art educators who are graduates of the program or who have completed courseworkas well as the work of their students. (678-2216), www.memphis.edu. Tues., Feb. 27, 3:30-5:30 p.m. 3715 CENTRAL.

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Member opening: “AfricanPrint Fashion Now!,” celebrate the opening with a red carpet entrance photographed by Ziggy Mack, fashion show by Memphis Fashion Week, and entertainment by Siphne Aaye. Members only, visit website to become a member. www. brooksmuseum.org. Fri., Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m. 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Playhouse on the Square Artist reception for “The Laser Show: New Works by Adam Hawk,” exhibition of new works that employ technological and traditional processes. www.mca. edu. Thurs., Feb. 22, 6-8 p.m. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

OT H E R ART HAP P E N I N G S

25th Anniversary Moss Society Dinner

Join fellow Moss Society members in celebration of “AfricanPrint Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style.” Sat., Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Art After Dark

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Galleries and gardens will be open late. Featuring light refreshments, entertainment, and a cash bar. Free with admission.

Through March 11. “Two Stories of Iceland,” exhibition of a narrative exploration of Icelandic stories and landscape by Elizabeth Alley. www.crosstownarts.org. Through March 11.

Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

“Canvas Art Auction”

N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.

Benefiting its recovery housing program for the newly sober. $25. Fri., Feb. 23, 6-9 p.m.

David Lusk Gallery

“Talk Talk Talk: Late ’70s,” exhibition of wood sculpted canvas paintings and woodcuts from 1970s by Ted Faiers. www. davidluskgallery.com. Through March 17.

CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.MIDSOUTHSOBERLIVING.ORG.

Kevin Brooks: Bonfire + Kirby: Queendom Come

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

Videos directed by Kevin Brooks and singer/songwriter Kirby. Through March 15. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Uncommon Threads Quilt Guild: Susan Cleveland Lecture and Trunk Show Tues., Feb. 27, 6:15 p.m.

GERMANTOWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 2331 GERMANTOWN ROAD (754-7216.

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Art Village Gallery

“Out of Africa,” exhibition of contemporary artwork by four artists, including Nigerian-born artists, Adewale Adenle and Norbert Okpu, and international rising stars, Robert Pruitt and Miles Regis. www.artvillagegallery.com. Through March 3. 410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

Bingham and Broad

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

“My Kin Is Not Like Yours,” exhibition of works by Debra Edge. Ongoing.

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

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

2563 BROAD (323-3008).

“beginnings,” exhibition of works

by The Artists Group of Memphis. www.buckmanartscenter. com. Through Feb. 26. 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).

Clough-Hanson Gallery “The CLTV,” exhibition motivated by the question, “What does liberation mean for a young black artist in Memphis?” www.rhodes.edu. Feb. 23-March 23. RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).

Crosstown Concourse

“Don’t Look for My Heart,” exhibition of a canopy of black garments that loom over a pond of demolished confections,

The Dark Crystal at Malco Paradiso Sunday Feb. 25th at 2 p.m. and Wednesday Feb. 28th at 7 p.m. evoking a scene of quiet despair and a state of ruin by Terri Phillips. Through March 11. “Imprismed,” exhibition that constructs a dialectic between the repression and cultivation of psycho-sexual energies through the ages by Emily C. Thomas. Through March 11. “Material Equivalence,” exhibition of new work by Memphisbased artist Pam McDonnell. Curated by Anna Wunderlich.

“The Real Beauty: The Artistic World of Eugenia Errázuriz,” exhibition traces the life of the influential Chilean expatriate patron of the arts and her impact on 20th-century design through her belief in highquality minimalism. Through April 8. “Dixon Dialect: The Susan and John Horseman Gift,” exhibition of 28 works by 25 American and European artists donated to the Dixon’s permanent collection by Susan and John Horseman. Showcases each work in the gift. Through April 1. Paula Kovarik, exhibition of fiber art. www.dixon.org. Through April 1. 4339 PARK (761-5250).

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“Collections”, exhibition of works by Alonzo Ford of Lexa. www.eacc.edu. Through March 2. EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR.

FireHouse Community Arts Center

“I Am Here,” exhibition of work by Najee Strickland, Immon Johnson, Rahn Marion, and Naima Peace. www.mbaafirehouse.org. Through April 30. Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing. 985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

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“Local Color,” exhibition of paintings of local landmarks by students under the direction of Fred Rawlinson. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Feb. 28. 750 CHERRY (766-9900).

Jack Robinson Photography Gallery

Barry Buxbaum and Ray Vunk, exhibition of mixed media on panel. Through Feb. 23. 44 HULING (576-0708).

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“The Good. The Bad. The Ugly,” exhibition of mixed-media works and paintings not previously displayed from Memphis College of Art BFA show. Through April 4. 2170 YOUNG (272-7210).

Jay Etkin Gallery

“Celebration, Appeal, Devices,” exhibition of paintings by Sammy Peters. Through March 2. 942 COOPER (550-0064).

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“The Familiar and the Sublime,” exhibition of drawings and paintings by regional landscape artists Jeanne Seagle and Pam Hassler. www.lrossgallery. com. Through Feb. 24. 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

Leontyne Price Library at Rust College

“Mississippi Women in Blues,” exhibition of photos, films, and other archival material focusing on Holly Springs residents, musicians Ellen Jefferies and Mary Coleman. Through Feb. 28. 150 RUST (662-252-8000).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Escape Into Illusions,” exhibition of paintings incorporating unconventional materials — objects and items that would otherwise be discarded — to add texture and life by Sandra Horton. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Feb. 28.

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“The Laser Show: New Works by Adam Hawk,” exhibition of new works that deftly employs technological and traditional processes. mca.edu/event/laser-shownew-works-adam-hawk/. Through Feb. 25. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

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

Ross Gallery

“The Sunny Side,” exhibition of recent porcelain and stoneware by Niles Wallace, professor of ceramics at University of Memphis. Through March 1. “Forge Cast Fabricate,” exhibition of work by Metal Museum artists Lewis Body, Sarah Dorau, Kacy Ganley, Kevin Burge, Lori Gipson, Anastasia Green, Eva Langsdon, Jim Masterson, Jeannie Tomlinson Saltmarsh, and James Vanderpool. www.cbu.edu/ gallery. Through March 1. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).

TOPS Gallery

“La Bohème,” exhibition of new film and sculpture works by Brooklyn-based artist Motoko Fukuyama. www.topsgallery.com. Through March 10. 400 S. FRONT.

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“La Bohème,” exhibition of new film and sculpture works by Brooklyn-based artist Motoko Fukuyama. www.topsgallery.com. Through March 10. 151 MADISON (340-0134).

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“Alchemy4,” exhibition of contemporary enamels produced in the last two years with 150 objects created by 98 students in accredited degree programs throughout the world. Through April 29. “Everyday Objects: The Evolution and Innovations of Joseph Anderson,” exhibition of works by artist-blacksmith and sculptor highlighting utensils and functional objects. www.metalmuseum.org. Through April 22. 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

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“Black Resistance: Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement,” exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the events from March 27 through April 8, 1968. Through Aug. 19. “Rotunda Projects: Lisa Hoke,” exhibition of over-thetop installation of recycled and repurposed materials reflecting aspirations for the work and fears of expecting too much. Through June 3. “African-Print Fashion Now! A Story of Taste, Globalization, and Style,” exhibition of dynamic traditions of African dress featuring colorful, boldly patterned printed cloth highlighting the interplay between regional preferences and cosmopolitanism. Feb. 24-Aug. 12. “About Face,” exhibition highlighting the different ways artists interpret the connection between emotion and expression. Ongoing. “Drawing Memory: Essence of Memphis,” exhibition of works inspired by nsibidi, a sacred means of communication among male secret societies in southeastern Nigeria by Victor Ekpuk. www.brooksmuseum. org. Ongoing.

EARLY NOTICE AND PUBLIC REVIEW OF A PROPOSED ACTIVITY IN A WETLAND AND FLOODPLAIN WITHIN THE WOLF RIVER BASIN IN SHELBY COUNTY, TENNESSEE

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To: All interested Federal, State and Local Agencies and Groups or Individuals This is to give notice that Shelby County Government under Part 58 has conducted an evaluation as required by Executive Order 11988, to determine the potential affect that its activity in wetlands and the floodplain will have on the human environment for the Wolf River Wetland Restoration and Greenway project under the HUD National Disaster Resiliency Grant, Contract Number B-13-US-470002. Shelby County Government is proposing a series of open space and infrastructure project elements that will help make the greater Memphis area more resilient in future disaster and flooding events. The Wolf River Wetland Restoration and Greenway activity encompasses improvements at three distinct locations — Rodney Baber Park, John F. Kennedy Park, and Orchi Road between Highland Street and Jackson Avenue. For this notice, all three project activities are located within the Wolf River Floodplain. Additionally, there will be minor impacts on isolated wetlands. The Rodney Baber Park improvements will affect approximately 58.2 acres of floodplain and 0.79 acres of wetlands. The John F. Kennedy Park improvements will affect approximately 32.2 acres of floodplain and 0 (zero) acres of wetlands. The Orchi Road improvements will affect approximately 2.5 acres of floodplain and 0.20 acres of wetlands. The following describes the project locations and their proposed improvements: The natural and beneficial functions of the floodplain and the wetlands will be marginally impacted by the proposed construction in the parks and along Orchi Road. In the parks, new wetlands and ponds will be created and the recreational features (sports fields, pavilions, etc.) designed to elevate them above the floodplain while preserving or replacing the existing adjacent floodplain area.

Rodney Baber Park

Rodney Baber Park is located directly south of James Road, half a mile west of Hollywood and is bounded by McLean on the West and Interstate 40 on the South. The proposed concept plan for Rodney Baber Park will consist of up to four (4) soccer fields, one (1) baseball diamond, one (1) fishing lake, a large farmer’s market/festival pavilion and festival grounds, multi-use trails, one (1) proposed wetland with boardwalk, preservation of existing wetlands, a playground and shade structure, and the associated parking for the aforementioned facilities. It is anticipated that this activity will be completed over two phases of construction. The site will be terraced and tie into the existing grades along the identified T.V.A. easement. Approximately 19 acres will be raised above the floodplain and approximately 275,000 cubic yards of net fill will be required. Site grading up to the 100-year flood elevation will be balanced. The site will be graded down to match the existing elevation at the 250-foot wide T.V.A. easement along the southern portion of the property. Due to the increased elevations at Rodney Baber Park, a 1:1 stormwater mitigation will be required to compensate for the additional fill on-site in the existing floodplain. The majority of the fill material required to meet the mitigation requirements will be taken from the proposed wetland and fishing lake in Rodney Baber Park and also from John F. Kennedy Park which will compensate for the 1:1 mitigation requirement.

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John F. Kennedy Park

John F. Kennedy Park (Kennedy Park) is located south of Raleigh-Lagrange Road and northeast of Interstate 40 on a parcel owned by the City of Memphis. The property is roughly 260 acres, but the activity site will only disturb approximately 32.2 acres. The concept for Kennedy Park includes replacing five existing baseball/softball diamonds with approximately four soccer fields, a paved trail, which incorporates approximately 54,000 square feet of the proposed bicycle/pedestrian trails throughout the park connecting to the Wolf River Greenway, linking the park to the Midsouth Greenprint in two places. Some of the soccer fields will be re-graded to serve as detention during intense storm events. The site grading will result in a net excavation of approximately 155,000 cubic yards from the floodplain. The excavated material will be transported and used as fill in Rodney Baber Park. Two (2) new wetlands will be created south of the proposed soccer fields. The proposed improvements to Kennedy Park are anticipated to be completed in two phases of construction.

Orchi Road

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Orchi Road is located east of Highland Street, north of Chelsea Avenue, and west of Jackson Avenue. During the 2011 storm event, stormwater collected on the north side of the Orchi Road and eventually overtopped the road and flooded 19 homes. The proposed activity entails construction of a flood control berm on the north side of Orchi Road, between Highland Street and Hanson Road. A land parcel owned by Shelby County north of Orchi Road will be utilized to create a wetland pond. This area will also serve as a detention facility to store the stormwater that was overtopping the roadway to prevent impacting additional properties. The excavated material will also provide fill material for the berm and fill at Rodney Baber Park. Orchi Road will be reconstructed as a complete street with bicycle facilities along the north side of the road providing a direct connection from the surrounding low and moderate income (LMI) neighborhoods to the Wolf River Greenway. Sidewalks and street trees will be incorporated on each side of Orchi Road for pedestrian access. There are three primary purposes for this notice. First, people who may be affected by activities in the wetland and floodplain and those who have an interest in the protection of the natural environment should be given an opportunity to express their concerns and provide information about these areas. Second, an adequate public notice program can be an important public educational tool. The dissemination of information about wetlands and the floodplain can facilitate and enhance Federal efforts to reduce the risks associated with the occupancy and modification of these special areas. Third, as a matter of fairness, when the Federal government determines it will participate in actions taking place in wetlands and floodplains, it must inform those who may be put at greater or continued risk.

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Additional information on the proposal may be obtained by contacting Drake Danley at (901) 374-9109. Written comments must be received by Shelby County at the following address on or before March 15, 2018: Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. Attention: Drake Danley 6750 Poplar Avenue, Suite 600 Memphis, TN 38138 during the hours of 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Comments may also be submitted via email at: Drake.Danley@kimley-horn.com

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Henry Coleman Live, www.theatreworksmemphis. org. $20. Sat., Feb. 24, 7:30 p.m. 1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

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Booksigning by Mark Greaney

Author discusses and signs Agent in Place. Sat., Feb. 24, 2 p.m. NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (922-5526), WWW.NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.

Booksigning by Tayari Jones

Author and literary voice Tayari Jones celebrates the launch of An American Marriage. Jones will read from novel and be in-conversation with Jamey Hatley. $15. Tues., Feb. 27, 7 p.m. THE HALLORAN CENTRE, 225 S. MAIN (529-4299), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

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Morris and Mollye Fogelman International Jewish Film Festival

A variety of genres from all over the world. Visit website for additional film schedule and locations. $5 members, $7 nonmembers. Through Feb. 27. WWW.JCCMEMPHIS.ORG/FILM.

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Winter Festival of Lights Gala

Enjoy dinner, drinks, dancing and a silent auction, with all proceeds benefiting Merge Memphis and going toward a work/live facility for homeless women. Free-$40. Sat., Feb. 24, 7-11 p.m. 409 S. MAIN, SOUTH MAIN ARTS DISTRICT, WWW.MERGEMEMPHIS.ORG/.

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Sun., Feb. 25, 2 p.m., and Wed., Feb. 28, 7 p.m. MALCO PARADISO CINEMA, 584 S. MENDENHALL (682-1754), WWW.MALCO.COM.

MLK50 Silent Film Series

Three 1920s silent films by director Oscar Micheaux: Symbol of the Unconquered (Feb. 21), Body of the Soul (Feb. 28). Free. Wed., 4-6 p.m. Through Feb. 28. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, NED R. MCWHERTER LIBRARY (678-4484), MEMPHIS.EDU/MLK50/EVENTS/INDEX.PHP.

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I had about three separate incidents wherein I wanted to throw myself down on the dance floor, Wayne and Garth “We’re not worthy!”-style. The bar opened at 6 p.m. and people were there right at 6, ready to dance. In Midtown, we can’t even get a show to start on time. Do you love your home bar so much that you’re there when it opens? No, you don’t. A gentleman made a Three’s Company reference to me. Do you attend bars where there are Three’s Company jokes? You do not. Do you know that there is a remix version of the Cha Cha Slide and that there are people in this world that can make it look cool? You do not. You are as unworthy of Memphis Sounds as Wayne and Garth were of Alice Cooper. It’s the coolest bar in town, and I am not cool enough to have been there.

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Here’s how to get there, assuming they don’t kick you out for being a dork: head to Mud Island and stop at the guard booth. Tell them you’re headed to Memphis Sounds to get schooled on the dance floor, then keep to the right. Admire the badass view of the river as you park. Proceed inside and order a $4 martini (there is table service as well as a bar) and then get out there, you hot shot! See if you can keep up! Memphis Sounds isn’t currently open Sunday through Tuesday, but it’s open until midnight Wednesday and Thursday and stays open even later for the music on the weekends. I can’t stress this enough: There is a beautiful blues club on Mud Island with a hell of a view and a large group of women line-dancing to Michael Jackson that puts country line dancing to shame. If you’re looking for more fodder for your “Nashville sucks!” cannon, this is a good place to start. God, I love this city. It never stops surprising me, and I will never stop defending it.

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ine times out of 10 what happens in a basement should stay in a basement (if you’ve ever read Marilyn Manson’s autobiography, you’re nodding very hard right now). That never held true for Memphis Sounds, the beloved blues bar housed in the basement of the Econo Lodge downtown. It was a total dive, unforgettable, the type of place you only recommend to really cool friends. Even with all of that being said, Memphis Sounds fell off my radar. It bleeped back onto my radar last week when a friend pointed out that it had reopened in the River Terrace Yacht Club on Mud Island. If it’s possible, it has gotten even cooler. You can’t miss the sign. It reads “Cool Jazz Hot Blues” and illuminates the steps leading into the bar. I was thrilled to see that Memphis Sounds had taken over such a great location. The Yacht Club is a real piece of work; it’s vintage cool with a splitlevel design allowing multiple levels to all look down onto the dance floor. I hadn’t been inside since an unfortunate formal where I was the date of a man who only asked me in an effort to try to convince his friends he was straight. He was not. Sad dates aside, perhaps most stunning about the club is that it affords guests the absolute best view of the bridge and the river. Huge windows look out into the Mississippi, and once the weather cooperates, that patio will give Beale Street Landing a run for its money. I got there right as the sun was setting and was mesmerized by the view. Memphis Sounds has a hell of a week every week. On Wednesdays, there is line dancing. Karaoke goes down each Thursday. On Fridays and Saturdays, there is live music. The bar charges a cover on the weekends, but embarrassing yourself with either dancing or singing mid-week is completely free! I visited on line dancing night because I’m from Nashville, and my curiosity was piqued. Could Memphis, which competes with Nashville on so many different levels, possibly beat Nashville at its own sport? The answer is yes! A dance floor full of women absolutely demolishing a synchronized line dance to Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us” is the best thing I never knew I needed to experience. To make it even better, there’s a huge screen wherein you can watch a very large version of yourself as you dance. This is not a selling point for me, but I imagine it is for those who a) can dance and b) don’t have soul-crushing feelings of inadequacy.

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THE LAST WORD by Jen Clarke

Overkill

Free to fear

m e m p h i s f l y e r. c o m

Twelve-year-old Mary Kellerman of Elk Grove Village, Illinois, died in 1982 after taking extra-strength Tylenol. Adam Janus, 27, a postal worker in another Chicago suburb, died the same day. Janus’s brother and sister-in-law both died from cyanide poisoning within the next few days. All three had taken pills from the same Tylenol bottle. Three other poisoning deaths in the area were found to be linked to the over-the-counter pain reliever. Around 31 million bottles were pulled from shelves in supermarkets and drugstores all over the country as a precaution. Working with authorities, Johnson & Johnson determined that the cyanide lacing had occurred after the pills left the factory. Some deranged Illinoisan apparently had taken bottles of Tylenol from store shelves, tainted them with potassium cyanide, and replaced them without being noticed. Johnson & Johnson developed the tamper-evident childproof packaging that makes us cuss and flail when we’re feeling weak. Congress passed and then-President Ronald Reagan signed the Federal Anti-Tampering Act in 1983. When seven people died, a corporation in an industry with massive lobbying power put public safety over profit. The recall and subsequent relaunch cost Johnson & Johnson $100 million — all because one person did something sinister with their product. Seven-year-old Michelle Snow didn’t see the lawn dart sail over the fence before it impaled her skull. Her nine-year-old brother and some friends were playing in the backyard, where one of the boys overthrew the “Jart” that killed her in 1987. Lawn darts had been banned in the mid-1970s, after countless injuries to children, but the game’s manufacturers had negotiated a compromise with the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Under their terms, lawn darts could be sold with a warning label that they were for adults only. They couldn’t be sold in toy stores or near toy departments. Michelle’s grieving father lobbied to have lawn darts removed from stores and banned from further sale. One child died, and 30 years later we wonder who thought throwing steel-tipped projectiles in the grass sounded like a fun time. Because a tepid warning label couldn’t keep a deadly game out of the wrong hands. Pseudoephedrine is the active ingredient in over-the-counter sinus medications, the stuff that just dries you right up when you have a cold. It also can be used as a chemical precursor in manufacturing meth. The Combat Methamphetamine Epidemic Act of 2005 regulated sales of products containing pseudoephedrine. Retailers are required to keep the products behind the pharmacy counter or in a locked cabinet, and they must maintain a retrievable record of pseudoephedrine buyers for two years. If Memphis allergies are ruining your life (unlikely, I know) and you need Claritin-D, you have to show a verified proof of identity. Some people use products for uses other than the ones intended, so the rest of us have to submit our names to a registry when we buy decongestant. Such is the cost of freedom. Some rights supercede others, so we compromise a little for the good of society. One person’s individual liberty to puff cigarettes ends at another’s right to breathe clean air, so cities restricted smoking in public places. A motor vehicle is a dangerous machine, so in order to enjoy the freedom to traverse public roads, a driver must demonstrate the ability to operate one, show the capacity to follow automotive laws, and must prove financial responsibility in case of an accident. These demands are not unreasonable. Twelve moviegoers, 20 elementary schoolers and six of their teachers, 14 public health-care center employees, 49 nightclub revelers, 58 concert attendees, 26 parishioners, 17 high school students and teachers — and counting — have fallen to AR-15 gunfire since the assault weapons ban expired in 2004. Hundreds more have been injured. Each time, Congress has responded swiftly with thoughts and prayers. Gun manufacturers shrugged and quietly rejoiced. Their products worked exactly as advertised. The ability to enter a crowded place and quickly fill it with bullets and bodies is a feature, not a bug. Sales spiked as their loyal customers stocked up, fearing this would be the incident that sparked meaningful action. How long could a just society allow the bloodshed to continue unchecked? Some rights supercede others. As it stands now, everyone’s right to feel safe in public ends at another person’s right to own and access a killing machine. That’s who we are now. Jen Clarke is a digital marketing specialist and an unapologetic Memphian.

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