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OUR 1517TH ISSUE 03.22.18 What Famous Queen Are You? How Well Do You Know Your BFF? Which Game of Thrones Character Would You Fall in Love With? Which City Should You Visit in 2018? Are You a Sensitive Person? As is obvious to anyone who’s been on Facebook for any length of time, these are just a few of the thousands of “quizzes” that may pop up in your timeline as you scroll through to see what your sister is up to in Cleveland. You may know the answers to some of those questions because you took the quizzes. If so, you’ve taken another quiz without knowing it. It’s called, Are You a Total Sucker? And the answer is most likely, Yes. Actually, even if you didn’t take the quiz but “Liked” a friend’s post about his or her quiz results, you’re probably a total sucker. In fact, there are, at latest count, about 50 million suckers who’ve had the personal information that’s linked to their Facebook account “harvested” by a company called Cambridge Analytica. And it’s a big deal because that information was being marketed to political campaigns around the world — including Donald Trump’s — and used to influence voters. Facebook says Cambridge Analytica obtained — and retained — the information illegally. Last Friday, in an attempt to get out in front of a story being published by the Observer of London, Facebook said 250,000 accounts had been compromised. The next day, the Observer and The New York Times both reported that the number of accounts harvested was 50 million. Which, to be fair to Facebook, is close to 250,000, right? All this information came out thanks to a whistle-blower named Christopher Wylie (no relation to Christopher Steele), who recounted some truly harrowing tales to Observer reporter, Carole Cadwalladr: “[Wylie] came up with a plan to harvest the Facebook profiles of millions of people in the U.S., and to use their private and personal informaWho are you? tion to create sophisticated psychological and political profiles. And then target them with political ads designed to work on their particular psychological makeup. “‘We ‘broke’ Facebook,’” he says. “And he did it on behalf of his new boss, Steve Bannon.” Whoa, if true! And it’s true. Turns out Cambridge Analytica is owned by Republican oligarch Robert Mercer, who hired Steve Bannon to run the Facebook profile-harvesting operation. In remarkable stories in the Observer, its sister paper, The Guardian, and The New York Times, much, much more was revealed, including the fact that Russian money (Surprise!) was also funneled into Cambridge Analytica a few years back. Cadwalladr worked with Wylie for over a year to expose Cambridge Analytica’s operations. In so doing, she may have saved democracy. Her reporting revealed that Cambridge Analytica was involved in Great Britain’s surprising Brexit election and other elections around the world that may have served as test cases for the organization’s operation in the U.S. election of 2016. In England, the government is up in arms, demanding investigations and freezing Cambridge Analytica operations there. Calls are being made for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to testify to government investigators. In the U.S., as you might expect, not so much, though “concerns” are being expressed by the usual GOP suspects. As what is potentially the greatest spy/espionage story in U.S. history plays out in the coming weeks and months, I urge everyone to read as much real journalism about the subject as possible. It’s coming from national and international sources with a N E WS & O P I N I O N reputation for solid reporting — The Wall THE FLY-BY - 4 Street Journal, Bloomberg, The New York NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 Times, the Washington Post, and, increasPOLITICS - 9 ingly from the Guardian and Observer. I EDITORIAL - 10 also urge you to support these entities with VIEWPOINT - 11 your dollars by buying online subscripCOVER - “BEHIND CLOSED tions. The Guardian and Observer don’t DOORS” have paywalls but do offer simple ways to BY TOBY SELLS - 12 WE RECOMMEND - 16 contribute to their work on their websites. MUSIC - 18 Good journalism is expensive to do, AFTER DARK - 20 but the Fourth Estate is the best defense NCAA BRACKET - 24 we have against being manipulated by CALENDAR - 26 the dark forces now arrayed against the BOOKS - 36 world’s democracies. BAR REPORT - 38 And don’t take any more Facebook FOOD - 40 quizzes. You already know which Game SPIRITS - 41 of Thrones character you’d like to fall in FILM - 42 love with, anyway. C L AS S I F I E D S - 44 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 47 brucev@memphisflyer.com
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Truth Commission, Civil Rights, and Bathrooms Ending poverty, Memphis gets civil rights grants, bathroom bill stalled. POVE RTY STO R I ES The Memphis Theological Seminary and the Tennessee Poor People’s Campaign launched the Truth Commission last week to “abolish poverty” in Memphis, collecting stories of poverty. The seminary’s Henry Logan Starks Institute for Faith, Race, and Social Justice, along with the Poor People’s Campaign, will document and study human rights violations in the Memphis area. Types of violations will include environmental degradation, criminalization of the poor, neighborhood gentrification, lack of living wages, quality education, and health-care issues. Until Thursday, March 22nd, the commission will be collecting “truth stories” of how poverty has directly affected people’s lives here. The commission will present the most “egregious” stories of poverty on Saturday, March 24th. Stories can be shared on the Poor People’s Campaign website. C IV I L R I G HTS M O N EY The city is getting $570,000 in federal grants to rehab the interior of Clayborn Temple and to develop the Memphis Heritage Trail, which will highlight downtown sites significant to the civil rights movement. The lion’s share of Memphis’ $570,000 will fund the city’s efforts to restore the sanctuary inside Clayborn Temple, the site from which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led thousands of sanitation workers during the march in 1968. BATH R O O M B I LL A revised transgender bathroom bill stalled in a state House committee last week and looks, perhaps, to be dead for this session. The bill would have allowed the Tennessee Attorney General to legally represent any local education agency or employee if they designated public bathrooms “for use based only on ones’ biological sex.” Religious leaders from across the state signed onto a statement by the Tennessee Equality Project (TEP) disavowing the bill. As of last week, 71 leaders signed, nine from Memphis. The bill stalled in the House Civil Justice Subcommittee last Wednesday. STU D E NTS WALK O UT One month after 17 students were gunned down and killed
at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students here participated in National Walkout Day. Students here at the University of Memphis and Rhodes College, as well as in West Memphis, joined others across the country, staying out of class for 17 minutes to honor the 17 Parkland victims last month. The walkout protested gun violence and urged Congress to take legislative action on gun control. E X EC UTI N G E X EC UTI O N S The Tennessee Attorney General’s call to set execution dates for eight inmates before June 1st was denied last week by the Tennessee Supreme Court. Attorney General Herbert Slatery called for the expedited executions in a motion filed in February. The new timeline was needed, Slatery said, because of issues getting access to drugs state officials would need for the executions. But the court did set execution dates for two of the men in Slatery’s request. R ALE I G H R E D EV E LO P M E N T A $28 million development in Raleigh will break ground this month and should be completed by June 2019, the city announced last week. The 68-acre Raleigh Town Center, to be constructed at the site where the Raleigh Springs Mall once stood, will feature a new library, police precinct, skate park, and 11acre lake with a walking trail. For fuller versions of these stories and even more local news, visit The News Blog at memphisflyer.com.
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The Memphis Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. has been fostering the development of young African American women of culture and honor and facilitating their formal introduction into society for 68 years. After more than six decades, daughters, granddaughters and even great-granddaughters of past Debs dawn their white gowns and celebrate their matriculation into society and womanhood at the “Kappa Debutante Presentation.” The presentation is similar to graduation in that it is the last event for the “Debutante Experience.” For parents, the purpose of a debutante presentation is to show society how prepared, beautiful, poised and confident their daughter has become. It allows them an opportunity to showcase her efforts up to this point in life and encourage her to take her rightful place in the world.
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City officials announced a creative plan last week to provide a big chunk of the $16 million needed to fund universal pre-Kindergarten for children in Memphis without raising taxes. Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland has long pushed for universal, needs-based pre-K, and now the city has a plan to generate $6 million for it by 2022. The city needs to enroll about 8,500 in pre-K, and now 7,500 are funded. But a federal grant that funds 1,000 seats expires next year. “Pre-K is a shared goal of our community,” Strickland said. “It’s so that every child has a better opportunity to read. So that every child has a better opportunity to take advantage of the momentum our city offers. So that every child gets a level shot at a better outcome for their life. “Making sure that our kids who need it the most have access to quality pre-K is one of the most important actions we can take today for the longterm improvement of the city we all love.” Instead of implementing a sales tax hike or putting another funding mechanism out for a public vote, the city proposes to use revenue collected from companies whose pay-in-lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement has terminated and are paying increased property taxes. Additionally, the equivalent of one penny from the existing city property tax rate will be used to
generate the $6 million. “This is a creative solution that doesn’t touch what we’re doing now with our operating budget — doesn’t touch what we’re doing with core services like police and fire,” Strickland said. The remaining $10 million gap will be filled by a number of different sources, Strickland said. All of the collected revenue would go to a fund managed by private nonprofit, Seeding Mayor Jim Strickland announces pre-K plan. Success, which is also raising money for pre-K. The city’s plan must be approved by the Memphis City Council on three change that. I believe this is one of the most important initiatives in the history of Memphis.” readings in order for the ordinance to become law. Strickland said studies show that students who The mayor, along with city council members can read on the third-grade reading level by third stand by the idea that early childhood education is grade have a 90 percent chance of graduating high a “critical component” of addressing the city’s high school. This is a “clear indicator of why our kids poverty and crime rates. Councilman Kemp Conrad said providing pre-K need this incredibly important additional year of in the city should have a positive impact on the structured learning,” he said. number of children living in poverty here. “Making sure that our kids who need it the most “Today, 45 percent, or almost half of Memphis have access to quality pre-K is one of the most children, live below poverty,” he said. “It’s important actions we can take today for the long-term betterment of the city we all love,” Strickland said. unacceptable, and I truly believe this plan will
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All’s Well That Ends Well: The Shelby County Commission, with a light and theoretically non-controversial agenda to deal with on Monday, saw a bit of drama. One audience member, District 13 Commission candidate Charlie Belenky, took issue with the body’s setting a relatively quick April 2nd date to appoint a successor to departing General Sessions Judge Larry Potter.
Belenky’s point was that any appointee would have a running start and an advantage over potential election rivals. The commission’s retort was that the traffic in Potter’s court was so brisk as to permit no delay. Another audience member quarreled in vain with the commission’s longestablished practice of awarding grants to local nonprofit charitable organizations, the case in point being one to Memphis Inner City Rugby. And a final audience speaker, the ubiquitous activist Dr. Yahweh, delivered a long philippic against what he deemed the poisonous evil of fluoridaton in local water. Against all expectations, he ended up earning an ovation as a hero, not for his anti-fluoride message, but for his proud history, 50 years ago, when, as Lance “Sweet Willie Wine” Watson, a member of the Invaders, he was associated with the cause of the sanitation workers striking that year and with the memory of the slain martyr Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. All’s Well That Ends Well II: Ed Ford Jr., a two-term city councilman, now one of eight candidates (7 Democrats and 1 Republican) seeking Position 9 on the Shelby County Commission, drew a slew of heavy hitters to a Monday evening fund-raiser at Alchemy restaurant. On hand were such as realtor Bobbi Gillis, Cooper-Young mogul Charlie Ryan, Grizzlies exec Jason Wexler, several sitting commissioners and fellow council members, businessman/political broker Karl Schledwitz, and former Mayor AC Wharton. A grateful Ford delivered himself of some lengthy remarks in which he extolled the current council and remembered being the seventh or decisive vote in several controversial council measures, notably including a controversial one that altered the benefits package of Memphis poilicemen in the interests of the city’s solvency. Wharton, whose election loss in 2015 may have owed something to that moment, responded with a reminiscence of his own, backing up Ford’s view. And, as an incidental part of the general kumbaya, the former mayor coexisted jovially with Schledwitz, a 2015 supporter whose inadvertently leaked election-day prophecy of a Wharton loss to Jim Strickland had been the source of tension at the time. For further political news and pictures, see also the slideshow An Eye on Politics at memphisflyer.com.
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Among other outcomes desired by Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee was the voucher legislation long proposed by Germantown state Senator Brian Kelsey but now dropped in light of opposition from suburban school advocates. But Lee, whom a recent Whit Ayers poll shows to be running a strong third in the ongoing GOP primary to U.S. Representative Diane Black and former state Economic Development Commissioner Randy Boyd, is still a strong believer in partnerships between government and the faithbased community. It’s the premise of his current statewide tour, the third so far in the campaign of the Williamson County businessman and farmer. Monday saw Lee and his wife Maria at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Life Choices pregnancy care center in Memphis. Lee was preceded to town by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Karl Dean, the former Nashville mayor, who was hosted at a Friday luncheon by another faith-based group, the Memphis Baptist Ministerial Association, at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church on Wellington. Noting that in recent times Republicans and Democrats have taken turns with two-term incumbencies as governor, Dean said “It’s our turn” to occupy the governor’s chair. And he also noted in a conversation with reporters after his public remarks that Phil Bredesen and Bill Haslam, the two governors preceding whoever is elected this year, had both, like himself, served previously as mayors. Dean deemed his service as mayor, a nonpartisan position, to be good preparation for the task of presiding over a state like Tennessee, with a population that stretches ideologically from left to right but has, for most of its history, kept a political balance.
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Toy Story Sports may be, as the late Howard Cosell used to say, the toy department of life. But it was still the basis for the caustic but candid lawyer-turned-sportswriter’s livelihood, and, for most people, sports may in fact be the vehicle for doing what art is alleged to do — i.e., hold a mirror up to life. Many of us remember the irony of the giant billboards that appeared over major thoroughfares in Memphis during the last months of John Calipari’s tenancy as basketball coach of the University of Memphis. It was 2008, the Tigers had just played in the finals of the NCAA basketball championship, and the billboards boasted somewhat giddily of the respect and attention Tiger basketball had earned for the city during a run of years in which the team had figured as a contender for the NCAA’s highest honors. Well, as it is said, pride goeth before a fall, and when Calipari zipped off to Kentucky, taking his latest prize recruiting class of one-anddone future NBAers with him, the billboards came down. During the next few years, when former Calipari assistant Josh Pastner was at the helm of the Tigers, the team’s fortunes hovered between mildly successful and mediocre. And there was a counterpart to that in the attrition that sapped the self-esteem of the city, or at least of the Memphians, of whom there were many, who lived vicariously with the fortunes of the Tigers. Things were not helped in that regard by the University’s sagging football program. The University and its boosters
March 22-28, 2018
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Opening reception, Sunday, March 25, 3pm-6pm Exhibition on view March 25 - July 28, 2018 Art Museum of the University of Memphis, 3750 Norriswood Dr. 142 Communication & Fine Art Building, Memphis, TN 38152
Monster Marks
Awe-inspiring, thought-provoking, and sometimes disturbing, works featured from Memphis collections make us think about how we define monsters. To commemorate MLK50, a selection of works shows how contemporary artists use monstrosity to explore ideas and emotions relating to race and racism. Curator: Sherry CM Lindquist, Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History
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resolved to dig deep and pay what it took to get both major athletic programs up to snuff. In football, that resulted in the hiring, successively, of coaches Justin Fuente and Mike Norvell, whose successful teams have brought the football Tigers up by several levels of respectability. In theory, something like that was supposed to happen as well with the hiring of Tubby Smith, a former NCAA tournament winner with Kentucky, to coach the basketball Tigers. Under the circumstances, Smith didn’t do badly in his two years here, but the circumstances included his inability to recruit and hold local talent, which had been the basis of the program’s original successes preCalipari. Enter this week a new coach: Anfernee “Penny” Hardaway, the former NBA star who had been one of the University of Memphis’ own certifiably great players in the 1990s and who, moreover, has just won a state high school basketball championship as coach at East High School. Hardaway has the name, the zeal, no doubt the coaching ability, and, just as importantly, the local standing to attract local recruits again and bring the fans back into FedExForum and, who knows, to get those billboards back up. Toy story or not, it is a source of much local hope this week.
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VIEWPOINT By Cheri DelBrocco
Keeping the Faith and described her outrage over the way the teens interacted with Florida senator Marco Rubio. “In my day,” she declared, “we would’ve been told to have some respect and stop talking to adults that way.” Out of curiosity, I looked up their profiles on Facebook. All, predictably, had “liked” Donald Trump. Interestingly, they had also “liked” Boomer music such as Bob Dylan, Credence Clearwater Revival, and Motown. This got me to wondering. Did these people not actually ever understand the words to Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On?” The memories of older Americans haven’t been lost so much as they’ve been infected by the insidious propaganda of Fox News, Breitbart, Rush Limbaugh, and other fanatical influences that have caused them to forget what it’s like to be young and full of righteous anger over historical events that have occurred due to circumstances totally out of their control. Instead, they are now old and full of self-righteous anger over historical events that they helped create. In the words to the Boomer anthem “For What It’s Worth” — “paranoia strikes deep; into your life it will creep.” Instead of “live shooter” drills, students of the 1960s practiced “civil defense” drills requiring them to duck and cover under their desks as protection from an imagined strike by our enemies, the Russians. Astonishingly, that same generation has now embraced a man who — as evidence is increasingly showing — has colluded with the Russians to rig our elections and allow their influence in our government. Recently, Cameron Kasky and David Hogg, two of the young Florida activists, were guests on a cable show. They founded the #NeverAgain movement hours after the shooting and have quickly become high profile. When asked what he thought of adults, particularly older adults, Cameron Kasky, said, “To all the generations before us, we sincerely accept your apology and appreciate that you are willing to let us rebuild the world that you f**ked up.” Instead of being vilified, the kids in Florida, should be commended and encouraged. Hopefully, most of us haven’t forgotten what it’s like to be young and passionate about wanting to change what’s wrong in the world. May we never forget that young people are our future, and with smart, determined youth like these teenagers, the future is looking pretty bright. Cheri DelBrocco is a frequent contributor to the Flyer.
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“Our brains change as we grow older” declares a commercial for a nutritional supplement claiming to slow memory loss. Apparently, there are thousands of Baby Boomers who may need to order this product by the gross since they are obviously suffering from some type of memory loss. Whether it’s from age-related memory loss or selective memory loss, some folks over 55 these days seem to have completely forgotten the years of their own youth. Possibly, they flat-out can’t remember their young-adult years because they burned up too many brain cells partaking of a different kind of “supplement” back then. Whatever the reason, the reactions of many of them to the young victims of the Parkland, Florida, shooting have been contemptible. Is it the slouch to authoritarianism that has caused the children of the 1960s to turn truth inside out and upside down in their defense of the marauding grafter known as Donald Trump? Perhaps it’s growing tribalism or plain old, rank hypocrisy. It’s unclear exactly what has caused it. However, when I hear my peers acknowledging their (still) undying support of Trump’s disgusting lies without any better explanation than “Because he’s making America Great Again,” I have to laugh. This is coming from the generation who listened to John Lennon sing “All I want is the truth”! A few weeks ago, a friend posted a rather long summary of her thoughts on Facebook regarding the Florida school shooting and how inspired she was by the students’ ability to take immediate action by organizing, marching, and challenging lawmakers. In describing her admiration for their unrelenting determination to change gun laws, she said it reminded her of the days of her own youth and the Vietnam War protests. Most replied with shared sentiments, however, there were some reactions that were both astonishing and reprehensible. One woman, a grandmother of five, went on a rambling rant about how “disgraceful” and “poor mannered” the students were. She stooped to calling them “rude little brats who needed to shut the hell up.” Another, a retired teacher, posited that if any of the Stoneman Douglas students had been one of her students, she’d have “slapped them right across the face for being so disrespectful to authority.” Yet another commented about watching the televised town hall that took place days after the shooting
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The kids at Parkland are reminding Baby Boomers of their legacy.
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Behind Closed Doors The Memphis City Council has ways of keeping the public in the dark.
March 22-28, 2018
Injustice is a problem in Memphis — in its housing, its wealthgap, its food deserts, its justice system, its education system. In 2018, the Flyer is going to take a hard look at these issues in a series of cover stories we’re calling The Justice Project. The stories will focus on reviewing injustice in its many forms here and exploring what, if anything, is being done — or can be done — to remedy the problems.
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Introducing the Justice Project:
ometimes the Memphis City Council works behind the public’s back. For example, the maneuvering behind its most controversial decision last year — removing Confederate statues from public parks — was kept secret from Memphis citizens until after the decision was made. The council created a new rule, written vaguely and broadly, and ushered it through a months-long legislative process, with plenty of debate and public input. Then, at the last second, they erased the whole thing and filled it in with details they did not think the public needed to know until after the fact of its passage. Council members say the move was legal and that they’ve used the same ploy in the past. Council member Worth Morgan, for one, said he “certainly won’t apologize”
for using the maneuver on the statues vote. What we’re left with — the council and the public — is a legislative sleight of hand that allows local government to make decisions without public knowledge or input. Another example of a council endaround occurred when the public was not informed about a firm the council hired to lobby in Nashville. They spent $120,000 of taxpayer money to urge Tennessee state lawmakers to kill Instant Runoff Voting, a measure approved by Memphis voters in a referendum 10 years ago. When asked about that decision, council attorney Allen Wade was quoted in The Commercial Appeal as saying that the council uses taxpayer dollars “to do a lot of things” people don’t like. In a third example, council members sometimes introduce last-minute resolutions and ordinances that hinder public involvement. All of this may be perfectly legal. But is it right? Do Memphis taxpayers and voters deserve more transparency? At least one council member said that some council processes may need
review. But most members defended the moves, citing complicated legislative procedures, overall council prerogatives, and other rationale. Taken separately, each legislative maneuver seems like an arcane machination of the democracy machine, movements that take access to local government out of the hands of the people who pay the taxes that run local government. Taken together, they seem like parts of a playbook that’s used to cloud the legislative process and keep citizens out of certain conversations at Memphis City Hall.
The Secret Statues Vote
On Wednesday, December 20th, council members settled in behind their microphones to resume a meeting that it had adjourned from its regular Tuesday session the day before. One major question loomed: What would the council do about the Confederate statues in two city parks? A final vote on the matter was on the council agenda. That item read, simply, “ordinance relative to the immediate removal of the Forrest Equestrian Statue
Council member Worth Morgan, for one, said he “certainly won’t apologize” for using the maneuver on the statues vote. and the Jefferson Davis Statue and other similar property from city owned property.” Intensity built as the council first worked through some routine business. Tension rose further as three members of the public gave the council their parting thoughts on the statues. Then, when the item came up for that final vote, something confusing happened. At least, it was confusing to the anyone outside city government’s inner circle. Council member Edmund Ford brought a new rule — a substitute ordinance — to the table that would change everything. The document was not handed out to the public. It was not in the council’s agenda packet, which is public record. The council voted unanimously to accept the new rule. Then, they voted to unanimously approve it, and it was done. But, as is customary with big votes in the council chamber, not a single member of the audience whooped, cheered, jeered, booed, or hissed. They sat, stunned. Council chairman Berlin Boyd then said, “for clarity purposes, let me read the substitute ordinance into the record.” Finally, clarity. Nope. Boyd simply read the same old blanket ordinance heading, the one about “the immediate removal of” statues from city-owned property. During the crucial vote no council member said the word “statue.” No one said “parks.” Certainly no one said “Greenspace Inc.,” a nonprofit that no one but those in the inner circle had ever heard of. No one said anything at all, really. The council moved on to other business. But as we now know, that vote sent players in motion all over the city. That vote cemented an agreement Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland had already signed with Greenspace. That vote sent dozens of police and other public safety officials to cordon off the parks, a seamless orchestration that must have taken months to plan. The police moved in to protect crane operators hired
The Flyer’s editorial stance on the removal of the Confederate statues was clear for months. The paper favored their removal, the sooner the better. But concerns remain about the process — a legislative maneuver that shielded the public from a critical government decision, a maneuver that seemingly allows city government to pass legislation without public review or comment. Ford said in an interview months after the vote, that the play was used to ensure public safety. He said other votes, such as one regarding residency requirements for city employees, have gone down the same way. The statues vote was scrutinized, he said, because of the public intrigue. “There’s nothing that we have tried to do in the dark that we wouldn’t do in the light, as far as legislation is concerned,” Ford said, noting that if anyone had questions they could have asked him. “I don’t want people to think that this is something that is sort of a witch hunt or something, done behind the scenes.” The Atlantic’s U.S. politics and global news reporter David Graham, called the council play a “novel trick,” a “surprise move,” and a “novel strategy.” But he worried about the precedent. “The distance between righteous civil disobedience and risky breakdown of rule of law is not as wide as it might seem, however, and it’s easy to imagine ways in which such a procedure could be abused,” Graham wrote. “What if local authorities defied state or federal authorities to erect a pro-Confederate statue?” Graham also warned the trick play could bring legal challenges. He was right. The Sons of Confederate Veterans sued the city, a case still in mediation. Also, state leaders — Lieutenant Governor Randy McNally
Council chairman Berlin Boyd then said, “for clarity purposes, let me read the substitute ordinance into the record.”
Council member Marilyn Robinson said she was “almost positive” that the council shared documents about the sale to Greenspace with the public. and Speaker of the House Beth Harwell — called for a review of the city’s entire statue episode from the State Comptroller’s Office of Open Records Counsel. That report cleared the council, saying it “provided sufficient notice of its meetings and agendas to allow interested citizens the opportunity to attend.” The council met the Tennessee Open Records Act, the report said, because it posted its meeting dates on its website, along with agendas, documents, and more. Though, it should be noted here, again, that the final statues ordinance was never posted online before the final vote meeting and wasn’t in agenda packets the day of the vote. Tami Sawyer, who led the #TakeEmDown901 movement, said she was told the morning of the vote “what was supposed to happen.” “When the ordinance wasn’t read, all I could think was … get to the park,” Sawyer said. “I was more focused on, ‘Was it going happen for real’ than anything else.” Council member Morgan said the vote was “done in public” and that “you can’t do a complete substitute ordinance that wouldn’t fit into the subject of the heading.” That is, the ordinance you approve has to, at least, in some way, relate to the one it’s replacing. In this case, doing something “relative to the removal” of the statues was close enough to “the sale and/or conveyance, at reduced or no cost, of such portions of the city’s easement in” Memphis Park, Health Sciences Park, and the Forrest Monument to Greenspace. Morgan said the media was mad at the council’s handling of the vote “because they missed the story,” adding, “the reason you don’t announce that the statues are coming down … is because of the violence that we’ve seen,” citing protests and counter
protests. It was done legally, he said, and pointed to the comptroller’s report as proof. “So, I don’t regret how it was done,” Morgan said. “I do regret a lot of the discussion that happened beforehand and after. The protests have suffered from a lack of leadership and a lack of direction, but I can only control and participate in things that are inside [the council’s purview]. “We did it legally and safely so there’s not much more to say, and I certainly won’t apologize for it.” Council member Marilyn Robinson said she was “almost positive” that the council shared documents about the sale to Greenspace with the public. But she deferred to city council attorney Wade “because he was guiding us in the process of making sure that we handled everything in a proper and legal manner.” When told the information was not shared, Robinson said, “I can only think we maybe need to look at our rules and how we handle that because it’s not just that particular situation. That’s the way it’s been handled in the whole two years I have been on the city council.” Before responding to questions, Wade noted in a letter that this reporter “likes” the Facebook pages of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and Confederate 901. Wade said those likes “revealed an affinity for the views” of the groups and that “we will assume that your apparent bias will color your opinions” in this story, the purpose of which, he alleged, is “to denigrate the removal of the statues.” [Note: I “like” those pages in the same way I “like” and follow a variety of groups that make news in Memphis. For example, I “like” the Memphis Zoo and Citizens to Protect Overton Park. — Toby Sells] Wade noted that while the Tennessee Open Meetings Act requires some meetings to be public, “it does not guarantee all citizens the right to participate in the meetings.” The city charter, he said, allows the council to “amend any ordinance ‘at any time’ before final passage” and does it routinely. For evidence, he pointed to the annual budget ordinance, which the council “routinely amends” from the floor before a final vote. As for directing the council through the statues vote, Wade said, “I do not direct anyone to do anything. I give advice, which the client is free to accept or reject.” Council member Martavius Jones pointed also to the vote on residency requirements as an example of the council using the substitute-ordinance play. It’s legal, he said. But he was then asked if the method is good for open government. “One of the things that I did after [the statues vote] meeting was to go back and make copies [of the substitute ordinance] to give to the media after we voted on it,” Jones said. “Because I believe in transparency in the way we operate as a Memphis City Council.” It all seemed above-board to Deborah Fisher, executive director of the Tennessee continued on page 14
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continued from page 13 Coalition for Open Government (TCOG). Notice was given. The purpose of the ordinance was clear, even if the details weren’t. Past that, it’d be up to a judge to decide if the council broke the law, she said, noting that her group has no open opinion on the statues issue. “If nobody but the members of the governing body knew what they were voting on, it’s completely understandable why the members of the public would be upset about that,” Fisher said. “It’s really not how a governing body should work.”
Palm Sunday Worship Services: March 25 8:15 & 11:00 a.m. in the Sanctuary 6:00 p.m. Sunday Night Worship in the Sanctuary
Holy Week Lunches & Services: March 26-29
March 22-28, 2018
Daily Services, 12:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary Lunch is served from 11:00–11:45 a.m. and 12:30–1:15 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall
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Maundy Thursday Evening: March 29 Communion Service, 6:30 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Good Friday Service: March 30 12:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary
Nursery is available for children ages 4 and under for select services (some reservations required). Visit 2pc.org/easter for details.
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LOBBYING AGAINST THE PUBLIC Hardly an eyebrow was raised last year when council chairman Berlin Boyd asked for money in the city budget to hire a lobbyist. They wanted to help set the city’s legislative agenda in Nashville. But a fury erupted when the public found out what that agenda included. On December 5, 2017, all but three council members voted to send the idea of instant run-off voting (IRV) back to Memphians on a referendum. Trouble was, Memphians had already approved IRV by 71 percent in a referendum back in 2008, and it was scheduled to be first utilized in the 2018 elections. In a co-written guest column in The Commercial Appeal, former Shelby County Commissioner Steve Mulroy and former city council chairman Myron Lowery — both IRV proponents — said “the county election commission dragged its feet on implementation, inaccurately claiming that the county’s voting equipment couldn’t handle it.” While some were scratching their heads about the council’s move to bring it back to a vote in December, the council had been hard at work on the issue — behind closed doors — since November. That’s when the council hired the well-known, Nashvillebased Ingram Group to find a sponsor to introduce an ordinance to prohibit IRV. According to a Ryan Poe story in the CA last month, the council had been working “quietly” and “behind the scenes” to find a Senate sponsor for the bill. While Wade told Poe the bill was moving “full steam ahead” in Nashville, the news of the council’s maneuver wasn’t playing well back home. Theryn C. Bond excoriated the council at the podium back in December, reading from the council rules of procedure on a ranked-choice system by which the council itself uses to fill vacancies on the council. “Now, what does that sound like to you?” Bond asked. “Sounds to me a lot like IRV. And what is good for the goose, should be good for the gander.” Michael Wilson said of the council’s work to use taxpayer money to fight against something the public had approved, “to call this hypocritical would be a compliment.” Wilson said last autumn’s calls by council members to “give the choice back to the people,” now rang “hollow upon our ears.”
Council member Martavius Jones pointed also to the vote on residency requirements as an example of the council using the substituteordinance play. It’s legal, he said. “Many believe this council — if nothing else — didn’t want Nashville telling it what to do,” Wilson said. “They believed it with such fervor that they supported the council in this late-night sale and removal of Confederate statuary. “How we can now believe this council is ardently striving against legislative preemption when it is funding that very practice behind the citizens’ backs?” SURPRISE! The council’s committee agenda is usually posted on Thursday around noon. With a regularity that borders on routine, a new agenda is posted on following days with new items added in different committees. What’s the issue? Well, for one, it goes against the council’s own rules. “All proposed ordinances, resolutions, motions, and other matters submitted by council members shall be submitted in writing to the Council Office by 10 a.m. Thursday,” reads a section from the council’s rules of procedure. Any council member can bring a new ordinance or resolution after that, but only if they present it in writing. Even then, “only items involving extreme emergencies may be added to the agenda,” after the Thursday deadline, according to council rules. Those rules are often stretched or ignored. In March 2016, council member Reid Hedgepeth filed a last-minute resolution on a Tuesday morning — as council committee meetings were already underway — that proposed giving the majority of Overton Park’s Greensward to the Memphis Zoo. Hedgepeth’s surprise resolution said the zoo “has the greatest usage by citizens and
visitors of any of the other various activities in the park.” It would have allowed the zoo to use the green space as a parking lot, add permanent buildings to it, or, really, do whatever they wanted with it. The resolution was brought by Hedgepeth but its sponsors included Robinson, Bill Morrison, Phillip Spinosa, Jones, Janis Fullilove, Ford, Boyd, and Joe Brown. So, it seems there had been plenty of discussion about the resolution, though none of it was public. And it caught park advocates completely off guard. “This outrageous and undemocratic power grab is a massive insult to the thousands of citizens who’ve participated in the ongoing public planning process, to the Overton Park Conservancy, which is engaged in mediation and litigation with the zoo, and to Mayor Jim Strickland,” read a Facebook post at the time from Citizens to Protect Overton Park. Had the resolution been posted on Thursday, per council rules, it would have given proponents and opponents plenty of time to show up at city hall and express their views. Hedgepeth’s last-minute ploy only gave interested citizens about four hours to change their daily schedules; many showed up at city hall anyway. The Commercial Appeal once sued the city over this very issue. The 1974 Supreme Court opinion put the law on the city’s side when it came to adding agenda items at the last minute. “Adequate public notice,” to the court was based on
“the totality of the circumstances as would fairly inform the public.” But a 2012 opinion from the Open Records Counsel to the Tennessee Municipal Technical Assistance Service (MTAS) said the office would not recommend last-minute agenda changes. “From a best practice perspective, this office would not suggest that a governing body amend an agenda during a regularly scheduled meeting to include an issue in which the governing body knows that there is significant public interest,” read the opinion from Elisha D. Hodge, “and (the governing body) knows that if the item had been on the agenda that was originally published for the meeting, there would have been increased public interest and attendance at the meeting.” All of these issues — silent votes on important ordinances, behind-the-scenes lobbying in Nashville, and last-minute agenda items — are business as usual at city hall. Some of it has been going on for a long time. Legal experts may say (and have said) it’s all above board. But for Memphians, we ask, “Is it justice?” Let’s let Theryn Bond have the final word: “The last time I checked, you guys work for us,” Bond said to council members last month. “So, come up from behind those closed doors, and roll up those sleeves, and dig into your districts. Because, trust me, it is nothing to get 25 signatures. Do I make myself clear?”
Dr. Ernest C. Withers:
GOODNIGHT MY LOVE On view through May 13
An exhibition of photographs from the Ernest Withers collection, including works from Dr. Withers’ vast archive of more than one million negatives that have never been seen by the public.
Gallery Hours Tue - Fri 10a - 8p Sat 10a - 6p, Sun Noon - 6p
CROSSTOWN ARTS 1350 Concourse Ave. Ste. 280 Memphis, TN 38104
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We Recommend: Culture, News + Reviews By Chris Davis
With the arrival of spring, it’s time to raise a hot, woody glass of whiskey and toast the end of winter and the coming warming of days. And where better to make such a toast than The Memphis Flyer’s first-ever Whiskey Warmer? It’s a new event that’s being described as “a whiskey wonderland,” with opportunities to chat with master distillers and to sample more than 30 big bourbons, earthy Scotches, spicy ryes, and other tasty whiskey products from around the world. Each ticket to the Flyer’s Whiskey Warmer is good for 15 tastings. That means there will be ample opportunity for additional toasting. And as long as glasses are being raised in this manner, at least a few kind words should be said for Mississippi judge, law professor, and John Grisham mentor Soggy Sweat who, in 1952, in one of the most magnificent parodies of political doublespeak ever set down, denounced whiskey as a dangerous devil’s brew before singing the drink’s praises and calling it, “the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes. “If you mean that drink,” Sweat continued, “then certainly I am for it.” “This should be a whiskey evening to remember,” says event organizer Molly Willmott, echoing the good judge’s sentiments and anticipating an early sell out. The Whiskey Warmer benefits Volunteer Memphis and features live music by Graber Grass and food from Owen Brennan’s, Laura’s Kitchen, and Babalu.
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March 22-28, 2018
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Watching the Tigers and remembering the ’90s with Penny Hardaway The Last Word, p. 47
Atomic Tiki — pineapples, rum, and Long Island Iced Teaki Bar Report, p. 38
FRIDAY March 23
SATURDAY March 24
901 Comics Anthology Benefit Hi-Tone, 8 p.m., $10 Comics lovers come together to support 901 Comics’ anthology project. Lineup features Tape Deck, Sweaters Together, Wailing Banshees, and Walking on Landmines. Don Lifted Memphis College of Art, 8 p.m. Video installations and sculptural work by Lawrence Matthews aka Don Lifted. A potion of the proceeds from sales of merchandise go to MCA students.
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Calvary Lenten Series Calvary Episcopal Church, 12:05 p.m. Today’s series features Naomi Tutu, an activist dealing in race and gender justice, and daughter of Desmond Tutu.
Most Amazing Race The Salvation Army Kroc Center, 7-11 a.m. Run and solve puzzles during this amazing race benefiting the Salvation Army.
Mario the Magician Germantown Performing Arts Center, 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., $8 Show by this magician known for his inventions and hand-made props.
Winnie’s 1st Birthday Celebration Memphis Zoo, 10 a.m. A weekend full of events celebrating baby hippo Winnie. Includes a cake drop, a hippo chat, and other special events.
Easter Egg Hunt Elmwood Cemetery, 9 a.m. Why not? Eggs hidden around the cemetery. Includes a prize egg and pictures with the Easter Bunny.
Dance-A-Thon Rumba Room, 5-9 p.m. ,$25 Dancing to raise money for girls in foster care.
Fast & Furriest 5K Run/Walk Humane Society of Memphis & Shelby County, 9 a.m.-noon Annual run/walk benefiting the Humane Society. Dogs welcome.
Bead by Bead
Meditations By Chris Davis Suzanne Henley hadn’t intended to write a book about prayer beads. She wanted to write a memoir. She’d found a publisher who wanted a book about the history of prayer beads and would allow bits of memoir as long as they were connected to the subject matter, and that was close enough. Although Henley had never been affiliated with a religious tradition that used them, she had her special relationship with prayer beads and could fuse these ideas as tightly as glass in the ornamental murals and wall-hangings she’s known for. Henley made her first set of prayer beads for a friend who was teaching a class on Episcopal bead traditions at Holy Communion. She’s since made 800 unique sets. “It became a meditative practice for me,” she says, describing the ancient beads she works with exclusively and an assembly process that starts early in the morning in her second story Midtown studio with its two walls of wavy, bubbly glass. “I sit and hold rough, naturally formed beads of Mongolian Gobi desert sand in my hands,” she says. “200 BCE Roman glass fragments. I have ancient beads made out of Dead Sea salt and old African beads that are individually handmade. To hold those beads in my hands and think how they’ve been passed over centuries from one hand to another across continents and oceans and ending up in my hand with all the patina of those other hands on them. It’s a humbling experience, really.” Henley celebrates the release of Bead by Bead Thursday, March 22nd at Novel. A RELEASE PARTY FOR “BEAD BY BEAD: THE ANCIENT WAY OF PRAYING MADE NEW” BY SUZANNE HENLEY. NOVEL, MARCH 22ND, 5:30-7 P.M.
TUESDAY March 27
Forging on the River Metal Museum, 6-9 p.m., $75 Annual event with dinner and an auction featuring fine metalworks. Benefits the Metal Museum.
A Black Panther Brunch The Haven Memphis (206 G.E. Patterson), 1-4 p.m., $30-$50 Talk about the movie in this open setting.
Memphis 101 National Civil Rights Museum, 6-8 p.m. Learn about Memphis’ cultural heritage and history.
Camp Expo Memphis Botanic Garden, 11 a.m.3 p.m. Meet representatives from area camps to decide which camp is best for your child.
“Monster Marks” Art Museum of the University of Memphis, 3-6 p.m. Area art collectors share their most disturbing works for this show.
Hannibal Buress Minglewood Hall, 8-11 p.m., $50 Concert by this comic who took Cosby down. Booksigning by Marc Perrusquia Novel, 6 p.m. Journalist Marc Perrusquia signs and discusses A Spy in Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement about Ernest Withers’ relationship with the FBI.
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emphis bands Sweaters Together and Tape Deck will headline at a benefit concert this Friday at the Hi-Tone to fund the printing and release of the second edition of the 901 Comics Anthology. For Shannon Merritt, co-owner of 901 Comics in CooperYoung, the anthology is a passion project — and a much-needed resource for the Memphis arts community. “It’s really hard for somebody to go out and do it all themselves,” Merritt says. “To write, draw, color, and then turn around and distribute it. So I started [the anthology] as an idea to get people together and do an anthology and distribute it for them.” Merritt produced the first 901 Comics Anthology last year, and after its success, he’s bringing the anthology back with more muscle behind it. “I started a publishing company, Bad Dog Comics,” Merritt says. In the process of promoting and distributing the first anthology, Merritt visited six states and 25 comic book stores. The initial distribution infrastructure is in place, and Merritt says that after the
also funded in part by a benefit concert. Merritt, who has his hands full juggling his store and his new publishing company, leaves Tape Deck with the music booking up to Harry Koniditsiotis, Jason Pulley who works at 901 Comics and owns and operates the 5 & Dime recording studio. “I picked Tape Deck because Jason Pulley is one of the best keyboard/piano players in town, and he’s one of my go-to session guys at the 5 & Dime. Sweaters Together — Aimee and Marie — were part of an improv jam session Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing had at the studio,” Koniditsiotis says. “I knew Aimee from her previous bands the Vignettes and Rickie & Aimee and always dig her music. I saw Sweaters Together at last year’s Rock for Love and liked what they were doing.” Sweaters Together are, according to band member Chrissy Green, “four body-positive queers with benefit concert, the printing costs will be covered. With the important details taken care of, Merritt is free to plan multifaceted instrumental talents, delivering wholesome content.” The band is no stranger to benefit shows and other Bad Dog releases — Stoned Ninja in April and Kill unconventional venues, having played roller derby All Super Heroes in June — and plot how best to connect bouts, art galleries, and Rock for Love 11, an annual Memphis College of Art’s final crop of graduates with benefit show supporting the Church Health Center. local writers. “We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus,” Green says, “But we’re The first edition of the 901 Comics Anthology was
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coming back full force.” Forceful is an apt description of Sweaters’ live performances, which harness a punk energy and an art-rock attention to detail that keep the shows as visually interesting as they are aurally satisfying. The band combines clean guitars and warbling keyboard riffs with layers (and layers) of vocal harmonies, calling to mind comparisons to Bake Sale, before that homegrown group morphed into Goner Records’ heavy hitters NOTS. On “Softly,” harmonies and quiet piano build to an eventual crescendo of crashing chords and pounding drums. Some tracks drip with angst, and some are, simply put, beautiful, hooky pop compositions. Sweaters’ unclassifiable quality keeps them in good company with the rest of the lineup for the anthology benefit.
Sweaters Together
In the pages of comic books, such team-ups and crossovers are common, usually coinciding with blockbuster movie releases. In the real world, musicians, writers, and artists are often too busy perfecting their work to actively seek out connections with other creators. But if art is fundamentally about connections, it too works best when its heroes share their superpowers. The Return of the 901 Comics Anthology Benefit Concert featuring Tape Deck, Sweaters Together, Wailing Banshees, and Walking on Landmines at the Hi-Tone, Friday, March 23rd at 8 p.m.
Tape Deck, who will open the festivities on Friday, sounds like a funkinfused circus straight out of a comic book, as though The Band’s Levon Helm and Richard Manuel started a super group with Rowlf and Dr. Teeth of the Electric Mayhem Band. Front man Jason Pulley’s keyboard playing lends a haunted calliope air, and his gravelly vocals conjure Oscar the Grouch as he sings of panda bears and Grizzlies coaches. Yet allusions to the funny papers are largely unconscious. “I really wish I knew more about comics,” Pulley muses. Still, Tape Deck are no strangers to collaborative happenings, having released their Unconventional Solutions EP last December at the Madison Avenue recording space Move the Air. The event also featured the premiere of a short film by John Pickle and a potluck dinner, the table overflowing with food, booze, and hot chocolate. “It was very interdisciplinary,” Tape Deck’s Jason Pulley says of the party. “It wasn’t any one person’s idea. It was five people’s ideas that just came together and coalesced.”
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TOMMY STINSON’S COWBOYS IN THE CAMPFIRE FRIDAY, MARCH 23RD THE P & H
KEITH SWEAT SATURDAY, MARCH 24TH FITZ CASINO TUNICA
After Dark: Live Music Schedule March 22 - 28 Club 152 152 BEALE 544-7011
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
King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room
The Amazing Rhythmatics Tuesdays, Thursdays-Sundays, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.
Itta Bena
New Daisy Theatre
145 BEALE 578-3031
330 BEALE 525-8981
Handy Bar
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
Nancy Apple Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Graham Winchester and Turnstyles Friday, March 23, 9 p.m.; Eric Hughes Saturday, March 24, 9 p.m.; Bobbie Stacks and friends Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.
Silky O’Sullivan’s
Earnestine & Hazel’s
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, March 23, 8 p.m.-midnight; Delta Project Saturday, March 24, 8 p.m.midnight.
200 BEALE 527-2687
3-7 p.m.; Myra Hall Band Friday, March 23, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Little Boy Blues Saturday, March 24, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.; Sensation Band Monday, March 26, 8 p.m.-midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Up N’ Smoke Thursday, March 22, 8 p.m.; Avery Sunshine Wednesday, March 21.
Rum Boogie Cafe
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.
Rumba Room
855 KENTUCKY
303 S. MAIN 523-0020
531 S. MAIN 523-9754
Amber Rae Dunn Hosts: Earnestine & Hazel’s Open Mic Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.
Flying Saucer Draught Emporium Songwriters with Roland and Friends Mondays, 7-10 p.m.
Beale Street Caravan 49 UNION AVE.
An Evening with Kaia Kater Thursday, March 22, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Belle Tavern 117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580
The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299
Sam Bush Saturday, March 24, 7:30 p.m.
Huey’s Downtown 77 S. SECOND 527-2700
Bourbon and Jazz with Quelude Sundays, 2:30-5:30 p.m.
Marcella and Her Lovers Sunday, March 25, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.
Blind Bear Speakeasy
Paulette’s
119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435
Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.
Brass Door Irish Pub
Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall
152 MADISON 572-1813
182 BEALE 528-0150
Center for Southern Folklore
Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 4-8 p.m. and Sundays,
Dirty Crow Inn
130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536
182 BEALE 528-0150
Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Mr. Sipps Friday, March 23, 8 p.m.midnight and Saturday, March 24, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sensation Band Sunday, March 25, 7-11 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Gracie Curran Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Plantation Allstars Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Saturday, March 24, 8-11 p.m.
Live Music Fridays.
123 S. MAIN AT PEABODY TROLLEY STOP 525-3655
RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE 260-3300
Live Pianist Thursdays, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-9 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and Mondays-Wednesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.
Purple Haze Nightclub 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139
DJ Dance Music Mondays-Sundays, 10 p.m.
Okie Stampede Route 66 Revival
Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.
The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915
DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.
Talent Development Complex 119 S. MAIN 435-6509
Lunch & Listen with LaShonté Anderson Friday, March 23, 1-2 p.m.
The Vault 124 GE PATTERSON
Sean Bad Apple Friday, March 23, 4 p.m.; Anna Benson Saturday, March 24, 8 p.m.
South Main Ghost River Brewing 827 S. MAIN 278-0087
Sunday Evening with Jason Freeman Sunday, March 25, 5-7:30 p.m.
Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA
Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.
Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830
White Mystery with River City Tanlines Thursday, March 22; Steve Selvidge Friday, March 23; Marcella and Her Lovers Saturday, March 24; Alex Greene & the Rolling Head Orchestra Sunday, March 25, 8-9:30 p.m.;
March 22-28, 2018
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.
Sean “Bad” Apple Thursdays, Sundays, 5 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 4 p.m.; Johnathon Ellison and the Blues Players Club Thursday, March 22, 8 p.m.; Super 5 Friday, March 23, 7 p.m.; DJ Ron Fridays, 11 p.m.; The Bonfire Orchestra Saturday, March 24, 7 p.m.; DJ DNyce Saturdays, 11 p.m.; The Blues Players Club Sunday, March 25, 8 p.m.
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.
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After Dark: Live Music Schedule March 22 - 28
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.
2119 MADISON 207-5097
The Bar Misfits Thursday, March 22, 6 p.m.; Smooth Hound Smith Thursday, March 22, 9 p.m.; Karen Waldrup Friday, March 23, 6:30 p.m.; The Dantones Friday, March 23, 10 p.m.; Adrian+Meredith Saturday, March 24, 6:30 p.m.; Seeing Red Saturday, March 24, 10 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sunday, March 25, 11 a.m.; Reba Russell Sunday, March 25, 4 p.m.; The Michael Brothers Sunday, March 25, 8 p.m.; The Cassette Set
Celtic Crossing
featuring Tommy Stinson Friday, March 23; Whiskey Angel, Admiral, Longtooth, Geist/Onus Saturday, March 24; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.
Chapman, Charles Cason, and Miss. Joyce Henderson Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.
The Phoenix
University of Memphis
1015 S. COOPER 338-5223
The Phoenix Blues Jam Tuesdays, 8-11 p.m.
Railgarten 2160 CENTRAL
Walrus Saturday, March 24, 8 p.m.;
Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House 551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200
Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Mondays-Thursdays, 5-9:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.
The Bluff
Fox and Hound Sports Tavern
535 S. HIGHLAND
5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013
Memphis LIVE MondaysSundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10
Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.
Poplar/I-240 Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300
Mo Boogie Thursday, March 22, 7-11 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Twin Soul Saturday, March 24, 8 p.m.; Benefit for Todd McGaughey to Beat M.S. Sunday, March 25, 5-8 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
903 S. COOPER 274-5151
Lannie McMillan Jazz Trio Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.
Summer/Berclair
The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719
Barbie’s Barlight Lounge
Jazz with Ed Finney, Deb Swiney, and David Collins Thursday, March 22, 8-11 p.m.; Rock & Roll Falcons Friday, March 23, 9 p.m.; Hope Clayburn & the Soul Scrimmage Saturday, March 24, 10 p.m.; David Collins & Frog Squad Sunday, March 25, 6-9 p.m.; Richard Wilson Tuesday, March 27, 6-9 p.m.; Ben Minden-Birkenmaier Wednesday, March 28, 6-8 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.
661 N. MENDENHALL
Possum Daddy’s Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.
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.
High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203
Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON 275-8082
Pubapalooza with Stereo Joe Every other Wednesday, 8-11 p.m.
First Baptist Church
6439 SUMMER 356-2324
Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.
Maria’s Restaurant Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.
200 EAST PARKWAY NORTH 454-1131
Memphis Wind Symphony 35th Anniversary Concert Sunday, March 25, 3-4:45 p.m.
Growlers 1911 POPLAR 244-7904
Soulfly As Nailbomb Friday, March 23, 6 p.m.; Left Unsung: Memphis Tributes the Grateful Dead Saturday, March 24, 9 p.m.; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.
Hi-Tone 412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE
Juice Thursday, March 22, 9 p.m.; The Dropout, Agori Tribe, Tennessee Bass Massacre Friday, March 23, 8 p.m.; 901 Comics Anthology Benefit Friday, March 23, 8 p.m.; Big Freedia Saturday, March 24, 8 p.m.; You Vandal, FRENCHIE!, Hardaway Saturday, March 24, 8 p.m.; The Artisanals Sunday, March 25, 8 p.m.; Heartworm, Livid Uncle, Slammy and the Warlords, Negro Terror, Walking on Landmines Monday, March 26, 8 p.m.; Villain Of The Story, Deadships, We Gave It Hell Wednesday, March 28, 7 p.m.; The Happy Fits, Small, the Ellie Badge, Terry Prince & the Principles Wednesday, March 28, 8 p.m.
Huey’s Midtown 1927 MADISON 726-4372
Kyle Lacey and the Harlem River Noise Sunday, March 25, 4-7 p.m.; No More Drama Sunday, March 25, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.
We Saw You. with MICHAEL DONAHUE
Whitehaven/ Airport Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant 4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159
Karaoke with DJ Stylez Thursdays, Sundays, 10 p.m.
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Monday, March 26, 6 p.m.; The Risky Whiskey Boys Tuesday, March 27, 5:30 p.m.; Ario Hannigan Tuesday, March 27, 8 p.m.; 3RD Man Wednesday, March 28, 5:30 p.m.; Winchester and the Ammunition Wednesday, March 28, 8 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.
Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744
Cody Johnson Friday, March 23, 7 p.m.; V3Fights Saturday, March 24, 6 p.m.
P&H Cafe
1532 MADISON 726-0906
Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Cowboys in the Campfire
Live Band Karaoke with Public Record Wednesdays, 7 p.m.
Rhodes College, Tuthill Performance Hall 2000 N. PARKWAY 843-3000
Arlington/Eads/ Oakland/Lakeland p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.
Triple S 1747 WALKER 421-6239
Huey’s Poplar 4872 POPLAR 682-7729
The Settlers Sunday, March 25, 4-7 p.m.; John Paul Keith Trio Sunday, March 25, 8-11:30 p.m.
Faculty Concert Series Monday, March 26, 7:30 p.m.
Friday Karaoke Fridays, 7-11 p.m.
Mortimer’s
Rhodes College West Campus
Ubee’s
590 N. PERKINS 761-9321
521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900
613 UNIVERSITY 843-3775
Rhodes MasterSingers & Memphis Symphony Orchestra: Bach’s Mass in B-Minor Sunday, March 25, 4 p.m.
Senses Nightclub 2866 POPLAR 249-3739
Unique Saturday Saturdays, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.
Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975
The Wild Bill’s Band with Tony
Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.
Van Duren Solo Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
T.J. Mulligan’s
East Memphis
1817 KIRBY 755-2481
Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.
Clark Opera Memphis Center
Wang’s East Tapas
6745 WOLF RIVER PARKWAY
Lee Gardner Fridays, 6:30-9 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Tuesdays, 6:30-9 p.m.
WKNO Preview: Midtown Opera Festival Tuesday, March 27, 6-8 p.m.
Dan McGuinness Pub 4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-6993
Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.
6069 PARK 685-9264
Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub 6230 GREENLEE 592-0344
Live Music Thursdays, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Fridays, 9 p.m.
Bartlett Old Whitten Tavern 2465 WHITTEN 379-1965
Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222
Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Mondays Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
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Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222
Lafayette’s Music Room
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Devil Train Monday, March 26; Dave Cousar Tuesday, March 27; Some Sons of Mudboy Wednesday, March 28.
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8570 US 51 NORTH,
Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770
Steak Night with Tony Butler and the Shelby Forest Pioneers Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Possum Drifters Saturday, March 24, 12-3 p.m. and Sunday, March 25, 12:30-3:30 p.m.
Join the Easter Bunny for a fun Easter Egg Hunt for the kids Pastries
Mini Assorted Muffins, Danishes, Cake Donuts Bagels -Cream Cheese -Jams & Jellies Sourdough & Marble Rye Bread Honey Whipped Butter
Seasonal Sliced Fruit & Berries Mini Yogurt Parfaits Omelettes Made To Order Seafood Bar
Oyster On The Half Shell, Shrimp Cocktail, Half Shelled Crab Claws
Compliments: Fresh Lemons, Traditional Cocktail Sauce, Cajun Remoulade Stone Ground White Truffle Aioli
From The Butcher Block
Garlic & Herb Crusted Prime Rib Natural Au Jus, Creamy Horseradish, Balsamic Onion Bacon Jam-La Baguette Mini Brioche Buns
March 22-28, 2018
Salad Bar
Strawberry Filled Green Salad Hand Snipped Arcadian Mixed Greens-Crumbled Gorgonzola Blue Cheese-Candied PecansVine Ripe StrawberriesGoat Cheese Fig Emulsion Kale Caesar Salad
Breakfast Entrée
Maple Smoked Bacon Whole Hog Sage Sausage Cage-Free Scrambled Eggs Cinnamon French Toast- Whipped Butter-Warm Maple Syrup
Brunch Entrée
Oven Roasted French ChickenCaramelized Mushroom Onion Marble Roasted Potatoes-Lemon Herb Cream Smoked Ham - Sweet Potato Sage Gnocchi-Honey Mustard Sriracha Drizzle Grilled Salmon -Boursin Parmesan Tomato Risotto- Sundried Tomato Sauce Brown Sugar Maple Glazed Carrots & Buttered Asparagus
Sweet Indulgence
La Baguette Mini Fruit Tarts Mini Chocolate Cannoli’s Turtle Cheesecake Triple Chocolate Mousse Cake
Kids Menu
Mac & Cheese Sweet Potato Fries Mini Corn Dogs Southern Fried Chicken Fritters Baby Carrots & Buttered Corn Brownie Sundae Bar
Buttery Garlic & Herb CroutonsShaved Parmesan Reggiano Cheese, Traditional Caesar Dressing
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Huey’s Millington The Amy LaVere Trio Sunday, March 25, 6-9 p.m.
Pop’s Bar & Grill 6365 NAVY 872-0353
Possum Daddy or DJ Turtle Thursdays, 5-9 p.m.; CeCee Fridays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; Possum Daddy Karaoke Wednesdays, 6-10 p.m. and Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.
Collierville
Toni Green’s Palace
Huey’s Collierville
Toni Green’s Palace MondaysSundays, 7 p.m.; Live DJ Thursdays, Fridays, 7 p.m.
2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455
Soul Shockers Sunday, March 25, 8-11:30 p.m.
Cordova Huey’s Cordova 1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885
The Chaulkies Sunday, March 25, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.
T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova 8071 TRINITY 756-4480
The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.
4212 HWY 51 N
Germantown Germantown Performing Arts Center
Harpo’s Hogpin 4212 HWY 51N 530-0414
Live Music Saturdays, 9 p.m.
9087 POPLAR 755-0092
Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.
North Mississippi/ Tunica Dan McGuinness 3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611
Acoustic Music Tuesdays.
The Fitz 711 LUCKY LANE, TUNICA, MS 800-766-5825
Keith Sweat Saturday, March 24.
Huey’s Southaven 7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097
1801 EXETER 751-7500
Royal Blues Band Sunday, March 25, 8 p.m.-midnight.
Huey’s Southwind
1107 CASINO CENTER, TUNICA, MS 662-363-4900
Eileen Ivers Saturday, March 24, 8 p.m. 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911
Charley Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, March 25, 8:30 p.m.midnight.
Huey’s Germantown
Frayser/Millington
Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar
7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034
Five O’Clock Shadow Sunday, March 25, 8-11:30 p.m.
Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423
Unwind Wednesdays Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.
Tunica Roadhouse Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.
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.
Seeing Civil Rights A Symposium March 28-29 at Brooks Museum of Art
Seeing Civil Rights explores how Ernest C. Withers and his contemporaries imagined photography’s dual role as both an art form and a tool for political change. It brings together esteemed
and provocative scholars, writers, and artists to address how photographs shaped the immediate reception of the civil rights movement and continue to have an impact on how we remember it.
Wednesday, March 28 6 p.m. Opening Keynote - Reframing Civil Rights and the Photograph: Deborah Willis, Ph.D. Deborah Willis is a contemporary African-American artist, photographer, curator of photography, photographic historian, author, and educator. Among her many awards and honors, she was a 2000 MacArthur Fellow. Dr. Willis co-produced the 2014 documentary film Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People, which is based on her book, Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present. She was exhibitions curator at the Center for African American History and Culture of the Smithsonian Institution for eight years. She has published “some 20 books on African-American photographers and the representation of blacks in photographic imagery.”
Thursday, March 29 1 – 2:30 p.m. Feeling through Photography
Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis Martin A. Berger, University of California, Santa Cruz Moderator: Vincent Gaddis, Benedictine University
3 – 4:30 p.m. Seeing Behind the Pictures
Preston Lauterbach, Virginia Foundation for Humanities Leigh Raiford, University of California Berkeley Moderator: Joseph Coulson, The Great Books Foundation
4:30 – 5 p.m. Guided tour of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Ernest Withers photography exhibition,
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5 – 6 p.m. Reception 6 p.m. Closing Keynote – Known and Strange Things: An Evening with Teju Cole
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March 22 - 28
T H EAT E R
Circuit Playhouse
James and the Giant Peach, when James is sent by his conniving aunts to chop down their old fruit tree, he discovers a magic potion that results in a tremendous peach that launches him on a journey of enormous proportions. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $25-$40. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 7 p.m. Through April 8. 51 S. COOPER (725-0776).
The Evergreen Theatre
The Nether, set in a virtual reality world where everything is possible. Fri.-Sun. Through March 25. 1705 POPLAR (274-7139).
Germantown Community Theatre
First Date: A New Musical, www.gctcomeplay.org. March 23-April 8. 3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).
The Halloran Centre
The Mountaintop, Sunday show is a matinee, 3 p.m. www.hattiloo.org. $50. March 28-April 1, 7:30 p.m. 225 S. MAIN (529-4299).
McCoy Theatre
Violet, musical based on The Ugliest Pilgrim by Doris Betts. Set in the 1960s, tells the story of a young woman with a visible scar on her face as well as scars within who embarks on a healing journey. www. rhodes.edu. Free. Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m., and Sun., March 25, 2 p.m. Through March 24. RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).
The Orpheum
Wicked, www. orpheum-memphis.com. $49. Through March 25. 203 S. MAIN (525-3000).
Playhouse on the Square
March 22-28, 2018
Laughter on the 23rd Floor, take a trip inside the writer’s room to witness the wacky antics and crazy arguments that happen on the 23rd floor. www.play-
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.
houseonthesquare.org. $25-$40. Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m. Through March 25. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).
Theatre Memphis
The Drowsy Chaperone, a man puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording “comes to life” and a masterful madcap evening lovingly pokes fun at the musical theater genre. www.theatrememphis.org. $30. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Through March 31. 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).
TheatreWorks
The Daughters of the Lone Star State, wickedly funny, no-holds-barred look at racism and classism through the ladies of the Lowake, Texas, chapter of the Daughters of the Lone Star State. www.etcmemphistheater.com. $15. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through March 25. 2085 MONROE (274-7139).
A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S
The Blues Foundation
Opening reception for “Icons,” exhibition of paintings by Michael Maness. www.blues.org. Tues., March 27, 5:30 p.m. 421 S. MAIN.
Circuit Playhouse
Opening reception for “Full Power of Magic,” exhibition of photography by Allison Renner inspired by the story, James and the Giant Peach. Fri., March 23, 5-7 p.m. 51 S. COOPER (725-0776).
Clough-Hanson Gallery
Closing reception for “The CLTV,” exhibition motivated by the question “What does liberation mean for a young black artist in Memphis?” www.rhodes. edu. Fri., March 23, 5-7 p.m.
Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at Buckman Arts Center, Sunday, March 25th, at 7 p.m. Odelia. www.crosstownarts.org. $10. Sat., March 24, 4-9 p.m.
John Shorb. www.topsgallery. com. Sat., March 24, 5-8 p.m.
Casting Demonstration
430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).
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Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis
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METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.
Enjoy lunch and lecture by Claudia Tullos-Leonard. Thurs., March 22, 12:30 p.m.
Crosstown Arts Digital Lab
ROSS GALLERY, CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000), WWW.CBU.EDU.
Opening reception for “Flesh Out: Spring 2018 MFA Thesis,” exhibition of thesis work by Kelly Cook, Ellen Dempsey, Bienvenido Howard, Jennalyn Krulish, and Lacy Mitcham. www.memphis.edu. Fri., March 23, 5-7 p.m.
RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).
3715 CENTRAL.
Crosstown Arts
Opening reception for “The Daily Avalanche,” exhibition of new drawings and prints by
Artist reception for “Adorn,” exhibition of works by Tova
TOPS Gallery
“Beneath the Surface: Life, Death, & Gold in Ancient Panama”
Exhibition of finds from Pre-Columbian cemetery of Sitio Conte in central Panama, a mysterious and complex society that thrived there more than 1,000 years ago. Ongoing. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
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Gallery Talk for “Looking at the World”
Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.
Six-station computer lab supports Memphis’ creative community by providing artists and musicians full access to industry-standard art- and music-making technology. Tuesdays-Thursdays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.
Jazz-A-Fire
Performances, bring your own instrument to join. $12. Last Sunday of every month, 4-7 p.m. BRINSON’S, 341 MADISON (524-0104), WWW.MEMPHISBLACKARTSALLIANCE.ORG.
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Students in grades 9-12 are invited to showcase artistic skills of youth who can relate or are directly affected by the current immigration climate. Through March 23. WWW.LATINOMEMPHIS.ORG.
Looking Inward: Mindfully Looking at Art
Program, led by Stephen Black, delves into the restorative powers of art and meditation to help participants quiet the mind, observe art, and let go of mental clutter to experience art in new ways. Free. Fourth Saturday of every month, 10 a.m. THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.
Lunch & Listen with LaShonté Anderson
Networking event and listening session that provides members of the music community with an opportunity to showcase their work, discover local talent, and broaden their network. Free with RSVP. Fri., March 23, 1 p.m. TALENT DEVELOPMENT COMPLEX, 119 S. MAIN (435-6509).
A Performance by Don Lifted
March 22-28, 2018
Lawrence Matthews, also known as Don Lifted, will transform the gallery of Rust Hall visually and sonically, featuring sculptural and video installations, vibrant lighting,
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Withers collection, including works from Withers’ archive of more than one million negatives that have never been seen by the public. www.crosstownarts.org. Through May 13.
MEMPHIS COLLEGE OF ART, 1930 POPLAR (272-2001), WW.MCA.EDU.
Senior Arts Series
Performance features Joyce Cobb and the Boscos Trio performing songs from Mark Twain’s era alongside the witticisms of Mark Twain portrayed by Ron Jewell. $5. Wed., March 28, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY.
The Dixon Gallery & Gardens
THEATRE MEMPHIS, 630 PERKINS EXT. (272-3434), WWW.CREATIVEAGINGMIDSOUTH.ORG.
Young Collectors Contemporary
Opportunity to view, question, discover, and collect works from emerging contemporary visual artists. For full lineup schedule, see website. $25-$125. Fri.-Sun., Mar. 22-25. CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE, N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.YOUNGCOLLECTORSCONTEMPORARY.COM.
ONGOI NG ART
Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)
“Africa: Art of a Continent,” permanent exhibition of African art from the Martha and Robert Fogelman collection. Ongoing. 142 COMMUNICATION & FINE ARTS BUILDING (678-2224).
ANF Architects
“Gentle Gestures,” exhibition
“Looking at the World” by Claudia Tullos-Leonard at Ross Gallery, through May 2nd of new works by Don DuMont. www.anfa.com. Through April 5.
exhibition of works by Debra Edge. Ongoing.
1500 UNION (278-6868).
2563 BROAD (323-3008).
Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art
Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School
“Chinese Symbols in Art,” ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. www.belzmuseum.org. Ongoing. 119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).
Bingham and Broad
“My Kin Is Not Like Yours,”
“Modern Take on a Fresco and marciART,” exhibition of paintings by Lou Ann Dattilo and jewelry by Marci Margolin Hirsch. www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through April 16. 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. Through March 23. RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).
Crosstown Concourse
“Goodnight My Love,” exhibition of photographs from the Ernest
“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 high-quality 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).
Eclectic Eye
“Spirit Animal,” exhibition series of wildlife portraits and silhouettes captured by acrylic paint on canvas by Karen Mulford. www.eclectic-eye.com. Through April 11. 242 S. COOPER (276-3937).
FireHouse Community Arts Center
“I Am Here,” exhibition of work
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TOPS Gallery
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.
400 S. FRONT.
“The Daily Avalanche,” exhibition of new drawings and prints by John Shorb. www.topsgallery.com. March 24-May 13.
Village Frame & Art
“20th Century Memphis Photographs,” exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey and Virginia Schoenster, Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).
Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis
“Flesh Out: Spring 2018 MFA Thesis,” exhibition of thesis work by Kelly Cook, Ellen Dempsey, Bienvenido Howard, Jennalyn Krulish, and Lacy Mitcham. www.memphis.edu. March 23-April 6. 3715 CENTRAL.
Germantown Performing Arts Center
“The Weathered South,” exhibition by Lacey Lee Walt. www. gpacweb.com. Through April 3. 1801 EXETER (751-7500).
L Ross Gallery
“Glimpses of the Space Between,” exhibition of paintings and drawings by Anne Davey and Jil Evans. www.lrossgallery. com. Through March 31. 5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).
Marshall Arts Gallery
“Love of Art” and “Memphis,” exhibition of work by Nikki Gardner and Debra Edge by appointment only. (647-9242), Ongoing. 639 MARSHALL (679-6837).
540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).
WKNO Studio
“Portraits in Soul: Rare Images from the API Archive” at WKNO Studio, through March 30th Memphis Botanic Garden
2018 MGAL Star Artist Juried Exhibition, www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through March 28. 750 CHERRY (636-4100).
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
“Black Resistance: Ernest C. Withers and the Civil Rights Movement,” exhibition focuses on and commemorates the 50th anniversary of the events from March 27 through April 8, 1968. Through Aug. 19. “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. Through Aug. 12. “Rotunda Projects: Lisa Hoke,”
exhibition of over-the-top installation of recycled and repurposed materials reflecting aspirations for the work and fears of expecting too much. Through June 3. “About Face,” exhibition located in the Education Gallery 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. 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).
Memphis College of Art
“Art of Science,” exhibition showcasing the beauty of science and the power of art. Featuring scientific imagery reinterpreted by local area fine artists. www.
mca.edu. Through April 18. 1930 POPLAR (272-5100).
Metal Museum
“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. www.metalmuseum.org. 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).
Ross Gallery
“Looking at the World,” exhibition of paintings by Claudia Tullos-Leonard. www.cbu.edu/ gallery. Through May 2. “Riding the Bevel,” exhibition of
work by artists from the MidSouth Woodturners Guild in the gallery foyer. www.cbu.edu/ gallery. Through April 24. CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY, PLOUGH LIBRARY, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3000).
Slavehaven Underground Railroad Museum
“Images of Africa Before & After the Middle Passage,” exhibition of photography by Jeff and Shaakira Edison. Ongoing. 826 N. SECOND (527-3427).
“Portraits in Soul: Rare Images from the API Archive,” exhibition of 30 20 x 20 images from original promo photographs of Stax artists. www.wkno.org. Through March 30. 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).
OPERA
WKNO Preview: Midtown Opera Festival
Behind-the-scenes look at upcoming Midtown Opera Festival. Darel Snodgras will lead a discussion with Ned Canty. Free. Tues., March 27, 6-8 p.m. CLARK OPERA MEMPHIS CENTER, 6745 WOLF RIVER PARKWAY, WWW.OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG.
Stax Museum of American Soul Music
“The Chaos and the Cosmos: Inside Memphis Music’s Lost Decade, 1977-1986,” exhibition of photography by Patricia Rainer. www.staxmuseum.com. Through July 31. 926 E. MCLEMORE (946-2535).
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Emotionally charged performances take audiences on a journey through this uniquely Spanish art form. $30. Sun., March 25, 7-8:30 p.m. BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483), WWW.BUCKMANARTSCENTER.COM.
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Women’s Month Dance Party
Celebration of women. Female artists have broken down barriers for women of all races. $10. Fri., March 23, 8 p.m.-midnight. ART VILLAGE GALLERY, 410 S. MAIN (521-0782), WWW.ARTVILLAGEGALLERY.COM.
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Bead By Bead. Thurs., March 22, 5:30-7 p.m. NOVEL, 387 PERKINS EXT. (9225526), WWW.NOVELMEMPHIS.COM.
Learn about the rich cultural heritage of Memphis, why Memphis is the place it is today, and how our history impacts where we are headed. Appetizers and drinks provided. Register online. Tues., March 27, 6-8 p.m. NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (527-4625), WWW.NEWMEMPHIS.ORG/EVENTS/ MEMPHIS-101/.
MULYP Shelby County Candidate Forum
Learn about each of the respective candidates’ political platforms and plans to stimulate change within their prospective roles. Thurs., March 22, 6:30 p.m. MEMPHIS URBAN LEAGUE, 413 N. CLEVELAND (272-2491), WWW.MEMPHISULYP.ORG.
Calvary Lenten Preaching Series: Rev. Naomi Tutu
Social activist and daughter of Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu will speak at series finale. Fri., March 23, noon. CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 102 N. SECOND (525-6602), WWW.CALVARYMEMPHIS.ORG.
Shelby County Mayor’s Candidate Forum
Moderated by WREG News Channel 3 anchors Alex Coleman and April Thompson. Thurs., March 22, 6 p.m. NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), WWW.NAACPMEMPHIS.ORG.
The Women’s View of Christ and the Cross
Annual Lenten Service highlights the strong women who shared in spreading the gospel. Sat., March 24, noon.
Enjoy vendors with unique products, great food, music, and more. Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. THE DEN, 656 MARSHALL (773-738-9019).
Teach901 Educator Job Fair
Connects education job seekers with recruiters from public, charter, and parochial schools in Memphis. Wed., March 28, 6-8 p.m. CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE (FORMERLY SEARS CROSSTOWN), N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.JOBS.TEACH901.COM.
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MusliMeMfest Festival
Free. Sat., March 24, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (757-7777), WWW.MUSLIMSINMEMPHIS.ORG.
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Annual Wheelchair Basketball Tournament
Rollin’ Grizzlies take on corporate teams without disabilities in a wheelchair-basketball tournament sponsored by the Arc Mid-South. $5. Sat., March 24, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. RAYMOND SKINNER CENTER, 712 TANGLEWOOD (327-2473), WWW.THEARCMIDSOUTH.ORG.
The Humane Society Fast & the Furriest 5K Run/Walk
The only 5K run/walk where dogs are not only welcome, they are encouraged to join the fun. Sat., March 24, 9 a.m.-noon. HUMANE SOCIETY OF MEMPHIS & SHELBY COUNTY, 935 FARM (9373943), MEMPHISHUMANE.ORG.
NEW BETHEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, 7786 POPLAR PIKE (754-3584).
Run for the Son 5K
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Memphis Women’s Summit
Featuring breakout sessions with local leaders, vendor booths focused on women’s issues and interests, luncheon featuring a panel of top female leaders in Memphis, and a keynote address from Erin Brockovich. Thurs., March 22, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, MEMPHIS (678-2000), WWW.MEMPHISWOMENSSUMMIT.ORG.
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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).
Yellow Fever Rock & Roll Ghost Tour
See what used to be, Memphis style, with Mike McCarthy. Call to schedule a personal tour. Ongoing. (486-6325), WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/ YELLOWROCKGHOST/.
Registration is $10 in advance or $15 on the day of the race. Sat., March 24, 8 a.m.
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GFWC Metro Memphis Woman’s Club
Volunteer community service organization for Memphis women. Free. Fourth Thursday of every month, 6:30-8 p.m. COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER, 3475 CENTRAL, WWW.GFWC.ORG.
Memphis 3.0 District Workshops and Tours
Join the Office of Comprehensive Planning for planning efforts throughout 14 Districts. Thurs., March 22, 9 a.m.-noon & 1:30-4 p.m. WWW.BLDGMEMPHIS.ORG.
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Overton Park Fun Day and Science Fair
Featuring games, food trucks, mini-BioBlitz where we try to identify as many species as we can, opportunity to meet the researchers who study the forest,
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CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF MEMPHIS, 2525 CENTRAL (3203170), WWW.CMOM.COM.
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Easter Eggstravaganza YMCA
Featuring winemaker André Mack and Mouton Noir Wines, tastes from some of the city’s hottest restaurants, signature cocktails, silent auction, and live entertainment. $125. Fri., March 23, 6:30 p.m.
OVERTON PARK, EAST PARKWAY PAVILION (214-5450), WWW.OVERTONPARK.ORG.
For ages 3-9. Come prepared to get wet. Bring your baskets and collect floating plastic eggs at the indoor pool. $5. Sat., March 24, 2 p.m.
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YMCA AT SCHILLING FARMS, 1185 SCHILLING BLVD. EAST, COLLIERVILLE (850-9622), WWW.YMCAMEMPHIS.ORG.
2018 Preservation Series
View a preservation issue captured on the big screen, followed by a discussion led by local experts who bring it home to Memphis. Popcorn and drinks provided. $50 members, $75 nonmembers. Mondays, 7 p.m. Through March 31. HOWARD HALL, 2282 MADISON, MEMPHISHERITAGE.ORG.
A Black Panther Brunch
Celebrate and have an open dialogue about Black Panther. Open to the community for adults ages 21-plus. $30-$50. Sun., March 25, 1-4 p.m.
Elmwood Easter Egg Hunt
Open to kids up to age 10. Bring Easter basket, find prize egg, and get a photo with the Easter Bunny. Registration required by email, historian@ elmwoodcemetery.org. Sat., March 24, 9 a.m. ELMWOOD CEMETERY, 824 S. DUDLEY (774-3212), WWW. ELMWOODCEMETERY.ORG.
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Whiskey Warmer
Sample whiskeys, chat with distillers, and enjoy local food and live music. Your ticket includes 15 tastings and access to all areas of the event benefiting Volunteer Memphis 21-plus. Fri., March 23, 6-9 p.m. THE TOWER COURTYARD AT OVERTON SQUARE, 2092 TRIMBLE PLACE MEMPHIS, TN 38104, WWW.WHISKEYWARMER.COM.
Bolshoi Ballet: The Flames of Paris
Sun., March 25, 1 p.m., and Tues., March 27, 7 p.m. MALCO PARADISO CINEMA, 584 S. MENDENHALL (682-1754), WWW.MALCO.COM.
Memphis (1992)
Tells the story of a woman wafter she has helped kidnap. Sun., March 25, 3:30 p.m. THE HALLORAN CENTRE, 225 S. MAIN (529-4299), WWW.INDIEMEMPHIS.COM.
The Quiet One
Captures the trials and triumphs of Donald Peters, a lonely 10-year-old African American boy who wanders the streets of New York City. Mon., March 26, 7 p.m. CLAYBORN TEMPLE, 294 HERNANDO, WWW.INDIEMEMPHIS.COM.
THE HAVEN MEMPHIS, 206 G.E. PATTERSON (417-8754), WWW.THEDIVIDEND.ORG.
CLUE: The Party
Zany night of mystery and suspense recreating CLUE (the movie). Win up to $2,500 in prizes, and enter a costume contest. All guests greeted by Yvette, the maid, with a glass of champagne. Fri., March 23, 7-11:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 7 Noon – 6pm
ANNESDALE HISTORIC MANSION, 1325 LAMAR (490-9460), WWW.FFLMEMPHIS.ORG.
Forging on the River: Dinner + Auction
Dinner by Draper’s Catering and art auction featuring some of the best fine metalwork in the country benefiting Metal Museum programming throughout the year. $75. Sat., March 24, 6-9 p.m.
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METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.
Friday Night Dance Party
Themed outdoor dance parties featuring illuminated dance floor, food vendors on site, and beer and wine available with a valid ID. Free. Fridays, 6-9 p.m. MEMPHIS PARK (FOURTH BLUFF), FRONT AND MADISON, WWW.THEFOURTHBLUFF.COM.
Minors must be accompanied by an adult to attend the festival.
Laser Show: The Beatles, Laser Vinyl, and Pink Flyod
Three different dazzling laser art shows for all ages. $8. Fri., Sat., 7, 8 & 9 p.m. Through March 24. SHARPE PLANETARIUM, MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.
Lenten Preaching Series and Waffle Shop 2018
Wise preachers take to the pulpit. Waffle Shop is open Tues.-Fri., 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. For more information including guest preachers and preaching schedule, visit website. Through March 23. CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 102 N. SECOND (5256602), WWW.CALVARYMEMPHIS.ORG.
Seeing Civil Rights Symposium
MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (5446209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.
Winnie’s 1st Birthday Celebration
Celebrate Winnie the hippo’s 1st birthday featuring cake drop Friday-Sunday at 10 a.m., followed by a hippo chat at 10:30 a.m. Special events will take place all day Saturday and Sunday. $10-$15. March 23-25, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. MEMPHIS ZOO, 2000 PRENTISS PLACE IN OVERTON PARK (333-6500), WWW.MEMPHISZOO.ORG.
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Easter Basket Drive & Free Dance Camp
Students ages 3-14 are asked to bring a filled Easter basket, ready to be given to kids battling severe health or financial hardships. Sat., March 24, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. ST. LUKE’S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 480 S. HIGHLAND (452-6262), WWW.BALLETONWHEELS.ORG.
Easter EGGstravaganza
Enjoy a pancake breakfast, photo with the Easter Bunny, and themed craft. $15 members, $20 nonmembers. Sat., March 24, 9:30-11:30 a.m.
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Explores how Ernest C. Withers and his contemporaries imagined photography’s dual role as an art form and a tool for political change. Wed.Thur., Mar. 28-29.
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The Egyptology Graduate Student Association Presents
Egyptian Beer: Drinking for the Masses by Dr. Leslie A. Warden Assistant Professor, Roanoke College
Underworld David Mamet’s Chicago.
D Tuesday, March 27th, 2018 6:15 PM Reception, 7:00 PM Lecture University of Memphis—Main Campus Bluff Room (University Center Rm 304) Funded by the Student Event Allocation Committee
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MEMPHIS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY presents
The 31st Annual Rev. Dr. Henry Logan Starks Institute for Faith, Race & Social Justice Scholarship Luncheon & Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 12:00 - 1:15 pm
doors open at 11:30 am
March 22-28, 2018
3600 Elvis Presley Blvd.
The Honorable Constance Slaughter-Harvey, former Assistant Secretary of State and General Counsel, is the first African American woman to receive a law degree from the University of Mississippi Law School and first African American to serve as a judge in the state of Mississippi. An encounter with civil rights leader Medgar Evers six days before his assignation inspired her efforts to bring civil rights change to Mississippi. She has served her state and nation at the request of governors and presidents, been honored at the Kennedy Center and led this nation’s struggle for civil rights alongside the likes of Shirley Chisholm, Gloria Steinem, and Jimmy Carter.
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avid Mamet is one of my favorite playwright/ screenwriters. His rapid-fire, cadenced dialogue, especially in the right mouths — William H. Macy, Joe Mantegna, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gene Hackman — is a distinctive music. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Glengarry Glen Ross, which was made into a dynamite movie. And he is the director of the films House of Games, The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main, Oleanna, and others. Add to these accomplishments a number of books of essays on theater and film, and a handful of novels. The good news about this new book, Chicago, is that it’s his best novel. It’s dialogue-driven, making it such a pleasure to read that it’s hard to put down. His characters talk like Mamet’s movie characters — sly, fast, and with a street-smart poetic pulse. The staccato interchanges, not unlike machine-gun fire, suit this tale of reporters and gangsters during the Al Capone era in Chicago. It’s a great crime novel: It moves briskly, and the story is gripping. It’s also often very funny. Best friends Mike Hodge and Clement Parlow both work in the City Room of the Chicago Tribune. They’re seasoned pros, cynical, tough, and skilled, even when they find themselves wandering into the gray area between crime and justice. Mike has fallen in love, and Parlow rags him about it, goading him by saying he should be writing the sob sister column rather than covering crime. “A romantic is just a cynic for whom, as yet, the nickel hasn’t dropped,” he tells him. But, when Mike’s paramour is killed right in front of him, in an apparent gangland slaying, Mike goes on a bender. “I killed her,” he says to Parlow. Mike’s guilt upends his career, and he is a lost sheep for much of the book. “He had loved his job, and its proximity to violence, which, he knew was like a drug, and he had loved the Irish girl; and now he was sick and grieving in that impossible grief of betrayal at having your heart broken by life.” The gunman kills the woman and,
just as Mike glimpses his face, knocks Mike out cold. The twist is that the slaying may have nothing to do with Mike’s coverage of Capone. Capone, known as Mr. Brown, exists only in the crisp, blackened edges of the story. But his shadow is large and deep, and corruption is so rife in the city, even on the paper, that attempting to find what’s true and what’s smokescreen is like working on a Gordian knot. Eventually, Mike finds his footing again, and now he has revenge on his mind. The story moves through the murky alleys of 1930s Chicago. There are hoods galore, cops — some straight, some crooked — and a particularly charming whorehouse, where much is known and only some of it revealed. Mike is a known quantity in all these places, and he’s comfortable in the dirt. He learned to kill in the Great War, and he recognizes that it’s still in him. The story is episodic but builds accumulatively toward the only kind of sense these types of stories make. As Mike collects clues, more people are murdered. He’s not sure whether he’s up against Capone or the Irish Mob or something more esoteric, a crime which has nothing to do with the Mafia. “The weakness in the Mafia,” Mamet says, “was the absence of legitimacy. Anyone with sufficient ambition could rise through obedience and violence; but there was, culturally, nothing to check his rise.” Fans of Boardwalk Empire will find much here to admire. As with Mamet’s intricate crime films, there are stories within stories. Chicago glistens with fascinating details, scams, anecdotal red herrings, beautifully rendered asides, and gorgeously wrought digression. The plot, which does have a satisfying denouement, is almost secondary to Mamet’s way with language, especially his crackling dialogue. Sometimes, if you concentrate too closely on the plot — which is, after all, similar to Hitchcock’s idea of the McGuffin — you may miss the author’s playfulness, his skill with a sentence, and his love for arcane information. It’s Mamet. It’s underworld characters. What else do you wanna know?
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BAR REPORT By Meghan Stuthard Brian “Skinny” McCabe at the Atomic Tiki
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he Atomic Tiki has only been open a month and a half, and owner Brian McCabe, known by most as Skinny, has big plans. “I’m already changing the menu and adding new drinks,” he says. “I’m taking down that wall and building a big bar.” This is good news because anyone familiar with the history of tiki bars in America knows that bigger and better is always the right move when it comes to tiki joints. Critiki.com describes the American post-war tiki bar as an “over-the-top themed restaurant” that emulates what we imagined Polynesian culture to be like. I’ve always pictured tiki bars as a gaudy marriage between my parents’ childhood home videos and the backyard parties in Edward Scissorhands if they took place on a beach. As it turns out, I am not wrong.
Quick research on Critiki turns up the Dobbs House Luau, a clown show of a restaurant once open on Poplar with an A-frame roof and a huge Moai out front. The Dobbs House Luau closed in 1982, and aside from whatever Bahama Breeze is trying to be, the Atomic Tiki is one of only two tiki places that exist in Memphis. Skinny and his staff have crafted a pretty solid menu of tropical drinks, from the typical Mai Tais and Zombies to the more modern Midnight Train, made from Amaro and Kraken rum. Spongebob’s House is a fruity blend served in a pineapple, while Bang Harvey’s Dead comes with an edible flower for a garnish (“It’s okay, if you’re going to eat a flower,” my friend says). The Buck Nasty is a bourbon drink with allspice dram, a liqueur made from allspice berries. The Milk Punch, a popular Tiki throwback, is spiced rum, nutmeg, and half-and-
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half — and truly delicious for those of us who enjoy the occasional beverage made with dairy. Signature drinks are just $10-12 and are house concoctions, while staples are original tiki recipes or twists on them (for example, a new drink debuting soon is the Long Island Iced Teaki). A third section of the menu is devoted to bowls, larger and more … interactive drinks that might be better shared. I ordered the Spongebob’s House for myself, though, so there is only a little shame in consuming a bowl by oneself.
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In the old tiki restaurants of the ’50s and ’60s, the cuisine was basically Chinese-American “dressed up with pineapple,” according to Critiki, which might have been its undoing, considering the way the humble pineapple is disparaged locally for its appearance on pizza. “Unpredictably, we’ve done a lot of food sales,” Skinny says. I try the top-selling Polynesian meatballs which live up to the hype. Skinny is also redoing the food menu to include more vegan and vegetarian dishes. It is expected to be available on
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April 6th. The tiki bars of old Memphis might’ve featured working volcanoes or waterfalls, and Skinny is slowly building up his kitschy interior design to do the Dobbs House Luau proud. Netting hangs from the ceiling and knick-knacks adorn the walls: mermaids, surfboards, and, inexplicably, a plunger and Gone in 60 Seconds VHS tape. While some might exclaim, “Hey, that’s not tiki, that’s just
tacky!” most of us will see it for what it is: a fun, neighborhood bar that lets the drinks be the star of the show and the wall plunger play a supporting role. “We want the neighborhood to dictate what we are,” Skinny says. The bar is right around the corner from Crosstown Concourse on Overton Park, meaning there is soon to be a lot of neighborhood to dictate Atomic Tiki’s direction. He envisions his space as a bar for neighbors to walk to for local beer during happy hour or late at night for a tropical nightcap. I imagine that, over time, the place will accumulate more wall art, more ridiculousness, and become a destination bar for those who want to experience an uncommon drink. Tiki is the logical next step for Memphis mixology that prides itself on innovation, and while a tiki cocktail doesn’t feel as mature as a barrel-aged whiskey drink, it sure is fun to order something with a plastic monkey in it. Take a hint from your grandparents, who saw Polynesia as an exotic place soaked in rum and full of hula girls and built a whole restaurant phenomenon around it. Be the neighborhood and dictate to Skinny what you want: a Jet Pilot in your hand and him in a hula skirt.
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Touching base with mirepoix.
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oday I will discuss using mirepoix to enhance two easy soup recipes. Cheater’s Chicken Soup makes use of one of my favorite ingredients: rotisserie chicken. The other recipe, Haut Ramen (that’s “Top Ramen” in French, for the unfrozen cavemen in the crowd) employs mirepoix in the preparation of packaged Ramen noodle soup. Since both recipes include the part where you have to make the mirepoix, let’s review that step. Trim and mince equal parts onion, carrot, and celery (or celery root, aka celeriac). If using celery stalks, include the leaves. Cut it all into consistently sized chunks, large or small as the recipe calls for. The Haut Ramen recipe requires a brunoise, which is French for “finely diced.” Making brunoise is a technique that’s more effectively shown than described, so check it out on YouTube. Cheater’s Chicken Soup One cook’s value-added product is another’s raw material. Rotisserie chicken, cooked long and slowly enough that the bones are almost spoon-tender, can make a really good soup.
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Ingredients • Rotisserie chicken, whole or partial • Mirepoix (larger chunks) • Tomato, canned or frozen • Spicy things (optional; my preference is pickled jalapeños) • Salt, soy sauce, fish sauce, garlic powder, herbs, and other flavorings • Olive oil or butter
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Procedure Gain control of the remains of the chicken, pull it into pieces, and remove the bones. Snip the bones and tendons into small pieces with cooking scissors, and place them into a pasta basket or similar arrangement that can be submerged in boiling water, along with its contents, and can just as easily be removed from the water. One could also put the chicken skin in the pasta boiler to make the soup more oily, if that’s your thing. Heat the water and simmer the bones while you get the rest of your mise en place, which is French for arranging your cooking materials. The next step is to cut the mirepoix and sauté it gently in olive oil, allowing a mild brown to develop. While the mirepoix is browning and the bones are simmering, cut or pull the chicken meat apart to the consistency
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On March 19, 1992, my teacher brought her own television to school. She had promised us earlier in the week that we would get to watch the Tigers as a treat if we had good conduct or learned our times tables or whatever else elementary school kids do to earn treats. Being relatively new to the area, I had no idea what “watching the tigers” would entail. A nature documentary maybe? A surprise field trip to the zoo seemed unlikely. But my classmates were excited, so I played along. We took a break from practicing cursive to watch basketball on a Thursday afternoon. I learned about an extraordinary player called Penny, who was from Memphis. I learned Memphis State was more than the place where I went to day camp in the summer. Crowded around a tiny set in the back of a portable classroom, I learned basketball was a Big Deal here. Watching some basketball players from our city — the same school where my dad took business classes at night! — on national television blew my 9-year-old mind. And they were winning! I was fully on board. I recall proudly announcing to the crossing guard that “THE TIGERS BEAT PEPPERDINE!” as I skipped to my neighbor’s car at the end of the day. I am confident I had no idea what or where was a Pepperdine, because all I can tell you to this day is that it is in California. That Tigers team made it to the Elite Eight. It didn’t happen again until I was a senior in college, three coaches and two arenas later. A lot of things have changed, right down to the name of the university. But the ’90s are back in a big way. Twin Peaks and Roseanne are on TV again. Slipdresses and round eyeglasses are cool for some reason, and Bruno Mars’ tour dates are sponsored by Cross Colours. They’re making another Lion King, for crying out loud. The albums I grew up listening to are being reissued as 20th and 25th anniversary editions, and they’re in heavy rotation on the “classic” stations. Well, they’re in “classic” playlists on Spotify, which I suppose is the closest equivalent. The cultural cycle is coming back around to my generation’s “good old days” and I’m okay with it. Flannel and tearaway pants are extremely comfortable. Just not together. So yeah, I am 1000 percent here for the ultimate ’90s throwback: a return to the days of Li’l Penny, those black and blue Orlando Magic Starter jackets, and the squeaky-clean foamposite Nikes the boys in my class showed off the first day back at school after Christmas break. I’m here for King Cotton meats (they’re Rightly Seasoned!) and Being Smart, Staying Clean, and Keeping the Dream. I’ll be honest, Grind City has felt more like Groan City lately. So I am ready to recapture a piece of the excitement. It’s been a few Marches since I’ve felt this optimistic about Tiger basketball. Long-ago times and long-gone people associate Tiger basketball with happy memories for a lot of us. The moments may have happened in the Mid-South Coliseum in a cloud of Grandpa’s cigar smoke, on the steps of the Tomb of Doom, in a bar off campus, or on a spur-of-the-moment drive to San Antonio, but they have one thing in common: community. I’ve heard so many stories, and they never get old. They start with friends, parents, aunts and uncles, and siblings, and they don’t always end with a win. We remember where we were, who we were with, even what we were wearing in case a particular outfit has lucky powers we might need to activate during a future game. I bet my former teacher told her friends about the time she didn’t want to miss a tournament game, so she lugged her heavy old TV to work and conned her class into thinking they were being rewarded for their good behavior. That’s not unique to Memphis. What makes us different is the fact that we are a little nuts and we care too much. Memphis fans come in all stripes, but they share a reputation for outsized expectations. Whether those expectations are viewed as passion or delusion, endearing or annoying, determines just as much as recruiting and X’s and O’s. It’s a blessing or a curse, depending on your outlook. And I have a feeling this new guy gets it. Jen Clarke is a digital marketing specialist and an unapologetic Memphian.
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