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I’m thinking of moving to Tennessee’s 8th Congressional District so I can vote for Karen Free Spirit Talley-Lane. Karen, or “Free” as I like to call her, is an independent candidate, one of 20 people vying to become GOP Congressman Stephen Fincher’s replacement, including four other independents, two Democrats, and 13(!) Republicans.

There are 13 Republicans running because the 8th District seat has been gerrymandered into a lockdown seat for the GOP. All one of these 13 boys has to do is win, say, 20 percent of the votes and they’re on their way to Washington, D.C. The actual election in November is a foregone conclusion.

And thanks to the GOP gerrymandering of the 8th District that occurred after the 2010 census, I wouldn’t have to move very far to vote for Free — just to the “finger” on the map that juts its way deep into east Memphis, into the heart of what used to be Democratic 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen’s district, including the area where many of the city’s Jewish voters live. Huh, what could they have been thinking?

No problem, they gave Cohen Millington in exchange. Seems fair, right?

Gerrymandering is the source of our congressional gridlock. It’s a system that allows office-holders to literally pick who gets to vote for (and against) them. The majority party in power after the census obtains the right to draw the borders of our districts and other various political bailiwicks. They almost always do so in a way that splits and scatters the opposition party’s voters and solidifies their own. That’s why members of Congress are very seldom defeated, unless it’s by a member of their own party in a primary. Since they don’t have to work across party lines in their home districts, there’s very little inclination to do so once they get to Washington. They just have to keep the homefolks in their own party happy.

And that’s why there is a mad scramble among 13 Republicans to win the GOP nomination in the 8th. Once they’re in, they’re in for as long as they want to be there.

Just eight years ago, things were reversed. Longtime Democratic Congressman John Tanner controlled the 8th District, winning election after election. In 2008, the GOP didn’t even field a candidate. Tanner won the general election with 180,000 votes to his write-in opponent’s 54 — almost literally 100 percent of the electorate!

Then Tanner retired, and in the 2010 “wave” election, Fincher beat Democrat Roy Herron. In the post-census redistricting, the 8th District got gerrymandered to ensure that it would remain Republican, at least until the next census. That was done by moving much of eastern Shelby County, a GOP stronghold, from the 9th District to the 8th.

Which is why the Memphis television and radio airwaves are now filled with ads from Republicans, each trying to outdo the others with their red, white, and blue credentials. David Kustoff is going to end Islamic terrorism; George Flinn is going to abolish Obamacare (with the help of those two white-haired biddies who love him so); and real conservative Brian Kelsey is going to be the most conservative conservative who ever conserved. It’s why we are being visited by the dregs of the recent GOP presidential nomination process — Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, and others — who are pitching for one or the other of the Goopsters.

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MILES FILES This isn’t fresh news, but Fly on the Wall would be remiss in not reporting that WMC news reporter Jason Miles is leaving Memphis to take a job at KHOUTV in Houston, a top-10 media market. Miles’ sometimes over-thetop behavior — like chest-bumping cops on Beale Street — and his never-ending stream of accidentally hilarious tweets have earned numerous mentions in this column since he first arrived on the Memphis scene back in 2004. We’ll miss how Miles would fearlessly crawl under things (like cars) and through things (like pet doors) to illustrate his stories. We’ll miss harkening back to his time as Memphis’ “secret swab” tester, checking for fecal matter in places like grocery stores and public restrooms. Most of all we’ll miss the reporter who fired off the greatest news tweet of all time: “Man murdered in Marshall Co. was double amputee. Half brother in custody.”

But was his brother armed? The public remains stumped.

IT’S A SIGN Your Pesky Fly is happy to be back in Memphis having spent the past two weeks covering the political conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia. Our favorite protester at the DNC was the protester who was protesting protesters.

By Chris Davis. Email him at davis@memphisflyer.com.

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TVA may drill wells into the Memphis Sands aquifer to cool new gas plant.

The source of Memphis’ beloved clean drinking water — the Memphis Sands Aquifer — could soon be tapped for up to 3.5 million gallons of water per day to cool the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) new, under-construction gas plant.

In 2014, when the TVA approved plans for the Allen Combined Cycle gas plant that will replace the Allen Fossil coal plant in 2018, they said they’d be using wastewater from the nearby Maxson Wastewater Treatment Plant for its cooling water system.

But those plans have turned out to be too expensive, according to a report from TVA, since using wastewater would first require treatment due to pollutants in that water.

“It would add more than a billion dollars a year to the operating costs,” said TVA spokesperson Chris Stanley.

Now, they’re looking at a few alternatives — either drilling five wells into the aquifer and pulling water directly from the ground, purchasing potable water from Memphis Light, Gas, & Water (MLGW), or some combination of the

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two. If potable water is purchased from MLGW, that water would come from both the Memphis Sands and the Fort Pillow aquifers, but the TVA environmental assessment continued on page 6

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Delays led Just City to drop its bail fund program, but government leaders say they were just doing due diligence.

Edward Stanton Jr., the Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk, said his office never opposed a now-suspended criminal justice reform project but did not say whether or not he’d continue to advocate for it on his own.

Last month, leaders of Just City, a Memphis-based nonprofit, said they suspended their pursuit of a bail fund program here. The program is designed to use a reserve of private donor funds to cover cash bail for people who are deemed likely to return for their court dates.

The group began work in January on bail fund programs in Memphis and Nashville. Just City launched the Nashville program in June and has bailed out six people since then. But the project hit snags in Memphis, according to Just City executive director Josh Spickler.

In Shelby County, portions of bail money are sometimes kept to cover court costs and other fees that might apply as people make their way through the court system. Just City asked Stanton for an exemption on the court costs to keep the money rolling through its revolving bail fund.

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That process, Spickler said, dragged on, and the list of people weighing in on the project grew to include the Shelby County Attorney’s office, judges, and more. continued on page 6

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report says MLGW cannot sell the TVA enough water to meet peak demand.

“We may need both the [aquifer] well water and the backup potable water from MLGW,” Stanley said.

Most of that water — about 90 percent — is evaporated in the plant’s cooling process, and the rest will be discharged into the Maxson plant, Stanley said.

The TVA is under an agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency and several environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, to reduce emissions at its coal-fired plants by December 2018. In 2014, the TVA’s board voted to close the Allen Fossil plant, which provides energy to the region, and replace it with a more environmentally friendly natural gas plant. The new Allen Combined Cycle plant is currently under construction in Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park, near the site of the Allen Fossil Plant.

The TVA must have the Allen Fossil Plant closed by December 2018, so they’re looking to get the new plant online by June of that year. Stanley said they’d originally planned to use wastewater to cool the plant “to maximize environmental efforts.”

But in April, the TVA issued a supplemental environmental assessment report on the aquifer issue, claiming either option would lead to “minor irreversible and irretrievable commitments of groundwater resources.” Cooling the gas plant requires about 3.5 million gallons of water per day, but the aquifer is believed to hold around 57 trillion gallons. Stanley said the TVA wouldn’t be the first local company to pull water directly from aquifer wells.

Still yet, not everyone is pleased with the TVA’s new plan.

“It’s depleting our aquifer,” said Scott Banbury, conservation program coordinator for the Tennessee Sierra Club. “Most people in Memphis are pretty stoked that we have this awesome source of water. The TVA did some basic calculations on the cone of depression it would create, and they describe that as negligible, but it’s still a depletion.”

Banbury said he’s upset that the public wasn’t given an opportunity to comment on the issue.

“They tried to pull a switcheroo on us without giving the public an opportunity to weigh in,” Banbury said.

The TVA released on its website the supplemental environmental assessment report looking at the new potential water sources back in April, but Banbury said he only learned of it recently since no meetings were held seeking public comment.

“We don’t have to have those meetings by law, but we usually do,” Stanley said.

“But in this case, it’s a decision we have to make quickly because we have to have the Allen Fossil Plant retired by December 2018.”

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“It just became apparent that it’s going to be a series of unending meetings, and each meeting is going to expand the cast of characters who have input on this,” Spickler said, last month. “But to continue to go on an unending quest to find approval from people whose approval is not legally required ... I’m not going to engage in that.”

Stanton defended his office and his process noting that he and his staff have “worked closely with and engaged in meaningful discussions with Just City concerning its proposed bail bond program.”

In Shelby County, “We have never taken the position portions of bail money are that we oppose the program but simply sometimes kept to cover that we would perform due diligence, including conferring with the General court costs and other fees Sessions Court Judges and the county that might apply as people attorney’s office, to ensure any new make their way through initiative launched is legally and fiscally the court system. sound,” Stanton said. However, Stanton did not say whether his approval was the only one needed to green-light the bail fund project, whether such a program would be of help to his office, or whether or not he would continue to advocate on his own for a bail fund project.

In response to a question about the speedy implementation of the program in Nashville, Stanton said clerks’ offices are all different. “While I cannot speak for other jurisdictions, the Shelby County General Sessions Court Clerk’s Office is the largest clerk’s office in the state and has one of the largest fiscal operations in the entire Southeast region,” Stanton said. “Therefore, one size does not always fit all.”

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I peddled the three-speed B-Cycle, a prototype made available at a demo hosted last Wednesday by Explore Bike Share, through Overton Square’s bike lane. Then, I hit Cooper Street, and, oh my god, cars everywhere. I’ll die here, I thought, and turned on a side street. After mustering some gusto, I looped back around to the temporary station where project manager Sara Studdard told me, yes, it’s intimidating to ride a bike down city streets for the first time — but it gets easier.

My experience may be typical for a first-timer, but if all goes as planned, Explore Bike Share’s planned bike-sharing program will help newbies like me become more comfortable cycling on the streets.

“A big part of Explore Bike Share’s programming will be bike education and bike safety,” says Studdard, who’s ridden for two years. “Not just how you ride a bike-share bike, but how you ride a bike in general. We’ll go over the rules of the road, and we’ll host group rides to encourage folks to feel more comfortable riding on the street.”

Bicycling magazine ranked Memphis one of the three worst cities for cycling just six years ago. The city is now on its way to housing 600 bike-share cycles and 60 stations in South Memphis, Orange Mound, Binghampton, Midtown, and downtown.

Here’s how it would work: Bikes would be rented for a certain amount of time, but users can replace the bike at any station around town. Those who expect to use the program regularly can buy memberships for $15 a month, but bikes can also be rented by the day. Riders will be able to pay with card or cash — making it one of the few bike-share programs in the country with that option.

There’s also an annual “pay it forward” membership for $200 for those who’d like to donate a membership to a Memphian in need.

Doug Carpenter & Associates, LLC, has assisted with fund-raising for the program for nearly two years. Explore has raised half of the $4 million the bike share needs for initial start-up capital. B-Cycle, operated by Wisconsin’s Trek Bicycle, will then build the bikes and solar-powered stations. The bikes will fit a person from about 5’1” tall to 6’6”, says Jake Higgin, a B-Cycle associate. Each bicycle will have a projection headlight and LED taillight as well as a front caddy to hold belongings.

A bike-share program will aid many transportation obstacles citizens face in the inner city, says Dwayne Jones, a resident of Orange Mound who sits on Explore’s board of directors. Johnson, who’s biked for six years, said access is the largest barrier to riding for many

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Calling the Roll Some highs and lows from both conventions.

Here it is, a blazing-hot late summer and the snows of yesteryear — or rather, the remnants of long-gone and well-lost presidential races — are being hauled out of cold storage by hopeful seekers after the Republican nomination for the 8th District congressional seat.

Last week, appearing for former U.S. Attorney David Kustoff, it was former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, winner of the Iowa caucuses in 2008 and a dropout from the kiddie debate rounds this year. This week, state Senator Brian Kelsey was touting a visit on his behalf by Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania Senator who won enough primaries in 2012 to complicate Mitt Romney’s life but this year was running dead last among GOP candidates, or close to it, before he, too, had to take a powder.

As of our deadline, none of the other 8th District candidates with a theoretical chance to win — Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell, broadcaster/ businessman George Flinn, Register of Deeds Tom Leatherwood, or Jackson advertising man Brad Greer — had called up one of these worthies from the deep. Why not? The likes of Steve Forbes or Gary Bauer or George Pataki or Bobby Jindal or Carly Fiorina are surely still out there, ready to serve.

All of which is to say, fascination for presidential races and the people who wage them still comes first in our imagination. Herewith some final observations after the GOP and Democratic conventions:

Cleveland vs. Philadelphia: Cleveland is a rust-belt city which has had hard times, and it shows. Its main drag, equivalent to our Poplar Avenue, is more reminiscent of Summer. Or Lamar. But it was an easy place to get around. Philadelphia is an older, posher place with lots of American history to boast, but it was a jungle of barricades and man-made obstructions during convention week. The Rock and Roll Museum vs. the Philadelphia Museum of Art? No contest. So many Monets!

Elizabeth Warren vs. Bernie Sanders as spokesperson for the left: Bernie may have been the fallback candidate when Warren chose not to run, but his

bullet points were aimed with unerring accuracy and verve at the right targets, while Dame Elizabeth came off as everybody’s favorite law professor — smart, loveable, but a bit diffuse.

Most overrated orators: Cory Booker for the Democrats; Paul Ryan for the Republicans. Extremism in the pursuit of self-importance is no virtue.

Most underrated orators: The two Veep candidates, Mike Pence for the GOP and Tim Kaine for the Democrats, both exceeded expectations with clear, concise speeches loaded with zingers.

Phrases heard often at one convention, rarely, if ever, at the other: “Second Amendment” was pretty much restricted to Cleveland, while expressions of tolerance for “who you love” were de rigueur at Philadelphia but absent from Cleveland, save in a surprising use of the term by Ivanka Trump.

Done-what-they-were-‘sposed-to honors: To Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani at Cleveland, who, for better or for worse, did their party duty with theatrical “indictments” of Hillary in one case and “Viewing with Alarm” in the other. And to Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg at Philadelphia for reminding us what cool, no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is guys look like.

Ain’t-she-something-award: to Michelle Obama. Well, ain’t she? And still worth cribbing from.

Most overheated rhetoric: All that fuss and bother about Melania Trump “plagiarizing” parts of her speech. Look, folks, 99 percent of what you heard at both conventions was devised by ghostwriters; any second-story stuff took place at the staff level. In all honesty, Melania’s delivery outclassed most of the other speakers at her convention.

Darth Vader award: to Ted Cruz, who demonstrated all over again why he’s the most disliked person in the U.S. Senate. He found a way to embarrass his followers and make Donald Trump look like a victim by using his primetime perch to unload a stink bomb.

Too-good-to-be-true award: To Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father of a slain war hero whose shaming of Trump’s indiscriminate Muslim-baiting was the stuff of movie climaxes.

‘And-still-champ’ awards: to Bill Clinton for a graceful speech honoring his lifetime mate (though calling her a “change maker” was overdoing it); and to President Barack Obama, whose modesty and overlooked accomplishments both shone in the course of his handoff to Hillary Clinton.

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In other words, watch out for sudden volatility and mood swings among the electorate. Whatever the polls are telling us about the probable election outcome at any given time is likely, to use the catchphrase of another not-so-distant political time, to become “inoperative.”

Meanwhile, let us take such comfort as we can. There were some silver linings in the storm clouds emanating from the pumped-up oratory of the conventions.

The much-vaunted “social issues” that have distorted relations between persons and institutions and classes and tainted our nation’s politics for a generation or more may at last be on the way out.

Give Donald Trump this: For all the patent demagoguery that has fueled his unexpected rise to political prominence, The Donald deserves some props for a tip of the hat in his acceptance address to

a community of fellow citizens hitherto ignored or ostracized by his party (as they still are in the Comstockian language of the Republican platform). However awkward his bingo-call enunciation of the letters LGBTQ was, he crossed a threshold by the straightforwardness of his acknowledgment. The presence on the GOP dais of an openly avowed gay entrepreneur was another welcome move in that direction.

And on the Democratic side, that glass ceiling of gender discrimination has been exploded at last —by a woman whose personal prowess is so undeniable that even her political enemies have to magnify their claims of high crimes and misdemeanors in an effort to neutralize her. As state Representative Raumesh Akbari of Memphis told the Democratic convention proudly, Hillary Clinton, like her or not, is one bad sister!

One last threshold whose crossing is deserving of mention: There was a time when the word “socialist” was as disqualifying as any word in the American political lexicon. Through his steadfast and spot-on criticisms of the economic inequalities afflicting this nation, Senator Bernie Sanders gave the term new legitimacy and made enough converts to come narrowly close to winning his party’s nomination. Especially given the youthfulness of the new cadres that felt the Bern this year, the chances are excellent that, in election years to come, the economic facts of life can be faced and discussed squarely, without having to work around outmoded taboos in the political vocabulary.

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there was yet another — and here he stopped to put some eggs in his mouth, and Hillary finished the sentence for him. They weren’t a team. They were a machine. She was no ordinary political spouse, whatever that might mean or might have meant. This one was different. This was Hillary Clinton.

I would, to get right down to it, vote for Kim Kardashian over Donald Trump, so my support of Clinton comes easy. Still, I am vexed by her rampant unpopularity, especially among the young women who found Bernie Sanders so exciting. I had to recall the wisdom of Gloria Steinem, who knows, because she was once a young woman herself, that aging is tough on women. When they are young, they are cherished, adored. But as they age, they become less adored — by men, sometimes, but by employers, too. They have children, complicating their lives. Every day-care center is constructed out of glass ceilings.

I would, to get right down to it, vote for Kim Kardashian over Donald Trump, so my support of Clinton comes easy. Still, I am vexed by her rampant unpopularity, especially among ... young women.

Sanders, somewhere along the line, had a child out of wedlock. Imagine if Clinton had done the same. After Bill’s sex scandal broke, I never thought Hillary would accept the suggestion of Representative Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) and run for the Senate. I thought she’d seek privacy, a place to nurse her wounds. But she jumped into the race. She worked New York state hard, campaigning in every county. And she won.

She will win this time, too, but it will be harder than it ought to be.

It will be hard because she can be tone-deaf as a politician, because lots of people find her to be shrill, and because she has an awesome ability to turn a political misdemeanor into a firestorm. But as Trump lazes through the campaign, relying on his unreliable instincts, she will work harder than he knows how.

As a woman, she’s always had to.

Richard Cohen writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.

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What if Hillary Clinton were a man?

What if she were a 68-year-old male rather than a 68-year-old female? Would we think differently of her? Her raised voice would be lower. She would be better at physically commanding the stage. Her indomitability might be seen as manly. If she were taller and bigger, might she have been able to get away with saying nothing about her email server — as Donald Trump has with his tax returns? As they say, I’m just askin’.

And I am asking because the dislike of Clinton is so palpable that it has become akin to a prejudice. I understand the criticisms and don’t reject them out of hand. She has been slippery. She has fibbed. She has used a private email server, which was wrong and careless. She has been the marital partner of a man who has taken other partners. She did not leave him, as many women wanted her to do. To them, she became the personification of the female doormat.

Still, it does not all add up. I know her a bit, but I know others who know her quite well. In the corners of rooms dedicated to ugly gossip and whispered betrayals, what you hear from those who know her is not agreement with the general consensus but puzzlement: She’s warm. She’s bright. She’s charming. She has a great sense of humor.

And yet, on the podium, these qualities are rarely in sight. Her voice escalates, the pitch rises, the emphasis is often misplaced. She is rhetorically wrong-footed. Her smile seems fake, the wave is to no one, the laugh sounds manufactured. She is defensive. She fights for privacy, yet she has chosen politics played on the most expansive of all scales. If she wins, she will be a renter in a house owned by all of us. She will remain under continuous observation.

I met Clinton during her husband’s first campaign for the White House. It was 1992, New Hampshire, and both Clintons had stopped at a coffee shop to greet the folks and get something to eat. It was Bill Clinton’s campaign, so he took question after question, exhausting much of the county before finally sitting down at the counter.

Hillary joined him. So did I. There was one more question to go.

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CLEVELAND, PHILADELPHIA — At both of the major-party conventions’ conclusions, there was serious tension and distrust between the presumptive nominees’ delegates and backers and those of the runners-up.

At the Republican conclave in Cleveland, this was symbolized somewhat by a scuffle involving the efforts of Mick Wright, a Bartlett delegate committed to Ted Cruz, to make sure that Cruz got the 16 votes he was entitled to when the roll of states was called on the second night of the convention.

Wright had already been involved in a last-ditch effort to deny the nomination of Donald Trump on Monday, opening day, when Cruz delegates and other members of the “Never Trump” contingent tried to force a voice vote on the convention’s rules package.

Normally, this is a routine thing, akin to a city council’s vote to accept the minutes of a prior meeting. But, like that procedure, which often becomes the pretext for reviewing the business at hand before something or other becomes etched in stone, the vote on rules became a test of strength. If successful in getting a vote, the dissidents had in mind some drastic practical changes — their main hope being to strike down the rule binding a state’s delegates to cast their convention ballots in strict accordance with the outcome of their state’s primary.

“Vote Your Conscience,” with its implied permission for delegates to vote as they pleased, was the alternative idea the Never Trumpers hoped to offer as 14 a replacement. It was no secret that in Tennessee, as in numerous other states,

Standing before an array of flags, presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the RNC. the delegate spots pledged to Trump had been filled out with the names of party regulars when not enough activists known to favor him had come to claim them.

Astonishingly, the long-shot “Vote Your Conscience” gambit came near to working.

When Congressman Steve Womack of Arkansas, the convention’s temporary chair, called for the Yeas and Nays on accepting the rules, the decibel levels for either side were virtually even. Nevertheless, Womack called it for the Yeas.

Thence began a war of voices, with the Never Trumpers chorusing “Roll Call! Roll Call!”, and the Trump forces responding with chants of “U.S.A.!

U.S.A.!” As verbal turmoil continued, petitions were circulated in several delegations demanding a roll call as such. And, with various officials

shuffling on and off the dais and House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, soon to be the convention’s permanent chairman, hovering nearby, functionaries representing Trump and the Republican leadership fanned out on the floor, twisting enough arms to get the number of petitioning state delegations below the ceiling needed to force a roll call vote.

After 30 minutes or so of voice votes and re-votes and confusing guerilla theater on the floor, the original verdict against a roll call was held to be valid, and with Ryan taking over as chair, the status quo would never again be threatened.

The civil strife would resume on a piecemeal basis, however, and, in Tuesday night’s roll call to nominate Trump, two states — Utah and Texas — resisted a move toward acclamation and cast their votes for Cruz, who had swept the primaries in both states.

Wright’s rebellion took place the same night. Abetted by Memphian and fellow Cruz delegate Lynn Moss, he took the seat

nearest the delegation’s floor microphone, resisting demands from Trump delegate Terry Roland of Millington and others that he vacate it for Mae Beavers, the Mt. Juliet state senator who was delegation chair. Wright documented his side of the quarrel with a smart-phone video of his confrontation with Roland, which became a Facebook post (later deleted).

Eventually Wright was persuaded to move, but he and Moss made sure to be at Beavers’ elbow when the Tennessee vote was cast: 33 for Trump, 16 for Cruz, and 9 for Marco Rubio.

In a sense, all this solicitude for the runner-up was for naught. Whatever loyalty Cruz might have extracted from his Republican base was squandered the third and penultimate night of the convention, when the Texas Senator, given a prime-time spot as runner-up, made what sounded like his opening salvo for the presidential race of 2020, omitting any reference to Trump beyond a thin and bitter-sounding “congratulations” and invoking the insurgent phrase, “Vote your conscience,” as his recommendation visà-vis the November ballot.

As it turned out, it was the best favor Cruz could have done for Trump; his behavior was almost universally regarded as churlish, and the consensus was that he had not only scotched his presidential hopes for four years hence but also removed himself as a rallying point against Trump’s takeover of the GOP. Against all the odds he had faced since his declaration for the presidency in June of 2015, Trump had his unity at last.

Granted, the obligatory lineup of speakers praising the nominee had run a bit short.

The convention had been boycotted by a Who’s Who of Republican heavyweights: McCain, Romney, anybody named Bush were among the missing. Even John

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present, understandably were subject to a feeling of estrangement; given the evidence, it was hard to call it, as some did, “paranoia.”

One of the after-effects of the WikiLeaks disclosure was to further swell the number of protesters who were confined within a mile or two of fenced-in parkland directly adjacent to the Wells Fargo Center. The number of people jammed into that space — mainly youthful but including some old soldiers of the left, as well — went well into the thousands, all hindered by the insufferable heat and a lack of provisions, save for whatever food and drink they might have packed for themselves (or, alternatively, was provided by parkservice units or by a good Samaritan group or two).

Do not imagine some Woodstock of the carefree and discontented. This was more on the order of a penal camp — a political ghetto, even — for all the revvedup spirits here and there, the intensity of the calumnies (mainly directed at Hillary or the DNC) in the signage, and the resort to “Power to the People” and other vintage slogans. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein had a tent, and there were tents for other pretenders and dissidents, and periodic efforts to make music on an outdoor stage.

Inside, the array of opening-day speakers was clearly designed to generate a sense of conciliation. First Lady Michelle Obama won hearts and plaudits with her eloquent recounting of generational progress and the sense that daughters Sasha and Malia might in their turn aspire to the presidency. Senator Al Franken and Sarah Silverman did a goofy send-up of the Clinton-Sanders rivalry designed to heal it over. Senator Elizabeth Warren was there to formally join her corner of the party’s reform wing to the cause of Hillary Clinton, and there was finally the pièce de résistance — Bernie.

Sanders did all that the Hillary camp would want. He declined to exploit the WikiLeaks revelations and did his best to smooth things over. “Any objective observer will conclude that — based on her ideas and her leadership — Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States,” he said.

He parroted one of the ad lines designed for Clinton supporters: “I’m with her.”

And, ignoring Trump’s affected solicitude for him, Bernie blasted away at the GOP candidate, linking him to reactionary positions on climate change, taxes, health care, and a minimum wage.

Even so, not all of Sanders’ supporters, either in or outside the arena, were reconciled with Clinton, as events would demonstrate. And this was a two-way proposition. Throughout the evening, delegates and audience members had remained in their seats, enduring any number of scripted warm-up speakers and the over-praised bombast of New Jersey Senator Cory Booker.

As Sanders prepared to speak, there

was an observable trickle of people off the floor and out the exits. Given the high degree of anticipation for what Bernie would say, this almost had to be a counter-protest of the Hillary contingent.

Nor were the Clinton and Sanders camps ever totally conjoined. Throughout the convention there were bitter words back and forth, in the Tennessee delegation as elsewhere. During the ritual roll call on Tuesday, TV cameras showed the numerous seats left vacant

by Sanders delegates, several of whom took to the hallways of the arena, posing with duct tape over their mouths, apparently to indicate, like the Cruz delegates in Cleveland, that they were victims of suppression.

Clinton delegates from the Memphis area, like David Cocke, Adrienne PakisGillon, and David and Diane Cambron, would periodically express exasperation at various tactics of Sanders delegates, who tended, they said, to claim blocs of seats and even whole rows for themselves, barring Clinton delegates from them.

Even on the convention’s final day, during the coronation speech of Hillary herself, the more diehard of the Sanders delegates sat together in clusters made highly visible by phosphorescentappearing green-and-yellow T-shirts.

The afternoon and early evening of that last day had been largely devoted to displays, atypical at Democratic conventions, of strident patriotism, featuring a veritable forest of flags that had been passed out, and as a highlight of sorts, a war-like address from Marine General John Allen, a former commander in Afghanistan, who thundered against ISIS and other foreign enemies and against Republican nominee Trump with almost equal fervor.

To all of this pockets of the Sanders people on the floor would chant “No More War!” and would be answered with countervailing choruses of “U.S.A.!” reminiscent of the rules-challenge cacophonies of the GOP convention.

A military sense even tinged the most telling moment of the Democrats’ final day, and perhaps of the entire convention, the reproaching of Trump for his antiMuslim sentiments by immigrant couple, Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son, Army Captain Herayun Khan, was killed in Afghanistan.

In a way, both presidential candidates, Republican Trump and Democrat Clinton, would close their conventions by presenting themselves against type — Trump by appealing to the followers of Bernie Sanders to switch their allegiance to him as an agent of populist change; Clinton by her efforts to appropriate the symbols of the status quo and of militancy. For better or for worse, both succeeded to some degree.

Clearly, Trump is basing his campaign, as he did during the Republican primaries, on convincing a dormant bloc of voters out there that he is the only

hope for a radical change in American government. Though he has made an effort to match up traditional Republican talking points, he is more sui generis than a conservative per se.

Just as clearly, Clinton wants to peel off suburbanites and traditionalists who normally vote Republican, while maintaining some degree of control over the unruly forces of reform represented by Sanders. Husband Bill Clinton’s extolling of her as a “change maker” on Tuesday night was a move to that latter end. But she is not a true person of the left.

The residual tensions in both parties, so plainly seen in the events of the two conventions, reflect what is an uneasy transition in the constituencies that each party represents. And, for that reason, this presidential election is going to be a difficult one to call.

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BEFORE THE FLOOD

by Chris Davis Somewhere in the distance somebody was playing “God Bless America” over a loudspeaker. The female singer’s voice wafted over the squall of sirens, cutting through the roar of dissent and the “step right up” patter of souvenir merchants selling T-shirts and buttons with slogans like “WTF GOP” and “Hillary for Prison.”

The scene outside Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center, where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accepted her party’s nomination to become America’s first real presidential contender with a pair of X chromosomes was chaotic and characteristically weird. It looked like one of those scenes you can find in practically every Walking Dead episode, where a narrow stretch of chain link is the only thing separating scrappy human survivors from the swelling undead horde.

In this case, protesters — mostly young Bernie Sanders supporters — pressed their bodies against the temporary fencing at the outer edge of the Democratic National Convention’s security perimeter, pounding steadily at the expanded metal with knotted fists and fleshy palms. Some demonstrators chanted anti-Democrat slogans; others — including some you’ve probably seen on TV explaining their positions to the nation — wore gags to signify how they’d been silenced by a rigged system.

Bernie’s hopeful, hard-fought campaign may have expired, but its decaying husk pressed forward.

I was moving away from all that noisy democracy, when I saw more flashing blue lights headed into the thick of it.

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Kasich, erstwhile presidential contender and the Governor of Ohio, the host state for the convention, had absented himself.

Ironically, Trump’s best foot forward may have come from a turn by Melania, his Slovenian-born wife, a former model who gave a well-received speech saluting the American dream and emphasizing such verities as honor, hard work, and personal responsibility.

That the speech had been ghostwritten — like almost all the speeches by everyone at either convention — was not an issue, though the fact that some of the phrases were those, word for word, of the ghost who had written a convention speech eight years earlier for Michelle Obama, deservedly became one.

There had been a Chris Christie here, a Rudy Giuliani there, and a smattering of Grade-B actors, token blacks and Hispanics, as well as a whole night of grieving and/or outraged Benghazi survivors — all this against a nonstop crescendo of Hillary-bashing and holding her to account, it seemed, for all the deaths and misfortunes not only in Libya, but at the Mexican border, and on the streets of stressed-out America. And, of course, there was the potential high treason of her emails.

Therein lay the main glue that could bind the rest of the GOP to the Trump machine, such as it was, including, besides the Boss himself and Melania, an impressive array of well-scrubbed and well-spoken offspring, all of whom got their own star turns at the dais.

All the while this truncated Trump/ GOP convention had been going on, delegates and guests had been entertained at spells by a string of Golden Oldies rendered by the G.E. Smith Band, late of Saturday Night Live. As balloons dropped and confetti flew and delegates on the floor sported in the aftermath of Trump’s 76-minute acceptance speech, the recorded strains of another rock classic filled the arena, the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.”

Nor were the auguries promising for the Democrats as they flooded into Philadelphia for their party’s convention.

For one thing, the heat index in the City of Brotherly Love would stay in the triple digits, exacerbating such tensions as were already there. And tensions, indeed, there were.

In the weekend between the two conclaves, there had been a Wikileaks drop of emails between officials of the Democratic National Committee, incriminating ones suggesting a concerted effort by DNC mainstays to back Hillary Clinton and to block her populist challenger, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.

Before the convention even got started, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign, turning over her gavel to a substitute, and Sanders delegates, who constituted just under half of the total number

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“likes” on Instagram. There was no clear purpose in going over the fence so far from the arena and the news crews. Like all those steaming horse turds littering Cleveland’s streets during the RNC, this had to be a metaphor for something.

Sanders, who staged a formidable campaign built around issues such as income inequality, jobs, and getting big money out of politics, is now a (mostly) full-throated advocate for his recent opponent, Hillary Clinton. But the gruff message he brought to DNC delegates as he made the breakfast meeting circuit, sounded like one of his stump speeches.

Sanders may have lost the nomination, but the old, woolly haired socialist’s consolation prize is the most progressive Democratic platform in history.

When he visited the Tennessee delegation last Thursday, arriving late and looking tired, the gruff lion of the newly woke left stated in explicit terms that job No. 1 was defeating Trump in November. Job No. 2, he said, was holding Clinton accountable for the aforementioned platform.

“We do politics a little differently,” he said, and he continued to speak about disruptive political change and the need to elect young progressives to school boards, city councils, and state legislatures, to grow revolution from

the ground up. In the streets, Sanders’ most disappointed and disillusioned supporters said, “Hell no, DNC, we won’t vote for Hillary” and waved signs transforming the Senator’s own unifying rhetoric into a kind of separatist mantra.

“It isn’t him,” the signs read, “It’s us.”

When things get chaotic, as they often do at these kinds of enormous public demonstrations, it’s helpful to focus on your destination.

Keep moving forward and don’t look back is a lesson I learned the hard way in St. Paul during the 2008 Republican National Convention.

Protesters sick of Bush-era lies, endless war, and circumstances that call to mind Tennessee Williams’ line about “the fiery braille alphabet of a dissolving economy” had been clashing with law enforcement in front of the Minnesota Capitol all week. I almost met an abrupt end running to evade a column of riot police who’d marched into the free speech zone and were dropping and zip-tying everybody in their path — protesters, media, gawkers, whomever. When I turned back to film the mass arrests, I was nearly trampled

Protesters hold aloft a larger-thanlife Sanders cutout outside the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. by a second column of horse-mounted police thundering in from behind.

Tensions in Cleveland and Philly never reached that kind of fever pitch, and so, on that sweltering afternoon

48 hours before Clinton’s big speech, I followed the music, which turned out to be the work of just one man parked in a CVS parking lot across the avenue playing patriotic songs on an extraordinary car stereo. On the sidewalk in front of him a clean-cut young guy with a Sanders sign dropped a dubious truth bomb on his wholesome-looking girlfriend: “Sure, that man told you he was just taking a picture,” he scolded, looking around to make sure nobody was watching. “But how do you know he wasn’t with the Secret Service? How do you know that was really a phone he pointed at you? In one click that guy probably just got all of our information.”

Could be that he snatched away the poor girl’s soul too, bro?

Sampling that conversation isn’t fair to diehard Sanders supporters, but it speaks directly to the America I glimpsed on my long drive from Memphis to Cleveland to Philadelphia to Memphis again. From the mountains, to the prairies, to the Starbucks where chipper young men carry AK-47s, paranoia reigns. If you don’t believe me, take a trip through Burma-Shave where there’s a billboard

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There was a strong police presence in Philly, but Cleveland looked like occupied territory. Closed streets just outside Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena took on the life of a casbah, where people sold bad ideas and Donald Trump bobbleheads side by side. Sexism was a hot commodity, too, and T-shirts reading “Hillary Sucks but not like Monica” and “TRUMP THAT BITCH” flew off stands at $20 a pop. So did buttons marketing the Hillary Meal Deal: “2 small breasts, two fat thighs, and a left wing.”

In the wake of a march led by conservative Christians, several young men stood in the streets near a massive pile of horse shit, pushing their phones into the face of a teenage girl. They asked her to explain for the camera why she didn’t think she was a whore.

“I’m just a 16-year-old girl,” she answered, as more and more people stopped and took out their phones. “I’m probably going to lose my job,” she said, eyes darting from recording device to recording device. “I’m speechless.”

It’s trite but true: America is a beautiful country full of natural wonder and storybook villages. I’ve driven through much of it over the past two weeks. Also — as the would-be flag burners might say — it’s an ugly, exploitative wasteland, bubbling with bigotry and rigged systems. Anybody who tries to convince you it’s one or the other and not both is running a con.

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Buying a tub of hummus and a $10 souvenir soda cup from the ark’s attached restaurant may be the single most American thing I’ll ever do.

Trump hat count: three.

What does all of this mean? I wish I could tie it up in a red, white, and blue bow, but the lessons of this journey are a little too fresh and way too stubborn for that. I think it’s got something to do with tribes and personal brands and how everybody’s selling a different story, and how, in spite of what Al Pacino teaches us in Scarface, everybody’s doing their own product.

Dissent and all, I suppose the conventions were good for Democrats, who addressed at least some of the complexities of the America I saw on my trip, framing hopeful narratives with the palpable grief of citizens like Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, and the Muslim-American parents of U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan. The GOP’s two-pronged event spent so much time attacking Clinton and praising Trump, it gave Democrats the opportunity to talk about real values and real people. Now it’s all a question of who’s listening, who’s believing whom, and who’s buying tickets to the Ark Experience.

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every few miles reminding drivers that God’s watching, and when you die you’ll meet him. Or better still, say the name of the Republican nominee out loud, and remind yourself what he stands for.

Open-carry advocates aside, protests at the RNC in Cleveland had a colorful throwback vibe that paired nicely with Trump’s dystopian motivational speakathon, and a bitter-edged acceptance speech that segued into Free’s classic sleaze-rock anthem, “All Right Now.” It was a loud free-for-all, where members of Code Pink donned their trademark color to lead antifascist cheers from the sidewalk while Westboro Baptist-types paraded up and down with enormous signs asking, “GOT AIDS YET?” Clowns performed street theater in the public square, and the only time things seemed to really get out of hand was when a group of young radicals chanting, “America was never great,” attempted, as young radicals will, to burn a flag. This resulted in an altercation with some religious zealots. Or was it bikers? Maybe it was a combination of religious zealots and bikers or religious zealot bikers. Word on the ground kept shifting, and all anybody really knew was that horsemounted police came from one side, bicycle-mounted police rolled in from the other, and things got pretty orderly pretty fast.

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Bandele’s Baobab

By Chris McCoy

Once a Memphis underdog, the Hattiloo found its niche by offering something no one else in the city could provide: quality live theater performances aimed primarily at African Americans. Mastermind Ekundayo Bandele leveraged his success on Marshall Avenue into a brand new theater facility in Overton Square. Now the hands-on impresario is returning to Marshall with a new endeavor: the Baobab Filmhouse.

Set in the Hattiloo’s former black-box space, the 42-seat theater is a labor of love. “I installed all of the seats,” Bandele says. “My wife and I have been in here for the past month building and painting.”

Like the Hattiloo, Baobab Filmhouse is intended for an overlooked population. “My impetus was the Academy Awards, when no blacks were nominated this year,” Bandele says. “There are so many great black films out there — they may not be mainstream, many of them are indie. So my goal is to share those great films made not just by black Americans, but by blacks worldwide. We’ve got films coming out of Zimbabwe, Toronto, Jamaica. We want to provide a platform for people to come see great black film.”

Baobab opens this Friday with CRU, a 2014 film by director Alton Glass that traces the ripple effects of a single car accident on the lives of a group of friends. A new film will start every two weeks, with each offering running for a month in a staggered schedule to fit on Baobab’s single screen. Next up is The Tested, which Bandele calls “A timely film, because it deals with a white police officer killing a black teen. It’s not only about how the black community deals with it; it’s about how the white officer deals with it.”

Other future offerings include the Chris Rock vehicle 2 Days in New York and Charles Burnett’s classic Killer of Sheep. “We have films lined up all the way to next March,” Bandele says. “I think it’s going to be a good addition for our city.”

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Cajun soul food fusion comes to town.

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Wonderfully absurd “An Attitude You Can Wear” at TOPS Art, p. 37

THURSDAY August 4

FRIDAY August 5

Conversation with the Curator Metal Museum, 6-7 p.m.

The curator leads a tour of “Drawings of E.A. Chase: Designs of a Pioneer Modernist,” giving details about the artist, the artwork, and how the exhibit came together.

“Price Is Right” David Lusk Gallery, 6-8 p.m.

Popular annual show with all works priced $1,000 or less. Includes work by Veda Reed and Maysey Craddock and collaborative work

by Tad Lauritzen Wright and Hamlett Dobbins.

“One in a Million” L Ross Gallery, 6-9 p.m.

Group show featuring all sorts of interpretations of Elvis.

Participating artists include Eli Gold, Matthew Hasty, Megan Hurdle, Jeanne Seagle, and Sloane Bibb.

Weightless: The Musical TheatreWorks, 11:45 p.m.-1:45 a.m., $10 This edition of the Night Shift show features aerialists performing stunts inspired by favorite musicals.

Firefly Glow Party Memphis Botanic Garden, 7-9 p.m., $15 Get your glow on during this family-friendly event. Featuring the Illumination Station, music from the Friendzies, an LED hoop performance, and more.

Reservations required: 636-4131.

“Yellow Jack” Woodruff-Fontaine House, 5-8 p.m., $15 The museum’s annual yellow fever exhibition is ushered in with this First Friday party featuring light refreshments and mourning. The show demonstrates how life was during the epidemic, though we’re told that the mansion’s occupants, as was the wont of the wealthy, spent that time safely out of the city.

Stevan’s Birthday Party Bar DKDC, 10:30 p.m.

Party for Midtown fixture Stevan Lazich featuring the Mighty Souls Brass Band.

Elvis’ jacket

All Shook Up “What I’m going to show you is unknown,” says John W. Heath.

It is a program from Humes High for a variety show. Listed on that program, dated March 27, 1953, is Elvis Presley. This is not the program from another famous Humes High show. This one is earlier and is in the possession of Heath, who has a vast collection of Elvis memorabilia. For Heath, this program that nobody knows about is an artifact that marks the moment the world changed. “This gave [Elvis] the encouragement to go to Sun Studios,” and, thus, he says, usher in rock-and-roll.

Heath will lead a talk on “Collecting Elvis” during the Dixon’s Munch & Learn series Wednesday at noon.

Heath, a former junior high principal, says that he and his wife used to immerse themselves into their children’s activities over the weekends. Daughter was into athletics, one son into military history, the other son into Elvis. They started looking for Elvis stuff at yard sales and flea markets. They got together a good enough collection to start showing at the Elvis Week expos. Dealers would buy them out. Heath studied up.

Heath says he perfected the bundling method, in which he takes a whole load of stuff for a set price, long before American Pickers.

That approach secured him Mae Boren Axton’s contract for “Heartbreak Hotel.” (He let go a similar contract for “Heartbreak Motel.”)

He’s got a Champagne glass from Elvis and Priscilla’s wedding, the third-earliest known signature, pajamas, the “Comeback Special” suit, a matchbook bearing autographs from Elvis and Natalie Wood, the contract for Graceland (with the signatures of Elvis, Vernon, and Gladys), a pill bottle for Dexedrine prescribed the day before Elvis’ death, and a jacket given to Heath by one of his teachers who was the son of a man who got the jacket from a girlfriend who got it from Elvis after a concert.

And he’s got the pre-release acetate of “That’s All Right”/“Blue Moon of Kentucky” — what Heath calls the “rarest record of all times.”

Says Heath, “Elvis is the greatest American success story ever. A better story than Lincoln. This will never happen again.”

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Clowning Around The Second Line, 5 p.m.

Lisa hates clowns and coconut. Lisa will be fed a coconut dessert by a clown to raise funds for St. Jude.

Wondrous Boccaccio Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, 5:45 p.m.

Italian film about 10 14th-century men and women who leave the city and the black plague for the countryside. Part of the Wider Angle Film Series.

FOMOfest Levitt Shell, 2-10 p.m., $15-$50 Music showcase featuring the best in independent music and the most promising new bands.

“Yesterday’s Tomorrow” Memphis Botanic Garden, 3-5 p.m.

Opening reception for this exhibition featuring paintings, sculpture, and mosaics by Kristi Duckworth.

Black Girl Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 7 p.m., $9 Fiftieth-anniversary screening of this landmark film about a young woman who moves from Africa to France to work for a wealthy couple.

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Rock the Block

Royal Records Flagship Artists Lil Riah and Key Money perform live at the Royal Records Block Party.

Introducing Royal Records, the latest project from the iconic Royal Studios.

How did winning the Grammy help spur the start of a label?

Boo Mitchell: The Grammy was a big part of it, because it gave us a platform. It was kind of like a right of passage, ya know? It kind of gave us and Memphis the

attention and energy. I mean, you can’t pay for that kind of publicity.

Who are some artists that Royal Records are working with?

Boo Mitchell: Lil Riah and Key Money are our flagship artists. They are the first product that we are going to push. As a studio, we work with a lot of artists that are unsigned like Frayser Boy, Al Kapone, and Tori WhoDat. These are all people who potentially may end up on the label. But me and my sister are so all over the map musically. I mean, today we have Devil Train coming in to record after this interview.

Let’s talk about the Block Party that went down on Saturday. It seemed like a pretty big success.

Oona Mitchell: I think the neighborhood is excited, and I think Memphis is excited. I think a lot of people have been waiting on us to do something like this.

Boo Mitchell: We couldn’t have asked for better success. We had people from the neighborhood there. We had the mayor there and people both white and black from all walks of life. It was bigger than we expected.

There was such a diverse group of people enjoying the music, and that was really cool to see.

Do you think the label will take away from the studio side of things at Royal?

Boo Mitchell: The label will make the studio a little bit more exclusive as far as booking sessions. One energizes the other. I think having a studio is the perfect magnet for talent, and it’s the perfect launching pad for a label. We have the history of recording famous people, but we also record local people who are trying to get their music out there.

What’s next for the label? Do you want people submitting their music to you?

Boo Mitchell: We are dropping the album [for Lil Riah and Key Money] in September, and then at the first of the year we will probably start releasing other artists. We want to make sure we have quality over quantity, so we’re probably going to focus on this while we get our legs under us.

As for demos, I like things to happen organically. I mean, my dad wasn’t out looking for Al Green, it just kinda happened. I approach my career the same way.

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Oona Mitchell: We’ve probably been talking about it for the past five years.

Boo Mitchell: I think we had it in the back of our minds that we would need to do it one day. We weren’t avoiding it, but when we first started thinking about it, the timing wasn’t right, the climate wasn’t right, and we just didn’t have the talent. You know, the music business was changing so much, and we were still learning all the ways to monetize music. We didn’t have a firm handle on the streaming and the downloading and that type of stuff.

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August 4-10, 2016

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To drastically deviate from this column’s normal approach, the bands below were randomly picked from a much larger (and still increasing) master list of defunct Memphis acts whose legacies deserve better digs in the historical narrative of local underground music history.

Each band recorded, at the very least, a demo. Physical formats of officially released music, should they exist, are only obtainable in a used or new-old-stock capacity, and the music can be sampled on YouTube and Bandcamp.

Our imaginary future compilation of rarities or series of reissue campaigns would start with the following:

Fleetwood Mac, and the elongated pastoral psych of Parachute-era Pretty Things. The Hot Dogs were core duo Greg Reding and Bill Rennie (also in Albert King’s touring band and in a late-’70s Black Oak Arkansas lineup), who were joined in the studio by guitarists Jack Holder and Robert Johnson and drummer Fred Prouty.

Also figuring prominently is Terry Manning, whose production made it one of the best examples of the Ardent “sound” (he also contributed a few songs to the final track listing). Perfectly clean copies of Say What You Mean are common and should set you back $5-$10.

THE HOT DOGS / HOT DOG Ardent Records released the Hot Dogs’ proper fulllength, Say What You Mean, in 1973 and promoted it with four 45s released the same year as well as in 1974, with the final being a non-album double A-side of the Hot Dogs’ version of Johnny Cash’s “I Walk the Line.” Say What You Mean is one of the early ’70s’ best meetings of Byrd-ish cosmic country-rock, the proto-power-pop associated not only with Ardent’s best-known band but also Todd Rundgren’s classic Something/ Anything? double LP from 1972, the macro-hooks of Bob Welch-era

REUBEN JAMES Filling an approximate nine-month period of inactivity early in His Hero Is Gone’s legendary 1995-2000 run, Reuben James (named after a song by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition) was Paul and Todd Burdette from that band, Billy Davis and William Harris (also formerly of Copout like Todd Burdette), drummer Brent Shrewsbury, and bassist Lee Lawrence. Compared to His Hero Is Gone, Reuben James was more melodic and boasted more breathing room in song structures, vaguely The Hot Dogs

foreshadowing Davis and the Burdettes’ postY2K powerhouse, Tragedy. Reuben James recorded 11 songs live to eight-track reel-to-reel in August of ’96, but the master was later lost, leaving only the cassette mix heard on the band’s Bandcamp page. Make sure to check out the Reuben James (misspelled as “Ruben James” and incorrectly dated at one year before the actual show) set on the YouTube channel of user “icewaterbob.”

Shrewsbury resurfaced behind the kit in Vegas Thunder before his current focus of working in film and video, while Lawrence plays bass in the excellent Arctic Flowers.

STAYNLESS Active from 1997 to 2000, Staynless was four unfairly handsome and nicely attired gentlemen who created a near-perfect example of a distinct sub-strain of posthardcore behind a deep familiarity with Slint, Rodan, and June of 44. An awesomely dynamic and confident live band, Staynless left behind three 7”s and one full-length album (released on CD only) that was appropriately engineered by Steve Albini. Guitarist/ singer Chris Wark would go on to lead Arma Secreta, while other guitarist Tony Dixon and drummer Daniel Farris spent much of the last decade as half of the Coach and Four.

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

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Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Live Pianist Thursdays, 5:308:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays, 5:30-9 p.m., Sundays, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and MondaysWednesdays, 5:30-8 p.m.

Deering & Down Thursday, Aug. 4, 7 p.m.; Stevan’s Birthday w/ Mighty Soul Brass Band Friday, Aug. 5; Chickasaw Mound Saturday, Aug. 6; Spooky Party Wednesday, Aug. 10.

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY 272-1538

The Silly Goose

140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE 577-1139

100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

DJ Dance Music MondaysSundays, 10 p.m.

Rumba Room 303 S. MAIN 523-0020

Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Blue Monkey

Battle of the Bells.

Boscos 2120 MADISON 432-2222

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

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER 274-5151

DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Taz Saturdays, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 6-9 p.m.; Candy Company Mondays.

The Cove 2559 BROAD 730-0719

Ed Finney & the U of M Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Big Barton Friday, Aug. 5, 9:30 p.m.; Accidental Field Trip Saturday, Aug. 6, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Don & Wayde Tuesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

1474 MADISON 275-8082

South Main

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Loflin Yard

Hi-Tone

7 W. CAROLINA

Luke White and Logan Hanna Thursday, Aug. 4, 7-10 p.m.; Chris Milam Friday, Aug. 5, 7-10 p.m.; Daddy Mack Blues Band Saturday, Aug. 6, 7-10 p.m.; Tennessee Ripple Sunday, Aug. 7, 58 p.m.

The Chaulkies Sunday, Aug. 7, 8:30-midnight; Dead Irish Blues Sunday, Aug. 7, 4-7 p.m.

800 E. PARKWAY S. 729-8007

Dru’s Place Purple Haze Nightclub

Huey’s Midtown

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; Los Cantadores Friday, Aug. 5; Bluff City Backsliders Saturday, Aug. 6.

River City Cadillacs Friday, Aug. 5; Uncle Tuesday with Driftwood Ramblers Friday, Aug. 5; DJ N8, Jason Crawley, Porter, Justin Hand Saturday, Aug. 6; An Invitation Sunday, Aug. 7; Euphoria Tuesday, Aug. 9; Peucharist, Violentor, Process of Suffocation Wednesday, Aug. 10.

1927 MADISON 726-4372

Half Step Down Saturdays, 7-10:30 p.m.

2012 MADISON 272-BLUE

Murphy’s 1589 MADISON 726-4193

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON 207-5097

Jeremy Stanfill & Joshua Cosby Thursday, Aug. 4, 6 p.m.; Daryl Hance Thursday, Aug. 4, 9 p.m.; Paul “Snowflake” Taylor Friday, Aug. 5, 6:30 p.m.; Brennan Villines Friday, Aug. 5, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturdays, 11 a.m.; The River Bluff Clan Saturdays, 3 p.m.; Heath N’ Company Saturday, Aug. 6, 6:30 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Dan Montgomery Band Birthday Bash Sunday, Aug. 7, 4 p.m.; Brett Harris Band Sunday, Aug. 7, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Friends Mondays, 6 p.m.; Denny Laine Monday, Aug. 8, 8 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Sarah Simmons Wednesday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER 278-4994

Mike Doughty Saturday, Aug. 6, 8 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Petty Gene, Mayberry Ruckus Saturday, Aug. 6; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

Sports Junction 1911 POPLAR 244-7904

Live DJ Fridays.; Live music Saturdays.; Karaoke Wednesdays.

The Tower Courtyard at Overton Square 2092 TRIMBLE PLACE MEMPHIS, TN 38104

Bluesday Tuesday Tuesdays, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

The Soul Connection Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

University of Memphis

Levitt Shell

Triple S

OVERTON PARK 272-2722

FOMOfest Saturday, Aug. 6, 2-10 p.m.

1747 WALKER 421-6239

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

Midtown Crossing Grill 394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

Memphis Ukelele Meetup Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m.

Tiger Sex with Future Losers Thursday, Aug. 4, 9 p.m.; Epps Reversed Words EP Release Show Friday, Aug. 5, 7 p.m.; Safe Secrets with Midwest State of Mind Friday, Aug. 5, 9 p.m.; The Motel Brothers with New Vessels Saturday, Aug. 6, 7 p.m.; Jungle Boogie

Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.2 a.m.

Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Earphunk Thursday, Aug. 4, 8 p.m.; No Pressure, Headliners, Vagoo, Brenna Clark and Erin Webb Friday, Aug. 5, 6 p.m.; Prosevere Saturday, Aug. 6, 7 p.m.

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Saturday, Aug. 6, 9 p.m.; Clay Otis & the Addults with Luke White Saturday, Aug. 6, 9 p.m.; Wilby Sunday, Aug. 7, 7 p.m.; NoNeed, Imperial Dynasty Soundsystem Tuesday, Aug. 9, 9 p.m.; David Bazan with Michael Nau Wednesday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m.

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ZIGGY MACK

EPPS AT THE HI-TONE This Friday night Epps will release their debut EP, Reversed Words. Formed by Olivia de Witt, Landon Moore, and Wil DeShazo, de Witt said that Epps was formed after she started taking guitar lessons from Moore.

“Landon and Wil were in Fast Planet, which was this ambient electronic band, and basically the band was starting to not do as much,” de Witt said. (Full disclosure: De Witt’s mother works at the Flyer.)

“Landon decided the two of them wanted to do a project with someone younger, and he knew I wrote music, so when he told Wil about the project, they chose to work with me.”

De Witt admits that this is the first serious band she’s been a part of, and that other projects with her peers “didn’t get a whole lot done,” but Epps is already making waves, with songs from Reversed Words being streamed by the website Trip Hop Nation last week. So what exactly is trip-hop? De Witt describes it as electronic music that’s darker than what you’d hear on top 40 radio.

“It’s poppy, but it’s still dark and mysterious. We were listening to a lot of Portishead while we were in the process of making the EP, and I was listening to a lot of James Blake when I wrote the lyrics,” de Witt said.

As for Friday’s release show at the Hi-Tone, the band has enlisted two drummers (Ryan Peel and Zach Logan), in addition to backup singer Jean Jackson and bass player Griffin Rone. And while de Witt is gearing up for her senior year at St. Mary’s, she said Epps still have plenty planned for the rest of the 2016.

“We’re recording a few more songs, maybe for a full length, and we’ll also have a video out soon.”- Chris Shaw Epps at the Hi-Tone, Friday, August 5th, doors 7 p.m., show 9 p.m. $7. All ages.

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule August 4 - 10

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School 60 N. PERKINS EXT. 537-1483

Roudnev Youth Ballet’s Nutcracker Prep (Ages 9 - 18) Thursday, Aug. 4, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., and Friday, Aug. 5, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Shelby Forest General Store

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

Summer/Berclair Barbie’s Barlight Lounge 661 N. MENDENHALL

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

Dan McGuinness Pub

7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Arlington/Eads/ Oakland/Lakeland Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub 6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

Live Music Thursdays, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Fridays, 9 p.m.

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Collierville Huey’s Collierville

Germantown Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

El Ced & Groove Nation Sunday, Aug. 7, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

The Dantones Sunday, Aug. 7, 8-11:30 p.m.

2016 Mazda CX-3

551 S. MENDENHALL 762-8200

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

$23,470

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern 5101 SANDERLIN 763-2013

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

T.J. Mulligan’s 1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant 786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

Karaoke ongoing.

Poplar/I-240

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5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Pengea, Fast Mothers Saturday, Aug. 6, 9 p.m.; Mandy Thomas Benefit feat.

Cruizin’ Heavy, Grand Theft Audio, Swingin’ Leroy Sunday, Aug. 7, 3 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Southaven

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

Bartlett

Cordova

Hadley’s Pub

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

Whitehaven/ Airport Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant 4381 ELVIS PRESLEY 332-4159

Karaoke with DJ Stylez Thursdays, Sundays, 10 p.m.

Charlie Belt & Friends Thursday, Aug. 4, 7 p.m.; Thump Daddy Friday, Aug. 5, 9 p.m.; Full Circle Saturday, Aug. 6, 9 p.m.; Scott and Vanessa Sudbury Tuesday, Aug. 9, 7 p.m.; The Brian Johnson Band Wednesday, Aug. 10, 8 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern

819 EXOCET 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

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

The Deftonz Sunday, Aug. 7, 8:30 p.m.-midnight; The Dantones Sunday, Aug. 7, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

RockHouse Live

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

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.

8071 TRINITY 756-4480

John Richardson Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.; Patio Party with Juno Marrs Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Wadford’s Grill & Bar 662DJ, Karaoke/Open Mic Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

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6069 PARK 767-6002

Neil’s Music Room

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

474 CHURCH, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-510-5861

1870 Covington Pike • 901.388.8989 Gossettmazda.com

East Tapas and Drinks Carlos & Adam from the Late Greats Thursdays, 7-9 p.m.; Van Duren Solo Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.; Elizabeth Wise Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.

Hollywood Casino 1150 CASINO STRIP RESORT, TUNICA, MS 662-357-7700

Mesquite Chop House

Huey’s Poplar

Bach Vespers Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Live Music Thursdays, 5 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays.

5960 GETWELL, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-2467

4872 POPLAR 682-7729

4055 POPLAR 454-0034

6565 TOWNE CENTER, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-536-2200

The Pistol & the Queen Sunday, Aug. 7, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Night Mondays, 8-10 p.m.

978 REDDOCH 767-6940

Second Presbyterian Church

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

Howard Vance Guitar Academy

590 N. PERKINS 761-9321

Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Graham Road Band Friday, Aug. 5, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

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

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

Dan McGuinness

Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Mortimer’s

The Crossing Bar & Grill

3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

4694 SPOTTSWOOD 761-3711

Bluff City Soul Collective Sunday, Aug. 7, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

North Mississippi/ Tunica

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

Open Mic Blues Jam with Brad Webb Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, Aug. 7, 8-11:30 p.m.

Southland Park Gaming & Racing

Ice Bar & Grill

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

4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

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

Mesquite Chop House

The New Backdour Bar & Grill

Unwind Wednesdays Wednesdays, 6 p.m.-midnight.

3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

Pam and Terry Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar 9087 POPLAR 755-0092

Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

302 S. AVALON 596-7115

Ms. Ruby Wilson and Friends Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke with Tim Bachus Mondays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

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

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The Drag Boat, set sail with Friends of George’s in a brand-new original drag musical-comedy. Enjoy scandal, sequins, production numbers, and more as we set sail. (4820502), www.friendsofgeorges. org. $25. Fri., Sat., 8-10 p.m.

Through Aug. 7.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Germantown Community Theatre

Music Man, Jr., master showman Harold Hill is in town, and he’s got “seventysix trombones” in tow. Can upright, uptight Marian, the town librarian, resist his powerful allure? www.gctcomeplay.org. $13. Sun., 2:30 p.m., and Fri., Sat., 7 p.m. Through Aug. 7.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (754-2680).

LeMoyne-Owen College

Fame, classic musical about the lives of performing arts students as they come to terms with life and relationships, the need to strive for excellence for themselves, their community, and the prices they will have to pay. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. $15. Fri.-Sat., Aug. 5-6, 7 p.m.

807 WALKER (435-1000).

New Discovery Christian Church

Auditions for Romeo & Juliet, seeking actors of all ethnic backgrounds for this production, open to all ages and rated PG. See website for full details and registration. www. kudzuplayers.com. Sat., Aug. 6, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

961 VINSON ROAD.

Playhouse 51

Auditions for Send Me No Flowers, looking for three women and five men, ages to be determined, for romantic comedy set in the early ’60s.

See website for more information. www.playhouse51.com.

Fri., Aug. 5, 7-9 p.m., and Sat., Aug. 6, 10 a.m.-noon.

8077 WILKINSVILLE (872-7170).

TheatreWorks

Night Shift presents Weightless: The Musical, aerialists perform insane group numbers, duets, aerial and ground skills, and feats of strength and flexibility inspired by favorite musicals with an awesome storyline. (5694305), www.weightlessaerial. com. $10. Fri., Aug. 5, 11:45 p.m.-1:45 a.m.

2085 MONROE (274-7139).

A R TI S T R EC E P TI O N S

The Caritas Village

Artist reception for “Street Scenes,” exhibition of watercolors by Carolyn Pollan.

(345-6789), Fri., Aug. 5, 5:307:30 p.m.

2509 HARVARD (324-5246).

David Lusk Gallery

Opening reception for “Price Is Right,” exhibition of works by approximately 35 artists, all priced at $1,000 or less. www.davidluskgallery.com.

Fri., Aug. 5, 6-8 p.m.

Fratelli’s

Opening reception for “Monotypes,” exhibition of paint, press, and print by Caroline Coolidge Brown. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com.

Thurs., Aug. 4, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

750 CHERRY (766-9900).

L Ross Gallery

Opening reception for “One in a Million,” exhibition of all things Elvis by contemporary Southern artists, featuring music by Memphis’ DJ Leroy, tribute artists welcome. www.lrossgallery.com.

Fri., Aug. 5, 6-9 p.m.

3D MOVIE

5040 SANDERLIN (767-2200).

WKNO Studio

Artists reception for Memphis/Germantown Art League 40th Anniversary Showcase and Sale, exhibition and sale of new work by more than 20 member artists.

(458-2521), www.wkno.org/ gallery1091.html. Sun., Aug. 7, 2-4 p.m.

7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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Art After Dark

Galleries and gardens will be open late. Featuring light refreshments, entertainment, and a cash bar. Free with admission. Every third Thursday, 6-8 p.m.

97 TILLMAN (767-3800).

Eclectic Eye

Battle of the Bells

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

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THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

Opening reception for “Natural Abstractions,” exhibition of 2-D paintings and paper mâché wall art by Jamie Zanone Allen. www.eclectic-eye. com. Fri., Aug. 5, 6-8 p.m.

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Judged by music pros. Free.

Through Aug. 31.

THE SALVATION ARMY KROC CENTER, 800 E. PARKWAY S. (270-9120), WWW.SALVATIONARMYMEMPHIS.ORG.

“Come As You Are” Free Portrait Days

Studio resident Andrea Morales will host a series of portrait days at the “Daisy Curtain” Studio. Have your photograph made and take home a free print or digital file. Sun., 1-5 p.m. Through Aug. 7.

CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030),

The Farmer

Beth Okeon, exhibition of acrylic and multi-media work on canvas. Through Sept. 5.

262 S HIGHLAND (324-2221).

FireHouse Community Arts Center

CORNER OF COOPER AND YOUNG, WWW.COOPERYOUNG.COM.

Mosal Morszart, exhibition of works by Black Arts Alliance artist. www.memphisblackartsalliance.org. Ongoing.

Epps Reversed Words EP Release Show

Memphis-based 17-year-old pop/trip-hop artist emerges on the electronica scene. $7.

Fri., Aug. 5, 7 p.m.

985 S. BELLEVUE (948-9522).

Memphis Botanic Garden

“Yesterday’s Tomorrow,” exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and mosaics by Kristi Duckworth. www.memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Aug. 30.

HI-TONE, 412-414 N. CLEVELAND (278-TONE), WWW.HITONECAFE.COM.

First Fridays on Broad

Shops stay open late for added summer fun. First Friday of every month. Through Sept. 30.

750 CHERRY (636-4100).

BROAD AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT, BETWEEN HOLLYWOOD AND COLLINS, WWW.BROADAVEARTS.COM.

WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

Conversation with the Curator

Join the curator as she gives a special tour of the exhibition “Drawings of E.A. Chase: Designs of a Pioneer Modernist.” Learn about the artist, the artworks, and how an exhibition comes together. Thurs., Aug. 4, 6-7 p.m.

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

For more information, featured artists, and pop-up performances, visit website. First Friday of every month, 6-9 p.m.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Gallery Talk for “Fish”

Laura Jean Hocking, Sarah Fleming, and Christopher Reyes talk about current exhibition. Fri., Aug. 5, 5:30 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS, 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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Cooper-Young Art Tours

Provides visual artists with information, resources, and opportunities to support them in the development of their professional careers. Tues., Aug. 9, 6-8 p.m.

CROSSTOWN ARTS,

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030), WWW.CROSSTOWNARTS.ORG.

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Circuitous Succession Gallery

“Neighbors,” exhibition of photographic compilation work by San Diego artist J. Raymond Mireles. www.circuitoussuccession.com. Through Sept. 1.

500 S. SECOND.

Crosstown Arts

“Fish,” exhibition of site-

specific display combining traditional audio, visual, and sculptural media with technology from the minds of Laura Jean Hocking, Sarah Fleming, and Christopher Reyes. www. crosstownarts.org. Through Aug. 13.

430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

The Dixon Gallery & Gardens

“Everyday English: The Charlotte Stout Hooker Collection of English and Continental Ceramics,” exhibition of popular useful wares and rare

ornamental finds.

Through Oct. 9.

“Henri Guérard and the Phenomenon of the Artist’s Fan in France, 1875 –1900,” exhibition of fan art.

Through Oct. 9.

Carlyle Wolfe, exhibition of line drawings from more than a decade of observing a variety of plant forms that grow throughout the Mid-South. www.dixon.org. Through Aug. 7.

4339 PARK (761-5250).

“Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars Preview,” exhibition showcasing Moroccan-born, U.K.based artist Hassan Hajjaj and the eclectic group of nine musicians from around the world whom the artist sees as his own personal “rock stars.”

Through Sept. 4.

“Rage of the Ballet Gods,” exhibition comprised of four figures from Yinka Shonibare MBE’s series. Through Nov. 6.

“Veda Reed: Day into Night,” exhibition of 29 paintings spanning 1956 to 2016. www. brooksmuseum.org.

Through Sept. 4.

1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

August 4-10, 2016

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Opening reception for “One in a Million” at L Ross Gallery, Friday

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Through Aug. 6.

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“Drawings of E.A. Chase: Designs of a Pioneer Modernist,” Through Oct. 2.

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American Bead, Jewelry, Merchandise, and Gem

Featuring Noble Sounds Orchestra and the Bankers.

Semi-formal attire. BYOB. $10. First Sunday of every month, 2-6 p.m.

Sat.-Sun., Aug. 6-7.

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AL CHYMIA SHRINE CENTER, 5770 SHELBY OAKS (377-7336), WWW. SHRINE-DANCE-MEMPHIS.COM.

Kids Town

Children’s consignment event. Thurs., Aug. 4, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Fri., Aug. 5, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sat., Aug. 6, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Playhouse on the Square

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“Community: Photographs,” exhibition of photographs that feature participants and their direct support staff engaging in life skills activities at SRVS, for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in West Tennessee. www.mca.edu.

Through Sept. 11.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

TOPS Gallery

“An Attitude You Can Wear,” exhibition of new sculpture

by Haynes Riley. www.topsgallery.com. Through Aug. 31.

400 S. FRONT.

Trezevant Manor Art Gallery

“The Mind’s Eye,” exhibition of photography work

by Frederick Toma, Willy Bearden, and Tom Gettelfinger. Through Aug. 31.

177 N. HIGHLAND (325-4000).

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (452-2151), CONSIGNKIDSTOWN.COM.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

Memphis Pet Expo

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Pet-friendly exhibitors and rescue groups with live demonstrations in obedience training, pet care, and activism, giveaways, and prizes.

Bring your pet. Free. Sat., Aug. 6, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sun., Aug. 7, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Fun-Filled Fridays, open mic poetry, jazz music, and networking mixer. (421-6239), $5. First Friday of every month, 8 p.m.-midnight.

AGRICENTER INTERNATIONAL, 7777 WALNUT GROVE (800-977-3609), WWW.MEMPHISPETEXPO.COM.

1747 WALKER (421-6239).

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44th Annual National Black Nurses Conference

Expecting moms can tour the Women’s Pavilion and Le Bonheur Unit, attend Breastfeeding 101 boot camp, and get a free car seat check.

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FOMOfest at the Levitt Shell, Saturday

to win a car seat and stroller, and activities for kids. Free.

Sat., Aug. 6, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

METHODIST GERMANTOWN HOSPITAL, 7691 POPLAR (516-6764), WWW.METHODISTHEALTH.ORG/ BABYEXPO.

Memphis Miles for Melanoma

17th Annual Midnight Classic Bike Tour and Lunar Festival

SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.MELANOMA.ORG.

Memphis Redbirds vs.

Omaha Storm Chasers

Enjoy family-friendly fun, food, contests, live band, and a 15-mile night ride through Midtown. $40. Sat., Aug. 6, 8 p.m. and 3 a.m.

Through Aug. 6.

AUTOZONE PARK, THIRD AND UNION (721-6000), WWW.MEMPHISREDBIRDS.COM.

TIGER LANE, 335 S. HOLLYWOOD (766-0600), WWW.MERITAN.ORG.

V3Fights: Live MMA

$25-$45. Sat., Aug. 6, 6 p.m.

FOMOfest

Showcases the best local bands in a one-day festival celebrating independent music and exposing worthy artists to a larger audience. $15-$50. Sat., Aug. 6, 2-10 p.m.

MINGLEWOOD HALL, 1555 MADISON (866-609-1744), WWW.MINGLEWOODHALL.COM.

Yoga at the Garden

S PO RTS / F IT N ES S

Connect breath with movement through an all-levels vinyasa flow to increase strength and flexibility, while calming and focusing the mind. $5 members, $8 nonmembers.

Thursdays, 4:30 p.m.

Go Ape Treetop Adventure

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW. MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

LEVITT SHELL, OVERTON PARK (610657-7994), WWW.FOMOFEST.COM.

Course in Shelby Farms Park open for its second season.

Ongoing.

SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.GOAPE.COM.

M E ETI NGS

AMA Memphis August Luncheon featuring Dr. Will Pepper “Making Superheroes and

WOLF RIVER CROSSFIT, 7800 FISCHER STEELE (628-1786).

SHELBY FARMS, 500 N. PINE LAKE (767-PARK), WWW.SHELBYFARMSPARK.ORG.

Yellow Fever is coming to the mansion for a season of mourning. The dimly lit mansion will be staged in preparation of mourning. 1878 yellow fever victims will be recounted and our martyrs remembered. $15. Fri., Aug. 5, 5-8 p.m.

Roudnev Youth Ballet’s Nutcracker Prep Camp (Ages 9 to 18)

Free-$30. Sat., Aug. 6, 8 a.m.noon.

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tions, breakfast with the buffalo, morning yoga, and more. $8 members, $10 nonmembers. Fri.-Sat., Aug. 5-6.

Businesses S.M.A.R.T.E.R.” Shares 20 years of business knowledge showcasing great change, innovative techniques, and stories that have occurred in the business world. $15 members, $25 nonmembers. Thurs., Aug. 4, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

UNIVERSITY CLUB OF MEMPHIS, 1346 CENTRAL (722-3700), WWW.MEMPHISAMA.ORG.

Meristem Women’s Book Club

Read and explore written works by women and LGBT authors. Second Wednesday of every month, 7 p.m.

MEMPHIS GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER, 892 S. COOPER (278-6422), WWW.MGLCC.ORG.

Olive Branch Genealogy Club

Will St. Amand from the Lafayette County Historical Society will speak on the Society’s genealogical holdings.

No dues and all are welcome.

Free. Every third Wednesday, 12-2 p.m. Through Nov. 30.

OLIVE BRANCH PUBLIC LIBRARY, 6619 COCKRUM (662-895-4365).

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Firefly Glow Party

Featuring Illumination Station, shining crafts, luminescence experiments, kids’ music by the Friendzies, and LED hoop performance.

Bring light-up toys to dance party. Concessions available.

Reservations required. $12 members, $15 nonmembers.

Fri., Aug. 5, 7-9 p.m.

MEMPHIS BOTANIC GARDEN, 750 CHERRY (636-4100), WWW. MEMPHISBOTANICGARDEN.COM.

Park + Pajamas

This overnight adventure for the whole family will feature guided nocturnal nature hike, campfire cooking demonstra-

Comprehensive camp for dancers ages 9 to 18. All participants will get a role in the Nutcracker production, which will be cast during camp. $285. Through Aug. 5, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

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Teen Book Club

Read and discuss the book of the month, eat a few snacks, play a review game, discuss the book read, vote on our next book. For teens, sixth12th grade. Free. Second Monday of every month.

COLLIERVILLE LIBRARY, 91 WALNUT (457-2601), WWW.COLLIERVILLELIBRARY.ORG.

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Featuring food, WOD demonstration, and prizes to launch Kickstarter and get jeans into mass production. Sat., Aug. 6, 2-4 p.m.

First Friday: Yellow Jack!

WOODRUFF-FONTAINE HOUSE, 680 ADAMS (526-1469), WWW. WOODRUFF-FONTAINE.ORG/EVENTS.

Fish Bowl Trivia: Financial Trivia for Young Professionals

Trivia and networking about money, career, future, movies, and more. Prizes, two drinks, and appetizers included. Free.

Thurs., Aug. 4, 6:30-9 p.m.

FOX AND HOUND SPORTS TAVERN, 5101 SANDERLIN (767-0668), WWW.FISHANDASSOCIATES.COM.

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See website for comic convention special events including Star Wars, Manga, Pokémon, and more. Through Aug. 6.

BARNES & NOBLE, 2774 N. GERMANTOWN (386-2468), WWW.BN.COM.

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Bringing community together to support and encourage breastfeeding. Moms from all over Memphis and the Mid-South gather together to break a record for most moms feeding breast milk simultane-

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Peabody Rooftop Party

Each week features entertainment, themed snack buffet, and drink specials. $10-$15.

Thursdays, 6-10 p.m. Through Aug. 18.

THE PEABODY, 149 UNION (529-4000), WWW.PEABODYMEMPHIS.COM.

Scenes of the Dinosaurs

Travel back in time to when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and get closer than you ever could have imagined. Visit the life-like dinosaurs and interactive learning stations that will inspire and engage all the senses. Free for members.

Through Oct. 2.

MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Hockney

Foreign film follows the story of a young woman from Senegal who moves to France to work for a rich white couple. The life Diouana sees for herself is very different from the situation she is thrown into. $9. Wed., Aug. 10, 7 p.m.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

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A tight-knit group of young high school athletes have a terrible crash after winning the state championship, a catastrophe that will shape all of their lives. See website for dates and times. $10.

Aug. 5-28.

Exploration of one of the most significant artists of his generation, David Hockney has given access to his personal archive of photographs and film, resulting in an unparalleled visual diary of a long life. $5. Fri., Aug. 5, 1 p.m.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6209), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

National Parks Adventure 3D

Ultimate off-trail adventure into the nation’s awe-inspiring great outdoors and untamed wilderness. Through Nov. 11.

CTI 3D GIANT THEATER, IN THE MEMPHIS PINK PALACE MUSEUM, 3050 CENTRAL (636-2362), WWW.MEMPHISMUSEUMS.ORG.

Summer Movie Series Sat., Sun. Through Aug. 7.

BELZ MUSEUM OF ASIAN AND JUDAIC ART, 119 S. MAIN, IN THE PEMBROKE SQUARE BUILDING (523-ARTS), WWW.BELZMUSEUM.ORG.

Wider Angle Film Series: Wondrous Boccaccio

Ten young 14th-century Florentine men and women escape the city’s Black Plague to the countryside, spend 10 days trading stories of love, adventure, and twists of fate. Italian with English subtitles. Free. Wed., Aug. 10, 5:45 p.m.

BENJAMIN L. HOOKS CENTRAL LIBRARY, 3030 POPLAR (415-2726).

BAOBAB FILMHOUSE, 652 MARSHALL, WWW.BAOBABFILMHOUSE.CCOM.

State and Federal Primary, County General Election, and Bartlett Special Municipal Election Thurs., Aug. 4.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.SHELBYVOTE.COM.

Vision Screenings and School Supply Drive

Kids vision screenings and school supply drive.

Donations dropped off will benefit children without access to adequate supplies in Memphis schools. Free. Fridays, 2-4 p.m. Through Aug. 31.

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Auction at Graceland

Online bidding begins July 25th for rare, authenticated Elvis memorabilia. Through Aug. 13.

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Elvis Week 2016

More than 25 events to help celebrate the life and legacy of Elvis and the 60th anniversary of his break-out year of 1956. See website for full list of events including locations and dates.

Aug. 10-16.

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Downtown Food Tours

Savor tastings at five popular eateries, interact with chefs and managers, and sample a range of local flavors while learning about Memphis historic landmarks. Meeting location disclosed with ticket purchase. $55. Saturdays, 1:30 p.m.

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Fridays, 11:30 a.m. Through Sept. 30.

THE DIXON GALLERY & GARDENS, 4339 PARK (761-5250), WWW.DIXON.ORG.

High Cotton Night

Enjoy 2-for-1 drafts of High Cotton’s Scottish Ale. From 5-7 p.m., brewer Chuck will be on site to drink a few and chat about beer with guests.

Thurs., Aug. 4, 4-10 p.m.

HUEY’S COLLIERVILLE, 2130 W. POPLAR (845-4455), WWW.HIGHCOTTONBREWING.COM.

National IPA Day at Flying Saucer Cordova

Featured tappings include Stone Brewing RuinTen Triple IPA with Orange Peel & Vanilla Bean, Sierra Nevada Hoptimum Imperial IPA, Victory Brewing Hop Ranch Imperial India Pale Ale, and Stone Brewing Mocha IPA. Thurs., Aug. 4, 6 p.m.-1 a.m.

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Open Arms Care Annual Jazz & Wine Event

Including saxophonist Mark Baker, Tameka “Big Baby” Goodman, and the Lyrics Band featuring Bird Williams, benefiting those with intellectual and developmental disabilities. $25. Fri., Aug. 5, 6-9 p.m.

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ulling from the immemorial and recollected, the associated and imaginary, Haynes Riley transformed TOPS Gallery into a veritable summer stage in the style of the Absurd Theatre in “An Attitude You Can Wear,” on view another week through August 13th. Scenography associated with the original post-war movement presents itself in the exhibition’s austere and colorless environment — stylized, symbolic objects; selective realism; lax production values; use of projection; and function of movement.

In case examples from 1950s Europe, playwrights such as Samuel Beckett in the West (Waiting for Godot) or Eugène Ionesco in the East (Rhinoceros) used nonsensical plotlines and dialogue that only served to ridicule the state of speech.

This was one of the tactics used to stir audiences into understanding the absurdity following World War II. Of course, “An Attitude You Can Wear” is not a play

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but an installation. There is no plot but what we can imagine — or, effortlessly insert from reality. This is exactly what makes an Absurd Theatre proposition so elegant here and now: Not to get into a pissing contest with post-war Europe, but this summer has been as absurd as it gets.

What the intellectual cognoscente saw then is widely apparent now.

TOPS operates out of the defunct coal and furnace rooms in the basement of 400 Front Street. The ante gallery is a “cozy” concrete-on-concrete foyer with nook-and-cranny remainders of extracted machinery. Exhibitions such as “An Attitude” consider the layout of the room, history of the building, natural resources, and moment in time as the first step in creating the work. The information is used as subject matter, to form themes, and to inform what materials can and may be used. Here, it’s all covert — nothing Memphis as Fuck about it. And regardless of Riley being from Arkansas, this is

no regionalism either. There’s something very “eating the whole buffalo” about how all the many attributes are used. But, if nothing is sacrificed, it is because this process — start with what you have lying around — is very efficient for the compulsively creative.

What is lying around: a lot of vaguely utilitarian objects; some placed more natively to their use-case scenario than others. A couch covered with a white bedsheet is against one wall, on which you’re free to sit. Above it, straight up couch art: In Cueva de las Manos/La mano de Dios, sand from the Mississippi River was used to reproduce hand-stencil cave art of Paleolithic era. Across from the couch, a white curtain hangs a few feet from the opposing concrete wall, ceiling to floor, and it’s clear this is where the entertainment is supposed to happen. An installment of galvanized steel pipe, waved like a bike rack and punctured in vain with industrial-strength hardware (Toltec Mounds), crosses the curtain’s front width.

Our “actors” are scattered about (T-shirts stretched over cardboard with faces cut out), but it’s the prefabricated wooden bar stools, none for sitting, that the artist names: Pedestal Ann with fake plastic plants; Pedestal Elise, straddling Toltec Mounds; Pedestal George in the ante room and absolutely covered in neon zipper.

Pedestal Davis is my favorite, because it/ he/they perfectly models the estate-sale aesthetic I hold dear: still life with coffee cup, banana, and window unit air conditioner, with homeless duffle bag strap, in camouflage print, lying across the top.

Sweet, incidental-like juxtaposition.

If it hasn’t already been established, this is the kind of exhibition wherein objects merely typical to a room are in play. But I didn’t realize the extent of it until I was on my way out, when TOPS owner Matt Ducklo disclosed that the oscillating fan in the corner was part of the show. It worked — quite pleasingly, and I imagine the hotter outside the more unassuming it would be as art in here (rather, a luxury for the everyman). No matter the temperature, taking such a pure, unadulterated readymade very seriously can get a little silly, and that’s not what we’re after here. “Silly” has no value; it’s easy to explain. The source of marvelous comedy used in Absurdist Theatre more closely resembles nonsense.

I recalled the classic Mitch Hedberg joke about how oscillating fans say “no” to things before I wrote Fan off for good. My asking, “Are you art?” as it moved side to side was just the punchline needed.

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Heart & Soul A new restaurant comes to Court Square.

T

amra Eddy grew up in the food business.

She helped her father wash dishes and iron linens for his restaurant.

Her grandmother was a baker. Her other grandfather owned a barbecue restaurant.

When Eddy graduated high school, she went into the hairstyling business.

“I never wanted to cook, ever,” Eddy says.

That all changed in November 2010.

“I woke up one morning and said, ‘I don’t want to do hair anymore. I want to cook,’” Eddy says.

Eddy became a pastry chef, worked as a food stylist for a television show, and cooked for “countless” celebrities, all of which took place in the Houston, Texas, area.

In January 2015, she left it all behind to move to Memphis and help a friend with ministry work, but along the way enough people tasted her cooking that someone wanted to get her in touch with a local entrepreneur.

“They knew somebody who owned a restaurant space and wanted somebody whose food stood out,” Eddy says.

That person was Tommie Henderson, and the space was the former Yellow Rose in the Lincoln American Tower in Court Square.

On August 15th, the ground floor space will present itself to the world as Memphis Lighthouse.

“Through the fog of all the food choices in downtown Memphis, there is the Lighthouse,” Henderson says with a smile.

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I think the Brits hit the hot weather beer target spot-on with their hallowed India pale ale — brewed for Saxon boys who were shipped off to wilt on the Indian subcontinent. It’s been the bestselling craft-beer style in this country since craft beer was a thing. IPAs are generally light and spicy, and you never have to construct a back story to order one. Beware, though, IPAs are hoppy and can get bitter when your glass loses its chill. Perhaps because it was originally brewed for soldiers, the style tends to be higher ABV (alcohol by volume), which is fine when you’re sipping but dangerous when you want to knock them back. To this end, the good people at Founders Brewing have put out an aptly named All Day IPA. It’s a little lighter on the hops and the alcohol at a 4.2 ABV. Smith said that his current best seller wasn’t a local beer, or even a domestic.

It was Einstök White Ale, made in Iceland, which isn’t particularly known for sweltering summers. But Iceland isn’t as random in the history of American beer as it sounds. With all due respect to Christopher Columbus, the Norse were the first Europeans to spend much time in North America. In 1002 or thereabouts, Leif Ericson bought a second-hand boat from a man named Bjarni Herjólfsson.

Bjarni was out of the sailing business because, as he related to Leif, a few years back he’d got drunk on his way from Iceland to Greenland and run into Canada by mistake. Leif took the hint.

As far as Einstök goes, it is clear, crisp, and light — like the umlaut over the O. It’s different without trying too hard. Worth checking out and adding to your summer beer arsenal.

At this point, I feel compelled to mention that having a tall glass of water along with whatever brew you choose is always a good idea. Or in the words of the British SAS (who’ve thrown back plenty of IPA in their day): “Hydrate or die.”

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Taking measures for drinking in the heat is actually more difficult than coldweather tippling; you can always throw another log on the fire or put on a sweater.

But in the summer, eventually you run out of clothes to take off, unless you want to commit some social gaffe you’d rather not explain to your mother. So I shuffled down to see David Smith at Hammer & Ale in Cooper-Young to talk beer and the hellish ambient temperature.

One great advantage of the craft beer boom is that beers are seasonal, rather than the one-size-fits-all lagers that dominated the U.S. beer scene for 60 years after prohibition. The drawback is that buying a beer now is like getting vegetables at the farmers market: You’re surrounded by a variety of fresh options, but sometimes you just want to have what you had last time. Still, if you approach the selection with an open mind, you’ll find something that does the trick.

The gleaming taps at Hammer & Ale showcase a few local summer favorites, like Wiseacre’s Tiny Bomb lager, High Cotton’s Biere de Garde, and the wonderfully named Crystal Method from Ghost River’s Brewers’ Series (a filtered hefeweizen that loses the cloudiness of traditional wheats).

All of these beers are brewed to be light, fresh, and interesting enough to keep your attention.

Hammer & Ale has an oatmeal stout on tap — the Poet by New Holland.

They’re selling some, but not much, in this weather.

Smith tells me it goes well with ice cream as an R-rated root beer float.

Then I sampled a Grapefruit Shandy by the Traveler Beer Co. Shandies are often approached with a degree of apprehension by the male of the species.

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HEART & SOUL continued from page 38 Pecan Pie with bourbon-soaked pecans — “They’re soaked for like a week and become this sort of candied crust,” Eddy says — Lemoncello Cheesecake, KeyLime Icebox Pie. Eddy has published two cookbooks, including A Dance in the Kitchen with My Father, which includes recipes of the food she grew up eating at home, and Grandma’s Hands — all of her grandmother’s written recipes, and she is working on her third, The Baker, the Chef, and Me. All are published under the name T. Tamyra Eddy.

“My mom’s crazy. She named me Tamra Tamyra,” Eddy says.

She has her own spice line, which includes Fry Me Up Baby for all things fried, Reel Me In for all things seafood, and Black as Midnight, for blackening, all of which she uses in the restaurant.

Plans include setting up a bar this fall, a wifi station in the back with tall tables, a private space cordoned off with an aquarium, and enough space and tables to seat 170.

There’s not too much interior work needed. The space was prepped and ready to go from 2010 when a New York-style deli renovated the space but never got off the ground.

“With the blue and white, it looks like a lighthouse,” Henderson says. “When we put the initial furniture in here, I had no idea how big this space was.”

They will also continue the tradition of serving up breakfast, lunch, and snacks to 226 charter school students in Memphis every day during the school year — Eddy has her own crew for that — but will add a new component to it.

“There will be a charter school moving in this building, and we want to offer them the opportunity to learn how to be an entrepreneur through the restaurant,” Henderson says.

The perfect union of money and talent — Henderson and Eddy — wasn’t an overnight thing.

Eddy worked for several months trying to get in touch with Henderson, even dropping by his office to leave him some food.

“He wasn’t there, so somebody ate it,” Eddy says.

A second try was all it took.

“He told me my flavor profiles were amazing, and the presentation was perfect,” she says. “He said he absolutely wanted to do a restaurant with me.”

Memphis Lighthouse opens Monday, August 15th, at 60 N. Main. Hours will be 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday. For more information, call 310-5711.

FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

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How do you like them apples? hacker figure added to give outdated spy jinx a little 2016 razzmatazz. Greengrass creates the film’s only good set piece in the midst of a violent street protest in Athens where Bourne and Parsons are trying to meet while pursued by a fellow CIA superassissin known only as the Asset (Vincent Cassel). The dramatic lighting and crude street fighting suggest the 2014 madefor-YouTube protests in Ukraine, and the colorist has a field day.

But Greengrass can’t keep his bad habits at bay for long. The pioneer of handheld shaky cam just can’t sit still long enough to create a decent establishing shot. Either the film steadily loses visual coherence as it progresses, or I was just worn down by the constant useless cutting. Why does it take a team of film professionals five cuts to show Jason Bourne getting out of a car? continued on page 42

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Also bored is Tommy Lee Jones as CIA Director Dewey. He’s secretly working to ensure that his spooks have access to all the information in Deep Dream, a poorly described tech product with 1.5 billion users created by Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed).

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Meanwhile, Bourne’s drawn out of hiding by Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), a former ally from back in the Ultimatum days who is going to leak word of all of the CIA’s nefarious doings to Christian Dassault (Vinzenz Kiefer), the Julian Assange

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like Matt Damon; you like Matt Damon; everybody likes Matt Damon. He’s an everyman for our age. He can be vulnerable and nerdy, like when he’s playing the stranded astronaut in The Martian, or he can be rough and hunky, like when he’s playing Jason Bourne, like he does in Jason Bourne.

Author Robert Ludlum created Bourne in his 1980 novel The Bourne Identity, launching a surefire formula for airport gift-shop, page-turner success. He took a standard Cold War spy story of betrayal and double-cross and, borrowing a page from the Captain America comics, made his protagonist a borderline superhuman product of a covert CIA super soldier program. The now 13 books in the series all carry the same branding strategy: The title starts with “The Bourne…” and ends with a single, gravitas-inducing word like “Imperative,” “Ultimatum,” or “Sanction.”

For the fifth film installment of the Bourne saga, director Paul Greengrass and company have chosen to abandon the classic titular formula in favor of simply using the character’s name, and it’s a crucial tell.

Even the modicum of creativity needed to take Bourne’s name and add a single, nondescript word was too much. Damon and Greengrass sat out the last installment, and 2012’s Bourne Legacy suffered greatly for its lack of Bourne, so now they’re back to give us the pure, uncut Bourne.

We first see our hero having an expositional flashback dream while riding in a crappy Land Rover to a godforsaken town on the border of Greece and Albania where he makes his living as a street fighter. Bourne prepares for the punch out with a resigned look, and I imagine

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Netflix took a chance on a pair of twin brothers from North Carolina, Matt and Ross Duffer, a pair of newbies with a killer pitch: What if we remade all of the films of the 1980s at once? Well, not all ’80s movies, just the low- to mid-budget sci-fi and horror films of the type Hollywood rarely makes any more. Like The Goonies, the heart of the story lies with a group of precocious kids. Mike (Finn Wolfhard) is introduced as the dungeon master in the midst of the weekly Dungeons and Dragons session with fellow tween dweebs Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Will (Noah Schnapp).

After a 10-hour bout of snack food and polyhedral dice, the boys bike home, but Will is intercepted in the dark woods of rural Indiana by a sinister, faceless monster who kidnaps the boy into a spooky parallel dimension that resembles the spirit world from Poltergeist. The next morning, Will’s mom, Joyce (Winona Ryder), calls the police, sending Chief Hopper (David Harbour) on a search for the missing boy.

Meanwhile, a young girl wanders out of the woods. Disoriented and almost mute, she has a shaved head and a tattoo on her wrist identifying her as “11.”

When the owner of a diner offers her aid, a group of shadowy government agents show up in pursuit. Led by Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine), the staff of Hawkins National Laboratory seem to be somehow involved with the monster’s parallel universe and responsible for Eleven’s telekinetic powers, whose depths are slowly revealed as the series progresses through eight episodes.

The Duffer Brothers follow the Tarantino formula of creating a pastiche out of loosely related genre films, taking images and moments from films like E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Stand by Me, and Flight of the Navigator and sculpting them into something fresh. Stranger Things subverts as it mimics. Mike’s older sister, Nancy (Natalia Dyer), escapes the sexual punishment aspect of ’80s horror, while her prudish bestie, Barb (Shannon Purser), disappears into the netherworld.

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THE LAST WORD by Jen Clarke

Back to School!

A familiar sound has returned. The wind carries the brassy notes and errant cymbals of practice through my neighborhood as a nearby high school’s marching band tunes up for football Fridays. I think (hope) they’re supposed to be playing “Hotline Bling,” but they don’t quite have it down.

The aisle blockers at Target and Walmart are no longer on the hunt for Pokémon.

Instead, they’re diving into racks of white polos and navy khakis. They’re checking off items on a wrinkled sheet of paper as they count out glue sticks, red pens, five-subject notebooks, and three-ring binders.

It’s a little endearing to see the supply list still going strong, in spite of the technology that’s come around since my mom and I argued over Lisa Frank folders way back when. I wrongly assumed Amazon would put an end to the pageantry of school shopping and those parent-child showdowns in front of the backpacks. “Are you SURE this is the one you want? I’m not buying you a new bookbag when you decide you don’t like (insert whatever the kids are into these days here) anymore.”

Last Wednesday I even received an email at work assuring me that it’s “not too late to think about back to school for my retail clients.” Actually, marketing automation software vendor, it is. Now that the conventions are over, television is one long commercial with some tweens dancing in front of lockers. Because it’s that time again.

Some schools are already back in session. But the school year really kicks off in a few days when our Instagram and Facebook feeds will be overtaken by the images of drowsy children wearing brand new sneakers and toting lunch boxes that likely won’t make it past Christmas break before being forgotten on the playground. “My First Day of Third Grade!” a Pinterest-inspired placard reads. “OMG third grade already? I can’t believe she is so grown up! It seems like she was in diapers just yesterday! Heart eyes emoji” our mutual friends will remark in the comments.

I can list about a million things I do not miss about school. Math and science rank high on that list, followed by undressing for gym class and then participating in gym class. Most of all, it saddens me that there is no “adult life” equivalent to the new beginning that is the First Day of School. Until high school, when “cumulative GPA” becomes part of the equation Day One is Square One. Everybody’s got straight A’s on the first day. It’s a chance to make a first impression on a new batch of potential friends and on the teacher, who, by the way, is holding it all together even though she has no idea which student is which.

My teacher friends are my heroes for so many reasons. They spend their summer “vacations” planning, attending workshops, and cramming in as much time as they can with their own children before they re-dedicate their lives to educating other people’s. I don’t know how they do it. Never mind the long hours, inadequate pay, the administrative responsibilities, and paperwork — the mere thought of spending seven or so hours a day with a roomful of kids and their questions terrifies me.

Especially during this bizarro election year. Isn’t there, on some level, a moral obligation to discuss it, at least in social studies class? How do you simplify for a child a series of events that defy logic for adults? What do you do if some kid says something like “Donald Trump is going to make America great again”?

I don’t know how I would respond. Wait, yes I do. I’d say something rude like, “Well it’s a good thing you’re too young to vote, because even the members of his own party don’t believe that.” Or I’d accidentally let slip an F-bomb. Then the kid would go home and tell his parents, and that would be the end of my career. That right there is why I could never be a teacher.

So here’s to you, patient and saintly educators. And here’s to you, parents, as you finalize carpool plans and try to figure out why your child needs to provide six boxes of Kleenex and 40 reams of printer paper. And, to the students, good luck. Pick out your clothes the night before, get a good night’s sleep, and make sure you eat breakfast. Don’t get lost, and try not to do anything that will earn you an embarrassing nickname that lasts your entire life. Go get ’em.

Jen Clarke is an unapologetic Memphian and digital marketing strategist.

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