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“Good morning, Kalena,” I said.

“Good morning,” said our receptionist. “You have an awful voicemail. Do you want me to send it to your phone?”

“Yeah, I guess.”

It was an awful message, best summarized as, “F**king Bruce VanWyngarden needs to be in jail for writing what he said about Donald Trump. F**king Hillary should be in an orange jumpsuit and f**king Barack Obama has ruined this country. F**k you all. I hate your f**king paper.”

He seemed displeased.

As I do with all hateful/threatening voicemails, I did a reverse lookup on the number, which was from a real estate office in East Memphis. This angry fellow had called from his place of business, one that I won’t be recommending to anyone looking for housing.

How did we get to this place, anyway? When did politics rise from the “agree to disagree” Republican and Democratic debates among friends that I recall from not so long ago to anonymous (not so much, actually) “F**k you” voicemails and vicious arguments on social media and the resultant “defriending” and “unfollowing”?

Trump loathing is rampant. I’ve heard several people say recently that if someone is voting for Trump, they can no longer be friends with them. And the “Hillary needs to be in an orange jumpsuit” crowd has taken angry politics to even worse extremes.

The political discourse has been coarsening for a couple of decades now, led initially by the likes of Rush Limbaugh in the 1990s, who was among the first to discover the big money to be made by continually stoking political anger via character assassination, sexism, and racism.

The rise of Rush was followed by the formation of the Roger Ailes-driven Fox News machine, which turned conservative dogma into “news” and spawned a network of Rush wannabes such as Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, accessorized by an ever-changing legion of newsblondes in miniskirts. MSNBC has attempted to mount a progressive/liberal counterweight, but Fox still owns the cable airwaves, at least, for now. (It remains to be seen how the network will fare now that pervy Roger has moved over to the Trump campaign and the Murdoch kids are running things.)

But back to the state of our political discourse. I’ve tried recently — twice, actually — to have civil conversations with people who are voting for Trump. Both acquaintances were Christians and Republican conservatives. I went through the usual arguments: Trump is anything but Christian. He’s not even conservative. His foundation is a sham. He’s a crooked businessman with a long history of lawsuits and bankruptcies. He won’t release his taxes or medical records. He’s racist, and he lies like most of us breathe. I concluded by pointing out that many prominent Republicans and conservatives have stated he would be a danger to the republic and that he is mentally unfit for the office.

What I heard back was, basically: Hillary is a crook. Washington needs to be shaken up, and Trump will shake things up. And he can be controlled by Congress if he gets out of line.

Neither of these folks made what I would call a legitimate case for their candidate. We finally, literally, agreed to disagree. But, of course, I think they’re both fools, and they probably think the same of me.

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The best candidate doesn’t bring context, insight, experience, or even value — but “schizzle.” Moreover, they’re expected to put said “schizz” in “Breaking News,” which isn’t even a proper noun.

Apart from racial coding and awkward stabs at millennial-speak, what can it even mean? Because, if we’re working with the strict Oxford English Dictionary definition (which completely exists), putting “shit” into breaking news sounds unethical, if not unhygienic. So let’s presume “schizzle” is just some 2016-ized version of marketing pioneer Elmer Wheeler’s classic line: “It’s the sizzle that sells the steak, and not the cow,” the maestro proclaimed. “Hidden in everything you sell in life is a sizzle — the tang in the cheese, the crunch in the cracker, the whiff in the coffee, and the pucker in the pickle.”

He’s right, of course, but WREG’s not hiring an assistant salesperson or marketing director, and this looks like everything terrible about TV news in one bullet point. Nobody survives on “schizzle” alone, and after a long steady diet of nothing but, there’s plenty of folks ready for a nice, meaty “schteak.”

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

Art Park developer excluded from new plan for Downtown promenade.

Earlier this month, city officials unveiled a massive plan to revitalize downtown’s promenade with a music venue, an outdoor cafe, art installations, pop-up retail, and more. The city’s plan for Memphis Fourth Bluff looks incredibly similar to John Kirkscey’s Memphis Art Park plan, which he began developing nine years ago.

Kirkscey, the “idea guy” and developer behind Memphis Art Park, said he feels like he’s been “completely excluded” from the city’s discussions on redeveloping and activating the promenade space, which includes Memphis Park, the Cossitt Library, and Mississippi River Park. Kirkscey said he’s pitched his plan to city officials over the years, both to former Mayor A C Wharton’s administration and to current chief operating officer Doug McGowan.

“I’ve been pitching to these people, and I haven’t been considered in this process. I’m sure my business plan was considered, but as an individual, I haven’t been,” Kirkscey said. “Their plan is saying the same thing I’m saying — that arts and culture should be at the heart of the promenade, and we could have art galleries and performance spaces. Their plan isn’t as developed as mine, but it’s all about arts and culture.”

Rendering of Kirkscey’s Art Park

The city was awarded a $5 million grant from the JPB Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, and that will be matched by public and private donations.

The Fourth Bluff project will activate the promenade spaces — Cossitt Library, Memphis Park, and Mississippi River Park —over the next three years.

Similarly, Kirkscey’s plan proposes new uses for the Cossitt Library and Memphis Park, as well as the Front Street fire station.

“The founders of the city bequeathed the promenade land over to the city, and it was put aside for public use. While the city may have been honoring the letter of it, it certainly hasn’t been honoring the spirit of it,” Kirkscey said.

Under Kirkscey’s plan, which was designed by Mario Walker of Self+Tucker Architects, the Cossitt Library would house a music/dance/performing arts center and a cinema and black-box theater. It would remain a library as well, but Kirkscey envisions it as a digital library. Under the city’s Fourth Bluff plan, the Cossitt continued on page 6

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A Noura Jackson prosecutor case is heard, and a group wants whites to fight for racial justice.

Prosecution on Trial A state panel was to decide early this week whether or not to continue hearings on alleged ethical violations by a Shelby County prosecutor accused of withholding evidence in the Noura Jackson murder trial.

Shelby County Assistant District Attorney Stephen Jones was targeted for discipline by the Tennessee Supreme Court Board of Professional Responsibility (TBPR) in January on charges that he withheld a witness statement from Jackson’s attorneys, evidence that could have helped her defense in the trial.

Jones asked a state board Thursday to drop his case, arguing that his actions were an “inadvertent mistake.” The three-member board was to render a decision on the matter sometime this week.

Jackson was convicted in 2009 of the 2005 killing of her mother, Jennifer. The Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the conviction in 2014. Jackson took an Alford plea in the case in May 2015 and was released from prison in August.

Planned Parenthood Plans Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region (PPGMR) announced last week it plans build a second health center to complement its existing center on Poplar in Midtown.

No location was revealed for the project last week, but $4.5 million has already been raised for the project’s construction.

Noura Jackson

The news came during PPGMR’s 75th anniversary gala last week.

Mobilizing whites Cooper-Young Festival was the debut of a local group that aims to mobilize white people on racial injustice issues.

The Memphis branch of the national Showing Up for Racial Justice [SURJ] group formed after the July 10th protest on the Hernando deSoto Bridge.

“It was such a powerful moment in Memphis that I think people felt really inspired,” said the Memphis chapter organizer Allison Glass. “If these folks are going to commit such a courageous act, then we as white people need to organize other white people to join this effort.”

Memphis SURJ canvassed the festival crowd Saturday and sold Black Lives Matter yard signs to fund the Black Lives Matter network.

Sweeten Up Sugar Services could get a whole new look and a new feel for pedestrians as a proposal for the South End industrial site would help blend it in with its residential surroundings. continued on page 6

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JOB OPPORTUNITY WREG is hiring an assistant news director to...

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“Tale” continued from page 5 would remain a library but would have more arts and culture programming, a music library, an indoor bar, and an outdoor café.

Kirkscey envisions Memphis Park would feature an outdoor café, an outdoor performance space, and an artist market.

The city’s plan also features a plan for live music, as well as a beer garden, revolving food trucks, and LED light installations.

The city plan doesn’t include the Front Street fire station, but Kirkscey’s plan would convert the station into an art resource center and gallery.

Kirkscey said his plan would cost about $25 million, but he says he has a fundraising plan in place.

“We wouldn’t be looking for city money, but we envision a public-private partnership,” he said. “The Riverfront Development Corp. could continue to maintain the grounds and pay utilities, and they could lease the buildings to a nonprofit for $1 a year.”

Kirkscey said he hasn’t given up hope yet and will meet with McGowan, who did not respond to requests for comment on why Kirkscey was left out of the process.

“I want to know if there will be a public process. Will there be a request for proposals? Can I submit my plan to be considered?” Kirkscey said. “This has been nine years in the making by a local creative. The city has this whole mantra about supporting the creative class.”

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A Downtown Memphis Commission (DMC) board was slated to review a $23,600 grant proposal from the South End Alliance (SEA) for a project that would “better screen the industrial use [at Sugar Services] and improve the pedestrian experience on adjacent sidewalks” around the corner of Tennessee and G.E. Patterson.

Sugar Services creates sugar products for soft drink manufacturers, bakeries, dairy companies, ice cream manufacturers, and cereal makers.

Residences have grown up around the company, which was founded in downtown Memphis in 1969.

De-ghost town The DMC wants to temporarily turn the vacant storefront at 101 South Main into a “multi-use space” that could be the home base for the Blue Suede Brigade and a space for pop-up retail, theater, comedy, music, and more.

The space was last rented by Peacock Travel Group and sits across the street from Aldo’s Pizza Pies. A DMC board was to review the project this week. If approved, the group would move in in October and be out by January.

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New program will provide homeless with employment, support. taining jobs and housing and the services that they need.”

A Work Local board member traveled to Albuquerque and spent time with the Better Way program, Johnson said. A team then formed at the beginning of 2016 to conceptualize the Memphis initiative. Now, it’s about to come to fruition.

“If you give a person a dollar, that really hasn’t helped them much,” Johnson said. “[Work Local] is going to reduce blight in the city ... you’re going to see a number of people exit homelessness,

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Hospitality Hub, a local non-profit homeless resource center, will soon lead an initiative called Work Local that leaders hope will become a long-term solution to the everyday obstacles facing homeless people and panhandlers.

“The goal is that these people are going to be able to exit homelessness by entering this program,” said Hospitality Hub associate director Kelcey Johnson.

Work Local is a partnership between the city of Memphis and the Hospitality Hub to offer temporary cleanup work as a gateway to permanent housing and employment.

Hospitality Hub will pick up 10 people on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the fall and pay them $9 an hour for five hours of work. They’ll also be provided lunch, a night’s housing at the Memphis Union Mission, and access to mental health services, addiction services, health care, and a jobs program, Johnson said.

“The idea is not that they will make enough money working for the program that they’ll be able to exit homelessness, but that they will be introduced to a network that will help and support them as they transition out of homelessness,” Johnson said.

Funding totals $140,000, and it’s provided primarily by the city’s Division of Public Works. The Metropolitan InterFaith Association donated a bus to the program, and funds were also given by the Downtown Memphis Commission and the Memphis Convention & Visitors Bureau.

First Presbyterian Church and Calvary Episcopal Church will assist Hospitality Hub with operating the program.

Work Local’s goals are trifold: allowing those in need to earn more than they could panhandling, establishing a network that spurs stable employment, and eliminating blight from the streets of Memphis. Mayor Jim Strickland said the program brings to fruition an imperative aspect of his administration’s plans to bolster the city.

“In Memphis, we must do everything we can to make sure every single member of our community has the opportunity to lift themselves up from their circumstances in search of a better life,” Strickland said.

The idea originated from Christine Todd, the community ministries coordinator at Calvary Church, Johnson said.

Todd discovered a similar program called There’s a Better Way in Albuquerque, N.M. Leaders there said the program has exceeded expectations.

“We have often heard anecdotal stories that towns have given clients bus passes to Albuquerque,” said Vicky Palmer, the associate executive director at Albuquerque’s St. Martin’s Hospitality Center. “The program has reduced homelessness with clients ob-

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The Republicans went first, opening up a combination HQ for 8th District congressional nominee David Kustoff and the coordinated GOP campaign at 1755 Kirby Parkway on August 31st. The Democrats will open theirs, at 2600 Poplar, with an open house this Saturday.

At the GOP headquarters opening, Kustoff spoke first, then Shelby County Commissioner Terry Roland, as West Tennessee chairman for Donald Trump. Next up was Lee Mills, interim Shelby GOP chair (he replaced Mary Wagner, who had been nominated for a judgeship). He began recognizing Republican gentry in the room.

When Mills got to David Lenoir, the Shelby trustee who’s certain to oppose Roland for county mayor in 2018, he fumbled with Lenoir’s job title, then somewhat apologetically said, “David, I always want to call you tax collector.” Roland then shouted out delightedly, “I do, too!”

• Given the overwhelmingly Republican nature of voting in the

8th District in recent years, Kustoff ’s chances of prevailing are better than good, but for the record, Rickey Hopson of Somerville is the Democratic nominee. Hopson is making the rounds, having spoken at last month’s meeting of the Germantown Democratic Club, one of several local Democratic clubs taking up the slack for the Shelby County Democratic Party, decertified by state Democratic chair Mary Mancini several weeks ago.

Another Democratic underdog challenging the odds is Dwayne Thompson, the party’s candidate for the state House District 96 seat (Cordova, Germantown) now held by the GOP’s Steve McManus. A fund-raiser is scheduled for Thompson next Wednesday, September 28th, at Coletta’s Restaurant on Highway 64.

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At press time on Tuesday, U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) was scheduled to make one more effort, via a unanimousconsent request on the floor of the Senate, to get a vote on the confirmation of Ed Stanton III of Memphis as U.S. District Judge.

Stanton, now serving as U.S. Attorney for Tennessee’s Western District, was nominated by President Obama in May 2015 to succeed Judge Samuel H. “Hardy” Mays.

Sponsored by 9th District Congressman Steve Cohen of Memphis, a Democrat, and heartily endorsed by Tennessee’s two Republican Senators, Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander, Stanton was expected to be a shoo-in for Senate confirmation long ago, but the same partisan gridlock that has prevented Senate action on Obama’s Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland has held up action on Stanton and other judicial nominees.

State Representative Antonio Parkinson (D-District 98) is known for his legislative focus on public-school education and Shelby County Schools, in particular. Last week, he went hands-on at Raleigh-Egypt High School, doing a “take-over” of Robert Coleman’s government class (with the instructor’s permission) and taking the students through some mock parliamentary procedures, proposing pieces of legislation, then debating and voting on them.

Memphis lawyer John Ryder, who currently serves as RNC general counsel and who supervised both parties’ rules changes and the RNC’s redistricting strategy after the census of 2010, has been named Republican Lawyer of the Year by the Republican National Lawyers Association and will be honored at a Washington banquet of the RNLA at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington on Tuesday, September 27th. “Special guests” will include Senator Corker and RNC chairman Reince Priebus.

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This was John M. Jones, the longtime publisher of the East Tennessee Greeneville Sun, who, while covering a murder at some point in the 1950s, became so incensed at the way local police had mucked up the site of the crime (“contamination of evidence,” we call that these days) that he lobbied then Governor Frank Clement for a state-run professional investigative agency. Clement in turn went to work on F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover, who gave the idea his blessing, and — voila!

— the T.B.I. came to be.

In those days, the agency had but three employees — one for each of the state’s Grand Divisions — but when then Governor (later prison inmate) Ray Blanton began being accused of crimes of his own in the late ’70s (selling gubernatorial pardons and liquor licenses) and siphoning off agency records, the climate was right for the next Governor, Lamar Alexander, to oversee the expansion of the T.B.I. to its present dimensions as a fully staffed and independent investigative unit, with criminal and forensic divisions of various kinds, all armed with up-to-date technology.

And, as Gwyn explained to his luncheon audience at the University Club, the agency’s directors are appointed to six-year terms in cycles designed to make them independent of specific gubernatorial regimes. (Gwyn himself, originally appointed by former Governor Phil Bredesen, is now in his third term.)

The director addressed three areas of principal concern for the T.B.I — drug trafficking, human trafficking, and cyber crime — all, as he maintained, currently on the rise.

Gwyn claimed credit for a crackdown on methamphetamine production in the state that has reduced the number of meth cases from well into the thousands down to a few hundred. He said the newest specter in Tennessee is heroin and, beyond that, in street doses of heroin cut, in potentially lethal proportions, with the painkiller Fentanyl. (Tennessee has for many years ranked first or second among the states in opioid addiction.)

As for human trafficking, the T.B.I. — commendably — has a policy of regarding young women entrapped into sexual servitude more as victims rather than as criminals, and the agency’s investigative efforts are focused on pimps and customers.

Gwyn came off more as a traditionalist than as an idealist, however, and he got a bit of audience reaction to his statement that he still regards marijuana as a gateway drug as well as to his questioning of legal protections currently enjoyed by users and manufacturers of cell phones — as in the famous Apple case involving the contents of an accused terrorist’s iPhone.

Those are both cutting-line issues, and how they’ll be resolved is still to be determined. But we appreciate Gwyn’s candor and willingness to discuss these points publicly, as he did on Tuesday.

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there in track meets even today.

One day, having taken in one of the every-Tuesday free lunch concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic, I left the orchestra’s modernist auditorium in the Tiergarten, Berlin’s version of Central Park, and outside, to my surprise, was a long row of German military units, doing seemingly endless repetitions of precision drills as they rehearsed their part in the next day’s funeral for Walter Scheel, the country’s 97-yearold former president, a liberal who had served with the famous West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and done much back in the day to bring about détente with Eastern Europe.

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An election was on in Berlin, and, to be sure, there were, especially in the suburbs, a few signs on street-corner poles explicitly protesting Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy toward Islamic immigrants from the civil war in Syria.

The election results came in this week, well after I left. To most people’s surprise, the anti-immigrant party Alternative für Deutschland won 14.2 percent of the vote and will enter Berlin’s state parliament for the first time.

Meanwhile, here is my favorite election sign of the week, a T-shirt worn by Berliner Helmut Cohen, a seatmate on Air Berlin. It translates: “Your final was on May 8, 1945. No overtime for Nazis.”

Jackson Baker is the Flyer’s political columnist.

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In a bucket-list way, I had been increasingly curious about the continent of Europe, and, after decades of waiting and a couple of false starts, I finally made it over in September of 2015, signing up with a tour organized by David Pickler, the longtime president of the (old) Shelby County Schools board, in conjunction with the American Public Education Foundation.

That trip, organized roughly as an homage to the U.S. effort in World War II, started out in Munich with Oktoberfest and continued into Luxembourg, Belgium, and France, with key stops in Bastogne and Normandy and ending finally with a whirlwind look at the sights in Paris.

Valuable as the experience was, it still left a lot of bucket to fill, and, when I happened to read online about a bigtime high-tech fair, the venerable IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung), set for Berlin in early September, something gadget-minded in me figured it was time for Round Two, especially since my Flyer colleague Chris McCoy had further whetted my interest with an intriguing film column about Leni Riefenstahl’s epic documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. You know, the one where Jesse Owens put the black American athlete on the map in the very citadel of white supremacy.

To cut to the chase, soon enough I was in Berlin — in the vicinity of Alexanderplatz, an oasis of youth culture, night life, and big-box shopping. In East Berlin, as it happens, the city’s once-divided halves, a quarter century after the Wall came down, are well blended. The communist place names — Karl Marx Allee, Rosa Luxemburg Strasse, etc, are still there, though, and there is even a fair-minded museum of the erstwhile German Democratic Republic.

Not so with the Nazi past. Hitler’s bunker is paved over, a parking lot for an apartment building, its erstwhile existence attested to by a signpost. The old Reich Chancellery? Long gone, replaced by the Mall of Berlin.

Much of Berlin was in fact destroyed in World War II, but, by a happy decree of the fates, Olympiastadion, the site of Jesse Owens’ triumph, escaped unscathed, for the likes of Usain Bolt to compete

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usic is Memphis’ greatest export. But for the musicians, taking it on the road means long drives, long nights, and a lot of weirdness. It can be a hard life, full of ups and downs, but it sure makes for good stories. So we asked some of Memphis’ finest musicians to tell us about their Worst Gigs Ever.

September 22-28, 2016

Amy LaVere I think it was the Memphis Queen.

It was this new concept for a river voyage: A group of cyclists boarded for what was supposed to be a three-day cycling/boating adventure down to New Orleans. They were to port in Memphis in the early mid-morning, then they would depart the boat to go on a 40-mile bike ride. Then they would get back on the boat and have dinner, and we would be the after-dinner entertainment for their cruise.

Then they were going to stop in Tunica, where we would disembark with our gear and get ourselves back to Memphis. So the gig required us driving our van to Tunica with someone following us to bring us back to Memphis.

We get on the boat and waited around for everyone to finish a Cajun buffet dinner that had beignets and etouffee and French bread and alcohol, after they’d finished a 40-mile bike ride. They’re pretty much done. So about two-thirds of the audience goes to bed.

So right before we play, the promoter wants to introduce the band. We’re all on stage, and he gets up there in front of us and proceeds to give a speech to the audience that takes 15 minutes. It included such things as how to operate the toilets in their cabins. And we’re just standing there, wondering what the hell 12 is going on. And then we play, and we put everyone to sleep, and it’s so sad. There

were literally people with their arms folded, dozing.

When we get to Tunica to disembark, they had not reserved a docking spot for the riverboat, and the dock was full.

There’s no place to dock. There’s a rocky cliff that goes up to a sidewalk/boardwalk along the Mississippi. I’m in a dress and heels, mind you. So what they did was, they basically reversed the boat, trying to stay stationary. But it was still moving down the river! It was going, like, five MPH. They lowered a plank, and I get handed down to a deck hand onto a rocky cliff that I then have to climb up barefoot with my dress up to the top.

They were helping us get our gear off, but they were still moving, so by the time they got it all off, we were like a quarter mile strung out down the sidewalk.

By this point, we have a more interested audience watching us disembark than were interested at all in hearing us play. Then we had to walk our

gear, piece by piece, all the way back up to the parking place at the dock. I think we made $400 on that gig, in total. Certainly the most comical and worst gig of my life.

Eric Oblivian, True Sons of Thunder I’ve played in bands around the world.

I’ve played in squats in Slovenia. I’ve played in Croatia where they had no money to give us. But the worst show I’ve ever done was right here in Memphis with True Sons of Thunder. At one point, we had a goal of playing every club in town, which included the Rally Point.

We booked a show with some emo band from somewhere. We show up, and the place is dimly lit — no microphones. It was so dark, we couldn’t tell if the turd that was on stage was human or canine.

The show went on, and we did the show without vocals. We just sang into the air.

We did our set, got out of there, and to my knowledge, the turd was still there

while the other band played.

Alicja Trout, Rich Crook, and John Garland, the Lost Sounds/ Sweet Knives AT: There was one that was just an epic night of bad things happening. The Vibrators wanted to get on our show in Detroit at the Old Miami club. We were playing with the Piranhas and Guilty Pleasures. The Vibrators were playing down the street, and they had this promoter named Lacy, and he says, “We’re playing down the street, and there’s nobody at our show. Can we come down and play with you guys?” And we said, “No, we’ve already got three bands . . .”

RC: We eventually said yes, but we weren’t going to share any money. And the Vibrators were HORRIBLE that night.

AT: I had this Peavy amp that had a phaser built in. I asked the guy if he wanted me to show him how to use the amp, because he was borrowing my stuff, rudely enough.

RC: … and he was like, “I think I’ve played enough amps!”

AT: So the phaser was turned all the way up, because we had ended the set with this big noise thing. And he played the whole show going “wheew … wheew . . . wheew…” He never figured it out.

Then, one of the funniest things Jay [Reatard] ever said in his life…

RC: Dude said a lot of funny things.

AT: He said the dude from the Vibrators looked like Jimmy Page’s nutsack. He was balding and like had really wiry, black hair.

RC: Phil Spector-ish.

AT: It ended with this giant bar fight.

The promoter walks in with a giant block of concrete. The cops come, and I kept saying, “Yeah, the puff-mullet. You know those guys with the puff mullets?” And everyone was like, what is she talking

Chris Davis, Papa Top’s West Coast Turnaround This would have been sometime in the late 1990s. We had just played a gig at Kudzu’s, and we had a little liquor in us. The only piece of parental advice (guitarist) John Stiver’s father ever gave him was, “Stay away from Harpo’s Lounge. You’ll get killed.” So we decided we would see if they would let us play for beer. This is a self-inflicted gig. It was our own fault.

Let me first say that Harpo’s has reopened, and it’s nice. They’ve gentrified it. Back then, they self-described it as the most redneck place on Earth. It was infamous for finding dead hookers out behind it.

The minute we walked in, we could see that there were more people than teeth here. It was all rebel flags and unfinished plywood. There was a lot of drug dealing, a lot of meth. So there were a lot of working ladies. They made it clear we were different and unwelcome.

I had on a sequined, knock-off Nudie suit jacket. There was a guy following me around saying, “I’m gonna go home with that jacket!” There was a working girl who looked like Grandma from the Addams Family.

She was saying I looked like Elvis, and she was going home with me.

John Whittemore was playing pedal steel, and he had a woman who was reaching around him with one hand on the hand he was picking with, and the other hand he’s barring with. Grandma would walk around behind me, and when I would be singing, and my hands occupied with the guitar, she would reach up between my legs and start squeezing my business. It got a lot easier to hit those high notes.

Was this a bad gig? I guess it depends on how you define gig. We just sort of showed up.

They didn’t want us. But by the time it was over,

there were people calling out requests.

We did our usual set, and played Elvis’ “Little Sister.” That was when the guy who was going to knock me in the head and steal my jacket decided we were okay. He wasn’t going to knock me in the head, but he was still probably going to take my jacket.

Marcella Simien, Marcella and Her Lovers We were playing this outdoor festival, and I was handed a note in the middle of a song asking me to announce that a 6-year-old boy was missing and had been for over an hour. They made it sound like this kid just took off — a little renegade. I smiled to myself at first, thinking “Okay, the kid is probably off doing things 6-year-olds do.” Then it started to sink in.

I’ve gotten notes on stage with song requests, marriage proposals, birthday requests. But a missing persons report? This was a first, real “Stop the presses!” kind of stuff. So I made the announcement, and the stage manager motioned for us to continue, to keep playing. So we did. But the whole time there was this feeling, this undertone of … missing kid … impossible to ignore. I mean, how can you not be concerned?

Several songs later the kid still hadn’t shown up, and no one was any the wiser as to where he might have been. Someone from the sheriff ’s department got onstage and made another announcement as the band and I helplessly looked at each other, eyes all big. This person makes the announcement sounding like the conductor of a train and then hands the mic back to me. Somehow we finished the set, packed up, and headed out.

But not before leaving behind

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RC: Turned out the guy had a goiter on his neck with hair growing out of it.

AT: I thought it was a mullet.

RC: I was outside the whole time. I walked in, it was like a saloon piano was playing. John got slid across the bar.

JG: I saw Alicja get punched, so I went in.

AT: Oh yeah. I got punched right in the face. The bartender came up to me, and this dude’s fist was coming right at me. He grabbed me. ‘You gotta get out of here! You’re gonna get killed!” He was carrying me out, and I was like, “Where the hell am I going?” Jay comes out of the bathroom. He’s been doing coke with this guy from the other band. They looked around and realized, “Gahh! We’re enemies!” They started going at it.

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Steve Selvidge Big Ass Truck was playing at a fraternity down in Oxford. They paid well. That show would finance a whole tour. And people usually had a good time. It was in our contract that you were hiring us to be us. We weren’t going to play Dave Matthews or Phish. We’re playing outside at this crawfish boil. It’s an all-day thing. People were getting drunk. Some kid thought it would be funny while we’re playing to flip the breakers. So we’re playing, and the power cuts. That happened all the time — it’s no big deal — you just have to sit there and wait for it to come back on. So we start playing again, and the kid flips the breakers again. Power goes off. It keeps happening!

Finally, the sound guy figures what’s going on. “There’s a kid flipping the breaker. We dealt with it.” But it messed up the P.A. The monitors went out, and we couldn’t play. With a DJ, we needed the monitors, because we’re playing to him.

People didn’t understand why we wouldn’t play, and they were getting restless. This entitled little fuck frat kid hops up on stage, grabs the mic, and says “Big Ass Truck sucks!” I was livid. I got up and I was just like, “Get the fuck off my stage you little shit.” Then the monitors come back on, and I’m like, “Hey, sorry about that! Let me tell you what was going on. We’re here to play and have fun. It’s gonna be a good time.

But that little fuck who was flipping the breaker on and off, your mother [string of shocking expletives deleted].” Should have taken the high road. But I didn’t.

Then we just light into the set. We were furious. It was fun. Next thing you know, there’s a bunch of people who want to kick my ass.

I’m looking at guys in the crowd mouthing, “I’m going to kill you!”

Joseph Higgins, Chinese Connection Dub Embassy The worst gig was one of the first gigs we played out of town. It was just a trip to Nashville. Everything was going great, then 30 minutes out of Nashville, our front tire pops off and drags the car a quarter mile down the expressway.

So we get the tow truck to come and get us, and then we find out we have to go to the nearest place to get it fixed before we can do anything. So our bass player, Omar, and Paul, our guitarist at the time, and my brother David head to the Walmart to change the tire out. This is in the middle of summer, and it’s got to be 105 degrees. Two of us are in the tow truck, and the other three are in the car.

We finally get to Walmart after driving around everywhere looking for it. We’re desperate to get to Nashville to play the gig. This was on a Saturday, and all of the places to get a tire fixed are closed.

Then we find out we need over $800 worth of work on the car before we can do anything. We had to call some friends and family to see if we can find anyone to take us to the gig. The guitarist called his family to come and get us. He was so angry at the whole thing, he just wanted to go home. We were like, “No man, we should at least go to Nashville, play the gig, and make some money to pay for the car!” But he was all flustered. “We can’t do this. Let’s just go.”

After we come back to Memphis, we find out later that night that the venue we were playing — it was called Nash Bash — had over a thousand people at the show. We did know it at the time, but we were one of the headliners.

We find out there was a big crowd waiting to see us, because there was no reggae on the bill. Then we find out the promoter for the show lives in Franklin. He could have picked us up and taken us to the show and brought us back. It literally could have all been fixed if we had had the promoter’s number on hand. Since then we have a backup plan for everything.

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American Apartheid

By Chris Davis

What was really at stake when baseball was integrated and Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play in the Major Leagues? That question — trickier than it seems — is what drives Ed Schmidt’s brief, argumentative drama Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting. Schmidt’s bracing historical fiction, which opens at the Hattiloo Theatre this week, finds black superstars like Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, heavyweight champion Joe Louis, and actor Paul Robeson holed up in a room in New York’s Roosevelt Hotel, counselling a young slugger and sparring with the pioneering baseball executive Branch Rickey.

Everybody at Mr. Rickey’s summit understood what it meant to be exceptional, rising to the top of their fields while other African Americans struggled. Robinson, depicted near the end of his life, had been a Civil Rights champion and the highestearning black performer in America. But the elderly dancer was also approaching penury and frequently taken to task by critics for performing stereotypical roles. Louis — the Brown Bomber — was similarly in debt and familiar with the day-to-day indignities black men faced regardless of achievement. Robeson, the renowned singer and actor, was also an active Communist who didn’t trust the myth of individual achievement. He worries that the success of Robinson and the relatively few players who make it to the big show comes at the expense of other people’s jobs. He believes it will result in the failure of the Negro League, ceding all the power in baseball to white ownership.

And there, in the middle of it all, is Jackie Robinson, as proud as he is terrified, and Mr. Rickey, the tough, tightfisted agent of social justice, who clashes with Robeson while talking about buying and selling players like cattle.

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The gym teacher versus the assistant principal The Last Word, p. 39

THURSDAY September 22

FRIDAY September 23

My Whole City Underwater: Race, Trauma, and Surviving Katrina University Center, University of Memphis, 6 p.m.

Part of the Memphis Reads program. This year’s events are related to Hurricane Katrina, and the featured author is Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones).

Booksigning by Kerri Maniscalco The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 6:30 p.m.

Kerri Maniscalco signs her new novel Stalking Jack the Ripper, about a young lady sweet on the infamous murderer. The book, interesting to note, is part of James Patterson’s new YA imprint.

Repair Days 2016 Metal Museum, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Get your metal stuff fixed up at this annual multi-day event featuring demos, a silent auction, and a reception with this year’s master metalsmith Hoss Haley. Today is the day to drop off the goods.

Ex-Cult Album Release Party Bar DKDC, 9 p.m., $7 We’re so punk we’re going to conflict of interest all over this mother! The Flyer’s own Chris Shaw and his band Ex-Cult celebrate the release of their latest album, Negative Growth.

King Charles III Playhouse on the Square, 8 p.m., $25 Thumbs up to anything involving the ghost of Princess Diana.

Mid-South Fair Landers Center, 4 p.m.-midnight, $6-$12 Amusement rides, carnival games, livestock shows, fair food — all the good stuff.

Mid-South Pride Fest Various locations and times Annual celebration of the LGBTQ community featuring a concert at Robert Church Park on Friday; a festival and parade around Church Park on Saturday; and a dance at Alchemy on Sunday. More info at midsouthpride.org.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Halloran Centre, 7:30 p.m., $35 The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (“Mr. Bojangles”) stop by the Halloran Centre on their 50th anniversary tour.

Hot Tamales!

You’ll have to forgive me because my Spanish isn’t very good, but this is a great cross-cultural event, so I really feel like I should make this as bilingual as I can. El “Festival del Tamal” es Sabado! (That means the Tamale Festival is Saturday!) Invitar a tus amigos. (Invite your friends). Invitar tus enemigos. (Heck, invite your enemies; they won’t stay enemies for long). Es un evento para toda la familia y es GRATIS! (It’s totally FREE and family-friendly). Con muchas abuelas en pantooflas grande para los! (With so much food and entertainment for everybody!).

Forget taco trucks on every corner. As delightful as that sounds, it’s much more reasonable, and every bit as exciting, to imagine a tamale wagon in every neighborhood. Whether we’re talking about authentic Mexican tamales or the old school Delta variety, there’s something magical about spicy pork bites wrapped in a dense skin of corn masa that brings folks together like barbecue. Last year, Memphis’ Latino cultural center Centro Cultural put this theory to the test when it launched the first Tamale Festival in partnership with the bridge-building Caritas Village organization.

This year the delicious and fine-smelling festival returns with tamale vendors, food trucks, kids activities, arts and crafts booths, live music, and lots more. (But probably no grandmothers in their house shoes. I told you my Spanish wasn’t very good).

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SATURDAY September 24 BreakFest Water Tower Pavilion on Broad, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., $10 This festival, dedicated to brunch, returns for its second year. And, this year, there’s a waffle bar!

MEMFix Film Row downtown, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

The MEMFix team takes aim at Film Row (former home to movie distribution centers). Includes popup shops, music, art, and more.

SUNDAY September 25 Collierville Brewfest Carriage Crossing, 1-4 p.m., $30 Includes craft beer specials, live music, games, food, and more.

Benefits LeBonheur.

I Love the ’90s Landers Center, 6 p.m., $21 We do love the ’90s. Concert with Vanilla Ice, Color Me Badd, and Salt N Peppa.

Spaytacular ANF Architects, 6-10 p.m., $55 Annual fund-raising event for the Mid-South Spay & Neuter Services, with food from area restaurants, a wine pull, a silent auction, and more.

Wine & Dine Tower Center, 6:30 p.m., $100 Fund-raising for Special Olympics featuring food from some of Memphis’ finest chefs (Erling!

Felicia! Kelly!) and specially selected wine.

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Forbidding forests and found footage — Blair Witch pays homage to the original as it casts its spell on the audience.

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ScHool Boy Q

MUSIC by Joshua Cannon

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A look at the transformative album as ScHool Boy Q’s New Daisy performance nears.

cHoolboy Q seems like an unlikely rapper to be positioned as a commercial success. Born Quincy Matthew Hanley, Q’s output details a frank portrayal of life as a Crip at 12 years old and a drug dealer by age 14. Juxtapose that with his stint as a promising college athlete, and you’ll scratch the surface of Hanley’s complexity. This year’s Blank Face LP comes on the heels of 2014’s platinum-selling Oxymoron.

Q’s latest release is the transformative result of growing into fatherhood while reflecting on the addiction, depression, inner-city survival, and pressures of success that have marked his life. Musically, it’s his most dynamic — flowing between hazy meditations, unveiled lyricism, and funky, west-

coast melodies and beats.

ScHoolboy Q and Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ bring the Blank Face Tour to the New Daisy on Saturday, September 24th. To prep, I looked at some of the album’s highlights.

“Dope Dealer” feat. E-40 If ScHoolboy Q breathed new life into gangsta rap, he took notes from Three 6 Mafia to do so. “Dope Dealer,” the ninth track on Blank Face, samples the Memphis rap collective’s “Playa Hataz.” Q talks about slinging cocaine and oxycontin (“I got them egg whites and them oxtails for the low / Got them hot wheels gotta push start and it go”), a reality he’s experienced. His flow sounds celebratory, but it’s a look at the world that shaped him. It’s the same imagery that painted Three 6 Mafia’s discography.

Q’s just carrying the torch.

“THat Part” feat. Kanye West “Me no conversate with the fake,” Q raps, opening the first verse of Blank Face’s second single with one of the most memorable lines of the year.

“THat Part” is a boast, a cheers to lavish success that’s allowed Q to drop $250,000 on a McLaren 12C sports car.

Q raps “bang this shit in the hood one time” during the hook, an homage to 51st and Figueroa Streets where he grew up in Southern Los Angeles.

Kanye West, the enigma he’s become, comes out swinging in the second verse. Riffing on fame and fidelity, West

notes that at the peak, people listen more to the echo-chamber of opinions about him and less about what he says. (“You was listening close though / You wouldn’t listen to the flow though.”)

“JoHn Muir” ScHoolboy Q freestyled every lyric on “JoHn Muir,” a track that borrows its name from Hanley’s middle school.

The stomping grounds where Q started carrying a gun at 13 years old and selling drugs by age 14, Blank Face’s 10th track provides context on Hanley as a wide-eyed kid molding an identity.

On the chorus, Q raps about “bellin’”

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through the street — a term coined

by West-Coast rapper WC — while a chorus of voices and horns fill out the background. It’s smooth, soulful, and an easy track to revisit.

“Black THougHts” A phone recording from Trayvon Ray Cail, who was facing a first-degree murder charge at the time the song was written, leads the track: “Our experience to where we have parents in our lives that were showing us everything, like didn’t nobody walk us … show love like you do this and don’t do that. It wasn’t like that coming up in our community.”

“Black THougHts” is an autobiographical depiction (“sharing food with roaches / poppa was a bitch / mom’s slaving for the rent”) of Q’s initiation into gang-dom. Later, Q raps “Ain’t nothing changed but the change / Let’s put our brains away from gangs / Crips and Bloods the old and new slaves.”

Here, Q condemns the lifestyle he props up on Dope Dealer. He puts his shame on the table, and it’s one of the more memorable, genuine moments on the album.

ScHool Boy Q and Joey Bada$$, Saturday, September 24th, at the New Daisy. 7 p.m. $45.

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The Halloran Centre 225 S. MAIN 529-4299

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Young Petty Thieves Thursday, Sept. 22, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Saturday, Sept. 24, 5:308:30 p.m.; Coco Montoya Friday, Sept. 23, 9 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 24, 9 p.m.; Mercury Blvd. Sunday, Sept. 25, 7-11 p.m.; Vince Johnson and the Plantation

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COHEED AND CAMBRIA AT MINGLEWOOD HALL This Sunday night, progressive rockers Coheed and Cambria will return to Memphis for a performance at Minglewood Hall. After seven concept albums based on the “Armory Wars” — a lengthy sciencefiction story written by singer and guitarist Claudio Sanchez — Coheed and Cambria released their first non-conceptual album to date, The Color Before the Sun in 2015. After a string of dates with Glassjaw, the band released a deluxe version of the album earlier this year. The new version of the band’s eigth studio album — dubbed The Color Before the Sun: Deconstructed — is a 30-track experience that features the album’s 10 original songs, plus acoustic demos and other demos that never saw the studio.

Formed over 15 years ago, Coheed and Cambria have long been one of the torchbearers of 2000’s prog rock put through the “screamo” filter. Along with bands like Thursday and the Used, Coheed and Cambria crossed over into MTV territory early in their careers, highlighting a time when “screamo” and pop-punk took the alternative spotlight from the nu metal bands of the late ’90s. That being said, Coheed and Cambria also toured with Linkin Park in the early 2000s, and their fan base has always straddled the line between mainstream rock and the pseudo-underground, as their last six albums have each cracked the Billboard top 10.

Also on tour with Coheed and Cambria are Saves the Day, the East Coast emo powerhouse that helped define the movement as a real (and profitable) genre in the late ’90s and early ’00s.— Chris Shaw Coheed and Cambria, Sunday, September 25th at Minglewood Hall. 6 p.m. $26-$101, all ages.

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Ed Finney & the U of M Jazz Quartet Thursdays, 9 p.m.; The Gentleman Combatants Friday, Sept. 23, 10 p.m.; Michael Graber and Paulette Saturday, Sept. 24, 9 p.m.; The Jug Band Rascals Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 p.m.; Justin White Mondays, 7 p.m.; Don & Wayde Tuesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

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Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER 272-0830

Ex-Cult Album Release Show Thursday, Sept. 22, 9 p.m.; Dirty Streets Friday, Sept. 23; Jack Oblivian Saturday, Sept. 24.

901 Blues Band Thursday, Sept. 22; Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.-midnight; Young Petty Thieves Friday, Sept. 23; Paul Taylor Saturday, Sept. 24.

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The Buccaneer 1368 MONROE 278-0909

Hosoi Bros Record Release with Diakaiju Saturday, Sept. 24, 8-11 p.m.

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394 N. WATKINS 443-0502

1474 MADISON 275-8082

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

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

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of Montreal with Ruby the RabbitFoot Friday, Sept. 23, 9 p.m.; American Aquarium with Born Animal Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m.; The Dunken Cuddle with Brandon Crouch Monday, Sept. 26, 8 p.m.; Inter Arma, Call of the Void, Sunfather Tuesday, Sept. 27, 9 p.m.; Pocket Science with Euriah, Sleepwlkrs, Sleeping Seasons, and wARM Wednesday, Sept. 28, 9 p.m.

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Minglewood Hall 1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Ghost: Popestar Friday, Sept. 23, 7 p.m.; Okkervil River Friday, Sept. 23, 8 p.m.; Coheed and Cambria, Saves the Day Sunday, Sept. 25, 6 p.m.

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Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE 207-3975

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

WISEACRE Brewery 2783 BROAD

Fall Music Lineup Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

University of Memphis St. Luke’s United Methodist Church 480 S. HIGHLAND 452-6262

Music Celebration Sunday Sunday, Sept. 25, 10:45 a.m.noon.

Ubee’s 521 S. HIGHLAND 323-0900

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

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Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

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

Amy LaVere and Will Sexton Thursday, Sept. 22, 8 p.m.; The Conspiracy Theory Friday, Sept. 23; Ophiuchus with Throne and King Bastard Saturday, Sept. 24; Lost in Society with the Drawls, the Subteens Sunday, Sept. 25.

Intimate Piano Lounge featuring Charlotte Hurt Mondays-Thursdays, 59:30 p.m.; Larry Cunningham Fridays, Saturdays, 6-10 p.m.

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R.J. Mischo & Hashbrown Blues Band Sunday, Sept. 25, 4-7 p.m.; Deering & Down Sunday, Sept. 25, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

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Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Mishka Shubaly, HEELS Saturday, Sept. 24; Open Mic Music with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.-midnight.

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Travis Roman EP Release Party Thursday, Sept. 22, 6 p.m.; Southern Avenue Thursday, Sept. 22, 9 p.m.; Jeremy Stanfill & Joshua Cosby Friday, Sept. 23, 6:30 p.m.; Marcus Gullen

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The Settlers Sunday, Sept. 25, 4-7 p.m.; Gary Escoe’s Atomic Dance Machine Sunday, Sept. 25, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

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Live at the Garden: Sheryl Crow Friday, Sept. 23, 6:30 p.m.

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Friday, Sept. 23, 10 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 p.m.; Susan Marshall & Friends Saturdays, 11 a.m.; The River Bluff Clan Saturdays, 3 p.m.; Heath N’ Company Saturday, Sept. 24, 6:30 p.m.; Joe Restivo 4 Sundays, 11 a.m.; Jeffrey & the Pacemakers Sunday, Sept.

25, 4 p.m.; Matt Stansbury and the Romance Sunday, Sept. 25, 8 p.m.; John Paul Keith & Friends Mondays, 6 p.m.; Travis Roman Tuesdays, 5:30 p.m.; John Kilzer Tuesday, Sept. 27, 8 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle and New Orleans Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m.; Loveland Duren CD Release Party Wednesday, Sept. 28, 8 p.m.

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Arlington/Eads/ Oakland/Lakeland

T.J. Mulligan’s

Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

Various locations SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION

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

Germantown Performing Arts Center

9087 POPLAR 755-0092

Cordova

1801 EXETER 751-7500

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

6230 GREENLEE 592-0344

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

819 EXOCET 624-9060

GPAC Food Truck and Music Festival Sunday, Sept. 25, noon; Jim Brickman Tuesday, Sept. 27, 8-10 p.m.

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Dan McGuinness

786 E. BROOKHAVEN CIRCLE 683-9044

3964 GOODMAN, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-890-7611

Karaoke ongoing.

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Poplar/I-240

Fox and Hound Sports Tavern

East Tapas and Drinks

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

6069 PARK 767-6002

Carlos & Adam from the Late Greats Thursdays, 7-9 p.m.; Van Duren Solo Tuesdays, 79 p.m.; Elizabeth Wise Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.

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

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

Neil’s Music Room

Vince Gill Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m.

5727 QUINCE 682-2300

Owen Brennan’s 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.

High Point Pub 477 HIGH POINT TERRACE 452-9203

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

Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SUMMER 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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7729 BENJESTOWN 876-5770

Collin Raye Friday, Sept. 23, 8-10 p.m.

Hadley’s Pub

St. Ann Catholic Church

2779 WHITTEN 266-5006

6529 STAGE 373-6011

Charlie Belt & friends Thursday, Sept. 22, 7 p.m.; Almost Famous Friday, Sept. 23, 9 p.m.; Backstreet Crawlers Saturday, Sept. 24, 9 p.m.; Charlie and Juno All Star Experience Sunday, Sept. 25, 5:30 p.m.; Monkey Haw aka Shotgun Billys Wednesday, Sept. 28, 8 p.m.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 WHITTEN 379-1965

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

7090 MALCO, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-349-7097

The RC3 Sunday, Sept. 25, 8 p.m.-midnight; Karaoke Night Mondays, 8-10 p.m.

Landers Center 4660 VENTURE, SOUTHAVEN, MS 662-280-9120

I Love the ’90s Sunday, Sept. 25, 6 p.m.

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

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Raleigh Shelby Forest General Store Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.; Reel McCoy Saturday, Sept. 24, 12-3 p.m.; Gary Keith Sunday, Sept. 25, 12:30-3:30 p.m.

3663 APPLING 385-6440

Whitehaven/ Airport

The Crossing Bar & Grill Karaoke with Buddha Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Graham Road Band Saturday, Sept. 24, 8:30 p.m.12:30 a.m.

The Windjammer Restaurant

THE REGALIA, 6150 POPLAR 761-0990

North Mississippi/ Tunica 7281 HACKS CROSS, OLIVE BRANCH, MS 662-893-6242

30 Days of Opera.

Jack Rowell’s Celebrity Jam Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; Memphis Funk ‘N’ Horns Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m.; Debbie Jamison & Friends Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

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

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

Bluff City Soul Collective Sunday, Sept. 25, 8:30 p.m.midnight.

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

The Southern Edition Band Tuesdays.

Memphis Wind Symphony Children’s Concert Sunday, Sept. 25, 3-4 p.m.

Frayser/Millington

Collierville

Old Millington Winery

Bumpus Harley Davidson Collierville 325 S. BYHAILIA 316-1121

Dantones Saturday, Sept. 24, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

6748 OLD MILLINGTON 873-4114

Massimo “The Bluesman” Bevilacqua Sunday, Sept. 25.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 WINCHESTER 624-8911

The Fabulous Steelers Sunday, Sept. 25, 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FARMINGTON 318-3034

The Heart Memphis Band Sunday, Sept. 25, 8-11:30 p.m.; Patio Party: JoJo Jeffries & Ronnie Caldwell Wednesday, Sept. 28, 5-8 p.m.; Huey’s Germantown Patio Party Wednesdays, 5-8 p.m.

Ice Bar & Grill 4202 HACKS CROSS 757-1423

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

Mesquite Chop House 3165 FOREST HILL-IRENE 249-5661

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

Stage Stop 2951 CELA 382-1576

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

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

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

The New Backdour Bar & Grill 302 S. AVALON 596-7115

Karaoke with Tim Bachus Mondays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.; DJ Stylez Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

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1817 KIRBY 755-2481

Karaoke Tuesdays, 8 p.m.

The Pistol & the Queen Sunday, Sept. 25, 8-11:30 p.m.

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

Huey’s Collierville 2130 W. POPLAR 854-4455

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$22 or $15 for Brooks members and students with valid ID. Tickets at brooksmuseum.org/films.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1 + SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2 11:15 am to 5:05 pm each day.

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THE MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART proudly presents the final worldwide screenings of Matthew Barney’s seven-act film based on Norman Mailer’s Ancient Evenings, a hyper-sexual story of Egyptian gods and the 7 stages of reincarnation combined with the rise and fall of the Detroit car industry.

CALENDAR of EVENTS:

September 22 - 28

Squaring Up, discuss how community members can help end sex trafficking in Memphis. Performance is a group visual art activity led by Sarah Nowlin. www.project1arts.org. Through Sept. 24, 7 p.m.

Playhouse on the Square

Artist reception for “Mazes, Marionettes, Zen Chimes, and More,” by Jimmy Crosthwait. (8678100), www.playhouseonthesquare.org. Fri., Sept. 23, 5:30-7 p.m.

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

531 S. MAIN (523-9754).

The Evergreen Theatre

The Prince and the Pauper, www.theatreworksmemphis.org. Through Oct. 2.

1705 POPLAR (274-7139).

Germantown Community Theatre

The Odd Couple. www.gctcomeplay.org. $12-$24.

Sun., 2:30 p.m., and Fri., Sat., 8 p.m. Through Sept. 25.

3037 FOREST HILL-IRENE (453-7447).

Harrell Performing Arts Theatre

Spamalot, www.colliervilleartscouncil.org. $12$20. Sundays, 2:30 p.m., and Fridays, Saturdays, 7 p.m. Through Oct. 2.

440 POWELL, COLLIERVILLE (853-3228).

Hattiloo Theatre

Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting, in 1947, Branch Rickey, general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, summons Joe Louis, Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson for support of Jackie Robinson to be the Major League’s first black ball player. www.hattiloo.org. $18-$28. Sundays, 3 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Through Oct. 16.

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

2016 Indie Memphis Film Festival Preview Party Free. Mon., Sept. 26, 6 p.m.

REC ROOM, 3000 BROAD (209-1137), WWW.INDIEMEMPHIS.ORG.

Creative professionals will be in museum galleries, where they work on projects in public view.

Through Sept. 28, 8 p.m.

BALLET MEMPHIS, 7950 TRINITY, BALLETMEMPHIS.ORG.

242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

Metal Museum

Artist reception for Hoss Haley, exhibition and gallery talk with stories behind each piece and artist process and inspirations. www.metalmuseum. org. Free. Sat., Sept. 24, 5-7 p.m.

374 METAL MUSEUM DR. (774-6380).

Comedy Crack Up, starring Luenell, hosted

by Whodi, and featuring Marvin Hunter and Ambrose Jones III. www.fitzgeraldstunica.com. $15-$35. Fri., Sept. 23, 9 p.m.

B O O KS I G N I N G S

Booksigning by Benjamin René Jordan

Author discusses and signs Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America.

Sat., Sept. 24, 2 p.m.

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

Booksigning by Jesmyn Ward

Author discusses and signs Salvage the Bones. Wed., Sept. 28, 7 p.m.

Playhouse on the Square

Opening reception for “The Blessing of Good Dreams,” by Maggie Russell. www.eclectic-eye.com.

Fri., Sept. 23, 6-8 p.m.

Open Mic Comedy, Thursdays, 9 p.m.

410 CLEVELAND.

8077 WILKINSVILLE (872-7170).

Eclectic Eye

P&H Cafe

Spillit Center Stage: Coming Out, evening of true storytelling. www.spillitmemphis.org. Sat., Sept. 24, 7 p.m.

Send Me No Flowers, romantic comedy set in the early 1960s. www.playhouse51. com. $12. Fri.-Sun. Through Sept. 25.

60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483).

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Playhouse 51

Artist reception for “The Color of the Blues,” by George Hunt. www.stmarysschool.org. Fri., Sept. 23, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION, WWW.OPERAMEMPHIS.ORG/30-DAYS-CALENDAR.

PO E T RY / S PO K E N W O R D

961 VINSON ROAD.

Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School

See performances in your community.

Through Sept. 30.

711 LUCKY LANE (1-800-766-LUCK).

Aladdin, Jr.. www.kudzuplayers.com.

Thursdays, 5-6:30 p.m. Through Dec. 17.

ARTI ST R EC E PT I O N S

30 Days of Opera

The Fitz

Minimum of three years of classical ballet training. Ages 10–13, 3:15-4:15 p.m., all boys, 8+, 4:154:45 p.m., ages 14+, 5:00-6:00 p.m. Sun., Sept. 25.

New Discovery Christian Church

630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

OPERA

Auditions for Nutcracker

1740 RIDGEWAY (761-2220).

Beauty and the Beast. www.theatrememphis.org. $15-$30. Fri., Sat., 8 p.m., Sat., Sun., 2 p.m., and Thurs., 7:30 p.m. Through Sept. 25.

MEMPHIS BROOKS MUSEUM OF ART, 1934 POPLAR (544-6244), WWW.BROOKSMUSEUM.ORG.

1532 MADISON (726-0906).

To Kill a Mockingbird, www.tnshakesspeare.org. $16-$34. Through Oct. 2.

Theatre Memphis

Reservations required. Free for members, $3 nonmembers. Thurs., Sept. 22, 2-4 p.m.

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

Hutchison School

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Tea & Tour for Seniors: Renaissance & Baroque Collection

Artist@Work: Jonathan May

37 S. COOPER (502-3486).

King Charles III, this controversial drama explores the people beneath the monarchy, the unwritten rules of our democracy, and the conscience of Britain’s most famous family. www.playhouseonthesquare.org. $25-$40. Sundays, 2 p.m., and Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.

Through Oct. 9.

P!NK PALACE!

CHRISTIAN BROTHERS UNIVERSITY THEATER, 650 E. PARKWAY S. (321-3369), MEMPHISLIBRARY.ORG.

Booksigning by Johnny Smith

Preview for “Four Painters Four Walls” at Circuitous Succession Gallery, Saturday, September 24th Cloar Circle Donor Reception & Opening of Carroll Cloar Gallery

For Cloar Circle-level members. To become a member, see website. RSVP by Sept. 21. Fri., Sept. 23, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Author discusses and signs Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali & Malcolm X. Thurs., Sept. 22, 6 p.m.

NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM, 450 MULBERRY (521-9699), WWW.CIVILRIGHTSMUSEUM.ORG.

Booksigning by Kerri Maniscalco

Author discusses and signs Stalking Jack the Ripper. Thurs., Sept. 22, 6:30 p.m.

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

Authors discuss and sign Elmwood Cemetery.

Thurs., Sept. 22, 5:30-6:30 p.m.

An Entertaining Evening with Julia Reed

BURKE’S BOOK STORE, 936 S. COOPER (278-7484), WWW.BURKESBOOKS.COM.

Booksigning by Lisa Turner

Author discusses and signs Devil Sent the Rain.

Tues., Sept. 27, 6:30 p.m.

BUCKMAN ARTS CENTER AT ST. MARY’S SCHOOL, 60 N. PERKINS EXT. (537-1483), WWW.DECORATIVEARTSTRUST.COM.

THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD, 387 PERKINS EXT. (683-9801), THEBOOKSELLERSATLAURELWOOD.COM.

Preview for “Four Painters Four Walls”

Author reads and signs children’s book, The Oak Tree. Thurs., Sept. 22, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

Exhibition of work by Christopher St. John, Jason Stout, Juan Rojo, and Robert Moler. Sat., Sept. 24, 6-9 p.m.

CIRCUITOUS SUCCESSION GALLERY, 500 S. SECOND, WWW.CIRCUITOUSSUCCESSION.COM.

MISSISSIPPI NUMISMATIC ASSOCIATION COIN SHOW

Booksigning by Kimberly McCollum & Willy Bearden

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

Book sales and signing will be available before and after the talk, along with a cash bar benefiting Decorative Arts Trust. $25. Tues., Sept. 27, 6:15 p.m.

P!NK PALACE MUSEUM

Booksigning by Paula Nance Ragland WOMAN’S EXCHANGE TEA ROOM, 88 RACINE (327-5681), WWW.WOMANS-EXCHANGE.COM.

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“My Whole City Underwater: Race, Trauma, and Surviving Katrina”

Panel discussion on the meaning and impact of Hurricane Katrina in conjunction with Memphis Reads 2016 book choice Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward. Free. Thurs., Sept. 22, 5:30 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER, 255 UNIVERSITY CENTER, PARIS THEATER, WWW.MEMPHIS.EDU/MOCH.

Voters’ Rights Protection and Participation

Teaches how to protect voters rights and increase participation. Please RSVP. Wed., Sept. 28, 6:30-9 p.m.

NESHOBA UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, 7350 RALEIGH-LAGRANGE (877-8911).

C O N F E R E N C ES/ C O NVE NTI O N S

Ladies in Need Can Survive, Inc. Conference

Shelia Raye Charles, daughter of the legendary Ray Charles, will be the featured speaker. Wed.-Fri., Sept. 21-23.

PURSUIT OF GOD TRANSFORMATION CENTER, 3171 SIGNAL, WWW.LADIESCAN.ORG.

TO U R S

Brooks Membership: Tour de Cloar

Meet at the Crittenden County Museum, 1112 Main Street, Earle, AR. Free for members. Sat., Sept. 24, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Memphis St. Jude Walk Run to End Childhood Cancer Sat., Sept. 24, 8:15-11 a.m.

ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL, 262 DANNY THOMAS PLACE (495-3300), STJUDE.ORG.

Road Rippin: Memphis

A weekend long skatepark intensive with Elle Seven.

Fri.-Sun., Sept. 23-25.

TOBEY PARK, FLICKER AT CENTRAL, WWW.EMPIRESKATESHOP.COM.

M E ETI NGS

Memphis Advocates for Radical Childcare Volunteer Orientation

Seeking volunteers to provide care and fun for children at non-profit events and meetings in order to make it possible for parents to participate in commu-

nity building. Free. Sat., Sept. 24, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

CHOICES, 1726 POPLAR (791-9384), WWW.901MARCH.ORG.

POCACITO in Memphis Vision Town Hall

Held in River Room, a two-part event. The first part, “Finding the Vision,” is a two-hour town hall-style forum defining a post-carbon future for Memphis.

Joined by sustainability leaders from Copenhagen, Lisbon, and Turin. Tues., Sept. 27, 7-9 p.m.

UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS, UNIVERSITY CENTER, 255 UNIVERSITY CENTER, PARIS THEATER (202-550-9072), WWW.POCACITO.EU.

Two-part event. The second part, “Finding the Way,”

GRAND

Old Forest Hike

Walking tour of the region’s only urban oldgrowth forest. Last Sunday of every month, 10 a.m.

S P EC IA L EVE NTS

10th Annual Spaytacular Gala

Featuring food, beer and wine, wine pull, live music, caricature artist, live broadcasts of college football games, and silent auction benefiting Mid-South Spay & Neuter Services. $55. Sat., Sept.

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

PLAYHOUSE ON THE SQUARE, 66 S. COOPER (202-550-9072), WWW.POCACITO.EU.

ANF ARCHITECTS, 1500 UNION (278-6868), SPAYMEMPHIS.ORG.

POCACITO in Memphis Workshop

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will begin with a catered lunch and presentations from our European speakers about how they put together the pieces to realize visions at home. Wed., Sept. 28, 12-4:30 p.m.

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OVERTON PARK, OFF POPLAR (276-1387).

Featuring job fair, food, entertainment, and more.

Fri.-Sun., Sept.23-25.

ED RICE COMMUNITY CENTER, 2907 N. WATKINS (357-6919), WWW.BLOCKPARTYFORPEACE.COM.

Farm Fest

Benefiting Memphis Farmers Market’s 2017 season.

Sun., Sept. 25, 5-8 p.m.

LOFLIN YARD, 7 W. CAROLINE, WWW.MEMPHISFARMERSMARKET.ORG.

Harvest Fest

Sat.-Sun., Sept. 24-25.

MEMPHIS ZOO, 2000 PRENTISS PLACE IN OVERTON PARK (333-6500), WWW.MEMPHISZOO.ORG.

Memphis Pride Fest

Mid-South Pride Festival. Saturday festival and parade in Robert Church Park and on Beale Street.

Fri.-Sun., Sept. 23-25.

VARIOUS LOCATIONS, WWW.MIDSOUTHPRIDE.ORG.

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Benefiting AAF Memphis. $10-$40. Thurs., Sept.

22, 6-11 p.m.

AMURICA WORLD HEADQUARTERS, 410 CLEVELAND, WWW.AAFMEMPHIS.ORG.

Repair Days 2016

Nearly 200 metalsmiths from across the country come to Memphis to make repairs on metal objects brought in by the community. Sept. 22-25.

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

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Main stage live entertainment, tamale vendors, food trucks, art vendors, kids area, and more. Free. Sat., Sept. 24, 2-6 p.m.

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Go Ape Treetop Adventure

Course in Shelby Farms Park open for its second season. Ongoing.

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

FitzgeraldsTunica.com • 1-662-363-LUCK (5825) • Must be 21 and a Key Rewards member. See Cashier • Players Club for rules. Management reserves the right to cancel, change or modify the event or promotion. Gaming restricted patrons prohibited. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-522-4700.

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Free events for park fans of all ages including nature, fitness, arts, and music opportunities.

Free. Through Sept. 30.

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

Annual Card Party: Mah Jong

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Hackathon event encouraging developers and designers of any background to come together. Starts at 6 p.m. on Friday, ends 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. $25. Fri.-Sat., Sept. 23-24.

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Memphis Youth Film Festival and Competition

27 films created by Memphis Youth in grades 7-12 are presented for competition. $10.

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“We’re doubling down,” says Loftus, who now aims to throw the biggest St. Patrick’s Day party Memphis has ever seen. “And we can,” he says, “Because we’ll have a park across the street.”

To prepare for the big day, Loftus is organizing a series of events he’s calling “St. Practice Day,” held on the 17th of every month between now and March. He sees the smaller parties as an opportunity to try out new bands and new food and drink specials. “It’s a chance to build excitement and a chance to get it right,” he says, adding that the next three St. Patrick’s Days fall on weekend nights, which means they’ll be exponentially larger than normal anyway. “And we’ve only got five practice runs before the big game.”

Since opening doors in 2011, the Brass Door has been a home away from home for soccer fans. It’s also been a music venue, a downstairs comedy club, and a popular lunch spot. “We wanted this room to do everything,” Loftus says, explaining at least part of the rationale behind expansion.

“The best Irish pubs were designed to have places you can talk treason,” he says.

“There are terrible versions of Irish pubs in America. We call them plastic Paddy pubs where everything’s a leprechaun.

Irish pubs are designed to be integral to their community. I want to bring drama in here. To have a place where people can talk passionately.”

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t’s 9 a.m., and the Guinness stout is pouring. The Brass Door’s newly opened room rings with shouts, laughter, and loud conversations in Irish accents, lilting and growled.

“It’s 3-o’clock in Dublin,” an early celebrant announces, turning up a freshly drawn pint of mother’s milk while someone else turns up the volume on a big screen TV. The bar’s co-founder Seamus Loftus, born in the town of Killala in County Mayo, describes the casual new room as being like a country pub. “Like where I’m from,” he says, contrasting it with his slicker “city pub” next door.

Normally the bar would be closed and quiet at this hour, and all these rowdy fellows would be at home behaving themselves. But it’s the day of the All-Irish soccer final, and Loftus has pitched a special little get-together for old country friends and football fans. Very soon — possibly within the next week — the all-purpose pub will open early for everybody, with weekday breakfasts starting at 7 a.m. and brunch on weekends.

“We’re actively looking for a chef to lead our kitchen,” Loftus says. “We’re going to start doing evening meals as well.” This is all just the beginning of an ambitious expansion capped by the transformation of the abandoned Burger King across Madison into a green space with a stage rigged to accommodate five-piece bands, and a 40-foot projection screen.

“For me and [partner] Scott Crosby, this entire thing started out as a romantic vision,” Loftus says. “Then we labored through the reality of owning a pub and restaurant in downtown Memphis.” Soon after the Brass Door opened, a building on Madison collapsed, resulting in a prolonged street closure and hard times.

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yramid Vodka, the Memphis water, stripped of chlorine “grain to glass” and fluoride, is added to get the distillery located product to 80 proof. Finally, it’s filtered, just a stone’s throw 250 gallons at a time, through burnt from CC Blues Club coconut shells no fewer than five times. on Thomas Street, Then all six staff members do a uses Delta-grown corn and Memphis blind taste test. If everyone agrees it’s artesian water to produce its vodka, on target, it’s bottled and shipped off which won the platinum, or “best to market. in class” award, at the 2015 Spirits A brand-new still, designed, International Prestige, an international built, and installed last month by consumer-tasting competition.

Montana-based Headframe Stills, “These are superior ingredients,” brought the continuous distillation CEO Alexander Folk told me in process to Pyramid. That means that Pyramid’s tasting room one afternoon instead of cooking in 500-gallon last week. “The Delta is the most fertile batches, Reed can cook two gallons farmland in the world, and Memphis per minute. Continuous distillation water is one of the best. We’re getting requires a smaller footprint than batch really pure flavors here.” distillation, it’s more energy efficient, Corn is milled, cooked, and and it cuts the production time from fermented in the 25,000-square-foot six weeks to two weeks. building, originally built to service the New Chicago neighborhood’s long-gone Local flavor Firestone plant. “It was once an adhesive factory,” Folk explained. “This area is historically very industrial, and the building, with its 20-foot ceilings and floor drains, is perfect for us.”

Even the waste goes to use. During my visit to the distillery, farmer Tim Ammons of Oleo Acres in Stanton arrived to pick up the recycling — two tubs of mash that he will use to feed his pigs. Other farmers reuse the methane produced at the distillery to keep their Previously, Reed had to monitor greenhouses warm. the process by smell and taste; now, Out on the distillery floor, Carson he can track the boiling points of the Duffy and Jacob Reed walked me unwanted “bottoms” and “heads,” and through the vodka-making process. the valuable ethanol, which makes up First, corn is run through a gristmill 95 percent of Pyramid Vodka, via a three times — to be exact. Reed, the computer screen. The old batch still, production manager, processes 30,000 which will be sold, produced 5,000 pounds of corn every six weeks. After cases of vodka a year. The new still has cooking the mash for six hours, yeast the capacity to produce 160,000 cases is added. Reed ferments “on the grain” annually, which could launch Pyramid instead of separating the starches from beyond the regional market. the liquid. It’s like using pasta water to You can find Pyramid Vodka at flavor your sauce instead of water from dozens of liquor stores and restaurants the tap. “The longer the water sits in in Memphis, Nashville, Knoxville, the grain, the more flavorful it is,” Reed Chattanooga, and across the state says. From here, it’s all science: Starches of Arkansas. Better yet, stop by the break down into sugars, enyzmes are distillery yourself for a free tour. added, and the sugars are transformed They’re offered Wednesday through into alcohol. Once cooled, everything is Friday at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., noon, and at dumped into a feeder tank and pumped 1 p.m. on Saturdays. Tours run about through a stripping column, where the 45 minutes and include a tasting for alcohol is pulled from the mash. visitors over 21. For more information, The distilled alcohol is weighed, and go to pyramidvodka.com.

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FILM REVIEW By Chris McCoy

Fakers Blair Witch tries to recapture the found-footage magic.

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t didn’t seem like it at the time, but The Blair Witch Project signaled a sea change in filmmaking. It was not shot by a professional cinematographer but, rather, by the actors themselves. They did not use 35 mm Technicolor film or even a handheld Bolex, like the French New Wavers had when they tried to democratize filmmaking back in the early 1960s. Instead, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez used consumer-level digital camcorders, available at Best Buy or Walmart. The script was so minimal, the actors used their real names. Lead actress Heather Donahue was given two days of slapdash camera training before being set loose in the spooky-looking Appalachian woods to fend for herself.

And yet, somehow, it worked. The Blair Witch Project cost $60,000 (most of which was sound work) and returned almost $250 million at the box office, making it easily the most profitable movie of all time. It spawned a legion of imitators in the newly christened foundfootage genre and inspired a generation of no-budget filmmakers who would apply the same improvisational techniques to other genres. Perhaps most importantly, it signaled the beginning of the digital age. Seventeen years later, digital projectors are the norm in theaters, and it’s

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considered newsworthy when a filmmaker decides to use actual film.

Adam Wingard is one of those filmmakers who grew up in the shadow of The Blair Witch Project. The prolific Tennessean (he was born in Oak Ridge) has close ties to the low-budget indie world. He worked in the foundfootage horror genre in the anthology film V/H/S, and his biggest hit, You’re Next, echoes The Blair Witch Project’s rural creepiness. While making the $5 million sequel Blair Witch, Wingard no doubt gave much thought to the question of why the original film became such a phenomenon. But the resulting film leaves the question as muddy as ever.

The Blair Witch Project came on the cusp of the technological revolution that today is all around us.

My phone and laptop both have better cameras than the ones Heather Donahue took into the Burkittsville, Maryland, woods. So it’s fitting that Heather’s younger brother James (James Allen McCune) is motivated to reopen the investigation into his sister’s disappearance when he sees a mysterious YouTube video that claims to be recovered from tapes found in the same woods where the Blair Witch resides. He sets off to meet the people who uploaded the footage, Lane (Wes Robinson) and

Corbin Reid (top) and Valorie Curry set out to find the fabled Blair Witch and found-footage gold.

Talia (Valorie Curry), accompanied by his friends Peter (Brandon Scott); Ashley (Corbin Reid); and Lisa (Callie Hernandez), a film student who plans to make a documentary called The Absence of Closure. Heather Donahue had a couple of now-primitive digital camcorders, but Lisa plans to bring the full arsenal of modern video devices to bear on the problem. She’s got a couple of expensive DSLR cameras, iPhones, body cams, and even a drone. If the Blair Witch is out there, or if Heather is still alive, by golly they’re going to capture it on a memory

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And yet, there’s a distinct lack of magic in this Blair Witch. Maybe like Jaws, The Blair Witch Project is a movie that can only work once. Thanks to the TV mockumentary The Curse of the Blair Witch, many people went into the original movie convinced the mystery was authentic. But in 2016, we’ve seen five Paranormal Activity sequels, so we know that just because it looks authentic doesn’t mean it is authentic. Blair Witch is a valiant effort to recreate the original’s alchemy, but it’s no substitute for the real thing. Whatever that is.

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Some time ago, the public intellectual Milton Himmelfarb put his finger on what the current presidential campaign is all about. Referring to his fellow Jews, he said that they “earn like Episcopalians and vote like Puerto Ricans.” Never mind the rearview mirror of PC tuttutness, what Himmelfarb had observed was that not all the people all the time vote their pocketbooks. It’s not always the economy, stupid.

Himmelfarb, who died in 2006, lived long enough to see his quip extended to other social, ethnic, and cultural groups. In 2004, Thomas Frank did just that with his book, What’s the Matter with Kansas? It wasn’t just that the state had gone deeply conservative, it was that its voters were doing away with programs that benefited them. Ideology was overshadowing economics.

Now Donald Trump proves the same point. We have oodles of polling data to show that Trump’s supporters are typically white males who topped out in high school. They are supposedly forlorn, adrift, not living better than their fathers and seeing their sons about to live even worse than they do. Trump, with his antiimmigrant, anti-trade, and anti-China policy promises to change all that. This check will forever be in the mail.

There is, however, some contrary evidence that money alone is not at the root of the Trump evil. More recent studies suggest that racial and cultural isolation also play a role — maybe a dominant one. For instance, anti-immigrant feeling intensifies the farther one gets from the Rio Grande.

In other words, to know Mexicans is to know that they are hard-working and lawabiding, hardly the rapists and criminals of Trump’s description. Trump’s appeal may not, at bottom, be economic. It might be just plain emotional.

Liberals have a hard time with noneconomic explanations of political behavior. They subscribe to the Officer Krupke Rule of Life, propounded by me and named after the character in West Side Story who is mocked by gang members who spout liberal platitudes relieving them of all responsibility for being bad. It’s all society’s fault. This explains why it surprised liberals that the crime rate did not zoom during the recent deep recession. Most crimes are committed by criminals, not people who have been laid off.

Trump has an economic message, of course, but it’s beside the point. He doesn’t really have a jobs program. He has a get-even program. His appeal is visceral, emotional, nationalistic. He instinctively knows something about resentment and pride and the place they play when someone enters the voting booth. I don’t think he’s given these matters a moment’s thought. On the contrary, they come naturally to him. He makes his people feel good. He makes them feel proud. He makes them feel as Americans should. It’s a feeling I yearn for myself, although not at the cost of voting for Trump.

Hillary Clinton’s response to all this is quintessentially Hillary Clinton. Her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was — in the harshest put-down of all — one of her best efforts, but it was bloodless, an endless train of programs and ideas, all of them good, but none of them producing a snappy salute. Her message was economic, almost exclusively so: “My primary mission as president will be to create more opportunity and more good jobs with rising wages right here in the United States,” she said. Yes, yes, of course. All words. No music. She is the school’s principal. Trump is the football coach.

Trump’s advantage is that he has enemies — Mexicans, Muslims, the Chinese, criminals, idiotic government regulations, the media, and, by inference, a smothering political correctness that inhibits speech, seasoning hate with frustration.

Never mind that his enemies are really scapegoats; he enables the angry and frustrated to vent. Their America has changed. It is less white and less Christian and more sexually permissive. It permits same-sex marriage and unisex bathrooms and has taken a blender to all sorts of sexual categories and made them all one.

Trump’s supporters are bewildered. Uncle Sam does not know which bathroom stall to use.

Clinton represents that changed America. Her enemies are hers alone — the vast right-wing conspiracy, for instance — but not those of wretched white males. She promises them a job, but they have heard that before. What they want is pride, status, a return to when white males owned the culture, understood the culture, were the culture. Trump offers them the past. For that, they’ll sacrifice the future anytime.

Richard Cohen writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.

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