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Years ago, in more innocent times, the Flyer’s front door wasn’t locked during business hours. It led to some interesting encounters, mostly for those of us in the editorial department. People would come in to the front desk with a “story that needs to be investigated” and ask to see the editor. The receptionist would call me and say “There’s a gentleman here to see you about a story.” If I wasn’t particularly busy, I’d go up to the front desk and take the visitor into our conference room. Ninety-nine percent of the time they were harmless. Many folks wanted us to investigate their awful employer, who’d just fired them “for no reason.” Others were just fascinating nuts, like the guy who said he was growing pot just across the river and that “black helicopters” were hovering over his land and that “government agents” were following him around Midtown. Once, the visitor was a Frenchman who was sailing around the world. I actually got a story out of that visit. With most of these folks, I’d listen for a while and then say, “We’ll look into it.” Then I’d shake their hand and firmly escort them out of the building. But eventually it got to be a problem. A couple of folks showed up who were a little scary, so we installed a lock with a buzzer and intercom. Call it our version of “vetting.” We even have a couple of folks who are not allowed in. I guess that’s our “list.” Which, unsurprisingly, I suppose, brings me to the city of Memphis’ list of folks whom the MPD have decided need an escort when they come to City Hall. The problem is that there seems to have been no cohesive protocol for putting people on the list. I get why you’d put disgruntled former employees on it. And I get why Mayor Strickland would want to sign an authorization of agency against the people who staged a “die-in” on his lawn. If I looked out my window and saw 20 people demonstrating in my yard and looking in my windows, I’d call 911 and grab a shotgun. And if they ever showed up again, I’d want them arrested, pronto. But those folks, and others, were added to a larger list that includes a lot of people who are absolutely no threat, including former Tiger basketball player Detric Golden, who works with disadvantaged youth, and the Rev. Elaine Blanchard, who was once the subject of a Flyer cover story for her inspirational work with women in prison. Others appear to have been added to the list for no reason other than they are N EWS & O P I N I O N community activists who may or may NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 4 not have participated in protests. Many THE FLY-BY - 5 POLITICS - 8 on the list have committed no crimes. EDITORIAL - 10 This vetting stuff can be tricky. Just VIEWPOINT - 11 ask President Trump, whose recently COVER — “MEET THE overturned immigration ban sought RESISTANCE” to exclude all citizens from seven BY FLYER STAFF - 12 countries, even though 99 percent of STE P P I N’ O UT the people coming from those nations WE RECOMMEND - 16 are fleeing persecution and violence MUSIC - 18 or have legitimate business here. That LOCAL BEAT - 20 isn’t “extreme vetting.” It’s xenophobia. AFTER DARK - 22 It’s casting a wide net when only a CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 24 lasso is needed. BOOKS - 30 Memphis needs to take a cue and FOOD - 31 fine-tune its list. We need to encourage SPIRITS - 33 FILM - 34 community activism and free speech, not demonize it. C LAS S I F I E D S - 36 LAST WORD - 39 Bruce VanWyngarden brucev@memphisflyer.com

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V E R B AT I M “I was with some intelligence people this week. You wouldn’t believe what’s going on in this country; it would scare you to death … We are the center of their attention because we’re the center of the Bible Belt. And they’re purposely moving terrorists in here, and they’re bringing their families in, and they’re setting it up for a jihad, I can tell you right now.” — Senator/fabulist Mae Beavers spreading all kinds of actual figurative horse manure to Macon Co. residents about jihadists infiltrating churches to “find out what’s going on.” “MERP” Merriam-Webster’s “Words at Play” blog quoted Fly on the Wall in a post about an emerging new word. “Merp” — the word in question — is used, according to Merriam-Webster, to express awkwardness when you don’t know how to respond to something, “especially something disappointing.” To illustrate how the word is creeping into established publications, the dictionary blog excerpted a blurb from Dec. 5, 2013 — “In case you missed the breathless wall-to-wall Black Friday coverage, the number of holiday shoppers was up (yay!), but overall sales were disappointing (merp).” Merp is our business. DRIVING DEAD Memphis is famously a city of innovation. From full-service grocery stores to overnight delivery to rock-and-roll. Now, as reported by ABC affiliate Local 24, we’ve got a drive-through funeral parlor. As is always the case with progress, not everybody thinks this is a good idea. “Why would you even do that,” one critic from Orange Mound was quoted as asking. N E V E R E N D I N G E LV I S Every Elvis fan’s dream of sleeping like a king can now come true! The Beverly Hills home purchased by Elvis and Priscilla Presley shortly after their 1967 marriage is up for sale. Asking price for the royal, 5,367 square-foot love nest: $30 million. By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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Open Records, Immigrants, & Arts Bills push for (some) open records, ArtsMemphis gets politcal, money flows to North Memphis. SPARCC sparks North Memphis Memphis was selected as one of six cities to receive a $1 million grant from the Strong, Prosperous, and Resilient Communities Challenge (SPARCC), with additional access to an estimated $90 million in foundation-backed capital. The grant, awarded to the Memphis Partners for Resilient Communities, will specifically target the greater area of North Memphis. The group formed to apply for the grant, which is hoped to incorporate diverse racial perspectives into community planning and development projects, promote investment that results in equitable development outcomes, improve health outcomes for residents, and improve climate resilience of neighborhoods through targeted home weatherization, repair, and improvement efforts “In the past, policy and programmatic decisions about how to invest in the places we live, work, and play have all too often led to a deeper poverty and risk for people of color and low-income communities,” said Melinda Pollack, a national partner with SPARCC. ArtsMemphis fights back ArtsMemphis combatted President Donald Trump’s threats to federal arts funding with postcards, information, fun, and beer. Trump has targeted the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for funding cuts. ArtsMemphis hoped its Presidents’ Day event would facilitate communication between Congress — which holds the strings of the federal purse — and art-loving MidSoutherners. “Receiving a swarm of constituent mail can greatly impact the way a legislator votes on a particular issue,” said ArtsMemphis executive director Elizabeth Rouse. #daywithoutimmigrants Some Memphis businesses closed their doors last week in solidarity with others across the United States as a part of the #daywithoutimmigrants protest. That action was against President Donald Trump, who blames economic woes on undocumented immigrants residing in the United States. Multiple establishments, including La Michoacana and La Guadalupana, were closed outside of posted hours last week. Though there was no clear explanation on any of the Summer Avenue businesses, the implication was clear to many Memphians across social media. El Mercadito de Memphis’ Facebook page said, “Today we will be closed and united!”

Latino Memphis said they kept their doors open that day, but only for the sake of those they serve. “At this time, we need to be pulling together, not only from a humane perspective, but from an economic perspective,” said Mauricio Calvo, the executive director of Latino Memphis. Open to (almost) anything State lawmakers filed a raft of bills for this legislative session aimed at changing public access to public records, everything from the details of economic development projects to footage captured from police-worn body cameras. Officials with the nonpartisan Tennessee Coalition for Open Government (TCOG) listed a couple of dozen bills last week that they will be watching this session. Here’s a selection of those bills from TCOG: Economic development records HB 947/SB 1179 – Rep. Sam Whitson (R-Franklin), Sen. Joey Hensley (R-Hohenwald) Makes confidential county and municipal records related to economic development. Part of this bill would make confidential any county or city economic development contracts, agreements, and related records until after a contract is entered into. Officer-involved shootings HB 277/SB 1039 — Rep. G.A. Hardaway (D-Memphis), Sen. Lee Harris (D-Memphis) Requires Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s (TBI) “investigative record” to become public after completion of an investigation by the TBI into an officer-involved shooting death.

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Local organizers found themselves on City Hall’s naughty list. Call it the Academy Awards for Memphis protesters. The city of Memphis released a list of 84 individuals — largely comprised of community organizers and former City Hall employees — that require police escorts when entering City Hall. The list contained some familiar standbys in Memphis activist circles, but there were a few surprises, including Mary Stewart, mother of the late Darrius Stewart, who was killed by Memphis police in 2015. And, of course, there were a few snubs that did not go unnoticed. Social media responded accordingly, with a mixture of outrage, genuine concern, and, of course, satirical observations. On a public Facebook post, Stan Polson wrote that he was all for “laughing at the absurdity” but cautioned others to think about the explicit purpose such a list may serve. “An official record that a victim of police violence or harassment is some kind of terrorist can be awfully convenient,” said Polson, who emphasized the seriousness about being classified as a threat to the lives and welfare of city hall employees. Others found humor in the list. An application to the “A-list” surfaced on Facebook to be filled out and given to City Hall security. “I am losing street cred with my fellow activists for being left off the list,” reads the application. Elaine Blanchard, a local reverend who officiated one of Memphis’ first legal same-sex weddings following the Supreme Court order, was slightly surprised she had also made the exclusive list of questionable individuals. “Mayor Strickland has put my name on a list of persons who are not permitted into Memphis’ City Hall without an escort. Wow! This grammie is a gangsta!” All jokes aside, veteran organizer Jayanni Webster drove her point home in a post that relayed the vulnerability felt by people of color when encountering law enforcement. “When you are listed on even such a frivolous document, the implication is that you are being monitored. You are considered a threat first,” Webster wrote. “I am not fear-proof. As a black woman, I do not take pleasure in being targeted by the police.” The “blacklist” of City Hall was made public by the City of Memphis after an open-record request by The Commercial Appeal’s Ryan Poe. Memphis mayor Jim Strickland attributed the list to a decadesold Memphis Police Department policy and said he would review the policies that deem it a necessity. “I have never seen the security list at

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City Hall, and it is my understanding that this type of list was created years ago by MPD,” said Strickland, adding that no individual has yet been denied entrance to City Hall. Strickland’s office later updated his statement to clarify that the mayor signed an authorization of agency to his house following a staged “die-in” that occurred on his lawn. The authorization was meant to deter any future trespassers on his property. The statement also said that the list of trespassers was added to the City Hall police-escort list by the MPD. What’s not

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Commission Gets It Together Consensus for medical marijuana; against school vouchers and county social media policy. God knows what will happen when the Shelby County Commission tangles with the deannexation issue — as it will, now that the legislature has its eye on the matter. The city of Memphis, self-protectively, has devised its own plan. County government will, at some point, need to take a position — though in a sense it is passive, a bystander, once more having to absorb leftovers from the city, when and if they come, as they did, for one example, when former Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton ceded the city’s share in management of the Health Department to Shelby County during his last year in office. Commissioner Heidi Shafer urged her colleagues Monday, at the close of the commission’s meeting, to attend any or all of four information sessions to be held by the city between Thursday, February 23rd, and Wednesday, March 1st, in various neighborhoods that would be affected by the city’s plan. Shafer, who had been a member of the city/county task force appointed a year ago to study the deannexation matter, reminded her fellow commissioners that they would be “guests and observers only, of what has been disclosed by the city of Memphis.” She pointedly cautioned them: “Just

remember, whatever is deannexed by the city … guess who gets to take care of it and pay for it, but us.” Whatever discords and discombobulations that issue may yield for the future, however, the rest of the commission’s meeting, Monday, turned into a surprising exercise in harmony — though a few harsh words kept it from being a total love-fest. Commissioner Terry Roland, an outspoken foe of a proposed county “social media policy,” took proponents of the measure to task and bitterly denounced it as interference in the exercise of the First Amendment, insisting (in some of his milder rhetoric) that “you cannot tell somebody how to think.” The proposed policy was devised by the administration at the prior request of the commission and was clearly aimed at curbing such embarrassments as occurred when Corrections Center deputy director David Barber, in last fall’s election aftermath, denounced then President Obama on his Facebook page as being less American than the Ku Klux Klan. Barber was encouraged to retire. At one point, Roland created something of a mini-sensation of his own when, by way of demonstrating the kinds of things that occur in private discourse of public officials, he talked out of school on colleague Mark Billingsley, whom he quoted as opposing the bid of a candidate for Republican Party chairman on grounds that the aspi-

rant, Cary Vaughn, was “too Baptist.” Billingsley angrily denied saying any such thing. As it turned out, Roland was not an outright outlier on the issue, attracting enough other nay votes to make the final outcome 6-4, with one abstention. The proposal needed an absolute majority of the commission — 7 votes — and failed. The commission’s most compelling — and, in some ways, surprising — demonstration of unity occurred on two matters. One was a 9-2 vote endorsing legislation in the General Assembly to legalize medical marijuana. Only Billingsley and Shafer dissented. The other matter was SB161/HB126, a bill, essentially authored by state Senator Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown), that applies only to Shelby county and would allow state education funds to be used for private institutions. In the estimation of critics, the measure would deprive public schools in Shelby County of $18 to $20 million annually. Commissioner David Reaves, a former school board member, led the charge on that one, terming it “an assault” on public education and declaring that, if it passed, “we should be prepared to challenge it.” There was a chorus of agreement from other commissioners, and even Shafer, a supporter of what she calls “school choice,” condemned it for targeting Shelby County alone. The final vote was 10-0, with Shafer abstaining.

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The bottom line, affirmed Strickland to members of the Rotary Club on Tuesday, was that the list is now “under review.” As the mayor explained it in the course of what he dubbed “State of the City Number Two,” the list was an awkward and, in some ways, unintentional amalgamation, resulting from Strickland’s unease regarding recent protesters who trespassed on his home property and a pre-existing security list compiled by the Memphis Police Department prior to his ascending to office. Strickland seemed to be acknowledging that it was a misstep, and the high likelihood is that, in its current form, it is not long for the world. As for the rest of things, Strickland was remarkably upbeat on Tuesday, finding silver linings where there were clouds and some bona fide sunshine to boast of. There was the “Work Local” program, which the city is pursuing in tandem with Hospitality Hub, an organization that works with the homeless. The program arranges for homeless people and panhandlers to be paid $9 an hour to work clearing blight, one of the triad of issues which Strickland vowed to do something about in his 2015 campaign. And he put the plans forth as a sample of his “Brilliant with the Basics” motto. The mayor also spent a fair amount of time talking about another part of that triad — public safety. He noted that the city’s recruitment campaign had attracted some 2,000 applicants to join the Memphis Police Department, and that it appeared certain that the city would be increasing the number of police officers for the first time in six years.

The city has been able to attract some $7 billion in new businesses and development, Strickland said, and to dissuade other businesses, like ServiceMaster, from leaving. He also cited plans to augment an existing TDZ (tourist development zone) so as to spur new development on the riverfront, much of which would complement a current expansion of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which is in the process of creating 1,800 new jobs. There was much else on the plus side claimed by the mayor, including substantial reductions in the city’s basic debt. And there was the matter of how the city plans to avert a Draconian deannexation plan aimed at it by unsympathetic elements in the General Assembly by fashioning its own “right-sizing” plan, introduced publicly just weeks ago and about to undergo scrutiny this next week in a series of town meetings throughout the city. The plan contemplates the detachment from Memphis, over a four-year period, of “seven or eight neighborhoods on the edges,” Strickland explained. The city would sacrifice some 10 percent of its land mass but only 1.5 percent of its population. In the short term, he acknowledged, the city would incur a loss of property and sales tax revenues of some $7 million, but the city stood to gain from having a more appropriate geographic area to service. As in the case of the other issues he discussed, Strickland enters into the second year of his tenure with a seeming determination to confront the issues and not look for a rug to sweep them under. That’s the list that voters will judge him on.

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Either out of calculation or instinct, Trump operates as an anti-Semite of old in the way he describes the news media. You may argue that this is nothing new. I remember Spiro Agnew, Richard Nixon’s corrupt vice president, ranting against the liberal press. At one Agnew event I covered, his denunciation of the media brought Republican women out of their chairs, fists in the air, shouting their agreement and serenely unaware that Agnew’s words were probably written by future New York Times columnist William Safire. George Wallace, both a racist and self-pronounced champion of the working man, castigated the press for its unaccountable hostility to Jim Crow, naming “the Time magazine,” “the Newsweek,” and so on. Still, even an Agnew or a Wallace would have shied away from Trump’s expansive conspiracy theory. Trump has set himself an agenda. He must rid America of the evil that he describes and that is visible only to him and his followers. He must, in other words, rein in the news media, limit their scope and influence — a task that will become more and more urgent as he fails in his presidency. The fault for that, after all, cannot be his. He will go from floridfaced fool to brooding menace. It is an old pattern. Only the scapegoat is new. Richard Cohen writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.

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York, Los Angeles, in particular, speaks not for the people, but for the special interests and for those profiting off a very, very obviously broken system. The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. Tremendous disservice. We have to talk about it, to find out what’s going on, because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.” This is a neo-Hitlerian statement — only the word “Jews” is missing. Not missing is the alien, secular big city, the unnamed “special interests,” the loaded word “profiting,” and, of course, the utter mystery of it all. Why are these people doing such things? Why do they lie? Why do they want to hurt “the American people”? Why? It’s because they are notlike-us. They are evil.

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For reasons he cannot fathom, President Donald Trump has been asked recently about anti-Semitism, not just the rising number of incidents both here and abroad but also — as he oddly interpreted a question at his latest news conference — his own attitudes. As for the latter, he is, by his own testimony and that of others, no anti-Semite. If he were, he’d have to hate one of his own daughters, her husband, and their children, who are all observant Jews. So when he declares, “I am the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life,” his crude hyperbole aside, I believe him. But either out of calculation or instinct, Trump operates as an antiSemite of old in the way he describes the news media. Listen for the anti-Semitic tropes: Journalists are urban — or as the communists used to say, cosmopolitan. They live in a bubble, a kind of ghetto. They are rootless — another communist opprobrium — in the sense that few journalists work where they were born and are not responsible to their original community. They are politically and culturally liberal and secular, meaning they are free of conventional morality or religion. They can lie. They can sin. They can, as a result, be attacked with impunity. Anti-Semitism is largely a spent force in America. We live in an era of Seinfeld and Streisand and Stewart. A Jew ran for vice president (Joe Lieberman), and one recently ran for president (Bernie Sanders), and both of last year’s presidential nominees have a child who was married by a rabbi. This is not your grandfather’s America. That one was virulently anti-Semitic. Issur Danielovitch became Kirk Douglas, Charles Lindbergh cuddled with Hitler, Jews fleeing the Holocaust were told to go somewhere else, and my mother had to go from Pearl Rosenberg to Pat Tyson to find work as a bookkeeper. All that is gone. What remains, though, is the continuing need for some force that could serve as a scapegoat. Trump, a man of considerable ability in such matters, has found it in the media. As it always was with anti-Semitism, portions of the culture were already receptive. Many people needed to find someone to blame for a society that was becoming less comforting, less conventional, that was depressing their standard of living, closing their factories, favoring foreign labor — doing all the things that Jews once supposedly did. Here is Trump at his news conference last week: “Unfortunately, much of the media in Washington, D.C., along with New

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The Black Lives Matter photo was from a Darrius Stewart rally outside of 201 Poplar.

Meet the Resistance

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e’ve planned this cover for a couple of weeks, calling on sources, digging through social media, and going to rallies and marches to find the faces of Memphis resistance. Turns out, all we really had to do was check with City Hall. The city of Memphis has a list. The Commercial Appeal’s Ryan Poe uncovered the Memphis Police Department’s “escort list” through an open records request and revealed it in a story Friday. The list features the names of dozens of Memphis activists, organizers, disgruntled former employees, and others. Those on the list “have to be escorted inside City Hall at all times,” according to a note on the list signed by MPD Lieutenant Albert Bonner. Mayor Jim Strickland said he hadn’t seen the list before Poe’s story surfaced and 12 said he will review it with MPD director Michael Rallings to discuss its future.

“It is the professional assessment of the Memphis Police Department’s Homeland Security Bureau that individuals on the list pose a potential security risk,” Strickland said in a statement, Saturday. “It’s important to note that these individuals have not been banned from City Hall. They simply require an escort.” Citing ignorance of the City Hall security list is one thing, but we do have insight into how Strickland handles protests. When Greensward supporters took to the grassy field in Overton Park last April (armed with protest signs, streamers, guitars, and kids in costumes), Strickland ordered 88 security staffers (including MPD, Memphis Fire Services, Memphis Animal Services, and more) to the site. The show of force included clandestine surveillance units, mounted police, a fleet of police cruisers, and a cop chopper circling overhead. All of this cost taxpayers around $37,000. A few months later, about 1,000

Activism is sprouting everywhere in Memphis this spring. protestors shut down the Hernando de Soto Bridge in an action aimed at drawing attention to the deaths of several black men at the hands of police across the country. MPD officers, and Rallings, himself, ensured that protestors marched peacefully and safely through downtown streets and onto the bridge. Once there, they were met with a sea of blue lights, a squad of cops clad in black riot gear, and a police helicopter. Both protests ended peacefully, and the overwhelming police presence may have had something to do with it. The City Hall list, though, feels like overreach — targeted and possibly aimed at intimidation. The original introduction to this piece described a city that lauds the efforts of its resistors. We paint their faces 15 feet high on the sides of buildings and call them “Upstanders.” We turned the site of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final moments into the iconic National Civil Rights Museum, which helps visitors and locals alike learn

ACTIVIST GRASSROOTS GROUPS IN MEMPHIS: … M.A.R.C.H. (Memphis Advocates for Radical Childcare) Fight for $15 Healthy and Free Tennessee Memphis Bus Riders Union Memphis Feminist Collective Comunidades Unidas en Una Voz Home Health Care Workers Memphis Voices for Palestine Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Ofﬁcial Memphis Chapter of Black Lives Matter Sister Reach Save the Greensward OurRevolution 901 Preserve Our Aquifer Mid-South Peace & Justice Center

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about what King and other civil rights leaders fought and died for. Through that lens, we’ve watched with some pride as grassroots efforts in Memphis have sprouted and grown since the inauguration of President Donald Trump. If any city is going to respect those who rise up and resist, it should be Memphis. Maybe future generations will paint visages of the new resistance on another Upstanders Mural, like the one in South Main. Though the spectrum of resistance and activist groups in Memphis is wide and diverse, we’ve selected a few to highlight. Memphis, meet (some of) the resistance. — Toby Sells BLACK LIVES MATTER, MEMPHIS CHAPTER Perhaps the most recognizable of the social justice-oriented groups, Black Lives Matter faces ample scrutiny from law-enforcement supporters and, well, white people, though there has never been an “Only” in front of the group’s name. BLM as a national organization formed after the death of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed Florida teenager stalked and killed by George Zimmerman, a self-proclaimed neighborhood watch vigilante. BLM has grown in size and reach, often in conjunction with protests against police killings of

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Shahidah Jones, an organizer with Black Lives Matter

unarmed African Americans. Shahidah Jones, a Memphis chapter representative, says that people’s involvement in the Memphis chapter tends to rise and recede. “It’s not a growing trend, necessarily, but people will be motivated by a particular incident and come out,” Jones says, adding that “it really depends on public traction, but also accessibility.” In this case, accessibility refers to how much time someone is able to commit to BLM, which is why the chapter is comprised of regular members who stay steadily involved, like Jones, and volunteers who can help organize around a specific event. “The basic core of what we’re doing is we are fighting for the liberation and equality of all black people,” said Jones. Like most social justice groups organizing under a national presence, the local group adheres to national guiding principles. For BLM locally, the economic equality they are pursuing has many components. This year, the chapter decided that pursuing transformative justice in Memphis means working on bail reform and decriminalizing marijuana — two components of the criminal justice system that disproportionately work against people of color. Jones advises anyone wanting to get involved with BLM Memphis to send an email and let organizers know how they would be able to contribute in terms of time and skill set. — Micaela Watts SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE (SURJ) As more and more community activism takes aim at dismantling long-standing institutional structures — and centuriesold repercussions — on people of color, there’s a call for white individuals to join in efforts to fight racism. For many whites, answering that call is not always a clear-cut process, particularly when it comes to grassroots movements. How to combat racism without being, well, kinda racist isn’t always clear to the race that has been at the top in this country since its founding. SURJ exists to engage white people who

want to dismantle racism. Like Black Lives Matter, SURJ is a national organization, and the Memphis chapter formed in the latter half of 2016. Allison Glass, one of the representatives of the group, said the catalyst to the Memphis chapter’s formation came in July, shortly after more than 1,000 people shut down traffic on the I-40 bridge. “It was such a powerful moment in Memphis that I think people felt really inspired,” says Glass. “If these folks are going to commit such a courageous act, then we as white people need to organize other white people to join this effort.” In September, SURJ members dispersed through the crowds of the Cooper-Young Festival in their first action and signed up people interested in learning how to combat racism. They also sold Black Lives Matter yard signs, with the proceeds going to the national BLM organization. “One of the core principles of SURJ is about accountability, specifically to people of color-led organizations. So, SURJ signed on as an organizational partner to BLM,” says Glass. Like many community organizing groups, the interest in SURJ has risen following the election of President Trump. The organization will host its next direct training action on March 4th at Evergreen Presbyterian Church in Midtown. — MW COMUNIDADES UNIDAS EN UNA VOZ Though the Memphis chapter of Comunidades Unidas en Una Voz (United Communities in One Voice) formed in 2010, it made local headlines after organizing the 3,000 strong Memphis We Belong Here march on February 1st, in downtown Memphis. “We never imagined the magnitude that this march would have and all the support we have received from people,” says CUUV organizer, Christina Condori.“The actions are a response to the erroneous measures being implemented that hurt our families,” she adds. The erroneous measures Condori refers to may have come into the spotlight after

Christina Condori, an organizer with CUUV President Trump’s travel ban, but CUUV has been rallying against the lesserknown immigration practices that have been dividing families in the Mid-South for years. They’ve called upon Shelby County officials to not work with ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) in executing raids in Spanish-speaking communities, where individuals often do not know their rights as undocumented residents in Memphis. “When there was a raid and people did not know their rights, we started attending TIRRC (Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition) workshops and would then transfer the learned information regarding our rights,” Condori says. CUUV has started hosting “Know Your Rights” workshops in churches, schools, and businesses within vulnerable communities. CUUV has aligned with multiple organizations on the local and national level, including Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ-focused groups, and Fight for $15, the national living wage reform group. The diversity among their affiliated causes is linked to a core tenet, “No to xenophobia.” CUUV plans to continue organizing against policies that harm minority communities and will strive to make Memphis a place that welcomes immigrants and refugees. “We know we are not alone,” says Condori. “We have many allies who are willing to support us.” — MW PROTECT OUR AQUIFER Ward Archer is no stranger to matters of the environment and public interest. Several years back, he helped raise $4 million to buy endangered property along the Wolf River from would-be loggers on behalf of the Wolf River Conservancy. In the process, Archer ended up well grounded (in every sense of that term) with the fact that the headwaters of the Wolf — the Baker’s Pond area in northern continued on page 14

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Mississippi — served as a recharge area for the Memphis Sand aquifer, the source of Memphis’ unusually pristine drinking water. Fascinated, Archer learned everything he could about the subject of ground water in general and the Sand aquifer in particular. Archer, who is also a board member of Contemporary Media, Inc., the Flyer’s parent company, remains sensitive to any news regarding the aquifer and responded to the alarm raised last year by Scott Banbury of the Sierra Club about what had been a virtually unpublicized plan by the Tennessee Valley Authority to do some massive drilling into the aquifer to acquire coolant water for TVA’s forthcoming natural-gas power plant. Banbury and experts like Brian Waldron, of the University of Memphis, made a compelling case that the drilling — five wells, three of them already approved and some of them arguably ill-placed — could result in possible contamination of the aquifer’s water supply. Archer formed an ad hoc non-profit citizen’s group, Protect Our Aquifer, which has held numerous public meetings to raise awareness of the issue and has participated in various actions to halt the TVA drilling. The group has joined the Sierra Club in an ongoing legal appeal, now in Chancery Court, to reverse the preliminary approval of the TVA drilling by the Shelby County Groundwater Control Board. Protect Our Aquifier has a governing board of 10 and, perhaps more important, has an informal membership core of 1,800, communicating full-time via Facebook and fully able, as circumstances have demonstrated more than once, to mount an organized public presence. — Jackson Baker THE LEFTIST COMEDY SHOW It was the one-year anniversary of the Leftist Comedy Show, and show host Stan Polson thought he had one more joke — but, just to be sure, he checked an index card tucked in his breast pocket. “I’m really good at this,” he mumbled. “Oh yeah, yeah,” he said, reading deadpan from the card: “Men and women are really different. [laughter] Like, if you look on the internet, you can really see a lot of that. [laughter] Women are like, ‘Quit harassing me!’ And men are like, ‘Nobody’s harassing you, whore! Shut up! Kill yourself!’ [pause] That seems different.” Resistance can be funny. At least, that’s the take of those involved with the Leftist Comedy Show. It was born in the backyard of the Lamplighter Lounge and was supposed to be a one-off event, created by a group of friends with similar political interests. Turned out, the idea had legs, and the crowds are getting bigger. The first events were planned with the goal of creating “safe space” comedy for audiences who might not feel comfortable at regular shows and open mics. “A lot of people think we get offended

by offensive material,” he says. “But that’s not really the case so much as we believe people when they tell us why they don’t come to comedy shows. At a leftist show, you’re not going to hear any rape jokes. You’re not going to hear any racial slurs. We heard women didn’t feel safe at open mics, comedy in Memphis was too segregated, and a lot of our transgender friends wouldn’t go because they’d hear jokes that made them uncomfortable.” The result is a comedy showcase with a lot of familiar faces on stage, but a unique audience. The next Leftist Show is slated for April 15th at Midtown Crossing. It will be hosted by the Living Room Leftists, a local prounion folk band. — Chris Davis MID-SOUTH PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER “It’s all about poverty at the end of the day,” says Brad Watkins, executive director of the Mid-South Peace & Justice Center (MPJC). “Our organization was founded on the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. because our founders believed, as Memphians, we have a special responsibility, as this was the city in which King was murdered. [They wanted to build] on the work of Dorothy Day, of Chavez, of King. This organization stands to push that vision forward.” MPJC launched in 1982 and originally had a wide-ranging, four-pronged mission: opposing apartheid; targeting industrial polluters; calling for nuclear disarmament; and opposing U.S. military involvement in Central America. Some 20 years later, the focus was narrowed to local issues when Jacob Flowers, whose parents were active at the center in the 1980s, became executive director. The center has now become a mother ship, of sorts, for other fledgling organizations, including the Memphis Bus Riders Union, Memphis United, and H.O.P.E. (Homeless Organizing for Power & Equality). Watkins became executive director in 2014. “If you look at homelessness,” he says, “if you look at public transit, if you look at our work with low-income tenants or immigrants or criminal-justice reform — all of that has its roots in poverty. And not just poverty like it’s just something that happens, like the weather. “Low income people pay all the late fees; they pay all the reactivation fees,” Watkins continues. “The system bleeds people dry and keeps them trapped in poverty. If you wanted to sum up all of the issues we work on, it comes from a place of liberation from oppression, and poverty is the means to oppression.” Watkins says the center’s role in the current spate of activism is a supportive one. He says activism works best when a movement is led by the people most affected by an issue. “Here’s what I want to say,” says Watkins. “It’s never too late for someone to get involved. None of us were here at the beginning of the movement, and none of us are too late to be a part of it.” — Susan Ellis

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It’s hard to describe the special kind of physics-defying energy that crackles through a room where Memphis street dancers are squaring off in friendly yet deadly serious competition. As is the case with any competitive sport, the players and fans get pumped up and excited before the big game. Caps get snatched, stinkeye is exchanged. But in the pitched heat of a Memphis-style dance battle, the pervasive vibe is one where maximum hype and maximum chill merge, while the competitors — mostly men, though that’s changing — go up on pointe and glide around the room in their sneakers like they were skating on ice. According to Charquentis Ford — better known in the Memphis dance world as OG Jaquency — “respect” is the name of the game. In addition to being a dance instructor and event promoter, Jaquency’s a Gangsta Walk historian, able to reel off the names of the Bluff City’s great street dancers, their disciples, and their disciples’ disciples, like he was reciting a catechism. Although he’s retired his annual Old School vs New School battle, Ford is back at the Hard Rock Cafe on Beale this week, bringing the city’s best players together for the fifth installment of his Blood on the Dance Floor tag-team series. While some dancers will still go one-on-one, Blood on the Dance Floor is built around two-person team battles to determine the new “Kingz of the Streets.”

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Joey Alexander Germantown Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m., $25 A concert of jazz music from 13-year-old piano prodigy Joey Alexander.

Canvas Art Auction Church Health Center Wellness, 6-9 p.m. An art auction in support of MidSouth Sober Living. There will be a cash bar and food from The Farmer.

The Ugly Duckling The Orpheum, 6:30 p.m., $15 Hans Christian Andersen’s story performed by Lightwire Theater and Corbian Visual Arts and Dance.

Wild Kratts Live! Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 6:30 p.m., $29-$101 Animated series brought to life. Today, Chris and Martin encounter wild animals and some fun science education.

The Unencumbered McCoy Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $10 A play by Elizabeth Hersh: “In a near future where technology has rendered almost every dream achievable, seven men creep hopefully toward immortality, their fragile bodies dependent on armies of care-workers. This story is about three of the women who keep them alive, and what they gain and lose in doing it.”

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts Horseshoe Casino, 8 p.m., $45-$60 We don’t care about her bad reputation. Oh no! Rocker Joan Jett performs tonight.

The Prisoner is not a number; it’s a delicious wine. Spirits, p. 33 SATURDAY February 25 Mardi Gras Parade High Point Pub, 6 p.m.-1 a.m. Annual parade and party. You’re encouraged to bring your float! Booksiging by Tony Kail A. Schwab, 1-3 p.m. Tony Kail signs the book A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers, & Spirituals.

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Sure, you probably know Carole King’s double-sided hit single, “It’s Too Late,” backed with “I Feel the Earth Move.” If you were born in the 20th century, chances are you own a copy of her Tapestry LP. Or maybe your parents or grandparents owned a copy. So you might also know she wrote/co-wrote lots of songs that were hits for other artists. Songs like “Natural Woman,” a generation-defining cut from Aretha Franklin, and the James Taylor staple “You’ve Got a Friend.” King’s girl-group oeuvre alone ran the gamut from the Chiffons’ optimistic “One Fine Day” to the Crystals’ terrifying “He Hit Me.” And that’s just the beginning. As a songwriter, King charted well over 100 hits between the 1950s and the turn of the millennium, making her one of the most successful American songwriters of the 20th century. The jukebox musical Beautiful maps King’s early career in the recording industry and her rocky but productive creative partnership with husband Gerry Goffin. Julia Knitel, who plays King in the Broadway tour of Beautiful — docking at the Orpheum this week — has been a fan of the singer/songwriter since she was old enough to remember. “I always liked ‘Natural Woman,’” she says. “It’s such a special song. It’s just a beautiful piece of music.” Beautiful focuses on an 18-year stretch of King’s career, from her late teens through her late 20s, especially the time she spent with husband/creative partner Goffin. “What’s special about the show versus a traditional jukebox musical is we don’t create a story to shove songs into,” Knitel says. “We have an incredible story about a husband and wife — how their lives were changing and, in turn, changing the scope of American music.” “BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL” AT THE ORPHEUM THEATRE FEBRUARY 28TH-MARCH 5TH. $25. ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM

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Booksigning by Bob Clement Barnes & Noble Wolfchase, 1 p.m. Former congressman Bob Clement signs his memoir Presidents, Kings, and Convicts.

bubblePOP ’80s Prom Minglewood Hall, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., $26 An ’80s dance party, which includes prom photos and a corsage- and boutonniere-making station.

Half Pints for Half Pints Memphis Made Brewing Company, 7-10 p.m., $50, $85 per couple Annual fund-raiser for Peabody Elementary. Includes beer, of course, plus food from Celtic Crossing, Sweet Grass, Mulan, Aldo’s, and Central BBQ. Music provided by Zac Ives.

Cat Yoga Crosstown Arts, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Yes, it’s happening. Cat yoga! Featuring yoga classes and adoptable cats from the Memphis Animal Shelter. Held in conjunction with the show “We Need to Talk.”

Birmingham Sushi Class Memphis Made Brewing Company, 2 p.m., $40 This traveling sushi class returns. For more info, go to birminghamsushiclasses.com. Good People Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 2-3 p.m. The latest from Elaine Blanchard, based on her childhood and covering racism, violence, and injustice. Laurence R. Albert will accompany the work with song.

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hen comedian P.A. Sechler performed in the most recent Memphis Punk Fest, it was one of his first shows. After getting the invitation to join the bill, he ran through a short stand-up set in the time-slot between two punk bands. It made for an unconventional but memorable entrance onto the Memphis comedy scene, so maybe it’s just evolution for Sechler to have assembled a diverse group of musicians and comics for his first “P.A. Presents” show this Friday at the New Daisy. The Clinton, Mississippi-based indie-rock band Fides tops the music bill, with Katrina Coleman, the mastermind behind the Memphis Comedy Festival, serving as headliner for the comedy portion of the show. The other musical acts jump genres wildly, and include psychedelic rock, synthpop, and punkinfluenced electropop on a bill that is already an amalgam of music and comedy. If you like to laugh and dance, then, with three comedians and four vastly different bands, “P. A. Presents” appears to offer a lot of bang for your buck. “P.A. Presents” is Sechler’s first show as curator, but the Cleveland, Mississippi, transplant says he wants the show to be an experience that wouldn’t be found elsewhere. “It’s not every day you get to play on Beale Street,” Sechler says, and, to make sure the event is special, he has assembled a varied lineup of performers. The Renders, Surfwax, and the Ellie Badge will perform, and Joshua McLane and Christine Marie will keep the momentum rolling with comedy sets between music sets. You might recognize McLane as the drummer of HEELS and as one of the regulars from the popular “You Look Like A” comedy shows,

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further blurring the line between music and comedy on this bill. Though there is a cornucopia of homegrown talent on display, the real gem of the night is headliners Fides. The band self-released their second full-length album, Across the Yard, last July, and on the strength of that record alone, they are well worth the price of admission. Four years after the release of their self-titled first EP, Fides is a tight unit, and it’s clear their time spent in the trenches of restaurants and bars in Mississippi has served them well. Tommy Bobo, Reed Smith, and Cody Sparkman recorded Across the Yard with Jacob Lifsey at the Delta Music Institute, (but I can’t help but wonder what they would do in the hands of someone at High/Low or the Old Vacuum Shop, formerly Rocket Science Audio). The new 12-track album flows along dreamily, with powerful instrumental interludes resolving (I wanted to type “coalescing,” as if there were some powerful occult chemistry at work) into breezily melodic verses. The ease with which the unsigned band manipulates the nuances of their songs bespeaks a lot of time spent playing together. Fides lists Colour Revolt as a major influence, and it’s no surprise, given that both bands are based in Mississippi and Fides formed about the same time Colour Revolt signed, briefly, with Fat Possum Records. And I can’t help but think that Fides owes some thanks to bands like Yo La Tengo and Television for their crisply melodic, darkbut-gentle sound. “Brain” is the stand-out track of Across the Yard, at times tender, at times strong and insistent, as chiming guitars give way to the swell of drums and tastefully applied keyboards. On the comedy side of the bill, headliner Katrina Coleman is the reason to stick around. For a more in-depth look at the comedian, see Coleman’s 2015 interview with the Flyer’s own Fly on the Wall, or you can just trust Sechler when he says that Coleman is Memphis comedy royalty. As an integral part of the Memphis Comedy Festival and the “You Look Like A” comedy shows, Coleman has been making Memphis audiences laugh for years. “It’s going to be fun,” Sechler says, “and that’s what I want.” P.A. Presents Fides, the Renders, Surfwax, the Ellie Badge, Katrina Coleman, Joshua McLane, and Christine Marie, Friday, February 24th at the New Daisy Theater, 7 p.m., $10

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IMAKEMADBEATS aims to break the Memphis hip-hop mold. “Throughout my life, a lot of people have called me obsessive,” says IMAKEMADBEATS. “If I took interest in something, it wasn’t just ‘I like that.’ If I liked something, I usually went way deeper into it. Music was one of the first.” Back in the day, IMAKEMADBEATS was a kid from Orange Mound named James Dukes. Now, he’s Memphis’ most sought-after hip-hop producer and guru of Unapologetic, which he calls “A label? A collective? Maybe all of those things.” IMAKEMADBEATS got his musical start from his family. His father was an avid record hound with an encyclopedic soul, blues, and R&B collection. But in the car, he listened to just jazz — “the most artistic, calm, riff-changing, random jazz. That had the biggest influence on me,” the producer says. “About a month ago, I asked him, ‘Hey dad, why did you listen to jazz only in the car?’ He said, ‘That’s because Memphis drivers can’t drive. I needed something to calm me down.’ …

Jazz was like music that was how my brain works. I liked how randomness didn’t feel so random.” As a teenager, his musical tastes ranged from Wu-Tang Clan, A Tribe Called Quest, and Gang Starr to Detroit techno, trip-hop, and rock. “If it sounded like magic, I loved it.” But he quickly found his eclectic taste marked him as an outsider. “When I got on the Orange Mound bus to go to school … I’ll never forget that. I had to be playing Three-Six, or nothing. If it ain’t that, you’re either gay or white or weird.” “I started making beats on a computer we found on the side of the street,” he says. “My first group that I was in in high school was called The Strangers. We were called The Strangers because we felt like strangers in our own community. I lived here, I know every street here, I know your grandmother. But everyone tells me I act and sound like I’m from somewhere else.” IMAKEMADBEATS moved to New

York quickly after he graduated from White Station High School and eventually became an engineer at Manhattan’s Quad Recording Studios, where he worked with Talib Kweli, Common, Missy Elliott, Musiq Soulchild, Ludacris, and Solange Knowles, and many others. In 2009, he got a break to record his own album The Transcontinental with Roc C. He moved into lucrative soundtrack work and corporate jobs, and returned to Memphis in 2011 for family reasons, where he spent most of his time in his sound lab. Finally, a friend dragged him out of his solitude to see a show with Cities Aviv and PreauXX, and he found kindred spirits. “PreauXX, being the most popular guy ever, eventually pulled me out of the cage. He got me working with artists again and making my own music.” Better Left Unsaid is a seven-song EP of cut-up instrumental hip-hop IMAK-

EMADBEATS recorded in 11 days. Like the works of Madlib and Donuts-era J Dilla, the work defies conventional genre labels. Suffice it to say that IMAKEMADBEATS can do literally anything in a studio. After shopping the record to indie labels for a time, he decided that no one knew how to do the record justice but himself, so he founded Unapologetic. The album comes on a USB drive shaped like the IMAKEMADBEATS logo: a giant afro surrounding the artist’s signature mask. There’s also a comic book drawn by Gift Revolver to dramatize the story behind the track “Mother Sang to Us” and an animated video. Unapologetic is just getting started. IMAKEMADBEATS is planning four more releases this year, including Stuntarious Vol. 2 compilation in May, gospel singer/songwriter Cameron Bethany in July, and hip-hop duo Kid Maestro and A Weirdo From Memphis’ Enter Weird Maestro in September. The aim is to tap into the creativity of the dispossessed Memphis artists. “Unapologetic is my stand against being what you’re supposed to be, externally, and just being what you are, which is what you’re supposed to be.” To those who think Memphis, and the world, isn’t ready for these new sounds, “The punch you didn’t see coming is the one that hurts most.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule February 23 - March 1 Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.

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

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138 BEALE 526-3637

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

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.

FedExForum 191 BEALE STREET

Winter Jam featuring Tony Nolan Saturday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m.

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

Bad Boy Matt & the Amazing Rhythmatics Tuesdays, Thursdays-Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

King’s Palace Cafe 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, 711 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Sensation Band Tuesdays, Fridays, 711 p.m.; Fuzzy and the Kings of Memphis Saturdays, 711 p.m.; Chic Jones and the Blues Express Sundays, 711 p.m.; North and South Band Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

Hard Rock Cafe

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

126 BEALE 529-0007

168 BEALE 576-2220

Savannah Long Thursday, Feb. 23, 6-9 p.m.; Terry Greene Saturday, Feb. 25, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

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Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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.; Cowboy Neil Friday, Feb. 24, 8 p.m.-midnight; Gerald Delafose Friday, Feb. 24, 9 p.m.-midnight, and Saturday, Feb. 25, 9 p.m.midnight; North and South Band Saturday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.-midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.midnight; McDaniel Band 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.

New Daisy Theatre

145 BEALE 578-3031

Kayla Walker Thursdays, 6-7 p.m.; Susan Marshall Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.; Nat “King” Kerr Fridays, Saturdays, 9-10 p.m.; Susan Marshall Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m.

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

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall

162 BEALE 521-1851

Chris Gales Solo Acoustic Show Mondays-Saturdays, 12-4 p.m.; Eric Hughes Thursdays, Fridays, 5-8 p.m.; Karaoke Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.

330 BEALE 525-8981

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Bobbie & Tasha Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium

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

Huey’s Downtown

1737 MADISON 443-5232

Songwritters with Roland and Friends Mondays, 7-10 p.m. 77 S. SECOND 527-2700

The Deftonz Sunday, Feb. 26, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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

Paulette’s

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

Live Music ThursdaysSaturdays, 10 p.m.; The Rusty Pieces Friday, Feb. 24, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

Loﬂin Yard

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN TICKETS, 525-1515

Canvas

RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300

Rum Boogie Cafe Little Boys Blue Thursday, Feb. 23, 7-11 p.m.; Chubby Carrier Friday, Feb. 24, 9 p.m.midnight, and Saturday, Feb. 25, 9 p.m.-midnight; Gracie Curran Sunday, Feb. 26, 711 p.m., and Monday, Feb. 27, 7-11 p.m.; Jess Jensen Band Tuesday, Feb. 28, 7-11 p.m.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

Blind Bear Speakeasy

182 BEALE 528-0150

550 S. MAIN 494-6543

Rebecca Almond, Katharine Hedlund, Bret Ross, Brandon McGovern Friday, Feb. 24, 7-9 p.m.

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

PA Presents - Music + Comedy Friday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m.

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

South Main Sounds

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

South Main 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Masterworks 4: Brahm’s Fourth Saturday, Feb. 25, 7:309:30 p.m.

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

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney and the U of M Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Rooster, the Come On, and Zigadoo Moneyclips Friday, Feb. 24, 9 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Don and Wayde Tuesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

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

Sleeping Seasons, Sleepwalkers, Shed Thursday, Feb. 23, 8 p.m.; Saluting Solid State Friday, Feb. 24,

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule February 23 - March 1

Davis Coen and the Change Sunday, Feb. 26, 4-7 p.m.; Logan Hannah and the Easy Way Sunday, Feb. 26, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Lafayette’s Music Room

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Rusty Pieces Duo Thursday, Feb. 23, 8-10 p.m.; Mardi Gras “Flight Tuesday” sponsored by Abita Brewery Tuesday, Feb. 28, 6-11 p.m.

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

Intimate Piano Lounge

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Natchez Saturday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.; Flashback Sunday, Feb. 26, 4-7 p.m.; Brandon McGovern, Rebecca Almond, Alec Clemmer, and Doug Collins Monday, Feb. 27, 7-11 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Cordova Huey’s Cordova

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

Dana Louise and the Glorious Birds Saturday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.

1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

Charley Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, Feb. 26, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova 8071 TRINITY 756-4480

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

2119 MADISON 207-5097

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Friday, Feb. 24; Good Paper of Rev. Rob Mortimer Friday, Feb. 24, 10 p.m.-2 a.m. and Saturday, Feb. 25, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

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

Minglewood Hall

Vintage Sunday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m.-midnight.

STAX/VOLT Tour: Part 1 “Celebrating Stax History” Friday, Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m.; bubblePOP ’80s Prom Saturday, Feb. 25.

Thirsty Lizard 6541 US-51 662-536-6054

Murphy’s

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1589 MADISON 726-4193

Wild Bill’s The Wild Bill’s Band Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Devil Train Saturday, Feb. 25.

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Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729

The Settlers Sunday, Feb. 26, 4-7 p.m.; The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, Feb. 26, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

Josh Phillips Friday, Feb. 24, 10 p.m.

North Mississippi/ Tunica

AT CASINO CENTER, SOUTH OF MEMPHIS, NEAR TUNICA, MS 1-800-303-SHOE

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

Organ Concert by Patrick Parker Friday, Feb. 24, 7-9 p.m.

Horseshoe Casino & Hotel

768 S. COOPER 207-5343

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Seventeen Sisters Saturday, Feb. 25; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN 754-7282

Triggerproof Thursday, Feb. 23, 7-11 p.m., Friday, Feb. 24, 7-11 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 25, 9 p.m.-2:30 a.m.; The Frontmen of Country Music Saturday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.

Johnny Cash 85th Birthday Party Sunday, Feb. 26, 3-7 p.m.

P&H Cafe

St. George’s Episcopal Church

1010 CASINO CENTER IN TUNICA, MS 1-888-24K-PLAY

Memphis Made Brewing Company

1532 MADISON 726-0906

Dantones Friday, Feb. 24, 7-10 p.m.

Gold Strike Casino

Marcella Simien Duo Thursday, Feb. 23, 6 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Thursday, Feb. 23, 9 p.m.; Graham Winchester and the Ammunition Friday, Feb. 24, 10 p.m.; Heath N’ Justin Saturday, Feb. 25, 6:30 p.m.; Outer Vibe Saturday, Feb. 25, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; The Go Rounds Sunday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith and Co. Mondays, 6 p.m.; John Kilzer Tuesday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Boy Named Banjo Wednesday, March 1, 8 p.m.

Lumpy and the Dumpers Thursday, Feb. 23; Jimmy Davis, Tommy Burroughs, Eric Lewis Thursday, Feb. 23, 6-9 p.m.; Brandon Taylor Friday, Feb. 24; Party Pat Birthday Bash Saturday, Feb. 25.

Mellow Mushroom 9155 POPLAR 907-0243

Van Duren Solo Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Owen Brennan’s

Hadley’s Pub

THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

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

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

Songwriter Night hosted by Leigh Ann Wilmot and Dave “The Rave” Fridays, 6-9 p.m.

High Point Pub

East Tapas and Drinks

477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

6069 PARK 767-6002

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Collierville Huey’s Collierville

Poplar/I-240 Eddie Harris Thursdays, Fridays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Elizabeth Wise Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.; Van Duren Solo Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.

The Return of 5th Kind Friday, Feb. 24, 9 p.m.; Thump Daddy Saturday, Feb. 25, 9 p.m.; Almost Famous Sunday, Feb. 26, 5:30 p.m.

Pubapalooza with Stereo Joe Every other Wednesday, 8-11 p.m.

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Deering and Down Trio Sunday, Feb. 26, 8-11:30 p.m.;

Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center 1801 EXETER 751-7500

Joey Alexander Thursday, Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m.; Jazz in the Box presents Joyce Cobb Friday, Feb. 24, 7-8 and 8-9:30 p.m.; Rachmaninoff with GSO featuring World-Renowned Pianist Valery Kuleshov Saturday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m.; Masterworks 4: Brahm’s Fourth Sunday, Feb. 26, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

Soul Shockers Sunday, Feb. 26, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, Feb. 26, 8-11:30 p.m.

Full Effect Band Saturday, Feb. 25; Teacher’s Pet Wednesday, March 1, 7-11 p.m.

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays; Twin Soul Friday, Feb. 24, 9:30 p.m.-2:30 a.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Blues Jam Every Thursday Night hosted by Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; Midnite Train “Off the Tracks” Friday, Feb. 24, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Ain’t Yo Mama Saturday, Feb. 25, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Mic Night and Steak Night Tuesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas EACC Fine Arts Center Gallery EAST ARKANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1700 NEWCASTLE, FORREST CITY, AR

UAPB Vesper Choir Thursday, Feb. 23.

Southland Park 1550 N. INGRAM, WEST MEMPHIS, AR 800-467-6182

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372

Casual Pint 395 S. HIGHLAND

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

6 p.m.; Cash’d Out Saturday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.; Flirting with Sincerity, Ben There, Mystery Entity Sunday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m.; Vintage Pistol, Drew Erwin Tuesday, Feb. 28, 9 p.m.

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CALENDAR of EVENTS:

February 23 - March 1 TH EAT E R Good People, story performed by and based on the childhood of Elaine Blanchard and her introduction to racism, violence, and injustice. Laurence R. Albert, bass-baritone, accompanies her performance with song. (604-2149), www. elaineblanchard.com. Free. Sun., Feb. 26, 2-3 p.m.

Eclectic Eye

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

O N G O I N G ART

3030 POPLAR (415-2700).

Overton Park Gallery

Opening reception for “California in Nocturne,” exhibition of photography by Max Malcolms. Fri., Feb. 24, 6-8 p.m.

ANF Architects

Cannon Center for the Performing Arts

The Perfect Pastor, every person has his or her secrets and truths untold. Most, if not all, would prefer to take those secrets with them to the grave. This was Charles Hudson’s plan, but fate chose another route. www.thecannoncenter.com. $42.50. Sun., Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.

The Orpheum

The Ugly Duckling and The Tortoise and the Hare, performances by Lightwire Theater and Corbian Visual Arts and Dance. www.orpheum-memphis. com. $15-$20. Fri., Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m. Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, award-winning, inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history. www.orpheummemphis.com. $25. Feb. 28-March 5. 203 S. MAIN (525-3000).

Theatre Memphis

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Sense & Sensibility. www.theatrememphis.org. $25. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m. Through Feb. 26. 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

A Taste of Theatre: Weekend Comedy, comedy about two couples, one older, one younger, booking a cabin at the same time. (515-493-2623), www.theatreworksmemphis.org. $50-$65. Fri.Sun., Feb. 24-26. 2085 MONROE (274-7139).

A R TI ST R E C E PT I O N S

Art Village Gallery

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Artist reception for “Breaking Barriers,” featuring work by Nubia Gala, Stacey Okparavero, Christina Nicola, Raffaella Perego, Lisa Williamson, and Beth Okeon. www.artvillagegallery.com. Fri., Feb. 24, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 410 S. MAIN (521-0782).

Circuitous Succession Gallery

Closing reception for Richard Knowles and Annabelle Meacham, exhibition in celebration of the life and legacy of Richard Knowles featuring gallery talks by fellow artists Lawrence Jasud and Carol Knowles. www.circuitoussuccessiongallery.

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Artist Market and Music

4560 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS (662-280-9120).

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

901.636.2362

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

The Gentleman’s House: Presentation by Dr. Stephen Hague

The Unencumbered, technology has rendered almost every dream achievable. Seven men creep hopefully toward immortality, their fragile bodies dependent on armies of care-workers. This story is about three of the women who keep them alive, and what they gain and lose in doing it. 2 p.m. Sunday matinee. www.rhodes.edu/mccoy. $10. Thurs.-Sun., 7:30 p.m. Through Feb. 26.

Gallery Artists Group Exhibition at Jay Etkin Gallery, through March 18th

MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.MCA.EDU.

“See Me, Hear Me, I Am Human,” exhibition of works dedicated to the contemporary empowerment of women’s rights worldwide by Jin H. Powell. www.anfa.com. Through March 9. 1500 UNION (278-6868).

Landers Center (DeSoto Civic Center)

McCoy Theatre

3050 Central Ave / Memphis 38111

1581 OVERTON PARK (229-2967).

SLAVEHAVEN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MUSEUM, 826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

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

and Air/Sea Travel

Opening reception for “Digital Tapestries,” exhibition of multi-media works by Meredith Olinger. www.eclectic-eye.com. Fri., Feb. 24, 6-8 p.m.

Featuring African carvings, arts and crafts, drumming, singing, and poetry. Sat., Feb. 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Aladdin Jr. www.stagedoormemphis.org. Pay what you can. Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-8 p.m., and Sundays, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Through March 5.

Locally presented by:

500 S. SECOND.

MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 525-1515).

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

January 7 - March 3, 2017

Visiting Artist Lecture

Held in Callicott Auditorium, artist and time TBA. Tues., Feb. 28.

Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library

The Little Mermaid. www.dftonline.org. $22. Fridays-Sundays. Through March 5.

com. Sun., Feb. 26, 2-6 p.m.

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.

Germantown Performing Arts Center

“A River Runs Through It,” exhibition of work by MCA students in conjunction with Iris Orchestra concert. www.mca.edu. Through Feb. 28. 1801 EXETER (751-7500).

Jay Etkin Gallery

Gallery Artists Group Exhibition, wwww.jayetkingallery.com. Through March 18. 942 COOPER (550-0064).

Presentation will discuss the architecture, landscapes, gardens, and furnishings of several Georgian houses with illustrations from his book The Gentleman’s House in the British Atlantic World 1680-1780. Sat., Feb. 25, 10:30 a.m.

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I♥Love Art Family Day

All ages welcome to celebrate art in all its forms. Featuring creative time, meet artists, make art, look at art, and be art. Including live music, theater, dance performances, and artful snacks. Free admission. Sat., Feb. 25, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Tea & Tour for Seniors: American Art in the Brooks Permanent Collection

Enjoy a tour of American Art in the museum’s collection, conducted by a knowledgeable docent, followed by tea and treats in the Terrace Room. Call for reservations. Free for members, $3 nonmembers. Thurs., Feb. 23, 2-4 p.m. MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

Visiting Art Historian Dr. A Victor Coonin

Author of From Marble to Flesh: The Biography of Michelangelo’s David and Professor at Rhodes College lectures on gender/sexuality, beauty/body image, and censorship/violence in Michelangelo’s statue. Thurs., Feb. 23, 1-2 p.m. MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-5100), WWW.MCA.EDU.

Marty Parker and Rose Sitton, exhibition of paintings with a portion of the proceeds benefiting MJHR. www.memphisjewishhome.org. Through March 31.

Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum

“Banjos: Africa and the New World,” exhibition celebrating Black History Month featuring African and slave plantation banjos. Through Feb. 28. “Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. Ongoing. 826 N. SECOND (527-3427).

OPERA

Scenes from Broadway and Opera Sat., Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m.

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Performance in conjunction with current exhibit by Ballet on Wheels Dance School & Company. Free. Sat., Feb. 25, 11 a.m. BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2700), WWW.BALLETONWHEELS.ORG.

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P&H Cafe

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m. 1532 MADISON (726-0906).

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Congressman Bob Clement

Author discusses and signs Presidents, Kings & Convicts. Sat., Feb. 25, 1-2 p.m. BARNES & NOBLE, 2774 N. GERMANTOWN (386-2468), WWW.BN.COM.

Booksigning by Linda Williams Jackson

Author discusses and signs novel for young readers, Midnight Without a Moon, in honor of Black History Month. Sun., Feb. 26, 3-4 p.m. BARNES & NOBLE, 2774 N. GERMANTOWN (386-2468), WWW.BN.COM.

Booksigning by Lucy Shaw

Go Ape Treetop Adventure

Author discusses and signs The Journey. Thurs., Feb. 23, 5:30 p.m.

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Author discusses and signs Evil Like Me. Fri., Feb. 24, 6-9 p.m.

Featuring snacks, merchandise, and your favorite derby girls for gender-inclusive mashup. Student ID’s from any post-high school institution get $2 off admission. $10. Sat., Feb. 25, 7-10 p.m.

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Author discusses and signs A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers & Spirituals. Sat., Feb. 25, 1-3 p.m. A. SCHWAB, 163 BEALE (523-9782), WWW.A-SCHWAB.COM.

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Celebrate What’s Right: Innovation City

New Memphis’ luncheon series shines a light on progress and success in our community. $30. Tues., Feb. 28, 12-1:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS HOLIDAY INN, 3700 CENTRAL (527-4625 EXT. 221), WWW.NEWMEMPHIS.ORG.

The Heart of a Mom

Dr. Joe White, president of Kanakuk Kamps, will present a lecture on topic in the Legacy Center to equip and thank moms all over the country. Free. Tues., Feb. 28, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Yoga with Cats at Crosstown Arts, Saturday, February 25th EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL, 7600 MACON (754-7217), WWW.HEARTOFAMOM.COM.

Memphis Bar Association Seminar on Helping Businesses Make Decisions in 2017 Mackie Gober and Wesley Grace speak on topic. CLE available. See website for more information and registration. $10-$30 members, $40 nonmembers, free for law students. Tues., Feb. 28, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. MEMPHIS BAR ASSOCIATION, 145 COURT (527-3582), WWW.MEMPHISBAR.ORG.

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TO U R S

Old Forest Hike

Walking tour of the region’s only urban old-growth forest. Last Sunday of every month, 10 a.m. OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

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Yoga with Cats

Free-roaming adoptable cats from Memphis Animal Services will help yogis during yoga class. Sign up online for a class with cats. Sat., Feb. 25, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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Special consideration will be given to those over 60 with lowto-medium incomes. Tuesdays. Through April 11.

Tennessee Naturalist Program

Registration is required. $225. Mondays, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Through March 27. MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW.MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

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Registration for Kidzu Playhouse 2017 Summer Camps

For camp information and registration, see website. $75-$350. Through July 1. HERNANDO HIGH SCHOOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, 805 DILWORTH LANE, HERNANDO, MS, WWW.KUDZUPLAYERS.COM.

Registration for MCA Summer Art Camp

Offering 12 new classes for the 2017 summer camp beginning in April. For more information, visit website. Wed., March 1. WWW.MCA.EDU.

Wild Kratts Live!

Join the adventures of Chris & Martin Kratt as they encounter wild animals, combining science education with fun and adventure. $29-$101. Thurs., Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m. CANNON CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, MEMPHIS COOK CONVENTION CENTER, 255 N. MAIN (TICKETS, 525-1515), WWW.THECANNONCENTER.COM.

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C.H. NASH MUSEUM AT CHUCALISSA, 1987 INDIAN VILLAGE (785-3160), WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU/CHUCALISSA/.

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“Back to the Moon for Good” $7. Through June 2.

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I Think I Can Be a Doctor, Rise of the Urbanites

Metropolitan Opera 2017: Rusalka

Based on the children’s book of the same name written by Dr. John E. Bell to inspire urban youth of today to guide them from violence and negative

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Sat., Feb. 25, 11:55 p.m., and Wed., March 1, 6:30 p.m. MALCO PARADISO CINEMA, 584 S. MENDENHALL (682-1754), WWW.MALCO.COM.

BarkHappy Mardi Gras Pawty

Meet amazing creatures while exploring the most dramatic continent on earth. Through March 3. CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Benefiting the Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County. $15. Sun., Feb. 26, 3-5 p.m. BAR LOUIE, 2125 MADISON (207-1436), WWW.MEMPHISHUMANE.ORG.

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Pop up dance party featuring Los Angeles DJ Phil Quinaz, prom picture photo booth, and a corsage/boutonniere-making station. $26. Sat., Feb. 25, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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Food and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided by The Farmer’s Mac Edwards and friends with a cash bar for wine and beer benefiting Mid-South Sober Living. Fri., Feb. 24, 6-9 p.m.

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Extreme Deep: Mission into the Abyss

Offers opportunities for hands-on exploration of life at the bottom of the sea. Interactive exhibit that highlights the adventure of deep-sea exploration and discovery. Through May 6.

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Johnny Cash 85th Birthday Party

Celebrate Johnny Cash’s 85th birthday and help raise money for a statue of the Man in Black. Jack O & the Sheiks will play, and part of beer sales will go to Legacy Memphis. Donation welcome. Sun., Feb. 26, 3-7 p.m. MEMPHIS MADE BREWING COMPANY, 768 S. COOPER (207-5343), WWW.MEMPHISMADEBREWING.COM.

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Highlighting historical African-American sites across West Tennessee including Slavehaven, Beale Street, Cannon Baptist Church, and more. $40. Tues., 4 p.m. Through Feb. 28. TENNESSEE WELCOME CENTER, 119 RIVERSIDE, WWW.HERITAGETOURSOFMEMPHIS.COM.

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ydia Peelle, by her own admission, is a time traveller when she’s writing. In her new novel, The Midnight Cool (Harper), she takes us along with her to the American South of 1917 and the beginnings of World War I. At the center of Peelle’s book are mules, the most maligned and stubborn of beasts. The author has a soft spot for them and writes with compassion about the animal anomalies. “A lot of the elements of the book have longcaptured my imagination: The relationship of men and horses and mules is one, horse traders and that subculture and characters is another,” she said by phone from her home in Nashville. The story follows two less-thanethical horse traders, Billy Monday and Charles McLaughlin, skilled at masking the flaws of lesser animals and at smooth-talking customers, respectively. The tables are turned when they themselves are duped and Charles purchases a spirited (read: dangerous) horse from a wealthy man in fictional Richfield, Tennessee. Perhaps Charles is mesmerized by the stateliness of the sedated mare, or perhaps it’s the horse owner’s daughter, the beautiful Catherine Hatcher, clouding his judgment. Either way, the two hustlers find themselves in possession of a mankilling horse and, Charles, anyway, of a lovelorn heart. Against the backdrop of the beginnings of a Great War in Europe, we learn the connection of the two men — a middle-aged Irish immigrant (Billy) and the teenage son of a prostitute. Charles has dollar signs in his eyes and a youthful obsession over the wealthy. Thus is he drawn into the coterie of Catherine’s father, Leland Hatcher, just as he’s pulled further in by his daughter’s charms. War and love begin to take a toll on the men’s relationship even as they take on the task of supplying war mules to the U.S. government. The action comes to a head as Charles is forced to make a decision between his life and country, his love and duty, and a secret and truth. Peelle is a masterful storyteller who has honed her craft with short stories and the collection Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing (Harper Perennial, 2009). The Midnight Cool is her first novel and is rich with voice and in detail, the sense of place as familiar as her own backyard. “The writing and

research evolved side by side,” she said. “The research was like a treasure hunt. One door led to another and another, until about halfway through the drafts I realized I had opened one literally onto my back doorstep.” She grew up on her grandfather’s farm in upstate New York and has had a lifelong love affair with horses. “My father was the first person in his family to leave the farm, so it’s in my blood,” she said. “When I was growing up, we would go back to the farm, but all of the animals were gone so there were empty barns and empty pastures that really captured my imagination.” While in college, she worked giving horseback riding lessons and leading trail rides, and she ran horses at a horse auction, the first place she came in contact with the horse-trading subculture.

Only recently, though, did she become acquainted with mules, true characters within her book as they plow a straight and true furrow through the storyline. “You cannot tell America’s story without talking about mules,” she has said about the horse-donkey hybrids. “Mule power essentially built the physical infrastructure of our cities and our country: the roads, the power lines, the telephone lines, the transcontinental railroad, etc.” Peelle has a long road to travel in the countryside of literature, and, though some will be short jaunts, I look forward to these longer walks through the lives of her characters and the times that have passed.

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nce he graduated with a culinary degree from Johnson and Wales in South Carolina, Jimmy Gentry began to make a name for himself in Memphis. He served as executive chef at Erling Jensen: The Restaurant, which was named “Best Restaurant” by local polls including The Memphis Flyer’s Best of Memphis, and he presented at the James Beard House in New York. He ran several restaurants and opened one, Magnolia: A Delta Grille, during a tenure in Tunica, until taking an instructional position at L’École Culinaire. He wanted something of his own, though, and that turned into the visionary catering company Paradox Catering and Consulting, which he opened in 2010 with business partner and fellow casino culinary employee Alia Hogan. One of their regular clients was the Brooks Museum, which has become quite the trendsetter for happening events, especially when food oriented. Meanwhile, in early 2016, the long-standing Brushmark closed its doors while the Brooks continued its renovations and prepared for its yearlong centennial celebration. Brooks administrators weren’t sure what they were going to do to replace the beloved Brushmark until it dawned on them. “We really liked [Jimmy’s] art, the art of his food,” says Karen Davis, public relations specialist for the Brooks. “We thought it would be a good fit for everybody.” And in mid-January, Café Brooks

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