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31 Monroeville Memories
Memphian John Turner recollects growing up with Harper Lee. ~ by anne cunningham o’neill
35 Top Doctors
192 of the Mid-South’s finest physicians in 48 specialties as chosen by their peers.
68 Magnificent Midtown At home with the Farmers.
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76 Garden of Delights
Jun Kaneko’s distinctive sculptures are bringing a sparkling new perspective to The Dixon Gallery and Gardens this summer and fall. ~ by eileen townsend
83 Another Chance for Insure Tennessee? Bill Haslam, Tennessee’s nice-guy Governor, wants to give the people of his state real healthcare options. But is it already too late, and is Haslam the man that can make it happen? ~ by jackson baker
96 Inside the Hotel Pontotoc
On a quiet street off South Main, the Pontotoc has been part of downtown Memphis for more than a century. The building has a story to tell. And so do the people who’ve made this one-of-a-kind urban treasure their home. ~ by shara clark
68 Columns/Departments 128 ask vance
Bruno’s By-Ryt Our trivia expert solves local mysteries of who, what, when, where, why, and why not. ~ by vance lauderdale
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Foundations for Success A layman’s guide to Memphis’ leading private and public foundations.
by john branston
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thanks to a rising stock market, tax incentives, and a spirit of giving among wealthy Memphians, some of whom go to great lengths to do their good works as anonymously as possible. These days “data-driven giving” is the mantra. Some of our local foundations use the consulting services of another nonprofit, the Boston-based The Bridgespan Group (“achieve breakthrough results”) for just this purpose. Bridgespan’s clients include the Tennessee Achievement School District, the Salvation Army, 100 Black Men, Arts Memphis, the Pyramid Peak he old saying, “You can’t judge a book by its Foundation, and Youth Villages. cover,” doesn’t mean as much in these digital times T he big ge st i mp a c t of (when covers are oftentimes invisible on Kindles data-driven giving here, perand other electronic-reading devices), but it certainly haps, has been in education. “School reform” is in the eyes remains true in the world of charitable giving, where it’s of the beholder, but the emersometimes impossible to tell what’s nonprofitable about gence of charter schools and “nonprofits.” Organizations that qualify for nonprofit Teach For America as forces status with the IRS range from truly grassroots organiin urban education would not zations that depend entirely upon a handful of volunteers have been possible without the financial support of the Hyde to pseudo-corporations that generate tens of millions of foundations. Faith-based outdollars in revenue, organizations whose intentions are reach to impoverished areas is oftentimes anything but charitable. the forte of the Hope FoundaTake this particular nonprofit Nothing better illustrates how tion. The Pyramid Peak and organization’s self-description on meaningless the term “nonprofit” Poplar Foundations, funded by its 2013 tax return: “A trade assohas become at a time when the Southeastern Asset Manageciation promoting the interests IRS approves hundreds more of ment founders O. Mason Hawkins and G. Staley Cates, of its 32 member clubs.” So are them every week. Putting these a bunch of blue-collar guys “nonprofit” and “charity” respectively, have given Nonprofits have changed our in ball caps and leather jackets in the same sentence or more than $100 million perceptions of “public” salaries headline, as often hapdrinking beer and slapping backs to causes ranging from because the bigger nonprofits in a fraternal hall? Or kids gathpens, makes things even youth athletics to Soulsered in a clubhouse to learn life more confusing. ville to leafy bike paths now pay their executives so much lessons from a kindly leader in a That’s because “nonthat now extend across more than similar positions in profit” is a generic tax khaki uniform and Smokey the the county. And the conBear hat? designation that applies servancies that manage city or county government. Not exactly. This particular to, among others, private Shelby Farms and Overtrade association is the Nationfoundations, public charities, Influencing public policy is one ton Park and the Memphis al Football League and the 32 hospitals and universities, the of the primary goals of the six Riverfront Development Cormember clubs mentioned are NFL (until it gave up its nonsingle-source private nonprofporation are products of twenthe NFL’s 32 teams. Buying a profit status this past April), its listed here, which is why we ty-first-century philanthropy “club” these days costs a half Habitat For Humanity, the consider them the cornerstones being used to leverage public Memphis Country Club, and billion dollars or more, and the of our local philanthropic scene. dollars. volunteer organizations that organization’s leader, CommisAnd at a time when city and Nonprofits have changed our county budgets are strained, sioner Roger Goodell, is paid meet for a cup of coffee every perceptions of “public” salaries $35 million a year for his trouble. so often. philanthropy here is booming, because the bigger nonprofits
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This story is about nine of the biggest nonprofits in Memphis that focus their attention on the Mid-South. It includes six private foundations that have one main funding source and do not solicit contributions from the public: Assisi, Hyde, Plough, Poplar, Pyramid Peak, and the Urban Child Institute. We’ve also included three major public foundations that act as bankers, investors, marketers, and back-office managers for all kinds of donors: The Community Foundation of Greater Memphis, the Hope Christian Community Foundation, and the United Way of the Mid-South. We do not include ALSAC St. Jude because, although its headquarters is in Memphis, its focus is global. Nor does this report include local hospitals, universities, or college football bowlgame organizations, because the variety of circumstances needing to describe them would fill up the pages of this entire magazine. Sure, each one must submit a detailed Form 990 to the IRS, but their budgets range from the tens of millions annually to mom-andpops dependent almost entirely on volunteer labor. Just about every case is different.
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now pay their executives so much more than similar positions in city or county government. In 1994, when the Memphis Flyer, our sister publication, did its first survey of 40 local nonprofits, the top salaries in the nonprofit sector were around $300,000 for the leaders of Methodist Hospital and Rhodes College. These would be mid-level executive salaries at many top nonprofits to-
Health Department. A final factor worth mentioning is the increased scrutiny of nonprofits in the digital age. Form 990 tax returns, in theory at least, have always been open to public inspection, but getting them in the pre-internet era meant battling lawyers, secretaries, PR firms, and nonprofit CEOs themselves, always with mixed results.
elderly, saving young black men, Christian philanthropy, Jewish philanthropy, compassionate conservatives, and equally compassionate liberals. If there isn’t already a book about how to panhandle effectively at road intersections with a cardboard sign, there probably soon will be. Two good books for those starting to look into the subject are Ken Stern’s Who Really Cares
the Charities?” by David Callahan, whose premise was that “philanthropies are dangerously opaque.” His piece concluded with a call for a new federal bureau to police charities. But policing wouldn’t be all that necessary if local media outlets would spend a fraction as much energy reporting on nonprofits as they do on sports, food, and murder and mayhem,
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS Note: Community foundations (there are 750 of them in the U.S.) are designated “public charities” rather than “private foundations” by the IRS, because they raise a significant portion of their resources from a broad cross-section of the public each year.
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS WEBSITE: www.cfgm.org CEO: Robert Fockler (2014) SALARY: $220,000 ASSETS: $264 million INCOME: $96 million GRANTS: $74 million SOURCE OF FUNDS: Donors, mainly in the
Greater Memphis area. MISSION: Administer +1,000 donor-advised funds, from those with multimillion-dollar assets to much smaller ones who participate in its “GIVE 365” program. Provides a variety of business services for the funds CFGM represents. NOTABLE: Founded in 1969 with a $1 million gift from Abe Plough; rated four stars (highest) by Charity Navigator. About 50 percent of its grants go to education. “We can basically act as a donor’s personal research team,” CEO Fockler explains.
day. Hospital system CEOs now make $2 million or $3 million. An experienced private-school leader can make over $500,000, nearly twice as much as Shelby County Schools Superintendent Dorsey Hopson and three times as much as the mayors of Memphis and Shelby County. And the head of the Urban Child Institute makes four times as much as the outgoing director of the Shelby County
HOPE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
UNITED WAY OF THE MID-SOUTH
WEBSITE: www.hopememphis.com
WEBSITE: www.uwmidsouth.org
CEO: Run by President Michael Harris and
CEO: Rev. Kenneth Robinson, M.D.
26-member board. SALARY: $140,000 (2014) ASSETS: $121 million INCOME: $66 million GRANTS: $28 million SOURCE OF FUNDS: 402 donor-advised funds; donors can start funds with as little as $2,500. MISSION: “Build God’s Kingdom by serving donors in the Mid-South.” NOTABLE: Founded in 1998 by Christian evangelical Larry Lloyd, who also founded the Memphis Leadership Foundation in 1987, as “an inner-city ministry endowment.” A former president of Crichton College, Lloyd is the author of Recovering from Racism: City Ministry in Post-Racial America.
SALARY: $310,000 (From 2014 Form 990;
Today, most of this information is readily available at free web sites such as Guidestar, ProPublica, Charity Navigator, GiveWell, and the National Center for Charitable Statistics. There are many recent books about how-to-give and how-to-get, as well as those dedicated to the specifics of small-donor investing, venture philanthropy, social investing, saving the children, saving the
Robinson took over in 2015.) ASSETS: $18 million INCOME: $25 million GRANTS: $18 million SOURCE OF FUNDS: Corporate campaigns, individuals. MISSION: Support nonprofits in eight counties in
Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. NOTABLE: Our local United Way program is an affiliate of the national organization founded in 1887. New CEO Robinson replaced Bryce Haugsdahl. Income has declined from $27 million in 2009. Rated two stars (out of four) by Charity Navigator. Founded in 1923, and for decades the only game in town; competition for donor dollars has increased.
(2013) — a readable take on the Salvation Army’s Kroc Centers, Chess In Schools, bowl games, the Gates Foundation, “charity” hospitals, The Human Fund (really), and Bartlett-based Youth Villages — and Arthur C. Brooks’ With Charity for All: Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give (2007). More recently, Th e New York Times weighed in with an op-ed piece, “Who Will Watch
and if the foundations and charities themselves would provide better information in useful and more timely fashion. Hopefully, this column will stimulate more local reporting on the subject. Hence this modest report on some of Memphis’ most important major philanthropic nonprofits. The information here is from each individual foundation’s most recent IRS Form 990.
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THE PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS (Note: Private foundations do not make donations to individuals. So if you are a genius, you must bring your music, your art, or your sheer brilliance into the framework of a charitable organization, or else, like Pip in Great Expectations, look for your personal Miss Havisham.)
THE ASSISI FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS
THE PLOUGH FOUNDATION
THE PYRAMID PEAK FOUNDATION
WEBSITE: www.assisifoundation.org
WEBSITE: www.plough.org
WEBSITE: none
CEO: Jan Young (2013)
CEO: Mike Carpenter
CEO: James Boyd
SALARY: $238,000
SALARY: $265,000 (2013)
SALARY: $302,000 (2013)
ASSETS: $228 million
ASSETS: $124 million
ASSETS: $433 million
INCOME: $18 million
INCOME: $10 million
INCOME: $25 million
GRANTS: $10 million
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GRANTS: $30 million
SOURCE OF FUNDS: The sale of St. Francis Hospital to
SOURCE OF FUNDS: Abe Plough (1892-1984), founder
SOURCE OF FUNDS: O. Mason Hawkins, Southeastern
Tenet Health Care by the Catholic Sisters of St. Francis in 1994. MISSION: “Inspired by the legacy of St. Francis of Assisi,” Assisi is devoted to serving “the poor and the suffering” in the Memphis area. NOTABLE: Charities include the Memphis Zoo, National Civil Rights Museum, Ballet Memphis, and a wide variety (63 in 2013) of local community, education, and health-care organizations services.
of Plough Inc., later Schering-Plough, makers of a wide variety of pharmaceutical consumer products. MISSION: Wide range of interests; gave grants in 2014 to feed senior citizens a million meals, and to rehab 500 homes through Habitat for Humanity. NOTABLE: Partial to leaders with local-government backgrounds; former CEOs have included Scott McCormick, like Carpenter a former City Councilman, and former City of Memphis CAO Rick Masson.
J.R. HYDE III FAMILY FOUNDATION
THE POPLAR FOUNDATION
THE URBAN CHILD INSTITUTE
WEBSITE: www.hydefoundation.org
WEBSITE: none
WEBSITE: www.urbanchildinstitute.org
CEO: Teresa Sloyan
CEO: Thomas Marino
CEO: Eugene Cashman Jr.
SALARY: $289,000 (2013)
SALARY: $375,000 (2013)
SALARY: $633,000 (2013)
ASSETS: $99 million
ASSETS: $305 million
ASSETS: $154 million
INCOME: $30 million
INCOME: $26 million
INCOME: $17 million
GRANTS: $10 million
GRANTS: $12 million
GRANTS: $2 million
SOURCE OF FUNDS: J.R. Hyde III was the founder of
SOURCE OF FUNDS: G. Staley Cates, chairman,
SOURCE OF FUNDS: The sale of Le Bonheur Children’s
AutoZone, and a driving force behind the creation of the National Civil Rights Museum. MISSION: “Transform education” and “provide leadership in public policy issues.” NOTABLE: The same board and directors oversee the J.R. Hyde Sr. Family Foundation and its $42 million in assets and $8 million in grants, nearly doubling the annual philanthropic impact of the Hyde family in the Memphis community.
Southeastern Asset Management. MISSION: Urban education and ministry; Soulsville, Sears Crosstown, Salvation Army, sports. NOTABLE: Powerhouse with a passion for privacy. The co-founder of New Hope Christian Academy, Cates served on the Transition Planning Commission for Memphis/Shelby County schools and is a major Memphis Grizzlies backer.
Hospital to Methodist in 2004; Le Bonheur became part of the Methodist Healthcare System, while retaining its separate identity. MISSION: “The health and well-being of children from conception to age three in Memphis and Shelby County.” NOTABLE: Produces an annual “data book” on children in Shelby County. Cashman was president and CEO of LeBonheur from 1977 through 2004, when he founded the Institute and became its first President and CEO.
Asset Management’s cofounder. MISSION: “Contribute to existing charitable
organizations.” NOTABLE: Another powerhouse with a passion for privacy. Uses the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis to distribute nearly all of its grants. One of the country’s most highly regarded “value investors,” Hawkins began his career at First Tennessee.
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City of Bartlett Fireworks Extravaganza Bobby K. Flaherty Municipal Center (Hwy. 70 & Appling), 385-5589
Mud Island River Park 125 N. Front, 576-7241
Patriotic Pops Levitt Shell, 1930 Poplar, 272-2722
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The Wizard of Oz Airplane The Sound of Music double feature Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street Hook Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Gone with the Wind
Experience Motown founder Berry Gordy’s journey from featherweight boxer to heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, and others. CBS Sunday Morning calls Motown “More than a Broadway show. A celebration of music that transformed America.” So, “Stop in the Name of Love” because there “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” to stop you from seeing this production live. The Orpheum Theatre, 203 South Main, 525-3000
Annual Southaven July 4th Celebration Snowden Grove Amphitheater, 6285 Snowden Lane, 662-280-2489 7.9 – 8.28
Red, White & Boom Follows game, Memphis Redbirds v. Oklahoma City Dodgers. AutoZone Park, 175 Toyota Plaza, 721-6050
ominated last year for 14 Billboard Music Awards, including Top Artist of the Year and a Milestone Award recognizing innovation and creativity, Imagine Dragons hits the stage to showcase its brand-new album. FedExForum, 191 Beale, 205-1234 Motown The Musical
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Theatre for two special nights. Lynn and her sequin-clad performances will surely engage audiences, as the entertainer has been doing for more than 50 years. Gold Strike Casino, 1010 Casino Center Drive, 888-245-7529
works by 16 painters, sculptors, and new-media artists. All works were created in response to music by such Stax performers as Otis Redding, Isaac Hayes, Mable John, and The Staple Singers. An opening reception will be hosted on July 17th offering an interactive art-making
Brooks Milongas by Memphis Tango
On the third Thursday of every month, this group shakes things up with free entrance to the Brooks’ rotunda and 10 percent off the Brushmark menu; also wine by the glass is available for purchase for those who need a little liquid courage before taking to the dance floor. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, 1934 Poplar, 544-6200
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The legendary “Coal Miner’s Daughter” who charmed country music with her genuine lyrics and authentic Southern twang is gracing the stage at Tunica’s Millennium
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The museum’s first contemporary art exhibit in roughly a decade shows specially commissioned
workshop and panel discussion with music experts and artists. Stax Museum of American Soul Music, 926 E. McLemore, 946-2535
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Enjoy a cool drink and a chat with friends, while listening to popular artists Rob Thomas (7.17) and ZZ Top (8.15). Memphis Botanic Garden, 750 Cherry, 576-4107
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Grab your lawn chair or a blanket, and head to the river to hear the best blues, soul, and rhythm-andblues artists from three bands. Bid on silent auction items including art, musical performances, merchandise, and gift certificates from restaurants, shops, venues, and more. All benefits the nonprofit volunteer radio WEVL FM 89.9. Metal Museum, 374 Metal Museum Drive, 528-0560
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“Sweet Summertime” touring king, Chesney has been churning out charttopping hits and selling out concerts for more than two decades. His “No Shoes Nation” is bound to be out in full force for the “Big Revival” tour singing along to “Wild Child” and the like. Here’s one concert that’ll make you wish you’d gone “Coastal.” BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove, 6285 Snowden Lane, Southaven, 662-892-2660
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“Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Love” for Memphis’ most renowned icon involves a full week of festivities including the Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest Showcase (8.10), Conversations and a Movie featuring Spinout (8.11), The Auction at Graceland (8.13), Elvis in Vegas Tribute Concert with the Terry Mike Jeffrey Band (8.14),
Memorial Mass for the Repose of the Soul of Elvis Presley and Candlelight Vigil (8.15), Elvis Presley 5K Run Benefiting Livitup, Inc. (8.15), and much more. Head over to the website to download the app for updated information as the events approach. Graceland, Home of Elvis Presley, 3734 Elvis Presley Boulevard, 332-3322
8.14 – 9.6 Billy Elliot
Set in England during the 1984 miner’s strike, this show shares the inspiring tale of one boy’s journey as he exchanges his boxing gloves for ballet shoes. The music by Elton John will make it tough not to jump up and start dancing yourself. Playhouse on the Square, 66 South Cooper, 726-4656
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Soak up the last bit of summer with an open-air concert. This one-day festival presented by native Memphis band Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors boasts a stacked lineup including NeedToBreathe, SwitchFoot, Judah & the Lion, Colony House, Cereus Bright, Myla Smith, and more. Levitt Shell, 1930 Poplar, moonriverfestival.com
Discover a pair of exhibitions that offers a fresh perspective on the lives and works of two of America’s celebrated artists who were friends and colleagues.
Warhol’s Nature JULY 4 – OCT 5, 2015 Warhol’s Nature takes a close look at an unexplored aspect of Andy Warhol’s work: his lifelong engagement with nature. The exhibition covers every decade of Warhol’s career, from his earliest drawings as a commercial illustrator through his well-known paintings of flowers and portraits of endangered animals.
Jamie Wyeth JULY 25 – OCT 5, 2015 Jamie Wyeth offers a retrospective of six decades of the artist’s career and the people and places that influence his life, including time spent working in Warhol’s New York studio, The Factory. The exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The national tour is sponsored by
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Pop artist Andy Warhol, right, snaps a shot of painter Jamie Wyeth during an exhibition at New York's Coe Kerr gallery, Nov. 9, 1977, Associated Press. Warhol’s Nature was organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
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Crime Versus Everything Else Emphasis on the “arms race” means other services suffer.
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h e n e w f i s c a l y e a r for the City of Memphis begins this month and Memphis is public-safety poor. Budget deliberations by the Memphis City Council regularly are politics stripped to its basics: It’s about who can put together seven votes for a budget proposal rather than an in-depth conversation about what kind of Memphis the budget will create.
Politics being politics, one thing is certain. No one wants to be seen as soft on crime, and because of it, there is an arms race to see who can claim credit for putting more money into public safety. As a result, the police and fire budgets now total $422.7 million — $69 million more than all of the sales taxes and property taxes collected by city government. The police department budget was $80 million when former Mayor Willie W. Herenton took office, but it had cl i mb ed to $212 million when he left 17 years later. During Mayor Wharton’s six years, it has increased to $251.3 million. City budgets are li ke the laws of mot ion: Ever y action (an increase in money for public safety) has an equal and opposite reaction (a reduction in money for neighborhood-based services). As a result of climbing public-safety budgets, there is little money left for libraries, community centers, and parks, whose budgets have essentially been f lat for years. In the new budget, libraries, community centers, and parks got an increase of about $675,000,
while police and fire received $15 million more, which means that public safety now gets two out of every three dollars spent by the City of Memphis. Mayor A C Wharton and the prime challengers campaigning to defeat him in the October 8th city elections are all talking about improving police operations. For example, although dispatchers for the Memphis Area Transit Authority have monitors telling them
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where every bus is at any time, dispatchers for the Memphis Police Department can’t do the same with patrol cars, because they aren’t equipped with GPS. Because
of it, dispatchers have to poll offi- lower cost than sworn police officers to see where they are when a cers,” the report said. call comes in. “Within Tennessee, Nashville Despite calls for more “boots achieved a 22.7 percent reduction on the street” and increased effi- in violent crime and slightly ciency, police administrators con- reduced its number of sworn offitinue to advocate for a “full-ser- cers . . . Memphis remains an outlier in the vice police City budgets are like the department” size of its police department that responds to laws of motion: Every about one when compared action (an increase in million calls a to other cities year ranging with 500,000 or money for public safety) f rom v iolent more residents has an equal and opposite crime to that have reaction (a reduction in barking dogs. achieved the Shifting from greatest reducmoney for neighborhoodfull service to tions in violent based services). focused service crime over five wou ld mea n years.” The irony is that underfunded that officers respond only to the city services like parks, libraries, most serious complaints, and and community centers have cut that’s why there are plans to back services although they too bring back PSTs (Police Service Technicians) have impacts on crime, offering who can respond to students activities after school, traffic accidents instead places to get together to do of tying up officers for homework, programs that teach fender benders. study skills and healthy behavAnd even though the iors, and computers for applying for jobs online. budgets of the Memphis Police Department have For the near term, however, been climbing, the Memphis will remain pubnu mb er of officers lic-safety poor, and because of it, patrolling Memphis there is no money for city planstreets for the coming ners or a long overdue comprefiscal year is essentially hensive plan; community centers the same as it was in 2012 sometimes have only two employ— about 1,600. The total ees in them; library hours have number of employees been cut 20 percent and outdated authorized for MPD science books on its shelves don’t is 2,774. have the right number of planets The Five-Year Strate- in the solar system; inadequate gic Fiscal and Manage- public transit drives away riders, ment Plan for City of and city parks’ funding cuts took them from being one of the best Memphis states that the link between the number systems in the nation 15 years ago of police officers and to one in serious need of maintenance and programming. crime rate reductions is “at best, elusive.” “Other Most of all, Memphis will approaches related to crime pre- unlikely have money for the prevention, prosecution, and punish- vention and intervention programs ment may have as much, if not that are desperately needed, in more, of an impact on crime addition to more police officers, to reduction and often come at a fight crime.
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MEMORIES MEMPHI A N JOHN TUR NER R ECOLLECTS GROWING UP WITH H A R PER LEE .
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Sometimes journalists’ best stories fall right into their laps. This spring I was sitting in my own backyard — literally — when my neighbor, Elizabeth Turner, casually mentioned that her husband, John, had been born and raised in the little town of Monroeville, Alabama. If that name sounds familiar to you, that’s probably because Monroeville is better known as the hometown of Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the beloved classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, and the recently discovered, feverishly anticipated novel, Go Set a Watchman, to be published this month in the United States by HarperCollins. Better yet, it turns out that my neighbor John Turner’s family was intimately acquainted with Lee and her late, older sister, Alice, and he kindly agreed to share some colorful memories with me.
Harper Lee with Gregory Peck, star of the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird.
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“‘GO SET A WATCHM A N’ ME A NS ‘SOMEBODY NEEDS TO BE THE MOR A L COMPASS OF THIS TOWN,’” SAYS HISTOR I A N WAYNE FLYNT. FICTIONA L L AW YER AT TICUS FINCH WAS J UST SUCH A M A N, AS WAS H A R PER LEE’S FATHER IN THE R E A L WOR LD OF MONROEVILLE . left: John Barnett of Monroeville, Alabama, John Turner’s grandfather and a leading citizen of the town, who went on to found, in 1904, the Monroe County Bank. right: Harper Lee’s “new” novel.
First, a bit on the hoopla surrounding this historic literary event about which surely by now everyone has read. As The New York Times has reported, Lee, now 89, “stunned the world” by agreeing to the release of this unpublished novel written before Mockingbird, which was published in 1960. Go Set a Watchman takes place in the 1950s, 20 years after the timeframe of Lee’s first book. Famed literary characters, lawyer Atticus Finch, his daughter Scout, and others are in both novels. There has been some legal wrangling concerning whether Harper Lee, who is in an assisted-living facility in Monroeville, is totally on board with the new book’s issuance; so far, evidently it has been determined that indeed she is. I just read recently that actress Reese Witherspoon, a fellow Southerner, will narrate the audio edition. To begin his recollections, John Turner explains that Harper Lee’s real name is Nelle, and that is what she is called by friends and relations. The Lee family first moved to Monroeville from a nearby town when Lee’s father, Amasa Coleman (A.C.) Lee, went to work for John Barnett’s law firm. Barnett was
Turner’s grandfather and a leading citizen of the town, who went on to found, in 1904, the Monroe County Bank, located on the town square. Nelle Harper Lee was born in 1926, the youngest of four children. Turner recalls that back then, Monroeville was idyllic. Tucked away in southwest Alabama, 90 miles northeast of Mobile, Monroeville is close enough to the Gulf that as kids, Turner says, “we’d go to church and then go to the beach and back in a day.” It was a bustling and special place, a center of the textile and lumber industries, where everyone knew and cared about each other. The glue that bound the citizenry together in this Bible belt town was the Methodist church. Though Harper Lee moved in 1949 to New York City on the Upper East Side, she always came home to Monroeville at least once a year for an extended period around the Christmas holidays. Turner says she refused to fly, always arriving by train, which presented a bit of a problem when in later years the train only came to Birmingham, a far piece away. Lee was a private person according to Turner, but she had some very close, dear friends in her hometown. She was devoted to her sister, Alice, who was 15 years older, and as Turner says, “You never saw one without the other.” Alice practiced law in Monroeville for many years at the firm founded by Turner’s maternal grandfather, retiring at the age of 100. Alice and John Turner’s mother, Frances, were lifelong best friends as well — like sisters, really. He has fond memories of them sitting
around the kitchen table, chatting away. It was a tradition that the Lee sisters always stopped by on Christmas Eve to visit the Turners, and they routinely gave his family — you guessed it — books as presents. Alice died last November at the age of 103, and Turner told me that not long before she passed away, he and Elizabeth had visited her, and though weak, she recognized them with a smile that lit up her face. Turner points out that famed writer Truman Capote (whose real name by the way, was Truman Persons) spent a great deal of his childhood in Monroeville living with his three maiden aunts. Capote and Harper Lee were neighbors and as is well known, they were dear friends, staying close all their lives. John Turner vividly recalls that when he was a junior in high school, Capote blew into town driving a gray Jaguar XKE, a fancy car the likes of which few people in town had ever seen. He was there to pick up Harper Lee to accompany him to the state penitentiary in Kansas to interview two death-row defendants, the subjects of his famous nonfiction, true crime book, In Cold Blood, published in 1966. It’s worth noting that part of the reason
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3663 Appling Road · Bartlett (901) 385-6440 that Harper Lee went with Capote was that, early on, before she moved to New York, she had attended two-and-a-half years of law school at the University of Alabama; this legal background proved a valuable asset in the interview process. Clearly, respect for the law was an important part of her upbringing, as Lee’s father, her sister, and of course To Kill a Mockingbird’s beloved Atticus Finch, were all lawyers. One of John Turner’s best stories revolves around the time spent with Harper Lee in a motel room, though believe me, it was not what it sounds like. Turns out she and her sister didn’t have a television set (just books!), and both loved to watch college football and professional golf. They often went to Turner’s family bank on Saturday afternoons to watch sporting events. However, on one occasion, they couldn’t get the required channel to watch a football game, so the desperately determined ladies corralled young Turner to accompany them to a motel in nearby Brewton, Alabama, where they could watch the game in peace and quiet! I have read that Harper Lee’s title, Go Set a Watchman, is taken from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah in the King James Bible: “For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth.” In the Southern literary renaissance, according to historian Wayne Flynt, longtime friend of Lee’s and also a Baptist minister, biblical allusions were common. “‘Go set a watch-
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192 OF THE MID-SOUTH’S FINEST PHYSICIANS IN 48 SPECIALTIES AS CHOSEN BY THEIR PEERS. Ah, the human body. It’s such a marvelous creation, yet we tend to take it for granted — until some part starts giving us fits. We get flutters in the heart, fluid in the chest, misery in the stomach, lumps in a lymph node. Try though we might, we can’t ignore troubling symptoms forever. The moment comes when we seek a doctor’s help. Lucky for us, Memphis claims many outstanding physicians. In light of that fact, we offer this list of “top doctors.” The list was compiled by the New York-based research group Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., which annually conducts surveys of the best doctors in America. Their physician-led team of researchers has selected these physicians on both regional and national levels and in various fields, from cardiovascular and endocrinology to internal medicine and hematology. The list is arranged alphabetically by specialty. Within each specialty, Castle Connolly provides the doctors’ names, their areas of expertise, and other information useful to readers. We hope this survey’s results will lead you not only to the most esteemed physicans in a specific field, but will also shed light on the caliber of medical care and research taking place in the Bluff City.
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DR. CLAUDETTE SHEPHARD
ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY JOSEPH S. FAHHOUM, MD
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Allergy & Asthma Specialists of Memphis 2006 Exeter Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-202-4100 Asthma & Allergy
fter graduating from Loma Linda University in California, this former New Yorker landed in Memphis, at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where she pursued a fellowship in her area of interest. That interest was pediatric and adolescent gynecology, and at the time, only three schools offered programs in that field.
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CHRISTIE F. MICHAEL, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8816 Asthma & Allergy, Autoimmune Disease
CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY ERIC E. JOHNSON, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000 Arrhythmias, Pacemakers
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Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000 Preventive Cardiology, Echocardiography PHOTOGRAPH BY LARRY KUZNIEWSKI
“UT’s program was most appealing to me,” says Shephard. “I planned to stay in Memphis for only one year. That was 24 years ago.” Today she is the only fellowship-trained pediatric/adolescent gynecologist in Memphis. Explaining why she focused her work on the youngest females, Shephard explains: “It takes a special commitment to adequately address the needs of this population. Patience with the developmental processes of [children and adolescents] has been a plus in my ability to help them address the complex issues they face.” Her work leads her to help those who have been raped or sexually abused — not only treating the physical injuries but addressing emotional pain that is “far more enduring,” she says. “Compassionate care is so important in the healing process.” She also counsels patients on birth control. One approach is to ask them about their life and career goals and encourage them to focus on what it will take to achieve them. “I tell them that a sexual relationship can wait,” says Shephard, who is affiliated with Regional One Health. “But I also emphasize that reliable effective contraception is a must. Abstinence is the only proven way to prevent a pregnancy. [But] I realized early in my career that abstinence is not always an option. Many are exposed early to nonconsensual sexual activity. Self-esteem plays a role, as well as the demands of society.” Through the years, Shephard has addressed civic, youth, and church groups on health concerns. “I get to reach women before they need to reach me.” At times she thought of opening “Dr. Shephard’s Home for Girls” to get them into a protective environment. “It takes more than that,” she says now, “since many who find themselves pregnant come from supportive communities and are involved in sports, are academically gifted, and should ‘know better,’ as people say. The mentality of ‘it won’t happen to me’ is still a factor.” Having faced some sad and ugly situations, Shephard learned not to take her work home with her: “Staying focused on my mission keeps me balanced.” At the same time, she gets involved in the lives of her patients and says, “I have grown personally as a result. At the end of the day, I know what I do makes a major difference in the life of a young woman and will affect her decisions for a lifetime.” — Marilyn Sadler
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JASON I. INFELD, MD
DR. JAMES FREEMAN
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000 Non-Invasive Cardiology, Echocardiography, Echocardiography-Transesophageal, Congenital Heart Disease
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couldn’t think of anything that looked more fun than ophthalmology.” So says Dr. James Freeman, for two decades now a second-generation ophthalmologist. Growing up around eye care — his father practiced ophthalmology in Memphis — Freeman felt a natural pull toward the field and, after earning his medical degree at UT-Memphis in 1990, took a three-year residency at LSU and a one-year fellowship at UC-Irvine before returning to the Bluff City for good.
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FRANK A. MCGREW III, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000 Congestive Heart Failure, Acute Coronary Syndromes
DANIEL E. OTTEN, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000
MAUREEN A. SMITHERS, MD
Saint Francis Hospital-Bartlett Sutherland Cardiology Clinic 7460 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-763-0200 Non-Invasive Cardiology, Heart Failure, Coronary Artery Disease, Arrhythmias
KARL T. WEBER, MD
Regional One Health Regional One Health, Outpatient Center 880 Madison Ave., Floor 5, Memphis, TN 38103 901-545-7185 Congestive Heart Failure
CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY JERRY D. HESTON, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Associates 1135 Cully Rd., Suite 100 Cordova, TN 38016 901-752-1980 ADD/ADHD, Depression, Asperger’s Syndrome
CHILD NEUROLOGY DIANA LEBRON, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 848 Adams Ave., Suite L400, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-5060 Headache, Migraine
AMY L. MCGREGOR, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 848 Adams Ave., Suite L400, Memphis, TN 38103 866-870-5570 Epilepsy
JAMES W. WHELESS, MD
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“You can fix most people who come to see you,” explains Freeman. “And you can fix them by doing a fun surgery. No one’s going to die because of something you did or didn’t do.” People are naturally concerned with any ailment related to their eyes, but advancements in corneal surgery have made repairing eye damage much closer to routine than it may have been a generation ago. “With internal medicine,” explains Freeman, “there’s a lot of deduction involved. It’s hard to look at something, put your finger on it and say, ‘That’s the problem.’ In ophthalmology, it’s so gratifying to literally see what the problem is. And our surgeries are short, just 10 or 15 minutes.” (Corneal transplants are another matter and take longer.) Freeman spent seven years as medical director at Mid-South Eye Bank, a renowned nonprofit with the mission of storing corneal tissue for transplants. “It’s the second-oldest continuously operating eye bank in the country,” says Freeman. One of Freeman’s chief concerns is the low percentage of cornea donors in the region, ironic considering the impact Mid-South Eye Bank is making, largely with corneal tissue imported from other cities. Another of Freeman’s concerns is the insidious nature of glaucoma, an ailment of the optic nerve that doesn’t present symptoms until it’s too late. African Americans are five times as likely as the general population to suffer glaucoma (which can lead to blindness), but the condition can only be identified through screenings. A screening is recommended every one or two years for African Americans after the age of 35. Says Freeman, “I hate to see people with eye damage from glaucoma that could have been prevented.” When he’s not seeing patients at Memphis Eye and Cataract Associates (MECA), Freeman enjoys flying. He first earned his pilot’s license at age 17. But it’s Freeman’s day job that continues to bring him the most reward. “Our outcomes are better than a lot of specialties,” he says. “Patients are happy they came to see us. That’s tremendously gratifying. Makes it more fun to come to work each day.” — Frank Murtaugh
DAVID H. KRAUS, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 848 Adams Ave., Suite L400, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-5060 Epilepsy/Seizure Disorders
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DR. GREGORY HANISSIAN
CLINICAL GENETICS JEWELL C. WARD, MD, PHD
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Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8818 Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Metabolic Genetic Disorders, Phenylketonuria (PKU), Reproductive Genetics
xcept for the time spent in medical school at the University of Alabama, Memphis has been home to Dr. Gregory Hanissian. The Rhodes College graduate is the first to admit that the Bluff City is probably “the most challenging environment” for his practice, Hanissian Allergy & Asthma, located in Germantown. “The allergic burden here is very high,” he says. “There is so much pollen, lots of mold because of the humidity, and other factors that can make allergy sufferers’ lives just miserable.”
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JOSHUA A. KATZ, MD
Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Memphis Surgery Associates 6029 Walnut Grove Rd., Suite 404, Memphis, TN 38120 901-726-1056 Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Colon & Rectal Cancer, Anorectal Disorders, Laparoscopic Surgery
JUSTIN MONROE, MD
Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Memphis Surgery Associates 6029 Walnut Grove Rd., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38120 901-726-1056 Colon & Rectal Cancer, Inflammatory Bowel Disease/ Crohn’s, Ulcerative Colitis, Hemorrhoids
DERMATOLOGY
REX A. AMONETTE, MD
Memphis Dermatology Clinic 1455 Union Ave., Memphis, TN 38104-6727 901-726-6655 Skin Cancer, Mohs Surgery
LUELLA G. CHURCHWELL, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Dermatology East 1335 Cordova Cove, Germantown, TN 38138 901-753-2794
FRANK G. WITHERSPOON JR., MD Memphis Dermatology Clinic 1455 Union Ave., Memphis, TN 38104 901-726-6655 Skin Cancer, Mohs Surgery
DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY HARRIS L. COHEN, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Dept. of Radiology, Ground Floor 50 N. Dunlap St. Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-6938 Pediatric Radiology, Fetal Ultrasound/Obstetrical Imaging, Ultrasound
SUE C. KASTE, DO
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 262 Danny Thomas Pl., MS 220, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3347 Bone Density in Pediatric Cancer, Pediatric Radiology
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Hanissian started his medical practice in 1996 by joining his father, Dr. Aram Hanissian, a specialist in allergy and rheumatology. When his father retired, the younger Hanissian formed his own group, focusing on allergy and asthma. Hannisian explains that in many cases, the two conditions are related because asthma can be the response of a patient’s lungs to an allergen. The hardest part of his job, day in and day out, is to find the culprit that’s causing the trouble. “In allergy or asthma, the immune system is basically misfiring,” he says. “It can be in response to an allergen like pollen or pet dander, or a food such as peanuts or cashews, or even a reaction to medicine.” Skin testing is still the gold standard for determining the most common allergens, and developing a treatment for them, which can involve medication or — whenever possible — simple avoidance. But food allergies are becoming more common, and they can be especially dangerous. Patients allergic to eggs, shrimp, and shellfish can go into anaphylactic shock if not treated promptly. “Twenty years ago, we might find that only one in four patients had some type of food allergy,” Hanissian says. “Today, it’s almost every patient, and there are all kinds of theories why this is happening. In many cases, it’s because of food additives, not the food itself.” Drug allergies are particularly risky, especially when the medication is needed to fight infection. So far, penicillin is the only antibiotic with a test that can determine if the patient will have a bad reaction to it. Hanissian says he is encouraged by current research in the field of allergy. “We are looking at DNA-based vaccines that target a specific patient’s immune system, and effective therapies are on the horizon.” It’s not just a matter of stopping the sniffles. “Even simple allergies can make people feel awful,” he says. “Productivity is affected, because when someone is sick it’s a tremendous drain on the workforce.” — Michael Finger
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PROFILE
DR. TINA BURNS
ENDOCRINOLOGY, DIABETES & METABOLISM
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hen she was in the seventh grade in Oklahoma, Tina Burns took a biology class that changed her life. “For the first time, I saw how the body worked, and it was fascinating,” she says. “I knew right then that I wanted to be a doctor.”
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SAMUEL E. DAGOGO-JACK, MD
Regional One Health, Outpatient Center 880 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38103 901-545-6969 Diabetes
RALPH C. GOODMAN, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Endocrinology Associates of Memphis 6027 Walnut Grove Rd., Suite 307, Memphis, TN 38120 901-681-0346 Thyroid Disorders, Hypertension, Osteoporosis
THOMAS A. HUGHES, MD
Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis G2Endo Endocrinology & Metabolism 6005 Park Ave., Suite 510, Memphis, TN 38119 901-537-7000 Cholesterol/Lipid Disorders, Diabetes
BEVERLY J. WILLIAMS-CLEAVES, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Comprehensive Diabetes & Metabolic Center 2829 Lamar Ave., Memphis, TN 38114 901-744-3362 Thyroid/Lipid Disorders, Diabetes
FAMILY MEDICINE O. LEE BERKENSTOCK, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Primary Care Specialists 3109 Walnut Grove Rd., Memphis, TN 38111 901-458-0162
TINA K. BURNS, MD
Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Mid-South Family Medicine 9047 Poplar Ave. Germantown, TN 38138 901-752-2300
DAVID L. MANESS, DO
Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis 1301 Primacy Pkwy., Memphis, TN 38119 901-866-8812
MARLAH H. MARDIS, MD
OccuMed 1785 Nonconnah, Suite 120, Memphis, TN 38132 901-345-6700 Occupational Medicine, Preventive Medicine
LEE W. MCCALLUM, MD
Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Mid-South Family Medicine 9047 Poplar Ave., Suite 105, Germantown, TN 38138 901-752-2300
LLOYD E. ROBINSON, MD
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After earning a degree in biology at Millsaps, she attended medical school at the University of Mississippi, located in Jackson. Burns had hoped to become an OB/ GYN, but “you’ve heard the expression that we make plans, and God laughs?” When it came time to apply for a residency, a requirement for any doctor, she didn’t match up with the schools that had OB/GYN openings. So, with a group of fellow medical students “who were also scrambling around, just like I was,” she took her residency in family practice at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. It was, in the long run, a good move for her. “It was excellent training,” she says, “because we covered everything: emergency medicine, cardiology, neonatal intensive care. We did it all.” She first began working at HealthFirst (later Prucare) HMO in 1987, and after 14 years joined the Family Physicians Group. In 2013 she became one of the six physicians at MidSouth Family Medicine, a member of the Methodist Primary Care Group. These are challenging times for the medical industry, and Burns admits that working with insurance company restrictions and the newly computerized patient information systems can be a headache. “It’s been a huge learning curve, and it takes time to input all that information,” she says. “I’d much rather be talking to a patient than typing on a computer. Patients don’t want to be treated like they are machines.” At the same time, she acknowledges that all those computers enhance access to crucial information. “If I’m at home, on call for another physician, I can just pull up my laptop and the records for that doctor’s patient are right there in front of me.” During this interview, in fact, a nurse brought in a laptop, allowing Burns to look at a patient’s progress and change her medication in a matter of seconds — without even pulling her chart. As a family-care practitioner, Dr. Burns says she enjoys working with all ages of patients, from children to the elderly. “At the risk of sounding hokey, I don’t consider this a job, but a vocation. It’s my way of serving God’s purpose,” she says. “Being his hands and feet, helping people.” — Michael Finger
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DR. RAYMOND OSAROGIAGBON
ANNE L. SULLIVAN, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women BMG Family Physicians Group 8110 Cordova Rd., Suite 111 Cordova, TN 38016 901-752-6963
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he specialties of Dr. Raymond Osarogiagbon lie in oncology and hematology. Yet if he’d followed his initial interest as a boy growing up in West Africa, those specialties might today be listed as constitutional law and appellate briefs. “I was interested in law when I was younger, and that was something I wanted to do.”
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GASTROENTEROLOGY RICHARD S. AYCOCK, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Gastro One 8000 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 200, Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-3630 Liver Disease, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Endoscopy & Colonoscopy
EDWARD L. CATTAU JR., MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Gastro One 8000 Wolf River Blvd., Suite 200, Germantown, TN 38138 901-747-3630 Endoscopy
MICHAEL S. DRAGUTSKY, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Gastro One 1324 Wolf Park Dr., Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-9110
KENNETH I. FIELDS, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Gastrointestinal Specialists 80 Humphreys Center Dr., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901-761-3900 Endoscopy, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Colon Cancer Screening
ROBERT S. WOOTEN, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Gastro One 1324 Wolf Park Dr., Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-9110 Celiac Disease, Crohn’s Disease
ZIAD H. YOUNES, MD
Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Gastro One 2999 Centre Oak Way, Germantown, TN 38138 901-684-5500 Endoscopy & Colonoscopy, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY JOSEPH T. SANTOSO, MD
Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis West Clinic 100 N. Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-683-0055 Ovarian Cancer, HPV-Human Papilloma Virus, Laparoscopic Surgery PHOTOGRAPH BY LARRY KUZNIEWSKI
He says he was stimulated and challenged by the environment in which he grew up, especially from his parents, both of whom were educators in Nigeria. “In the third world, your way up and out into society is primarily through the educational system, so there’s a lot of emphasis placed on school and achievement, and a lot of guidance from parents about what to do,” he says. It was his mother’s focus on medicine which eventually led Dr. O (as he’s known around his office on the Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis campus) into medicine. “Ultimately, of course, I ended up going to medical school and it’s been wonderful because I think I have found a mission in life.” A natural curiosity and interest in medicine (with maybe a little goading from his mother) would eventually lead Osarogiagbon from Nigeria to Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Amarillo for a residency in internal medicine. He was interested in studying sickle cell disease as an asset of value he could take back home to Africa, and as a carrier of the gene himself. At the urging of his attending physician to broaden his range into oncology, a dual interest soon came into focus. Osarogiagbon would go on to a fellowship at the University of Minnesota before moving back to Texas and working as Chief of Medicine for the Amarillo Veterans Affairs Health Care System. In Memphis he saw opportunity. “If you look at the lung cancer incidents on a map of America, the Mid-South and Memphis are smack in the middle of it. It almost doesn’t matter what disease you’re talking about — if you look at lung cancer, if you look at heart disease, if you look at stroke, if you look at dying from a road traffic accident — the map is the same, and Memphis is in the center. So, I was always intrigued.” He moved here in 2005 with the Boston Baskin Group and has relished his work seeking new and better ways to treat cancer ever since. “Challenge is opportunity, that’s all it is,” he says. “Opportunity doesn’t come in splendid garments, she comes in tattered robes because if she came well-dressed, everybody would recognize her and woo her. Opportunity comes as a peasant and you have to see past the grime and dirt to see the princess hidden within.” — Richard Alley
CHARLES J. WOODALL, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis BMG Family Physicians Group 7685 Winchester Rd., Memphis, TN 38125 901-752-6963
LINDA M. SMILEY, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Methodist University Hospital-Memphis West Clinic 100 N. Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-683-0055 Cervical Cancer, Uterine Cancer, Ovarian Cancer
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Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3100 Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery
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DAVID L. CANNON, MD
Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3100 Hand & Wrist Surgery
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Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis OrthoMemphis 6286 Briarcrest Ave., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901-259-1600 Hand & Upper Extremity Surgery, Sports Injuries, Trauma, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
HEMATOLOGY
PATRICIA E. ADAMS-GRAVES, MD
Regional One Health, Outpatient Center 880 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38103 901-545-8535 Sickle Cell Disease
MARGARET GORE, MD
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis BMG Integrity Oncology 6286 Briarcrest Ave., Suite 308, Memphis, TN 38120 901-680-5190 Hematologic Malignancies, Hematology-Benign, Bleeding/ Coagulation Disorders
DONALD S. GRAVENOR, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Family Cancer Center Foundation 6029 Walnut Grove Rd., Suite 301, Memphis, TN 38120 901-747-9081 Anemia, Leukemia & Lymphoma, Lymphoma, NonHodgkin’s, Multiple Myeloma
EDWARD S. MUIR, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Consolidated Medical Practices Memphis 6799 Great Oaks Rd., Suite 150, Memphis, TN 38138 901-259-9794 Leukemia & Lymphoma, Bone Marrow & Stem Cell Transplant
INFECTIOUS DISEASE MICHAEL G. THRELKELD, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Methodist University Hospital-Memphis 1068 Cresthaven Rd., Suite 250, Memphis, TN 38119 901-685-3490
J. MICHELLE ALLMON, MD
JAMES E. BAILEY, MD
Regional One Health, Outpatient Center 880 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38103 901-545-6969 Hypertension, Preventive Medicine
ROBERT BURNS, MD
Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Geriatrics Group of Memphis 2714 Union Ave., Suite 150, Memphis, TN 38112 901-725-0872 Geriatric Medicine, Dementia
WILLIAM C. CUSHMAN, MD
VA Medical Center-Memphis 1030 Jefferson Ave., Memphis, TN 38104-2127 901-523-8990 Hypertension, Preventive Cardiology
INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY CLARO DIAZ, MD
Methodist North Hospital Sutherland Cardiology Clinic 7460 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-763-0200 Peripheral Vascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology, Coronary Artery Disease
MICHAEL A. NELSON, MD
ProActive Heart & Vascular 7751 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-297-4000 Angioplasty, Cardiac Catheterization, Preventive Cardiology, Echocardiography
STACY C. SMITH, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Stern Cardiovascular Foundation 8060 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-271-1000 Heart Disease in Women
GREGORY K. JENKINS, MD
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WILLIAM H. LIGHT, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 305, Memphis, TN 38103 901-287-6981 Fetal Therapy, Obstetric Ultrasound, Pregnancy-High Risk
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis 8138 Country Village Dr. Cordova, TN 38016 901-260-3100 The Light Clinic 7715 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-328-6031
ROBERT E. MORRISON, MD
Regional One Health, Outpatient Center 880 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38103 901-545-6969 Infectious Disease
H. HOWARD NEASE, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis 8138 Country Village Dr. Cordova, TN 38016 901-260-3100 Preventive Medicine, Diabetes, Hypertension
GIANCARLO MARI, MD
MEDICAL ONCOLOGY ALEKSANDAR JANKOV, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Family Cancer Center Foundation 6029 Walnut Grove Rd., Suite 301, Memphis, TN 38120 901-747-9081
C. MICHAEL JONES, MD
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis The Jones Clinic 7710 Wolf River Cir., Germantown, TN 38138 901-685-5969
MICHAEL J. MAGEE, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto Methodist North Hospital Boston-Baskin Cancer Foundation 80 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 330, Memphis, TN 38120 901-752-6131 Breast Cancer
RAYMOND U. OSAROGIAGBON, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Boston Baskin Cancer Foundation 80 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 330, Memphis, TN 38120 901-722-3627 Esophageal Cancer, Lung Cancer, Gastrointestinal Cancer, Sickle Cell Disease
THOMAS W. RATLIFF, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Boston Baskin Cancer Foundation 80 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 330, Memphis, TN 38120 901-684-2400 Bone Marrow Transplant, Hematologic Malignancies
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Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville East Memphis Nephrology 7640 Wolf River Cir., Floor 2, Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-0208 Kidney Disease
OMAR O. HAMZE, MD
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NAWAR E. MANSOUR, MD
Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Kidney Specialists PC 4913 Raleigh Commons Dr., Memphis, TN 38128 901-726-1199
MARC H. STEGMAN, MD
Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Kidney Group of Memphis 2225 Union Ave., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38104 901-726-1161 Kidney Disease
NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY KENAN ARNAUTOVIC, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700 Chiari’s Deformity, Acoustic Neuroma, Skull Base Surgery, Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors
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Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700 Pediatric Neurosurgery, Brain Tumors, Chiari’s Deformity, Epilepsy
KEVIN T. FOLEY, MD
Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700 Spinal Surgery, Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
JON H. ROBERTSON, MD
Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700 Brain & Spinal Cord Tumors, Skull Base Tumors, Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Acoustic Neuroma
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TULIO E. BERTORINI, MD
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MAROUN T. DICK, MD
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Mid-South Neurology Clinic 8584 Cordes Cir., Germantown, TN 38139 901-531-7007 Epilepsy, Sleep Disorders
MARK S. LEDOUX, MD, PHD
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Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville Neurology Clinic 8000 Centerview Pkwy., Suite 300 Cordova, TN 38018 901-747-1111 Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy
LEE S. STEIN, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville Neurology Clinic 8000 Centerview Pkwy., Suite 300 Cordova, TN 38108 901-747-1111 Multiple Sclerosis, Epilepsy
MERRILL S. WISE III, MD
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OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY T. FRANKLIN KING, MD
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Methodist University Hospital-Memphis UT Medical Group Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Suite 200 Memphis, TN 38103 901-448-6650 Oculoplastic & Reconstructive Surgery
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Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Eye Specialty Group 825 Ridge Lake Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-685-2200 Corneal Disease, Cataract Surgery
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SINCE 1927, RUCH CLINIC has provided the highest quality of healthcare to women in Memphis and the Mid-South. All of our clinicians are specialists in the health and wellness of women, practicing in partnership with you to provide the best possible medical care. We recognize that women’s health is a lifelong journey, and we have the knowledge, skills, and understanding to care for you every step of the way.
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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital UT Medical Group Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Suite 200 Memphis, TN 38135 901-448-6650 Eye Tumors/Cancer, Orbital Diseases, Pediatric Ophthalmology
NATALIE C. KERR, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital UT Medical Group Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Suite 400 Memphis, TN 38103 901-448-6650 Pediatric Ophthalmology, Strabismus, Cataract-Pediatric, Genetic Disorders-Eye
M. CATHLEEN SCHANZER, MD
Southern Eye Associates 5350 Poplar Ave., Suite 950, Memphis, TN 38119 901-683-4600 Cataract Surgery
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RICHARD E. SIEVERS, MD
Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis Mid-South Retina Associates 6005 Park Ave., Suite 624-B, Memphis, TN 38119 901-682-1100 Retina/Vitreous Surgery
MATTHEW W. WILSON, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Methodist University Hospital-Memphis UT Medical Group Hamilton Eye Institute 930 Madison Ave., Suite 200 Memphis, TN 38103 901-448-6650 Eye Tumors/Cancer, Retinoblastoma, Melanoma-Choroidal (eye)
ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY SUSAN M. AUSTIN, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women The Austin Center 146 Timber Creek Dr., Suite 101 Cordova, TN 38018 901-753-4543 Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Cerebral Palsy, Scoliosis
FREDERICK M. AZAR, MD
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JAMES L. GUYTON, MD
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MICHAEL D. NEEL, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis OrthoMemphis 6286 Briarcrest Ave., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901-259-1600 Musculoskeletal Cancer, Hip & Knee Reconstruction, Arthritis
WILLIAM C. WARNER JR., MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital Campbell Clinic 1400 S. Germantown Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 901-759-3100 Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Spinal Surgery, Scoliosis
OTOLARYNGOLOGY NEAL S. BECKFORD, MD
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BRUCE L. FETTERMAN, MD
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Mid-South Ear Nose & Throat 8090 Walnut Run Rd., Cordova, TN 38018 901-755-5300 Neuro-Otology
DEAN A. KLUG, MD
Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Mid-South Ear Nose and Throat 6286 Briarcrest Ave., Suite 300, Memphis, TN 38120 901-755-5300 Sinus Disorders
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BRIAN J. MCKINNON, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Methodist University Hospital-Memphis Shea Ear Clinic 6133 Poplar Pike, Memphis, TN 38119 901-761-9720 Hearing & Balance Disorders, Cochlear Implants
MERRY E. SEBELIK, MD
VA Medical Center-Memphis 1030 Jefferson Ave., Memphis, TN 38104 901-523-8990 Head & Neck Cancer
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DORALINA L. ANGHELESCU, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Dept. Anesthesiology/Pain Management 262 Danny Thomas Pl., MS 130 Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-4032 Pain Management-Pediatric, Pain-Cancer
ALAN J. KRAUS, MD
Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital Memphis Pain Clinic 99 Market Center Dr. Collierville, TN 38017 901-754-3365 Pain-Interventional Techniques, Pain-Back & Neck, Spinal Cord Stimulation
KIT S. MAYS, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Mays & Schnapp Pain Clinic & Rehab Center 55 Humphreys Center Dr., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901-747-0040 Pain-Interventional Techniques, Pain-Neuropathic
AUTRY J. PARKER JR., MD
Saint Francis Hospital-Memphis Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Semmes-Murphey Neurologic & Spine Institute 6325 Humphreys Blvd., Memphis, TN 38120 901-522-7700 Spinal Cord Stimulation, Pain-Chronic, Pain-Back & Neck, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
MOACIR SCHNAPP, MD
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis Mays & Schnapp Pain Clinic & Rehab Center 55 Humphreys Center Dr., Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901-747-0040 Pain-Interventional Techniques, Pain-Neuropathic
PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY BRUCE S. ALPERT, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 848 Adams Ave., Suite L400, Memphis, TN 38103 901-866-8817 Hypertension
VIJAYA M. JOSHI, MD
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Congratulations to the TOP DOCTORS at Wesley Neurology Clinic for being consistently recognized as the best neurologists in the Mid-South area! Services: Electromyography (EMG) Electroencephalogram (EEG) Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Infusion Center Long-Term Seizure Monitoring Unit Sleep Center Subspecialty Clinics: Epilepsy Clinic Stroke Clinic Parkinson’s and Dementia Clinic Peripheral Neuropathy Clinic Multiple Sclerosis Clinic Neuromuscular Disease Clinic Headache Clinic
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BOWDEN INTERNAL MEDICINE Dr. Marcia R. Bowden
is a doctor of Internal Medicine specializing in preventive medicine, comprehensive care, women and men’s issues, and weight management. She is passionately dedicated to the physical and emotional well-being treating the whole patient from the smallest ailment to the most chronic illness.
PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY DENNIS D. BLACK, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8821 Nutrition, Obesity
MARK R. CORKINS, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 51 N. Dunlap St., Suite 400, Memphis, TN 38105 901-866-8821 Nutrition, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Celiac Disease
PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGYONCOLOGY MELODY J. CUNNINGHAM, MD
Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital UT Le Bonheur Pediatric Specialists 848 Adams Ave., Memphis, TN 38105 866-870-5570 Palliative Care
WAYNE L. FURMAN, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 262 Danny Thomas Pl., Memphis, TN 38105 888-226-4343 Neuroblastoma, Drug Development
AMAR J. GAJJAR, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Neuro-Oncology 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105-2794 901-595-4599 Brain Tumors, Medulloblastoma, Neuro-Oncology, Drug Development
DANIEL M. GREEN, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Dept. of Epidemiology & Cancer Control 262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3300 Wilms’ Tumor, Fertility in Cancer Survivors, Cancer SurvivorsLate Effects of Therapy
MELISSA M. HUDSON, MD
1652 Madison Ave. Memphis, Tennessee
901.278.9538
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 262 Danny Thomas Pl., Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-3445 Cancer Survivors-Late Effects of Therapy, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
WING H. LEUNG, MD, PHD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 262 Danny Thomas Pl., MS 310, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-2554 Bone Marrow & Stem Cell Transplant
ALBERTO S. PAPPO, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 262 Danny Thomas Pl., MS 260, Memphis, TN 38105 901-595-2322 Sarcoma-Soft Tissue, Melanoma, Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
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f Memphis culture is your cup of tea, look no further than the magnificent Midtown home of Dana and Kent Farmer. The Farmers live a stone’s throw from Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and, perhaps inspired by their location, are very generous
patrons of the arts. They have long been philanthropic supporters of the museum and were title sponsors (along with Southern Sun Asset Management) of the recent (and spectacular) exhibit at the Brooks, “This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement.” The Farmers’ gracious 5,000-square-foot home dates to 1941, and is situated on a gated one-and-a half-acre site across from Overton Park. It was originally owned by a member of one of Memphis’ best-known families, Philip Belz. His son, Jack, responsible for the reopening of The Peabody in 1982, grew up there.
This fantastic fountain on the gorgeous grounds brings to mind the watery garden ornaments at Versailles or Italy's famed Villa d'Este.
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left: The home’s sweeping staircase is one of the period details that made Dana Farmer fall in love with Midtown.
below: What fun to start the day in this whimsically decorated breakfast room with its multicolored inlaid table, colorful chandelier, and vintage built-in corner cabinets.
The period details are impressive, including a sweeping staircase, stained glass windows, beautiful crown moldings, and elaborate escutcheons on the doors. The Farmers have put their own stamp on the interior design of the place by filling it with travel mementos and antiques from Europe and the Far East as well as inherited family pieces. They own a home in New Orleans as well and, of course, have bought art and other treasures there through the years. Dana Farmer tells me she was raised in East Memphis on Lake Drive, and that she and her husband lived downtown in Harbor Town after they were married. But somehow the beauty and charm of Midtown had always called to her — in her words, the neighborhood “had its hook in me”— and bought their current home in 2004 the first day it came on the market. Another reason for wanting more space, they confess, was to accommodate their beloved animals. And so it was that they moved in with three very lucky dogs and two cats. The Farmers are (no surprise) big supporters of the Mid-South Spay and Neuter Services and the Humane Society of Memphis and Shelby County, and what’s more, Dana started the popular Harbor Town Dog Show — now a local institution.
The Farmers have put their own stamp on the interior design of the place by filling it with travel mementos and antiques from Europe and the Far East
as well as inherited family pieces.
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The Farmers pose with one of their beloved giant schnauzers in the richly appointed green sitting room that Kent says is his favorite in the house.
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Over the past seven years, the Farmers have undertaken four major projects which include renovations of the kitchen/keeping room, master bathroom, guest bathroom, and pool house. All of this work has been designed and completed by Shari C. Carter, owner of SCC Residential Design and Construction. The Farmers have also recently refurbished their den, dining room, and living room with the interior design expertise of Leslie Samuels Marks. This sounds like a lot of work to the layman, but honestly, the Farmers insist that it all went smoothly, thanks to the expert professional help they received. Shari Carter was with us the day that we photographed the home, to provide some details on what these renovations entailed. Dana Farmer told us “every project we’ve done with Shari, we’ve been thrilled with.” Carter admits she is very hands-on, often to be found on her hands and knees measuring to be sure everything fits perfectly; she adds that her style is to “listen”
top left: The formal dining room's rich, classic décor features a number of handsome antiques bought over the years in New Orleans. bottom left: In this comfortable den overlooking the garden is a knockout green art glass bowl purchased in Palm Springs — definitely a statement piece. top right: The renovated Tuscan farmhouse-style kitchen now provides more storage as well as decorative touches that utilize mosaics and wrought iron. Best of all, the kitchen flows seamlessly into the new keeping room. bottom right: The bar with its collection of vintage Jim Beam bourbon decanters is a well-used focal point of the keeping room and backs up to the original stone wall that the Farmers retained.
to her clients rather than telling them what it is they need. This particular relationship between contractor and client is an obvious mutual-admiration society, as Carter in turn heaps praise on Dana Farmer’s decorative “intuition and taste.” Renovating the Tuscan farmhouse-style kitchen was a big job, as it had previously been somewhat dysfunctional, on account of, among other things, limited storage. The project was dear to Kent Farmer’s heart as he is the cook in the family, and in fact took a course in Cajun cooking at the University of Memphis, the better to serve up delicious dishes in both his indoor and outdoor kitchens. What’s more, Shari Carter had to plan and execute merging the existing kitchen with the adjacent, underutilized mudroom, to create an expansive and stylish kitchen/keeping room configuration. Among other stumbling blocks was having to match the stone flooring in both rooms. The resulting opened-up space is now perfect for cooking and entertaining, and the fabulous large bar in the keeping room is a well-used focal point with its collection of vintage Jim Beam
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bourbon decanters that once belonged to Dana’s father. Reconfiguring the master bath was a tough task as well. Kent Farmer needed more closet space, and here again matching the new floor with the existing slate floor was a challenge. A large enclosed shower was added, as was an ornate, claw-footed tub, and better vanity space was created. As always, Carter insists that her clients go out and help find what they like, such as the pretty crystal knobs that Dana Farmer picked out for this bathroom. Working with the master bath, which had ample space, was a stark contrast to what was required in the smaller guest room bath. To give the illusion of space there, Carter used mirrored elements and white Carrera marble, and arranged both tub and shower behind the same glass partition, a look she says is becoming more and more common on the West Coast. Dana Farmer took me up to her studio on the third f loor of the house where she gives private and semi-private Pilates and yoga lessons. She also teaches at the downtown Fogelman YMCA. She is clearly
above: The beauty of this house is so apparent that it is no surprise the Farmers bought it the very first day it came on the market. below: A corner vignette of the luxurious living room features a beautiful screen and pair of chairs.
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a very “fit” person and told me that she met Kent while running. Moving outside to the gorgeous grounds of the property, we were told that the new pool house was quite an undertaking, as meeting code on the grading was critical in an area which has traditionally been prone to f looding. The existing swimming pool was not replaced, and today blends in perfectly with the new structure. The outdoor kitchen has a woodburning fireplace, a wonderful ceiling, and stained concrete f looring. A long, wisteriacovered arbor leads into the garden. The Farmers are extremely hospitable people who love to entertain; as Dana puts it simply, “We party a lot.” They have a wine cellar, and good wine is a passion for them. In fact, we were delighted to photograph the revamped pool area on the very day that the Farmers were hosting the al fresco Private Winemaker Dinner, an elegant affair and part of the Brooks’ 2015 Memphis Wine and Food Series celebrating the “art of good taste.” There is plenty of that on display in the Farmers’ magnificent home!
top: The renovated spacious master bath is fit for a king and queen with its garden views, ornate claw-footed bathtub, chaise longue, and slate floor. above: Situating both tub and shower behind the same glass partition in the guest room bath is a clever way to maximize limited space. right: More classic garden ornamentation. opposite page: Looking down the wisteria-covered colonnade towards the new pool house and outdoor kitchen with tables set for the Private Winemaker Dinner.
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foreground: Untitled, 2007; Glazed ceramics, 71 x 29 x 13¾ inches; courtesy of the artist. Photo: Haley Morris-Cafiero
background: Velocity, 2009; bronze, oil-based enamel paints and steel, 123½ x 70 x 77 inches; courtesy of the artist. Photo: Haley Morris-Cafiero
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top images: Dixon staff installing Jun Kaneko: Sculpture at The Dixon Gallery and Gardens
bottom image: Erin Riordan, Dixon director Kevin Sharp, and artist Jun Kaneko
Throw out all those associations before you go see Jun Kaneko’s outdoor exhibition of ceramic sculpture at The Dixon Gallery and Gardens this summer and fall, while the museum building itself is closed for long-overdue structural renovations. Kaneko’s work is massive. Each of the 24 sculptures currently on view stands between 69 inches and 124 inches tall. Many weigh over a ton. They are glazed fire-engine red, turmeric yellow or midnight blue, or painted with frenetic patterns. Far from delicate, they dominate the landscape. Distributed around the Dixon’s gardens are Kaneko’s oval “dangos” (in Japanese the word means “rounded form” or “dumpling”). The dangos loom large in leafy alcoves, stand funnily on the lawn, or form colorful columns around manicured plants. They coexist with Kaneko’s series of giant, disembodied heads. Also hidden in the gardens are three ceramic Tanukis, or raccoon dogs. In Japanese lore, tanukis are tricksters. In Kaneko’s vision, they perch on two feet and smile toothily. To wander the Dixon’s gardens this summer is to be on an Easter egg hunt that feels at once prehistoric and postmodern. Slivers of color are visible at long range. It is impossible not to be curious about what is around the next tree or bend in the path. The sculptures reveal themselves gradually, meanwhile drawing attention to out-of-the-way corners of the grounds where most Dixon visitors rarely go. Among the discoveries: a 150-yearold elm in the far northeast corner of the grounds, arguably the city’s oldest and largest, with its buttress/banyan-style roots that seem better to belong in an African setting. Jun Kaneko intends his work to reveal new aspects of familiar landscapes. The artist feels strongly that his sculptures are different in every context, and that surroundings change his pieces just as much as the works change their surroundings. The Dixon is only the most recent in Kaneko’s impressive roster of outdoor exhibitions, including a recent showing in Chicago’s Millennium Park. As Kaneko told Art &Antiques magazine last spring, “As a sculptor you focus on making your form or shape, but suddenly you realize that the form or shape you are making
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top image, left sculpture: Untitled, 2004-07; glazed ceramics and steel, 123 x 70 x 80 inches; courtesy of the artist.
right: Untitled, 2005–07; Glazed ceramics and steel, 124½ x 70 x 80 inches; courtesy of the artist. Photo: Haley Morris-Cafiero
bottom image: Untitled, 2005-07; glazed ceramics, 103 x 23 x 55½ inches; courtesy of the artist. Photo: Haley Morris-Cafiero
is getting so much influence from the environment and the space around it…. Nothing exists by itself in the world.” The sculptor has fostered much curiosity in a career that spans six decades and two continents. Kaneko was born in rural Japan in 1942, where he informally studied art before finding his way to California in the early 1960s. He arrived in California with nothing but a single contact — the artist Jerry Rothman — and an interest in making things. Rothman was a ceramicist, and under his tutelage Kaneko began to work with clay. Kaneko joined a small and devoted coterie of California-based ceramicists and collectors, including Fred Marer, Peter Voulkos, and Henry Takemoto, now recognized as the founders of the American contemporary ceramics movement. Contemporary ceramics, as a discipline, combines a modernist perspective on field and form with craft’s attention to technical mastery. Kaneko’s sculptures sport bold colors and playful patterns that almost serve to distract from the technical intensity of the work. A single sculpture can take Kaneko a year from conception to realization — a time period over which a million things can go wrong. The amount of time poured into creating the works is on par with the scale of the finished pieces. These are improbable, grand creations. They seamlessly merge a sense of unhurried playfulness with technical austerity. Kaneko is interested in creating work that operates on what he calls “spirit scale” — sculptures that will make the viewer look up. He maintains that the simple act of looking up, or of feeling yourself next to something larger than yourself, encourages a spiritual lightness. Kaneko is also inspired by the Shinto concept of Ma, or consciousness of place. His sculptures are functionless architecture rooted in feeling, realized through repetitive form, and amended with bright colors and dancing patterns. Kaneko has always fostered an egalitarian sense of art. When he returned to Japan in the late 1960s, he helped to start a nontraditional art school in an old factory building and welcomed anyone with interest. More than 700 people passed through his makeshift
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foreground: Untitled, 2002; glazed ceramics and steel, 101½ x 51 x 57 inches; courtesy of the artist.
background: Untitled, 2013; glazed ceramics, 73 x 47 x 27 inches; courtesy of the artist.
institution. Kaneko also built his first kiln in Japan, and began experimenting with new forms. He did not return to the states until 1972, when he was asked to found the ceramics department at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. With the support of the Academy, he built a new, larger kiln. “I was always interested in building things,” Kaneko told the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in 2005. “Clay always demands mechanical understanding of the material itself.” In the following decades, Kaneko has solidified a reputation as a public sculptor, a painter, an educator, a set designer for three operas, and a fabric maker. He moved to Omaha, Nebraska, in 1986, where he currently operates the largest non-industrial kiln in the world. Over the course of Kaneko’s career, contemporary ceramics has grown from a tiny field into a respected discipline that currently graduates over 1,000 students each year. Kaneko’s exhibition marks a first for the Dixon, an institution that has a lot of experience handling ceramics but that is breaking new ground with a contemporary, outdoor exhibition of this scale. The museum is excited to present Kaneko’s work not only because of the sculptor’s esteem within the field, but because his work is accessible to both young and older visitors. The exhibition, which opened in late May, will remain open through November 22, 2015. So pick an afternoon this month and meander through the Gardens. You will encounter what the critic John Dorfman called Kaneko’s “phrenology-friendly” heads, hand-glazed with psychedelic lines or fields of Pepto-Bismol pink. You’ll meet the strange (but not unfriendly) tanukis in the Dixon’s Woodland Garden. Wander over to the main lawn and look out on a collection of loosely associated dangos, arranged at diagonals to the monumental heads. Spend time in the more secret parts of the gardens and pay attention to the negative space between the works. You might notice, for the first time, minute aspects of the landscaping — a flower here; a shrub here — that seem to have grown up overnight, their form and color defined and redefined by Kaneko’s sculptures. And you surely won’t be disappointed.
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top right: Untitled, 2012; glazed ceramics, 86 x 77 x 24 inches; courtesy of the artist. Photo: Haley Morris-Cafiero
middle right: Untitled, 2005-07; glazed ceramics, 101½ x 22½ x 57½ inches; courtesy of the artist. Photo: Haley Morris-Cafiero
bottom right: Untitled, Tanuki, 2012; glazed ceramics, 72 x 32 x 27½ inches; courtesy of the artist.
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Another Chance for Insure Tennessee? Bill Haslam, Tennessee’s nice-guy Governor, wants to give the people of his state real healthcare options. But is it already too late, and is Haslam the man that can make it happen?
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n late April of this year, the dilemma facing “Insure Tennessee,” Governor Bill Haslam’s signature piece of healthcare legislation, was dramatized when the Governor, along with Republican leaders of the General Assembly, met with members of the Tennessee media in the Old Supreme Court Room of the Capitol for the customary press conference to sum up a just-concluded legislative session. Sitting behind a conference table on a raised platform, along with Haslam, were Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey of Blountville; Speaker of the state Senate, Mark Norris of Collierville; the Senate Majority Leader, Beth Harwell of Nashville, Speaker of the House; and Gerald McCormick of Chattanooga, House Majority Leader. All the Gov’s people, so to speak; all fellow Republicans. And they all had one other thing in common: Every single one of them, save McCormick, had either bailed out on Haslam’s Medicaid expansion proposal or worked to defeat it, actively or behind the scenes. The Governor tried to brazen it out, claiming, as he began his summary, “The primary constitutional obligation of the General
Assembly and the Governor is to present a budget that balances. This actually was an extraordinary year; not only did we do that, but if you think about it, the hardest time to govern is when you actually have extra money.” An empty claim, perhaps, as Craig Fitzhugh (D-Ripley), Minority Leader of the House Democratic mini-minority (only 26 of the House’s 99 members are Democrats), indicated an hour later in his own summary: “We legislated quickly, and we passed a budget. That’s about it.” Another statement by the Governor had been even more extraordinary. Haslam actually made a claim about “what you would call Governor’s bills”: that “every one of those bills was passed this year.” To be sure, he had J U L Y 2 0 1 5 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 83
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added the qualifying phrase, “in the regular education reform that made allowance for session.” teachers to continue having the right of colBut even that nit was picked too fine: to lective bargaining on economic matters. But be sure, the Insure Tennessee plan had been Ramsey had organized the Senate into an presented in the form of a resolution, not as a unyielding “No” on collective bargaining, a bill per se, and in a truncated special session la Scott Walker in Wisconsin, and made it held just before the regular one. Intended clear to his great friend Haslam, and to House to last a week, the special session sputtered Speaker Harwell, who also supported collecout on the second day of deliberations with tive bargaining, that the choice was between a kill vote of 7-4 by a reconstituted version of no bargaining or no bill. the regular Senate health committee. But the They chose to have the bill, sans collecproposal had in fact been brought back in the tive bargaining, and on that pivot, philosophical differences regular session, only to be smothered again in were disposed of and committee. the direction of state Both outcomes were government altered to run henceforth misleading, as will be through the Ramsey seen a few paragraphs hence. wheelhouse. Through In the Q&A session Haslam’s f irst two following the opening legislative sessions in statements by Haslam 2011 and 2012, House and the others, reportSpeaker Harwell remained in alliance ers’ attention inevitably with the Governor, returned to the matmore or less, but a ter of Insure Tennessee. Might it live and standoff between her Ron Ramsey breathe again? and Ramsey at the “I still think Insure close of the 2013 ses“We’re both Republicans, and Tennessee is the right sion (which resulted thing to do,” Haslam, in her losing a charter we’re great friends. We have anything but a rabble school start-up which philosophical differences ... rouser, would say mildshe had promised to ly. “I think we have the Nashville Mayor Karl We’ll deal with this somewhere right approach ... but Dean) had lessoned down the road.” big, tough legislation her on bucking heads — Ron Ramsey like this often doesn’t with the Lt. Governor. happen in a one-year She had never been period.” totally forthcoming on the reasons for her Senate Speaker Ramsey dosed this tenta- refusal in 2015 to push for Insure Tennessee, tive optimism with cold water almost im- even as GOP House Majority Leader McCormediately. mick insisted the votes were there for it. Per“I hope we have a Republican president af- haps she harbored, with Ramsey, some of the ter 2016,” Ramsey ventured, after which “we’ll aforesaid philosophical disagreements with get the money back in block grants.” With a the Governor on the measure, or thought — perfunctory verbal nod toward Haslam, the McCormick notwithstanding — that her arch-conservative Lieutenant Governor, en- members did. Or maybe she was not of a mind titled by the constitution to the honorific title for another wrangle with Ramsey. In any case, “Governor” in his own right, said, “We’re both she declined either to support Insure TennesRepublicans, and we’re great friends. We have see publicly, or to let the House initiate voting philosophical differences ... We’ll deal with on the matter. So in the 2015 session, it would be up to Ramsey’s Senate to decide. this somewhere down the road.” The math was simple enough to do. “So Meanwhile, Haslam had come, in an odd you’re talking about a two-year delay in bring- way, to resemble Barack Obama, the titular ing it back,” a reporter ventured. “Could be,” leader of another party in another capital, Ramsey agreed. Would be, was the message. in the way he chose to deal with opposition Clearly, he was the elephant in this room. (most of which, for the Tennessee governor, This was not the first time the Lieutenant was in his own ranks). Instead of the big Governor had exercised de facto veto power stick, he would brandish the olive branch over his titular superior.* Back in 2011, during and attempt to conciliate, not to conquer. This Haslam’s first turn at the helm, the Gover- predisposition owed much to Haslam’s seemnor proposed a several-tiered program of ingly innate amiability and much, too, to the *While the Governor is the only non-federal public official elected statewide in Tennessee, the powers of the position are severely limited by the fact that the Governor’s veto can be overturned by a simple majority vote in both the Senate and House. Tennessee is one of only six states that do not require super-majorities for override.
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peculiar nature of his background. A widely circulated item published in Forbes Magazine during January of 2015, just before this year’s special session on Insure Tennessee would be getting under way, noted that Governor Bill Haslam of Tennessee, with confirmed holdings worth at least $2 billion, was now, since the retirement of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the richest politician in the United States. Haslam’s good fortune derived initially from birth, as the second son of Jim Haslam, a starting lineman on UT’s 1951 national championship team. Dad turned down a job coaching high-school football to go into the fledgling business of operating truck stops. The Haslam family is now owner of the vastly profitable Pilot Travel Centers, operating a national network of truck stops, with over 550 locations in every corner of the country and Canada. The chain boasts of being the largest purveyor of diesel fuel in the United States. As Pilot grew and prospered, Jim Haslam became increasingly involved with his three great passions: the University of Tennessee, Republican politics, and the successful education of his three children. His older son Jimmy, who became Pilot CEO in 1994 and still holds that position, was Bob Corker’s college roommate (at UT, of course); in 2012, Jimmy Haslam bought a majority interest in the NFL Cleveland Browns for $1 billion. As a student at Emory University, Bill Haslam was making preparations to become a minister but eventually joined the family business, becoming president of Pilot (also in 1994) and later an executive with Saks Fifth Avenue. The younger Haslam entered politics in 2003, winning a close race for mayor of Knoxville; he was easily reelected in 2007. Though a Republican, the Knoxville mayor had significant crossover support from Democrats and independents, and, as a candidate for Governor in 2010, was considered the relative moderate in a three-way Republican primary contest with Senate Speaker Ramsey and Chattanooga congressman Zach Wamp. Fueled by campaign resources of more than $5 million, Haslam defeated Ramsey and Wamp, and won easily in 2010 over Democratic nominee Mike McWherter. He entered office with pledges of fiscal conservatism and a professed desire for unity in government, but at a time when a tide of new Tea Party Republicans in the state legislature had upset an equilibrium between Republicans and Democrats that had persisted for decades. As a result, the Governor often found himself walking gingerly on eggs, as he pursued a moderately conservative reform agenda. An acceptance of Medicaid expansion in Tennessee in 2013, when it first became available, was a matter for Haslam to dispose of, since it would have been processed through TennCare, an agency operating within his
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administration and answerable to it. At the time, the legislature’s fiscal review committee estimated that expansion would make 144,500 new Tennesseans eligible for healthcare coverage and bring some $1 billion in federal funding into the state, enough to reduce the fiscal strain on the state’s hospitals, which were having to provide free coverage for indigent patients in overburdened hospitals across the state. Within a year, those estimates would rise to 280,000 new coverages and $1.7 billion in annual federal funding. The
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Tennessee Hospital Association, the Tennessee Health Care Coalition, and the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry all lobbied hard for acceptance of federal funds. Initially, polls indicated that Tennesseans wanted the federal plan (as indeed they apparently still do). The major problem was that the 2009 Affordable Care Act, under which the Medicaid expansion was available, was still under siege by Republicans in Washington as “Obamacare,” a term which easily became a rallying point for GOP opposition in red-state Tennessee, as well. Perhaps to propitiate such feeling, the Governor had already rejected the premise of a state-operated healthcare exchange in Tennessee, leaving it to the feds to provide a clearinghouse between insurance companies and customers. On March 27, 2013, Haslam rejected Medicaid expansion under wholly federal auspices, promising instead to seek federal waiver for a “Tennessee Plan” that would allow a voucher option for use with private insurance companies. This is what, a year and a half later, in December 2014, would come forth as “Insure Tennessee,” a plan designed to channel the federal funding
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either into TennCare or into private vouchers. The eventual Insure Tennessee Plan would have secured the same amount of federal funding — at 100 percent of federal funding for three years, and 90 percent thereafter. The grateful institutions that made up the Tennessee Hospital Association guaranteed to pay the state share of 10 percent after the third year — meaning that there would be no additional cost to Tennessee taxpayers, ever. Fatefully, however, after Haslam’s rejection of pure Medicaid expansion in March 2013, leading to largely pro-forma negotiations for a waiver between the Haslam Administration and the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), state Senator Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) pushed through the legislature a bill prohibiting the Governor from acting on his own with regard to Medicaid expansion, as up until then he could have. The Kelsey proposal passed through both houses in Nashville easily, a remarkable rebuke of the Governor, sponsored ironically by a representative from the one Tennessee county — our own Shelby — which would benefit most from Insure Tennessee.
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to nothing more than a bail-out for avaricious and inefficiently run hospitals. Hence the need for a resolution to be approved by the General Assembly, and hence the gauntlet faced by Insure Tennessee during the special session of February 2015, where a home-grown measure desperately sought by the state’s healthcare community — including struggling hospitals in places like Jackson and Savannah — was savaged as “Obamacare” and subjected to doubts made out of pure whole cloth by determined opponents. The feds would renege on their long-range funding, those opponents argued, wholly without any precedent to reason from. In the special session, Brian Kelsey even suggested the whole thing amounted to nothing more than a bail-out for avaricious and inefficiently run hospitals. So here we are in the summer of 2015. With demands for a revival of Insure Tennessee still arising from hospitals and Chambers of Commerce and newspaper editorial boards, from the minority Democrats and from an increasing number of moderate Republicans, and from legions of struggling patients themselves, with the polls showing unmistakably that the people of Tennessee want it, is there any way of getting it? Or must the state abide by Ramsey’s formu-
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la and wait out a two-year ban until the hypothetical election of a Republican president, who would no doubt construct something vastly different upon the ruins of a program by then undermined by reams of cash from the Koch brothers (who famously funded red-shirted activists to flood the hearing rooms and galleries during the special session of February 2015), or sabotaged by a partisan Congress or perhaps even invalidated, this very month, by an unsympathetic Court?* Or will nice-guy Governor Haslam, who stands by his Insure Tennessee program, have something else to say and do about it before all that?
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oes Bill Haslam ever get mad? The question is predicated on what everybody acknowledges is the Governor’s uncommonly sweet and even-keeled disposition and his genuine likeability in both public and private situations. He is the anti-Chris Christie, as it were. Yet there are moments, behind closed doors, when he does let go. In a private session with Democratic leaders in 2011, early in his first legislative session, he accused them of playing hardball with some of his initia-
As nature abhors a vacuum, so does politics, and Haslam would not be lacking a ready supply of antagonists within his own ranks. Some of these were right-wing throwbacks, ideological eccentrics like state Senator Stacy Campfield. tives, raising his voice and expressing something akin to anger. Reports of that session indicate, however, that Haslam’s venting was confined to polite — if modestly agitated — English and that it fell far short of the level established by his gubernatorial predecessor, Nashville Democrat Phil Bredesen, who allegedly stormed into one meeting and jabbed a confrontational finger at GOP Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, shouting, “You [bleeped] me!” In any case, Haslam’s relationship with Democrats would ease, as both he and they came to realize how impotent the Democratic minority in the General Assembly actually was in the wake of the first GOP sweep election of 2010. The second one, in 2012, famously created a Republican super-majority in both Senate and House, forcing the once- dominant Democrats into so accommodating a mode that the grounds for tension virtually ceased to exist. But as nature abhors a vacuum, so does politics, and Haslam would not be lacking a ready supply of antagonists within his own party ranks. Some of these were right-wing
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throwbacks, ideological eccentrics like state Senator Stacey Campfield from former Mayor Haslam’s own home environs of Knoxville. A Tea Party stalwart, Campfield had a penchant for bills that received national attention for their outlandishness, and became embarrassments to the state — like one to ban the word “gay” from use in Tennessee classrooms, and another to strip impoverished families of all state aid if their schoolchildren didn’t make their grades. The governor practiced his customary forbearance until it became practical for him to do something about Campfield. That opportunity would come at the polls in August 2014, when Campfield came up for reelection to another four-year Senate term. And lo and behold, a Republican primary opponent had been found who was, coincidentally or not, a known Haslam friend. This was Dr. Richard Briggs, a respected physician and a former Knox County Commissioner.
Bill Haslam, like all other selfrespecting Republicans in the postReagan era, identifies himself as a “conservative,” though by today’s standards, he would probably qualify for the now-lapsed (and in GOP circles) pejorative term of moderate.
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At a press availability at Memphis in May that year, just as the primary season was about to heat up, Haslam was asked about Campfield’s latest extravagance, a tone-deaf comparison of Obamacare sign-ups to the Nazis’ forced evacuations of Jews to death camps in World War Two. The usually circumspect Governor found his tongue, as they say: “It was wrong and inappropriate and insensitive. When you’re in a public office, our words matter, and when you use words like that [which] are indefensible, it’s wrong. That’s not a statement you can defend.” Asked if he would be taking sides in Campfield’s reelection effort, Haslam contented himself with saying that, as Knoxville mayor, he had worked with Briggs who would bring “a really unique skills set” to the capital. As mild as that endorsement seemed, it sent the necessary signal to Knoxville GOP voters in Campfield’s Senate District 7, who turned out the previously undefeated Campfield by a two-to-one margin. Bill Haslam, like all other self-respecting Republicans in the post-Reagan era, identifies himself as a “conservative,” though by today’s standards, especially when gauged against the current set of right-wing barn-burners in the Tennessee General Assembly, he would probably qualify for the now-lapsed and (in GOP circles) pejorative term of “moderate.” His efforts to move his party at least in the
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consider the Insure Tennessee issue. As an example, the regular nine-member Senate Health Committee, scheduled to have the first say on Insure Tennessee in that body, contained five members, a majority, known or presumed to favor the Governor’s proposal — including the Senate sponsor, Doug Overbey, a moderate Republican from Maryville. Ramsey’s 11-member ad-hoc version of the committee — reshuff led, according to the Senate speaker, so as to insure that all 33 members of the Senate were evenly apportioned on the three committees that could potentially hear the measure — contained from the start a preponderance of addon skeptics regarding Insure Tennessee, enough so that Republican Senator Rusty Crowe of Johnson City, thought to favor the proposal, chose not to waste a vote in bucking the trend. When the resolution came up again in regular session, Crowe was an enthusiastic yes, and the Senate Health Committee, its regular roster restored, voted 7-2 to advance the measure. But, uh oh, Ramsey routed the resolution next to the Commerce Committee, a haven of arch-conservatives, who stomped out the insurrection before it could go further and be voted on in the full Senate. As was the case during the special session, when McCormick had confidently stated as much, there was believed to be a majority in the House in favor of the Insure Tennessee resolution, had the measure ever got that far. The House that convenes for another run at Insure Tennessee in January 2016 will be the same House with the same members. That, however, will be an election year, and a full-fledged presidential-election year at that. In some ways, Governor Haslam in his second term would seem to be in the same predicament as was faced by another Republican governor in recent times — Don Sundquist, whose attempts at revenue-enhancement and tax reform led him away from regressive forms like an ever-increasing sales tax and toward the concept, ultimately, of an income tax. Sundquist would fail to achieve his objective, and would end his second term in 2003 as a pariah in his party. Haslam doesn’t mind hearing himself talked up as a possible GOP vice-presidential candidate in 2016, which many believe is why he skirted the all-powerful NRA’s wrath by signing a gun bill in 2015 that he had publicly deplored. Whatever lies in his future, Haslam surely wants to avoid Sundquist’s fate. But he also genuinely believes in Insure Tennessee and its necessity for his people, and he knows that history will probably regard its fate as central to his legacy. Another legislative session awaits in the crucial year of 2016, and so does another chance for Haslam to define himself for posterity — or not.
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On a quiet street off South Main, the Pontotoc has been part of downtown Memphis for more than a century. The building has a story to tell. And so do the people who’ve made this one-of-a-kind left: Jamie and Leigh Davis relax on the front porch of the old hotel that has served as their home. above: The landmark Hotel Pontotoc sign still stands in front of the historic building, sparking the interest of curious passersby.
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f you’ve ever taken a walk or drive down Pontotoc Avenue downtown, you’ve probably seen the Hotel Pontotoc. Marked by a rusted, aging metal sign out front bearing its name, the towering gray fortress is both conspicuous and not — almost
hidden amid development in the stretch between Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken on
Front Street and Pearl’s Oyster House on South Main. Built in 1906 and known as one of the city’s most elegant and popular bordellos, the Pontotoc has a colorful history. The former hotel, now private home, has been occupied by Leigh Davis — a downtown pioneer in her own right — for more than 30 years. She recently allowed us a glimpse inside and shared what it’s been like living in one of the city’s more unusual historic buildings.
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above left: The Pontotoc’s owner, Leigh Davis, has lived in the former hotel more than 30 years. above right: Through the years, the Pontotoc’s lower level has been a social gathering place and a venue for parties and local bands. The checkered dance floor and raised stage were there when the Davises purchased the property in 1980.
Sitting on a comfy couch in the quiet, cool Pontotoc basement — underground, dimly lit with white string-lights, a few lamps and candles, and just a sliver of sunlight creeping in through the front-door glass — Leigh tells me how she and her ex-husband, Terry Davis, came to find the Hotel Pontotoc. Fans are humming, creating a constant light breeze, which catches her wavy, brownish-blonde hair. She’s soft-spoken and petite, somehow made smaller in the context of the enormous, 10,000-square-foot hotel in which she and her son Jamie live. The two floors above us originally had 18 bedrooms and nine bathrooms. Little has been changed with the exception of tearing down a few walls and a section of second-story floor to make way for the open, two-story garden room. Many of the hotel-room doors that remain still have their original brass numbers on them. At some point there must have been 30 rooms total because in the basement, two doors are still adorned with the 26 and the 30. “Sometimes I have this vision of myself, like a bird’seye view, and I am this little woman on this sofa,” Leigh says, “and going over downtown Memphis, there’s all this stuff going on around me. Beale Street’s three blocks that way. During Memphis in May, at the height of it all, I can be in this room — cool, comfortable — all that can be going on outside, and I don’t even hear it. It’s quiet here. It almost doesn’t gel, but that’s what makes it so cool.” In 1980 when Leigh was just 30, she and Terry decided to make downtown Memphis their home. The area wasn’t what it is today. Before The Peabody hotel and Orpheum Theatre were restored and reopened in 1981 and 1984, respectively, downtown’s streets were
much quieter. And apart from being home to a largely deserted Central Station, South Main was an all but abandoned strip of empty, boarded-up buildings. As they searched for a property — one where they could build a recording studio and comfortably live and raise a family — they scoured every downtown street and toured nearly every building on South Main before driving down Pontotoc Avenue from Front to Main.
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here the Davises found the twostory, raised-basement building, which was then being operated as a nightclub — The Cellar Club — on the lower level. The words “Drinkin’ and Dancin’ Nightly, Open Now 10 a.m. Until” had been not-so-neatly slapped on the building’s front wall with a paintbrush; a rainbow was painted on the west wall near the basement entrance. A sign on the front door read “Under Renovation — For Rent.” The underground nightclub had been open for about 10 months the first time that they stepped inside in June 1980. The interior was black. “Black-light posters of the zodiac sexual positions were hung on the walls,” Leigh says with a laugh. “And everything that was painted was Day-Glo — bright orange, red, green, and blue.” In the center of the room was a raised stage and a checkered-tile dance floor (both of which remain today). Red vinyl booths lined the wall. Where a dining table now stands was a bar and a coin-operated Coca-Cola cooler filled with beer. The basement hallway was deep blue, and Leigh recalls how someone must have thrown flecks of glitter onto the paint before it
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dried. “The ceiling was covered with glitter. It was wild! And that’s what we came into,” she says. But they came into much more than that, and over the years, they’d uncover bits of the hotel’s history. Though early records list the Pontotoc as a boarding house, it is believed that from 1906 until (at least) the late 1920s, it served as a luxurious bordello, complete with Turkish baths. In 1929, Dionysos (Dan) Touliatos bought the property and turned it into a family hotel. He, his wife, and their two children (one of whom was born inside the Hotel Pontotoc) lived there. Leigh recounts stories told to her by a man she called “Mr. Melos,” a Greek who owned the old Melos Taverna in Overton Square, and a Touliatos family friend. “He said this was the social gathering place for Greeks in Memphis. They came to visit the Touliatoses and would sit and drink ouzo,” she says. “They loved the Hotel Pontotoc, so it was established early on as a fun place, as a place where you could relax.” While the Touliatos family occupied the Pontotoc, it also became a place where actors and vaudeville players performing at the nearby Orpheum and other local theatres would stay. The eldest Touliatos son — George, an actor and director — became a pioneer in the regional theatre movement and founded the Front Street Theatre in 1958, which hosted actors the likes of George Hearn, Macon McCalman, Carrie Nye, Barbara Cason, Dixie Carter, Rita Gam, and Dana Ivey. Whether any of them stayed at the Pontotoc is unknown. The Pontotoc was also a temporary home to Mexican artist Dionicio Rodriguez, who came to Memphis in the early 1930s to beautify Memorial Park Cemetery.
The Hotel Pontotoc, with its many rooms and rich history, is the only home Jamie Davis has ever known. Leigh and Terry brought him here from the hospital as a newborn in 1983, and he’s lived here since. Jamie, like his father, is a musician. Today, he plays bass with local bands Zigadoo Moneyclips and Hi-Way Hi-Fi, and drums with Blue Chips, Goldstar Kindergarten, and Moses Crouch. He attributes much of his love for music to having lived in the Pontotoc’s creative and musical environment. “Growing up in this place, having the studio downstairs and constantly being around music, that was definitely a shaping factor,” he says. In more recent years, Jamie has taken over the Pontotoc’s party reins, hosting Halloween and New Year’s shindigs for a new generation. As one could imagine, growing up in an expansive old hotel has been a unique experience. “It’s definitely big, and it seemed even bigger when I was a kid,” Jamie says. Regarding what must have been an ideal place for hide-and-seek, he says, “I remember exploring and playing games with my friends, and it was like a giant playground.” Much of downtown became his playground, too. When he was just 4 years old, he’d ride his tricycle beside his mother as she walked down to Beale Street to meet friends for lunch at Ronnie Grisanti’s. As a teenager, you’d find him biking South Main or sneaking into and investigating some of the street’s abandoned buildings. “I used to go through old buildings a lot when I was younger, especially with my friends,” Jamie says. “We’d find which ones we could get into and look around, see if we could get up to the roof and see what the view was like.” As for views, not much beats a sunset on the Mississippi River, and with the bluff just two blocks west of home, Jamie’s seen many. He’s also watched the neighborhood change and grow alongside him. The emergence of the trolley cars in 1993 and new area restaurants, bars, and retail shops opening over the years have drawn more and more people downtown. But Jamie recalls a time when the Pontotoc was much more isolated. “I remember playing soccer with my friends on Pontotoc Avenue,” he says, “and if the ball would roll out into Main Street, you’d hardly think to look both ways because there just wasn’t going to be a car coming.” Much has changed in the neighborhood, but the Pontotoc still stands strong, a true piece of Memphis history. And Jamie is proud to have been a part of it. “It has definitely been unique, and I wouldn’t want to trade it for anything else.” J U L Y 2 0 1 5 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 99
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During the eight or so years he worked at Memorial Park creating the Crystal Shrine Grotto — a handmade cavern constructed of rock quartz crystal and semiprecious stones — and several on-site sculptures, Rodriguez lived at the Hotel Pontotoc. “The Smythe family brought Dionicio here from Mexico,” Leigh says. “I once ran into Ham Smythe in Midtown. He remembered some of the stories with Dionicio and the Pontotoc. I suppose this was the odd sort of place where they could put up a longtime resident.” Leigh laughs as she tells me she’s yet to find one of Rodriguez’s precious stones. “Any time I was uncovering something,” she says, “I’ve always wondered, are crystals going to fall out?” As for Pontotoc tall tales, there are many, some perhaps even true. One involves Elvis Presley. In a mid-Nineties clip of the CBS Evening News celebrating Elvis Week, Dan Rather referred to the Pontotoc as “the place where Elvis allegedly first made love.” Leigh has seen that story mentioned elsewhere, in various print articles through the years. Seeing as the hotel was purportedly a bordello in its heyday, this very well could be true. Just in case, she has kept one of the hotel’s original iron beds. The Davises, of course, made their own imprint on the Pontotoc. Leigh and Terry got married there, in what was then a recording studio in the basement, in front of 100 guests on July 4, 1981. The Randy Band performed. It also happened to be the day of the first-ever July 4th celebration in Tom Lee Park. Because of that,
the street was busier than usual, and Leigh remembers the strange looks her wedding crowd got from passersby. “It was fun to look at the crowd looking up at us going, ‘What is this place, and who are those people?’ But I still get much of the same,” she says. In the 1980s, the Davises hosted some of the city’s biggest, wildest Halloween parties. So big that Memphis magazine observed (in our October 1984 issue) how difficult it was to get an invite to one. “I still run into people today who say, ‘I was at your Halloween party!’ They were fabulous,” she says. “We always had the best bands, and [the place] was always packed like sardines.
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he Davises moved to 69 Pontotoc at a time when, for many people, “south of Beale Street wasn’t even considered” livable, Leigh says. “But The Peabody was getting ready to reopen, and we just had faith in downtown. Terry jumped right on board, which was part of what attracted us to each other. We were adventurers.” Leigh and Terry became the first non-business residents in the South Main Street Historic District. But it wasn’t until a year or two later, after Annie Mahaffey and Robert McGowan moved into a property on South Main, that the district would be established as such. (Among other urban pioneers of the period, Memphis magazine moved its offices to the South Main district in December 1982; see p. 14.)
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To attract more people to the area, Mahaffey, McGowan, Leigh, and a handful of others formed what is known today as the South Main Street Historic District. “Annie was the first president, and I was the first vice president,” Leigh says. “Then we started having tours.” The first South Main tours were held in the Pontotoc’s basement. They had worked with a videographer to produce a short film, It’s Still Main Street, which consisted of shots of some of the area’s beautiful, unused buildings, accompanied by Memphis-centric music. It played on a loop for the tourists and locals who stopped in. Often, elderly men who had “patronized” the Pontotoc in their youth came by, curious to see what had become of the building. “This is where I learned some of the history of the Pontotoc. From the old-timers,” says Leigh. “One came in and said, ‘This was a fine bordello. They had pretty, pretty girls, but I only know because . . . and his wife said, ‘He delivered papers here.’ And he said, ‘Yep, I only know because I delivered papers here.’” With the tours, they hoped to attract more owner-occupants to South Main. Properties were affordable and perfect for owner-occupancy since many of the buildings were two-story and ideal for operating a business on the lower level and living upstairs. “The problem was that the banks weren’t lending a penny on anything down here,” says Leigh. “That lasted for more than a decade. It was in the Nineties before it started loosening up, and by that time, developers had really gotten a sniff of it.”
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tanding in front of the Pontotoc, it’s not uncommon to see passersby stop and take photos of the building, sometimes even trying to climb the broken staircase in front — it’s covered with honeysuckle and layers of green leaves and purple vinca in the spring — to get a picture on the porch of this seemingly empty, almost spooky-looking historic landmark. But if one were to pay closer attention, there are tell-tale signs that someone lives there: cars in the driveway and what Leigh calls her “secret garden” on the building’s west side. A gravel lot when they moved in, apart from a fig tree likely planted by one of the Pontotoc’s previous Greek owners, Leigh has transformed the side yard into a little garden oasis. She had topsoil and manure brought over in trucks to get started many years ago. Today, 13 trees — oak, cedar, catalpa, holly, redbud, tulip poplar — stand tall, their sprawled branches and hanging leaves providing a canopy of greenery and shade. Rose of Sharon, columbine, wild Louisiana iris, wisteria, hydrangeas, hostas, ferns, jasmine, and roses bloom with the seasons. “I’ve had many different varieties in the garden, but as the trees grew and things changed with nearby development, I don’t have much sun back here anymore,” says Leigh. “Still, it has morphed into a small forest.” Standing on the raised deck overlooking the garden,
above: Upstairs is the sun-lit, two-story garden room — Leigh calls it “bohemian” — filled with the family’s art and antique treasures. The large painted panels originally came from The Peabody.
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Ghosts of the past
o story about the Pontotoc is complete without mention of ghosts. If you Google “Hotel Pontotoc,” much of what comes up are haunted Memphis ghost tour webpages and alleged ghost stories. The hotel was a stop on local ghost tours for a while before Leigh heard them talking about demons pestering the woman who lived there, and she had to set the record straight. In the early years, she admits to feeling “a little creepy” in the dark and maybe seeing a shadowy figure out of the corner of her eye a time or two, but nothing has ever made her feel afraid. “There’s so much that went on here, I don’t discount that there could be some spirits here,” says Leigh. “But the feeling I have is that I’m protected by them in a way. I’ve been here 30 years. They’re cool with me, and they know that, I guess, if it wasn’t for me, this place would have probably been torn down and turned into condos like next door. The energy is positive. But the spirits just don’t find any way to give me any money,” she laughs. As for ghost stories, only one may have real merit. As the story goes, a man named Sidney, who lived next door to the Pontotoc, had been the hotel’s caretaker, “bringing in the coal,” Leigh says. It is believed that he died in a fire in the boiler room. According to a 2008 blurb in Memphis Downtowner, a 1947 death certificate lists a man named Sidney who lived at 305 S. Front and died “about home” as the result of an accident in which his “clothes caught fire.” Leigh says, though, “There’s no smell of burning flesh as some of the tour guides have
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ooking forward, Leigh’s dream for the Pontotoc’s future isn’t far from the one she and her husband had when they bought the place in 1980. Back then, Terry was a musician and an audio/video technician, and they set up a recording studio where several local artists recorded during the Eighties. Tons of bands played their Halloween and New Year’s parties. “It was always about home and music,” Leigh says. They had big plans to renovate the second floor and replace all of the old windows, and as they were working, Leigh says, “We thought, ‘Oh, we’ll be through with this in a year!’ When you’re young and inspired, you have a lot of ambition and think you can do anything. But it’s a big place, and it’s expensive.” The old building definitely needs some love. And Leigh would like to be able to open it to the public. She isn’t interested in selling, but wouldn’t mind someone helping to show her the way. She envisions opening the basement floor as an intimate live music venue, maybe even live streaming shows to a larger audience online. She wants to redo the rooms on the upper level and open it as an Airbnb. “I’d like to be able to rent those rooms out,” Leigh says. “It’s a great place to stay, and I think it’d be pretty well booked.” “It has always been a very creative place. It has great karma,” she says, “and I’d like to share it.”
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THE CHARLES RETINA INSTITUTE, founded in 1984, is proud to serve the citizens of Memphis and the Mid-South with adult and pediatric Vitreoretinal medical and surgical consultations daily. We specialize in the treatment of retinal detachments, diabetic retinopathy, macular degeneration, retinopathy of prematurity, macular surgery as well as other retinal and vitreous problems. Our physicians are innovators, true leaders and educators on Vitreoretinal surgery. Dr. Charles is a Mechanical and Electrical Engineer and developed the majority of technology and techniques used by Vitreoretinal Surgeons worldwide. Our textbook, Vitreous Microsurgery, currently in its 5th edition, has been translated into six languages and has been a leading source of retina surgery education worldwide since Dr. Charles’ first edition in 1981. We are committed to providing the best level of retina care available and to have the top medical retina technology for our patients. We are available for medical and surgical consults and second opinions.
CHARLES RETINA INSTITUTE Left to right: Steve Charles, M.D., Jorge Calzada, M.D., and Mohammad Rafieetary, O.D.
6401 Poplar Ave., Suite 190 Memphis, TN 38119 901.767.4499 • charlesretina.com
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COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE: THE ART OF PATIENT CARE The highly skilled physicians and medical staff at GI Specialists Foundation are experts in helping prevent, diagnose, treat, and cure everything from heartburn to intestinal cancers. What distinguishes our team of doctors, nurses, technicians and anesthetists is an unwavering commitment to patient care. Patients receive ample time to ask questions and discuss concerns in an unhurried, nurturing environment. We understand how frustrating and unsettling it can be to wait days for test results, so we use the most proficient labs to deliver test results as quickly as possible, often within 24 hours. You’ll appreciate the convenience of our on-site surgical center, fully equipped with the latest diagnostic and surgical equipment. To ensure maximum safety and comfort our certified anesthesia specialists monitor patients throughout their entire procedure. For added convenience choose from our other satellite locations: Brighton, Collierville, Covington, Millington, and Marion, Arkansas. YOU CAN PREVENT COLORECTAL CANCER! A colonoscopy takes just 15 minutes and could save your life — screenings are recommended for everyone 50 years or older. Polyps detected before they become cancerous are the best way to prevent colon cancer. Whether you’re seeking prevention, diagnosis or treatment, call us today to schedule your appointment — or visit us online for more detailed information. GI Specialists Foundation is proud to be a member of Baptist Medical Group; we accept most insurance plans.
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BMG/GI SPECIALISTS FOUNDATION, INC. Left to right: Gerald Lieberman, MD; Rande Smith, MD; Paul Bierman, MD; Ken Fields, MD; Edward Friedman, MD
MAIN OFFICE AND SURGERY CENTER: Baptist East, 80 Humphreys Center Suite 200, Memphis, TN 38120 901.201.6200 www.gispecialistsmemphis.com
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A CANCER DIAGNOSIS can be a life-changing event for patients and their families. Patients need the most advanced treatment and doctors they can trust. The Integrity Oncology Foundation, a member of the Baptist Medical Group and the Baptist Cancer Center, offers comprehensive support in the areas of oncology, hematology, immunotherapy and rheumatology. Our board-certified team includes Earle Weeks, MD, Suhail M. Obaji, MD, Margaret Gore, MD and Drew S. Dill, MD. Each doctor offers an impressive depth of knowledge, familiarity with the latest technology and a compassionate culture to personally tailor treatment to a patient’s diagnosis. Their work is augmented by three board-certified nurse practitioners; Amy Harris, APN, Loretta Shamley, APN, OCN and Aaron Harris, APN. Our qualified staff and state-of-the art diagnostic and medical facilities offer a warm, comfortable and caring environment. Integrity Oncology Foundation offers four convenient locations in Memphis, Collierville, West Memphis, and Union City. Call 901.853.6012 to schedule a diagnostic consultation or visit us at www.IntegrityOncology.com.
INTEGRITY ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION Standing: Suhail M. Obaji, M.D., Aaron Harris, N.P., A. Earle Weeks, M.D., and Drew S. Dill, M.D. Seated: Margaret Gore, M.D. and Loretta Shamley, N.P.
901.853.6012 • IntegrityOncology.com
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“EVERY PATIENT SHOULD be offered the highest quality of dento-facial treatment options,” says Dr. John Reddick. “Service, quality, a commitment to excellence and an artistic passion are compelling principles with which I pursue appearance-related portrait dentistry. The general goal is to help each patient restore and retain teeth for life, with maximum comfort, function, health, and aesthetics.” Dr. Reddick has trained with and mentored some of the world’s most prominent cosmetic dentists, orthodontists, pain and TMD specialists, implantologists, and prosthodontists. He is a fellow in the Academy of General Dentists and a founding and accredited member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentists. Dr. Reddick has been honored by his peers as a Top Dentist in Memphis since the inception of the awards and is greatly appreciative of the recognition. Thirteen-year practitioner Dr. Mark MacGaw will bring his expertise in comprehensive dentistry and join practices with Dr. Reddick in the fall of 2015. A native Memphian, Dr. MacGaw trained at Boston University and the University of Tennessee. His approach starts with getting to know his patients and listening to their concerns, and his passion for dentistry emerges in delivering the utmost level of treatment with gentle, compassionate care. A perpetual student, he continues to train with elite dentists across the country. He is also a member of the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, and will be pursuing accreditation. “Outside the office, you are likely to find me at the zoo with my wife and three young kids, the dog park, running on the Greenline, or at the FedExForum cheering on the Griz,” says Dr. MacGaw. “I am thrilled to be partnering with Dr. Reddick, Memphis’s leading cosmetic dentistry expert, and am also appreciative of again being named a Top Dentist.”
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JOHN REDDICK, DDS AND MARK MACGAW, DDS
6750 Poplar Avenue, Suite 700 Forum 1 Building Memphis, TN 38138 901.754.3033 (MacGaw) 901.761.3726 (Reddick) confi-dentsmiles.com drjohnreddick.com
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KIDNEY CARE CONSULTANTS, PC is a comprehensive medical practice specializing in the diagnosis and management of Hypertension and Kidney Disease. We are committed to providing our patients with the best specialized care. Our board-certified nephrologists include Dr. Omar Hamze, Dr. Rehan Shafique, Dr. Minesh Pathak, and joining us this summer will be Dr. Mark Nader. We also have two nurse practitioners on our team: Karen Reames and Dorothy Alexander, each with nearly a decade of nephrology experience. Dr. Hamze founded Kidney Care Consultants in 2008 and has been practicing nephrology since 2004. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology and the American College of Physicians. He has been voted as one of the Mid-South’s “Top Docs” in nephrology for the past two years. This is an honor bestowed upon him by his peers. Dr. Rehan Shafique is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Nephrology. He has special expertise in the field of transplant nephrology. Due to his strong background, he works closely with patients pertaining to a wide variety of renal disorders. His areas of interest include management of chronic kidney disease, electrolyte and glomerular disorders.” Dr. Shafique has a strong background in renal transplantation and works closely with our post-transplant patients. Dr. Minesh Pathak has been practicing nephrology since 2006. During his fellowship at UMMC, he worked on a highly published study determining the association of fluid weight gain in severely sick patients with sepsis and cardiac disease. His goal is directed towards early intervention of severely sick patients and a strong emphasis in minimizing risk of progression of chronic kidney disease. We have several convenient locations: 3950 New Covington Pike Suite 300, 6025 Walnut Grove Rd. Suite 400 at Baptist Memphis, 2076 Union Avenue Suite 201, and a Ripley, TN location: 868 Hwy 51 South. We provide a wide range of services: Nephrology consultations, Hypertension consultations, Renal Transplant Management, Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis Management and End Stage Renal Disease classes. To learn more, please visit our website at kidneycarememphis.com or call us at 901.382.5256. 110 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • J U L Y 2 0 1 5
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KIDNEY CARE CONSULTANTS, PC Left to right: Rehan Shafique, M.D., F.A.S.N, Dorothy Alexander, A.N.P., Omar Hamze, M.D., F.A.S.N., F.A.C.P., Karen Kimbley Reames, A.N.P., Minesh Pathak, M.D. Not Pictured: Mark Nader, M.D.
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TOGETHER KIT S. MAYS, M.D. AND MOACIR SCHNAPP, M.D. have created what is now the oldest and most well-regarded pain management facility in the Mid-South. Dr. Mays’ and Dr. Schnapp’s clinical and pharmacologic research and pioneering work in nerve blocks spans over three decades. Effective treatment requires comprehensive evaluation by experienced physicians. The patients seen by Dr. Mays and Dr. Schnapp have access to diagnostic expertise gained from years of interventional pain management. For the best clinical outcome and functional improvement, diagnosis and treatment may include nerve blocks, medication management, and physical therapy. The physicians confer to make decisions on patient care. They are a perfect balance as personality opposites, but in pain management, they have one focus: relieving the suffering patient and meeting the challenges of the patient in pain. Their interest also extends to the design, development and production of rehabilitation instruments for the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome. They broke new ground together, and now continue in their indefatigable quest for answers and advances in the treatment and management of patients with pain. Each patient is treated individually with compassion, and always see a physician on each visit. Mays and Schnapp Pain Clinic and Rehabilitation Center is the only CARF certified outpatient pain clinic in the state as well as the region and is a Tennessee certified pain management clinic. The physicians’ private practice, physical therapy, and ambulatory surgery center are all in one convenient location. When the problem is pain, we’re here to help: world class care in the heart of the Mid-South.
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MAYS AND SCHNAPP PAIN CLINIC AND REHABILITATION CENTER Left to right: Moacir Schnapp, MD and Kit S. Mays, MD
55 Humphreys Center Drive Suite 200 Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.0040 www.maysandschnapp.com
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DR. ARCOT has six board certifications including interventional cardiology, cardiology, venous disease, vascular, and endovascular medicine. He received his cardiovascular training at the University of CaliforniaSan Francisco and has trained several practicing cardiologists in peripheral vascular percutaneous intervention. Dr. Arcot was voted most Compassionate Doctor 2010-2014 on Vitals.com. Memphis Cardiology and Vein Center was voted among the best clinics in the Commercial Appeal 2014 and 2015. At Memphis Vein Center, we treat all types of vascular problems from the simple to the very complex including varicose veins, DVT, peripheral arterial disease, and leg ulcers. Dr. Arcot and his highly qualified medical team, who are board certified in their respective fields, offer comprehensive treatment for all vascular conditions including venous and arterial diseases. Varicose veins are abnormal veins that occur in the legs. They can be small, thin, purple lines (called spider veins), or they can appear as thick, bulging, or knotty veins. SYMPTOMS OF VARICOSE VEINS: • Achy, tired, heavy feeling in the area of the varicose veins • Leg cramps, restless legs at night
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• Burning or throbbing pain along with swelling of the legs • Itching, rashes, bleeding • Discoloration of the foot • Non-healing ulcers • History of blood clots While most people think that varicose veins are simply a cosmetic issue, an underlying medical problem often causes varicose veins; it’s called venous reflux/venous obstruction. In a normal vein, valves work to move the blood back to the heart. When a valve malfunctions it causes the blood to pool in the vein, a disorder known as venous insufficiency, which causes varicose veins. The procedure is covered by most insurance companies. Memphis Vein Center is the only outpatient stateof the- art accredited vascular facility (ICAVL) to offer all modalities to treat varicose veins, including endovenous laser ablation treatment (EVLT), radio frequency (VNUS) and venous stenting for MayThurners syndrome, as well as ultrasound guided sclerotherapy, and a microsurgical procedure called phlebotomy. Please visit memphisvein.com for further information about varicose veins including personal testimonials and before-and-after pictures.
MEMPHIS VEIN CENTER Back row: Ashley Treadaway, Precious Wright, Alina Toun, Julie Changkachith; Middle row: Whitney Bates, Casonya Jordan, Kishore K. Arcot, M.D., F.S.V.M., Rebecca Alsup, Cathy Chandler, Lindsey Mack, Front row: Amanda Anderson, Kristy Farmer, Velkeda Jackson, Katie Hume; Not pictured: Melissa O’Quinn, Leigh Anne McGill
6005 Park Avenue Suite 225B Memphis, TN 38119 901.767.6765 www.memphisvein.com
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PROACTIVE HEART & VASCULAR OFFERS comprehensive Cardiac and Vascular care, advanced treatment for Varicose Veins and Cosmetic Spider Veins and advanced treatment for Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD). We are honored to be recognized as a Top Doc for the second consecutive year. We feel fortunate and privileged to be the recognized Venous Insufficiency and Varicose Vein treatment leaders of the Mid-South. At ProActive we offer the truly personalized attention that you deserve to address the vascular cause of your leg symptoms, be it your arteries or your veins, in addition to comprehensive cardiac care from prevention to cutting-edge treatment. We take the time to get to know you as a person and to explain your vein issues and the options we can offer to provide you the relief you so deserve so you can get back to the active lifestyle you once had. We pride ourselves in fully discussing the veins you can’t see beneath the skin that are the frequent cause of leg discomfort, swelling, Charlie horse, and disturbed sleep such as restless legs that are such common problems for so many people. Dr. Nelson’s expertise is in Preventive Cardiology, General Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, Peripheral Vascular Disease, and Varicose Veins and Cosmetic Vein Treatments. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, General Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology, Vascular Medicine, and Endovascular Disease. Originally from New York, Dr. Nelson earned his medical degree at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Nelson continued his training at Emory University for his fellowship in General Cardiovascular Disease and then completed advanced fellowship training in Interventional Cardiology, Vascular Disease, and Peripheral Vascular Interventions at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard University.
PROACTIVE HEART & VASCULAR Michael A. Nelson, M.D.
7751 Wolf River Boulevard Germantown, TN 38138 901.297.4000 901.531.8344 (f) proactivehv.com
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UT REGIONAL ONE PHYSICIANS is an academic physician group offering expert care with the patient at the center of every decision. Regional One Health and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) partnered to form UT Regional One Physicians to enhance the delivery of healthcare throughout the region. UT Regional One Physicians offers primary care and more than 20 medical specialties including cardiology, obstetrics/gynecology, maternal fetal medicine, urogyneology, hematology, surgery, in vitro fertilization and rheumatology. Through a true partnership, UT Regional One Physicians is a smart approach to integrating an academic mission and personalized physician care to improve patient outcomes and the health of the community. With more than 180 physicians and advanced practitioners, UT Regional One Physicians is the largest academic-affiliated physician organization in the Mid-South. All physicians in UT Regional One Physicians are UTHSC faculty members. To find a UT Regional One Physicians provider, visit UT-ROP.org.
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UT REGIONAL ONE PHYSICIANS First row, L-R: Richard Gray, M.D., Colin Howden, M.D., Owen Phillips, M.D., Santhosh Koshy, M.D. Second row, L-R: Susan Brewer, M.D., James Bailey, M.D., Giancarlo Mari, M.D., Claudette Shephard, M.D. Third row, L-R: Laura Sprabery, M.D., Victor Feldbaum, M.D., Daniel Martin, M.D., Jenny Wang, M.D., Luis Gomez, M.D. Fourth row, L-R: Manoj Mazumder, M.D., Muhammad Afzal, M.D., Christopher Sharp, M.D.
880 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38103 6555 Quince Road, Memphis, TN 38119 UT-ROP.org
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A REPUTATION FOR EXCELLENCE, BUILT ONE PATIENT AT A TIME Tabor Orthopedics is a group of physicians specializing in the care of a broad spectrum of orthopedic complaints. Our physicians are trained in the latest techniques and have come to Memphis from some of the premier training institutions in the country. Established in 1998 by Dr. Owen Tabor Sr., Tabor Orthopedics has grown to include seven exceptional physicians, each one highly trained and dedicated to delivering world-class care to each patient. At Tabor Orthopedics you are not just another patient but an individual deserving to be treated with the utmost compassion and respect. We believe in educating each patient so as to arm them with the knowledge required to not only understand their problem, but also to participate in the decision-making process with regard to the treatment they will receive. While we are staffed with some of the finest surgeons in the area, our philosophy is that all non-surgical treatments should be explored prior to proceeding with surgical intervention. Our highly trained, in-house physical therapists are standing by to assist you in avoiding surgery if possible and to helping you recover from surgery when and if it does become necessary. A comprehensive approach to treatment is critical for achieving successful outcomes and our team of doctors and therapists are here to assist you when you need us. We are also strongly committed to our referring physicians and want to be easily accessible to them and to make sure that any patient referred will be seen within 24 hours of the referral. At Tabor Orthopedics we have built our reputation for excellence one patient at a time and we remain steadfastly committed to serving our community of physicians and patients.
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TABOR ORTHOPEDICS Left to right: Dr. Jay M. Saenz, Dr. Greg Wolf, Dr. Tyler Cannon, Dr. Judith R. Lee-Sigler, Dr. Owen B. Tabor, Jr., Dr. Robert P. Lonergan, Dr. Sam Schroerlucke
EAST MEMPHIS 1244 Primacy Parkway, Memphis, TN 38119 901.767.8662 BARTLETT 2996 Kate Bond Rd., Ste. 305, Memphis, TN 38133 901.377.5330 www.tabororthopedics.com
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ALAN O. BLANTON, DDS, MS DR. ALAN BLANTON has been in private dental practice since 1983 and has been selected every year by his dental peers as one of the Memphis Area’s Top Dentists since 2008. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine. His practice has concentrated on cosmetic and general dentistry for the past 32 years and he consistently surpasses the minimum required hours of continuing education in dentistry and sleep medicine in order to offer the latest techniques and technology to his patient family. In 2007 he expanded his practice and began treating patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and Primary Disruptive Snoring with custom-designed oral appliances that can be just as effective as traditional CPAP therapy, especially for those patients who have been diagnosed with OSA but have not been able to tolerate CPAP. Come and experience the difference modern dentistry has to offer in services and patient care. Experience Aesthetic Dentistry of Collierville and Mid-South Snoring and Sleep Apnea Dental Treatment Center.
Aesthetic Dentistry of Collierville, PLLC Mid-South Snoring and Sleep Apnea Dental Treatment Center 362 New Byhalia Road, Collierville, TN 38017 901.853.8116 • (f) 901.853.0134 www.mycolliervilledentist.com www.myapneadentist.com
CHRISTOPHER COOLEY, DDS WHEN YOU VISIT THE OFFICE of Dr. Christopher Cooley, you become part of a caring dental family. Along with his highly trained, professional staff, Dr. Cooley is committed to listening to your needs and providing care that works for your lifestyle. Our team believes our patients should feel informed and comfortable at every step of their dental treatment. We believe that when our patients are relaxed and happy, they maintain better oral health. Dr. Cooley takes the time necessary to constantly improve his skills and the technological capabilities of the practice. He has trained with many of the best clinicians in the country, and insists on the best materials and highest quality lab work available. Thereby, you benefit from the latest treatment techniques, including innovative advances in patient comfort, the highest-quality and longest-lasting materials, and the most aesthetically pleasing results. Dr. Cooley is a lifetime Memphian who graduated in 1976 with honors from the University of Tennessee Knoxville, then from the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry in 1982. Dr. Cooley has undergone training with the Hornbrook Group and PAClive, the country’s top program for hands-on continuing education for dentists. Dr. Cooley is also a proud member of: the American Dental Association, American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, Tennessee Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry and the Crown Council. These organizations keep Dr. Cooley abreast of developing studies in the fields of cosmetic, restorative and general dentistry. Dr. Cooley always welcomes new patients into his office with most referrals coming from existing, very satisfied patients. The highest compliment we receive is when our patients refer their family and friends.
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HUGH FRANCIS, III, MD HUGH FRANCIS IS A fourth generation Memphis surgeon who is certified by The American Board of Surgery, Incorporated, in both Surgery and Vascular Surgery. He strives to achieve both excellent surgical results and risk minimization. To accomplish these goals, Dr. Francis uses honest preoperative assessment of surgical necessity, meticulous surgical technique, and careful postoperative management. His group, Memphis Surgery Associates, provides the foundation for any such success. Its congeniality, teamwork, and support make consistent excellence in patient care a reality. A dedicated general surgeon, Dr. Francis commonly treats diseases of the gallbladder and thyroid. He frequently performs abdominal operations, hernia repairs, and access procedures for both hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Dr. Francis has been married for thirty-two years and is a member of Independent Presbyterian Church. He enjoys the outdoors and attending sporting events with his family. Go Grizzlies.
Memphis Surgery Associates, PC An Affiliate of Saint Francis Medical Partners 6029 Walnut Grove Road Medical Plaza #3, Suite 404 Memphis, TN 38120 901.726.1056 • memphissurgery.com
DR. JAMES BLATCHFORD, III DR. JAMES, W. BLATCHFORD, III; Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon has been voted by his peers as one of the Memphis area Top Docs for the past two years. His practice started here in Memphis in 2012 after a move from Montgomery, AL, but he has been in practice since 1994. Dr. Blatchford obtained his undergraduate degree from Duke University, and obtained his medical degree from Duke University School of Medicine. The mission of the practice is to enhance the well-being of our patients. Our services include surgical disease of the heart, lungs and blood vessels. We perform coronary artery bypass surgery, valve surgery, lung surgery, chest and abdominal aneurysms (endovascular stents), peripheral vascular procedures, and others. Our expertise, caring, and quality go hand in hand to provide best care possible. We provide services to cities and rural area surrounding Memphis as well as Eastern Arkansas and Northern Mississippi. We work closely within referring physician networks creating seamless communication for our patients. Our healthcare network includes medical assistants, nurses, physician assistants, primary care and cardiology physicians. Dr. Blatchford welcomes new patients into his office, most often by physician referral, but also self-referrals or referrals from existing patients.
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JOSHUA KATZ, MD, FACS, FASCRS JOSHUA KATZ, MD IS CERTIFIED by the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. He graduated from Yale University and obtained his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College. He completed a residency in General Surgery at New York University Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital Center. He underwent fellowship training in Colon and Rectal Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida and served an additional year as Clinical Associate for the Department of Colorectal Surgery. He practiced colorectal surgery in Rockville, Maryland for 10 years. His professional interests focus on the surgical treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, rectal cancer, fecal incontinence, and constipation. Dr. Katz joined Memphis Surgery Associates in 2013. Dr. Katz is married and has three daughters and one cocker spaniel. His hobbies include history and hiking.
Memphis Surgery Associates, PC An Affiliate of Saint Francis Medical Partners 6029 Walnut Grove Road Medical Plaza #3, Suite 404 Memphis, TN 38120 901.726.1056 • memphissurgery.com
DR. JUSTIN MONROE DR. JUSTIN MONROE IS a lifelong resident of Memphis. He received his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and went on to attend the University of Tennessee Medical School here in Memphis. He completed a residency in general surgery through UT-Memphis and then went on to obtain advanced fellowship training in colon and rectal surgery through Baylor University in Dallas, Texas. He is board-certified in both general and colorectal surgery. Dr. Monroe is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. His practice is devoted to the treatment of surgical diseases of the colon and rectum, which includes the diagnosis, treatment and management of colon and rectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis), as well as common problems such as hemorrhoids, anal fissures, and fistulas. Dr. Monroe has a particular interest in sphincter preserving surgery, rectal cancer, and the surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Monroe lives in the Memphis area with his wife and two children. While his dedication to his patients keeps him very busy he enjoys being outdoors, gardening, and finding new places to eat.
Memphis Surgery Associates, PC An Affiliate of Saint Francis Medical Partners 6029 Walnut Grove Road Medical Plaza #3, Suite 404 Memphis, TN 38120 901.726.1056 • memphissurgery.com
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MINESH PATHAK, MD KIDNEY DISEASE IS an often unrecognized, silent disease caused by uncontrolled high blood pressure and diabetes. The diagnosis and treatment of kidneyrelated diseases requires an in-depth evaluation of various risk factors. Obesity, vascular abnormalities, autoimmune diseases, and kidney stones have been linked to renal failure. Dr. Pathak is a boardcertified Nephrologist and member of The American Society of Nephrology and The National Kidney Foundation. He provides compassionate care with the highest-quality treatment of kidney disease. His goal is to provide early, preventive education along with diagnosis and relevant treatments of specific conditions to lessen the risk of progression to kidney failure and to improve a patient’s quality of life. Dr. Pathak takes great interest in understanding the needs of his patients and providing them with quality care with the least invasive treatment.
Kidney Care Consultants 6025 Walnut Grove Road, Ste. 400 Memphis, TN 38120 901.382.5256
NIDAL RAHAL, MD, FAAFP, ABFM, ABHPM DR. NIDAL RAHAL has been in private medical practice for 18 years. His specialty is in Family Medicine, Geriatrics, Hospice and Palliative care with special interests in elderly population. Dr. Rahal provides a unique practice module, combining inpatient geriatric practice at Methodist Germantown Hospital with outpatient clinical practice in his office and multiple assisted living facilities in the city of Memphis, Germantown and Olive Branch. He is board certified in family practice, hospice care and palliative medicine. Dr. Rahal finished his residency at UT, Family Medicine department in 2002, Geriatrics medicine Fellowship at UT, Knoxville 2002-2003. His professional memberships include American College of Physicians, American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Medical Association. Dr. Rahal is a Clinical Assistant Professor for UT, family medicine department. He considers it an honor to help tutor and guide medical students, interns, and residents in experiencing family practice medicine first hand. Dr. Rahal is the Medical Director of crossroads Hospice and The Village of Germantown. Dr. Rahal strive, to provide all of his patients with the best possible medical care, personal touch and an exceptional experience. He looks forward to serving you and those you love.
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PHILLIP R. LANGSDON, MD, FACS DR. PHILLIP LANGSDON HAS provided world-class expertise in facial cosmetic surgery for over 25 years. He is the only surgeon in this area of the nation whose practice has been limited to plastic surgery of the nose and face. He has been voted a member of “America’s Top Plastic Surgeons” and “America’s Best Doctors”. The Langsdon Clinic has been voted ‘Best Cosmetic Surgery’ in the Commercial Appeal for the past five years. The Langsdon Clinic is solely specialized in the face, eyelids and nose. Seeing each person’s face as unique, Dr. Langsdon treats the common and the complicated cases. Dr. Langsdon is board certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. The Langsdon Clinic’s on-site, state licensed surgical center is private for strict confidentiality and focused care. Dr. Langsdon and his team of experts use state-of-the-art equipment and believe in providing natural results, compassionate care, in a comfortable, personal, private, and convenient atmosphere.
7499 Poplar Pike, Germantown, TN 38138 901.755.6465 • www.drlangsdon.com
GRISELLE FIGUEREDO, MD, AAFP
JENNIFER D. COCHRAN, DDS, PLC
SPECIAL INTEREST: Anti-Aging, Preventive Medicine, Hormonal balance and Functional Medicine BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Academy of Family Physicians, eligible for certification in Anti-aging and Functional Medicine FELLOWSHIP: Currently enrolled in the Fellowship of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) and the Metabolic Medicine Institute MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, Age Management Medicine Group, American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine, Committee on Public Health, Scientific Affairs & Preventive Medicine, World Organization of Family Doctors
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Family and cosmetic dentistry, education and prevention, minimally invasive treatment, Invisalign braces EDUCATION: University of Tennessee College of Dentistry, DOCS BOARD CERTIFICATION: Board certified in general dentistry, Invisalign certification, certified green dental practice MEMBERSHIPS: American Dental Association, Tennessee Dental Association, Memphis Dental Society, EcoDentistry Association, Donated Dental Services
Anti-Aging, Functional Physician
OPTIMUS HEALTH 1352 Cordova Cove, Germantown, TN 38138 901.832.7229 (text messages only) • optimushealthfirst@gmail.com
Dentistry - Family & Cosmetic
EVERGREEN FAMILY DENTISTRY 1723 Kirby Parkway, Memphis, TN 38120 901.757.9696 • www.EvergreenFamilyDentistry.com
ELIZABETH H. LEE, DDS
KENAN CLINTON, DDS
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Cosmetic smile design, Comprehensive restorative dentistry EDUCATION: Christian Brothers University, #1 in class at University of Tennessee College of Dentistry MEMBERSHIPS: Am. Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, Am. Dental Assoc., Tennessee Dental Assoc., Memphis Dental Society, Am. Assoc. of Women Dentists, Fellow of the Am. College of Dentists PERSONAL INTERESTS: Health and nutrition, mission trips to Kenya, spending time at the lake ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Now offering dental implants. Experienced in Six Month Smiles adult braces. Licensed in conscious sedation.
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Endodontics EDUCATION: University of Tennessee, B.S., Science; University of Tennessee Dental School; University of Alabama at Birmingham, certificate in postgraduate endodontics. MEMBERSHIP: American Association of Endodontists, Tennessee Dental Association. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Dr. Clinton enjoys spending time with his family and participating in dental mission trips to Honduras
Dentistry - Cosmetic & General
DR. LEE’S BEAUTIFUL SMILES 5180 Park Avenue, Suite 280, Memphis, TN 38119 901.763.1600 • www.elizabethleedds.com
General Dentistry
6401 Poplar Ave Suite 260 Memphis, TN 38119 901.682.8847 • (f) 901.682.8891
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FAUZIA KHAN, DDS
RANDY VILLANUEVA, MD
EDUCATION: UT-Memphis College of Dentistry DDS, Post-Graduate General Practice Residency at St. John’s Mercy Med Ctr in St. Louis, MO, B.S. from Christian Brothers University. BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: General Dentistry & Licensed in Conscious Sedation MEMBERSHIPS: American Dental Association, Memphis Dental Society, the American Association of Women Dentists, Tennessee Dental Association
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Adult Disease and Geriatric Care BOARD CERTIFICATION: Internal Medicine EDUCATION: University of Santo Tomas College of Medicine, Philippines. Residency at St John’s Episcopal Hospital, New York MEMBERSHIPS: American College of Physicians and American Medical Association, Student Brotherhood of Titans Fraternity ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Traditional Internal Medicine/ Primary Care practice, both office and hospital base, visits several assisted living facilities and retirement homes. President of East Memphis Internal Medicine.
General Dentistry
MACON ORAL CARE 8095 Macon Road, Suite #109, Cordova, TN 38018 • 901.756.9150 www.maconoralcarecordova.com • maconoralcare@yahoo.com
Internal Medicine
EAST MEMPHIS INTERNAL MEDICINE 6027 Walnut Grove, Suite 317, Memphis, TN 38120 901.818.3921
THOMAS P. CHU, MD
ALLISON STILES, MD, FAAP
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Office-based dermatologic and cosmetic surgery; tumescent liposuction, follicular unit hair restoration surgery, botulinum toxin, filler injections and laser surgery for: tattoo removal, laser resurfacing of acne scarring and wrinkles, treatment of spider veins, sun freckles and birthmarks – featuring the Picosure Laser BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Internal Medicine and Dermatology FELLOWSHIP TRAINING: Cosmetic Surgery
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Adolescents, obesity, breastfeeding BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Pediatrics, Internal Medicine EDUCATION: B.S. Biochemical Engr., University of Missouri, Columbia. M.D. at University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Residency at University of Illinois, Chicago MEMBERSHIPS: Memphis Medical Society, Memphis Pediatric Society, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians/ASIM, Consultant to TN Breastfeeding Hotline, and Chair of Shelby County Breastfeeding Coalition
Dermatologic & Cosmetic Surgery
520 Trinity Creek Cove, Cordova, TN 38018 901.755.2511 • (f) 901.758.1965 www.drthomaschu.com
Internal Medicine & Pediatrics
MEMPHIS INTERNAL MEDICINE AND PEDIATRIC ASSOCIATES 1325 Eastmoreland, Suite 585, Memphis, TN 38104 901.276.0249 • (f) 901.276.0996
HERBERT A. TAYLOR III, MD
HIEU QUANG VO, MD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Gynecology care, Duke University alumnus BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Clinical Teaching Facility Department of OB-GYN, University of Tennessee, Memphis ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 40 years of clinical practice and senior partner with Mid-South OB-GYN. P.C. Named among the physicians rated highest by patients for overall experience of care, according to a national survey conducted by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and endorsed by the National Quality Forum. Hobbies include: golf, reading and fine dining
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Nephrology; kidney disease; geriatrics BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Internal Medicine with subspecialty certification in Geriatrics and Nephrology FELLOWSHIPS: (Nephrology) UTHSC, Memphis; (Geriatrics) Northshore-Long Island Jewish Health System Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Manhasset, New York MEMBERSHIPS: American College of Physicians; American Society of Nephrology; American Geriatrics Society; National Kidney Foundation
Gynecology
MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com
Nephrology
UT MEDICAL GROUP, INC. NEPHROLOGY 1325 Eastmoreland Avenue, Suite 220, Memphis, TN 38104 901.866.8810 • (f) 901.302.2445 • www.utmedicalgroup.com 57 Germantown Court, Ste 100, Germantown, TN 38138 901.866.8810 • (f) 901.302.2575 • www.utmedicalgroup.com
SAM OLU FALEYE, MD, FACP
JAGANNATH H. SAIKUMAR, MD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Adult primary care, telemedicine, EHR interoperability, healthcare IT consulting BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Internal Medicine, Board Eligible American Board of Preventive Medicine in Clinical Informatics MEMBERSHIPS: Fellow, American College of Physicians, American Telemedicine Association, American Medical Informatics Association
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Peritoneal dialysis; home hemodialysis; continuous veno-venous hemodialysis; sustained low-efficiency hemodialysis; sustained low-efficiency hemodialysis with regional citrate; anticoagulation; arteriovenous fistula & graft angioplasty; thoracocentesis; abdominal paracentesis BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Internal Medicine with subspecialty certification in Nephrology FELLOWSHIPS: (Advanced Nephrology) Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
Internal Medicine & Clinical Informatics
PRIMEHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER, P.C. 6637 Summer Knoll Circle, Suite 101, Memphis, TN 38134 901.372.5260 • www.primehealthclinic.com
Nephrology
UT MEDICAL GROUP, INC. NEPHROLOGY 880 Madison Avenue, Suite 5C01, Memphis, TN 38103 901.866.8810 • www.utmedicalgroup.com 1325 Eastmoreland Avenue, Suite 220, Memphis, TN 38104 901.866.8810 • (f) 901.302.2445 • www.utmedicalgroup.com J U L Y 2 0 1 5 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 121
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BRIAN J. MCKINNON, MD, FACS
MIRIAH B. DENBO, MD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Hearing loss prevention, management by medical or surgical treatment, and recovery via Cochlear Implants & Bone Anchored Hearing Systems, inner ear disorders, balance, and surgery EDUCATION: MD at Boston University, Residency at Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Virginia, MBA at Johns Hopkins University FELLOWSHIP: (Neurotology) University of Virginia BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and Neurotology (only Board Certified Neurotologist in Memphis area) MEMBERSHIPS: Fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgeons, the Triological Society, the American Neurotology Society, and the American College of Surgeons, Member of the Memphis Medical Society and Tennessee Medical Association
SPECIAL INTERESTS: General obstetrics and gynecology, contraceptive management, basic infertility and reproductive endocrinology, and minimally invasive treatments including laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and robotic-assisted procedures BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology HOBBIES: Reading, camping, and hiking
Neurotology/Otology
SHEA EAR CLINIC 6133 Poplar Pike, Memphis, TN 38119 901.761.9720 • http://sheaclinic.com/ear-doctorbrian-mckinnon.html
Obstetrics & Gynecology
ADAMS PATTERSON GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS Baptist Women’s Hospital 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Ste. 301, Memphis, TN 38120 Methodist Germantown Hospital 7705 Poplar Ave., Building B, Ste. 220, Germantown, TN 38138 adamspatterson.com • 901.767.3810
SHARON A. BUTCHER, MD
THOMAS D. GREENWELL, JR., MD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: General obstetrics and gynecology, high-risk obstetrics, and minimally invasive treatments including laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and robotic-assisted procedures BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology HOBBIES: Running, cycling, cooking, and spending time with her family and friends
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Complete obstetrics & gynecology care for women of all ages BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, diplomate; American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology, fellow ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: University of Tennessee Ob-Gyn Residency site director at BHW, 2001 to present; chairman of BHW Informatics Committee for Medical Staff, Metro Board of Trustees, Baptist Memorial Healthcare; & managing partner of Mid South OB-GYN
Obstetrics & Gynecology
ADAMS PATTERSON GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS Baptist Women’s Hospital 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Ste. 301, Memphis, TN 38120 Methodist Germantown Hospital 7705 Poplar Ave., Building B, Ste. 220, Germantown, TN 38138 adamspatterson.com • 901.767.3810
Obstetrics & Gynecology
MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com
JUDI CARNEY, MD
REGINA G. HEALY, MD
SPECIAL INTEREST: General OB/GYN, Preconception Counseling and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Medical School at the University of Virginia; Residency at UT Memphis: Assistant Residency Site Director at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women: President of Medical Staff at Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Minimally invasive surgery including laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and robotic-assisted procedures, high-risk obstetrics, long-acting birth control, and vaginal revitalization with the MonaLisa Touch Laser BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology HOBBIES: Running, cooking, spending time with her husband and 3 children
Obstetrics & Gynecology
MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com
Obstetrics & Gynecology
ADAMS PATTERSON GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS Baptist Women’s Hospital 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Ste. 301, Memphis, TN 38120 Methodist Germantown Hospital 7705 Poplar Ave., Building B, Ste. 220, Germantown, TN 38138 adamspatterson.com • 901.767.3810
B. TODD CHAPPELL, MD
CANDACE HINOTE, MD, MPH
SPECIAL INTERESTS: General and high-risk obstetrics, minimally invasive procedures including robotic-assisted procedures as well as in office procedures. He now also specializes in Single-Site® “virtually Scarless” Robotic surgery BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology HOBBIES: Exercise, Golf, attending University of Memphis & Grizzlies games
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Obstetrical and high-risk pregnancy care, long-acting reversible contraceptive options, menopausal care, MonaLisa Touch, minimally invasive surgery, adolescent care and education RESIDENCY: University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis MEMBERSHIPS: Diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, American Congress of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, American Institute of Ultrasonographic Medicine ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Clinical faculty for UT Memphis, MPH in Epidemiology from New York Medical College, Award for Excellence from UTHSC in Reproductive Endocrinology 2011 HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: Methodist Germantown Hospital and Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
Obstetrics & Gynecology
ADAMS PATTERSON GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS Baptist Women’s Hospital 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Ste. 301, Memphis, TN 38120 Methodist Germantown Hospital 7705 Poplar Ave., Building B, Ste. 220, Germantown, TN 38138 adamspatterson.com • 901.767.3810
Obstetrics & Gynecology
MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com
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MARY KATHERINE JOHNSON, MD
W. DAVID STINSON III, MD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Obstetric care for low and high risk pregnancies, contraception, gynecologic care and surgery, including office and minimally invasive procedures EDUCATION: University of Memphis, BS; University of TN Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Memphis, MD and Residency training in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology MEMBERSHIPS: Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society; Am. College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, junior fellow; Am.Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine; Am. Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: Methodist Germantown Hospital and Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
SPECIAL INTEREST: Robotic Hysterectomy, complete obstetrics and gynecology care, PCOS EDUCATION: Vanderbilt University, University of Memphis, UT Medical School, Stanford University, and Louisiana State University BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women; Methodist Germantown Hospital; St. Francis Hospital – Bartlett
Obstetrics & Gynecology
MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com
Obstetrics & Gynecology
315 South Walnut Bend Rd., Cordova, TN 38018 901.755.8880 • (f) 901.755.8366 • wdavidstinsonmd.com
M. LEIGH KEEGAN, MD
TANJA TODD, MD, FACOG
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Menopause, vaginal and pelvic surgery, contraception, STD education, evaluation, and treatment, routine and high-risk obstetrics, and abnormal pap smears BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology HOBBIES: Reading, riding horses, and raising animals
SPECIAL INTEREST: Gynecology and Obstetrical Care, Menopausal Care, Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery. BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology EDUCATION: Memphis State University, University of Tennessee, M.D. PRIVILEGES: Methodist Germantown Hospital, Baptist Memphis Hospital, Baptist Women’s Hospital, Memphis Surgery Center, and Germantown Surgery Center. HOBBIES: Quilting, sewing, reading, and various charities.
Obstetrics & Gynecology
ADAMS PATTERSON GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS Baptist Women’s Hospital 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Ste. 301, Memphis, TN 38120 Methodist Germantown Hospital 7705 Poplar Ave., Building B, Ste. 220, Germantown, TN 38138 adamspatterson.com • 901.767.3810
Obstetrics & Gynecology
GERMANTOWN OB, GYN PLLC 7516 Capital Drive, Germantown, TN 38138 901.753.4200
T. FRANKLIN KING, MD
LEAH C. TONKIN, MD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: General & high-risk obstetrics, gynecology, & pelvic surgery, minimally invasive pelvic surgery including lap hysteroscopy, and vaginal revitalization with the MonaLisa Touch Laser BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology HOBBIES: Golf, reading, running, and attending Memphis Redbirds & Auburn football games ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: He has been named one of the Top Docs in Memphis Magazine two years in a row
SPECIAL INTERESTS: General obstetrics and gynecology, adolescent gynecology, vaginal revitalization with the MonaLisa Touch Laser, high-risk obstetrics, and minimally invasive surgery including laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and robotic-assisted procedures BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology HOBBIES: Health and fitness, cooking, reading, and photography
Obstetrics & Gynecology
ADAMS PATTERSON GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS Baptist Women’s Hospital 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Ste. 301, Memphis, TN 38120 Methodist Germantown Hospital 7705 Poplar Ave., Building B, Ste. 220, Germantown, TN 38138 adamspatterson.com • 901.767.3810
Obstetrics & Gynecology
ADAMS PATTERSON GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS Baptist Women’s Hospital 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Ste. 301, Memphis, TN 38120 Methodist Germantown Hospital 7705 Poplar Ave., Building B, Ste. 220, Germantown, TN 38138 adamspatterson.com • 901.767.3810
PAUL NEBLETT, MD
JUDITH J. WILLIAMS, MD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Obstetrics care for low-and high-risk pregnancies. Gynecology, preconceptual planning and contraceptive management EDUCATION: Fellow, American College of Obstetrics & Gynecologists; diploma from American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology AWARDS: Recipient of the Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women Physicians Champion Award & the Louie C. Henry Excellence in Teaching Award. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: University of Tennessee – Memphis Clinical Teaching Facility Department of OB/GYN
SPECIAL INTERESTS: High-risk obstetrics, basic infertility, adolescent medicine, menopause, and minimally invasive surgery including laparoscopy, hysteroscopy, and robotic-assisted procedures, and vaginal revitalization with the MonaLisa Touch Laser BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology HOBBIES: Running, spending time with her family
Obstetrics & Gynecology
MID-SOUTH OB/GYN 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 100, Memphis, TN 38120 901.747.1200 • (f) 901.747.1221 • www.midsouthobgyn.com
Obstetrics & Gynecology
ADAMS PATTERSON GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS Baptist Women’s Hospital 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Ste. 301, Memphis, TN 38120 Methodist Germantown Hospital 7705 Poplar Ave., Building B, Ste. 220, Germantown, TN 38138 adamspatterson.com • 901.767.3810 J U L Y 2 0 1 5 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 123
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S. GREGORY PORTERA, MD, FACOG
ROBERT M. PICKERING, MD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Urogynecology & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery, General Gynecology BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American College of Obstetrics & Gynecology FELLOWSHIP: Urogynecology & Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: University of Tennessee, Dept of OBGYN, Memphis, Section of Urogynecology HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS: Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women, Methodist Germantown Hospital MEMBERSHIPS: ACOG, SGS, American Urogynecologic Society
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Medical Society, Arthroscopy Association of North America, Regional Mid-America Orthopaedic Association LICENSURES: TN, MS
Obstetrics & Gynecology Urogynecology
CENTER FOR URINARY & PELVIC DISORDERS 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 110, Memphis, TN 38120 901.227.9610
Orthopaedics
ORTHO ONE 99 Market Center Drive, Collierville, TN 38017 • 901.861.9610 9085 E. Sandidge Center Cove, Suite 200, Olive Branch, MS 38654 • 662.890.2663 www.orthoone.org
CARL E. FLINN, MD
NEAL S. BECKFORD, MD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Pediatric Ophthalmology and Adult Strabismus EDUCATION: University of Tennessee/Memphis, M.D.; Georgia Tech, B.S.; residency: Medical College of Georgia, chief resident BOARD CERTIFICATION: Ophthalmologist FELLOWSHIP: Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Voice and Swallowing Disorders, Head and Neck Surgery, Thyroid and Parathyroid Disease, Medical and Surgical Treatment of Paranasal and Sinus Disease BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Otolaryngology EDUCATION: Ohio State University, Howard University, MD MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, American Head and Neck Society, American College of Surgeons, Bluff City Medical Society, TN Board of Medical Examiners
Ophthalmology — Pediatric
773 Estate Place, Memphis, TN 38120 901.681.4040
Otolaryngology
Otolaryngology Associates of the MidSouth 7675 Wolf River Circle, Germantown, TN 38138 901.737.3021 • entmidsouth.com
W. MURRAY BUTLER, DPM
THOMAS E. LONG, MD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Podiatry / Ankle and Foot Surgery BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons MEMBERSHIPS: Tennessee Podiatric Medical Association, American Podiatric Medical Association, American Podiatric Sports Medicine Association, Associate of American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Dr. Butler is an avid runner and participates in triathlons locally
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Pediatric Otolaryngology, Ear and Sinus Surgery BOARD CERTIFICATION: American Board of Otolaryngology EDUCATION: BS Tennessee Wesleyan College, MD University of Tennessee MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, American College of Surgeons ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Lifelong Tennessean in ENT practice for over 35 years, Active in leadership in surgery department at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and Surgery Center for many years, Clinical staff at University of Tennessee ENT residency training program.
Podiatry
ORTHO ONE 99 Market Center Drive, Collierville, TN 38017 • 901.861.9610 9085 E. Sandidge Center Cove, Suite 200, Olive Branch, MS 38654 • 662.890.2663 www.orthoone.org
Otolaryngology
Otolaryngology Associates of the MidSouth 7675 Wolf River Circle, Germantown, TN 38138 901.737.3021 • entmidsouth.com
JEFFREY A. DLABACH, MD
NANCY A. CHASE, MD, FAAP, FACC
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Orthopaedic surgery, sports medicine BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, CAQ Sports Medicine MEMBERSHIPS: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Arthroscopy Association of North America, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine LICENSURES: TN, MS
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Pediatric Cardiology for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology MEMBERSHIPS: American Heart Association, American College Of Cardiology, American Academy of Pediatrics, Memphis Journal Review Club, Friends of Mei-Ann Chen (MOS), Piper, Wolf River Pipes & Drums BOARD MEMBERSHIPS: Memphis Medical Society, Memphis Acoustic Music Association, Memphis Chamber Music Society
Orthopaedics
ORTHO ONE 99 Market Center Drive, Collierville, TN 38017 • 901.861.9610 9085 E. Sandidge Center Cove, Suite 200, Olive Branch, MS 38654 • 662.890.2663 www.orthoone.org
Pediatric Cardiology
NANCY A CHASE, MD, PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY 805 Estate Place, Memphis, TN 38120 901.287.4150 • (f) 901.287.4153
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RONALD J. JOHNSON, MD, FACS
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Congenital Heart Disease, Advanced Cardiac Imaging, Echocardiography, Fetal Echocardiography, Cardiac MRI, Screening and Prevention of Sudden Death in Athletes. FELLOWSHIPS: UT Health Science Center (Pediatric Cardiology and General Pediatrics), Harvard University and Children’s Hospital Boston (Pediatric Cardiology/Cardiac MRI) BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Pediatric Cardiology and General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Serving Memphis, North and Central Mississippi, and West Tennessee
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Aesthetic facial surgery and body contouring BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Diplomate, American Board of Surgery, 1978-1989; Diplomate, American Board of Plastic Surgery, 1981 (Lifetime) MEMBERSHIPS: American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, American Society of Plastic Surgeons, American Association of Plastic Surgeons; Fellow, College of Surgeons
Pediatric Cardiology
MEMPHIS PEDIATRIC HEART 6215 Humphreys Blvd., Suite 211, Memphis, TN 38120 • 901.259.2440 4428 S. Eason Blvd. Suite B., Tupelo, MS 38801 2892 South Lamar Blvd., Oxford, MS 38655 • 901.259.2440 • www.mpheart.com
Plastic Surgery
7910 Wolf River Blvd., Germantown, TN 38138 901.737.1050 • www.cosmedex.com
SONIA M. ALVAREZ, MD
PETROS KONOFAOS, MD, PHD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Aesthetic surgery; adult and pediatric reconstructive surgery; breast surgery BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Surgery and American Board of Plastic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American College of Surgeons; Association of Women Surgeons; American Medical Association
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Migraine surgery; craniofacial surgery; maxillofacial surgery; pediatric plastic surgery; microvascular surgery, nerve microsurgery; reconstructive surgery BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: Greek Boards of Plastic Surgery; European Boards of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery FELLOWSHIPS: (Microsurgery) UTHSC, Memphis, TN (Pediatric & Plastic Surgery & Craniofacial Surgery) UTHSC, Memphis, TN (Maxillofacial & Adult Craniofacial Surgery) UTHSC, Memphis, TN MEMBERSHIPS: Athens Medical Association; Hellenic Society of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery; World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
Plastic Surgery
UT MEDICAL GROUP, INC. UNIVERSITY PLASTIC SURGEONS 1068 Cresthaven Road, Suite 500, Memphis, TN 38119 901.866.8525 • (f) 901.302.2525 • www.utmedicalgroup.com
Plastic Surgery
UT MEDICAL GROUP, INC. UNIVERSITY PLASTIC SURGEONS 1068 Cresthaven Road, Suite 500, Memphis, TN 38119 901.866.8525 • (f) 901.302.2525 • www.utmedicalgroup.com
UZOMA BEN GBUILE, MD, FACS
ROBERTO D. LACHICA, MD
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Aesthetic surgery; cleft lip & palate surgery; skin cancer reconstruction; body contouring surgery; flap reconstruction of complex wounds; head and neck reconstruction BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Surgery and American Board of Plastic Surgery FELLOWSHIPS: (Craniofacial surgery) UTHSC, Memphis and Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris, France MEMBERSHIPS: Fellow, American College of Surgeons; American Society of Plastic Surgeons (Candidate Member); AMA
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Aesthetic reconstructive breast surgery; body contouring; facial rejuvenation; cosmetic surgery; reconstructive surgery of the upper and lower extremities BOARD CERTIFICATIONS: American Board of Plastic Surgery MEMBERSHIPS: American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons; American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons; American Society of Plastic Surgeons; Association of Academic Chairmen of Plastic Surgery; American College of Surgeons
Plastic Surgery
UT MEDICAL GROUP, INC. UNIVERSITY PLASTIC SURGEONS 1068 Cresthaven Road, Suite 500, Memphis, TN 38119 901.866.8525 • (f) 901.302.2525 • www.utmedicalgroup.com
Plastic Surgery
UT MEDICAL GROUP, INC. UNIVERSITY PLASTIC SURGEONS 1068 Cresthaven Road, Suite 500, Memphis, TN 38119 901.866.8525 • (f) 901.302.2525 • www.utmedicalgroup.com
WILLIAM L. HICKERSON, MD, FACS
EDWARD LUCE, MD
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These local medical practitioners have chosen to share their expertise in an array of specialty areas, giving insight into cutting-edge technology and elective procedures, things you should discuss when visiting your doctor, risk factors for certain conditions, and what you should expect along the way. Visit memphismagazine.com/blogs/ask-the-expert to read the full Q&As from these featured experts.
DR. CHAPPELL TALKS ABOUT MENOPAUSE
DR. FLORES DISCUSSES DIABETES AND YOUR EYES
Are there other effective options to treating menopausal symptoms aside from hormones?
What is diabetes and how can it affect my eyes?
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DR. KUTTEH DISCUSSES INFERTILITY AND IN-VITRO ISSUES
DR. MINESH PATHAK TALKS ABOUT CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE
What are the causes for infertility? In vitro fertilization is a medical treatment for many forms of infertility that involves the combination of human eggs and sperm ‘in vitro’ to form an embryo. The resulting embryo is later transferred into the uterus to grow and develop into a baby. It is a highly technical treatment that involves a team of specialists. Dr. William H. Kutteh, MD, In the beginning in vitro fertilization PhD, HCLD was used as the ‘last resort’ treatment, Fertility Associates of Memphis, Managing Partner but it is rapidly becoming a first line therapy for many couples having and Director of Recurrent difficulty conceiving. In most cases, Pregnancy Loss Center couples will initially attempt to get 80 Humphreys Center pregnant using oral or injectable Suite 307 medicines to enhance ovulation. These Memphis, TN 3812 steps are often supplemented with 901.747.2229 intrauterine insemination. fertilitymemphis.com
Diabetes is a disease in which the sugar level in our blood stream is too high. When we have diabetes, our pancreas either does not make enough insulin to lower blood sugar levels (typically type I diabetes), or there is a diminished response to insulin called “insulin resistance” (typically type II diabetes). Diabetes can cause several eye conditions such as cataracts (a clouding of the eye’s lens), glaucoma (optic nerve damage from eye pressure changes), and retinopathy (damage to the retina). Damage to the retina is the most common eye condition related to diabetes, in which the elevated sugar levels destroy the blood vessels in our eyes and cause them to leak.
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The goal is to minimize rapid progression of chronic kidney disease so we can delay the need for dialysis. Usually for kidney function more than 20 percent, you may not require dialysis or a kidney transplant. In recent years, innovation has improved the quality of life for those patients who require dial y si s t reat men t . D ial y si s i s considered to carry out the role of your kidneys to filter and remove waste products and excess fluid buildup. It has also been effective in maintaining quality of life and survival and is considered a bridge for those who are qualified for a kidney transplant. Routine surveillance and follow-up is necessary.
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ASK VANCE
Bruno’s By-Ryt Our trivia expert solves local mysteries of who, what, when, where, why, and why not. Well, sometimes.
When it opened in the mid-1950s, the Park Manor shopping center was on the outskirts of town. Today the neon Cosmorama sign (above) beckons new generations of shoppers. DEAR VANCE: I recently purchased this nice old photograph showing a grocery store called Bruno’s By-Ryt. Where was it located, and who was Bruno? — d.w., memphis.
That is indeed a fine photograph, because it depicts one of our city’s rare examples of so-called “googie” architecture, which featured loops and parabolas and ellipses and other space-age design elements. Just look at the crazy arches on what otherwise would be a rather mundane grocery store. This photograph would look very fine hanging on the wall of the Mansion, so I would be pleased to offer you, say, $12 for it. Okay, $14, but that’s my final offer. I know it’s a lot of money to consider, so think about it and we’ll discuss this later, in private. It wasn’t too hard to determine that Bruno was the last name of a fellow named George Bruno, since the letters “Geo.” are clearly mounted on the front and sides of the building. I hate to give away my hard-earned secrets of historical detection, but in this case I don’t mind. DEAR D.W.:
Bruno was born in 1908. I don’t know where form something of a grocery cooperative. he grew up, or where he went to school, or Since the families actually owned their stores, much about his upbringing. But I managed to and because so many of them — including find an old Press-Scimitar article Bruno — were of Italian descent, that gave me some details that they named their chain WeOna may interest my half-dozen (“We own a store”), which sounds readers, so I suppose I can like something Chico Marx share them here. I really have would say, but I think it’s one of our city’s best business names. nothing else to do before my So anyway, he started out at a usual three-hour lunch. According to the newspaper little WeOna store, and then just article, Bruno had been in the a few years later he bought a grocery business since he was larger one, at 934 East McLemore. just 16 years old. “He got his At the time, Bruno and his wife, start sweeping floors for P.C. Mary, were living practically nex t do or, at 104 4 Ea st Santi at Trigg and Wellington,” McLemore, which must have said the newspaper. “In 10 years he had worked his way up to been a convenient arrangement. “The only real meat cutter for the same grocer.” In the 1950s, Memphis began hobby I have is the In 1943 Bruno had apparently its rapid expansion eastward, and earned enough money as a Bruno followed the trend. First, grocery business. butcher that he was able to purhe moved to a nice home on — George Bruno Highland Park Place. Then, in chase his own grocery at 1097 Rayner. This was WeOna Store #14, and I 1955 he became one of the first merchants — if should explain that in the early 1900s, several not the first — to move into the stunning new dozen small groceries banded together to Park Manor shopping center, at 5043 Park.
BRUNO’S BY-RYT PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY DOUG WEATHERS. FOUNTAIN PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL. SIGN PHOTOGRAPH BY VANCE LAUDERDALE
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Now you have to remember that this area of East Memphis wasn’t developed at this time, so this was a rather bold move on his part. Sure, it’s a great location today, but back then he was almost out in the middle of nowhere. If you drove east on Park, you crossed a little intersection at Perkins, and the next road was Colonial. Berean Baptist Church was on your left, and you passed Carlysle Strickland’s gas station. That was it. Mt. Moriah hadn’t reached south as far as Park, and Woolco and the Eastgate Shopping Center were still years away. You finally encountered — it would have been hard to miss, with those swooping arches — Bruno’s By-Ryt, and the next business along Park was Michael’s Esso Station. It’s almost hard to imagine how lonely this location was in the 1950s, considering how quickly other companies began to move to Park Avenue. Within just a few years, Park Manor was home to Jones Watch Repair, Kay’s Bakery, White Station Pharmacy #2, Frank’s Salon of Beauty, Cavalier Cleaners, Romeo’s Children’s Wear, Sue-Ann’s Clothing, Campbell & Good Hardware, and Ben Franklin Five and Dime. That was just the first wave. Still to come were such fondly remembered East Memphis establishments as Park Manor Hobby Shop and McLemore Florist. And of course, Bruno’s choice of a location “way out east” was vindicated when the sprawling Eastgate Shopping Center, complete with Woolco and Morrison’s Cafeteria, opened right across the street. And what about Bruno himself? “Mr. Bruno is not familiar with the customary 40-hour work week,” said a newspaper article. “He puts in six days of work each week, many of those days longer than eight hours. Mrs. Bruno, too, works in the store.” He managed to take some time off. “Occasionally, he slips away from work at the store and then goes home and works with the trees and shrubbery around his home. He follows sports, but he says, ‘The only real hobby I have is the grocery business.’” In the early 1960s, the store expanded, adding a By-Ryt Snack Bar Restaurant. But by 1965, the city directories show he had retired from the only business he had ever known. A fellow named John Roberson took over the By-Ryt on Park and ran it for a few years, but by the 1970s, it was no longer a grocery; Dowdle Sporting Goods moved into that location. It remained vacant for a few years, but Country Boy Water Beds moved there in 1986, and other businesses in that block included the Art Center, Youth Mart, Super Cuts, Video Place Rentals, and Honey-Baked Hams. Today, the old By-Ryt is home to Tan-n-Go and an assortment of smaller business. And George Bruno? After he left Park Avenue, he continued to dabble in the grocery business, serving as president of the WeOna chain, which at one time included 136 stores in the Memphis area. A Press-Scimitar story noted
that he “likes to travel in the family car, and has already seen 43 states.” That wasn’t part of a plan to see the entire country, he said. “It just happened that way.” Bruno passed away in 1989 at the age of 81. The wonderful architecture that beckoned customers to his grocery store has not only survived, it’s been embellished. In 2001, a local developer revitalized the old Park Manor shopping center with bright colors and eye-catching neon. Now called the Park Cosmorama, it’s still attracting shoppers more than half a century after it first opened. George and Mary Bruno would be pleased, I think.
Lyceum Lions
DEAR VANCE: I have always been intrigued
by the old fountain that stood by First Tennessee Bank at Poplar and Mendenhall, adorned with a grouping of stone lions’ heads, and I’ve been told those sculptures originally came from an old building downtown. True? — t.s., memphis.
That fountain was a nice touch, as shown in this photo from a 1974 St. Mary’s yearbook, though the basin was filled in years ago. Fortunately, the lions have survived, still mounted on that wall. These heads (and a row of others) once adorned one of our city’s most popular buildings. Erected in 1907, the Goodwyn Institute was a gift to this city from William Adolphus Goodwyn, a rather generous fellow — in that DEAR T.S.:
regard, much like the Lauderdales — since he left money for Memphis to build an eightstory educational edifice though he lived here only a few years. The Goodwyn Institute was erected downtown at 165 Madison. It was a handsome structure, all red brick and gleaming white terra-cotta, and inside was a 900seat auditorium, library, meeting rooms, and other public facilities. Throughout the years, the Goodwyn Institute Lecture Series, which featured anything from discussions on art to photographs from somebody’s travel adventures, were marked on everyone’s calendars. But over time, such entertainment began to lose its appeal. I remember my own lecture, “Bound for Glory: The Elementary School Days of Vance Lauderdale,” attracted less than 20 people. So in the early 1960s, when First Tennessee Bank needed space for a major new downtown headquarters, they purchased the old Goodwyn Institute and pulled it down. The lecture series found a new home at the University of Memphis, four of the columns across the front of the building now support the portico of a home in Central Gardens, and as you’ve noticed, three of the lion heads decorate the brick wall at First Tennessee. Hmmm, I wonder what happened to the rest of them?
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BOOKS
The Pale North of Poplar Steve Stern’s latest book is a history of the Pinch. Or is it a novel about the Pinch? It’s both.
by leonard gill
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ack in 1968, Lenny Sklarew was 21 and working in a dusty, rarely visited to give the work a ‘metafictional’ stamp and secondhand bookstore called the Book Asylum on North Main Street, seems a deliberate pandering to the fashion Memphis. The neighborhood, known as the Pinch, had started out Irish, of the day. Still, though I judge the book to be finally a curio without enduring literary but beginning in the late nineteenth century it was home to many of the city’s merit, it would be ungenerous not to newly arrived Russian Jews. Those were the days of hard-working, tight-knit concede that it nevertheless deserves its families who held firm to their faith and their traditional ways. By the late moment in the court of popular opinion, and ’60s, however, the Pinch had fallen on hard times — empty buildings, vacant I have forwarded The Pinch to my agent with lots, deserted streets, but for bohemians, there was a bar called 348, which is that endorsement.” The endorsement worked. The Pinch was where Lenny did some side work selling drugs (when he wasn’t hanging out published. Some reviewers praised its with a Midtown rock band called Velveeta and the Psychopimps). Lenny, “kaleidoscopic nature.” Others thought it the however, had a manuscript on his hands. Could there be money in that too? product of a “puerile sensibility.” Some comThe book was a history of the Pinch written decades earlier by a man named Muni Pinsker. Or was Muni’s book a novel? Either way you looked at, Lenny (who was mysteriously featured in the book as well) was hoping to get it published. So he sought the opinion of the celebrated Memphis writer and pipe-smoking Southern gentleman known for his multivolume history of the Civil War. Surely that man of letters could get the attention of possible agents and publishers. Lenny gave him a copy of the manuscript, titled The Pinch: A History; a Novel, and waited for a reply. He got one, and it’s worth quoting in full: “I’m afraid this reader’s tastes tend too much toward the traditional to allow for a plenary appreciation of the liberties Mr. Pinsker has taken with narrative convention. Nor am I a fan of violating common reality with such liberal incursions of the preposterous; whatever claims the book makes to historical authenticity are patently absurd. However, I am not entirely unaware of certain trends in contemporary culture, and I suspect there are camps in which Mr. Pinsker’s brand of whimsy might be indulged. I suppose there are even those who might take some pleasure in the calculated ingenuousness of the author’s voice, despite its clannish ethnicity. That said, I found the inclusion in the text of a character I assume is yourself to be a needless contrivance: it’s a gimmick clearly designed
plained of its “tribal” content. In the court of public opinion, however, good word of mouth grew. The Pinch achieved minor cult status. Lenny Sklarew was finally making not a lot but some money. Except he really wasn’t. The above success story wa s a c t u a l ly a m o r phine-induced dream. Lenny was in the hospital recovering from the beating he took from Memphis police during the melee that erupted between demonstrators and officers during the march led by Mar tin Luther King Jr. in support of the city’s striking sanitation workers. What’s more, Lenny’s leg was broken, but it wasn’t on account of the beating. It was the fault of an ambulance, whose doors accidentally opened on the way to the hospital. The stretcher, with Lenny strapped to it, f lew out, which explains what the st r etcher wa s d o i ng heading west on Madison
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Avenue — and into eastbound traffic. What is the real fate of The Pinch: A History; a Novel by Muni Pinsker? That’s for readers of The Pinch: A History; a Novel (Graywolf Press), the latest by native Memphian Steve Stern, to discover. And yes, you have every right to be already thoroughly confused. But some of what that Civil War historian said of Lenny’s manuscript might be said of Stern’s novel too — as Stern himself is abundantly well aware. “Liberal incursions of the preposterous”? “Clannish ethnicity”? Okay, but seen in those terms, that would go for Stern’s entire body of wildly imaginative work, work that earned him the National Jewish Book Award in 2000, the praise of Susan Sontag and Cynthia Ozick, and the attention of The New York Times, which once described Stern as a “literary darling looking for dear readers.” Stern has been teaching at Skidmore College for years, but his imagi nation has never strayed far f rom his hometown, the Pinch, and its f ictional denizens. In The Pinch, the major characters include, in addition to L en ny (a n E a st Memphis boy) and Muni (a refugee from Siberia): P i n c h a s P i n s k e r, “pioneer Ashkenaz” in Memphis, survivor of the yellow fever epidemic of 1878, and owner of Pin’s General Merchandise; Pinchas’ formidable Irish wife, Katie; the couple’s son, Tyrone, liberator at the gates of Dachau, longtime resident of the West
Tennessee insane asylum in Bolivar, and the calculated to be at the dead center of it); artist responsible for illustrating Muni’s man- Avrom Slutsky, concentration camp survivor uscript; Jenny Bashrig, Muni’s girlfriend and and owner of the Book Asylum (formerly Pin’s a tightrope walker General Merchandise); Stern has been teaching at who later joins a riverand a blind, AfricanA mer ic a n fid d ler boat circus; Rachel Skidmore College for years, but his Ostrofsky, a Brandeis named Asbestos. imagination has never strayed far grad who’s researchAmong the addifrom his hometown, the Pinch, and tional, minor characing the history of the ters … well, they Pinch and wounding, its fictional denizens. repeatedly, the heart number in the dozens, of Lenny Sklarew; Rabbi Eliakum ben Yahya chief among them Rose and Morris Padauer, and his band of Hasidic zealots (who are who, in a hypnotic state and after enjoying a awaiting the apocalypse, with Memphis floor show performed by the New Pygmy Minstrels, conceive a child on the roof of The Peabody, and Hershel Tarnopol, a chronic shoplifter, who gets swallowed, Jonah-like, by a giant fish on the first evening of Rosh Hashanah, the Days of Awe, the fish materializing out of the muddy Catfish Bayou, just north of the Pinch. “It’s this stupid street that’s drove you nuts,” Jenny at one point tells Muni, who is driven half-crazy to finish his history, The Pinch, “a mishmash of stories that needed only some designated scribe to apprehend and record them for all time.” And speaking of time — in The Pinch it’s elastic. It contracts. It stretches to infinity. Things happen chronologically. Or are they happening simultaneously? The oak tree in Market Square? Even nature can be uprooted, overturned. North Main Street itself? It can turn into a waterway. And sometimes, heaven and earth can meet midway. Which brings us to the Pinch today, in real life. And there you have it: not the fictional catfish breaking the surface of Catf ish Bayou, but another giant. You know the one. It’s a big bass several stories above the city. It’s on steel pyramid that overlooks a neighborhood, the one (in the words of Muni Pinsker) “that they called the Pinch,” the ghost neighborhood described by its designated scribe, Steve Stern, in The Pinch: A History; a Novel, which is indeed a kaleidoscopic curio but one with great literary merit.
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DINING OUT
Hot Dog! Memphis restaurants gussy up summertime’s party in a bun.
by pamela denney | illustrations by anna rose
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ot dogs seem caught these days in a bit of a conundrum. Do they wait patiently inside their 10-packs for summer, when Americans down 7 billion of them between Memorial Day and Labor Day? Do they duke it out at ballparks and backyard barbecues for top-dog status with regional toppings like steamed onions and deli mustard in New York, or chili, cheese, and jalapenos in Texas? Or do hot dogs, including the South’s slaw-topped beauties, simply relax and enjoy their new celebrity status as comfort food lovingly reinvented by nostalgic chefs?
In Memphis, hot dogs take on multiple roles as humble harbingers of summer and highfalutin superstars costing $10 each. I can vouch firsthand, because over the course of two weeks, my husband and I ate several dozen hot dogs, determined to discover the city’s very best. What I thought would be a straightforward task quickly got complicated beginning with the definition of what makes a hot dog a hot dog. Is a corn dog a hot dog? What about pigs in blankets, those prosaic appetizers from 1960s cocktail parties, or chicken sausages tucked into spicy onions on soft squishy buns? Ultimately, we left sausages for a later story and settled on sensible criteria: Buns, toppings, and hot dogs made with cooked or smoked meat or poultry (yes, the utilitarian hot dog uses lots of scraps) that are emulsified and blended with seasonings like salt, pepper, garlic, coriander, or mustard. Sodium nitrate, the additive that gives hot dogs their pink
color and distinctive taste, is found in some of our picks while toppings like blue cheese and kimchi slaw handsomely disguise the more healthy merits of others. Compiling an exhaustive list of favorites also got tricky, especially as word of our escapade spread. A friend sent an Instagram of the Philly dog from the Green Beetle loaded with g rilled peppers, onions, and white cheese sauce, but we never made it back downtown. A cheese dog with pick-yourown toppings at Five Guys and a blue corn dog with mango ketchup at DKDC made us question our rules (no corn dogs, no chains). And we couldn’t push deadlines to wait for the new hot dog menu at Overton Square’s Chiwawa’s, a sure bet for high rankings. So in the end, we knit together a list of our seven favorites to honor the seventh inning stretch, the very best time, we think, to celebrate baseball’s iconic sandwich.
DO YOU KNOW. . . German immigrants brought sausages and dachshund dogs to America in the late 1800s, and the moniker hot dog most likely started as a joke.
Mickey Mouse’s first words on screen in the “Karnival Kid” in 1929 were “Hot Dogs!”
Nearly threequarters of Americans top their hot dogs with mustard. Ketchup? 52 percent.
Source: The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council
Los Angeles residents eat more than 39 million hot dogs a year, more than people in any other city.
A regular hotdog contains 150 calories, 13 grams of fat, and five grams of protein.
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BEEF AND CHEDDAR DOG AT HOG & HOMINY ($8) The Beef and Cheddar Dog at Hog & Hominy started as a food memory. Chef/ owner Andrew Ticer tossed out the challenge to butcher Aaron Winters to recreate a childhood mainstay: split hot dogs, layered with cheddar cheese, and heated to bubbly in the microwave. Winters’ response was a soul-satisfying house-made blend of all-natural beef trim from Claybrook Farm (brisket, chuck, sirloin cap, and short ribs), fattened up a little with Newman Farm pork and cheddar cheese, and sous vided. At the restaurant, dogs are seared on the flat top, served in pretzel buns with zigzags of French’s mustard, and nestled in red-and-white hot dog boats next to skinny skin-on fries. 7 0 7 W. B R O O K H AV E N C I R C L E | 9 0 1 -2 0 7-7 3 9 6
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FEARLESS FRANK AT SLIDER INN ($9) Between the sound track, the picnic tables, and the spray from misters softening the heat, a quick lunch on Slider Inn’s deck stretches into an afternoon party, courtesy of a Jameson slushie and a Fearless Frank with caramelized onions, melted Gouda, and barbecue sauce. Toppings change daily at the chef’s whimsy, but the all-natural Niman Ranch hot dog stays the same: plump, juicy, and made with 100 percent beef raised sustainably on the California coast. (Tip: Order the mac ’n’ cheese Fearless Frank if you luck into it.) 2 1 1 7 P E A B O DY AV E | 9 0 1 -7 2 5 -1 1 5 5
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A FINE FEATHERED DOG AT THE DOG AND SLAW ($6) Vince Alfonso owned golf courses in three different states before returning to Memphis, and The Dog and Slaw, a cart he runs with his son Jason Bowles, daughter-in-law Leah Fitzpatrick, and wife Sally, showcases one of his most popular dishes: an all-natural beef frank from Wellshire Farms in New Jersey. Split, feathered on the edges, and grilled to order, the hot dog comes with a sensational cabbage slaw made since 1978 with a secret family recipe. Says Alfonso: “If it’s not the best slaw you’ve ever eaten, I’ll give you your money back.” T H E D O G A N D S L AW | 9 0 1 -2 3 0 -7 7 7 1
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DOUBLE DOG AT THREE LITTLE PIGS BAR-B-Q ($3) Since 1989, when Charlie Robertson bought Three Little Pigs Bar-B-Q on Quince, the Double Dog has been hiding toward the end of the menu: two hot dogs split and grilled and served on a hamburger roll with mustard and cabbage slaw sweetened with plenty of sugar. Robertson emphasizes that the Double Dog is all-meat, not all-beef. “I don’t really want to know what’s in it,” he says, laughing. “But it tastes like a hot dog should taste, and I never get tired of eating them.” 5 1 4 5 Q U I N C E R O A D | 9 0 1 - 6 8 5 -7 0 9 4 J U L Y 2 0 1 5 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 133
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY JUSTIN FOX BURKS
OU R I N-DE P T H GU I DE T O M E M P H I S-A R E A R E STAU R A N T S
Chef Kelly English plays a few tracks from the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street on the well-stocked jukebox. At left, the City of New Orleans rumbles by every night on its way to Chicago.
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The Five Spot
by pamela denney spontaneous Friday night dinner at The Five Spot, a restaurant and bar tucked behind downtown’s Ernestine and Hazel’s, was a magical Memphis moment from the start. A sidewalk table opened up as we arrived. To our left, we could see the Arcade — now open at night — and across the street, Central Station, a reminder from 1914 of the neighborhood’s colorful past. Unexpectedly, a whistle, so loud we jumped, announced that the City of New Orleans was leaving for Chicago, and as the train crawled over the concrete trestle, we could see passengers in the double-decker cars settling down for the trip. Meanwhile, customers packed the lively Five Spot, and our server arrived with well-executed Bloody Marys (Tito’s vodka for $6!) and a cheerful admonition: The kitchen is behind. “Yeah, everyone is running around like crazy,” said a young woman at a nearby table, polishing off a platter of gulf oysters, briny and raw. “But the food is so good, I don’t even care.” And who can disagree about Five Spot’s menu developed by Chef Kelly English of Restaurant Iris. Seasoned chicken skins turn BLTs into three-stack wonders. Pieces of curly kale, seared crispy on the edges, flit around skillets with brown butter and catfish fillets. And bourbon-spiked whipped cream drips over the edges of warm sweet cinnamon rolls topped with toasted pecans. The dessert called Monkey Bread, a favorite from English’s family, is so happy-making that you will likely hug a stranger before finally heading home. Simply put, the menu at Five Spot is soulful bar food with an uptown turn: affable, affordable, and imminently satisfying. “I wanted a menu that fits this space,” English said. “Broken, but it still works.”
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emphis magazine offers this restaurant listing as a service Alpine chicken salad. The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 387 Extd. 374-0881. B, L, D, WB, X, $-$$ to its readers. The directory is not intended as a recommendation of the estab- Perkins BOSCOS SQUARED—Serves pasta, seafood, steaks, burgers. lishments included, nor does it list every restaurant in town. It does, however, sandwiches, and pizza cooked in a wood-fired oven; also a include most of the city’s finer restaurants, many specialty restaurants, and a representative variety of freshly brewed beers. 2120 Madison. 432-2222. L, D, (with live jazz), X, MRA, $-$$ sampling of other Bluff City eating establishments. No fast-food facilities or cafeterias SB BOUNTY ON BROAD—Offering family-style dining, Bounty are listed, nor have we included establishments that rely heavily on take-out business. serves small plates and family-sized platters, with such specialties as pork shank and stuffed quail. Closed Mon.-Tues. 2519 Restaurants are included regardless of whether they advertise in Memphis magazine. 410-8131. D, SB, X, $-$$ The guide is updated regularly, but we recommend that you call ahead to check on hours, Broad. BOZO’S HOT PIT BAR-B-Q— Barbecue, burgers, prices, and other details. Suggestions from readers are welcome; please contact us. sandwiches, and subs. 342 Hwy 70, Mason, TN. 901-2943400. L, D, $-$$ Email dining@memphismagazine.com. BRAZIL FLAVOR—Offers daily buffet with traditional Brazilian dishes. Closed Monday. 8014 Club Center Dr. 746ABUELO’S MEXICAN FOOD EMBASSY—Mejores de BAR-B-Q SHOP—Dishes up barbecued ribs, spaghetti, 9855. L, D, $ la casa — beef and stuffed shrimp — is a specialty here, along bologna; also pulled pork shoulder, Texas toast barbecue BRASS DOOR IRISH PUB—Irish and New-American with tilapia Veracruz, quesadillas, chili rellenos, and chicken sandwich, chicken sandwich, and salads. Closed Sun. 1782 cuisine includes such entrees as fish and chips burgers, medallions. 8274 Highway 64 (Bartlett). 672-0769. L, D X, Madison. 272-1277. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ sandwiches, salads, and daily specials. 152 Madison. 572-1813. $-$$ BARDOG TAVERN—Classic American grill with Italian influence, L, D, SB, $ Bardog offers pasta specialties such as Grandma’s NJ Meatballs, as ABYSSINIA RESTAURANT—Ethiopian/Mediterranean BROADWAY PIZZA HOUSE—Serving a variety of well as salads, sliders, sandwiches, and daily specials. 73 Monroe. menu includes beef, chicken, lamb, fish entrees, and vegetarian pizzas,including the Broadway Special, as well as sandwiches, 275-8752. B (Mon.-Fri.), L, D, WB, X, $-$$ dishes; also a lunch buffet. 2600 Poplar. 321-0082. L, D, X, $-$$ salads, and wings; now offering homemade cakes. 2581 Broad. BARI RISTORANTE ENOTECA—Authentic Southeastern ACRE—Features seasonal modern American cuisine in a stylish 454-7930; 627 S. Mendenhall. 207-1546. L, D, X, $-$$ Italian cuisine (Puglia) emphasizes lighter entrees. Serves fresh setting using locally sourced products; also small-plates/bar. BROOKLYN BRIDGE ITALIAN RESTAURANT— fish and beef dishes and a homemade soup of the day. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 690 S. Perkins. 818-2273. Specializing in such homemade entrees as spinach lasagna and 22 S. Cooper. 722-2244. D, X, MRA, $-$$$ L, D, X, $$-$$$ lobster ravioli; a seafood specialty is horseradish-crusted salmon. BAYOU BAR & GRILL—Cajun fare at this Overton Square ALCHEMY—Southern fusion, locally grown cuisine features Closed Sun. 1779 Kirby Pkwy. 755-7413. D, X, MRA, $-$$$ eatery includes jambalaya, gumbo, catfish Acadian, shrimp small and large plates; among the offerings is the pan-seared BROTHER JUNIPER’S—Breakfast is the focus here, with dishes, red beans and rice, and muffalettas; also serves some hanger steak with duck-fat-roasted fingerling potatoes; also specialty omelets, including the open-faced San Diegan omelet; favorites from the former Le Chardonnay. 2094 Madison. handcrafted cocktails and local craft beers. Closed for dinner also daily specials, and homemade breads and pastries. Closed 278-8626. L, D, WB, X, $-$$ Sun. 940 S. Cooper. 726-4444. D, SB, X, $-$$ Mon. 3519 Walker. 324-0144. B, X, MRA, $ BEAUTY SHOP—Modern American cuisine with international ALDO’S PIZZA PIES—Serving gourmet pizzas — including THE BRUSHMARK—New American cuisine with a menu flair served in a former beauty shop. Serves steaks salads, pasta, Mr. T Rex — salads, and more in a chic downtown setting; also 30 that changes seasonally; offers sandwiches, salads, soups, pastas, and seafood, including pecan-crusted golden sea bass. Closed for beers, bottled or on tap. 100 S. Main. 577-7743; 752 S. Cooper. and crepes. Closed Mon. and Tues. Brooks Museum, Overton dinner Sunday. 966 S. Cooper. 272-7111. L, D, SB, X, $$-$$$ 725-7437. L, D, X, $-$$ Park, 1934 Poplar. 544-6225. L, WB, X, $-$$ AMERIGO—Traditional and contemporary Italian cuisine BELLE-A SOUTHERN BISTRO—Brisket in a bourbon BRYANT’S BREAKFAST—Three-egg omelets, pancakes, includes pasta, wood-fired pizza, steaks, and cedarwood-roasted brown sugar glaze, and chicken with basmati rice are among the and The Sampler Platter are among the popular entrees here. specialties; also seafood entrees and such vegetables as blackened fish. 1239 Ridgeway, Park Place Mall. 761-4000. L, D, SB, X, Closed Tuesday. 3965 Summer. 324-7494. B, L, X, $ green tomatoes. Closed for dinner Sun. and all day Mon. 117 MRA, $-$$$ BUCKLEY’S FINE FILET GRILL—Specializes in steaks, Union Ave. 433-9851. L, D, WB, X, $-$$$ ANDREW MICHAEL ITALIAN KITCHEN—Traditional seafood, and pasta. (Lunchbox serves entree salads, burgers, and BENIHANA—This Japanese steakhouse serves beef, chicken, and Italian cuisine with a menu that changes seasonally with such more.) 5355 Poplar. 683-4538; 919 S. Yates (Buckley’s , and seafood grilled at the table; some menu items change entrees as Maw Maw’s ravioli. Closed Sun.-Mon. 712 W. Lunchbox), 682-0570. L (Yates only, M-F), D, X, MRA, $-$$ monthly; sushi bar also featured. 912 Ridge Lake. 767-8980. L, D, Brookhaven Cl. 347-3569. D, X, $$-$$$ THE BUTCHER SHOP—Serves steaks ranging from 8-oz. X, $$-$$$ ANOTHER BROKEN EGG CAFE—Offering several varieties fillets to a 20-oz. porterhouse; also chicken, pork chops, fresh of eggs benedict, waffles, omelets, pancakes, beignets, and other BHAN THAI—Authentic Thai cuisine includes curries, pad Thai seafood. 107 S. Germantown Rd. (Cordova). 757-4244. L breakfast fare; also burgers,sandwiches, and salads. . 6063 Park noodles, and vegetarian dishes, as well as seafood, pork, and (Fri. and Sun.), D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ duck entrees. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. Ave. 729-7020. B, L, WB, X, $ CAFE 1912—French/American bistro and all day Mon. 1324 Peabody. 272THE ARCADE—Possibly Memphis’ oldest cafe. Specialties DINING SYMBOLS serving such seafood entrees as grouper 1538. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ include sweet potato pancakes, a fried peanut butter and banana and steamed mussels: also crepes, salads, sandwich, and breakfast served all day. 540 S. Main. 526-5757. BLEU—This eclectic restaurant features B — breakfast and French onion soup, 243 S. Cooper. American food with global influences B, L, D (Thurs.-Sat.) X, $ L — lunch 722-2700. D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ and local ingredients. Among the AREPA & SALSA— Offering Venezuelan dishes such as the D — dinner CAFE ECLECTIC—Spanish omelets, specialties are a 14-oz. bone-in rib-eye namesake arepa (a corn-based dish with a variety of fillings) and and chicken and waffles are among and several seafood dishes. 221 S. Third, SB — Sunday brunch tostones with shredded pork or black beans. Closed Sunday. 662 menu items, along with sandwiches, in the Westin Memphis Beale St. Madison. 949-8537. L, D, X, $ WB — weekend brunch wraps, and burgers. 603 N. McLean. Hotel. 334-5950. B, L, D, X, $$-$$$ ASIAN PALACE—Chinese eatery serves seafood, vegetarian items, X — wheelchair accessible 725-1718; 111 Harbor Town Square. BLUE DAZE BISTRO—Serving dim sum, and more. 5266 Summer Ave. 766-0831. L, D, X, $-$$ MRA — member, Memphis 590-4645; 510 S. Highland. 410-0765. American cuisine with Cajun flair; lunch A-TAN—Serves Chinese and Japanese hibachi cuisine, complete Restaurant Association B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, $ entrees include the Black & Bleu Salad with sushi bar. A specialty is Four Treasures with garlic CAFE FONTANA— Hearty Italian and a crab cake sandwich; dinner $ — under $15 per person without sauce. 3445 Poplar, Suite 17, University Center. 452-4477. L, cuisine features pizzas, pasta, and entrees range from salmon to Cajun D, X, $-$$$ drinks or desserts several seafood dishes, including pesce cream penne pasta. Closed for dinner AUTOMATIC SLIM’S— Longtime downtown favorite $$ — under $25 al forno and fish of the day special. Sun., and all day Mon.-Wed. 221 E. specializes in contemporary American cuisine emphasizing local $$$ — $26-$50 Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Commerce St. Hernando (MS). ingredients; also extensive martini list. 83 S. Second. 525-7948. L, Mon. 8556 Macon Rd. 529-7526. L, D, 662-469-9304. L, D, SB, X, $-$$$ $$$$ — over $50 D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ SB, $-$$ BLUEFIN RESTAURANT & SHADED — new listing BABALU TACOS & TAPAS—This Overton Square eatery CAFE KEOUGH—European-style SUSHI LOUNGE—Serves Japanese dishes up Spanish-style tapas with Southern flair; also taco and cafe serving quiche, paninis, salads, and fusion cuisine featuring seafood, duck, enchilada of the day; specials change daily. 2115 Madison. 274more. 12 S. Main. 509-2469. B, L, D, X, $ and steaks, with seasonally changing menu; also, a sushi bar and 0100. L, D, X, $-$$ flatbread pizza. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 135 S. Main. 528CAFE OLE—Now under new ownership, this 23-year-old BAHAMA BREEZE—Baby back ribs, Jamaican chicken 1010. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ eatery specializes in authentic Mexican cuisine; one specialty is wings, and coconut shrimp are among the entrees at this pan-seared grouper in mango salsa. 959 S. Cooper. 343-0103. L, BOMBAY HOUSE—Indian fare includes lamb korma and Caribbean-fusion restaurant. 2830 N. Germantown Pkwy. D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ chicken tikka; also, a daily luncheon (Cordova). 385-8744. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ buffet. 1727 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 755-4114. L, D, CAFE PALLADIO—Serves gourmet salads, soups, BANGKOK ALLEY—Thai fusion cuisine includes noodle and X, $-$$ sandwiches, and desserts in a tea room inside the antiques shop. curry dishes, chef-specialty sushi rolls, coconut soup, and duck Closed Sun. 2169 Central. 278-0129. L, X, $ BONEFISH GRILL—Serves wood-grilled fish,as well as and seafood entrees. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. at steaks, chicken and pork entrees. 1250 N. Germantown Pkwy. CAFE PIAZZA BY PAT LUCCHESI—Specializes in Brookhaven location; call for hours. 121 Union Ave. 522-2010; (Cordova). 753-2220; 4680 Merchants Park Circle, Carriage gourmet pizzas (including create-your-own), panini sandwiches, 2150 W. Poplar at Houston Levee (Collierville). 854-8748; 715 Crossing (Collierville). 854-5822. L (Fri.-Sat.), D, SB, X, $-$$$ and pasta. Closed Sun. 139 S. Rowlett St. (Collierville). 861W. Brookhaven Cl. 590-2585. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ 1999. L, D, X, $-$$ BONNE TERRE—This inn’s cafe features American cuisine BAR DKDC— Features an ever-changing menu of with a Southern flair, and a seasonal menu that changes monthly. CAFE PONTOTOC—Serves a variety of internationally international “street food,” from Thai to Mexican, Israeli to Offers Angus steaks, duck, pasta, and seafood. Closed Sun.inspired small plates, as well as salads and sandwiches. Closed Indian, along with specialty cocktails. Closed Sun.-Mon. 964 S. Wed. 4715 Church Rd. W. (Nesbit, MS). 662-781-5100. D, X, Mon. 314 S. Main. 249-7955. D, WB, X, $-$$ Cooper. 272-0830. D, X, $ $-$$$ CAFE SOCIETY—With Belgian and classic French influences, BAR LOUIE—Serves small plates, flatbreads, sandwiches, BOOKSELLERS BISTRO—Serves soups, sandwiches, quiche, serves Wagyu beef, chicken, and seafood dishes, including salads, and such large plate entrees as Tuscan chicken salads, pasta, and seafood, including shrimp polenta; a specialty is bacon-wrapped shrimp, along with daily specials and vegetarian pasta. 2125 Madison. 207-1436. L, D, WB, X, $-$$ J U L Y 2 0 1 5 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 135
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CIT Y DINING LIST entrees. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 212 N. Evergreen. 722-2177. L, D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ CAPITAL GRILLE—Known for its dry-aged, hand-carved steaks; among the specialties are bone-in sirloin, and porcinirubbed Delmonico; also seafood entrees and seasonal lunch plates. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. Crescent Center, 6065 Poplar. 683-9291. L, D, X, $$$-$$$$ CAPRICCIO GRILL ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE—Offers prime steaks, fresh seafood (lobster tails, grouper, mahi mahi), pasta, and several northern Italian specialties. 149 Union, The Peabody. 529-4199. B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, $$-$$$$ CARRABBA’S ITALIAN GRILL—Serves chicken Bryan, calamari, various pastas, and other “old-world” Italian entrees. 4600 Merchant’s Park Cl., Carriage Crossing (Collierville). 854-0200; 5110 Poplar. 685-9900. L (Sat.Sun.), D, X, $-$$$ CASABLANCA— Lamb shawarma is one of the fresh, homemade specialties served at this Mediterranean/Moroccan restaurant; fish entrees and vegetarian options also available. 5030 Poplar. 725-8557. L, D, X, $-$$ CELTIC CROSSING—Specializes in Irish and American pub fare. Entrees include shepherd’s pie, shrimp and sausage coddle, and fish and chips. 903 S. Cooper. 274-5151. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ CENTRAL BBQ—Serves ribs, smoked hot wings, pulled pork sandwiches, chicken, turkey, nachos, and portobello sandwiches. Offers both pork and beef barbecue. 2249 Central Ave. 2729377; 4375 Summer Ave. 767-4672; 147 E. Butler. 672-7760. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ CHEZ PHILIPPE— Classical/contemporary French cuisine presented in a luxurious atmosphere with a seasonal menu focused on local/regional cuisine. Afternoon tea served Wed.-Sat, 1-3 p.m. (reservations required). Closed Sun.-Mon.-Tues. The Peabody, 149 Union. 529-4188. D, X, MRA, $$$$ CHIWAWA—American-Mexican street food includes tacos made with hand-pressed tortillas, bacon-wrapped deep-fried hot dogs, and “Juan-tons” stuffed with smoked chorizo and cream cheese. 2 059 Madison. 207-1456. L, D, WB, X, $ CIAO BELLA—Among the Italian and Greek specialties are lasagna, seafood pasta, eggplant rolotini, gourmet pizzas, and vegetarian options. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 565 Erin Dr., Erinway Shopping Center. 205-2500. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ CITY GROCERY—Southern eclectic cuisine; shrimp and grits is a specialty. Closed for dinner Sunday. 152 Courthouse Square (Oxford, MS). 662-232-8080. L, D, SB, X, $$-$$$ COLETTA’S—Longtime eatery serves such specialties as homemade ravioli, lasagna, and pizza with barbecue or traditional toppings. 2850 Appling Rd. (Bartlett). 383-1122; 1063 S. Parkway E. 948-7652. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ CORKY’S—Popular barbecue emporium offers both wet and dry ribs, plus a full menu of other barbecue entrees. Wed. lunch buffets, Cordova and Collierville. 5259 Poplar. 685-9744; 1740 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 737-1911; 743 W. Poplar (Collierville). 405-4999; 6434 Goodman Rd., Olive Branch. 662-893-3663. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ COZY CORNER—Serving up ribs, pork sandwiches, chicken, spaghetti, and more. Closed Sun.-Mon. 7 45 N. Parkway. 5279158. L, D, $ THE CRAZY NOODLE—Korean noodle dishes range from bibam beef noodle with cabbage, carrots, and other vegetables, to curry chicken noodle; also rice cakes served in a flavorful sauce. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 2015 Madison. 272-0928. L, D, X, $ DEJAVU—Serves Creole, soul, and vegetarian cuisine. Closed Sat.-Sun. Florida St. location. 9 36 Florida St. 942-1400; 51 S. Main. 505-0212. L,D (S. Main), SB (S. Main), X, $-$$ DERAE RESTAURANT—Ethiopian and Mediterranean fare includes fuul, or fava beans in spices and yoghurt, goat meat and rice, and garlic chicken over basmati rice with cilantro chutney; also salmon and tilapia. Closed Monday. 923 S. Highland. 552-3992. B, L, D, $ ECCO—Mediterranean-inspired specialties range from rib-eye steak to seared scallops and to linguini with Kale pesto and a grilled vegetable plate; also wild Alaskan salmon. Closed Sun.Mon. 1585 Overton Park. 410-8200. L, D, X, $-$$ EDO—Traditional Japanese cuisine includes shrimp tempura, nagiri, and chicken teriyaki. Closed Mon. 4792 Summer. 7677096. D, X, $ EIGHTY3—Contemporary menu of steaks and seafood offers a variety of eclectic specialties; also weekly specials, small plates, and appetizers. 83 Madison Ave. 333-1224. B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ EL MEZCAL—Serves burritos, chimichangas, fajitas, and other Mexican cuisine, as well as shrimp dinners and steak. 402 Perkins Extd. 761-7710; 694 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 755-1447; 1492 Union. 274-4264; 11615 Airline Rd. (Arlington). 867-1883; 9045 Highway 64 (Lakeland). 383-
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CIT Y DINING LIST 4219; 7164 Hacks Cross Rd. (Olive Branch). 662-890-3337; 8834 Hwy. 51 N. (Millington). 872-3220; 7424 Highway 64 (Bartlett). 417-6026; 9947 Wolf River (Collierville) 853-7922. L, D, X, $ EL PORTON—Fajitas, quesadillas, and steak ranchero are just a few of the menu items. 2095 Merchants Row (Germantown). 754-4268; 8361 Highway 64. 380-7877; 65 S. Highland, Poplar Plaza. 452-7330; 1805 N. Germantown Parkway (Cordova). 624-9358; 1016 W. Poplar (Collierville). 854-5770. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ ELFO GRISANTI’S—Specializing in homemade northern Italian cuisine, including pasta, fish, beef and nightly specials. Closed Sun. 2285 S. Germantown Rd. 753-4017. D, X, $-$$$ ERLING JENSEN—Presents “globally inspired” cuisine: specialties are rack of lamb, big game entrees,and fresh fish dishes. 1044 S. Yates. 763-3700. D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ EVELYN & OLIVE—Jamaican/Southern fusion cuisine includes such dishes as Kingston stew fish, Rasta Pasta, and Jamaican jerk wings. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun.Mon. 630 Madison. 748-5422. L, D, X, $ EXLINES’ BEST PIZZA—Serves pizza, Italian dinners, sandwiches, and salads. 2935 Austin Peay. 388-4711; 6250 Stage Rd.(Bartlett). 382-3433; 2801 Kirby Parkway. 7540202; 7730 Wolf River Blvd.(Germantown). 753-4545; 531 W. Stateline Rd. 662-342-4544 (check online for additional locations). L, D, X, $ 4DUMPLINGS—Chicken with celery and pork with Napa cabbage are among the hand-made dumpling varieties; also serves Asian tacos, and noodle and rice meals. Closed Sunday. 6515 Poplar. 762-4184. L, D, X, $ THE FARMER—Serving upscale Southern cuisine, with a focus on locally grown ingredients. Among the specialties are panseared catfish, slow-cooked pot roast, and braised greens. Closed for dinner Sun.-Mon. 262 S. Highland. 324-2221. L, D, X, $-$$$ FELICIA SUZANNE’S—Southern cuisine with low-country, Creole, and Delta influences, using regional fresh seafood, local beef, and locally grown foods. Entrees include shrimp and grits. Closed Sun. and Mon. Brinkley Plaza, 80 Monroe, Suite L1. 523-0877. L (Fri. only), D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ FERRARO’S PIZZERA & PUB—Rigatoni bolognese and capellini pomodoro are among the pasta entrees here, along with pizzas (whole or by the slice), with a variety of toppings. 111 Jackson. 522-2033. L, D, X, $-$$ FIREBIRDS—Specialties are hand-cut steaks, slow-roasted prime rib, and wood-grilled salmon and other seafood, as well as seasonal entrees. 8470 Highway 64 (Bartlett). 379-1300; 4600 Merchants Circle, Carriage Crossing (Collierville). 8501637. L, D, X, $-$$$ THE FIVE SPOT—Tucked behind Earnestine & Hazel’s, this popular eatery features innovative bar food by chef Kelly English. 531 S. Main. 523-9754. D, X, $-$$ FLEMING’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE—Serves wet-aged and dry-aged steaks, prime beef, chops, and seafood, including salmon, Australian lobster tails, and a catch of the day. 6245 Poplar. 761-6200. D, X, MRA, $$$-$$$$ FLIGHT RESTAURANT & WINE BAR—Serves steaks and seafood, along with such specialties as pork rib-eye and roasted duck, all matched with appropriate wines; also gourmet plate lunches. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 3 9 S. Main. 521-8005. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ FLYING FISH—Serves up fried and grilled versions of shrimp, crab, oysters, fish tacos, and catfish; also chicken and burgers. 105 S. Second. 522-8228. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ FOLK’S FOLLY ORIGINAL PRIME STEAK HOUSE— Specializes in prime steaks, as well as lobster, grilled Scottish salmon, Alaskan king crab legs, rack of lamb, and weekly specials. 551 S. Mendenhall. 762-8200. D, X, MRA, $$$-$$$$ FORMOSA—Offers Mandarin cuisine, including broccoli beef, hot-and-sour soup, and spring rolls. Closed Monday. 6685 Quince. 753-9898. L, D, X, $-$$$ THE FOUR WAY—Legendary soul-food establishment dishing up such entrees as fried and baked catfish, chicken, and turkey and dressing, along with a host of vegetables and desserts. Closed Monday. 998 Mississippi Blvd. 507-1519. L, D (call to check hours.), $ FRATELLI’S—Serves hot and cold sandwiches, salads, soups, and desserts, all with an Italian/Mediterranean flair. Closed Sunday. 750 Cherry Rd., Memphis Botanic Garden. 7669900. L, X, $ FRIDA’S—Mexican cuisine and Tex-Mex standards, including chimichangas, enchiladas, and fajitas; seafood includes shrimp and tilapia. 1718 Madison. 244-6196. L, D, X, $-$$ FUEL CAFE—Focus is on natural “Americana” dishes with such specialties as bison burgers, grass-fed beef dishes, and wildcaught fish; also vegan and gluten-free entrees. Closed Sun.Mon. 1761 Madison. 725-9025. L, D, X, $-$$
GERMANTOWN COMMISSARY—Serves barbecue sandwiches, sliders, ribs, shrimp, and nachos, as well as smoked barbecued bologna sandwiches; Mon.-night all-you-can-eat ribs. 2290 S. Germantown Rd. S. (Germantown). 754-5540. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ GOLDEN INDIA—Northern Indian specialties include tandoori chicken as well as lamb, beef, shrimp, and vegetarian dishes. 2 097 Madison. 728-5111. L, D, X, $-$$ GREEN BAMBOO—Pineapple tilapia, pork vermicelli, and the soft egg noodle combo are Vietnamese specialties here. 990 N. Germantown Parkway, #104 (Cordova). 753-5488. L, D, $-$$ GREENCORK—Wine-on-tap bar serves seasonal menu of modern Southern cuisine. Specialty is the picnic basket, which includes cheese truffles and daily selections of premium meats. Closed Sun.-Mon. 2156 Young Ave. 207-5281. D, X, $-$$ GRIDLEY’S—Offers barbecued ribs, shrimp, pork plate, chicken, and hot tamales; also daily lunch specials. Closed Tues. 6842 Stage Rd. (Bartlett). 377-8055. L, D, X, $-$$ FRANK GRISANTI’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT— Northern Italian favorites include pasta with jumbo shrimp and mushrooms; also seafood, fillet mignon, and daily lunch specials. Closed for lunch Sunday. Embassy Suites Hotel, 1022 S. Shady Grove. 761-9462. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ RONNIE GRISANTI’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT— This Memphis institution serves some family classics such as Elfo’s Special and chicken ravioli, along with lighter fare and changing daily chef selection. Closed Sun. Sheffield Antiques Mall, 684 W. Poplar (Collierville). 850-0191. L (Mon.-Sat.), D (Thurs.Sat.), X, $-$$$ THE GROVE GRILL—Offers steaks, chops, seafood, and other American cuisine with Southern and global influences; entrees include crab cakes, and shrimp and grits. 4550 Poplar. 818-9951. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN—Serves chicken with signature spicy batter, along with homemade beans, slaw, and pies. 310 S. Front. 527-4877; 215 S. Center St. (Collierville). 853-6005; 2965 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 373-9111; 730 S. Mendenhall. 767-2323; 505 Highway 70 W., Mason, TN. 901-294-2028. L, D, X, MRA, $ HALF SHELL—Specializes in seafood, such as King crab legs; also serves steaks, chicken, pastas, salads, sandwiches, a ”voodoo menu,” and weekend brunch; oyster bar at Winchester location. 688 S. Mendenhall. 682-3966; 7825 Winchester. 737-6755. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ HAPPY MEXICAN—Serves quesadillas, burritos, chimichangas, vegetable and seafood dishes, and more. 385 S. Second. 529-9991; 6080 Primacy Pkwy. 683-0000; 7935 Winchester. 751-5353. L, D, X, $ HAVANA’S PILON—Tiny eatery serving Cuban cuisine, including fried plantains in a pilon topped with shrimp, ropa vieja (shredded beef in tomato sauce), roasted pork, and a Cuban sandwich. Closed Sunday. 143 Madison. 527-2878. L, D, X, $ HIGH POINT PIZZA—Serves variety of pizzas, subs, salads, and sides. Closed Monday. 477 High Point Terrace. 452-3339. L, D, , X $-$$ HOG & HOMINY—The casual sister to Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen serves brick-oven-baked pizzas and small plates with everything from meatballs to beef and cheddar hotdogs; also offers house-made sausages, and local veggies. Closed for lunch Mon. 707 W. Brookhaven Cl. 207-7396. L, D, SB, X, $-$$ HONG KONG—Cantonese and Mandarin standards are sweetand-sour chicken, and pepper beef. Closed Sunday. 3966 Elvis Presley. 396-0801. L, D, X, $
HOUSTON’S—Serves steaks, seafood, pork chops, chicken dishes, sandwiches, salads, and soups, 5000 Poplar. 683-0915. L, D, X $-$$$ IMAGINE VEGAN CAFE—Dishes range from salads and sandwiches to full dinners, breakfast items served all day. 2299 Young. 654-3455. L, D, SB, X, $ INDIA PALACE—Tandoori chicken, lamb shish kabobs, chicken tikka masala are among the entrees; also, vegetarian options and a daily lunch buffet. 1720 Poplar. 278-1199. L, D, X, $-$$ INTERIM—Offers American-seasonal cuisine with emphasis on local foods and fresh fish; macaroni and cheese is a house specialty. Closed for lunch Sat. 5040 Sanderlin, Suite 105. 818-0821. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ INTERSTATE BAR-B-Q—Specialties include chopped pork-shoulder sandwiches, ribs, hot wings, spaghetti, chicken, and turkey. 2 265 S. Third. 775-2304; 150 W. Stateline Rd. (Southaven). 662-393-5699. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ ITTA BENA—Southern and Cajun-American cuisine served here; specialties are filet Oscar and shrimp and grits, along with steaks, chops, seafood, and pasta. 145 Beale St. 578-3031. D, MRA, X, $$-$$$ JASMINE THAI AND VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT—Entrees include panang chicken, green curry shrimp,and pad thai (noodles, shrimp, and peanuts); also vegetarian dishes. Closed Mon.-Tues. 916 S. Cooper. 725-0223. L, D, X, $ JIM ’N NICK’S BAR-B-Q—Serves barbecued pork, ribs, chicken, brisket, and fish, along with other homemade Southern specialties. 2 359 N. Germantown Pkwy. 388-0998. L, D, X, $-$$ JIM’S PLACE/JIM’S PLACE GRILLE—Features American, Greek, and Continental cuisine with such entrees as pork tenderloin, several seafood specialties, and hand-cut charcoalgrilled steaks. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 518 Perkins Extd. 766-2030; 3660 Houston Levee (Collierville). 8615000. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ JOE’S CRAB SHACK—Serves a variety of seafood, along with chicken, steak, and pasta. 7990 Horizon Center Blvd. 384-7478. L, D, X, $-$$$ JULLES POSH FOOD CO.— The changing menu features seasonal “cooking light” dishes such as pistachio-crusted wild salmon and spicy shrimp with white asparagus; also cold-pressed juices and to-go dishes. 6300 Poplar. 509-8675. B, L, D, X, $-$$ JUST FOR LUNCH—Serves sandwiches, quiche, salads, fresh fish including fried oysters, daily specials, and homemade rolls. Closed Sunday. 3092 Poplar, Chickasaw Oaks Plaza. 323-3287. L, D (Thurs. only), X, MRA, $-$$ KOOKY CANUCK— Offers prime rib, catfish, and burgers, including the 4-lb. “Kookamonga”; also late-night menu. 97 S. Second. 578-9800; 1250 N. Germantown Pkwy. 1-8002453 L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ LA BAGUETTE—An almond croissant and chicken salad are among specialties at this French-style bistro. Closed for dinner Sun. 3088 Poplar. 458-0900. B, L, D (closes at 7), X, $ LA PLAYITA MEXICANA—Specializes in seafood and Mexican entrees, including red snapper, tilapia, oysters, chimichangas, tostados, and taco salad. 6194 Macon (Bartlett). 377-2282. L, D, X, $-$$ LA TAQUERIA GUADALUPANA—Fajitas and quesadillas are just a few of the authentic Mexican entrees offered here. 4 818 Summer. 685-6857. L, D, $ LAFAYETTE’S MUSIC ROOM—Popular in the 1970s for bringing name musical acts to Memphis (including Billy Joel), Lafayette’s reopens, serving such Southern cuisine as po boys and
COFFEEHOUSES/BOOKSTORE CAFES
In addition to gourmet coffees and drinks, these eateries generally serve pastries, sandwiches, soups, and salads, and some have a wider range of menu items. AVENUE COFFEE—786 Echles. 454-3348. BARNES & NOBLE BOOKSELLERS— 2774 N. Germantown Pkwy. 386-2468; 4610 Merchants Park Cl. (Collierville). 853-3264. BELLA CAFFE—Pink Palace Museum, 3050 Central. 3206320 BLUFF CITY COFFEE—505 S. Main. 405-4399. THE BOOKSELLERS AT LAURELWOOD— 387 Perkins Extd. 683-9801. CARITAS VILLAGE COFFEE SHOP— 2509 Harvard. 327-5246. CENTER FOR SOUTHERN FOLKLORE— 123 S. Main at Peabody Trolley Stop. 525-3655.
CITY AND STATE—2625 Broad. 249-2406. JAVA CABANA—2170 Young. 272-7210. MUDDY’S GRIND HOUSE—585 S. Cooper. 683-8844. OTHERLANDS—641 S. Cooper. 278-4994. MRA. QAHWA COFFEE BAR—Claridge House, 109 N. Main.800-2227. REPUBLIC COFFEE—2924 Walnut Grove. 590-1578. SQUARE BEANS ESPRESSO + GELATO— 103 N. Center St. (Collierville). 854-8855. STARBUCKS—1850 Union Ave. 729-4288; 3388 Poplar. 320-1021; 5201 Poplar. 818-9954; 2955 Kirby Whitten (Bartlett), 266-2497; 180 Goodman Rd. E. (Southaven). 662-349-0342; 8140 Goodman Rd. (Olive Branch). 662-890-9507. For more listings, check online. TAMP & TAP—122 Gayoso. 207-1053 THE UGLY MUG— 4610 Poplar. 552-3165. J U L Y 2 0 1 5 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 137
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From Beale Street night spots to neighborhood bars/grills, these places dish out a variety of food. Many offer live entertainment, and patrons can’t miss the large-screen TVs. ALEX’S TAVERN—1445 Jackson. 278-9086. ALFRED’S—197 Beale. 525-3711. MRA. B.B. KING’S BLUES CLUB— 143 Beale. 524-5464. MRA. BEALE STREET TAP ROOM—168 Beale St. 576-2220. BELMONT GRILL—4970 Poplar. 767-0305; 9102 Poplar Pike (Germantown). 624-6001. MRA. BLIND BEAR SPEAKEASY— 119 S. Main, Pembroke Square. 417-8435. BLUE MONKEY—2012 Madison. 272-2583; 513 S. Front. 5276665. BLUES CITY CAFE—138 Beale at Second. 526-3637. MRA. BROOKHAVEN PUB & GRILL—695 W. Brookhaven Circle. 680-8118. MRA. BUFFALO WILD WINGS—3448 Poplar. 324-9225; 3770 Hacks Cross Rd. 737-9463; 7188 Airways (Southaven). 662-349-7776; 8385 Highway 64. 380-9294. DOUBLE J SMOKEHOUSE & SALOON—124 E. G.E. Patterson. 347-2648. EARNESTINE & HAZEL’S— 531 S. Main. 523-9754. MRA. EAST END GRILL—7547 Highway 64. 937-1392; 7956 Winchester Rd. 432-4256. MRA. FLYING SAUCER DRAUGHT EMPORIUM—130 Peabody Place. 523-7468; 1400 Germantown Pkwy. 755-5530. MRA. FLYNN’S RESTAURANT & BAR— 159 Beale St. 523-1940. FOX AND HOUND ENGLISH PUB & GRILL—847 Exocet Dr. 624-9060; 5101 Sanderlin Ave. 763-2013; 6565 Town Center Crossing (Southaven). 662-536-2200. GRAWEMEYER’S—520 S. Main. 800-1553. HADLEY’S PUB—2779 Whitten Rd. 266-5006. HARD ROCK CAFE— 126 Beale. 529-0007. HIGH POINT PUB—477 High Point Terrace. 452-9203. HUEY’S—1927 Madison. 726-4372; 1771 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 754-3885; 77 S. Second. 527-2700; 2130 W. Poplar (Collierville). 854-4455; 7090 Malco Blvd. (Southaven). 662-3497097; 7825 Winchester. 624-8911; 4872 Poplar. 682-7729; 7677 Farmington Blvd. (Germantown). 318-3030. MRA. JERRY LEE LEWIS’ CAFE & HONKY TONK—310 Beale St. 654-5171. KING’S PALACE CAFE— 162 Beale. 521-1851. MRA. KUDZU’S—603 Monroe. 525-4924. MRA. MEMPHIS SPORTS PUB— 5012 Park Ave. 767-8632. MIDTOWN CROSSING GRILLE—394 N. Watkins. 443-0502. MURPHY’S—1589 Madison. 726-4193. MRA. NEIL’S MUSIC ROOM—5727 Quince Rd. 682-2300. OLD ZINNIE’S— 1688 Madison. 726-5004. PATRICK’S— 4972 Park Ave. 682-2852. MRA. P & H CAFE—1532 Madison. 726-0906. ROCKHOUSELIVE—2586 Poplar. 324-6300. 5709 Raleigh LaGrange. 386-7222. R.P. TRACKS— 3547 Walker. 327-1471. RUM BOOGIE CAFE— 182 Beale. 528-0150. SAMMY HAGAR’S RED ROCKER BAR & GRILL— Southland Park, 1550 North Ingram Blvd. (West Memphis). 872735-3670. SILKY O’SULLIVAN’S— 183 Beale St. 522-9596. MRA. THE SILLY GOOSE— 100 Peabody Place. 435-6915. THE SLIDER INN— 2117 Peabody. 725-1155. SOUTH OF BEALE— 361 S. Main. 526-0388. T J MULLIGAN’S—6534 Quince. 753-8056; 8071 Trinity Rd. (Cordova). 756-4480; 2821 N. Houston Levee Rd. 377-9997; 1817 Kirby Pkwy. 755-2481. UBEE’S—521 S. Highland. 323-0900 WADFORD’S GRILL & BAR—474 Church Rd. (Southaven). 662-510-5861. WESTY’S—346 N. Main. 543-3278 . THE WINDJAMMER— 786 E. Brookhaven Cl. 683-9044.
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CIT Y DINING LIST shrimp and grits, as well as wood-fired pizzas. 2119 Madison. 207-5097. L, D, X, $ LAS DELICIAS—Popular for its guacamole, house-made tortilla chips, and margaritas, this restaurant draws diners with its chicken enchiladas, meat-stuffed flautas, and Cuban torta with spicy pork. Closed Sunday. 4002 Park Ave. 458-9264; 5689 Quince. 800-2873. L, D, X, $ LAS TORTUGAS DELI MEXICANA—Authentic Mexican food prepared from local food sources; specializes in tortugas — grilled bread scooped out to hold such fillings as brisket, pork, and shrimp; also tingas tostados and such sides as steamed corn. Closed Sunday. 1215 S. Germantown Rd. 751-1200. L, D, X, $-$$ LEONARD’S—Serves wet and dry ribs, barbecue sandwiches, spaghetti, and catfish; also a lunch and dinner buffet. 5465 Fox Plaza. 360-1963. L, D (Fri.-Sat.), X, MRA, $-$$ THE LITTLE TEA SHOP— Downtown institution serves up Southern comfort cooking, including meatloaf and such veggies as turnip greens, yams, okra and tomatoes. Closed Sat.-Sun. 69 Monroe. 525-6000, L, X, $ LOCAL GASTROPUB—Eclectic entrees with a focus on locally grown products include lobster mac-and-cheese and double-cut pork loin. 95 S. Main. 473-9573; 2126 Madison. 725-1845. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ LOS COMPADRES—Serves enchiladas, burritos, tamales, tacos, and vegetarian dishes; also Cuban entrees. 3295 Poplar. 458-5731. L, D, X, $-$$ LOST PIZZA—Offering pizzas (with dough made from scratch), pasta, salads, sandwiches, tamales, and more. 2855 Poplar. 572-1803; 5960 Getwell, Southaven. 662-892-8684. L, D, X, $-$$ LOTUS—Authentic Vietnamese-Asian fare, including lemongrass chicken and shrimp, egg rolls, Pho soup, and spicy Vietnamese vermicelli. 4970 Summer. 682-1151. D, X, $ LYNCHBURG LEGENDS—This restaurant with a Jack Daniels’ theme and Southern cuisine serves such entrees as Bourbon Street salmon, buttermilk-fried chicken, and grilled steak and wild mushroom salad. Double Tree Hotel, 5069 Sanderlin. 969-7777. B, L, D, X, $- $$$ THE MAJESTIC GRILLE—Housed in a former silent-picture house, features aged steaks, fresh seafood, and such specialties as roasted chicken and grilled pork tenderloin; offers a pre-theatre menu and classic cocktails. 145 S. Main. 522-8555. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ MARCIANO MEDITERRANEAN AND ITALIAN CUISINE—Rack of lamb with roasted potatoes and demiglaze is among the entrees; also steaks, seafood, and gourmet pizza. 780 Brookhaven Cl. 682-1660. D, X, $-$$ MARLOWE’S—In addition to its signature barbecue and ribs, Marlowe’s serves Southern-style steaks, chops, lasagne, and more. 4381 Elvis Presley Blvd. 332-4159. D, X, $-$$ MARMALADE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE—Southern homestyle entrees include catfish, honey-baked ham, steaks, and shrimp, all with a choice of three vegetables. Closed Sun. and Mon. 153 G.E. Patterson. 522-8800. D, X, $ MAUI BRICK OVEN— Serving an all-gluten-free menu with grain bowls, pizzas, and more. Among the specialties: the vegan Barefoot Bowl and the Paradise Pesto Pizza. 7850 Poplar. 5052525. L, D, X, $-$$ MAYURI INDIAN CUISINE—Serves tandoori chicken, masala dosa, tikka masala, as well as lamb and shrimp entrees; also a daily lunch buffet, and dinner buffet on Fri.-Sat. 6524 Quince Rd. 753-8755. L, D, X, $-$$ MCEWEN’S ON MONROE—Southern/American cuisine with international flavors; specialties include steak and seafood, sweet potato-crusted catfish with macaroni and cheese, and more. Menus and hours vary at each location. 120 Monroe. 527-7085; 1110 Van Buren (Oxford). 662-234-7003. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $$-$$$ DAN MCGUINNESS PUB—Serves fish and chips, shepherd’s pie, burgers, and other Irish and American fare; also lunch and dinner specials. 4698 Spottswood. 761-3711; 3964 Goodman Rd. 662-890-7611. L, D, WB (Spottswood), X, $ MEDALLION—Offers steaks, seafood, chicken, and pasta entrees. Closed for dinner Sunday. 3700 Central, Holiday Inn (Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality). 678-1030. B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ MELLOW MUSHROOM—Large menu includes assortment of pizzas, salads, calzones, hoagies, vegetarian options, and 50 beers on tap. 9155 Poplar, Shops of Forest Hill (Germantown). 907-0243; 5138 Park Ave. 562-1211. L, D, X, $-$$ MEMPHIS BARBECUE COMPANY—Offers spare ribs, baby backs, and pulled pork and brisket, along with such sides as mac and cheese, grits, and red beans. 709 Desoto Cove, Horn Lake (MS). 662-536-3762. L, D, X, $-$$
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These establishments offer American cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. While some serve ethnic entrees, the emphasis is on steaks, salads, sandwiches, pasta, fish and seafood. Also some soulfood and homestyle cooking. J. ALEXANDER’S—2670 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 381-9670. APPLEBEE’S—2114 Union Ave. 7257136; 2890 Bartlett Blvd. (Bartlett). 2135034; 710 DeSoto Cove (Horn Lake, MS). 662-772-5914; 7515 Goodman Rd. (Olive Branch, MS). 662-893-7555. AJAX DINER— 188 Courthouse Sq., Oxford, MS. 662-232-8880. BELLY ACRES—2102 Trimble Pl, 529-7017.. BLUE AND WHITE RESTAURANT—1355 US 61. Tunica, MS. 662-363-1371. BLUE PLATE CAFE—5469 Poplar. 761-9696; 113 S. Court. 523-2050. BLUE SHOE BAR & GRILL—Hotel Memphis, 2625 Thousand Oaks Blvd. 362-6200. BON TON CAFE—150 Monroe. 525-0883. CAJUN CATFISH COMPANY—1616 Sycamore View Rd. 383-8958; 336 New Byhalia Rd. Collierville. 861-0122 CHEDDAR’S—7684 Winchester. 624-8881; 2147 N. Germantown Pkwy. 380-1119. CHILI’S—7810 Poplar (Germantown). 756-5203; 4609 Poplar. 685-2257; 8100 Giacosa Pl. 372-3132; 287 W. Goodman
Rd. (Southaven). 662-349-7002; 237 Market Blvd. (Collierville). 853-7520; 1260 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 756-7771; 8526 Highway 51 (Millington). 872-0555. COLTON’S STEAKHOUSE—8030 Highway 64 (Bartlett). 383-8445; 8051 Goodman Rd. (Olive Branch). 662-8904142. COMO STEAKHOUSE—203 Main St. Como, MS. 662-526-9529. THE COVE—2559 Broad Ave. 7300719. THE CUPBOARD—1400 Union. 276-8015 ELWOOD’S SHACK— 4523 Summer. 761-9898. EVERGREEN GRILL—1545 Overton Park. 249-2393. T.G.I. FRIDAY’S—185 Union, Double Tree Hotel. 523-8500; 176 E. Goodman Rd. (Southaven). 662-349-4223; 7733 Winchester Rd. 752-1369; 8325 Highway 64. 372-2539.. KEM’S RESTAURANT—2751 New Brunswick Rd., Holiday Inn & Suites. 2661952. LBOE—2021 Madison Ave. 725-0770. LOGAN’S ROADHOUSE—2710 N. Germantown Parkway. 381-5254; 5901 Poplar. 684-2272; 7755 Winchester Rd. 759-1430; 6685 Airways Blvd. (Southaven). 662-772-5015. MIDTOWN CROSSING GRILLE—394 N. Watkins. 443-0502. O’CHARLEY’S—6045 Stage Rd., #74. 373-5602 (Bartlett); 1040 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 754-6201; 357 W. Goodman Rd. 662-349-6663
MEMPHIS PIZZA CAFE—Homemade pizzas are specialties; also serves sandwiches, calzones, and salads. 2087 Madison. 726-5343; 5061 Park Ave. 684-1306; 7604 W. Farmington (Germantown). 753-2218; 797 W. Poplar (Collierville). 8617800; 5627 Getwell (Southaven). 662-536-1364. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ MESQUITE CHOP HOUSE—The focus here is on steaks, including prime fillet, rib eyes, and prime-aged New York strip; also, some seafood options. 5960 Getwell (Southaven). 662890-2467; 88 Union. 527-5337; 3165 Forest Hill-Irene (Germantown). 249-5661. D, SB (Germantown), X, $$-$$$ MISTER B—Features New Orleans-style seafood and steaks. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 6655 Poplar, #107. 7515262. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ MOLLIE FONTAINE LOUNGE—Specializes in tapas (small plates) featuring global cuisine. Closed Sun.-Tues. 679 Adams Ave. 524-1886. D, X, MRA, $ MOLLY’S LA CASITA—Homemade tamales, fish tacos, a vegetarian combo, and bacon-wrapped shrimp are a few of the specialties. 2006 Madison. 726-1873. L, D, X, MRA, $ MORTIMER’S—Contemporary American entrees include trout almondine, several chicken dishes, and hand-cut steaks; also sandwiches, salads, and daily/ nightly specials. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 590 N. Perkins. 761-9321. L, D, X, $-$$ MOSA ASIAN BISTRO—Specialties include sesame chicken, Thai calamari, rainbow panang curry with grouper fish, and other Pan Asian/fusion entrees. 850 S. White Station Rd. 683-8889. L, D, X, $ MULAN—Hunan Chicken, tofu dishes, and orange beef served here; some sushi, too. 2059 Houston Levee (Collierville). 850-5288; 2149 Young. 347-3965. L, D, X, $-$$ NAGASAKI INN—Chicken, steak, and lobster are among the main courses; meal is cooked at your table. 3951 Summer. 4540320. D, X, $$ NAGOYA—Offers traditional Japanese cuisine and sushi bar; specialties are teriyaki and tempura dishes. 7075 Malco Blvd., Suite 101 (Southaven). 662-349-8788. L, D, X, $-$$$ NAM KING—Offers luncheon and dinner buffets, dim sum, and such specialties as fried dumplings, pepper steak, and orange chicken. 4594 Yale. 373-4411. L, D, X, $ NAPA CAFE—Among the specialties are scallops with oxtail dumplings; focus on organic meat and seafood. Closed for lunch
(Southaven); 656 W. Poplar (Collierville). 861-5811. THE OLIVE GARDEN—7778 Winchester. 624-2003; 8405 Highway 64, Wolfchase Galleria (Cordova). 377-3437; 6615 Airways (Southaven). 662-536-3350; 5679 Poplar, #1. 761-5711. OSHI BURGER BAR—94 s. Main. 341-2091. OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE— 1110 N. Germantown Parkway. 751-9800; 2255 Union Ave. 7285100; 125 W. Goodman Rd. (Southaven). 662-349-7488. MRA. RAFFERTY’S—4542 Poplar. 374-0096; 505 N. Germantown Pkwy. 755-4799. RUBY TUESDAY—1653 Sycamore View. 382-9280;7535 Winchester. 7556570. SIDECAR CAFE—2194 Whitten. 388-0285. SILVER CABOOSE—132 E. Mulberry (Collierville). 853-0010. SKIMO’S—1166 N. Houston Levee. 756-5055. MRA. SOUL FISH CAFE—862 S. Cooper. 725-0722; 3160 Village Shops Dr.(Germantown). 755-6988. 4720 Poplar. 590-0323. MRA. SPAGHETTI WAREHOUSE ITALIAN GRILL—40 W. Huling. 521-0907. TUGS—River Inn, 51 Harbor Town Square. 260-3344. MRA. VINEGAR JIM’S—12062 Forrest (Arlington). 867-7568. WOLF RIVER CAFE—460 Main St. (Rossville). 853-2586.
Sat. and all day Sun. 5101 Sanderlin, Suite 122. 683-0441. L, D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ NEW ASIA—Specializing in authentic Chinese food, including roast Peking duck. 2075 Exeter, Suite 90. 758-8388. L, D, X, $ NEW HUNAN—Chinese eatery with more than 80 entrees;also lunch/dinner buffets. 5052 Park. 766-1622. L, D, X, $ THE OFFICE@UPTOWN— Offering sandwiches, wraps, pizza, soups, salads, and several vegetarian options. Closed Sunday. 594 N. Second St. 522-1905. B, L, D, X, $ OLD VENICE PIZZA CO.— Specializes in “eclectic Italian,” from pastas, including the “Godfather,” to hand-tossed pizzas, including the “John Wayne”; choose from 60 toppings. 368 Perkins Ext. 767-6872. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ ON THE BORDER—Dishes out such Tex-Mex specialties as fajitas and Southwest chicken tacos; also fresh grilled seafood specials. 8101 Giacosa Pl. (Cordova).881-0808 ; 4552 Poplar. 763-0569; 6572 Airways (Southaven). 662-655-4750. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $ ONE & ONLY BBQ—On the menu are pork barbecue sandwiches, platters, wet and dry ribs, smoked chicken and turkey platters, a smoked meat salad, barbecue quesadillas, and more. 1779 Kirby Pkwy. 751-3615; 567 Perkins Extd. 2494227. L, D, X, $ ONIX RESTAURANT—Serves American seafood and pasta dishes. Closed for lunch Sat., all day Sun., and for dinner Mon. 412 S. Main. 552-4609. L, D, X, $-$$ ORR RESTAURANT—Serves Mediterranean/African cuisine, such as lamb Kowzi flavored with raisins and roasted nuts and served with white bean soup. 661 N. Mendenhall, Suite 101. 275-8692. L, D, X, $-$$ OSAKA JAPANESE CUISINE— Featuring an extensive sushi menu as well as traditional Japanese and hibachi dining. Hours vary for lunch; call. 3670 Houston Levee (Collierville). 861-4309; 3402 Poplar. 249-4690; 7164 Hacks Cross. 662890-9312; 2200 N. Germantown Pkwy. 425-4901. L, D, X, $-$$$ OWEN BRENNAN’S—New Orleans-style menu of beef, chicken, pasta, and seafood; jambalaya, shrimp and grits, and crawfish etouffee are specialties. Closed for dinner Sunday. The Regalia, 6150 Poplar. 761-0990. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ PANCHO’S—Serves up a variety of Mexican standards, including tacos, enchiladas, and mix-and-match platters; also
lunch specials. 3600 E. Broadway (West Memphis). 870-7356466. 717 N. White Station. 685-5404. L, D, X, MRA, $ PANDA GARDEN—Sesame chicken and broccoli beef are among the Mandarin and Cantonese entrees; also seafood specials and fried rice. Closed for lunch Saturday. 3735 Summer. 3234819. L, D, X, $-$$ PASTA ITALIA—Northern Italian cuisine features homemade stuffed pastas; a specialty is rosetta al forno; also serves fish and steaks. Closed Sun.-Mon. 8130 Macon Station Dr., Suite 106. 751-0009. D, X, $$$-$$$$ PAULETTE’S—Presents fine dining with a Continental flair, including such entrees as filet Paulette with butter-pepper cream sauce and the famous K-pie; also changing daily specials. River Inn. 50 Harbor Town Square. 260-3300. B, L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ PEARL’S OYSTER HOUSE—Downtown eatery serving seafood, including oysters, crawfish, and stuffed butterfly shrimp, as well as beef, chicken, and pasta dishes. 299 S. Main. 5229070. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ PEI WEI ASIAN DINER—Serves a variety of Pan-Asian cuisine, including Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Thai. Noodle and rice bowls are specialties; a small plates menu also offered. 1680 Union Ave., #109. 722-3780; 2257 N. Germantown Pkwy. 382-1822. L, D, X, $-$$ PETE & SAM’S—Serving Memphis for 60-plus years; offers steaks, seafood, and traditional Italian dishes, including homemade ravioli, lasagna, and chicken marsala. 3886 Park. 458-0694. D, X, $-$$$ PETRA CAFÉ—Serves Greek, Italian, and Middle Eastern sandwiches, gyros, and entrees. Hours vary; call. 6641 Poplar Ave. (Germantown). 754-4440; 9155 Poplar (Germantown). 755-5440; 1560 Union. 505-2812. L, D, X, $-$$ PF CHANG’S CHINA BISTRO—Specialties are orange peel shrimp, Mongolian beef, and chicken in lettuce wraps; also vegetarian dishes, including spicy eggplant. 1181 Ridgeway Rd., Park Place Centre. 818-3889. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ PHO BINH—Vietnamese, vegetarian, and Cantonese specialties include lemon tofu and spring rolls. Closed Sunday. 1615 Madison. 276-0006. L, D, $ PHO SAIGON—Vietnamese fare includes beef teriyaki, roasted quail, curry ginger chicken, vegetarian options, and a variety of soups. 2946 Poplar. 458-1644. L, D, $ PIG-N-WHISTLE—Offers pork shoulder sandwiches, wet and dry ribs, catfish, nachos, and stuffed barbecue potatoes. 6084 Kerr-Rosemark Rd. 872-2455. L, D, X, $ PORCELLINO’S CRAFT BUTCHER—Small plates, charcuterie selections, house-made pastries, and innovative teas and coffees are offered at this combination butcher shop and restaurant featuring locally sourced menu items. 1711 W. Brookhaven Cl. 762-6656. B, L, X $-$$ PRESENTATION ROOM, THE—American bistro run by the students of L’Ecole Culinaire. Menu changes regularly; specialties may include such items as a filet with truffle mushroom ragu. Closed Fri.-Sun. 1245 N. Germantown Pkwy (Cordova). 754-7115. L, D, X, $-$$ PYRO’S FIRE-FRESH PIZZA—Serving gourmet pizzas cooked in an open-fire oven; wide choice of toppings; large local and craft beer selection. 1 199 Ridgeway. 379-8294; 2035 Union Ave. 208-8857; 2286 N. Germantown Pkwy. 207-1198. B, L, D, X, $ RAVINE—Serves contemporary Southern cuisine with an emphasis on fresh, locally grown foods and a menu that changes weekly. Closed Mon.-Tues. 53 Pea Ridge/County Rd. 321 (Oxford, MS). 662-234-4555. D, SB, X, $$-$$$ RED KOI—Classic Japanese cuisine offered at this family-run restaurant; hibachi steaks, sushi, seafood, chicken, and vegetables. 5847 Poplar. 767-3456. L, D, X $-$$ RED LOBSTER—Specializes in crab legs, lobster, and shrimp dishes; also pastas, salads, steaks, and chicken. 8161 Highway 64 (Cordova). 387-0056; 6535 Airways (Southaven). 662536-1960; 7750 Winchester. 759-9045. L, D, X, $-$$ RENDEZVOUS—Menu items include barbecued ribs, cheese plates, skillet shrimp, red beans and rice, and Greek salads. Closed Sun.-Mon. 52 S. Second. 523-2746. L (Fri.-Sat.), D, X, MRA, $-$$ RESTAURANT IRIS— French Creole cuisine includes shrimp and delta-grind grits, and New York strip stuffed with fried oysters and blue cheese. Closed Sun. 2146 Monroe. 590-2828. D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ RIVER OAKS—A French-style bistro serving seafood and steaks, with an emphasis on fresh local ingredients. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 5871 Poplar Ave. 683-9305. L, D, X, $$-$$$ RIVERFRONT BAR & GRILL—Beale Street Landing eatery serves Southern American specialties, including Tom Lee Catfish, and Tennessee Caviar, a fresh veggie salsa of black-eyed peas and
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Serving sandwiches and salads, burgers and bagels, wings and chicken, these are popular spots. BOGIE’S—715 S. Mendenhall. 761-5846. MRA; 2098 LaSalle Place. 272-0022. MRA; 80 Monroe. 525-6764; 2028 W. Poplar (Collierville). 854-8555. CHEFFIE’S — 483 High Point Terrace. 343-0488. CHING’S HOT WINGS—1264 Getwell. 743-5545. CITY EAST BAGEL & GRILLE—6698 Poplar at Kirby. 754-2660. CITY MARKET— 66 S. Main. 729-6152. CORDELIA’S TABLE—737 Harbor Bend Rd. 526-4772. FINO’S FROM THE HILL—1853 Madison. 272-3466. MRA. HOLIDAY HAM—2087 Union. 881-6433; 585 Erin Dr. 7634499; 7652 Poplar (Germantown). 869-6650; 3750 Hacks Cross Rd. 624-4848 JASON’S DELI—1213 Ridgeway. 685-3333; 1585 Chickering (Cordova). 844-1840; 3473 Poplar. 324-3181. KWIK CHEK—2013 Madison. 274-9293. LENNY’S SUB SHOP—2893 Poplar. 320-0022; 7424 Stage Rd. 937-0800; 22 N. Front. 543-9230; 521 S. Highland. 454-7077; 2095 Exeter, Suite 30 (Germantown). 755-0750; 4970 Raleigh-LaGrange. 371-9979; 1016 W. Poplar (Collierville). 854-8299; 4726 Spottswood. 202-4800; 4740 Showcase. 3684215; 8950 Hwy. 64 (Lakeland). 12 S. Cooper. 6300 Poplar, #111. 761-2403. MRA. LETTUCE EAT SALAD COMPANY—6641 Poplar, Suite 106. (Germantown), 552-5604. LUNCHBOX EATS—288 S. Fourth. 526-0820. LUCCHESI’S RAVIOLI—540 S. Mendenhall. 766-9922. MCALISTER’S DELI—3482 Plaza Ave. 452-6009; 7990 Trinity Rd. (Cordova). 737-7282; 7710 Poplar (Germantown). 753-1507; 975 580 S. Mendenhall. 763-2711; 3855 Hacks Cross. 881-6068; 6600 Stage Rd. (Bartlett). 213-3311. 9091 Poplar (Germantown) 756-5292. PANERA BREAD—714 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 754-5813; 4530 Poplar. 767-3116; 5865 Poplar, Ridgeway Trace. 683-9384; 7850 Poplar. 759-1439; 7501 Goodman Rd. (Olive Branch). 662-890-1985. PARADISE CAFE—6150 Poplar, Suite 120. 821-9600. JACK PIRTLE’S FRIED CHICKEN—3571 Lamar. 7941254; 2520 Mt. Moriah. 565-0203 SCHLOTZSKY’S DELI—4758 Poplar. 763-0741. UNCLE LOU’S FRIED CHICKEN—3633 Millbranch. 332-2367. WHOLE FOODS MARKET— 5014 Poplar. 685-2293. YOUNG AVENUE DELI—2119 Young. 278-0034.
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cilantro with pimento cheese and toast points. Closed Monday. 251 Riverside Dr. 524-0817. L, X, $ RIZZO’S DINER—Chorizo meatloaf, lobster pronto puff, and brisket are menu items at this upscale diner, Closed for dinner Sun. and all day Mon. 492 S. Main. 304-6985. L, D, WB, X, $-$$ ROBATA RAMEN & YAKITORI BAR— Serves ramen noodle bowls and Yakitori skewers as well as rice and noodle dishes. 2116 Madison. 410-8290. D, WB, X, $-$$ ROCK’N DOUGH PIZZA CO.—Specialty and custom pizzas made from fresh ingredients; wide variety of toppings. 1 243 Ridgeway. 435-6238. L, D, X, $$ ROMANO’S MACARONI GRILL—Serves MediterraneanItalian cuisine, including hand-crafted pasta Milano and penne rustica, and create-your-own pasta; also steaks, seafood, and salads. 2859 N. Germantown Pk wy. (Cordova). 266-4565. L, D, X, $-$$ ROYAL PANDA—Hunan fish, Peking duck, Royal Panda chicken and shrimp, and a seafood combo are among the specialties. 3120 Village Shops Dr. (Germantown). 756-9697. L, D, X, $-$$ RUSSO’S NEW YORK PIZZERIA AND WINE BAR—Serves gourmet pizzas, calzones, and pasta, including lasagna, fettucine Alfredo, scampi, and more. 9087 Poplar, Suite 111. 755-0092. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE—Offers prime steaks cut and aged in-house, as well as lamb, chicken, and fresh seafood, including lobster. 6120 Poplar. 761-0055. D, X, MRA, $$$-$$$$ SABROSURA—Serves Mexican and Cuban fare, including arroz tapada de pollo and steak Mexican. 782 Washington. 4218180. B, L, D, X, $-$$
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CIT Y DINING LIST T UNICA TA BLES CHICAGO STEAKHOUSE AT THE GOLDSTRIKE—1010 Casino Center Dr., Robinsonville, MS, 1-888-24KSTAY /662-357-1225. DON B’S STEAKHOUSE AT THE FITZ —711 Lucky Ln., Robinsonville, MS, 1-888-766-LUCK, ext 6501. FAIRBANKS AT THE HOLLYWOOD—1150 Casino Strip Blvd., Robinsonville, MS, 1-800-871-0711 JACK BINION’S STEAK HOUSE AT HORSESHOE—1021 Casino Center Drive, Robinsonville, MS, 1-800-303-SHOE. SAIGON LE—Vietnamese/Chinese specialties include calamari with ginger, and pork chops with mushrooms; vegetarian options too. Closed Sunday. 51 N. Cleveland. 276-5326. L, D, X, $-$$ SAKURA—Sushi, tempura, and teriyaki are Japanese specialties here. 2 060 West St. (Germantown). 758-8181. 4840 Poplar. 572-1002. L, D, X, $-$$ SALSA—Mexican-Southern California specialties include carnitas, enchiladas verde, and fajitas; also Southwestern seafood dishes such as snapper verde. Closed Sun. Regalia Shopping Center, 6150 Poplar, Suite 129. 683-6325. L, D, X, $-$$ SCHWEINEHAUS— Serving Bavarian-influenced fare with a Southern twist; includes wurst platters, pork schnitzel, sauerbraten, and more; also a wide variety of beers. 2110 Madison. 347-3060. L, D, X, $-$$ SEASONS 52—This elegant fresh grill and wine bar offers a seasonally changing menu using fresh ingredients, wood-fire grilling, and brick-oven cooking; also a large international wine list and nightly piano bar. C rescent Center, 6085 Poplar. 6829952. L, D, X, $$-$$$ THE SECOND LINE—Kelly English brings “relaxed Creole cuisine” to his new eatery; serves a variety of po-boys and such specialties as barbecue shrimp, and andouille, shrimp, and pimento cheese fries. 2144 Monroe. 590-2829. L (Sat.-Sun. only), D, WB, X, $-$$ SEKISUI—Japanese fusion cuisine, fresh sushi bar, grilled meats and seafood, California rolls, and vegetarian entrees. Poplar/ Perkins location’s emphasis is on Pacific Rim cuisine. Menu and hours vary at each location. 25 Belvedere. 725-0005;1884 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 309-8800; 4724 Poplar (between Perkins & Colonial). 767-7770; 2130 W. Poplar (Collierville). 854-0622; 1255 Goodman Rd. (Horn Lake). 662-536-4404; 2990 Kirby-Whitten (Bartlett). 377-2727; 6696 Poplar. 747-0001. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ SHOGUN JAPANESE RESTAURANT—Entrees include tempura, teriyaki, and sushi, as well as grilled fish and chicken entrees. 2 324 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 384-4122. L, D, X, $-$$ SIDE PORCH STEAK HOUSE—In addition to steak, the menu includes chicken, pork chops, and fish entrees; homemade rolls are a specialty. Closed Sun.-Mon. 5689 Stage Rd. (Bartlett). 377-2484. D, X, $-$$ SKEWER—Japanese yaikitori cuisine features bite-sized meat and vegetables served with dipping sauce, along with sushi, ramen, and donburi — rice bowls topped with a variety of foods. Closed Monday. 5101 Sanderlin, #105. 682-9919. L, D, X, $-$$$ SPINDINI—Italian fusion cuisine with such entrees as woodfired pizzas, gorgonzola stuffed filet, and fresh seafood; pizza specials on Mon.; large domestic whiskey selection. 383 S. Main. 578-2767. D, X, $$-$$$ STIX—Hibachi steakhouse with Asian cuisine features steak, chicken, and a fillet and lobster combination, also sushi. A specialty is Dynamite Chicken with fried rice. 4680 Merchants Park Circle, Avenue Carriage Crossing (Collierville). 8543399. L, D, X, $-$$ STONE SOUP CAFE— Cooper-Young eatery serving soups, salads, quiche, pizza, and daily specials such as Italian roast beef. Closed Monday. 993 S. Cooper. 922-5314. B, L, SB, X, $ STRANO SICILIAN KITCHEN & BAR—Presenting a Sicilian/Mediterranean mix of Arab, Spanish, Greek, and North African fare, Strano serves small plates, hand-tossed pizzas, wood-grilled fish, and other specialties. Closed Mon. 948 S. Cooper. 275-8986. L, D, SB, X, $$-$$$ SWEET GRASS—Low-country coastal cuisine includes such specialties as shrimp and grits. Closed Mon. The restaurant’s “sister,” Sweet Grass Next Door, open nightly, serves lunch Sat.Sun. 937 S. Cooper. 278-0278. D, SB, X, $-$$$ TANNOOR GRILL—Brazilian-style steakhouse with skewers served tableside, along with Middle Eastern specialties; vegetarian options also available. 830 N. Germantown Pkwy. 443-5222. L, D, X, $-$$$ 142 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • J U L Y 2 0 1 5
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Fresh cuisine prepared while you wait and served in an upscale setting. Not your typical fast-food restaurants, most serve beer, wine, and liquor. BONEHEADS—555 Perkins Extd. 746-8867. BURRITO BLUES MEXICAN—156 Beale. 528-1055. CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL—5865 Poplar, Ridgeway Trace. 416-1944. CREPE MAKER—4630 Merchants Park Cir., #731 (Collierville). 861-1981. GENGHIS GRILL—2362 N. Germantown Parkway. 584-0412; 7706 Winchester. 522-5048; 5849 Poplar, #117, Ridgeway Trace. 308-4040. HUMDINGERS—6300 Poplar. 260-8292; 1134 N. Germantown Parkway (Cordova). 271-2912. MOE’S SOUTHWEST GRILL— 465 N. Germantown Parkway (Cordova). 737-5058. 6300 Poplar Ave., #108. 685-5685; 3660 S. Houston Levee (Collierville). 457-7227. SWANKY’S TACO SHOP—6641 Poplar (Germantown). 737-2088. 4770 Poplar. 730-0763. MRA. TAZIKI’S MEDITERRANEAN CAFE— 540 S. Mendenhall. 290-1091. TART—Combination patisserie, coffeehouse, and restaurant serving rustic French specialties, including baked eggs in brioche, topped with Gruyere, and french breads and pastries. 820 S. Cooper. 725-0091. B, L, WB, X, $ TERRACE—Creative American and Continental cuisine includes such entrees as filet mignon, beef or lamb sliders, five-spice salmon, and grilled vegetarian eggplant; also small plates. Rooftop, River Inn of Harbor Town, 50 Harbor Town Square. 260-3366. D, X, $-$$ TEXAS DE BRAZIL—Serves beef, pork, lamb, and chicken dishes, and Brazilian sausage; also a 60-item gourmet salad area. 150 Peabody Place, Suite 103. 526-7600. L (Wed.-Fri.), D, SB, X, $$-$$$ THREE ANGELS ON BROAD—Global cuisine with an emphasis on fresh, local ingredients; menu includes sandwiches burgers, pastas, seafood, and steaks. Closed for dinner Sun. and all day Mon. 2617 Broad Ave. 452-1111. L, D, SB, X, $-$$ THREE LITTLE PIGS—Pork-shoulder-style barbecue with tangy mild or hot sauce, freshly made cole slaw, and baked beans. 5145 Quince Rd. 685-7094. B, L, D, X, $ TOPS BAR B-Q—Specializes in pork barbecue sandwiches and sandwich plates with beans and slaw; also serves ribs, beef brisket, and burgers. 1286 Union. 725-7527. 4183 Summer. 324-4325; 5391 Winchester. 794-7936; 3970 Rhodes. 3239865; 6130 Macon. 371-0580. For more locations, go online. L, D, X, $ TROLLEY STOP MARKET—Serves plate lunches/dinners as well as pizzas, salads, and vegan/vegetarian entrees; a specialty is the locally raised beef burger. Also sells fresh produce and goods from local farmers. Saturday brunch; closed Sunday. 704 Madison. 526-1361. L, D, X, $ TSUNAMI—Features Pacific Rim cuisine (Asia, Australia, South Pacific, etc.); also a changing “small plate” menu. Specialties include Asian nachos and roasted sea bass. Closed Sunday. 928 S. Cooper. 274-2556. D, X, $$-$$$ TWILIGHT SKY TERRACE—Offers small plates of tostados, nachos, flatbreads, paninis; also hand-crafted cocktails and sweeping rooftop views of the downtown Memphis skyline. Open, weather permitting. The Madison Hotel, 79 Madison. 333-1224. L (Sat.-Sun.), D, WB.X, $ TYCOON—Among the Asian entrees are spicy garlic shrimp, Thai gumbo, and special house noodle soup. 3307 Kirby Parkway. 362-8788. B, L, D, X, $ UNCLE BUCK’S FISHBOWL & GRILL—Burgers, pizza, fish dishes, sandwiches, and more served in a unique “underwater’ setting. Bass Pro, Bass Pro Drive, 291-8200. L, D, X, $-$$ WANG’S MANDARIN HOUSE—Offers Mandarin, Cantonese, Szechuan, and spicy Hunan entrees, including the golden-sesame chicken; next door is East Tapas, serving small plates with an Asian twist. 6065 Park Ave, Park Place Mall. 763-0676. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ WOMAN’S EXCHANGE TEA ROOM—Chicken-salad plate, beef tenderloin, soups-and-sandwiches, and vegetable plates are specialties; meal includes drink and dessert. Closed Sat.-Sun. 88 Racine. 327-5681. L, X, MRA, $ ZAYTOON—Serves such Mediterranean cuisine as shish kebabs, falafel, hummus, and gyros. 694 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 754-6366. L, D, X, $
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Amazon Before Amazon The more things change, the more they stay the same? Maybe.
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he other day, I read an article in Wired about Amazon’s “fulfillment centers.” These giant warehouses are like real-life Santa’s workshops: When you click “buy,” all the elves start scurrying. At 1.2 million square feet, they also happen to be some of the biggest buildings in the country, stuffed to the gills with flash drives and dog treats and socket wrenches. In this article, the author opines about how breathtakingly new it is — all the chutes and conveyor belts and scurrying elves. But of course, it isn’t new. A then-powerful retailer called Sears had it all figured out 100 years ago. As a matter of fact, Sears was bigger. Take Sears Crosstown in Memphis. When the last additions were completed in 1965, this retail store and distribution hub clocked in at a whopping 1.5 million square feet — bigger than the Chrysler Building in New York, and about 25 percent bigger than the biggest Amazon fulfillment center. Every year, it served 750,000 customers in a seven-state region, and it could handle 45,000 catalog orders in a single day — on average, a new
order every two seconds. And this was before computers. Amazon, eat your heart out. Of course, Sears was different from Amazon in one important way: popular perception. From the beginning, Amazon’s fulfillment centers have been dogged by accusations of hazardous working conditions and low pay (“wage slavery,” in the words of one writer). In the popular imagination, then, Amazon’s fulfillment cen-
A bustling Sears Crosstown, circa 1950s.
ters are less like Santa’s workshop, In practice, that means restaumore like Santa’s sweatshop. rants and shops, offices and art Meanwhile, at Sears Crossgalleries, apartments, clinics, town, the workers were certainand schools. It means Memphis ly sweating. From the time the mainstays like St. Jude, Chriswarehouse opened in 1927 until it tian Brothers, and the Church closed in 1987, there was no AC. Health Center, who are moving Even in summer, the only relief part or all of their operations was cross-ventilation from wininto the building. Most of all, it dow fans. will require the participation Imagine trying to get a twenand support of the surrounding ty-something to work in those neighborhood and the whole city conditions today. You’d get — without whom the building laughed at, or sued. But strangewould still be a ruin. ly enough, when I talk to forIt won’t be easy. To undermer Sears employees, they nevstand the scale of the ambition, er complain you only have “No matter what to stand i n about the heat. front of the Instead, they department you worked in, building and all come back Sears paid women fairly.” to one thing: look up. Before gratitude. To it’s f inished, — Doris Sossaman a person, they the redevelopare grateful to have worked at ment of Crosstown Concourse Sears Crosstown, to have been a will have consumed seven years part of that family. and $200 million. Over 40 milTake Doris Sossaman, age 81, lion pounds of concrete will have who worked in payroll from 1958 been removed from the building, to 1967. and over 2 million pounds of new “We were all there,” says steel will have been installed. Sossaman. “We were hungry; it That’s two pounds for every person in Shelby County. was the best place in town for a woman to work. Sears, no matter It’s an ambitious undertaking what department you worked — on par with the mind-bogin, paid women fairly. And back gling logistics of the old Sears. then that was important, because But Doris Sossaman thinks they women didn’t have much to say can do it. She says she’s rooting in business.” for Crosstown Concourse. As you may know, Sears Cross“When they finish up, this town is currently in the process of neighborhood will come alive,” being redeveloped. Over the next says Sossaman. “We’ll see new two years, a building that was all businesses pick up. We’ll see about packing and shipping conhomes built and homes rebuilt. sumer goods will become a place Young people are already moving for moving people — moving in with great ideas. It’s a really them forward into better jobs, exciting time.” better health, and better education. They’re calling it Crosstown John Klyce Minervini works in digital media at Crosstown Concourse. He Concourse, and it’s going to be a is the founding editor of the Memphis “vertical urban village” — essenfood website the fork, and tially, all the elements of a vibrant he writes a weekly column for the neighborhood, stacked vertically memphis flyer. in a single building.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY JOEL HALPERN / CROSSTOWN CONCOURSE
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