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It’s really hard to believe that the mayor of Memphis would denounce “outside agitators” and make a stand against activists wanting to take down the city’s confederate statues. I mean, how tone-deaf can you be? I’m speaking, of course, of former Mayor Willie Herenton, who, in 2005, used that epithet to describe the Rev. Al Sharpton, who’d come to Memphis to support local activists who wanted to remove the Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis statues and rename the city parks where they stood. Sharpton’s response to Herenton: “You need outside agitators when you don’t have enough inside agitators. Don’t get mad at us for doing your job.” I think it’s safe to say Memphis now has a sufficiency of “inside agitators.” The persisent and vocal push to remove the Forrest and Davis statues has reached critical mass, having gained support from current Mayor Jim Strickland, the Memphis City Council, and even Governor Bill Haslam. It’s been a long time coming. I did a little casual research on the Flyer website and noted that the paper has been reporting on and editorializing about this issue since at least the mid-1990s, when we first began putting our content online. There have always been those who took a stand against the statues, but for years their voices were buried by bureaucracy and stymied by local politics and well-organized and well-funded opposition from confederate supporters. No more. It seems inevitable now: The statues will come down in Memphis, as they are coming down all over the country. The devil is in the details and the timing. We would not have gotten to this point if not for people willing to take a stand; people willing to make other people uncomfortable; people willing to confront the status quo. Through their persistence and courage — and the inadvertant “help” of those using confederate symbols in conjunction with acts of terrorism and murder — more and more people are coming to realize that too often it’s not “heritage” that’s being served by these symbols and monuments — it’s racism and Al Sharpton tacit veneration of white supremacy and slavery. And more people are supporting the idea that decisions about such symbols should be made by local municipalities, and not subject to the whims of rural state legislators whose values are not those of most Memphians. I think it’s important at this juncture that the disparate forces moving to make the statues come down do all they can to avoid the “circular firing squad.” The goal has been agreed to. The agenda is no longer in question. How and when we get there is what is still in dispute. But those with a mutual goal should avoid demonizing each other. That just muddies the water, weakens the process, and strengthens the opposition. The mayor and the administration seem bent on taking the battle to court, challenging the Tennessee Historical Commission’s 2016 ruling against the city. Activists want more immediate measures taken — ceding the park N E WS & O P I N I O N land to private conservancies, for THE FLY-BY - 4 example, or just removing the NY TIMES CROSSWORD - 5 statues and dealing with the legal POLITICS - 8 consequences afterward. EDITORIAL - 10 It would help if, instead of attacking VIEWPOINT - 11 COVER — “SMOKE ON THE each other and creating more divisiveness WATER” between folks who have a common stated BY TOBY SELLS - 12 goal, the various contingents could work STE P P I N’ O UT together to find mutual ground, say, agree WE RECOMMEND - 16 upon a date by which the statues must MUSIC - 18 come down, one way or another. A good AFTER DARK - 20 target, in my opinion, would be March, CALENDAR OF EVENTS - 22 2018, at the latest — prior to the 50th BOOKS - 28 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King BAR REPORT - 30 Jr.’s assassination in our city. SPIRITS - 33 Let’s all agitate in the same direction. FILM - 34 We’ll get there faster. C L AS S I F I E D S - 36 Bruce VanWyngarden LAST WORD - 39 brucev@memphisflyer.com

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R EAL G O N E Last week, the Orpheum Theatre ended a 34-year tradition of screening the Civil War epic Gone with the Wind for reasons related to paternalistic race narratives and the glorification of a Southern rebellion to preserve and expand the institution of human chattel slavery. Hell broke loose on the internet. Here’s the essence of the response boiled down to a few choice Tweets like … “Asian sportscaster named Robert Lee yanked from broadcast and theaters canceling Gone with the Wind... far more stupidity to come.” There was a lot more stupidity to come. Like … (warning: grammar mistakes ahead) “NOW there’s a prob with Gone with the Wind?...I guess To Kill a Mockingbird is next…” And… “Why are they taking gone with the wind movie,what about the movie color purple,slavery and rape.?” Nazi references happened … “First they came for GONE WITH THE WIND and I said nothing... And, as is often the case in games of telephone, the story changed with each telling until … “Hollywood announced they are banning the movie Gone With The Wind. How about banning Hollywood? Hit their money pockets.I ordered it on line.” WI N N E R Memphis’ annual theater awards — the Ostranders — are always a fashion parade. This year’s most daring ensemble was worn by triple-threat diva Annie Freres. She was protesting the omission of the Tracy Letts’ drama Killer Joe by adorning herself with fried chicken. For a better understanding of the metaphor Google “Killer Joe” and chicken. NSFW — or anywhere, really. By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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Water, Statues, and Graceland TVA halts use of controversial wells, council hears statue options, Graceland arena proposed. WE LLS STALLE D, FO R N OW The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will not use its new wells, drilled into the source of Memphis’ drinking water, unless they get cleared for safety by a months-long investigation. TVA announced last week it wouldn’t use the wells, which they’ll use to cool a new energy plant here, before a public meeting of the Shelby County Groundwater Quality Control Board (SCGQB). The investigation comes after TVA discovered high levels of arsenic and lead in groundwater around a coal ash storage facility about a quarter mile from those wells. Memphis Light, Gas and Water (MLGW) said it found no detectable traces of the toxins in the drinking-water wells about three miles from the contaminated site. TVA is now drilling 20 shallow wells to monitor water quality around the ash storage facility. Those wells are part of an investigation plan TVA submitted last week to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. For the investigation, TVA has contracted with experts from the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Memphis to map the underlying geology around the site to better understand the movement of the groundwater there. This information could help resolve questions of possible migration of the arsenic into the Memphis Sand Aquifer. TVA had hoped to use the wells as early as next month, but it will hold off for months now, they said, until after the investigation is complete. POS S I B LE STATU E STATUTES Memphis City Council members were presented with four options to remove statues of Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jefferson Davis from public places last week. Allan Wade, the city council’s attorney, said immediate removal would come only with a waiver from the Tennessee Historical Commission. “It is probably easier to have someone executed by lethal injection in Tennessee, than getting a waiver,” Wade said. Wade said the council could sell the monuments in a private sale or auction, an option that would also require a waiver. The council could also ask Gov. Bill Haslam for a special session of the Tennessee Historical Commission to consider the city’s waiver request. Finally, Wade said city

officials could simply board up the statues, which he said the city already has the authority to do. Protests roiled around the statues here two weeks ago after an alt-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned deadly. G R AC E LAN D WANTS N EW AR E NA A new arena could grace Graceland soon, as city council members heard a proposal from Elvis Presley Enterprises (EPE) for the $50 million project. EPE officials said they hoped to tear down the old Heartbreak Hotel and build a 6,200-seat arena that, they said, could host 50 events per year, including concerts, graduations, and other community events. The project would also create additional retail and museum space for Graceland. Jay Campbell Jr., an attorney for EPE, said the new addition would add about 150 new jobs at Graceland and many of those jobs would be filled with people from the Whitehaven community. In order to “build a theater on the level everyone expects from Graceland,” Campbell said EPE will need to secure extra financial assistance, by way of an increase in their tax increment financing (TIF) agreement, which reinvests taxes paid to offset project costs.

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MATA looks for new funding sources Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) leaders want to expand its services and will start securing more money next month to do just that. Various funding options for MATA and Tennessee’s three other major public transit systems were laid out in Gov. Bill Haslam’s IMPROVE Act, which went into effect in July. But the legislation requires MATA to create a transit vision plan before going to the Memphis City Council to request more funding. MATA officials, along with Innovate Memphis and the city, will begin working on this vision document at a stakeholders conference on Monday, followed by a planning conference in October. Gary Rosenfeld, MATA’s interim CEO, told city council members last week that his agency could add about 200,000 hours of bus service by mid-2019 with $30 million added to its annual operating budget. Rosenfeld said MATA is specifically looking to expand its services to job and educational opportunities. “Everything that we do primarily at MATA is really geared towards employment and opportunities for our passengers,” he said. Collaborating with Shelby County School (SCS) officials, MATA has been developing a pilot program that will increase the number of schools MATA services and help integrate high school students into public transportation, Rosenfeld said. This effort is twofold, he said, as “it will open

MATA on the move up opportunities for students and allow MATA to groom bus riders for the future.” MATA was set to begin a pilot program this fall, but after staff changes at SCS, there were several logistics that hadn’t been worked out, such as how to determine which schools to include in the pilot. As for access to jobs, Rosenfeld said the current structure and frequency of MATA’s routes make it difficult for people living in certain areas to commute to and from work using public transit and, in extreme cases, may take up to four hours for some to get to and from work. The way the system is set up now, he said, also limits opportunities to reach different levels of employment, as “there is a lot of service that goes into areas that might pay minimum wage to $10 an hour, but less opportunities to get to those $15- and $20-anhour jobs.” For those reasons, he said it is important to

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Democrat in the Senate? Nashville lawyer and Iraq war vet James Mackler is on a quest to make that a reality. Can a Democrat be elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee? James Mackler, a Nashville lawyer and Army veteran, intends to find out. Mackler was in Memphis on Tuesday as part of an ongoing tour in which he is acquainting himself with Tennesseans across the state and simultaneously getting them

acquainted with him. Mackler is a political newcomer, making his first bid for office as an aspirant for the Senate seat now held by Republican Bob Corker and on the ballot in 2018. Besides having begun his race as an unknown, he confronts the fact that no Democrat has served in the Senate from Tennessee for a full generation, since then incumbent Senator Jim Sasser was upset by Republican Bill Frist in 1994. Neither circumstance fazes Mackler, who sees his race as a case of answering a call to public service. This is the second time he has felt such a call. As he puts it, the first time was on September 11, 2001, when the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington prompted him to “shut down” his law practice and join the Army, becoming a Blackhawk helicopter pilot in Iraq and later serving in the Army’s JAG (legal) corps. “I needed to do something to make a difference,” he ex-

plained on Tuesday. “I resigned from my job to run for the U.S. Senate for the same reason. I felt called back to service, and I believe my track record of service will appeal to voters across Tennessee, especially those ready for change.” So, for the second time, troubled by “seeing what our leaders in Washington aren’t doing,” Mackler left his law practice and hit the road as a candidate. There was a personal motive as well. His daughters, students at a private Jewish school in Nashville, were evacuated from their school four times for bomb threats — part of a wave of such actions nationwide. “I was so upset that our country has become so divided and that I had to explain that to my girls. It was a critical moment,” he says. Mackler’s platform focuses on three issues: “jobs, health care, and education.” He sees incumbent Republican Corker as especially vulnerable on the health-care issue, having voted with the majority of his party in several unsuccessful efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Mackler might take comfort from a poll taken earlier this month by Public Policy Polling, a company that normally takes its surveys in tandem with Democratic causes and candidates and was paid for by the health-care advocacy group Save My Care. That poll was taken from a sample of 663 registered Tennessee voters during the period of August 11th-13th

by robo-call, a method whereby a recorded message poses questions to persons on a pre-selected call list and listeners who hear the message out are invited to respond by using the numbers on their dial pad. That poll purported to show Corker with a favorable job-performance rating of 34 percent, as against an unfavorable rating of 47 percent and found that less than half of those surveyed would vote for Corker, while 37 percent would vote for an unnamed Democrat. Besides Democrat Mackler, a first-time candidate who is in the process of introducing himself to a state constituency, two Republicans with some pre-existing name identification have also talked of opposing the senator. One is former state Representative Joe Carr, an ultraconservative who garnered a respectable 40 percent in a 2014 primary race against Tennessee’s other Republican senator, Lamar Alexander. Another, who also occupies a place on the GOP’s right wing, is current state Representative Andy Holt, who has referred vaguely to “multiple polls” but has not identified them or cited any particulars. And, of course, there are even vaguer soundings taken by President Trump, who responded to Corker’s recent criticism of him for lacking “stability” and “competence” with a tweet that said: “Strange statement by Bob Corker considering that he is constantly asking me whether or not he should run again in ’18. Tennessee not happy!” For all that, two recent polls — one released by Vanderbilt University showing Corker with a 52 percent approval rating and another taken by the polling company Morning Consult giving the Senator a 57 percent approval rating — would seem to bolster Corker’s chances. In any case, Mackler knows he has his work cut out for him. His rounds in Memphis on Tuesday included an appearance at a Latino Leadership Luncheon and an evening fund-raiser. And, as he indicated, he intends to be back, again and again.

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to follow. Even before the unsettling recent disturbances involving a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, a circumstance that saw opportunistic Nazis on the march and the resulting tragic death of a counter-protester, these statuary homages to a lost cause had potential for serious divisiveness. Recognizing that fact, Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans had the foresight to remove the confederate monuments there. Baltimore has since dismantled its own, and, pending possible further action, Charlottesville has moved to cover up the statue of Lee and another of Stonewall Jackson. Other cities have done something similar, and, famously and urgently, Memphis has the ongoing quandary of what to do with its downtown statues to Nathan Bedford Forrest and confederate president Jefferson Davis. The prospect for decisive action on the matter has mounted significantly of late, with Governor Bill Haslam joining city officials in calling upon the Tennessee Historical Commission to acquiesce in the statues’ removal, and the momentum is such that, one way or another, they could be gone even without such formal approval. As it happens, Memphis is not just on the verge of abandoning an outmoded view of its history by junking one set of monuments, it also has the opportunity to refresh its horizons by erecting another set of memorials. On Monday, the members of the Shelby County Commission voted unanimously to contribute significant funding to a memorial entitled Memphis Suffrage

Monument: Equality Trailblazers, a permanent tribute in glass and bronze to Tennessee women who have loomed large in the expansion of voting rights. This new memorial is to be a component of the Tennessee Womens Suffrage Trail, a statewide framework overseen by Memphian Paula Casey and Jacqueline Hellman, as well as of the Memphis Heritage Trail. It will also mark the 2020 Centennial of Tennessee’s decisive passage of the 19th Amendment for universal suffrage. It is the work of sculptor Alan Leguire, who has created other monuments to the suffrage movement and to women’s rights in Nashville, Knoxville, and Jackson. The local memorial will be unveiled in August of 2018 in front of City Hall, and, on the way to the Suffrage Centennial, will also mesh with next year’s 50-year planned commemoration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and with the 200th anniversary of the founding of Shelby County. Plans are also afoot to create other monuments to equality in the general perimeter of the monument to the Equality Trailblazers, which will bear the busts of eight pioneers in the fight for, and exercise of, women’s suffrage — Elizabeth Avery Meriwether, Lide Smith Meriwether, Lulu Reese, state Representative Joe Hanover, Charl Ormond Williams, Ida B. Wells, Mary Church Terrell, and state Representative Lois DeBerry, with additional tributes to Marion Griffin, Maxine Smith, and Minerva Johnican. Monumental women, all of them.

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The pardon could encourage other like-minded state and local officials to racially profile Latinos. More broadly, it may encourage state and local officers to aggressively enforce federal immigration law. Many experts and law enforcement officials criticize such state and local enforcement, saying it erodes trust with immigrant communities, making them too fearful to report local crimes and cooperate with police. Arpaio’s pardon does not mean a complete clean slate for him. It would not erase a separate court ruling from 2016 that found him in civil contempt of court. Civil contempt is a non-criminal finding, which could require remedial measures like court-ordered reforms, reporting requirements, and the like. These do not fall under the reach of the president’s pardon. Nor does a pardon mean that he or his department are allowed to return to their unconstitutional practices. Arpaio himself is now out of office, having lost his most recent election. And the Maricopa County Sheriff Department is still under a court order to refrain from racial profiling and other illegal immigration enforcement efforts. But the pardon may embolden immigration hawks and infuriate Trump’s opponents — which, in the end, might very well be the intention. Former County Commissioner Steve Mulroy teaches constitutional and civil rights law at the University of Memphis.

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detain individuals based on probable cause that they had violated some state law, but not merely because they suspected them of being in the U.S. illegally. In July, another federal judge convicted Arpaio of criminal contempt for intentionally violating the first court’s prior orders. His sentencing hearing (now moot) had been set for this October. The Pardon’s Effects: It’s very unusual for a president to pardon someone before they’re sentenced. Doing so suggests that Trump felt Arpaio did nothing wrong. Trump made that clear by publicly praising Arpaio for his “admirable service” and saying he was “convicted for doing his job.” (Apparently, a sheriff’s job includes harassing Latinos and violating privacy rights.) Phoenix mayor Greg Stanton called the pardon “a slap in the face to the people of Maricopa County.”

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Well, he went ahead and did it. Last Friday, President Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who illegally used racial profiling to enforce immigration laws. Trump has the legal power to pardon pretty much anyone. But pardoning Arpaio sends the message that state and local officials can aggressively enforce federal immigration law, even if it risks racial profiling and violating the due process rights of both citizens and noncitizens. Arpaio’s Violations: Arpaio was for decades the elected sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, the county that includes Phoenix. He has long been known for his harsh practices like requiring inmates to work on chain gangs and live in outdoor tent cities in the scorching Arizona heat. He prioritized immigration enforcement at the expense of crimes like sexual assault. He also jailed some people who criticized him, including two reporters who successfully sued him for false arrest. In 2011, a federal court found that Arpaio’s sheriff’s department unconstitutionally racially profiled Latinos. Basically, he had his deputies stop, detain, and interrogate Latino people — U.S. citizens, legal immigrants, and undocumented immigrants alike — on suspicion of immigration violations, without probable cause. The court later noted that state and county officials had no authority to enforce federal immigration law without authorization from the federal government. Arpaio had no such authorization, because Homeland Security stripped Maricopa County of such authority, based on U.S. Justice Department findings of rampant abuse. State and local cooperation can be helpful in enforcing federal law, but when it comes to immigration, federal law usually preempts state law. State over-enforcement of immigration law can interfere with federal policy. So, state officials should enforce federal immigration law only where the federal government asks them to. More fundamentally, no federal or state official can legally target people for immigration-related stops and questioning just because they look Latino. And as the Supreme Court has stated, even noncitizens have the right to due process and to be free from racial discrimination, as long as they are present in the U.S. Arpaio thus broke the law by violating individuals’ Fourth Amendment rights to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. The court ordered Arpaio and his office to stop using race as a factor in its enforcement decisions. His deputies could

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Smoke on the Water HOW WILL MEDICAL CANNABIS IN ARKANSAS AFFECT MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH? COVER STORY BY TOBY SELLS ILLUSTRATION BY GREG CRAVENS

r. Tammy wants you to call it cannabis. Not weed. Not pot. Not dope. She doesn’t even want you to call it marijuana, really. She, and a growing number of others nationwide, want you to call it cannabis, like everyone in America did before the 1910 Mexican Revolution. She wants doctors to take weed (sorry) back from Cheech and Chong and dorm-room walls. She wants to put it in the medicine cabinet, where she says it belongs. When Dr. Tammy Post (aka “Dr. Tammy” or even “The Naked Doctor”) took the stage at a cannabis symposium two weeks ago, she looked every bit the part of a cannabis-prescribing West Coast physician — blonde hair, gleaming white smile, standing trim and fashionable in a skirt and heels. But Dr. Tammy practices in Rogers, Arkansas, which could be considered, maybe, the west coast of Beaver Lake. “I thought it fitting I got to speak at 4:20 [p.m] today,” Post said, rising a laugh and a few hoots from an audience at the Medical Cannabis Patient Health Fair and Symposium in Fayetteville. But that glimpse of cannabis humor was the only one she really gave in an earnest 20-minute talk in which she focused on the cultural stigma surrounding cannabis, a nono so engrained that patients won’t ask for it and doctors won’t talk about it, she said. “When I was growing up, [marijuana] was bad,” Post said. “How many of y’all have heard about Reefer Madness? How many of y’all are conditioned to believe that it’s a gateway drug, that it was the devil, and that if you smoked it, you were going to hell?” Her questions raised a chorus of agreement, even from a crowd gathered at a cannabis symposium. But the fact that there was a crowd, a stage, a speaker, and even a cannabis event in Arkansas at all showed how far that state and its people had come from the “devil’s-weed” stigma of cannabis’ complicated past. Next year, patients in Arkansas will be able to drive to dispensaries, hand over their prescriptions, and walk away with a bag or a bottle of legal, medical cannabis. It’ll be the culmination of a process nearly six years in the making — and a cultural watershed moment for the Bible Belt. Right now, patients, growers, and dispensary owners are lining up to make it all happen. Applications to participate in any of the three facets of the cannabis market are due to state officials next month. It’s expected that about 30,000 to 40,000 Arkansas patients will sign up to get legal cannabis. In Tennessee, a task force is set to explore medical cannabis on the equally red state to the east of the Mississippi River. Republican lawmakers pulled a medical cannabis proposal during the Tennessee General Assembly session earlier this year, but the legislators agreed to form the task force, which will soon travel the state to introduce the idea and hear from Tennesseans. In the meantime, many here — and around the country —will be watching the Arkansas experiment to see if it could be a proving ground for other holy rollin’ Southern states to green light the green stuff.

HOW DID IT HAPPEN IN THE NATURAL STATE?

Initially, few thought medical marijuana legislation had a shot in hell in Arknasas. For one thing, the Natural State loves Jesus: 77 percent of Arkansans believe in God, and 79 percent of those are Christians, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. So, it was no surprise that social conservative groups took a strong negative stand when medical cannabis was first on the ballot in Arkansas in 2012. The Family Council, a conservative think tank based in Little Rock, launched a multi-pronged attack against the measure, calling it a “backdoor effort to legalize marijuana across the state of Arkansas.” Groups fought the 2012 measure all the way to the Arkansas Supreme Court, which ruled in September (just before the November vote) that the marijuana measure could be placed on the ballot. The 2012 measure failed at the ballot box, but only by a slim 49 percent-51 percent margin, which gave hope to cannabis proponents. The cannabis question simmered in the state for four years. Then, in 2016, a flurry of lawsuits, two competing ballot initiatives, think pieces, op-eds, court rulings, political wrangling, and a lot of general hand-wringing produced an initiative that went on Arkansas’ November ballot, the same one in which voters pulled the lever for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump for president. Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, who led the federal Drug Enforcement Agency under President George W. Bush, opposed any cannabis-legalizing legislation in his state. He said it was “not best for patients” and that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration — not Arkansas voters — should decide. “We don’t vote on cancer cures, and we should not set a new pattern of determining what is good medicine at the ballot box,” Hutchinson said at the time. Still, there was plenty of support for medical cannabis. The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Association (AMMA) was established to organize legislative efforts. Patient groups, such as Arkansans for Passionate Care, provided patient stories to extoll the virtues of cannabis in pain management and as an effective alternative to opioids.

NATURAL HEALING BEGINS

The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment was added to the state’s Constitution on November 9, 2016. That seemingly simple change meant a lot of work needed to be done prior to any Arkansan taking their first legal dose of cannabis. The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission (AMMC) was established — a board that includes politician-appointed doctors, pharmacists, lawyers, and others. The board worked to establish and refine the rules of the state’s medical cannabis program. In July, the board opened applications for the program to patients, growers, and prospective dispensary owners. Arkansas law will allow five cultivation facilities (cannabis grow operations) in the state. The commission is accepting applications for 32 dispensaries across the state. The commission created eight zones statewide, with each zone getting four dispensaries. The zone closest to Memphis stretches from the Missouri boot heel to Crittenden County. Arkansans will get their cannabis registration cards as soon as dispensaries are approved, established, and ready to sell. State officials said that could be early 2018. Some cities, such as Hot Springs and Siloam Springs, have opted out of the dispensary program. Cannabis sales in Arkansas could grow from $3.1 million in 2019 to more than $67 million in 2025, according to recent research from Washington, D.C.-based New Frontier Data. Early tax revenue projections found the program would likely generate around $2.5 million in state tax revenues, though that number got a boost recently, as lawmakers levied a new, 4-percent privilege tax on growers and dispensary owners.

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Memphis police aren’t worried that legal cannabis will soon be available just across the Mississippi. Here’s the curt, single-sentence statement from the Memphis Police Department: “We do not anticipate any effects in Memphis related to Arkansas’ medical marijuana program,” Sgt. Karen Rudolph, MPD’s public information officer, said, in an email. The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office concurs with MPD’s assessment. “Arkansas is going to be tremendously different than in Colorado, where you can have two pounds of [cannabis] for recreational use,” said Earle Farrell, SCSO’s public information officer. “It will be for medicinal uses only,” Farrell added. “People who do get it have to have prescriptions. It’ll be small, controlled amounts and won’t be in suckers, and brownies, and ice cream, and soups, and nasal sprays, and all the rest of things people are putting [cannabis] into.” Cannabis is illegal in Shelby County and in Tennessee. Farrell said if someone is caught here with cannabis they bought legally in Arkansas, they will be arrested. If you get cannabis legally in Arkansas or Colorado or any other cannabis-friendly state, Farrell said, don’t bring it home. SCSO officers have flown to Colorado, Farrell said, to get a first-hand look at that state’s cannabis program and the legal and illegal cannabis that fuels it. Some of that cannabis has shown up here, Farrell said, and it’s the Colorado’s recreational-use laws that make its borders leakier than states that have medical-cannabis-only laws. But medical cannabis programs can have positive effects on bordering areas without legal marijuana laws, according to a recent study by researchers with Norwegian School of Economics and the Pennsylvania State University Department of Sociology and Criminology. That study, published in The Economic Journal, found that cannabis reforms in U.S. states that border Mexico have reduced violent crime. Further, “we find that [medical marijuana laws] in inland states lead to a reduction in crime in the nearest border state.” For their findings, researchers used crime-tracking data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program. John Marek, founder and former president of the Memphis chapter of the National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws (NORML), said Arkansas will have a rigid seed-to-sale tracking system in place to keep its legal cannabis out of the black market. “That being said, it would be impossible to guarantee that a limited number of patients would not illegally transport their medicine to other states,” Marek said. “We strongly encourage people not to break the law. Our goal is to change the law, not to break the laws in place.”

CANNABIS IN TENNESSEE

Ninth District Congressman Steve Cohen sponsored medical marijuana legislation in Tennessee while he was a state senator in the 1990s. Back then, his was a lonely voice in a

dark wood. But now new voices — even some conservative voices — have picked up the song and proposed cannabis legislation is finding its way to the holy floors of Tennessee’s state house on a nearly annual basis. In 2014, Democratic lawmakers brought the Koozer-Kuhn Medical Cannabis Act to Nashville. It failed, but not before Toni Corbin and her adult son, Wallace, appeared before a House subcommittee. In archived video of the testimony, Wallace sat mute and motionless in a wheelchair, a Tennessee Titans scarf wrapped under his bearded face, and a Florida Gators blanket covering his body. “Wally wants me to tell you two things,” his mother, Toni, began. “He just wants to feel human again. And he wants you to know that he’s a Christian. He wants you to think about this when you go to bed tonight, when you tuck in your children, and kiss your wife. “If God made this cannabis plant, and God made us with cannabis receptors in our body, naturally, then, maybe, God has a plan. Who are we to question and interfere with God’s plan?” The door cracked slightly open on medical cannabis in 2015, when lawmakers legalized the use of cannabis oil, mainly for seizures and epilepsy, and only with the permission of a doctor. It scared the bejesus out of many social conservatives who proclaimed that full-on medical cannabis was next and that recreational cannabis would inevitably follow. Republican Governor Bill Haslam tempered those fears, noting he didn’t see a “big chance” for medical cannabis legislation to ever pass. Then-Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey (R-Blountville) said legislation would have “tough sledding” in the legislature. The comments came after Tennessee Department of Health Commissioner John Dreyzehner said medical cannabis would do more harm than good in the state. Even so, Republican leaders rolled out medical cannabis legislation the very next session, but it was immediately criticized by cannabis advocates. That 2016 bill put up high financial barriers on anyone wanting to get involved in medical cannabis in Tennessee. In addition, cannabis patients would have had to give up their driver’s license while under cannabis treatment. If they were discovered operating a vehicle, their cannabis card could be revoked. In the 2017 session, state lawmakers took a tougher stance on cannabis, passing bills that nullified city ordinances passed by the Memphis City Council and the Nashville Metro Council that lowered penalties on certain kinds of cannabis possession.

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Memphis council members said lowering the penalties would alleviate pressure in the city’s criminal justice system and resultant financial burdens on African Americans, who are busted for cannabis in Memphis more often than whites. State lawmakers argued that state law trumps city law. “This is not about one city, one county, or one district,” said Representative William Lamberth, (R-Cottontown), the nullification bill’s House sponsor. “This is about making sure it is consistent statewide.” The nullification measures easily passed both chambers. Haslam signed the bills, which could have passed without his signatures. Asked why he signed them, a spokesman in his office at the time suggested Haslam simply followed the will of the legislature. While that anti-cannabis issue roiled, two pro-medical cannabis bills were working their way through the capitol. One, called the Medical Cannabis Access Act, was sponsored by Democratic lawmakers, Representative Sherry Jones of Nashville and Senator Sara Kyle of Memphis. It quickly died. continued on page 14

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In the end, voters approved the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Amendment of 2016 by another narrow margin: 53 percent approved it; 47 percent were opposed. The margin was wider in Crittenden County, right across the river in West Memphis, where 61 percent of voters approved the measure and about 39 percent opposed it.

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Another was sponsored by Republican lawmakers Representative Jeremy Faison of Cosby and Senator Steve Dickerson of Nashville. It was put out to “summer study,” which is usually General Assembly code for “we’re not going to pass this legislation this year and we hope no one brings it up ever again.” However, Dickerson and Faison pushed for a real summer study and convinced their colleagues to form a task force on the medical cannabis issue in Tennessee. So far, task force meetings have been loosely scheduled for stops in Nashville in September, Knoxville in October, and Memphis in November. Faison said the meetings should be open to the public as a means of hearing from constituents. Faison was more or less the face of medical cannabis in the state house this year. “Often, when I’m at home at the grocery store, I’ll get the questions: ‘Jeremy, aren’t you a Christian? Aren’t you the worship leader at your church?’” Faison said during a March meeting of the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee. Faison told House members that “civilized groups of people” have used the cannabis plant for “almost 4,000 years.” Military veterans, “who have given the best of their physical health and their mental health for your freedom and for my freedom,” are using large amounts of opiates and other drugs, but some are choosing to move to “cannabisfriendly” states. Faison said there was a “mountain of evidence” showing that cannabis can help very sick children: “Children that modern medicine has failed are finding life with the medical use of this plant.” Constituents across Tennessee, he said, want to get off opioid prescription drugs for fear of addiction and, with cannabis, are “either breaking the law right now, or they really want to break the law.” When it came to the THC, the chemical compound in cannabis responsible for euphoric highs, Faison said “that’s what God allowed in the plant.” Speaking of God, Christian singer/songwriter Gary Chapman added some heavenly star power (which probably goes a long way with the Tennessee legislative set) to the medical cannabis issues this year. Standing at a news conference with Dickerson and Faison, Chapman tried to dispel the idea that “you’re in the music business, right? So, everybody’s smoking weed.” “Don’t get lost in the fight about [marijuana as] a gateway drug and all that crap,” Chapman said. “That’s just not what this is about. This is about helping people. If you can help someone who is needlessly suffering and you don’t do it, it’s wrong. Plain and simple.” Chapman also announced on Facebook in July that his son was involved with a business called TenneCBD, which makes “fine hemp products,” cannabis oils. Will medical cannabis ever come to Tennessee? That’s unknown. But those pushing for it point to poll numbers from Middle Tennessee State University that said about 70 percent of Tennesseans polled believed cannabis should be either legalized totally or, at least, for medical use. A Vanderbilt University poll found about 75 percent of Tennesseans were ready for some sort of legalization. “Tennesseans are ready, if you poll them,” Faison said. “But the General Assembly is not there yet.”

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Recreational cannabis has been legal in Oregon since 2015. Portlanders talk about it like they do fine wine or craft beer. And they call it cannabis. They’ve moved ahead in cannabis culture and that culture has largely moved away from the word “marijuana.” Cannabis more scientifically describes the plant, they say. And the word “marijuana” has a dark past. The dominating origin story concerns Mexican refugees fleeing to the U.S. during the Mexican Revolution in 1910. They brought cannabis and the word “marijuana” with them. Many Americans feared and disliked these refugees. Sound familiar? To marginalize the group, locals targeted their foreign-sounding drug, “marijuana.” Bans on the drug began popping up in border states. The word had a foreign sound to it, and it was used as an us-against-them wedge for law enforcement. Harry Anslinger, the first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, called the drug “as hellish as heroin” and played the racism wedge hard. “Reefer makes darkies think they’re as good as white men,” Anslinger said, according to a 1998 book by Mike Gray called Drug Crazy. “The primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effects on the degenerate races … most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others.” Thus, “cannabis” is the preferred terminology, thank you. That’s, in part, why Dr. Tammy Post doesn’t want you to call it marijuana. She’s woke to “cannabis.” She wishes lawmakers were, too, even though they chose to call it the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission. But she’s willing to be patient. “I do believe over time [‘cannabis’] is going to become more widespread as more people acknowledge cannabis as medication,” Post said. “People will understand as the stigma goes down that this plant has literally hundreds of different medicines in it.”

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The brass notes on Beale are like puddles on the sidewalk reflecting the names of artists long ago written in the stars. As father of the blues, W.C. Handy is there, but so are Elvis Presley, Robert Johnson, Ma Rainey, B.B. King, and Justin Timberlake. The notes also honor authors like Peter Guralnick, politicians like Lamar Alexander, and other notables like civil rights photographer Ernest Withers. A new note will be unveiled Sunday, September 3rd, during the final day of the Center for Southern Folklore’s Memphis Music and Heritage Festival. This note commemorates the life and work of Judy Peiser, the Center for Southern Folklore co-founder and driving force behind Memphis’ most musically significant Labor Day weekend party for 30 years and counting. Although the Center is located in Peabody Place on Main, its roots are on Beale, having begun life in the Old Daisy Theater where visitors could watch a slide show about regional music and culture. “We were in four different places on Beale,” Peiser says, unable to list them all because visitors keep dropping into the Center, and they all have questions. Peiser’s note will be installed on the stretch of sidewalk in front of Silky O’Sullivan’s, which was, in another life, a former home to the Center. Peiser says she doesn’t have words to describe how she feels about the note. She just says she’s been honored to tell the stories of everybody from bluesmen to Holocaust survivors, and to build the archives of art, photography, film, and interviews related to life in the South. “To humanize,” Peiser says. “I guess that’s what we do.” Every Labor Day weekend, the Memphis Music and Heritage Festival fills a stretch of Main just north of Beale with live music, dancers, storytellers, cooking demonstrations, and more. This year’s festival runs from Saturday, September 2nd through Sunday, September 3rd and features music by Earl “the Pearl,” Los Cantadores, Kate Campbell, the Last Chance Jug Band, Marcella Semien, Joyce Cobb, Luther Dickinson, the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band, and dozens more. Still free, though donations are encouraged. JUDY PEISER’S BEALE STREET NOTE DEDICATION, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3RD, 4 P.M.

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Take a trip down the rabbit hole to Dream Bars’ Wunderland. Bar Report, p. 30

THURSDAY August 31

FRIDAY September 1

The Zoo Story McCoy Theatre, Rhodes College, 7:30 p.m. Rhodes and Weightless Aerial Company present this working of an Edward Albee play that ponders, “What’s so special about a park bench anyway?”

“Making Marks” David Lusk Gallery, 6-8 p.m. Opening reception for this exhibition by Greely Myatt, which explores communication.

20th Anniversary Outflix Party Evergreen Theatre, 7-10 p.m. Celebrating the LGBTQ-centric film festival’s anniversary with a screening of The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin.

Lost in Yonkers Germantown Community Theatre, 8 p.m., $24 World War II-era coming-of-age story about love and tough times.

Jimmy McDonough goes gonzo and digs deep in his Al Green biography. Books, p. 28

“Fathom” Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, 5-7 p.m. Opening reception for this exhibition of sculpture and video on phases of change, units of measure, and the persistence of transformation by Ryan Rasmussen. Rasmussen will give a lecture about his work on Thursday, August 31st, 6 p.m. at Rhodes’ Blount Auditorium. OM Memphis Edge Alley, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. A 30-day pop-up record store run by Tonya Dyson. Featuring live entertainment. Through September 18th.

Delta Fair & Music Festival Agricenter International, 2-11 p.m. Annual fair returns with rides, tons of fair food, midway games, pig races, lawn mower races, pageants and other competitions of various kinds, livestock, concerts (including one with Aaron Carter!), and more. Through September 10th. Also happening today, 6-9 p.m., is the Delta Fest Whiskey, Wine & Moonshine event with 15 samples of whiskey, wine, and moonshine, plus food, a silent auction, and music and dancing. The cost is $40.

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Expose Yourself By Chris Davis The 31st Annual Memphis Music and Heritage Festival isn’t the only way to celebrate the soul of Memphis. On the first day of September, more than 150 arts organizations and businesses will gather in AutoZone Park for a different kind of party. Memphis loves its area code so much a new holiday is emerging — 9/01. To mark the occasion, New Memphis Institute is bringing back a free event called Exposure on 901-Day. New Memphis wants to attract talent to Memphis and keep it here. They also serve people who are new to the Bluff City as a kind of engagement-oriented welcome wagon, helping new arrivals adjust and discover all the good stuff Memphis has to offer. Exposure on 901-Day is an opportunity for newbies — and everybody else who’s ever wondered how they might engage with their community — to get involved with everything from performing arts to animal rescue. “We believe in making Memphis magnetic — for newcomers and longtime Memphians alike by creating connections,” New Memphis communications specialist Anna Traverse explains. “That’s why we make it possible for people to connect with the city in a multitude of ways at Exposure.” The event kicks off at 6 p.m. with entertainment by the Beale Street Flippers, the Grizz Drumline, and more. The main event is a Memphis celebrity kickball game. Engagement is the name of the game, and the overarching goal of 901-Day exposure is matching people with the kinds of places, things, charitable causes, and social opportunities they love. Organizations in attendance range from ArtsMemphis and Opera Memphis, to Project Green Fork, Explore Bike Share, Stax, WEVL, the YMCA, and the NAACP. “We found, to our delight, that lots of longtime Memphians were eager to get involved in and enjoy Memphis life,” Traverse says. NEW MEMPHIS HOSTS EXPOSURE ON 901-DAY AT AUTOZONE PARK, FRIDAY, SEPT 1ST, 6-8 P.M. FREE.

901 Day Celebration Railgarten, noon-midnight Choose901 hosts this party, which includes Memphis vendors, live music, a countdown to 9:01, and a dance party.

WEDNESDAY September 6

The Band Perry Horseshoe Casino, 8 p.m., $56.50 Concert by this country sibling trio tonight. They’re best known for “If I Die Young” and “Better Dig Two.”

Peabody Anniversary Party Peabody Hotel, 4:30-6 p.m. A party of the “South’s Grand Hotel” for its 148th anniversary with music by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.

Healthy Shelby 5K Shelby Farms, 6:30-9 a.m. Event focused on a healthier community with a 5K, a one-mile walk, a bounce house, and an appearance by Olympian Rochelle Stevens.

Slipknot — Day of Gusano Malco Paradiso, 7 p.m. Concert documentary following Slipknot and their fans known as “maggots” during Knotfest.

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First Friday Woodruff-Fontaine House, 5-8 p.m. Tonight’s theme is “Rest in Peace” and will feature a presentation and demonstration (!!) by Carter Jackson, a Victorian embalming expert.

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eith Sykes is the kind of songwriter who has a few stories up his sleeve. He jokes in a soft country lilt as he recalls now-shuttered music lounges on Beale Street, and his sense of humor — as well as his musical resume — bespeaks a man with stories to spare … Like the time in the summer of 1967 when the Murray, Kentucky, native hitchhiked to the Newport Folk Festival, so the story goes, and caught Arlo Guthrie’s set. A few months later, thanks to a faithfully reproduced version of Guthrie’s signature song, “Alice’s Restaurant,” Sykes had picked up a regular gig in a Charleston, South Carolina, hotel. In the 50 years since that fateful first contact with Officer Obie and the shrink from “Alice’s Restaurant,” Sykes has released 13 fulllength albums, toured and recorded with Jimmy Buffett, written hundreds of songs for other performers, discovered Todd Snider, and, this year, finally finished his screenplay about a rancher and his talking horses. But more on the screenplay later. His songs are simple and heartfelt, comforting and spare, like the break in the summer heat that comes with nightfall. Borne along on shuffling

rhythms and clean, crisp guitars, Sykes sings wistfully of slipping into the shade and name-checks former band mate Jimmy Buffett in the EP’s title track. “It’s called Songs from a Little Beach Town. All the songs are songs that I wrote down in a little beach town called Port Aransas, Texas,” Sykes says of the breezy acoustic track. It sounds like something a filmmaker might use to score a scene of someone tooling around town on an old beach cruiser. “When I first started going there, it was still a little fishy place,” Sykes says of his Texas hideaway. “But it’s still really cool. You can take a bicycle around the whole town in 15 minutes.” Two of Sykes’ balmy tunes, written in that same beach town, landed on the tropical rock charts in 2016. “Come as You Are Beach Bar” hit No. 1 and stayed in that position for seven weeks, and “The Best Day” has been in the top 40 since August of last year. “It just blew my mind. … It’s not a big deal chart, but it’s the kind of music I like,” Sykes says of the rock-and-roll, country, Calypso, and zydeco-infused island hybrid style popularized by artists like Jimmy Buffett. “They finally came up with a name for it about 20 years ago and called it trop rock. When I was in [Buffett’s]

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“What I did this year, rather than write songs, was write a screenplay. I’ve started a couple, and I’d always set ’em aside and go back to songs. This year I said, ‘Dang, I should finish one of these.’” “I hate starting stuff and not finishing,” Sykes says, without a trace of irony for a man whose songs have collectively sold 25 million copies worldwide. And that brings us back to his screenplay, Horses & Me. “What I did this year, rather than write songs, was write a screenplay. I’ve started a couple, and I’d always set ’em aside and go back to songs. This year I said, ‘Dang, I should finish one of these.’” The screenplay is about a simple man who works with his hands. He owns some land and some horses, and he spends a lot of time alone. That’s when the horses start to talk to him. “He thinks he’s insane. ’Cause he’s been drinking, you know, imbibing a little bit,” Sykes chuckles. For next week’s show, Sykes and his band will perform music from his entire catalog, including the new Songs from a Little Beach Town EP. The album’s final and most-recent single, “I Pick You,” was released Friday, August 25th by KSM Entertainment. Keith Sykes & Band at the Delta Fair & Music Festival at the Agricenter International, Friday, September 8th at 8 p.m.

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band, we called it ‘tramp rock,’” Sykes laughs about his time in Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band. Fresh off the release of his newest single, “I Pick You,” Sykes will play with a group of Memphis musicians at the Delta Fair and Music Festival next week. “Dave Cousar is an excellent guitar player, and Dave Smith on the bass, he’s just one of the best anywhere, much less Memphis,” Sykes says. “All these are Memphis guys who I’m just crazy about. Smith, Cousar, and Willie Hall, who I haven’t played with for years.” The singer-songwriter’s Memphis roots run deep. Sykes used to host a long-running songwriter showcase on Beale Street. “It covered about 10 years all in all; I did nine shows a year. … I brought in songwriters from everywhere. I had the best seat in the house — that’s why I was doing it.” During his Memphis years he also recorded I’m Not Strange, I’m Just Like You at Ardent Studios.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule August 31 - September 6 Cunning Band Sundays, 6 p.m., and Mondays, 7 p.m.; FreeWorld Sundays, 9:30 p.m.

Alfred’s 197 BEALE 525-3711

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

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

Handy Bar 200 BEALE 527-2687

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

Hard Rock Cafe

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

King’s Palace Cafe Patio 162 BEALE 521-1851

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

King’s Palace Cafe Tap Room

Danika Holmes & the Jeb Thursday, Aug. 31, 8-11 p.m.; Rooftop Patio Party Friday, Sept. 1, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, Sept. 2, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Jarred Price Friday, Sept. 1, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Almost Elton John Saturday, Sept. 2, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; The Skitch Sunday, Sept. 3, 8-11 p.m.

Big Don Valentine’s Three Piece Chicken and a Biscuit Blues Band Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Juke Joint Allstars Thursday, Aug. 31, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, Sept. 2, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Myra Hall Band Friday, Sept. 1, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill

Itta Bena

New Daisy Theatre

341-345 BEALE 577-1089

August 31-September 6, 2017

152 BEALE 544-7011

Live Music WednesdaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Live DJ Wednesdays-Sundays, 11 p.m.; Third Floor: DJ Tubbz Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.; The Rusty Pieces play Bike Night on Beale Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m.

162 BEALE 521-1851

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.

126 BEALE 529-0007

145 BEALE 578-3031

168 BEALE 576-2220

Smash Mouth Thursday, Aug. 31, 7 p.m.

Blues City Cafe

King Jerry Lawler’s Hall of Fame Bar & Grille

Rum Boogie Cafe

138 BEALE 526-3637

159 BEALE

Young Petty Thieves Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Pam and Terry Friday, Sept. 1, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Preston Shannon Friday, Sept. 1, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., and Saturday, Sept. 2, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Jeff Crosslin Saturday, Sept. 2, 5:30-8:30 p.m.; Sensation Band Sunday, Sept. 3, 7-11 p.m.; Eric Hughes Band Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight;

Blind Mississippi Morris Fridays, 5 p.m., and Saturdays, 5:30 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Band Thursdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith Friday, Sept. 1, 9:30 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 2, 9:30 p.m.; Earl “The Pearl” Banks Saturdays, 12:30 p.m., and Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Brandon

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.; Cowboy Neil Friday, Sept. 1, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Juke Joint Allstars Saturday, Sept. 2, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sensation Band Monday, Sept. 4, 8 p.m.midnight; Brian Hawkins Blues Party Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Chris McDaniel Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Silky O’Sullivan’s 183 BEALE 522-9596

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

Chris Gales Solo Acoustic Show Mondays-Saturdays, 12-4 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.

182 BEALE 528-0150

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

The Rusty Pieces Saturday, Sept. 2, 4:15-5 p.m.; Memphis Music and Heritage Festival Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 2-3.

Dirty Crow Inn 855 KENTUCKY

Nancy Apple Thursdays, 8 p.m.; 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

Belle Tavern The Rusty Pieces Sunday, Sept. 3, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Center for Southern Folklore Hall 119 S. MAIN AT PEMBROKE SQUARE 525-3655

Delta Cats, Billy Gibson & Linear Smith First Friday of every month, 11:30 a.m.1:30 p.m.

140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

The View Rooftop Bar @ Residence Inn 110 MADISON

The Rusty Pieces Saturday, Sept. 2, 6-9 p.m.

South Main Loflin Yard 7 W. CAROLINA

Electric Church Sundays, 2-4 p.m.

Huey’s Downtown Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, Sept. 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

117 BARBORO ALLEY 249-6580

Purple Haze Nightclub

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

330 BEALE 525-8981

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

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

Club 152

King’s Palace Cafe

Mollie Fontaine Lounge 679 ADAMS 524-1886

Dim the Lights First Saturday of every month, 10 p.m.

Paulette’s 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.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Disco Night with DJ Ben Bauermeister Thursday, Aug. 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.; Mobiles Pieces Friday, Sept. 1, 10 p.m.; HELLGAZER, No Loves, Switchblade Villian, Blind Drifter Luke Sunday, Sept. 3, 8 p.m.; Kyle Pruzina Live Mondays, 10 p.m.-midnight.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule August 31 - September 6 Celtic Crossing

Mulan Asian Bistro

903 S. COOPER 274-5151

2149 YOUNG 347-3965

Chris Gales Sunday Brunch First Sunday of every month, 12-3 p.m.

2092 TRIMBLE PLACE

Acoustic Courtyard Last Thursday, monthly, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

The Cove

Murphy’s

Wild Bill’s

2559 BROAD 730-0719

1589 MADISON 726-4193

1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

Glorious Abhor with Whiskey Angel Thursday, Aug. 31; The Dan Montgomery Three with Solar Flares Friday, Sept. 1; Where’s My Space Age? Saturday, Sept. 2; RIXE Monday, Sept. 4.

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

Young Avenue Deli 2119 YOUNG 278-0034

Azul Tequila Bar 4672 AMERICAN WAY

Adriel Favela Saturday, Sept. 2, 6 p.m.

Brookhaven Pub & Grill 695 BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 680-8118

Dantones Band Friday, Sept. 1, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Neil’s Music Room 5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; 5 O’clock Shadow Saturday, Sept. 2, 8 p.m.; Mike Dedmond Benefit Sunday, Sept. 3, 3 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.

Fingertrick Saturday, Sept. 2, 10 p.m.

Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Neon Velvet Band Friday, Sept. 1, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Cordova Agricenter International 7777 WALNUT GROVE 757-7777

Delta Fair & Music Festival Friday, Sept. 1, 2-11 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 2, 10 a.m.-11 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 3, 12-11 p.m., Monday, Sept. 4, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 5, 4-10 p.m. and Wednesday, Sept. 6, 9 a.m.10 p.m.

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

Dirtfoot, Ruby Dee and the Snakehandlers Thursday, Aug. 31, 9 p.m.; Chuck Mosley of Bad Brains Friday, Sept. 1, 9 p.m.; Impromptu Fest, Saturday, Sept. 2, 8 p.m.; The Living End, the Dollyrots, Wicker Sunday, Sept. 3, 8 p.m.; Zander Schloss, Slate Dump Tuesday, Sept. 5, 8 p.m.; Seedeater, Beitthemeans, Precursive Wednesday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m.

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

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Frayser/Millington Cook’s Lake

Huey’s Midtown

4249 N. WATKINS

Betty Wright Friday, Sept. 1

1927 MADISON 726-4372

Some of the Sons of Mudboy Sunday, Sept. 3, 4-7 p.m.; The Royal Blues Band Sunday, Sept. 3, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Millington 8570 U.S. 51 N.

The Natchez Brothers Sunday, Sept. 3, 8-11:30 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room

Pop’s Bar & Grill

2119 MADISON 207-5097

394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

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.; DJ Turtle or CeCee First Sunday of every month, 5-9 p.m.

P&H Cafe Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Quinn Conely, Bob Fleming & the Drunk Girl Chorus Saturday, Sept. 2; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

University of Memphis

The Phoenix

The Bluff

1015 S. COOPER 338-5223

535 S. HIGHLAND

The Phoenix Blues Jam Tuesdays, 8-11 p.m.

Unique Saturday Saturdays, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.

Minglewood Hall

Stanley BBQ

Ripe Tuesday, Sept. 5, 7 p.m.

Howard Vance Guitar Academy

1532 MADISON 726-0906

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. 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Nuttin’ Fancy Band Friday, Sept. 1, 9 p.m.; No Hit Wonders Saturday, Sept. 2, 9 p.m.; Groove Factor Sunday, Sept. 3, 5:30 p.m.; Charlie and Juno All Star Experience Wednesday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern

Crockett Hall Tuesdays with the Midtown Rhythm Section Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; XVII Trill, Shark Jackson (SF), The Ellie Badge Tuesday, Sept. 5, 911:45 p.m.

Midtown Crossing Grill

Hadley’s Pub 2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

2465 WHITTEN 379-1965

Growlers

Heath N’ Company Thursday, Aug. 31, 6 p.m.; The Spazmatics Thursday, Aug. 31, 9 p.m.; Ryan Peel Friday, Sept. 1, 6:30 p.m.; The Carlos Ecos Band Friday, Sept. 1, 10 p.m.; 3RD Man Saturday, Sept. 2, 11:30 a.m.; Pam & Terry Saturday, Sept. 2, 3 p.m.; Scott & Vanessa Sudbury Saturday, Sept. 2, 6:30 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Saturday, Sept. 2, 10 p.m.; Tom Lonardo Quartet Sunday, Sept. 3, 11:30 a.m.; Pearl Sunday, Sept. 3, 4 p.m.; Loveland Duren Sunday, Sept. 3, 8 p.m.; That 1 Band Monday, Sept. 4, 4 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Co. Tuesday, Sept. 5, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle & New Orleans Wednesday, Sept. 6, 5:30 p.m.; The Cold Stares Wednesday, Sept. 6, 8 p.m.

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Senses Nightclub 2866 POPLAR 249-3739

2110 MADISON

Tony Manard with Alex Bosworth and Natalie Mae Thursday, Aug. 31, 8-10 p.m.

978 REDDOCH 767-6940

Jordan Davis Thursday, Aug. 31, 7 p.m.; DJ Ben Murray Thursdays, 10 p.m.; Haggard Collins Trio Friday, Sept. 1, 10 p.m.; Pop Fiction Saturday, Sept. 2, 10 p.m.; Bluegrass Brunch with the River Bluff Clan Sundays, 11 a.m.

Triple S 1747 WALKER 421-6239

Fun-Filled Fridays First Friday of every month, 8 p.m.-midnight.

First Friday at Five Coffee House Concert First Friday of every month, 5 p.m.

Mortimer’s 590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

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

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30 Days of Opera Sept. 1-30.

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

Eddie Harris Thursdays, Fridays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Van Duren Solo Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m.

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

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

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

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

High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

Ryan Davis from the band the Rust Saturday, Sept. 2, 8 p.m.midnight.

North Mississippi/ Tunica Hollywood Casino 1150 CASINO STRIP RESORT, TUNICA, MS 662-357-7700

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

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

The Band Perry Saturday, Sept. 2; The Band Perry Saturday, Sept. 2, 8 p.m.

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

The Brian Johnson Band Sunday, Sept. 3, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

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Circuit Playhouse

The Flick takes place in a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, where three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35-millimeter film theaters in the state. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $30-$40. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. Through Sept. 10.

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

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Landers Center (DeSoto Civic Center)

June 24 - November 17, 2017

“Chinese Symbols in Art,” ancient Chinese pottery and bronze. www. belzmuseum.org. Ongoing.

Barefoot in the Park, www.dftonline.org. $22. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m. Through Sept. 10.

119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS).

Bingham and Broad

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

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

Germantown Community Theatre

Lost in Yonkers, heartfelt comingof-age story set in 1942 about a family coping with the challenges of staying together during World War II and the struggles to balance love with tough times. www. gctcomeplay.org. $24. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Through Sept. 17. 3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).

Hattiloo Theatre

Ruined, inspired by interviews conducted in Africa with Congo refugees, this play is an engrossing and uncommonly human story with humor and song. www. hattiloo.org. $26-$30. Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m., Sat., 2 & 7:30 p.m., and Sun., 3 p.m. Through Sept. 3. 37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

McCoy Theatre

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August 31-September 6, 2017

3050 Central Ave / Memphis 38111 P!NK PALACE MUSEUM

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

Playhouse on the Square

9 to 5, pushed to their boiling points, coworkers Violet, Judy, and Doralee concoct a plan to get even with their sexist, egotistical, and bigoted boss. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $25-$45. Thurs.Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Sept. 3. 66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

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The Zoo Story, aerial adaptation highlights the absurdist elements of the play and the attempts of two men to form an understanding of one another despite different backgrounds. (569-4305), www. weightlessaerial.com. PWYC. Fri., Sat., 7:30 p.m., and Sun., Sept. 3, 2 p.m. Through Sept. 2.

4509 Summer Ave. just west of Perkins 746-6666 / @caimanvzla

Shrek the Musical, www. theatrememphis.org. $30. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 2 p.m., Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Through Sept. 9. 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

TheatreWorks

Fittin’ Inn, set in New Orleans, three ladies stumble upon an injured man who requests that they deliver a package to Memphis. Slapstick situations ensue. Suitable for ages 10 & up. (946-6140), www. theatreworksmemphis.org. $20. Thurs., Aug. 31, 7:30-9:15 p.m. 2085 MONROE (274-7139).

2563 BROAD (323-3008).

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

Clough-Hanson Gallery

Artist reception for “Fathom,” exhibition of sculpture and video surveying fundamental human curiosities, including phases of change, units of measure, and persistence of transformation by Ryan Rasmussen. www.rhodes.edu. Fri., Sept. 1, 5-7 p.m. RHODES COLLEGE, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).

David Lusk Gallery

Opening reception for “Making Marks,” exhibition of works by Greely Myatt. www.davidluskgallery.com. Fri., Sept. 1, 6-8 p.m. 97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

OT H E R A R T HAPPE N I NGS

Artist’s lecture for “Fathom”

Talk by Ryan Rasmussen. Thurs., Aug. 31, 6 p.m. RHODES COLLEGE, BLOUNT AUDITORIUM IN BUCKMAN HALL, 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000), WWW.RHODES.EDU.

Call to Artists for MCA Holiday Bazaar & Fund-raiser

Open call, any local artist may submit, no cost to apply. See website for more information and submission form. Through Oct. 2. WWW.MCA.EDU.

Casting Demonstration Saturdays, Sundays, 3 p.m.

METAL MUSEUM, 374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380), WWW.METALMUSEUM.ORG.

Cooper-Young Art Tours

For more information, featured artists, and pop-up performances, visit website. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m. COOPER-YOUNG DISTRICT, CORNER OF COOPER AND YOUNG, WWW.COOPERYOUNG.COM.

Crosstown Arts Digital Lab

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

Ben Kronberg P&H Cafe, Tuesday, September 5th p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Emerging Memphis Designer Project Applications

Apply to be a part of the runway shows with our Emerging Memphis Designer Project. For more information, visit website. Through Sept. 15. WWW.MEMPHISFASHIONWEEK.ORG.

First Friday: Rest in Peace

Demonstration and presentation by Carter Jackson, Victorian embalming expert. The mansion will be staged in black and showcasing beautiful Victorian mourning collection. $15. Fri., Sept. 1, 5-8 p.m. WOODRUFF-FONTAINE HOUSE, 680 ADAMS (526-1469), WWW.WOODRUFF-FONTAINE.ORG.

Shoot & Splice: An Evening with Graham Gordy

Monthly filmmaking forum featuring the creator and executive producer of the partially shot and Memphis-set Cinemax series Quarry. Tues., Sept. 5, 6:30-9 p.m. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

“Stargazer Garden” Flower-Folding

Stop by and fold a paper flower for collaborative art installation. Mondays-Fridays, 9:30 a.m.5:30 p.m. CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE (FORMERLY SEARS CROSSTOWN), N. CLEVELAND AT NORTH PARKWAY, WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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Art Museum at the University of Memphis (AMUM)

“The Quick and the Dead,” exhibition of drawings and obituaries by Chris Honeysuckle Ellis. www.memphis.edu/amum. Through Sept. 23. “Stopping in Memphis,” exhibition

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

“Memphis Stories,” exhibition of new works by Meghean Warner. www.buckmanartscenter.com. Through Sept. 18. 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).

Circuitous Succession Gallery

“Stream of Consciousness,” exhibition of paintings by Brian Bundren. www.curcuitoussuccession.com. Through Sept. 25. 1789 KIRBY PARKWAY.

David Lusk Gallery

“Making Marks,” exhibition of works by Greely Myatt. www. davidluskgallery.com. Through Sept. 30. 97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Fidencio Fifield-Perez and Vanessa González: Location, Location, Location,” exhibition of work utilizing maps to open up discussions on migration and ceramic and installation work processing the challenges of immigration. www.dixon.org. Through Sept. 24. “Edward Giobbi: An Artist Comes to Memphis,” exhibition of works influenced by Italian Renaissance masterpieces by one of the founding trustees of the Hugo Dixon Foundation (which formed the Dixon Gallery and Gardens). www.dixon. org. Through Sept. 24. “Power and Piety: Spanish Colonial Art,” exhibition of paintings, sculptures, religious objects, and decorative art from the 17th through 19th centuries influenced by Spanish Colonial Caribbean. www.dixon.org. Through Sept. 24. “Made in Dixon,” exhibition showcasing the colorful and joy-filled artwork created by artists of all ages in the Dixon’s educational programs. www.dixon.org. Ongoing. 4339 PARK (761-5250).

Eclectic Eye

“Seeing Things My Way,” exhibition of photographs by Bob Pierce. www. eclectic-eye.com. Through Sept. 20. 242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

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Metal Museum

Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing. 985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Fratelli’s

“Painters at the Garden,” exhibition of original paintings. www.memphisbotanicgarden. com. Sept. 2-30. 750 CHERRY (766-9900).

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).

Sat.-Sun., Sept. 2-3, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. CENTER FOR SOUTHERN FOLKLORE, 123 S. MAIN AT PEABODY TROLLEY STOP (525-3655), WWW.SOUTHERNFOLKLORE.COM.

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15th Annual Chick-fil-A 5K

Benefiting Junior Achievement of Memphis. $10-$105. Mon., Sept. 4, 8 a.m.-noon. AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (366-7800), WWW.CHICKFILA5K.COM.

Couch-to-5K Program

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Memphis Botanic Garden

Playhouse on the Square

“Gardens: Indoor/Outdoor,” exhibition of garden-themed works by Libby Anderson. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Aug. 31. “Rustic Memorie,” exhibition of folksy style paintings by Nancy JF Woods. Sept. 5-30.

“Floating Light,” exhibition of photographs exploring the weight of light and darkness over a span of undocumented time by local photographers Katherine Dean and Joseph Moseley. mca.edu. Through Sept. 10.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

“By the Book: A Tribute to Dolph Smith,” exhibit focusing on Dolph Smith’s artist notebooks, featuring six on display. Includes the work of 11 artists who have worked with Smith. Through Nov. 26. Rotunda Projects: Nnenna Okore, exhibition of works with burlap to fashion abstract objects inspired by textures, colors, and landscapes. Through Sept. 10. “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. Ongoing. 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

Memphis College of Art

August 31-September 6, 2017

Memphis Music and Heritage Festival

“Cascadian Lines,” exhibition of works by Christopher Gerber in the museum store. www.metalmuseum.org. Through Nov. 12. “With Love, From Brent,” exhibition of nearly 200 pieces of jewelry created over the course of his life as gifts for his wife, mother, daughter, and sister-inlaw alongside cards and letters drawn and written by L. Brent Kington. www.metalmuseum.org. Through Oct. 15. “Master Metalsmith: David Secrest,” exhibition by sculptor and blacksmith well known for his incorporation of textures and patterns in forged iron, fabricated steel and bronze sculptures, and furniture. www.metalmuseum. org. Sept. 3-Dec. 31.

FireHouse Community Arts Center

“Horn Island 33,” exhibition of artwork as part of the outcome of an 11-day annual trip by MCA students, faculty, and alumni to Horn Island, a barrier island off the coast of Pascagoula, MS. mca.edu/event/horn-island-33/. Through Sept. 29.

Tops Gallery: Madison Avenue Park

“Sad Men on Bad Afternoons,” exhibition curated by Daniel Fuller featuring the work of Natalie Labriola, Joseriberto Perez, Lauren Taylor, and Kandis Williams. www.topsgallery. com. Through Sept. 17.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

151 MADISON (340-0134).

Rhodes College, Clough Hall

Village Frame & Art

“Fathom,” exhibition of sculpture and video by Ryan Rasmussen. www.rhodes.edu. Sept. 1-Oct. 14. 2000 N. PARKWAY (843-3000).

Ross Gallery

“Home/Away From Home” and “Signals,” exhibition of work by Terry Kenney and Chuck Johnson. www.cbu.edu. Through Oct. 5. 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).

St. George’s Episcopal Church

Artists’ Link Exhibit, (7547282), www.stgchurch.org. Sept. 2-Aug. 24. 2425 SOUTH GERMANTOWN (754-7282).

Talbot Heirs

Debra Edge Art. Ongoing. 99 S. SECOND (527-9772).

Gallery Artists, exhibition of work by Charlie Ivey, Virginia Schoenster, Lou Ann Dattilo, and Matthew Hasty. Ongoing.

30 Days of Opera, September 1st-30th, various locations

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Ben Kronberg, unique and sometimes controversial style of comedy. www.facebook. com/events/257182204772506/. $10. Tues., Sept. 5, 8-10 p.m. 1532 MADISON (726-0906).

540 S. MENDENHALL (767-8882).

WKNO Studio

“Score: A Twenty Year Retrospective,” exhibition of paintings by Garen Shrader. (458-2521), www. wkno.org. Free. Sept. 4-29. 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

OPERA

30 Days of Opera

Check Opera Memphis website for pop-up opera events in Memphis and the Mid-South. Sept. 1-30. VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW. OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG.

DA N C E

Dance Open House

Discover Ballet On Wheels’ unique dance program and learn more about the variety of classes offered. Sat., Sept. 2, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. BALLET ON WHEELS DANCE SCHOOL & COMPANY, 2085 MONROE, WWW. BALLETONWHEELS.ORG.

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Epiphany Lutheran Church

Centering Prayer, opportunity for silent contemplation, followed by inspirational poetry and readings. www.epiphanylu.org. Sundays, 5 p.m., and Wednesdays, noon. 7887 POPLAR (861-6227).

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“Everyday Ways to Practice Integrative Medicine”

Mid-South Coalition for Comfort Care and Bioethics community meeting featuring potluck presentation by Joanna Lyman of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. Call for more information. Tues., Sept. 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m. THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT TREZEVANT MANOR, 3437 WAYNOKA (626-4233).

1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

OM Memphis

30-day pop-up record shop and micro lounge. Closed on Monday. Through Sept. 18, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. THE EDGE DISTRICT, MADISON, MARSHALL, AND MONROE, WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/OMMEMPHISMUSIC/.

Shop Her Closet Consignment

Items can be brought every Tuesday in August, 9-6pm or by appointment. Pre-sale, 8/31. Open to the public 9/1. Sales benefit Memphis Fashion Design Network. Free-$25. Through Sept. 30, Thurs., Aug. 31, 5 p.m., and Fri., Sept. 1, 6 p.m. THE LAB BY MEMPHIS FASHION NETWORK, 64 FLICKER (404-583-3760), WWW.MEMPHISFASHIONDESIGNNETWORK.COM.

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Health fair, fun run, 5K, and more. Sat., Sept. 2, 8 a.m. SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.HEALTHYSHELBY5K.COM.

Memphis Redbirds Home Games

For more information, visit website. Through Aug. 31. AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), WWW.MEMPHISREDBIRDS.COM.

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Featured artists include Tonya Dyson 9/1, Courtney Little 9/8, Carmen Hicks 9/15, Devin Crutcher 9/22, and Karen Brown 9/29, spoken word artists, MLK speeches, food trucks, and a Sip & Shop at museum store. Free. Fridays, 6-8 p.m. Through Sept. 30.

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Celebration of the 148th Anniversary of the “South’s Grand Hotel” in the Grand Lobby. Entertainment by the Memphis Symphony Orchestra. Call for more information. Wed., Sept. 6, 4:30-6 p.m. THE PEABODY HOTEL, 149 UNION (529-4000), WWW.PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

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Monthly short film screening series featuring Festival Narrative Shorts staff picks from the 2016 Indie Memphis Film Festival, PWYC. Wed., Sept. 6, 6:30-9 p.m. CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Featuring animated dinosaurs and other animals from Kokoro. Through Sept. 10. MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

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20th Anniversary Outflix Party

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he zeroes in on how Charles Hodges created his trademark organ swoops. He teases out the respective rhythmic contributions of Al Jackson Jr. and Howard Grimes. He recreates the session when Teenie Hodges insists on smoking a joint, then stomps the count-off to “Love and Happiness” on a Coca-Cola crate. Most importantly, we get a portrait of Hi’s master architect, Willie Mitchell, as he curses, praises, and cajoles brilliant performances from all involved. “They worked on the vocal for eight days straight,” writes McDonough, who quotes Mitchell’s recollection that Green “just wouldn’t listen. Finally, he started to cry. I told him, ‘You sound like everybody out on the street. I want to hear Al Green.’ He said, ‘I don’t know who Al Green is.’” This is a telling moment. It gets to the dark heart of the book’s mystery: Who is Al Green? On page one, McDonough quotes the ghost writer of Green’s “autobiography,” who says the singer “would walk in and out of the real world. … As far as I could tell, he had three different personalities.” McDonough tries to unravel the tangle with wide-ranging research. While he never gets a chance to interview Green in person, he certainly speaks to or finds interviews with nearly everyone else in Green’s life. At times the story can be fatiguing — a litany of musicians and companions who felt wronged or betrayed. But the overlapping narratives can also make for a gripping read, as with the jilted lover who attacked Green with boiling grits (or Cream of Wheat?) and then (maybe?) committed suicide. McDonough wisely balances these passages, which portray a loner prone to wild mood swings and questionable ethics, with in-depth readings of the works themselves, from the ridiculous to the sublime. Even with the wheat and the chaff equally considered, the music gives Green’s life story a sense of hope. Near the end, an upbeat note is sounded when Green makes an album with the Roots. Drummer Questlove, who instigated the collaboration, makes an observation that sums up the whole book: “All musical geniuses are crazy. And Al is no exception to the rule. He’s channeling something that’s not normal … He’s from another planet.”

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My paternal great-grandmother abandoned rural Mississippi in the 1960s in order to escape her husband, an abusive man who decided early in their marriage that he wanted a farmhand instead of a wife. My great-grandmother — affectionately called “Granny” by her great-grandchildren — survived assaults from men who wanted to claim her body, a wage-slavery system that wanted to claim her soul, and a concentrated dose of white supremacy that had no qualms about making a feast out of her bones as well. In her old age, my Granny’s favorite pastime was riding around the city to visit shopping malls and department stores, but she couldn’t drive, so when one of her children or grandchildren was too busy to serve as chauffeur, we rode the bus. During the face-meltingly hot Memphis summers of the early 1990s, I was frequently her co-pilot and traveling companion. One of my fondest memories of her was a summertime bus ride where we rumbled past the Sears Crosstown tower on Cleveland, which by then had been long abandoned. As we passed the building, Granny looked up at it, cursed (she only cursed when she was mad), and sighed. My Granny had given most of her life to affluent white Memphians who visited our house whenever they wished to slip silver dollars from behind our ears like stale magic, praising my Granny for her hardworking nature and her homespun wisdom even as they worked her to her grave. Her sigh that day as we passed Sears Crosstown wasn’t wistful. She did not long for bygone days, and she was not lamenting lost fondness; my Granny had lived through so much pain at the hands of men, white-folks, and crushing poverty that she rarely ever seemed fond of anything other than her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. I carried her memory and her history with me more than 10 years after that bus ride when I crossed Cleveland and stepped into the brand new Crosstown Concourse. I was there to witness firsthand the realization of a project purported to bring new life into central Memphis. New life, of course, because the old ones are less meaningful in the face of developments like this one. I can’t lie, the Crosstown Concourse is a nice building. The idea of a “vertical urban village” is a concept out of my futurist fantasies, and the Crosstown Concourse looks the part. The updated construction has managed to retain the massive look and feel of the building from my Crosstown childhood while also making the new space feel fresh and modern. The public servant in me is impressed by the convergence of commercial and civic interests into a single public-use space. But Memphis is full of disrespected dead, and their spirits still cry out for justice. On the afternoon of Saturday, August 12th, our city was at the crux of an interesting convergence: Less than three miles from the celebration of Crosstown’s shining beacon, hundreds of protesters (many of whom are descendants of the slaves that kept Memphis living in high cotton) decided to use their bodies and lives to demand that our elected representatives stand on the correct side of history and remove hateful edifices from our taxpayer-funded parks. While the people who Memphis prioritizes bobbed their heads to performances from some of our most brilliant black artists, immigrant Memphians marched to defend themselves and their families from forces that threaten to rupture their families and destroy their livelihoods. We are living in a literal tale of two cities. I want to know: How can I be excited about the Crosstown Concourse when the grocery store inside of it is explicitly not marketed to the disenfranchised residents of Klondike and Smokey City? How can I be excited about the Crosstown Concourse when there are thousands of unemployed and underemployed Memphians in a two-mile radius of its doors? How can I be excited about the Crosstown Concourse when entire swaths of the city remain blighted and infested with vermin and waste? How can I be excited about the Crosstown Concourse when white supremacy, the system that makes Memphis great (for white residents) is still deeply ingrained in every facet of our city’s operation, from the police to the politics to the food and employment deserts, and is still killing people in whatever way it deems best — just like it killed my Granny? Just last week, I was visiting South Memphis, talking to residents in an area infamous for having lead soil contamination readings higher than 1,700 parts per million (the federal standard for lead soil contamination is 400 parts per million). One woman caught my eye — her resemblance to my Granny struck me so deeply that it nearly brought tears to my eyes. She was hurt and disgusted. Everyone in Memphis seemed to be on the receiving end of such great developments. Her neighborhood had changed too, with new housing and freshly constructed green space, but she was still not impressed. Where were the opportunities for her children and grandchildren to escape the chains of poverty that had held her in place for generations? Where were the nearby jobs? The adequately funded schools? There isn’t a full-service grocery story within three miles of her house. Those seem to be very basic requests, and I thought that Memphis was in the business of being brilliant at those. At one point during our conversation, she sighed and shook her head. For a moment, I was back on that bus with my Granny, my 10-year-old self finally understanding the weight of her sigh. Time and again, our city’s leadership proves to folks like me that it does not care about our poor black grannies, our immigrant friends and family, or anyone else who dares to speak up and demand that all of the edifices to hate and white supremacy — mounted or not — be removed from this place where we’ve planted our roots. In the face of all these past memories and current pain, tell me: Why should I, or any Memphians like me, be excited about these future developments? Troy L. Wiggins is a Memphis writer whose work has appeared in the Memphis Noir anthology, Make Memphis, and The Memphis Flyer.

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