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BRUCE VANWYNGARDEN Editor SUSAN ELLIS Managing Editor JACKSON BAKER, MICHAEL FINGER Senior Editors TOBY SELLS Associate Editor CHRIS MCCOY Film and TV Editor CHRIS DAVIS, MICHAEL DONAHUE MAYA SMITH, MICAELA WATTS, JOSHUA CANNON Staff Writers JESSE DAVIS Copy Editor JULIE RAY Calendar Editor

OUR 1474TH ISSUE 05.25.17 “In one mile, turn left on Highway TT.” “‘Highway TT?’ Seriously, Siri? We are so lost. I’m going to pull over on this side road and check out the route.” “Return to the route.” “Shut up, Siri.” “I can’t even get phone service out here. I guess we just have to trust Siri knows what the hell she’s doing. Highway TT. Right. We are so lost.” We were somewhere on the tiny back roads of southern Missouri, somewhere between wide spots in the road named Manes and Competition, traveling “highways” with letters for names, narrow roads with deep, stomach-flipping dips between hills, roads that meandered like a string tossed on a rumpled bedspread. We were headed — theoretically, anyway — to the Lake of the Ozarks for a family gathering, and my wife and I had entrusted Siri with the mission of getting us there, since there seemed to be no obvious route from Memphis. And I admit there’s a sort of comfort in just releasing navigation duties to one’s phone and focusing on conversation with your mate, listening to podcasts, soaking up the scenery. Every once in a while, Siri pipes up and tells you where to go, and you obey. Once upon a time, negotiating a route to an unfamiliar destination was a cooperative endeavor between passenger and driver. The passenger’s job was to read the map and issue directions. The driver’s job was to question the passenger’s mapreading skills and demand to look at the map periodically. My wife and I were very good at this. If you somehow found yourself on Route TT, you figured you’d made a mistake. But Siri is very sure of herself. “You are on the fastest route.” “Shut up, Siri.” Turned out that Siri was, in fact, on the money, directing us right to our cabin on an obscure point on the lake at the end of Route EE. We had a great weekend, visiting with seldomseen relatives, fishing from the dock, and eating too much. On the way back, we just gave in to Siri without a second thought, figuring she knew what she was doing. And again, she steered us through the back roads. We didn’t mind. It was a sparkling, cloudless Sunday morning. There was no traffic. The hills and fields were as green as green ever was, lush with late-spring growth; the gravel-bed streams were sparkling and gin-clear. We swung into and through the asphalt curves like water through a hose. Easy. Like Sunday morning. There is substantial comfort in knowing you are traveling with the one you should be traveling with, your true companion. Conversation ebbs and flows. You discuss family, home projects, work, the countryside, the future. Deep thoughts are shared. “Have you ever seen a live armadillo?” “No, but there sure are lots of dead ones around here.” “We didn’t have armadillos in Missouri when I was growing up. It’s weird how they’ve migrated up here.” Right on cue, as we rounded a curve, we came upon another dead armadillo. Standing over it was a magnificent bald eagle. I slowed the car to a crawl, and the eagle stared us down for a moment, then spread its massive wings and took N E WS & O P I N I O N off as we pulled close. NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 4 “Whoa.” THE FLY-BY - 5 “Let’s turn around and see if he EDITORIAL - 8 comes back.” VIEWPOINT - 9 So we did, and he did. And we COVER — “YOU LOOK LIKE A watched America’s national bird pick at COVER STORY” BY CHRIS DAVIS - 10 an armadillo carcass for a while, until another car came along and it was time STE P P I N’ O UT WE RECOMMEND - 14 for all of us to go. We had 200 miles MUSIC - 16 ahead of us. AFTER DARK - 18 And besides, Siri was worried that CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 20 we were lost. “Return to the route,” she THEATER - 28 kept saying. FOOD NEWS - 30 So we did. And there’s probably a SPIRITS - 33 metaphor in there, somewhere, but I’ll FILM - 34 leave that to you. C L AS S I F I E D S - 36 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 39 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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f l y o n t h e w a l l Musicians, Murder, { VERBATIM “If the Grizzlies want to develop their team more, they should not re-sign [Tony] Allen this offseason. Allen, 35, is not getting any younger. His health may also be an issue in the future. Allen missed Memphis’ first-round matchup against the San Antonio Spurs because of a strained calf.” — Erich Fisher writing for The Sports Blaze online. That may be a controversial assessment of the Grindfather’s future in Bluff City basketball, but I think we can all agree that Allen’s Twitter game has been way off since A&E cancelled Duck Dynasty.

NEVERENDING ELVIS? “Any fat bloke can throw on an Elvis [Presley] costume and sing stupidly down the pub for £100.” — British tribute band talent agent Lee Arthur, as quoted by The Guardian in a lengthy article about the steep decline in the King’s popularity, particularly among young people. The article, titled “Suspicious Minds,” concluded that Elvis was in freefall but not to be counted out since hipsters will latch onto anything. Or something like that. SPECIAL DELIVERY According to police reports, Memphis mailman Letravius Shaw worked in conjunction with the Grape Street Crips to import a variety of drugs including marijuana, heroin, and oxycodone. The seven-month investigation into activity by Shaw and 24 other people was named for the Marvelettes’ 1961 hit, “Please Mr. Postman.” So, if your mail carrier didn’t stop to make you feel better by leaving you a card or a letter, now your withdrawal symptoms have a theme song. By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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W E E K T H AT W A S By Flyer staff

Musicians show love for engineer, murder rate flattens, and bike/walk backers rally.

MUSICIANS RALLY AROUND MOORE A recovery fund for local sound engineer Alyssa Moore was established quickly last week in the wake of the fiery suicide of her former boyfriend. On May 13th, Jared McLemore lit himself on fire and ran into Murphy’s in Midtown where Moore was working. He did all of this on Facebook Live. A story by the Memphis Flyer’s music editor Alex Greene said Moore had reported McLemore to police on numerous occasions and had a restraining order against him. Memphis musicians poured love Moore’s way online and also set up a GoFundMe campaign to help her during her recovery. COUNCIL WANTS MORE LUNCH, TRAVEL The Memphis City Council has asked for about $2 million to operate in the next fiscal year, and that figure includes more money for food, travel, and a lobbyist. Council chairman Berlin Boyd said the $10,000 for lunches are essential to ensure council members can conduct business timely on regular meeting days. The $100,000 for travel will allow council members and staff to better learn from other cities. The council also wants to hire a lobbyist, with Boyd saying it needs someone in Nashville “who looks like” Republican lawmakers. HORSE MASSAGE FIXED The Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill (and Governor Bill Haslam signed it) removing the licensure mandate for those wishing to practice horse massage in the state. The action closed the loop on a story from Middle Tennessee earlier this year. Two women there were threatened with fines and jail time if they did not halt their equine massage practices.

EVEN MORE GRACE Grace House of Memphis opened a new residence last week for women recovering from addiction, making it the last step in the organization’s three-step program. The new house on Bellevue will be a safe, affordable space for addicted women to live independently while they recover completely. MURDER RATE HOLDS The murder rate held steady and violent crimes are up in Memphis and Shelby County for the first four months of 2017 over the same period from last year, according to the latest stats released by the Memphis and Shelby County Crime Commission. The violent crime rate — which includes murders, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults — rose 4.4 percent in the city and 4.2 across the county, according to the Commission. The murder rate remained flat at 9.1 murders per 100,000 population in the first four months of 2017. RALLYING FOR SAFER STREETS Fifteen pedestrians were killed in Memphis the first four months of 2017, and a group rallied last week to make the city’s streets safer. The Tennessee Bike Summit brought pedestrian and cycling advocates and transportation professionals from all over the state to Memphis last week. Some of those stopped by City Hall for the rally. Anthony Siracusa, president of Bike Walk Tennessee advocated for more sidewalks and improved infrastructure in the city but said city officials should begin with enforcing current laws.

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Some key decisions were made for Railgarten this week that would direct the path forward for the Cooper-Young entertainment complex to open permanently and completely. Railgarten has faced numerous questions since its initial opening last month on parking, codes, and its use of shipping containers. Martha Hample, one of Railgarten’s owner, said she and her group of partners did not intend to break any rules and are doing everything they can to comply with code and get fully open (parts of the complex are already open). The Memphis City Council was set to review Railgarten’s permit in a Tuesday hearing scheduled after our print deadline. Then, Railgarten was slated for another review Friday by the Board of Adjustment, which could allow its owners to open the big backyard once again. — Toby Sells Memphis Flyer: Has it all been frustrating? Martha Hample: It’s stressful. At the outset, when we first started to realize — me and the other investors — what was happening, we were like “this is a learning experience. We’re doing something no one has ever done. We’re being creative. We’re making decisions about how we want to use the space on the fly because

we’re being creative.” But as it’s worn on and on and on, we’re starting to go, “oh my god.” It’s a little scary more than frustrating. We put [in] so much heart and soul and energy and money, of course, and gotten people excited about it. We’ve done all this creative and, all of a sudden, we’re in a tough place. MF: But you had help to channel that creativity, though. MH: We did hire a consultant, a land use consultant [Brenda Solomito-Basar, Solomito Land Planning]. She’s a good one. She represents many people. That’s not to put the onus on her at all. It’s more to say that we tried to do the right things and hire a structural engineer and hire [the land use consultant] and get the right information. MF: Talk about the parking situation a little. MH: Truthfully, we got an overwhelming response that first weekend we opened, April 5th. We weren’t prepared for how many people were going to show up, frankly. Sure, some people did some parking in some wrong places. But Martha Hample

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Votes are scheduled for Railgarten this week. the truth is, this is urban. There is street parking. People can walk. We’re doing what we can to encourage people using ride-sharing [services] like Uber and Lyft. Ride your bike, ride your skateboard, walk, share rides with friends. We have since — and this one of the things the council wants to know — done due diligence on leasing some parking. We have leased an additional 140 spaces beyond what we have on site, plus along Blythe. MF: Is there anything you want to add? MH: There were some moments when we wished we would’ve turned left when we turned right. The council is expecting us to meet some certain stipulations before we come back on the 23rd, parking being the obvious one. There were also some noise issues early on. We got a sound guy in the next day, and we fixed that. We’ve agreed to stop the music earlier. There are some other stipulations, and we’re like, “yeah, absolutely. Tell us what we need to do to pass muster, get open permanently, and make everybody happy about this.” We want people to be excited. It’s for us, and it’s for Memphis, and our employees. For the full interview with Hample, visit memphisflyer.com.

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Arkansas Goes to Pot On November 8, 2016, 53 percent of Arkansas voters approved Issue 6, a medical marijuana initiative. The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment enables Arkansans to use and safely obtain medical marijuana with their doctors’ approval. The amendment establishes between four and eight cultivation facility licenses and up to 40 dispensaries statewide, all regulated by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division. In the recently completed 2017 legislative session, several changes were made to the original initiative, including a 60-day delay from the original law’s June 1st start date for when patients can begin applying for ID cards and a 30-day delay for when businesses can apply for dispensary licenses. The delays are expected to push the start date for when marijuana can begin to be prescribed into the fall of 2017. The legislature also enacted a change in the law that is designed to increase doctors’ participation. Physicians will not have to certify that the benefits of medical cannabis outweigh the potential harm to patient. Under the amendment, Arkansas doctors can now simply certify any patient for the program if they confirm he or she has a legitimate qualifying condition. Those conditions include: cancer, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, ALS, Tourette’s syndrome, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, PTSD, severe arthritis, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s disease, or the treatment of any of these conditions. In addition, patients with doctors’ certifications qualify if they have a chronic or debilitating medical condition (or its treatment) that produces cachexia or wasting syndrome, peripheral neuropathy, intractable pain that has not responded to other treatment for at least six months, severe nausea, seizures, and severe or persistent muscle spasms. The Arkansas

Department of Health has the authority to approve new qualifying conditions. Registration fees, paid to the health department, will be required of patients, caregivers, and cannabis facilities. Cannabis will also be subject to all existing sales taxes, the revenue from which will be distributed to the health department, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Administration Division, the newly established Medical Marijuana Commission, the Skill Development Fund, and to vocational and technical training. Any leftover funds will be used to provide cannabis on a sliding scale to patients who are unable to afford a sufficient supply. It will still be illegal to use marijuana in various locations, including schools, daycare centers, correctional facilities, and other public spaces. It will also still be illegal to operate a vehicle under the influence of pot. Cities and counties also may pass reasonable zoning restrictions for dispensaries and growing facilities. In fact, local entities can even prohibit such facilities via a popular vote. But … it is happening. Marijuana is going to become legal in Arkansas this fall, right across the Mississippi River from the Bluff City. The Natural State will begin immediately reaping the financial benefits and increased tax revenues of a sane (and inevitable) marijuana policy, much to detriment of Tennessee, which remains mired in the past, wasting millions of dollars prosecuting and imprisoning folks for what is, at worst, a victimless crime — and, at best, a useful medical treatment for millions.

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Twenty Years On

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It’s time to invest in Paz Colombia.

Since the early 1990s, the Colombian people have been working to retake their nation. Despite these remarkable achievements, there are many who would prefer to dwell on the dark days of the past; they have led a carefully orchestrated campaign against the peace process and have sought powerful allies to help return Colombia to the past. Florida Senator Marco Rubio has been courted by former Colombian presidents Pastrana (1998-2002) and Uribe (2002-2010) in their awkward attempts to stall the peace process. They hope Rubio can convince President Trump to retract $430 million promised to Colombia by former President Obama for a program called Paz Colombia. The war with the FARC is over. It left a quarter million dead; millions more were (and are) displaced, and it is estimated the war cost 2 to 3 percent of Colombia’s GDP per year. Profit, greed, power, envy explain why some powerful sectors of Colombian society and their U.S. allies hope and strategize for the never-ending war for Colombia. But Paz Colombia is the better way forward. Paul J. Angelo is a Ph.D. candidate at University College, London. Michael J. LaRosa teaches history at Rhodes College.

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Colombia, which, since its inception in 2000, has grown to about $10 billion. The funding has forced a lethargic, barracksbased Colombian military to become more effective and engage enemy combatants, resulting in demonstrable victories for a military which had essentially settled for a stalemate with the expanding FARC insurgency. Plan Colombia supplied much needed training, technology, and most important, dozens of high-altitude Black Hawk helicopters. Over the past two decades, Colombia has made significant investments in social and physical infrastructure that have moved the nation in a more prosperous, peaceful direction. In 2000, it inaugurated a complex urban transportation system in Bogotá called Transmilenio, and the international airport at Bogotá has been completely redesigned and rebuilt. In Medellín, creative investment in parks and libraries and urban transportation systems have tied the affluent sectors to the more economically challenged regions of the city; these, and other projects, have had transformative force for this once notorious “drug center” of the Americas.

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Twenty years ago, Colombia was on the brink of collapse. The nation’s Nobel Laureate in Literature, Gabriel García Márquez, narrated the nation’s woes in News of a Kidnapping, which was released in English translation in 1997 and chronicled the 1990 kidnapping of nine journalists on orders of Pablo Escobar. “Nothing was simple in those days,” recounts the author, “least of all obtaining objective information … or teaching children the difference between good and evil.” Fast forward to 2017. Although obtaining objective information remains as difficult as ever, Colombia is a new nation, compared to where it was in the 1990s. The number of kidnappings decreased to 205 in 2016, down from 3,570 in 2000. The economy has grown at an average rate of 4.1 percent over the past four years (2012-15) for which data is available and the homicide rate has fallen from a high of 86/100,000 people in 1991 to 24.4 last year. During that same period, the Colombian government, under the leadership of President Juan Manuel Santos, negotiated a peace treaty with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC); the revolutionary group has turned over weapons and are beginning the process of reintegration into Colombian society. None of this occurred by magic. Since the early 1990s, the Colombian people have been working in a determined fashion to retake their nation from the corrupt politicians, drug lords, rogue military agents/police, paramilitary fighters, and armed insurgents. They began by re-writing their constitution. The new constitution of 1991 modernized the Colombian nation by broadening the definition of Colombian from the 1886 charter, which defined Colombia as a “Hispanic, Catholic” nation, essentially excluding all who identified otherwise. Everyone, after 1991, had a stake in Colombia, not just those who traced their origins back to Spain, and the recognition of new political parties, some with their origins in demobilized guerrilla movements, set a precedent for more inclusive politics. Next, as part of the 1991 reform, the Colombians modified their judiciary, moving it from an inquisitorial to adversarial system. This has included modernizing of prosecutors’ offices, development of transitional justice and alternative sentencing, and a clear acknowledgment of the rights of the victims of the conflict via “Ley de Victimas” of June 2011. The Colombians have professionalized their military thanks to a $1.3 billion U.S.-supplied funding package called Plan

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YOU LOOK LIKE A COVER STORY

COVER STORY BY CHRIS DAVIS PHOTOGRAPHS BY JUSTIN FOX BURKS

Craig Brewer turns Memphis’ favorite insult comedy show into a series. May 25-31, 2017

So a gaggle of comedians from Memphis walk into a bar in Western Arkansas … No, this isn’t the beginning of a joke. It’s an origin story for Memphis’ most popular monthly, game-based comedy event. You Look Like — so named because the competition’s mean-spirited jokes all begin with the words, “You look like” — recently tickled film and television director Craig Brewer’s funny bone, so now it’s being developed as a streaming digital series. You Look Like is beginning to look like a comedy institution in the making, but back in the summer of 2015, the embryonic thing that rapidly evolved into 10 You Look Like (YLL), just looked like local funsters Katrina Coleman and Benny

Elbows swapping off-the-cuff insults to pass time over a long, boring haul to Fayetteville. Once the other comedians on the evening’s bill were introduced to the concept, they jumped right in and started playing along, too, saying terrible things to each other, such as: “You look like you really believe you’re going to get custody this time,” or “You look like the youth minister who needed a talking to.” “One time somebody told me I look like Malcolm X-Man,” says Black Nerd Power host Richard Douglas Jones, an early YLL player and convert. The seminal Arkansas, gig at Nomads Music Lounge (regrettably titled “Memphis in Fay”) started late, in part because the

Bluff City comics couldn’t stop playing their fun, new game. When the comedic bloodsport finally broke up, comic and YLL co-founder Tommy Oler grabbed Coleman by the elbow and told her the silly, mean, hilarious thing she’d started needed to grow into something bigger. “I wasn’t sure. I just thought it was a thing I like to do,” says Coleman. For her, You Look Like was a warm-up exercise — the funny person’s equivalent of a gymnast stretching before a tumbling routine. Oler took the idea to the P&H Cafe, where he was already hosting a popular Thursday night open mic. The idea was instantly green lit, and it wasn’t long before the eclectic Midtown bar

famously associated with poor and hungry artists had to reconfigure its seating to accommodate bigger and bigger crowds turning out for comedy. “I remember when I’d have 10 or 15 people at one of my shows, and I’d think it was the greatest thing,” Coleman says. “I’d get all excited and call my mom. Now, if there are only 50 or 75 at a show, I wonder if there’s some big concert at Minglewood Hall or something.” Now, when episodes of the accompanying YLL podcast post late, out-of-town subscribers send grumpy messages. “It’s this really weird show that audiences seem to like and that the comics love to do,” Coleman says, floating a theory:

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What comprises a perfect you look like insult? It has to walk a fine line between credibility and the absurd. Some require context, some are just funny no matter who they’re aimed at. Here’s a completely subjective list of great You Look Like lines.

For all the terrible things being said on stage, the love inside the P& H is thick and sticky when, over the course of a week, Brewer and his local production team shoots the entire pilot season for a digital You Look Like series. “You got robbed,” the winner of one round calls out, chasing down his opponent. “I know. I totally beat you,” the loser shouts back. Nobody’s angry. They’re all in this together. “I’m not drunk enough to cry,” Coleman announces from the stage as the camera crew prepares to shoot the last five episodes of the 10-episode trial season. “But set your watches.” Coleman, who certainly looks like the person most responsible for assembling the current big tent of modern Memphis comedy, then gestures to a ridiculous, clearly homemade crown spinning on a turntable just offstage: the winner’s prize. “It’s still the You Look Like show,” she assures the “studio audience,” acknowledging that, in spite of the many physical upgrades to her show’s homemade aesthetic, “I made that motherfucker in my living room.” A machine pumps fog into the room, standing in for the P&H’s famously thick cloud of cigarette smoke. Local writer/ director Morgan Fox orders the cameras to roll, and the games begin in earnest. The rules for You Look Like couldn’t be simpler. Two comics stand face to face, trading appearance-based insults: “You look like heroin might improve your life.” Or “You look like the Sorting Hat put you in House of 1,000 Corpses.” Like that. The meaner it gets, the more respect you can

feel radiating from the combatants. When a round ends, the audience chooses a winner, and the loser has to gaze into a mirror of shame and play the game over again, solo, hurling insults at him/herself. Brewer encountered the You Look Like Show while attending the 2016 Memphis Comedy Festival. The Hustle & Flow filmmaker had no idea that such a mature comedy scene had grown up in the artsy little beer joint at the center of his own filmmaker origin story. For that festival, the show was moved to the Hi-Tone, and Brewer had initially assumed it was put on by a visiting troupe of comics from Chicago. “I was like, ‘Wow, it’s so great that this touring group came in and did this,’” Brewer says in a phone interview from Los Angeles (where he recently added a new credit to his resume: co-executive producer of the hit show, Empire). Brewer was immediately corrected by fans who told him it was, in fact, a Memphis-based show that had been running for about a year at the P&H. “Do you know where the P&H is?” someone asked. “Yeah,” Brewer answered. “I think I might know where that is.” Seeing Brewer at work again inside the P&H causes epic déjà vu. The Madison Avenue bar, with its rotating cast of oddball regulars inspired his first movie, The Poor & Hungry. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, when he was still an aspiring filmmaker and part-time bookstore employee, Brewer would go to the bar to write his screenplays, shoot scenes, or screen daily “rushes” on the P&H’s ancient TV. Although The Poor & Hungry never received wide theatrical distribution, the award-winning digital feature, shot on an impossibly low budget of $20,000

You look like: You support displaying the Confederate flag, but only because you don’t have any other good towels. You masturbate with ranch dressing. People who look like their dogs. The most well adjusted person here, surgically. One more sandwich and that shirt’s over. You ask to speak to managers. You regularly delete your search history. Your head mole makes all your decisions. You think the Dakota Access Pipeline is a porn trilogy. The target audience for Buzzfeed articles. You pronounce the L in Salmon. You grew up outside a trailer. Your spirit animal is a chain wallet. You fucked up the proposal because you left the ring in your other cargo shorts. You don’t mind talking to people while they’re using the bathroom. You broke someone else’s ankle auditioning for Grease. You were designed by scientists for the purpose of disappointing women. Birdwatching makes you horny. Group photos are always your idea. Your husband hides your yoga pants. The side bitch of Frankenstein. God swiped left. The guy other guys are totally okay letting their girlfriends hang out with. You’re still waiting to hear back about that job. Your dad is more proud of his other family. with a two-man crew, became Brewer’s Hollywood calling card. When other wannabes were slinging pitches, he was mailing out VHS tapes of a little movie about life at the P&H Cafe that arguably helped step up Hollywood’s digital shift. “I felt like grandpa,” Brewer says, shocked but not all that surprised by the revelation that he and YLL shared a creative womb. The following June, two-months after the comedy festival, Coleman received an

unexpected voicemail: “Hi, this is Craig Brewer. I make movies. I saw your show and was wondering if you’d maybe like to get together and talk about it.” Like any any mother faced with sudden, unknown change, Coleman’s initial response was caution. “Please, please, Hollywood, don’t take my ugly baby away,” she pleads emphatically, recounting her initial worry. “But Craig was great. He continued on page 12

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You look like a full house at the P&H (above left); Amanda Walker and Craig Brewer in the bar that inspired Brewer’s The Poor & Hungry.

continued from page 11 walked me through the whole contract and explained everything.” All Coleman really needed was assurance that the live show would be always be hers to do with as she sees fit, which had been the plan all along. “See, the whole live show fits in this little, pink duffle bag,” Coleman says, giggling. As long as she could continue running it out of the P&H and taking it on the road, Coleman says she was up for just about anything else that might happen. Brewer has always scouted opportunities for exporting Memphis talent and weirdness. In the 1990s, he shot footage of the city’s burlesque scene, resulting in his early short, Clean Up in Booth B. His team-up with MTV on $5 Cover resulted in Midtown’s rock scene playing a semi-fictionalized version of itself. Unlike earlier projects, where Brewer was starting from scratch, You Look Like was complete and alive. Adapting it as a digital series was additionally enhanced by an all-local crew he’s been collaborating with for a decade and an uncommonly united comedy scene that’s spent the last five years learning to work together. It’s like what comic Josh McLane says, making his way from the stage to the writers room: “I get paid the same if I win or lose. All that matters is if it’s funny.” That was the dominant attitude backstage during the YLL shoot, giving the whole event an old-school Memphis wrasslin’

vibe. Unlike wrasslin’, outcomes to the matches weren’t predetermined, but the beefs aren’t real, and everybody’s working together to bring serious pain from the top-rope. “I’m addicted to this feeling now,” Brewer says, remembering the electricity in the room when the comedians hired to write jokes between rounds gathered around the P&H’s pool tables and built their insult database. Richard Douglas Jones described the writing process as “completely organic.” When one vein of material ran dry, somebody would open another. “I will reinvent the wheel and run you over with it again and again,” he said. Brewer had one big concern. “There needed to be something positive coming out of You Look Like,” he says. “If you were looking at comedians tearing each other apart, you need to feel that they are friends. So, in a weird way, it could be inspiring.” The backstage cooperation insured that that would be the case. “I left the experience asking, ‘How can I create that again,’” Brewer asks. “Can I go narrative with it? If we did a TV show, what would it be? And what are the jokes?” That wasn’t the only feeling Brewer left with. He’d drifted away from the P&H after the passing of its colorful proprietress Wanda Wilson, the big-wigged protector of artists, misfits, and backgammon gamblers. “For a while that place lost its energy,” Brewer laments. Working on YLL assured

him that the bar’s original spirit is alive and well under the current management. So what’s next for YLL? The live show continues as usual but now with a new guest host every month. What happens with the pilot series is anybody’s guess, but there are some interesting possibilities: Maybe it gets snapped up right away by a streaming content provider. Or maybe the original series, like The Poor & Hungry, simply becomes a calling card — something Brewer can screen on his phone when he’s pitching ideas. Maybe a producer likes the web series but wants to know if the show can be adapted as a reality show or narrative comedy. “So many times you walk in with a pitch document, and you just don’t know how it’s going to turn out,” Brewer explains. “The network might say, ‘Oh, that’s great, but we want it with Snapchat stars.’” YLL was a perfect catch for Brewer, who’d been actively looking for rightsized projects for his Memphis-based company BR2 and longtime collaborators like David Harris at Gunpowder & Sky, a production company co-founded by Van Toffler, a former MTV executive instrumental in purchasing Brewer’s Hustle & Flow at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. He sums up YLL’s appeal — particularly for companies looking for unscripted material — in one exclamatory sentence: “Oh my God, you can highlight 20 comedians per season,

and it’s already a living thing!” Brewer thinks a few scenarios seem more likely than others. “These days, there are celebrities who want their Facebook page — or whatever — to be a channel. So there are comedians and celebrities who might buy it just to put on their channel,” he explained. “And there are networks who might say, ‘Okay, this works on the digital level; what does this look like on the network level?’ But what I really wish is that we can take what we’ve made and just keep making more of that. We just made 10 episodes this first time, but if we do it again, we can make 50. Just plan for three or four solid weeks of work, where we just go in and bang it out.” Oler, who no longer hosts the live show but remains affiliated with the digital project, says it’s exciting to imagine what YLL might be like as a movie or a sitcom. But he can’t shake the joy of knowing, wherever it goes, it started with a bunch of knuckleheads insulting each other on the patio at Nomads Music Lounge in Fayetteville. “I’m just really thankful to have had a chance to work on this,” he says. Oler and Coleman are funny co-founders; they don’t agree about much. But they do agree that, given an opportunity to show its stuff, the Memphis comedy scene stood up. The You Look Like Show is the third Saturday of every month at the P&H Cafe. Doors at 8 p.m. show at 9 p.m.

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Aria Stiles, violinist, recent Belmont grad, and current Miss Shelby County, had been active in Nashville’s chapter of Musicians On Call when she noticed that Memphis didn’t have a chapter, so she took it upon herself to start one. On Friday, May 26th, there will be a fund-raiser with a straight-to-the-point name, Let’s Bring Musicians On Call to Memphis. Brian Nhira from TV’s The Voice will perform, and there will be a silent auction. The goal is to raise $10,000. Musicians On Call was started in 1999 by Michael Solomon and Vivek Tiwary at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Both of them had recently lost loved ones, and a special concert was held at the hospital in the memory of one of them. The concert, featuring Wynton Marsalis, was for the patients, and the effect of the music on them was noticeable, though one nurse lamented that it was a shame that some patients were unable to attend because they were confined to their rooms. It was from this germ of an idea that Musicians On Call was born. Volunteer musicians pledge to perform for two hours once a month for a year. Each musician has a guide. The guide goes to a room and asks if the patient would like some music. (Stiles says giving the patients a choice is powerful when they are often powerless in what is happening to them.) If they say, yes, the show is on. Stiles says that she’ll ask the patient if they have a request or “should I just do what I do?” She says, by far, her number-one request is “The Devil Went Down to Georgia.” Stiles, who tours with Pam Tillis, says that if the Memphis chapter is established, they’ll start with one hospital. She says that Musicians On Call tends to spread rapidly. At Friday’s event, Tillis will perform “Maybe It Was Memphis,” and she and Nhira will do a duet of “Two Kings,” a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and Elvis Presley. Stiles tells of performing for babies in the NICU unit and watching as their bodies relax, and she says working with Musicians On Call can sometimes be intense. “Music has a powerful healing effect,” she says. LET’S BRING MUSICIANS ON CALL TO MEMPHIS AT THE HARD ROCK CAFE, FRIDAY, MAY 26TH, 7-9:30 P.M. SUGGESTED DONATION IS $20.

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Presley, Perkins, Lewis, & Cash The Orpheum, 8 p.m., $40.50-$80.50 A tribute to the legendary Sun Studio recording artists Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash.

Booksigning by Aisha Zorelle Raison South Main Book Juggler, 6-9 p.m. Aisha Zorelle Raison signs and discusses Fear of an Enlightened Black Woman.

Dedicated to You Halloran Centre, 7:30 p.m. Concert by the super-hot Marco Pavé in support of his latest release Welcome to GRC LND.

“This Land, an American Potrait” David Lusk Gallery, 6-8 p.m. Opening reception for this photo series by Jack Spencer taken all over the country after 9/11.

Bash & Pop Hi-Tone, 8 p.m. Performance by this band featuring the Replacements’ Tommy Stinson. Presented by Brooklyn Vegan.

Friends of the Library Book Sale Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sale of everything from sheet music and CDs to loose magazines and hardback books, with prices topping out at $2. Continues Saturday, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tap by Number Buckman Performing Arts Center at St. Mary’s School, 8 p.m., $12-$20 A numbers-inspired tap performance by the Hot Foot Honeys.

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By Susan Ellis Brandon Lever says that after the Pulse shootings in Orlando, he felt numb but was called to action. He was similarly stirred by the news from Chechnya about the torture and imprisonment of gay men by police. Lever began making buttons with the image of Vladimir Putin in drag, the same image banned in Russia. He handed them out through the Blue Suede Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an order of activist queer nuns of which he is a member, and this led to PutinIsADrag Memphis, a demonstration/march set for next Saturday downtown. Lever, who is graduating from Central High School soon and heading for Rhodes College, says that silence is not an option. What is reportedly happening in Chechnya is horrific and intolerable, and such oppression bleeds together, be it aimed toward Muslims, women, blacks, immigrants, or LGBTQ. “We’re active in political movements for all issues, for all people, for all human rights,” Lever says of the Blue Suede Sisters. The event begins at Court Square and will move down Second, ending up at the National Civil Rights Museum, where there will be guest speakers and an exorcism of the Russian government performed by the nuns. Lever says the nuns are about banishing hate and spreading happiness. The exorcism will involve glitter water and a toilet brush. The family-friendly event is for anyone fighting for human rights, Lever says. “It doesn’t matter why you’re there as long as you’re there.” PUTINISADRAG MEMPHIS, STARTING AT COURT SQUARE, SATURDAY, MAY 27TH, 12:30 P.M. DONATIONS WILL BE COLLECTED FOR THE RUSSIAN LGBT NETWORK, WHICH IS WORKING TO GET MEN OUT OF THE AREA.

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raham Winchester may be Winchester the purest & the embodiment Ammunition of what it means to be a Memphis musician. Hardworking (he currently plays anywhere album is better, but I know the second one from three to eight gigs a week with feels better to play live in rehearsals. upwards of nine different bands) and immensely talented, Winchester has You can and do play many of the instrucarved out a niche for himself in several ments on your albums yourself; where corners of the city’s often fragmented does the band fit in? music scene through both relentless The guys contributed so much — not only determination and his ability to charm in terms of the playing and singing, but almost anyone. also in helping shape sonic landscapes on Though he’s primarily known as a specific songs. drummer with well-known local acts like the Shieks, Devil Train, and Jack Oblivian, Is it ever difficult for you to make time Winchester is a capable multi-instrufor so many projects? mentalist, proficient on at least 10 difIt can be strenuous, but I try to balance ferent instruments, and also something time with different bands and keep it all to of an emerging presence as a singera strict calendar. I like to explore differsongwriter. ent musical worlds, so that’s the fulfilling The success of his 2014 solo debut reward of a tedious and busy schedule Graham Winchester and the relatively rapid involving lots of different musicians. ascent of his namesake group Winchester & the Ammunition are testaments to Has starting a family affected your focus his sharp skills as both a songwriter and or availability for playing music? bandleader. Now he and the band are I see making music as a natural act and gearing up for the release of a follow-up one so important to my life. It’s been really (though technically the first using the Aminspiring. Erica [Winchester’s wife] and munition moniker) called Until the End, my son Everlee both love music, so we which is being released in digital formats naturally have a lot of it in the house. I this week by the label American Grapefruit. feel like I’ve slowed down my live shows To celebrate, Winchester & the Ammunimaybe one gear lately to spend more time tion will play a show Friday at 9:30 p.m. at with family. Young Avenue Deli, along with guests Jana Misener and Victor Sawyer. In recent years, you’ve become sort of famous for putting together lots of tribute Flyer: What was your process for recordand benefit shows around town. ing Until the End? I really enjoy putting together tribute and Winchester: I started at High/Low benefit shows and kind of just being a Recording in the summer of 2015 for show booker of sorts. I breathed a huge this album. Toby Vest and Pete Matthews sigh of relief that we successfully did a engineered it, and we were all a production Talking Heads tribute when nobody had team together. passed away. That’s the plan from now on The two of them helped this record — try and [pay tribute to] people who are breathe and find itself. They helped sculpt alive. Of course, if and when a true legend every song. They are also amazingly passes away, an honorable tribute is always aware of space. If you invite them into the a worthy remembrance. production world of the songs, they will undoubtedly help in the best way. To what do you attribute your ability to move within so many different sects of How do you compare Until the End to the local music scene? your debut? I just enjoy playing lots of types of music. It’s a little bit darker. The first album was Too much of anything gets boring to me. more traditional, instrumentation-wise. A lot of my close musician friends agree, Until the End uses more keyboards, espeand that’s why we get along so well. I’m cially synths. The lyrics ring in a little more just happy musicians from a few different personally. I don’t know which genres will put up with me!

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

Hard Rock Cafe 126 BEALE 529-0007

Laramie Thursday, May 25, 7-10 p.m.; Laughing at the Rock Comedy Show Thursday, May 25, 9-11 p.m.; Let’s Bring Musicians on Call to Memphis with Brian Nhira from The Voice Friday, May 26, 79 p.m.; Memphis vs. Everybody 2.5 Saturday, May 27; All the Little Pieces Saturday, May 27, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Social Therapy Summer 2017 Kick-off Sunday, May 28, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Sonny Mack Mondays-Fridays, 2-6 p.m.; Cowboy Neil Mondays, Thursdays, 7-11 p.m., and Saturdays, Sundays, 2-6 p.m.; Sensation Band Tuesdays, Fridays, 7-11 p.m.; Fuzzy and the Kings of Memphis Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Chic Jones and the Blues Express Sundays, 711 p.m.; North and South Band Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

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

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

New Daisy Theatre

Itta Bena 145 BEALE 578-3031

King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille

330 BEALE 525-8981

Wake the Nation Friday, May 26, 9 p.m.

182 BEALE 528-0150

Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Friday, May 26, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; FreeWorld Friday, May 26, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, May 27, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Jeff Crosslin Saturday, May 27, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Sunday, May 28, 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.

Rum Boogie Cafe Blues Hall 182 BEALE 528-0150

Memphis Bluesmasters Thursdays, Sundays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Vince Johnson and the Plantation Allstars Fridays, Saturdays, 4-8 p.m., and Sundays, 3-7 p.m.; Delta Project Friday, May 26, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight, Saturday, May 27, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Monday, May 29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Tin Roof 315 BEALE

Roxi Love Thursday, May 25, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Tuesday, May 30, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Center for Southern Folklore 123 S. MAIN AT PEABODY TROLLEY STOP 525-3655

Daddy Mack Saturday, May 27, 8-11 p.m.

Clayborn Temple 294 HERNANDO

Soul Aid with Tank and the Bangas Saturday, May 27.

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE 417-8435

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.; The Rusty Pieces Friday, May 26, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

The Peabody Hotel 149 UNION 529-4000

Luke Wade Thursday, May 25, 6-11 p.m.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

The Rusty Pieces Saturday, May 27, 9 p.m.-midnight; Bobbie & Tasha Wednesdays, 8-11 p.m.

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

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

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 130 PEABODY PLACE 523-8536

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

The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299

Marco Pave Presents: “Dedicated to You” Friday, May 26, 7:30 p.m.

Harbor Town Amphitheater 740 HARBOR BEND

Blind Bear Speakeasy

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

Robyn Hitchcock, Robby Grant Sunday, May 28.

Huey’s Downtown

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Marcella & Her Lovers Friday, May 26; Reverend John Wilkins Saturday, May 27; Louder Than Bombs: The Smiths Tribute Band Sunday, May 28; DJ Ben Bauermeister Disco Dance Party Tuesday, May 30; Sean Murphy’s 1Breath Quartet Wednesday, May 31.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Canvas 1737 MADISON 443-5232

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

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

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

77 S. SECOND 527-2700

Vintage Sunday, May 28, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

May 25-31, 2017

Kayla Walker Thursdays, 67 p.m.; Susan Marshall Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.; Nat “King” Kerr Fridays, Saturdays, 9-10

Rum Boogie Cafe

YO GOTTI & FRIENDS THURSDAY, JUNE 29

JAMES TAYLOR SATURDAY, AUGUST 5

ELVIS, THE WONDER OF YOU WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16

JANET JACKSON WEDNESDAY, DECEMEBER 6

Memphis born rap and hip-hop artist will host his Birthday Bash 5 at FedExForum for the first time. Tickets available!

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and five-time Grammy Award winner is performing, with special guest Bonnie Raitt. Tickets available!

The critically-acclaimed concert event celebrating the life and music of Elvis Presley during the 40th anniversary. Tickets on sale May 26 @ 10am!

Global music icon and six-time Grammy Award winner is bringing her State Of The World Tour to FedExForum. Tickets available!

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule May 25 - 31 The Cove

Wild Bill’s

Huey’s Poplar

2559 BROAD 730-0719

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

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

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Change the Atlantic Saturday, May 27, 9 p.m.

The Settlers Sunday, May 28, 4-7 p.m.; Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, May 28, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

661 N. MENDENHALL

Possum Daddy’s Karaoke Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Mortimer’s

Cheffie’s Cafe

590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

483 HIGH POINT TERRACE 202-4157

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

Growlers

Barbie’s Barlight Lounge

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Pezz, Parasites, Radio Buzzkills, Shame Finger Friday, May 26; Dan Montgomery CD release Friday, May 26, 7-9 p.m.; Kikagaku Moyo, Al Lover Sunday, May 28; Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

RockHouse Live 5709 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE 386-7222

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

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Robert Hull Sundays, 12:303:30 p.m.

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Brian Conklin Thursday, May 25; Pollen Rx Tuesday, May 30.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Caleb Ryan Martin Saturday, May 27; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Sacred Owls, Will Brack Wednesday, May 31.

Bluff City Soul Collective Sunday, May 28, 8-11:30 p.m.

Fitz Casino & Hotel Roxi Love Sunday, May 28, 9 p.m.-1 a.m. and Monday, May 29, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

Huey Lewis & the News Saturday, May 27, 8 p.m.

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University of Memphis The Bluff 535 S. HIGHLAND

DJ Kaz Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Chad Wesley Band Friday, May 26; The Trouble Trio Saturday, May 27; Bluegrass Brunch with The River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

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

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

Poplar/I-240

Collierville

East Tapas and Drinks

Huey’s Collierville

6069 PARK 767-6002

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

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Memphis Funk ‘N’ Horns Saturday, May 27, 8 p.m.; Donald Hayez Sunday, May 28, 7 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Mondays, 6-10 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland/Lakeland Bartlett Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Brian Johnson Thursday, May 25; Brian Johnson Friday, May 26, 9 p.m.; All Star Jam Sunday, May 28; East Memphis Trio Wednesday, May 31.

Old Whitten Tavern 2465 WHITTEN 379-1965

Neon Velvet Tavern Friday, May 26, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

Charley Mac’s Six String Lovers Sunday, May 28, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Cordova Huey’s Cordova 1771 N. GERMANTOWN PKWY. 754-3885

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, May 28, 8:30 p.m.midnight; The Rusty Pieces Tuesday, May 30, 5:30-8 p.m.

T.J. Mulligan’s 64 2821 N. HOUSTON LEVEE 377-9997

Brian Johnson Band Saturday, May 27, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m.

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

Patti Labelle Sunday, May 28.

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

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, May 28, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Night Mondays, 9-11 p.m.

Sam’s Town Hotel & Casino 1477 CASINO STRIP RESORTS 662-357-7686

Roxi Love Friday-Saturday, May 26-27, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Blues Jam Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; Thornshed Friday, May 26, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Music BoXx Saturday, May 27, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Open Mic Night and Steak Night Tuesdays, 6 p.m.midnight.

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas Southland Park 1550 N. INGRAM, WEST MEMPHIS, AR 800-467-6182

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

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1927 MADISON 726-4372

10 Years Saturday, May 27, 8 p.m.; Trey Songz Sunday, May 28, 7 p.m.; Kevin Ross Wednesday, May 31, 7 p.m.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

711 LUCKY, TUNICA, MS 800766-5825

The Chaulkies Sunday, May 28, 4-7 p.m.; Brian Johnson Band Sunday, May 28, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Memphis All Stars Sunday, May 28, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Dantones Band Friday, May 26, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Huey’s Midtown

Minglewood Hall

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242

Brooklyn Vegan presents Bash & Pop Thursday, May 25, 8 p.m.; Agori Tribe, wARM, Gnarly Anomaly Thursday, May 25, 9 p.m.; Refreshingly Southern Friday, May 26, 6 p.m.; Möbius Pieces, Eudora’Fall, Hyperion, Last Broadcast Friday, May 26, 6:30 p.m.; Sleeping Seasons, Good Bueno, Trevor Cullum Saturday, May 27, 6 p.m.; Goldie Rebel, spookily, Crunchy White Pimp, Godbody Jones, and more Saturday, May 27, 8 p.m.; Newlyweds, THE Numbers Monday, May 29, 9 p.m.

Lafayette’s Country Party featuring Jason Miller Band Thursday, May 25, 8 p.m.; Blue Mother Tupelo Friday, May 26, 10 p.m.; Marcella Simien Trio Saturday, May 27, 6:30 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Jeffrey & the Pacemakers Sunday, May 28, 4 p.m.; John Paul Keith and Co. Mondays, 6 p.m.; McKenna Bray Monday, May 29, 6 p.m.; 3RD Man Tuesday, May 30, 5:30 p.m.; John Kilzer Tuesdays, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Brandon Taylor and Radio Ghost Wednesday, May 31, 8 p.m.

Germantown

The Crossing Bar & Grill

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

2119 MADISON 207-5097

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

North Mississippi/ Tunica

Hi-Tone

Lafayette’s Music Room

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

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Ed Finney and the U of M Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Relentless Breeze Friday, May 26, 10 p.m.; Hope Clayburn & the Soul Scrimmage Saturday, May 27, 10 p.m.; Don and Wayde Tuesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Summer/Berclair

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Germantown Community Theatre

The Game’s Afoot, it is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited fellow cast members to his Connecticut castle for weekend revelry. www.gctcomeplay.org. $24. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through June 4. 3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).

High School Musical Theatre Awards

MAY 27 - SEPT. 10, 2017

Modeled after the Tony™ Awards, and now in its eighth year recognizing achievements in all areas of high school musical theatre. $15-$40. Thurs., May 25, 7 p.m. THE ORPHEUM, 203 S. MAIN (525-3000), WWW.ORPHEUM-MEMPHIS.COM.

Orange Mound Gallery

Squaring Up, unique theatrical experience combining movement, monologues, and collaborative artmaking. Performers and audience explore the world of human sex trafficking with stories from survivors, advocates, and social workers. project1arts.com. Thurs.-Sat., 7:30 p.m. Through May 31. 2232 LAMAR.

Playhouse on the Square

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June 17

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Overton Park

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Bubbly!

Some summery alternatives to Champagne. traveler named Fynes Moryson wrote, upon visiting the northern region of Italy, “Here growes the wine Pucinum, now called Prosecho, much celebrated by Pliny.” Today, the wine is one of the cheapest sparkling wines on the market, largely due to the production process: Prosecco’s secondary fermentation occurs en masse in stainless steel tanks, while the second part of the fermentation process for Champagne occurs after the wine is already bottled. Cava is another bargain substitute for Champagne. The Spanish wine, a specialty of the Catalan region, comes in both white and rosé varieties and ages between five and 30 months before it hits the market. Try the

Freixenet Cordon Negro Brut, which, like the Zardetto Prosecco, has bright citrus notes and sells for around $12. Another good small-batch cava brand, Poema, is stocked all over town and sells for between $11 and $14 per bottle. Stock up on either Prosecco or cava, and consider using them as a mixer. Substituting Prosecco for Champagne makes either a Bellini or mimosa an affordable luxury for every weekend. Try the Latin Kitchen’s variation on a classic Champagne cocktail, which combines ⅓ ounce of Gold Rum, 3 ounces of Brut Cava, a sugar cube, and two dashes of angostura bitters to create a strong but sweet drink.

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Bubbly booze that won’t break the bank

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few weeks ago, I was at a friend’s house, catching up on episodes of Feud and snacking accordingly. I’d brought over a bottle of Prosecco, and after we each poured a glass, I asked for a butter knife and dropped the handle into the neck of the bottle before putting it into the fridge for safe-keeping. Said friend asked aloud what I was doing, and I was surprised, because I thought I’d learned the trick from her — or maybe I learned it from Karen Carrier or Dana Baldwin, when I was pinchhitting on the catering team at Another Roadside Attraction. Or maybe I learned it from another friend — but I thought that by now, everyone knew that putting a metal utensil into an opened bottle of bubbly preserved the fizz for a day or two. Some googling reveals that Lifehacker did a piece on this, and according to their post, the utensil acts as a radiator, cooling the air inside the neck of the opened bottle. Cold air is denser than warm air, which means that the bubbles are “plugged” into the aerated wine and cannot escape as quickly as they would otherwise. The utensil doesn’t even have to touch the wine. According to online reports, an upside-down spoon works fine, although I’ve always used a butter knife, making sure that the neck of the bottle is small enough that I don’t lose the knife inside the bottle. Try it next time — if you actually have any leftover bubbly. Prosecco is a great go-to for this time of year, appropriate for dinner parties even if you don’t have something big to celebrate. And Prosecco is affordable. I’d pass on Cupcake, which is a bargain at approximately $12 a bottle but too dry for me, and look for the fruity Menage a Trois or the crisp Zardetto, both of which are universally available for under $15 per bottle. My current favorite, La Marca, has a citrus zing that provides the perfect accompaniment to grilled fish or chicken. Prosecco’s roots trace back to the ancient Romans. Naturalist and philosopher-turned-naval-commander Pliny the Elder made note of it, and Livia, the wife of the emperor Augustus and grandmother of Claudius, cited the “castellum nobile vinum Pucinu” for its healing qualities. In 1593, an English

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Alien: Covenant An open letter to the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.

20th

ARY R S R E V I N TOU AN

Photos: Amy Guip

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ear Sir/Madam/ Sexless Artificial Intelligence, I am writing today to bring your attention to matters of deep concern. Having reviewed records concerning the loss of the spacecraft Nostromo, along with her crew and cargo (Alien, 1979); the warship Sulacco and her contingent of space marines, along with the terraforming colony on planet LV-426 (Aliens, 1986); the population of the penal colony on Fiorina 161 (Alien 3, 1992); the military research spacecraft Auriga (Alien: Resurrection, 1997); the exploration vessel Prometheus (2012); and now the colony ship Covenant, I believe I have identified major problems with your astronaut training program. I don’t have to tell you that these men and women risk life and limb every time they set foot in a Weyland-Yutani space ship to venture far beyond communication with Earth. More importantly, they are entrusted with corporate equipment and assets worth billions of space dollars. In the case of the synthetic androids known as David (Michael Fassbender) and Walter (also Michael Fassbender), they literally are assets and equipment worth billions of space dollars. And yet, your astronauts continually act in the least professional and, dare I say, stupid manner possible. Consider the case of Christopher Oram (Billy Crudup), first mate of the Covenant. By all indications, he is — was

Michael Fassbender (below) plays both the android Walter and his older-model synthetic counterpart, David.

— completely unprepared to assume command of a colony ship bearing 2,000 passengers in suspended animation and tens of thousands embryos intended to build a thriving human population on the faraway planet of Origae-6. Granted, it’s entirely possible that the Covenant’s original captain, Jake Branson (James Franco), was a competent leader, but since he was consumed by fire while still in his hypersleep pod, we’ll never know for sure. Acting Captain Oram’s first act is to deny the crew permission to hold a funeral for their incinerated former leader, which is a major blow to morale. Then, with breathtaking recklessness, he insists on diverting the ship full of sleeping innocents to investigate the source of a mysterious broadcast that may or may not be a John Denver song. Once at the new planet, the acting captain and his away team completely disregard all reasonable precautions against contamination by possibly harmful biological agents. These astronauts are equipped with spacesuits — why not use them? Two members of the security team (Nathanial Dean and Demián Bichir) stop to smell the spores and are promptly infected by alien organisms. After blatantly violating quarantine procedures and allowing an unknown but clearly hungry alien life form on board the landing ship, pilot Maggie Faris (Amy Seimetz) destroys

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Snatched R Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 PG13

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales PG13 (Giant Screen) Baywatch R

The Lovers R Norman R A Quiet Passion PG13 Snatched R

Alien Covenant R King Arthur: Legend of the Sword PG13 Snatched R

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales PG13 Baywatch R Alien: Covenant R Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul PG Everything, Everything PG13 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword PG13

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a later date.) Without even touching on Covenant’s chief pilot Tennessee (Danny McBride) and his repeated, senseless endangerment of 2,000 sleeping passengers, I think you can see a clear pattern of incompetence emerging here. Weyland-Yutani needs to start recruiting smarter astronauts. We all agree that alien xenomorphs look really cool, but given past experience, you should train your employees to stay as far away from them as possible. Sincerely, A Concerned Citizen

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the vehicle with the negligent discharge of a weapon next to the ship’s fuel tanks. Trapped on the planet with an unknown number of extremely hostile alien life forms, terraforming expert Daniels (Katherine Waterston) is forced to enlist the help of the android David, who has been stranded on the planet for more than 10 years after escaping the destruction of the Prometheus in a stolen alien spacecraft. While Daniels does seem to be the most competent member of the crew, the fact that David lives in a deserted city surrounded by tens of thousands of unburied alien corpses should have set off alarm bells in her mind. (Expect a separate letter on the shortcomings of your androids’ ethical programming and their alarming tendency toward megalomaniacal insanity at

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Trump at Gettysburg On October 23, 2016, Donald Trump made remarks at the historic Gettysburg Battlefield. He delivered a different speech than originally prepared, but we were able to gain access to the first draft of then-candidate Trump’s personal notations, scribbled on the back of a Burger King placemat. We believe we have succeeded in deciphering the erratic script and have attempted to retain the original intent as best as modern graphology will allow. Here, unfiltered, is Trump’s Gettysburg Address: “Eight score and two years ago, my grandfather brought to this country a fantastic family name — Friedrich Drumpf — which he quickly changed to Fred Trump since German immigrants were frowned upon at the time. He formed a terrific business of bars and brothels catering to the new frontiersmen of the Klondike Gold Rush. Hey, I just coined the expression “New Frontier.” I can definitely use that. “Anyway, Grandpa Trump took his fortune and moved back to Germany, but they kicked him out for both draft and tax evasion. Just imagine, if the kraut government had been nicer to refugees, I’d be peddling real estate in Hamburg today. But three score and 10 years ago, I was conceived in Liberty, which is a small neighborhood in Queens. Like my father, who inherited a small fortune, we were dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, just some more equal than others. “We meet today on a great battlefield of the Civil War because I need Pennsylvania’s electoral votes. When I gaze across this landscape, I’m thinking to myself, ‘Hmm, what a terrible waste of space.’ This would make a fantastic location for a hotel and a private golf course, considering its historic significance. But, as Lincoln said, ‘We can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground.’ At least until we get all these ugly markers out of here and stage a first-class ground breaking ceremony with the boys and Ivanka. “I’ve been informed that a lot of men died here. Personally, I like soldiers that didn’t die. People don’t ask the question, why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out? Andrew Jackson saw what was coming while moldering in his grave and said, ‘There’s no reason for this.’ His 150 slaves most certainly would have agreed. Lincoln just couldn’t close the deal, but I, alone, could have fixed it. I don’t understand the whole Lincoln thing. People don’t realize he was a Republican, but many people say he was a melungeon. This I can tell you. “The fake media won’t report it, but our crowd today is a hundred times larger than the turnout for Lincoln’s speech. I looked at all those old Mathew Brady photographs and I’ve instructed Sean Spicer to produce pictures that show mine is the greatest Gettysburg Address, period. Although I escaped military service because my foot hurt, if I had been at the Battle of Gettysburg, I certainly would have won, since I know more than all the generals. That old grey-haired granny, Bobby E. Lee, was much too low-energy to ever defeat Trump. And I never owned any slaves, only children in China who assemble my clothing line for slave wages. “In closing, I would ask the blacks today, ‘What have you got to lose?’ You should give me your last full measure of devotion … if we ever make it easier for you to vote. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here because the crooked media is so unfair, but government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich is good enough to win the Electoral College. But I tell you this, no politician in history — and I say this with great surety — has been treated worse or more unfairly than me. Except maybe for Lincoln.” Randy Haspel writes the “Recycled Hippies” blog.

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