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My wife and I are one kid away from being empty nesters. Roman is a high school senior at White Station and looking at colleges, applying for aid, looking for scholarships, visiting schools, etc. Every day’s mail brings at least a dozen glossy pamphlets from schools all over the U.S. Amazingly, they are all challenging and inspirational places to learn, and absolutely life-changing for the students who go there. Every campus is beautiful; the students pictured are a careful blend of ethnicities; all the professors are top-notch. And the cost to attend any of them is staggering. Families of college-bound students are playing the biggest lottery in America. The winners get their tuition paid or maybe land a scholarship that covers most college expenses. The losers’ families — and/or the students themselves — take out loans they’ll be repaying for decades. In 2015, American students and former students owe an incredible $1.2 trillion in student loan debt. It wasn’t always this way. Tuition at my university back in the 1970s was $700 a semester. Room and board was $1,100 a year. My parents were not wealthy and they had four kids. We were basically on our own to get through college. And you know what? It wasn’t that hard. I got a job at a fast-food joint; later, I drove a school bus. I worked summers in construction. When I graduated, I even had a little money in the bank. Students can’t do that in 2015, not when tuition at many schools is higher than the average American’s yearly income. Higher education has become yet another contributor to income inequality in the U.S. There are the haves, who can afford (or have the income to secure loans) to go to “good” schools with $50,000 yearly tuition. And there are the have nots, who, unless they’re one of the talented and/or lucky ones who get a scholarship, go to community colleges or in-state schools where scholarship money is available. I hasten to say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with going to an in-state public school or community college. I went to a state university. The point is that the options are limited for far too many bright and ambitious U.S. kids. In October, Germany joined many other countries in Europe and eliminated university news & opinion tuition, even for foreign students. If you live in lETTERS - 4 one of these countries and are smart enough, THE Fly-By - 6 you can go to college for free. Doesn’t matter TRUTH BE TOlD - 10 how much your daddy makes. POlITICS - 12 President Obama’s proposal to make EDITORIAl - 14 community college tuition free is a step VIEWPOInT - 15 in the right direction, though getting it Cover Story - “20<30: 2015” through Congress will be a battle. In Europe, by Richard Alley - 16 governments are ensuring that their best steppin’ out and brightest can get an education. They WE RECOMMEnD - 22 know that an educated citizenry benefits MUSIC - 24 the economy. In the U.S., meanwhile, our AFTER DARk - 26 students are mortgaging their futures, and ART - 30 borrowing money from the government CAlEnDAR OF EVEnTS - 31 — at this point, more than $1 trillion and FOOD - 38 counting — for the privilege of going to FIlM - 40 college. THE RAnT - by Tim Sampson - 47 Somebody’s doing it wrong. c l a s s i f i e d s - 43 ruce VanWyngarden B Featuring - The Times crossword puzzle. brucev@memphisflyer.com

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About Bianca Phillips’ story, “Shelter Kills Dog That Had Guaranteed Adopter” … The six “mistakes” noted in the article are just the ones that people were able to document. There are likely many more of the same “mistakes” that have not been verified. Many healthy, adoptable strays are killed on the morning of their due-out date before the shelter opens to the public, robbing them of any possible chance for adoption. Many of those animals are never even seen by the public. James Rogers likes to tout his adoption numbers, but adoptions would be significantly higher if Memphis Animal Shelter (MAS) allowed adoptable animals to live longer than three days. Mayor Wharton says that he wants Memphis to be a “progressive” city. Yet he allows MAS to be run by someone with no sheltering experience, who promotes employees who have had discipline and policy violation issues and who continues to use antiquated, outdated policies that progressive shelters

Thank you for your coverage of this story. Every incident mentioned is welldocumented. It is more than obvious that no attempt is being made to change operational procedures at MAS. It is well beyond time for Mayor Wharton to publicly and specifically address the citizens of Memphis regarding these atrocities and offer a plan to immediately correct all problems. Midtown Maven About Louis Goggans post, “Former U of M Provost Ralph Faudree Dies” … Dr. Faudree was one of the reasons that I am proud to have earned my first college degree, a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, in 1986, from Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis). At that time, women were rarely seen in the halls of the math department, much less in upper division classes. Under Dr. Faudree’s leadership, my advisor Tom Caplinger, shepherded me successfully to degree completion and my admission to the Law School at the University of Memphis. Julie Byrd Ralph Faudree was a brilliant scholar and terrific administrator. He was the foundation of the U of M for many years and will be missed by those who worked for and with him. LesMiserableTiger About Bruce VanWyngarden’s Letter From the Editor, “New Year’s Notebook” … After reading the above, I am reminded of an old saying: “In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is King.” Ichabod McCrane “In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is King,” he sneers as he swishes open his raincoat. Mia S. Kite Mia S. Kite, Where else does the imagery in your head go? Ichabod McCrane Ichabod, Well, I can see that you don’t need such a big raincoat. Mia S. Kite

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Verbatim “The only people at the park on Mud Island at 4 a.m. were Memphis police and the media.” — from The Commercial Appeal’s report about how media and police were punked by a mysterious group calling itself the “Black Revolutionary Organization.” Earlier reports suggested that a protest would shut down traffic on the Hernando DeSoto Bridge at 4 a.m. Listed Mandatory.com, AOL’s man-brand site, made a list of America’s sluttiest states. Mandatory used Centers for Disease Control numbers related to “the three loveliest sounding STDs — chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis” to determine the likelihood that “you will catch something when you bring someone home from the bar.” By this standard, Tennessee turns out to be America’s 11th sluttiest state while Mississippi takes the pole position.

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“so much money” “‘I’m very sad to see Juicy J go,’ [Kayce Myers] said, wiping tears from her eyes. ‘We’ve been enjoying the last two days together. I gave him a bath, water to drink, and hay to eat, then let him lay around and be happy.’” So reported The Sentinel, a daily newspaper based out of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when Myers’ 1,320-pound junior beef steer won the grand championship at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. Juicy the steer, named for Memphis rapper and producer Juicy J, sold for $15,000. heLL on WheeLs Last week, Fly on the Wall commented on a WMC story about a woman who was outraged because local school bus brake lights remind her of an upside down pentagram. The ridiculous story spread far and wide, as ridiculous stories will. Wonkette’s story was headlined, “It’s the Black Magic School Bus,” while The Huffington Post claimed “Satan’s School Bus Makes Mom Mad as Hell.” It even made MSNBC’s “This Week in God” segment, where it was described as the week’s most “off the wall religion story.”

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MEMFix event will bring life to the Pinch District. Heavy construction pounded on at a fevered pace to transform the sleek, shiny Memphis Pyramid into Bass Pro Shops. But over in the Pinch District — spitting distance from the Pyramid’s storm of industry — things were quiet. Westy’s was opening for lunch. The red picnic tables in front of Red Fish were empty. The people who were outside on Main Street appeared to be locals. No outside visitors, it seemed, came calling for the vibe of the neighborhood. But there’s a plan to change that. Livable Memphis and community leaders plan to make the Pinch District the place to be, at least for one day, by holding a MEMFix event (the city’s ongoing series of neighborhood revitalization festivals) there. On Saturday, April 11th, the Pinch will be filled with pop-up shops, the sounds of live music, and tons of people who haven’t been to the Pinch in awhile. Though the MEMFix event will transform the district for only one day, leaders hope it will leave a lasting impression and re-energerize a part of town adjacent to next year’s hottest spot for new Memphis tourists. “We want to put the Pinch back on the map,” said John Paul Shaffer, program director for Livable Memphis. Shaffer’s group, local business owners, property own-

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ers, and neighborhood groups met last week to begin planning April’s MEMFix in the Pinch. Tanja Mitchell, past president of the Downtown Neighborhood Association, said she thinks The sparsely developed Pinch a “little road District is in the bottom left corner. striping, and a little paint, and some landscaping can go a long way.” She’s looking forward to the MEMFix event to spruce up the Pinch District, get it ready for the Bass Pro opening in May, and she hopes the event inspires some development in the area. “We just hope Memphians notice the Pinch again,” Mitchell said. “It’s been dead there for awhile, but we’re continued on page 8

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New plans for historic Tennessee Brewery unveiled. Plans for redeveloping Downtown’s Tennessee Brewery building into apartments also now include building a sixstory residential structure adjacent to it called the Wash House and a four-story parking garage across the street. All of the buildings are tied together in a new development project called the Brewery District. Billy Orgel, a cell phone tower developer and Shelby County Schools board member, purchased the long-abandoned Tennessee Brewery building last year for $825,000. Prior to the purchase, the building seemed destined for the wrecking ball. Leasing agent James Rasberry said last year that the building’s previous owner would have had the building torn down by the end of the summer 2014 if no one stepped in to save it. Orgel said Tuesday that last summer’s “Brewery Untapped” event, a six-week, pop-up beer garden in the Brewery’s courtyard, “really opened my eyes” to the possibilities with the building. Since the purchase, Orgel has said that his plans for the building included a mix of residential and commercial spaces and that the plan would cost around $25 million. He reasserted that vision last Tuesday to members of the Downtown Memphis Commission’s (DMC) Center City Revenue Finance Corporation (CCRFC) and introduced the two new elements of his plan. The Tennessee Brewery building will be renovated into

58 residential units on seven floors, a gym, and a lobby with a total of more than 50,000 square feet of rentable space. The Wash House will be built on the property adjacent to the Brewery’s north side. That The Tennessee Brewery will anchor six-story building a new Brewery District. will have 90 residential units and a total of more than 72,000 square feet of rentable space. Orgel’s plans call for a four-story parking garage with about 348 parking spaces to be built right across Tennessee Street from the Brewery and the Wash House. Orgel predicted the project would be ready for potential tenants in late 2016. During the construction process, the project will create continued on page 8

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Police officers and ex-offenders will work together to help at-risk Frayser youth. Felons and police officers may seem like especially strange bedfellows, but a Memphis theater troupe has built a bridge between some who enforce the law and some who have broken it. And now those groups are planning to join together to help kids in Frayser stay out of trouble. Last fall, Playback Memphis, an improv troupe that uses theater to promote healing and reconciliation, paired a group of five Memphis police officers with six ex-offenders from LifeLine to Success, a ministry that helps felons turn their lives around and re-enter society. “In the Playback method, someone shares a reflection or observation or personal story. We have a team of actors and a musician, and we bring those stories to life on the spot using music and metaphor,” said Playback Memphis Director Virginia Murphy. The group met for 10 weeks and shared personal stories from their lives. Playback Memphis members taught the participants how to use improv to act out those stories. “We listened to ex-offenders tell stories of their childhoods, about growing up in difficult situations. And a lot of the officers had those very same stories, including myself, growing up in a home with domestic violence,” said Memphis Police Officer Joy Knowlton. “The only difference between us is some of us turned right and some of us turned left.” In the end, friendships were formed, and any distrust between the two groups faded away. “Our clients found a way to express themselves that they didn’t even know existed. It allowed them to remove a lot of stress and reveal some their experiences,” said LifeLine to Success Executive Director DeAndre Brown. “Doing that with police officers made it even better. We had those people who used to run from police, and to be able to meet with them every week on purpose was a big deal.” The group of police officers and felons acted out some of their stories for the public in a performance in early December. But the work didn’t stop there. Murphy’s goal, in getting the two unlikely allies together, was to get them to assist in Playback’s plan to work with troubled youth in Frayser. “We wanted to do a project where police and ex-offenders could come together, and if you could break down barriers and bring some healing and transformation between those two groups who we typically don’t think of as having harmonious relationships, they can go out and have an impact on young people,” Murphy said. “They will have a reach Playback wouldn’t have on its own.” Playback runs an anti-bullying program called Be the Peace in area schools.

Memphis Police Officer Joy Knowlton (center) acts out a personal story with fellow officers and ex-offenders from LifeLine to Success.

And they hope to establish it in the Achievement School District in Frayser soon. When they do, the police officers and ex-offenders who participated in the fall session will join them in that work. “We want to take the Playback model into the schools in our neighborhood to help children use conflict resolution skills,” Brown said. “We have identified a Frayser Success Zone around the elementary school across the street and the high school across the street.” In addition to helping Frayser kids, Knowlton said she hopes the Playback model may eventually expand within the police department. “This needs to be an experience for every officer. I would like to see the [Memphis police] training academy give officers a chance to see Playback to help officers touch back with their roots and remember why they chose this career,” Knowlton said. “For me, [Playback offered] a reminder of why I chose to be a police officer and give back to the community.”

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here and we’re not going away. It’s a unique part of Downtown, and there are a lot of businesses that are hanging on there and they have been for awhile.” The neighborhood took a hit in November when T.J. Mulligans owner Lee Adams announced he was going to close the bar. The Irish pub was a favorite of locals from Downtown and Mud Island, and it was a major magnet for outsiders to visit the Pinch. But Adams told Memphis Business Journal at the time that he’ll remodel the building and either lease it or build a new restaurant concept there himself. That concept would likely have an outdoor theme to attract customers visiting Bass Pro, he told MBJ. Redevelopment plans have come and gone for the 23-acre Pinch District. Those plans have always been a secondary priority for city officials, behind the Pyramid redevelopment. A new study of the area, published in 2013, said the Pinch was “too sparsely developed to feel like Downtown” but said the area has “good bones,” which gives it potential for redevelopment. The area has the potential to attract some spin-off energy from Bass Pro, the study said, but how much depends on what’s there and how easy it is to get there. Originally, the city wanted a single master developer for the area, but the plan fell through. Development now will likely happen through one-by-one deals with developers and individual property owners. “The quality and speed with which these out-parcels are developed will have a profound impact on the spin-off energy provided by the reuse of the Pyramid,” according to a 2013 Pinch development study. That spin-off energy, too, will need to be conveniently funneled, and the study suggested a pleasant pedestrian connection from Bass Pro to the Pinch. Overcoming these possible pitfalls and realizing the Pinch’s potential is exactly the mission of 8 April’s MEMFix event.

“Brewery” continued from page 6 307 jobs and have a total economic impact of $43.8 million, Orgel said. Once it’s open, the Brewery District would bring 216 new residents to Downtown, create 51 new jobs, and have an annual economic impact of $4.9 million. Orgel presented the project to the CCRFC Tuesday — only as an introduction. He did not come to the board asking for financial assistance, but said he and his partners likely would ask them for help down the road. The project would, in fact, take a “leap of faith by a lot of people,” he said. Orgel repeatedly told the CCRFC board members that he loved the building and his return on the project will be in more than just dollars. “If you want to just make money, go to Collierville or Cordova and build a strip center,” Orgel said. “This isn’t easy work. You have to be an entrepreneur and a bit foolish on top of it.” A documentary on the Brewery building and its history is in the works by local producer/director Brian D. Manis. Orgel said Tuesday that a production company with the Discovery Channel approached him recently about filming a show inside the building. The producers were interested in exploring the building’s haunted, paranormal history. “So, we said that we’re not interested,” Orgel said. “We’re not really sure if anything ever even happened in there.”

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incomes and inadequate access to health care. Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the nation. It accounts for nearly one of every four deaths, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). This year, 1,658,370 new cancer cases are estimated to be diagnosed in the nation. Of this amount, 589,430 are expected to succumb to the disease, according to the ACS. More than 38,000 of these deaths are estimated to occur in Tennessee. Although cancer remains a massive burden, Jones said oncologists are able to do a lot more now to combat the disease

thanks to advances in medicine and technology. “Cancer survival rates in the U.S. continue to improve,” Jones said. “It’s no longer a death sentence.”

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At the age of 35, Molly Meisenheimer was already planning her funeral. Her battle with breast cancer was taking a toll on her body. She had to have a mastectomy. The married mother of two was distraught, clueless, and horrified. Cancer didn’t run in her family, and she considered herself to be in great health before she was diagnosed. “It was a real shock when I found a lump in my breast,” Meisenheimer recalled. “Cancer was scary. I felt like I had been hit in the head with a load of bricks or something. I didn’t really understand all of the new terminology I had to learn.” Treatment from Dr. C. Michael Jones at the Jones Clinic enabled Meisenheimer to ultimately triumph in her battle with breast cancer. The Jones Clinic is offering clinical trials for new cancer treatments at essentially no cost to people who can’t afford it. Execution of the trials enables oncologists to determine what new treatment options may be most effective and beneficial for patients. Breast, lung, colon, and pancreatic are among the forms of cancer eligible for the Jones Clinic trials. Last week, Dr. Jones discussed the state of cancer treatment in the MidSouth during an informational session at the Jones Clinic. Jones said that the use of personalized medicine and immunotherapy treatment would make a significant impact on the state of cancer this year. Through the two approaches, doctors are able to look at the genetic mutations in a cancer patient and then tailor drugs and treatment for that individual and their condition. The strategies could eliminate the possibility for cancerous tumors to recur in patients and also for patients to experience toxic side effects. “There are some drugs now that block the body’s and the tumor’s ability to evade the immune system by your body recognizing that it’s foreign,” Jones said. “When you think about it, cancer really rises from your own cells. And those cells have mechanisms to avoid the immune system. There are ways now to block those so that your body recognizes those as being foreign.” The Jones Clinic is an independent oncology practice, and cancer treatment provided there is significantly cheaper than treatment offered at area hospitals. According to IMS Health, patients pay an average $134 more per dose for commonly used oncology drugs in hospitals than at independent practices. Independent oncology practices are especially helpful for people with low-

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who would have turned 86 last Thursday, once said: “Equality means dignity. And dignity demands a job and a paycheck that lasts through the week.” Keep this in mind whenever you see nearly giddy news coverage about new jobs coming to the Memphis area — whether it’s 900 new Williams-Sonoma warehouse jobs just across the state line in Mississippi, 400 jobs added with Target’s new fulfillment center, or the 282 jobs expected after Graceland gets a new hotel. “But dignity is also corroded by poverty, no matter how poetically we invest the humble with simple graces and charm. No worker can maintain his morale or sustain his spirit if in the market place his capacities are declared to be worthless to society,” King also said. A living wage in Memphis is around $13 an hour. Average wages at Conduit Global, a call center that opened last year a mile from the nearest bus stop, are around $12. The base wage for Electrolux line workers is less than that. Today’s hourly wages have the same purchasing power they did when Jimmy Carter was president. (That’s 1979, for those too young to remember.) Thousands, if not millions of black people, “are poverty stricken — not because they are not working, but because they receive wages so low that they cannot begin to function in the main stream of the economic life of our nation,” King said. In December, the unemployment rate fell to 5.6 percent, the lowest in six years. That sounds like good news, until you view it through the lens of history and race. “According to the official statistics,” King wrote in February 1968, “Negro unemployment is twice that of whites.” Fifty years later, the gap remains. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, black unemployment in December was 10.4 percent. To lure companies to town, city and county government regularly give out multimillion-dollar incentive packages. In the case of Graceland, the tax breaks amount to a staggering $141 million, or more than $440,000 in incentives per job created. The message from big business and elected officials to the thousands of Memphians mired in low-wage jobs is clear: Be grateful for whatever you get. Meanwhile, workers struggling to make ends meet have questions that the dealmakers and elected officials don’t answer.

Will they offer a steady schedule so that a single mother (there are an estimated 43,000 single moms in Memphis) can be at home most weeknights to check her children’s homework and tuck them in? Will these jobs come with health insurance (which is critical since Governor Haslam refuses to accept federal Medicaid expansion funds and instead is trying to create his own version of Obamacare)? Will workers be able to earn sick days, so that catching a stubborn cold doesn’t mean forfeiting several days of pay or coming to work and spreading the germs to coworkers? Are the job sites accessible by public transportation? Do these jobs pay enough for a family to save for a rainy day, their children’s education, and their own retirement? “What does it profit a man to be able to eat at an integrated lunch counter if he doesn’t have enough money to buy a hamburger?” King asked. The business community’s argument has been that the wealth created for businesses eventually trickles down to the workers, although it’s workers’ labor that creates the wealth. The Pew Research Center recently released a report showing that a rising tide doesn’t lift all boats, especially when the sailors are black and brown. “[E]ven as the economic recovery has begun to mend asset prices, not all households have benefited alike, and wealth inequality has widened along racial and ethnic lines,” wrote Pew researchers. “The wealth of white households was 13 times the median wealth of black households in 2013, compared with eight times the wealth in 2010,” the report continues. “Likewise, the wealth of white households is now more than 10 times the wealth of Hispanic households, compared with nine times the wealth in 2010.” To borrow from Operation Hope founder John Hope Bryant, the civil rights movement must give way to a “silver rights” movement. Remember that King’s final and fatal mission to help striking sanitation workers was part of his quest for economic justice. “Never forget that freedom is not something that must be demanded by the oppressor. It is something that must be demanded by the oppressed. If we are going to get equality, if we are going to get adequate wages, we are going to have to struggle for it.” Are you ready to struggle? Wendi C. Thomas is a columnist, journalist, and founder of Common Ground: Conversations on Race, Communities in Action. Her blog is wendicthomas.com.

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The Governor and the Majority Leader

January 22-28, 2015

NASHVILLE — Though he will no doubt fill in some gaps during his forthcoming State of the State address, due next month, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam chose to be brief and general during his second inaugural address Saturday, a sunny day but one sporadically whipped by blasts of wintry wind out on War Memorial Plaza. Backed by a platform full of state dignitaries, past and present, and by the soaring boxy spire of the state capitol building, Haslam faced a well-disposed crowd of several hundred, telling them that, during the first term of his administration, the state had made progress toward “a more effective and efficient state government,” “better education opportunities and outcomes,” and “high quality, good paying Tennessee jobs.” Much of that had earlier been disputed by a group of protesters, including several from Memphis, who had shadowed the inauguration preliminaries all the way from a Saturday-morning prayer breakfast at the legendary Ryman Auditorium to the Union Street fringe of the plaza, where state troopers made sure they kept their distance behind a modest barricade. The demonstrators flashed a variety of signs behind a large banner demanding, “PUT THE PEOPLE FIRST,” and chanted things like “Can’t take it no more! Get fired up!” and “Haslam, step off it. Put people over profit!” All things considered, the protests that serenaded Haslam on Saturday were probably easier to shrug off than those that are likely to greet him from the ranks of his own Republican majority in the legislature when the General Assembly reconvenes on February 2nd. This will be for a special session preceding the regularly scheduled one. The subject will be the Governor’s proposal for “Insure Tennessee,” his own home-grown variant of a Medicaid-expansion plan that would begin availing the state of between $1 and $2 billion annually under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Haslam’s resolve to address the issue, after a year or two of procrastination, may have been the primary matter hinted at in a key paragraph of the address: “But despite our accomplishments and momentum, one of the things that I’ve realized during my time in office is that we haven’t had nearly high enough expectations of ourselves. In many ways, we’ve settled and haven’t lived up to our full potential. So one thing I can guarantee you that we are not going to do in the next four years is coast to the finish line.” The governor’s plan — a two-track system allowing insurees to participate either via vouchers for private health insurance or through TennCare, the state’s version of Medicaid — is fairly certain to be approved by the General Assembly’s Democrats, but they are but a speck in the ocean of the GOP super-majority in both legislative chambers. The question is whether — or to what degree — the members of Haslam’s own party will support a 12 plan that operates in tandem with what Republicans disdainfully call Obamacare.

There have been surprise endorsements, including last week’s 12-0 bipartisan vote of the Shelby County Commission, urging legislators to support Insure Tennessee. That resolution was sponsored by Terry Roland, the highly vocal Millington Republican whose conservative views are well known and who claims strong ties with GOP members of the General Assembly, including Lieutenant Governor/Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, who was sounding uncommonly open-minded himself. Clearly, there will be other Republicans willing to support the plan, either out of solidarity with the governor or, like state Representative Jimmy Eldridge (R-Jackson), out of a sense that, as Eldridge told a reporter during the course of Saturday night’s inaugural ball at the Omni Nashville, “Our hospitals have to have it!” Indeed, representatives of the state’s hospitals have, along with the state Chamber of Commerce and other business groups, been lobbying hard for Medicaid expansion since funds first became available under the ACA two years ago. But many Republican legislators in the General Assembly are either openly scornful of Insure Tennessee or are holding back from it. That was made obvious when six GOP legislators from Shelby County addressed the Republican Women of Purpose group the week before last — criticizing the governor’s plan as an unwanted expansion of government power and suggesting, in the words of state Representative Curry Todd of Collierville, that “bloodletting” on the matter would be a feature of the special session. Absent from that gathering was the single most influential legislator from Shelby County, state Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris of Collierville. In a sit-down interview with the Flyer last week, Norris expounded on his views. Insisting that his primary mission, prior to advising the members of his caucus, was “to understand what Governor Haslam proposes and how it is governed by existing laws, not only the Tennessee Code but the Social Security Act, the Affordable Care Act, and the Internal Revenue Code.” All of these, Norris said, are “involved or implicated in one way or another.” Norris noted that the state was currently being sued in federal court “for its alleged inability to determine the proper eligibility and enroll people in TennCare.” He continued, “My caucus asks, ‘if you can’t handle the enrollment you’ve got, how are you going to

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handle the additional enrollees?’” These, said Norris, are likely to add up to some number between 200,000 and 400,000. Moreover, he contended, they are “a different segment, not the TennCare population.” Instead, he said, a University of Tennessee study suggests that a substantial number of the likely new beneficiaries will be “healthy young white males.” Like such other Republicans as state Senator Brian Kelsey of Germantown, Norris has expressed concerns that the federal government, after a two-year fully funded period, might default on its promise to supply 90 percent of funding thereafter. (The Tennessee Hospital Association has pledged to fill out the balance.) To the argument that even two years of coverage would be better than none at all for the currently uninsured, Norris contends that those two years of what he calls a “pilot program” might be fully occupied with just getting the newly insured TennCare population processed, all the while making them responsible for various co-pays and premiums. An additional issue for Norris is the fact that on March 4th, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments in King v. Burwell, a case which will test the validity of the federal exchanges now managing Medicaid expansion in states, like Tennessee, that have opted not to operate their own exchanges. The outcome of that case, said Norris, could make the Affordable Care Act itself untenable. Even if not, expansion of TennCare under the ACA could incur another peril, Norris said. “We are now within a percentage point or two of the point at which Governor [Phil] Bredesen had to cut 170,000 people from the rolls in 2007. When TennCare hits 33 percent of the state budget, Draconian cuts could again be called for. We’re almost there. “I have carried the budget for the last three years. TennCare is about to consume a disproportionate share of the state budget once again. My question is, how does this [Insure Tennessee] help stem the rising cost of TennCare? The answer has been, unfortunately, [it doesn’t].” Norris said further that, with the special session now less than two weeks away, the governor and his administration have not begun to address concerns of this sort in any real sense. “My duty is to keep my caucus informed and to advise them. As a whole, the caucus has been pretty good about keeping an open mind. But there’s so much they don’t know.” Sometime between now and the opening of the special session, Norris said, he may well suggest some “alternatives” to the governor’s approach. Norris, who, up to now, has been Haslam’s point man for most legislation, has been depicted here and there as on a collision course with Haslam over Insure Tennessee, and there has even been speculation that a public break with the governor over the issue could serve the Majority Leader’s own future political purposes. “There is no kerfuffle between me and Governor Haslam,” Norris insists. “I appreciate his heart, I really do. But the state will be around for long after his tenure ends. We need to be attentive to details.”

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No Zero-Sum Game As a dramatic rendering of history, the movie Selma trumps almost any artwork we can remember. It stirs the imagination, expands the spirit, and breaks — but finally resurrects — the heart, as we are presented a compelling vision of a just mission that, finally, rose triumphant out of tragedy and did indeed overcome. It is impossible to see the film without gaining some understanding of the courage, will to endure, and outright heroism of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — whose legacy and incompletely fulfilled mission have both been commemorated during the past week. Beyond its value as a testimonial to a martyr and to the overdue social reordering that he did so much to begin, Selma is an extraordinarily powerful and aesthetically soaring film experience. Directing, acting, cinematography — the whole package. Many have wondered why the movie failed to gain more Academy Award nominations than it did. We ourselves have a misgiving — and unquestionably it has been shared by others. It was given most direct expression by one Joseph Califano, who served President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) as Secretary of Health and Human Services during the period of the march on Selma led by Dr. King and the epochal voting rights legislation that it led to and that LBJ sponsored. In the movie, LBJ is presented as antagonistic, if not to King’s voting-rights mission as such, then at least to its timing. “Contrary to the portrait painted by Selma, Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. were partners in this effort,” wrote Califano in an op-ed for The Washington Post. He called attention to an extended telephone conversation between the president and the civil rights leader — a recording of which is now easily accessible to anyone — in which the two men are clearly collaborating completely on the voting-rights

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agenda. LBJ even urges King to pick out a place like Selma to dramatize the issue. For reasons known only to herself, the film’s director and co-writer, Ava DuVernay, chose not only to distort this reality, she even invents a scene in which Johnson, determined to halt King’s momentum, urges FBI director J. Edgar Hoover to send bugged evidence of King’s extramarital lapses to his wife. History is clear on this point: LBJ did no such thing. Such tapes were made and circulated, but during the tenure of Johnson’s predecessor, John F. Kennedy, under the authorization of Attorney General Robert Kennedy. And Hoover, and Hoover alone, was the instigator. History is also clear that any delay on voting-rights legislation suggested by LBJ was both limited and purely tactical: to allow Medicare and other Great Society legislation to clear the Congress before having to buckle down and dismantle — as dismantle he did, in short order — the inevitable filibuster against his voting-rights bill. We understand that DuVernay may have wanted to maximize the role of blacks in their own liberation and to offset the excessive credit so often given to alleged white benefactors in previous films about the civil rights era. But to unfairly tarnish LBJ in this case does nothing to ennoble MLK. To their mutual credit, the two giants were indeed partners in the cause of establishing equality in voting rights. By definition, the extension of justice is not a zero-sum affair. Nor should the allocation of credit be.

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I didn’t mind the hallucinations. I dodged the flying monkeys, but then a leopard came into the room, leaped up on the bed, and started going for my ears. It took a second to realize that it was just Nancy, our giant, speckled pup. Then I began to cough. I coughed so hard that I was reminded of the funeral procession that was going down Lombardy Street in San Francisco. The hearse hit a bump, the doors flew open, and the casket began toppling end over end until it crashed through a drug store window and rolled right up to the pharmacy counter. The lid sprang open, the corpse sat up and asked the druggist, “Got anything to stop this coffin?” In honor of Elvis’ 80th birthday, my wife went out and bought some cough syrup for me. Back in the day, Elvis used to drink a little syrup. I remember sitting on the porch at Graceland, swilling cough medicine

with Elvis while advising him on his career. Wait a minute, that might have been a dream. Speaking of Elvis, what possible reason could Graceland’s new owners have for selling his planes? The Memphis Belle is gone, the Zippin Pippin is in Green Bay, and the Mid-South Coliseum has a date with the wrecking ball. Please leave Elvis’ air force alone. Do they need the room for another gift shop selling Elvis shot glasses? This is why we can’t have nice things. But enough about Elvis ... What was that? I thought I saw light creeping through the blinds, so it’s either dusk or dawn. I’ve lost track. The other night, the only thing that felt good on my throat was Pepsi, so I drank three cans. The sickness still enveloped me, but I was so jacked up on caffeine, I was able to stay wide awake to enjoy every moment. I’ve also been having wild dreams and earworms, which are songs that creep into your head and won’t leave. I woke up in the middle of the night and had to go, but I was too weak to stand. So, I’m sitting there with my head in my hands, when suddenly the theme from Rocky starts to play in my brain. I hate that song. All day, I’m hearing, “Feeling strong now,” but the song only made me sicker. The next day, all I heard was Dolly Parton singing, “9 to 5,” which wasn’t quite as bad. I thought I might be getting a touch of that Eisenhower’s disease. That’s when you feel an unquenchable desire to go out and build interstates. The flu has been rough, but we’ll continue to binge-watch episodes of the Family Feud with Steve Harvey until we’re better. And through all of this, I haven’t lost my faith. I saw the Cowboys lose to Green Bay on a controversial last-minute call, sending Johnny Jones back to his billion-dollar football palace, and that horrid person, Chris Christie, and his lucky orange sweater back to either hell or New Jersey. So there is a God. Randy Haspel writes the “Recycled Hippies” blog, where a version of this column first appeared.

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Lord have mercy. I’ve taken a couple of ass-kickings in my life, but nothing like this. Whatever this bug is that’s going around, I got it in spades. My wife caught it first, and although I tried to be a dutiful husband, I kept what I thought to be a safe distance. No such luck. In fact, my holiday gift from Melody was the flu. I self-medicated for a New Year’s Eve gig with Eddie Harrison and the Shortkuts and then forgot the words to “Brown-Eyed Girl,” which I’ve probably performed more times than Van Morrison. At midnight, I hid behind some equipment cases to avoid any drunken sloppy kisses — and that was just from the men. But I shook a lot of hands. The next day, wham. You’ve heard the old story about the man who was so sick, one minute he was afraid he was going to die, and the next minute he was afraid he wasn’t?

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The Class of 2015: Twenty young Memphians who are shaping the city’s future.

January 22-28, 2015

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This is the sixth year of the Flyer᾿s annual 20<30 issue, and this year᾿s crop of young movers and shakers is a diverse and impactful group. They are taking on the city᾿s major issues — poverty, food deserts, education, and the lack of young leadership. They are enriching the city — with dance, music, art, crafts, and entrepreneurship. They are the future, and they have a common denominator: They each want to make Memphis a better place. These young people have studied, practiced, and traveled. Some have moved here from elsewhere; some have returned to a place they᾿re proud to call home, Memphis. They are faces you᾿ll be seeing and voices you'll be hearing in the coming years. Pay attention. You᾿ll want to know them.

Alex Middleton the bridge builder

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Memphis has its fair share of problems. The hard-luck issues facing the city are well known and well-documented. But there are those organizations working to turn it all around: places like Bridges USA, which works with youth to bridge the gap between cultures, races, and faiths. And there are people like Alex Middleton, a recruiter for the organization, working to bring the youth to a place of better understanding. Alex joined Bridges while a junior at the Hutchison School and worked there the summer after graduation. She attended college at Sewanee, studying anthropology and women’s studies. Her plan wasn’t completely formulated, but, she says, “I knew that my passions were definitely social justice, race issues, and gender issues, and just trying to find something that kind of combined those interests and passions of mine.” She knew, too, that she wanted to work with students, and found her way back to Bridges after college. “I felt like a transplant,” she says about her return. “So I fell in love with the city in a totally different way.” And now, as a recruiter, she’s working to turn the negative image around and help create stronger leaders. “I don’t really think there’s any other program that’s like it that focuses on so many different issues and really develops the student so holistically,” she says. “There’s the push to become a stronger leader, but also to really understand how to embed yourself and engage yourself within a community of people that you may not know to really help you understand the importance of diversity.”

Briana Brown the ballerina

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Briana Brown holds the distinction on this year’s list of being the only person to get up close and personal with First Lady Michelle Obama. The 18-year-old ballerina with New Ballet Ensemble (NBE) visited the White House last November and says, “It was definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Standing in one of the most important places in the United States was something I never would have thought I would be able to do — just being a student of the arts, just being a dance student coming from Memphis.” But that day she wasn’t “just a dance student.” Briana and NBE Executive Director Katie Smythe were there, along with teachers and students from across the country, to accept the National Arts

and Humanities Youth Program Award on behalf of after-school programs. Briana has been involved with ballet since she was 7 years old and says, “It’s been a really good experience doing performances and taking classes and having rehearsals, and actually having something that, instead of school activity, I do for an extracurricular activity. It’s something I take seriously.” A senior at Immaculate Conception High School, Briana is looking forward to beginning Christian Brothers University in the fall to study applied psychology with the thought of one day becoming a speech pathologist. Until then, she’ll keep dancing, of course — almost 25 hours per week. The training keeps her strong and has filled her with confidence. She’ll use those strengths to one day be a teacher of dance, and more. “I would like to become a choreographer,” she says, “traveling to different studios, teaching my own technique of dance.”

Iris Mercado the organizer

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While most kids were sent to camp to paddle a canoe, hike through the woods, and avoid poison ivy, Iris Mercado spent her summers at the Workers Interfaith Network doing clerical work, stuffing envelopes, and mailing letters. Her parents have always embraced activism and fought social injustice, and this apple didn’t fall far from the tree. Iris was born in Argentina and moved to the United States at the age of 8. She and her family moved around, finally landing in Memphis, where Iris graduated from White Station High School. She attended Bridges USA while in high school and became active in youth organizations. The senior at Rhodes College worked as the West Tennessee Organizer for the Tennessee Immigrants and Refugees Rights Coalition until last December. Beginning next month, she’ll be working with the Mid-South Peace & Justice Center as an organizer for Memphis United, a coalition of grassroots organizations, community groups, and residents confronting structural and institutional racism. Going forward, she hopes to stay active with the fight for social justice both locally and nationally. “It’s what I’m most passionate about.”

Lance Draper the entrepreneur

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Someone once told Lance Draper, “It’s not how much you make, it’s what you do with it.” He took that to heart and he’s run with it, buying up houses in foreclosure sales to become somewhat of a mini-land baron. On the face of it, it’s not so impressive. Lots of people buy houses to then rent out. Lance, though, bought that first house with money he’d saved from working as a grocery cashier. And he was 18 years old when he signed the

Anita Norman the poet

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Not many people — even those twice her age — have the confidence that 18-year-old Anita Norman exudes on stage. “It comes with practice and understanding the power of the words,” she says. The Arlington High School senior won the Memphis Grizzlies Poetry Slam in February 2014 and, in April, the Poetry Out Loud competition in Washington, D.C., a national event where she took on more than 50 competitors. The contests, she says, are “not acting and not spoken word, so you have to find this happy medium between really imparting the meaning of the words into your own life experiences — how you bring the two together — but also that you’re speaking to bring it to life and to tell the author’s story.” Anita came to poetry in general, and spoken word specifically, through her family’s small church in Little Rock, where getting up and contributing was a requirement. She was in middle school and says, “I liked the way that my voice sounded, how you could make the words mean something. ... I get into it and I kind of lose myself in the words.” She moved to Memphis in the 5th grade and later became involved with Bridges USA. After graduation this spring, she’ll be attending Yale. Anita doesn’t just read other people’s poetry. Her poem “Mama Memphis” was written about her adopted hometown and the way she perceives it. The acclaim of winning, and the prizes that came with those winnings, are special. But the greatest prize following the Grizzlies competition came later, when Anita’s hero, Maya Angelou, retweeted a media story written about her.

Hillary Clemons the girl scout

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Hillary Clemmons learned to be a leader in the Girl Scouts. Now, this Washington, D.C., native is the regional program specialist for Girl Scouts Heart of the South, the local division of an organization that encompasses 59 counties with 9,300 girls and 3,100 adults. She plans educational programs for girls in kindergarten through 12th grade. This isn’t your mother’s Girl Scouts. “It’s changed,” Clemmons says. “People think it’s all cookies and sewing and crafts, but it’s definitely 21st century now. We have a digital platform to sell cookies, we teach girls computer coding, we have a ‘good credit’ badge for high school girls. We teach entrepreneurship and leadership — and really, whatever a girl wants to do.” While Girl Scouts do still camp and sell cookies, the value of Scouting these days lies in the girl-led programs, meetings, and trips, in which the Scouts themselves set the course for what they want to achieve. “It was what attracted me to the organization [Heart of the South],” Hillary says. “I wanted to give back to something that made such a big difference in my life.” She came to the University of Memphis to study music and, she says, “I fell in love with the city and the university and I just knew this was where I need to be.” Oh, and her favorite cookies? They’re new this year: the Rah-Rah Raisins.

Breezy Lucia the photographer

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Action! Breezy Lucia knew she wanted to work in photography from the time she was 13, growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, and got her first camera. “I fell in love with the art, so I did everything I could with it in high school.” She went on to the University of Missouri and studied photojournalism, eventually transitioning into fine art. After moving to Memphis to work with the nonprofit Service Over Self, she found her soulmates. “I just really liked the film community in Memphis and I decided to stick around,” she says. “The longer I live in Memphis, the longer I want to live in Memphis.” Breezy moved from photography to videography and said the transition was a natural one. She has since worked on films such as Melissa Sweazy’s The Department of Signs and Magical Intervention and Morgan Jon Fox’s web series Feral, as well as videos for Alexis Grace and Amy LaVere. What does she do on set? Whatever it takes. “I wear a bunch of different hats, just kind of helping out in

any way I can.” She works with social media civic booster Choose 901 as a videographer, showcasing the best parts of the city. It’s a collaborative effort, and she enjoys meeting the people she works with and getting to know why they love Memphis. She has dreams of making her own film and is keeping her eye out for just the right collaborator. And when it comes to moving versus still pictures? “Photography is my first love,” she says. “I’m still a photographer at heart.”

Tim Jordan the middleman

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Like many of us, Tim Jordan loves watching basketball. Like most of us, he roots almost exclusively for the hometown Memphis Grizzlies. But like almost none of us, Tim works side by side with the likes of Mike Conley, Tony Allen, and Zach Randolph. As the senior community investment coordinator for the Grizzlies, Tim acts as a liaison with the players and the community, directing nonprofits to players and vice versa. “I help players with anything they want to do personally in the community,” he says. “If Zach Randolph wants to give away coats or turkeys, I try to figure out a specific location that works well for him, a community he wants to give back to, and then set it up with a partner organization, school, or community center in that neighborhood.” Working as the go-between for multi-millionaires and the community they represent is a tall order. Tim and the Grizzlies are setting the bar high among NBA franchises. The Grizzlies organization is a major giver, and arguably the team most engaged in its community in the league. Like many kids, Tim grew up with dreams of playing for a living. That didn’t pan out, but, as he tells school children on career days, “I may not be playing for the NBA, but I’m still living out my dream. I’m still in the NBA, I still work for the NBA, and I’m making a positive impact on my city at the same time.” Just like those he works with, Tim is keeping his eye on the ball and his heart in the community. “It’s great to work for this team at a time when we’re winning on the court and winning off the court.”

Taylor James

the growler

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Taylor James is a leader in the craft beer explosion in Memphis. His growler station in the Cash Saver on Madison Avenue in Midtown was the first of its kind in the area. “Memphis is a great place for food — everybody loves the food here — and you apply that to beer and it’s kind of the same idea. Craft food, craft beer — it just works.” The St. Benedict High School

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mortgage papers. Since then, he’s bought six more homes and a 16-unit apartment building in the Greenlaw community of downtown Memphis. His capitalistic tendencies come from his maternal grandparents, who had a small shopping center with a grocery store, laundromat, and market. His charismatic ways and outgoing nature, his ease with people, are traits he says he picked up from his grandfather, Lafayette Draper, the legendary bartender who was the namesake of the recently reopened venue in Overton Square. Lance graduated from Mitchell High School and attended the University of Memphis, but a persistent illness kept him from completing his studies. “It just wasn’t meant to be.” He takes his successes at such a young age in stride. “You sacrifice while you’re young and able, and then later on in life you can relax,” he says. His legacy is one he’s proud of, but this young entrepreneur is looking to make his own way and leave his own mark.

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graduate left home for the University of Kentucky and returned to work for A.S. Barboro, the local Miller and Coors beer distributor, and then for Budweiser. “I loved it, I love the beer business, but I wanted to work for my dad,” he says. His father owns the four Cash Saver grocery stores in the area. Taylor started in the dairy department, but, he says, “I kept sticking my nose over in beer.” When he first began suggesting craft beer to management, something was lost in translation. “They didn’t understand why I’d want ‘Kraft’ beer.” It was on a trip to Virginia and a stop at a brewery that Taylor’s dad first saw a growler. “I could see him get a little excited, and I thought, ‘Okay, that’s cool, that’s all I need.’” He opened his growler station not long after, in December 2013. Taylor loves nothing more than talking beer and educating his customers on what’s available. He doesn’t want anyone to feel intimidated by the selection and is always learning himself. “You’re talking beer all day long and it’s great when people ask questions. We do our best to let them know everything we know about it.” He’s at home on Madison, and it’s a family home. “It’s awesome; me and my dad will just sit there firing off ideas at each other all day.”

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Jerome Hardaway the veteran

For Jerome Hardaway, serving in the military was somewhat of a birthright. “I come from a long line of people who went into the military,” he says. “I just wanted to do something good for the world.” As part of the Phoenix Raven Security Forces, he’s been deployed in some of the world’s hottest zones over the past six years, and he’s seen his share of action. But the fight didn’t end once he came home. “From all of the veterans I spoke to, they all had problems within the first two years of their transition [into civilian life]. The biggest problems are non-transferrable skills, which added more stress on them, and poor health care.” His weapons now are a computer, a telephone, and the charisma and knowledge that enables him to get people to listen. Jerome started the nonprofit FRAGO with partners Adrian Friday and Lex Brown. The group takes a proactive stance, helping to arm veterans with skill sets that can be quickly applied and integrated into their lives — such as coding and web development. The organization is making waves with veterans and the community from its distinctive home in Central Gardens — Ashlar Hall, better known as the Castle, on Central Avenue.

Gil Worth the podcaster

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Gil Worth played in bands for years, at one point playing in five at the same time. Music 18 was his passion. Then he became burned out and let

it all go within the span of a few months. “I felt really thrown off the horse, so I stopped listening to music and I only listened to podcasts,” he says. “And that’s when I decided to start one.” In 2012, he started his own. That podcast led to producing casts for friends. Gil’s wife, Carla, now hosts “901 Paranormal,” and he is on the microphone for the popular “The Game Show” (two guests, two teams, board games, and adult beverages). Altogether, there are eight in the OAM Audio network (OAM is an acronym for the first letters of his children’s names: Owen, Adia, and Mia), making Gil a media mogul of sorts. Other offerings include “Records, Ruckus, and Wrasslin,” “Black Nerd Power,” and “Dinner and a Newbie.” Special guests have included D.L. Hughley, David Allen Greer, and the Dead Soldiers. All podcasts are produced by Gil and recordings are guerilla-like, with mobile equipment and shows that have been broadcast from garages, living rooms, the Cooper-Young Festival, and even the basement of Minglewood Hall. Podcasts have become wildly popular lately, especially with the recent media frenzy surrounding “Serial.” Gil chalks up the popularity to “freedom of content, being able to say whatever you want to say. It’s grown into this thing that’s more than just a conversation, you can make art with it.”

Gabriel Fotsing the facilitator

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Gabriel Fotsing moved to the United States from Cameroon in 2000. His family settled in Houston then, and that’s where he completed high school. He had one, all-encompassing goal at the time: to go to college. But how? His family didn’t have college money, so Gabriel set out to find some. “I come from a low-income family and knew my parents could not pay for it,” he says. “So my job in high school was to figure out a way to go to college for free.” He read, he researched, he questioned. And what he came up with was the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, meaning that since his family was making below a certain amount each year, he could go at no cost. And what he has now to show for it is a Harvard diploma, with a major in economics and a French minor. He also has his own nonprofit. He started The College Initiative in 2012 to help others like him follow in his footsteps. His organization provides students with the “tools, support, and mentorship to, not only apply to college, but also graduate from college.” The creation of a nonprofit for Gabriel was a grassroots effort. “I never really knew what the nonprofit world was or how to start one,

so I read a book called How to Start a Nonprofit.” Gabriel is looking ahead, planning to impact 500 kids in the region this year, and later hopes to take the College Initiative to a national level. He also hopes to relax more, with a goal for 2015 of reading “at least 30 books that have nothing to do with my work.”

London Lamar the politician

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While most people in their 20s might recall watching Nickelodeon or silly sitcoms for hours on end while growing up, London Lamar has memories of watching State of the Union addresses. And she’s always been civically engaged. “My mother took me with her every election to go vote,” she says. “I knew being politically aware was a part of everyday life. It was just the norm in my family.” While at Central High School, she was active in class elections and enjoyed history and government civics classes. By the time she got to college — predominantly white, predominantly conservative St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana — she could read her calling as easily as a mid-term ballot. “St. Mary’s allowed me to take it to a different level, I wanted to see an AfricanAmerican presence among the student body.” She got involved, joined the student diversity board, the AfricanAmerican club, and started a young Democrats organization. She brought that boldness back to Memphis. “I saw an open door for young people and myself in politics in this city; I ran through it.” Last summer, she ran for the Tennessee Democratic Party State Executive Committee, the governing body of the Tennessee Democratic Party. Though she lost, she was the youngest person on the Shelby County ballot and considers it a success that she “made the political scene respect young people.” Her goal for the future is simple: “I want to be a U.S. Senator by age 50.” She’s had a good start to realizing a goal that began in a voting booth as a child. “This is what I do,” she says. “I eat, breathe, live politics.”

Jodie Cherry the recruiter

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the transplant from Northeast Arkansas. In just two short years, she’s fallen in love with the city herself. “Memphis is a city of opportunity,” she says. “No matter who you are or what you love, there is an opportunity for you here, and it’s really what you make it.” Jodie came to town to work for the University of Memphis as assistant director of internships. While there, she worked closely with area companies, students, and interns. She’d been on a tour of St. Jude while in college and knew ALSAC would be a great place to work. “I’m a marketing girl,” she says. “It’s a marketing person’s dreamland.” She talks about the slogan for an upcoming recruitment marketing campaign and says it sums up the way she feels about her work day-in and day-out: “Do what you love, but love why you do it.”

January 22-28, 2015

Matt Crewse the director

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Matt Crewse cofounded a theater company … because of television. After watching the second season of the Canadian TV series Slings & Arrows, set in a fictional Shakespearean festival, Crewse says, “I just really needed to put on a play. So I picked one and I did.” It was in the middle of that first play that Threepenny Theatre Company was founded, producing classics by Shakespeare and Eugene O’Neill. “We try to do classics and those in the public domain, because it saves on royalties.” Threepenny is a resident company at TheatreWorks in Overton Square. Where did it all begin for Matt? Act One: High School, interior. “We were reading The Odyssey aloud in class and my English teacher, who also ran the theater department, suggested I try theater, and so I did. I remember getting my first laugh, and it’s all been downhill from there.” The plays that interest him have been holding audiences captive for centuries — A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Macbeth, and Hamlet. Since that day at Lexington High School (stage right from Jackson, Tennessee), he’s been aching to see what happens when the curtain rises. He went to the University of Memphis where he studied theater and now works at Mainstage Theatrical Supply on Broad Avenue. His life is steeped in his art, and, when he’s in the middle of a production, he says, it is nothing for him to be going 100 hours per week. The downside? It doesn’t leave much time to sit in the audience — or to watch any television.

Bennett Foster the advocate

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“I spent the first decade of my adult life playing music and organizing a band,” says Bennett Foster. That band was the popular Magic Kids, and Bennett and his mates toured far and wide. With downtime on the road, he read all he could on 20 issues and politics affecting Memphis. And when 20 the road became too tiresome, and his intolerance

for the injustices became too much, he says he “couldn’t look away” any longer and decided to get involved. He now works for the MidSouth Peace & Justice Center as organizing coordinator for the transit justice and neighborhood alliance programs. In 2012, Bennett helped found the Memphis Bus Riders Union, an organization structured as a labor union and made up by those who depend on public transit to ensure they “have a seat at the table” with MATA and elected officials. Bennett is a lifelong Memphian who didn’t go to school to learn compassion or to earn a sense of social justice. He picked it all up through his own readings and with his own inborn empathy. He’s an autodidact who looks up to his father, local artist and entrepreneur Tommy Foster — a “natural organizer,” Bennett says. “He was never very political but was always kind of making things work DIY-style, and I definitely learned a lot just about using the small resources you have to make something happen.”

Matt Ross-Spang the musician

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Matt Ross-Spang is living the dream. The musician has always been a fan of Memphis music — Stax, Hi Records, American, Ardent — and now he spends his days as head recording engineer and producer at Sun Studio. It’s where it all began, on analog reel-to-reel recording equipment, and Ross-Spang has worked long and hard to return it to its glory days. In a feat of reverse engineering, he’s taken out the digital and returned the studio to glorious analog. “We record just like they did back in the day,” he says. “It was all done with your hands and as a group, all these great session guys playing together at one time without headphones. It wasn’t chopped and edited and copied and pasted.” He’s worked with some big names: Jerry Lee Lewis, Jakob Dylan, Jim Dickinson, Justin Townes Earle, Mark Ronson, and T-Bone Burnett, to name a few. For the 60th anniversary of Elvis Presley cutting “That’s All Right Mama” — the one that truly started it all — Matt recorded a version of the song with Scotty Moore and Chris Isaak. Four-hundred vinyl pressings were made on the original Sun logo. But it’s not all the past for Matt. Songwriting in the 21st century is alive and well, and he rattles off names of performers one might see at the Hi-Tone or Buccaneer any night of the week. Still, there are those producers of the past: Willie Mitchell, Sam Phillips, Chips Moman. “To this day, everything I do is in their shadow,” he says. “I’m always stealing from those guys.”

Brit McDaniel the potter

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By her own admission, Brit McDaniel didn’t have much direction in her early college days. “I was sort of a late bloomer,” she says. “I didn’t take art in high school until my senior year, and I loved it. But I always just thought it wasn’t very practical and I didn’t have a lot of direction early in my life at all.” She found her direction after what she calls a “quarter-life crisis” and that direction now might be round and round. She spends hours at her potter’s wheel each day, creating some of the most delicate and beautiful pieces of pottery around. Or, her direction could be straight ahead, because that’s where her career has gone ever since she found practicality in her art and settled on the craft as a way to make a living. That was in August 2013. She’d known before that, though, that she had no interest in being a starving artist. “I was going to have to think of it as a business.” It’s paid off. Last year she was featured on the popular blog, Design*Sponge; took part in the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago; was a finalist in the “Martha Stewart American Made Awards”; and a runner-up in Garden & Gun’s “Made in the South Awards.” Her wares are also found at Anthropologie. “Last year really took me by storm,” she says, “so this year I’m trying to be more methodical and say no to things I need to say no to, and keep the focus on the quality of my work and be where I need to be to grow responsibly and sustainably.”

Schuyler Dalton the grower

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Schuyler Dalton hails from the Northeast. It’s difficult for a Southerner to understand how someone from the frozen tundra might find an interest in agriculture, yet Schuyler did. She hails from Massachusetts, spent a high school semester at a farm school in Maine, and studied sustainable agriculture at college in upstate New York. She came south on a lark in 2013. “My best friend from college moved down here for Teach for America and had all these cool things to say about it,” she says. “I didn’t have a job and I said, ‘Hey, I could move to Memphis.’ I was looking for an adventure and I love it. I’m so happy here.” Once here, Schuyler worked with Bridges USA before meeting Mary Phillips Riddle (20<30 class, 2011), founder of Roots Memphis. The match was a perfect one. As the marketing and outreach coordinator for Roots Memphis, Schuyler’s duties include coordinating the community supported

agriculture program, recruiting potential farmers for training, and public relations. “I’m kind of a Jill of all trades.” The farm recently moved to 10 acres at Shelby Farms Park and an integral part of the program now will be to get fresh fruits and vegetables to those in low-income areas, those places on the map known as “food deserts.”

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What Memphis needs, he says, is more awareness. “People still have their personal fears for why they won’t get tested, because of stigma or they don’t think they have it or they don’t want to know. But I do think people are doing a better job at getting tested for HIV even within those high-risk communities.” MGLCC served about 7,000 people last year, but the number of those in greatest need is still growing. Martavius’ goals include more advocacy, education, and research. He has collaborated on two articles for journals looking at the “gay family” structure — families of choice where those in the community, especially gay men of color, might find comfort — and how that structure might affect HIV prevention efforts. A graduate of the University of Memphis, Martavius is back at the school, working on a graduate degree in public health. His tasks are symbiotic, applying presentations to both, he says, “I do work for school and school for work.”

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Improv comedy can be a funny business. Keaton Patti has been traveling with TourCo, the touring arm of the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) for six months now, seeing the world and making fun of it. “We were in Montana last weekend [at] this ski resort where we were playing. But none of us had ever skied or snowboarded,” Patti says, describing the rigors of life on the road. “And so we’d just ride the chair lifts up and down just to check out the mountain. And people would look at us. And they’d ask, ‘What are you doing here? You don’t even have skis.’ It was awkward.” Patti’s an English major who wanted to take a shot at standup comedy. While living in Pittsburgh and working out his routines he dropped in on an Improv Jam — “Like open mic night for improv” — and his life took a turn. Patti liked the teamwork and the community. “In standup, you’re just focused on your set,” he says. So he moved to New York to study and work with the Upright Citizens Brigade, the bicoastal troupe and improv school known for launching the careers of artists like Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz. The UCB’s company shouldn’t need any skis when they dock at the Buckman this week to perform a longform show broken into two distinct parts. In the first half, an audience member is interviewed, and his or her story becomes the basis for the improvisation. “The second half is even more organic,” Patti says. “We take three text messages from the audience.” UPRIGHT CITIZENS BRIGADE AT THE BUCKMAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT ST. MARY'S FRIDAY, JANUARY 23RD, AT 8 P.M. $30.

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THURSDAY January 22

FRIDAY January 23

SATURDAY January 24

Booksigning by Tim Johnston Cleveland Street Flea Market, 6 p.m. Tim Johnston signs his novel Descent, described by NPR as a “twisty thriller-plus.” The signing is part of the Booksellers at Laurelwood’s Tastemaker series and includes a reading, food, and drinks.

Miss Firecracker Contest Germantown Community Theatre, 8 p.m., $21 There will be hairspray: Germantown Community Theatre presents this comedy set in the 1980s at a beauty pageant in Mississippi.

Defiance and Conscience Germantown Performing Arts Center, 8 p.m., World premiere of Bruce Adolphe’s concerto “I Will Not Remain Silent,” inspired by Rabbi Joachim Prinz, who stood up against the Nazis and stood by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Violinist Sharon Roffman will be the featured performer.

Lecture by Brian Pera Blount Auditorium, Rhodes College, 6 p.m. Filmmaker/artist/author Brian Pera discusses his work in conjunction with his new installation “I Thought I Might See You Here,” opening Friday at Clough-Hanson Gallery. The show, featuring film and sculpture, deals with memory, loss, and commemoration.

Winter Fantasy Tea Children’s Museum of Memphis, noon, $25 Guests are encouraged to wear their “fairy-tale best” at this tea party featuring pastries and princesses.

Carrot mayo recipe Food, p. 38

“Animal Grossology” Memphis Pink Palace Museum, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., $12.75 An interactive exhibit with “some of the stinkiest, slimiest, and downright yuckiest creatures on earth.” Mighty Souls Brass Band Buckman Arts Center at St. Mary’s School, 10 a.m., $5 Kids will learn about New Orleans’ music during “Mardi Gras Mambo,” featuring the Mighty Souls Brass Band. Part of the Magic Carpet series.

Cult Classic By Chris Davis Rocky Horror director Scott Ferguson dishes on Memphis actor/playwright Jerre Dye. “You know he cleans his house in red pumps,” Ferguson says, conspiratorially. “With a handkerchief tied to his head.” “Jerre’s fearless,” Ferguson says of his Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Playhouse on the Square’s fourth production of Richard O’Brien’s classic proto-punk fairy tale. “He immediately goes to places nobody else would go.” Dye likes the way playing Frank-N-Furter makes him feel. He likes the ridiculous narcissism and the extreme vulnerability. He knows he’s not really known around town as a vocalist or musical theater guy, and that aspect of the show still scares him every time he walks on stage. But he likes going to extremes. “Never underestimate the power of platform heels,” he says. This is Ferguson’s second time to mount the original live version of Rocky Horror for Playhouse on the Square. His 1998 production starred Memphis stage veteran Mark Chambers as the Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania. Dye remembers seeing Chambers in the role, all done up in his leather and glitter. It awakened something in an otherwise introspective kid and may be the moment when he decided he wanted a career in the theater. The look of Playhouse’s Rocky Horror revival set is inspired by a theater under construction, and Ferguson promises some interesting updates to the perennial favorite. “The music is so ’70s,” he says, allowing that a lot has changed since audiences were first introduced to Brad the asshole, Janet the slut, Eddie the rocker, and a host of alien party animals. This revival, he says, will have a more modern edge. "RichaRd O'BRien's ROcky hORROR shOw" at PlayhOuse On the squaRe JanuaRy 23Rd-FeBRuaRy 15th. PlayhOuseOnthesquaRe.ORg

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“Hail, Britannia!” The Dixon Gallery & Gardens, 1-5 p.m. Six centuries of British art, featuring works from the medieval period as well as contemporary works by Thomas Gainsborough, Anthony Van Dyck, Angelica Kauffman, and others. Katherine Stuart, curator of the Denver Art Museum, will lead a talk on the exhibit, starting at 2 p.m.

Booksigning by Frank Portman The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 6:30 p.m. Frank Portman signs his YA novel, King Dork Approximately, the sequel to the popular King Dork, about a high-school kid and his weird relationship with Catcher in the Rye.

A Dollar Goes a Long Way at the James Lee House James Lee House (690 Adams), $225 The curious title for this dinner refers to the purchase price of the newly restored James Lee House (now a bed and breakfast). Part of ArtsMemphis’ Mad & Hungry culinary series, featuring a dinner prepared by River Oaks’ Jose Guiterrez. Entertainment will be provided by PRIZM Ensemble, Kallen Esperian, and Gary Beard.

In the House Blount Auditorium, Rhodes College, 6:30 p.m. The annual Tournées French Film Festival starts tonight with an opening reception and this film about a young man who piques his teacher’s interest with stories about a classmate.

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Memphis has a vibrant art-music scene. his was intended to be a guide to local “classical” music during the cold weather. So it was strange to sit in the Annesdale Mansion last Sunday as the Memphis Chamber Music Society hosted “Symphony Goes Solo” while the weather performed a perfect May day in the middle of January. Even as the sun set under bare trees and a blue sky, we were happy to be inside listening to two small ensemble pieces performed by Memphis Symphony Orchestra musicians. The Mozart and Schubert pieces and the setting were a reminder of how much great musicianship is on display in this city, and how much fun it is to hear compositions that have stood the test for centuries. There are many other opportunities to hear music that won’t ring in your ears the next morning. Here are some musically fascinating places to keep warm, no matter what the weather brings. The stand-out performance on the horizon is this weekend at the Germantown Performing Arts Center, where violinist Sharon Roffman and the IRIS Orschestra will perform the world premiere of “I Will Not Remain Silent,” a new concerto by composer Bruce Adolphe. Adolphe’s name may sound familiar to the public radio set due to his regular “Piano Puzzler” segment on Performance Today. Itzhak Perlman performed the world premiere of Adolphe’s solo violin music at Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center. Adolphe is resident lecturer and director of Family Programs Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. On his website, you can hear some of his original works performed, one by the Bretano Quartet at WNYC. That piece, Fra(nz)g-mentation, is based on an unfinished andante by Schubert, which serves as inspiration and a diving board for Adolphe’s compositional fireworks show: The strings explode repeatedly into fleeting clumps of spiky chords that rise and recede into an energetic chaos. The harmonies are 20th century and reach back to Stravinsky and Bartók. “I Will Not Remain Silent” is a new composition that is based on the life of Rabbi Joachim Prinz. The piece is presented as part of a week of music and activities called “Defiance and

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Conscience” held during the week of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Violinist Roffman worked with IRIS on the Prinz Project, which included a six-month workshop for students from the Soulsville Charter School Orchestra and the Overton High School Orchestra. The first performance is Saturday, January 24th, at 8 p.m. A second perfomance on Sunday at 2 p.m. will feature pieces performed by the students from Soulsville and Overton. Prinz was a rabbi in Germany who warned of the rise of Nazism and was expelled from his home country. He came to the United States, where he became active in the civil rights movement. He was an organizer of the March on Washington in 1963 and spoke after Mahalia Jackson and immediately before Dr. King. Comparing the U.S. struggle to his experiences in Europe, Prinz said, “The most important thing that I learned under those tragic circumstances was that bigotry and hatred are not the most urgent problem. The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful, and the most tragic problem is silence.” “I Will Not Remain Silent,” according to Adolphe’s composer’s statement on his website, is inspired by Prinz and his work: “The violin represents the voice of Joachim Prinz throughout the concerto. In the first movement, the orchestra represents Nazi Germany; in the second movement, the orchestra represents America during the civil rights era.” Violinist Roffman studied at the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She studied under Perlman, and made her Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist in 2004 in Vivaldi’s “Concerto for Four Violins” with Perlman playing and conducting. Another contemporary work with historical roots, “Vignettes: Ellis Island,” tops the bill on Friday, January 23rd, at the Church of the Holy Communion. The piece, composed by University of Southern California professor Alan L. Smith, will be performed by soprano Judith Cline, chair of the music department at Hollins University. Smith composed the piece based on the Ellis Island Oral History Project, which collects first-person narratives from those who entered this country

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musical resources is Harris Auditorium at the University of Memphis. Throughout the semester, students and faculty perform several nights a week. It may not be Perlman onstage, but there is plenty of compelling music, which is mostly free of charge. “It’s gratifying to me to see these kids who come in as little freshman, and then four years later, they’re up there knocking it out of the park,” says Randall Rushing, director of the Scheidt School of Music. “Then you see them as undergraduates in the wind ensemble sitting right next to doctoral students and graduate students digging in and working together. It’s a great thing to see. But more than that, the music they make is unbelievable.” Two performances to look out for: On Sunday, February 1st, at 3 p.m., in celebration of what would have been Bach’s 330th birthday, professor Leonardo Altino will perform “A Bach Cellobration,” a performance of all of the composer’s cello suites. On February 4th, Concerts International hosts the Cann Piano Duo, virtuosic sisters who will perform, among other pieces, Rachmaninoff ’s “Suite for Two Pianos.” Rhodes College’s department of music hosts regular faculty performances and events on campus and at Evergreen Presbyterian Church. The next in the John Springfield Music Lecture series is Thursday, February 19th, and will feature David Huron on “The Musically Sublime: A Scientific Story.” Huron holds two posts at the School of Music and in the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at Ohio State University. To keep up with all of this great music, see the listings on memphisflyer.com and memphismagazine.com.

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between 1892 and 1954. Six sections frame the experiences of leaving Europe, boarding the ship, being at sea, and arrival at the harbor, at the island, and in America. Sources tell stories that run from lighthearted to heartbreaking. A child seeing his first commode flush on the boat thinks he has sunk the ship. A daughter leaves behind her mother knowing they will never see each other again. Holy Communion’s Minister of Communications Cara Modisett will accompany Cline on the piano. The two have performed the piece together in the past. Modisett recently moved to Memphis from Virginia, where she was music director at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Roanoke. She enjoys the local music and is thankful that Holy Communion’s Minister of Music David Ouzts supports her musical enthusiasm. “It’s contemporary, but it’s really accessible,” Modisett says of “Vignettes.” “We’ve found that when we’ve performed it, what we enjoy is that people come up afterwards and say, ‘My father came through,’ or ‘That reminds me so much of the stories I would hear from my grandfather or my grandmother.’ We always hear stories. Harmonically, there are certainly dissonances, but it’s a very musically accessible piece. It’s not jarring, except when it should be, like in the Titanic piece. There is some mixed meter and dissonance, because that is a scary thing. They are all very different. With the human history behind it, some of it is quite beautiful. [In one], the narrator is describing his or her first view of New York and thinks it looks like a fairyland. In the harmonies, it’s pretty magical.”

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule January 22 - 28 Flynn’s Restaurant and Bar 159 BEALE

Chris Gales noon-8 p.m.; Karaoke ongoing, 8:30 p.m.

Alfred’s

182 BEALE - 528-0150

Hard Rock Cafe

197 BEALE - 525-3711

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.1 a.m., Sundays-Mondays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m., and TuesdaysWednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.; Jim Wilson Fridays, Saturdays, 6-9 p.m.; DJ J2 Fridays, Saturdays, 9:30 p.m.-5 a.m.; Kevin and Bethany Paige Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.2 a.m.; Memphis Jazz Orchestra Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

B.B. King’s Blues Club 147 BEALE - 524-KING

B.B. King All Stars Thursdays, 7 p.m., Fridays-Saturdays, 9 p.m., and Mondays, 8 p.m.; Tom Colvin Band Friday, Jan. 23, noon; The Will Tucker Band Fridays, Saturdays, 5-8:30 p.m.; IBC Semi Finals Friday, Jan. 23, 5 p.m.; School of Rock Saturday, Jan. 24, 2:30 p.m.; Lisa G and Flic’s Pic’s Band Sundays, 2 p.m.; Preston Shannon Sundays, 7 p.m. and Wednesday, Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m.; Memphis Jones Mondays, 5 p.m.; Blake Ryan Trio Tuesdays, 5 p.m.; King Beez Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.

Blue Note Bar & Grill 341-345 BEALE ST. - 577-1089

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

126 BEALE - 529-0007

Terry Sylvester Saturday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.; Brad Birkedahl Sunday, Jan. 25, 6 p.m.

Itta Bena 145 BEALE - 578-3031

Susan Marshall Fridays, Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.

Jerry Lee Lewis Cafe & Honky Tonk 310 BEALE - 654-5171

The Jason James Trio FridaysSundays, 7-11 p.m.; Rockin’ Joey Trites and the Memphis Flash Saturdays, 3-7 p.m. and Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

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

Cowboy Neil Sundays, Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Sonny Mack and the Mack 2 Band Sundays, Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Don Valentine Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight.

Barbara Blue Thursdays-Fridays, 7-9 p.m., Saturdays, 59 p.m., Sundays, 4-9 p.m., and Wednesdays, 7-9 p.m.; Dueling Pianos Thursdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Fridays-Saturdays, 9 p.m., Sundays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight, and Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

414 South Main 414 S. MAIN

“The $1 Jump Off ” featuring live hip-hop and R&B Saturdays, 8 p.m.

152 MADISON - 572-1813

Live Music Fridays.

341 MADISON - 524-0104

Melting Pot: Artist Showcase Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.; Reggae Sundays featuring Ras Empress and more Sundays, 7 p.m.-midnight.

Double J’s Smokehouse & Saloon 124 E. G.E. PATTERSON 335-0251

Live Music Thursdays, 711 p.m., and Fridays-Saturdays, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

Grawemeyer’s 520 S. MAIN - 526-6751

John Lane Williamson Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. and Sundays, 5-9 p.m.; Eddie Harrison Fridays, 6 p.m.; Evan Farris Saturdays, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 4:30-10 p.m. and Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; Wally Wright Wednesdays, 6 p.m. 77 S. SECOND - 527-2700

Metropolitan Avenue Sunday, Jan. 25, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Bob and Susie Salley Friday, Jan. 23; Same Sex Mary, The Poodle Brandy and The Sun. The Moon Saturday, Jan. 24; Open Mic Mondays; Blues Jam Tuesdays.

Memphis Sounds Lounge

Dance and Salsa Night Fridays, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Saturday Salsa Night Saturdays, 8:30 p.m.-3 a.m.

The Silly Goose 100 PEABODY PLACE 435-6915

Grown Folk’s Music 7:30 p.m.

DJ Cody Fridays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.

Onix Restaurant & Jazz Lounge

383 S. MAIN - 578-2767

22 N. THIRD - 590-4049

412 S. MAIN - 552-4609

Smooth R&B Thursdays, Fridays, 8:30 p.m.; Jazz Fridays, Saturdays, 8:30-11:30 p.m.

Spindini Jeff Crosslin Thursdays, 7-11 p.m.

The Orpheum 203 S. MAIN - 525-3000

International Blues Challenge: RJ Howson ThursdaySaturday, Jan. 22-24, 8 p.m.; Erin Harpe and the Delta Swingers Saturday, Jan. 24, 5 p.m.

Paulette’s RIVER INN, 50 HARBOR TOWN SQUARE - 260-3300

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

The Plexx 380 E.H. CRUMP - 744-2225

Old School Blues & Jazz Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.

Purple Haze Nightclub 140 LT. GEORGE W. LEE - 577-1139

DJ Dance Music ongoing, 10 p.m.

Bar DKDC 964 S. COOPER - 272-0830

Marcella and Her Lovers Friday, Jan. 23; Bluff City Backsliders Saturday, Jan. 24.

Bhan Thai 1324 PEABODY - 272-1538

Two Peace Saturdays, 710:30 p.m.; Loveland Duren Sundays, 6-9 p.m.

Blue Monkey 2012 MADISON - 272-BLUE

Karaoke Thursdays, 9 p.m.midnight; A. Sinclair Friday, Jan. 23, 10 p.m.; Doc Fangaz Saturday, Jan. 24, 10:30 p.m.

Boscos Squared 2120 MADISON - 432-2222

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Huey’s Downtown

Rum Boogie Cafe 182 BEALE - 528-0150

303 S. MAIN - 523-0020

Brinson’s

Eric Hughes Jam Sessions during The International Blues Challenge ThursdayFriday, Jan. 22-23, 10 p.m.1 a.m., and Saturday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.; Chris Gavin Sunday, Jan. 25, 7-11 p.m.

162 BEALE - 521-1851

Rumba Room

603 MONROE - 525-4924

Silky O’Sullivan’s

Wet Willie’s

David Bowen Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m.

Kudzu’s

119 S. MAIN, PEMBROKE SQUARE - 417-8435

Live Music Thursdays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.

209 BEALE - 578-5650

King’s Palace Cafe

Blind Bear Speakeasy

Plantation All Stars Fridays, Saturdays, 3-7 p.m.; The Dr. “Feel Good” Potts Band Sundays, Mondays, 8 p.m.midnight; McDaniel Band Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight. 183 BEALE - 522-9596

Memphis Blues Society Jam Sundays, 7-11 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Tuesday-Wednesday, Jan. 27-28, 7-11 p.m.

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Hi-Tone

Minglewood Hall

1368 MONROE - 278-0909

412-414 N. CLEVELAND 278-TONE

1555 MADISON 866-609-1744

Camy’s

Huey’s Midtown

3 S. BARKSDALE - 725-1667

1927 MADISON - 726-4372

Celtic Crossing 903 S. COOPER - 274-5151

DAN MONICK

Chris Johnson Thursdays, 10 p.m.; DJ Tree Fridays, 10 p.m.; DJ Eggroll Saturdays, 10 p.m.; The Reel McCoy Sundays, 11 a.m.; Jeremy Stanfill and Joshua Cosby Sundays, 5 p.m.; The Candy Company Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Rev. Raven and the Chain Smoking Altar Boys Sunday, Jan. 25, 4-7 p.m.; Ori Naftaly Band Sunday, Jan. 25, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Java Cabana 2170 YOUNG - 272-7210

The PBJs Sunday, Jan. 25, 7 p.m.

Lafayette’s Music Room 2119 MADISON - 207-5097

Karaoke Fridays-Sundays.

Mason Jar Fireflies Thursday, Jan. 22, 6 p.m.; The Maitre D’s Thursday, Jan. 22, 9 p.m.; Goldstar Kindergarten Friday, Jan. 23, 6 p.m.; Suavo J. featuring Mr. 88 and the Bones Friday, Jan. 23, 9:30 p.m.; Memphis Bluegrass All-Stars Saturday, Jan. 24, 11 a.m.; School of Rock Memphis Presents “The Beatles: The Late Years” Saturday, Jan. 24, 3-5 and 5-7 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 25, 3-5 and 57 p.m.; John Nemeth with Travis Swanson Saturday, Jan. 24, 7 p.m.; Ghost Town Blues Band Saturday, Jan. 24, 9:30 p.m.; Songwriter Night: Delta Joe Sanders and Mark Edgar Stuart Sunday, Jan. 25, 7 p.m.; Buckles and Boots Sunday, Jan. 25, 8:30 p.m.; Detective Bureau Monday, Jan. 26, 7 p.m.; Deering & Down Wednesday, Jan. 28, 7 p.m.

Evergreen Presbyterian Church

The Midtown Crossing Grill

Cooper Walker Place 1015 S. COOPER 303-990-3999

Bluezday Thursday hosted by Abdul Wahid Mostafa Thursdays; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays.

The Cove 2559 BROAD - 730-0719

Jazz with Jeremy & Ed Thursdays, 9 p.m.; Low Society Friday, Jan. 23, 10 p.m.; Martini Madness Saturdays, 5-8 p.m.; Hope Clayburn and the Soul Scrimmage Saturday, Jan. 24, 10 p.m.; Open Jam Sundays, 6 p.m.; Open Mic with Justin White Mondays, 6-10 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.

Dru’s Place 1474 MADISON - 275-8082

613 UNIVERSITY - 274-3740

First Tuesdays at 4 Concert Series: Music of Samuel Barber featuring Rhodes College music faculty Tuesdays, 4 p.m.

Future Friday, Jan. 23, 7 p.m.; Artistik Lounge featuring Devin Crutcher every third Sunday, 7-11 p.m.

Otherlands Coffee Bar 641 S. COOPER - 278-4994

Don McGregor, Steve Lockwood, and Andrew Cohen Friday, Jan. 23, 8-11 p.m.; Ben Callicott, Christian Seay Saturday, Jan. 24, 8-11 p.m.; Dr. Frank Portman of Mr. T Experience Tuesday, Jan. 27, 7 p.m.

P&H Cafe 1532 MADISON - 726-0906

Rock Starkaraoke Fridays; Open Mic with Tiffany Harmon Mondays, 9 p.m.midnight.

The Phoenix 1015 S. COOPER - 338-5223

Bluezday Thurzday Thursdays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Cowboy Bob’s Roundup Mondays, 8-11:45 p.m.; Sing for Your Supper last Tuesday of every month, 6:30-9 p.m.

Rockhouse Live Midtown 2586 POPLAR

Moot Davis Thursday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m.; Mutual Live + Special Guests Saturday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m.; Forever & Never + Visionaries Sunday, Jan. 25, 7 p.m.; Challenger + Darin Lee Jerden, Strange Wayne Wednesday, Jan. 28, 8 p.m.

Strano Sicilian Kitchen 948 S. COOPER - 552-7122

Davy Ray Bennett Sundays, Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m.

Wild Bill’s 1580 VOLLINTINE - 207-3975

Soul Survivors FridaysSundays, 10 p.m.-3 a.m.; The Soul Connection Fridays, Saturdays, 11 p.m.-3 a.m.

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Karaoke Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Sazerac first and third Fridays, 8 p.m.;

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Live Music Fridays.

KING TUFF AND EX HEX AT THE HI-TONE King Tuff comes to the Hi-Tone on Saturday the 24th, alongside Ex Hex and locals Liquid Teens. As far as premier indie rock tours go, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better one coming to Memphis this month. King Tuff is the project of Kyle Thomas, an artist who got signed to Sub Pop records after releasing his first two albums on smaller indie labels. While his earlier songs sounded a lot like the Clap (a forgotten pysch band from the ealy ’70s), his recent work is a lot more reminiscent of Slade or T. Rex. King Tuff isn’t a throwback act, though, and Thomas has found a way to meld some of the best elements of ’70s glam while still sounding like a guitar player making records in 2015. His latest record Black Moon Spell was released last fall and reached number one on the College Music Journal Top 200. Joining King Tuff on his tour promoting Black Moon Spell is Ex Hex, an all-female trio that features Mary Timony of Helium, Autoclave, and Wild Flag. Timony is also no stranger to underground success, and Rips, the debut album from Ex Hex, received the same kind of great reviews her other projects grew accustomed to. While King Tuff draws influence from some lesser-known sources, Ex Hex sticks to the no-frills approach, cranking out raw rock-and-roll that’s as derivative as it is infectious. Opening the show Saturday is Liquid Teens, a newish garage punk band that sounds a lot like some of Jay Reatard’s earlier projects, specifically the Final Solutions. Liquid Teens posted some new material online last fall, so perhaps a debut single is in the works. — Chris Shaw King Tuff, Ex Hex and Liquid Teens at the Hi-Tone Café on Saturday, January 24th at 8 p.m.

Silent Planet with Artifex Pereo, What we do in secret, Creux, Altruria, and Our Dearly Departed Thursday, Jan. 22, 7-11:45 p.m.; Cities Aviv, Ex-Cult Friday, Jan. 23, 8-11:45 p.m.; King Tuff with Ex Hex and Liquid Teens Saturday, Jan. 24, 9-11:45 p.m.; Northern Lights Tour feat. Swoope, Christon Gray, and B. Reith Sunday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Comedy Night Tuesdays, 9 p.m.; Rumpke Mountain Boys Wednesday, Jan. 28, 9 p.m.

arts & entertainment

Marcella and Her Lovers Thursday, Jan. 22, 10 p.m.; John Paul Keith and Elizabeth Wise Friday, Jan. 23, 10 p.m.; Richard James Saturday, Jan. 24, 5-8 p.m.; Gally and Choke Chains Saturday, Jan. 24, 10 p.m.; Jeremy Greene, Luke White, and Elizabeth Wise Sunday, Jan. 25, 10 p.m.; Devil Train Mondays, 8 p.m.; Richard James and Dave Cousar Tuesdays, 11 p.m.; Graham Wilkinson and Sean Nelson Wednesday, Jan. 28, 10 p.m.

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

East Memphis

Oasis Hookah Lounge & Cafe

Booksellers Bistro Grace Askew Saturday, Jan. 24.

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

521 S. HigHland - 323-0900

Dan McGuinness Pub

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill

University of Memphis Harris Concert Hall

Open Mic Night with Frankie Hollie Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Acoustic with Charvey Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m.; Karaoke Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

El Toro Loco

The Settlers Sunday, Jan. 25, 4-7 p.m.; Breeze Cayolle Sunday, Jan. 25, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Live DJ Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

Ubee’s Karaoke Wednesdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.

University of Memphis

inSide tHe Rudi e. ScHeidt ScHool of MuSic - 678-5400

Juicy Jim’s Pizzeria 551 S. HigHland - 435-6243

L.G.B.T. Sunset Sundays Sundays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m.; “Toke Up Tuesdays” Open Mic & Hookah Nite Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Wet Wednesdays

551 S. MendenHall 762-8200

tHe BookSelleRS at lauRelwood, 387 PeRkindS extd. - 374-0881

663 S. HigHland - 729-6960

2119 Young - 278-0034

The Memphis Dawls Friday, Jan. 23, 10 p.m.

Folk’s Folly Prime Steak House

Michael Rowlett Friday, Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m.

4698 SPottSwood - 761-3711

2809 kiRBY PkwY. 759-0593

Karaoke and Dance Music with DJ Funn Mondays, 7-10 p.m.

5101 SandeRlin - 763-2013

Huey’s Poplar 4872 PoPlaR - 682-7729

Mortimer’s 590 n. PeRkinS - 761-9321

Van Duren Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 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 Neil’s Music Room 5727 Quince - 682-2300

The Thrill at Neil’s featuring Jack Rowell and Triplthret Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Eddie Smith Fridays, 8 p.m.; The Rhythm Rockets Saturday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.; Flashback Sunday, Jan. 25, 3-5 p.m.; Sax on Sunday Jazz Series: StraightAhead and Mainstream Jazz Fourth Sunday of every month, 6:30-9:30 p.m.; Eddie Harrison and Debbie Jamison Tuesdays, 6 p.m.; Elmo and the Shades Wednesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Owen Brennan’s tHe Regalia, 6150 PoPlaR - 761-0990

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

Summer/Berclair Maria’s Restaurant 6439 SuMMeR - 356-2324

Karaoke Fridays, 5-8 p.m.

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South Memphis Stax Museum of American Soul Music 926 e. McleMoRe - 946-2535

“Live in Studio A” Tuesdays, 2-4 p.m.

Whitehaven/Airport BeRatus 1482 e. SHelBY dR. 922-8839

GIVEAWAY

Laidback Mondays featuring Live Music and Karaoke Mondays, 7 p.m.

GRAND PRIZE DRAWING

1459 elviS PReSleY 503-5544

Club Superior Old School and Blues Fridays, 7 p.m.; Hottest Track Show with various artists Sundays, 6 p.m.

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Hawaiian Isle Bar and Grill 1542 elviS PReSleY 569-3217

Happy hour with live DJ Thursdays, MondaysWednesdays, 4-6 p.m.

Marlowe’s Ribs & Restaurant

4381 elviS PReSleY - 332-4159

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

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After Dark: Live Music Schedule January 22 - 28 Huey’s Cordova 1771 n. GermantoWn PkWy. 754-3885

6230 Greenlee - 592-0344

Live Music Thursdays, Wednesdays, 7-10 p.m.; Karaoke and dance music with DJ Funn Fridays, 9 p.m.; Reverend Edge Band Saturday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.

8014 cluB center 343-0860

1801 exeter - 751-7500

Defiance and Conscience Saturday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m.; The Prinz Project Sunday, Jan. 25, 2 p.m.

9087 PoPlar - 755-0092

Live Music on the patio Thursdays-Saturdays, 7-10 p.m.; Half Step Down Fridays, 7-10 p.m.

Dan McGuinness

Hollywood Casino

3964 GooDman, southaven, ms - 662-890-7611

1150 casino striP resort, tunica, ms 662-357-7700

Acoustic Music Tuesdays.

Fitz Casino & Hotel

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

711 lucky ln., tunica, ms 800-766-5825

Horseshoe Casino Tunica

Live Entertainment Thursdays-Sundays, Wednesdays, 6 p.m.

Charvey every third Friday and every fourth Friday; DJ Tree Saturdays.

Huey’s Southaven The King Beez Sunday, Jan. 25, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Lyric Theatre

Hadley’s Pub

1006 van Buren, oxForD, ms - 662-234-5333

2779 Whitten - 266-5006

Scott and Vanessa Sudbury Thursday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m.-midnight; Grand Theft Audio Friday, Jan. 23, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; White Noise Theory Saturday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Full Circle Sunday, Jan. 25, 5:30-9:30 p.m.; Heath and Danny Southern Edition Duo Wednesday, Jan. 28, 8 p.m.-midnight.

Frank Foster Friday, Jan. 23, 7 p.m.; G-Eazy with Kehlani, Kool John, and Jay Ant Monday, Jan. 26, 8 p.m.; Umphrey’s McGee Wednesday, Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m.

Main Street Pizza 1800 main, southaven, ms 662-253-8451

Gary Wayne and The Mainstreet Band Saturdays, 9 p.m.midnight.

Old Whitten Tavern 2800 Whitten - 379-1965

Live Music Fridays, 9 p.m.1 a.m.; Karaoke with Ricky Mack Mondays, 10 p.m.-1 a.m.; Open Mic with Susie and Bob Salley Wednesdays, 8 p.m.

RockHouse Live Karaoke with Ricky Mac Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Karaoke Thursdays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Bands Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; County Line Friday, Jan. 23, 9:30 p.m.; Wolf River Rednecks Saturday, Jan. 24, 9:30 p.m.; The Original Open Mic Jam Mondays, 8 p.m.; Open Mic Mondays Mondays, 8 p.m.-midnight; Live Music Tuesdays, Wednesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Charlie Belt - Twin Soul Acoustic Wednesday, Jan. 28, 8 p.m.

Shelby Forest General Store 7729 BenjestoWn 876-5770

Tony Butler Fridays, 6-8 p.m.

Collierville Huey’s Collierville 2130 W. PoPlar - 854-4455

30mpg city 42mpg hwy

2014 JETTA S…$14835!

662DJ, Karaoke/Open Mic Saturdays, 7-11 p.m.

GOSSETT VOLKSWAGEN GERMANTOWN 7420 WINCHESTER ROAD • 901.388.8989 • GOSSETTVWG.COM

EM321848-INCLUDES ALL INCENTIVES AND DEALER COUPON-EXCLUDES T,T&L,WAC, DEALER STOCK ONLY-PF $498.75-OFFER ENDS 2/28/2015

T.J. Mulligan’s 64 2821 n. houston levee 377-9997

Wade Proctor Thursday, Jan. 22; Super 5 Friday, Jan. 23; Section 8 Saturday, Jan. 24; Karaoke Wednesdays, 10 p.m.

Cordova

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill 847 exocet - 624-9060

Karaoke Tuesdays, 9 p.m.

Tunica Roadhouse 1107 casino center Drive, tunica, ms 662-363-4900

Wadford’s Grill & Bar

Transitt Friday, Jan. 23; Southern Edition Saturday, Jan. 24; The Lineup Tuesdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.

1017 sanGa

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

474 church, southaven, ms - 662-510-5861

T.J. Mulligan’s Cordova

West TN Youth Chorus/ West TN Children’s Chorus Sundays-Mondays.

Mesquite Chop House 5960 GetWell, southaven, ms - 662-890-2467

Live Music Fridays, Saturdays.

Memphis All Stars Sunday, Jan. 25, 8-11:30 p.m.

Cordova Community Center

In Legends Stage Bar: Live Entertainment Nightly ongoing. 7090 malco, southaven, ms 662-349-7097

Bartlett

5709 raleiGh-laGranGe 386-7222

38664 casino center, tunica, ms - 800-357-5600

8071 trinity - 756-4480

Frayser/Millington Haystack Bar & Grill 6560 hWy 51 n. - 872-0567

Karaoke Nights at The Stack Thursdays-Fridays, Sundays, and Wednesdays 7 p.m.-1 a.m.

Huey’s Southwind 7825 Winchester 624-8911

Grady Champion Sunday, Jan. 25, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Huey’s Germantown 7677 FarminGton 318-3034

Young Petty Thieves Sunday, Jan. 25, 8-11:30 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.

North Mississippi/ Tunica

Fox and Hound English Pub & Grill

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Grill

6565 toWne center, southaven, ms 662-536-2200

1686 main, southaven, ms 662-470-6549

Live Music Thursdays, 7 p.m.; Karaoke Fridays, Saturdays, and Tuesdays, 7 p.m.

Club Emotions 2.0 143 Brickhouse Dr., slayDen, ms 662-551-1522

DJ Ty Sundays, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

The Crossing Bar & Grill 7281 hacks cross, olive Branch, ms 662-893-6242

Karaoke with Buddha Thursdays, Tuesdays, 8 p.m.midnight; Acoustic Show Wednesdays, 7-11 p.m.

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

Ground Zero Zero Blues alley, clarksDale, ms 662-621-9009

Steve Kolbus and the Clarksdale Blues Revue Thursday, Jan. 22, 8 p.m.; Mark “Mule Mann” Massey Friday, Jan. 23, 9 p.m.; Rock Night with 50 Amp Fuse Saturday, Jan. 24, 9 p.m.; Rev. Raven and the Chain Smokin’ Alter Boys Wednesday, Jan. 28, 8 p.m.

Raleigh Stage Stop 2951 cela - 382-1576

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

West Memphis/ Eastern Arkansas Phillips County Community College 1000 camPus, helena, ar 870-338-6474

Warfield Concerts Presents 7 Bridges: The Ultimate Eagles Experience Thursday, Jan. 22, 7:30 p.m.

Southland Park Gaming & Racing 1550 n. inGram, West memPhis, ar 800-467-6182

DJ Crumbz Thursdays, 8 p.m.; Club Night Fridays, Saturdays, 9 p.m.; Live Band Karaoke Sundays, 7:30 p.m.; Karaoke Tuesdays, 7 p.m.; Boot Scootin’ Wednesdays, 7 p.m.

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Rizzi’s/Paradiso Pub

Loose Goose Bar & Grill

Germantown Performing Arts Center

Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar

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Arlington/Eads/ Oakland

Soul Shockers Sunday, Jan. 25, 8:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m.

Germantown

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Head Turners MELLOW MOUNTAIN COALITION 2014/2015

“Born to Hula” at Glitch.

January 22-28, 2015

ver the course of the past five months, artists Tad Lauritzen Wright and Hamlett Dobbins have painted about 50 heads. The heads, which currently animate the walls of Lauritzen Wright’s Midtown garage/studio, are made from neon-colored paper and googly eyes. They are not accompanied by bodies. They are heads in the same way that Muppets are animals, which is to say that they are more head-like than they are like anything else, but you couldn’t exactly call them naturalistic. These recent works from Lauritzen Wright and Dobbins are only the latest effort in the artists’ longtime collaborations. This Friday, Glitch will host the fifth show of the friends’ work together — an exhibition they titled “Born to Hula” after a beloved Queens of the Stone Age anthem. The paintings in “Born to Hula” are a departure from the artists’ earlier collaborations because, where past works have been compiled over long periods via mail, Lauritzen Wright and Dobbins made these pieces working together in the same room, one morning per week. “I drop my kids off and he drops his kid off and we work,” Lauritzen Wright told me when I visited his studio to see Dobbins’ and his preparations for the show. “One of the titles we were thinking about for the show was ‘Daddy Daycare.’” What transpires at Daddy Daycare, according to Dobbins, is a kind of “nonverbal conversation.” Paintings are passed back and forth, metal albums are played, pieces are added to or reduced to parts for other paintings. “We come in,” says Dobbins, “and we make these marks and we make these moves and maybe at the end of the day, we will talk about it. It is this nice kind of way of thinking about things.” The garage studio where Lauritzen Wright and Dobbins work is crowded with liquid acrylics and dirty brushes, torn or otherwise dissembled sheets of paper, half-formed drawings, and glittery material tests. There are also several works attributable to Lauritzen-Wright’s 6-yearold daughter, who the artist cites as one of his major current influences. “I have a 6 year old and I put a lot of stuff up of hers and she plays out here a lot … but that is kind of where my aesthetic falls at the same time,” says Lauritzen Wright. “I knew my aesthetic was childlike,” he laughs, “but I didn’t know what exact age it was like until my daughter got to be 5 or 6.”

The aesthetic in “Born to Hula” is child-like: monstrous and colorful and plasticky like recycled toys. The “dopey and fun” paintings (as Dobbins calls them) champion a kind of infinitely bright 1970s boyhood held in infinite backyards. But there is also a twist of jaded junkiness in the yet-untitled works, such as the one they describe as “the mush painting with a see-through rainbow on it.” In the paintings’ dark moments, we are reminded that even pristine pre-fab swingsets must one day rust. The artists often work at a large scale and quickly, without preciousness about past creations. “I make these big ovalshaped paintings and drawings,” Dobbins says. “Sometimes those don’t work, though, and when those don’t work, I just sort of grab four of them and stitch them together. We realized that it would be better if we cut it out and there was this kind of X shape ... I have been piling colors on.” Lauritzen Wright says, “I kind of dig the heads out of abstractions, and then [Hamlett] is digging them out through cutting. Most recently, on some of the larger ones, Hamlett had some really simple linework, and then I went in and kind of accentuated his line. We were really happy with those. It pushes and pulls in both places.” It will be interesting to see Dobbins’ and Lauritzen Wright’s work at Glitch, Adam Farmer’s house gallery that has, over the course of the past year, hosted Memphis’ most dynamic collaborative shows. Farmer’s space is also casually nostalgic, though for a caffeinated ’90s (Air Bud! Tim Allen!) rather than Dobbins and Lauritzen Wright’s open-hearted ’70s. Even without the liberal use of googly eyes, Lauritzen Wright and Dobbins collaboration would feel not-too-serious and warm. “Hamlett is the best painter I have ever known,” says Lauritzen Wright, “and the way he goes about using paints has been really interesting. There has been a lot of attention paid to how things look on the surface.” “Born to Hula,” at Glitch (2180 Cowden), January 23rd, 6-11 p.m.

CALEnDAr of EvEnTS: January 22 - 28

Send the date, time, place, cost, info, phone number, a brief description, and photos — two weeks in advance — to calendar@memphisflyer.com or P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101. Due TO SPace liMiTaTiONS, ONgOiNg weekly eveNTS will aPPear iN The Flyer’S ONliNe caleNDar ONly.

Memphis Magazine Fiction Awards Contest

Th eaT e r

Circuit Playhouse

For rules and further details, see website. $10 entry fee per story. Through Feb. 1.

Bad Jews, comedy about a “Real Jew” with an Israeli boyfriend. Her cousin Liam brings home his shiksa girlfriend and declares ownership of their grandfather’s Chai necklace. www.playhouseonthesquare. org. $22-$35. Through Feb. 8.

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

Opening Lecture: Treasures of British Art by Kathleen Stuart

51 S. COOPER (725-0776).

Denver Art Museum curator Kathleen Stuart will pull back the curtain on many of the paintings featured in the new exhibition “Treasures of British Art 1400-2000: The Berger Collection.” Sun., Jan. 25, 2-3 p.m.

Germantown Community Theatre

Miss Firecracker Contest, watch out for flying batons, cans of Aqua Net, and loads of hair dye as the kooky characters take the stage in this Southern gothic masterpiece from Beth Henley. www.gctcomeplay. org. $21. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., and Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Through Feb. 8.

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

“Sonic Perceptions”

Memphis artists collaborate to produce a multi-sensory experience in blackness, reimagining the crossroads of sight, sound, and art. Sat., Jan. 24, 7 p.m.

805 DILWORTH LANE, HERNANDO, MS.

The Salvation Army Kroc Center

Best of Broadway 3 auditions, ages 5 and up, performance dates: Apr. 17-19, 23-26. For more information, visit website. www. stagedoormemphis.org. Fri., Jan. 23, 5-9 p.m., and Sat., Jan. 24, 1-4 p.m. 800 E. PARKWAY S. (729-8007).

66 S. COOPER (726-4656).

Theatre Memphis

Of Mice and Men, adapted from John Steinbeck’s novel of the same name, the play follows George and Lennie, California migrant workers searching for a better life during the Great Depression. www.theatrememphis.org. $25. Fri., Jan. 23. 630 PERKINS EXT. (682-8323).

We Live Here, a black couple from New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward wins a house in a white neighborhood. They soon begin to worry that their “dream come true” may be too good to be true. www. playhouseonthesquare.org. $22-$35. Thurs.-Sat., 8 p.m., and Sun., 2 p.m. Through Jan. 25. 2085 MONROE (274-7139).

a r T i s T r e c e pT i o n s

“Plaster Down The Sink,” art show featuring work by Sarah Best, Laura Lawson, Amelia Briggs, Caitlin Hettich, April Pierce, Holt Brasher, and Toni Collums. Fri., Jan. 23, 6-8 p.m. “Delicate Tension: A Collection of MultiGenerational Needlework,” exhibition of generational contrasts in needlework created by a wide range of artists with varying techniques and aesthetics. www. crosstownarts.org. Wed.-Fri., Jan 28-30, 5-7 p.m. 430 N. CLEVELAND (507-8030).

Clough-Hanson Gallery

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“Brothers Keeper,” exhibition of new work by Jerry and Terry Lynn. www.davidluskgallery. com. Through Jan. 31. 4540 POPLAR (767-3800).

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“Hail, Britannia! Six Centuries of British Art from the Berger Collection,” exhibition of 50 paintings from the medieval period to the 21st century by luminaries such as Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Anthony van Dyck, and others. Jan. 25-April 19. “Nothing Is For Ever Last,” exhibition of collage works by Lester Julian Merriweather. www.dixon.org. Through March 29. 4339 PARK (761-5250).

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“Pathways,” exhibition of paintings by Tom Stem. www.eclectic-eye.com. Through March 4. 242 S. COOPER (276-3937).

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“Bof! le Mix!,” exhibition of paintings by Keith Rash. www.wkno.org. Through Jan. 30. WKNO STUDIO, 7151 CHERRY FARMS (458-2521).

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“Incognito,” exhibition of anonymous works by 100 of Memphis’ finest artists. Gala and auction will be held Jan. 30. www. memphisbotanicgarden.com. Through Jan. 30.

“Looking at Women,” exhibition of images of women appearing in a variety of roles: goddess, harlot, mother, or femme fatale. Through Feb. 22. “Greetings of Love: Printed Valentines from the Late Victorian Era,” exhibition of rare examples with a particular focus on those with colorful chromolithographic printing and lacy die-cut details. Through March 8. “Discover Me: Exploring Identity Through Art Therapy,” exhibition of the creative exploration and self-discovery by participants in the art therapy access program at South Park Elementary School. www.brooksmuseum.org. Through March 15. 1934 POPLAR (544-6209).

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“Lost the Map,” exhibition of mixed-media works by Ben Utigard. www.mca.edu. Through Feb. 7. 1930 POPLAR (272-5100).

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After Happily Ever After Disney’s adaptation of Into the Woods is a kind of magic.

January 22-28, 2015

he Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods predates the term “mashup” by about 15 years, but it’s clearly in the spirit of that most 21st century of genres. Produced with long-time Sondheim collaborator James Lapine, the play put Grimm’s fairy tales into a postmodern blender. What if, it asks, all of these familiar stories were set in the same place at the same time? And then, what happens after everyone lives happily ever after? The original musical had the misfortune of debuting in 1987, the same year as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera, and thus played second fiddle on Broadway to that juggernaut of schlock. But it has proven to be an enduring work because of its strong feminist undertones and Sondheim’s prodigious lyrical gifts. The legendary composer, who first attracted attention working with Leonard Bernstein on West Side Story, doesn’t write soaring hooks like Webber’s “Music of the Night.” What he does best is tricky wordplay and wrenching complex themes out of the staid world of musical theater. This is even more evident in the work that followed Into the Woods, 1990’s Assassins, a musical where every wacko who ever tried to off a president gets a song, which is being mounted in Memphis at Circuit Playhouse in February. But until my dream of seeing Assassins on the big screen can come true, I’ll have to content myself with the Disney production of Into the Woods. Luckily, it’s pretty darn good. The construction of Into the Woods is fairly ingenious and arguably ahead of its time. The framing device Sondheim and Lapine used to bring disparate characters together is the deep woods of Midieval Europe, where, in Grimm’s tales, unknown

Meryl Streep as the Witch in Into the Woods

evils lurk. It is also a place of personal liberation outside the suffocating social strata of royalty and peasants. The central quest around which all of these familiar tales are wound is the Baker (James Corden) and his wife (Emily Blunt) trying in vain to have a child. Early on, after a song which elegantly establishes the entire sprawling cast’s motivations, the Witch, (Meryl Streep), who happens to live next door, arrives to reveal to the couple that their childlessness is the result of a curse she put on the Baker’s father for stealing magic beans from her garden. But the curse can be lifted if the couple is able to deliver to her four material components for a magic spell: a red cloak, a lock of blond hair, a white cow, and a gold slipper. Meanwhile, the other fairy tale protagonists go off to have their own familiar adventures, which happen mostly offscreen. Jack (Daniel Huttlestone) is sent to sell his beloved cow Milky White to help feed his starving mother (Tracey Ullman), but encounters the Baker and his wife in the woods, where he is convinced to sell her for five magic beans. Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), who is being oppressed by her evil stepmother (Christine Baranski), goes into the woods to pray at her mother’s grave, where she is given a magical makeover to go to the ball and get cozy with the Prince (Chris Pine). Meanwhile, the Prince’s brother (Billy Magnussen) has discovered a love of his own, a beautiful girl named Rapunzel (Mackenzie Mauzy) who the Witch is holding captive in a doorless tower. In yet another subplot, Little Red

Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford) confronts the Wolf (Johnny Depp) on her trip through the woods to her Grandmother’s (Annette Crosbie) house. The intertwining fairy tales of the first act work great, but it’s the second act, after everyone “lives happily ever after,” where Into the Woods really gets subversive. Jack the Giant Killer’s repeated forays into giantland bring down the wrath of the Giant’s mother onto fairy tale land, with devastating consequences, and everyone must band together to save the day. As you might expect with a Disney movie, director Rob Marshall (Chicago) sands off Sondheim’s rough edge of satire, but under the pen of Lapine, who wrote the screenplay, the strength of the original material remains. The cast are, to a woman, committed and able. Kendrick’s Cinderella, Huttlestone’s Jack, Blunt’s Baker’s Wife, and Crawford’s Red Riding Hood stand out in the talented cast. Depp’s Wolf is fine, but it’s just Depp doing his Depp schtick. Streep, who earned a seemingly reflexive Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the Witch, uncorks a show-stopper with her final song, “The Last Midnight.” One of the great musical theater works of the past 30 years has survived the translation to screen, and that is a kind of magic. Into the Woods Now Playing Multiple locations

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John du Pont was the heir to a vast fortune his ancestors had acquired making powder for the U.S. Military, beginning in the Revolutionary War, and founding DuPont Chemicals. He was, Wikipedia tells us, an ornithologist, conchologist, philatelist, and the biggest benefactor the American Olympic wrestling team has ever seen, spending more than $400,000 a year on training and travel for wrestlers on his private Team Foxcatcher during the 1980s and early ’90s. Then, one day, this scion of American establishment wealth and power shot and killed 1984 Olympic gold medal winner David Schultz in cold blood. That’s when stories of his psychotic behavior emerged in the press. He had paranoid delusions, believing his ex-wife was a Russian spy. His relationships with some of his wresters bordered on sexual predator status. He consumed copious amounts of scotch and cocaine. As you might expect from someone who grew up in the arms industry, he really liked guns. The guy was a ticking time bomb protected by his wealth and privilege, until his crimes became too blatant to ignore. The story seems ripe for a movie. There’s violence, sport, and fodder for commentary on wealth and power. But director Bennett Miller’s film about du Pont, Foxcatcher, is just mediocre, which is strange when you consider it was nominated for several Academy Awards. Foxcatcher is told from the point of view of Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum), who, along with his brother David (Mark Ruffalo), won gold at the 1984 Olympics. When it opens, Mark is struggling to make ends meet as a wrestling coach. So when he’s approached by John du Pont (Steve Carell) and offered a salary of $25,000 plus free room and board to train full time for the 1988 Olympics, it’s an offer he can’t refuse. Du Pont seems sincere, but what at first seem like eccentricities become more sinister over time. Or at least, that’s how it would go if Foxcatcher were a good movie. In fact, Carell’s du Pont is so clearly nutso from the first time we lay eyes on him, there’s very little doubt that this dangerously inbred lunatic is going to explode into violence at some point. Carell is a gifted comic actor, and that skill set can translate into a truly inspired and versatile dramatic actor. But Carell’s performance consists of a set of tics, a funny walk, and a raspy voice wrapped around a (granted, impressive) prosthetic nose. Tatum is slightly more successful as Mark, who at least makes decisions and

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generally acts like a human being during the course of the film. But the best part of Foxcatcher is Ruffalo’s subtle, empathetic portrayal of David. I can’t object to his Best

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th e r ant By Tim Sampson

I’m not 100 percent sure, but I think I may be trending.

I’m not 100 percent sure what trending really is, but I feel fairly certain that it’s a real word and that I’m doing it. Well, I’m not 100 percent sure if trending

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but, by damn, I better be trending. See, in my new role at work of being a social media poster, I’ve taken it upon myself to learn how to do it for myself first before I totally screw up the social media posting for my job. I figure if I screw up my own personal social media posts, it won’t really matter because who the hell cares? Right? Oh, I guess I could probably offend someone by accident or post something that comes across in a way that I didn’t mean for it to come across or I could just appear to be really stupid and inept, but, as it relates to me personally, I really couldn’t care less because I so rarely do anything in my personal life that requires me to leave the sanctity of my own home and interact with others, with the exception of traveling, and even then I try to keep to myself and mind my own business. But even that can prove to be difficult when you’re packed into a small aircraft and forced to sit so close to someone that you can’t avoid physical contact with them. I was recently on a flight from Charlotte to Florida, and the woman packed into the seat beside me was breaking up with her apparently longtime significant other in a conversation on her cell phone. And she was the one who made the call. It would have been one thing if she had answered her phone and the conversation ended up being that kind of a phone call, but no, she initiated the argument herself, seated so close to me that our elbows were unavoidably rubbing against each other. And she was not holding anything back, from what I could tell. It was along the lines of, “You are such a f--king piece of s--t! And you’re not getting custody of the f-king dog! I used to really love you, but you f--king ruined all that! Your cooking tastes like s--t! I’m hanging up now!” But she wouldn’t hang up. She kept railing on and reaming the person out and every third or fourth sentence was, “I’m hanging up now!” Finally, the flight attendant said that all cell phones must be turned off for takeoff. But she still didn’t hang up and kept repeating, “You’re not getting custody of the f--king dog!” But I digress. The thing about trending is that I could have secretly videotaped this woman’s conversation and put it on YouTube and gotten, say, 4 million hits and could have been invited to the “Orange Room” on the Today Show as someone who was trending. I’m not 100 percent sure how many hits one has to have to be trending, but I’m pretty sure it would have trended. A few weeks back, when I decided to embrace Facebook on my own personal page that has been dormant since 2009, I posted a question. I’d received a menacing message from someone I didn’t really recall and with whom I was certainly not Facebook friends, harassing me about something that happened TWO DECADES AGO when I was the first editor of this newspaper. He was still mad because I wouldn’t publish some piece of crap he had written that he thought was very clever. So I asked people on Facebook if I should be worried about this guy and his inability to let go of this grudge. I got a lot of responses, including several from people I don’t even know, with suggestions ranging from call the cops to invite him to meet me in a dark alley and kick his ass to publish his name and warn others about him. It was awesome to read all the remarks, like them, comment on them, and share them. I’m 100 percent sure I was trending with that one. Oh, and I finally figured out who the guy was. I won’t mention his name here, but I do sort of recall that he was a rather unattractive (not his fault, of course, and I’m no hottie) exhibitionist who made my skin crawl. I didn’t report him because I didn’t know who to report him to, but I blocked him and felt very empowered. And speaking of which, am I the only person in the world who believes that the hacking of Sony Pictures in regard to the movie The Interview had nothing to do with North Korean hackers? To me, it all smacked of a publicity stunt, and it’s embarrassing that it was referred to as “an act of war.” I have every intention of trending about this at some point in my life when I figure out what trending really is. Would someone please comment on that remark, share it, and cause it to trend? I’ll check it later to see if it performs 80 percent better than my other posts this week. I’ve also been tweeting, and ask now of the first “t” in tweeting should be capitalized. Haven’t figured that out yet. I even used a hashtag and got on John Legend’s Twitter feed or RSS feed or whatever it is. I was so impressed with myself. The thing that got me thinking about all this is that I noticed earlier today that controversial filmmaker Michael Moore is on Twitter. It seems that he sent out a tweet, or Tweet, about Bradley Cooper’s new Clint Eastwood-directed film American Sniper being too “pro-war” or something like that. I haven’t seen the movie yet but my initial reaction is that Moore has sold out by being on Twitter and should make a spoof movie about the social media platform (did I just write the phrase “social media platform?”) and leave Cooper alone. I don’t like people messing with my Bradley. In fact, I’m going to tweet, or Tweet, Brad letting Bradley him know I think he’s the Cooper the best actor in the movie business right now. I wonder if that will make me trend.

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