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Marc Gasol, our 2015 Memphian of the Year, wears a St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital lapel pin. PHOTOGRAPH BY KAREN PULFER FOCHT

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in the beginning spotlight fine print city journal out and about front and center

Features

35 New Kid on the Block

While it wasn’t quite My Dinner with Andre, a reporter learned a lot from a recent brunch with Mayor-Elect Jim Strickland. ~ by jackson baker

48 Wonder, Whimsy, Wild

American folk art is on display at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. ~ by eileen townsend

54 Memphian of the Year: Marc Gasol

The Grizzlies’ star center may not be from Memphis, but to our hearts and minds, he is Memphis. ~ by kevin lipe

64 Great Homes: Touring an In-town Country Estate At home with Darrell and Susan Doane.

~ by anne cunningham o’neill

89 Secrets of the Grotto

How a Mexican artist created one of Memphis’ greatest treasures. ~ by eileen townsend Memphis (ISSN 1622-820x) is published monthly for $15 per year by Contemporary Media, Inc., 460 Tennessee Street, P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101 © 2015. Telephone: 901-521-9000. For subscription info, please call 901-521-9000. Subscription customer service mailing address is Memphis magazine, P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101. All rights reserved. • Periodicals Postage Paid at Memphis, TN. Postmasters: send address changes to Memphis, P.O. Box 1738, Memphis, TN 38101.

Columns/Departments 114 ask vance

The Spanish Mansion Our trivia expert solves local mysteries of who, what, when, where, why, and why not. ~ by vance lauderdale

116 books

Two Sides of the Same City Two new books explore Memphis’ most musical characters and her darkest secrets. ~ by richard j. alley

118 dining out Bountiful

Chef Jackson Kramer redefines family style with spirited and flavorful American food. ~ by pamela denney

120 city dining

Tidbits: Heritage Tavern & Kitchen; plus the city’s most extensive dining listings.

128 last stand

Game Changers A few ideas for improving the wide world of sports.

~ by vance lauderdale

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his list is excerpted from the 2015 topDentists™ list, a database which includes listings for more than 120 dentists and specialists in the Memphis Metropolitan area. The Memphis area list is based on thousands of detailed evaluations of dentists and professionals by their peers. The complete database is available at www. usatopdentists.com. For more information call 706-364-0853; write P.O. Box 970, Augusta, GA 30903; email info@usatopdentists.com or visit www.usatopdentists.com

SELECTION PROCESS “If you had a patient in need of a dentist, which dentist the specialty and the geographic area. Borderline cases would you refer them to?” are given careful consideration by the editors. Voting This is the question we’ve asked thousands of characteristics and comments are taken into considdentists to help us determine who the topDentists eration while making decisions. Past awards a dentist should be. Dentists and specialists are has received, status in various dental asked to take into consideration academies (Academy of General years of experience, continuing Dentistry, American Academy education , ma n ner w it h of Periodontology, etc.) can p at i e nt s , u s e o f n ew play a factor in our decision. techniques and technologies Once the decisions have and of course physical results. been finalized, the included The nomination pool of dentists are checked against dentists consists of dentists state dental boards for discilisted online with the Amerplinary actions to make sure ican Dental Association, as they have an active license and well as dentists listed online are in good standing with the with their local dental societies, board. Then letters of congratthus allowing virtually every denulations are sent to all the listed tist the opportunity to participate. dentists. Dentists are also given the opporOf course there are many fine tunity to nominate other dentists dentists who are not included in this representative list. It is intended as a that they feel should be included in sampling of the great body of talent our list. Respondents are asked to in the field of dentistry in the United put aside any personal bias or political motivations and to use only their States. A dentist’s inclusion on our list is knowledge of their peers’ work when based on the subjective judgments of his evaluating the other nominees. or her fellow dentists. While it is true that Voters are asked to individually evaluate the lists may at times disproportionately the practitioners on their ballot whose work reward visibility or popularity, we remain they are familiar with. Once the balloting is confident that our polling methodology largely corrects for any biases and that these lists continue to completed, the scores are compiled and then averaged. represent the most reliable, accurate, and useful list of The numerical average required for inclusion varies dentists available anywhere. depending on the average for all the nominees within DISCLAIMER

This list is excerpted from the 2015 topDentists™ list, which includes listings for more than 120 dentists and specialists in the Memphis Metropolitan area. For more information call 706-364-0853 or email info@usatopdentists.com or visit www.usatopdentists.com. topDentists has used its best efforts in assembling material for this list but does not warrant that the information contained herein is complete or accurate, and does not assume, and hereby disclaims, any liability to any person for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions herein whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause. Copyright 2009-2015 by topDentists, Augusta, GA. All rights reserved. This list, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission. No commercial use of the information in this list may be made without permission of topDentists. No fees may be charged, directly or indirectly, for the use of the information in this list without permission. D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 5 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 73

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T OP DEN T IS T S PROFILE S

pages 81 - 88 Meet some of the Mid-South’s best dentists and specialists. FOR THE PAST 32 YEARS, Aesthetic Dentistry of Collierville, PLLC has been a leader in technologically advanced dentistry in the Mid-South. Alan O. Blanton, DDS, MS, established his practice in 1983 and has continued to study and perform the most up-to-date dental procedures with the latest technology dentistry has to offer his patients. From same-day computer designed and on-site milled CEREC all-ceramic crowns to soft tissue lasers, INVISALIGN® and Six Month Smiles® orthodontics for adults, Dr. Blanton wants his patients to experience the best dentistry has to offer in convenience and comfort. Four years ago Aesthetic Dentistry of Collierville, PLLC underwent a complete renovation of its facility and added an additional 1,100 square feet of clinical space to accommodate a larger staff and provide an increasing number of services to the growing practice patient family. One of the greatest areas of expansion of services was the formation of the Mid-South Snoring and Sleep Apnea Dental Treatment Center. Really a practice within a practice, MidSouth Snoring and Sleep Apnea Dental Treatment Center concentrates on treating patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea who cannot tolerate conventional CPAP therapy. Dr. Blanton is the only board-certified dentist in West Tennessee to treat patients diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnea using specially designed oral appliances which stabilize the lower jaw and prevent the collapse of the airway during sleep. Working closely for the past eight years with area Sleep Physicians and accredited Sleep Centers, Dr. Blanton has treated more patients suffering with sleep apnea than any other dentist in the Mid-South. Call (901) 853-8116 or visit either of our websites for more information or to schedule an appointment. Dr. Blanton provides no-cost, no-obligation consultations for all major dental procedures including INVISALIGN®, Six Month Smiles® and Oral Appliance Therapy.

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PUBLISHER/EDITOR kenneth neill EXECUTIVE EDITOR michael finger MANAGING EDITOR frank murtaugh ARTS & LIFESTYLE EDITOR anne cunningham o’neill FASHION EDITOR augusta campbell FOOD EDITOR pamela denney ASSOCIATE EDITORS shara clark, eileen townsend CONTRIBUTING EDITORS richard j. alley, jackson baker,

john branston, tom jones, vance lauderdale

CREATIVE DIRECTOR brian groppe PRODUCTION OPERATIONS DIRECTOR margie neal ADVERTISING ART DIRECTOR christopher myers GRAPHIC DESIGNERS dominique pere, bryan rollins PHOTOGRAPHY justin fox burks, karen pulfer focht,

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DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT jeffrey a. goldberg EDITORIAL DIRECTOR bruce vanwyngarden DIGITAL MANAGER kevin lipe DISTRIBUTION MANAGER lynn sparagowski EVENTS MANAGER jackie sparks-davila MARKETING/COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER kendrea collins EMAIL MARKETING MANAGER britt ervin IT DIRECTOR joseph carey OFFICE MANAGER celeste dixon

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ON THE WEB

Highlights from memphismagazine.com Our revised, revamped, and reader-friendly website is designed to supplement the printed magazine you are holding in your hands. For further reading by writers in this issue, use the “Archives” link on our website:

“LE W IS DONEL SON: A M A N F OR A LL SE A SONS” by jackson baker (July 2012)

“RODIN REDU X ”

by eileen townsend (October 2014)

Our Blogs For a closer look at Memphis — past and present — visit our regular blogs:

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Compiled by the staff of Memphis magazine, this is where readers can find tidbits relating to all facets of life in the Bluff City. memphismagazine.com/Blogs/901

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Douglas & Dan know business is built on relationships. They work hard to build those relationships with their clients over the long-term. So when they started their real estate company, they knew they needed a banking partner whose approach was the same. See Douglas & Dan’s story at my.triumphbank.com

We celebrate our city’s community table and the people who grow, cook, and eat the best Memphis food. memphismagazine.com/Blogs/Memphis-Stew

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Vance Lauderdale, our man-about-town and history columnist, talks about who, what, when, where, why — and why not. memphismagazine.com/Blogs/Ask-Vance

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Tips and techniques for looking good in Memphis. memphismagazine.com/Blogs/Style-Watch

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Snaps from parties and events around Memphis. memphismagazine.com/Blogs/Party-Pix

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The online magazine offers a complete events calendar, accessible on the home page, searchable by date and type of event.

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The My Triumph campaign exists to spotlight everyday people fulﬁlling their dreams. These are our customers, and these are their stories of triumph. What’s your triumph?

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ell, here we are, nearly at the end of 2015, which means that the 2016 presidential election is now less than a year away. Before much longer, we’ll start seeing Republican and Democratic candidates campaigning all over Tennessee, and even right here in Memphis. Wait, you say that’s already happening? true, btw), he/she cleverly foresaw a dream Unless you’ve refused (sensibly) to turn on merger in the making. Bring all the wacko your tv the past six months, you’re by now sensibilities of American Idol to bear upon a well aware that our mind-numbing 2016 real-life political drama, get real entertainpresidential election campaign is already apers into the races, and voila! You’ve turned proaching its half-way mark, even though it’s dull-as-dirt American politics into first-class still 2015. All this is making baseball look like entertainment, reaping ratings dividends and an action-packed sport. When Democratic dollars galore. frontrunner Hillary Clinton appeared here at And so for the 2016 campaign, the tv LeMoyne-Owen College just before Thanksnews networks built it, and we have come. giving, the 2016 election So far this presidential campaign is one large was still 353 days away! political reality show. How can everyone not peak too early? Republican presidential American presidendebates, especially, have tial campaigns weren’t consistently cracked always like this; when the top five slots in the JFK, for example, ran nightly ratings on the for President in 1960, nights they occur. And he sensibly announced not surprisingly, the his candidacy on Jantwo leading Republican uary 2nd of that very candidates (as we go to same year. To me, even press) are two individuan 11-month campaign als who haven’t a lick of seems an eternity, but real political experience, today’s 21-month odysyet have vast amounts of sey is pure torture, both what Shakespeare might for the candidates and call “stage presence.” the electorate. No other Donald Trump and Ben May 1986 democracy in the world Carson may stumble puts its candidates and badly between now and its population through an ordeal quite like the February primaries, but there’s no questhis one. tion that the “reality” of this 2016 election For the best part of a century now we’ve cycle is straight out of Shakespeare. So far at least, all the world’s a stage, particularly for been able to blame this presidential Long March upon our quaint but colorfully inept these two gentlemen, and to the detriment of primary system, which keeps candidates ram“performers” less charismatic. As for myself, I’m not ready to cast a ballot bling from state to state and takes months to unravel. This election cycle, however, we’ve yet for anyone. Call me old-fashioned, but I’m made things even more complicated by inwaiting for the circus to end before deciding troducing an endless stream of televised canwhich of the current participants is best suitdidate debates, even before a single primary ed for the thankless task of becoming leader of this country. ballot is counted. We’ve already had more than a dozen such “events,” and the calendar But there’s one way a contender could grab still says 2015. my vote. Just promise that you’ll ensure that no televised candidate debates can be shown How did this happen? This new wrinkle, most probably, is the product of an anonybefore the year in which the presidential elecmous genius involved with 24/7 television tion is held, and bingo! I’ve got your yard sign news. Once this pivotal someone became in my front yard. aware that more people voted in 2008 in The American Idol tv poll than actually voted in Kenneth Neill publisher/editor the Obama/McCain presidential race (this is

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le Miss homecoming weekend was the perfect setting for guests from 50 countries who were visiting Memphis recently for the wedding of Elizabeth (Liz) Laws and Byron Fuller. The bride is the daughter of Nancy Thomas of Memphis and Dr. and Mrs. Albert Laws of Columbus, Mississippi. Liz and Byron, currently living in Paris, treated their many friends from around the world to a true Southern experience that included parties in New Orleans and Oxford, culminating in their Sunday wedding extravaganza at the Memphis Country Club. The party at the Ole Miss Grove was an all-day affair beginning at 9 a.m. with wedding guests and family friends from Memphis boarding four Cline Tour buses stocked with drinks and snacks that included dozens of Gibson’s doughnuts. There was music and singing, and on one lucky bus Miss Nikki, from the iconic Memphis juke joint Wild Bill’s, was there to lead the singalong. Guests were asked to dress in Ole Miss red, and the bride herself featured a stunning red dress and veil. A number of party-goers went to the game (Ole Miss vs New Mexico State) while others continued the celebration under the huge tent. The delicious buffet luncheon was catered by the famed Taylor Grocery.

1 Ann McCrae, Anne Cunningham O’Neill, and Janie Hopkins 2 Miss Nikki and the bride, Liz Laws 3 Stephen and Erica Laws with Casey Cook and Erik Waldin 4 Sally Shy and Andrew Laws 5 Bruce and Bond Hopkins 6 The spectacular tent at the Grove 7 Scott and Meg Crosby 8 Charley Aldrich, Byron Fuller, and Hiram Powers 9 Linda and Don Fuller 10 Kris Pitney, the father of the bride, Albert (“Chance”) Laws, and Alston Ramsay 11 Chandler and Lauren Laws contin u ed on page 18

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Names in the News A look back at the top news stories of 2015.

ews stories come and go, but a few of them are sticky. These were eight big stories in 2015 that we’ll still be talking about next year and beyond.

University of Memphis quarterback Paxton Lynch may not win the Heisman Trophy but he is the true MVP of this college football season. Here’s why. A great player has more impact on a bad or mediocre team, as Memphis was pre-Lynch, than on a team such as Alabama that has great players every year. A quarterback who touches the ball on nearly every offensive play is more valuable than a running back, lineman, receiver, or defender. Lynch ignited the offense that won enough games to get Memphis in the Top 25 and on national television and in a bowl game. His team twice filled a stadium that couldn’t draw 5,000 fans a few years ago. Tiger Lane and the stadium improvements now look like wise investments. For his impact on and off the playing field in this golden age, Lynch might be the most valu-

able athlete in Memphis sports history. No matter what he does in office, mayor-elect Jim Strickland has already made history. No mayor in modern times has been elected with fewer votes (42,020) or a smaller percentage of the total vote (41.3 percent) or the total number of registered voters (12 percent). He is the beneficiary of the 1991 federal court ruling that eliminated runoffs in the mayoral election to give black candidates a better chance. Like Congressman Steve Cohen, who pulled off this trick before him, Strickland has made a template that future white candidates can follow to win elections in a majority-black city. The land line will soon be as dead as the phone book. Politicians and direct marketers and spammers and “unknown callers” killed it after cellphones grave-

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ly wounded it. If you still have a ready-to-assemble furniture. Its land line and your phone is ringmavens are so enthusiastic you ing, don’t answer it. It’s a machine would think the stuff is free. or a pest or a crook who will hang IKEA is a fast learner. To come up and add your number to the to Memphis, IKEA wants a tax list of holdouts who can still be freeze and a big reduction in reached on a land line by other its Shelby County property apcreeps. praisal even though the appraisThis is more in the category al reflects the price that IKEA of Things Old People Do and paid for its land. In a city that Young People dep end s o n Things Old People Do and Don’t: Vote in property taxes local elections and sales taxes, Young People Don’t: (61 percent of homeowners Vote in local elections voters in Octoand business(61 percent of voters in ber were over es without tax 55 and only 9 breaks pay full October were over 55 and percent were freight. This only 9 percent were 18-34) 18-34) and read could be their print newspaand read print newspapers. “NO MORE” moment. See pers. The latter Tom Jones’ “City Journal” colis more likely to survive locally due to the purchase of The Comumn on page 22 for a thorough mercial Appeal by Gannett this treatment of this important issue. year. In one week last summer, Robert Lipscomb went from Oh, to be a trendy retailer in the man-to-see in city governa city desperate for trendiness and eager to give out tax breaks. ment to the invisible man. The IKEA is a Swedish company election is over. There’s a new with an odd name that makes mayor and a new face or faces at the Division of Housing and Community Development. But what of the allegations that Lipscomb paid young men for sex when they were teenagers? And the counterclaim of blackmail? The silence is deafening. Will investigators review contracts and grants as well as sex claims? One way or another, Lipscomb will be back in the news in 2016. The Bass Pro Pyramid opening was a hit, but will the first holiday shopping season also be a hit? The company doesn’t release sales and tax reports but brags about the number of visitors, which is meaningless unless we know if they are shoppers or lookers. With more than $100 million in city dollars invested, the public has a right to know more than hype. There’s no money for a new convention center. Bass Pro gets it.

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CITY JOURNAL

Playing the Game What it really cost to bring IKEA to Memphis.

hen it comes to economic development, Memphis and Shelby County often behave like someone in a codependent relationship. If we can just give more and do more, surely, someone will love us. at least $2 million a year. When used by EDGE, destination retail resulted in an 11-year PILOT for IKEA that waived $9.5 million in Memphis and Shelby County taxes. Meanwhile, IKEA met with MATA to call for a transit stop closer to its store site, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the taxes being waived could have paid for services like public transit. MATA president Ron Garrison said the changes for IKEA may be funded by MATA and federal funds designated to reduce congestion and improve air quality. With PILOT in hand, IKEA purchased its new store site for $5.6 million about five months ago, but when Shelby County Assessor Cheyenne Johnson set its appraised value at $5.1 million, an amount that seemed fair in light of the sale, IKEA protested and asked for it to be lowered to the prior appraisal of $1.25 million. The Shelby County Board of Equalization agreed with IKEA. Under Tennessee law, the assessor had the right to appeal that decision to the Tennessee

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Never has this played out more graphically than in the pursuit of an IKEA store to join the Wolfchase mashup of chain stores and restaurants. Until the trendy retailer came along, local government had never given a tax break to a retail store. To bask in IKEA’s “cool factor,” however, our Economic Development Growth Engine (EDGE) contorted itself to approve a PILOT by trying to thread the needle to limit tax breaks to “destination retail” (translation: a retail store that attracts customers from far beyond the Memphis metro). When the term destination retail was first heard here, it was being used by the special committee at The Pyramid, which said it was the best use of the former arena and which recommended Bass Pro Shops. In the case of that store, the bonds for rehabbing The Pyramid are being paid from increased sales taxes generated by the store itself, and to top it off, it pays 2 percent of gross sales as rent to City of Memphis. That’s projected to be

Board of Equalization and she banal cause, that is not only the did so, whereupon Johnson was world’s richest foundation but subjected to a barrage of witheris at the moment also one of its ing attacks for simply doing her least generous. IKEA’s parent is job, which is to conduct appraisa private Dutch company, Ingka als honestly, fairly, and equitably. Holding, which in turn belongs The PILOT approved by to Stichting Ingka Foundation, EDGE gives IKEA an 11-year tax which was established by the founder of the holiday worth All in all, it underscores company. Its $864,000 a year. I f t he st ate charitable misthe way that cities chase board supports sion is dedicatIKEA as a marker to prove the assessor, ed to “innovathey are trendy and a cool it means that tion in the field the $29 billion of architectural city for millennials. and interior deSwedish compasign,” but its primary purpose is ny would pay about $300,000 in additional city-county property to reduce the company’s taxes by taxes. That’s the average of what about 80 percent. the retailer takes in every fiveAt the same time, IKEA is highand-a-half minutes. ly successful in receiving subsidies IKEA’s response was to from American governments. hint that it may reconsider its According to The New York Times, Memphis store. IKEA has been awarded $21 milAll of this drama takes place lion in seven government grants against the backdrop of IKEA’s in four states in about eight years, surprising structure as a comand Good Jobs First even puts that pany owned by a nonprofit oramount at $32.5 million. ganization. It’s why The EconAll in all, it underscores the omist wrote that unwinding its way that cities chase IKEA as a finances is even “more exasperatmarker to prove they are trendy ing than trying to assemble [its] and a cool city for millennials. flat-pack furniture.” It described Couple that with Memphis’ legthe company as an “outfit that endary lack of self-worth and it ingeniously exploits the quirks of adds up to an attitude that prodifferent jurisdictions to create a pels our amorous overtures to charity dedicated to a somewhat IKEA and that triggers quick condemnations of an assessor doing her job. It also results in elected officials behaving as if IKEA — and even a Cheesecake Factory — is what will make Memphis a big-league city when legendary music, FedEx, AutoZone, and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, to name a few, have already done that in spades. In the end, Memphis and Shelby County’s codependency won out, and EDGE did what it does best: It extended the international retailer’s tax freeze a year and a half longer just in case the assessor wins her appeal.

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WINTERARTS The South’s Premiere Holiday Artists’ Market

This event features work by a variety of Mid-South artists and craftspeople, including metalsmiths, potters, ﬁber artists, jewelers, woodworkers, and more. Shops at Saddle Creek, 7605 West Farmington, winterartsmemphis.com

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his annual race is a great way to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and test your speed at the same time. Not a seasoned runner? There are plenty of other ways to get involved: Volunteer along the course, or check out the Family Fun Run. Downtown Memphis, 578-1555 Ballet Memphis presents Nutcracker

Over 100 dancers, both professionals and students, take the stage for this holiday classic. Meet Clara, Uncle Drosselmeyer, the Sugar Plum Fairy, and a cast of other familiar characters as they dance through The Land of the Sweets. Tchaikovsky’s original score stands the test of time, remaining just as magical today as it was in 1892. The Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main, 525-3000

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Learn how to deck the halls a new way this year: This morning workshop, led by the Dixon’s head gardener, Celia Chastain, will teach participants how to make their own fresh holiday wreaths from a variety of natural materials. Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 4339 Park Avenue, 761-5250

A part of the Memphis Symphony’s “Pops” series, this concert features plenty of your holiday favorites. When the weather outside is frightful, there’s nothing as romantic as taking a date to see the orchestra perform familiar seasonal tunes. Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 255 N. Main Street, 537-2525

The Enchanted Forest is an annual interactive exhibit for families, held at the Pink Palace during the holiday season. A penguin pond, vintage toy exhibit, model train, and elvish wonderland invite young visitors. On December 14th, Santa will land on the Museum’s lawn. The Pink Palace Museum, 3050 Central Avenue, 636-2362

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Playhouse on the Square reprises this much-loved classic, bringing back Wendy, the Lost Boys, Hook and, of course, Peter. Like Peter, a theatrical visit to Neverland never gets old. Playhouse on the Square, 66 S. Cooper Street, playhouseonthesquare.org

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Memphis Grizzlies vs. Charlotte Hornets

Come Downtown to see the Grizz grit ‘n grind against the Hornets. December 11th is also “Star Wars Night,” which means that 3,000 lucky fans will receive a Tony Allen Jedi Robe. May the force be with us! FedexForum, 191 Beale Street, 205-2525

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Once a year, 1.5 million lights illuminate Shelby Farms, creating a wintery wonderland. This year, check out some of the event’s theme nights: Decorate your car or wear a tacky holiday sweater while you explore the shimmering landscape. Shelby Farms Park, 500 North Pine Lake Drive, shelbyfarmspark.org

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Old rivals face off for what promises to be the hottest basketball game of the season. If you don’t see any other college game this year, make sure you head to the FedEx Forum for this neck-to-neck battle of wills. FedExForum, 191 Beale Street, 205-2525

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Lucero Family Christmas

Our favorite sad, Southern rockers promise to dole out soulful tunes. The Memphisbred band, fronted by Ben Nichols, recently released a new album, All A Man Should Do, following their 2012 success with Women and Work. Expect a Big Star cover or two. Minglewood Hall, 1555 Madison Avenue, 312-6058

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New Year’s Eve Celebration on Beale

All the usual Downtown fun, but with a special New Year’s twist. Last year’s celebration featured a Hard Rock Cafe Guitar Drop as the clock struck twelve. This year’s party promises even more fun, so bundle up and get festive with the biggest crowd in town. Beale Street, bealestreetmerchants.com

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Katori Hall

existed. As I grew up, I started researching the culture because I knew, come hell or high water, I wanted to make a movie about these unsung heroes and sheroes. I even started going to the Bill Pickett Invitational, the first all-black rodeo, whenever it came to Memphis. I just really admired these men and women. Seems like I’ve been writing this short film for decades now!

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Did you know from the start that you wanted to make a movie in Memphis, with mostly local cast and crew?

What made you decide to write Arkabutla as a film?

The story was tattooed on my heart years ago. When I was 15 years old, I went to a Mississippi lake (not Arkabutla) with a friend and his uncle, who owned two jet skis. He was not able to provide paperwork to show ownership and those two jet skis were confiscated. I don’t think he ever got them back. That memory sat at the bottom of the writing well for a long time, until my mind gave birth to a bull-rider named Chauncey Wright. In the movie (Arkabutla), Chauncey saves up his rodeo winnings to buy his son and daughter a jet ski. To see a man who literally risked his life to provide his children with a taste of flight, a taste

of that eight-second dance he loved so much, was moving to me, and I thought it might be moving to an audience. Melding what I created with that old memory was the old writer’s trick of writing what you know, to learn more about what you want to know. I think that stories choose their form. This one demanded to be a film. Film is such a visual medium. Oftentimes words are left by the wayside to make behavior center-stage, and in this sad situation, there were things left unsaid, but deeply understood. How did your writing and development process differ, with Arkabutla, from the plays you’ve created?

Whether it’s the mind’s memory, dreams, or daydreams, a reel of

It’s freeing. I like writing in visual synecdoche very much.

Where did the idea for Chauncey, a professional bull rider on the black rodeo circuit, come from?

There is a long and storied history of black cowboys and cowgirls, but their narratives have all but been erased from the history of American cowboy culture. The black rodeo world is a world that has been rarely explored, save for a few movies and docs, but my daddy is the one who first taught me about black cowboys. He would take me to the library every week to check out my 30 books, and one time he pulled down a book about a black cowboy and placed it on top of my pile. It was like reading a book about an alien. I just didn’t know they

After Arkabutla, what is next for you?

I am moving into television slowly but surely. By year’s end, I hope to be working on an original series. Of course, I continue to write for the theatre. I want to expand outside of drama and tackle a big musical. In terms of film, Arkabutla was the warm-up: I am adapting my play Hurt Village into a feature-length film. God willing, I’ll be back in Memphis this time next year bringing to life another corner of my hometown for the big screen. I am indeed a barbecue-bleeding daughter of Memphis. This interview has been edited for length. Read it in full at memphismagazine.com.

PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY KATORI HALL

emphis-born playwright, journalist, and images are flickering and conactress Katori Hall recently added another credit necting like a ticker tape across my brain. My mind is always to her considerable resume: filmmaker. The au- in movie-mode. So actually the thor of critically acclaimed plays The Mountaintop and Hurt creation of Arkabutla was no Village came home to Memphis this October to shoot her different from anything else first short film, Arkabutla, the story of a professional bull I’ve ever written; however, the rider on the black rodeo circuit. Hall, who calls herself articulation on the page is quite a “barbecue-bleeding daughter of Memphis,” spoke to different. The format is different. The scenes are shorter. There us about her inspiration and influences, as well as what’s are scenes with no dialogue. I next for her work. think image first, dialogue third.

I always tell people I’m so Memphis, I bleed barbecue. My producing partner Khaliah Neal knows how important it is for me to tell stories about my city by also using talent from my city, and she really laid the groundwork for me and connected me with those who would eventually become my “Rockstars.” Memphis has a strong film community. It might be small, but it is mighty. I just wish the tax incentive to produce here was more attractive for productions. There are so many sons and daughters of Memphis who want to come back home and make our movies.

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he thing about Jim Strickland is his laugh — an exaggerated, easily triggered, high-energy, and totally spontaneous cackle that makes him the ideal audience for anybody, confidante or interloper. For obvious reasons, this trait is especially desirable for someone in politics, and Jim Strickland is certainly a politician, good enough at his craft to have won two terms on the Memphis City Council, and, most recently, to have overcome various demographic odds in defeating Mayor, A C Wharton, an incumbent not too long ago considered unbeatable. That victory was back on October 8th, and roughly a month later, I joined the mayor-elect at high noon of a Saturday at the Barksdale Restaurant on Cooper in Midtown. The restaurant, just south of the bustling Overton Square intersection whose commercial renovation Councilman Strickland had a major hand in, is one of those comfy, neighborhood-style eateries that features home cooking on a blue-plate menu. I have just sat down to join Strickland at a table in the middle of the room, and the waitress, unobtrusive but at the ready, has her pad out. “I’d like to order. I’m starving,” Strickland says.

This brings a smile from the waitress. “We can’t starve the mayor,” she says. “There’s not much danger of that,” say I, the wise guy, with a glance at Strickland’s waistline, which visibly expanded during his long campaign and now pillows a bit over his belt. The waitress smiles again. “I’m not touching that,” she says, as Strickland, whose sense of humor (luckily for all of us, I think) extends to himself, howls in appreciation. Ah yes, The Laugh. It being the time of day that it is, we have a choice between brunch and lunch, and Strickland, who seems to have skipped breakfast, goes for the former, ordering scrambled eggs, biscuits, and ham. I order something similar, D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 5 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • 35

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substituting a ribeye steak for the ham. One of the things we have in common and have talked about much over the years (apropos that early quip) is the Atkins Diet, a no-to-low-carb regimen that we’ve both gone on and off with for years. Right now, for this Dinner-With-Andre occasion, we’re both off. My Dinner with Andre: The concept of that 1981 film is that two aesthetes dine out at a swank New York restaurant and explore the meaning of life by catching up on each other’s experience. The flow of information is basically one-way, as the Andre of the piece bestows upon his listener, Wally, a series of mind-expanding descriptions of his recent circumstances — each one an adventure or psychic experiment so exotic and unique as to be an exploration of life, ex nihilo and anew. I was asked to recreate the process for this magazine with our new mayor-elect; Strickland agreed, and the Barksdale was his choice of venue. There didn’t seem to be much possibility of connecting with anything as bizarre and redefining as Andre’s experiences were for Wally, but hey, who knew what might happen? After all, not very many people have beaten an incumbent mayor in Memphis (the last time that happened was in 1991) so we gave it our best shot.

Strickland appears to be at peace with being left alone, but every time the restaurant’s door opens to let in a new customer, he seemingly cannot help looking up expectantly. After we’d settled in and given our order, we found ourselves talking about the previous weekend’s football game at the Liberty Bowl between Navy and the University of Memphis, the alma mater for both of us. Strickland had been there; I hadn’t. Going into the game, the U of M was undefeated at 8-0, in possession of a bona fide Heisman Trophy candidate, Paxton Lynch, and seemingly on its way to one of the big bowls on New Year’s Day. So maybe we had been close to the bizarre range of experience, after all. Alas, it didn’t last. Navy won and popped the bubble. As Strickland confessed, sadly and simply, “Navy’s good. I think they have a better team.” For a second or two, we let the disappointment wash over us. Being bested and returned to the ranks of the also-rans turned out to be one of the leitmotifs of this conversation, along with its converse, winning out. Strangely, there turned out to be enormous similarities between the two states. Momentarily, I reflected on a YouTube video that had just been posted — re-posted, actually — and that I had eagerly looked up online once somebody had told me about it. It was the visual record of an earnest ping-pong

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trickland is proud of his campaigning zeal, which he believes was unmatched by any of his competitors. Statistical analysis of the election returns seems to bear out his claim that, matched against three black opponents, he got as much as 25 percent of the black vote. Meanwhile, white-majority Republican precincts were virtually wall-to-wall in his favor. Not bad for a former county Democratic Party chairman. Overall, Strickland got 42 percent of the vote, a full 20 points higher than Wharton, his closest competitor. There are several reasons that could account for his success in so dramatically disposing of a once-popular incumbent. Notable among them was the simplicity of his ever-repeated campaign themes — public safety, blight, and accountability — ideas that he insists amount to a collective vision and not mere housekeeping details. Contrast them, however, with the grandiloquence of his predecessors’ slogans: “A Destinaton City” (Willie Herenton); “One Memphis” (Wharton). And there is the matter of simple hard work. Anyone who knows Strickland knows that he has been running for mayor for years, campaigning for budgetary discipline from his council seat and making himself a household name at speaking events in sprawling Cordova, a recently annexed land mass where alienation from the central city government is almost viral. Now that he’s reached his goal, Strickland seems to be trying to figure out how to slow down a bit. “I haven’t figured out a regimen. I do know I’m not going to go to events every

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single night.” Indeed, during our brunch I remind him of one such affair going on that very night — a weenie roast involving several of his most fervid supporters as principals. He says he’ll try to make it, but — fixated on keeping company with his wife and two children as they watch that night’s Tiger football game versus Houston (which turns out to be a second straight heartbreak) — he doesn’t end up doing so. “I’ve gotten two good pieces of advice,” Strickland says. “One is, don’t go to dinner meetings unless you’re the speaker.” The other, which came from Nashville’s new Mayor Megan Barry, also elected in 2015, was to try to get home by 7 every night. “She told me, if you have to go to an event after work, don’t sit down. Just say your hello’s and move on.” Strickland, who’s just turned 50, acknowledges that, after being almost non-accessible for years, and after having concluded a grueling campaign which often left him with a mysterious pain and weakness in his arms late at night, he’ll have to find a way to cut back.

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could not call the police while I was a victim of a complex morass of hatred based on psychotic jealousy to wreck my name while facing numerous threats with intense harassment of which are in the past. So if anyone wants to interview the past, fine, they know where to go. From 2002 to this day I never know what to expect once people read my book. Writing has been part of my recovery and from the beginning I realized thought and speech are different parts of the brain as I also had to learn how to use my hands in new way. Sometimes I make verbal and written mistakes. In January 2005 I began to read a book about William Faulkner, yet before the end of page 41 I put the book down in a pool of tears. In the next two and a half hours I wrote “The Famous Duck Hunt.” The title of the book on William Faulkner, “Heart in Conflict.” The truth is stranger than fiction and every time I watch the TV news I see insane things. My life has been superseded by several dozen tragedies and over forty surgeries. My first book, “All Points North” won three literary awards in eighteen months. Sometimes at publishing conferences strangers walk up and ask me to read their book as they hand me a free copy which happened twice during the first conference. Stepping into writing and theoretical composition requires focus not as the bullseye of bogus blame experts and jealous types. Fiction writing is imagination expanded and some of my stories were agony, mental hell which took weeks or months in personal crisis when I had to reach for my parachute cord to supersede destiny and hope for the best. Recently I was invited to attend a symphony rehersal and sit anywhere even on stage and at intermission the violin soloist walked up to discuss the music and tell me for ten dollars I could attend symphony rehersal on Saturday mornings. Arrivederci! Some people ask, “Do you write the way you talk?” If they read “All Points North” they would see a parachute in a storm. Writing becomes intense when layered allegorically with an open parachute. Arrivederci!

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young woman seemingly enraptured while Strickland was speaking. “Why are you so surprised young females would dote on me?” Strickland says, the laugh literally cascading out of him. Between now and his taking the oath of office on January 1st, Strickland is spending much of his time putting together a staff to work in his administration. He seems open to the notion of including people who supported other candidates in the election. “It doesn’t bother me one bit — and never did,” he says, “if somebody wanted to support A C.” There were, however, two exceptions to the rule — both of whom, at Strickland’s request, will go nameless here. One was a Wharton functionary who, Strickland says, went out of his way to attack him in excessively negative tweets. The other established not one but two PACs (political action committees) devoted to nonstop excoriations of the mayor-elect’s persona.

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omething that must be said of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art’s current sprawling exhibition of American folk art, “Wonder, Whimsy, Wild: Folk Art in America”: It is probably the only time the museum has displayed works by an artist named “Schtockschnitzler.” A century ago, Schtockschnitzler Simmons, whose first name means “cane carver” in German, was a prolific sculptor of wooden birds, which he chiseled out of tulip poplar and painted with unnaturally bright colors. A native of Germany but a resident of Pennsylvania at the turn of the twentieth century, Simmons traveled the American countryside peddling his illustratively carved “bird trees,” which show the avian specimens perched on a hardwood sapling.

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Chalkware Cat unidentiﬁed artist 1850-1900 gypsum and paint Courtesy of the Barbara L. Gordon Collection

Rabbit Carousel Figure attributed to the Dentzel Company; possibly Salvatore Cernigliaro (1879-1974) c. 1910 basswood and paint

The Wedding of the Turtle Doves attributed to John Scholl (1827-1916) 1907-1915 white pine, wire, and paint Courtesy of the Barbara L. Gordon Collection

Courtesy of the Barbara L. Gordon Collection

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These works were made by immigrants, like Simmons, or by first-generation Americans who traveled to sell their wooden busts to tobacco stores, or else painted portraits of rural folk for reasonable prices.

Laing Family Record Book attributed to the “Record Book Artist” c. 1804 ink and watercolor on wove paper Courtesy of the Barbara L. Gordon Collection

The Brooks exhibition includes an ambitious example of the sculptor’s bird trees, featuring ten songbirds with small wire legs. Also featured is a lone-standing parrot, which the exhibition literature notes “may not look like a realistic parrot.” Instead, the elongated tail feathers, the rounded head, and the hooked beak reference stylized drawings of parrots often found in German-American art from the period. Though it is hard to find a defining trait of folk art that is not, under some other definition, excluded, Simmons’ work is a good example of much of the folk art made in America in the nineteenth century: roughly

The Peaceable Kingdom with the Leopard of Serenity attributed to Edward Hicks (1780-1849) 1835-1840 oil on canvas Courtesy of the Barbara L. Gordon Collection

hewn, open-hearted, and thrifty. The works on display at the Brooks, drawn from this period, are made from common materials, in a style that often used to be dismissed as “naïve,” because they didn’t employ an academic approach to perspective or naturalism. Instead, Simmons’ bird sculptures rely on what the Metropolitan Museum of Art loosely defines as the tropes of folk art: “strong colors, broad and direct application of paint, patterned surfaces, generalized light, skewed scale and proportion, and conspicuous modeling.” They are decorative, but they also exceed decorative objects in subtle ways. They are instances of everyday mastery, testaments to the idea that you need not have expensive materials to make something beautiful.

hen “Wonder, Whimsy, Wild” premiered a year ago at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City, under the title “A Shared Legacy,” the critic Ken Johnson wrote in The New York Times that the collection “evoke[s] a world and a way of life that modernity has eclipsed, and yet [feels] as fresh and lively as anything you might desire in the art of today.” Johnson also commented that “while most works don’t represent children, many seem imbued with a childlike spirit.” It is true that the pieces on exhibit in “Wonder, Whimsy, Wild” often feel drawn from fairytales, probably because many depict oversized animals — wooden elephants and rabbits, originally intended for carousels,

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or a pair of chalkware cats with placid gazes. These works were made by immigrants, like Simmons, or by first-generation Americans who traveled to sell their wooden busts to tobacco stores, or else painted portraits of rural folk for reasonable prices. Many artists made art for profit, but not all. The sculptor John Scholl, whose intricately symmetrical Snowflake Table and The Wedding of the Turtle Doves are on display, began to make art at the age of 80, and afterwards turned his parlor into a museum where curious visitors could come see his work. The work in the exhibition, despite its whimsical title, is not exclusively playful. Also present are mourning portraits, painted after the death of the subject, many of which feature the pallid faces of children and adolescents. Heavy symbolic elements in these portraits — weeping willows, drooping flowers, a watch, a ship on the horizon — allude to death. A decorated family record book from 1804 sports cryptic epitaphs, dressed in traditional Scottish and Germanic designs. Other pieces, such as Jurgan Fredrick Huge’s 1851 painting, Conflagration of the U.S. Steam Frigate “Missouri,” involve real-time news, while pieces of heirloom jewelry and carefully wrought wooden chests provide clues into the daily life of early Americans. Still others deal with Protestant theology: The painter Edward Hicks, a Quaker preacher who earned a living making signs, depicted over a hundred different versions of his painted menagerie, The Peaceable Kingdom, before his death in 1849. Hicks’ inspiration was drawn from the Bible verse, from Isaiah, “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” A later example of the scene, painted between 1835 and 1840, is perhaps the most important work on display in this exhibition. It is both the breadth and the historical reach of the work on display that inspired the critic Avis Berman, writing for the exhibition catalogue, to describe the pieces featured in “Wonder, Wild, Whimsy” as “a fertile cultural loam.” But, despite the widely acknowledged importance of work such as the pieces currently on display at the Brooks, many critics and curators feel that the category of so-called “folk art” should not even exist as such. Folk art, as a category, was a strategic invention of a group of pioneering collectors in the 1920s and 1930s. These initial collectors, many of whom were wealthy daughters of American industry, championed folk art for two reasons. First, the art seemed definitively Amer-

ican, at a time when European modernism dominated the conversation. These collectors wanted an identity for American visual art that reflected something unique in our country’s spirit — a democratic tradition, realized in quilts and affordable carvings. The other reason collectors may have been drawn to folk art is that the bright hues and flat forms often found in the work echoed the modernist work that these women encountered during educations abroad. According to the American Museum of Folk Art, prominent collectors such as Abby Aldrich Rockefeller “equate[d] the straightforwardness, abstracted forms, and delight in color of early folk art with the new modernist art they had studied in Europe and were pioneering in America.” The work seems to pre-date and at the same time predict artists like Matisse and Picasso. Much of the modern scholarship about folk art comes on the back of a resurgence of academic interest in the 1960s, by progressive academic historians who

studied so-called “bottom up” approaches to history, thereby shining additional light on laymen folk artists. “Outsider” histories, according to these scholars, were primary, rather than secondary, resources for any true understanding of a period. But recent criticism often calls out the “folk art” label for being unnecessary and classist, an antique division that twenty-first-century standards render meaningless. Roberta Smith, writing in 2013 for The New York Times, offered this critique: “Despite rising interest in and scholarship about folk art — and even after the wholesale rethinking of several major American wings

Burning the Old South Church attributed to John Hilling (1822-1894) c. 1854 oil on canvas Courtesy of the Barbara L. Gordon Collection

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on the East Coast — the isolation of folk from academic is still the norm. Given that we live in a time of eroding aesthetic boundaries and categories, when many curators are experimenting with integrative approaches in international biennials and commercial galleries, it seems past time for folk-academic division to soften.”

or enthusiasts like Barbara Gordon, who collected the works on display at the Brooks, the attraction is likely not for the curatorial lines drawn around the work, but for the creations themselves. Gordon says that she was drawn to folk art during a middle school trip to Colonial Williamsburg. After becoming a successful lawyer in Washington, D.C., and attempting a collection on her own, she sought the

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guidance of art historian David Wheatcroft. Still Life with Basket of Fruit unidentified artist Wheatcroft advised 1830-1850 Gordon to sell all the oil on canvas Courtesy of the Barbara L. Gordon Collection early work she’d collected and build her collection all over again. With his guidance, Gordon acquired all 63 works of the featured in this exhibition. Wherever one’s opinions about folk art as a historical category fall, it is easy to understand why paintings such as Daniel McDowell’s incredible Still Life with Watermelon drew Gordon’s attention, even though when the collector first saw it at an auction, she remembers it as “not cleaned and not framed. It was just stapled on stretchers.” There is something both exacting and soft about the work. Slight errors in perspective create a dreamlike feel that recalls works by Cezanne. These are simple subjects, uniquely realized. Gordon’s efforts resulted in an exhibition with the rigor of a well-researched historical document, a rigor that allows both the childlike playfulness of works like Rabbit Carousel Figure and the austerity of craft visible in the still life paintings of McDowell and others to truly shine.

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THE 2015 MEMPHIAN OF THE YEAR

MA R C

GAS L The Grizzlies’

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e might be one of us now, but he didn’t feel that way at first. When he first got to Memphis,

everything was oversized. “I mean, for us, a highway in Spain is three lanes, and here, I-240 has seven lanes at some points,” he says. “And I saw the trucks. The trucks were unbelievably huge.” The first time Marc Gasol had ever traveled to the United States — much less to Memphis, Tennessee — was when his older brother Pau reported for training camp with the Memphis Grizzlies in the summer of 2001, the team’s first season in Memphis. “When Pau got drafted, I was at a summer competition with the Spanish national team, Under-16, in France. When Pau was in training camp, we [Pau, Marc, younger brother Adria, and their parents, both medical professionals from

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Spain] came here and stayed downtown at the

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Our Memphian of the Year gives a pat on the back to Jones “Pee Wee” Lotterhos at Lausanne, where Gasol played basketball when he first came to Memphis. PHOTOGRAPH BY KAREN PULFER FOCHT

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PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREA ZUCKER

above left: A Gasol mural painted on a downtown building depicts him as a Spanish matador using a Tennessee ﬂag as a cape. above center: Number 33 drives to the basket during a fast-paced game at FedExForum.

Marriott, and then we the Spanish national team, moved into an apartment in which he called “one of “Memphis was the Germantown. We were all the toughest decisions I’ve nursery where living in a three-bedroom ever had to make,” but here apartment, the five of us.” he was, playing basketball everything was Later, Gasol attended again in the city that he’s created. Where White Station High School embraced as though he’s people invented new always lived here. for two days before anyGasol’s relationship with one figured out he lived in kinds of music.” Germantown and couldn’t Memphis didn’t start out actually attend a (then) that way. When he first got here, the oversized little brother of an NBA Memphis City School. “We didn’t understand how the schools worked,” he says now with Rookie of the Year, he barely knew any Ena laugh. glish. “One of the reasons why I chose LauWhen I sat down with Marc Gasol to talk sanne was that they had so many European to him before one of the Grizzlies’ preseason students there,” he says. “I could relate to practices, he seemed like a man at ease. Gasthem, and they could help me out. Honestly, ol took last summer off from playing with at the time, my English was really, really bad.

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I could barely speak two words. I had a basketball teammate in every class so they could explain to me what the teacher was asking.” It didn’t take him long to branch out, though. “Two of my best [Spanish-speaking] friends were from Frayser. I spent all of my days with them. I made sure one of them was in every class I went in.” After high school, Gasol left to play professional basketball in the Spanish leagues (for FC Barcelona and then for Girona), while his older brother led the Grizzlies to the first string of playoff appearances in the history of the franchise. His parents and his brother were in Memphis, but it wasn’t home to him. Everything changed dramatically on February 1, 2008. “Pau thought he was going to be here

for life,” says Gasol. “The NBA is a business where there’s a lot of coming and going, a lot of insecurities. And all of a sudden, you know, things go a different way. The franchise decides . . . to go a different direction and you’re just not here anymore.” On the first day of February 2008, Pau Gasol was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers for a package of castoffs, two first-round picks, and the draft rights to one Marc Gasol, whom the Lakers had drafted 48th overall. That summer, after signing with the Grizzlies instead of returning to Girona, the younger Gasol (who is actually the middle Gasol; youngest brother Adria played college basketball at UCLA) ended up back where he least expected to be: Memphis, Tennessee. “As soon as I was driving around Mem-

above right: Gasol’s powerful image formed a corn maze at the Agricenter in 2015.

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above: Gasol has quickly become an inspiration — even a father figure — to patients of all ages at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. PHOTOGRAPHS BY KAREN PULFER FOCHT

phis in the weeks after I was signed by the is a challenge, and you gotta accept it and Grizzlies, it gave me a sense of coming back embrace it, and go for it, and try and knock it down.” home in a way. Memphis has a great sense of continuity always, you know. Memphis keeps growing, but you can o why is Marc always see Memphis. You Gasol our Mem“At the end of the can picture things that arphian of the Year day, the reasons for 2015? What did he do en’t going to change, that were much bigger that’s worth celebrating? are always there for good. And the sense I got when You know, in addition to be— and went beyond I was just driving around, ing a Catalan-speaking nawas knowing that every- basketball — for me to tive son who just happened thing was … not exactly to be named the center of stay in Memphis.” the way I left it, but pretty the All-NBA First Team darn close. and a starter for the Western Conference in “I saw what Pau meant to the city,” he conthis year’s NBA All-Star Game. tinues. “It wasn’t easy at first, because everyOne big reason, of course, is that he stayed. body had in mind Pau’s presence here for so Gasol was a free agent this summer, meaning long, but at that time there was a decline in he had the option to sign a contract with any the relationship with the fans and the city. franchise with enough room under the salary And I took it as a challenge, too. Life itself cap to pay him. In the NBA, for an All-Star

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every year. Things like that? That made it really easy. “It was a matter of, ‘Do you want to stay in Memphis or not? Or with the Grizzlies or not?’ And then everything else. It was not in the same category. It was Memphis or not Memphis. I never got to that, ‘What if … ?’ And I’m pretty happy I chose that way.” I asked Gasol how much his family had to do with his decision, now that he’s the father to a daughter born just before the start of the 2014-15 season.

“It depends on what you’re looking for, but for the guys here, they’ve found a home. They’ve found a place that will embrace you.” “It’s special,” he says. “I’ve never had a feeling like that. My daughter has definitely made me a better human being, because it has made me put everything in perspective. Things that bother me, or would take my mind, or worry me somehow . . . I don’t have the time anymore to worry about things that don’t matter. She’s just always ready to laugh, to play, to smile, and I think life is great. Life is really short, and you gotta enjoy it. I’m thankful for having a little girl.” That discursive free-association is how Marc Gasol talks, when you ask him about something he’s excited about. If you’ve only seen him in a postgame interview where he’s giving quotes to a camera, you might think

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Gasol is all business, calmly restating the facts of whatever just happened out on the floor. But the less-guarded Marc, the one whose eyes are lit up because he’s excited, seems to speak in rivers of mostly correct English, veering from the topic at hand to whatever else is in his mind, thinking three steps ahead just like he’s standing in the high post watching guards cut around him, processing what the offense is doing so he can stand in exactly the right spot to disrupt it. When we were talking about Memphis, I asked him about music — what it meant to him. He’d just been front and center at the Memphis Music Hall of Fame’s induction ceremony two nights before, taking it all in, garnering a shoutout from inductee Justin Timberlake. But JT wasn’t the only reason Gasol was there. “I’m a good friend of David Porter, the songwriter,” he says. “And to see Sam [Moore, of Sam & Dave] there, and being able to see Sam perform right in front of me, that was unbelievable. I mean, Keith Richards was in the house. How big . . . you can see throughout the history how much Memphis has impacted the world of music. Every kind of music. It feels like this was the nursery where everything was kind of created. Where people just invented new styles of music and really put different things together and created new styles. And it’s great to see. “To be here, that allows you to know a lot about music history. You go to Earnestine & Hazel’s and you just sit there and play the jukebox, and you start hearing stories about Johnny Cash and guys like that. You know, if you like music, it doesn’t get much better than that. Not many cities have that.” Gasol gushes when he talks about the city. He gets excited and he can’t keep it in, and he means what he’s saying or he wouldn’t say it. It’s hard to ask him a question about how he feels about Memphis and not come away inspired — feeling like Gasol’s passion is the way you feel too, and you just didn’t realize it until you talked to him about it. His excitement is contagious in that way.

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asol is here because he couldn’t imagine being anywhere else. In an era where the NBA salary cap is rising, and players play for many teams throughout their careers, Gasol has been in Memphis most of his life, since he was 16 and hung out with his teammates at their house in Frayser. He’s not just “Memphis” because he plays here; if anything, he’s from Memphis just as much as he’s from Barcelona, and he doesn’t plan on going anywhere any time soon. By signing a five-year max contract with the Grizzlies worth somewhere north of $110mm, Gasol has tied himself to the city — to us — for the rest of the peak of his bas-

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t’s often said (even in these pages) that the Grizzlies are so beloved by the people of Memphis because they reflect the values we claim to hold for ourselves — that they are a reflection of the city. If that’s true, then Marc Gasol is the best version of ourselves. On a team that’s built around a throwback style of basketball, predicated on hard work and effort more than athleticism or technical prowess — a team that often accomplishes its goals through the basketball form of violence, through determined physical domination of their oppo-

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n a leafy, quiet corner of East Memphis, one overflowing with stunning homes, Darrell and Susan Doaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abode is a standout. With its beautiful architecture, spacious interiors, pool and poolhouse, landscaped grounds, and iron gates, this home has the feel of a baronial country estate (even down to the family crest carved over the front door) right in the heart of the city.

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above: A rustic fireplace, Fresh from a fall trip to Florence and Lake Como in comfy furnishings, and Italy, the Doanes graciously took the time to give us a unique arched doorways tour of the house, the interior of which had just been framed with reclaimed wood painted top to bottom in their absence. The couple had make this large keeping room previously lived in Germantown but were looking for feel cozy and warm. the perfect place in East Memphis to build a dream left: French doors from the house. Clearly they found it. formal dining room lead out In 2008, the Doanes called on the late Lavelle Walker, to the back garden and pool. a very talented Memphis architect known for reviving classical design, to build their house for them. Susan Doane tells me she coaxed talented interior designer Carolyn Cochran out of semi-retirement to work with her on decorating the house, and THE DÉCOR IS that together, “they bought just about everyTUSCAN IN FEEL, thing” from area furniture stores, primarily WITH AN EARTHY Bartlett Home Furnishings and Chestnut Hall in Germantown. The oriental rugs came from COLOR PALETTE Kiser’s Floor Fashions and the elegant chanOF GOLDS, REDS, deliers from Graham’s Lighting. The kitchen’s AND RUSTS. Viking appliances came from CenWood. Susan Doane tells me that Cochran used grid paper to plan and place every single piece of furniture in the house (a tall order indeed!), and in the end her efforts “were spot on.” Natural light streaming into the house from its many windows, coupled with the glow of polished cherry wood floors, gives luminous warmth to the large rooms. The walls are painted throughout with

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above: The limestone fireplace, dramatic series of beams overhead, and a wall of windows give the home its country estate feel. right: Darrell and Susan Doane, a devoted and downto-earth couple, pose together in a naturalistic corner of their backyard pool area.

Benjamin Moore’s creamy “Sailcloth,” and the décor is Tuscan in feel with textured upholstery, an earthy color palette of golds, reds, and rusts, reclaimed wood in beams and door frames, and three fireplaces. The large, more formal entry hall makes quite an entrance with its piano from Amro Music, travertine floor, and faux-painted walls. The home has four bedrooms and seven bathrooms, with a master suite on the first floor that includes a bedroom, bath, Darrell Doane’s study, and Susan’s cozy little sitting room. As we photographed the home, I learned the Doanes were both children of military families and had met and married in Florida. They moved to Memphis in 1986, and Darrell Doane is the owner of the Home Instead senior-care franchise here in town. As an interesting aside which resonates all the more in today’s world, Darrell’s father was in the Department of Defense, and there was a “red phone” in their house at all times. (As a hint I will tell you this was not a “decorative” item.) Darrell and Susan Doane both agree they love Memphis, and they are certainly two very engaged and busy people. They have two grown children, with daughter Courtney Drzyzga living here and son Josh in Boise, Idaho. Susan tells me that Courtney met her future husband in Australia when she was studying there, and naturally her parents were thrilled the young couple decided to make their home in Memphis. A devoted grandmother, Susan Doane helps her daughter, a

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WHAT SUSAN LOVES ABOUT HER HOUSE IS THE BEAUTY OF ITS SURROUNDINGS AND THE WOODSY, PEACEFUL SOLITUDE IT AFFORDS HER.

left: Susan Doane likes to cook, and her open-plan kitchen is sleekly modern with a Tuscan texture in its rich leather stools, stone flooring, and handsome granite-topped island. below: The poolhouse is a little architectural gem, looking for all the world like a magical cottage out back.

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At night in their spacious master bedroom, Susan Doane likes to look westward towards the lights and ﬂag of Clark Tower in the distance.

busy physical therapist at Semmes-Murphey Clinic, by picking up her two children every day after school — Fallon is 8 and Finn is 5 —and taking care of them in the afternoon. This seems an incredible commitment, but clearly Susan Doane thrives on it, and she tells me that toys fill the keeping room on most days. All I can observe is what lucky children they are! The Doanes love to entertain and often have wonderful parties upstairs in their expansive game room with its wet bar, ping-pong table, cushy red leather recliners (the grandchildren just love to play with the mechanisms that make them recline), and large-screen television. Susan Doane comments that the colorful glass tile and quartz used in the bar area is called “disco inferno” — which gives you a clue to the family’s mindset in fitting out this “playful” room. The Doanes love the outdoors, which is evident in the expansive views of green from every room in the home. They are very sporty people and tennis at the nearby Racquet Club with friends is a particular passion. In addition, Darrell loves fly-fishing, and the family has “a cabin” (it actually sounds like more of a real house) on the Little Red River in Heber Springs, Arkansas, which they retreat to whenever they can. At the same time, this fortunate family makes time to give back to the community. Darrell Doane is co-chairing the American Heart Association’s gala Heart Ball in 2017, which is, needless to say, a major commitment and an indicator of the generosity of this wonderful family. Down-to-earth and modest, Susan Doane tells me that she is not really very attached to “things.” But what she does love about her house is the beauty of its surroundings and the woodsy, peaceful solitude it affords her, notwithstanding the fact it is located conveniently close to the bustling Poplar corridor. She loves to lie in bed and look west out the window and see the bright lights and flag high atop Clark Tower in the distance. How blissful that sounds to me. Happy holidays to all!

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TOP DENTISTS 2015

SELECTION PROCESS “If you had a patient in need of a dentist, which dentist the specialty and the geographic area. Borderline cases would you refer them to?” are given careful consideration by the editors. Voting This is the question we’ve asked thousands of characteristics and comments are taken into considdentists to help us determine who the topDentists eration while making decisions. Past awards a dentist should be. Dentists and specialists are has received, status in various dental asked to take into consideration academies (Academy of General years of experience, continuing Dentistry, American Academy education, man ner w ith of Periodontology, etc.) can p at i e nt s , u s e o f n ew play a factor in our decision. techniques and technologies Once the decisions have and of course physical results. been finalized, the included The nomination pool of dentists are checked against dentists consists of dentists state dental boards for discilisted online with the Amerplinary actions to make sure ican Dental Association, as they have an active license and well as dentists listed online are in good standing with the with their local dental societies, board. Then letters of congratthus allowing virtually every denulations are sent to all the listed tist the opportunity to participate. dentists. Dentists are also given the opporOf course there are many fine tunity to nominate other dentists dentists who are not included in this representative list. It is intended as a that they feel should be included in sampling of the great body of talent our list. Respondents are asked to in the field of dentistry in the United put aside any personal bias or political motivations and to use only their States. A dentist’s inclusion on our list is knowledge of their peers’ work when based on the subjective judgments of his evaluating the other nominees. or her fellow dentists. While it is true that Voters are asked to individually evaluate the lists may at times disproportionately the practitioners on their ballot whose work reward visibility or popularity, we remain they are familiar with. Once the balloting is confident that our polling methodology largely corrects for any biases and that these lists continue to completed, the scores are compiled and then averaged. represent the most reliable, accurate, and useful list of The numerical average required for inclusion varies dentists available anywhere. depending on the average for all the nominees within DISCLAIMER

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TOP DEN TISTS 2015

ENDODONTICS

COY M. BOY D, JR. 2516 Alexander Drive, Suite B Jonesboro, AR 7 2401 870-930-9994 KENAN D. C LINTON 6401 Poplar Avenue, Suite 260 Memphis, TN 38119 901-682-8847 w w w.clintonendo.com PAUL M. CURT IS, JR. 2804 Eas t Mat thews Avenue Jonesboro, AR 7 2401 870-97 2-6226 BR ADLE Y M. HARRIS Memphis Endodontic s 1755 Kirby Park way, Suite 103 Memphis, TN 38120 901-761-0180 w w w.memphisrootcanal.com T Y LER LOV EL AC E Ox ford Endodontic s 1209 O f f ice Park Drive Ox ford, MS 38655 662-236-0098 w w w.ox fordendodontic s.com MIC HAEL P. LOWERY Nor th Mississippi Endodontic s 5740 Get well Road, Suite 10-A Southaven, MS 3867 2 662-890-3196 w w w.nor thmsendo.com BRYC E F. MCC RE ARY McCrear y Endodontic s 7865 Educator s Lane, Suite 120 Memphis, TN 38133 901-380-7994 w w w.mccrear yendodontic s.com JAMES O’FARRELL SHOEMAKER 1036 Oakhaven Road Memphis, TN 38119 901-374-9600 w w w.shoemaker-dental.glf-hos ting.com L . KE V IN WELL S Memphis Endodontic s 1755 Kirby O f f ice Circle Memphis, TN 38120 901-761-0180 w w w.memphisrootcanal.com

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MARY ANNE AUBERT IN Univer sit y of Tennessee School of Dentis tr y 875 Union Avenue Memphis, TN 38163 901-4 48-6227 w w w.uthsc.edu/dentis tr y JAMES G. AV ERY Aver y & Meadows 3491 Walnut Grove Road Memphis, TN 38111 901-452-0040 w w w.aver yandmeadows.com MIC KE Y BERNST EIN Germantown Dental Group 2165 Wes t Street Germantown, TN 38138 901-754-0540 w w w.mickeyberns teindds.com GER ALD F. BILLIONS 3337 Kirby Park way Memphis, TN 38115 901-362-5763 BL AKE T. BILLUPS 5170 Sanderlin Avenue, Suite 203 Memphis, TN 38117 901-767-3603 AL AN O. BL ANTON Aes thetic Dentis tr y of Collier ville 362 New Byhalia Road, Suite 3 Collier ville, TN 38017

901-853-8116 w w w.mycollier villedentis t.com MA X S. BRE A ZE AL The Max Dental Center 61 Pey ton Park way, Suite 103 Collier ville, TN 38017 901-861-0031 w w w.bes tcollier villedentis t.com RONALD S. BURNE T T Jonesboro Dental Care 2500 Browns Lane, Suite B Jonesboro, AR 7 2401 870-97 2-1200 w w w.dentis tjonesboroar.com J. DAV ID C ALDWELL Bar tlet t Dental A ssociates 3105 Kirby Whit ten Road Bar tlet t, TN 38134 901-388-9883 w w w.bar tlet tdentalassociates.com ROBERT E. C ALDWELL Caldwell Family Dentis tr y 8232 US Highway 51 Nor th Milling ton, TN 38053 901-87 2-7 179 w w w.caldwelldentis tr y.com

WILLIAM R. C ALL AHAN, III Univer sit y of Tennessee School of Dentis tr y 875 Union Avenue Memphis, TN 38163 901-4 48-6200 w w w.uthsc.edu/dentis tr y/ JENNIFER D. COC HR AN Evergreen Family Dentis tr y 17 23 Kirby Park way Memphis, TN 38120 901-757-9696 w w w.evergreenfamilydentis tr y.com V INC ENT H. COPEL AND Dental Health Corp. of Memphis 1251 Wesley Drive, Suite 130 Memphis, TN 38116 901-332-9170 w w w.dentalhealthcorpmemphis tn.com SCOT T A . EDWARDS 6250 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38119 901-681-0011 w w w.scot tedwardsdds.com H. ST E V EN FERGUS Church Health Center 266 South Cleveland Memphis, TN 38104 901-27 2-0003 w w w.churchhealthcenter.org C L AY TON C . FLORIANI Pediatric Dental Group 6611 Kirby Center Cove Memphis, TN 38115 901-363-8192 w w w.pdg4kids.com JEFF P. FRIZZELL 785 Es tate Place, Suite 2 Memphis, TN 38120

901-766-9002 w w w.jef fpfrizzelldds.com S. DWAIN GAIT HER Comprehensive & Cosmetic Family Dentis tr y 64 25 Quail Hollow Road, Suite 102 Memphis, TN 38120 901-767-3020 w w w.sdgaither.com TODD D. GRUEN Germantown Dental Group 2165 Wes t Street Germantown, TN 38138 901-754-0540 w w w.memphissmiledesigns.com C HARLES E. HARBISON 7 30 Goodman Road Eas t, Suite A Southaven, MS 3867 1 662-349-2351 E. DAVID IJA MS Cordova Dental 8333 Cordova Road Cordova, TN 38016 901-759-0999 w w w.cordovadental.com JOHN G. K AK ALES 7 30 Goodman Road Eas t, Suite A Southaven, MS 3867 1 662-349-2351 JEFFRE Y A . K ALMOWICZ Dr s. Kalmowicz & Baer 5180 Park Avenue, Suite 140 Memphis, TN 38119 901-683-7 309 w w w.kandbdental.com DAV ID T. KIZER Kizer Dental A ssociates 7685 Wolf River Circle, Suite 102 Germantown, TN 38138 901-767-4882 w w w.kizerdentalassociates.com ELIZABE T H H. LEE 5180 Park Avenue, Suite 280 Memphis, TN 38119 901-763-1600 w w w.elizabethleedds.com ST EPHEN J. LINDSE Y Dental E xcellence 5180 Park Avenue, Suite 310 Memphis, TN 38119 901-685-1152 w w w.dentalexcellencepc.com MARK C . MACGAW 1207 Macon V iew Drive, Suite 102 Cordova, TN 38018 901-754-3033 w w w.cordovadds.com WILLIAM H. MC HORRIS 3100 Walnut Grove Road, Suite 302 Memphis, TN 38111 901-454-0660 w w w.drmchorris.com STANLE Y MC PIKE 2500 Browns Lane, Suite A Jonesboro, AR 7 2401 870-932-2358 w w w.s tanmcpike.com DAN T. ME ADOWS Aver y & Meadows 3491 Walnut Grove Road Memphis, TN 38111 901-452-0040 w w w.aver yandmeadows.com S. JEFF MOORE, JR. Olive Branch Dental Care 8935 Goodman Road Olive Branch, MS 38654 662-895-5012 w w w.olivebranchdental.com C L AY T. NEL SON 87 1 Mount Moriah Road Memphis, TN 38117 901-682-4366

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Dr. Mitchel Godat Top Periodontist

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DEBOR AH F. NE WSOM 6603 Summer Knoll Cove Bar tlet t, TN 38134 901-37 3-7 14 4 WILLIAM L . PANNEC K Panneck Dental 1803 Woodsprings Road Jonesboro, AR 7 2401 870-932-8488 w w w.panneckdental.com MIC HAEL L . PARRISH 6363 Stage Road Memphis, TN 38134 901-386-5757 w w w.parrishdentis tr y.com T HOMA S C . PAT T ERSON 7 76 Mount Moriah Road Memphis, TN 38117 901-683-5239 PAT RIC K R. PERSON 7675 Wolf River Circle, Suite 201 Germantown, TN 38138 901-681-07 7 7 w w w.per sondds.com JOHN G. REDDIC K 6075 Poplar Avenue, Suite 121 Memphis, TN 38119 901-761-37 26 w w w.drjohnreddick.com KE V IN D. REED Reed Family Dentis tr y 8020 US Highway 51 Nor th Milling ton, TN 38053 901-87 2-3391 w w w.reedfamilydentis tr y.com KRIST Y R. ROWE Rowe & Rowe Smile Studio 2850 Browns Lane Jonesboro, AR 7 2401 870-932-4126 w w w.rowesmiles.com MEHDI SADEGHI Smile Center Memphis 6750 Poplar Avenue, Suite 612 Memphis, TN 38138 901-309-1333 w w w.smilecentermemphis.com MARK S. SMIT H Kizer Dental A ssociates 7685 Wolf River Circle, Suite 102 Germantown, TN 38138 901-767-4882 w w w.kizerdentalassociates.com GEORGE W. SORRELL S III 623 Nor th Missouri Street Wes t Memphis, AR 7 2303 870-7 32-5100 JOHN D. T HOMA S, JR. 278 German Oak Drive Cordova, TN 38018 901-343-6412 w w w.cordova-dentis t.com RIC HARD J. VAN SIC KLE 2835 Summer Oak s Drive Bar tlet t, TN 38134 901-37 2-7 283 STANLE Y R. WADDELL Waddell Res torative Dentis tr y 1900 Kirby Park way, Suite 200 Germantown, TN 38138 901-756-8855 w w w.dr waddell.com JOHN R. WHIT T EMORE Germantown Dental Group 2165 Wes t Street Germantown, TN 38138 901-754-0540 w w w.memphissmiledesigns.com GARY T. WIL SON, JR. 5565 Murray Road, Suite 202 Memphis, TN 38119 901-761-3456 w w w.gar y wilsondds.com

M ARK E . WIYGUL 5340 Poplar Avenue, Suite Two Memphis, TN 38119 901-683-7 7 7 1 E. JAC K WOHRMAN, JR. 6363 Poplar Avenue, Suite 430 Memphis, TN 38120 901-761-3040 C HARLES S. WOOD, JR. Wood Dental Group 7 15 Calvin Aver y Drive Wes t Memphis, AR 7 2301 870-7 35-3601 w w w.wooddental.net MAR JORIE A . WOODS Univer sit y of Tennessee School of Dentis tr y 875 Union Avenue Memphis, TN 38163 901-4 48-6227 w w w.uthsc.edu/dentis tr y

ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY

JIMMY E . ALBRIGHT Univer sit y of Tennessee School of Dentis tr y 875 Union Avenue Memphis, TN 38163 901-4 48-6236 w w w.uthsc.edu/dentis tr y JOHN S. C ANNON 6800 Poplar Avenue, Suite 110 Germantown, TN 38138 901-435-6259 ISA AC FORDJOUR 910 Madison Avenue, Suite 7 10 Memphis, TN 38103 901-526-3988 GORDON E. GRUEN Gruen & Morris Oral Surger y Group 780 Ridge Lake Boulevard, Suite 101 Memphis, TN 38120 901-682-8431 w w w.gruenmorrisoralsurger y.com K. MARCUS HOPKINS Maroda & Hopkins 2136 E xeter Road, Suite 202 Germantown, TN 38138 901-754-8002 w w w.marodahopkins.com T. ALLEN LIGON III 1121 Mimosa Drive Ox ford, MS 38655 662-236-5300 ST EPHEN J. MARODA , JR. Maroda & Hopkins 2136 E xeter Road, Suite 202 Germantown, TN 38138 901-754-8002 w w w.marodahopkins.com J. L AWRENC E MC R AE McRae-Wilson Oral and Maxillofacial Surger y Group 5565 Murray Road Memphis, TN 38119 901-767-0088 w w w.mcraewilsonoms.com

RIC HARD D. MEEKINS, JR. Center for Oral Facial Surger y of Memphis 1251 Wesley Drive, Suite 101 Memphis, TN 38116 901-398-0793 w w w.memphisoralfacial.com ST EPHEN A . MODELE VSK Y 906 Osler Drive Jonesboro, AR 7 2401 870-97 2-8570 w w w.drmodel.com RUSSELL C . PEC K 766 South White Station Road, Suite 1 Memphis, TN 38117 901-685-8090 JAMES PHILLIPS James Phillips Surger y Center 2609 Browns Lane Jonesboro, AR 7 2401 870-931-3000 w w w.drjamesphillips.com ST EPHEN B. SE X TON Sex ton Oral & Maxillofacial Surger y 1661 Aaron Brenner Drive, Suite 105 Memphis, TN 38210 901-756-8475 w w w.sex tonoms.com R. KUHEN SMIT H 766 South White Station Road, Suite 1 Memphis, TN 38117 901-685-8090 L AWRENC E W. WEEDA , JR. Univer sit y of Tennessee School of Dentis tr y 875 Union Avenue Memphis, TN 38163 901-4 48-6234 w w w.uthsc.edu/dentis tr y/ DARREN R. WILLIAMS Dental Implant Aes thetic Center 795 Ridge Lake Boulevard, Suite 101 Memphis, TN 38120 901-682-5001 w w w.dentalimplantac.com HARRIS E. WILLIAMS Williams Surger y Center 6621 Kirby Center Cove Memphis, TN 38115 901-362-6103 ST E V EN ZAMBR ANO Cordova Oral, Facial and Implant Surger y 915 Willow Tree Circle Cordova, TN 38018 901-755-67 24 w w w.cordovaoralsurger y.com

ORAL MEDICINE

C ESAR A . MIGLIOR AT I Univer sit y of Tennessee School of Dentis tr y 875 Union Avenue, Room N228 Memphis, TN 38163 901-4 48-2613 w w w.academic.uthsc.edu

ORAL PATHOLOGY

K. MARK ANDERSON Univer sit y of Tennessee School of Dentis tr y 875 Union Avenue Memphis, TN 38163 901-4 48-4559 w w w.uthsc.edu/dentis tr y

ORTHODONTICS

GEORGE H. BOULDIEN 3100 Professional Plaza Germantown, TN 38138 901-755-3354 DAV ID H. C ROWDER 6597 Summer Knoll Cove Bar tlet t, TN 38134 901-382-8611 w w w.drdavidcrowder.com K Y LE D. FAGAL A Saddle Creek Or thodontic s 2176 Wes t Street, Suite 320

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LALE . ADAMS . DDS

A Dentist Who Cares Dr. Lale Adams

Located in the heart of East Memphis. Providing cosmetic and family dentistry. Delivering the highest quality dental care in a friendly and comfortable environment.

For a healthy smile visit her today.

560 Colonial Rd. #100, Memphis, TN 38117 • 901-680-6881 • laleadamsdds.com

*‘tis the season

Reed Family Dentistry has been treating people, and building relationships for over 60 years. Dentistry has changed and progressed a lot over the years but one thing hasn’t changed — our love for our patients. During this season, we at Reed Family Dentistry would like to wish you and yours best wishes for a safe and healthy holiday. Whether you are long term or a new patient we would like to thank you for the opportunity to be a part of your family. At Reed Family Dentistry, we treat people, not just teeth. To start a relationship that will have you on your way to insuring your long-term dental health, give us a call today. 8020 Highway 51 North in Millington • 901-872-3391 or 1003 S. College St. in Covington 901-475-0805 • www.reedfamilydentistry.com

We are here for you, our patients! Dr. Garrett and her team have been building strong relationships through dental healthcare in the Memphis area since 2002. Our vision is to create an ever-evolving practice that will offer the highest-quality modern dental care to all of our patients.

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QUINTON C . ROBINSON III 5180 Park Avenue, Suite 260 Memphis, TN 38119 901-683-67 70 w w w.quintonrobinson.com W. COOPER SANDUSK Y III Sandusk y Or thodontic s 6262 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38119 901-761-3700 w w w.sandusk yor thodontic s.com KE V IN C . UT LE Y Utley Or thodontic s 298 Germantown Bend Cove, Suite 1 Cordova, TN 38018 901-756-6200 w w w.utleyor thodontic s.net DANN Y WEISS Weiss Or thodontic s 5885 Ridgeway Center Park way, Suite 200 Memphis, TN 38120 901-767-7 370 w w w.weissor thodontic s.com SCOT T P. WERNER Memphis Or thodontic s 64 25 Quail Hollow Road, Suite 201 Memphis, TN 38120 901-767-5415 w w w.werneror thodontic s.com STANLE Y P. WERNER Memphis Or thodontic s 64 25 Quail Hollow Road, Suite 201 Memphis, TN 38120 901-767-5415 w w w.werneror thodontic s.com TOMMY N. WHIT ED 940 Collier ville Arling ton Road, Suite 109 Collier ville, TN 38017 901-850-1118

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RIC HARD A . WILLIAMS Williams & Hamman Or thodontic s 399 Southcres t Cour t, Suite B Southaven, MS 3867 1 662-349-2196 w w w.whor tho.com

PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY

BE T S Y D. BARC ROF T 64 25 Nor th Quail Hollow Road, Suite 101 Memphis, TN 38120 901-682-8491 MIC HAEL D. BLEN Pediatric Dentis tr y with Dr. B 6363 Poplar Avenue, Suite 110 Memphis, TN 38119 901-415-2536 w w w.drblen.com C AROLINE C HURC HWELL Churchwell Pediatric Dentis tr y 1099 Poplar V iew Lane Nor th Collier ville, TN 38017 901-854-9555 w w w.churchwellpediatricdentis tr y.com MOLLY M. C HURC HWELL Churchwell Pediatric Dentis tr y 1099 Poplar V iew Lane Nor th Collier ville, TN 38017 901-854-9555 w w w.churchwellpediatricdentis tr y.com ALK A V. COHEN Cohen Pediatric Dentis tr y 814 2 Countr y V illage Drive, Suite 101 Cordova, TN 38016 901-756-4 4 47 w w w.cohenpediatricdentis tr y.com L ARRY D. DORMOIS Univer sit y of Tennessee School of Dentis tr y 875 Union Avenue Memphis, TN 38163 901-4 48-6200 w w w.uthse.edu/dentis tr y ST E V EN J. FUSON Pediatric Dental Group 6611 Kirby Center Cove Memphis, TN 38115 901-363-8192 w w w.pdg4kids.com SHELDON M. GR AV ES 4137 Kirby Park way, Suite 4 Memphis, TN 38115 901-433-0701 B. WESTMOREL AND MCC ANN, JR. McCann Pediatric Dentis tr y 5885 Ridgeway Center Park way, Suite 230 Memphis, TN 38120 901-767-9200 w w w.mccanndentis tr y.com S. ME ADE MOORE III 1908 E xeter Road Germantown, TN 38138 901-683-3993 w w w.germantowndds4kids.com MIC HAEL OLI V ER, JR. Pediatric Dentis tr y of Jonesboro 809 Windover Road Jonesboro, AR 7 2401 870-931-3337 w w w.pediatricdentis tr yof jonesboro.com KENNE T H I. WOOD Children’s Dentis tr y 1150 Eas t Mat thews Avenue, Suite 102 Jonesboro, AR 7 2401 870-931-5437 w w w.childrensdentis tr yjonesboro.com

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LES H. BINKLE Y, JR. Periodontal, Laser & Implant Clinic of Memphis 5866 Ridge Bend Road, Suite 1 Memphis, TN 38120 901-761-617 7

795 RidgeLake Blvd, Suite 101 Memphis, TN 38120 901-682-5001 www.dentalimplantac.com

Teeth in a Day! Is that possible? Yes! The Dental Implant Aesthetic Center has been doing this treatment for 10 years and was the first to provide Teeth in a Day in the Mid-South. Our Board Certified Specialists are providing this and all implant treatment with special care to our patients. Dr. Darren Williams provides the surgical specialty treatment with a gentle touch using the latest diagnostic and surgical techniques. IV sedation is provided for patients needing special care for these procedures. Dr. Carl W. Schulter provides the restorative specialty treatment and has developed many of the technologies used to restore dental implants. With over 20 years of experience we can treat the most complicated case to the most aesthetically demanding case. Call our office at 901-682-5001 for an appointment to discuss the many options available. You can visit our website for more detailed information: www.dentalimplantac.com.

G E T YO U R N O R M A L BAC K Above: LISA JAmeS, Semmes Murphey patient, free of spinal bone spurs and potential paralysis, artist who’s back to the drawing board

semmes-murphey.com See her story at

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Dr. Amy Wadsworth accepting the award for Best of the Best 2014, Hernando Dental Group

Smile!

YOU’RE IN GOOD HANDS.

ROGER D. C R ADDOC K Periodontal A ssociates of Memphis 6268 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38119 901-761-37 70 w w w.periomem.com BRENDA L . FOWLER 2657 Appling Road, Suite 103 Memphis, TN 38133 866-667-4867 w w w.drmichaelperr y.com MITC HEL S. GODAT Periodontal A ssociates of Memphis 6268 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38119 901-761-37 70 w w w.perioMem.com ANA STA SIOS K ARY DIS Univer sit y of Tennessee School of Dentis tr y 875 Union Avenue Memphis, TN 38163 901-4 48-624 2 EDWARD S. L ANE II 5565 Murray Road, Suite 101 Memphis, TN 38119 901-767-8152

2264 McIngvale Road, Hernando, MS 38632 • 662-429-OPEN (6736) Robert Maddux, DDS • Amy Wadsworth, DDS • Mark Skidmore, DDS Now offering oral conscious sedation & IV conscious sedation.

www.hernandodentalgroup.com MIC HAEL M. PERRY 7 22 Crossover Lane Memphis, TN 38120 866-667-4867 w w w.drmichaelperr y.com MIC HAEL L . T HOMPSON Thompson Periodontic s & Implant Dentis tr y 27 37 Paula Drive Jonesboro, AR 7 2404 870-932-0015 w w w.thompsonperioandimplant s.com J. ST EPHEN WEIR 5348 Es tate O f f ice Drive, Suite 1 Memphis, TN 38119 901-763-4700 w w w.js tephenweirdds.com

PROSTHODONTICS

DAV ID R. C AGNA Univer sit y of Tennessee School of Dentis tr y 875 Union Avenue Memphis, TN 38163 901-4 48-6930 w w w.uthsc.edu/dentis tr y/ MARC A . COHEN Pros thoDental 5356 Es tate O f f ice Drive, Suite One Memphis, TN 38119 901-680-0823 w w w.mcohendds.com WILLIAM R. PRIEST ER III 5866 Ridge Bend Road Memphis, TN 38120 901-767-8759 C ARL W. SC HULT ER Dental Implant Aes thetic Center 795 Ridge Lake Boulevard, Suite 101 Memphis, TN 38120 901-682-5001 w w w.dentalimplantac.com 80 • M E M P H I S M A G A Z I N E . C O M • D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 5

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FOR THE PAST 32 YEARS, Aesthetic Dentistry of Collierville, PLLC has been a leader in technologically advanced dentistry in the Mid-South. Alan O. Blanton, DDS, MS, established his practice in 1983 and has continued to study and perform the most up-to-date dental procedures with the latest technology dentistry has to offer his patients. From same-day computer designed and on-site milled CEREC all-ceramic crowns to soft tissue lasers, INVISALIGN® and Six Month Smiles® orthodontics for adults, Dr. Blanton wants his patients to experience the best dentistry has to offer in convenience and comfort. Four years ago Aesthetic Dentistry of Collierville, PLLC underwent a complete renovation of its facility and added an additional 1,100 square feet of clinical space to accommodate a larger staff and provide an increasing number of services to the growing practice patient family. One of the greatest areas of expansion of services was the formation of the Mid-South Snoring and Sleep Apnea Dental Treatment Center. Really a practice within a practice, MidSouth Snoring and Sleep Apnea Dental Treatment Center concentrates on treating patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea who cannot tolerate conventional CPAP therapy. Dr. Blanton is the only board-certified dentist in West Tennessee to treat patients diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnea using specially designed oral appliances which stabilize the lower jaw and prevent the collapse of the airway during sleep. Working closely for the past eight years with area Sleep Physicians and accredited Sleep Centers, Dr. Blanton has treated more patients suffering with sleep apnea than any other dentist in the Mid-South. Call (901) 853-8116 or visit either of our websites for more information or to schedule an appointment. Dr. Blanton provides no-cost, no-obligation consultations for all major dental procedures including INVISALIGN®, Six Month Smiles® and Oral Appliance Therapy.

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ALAN O. BLANTON, DDS, MS Alan O. Blanton, DDS, MS Diplomate, American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine

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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.

CHRISTOPHER COOLEY, DDS

7938 Wolf River Blvd. Germantown, TN 38138 901.754.3117 www.cooleydds.com

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MEMPHIS AND MEMPHIS AREA general practice dentists, among the top dentists in the known universe, very adequately perform most of the root canal procedures in the Memphis area. Dr. Shoemaker is honored, thankful and grateful to complement their efforts in treating their more complicated endodontic and endodontic surgical cases. In 40 plus years of practice we have assisted over 600 dentists in the Memphis Area and across the country. Dr. Shoemaker has performed more endodontic procedures than any dental practitioner in the history of the Memphis, Mid-South area.

O’FARRELL SHOEMAKER, D.D.S., P.A. Patient Centered Endodontic, Root Canal Therapy

PATIENTS — Patients expect and deserve technical excellence and gentle, timely and compassionate care. Peaceful resolution of the physical, emotional and economic concerns of our patient is our mission. The patient is the reason our practice exists. We have invested many years of education, experience, effort and resources to exceed your and our expectations. Dr. Shoemaker and staff are thankful and grateful that you, the patient, allow us to practice our skills, adding meaning and purpose to our professional lives.

Left to right: Lynn Turri, Dr. O’Farrell Shoemaker, Melanie Shoemaker, Rachel Brasfield and Sydney Thweatt

DR. SHOEMAKER’S PROFESSIONAL PROFILE — General dentistry degree, University of Tennessee School of Dentistry 1972- Member of the American Dental Association, Lifetime Member of the Tennessee Dental Association and Member of the Memphis Dental Society. Captain Shoemaker served as the Endodontic director at Redstone Arsenal, completing the U.S. Army’s miniresidency in Endodontics (1972-1974). This miniresidency did not meet board specialty status for Endodontics. Dr. Shoemaker treated thousands of the complex endodontic and surgical cases for our deserving Vietnam Era Soldiers, receiving the Meritorious Service Award. The University of Tennessee School of Dentistry subsequently appointed Dr. Shoemaker as a clinical Endodontic instructor from 1975 to 1986. Dr. Shoemaker has treated more than 100,000 cases in the last 42 years. Approximately half our Endodontic cases are retreatment of root canals performed by other dentists. So before you doom a tooth to extraction, please let us take a peek; it can save a patient thousands of dollars. This professional profile is presented to calm fears and apprehension of root canals. This professional profile is presented to assure you, the patient, of our vast experience and desire to mitigate the fear, dread and anxiety of endodontic root canal procedures. You and your tooth have friends with years of experience. Please visit our website — http://shoemaker-dental.glf-hosting.com.

1036 Oakhaven Road Memphis, TN 38119 901.374.9600 shoemakerdds@yahoo.com shoemaker-dental.glf-hosting.com

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KATHRYN A. SNEED DMD, MBA understands passion. As a wife, a mother of three, and an owner of a dental practice, it is obvious she is passionate about serving the needs of others. She is the founder and CEO of Sneed Dental Arts, located in Collierville. Dr. Sneed and her team of dental professionals provide gentle and compassionate care in a warm friendly environment. Dr. Kathryn Sneed is dedicated to staying at the top of her field, and has completed advanced training in dental implants, sedation, orthodontics, cosmetic dentistry, and family and general dentistry. She is considered the “best of the best” with facial esthetics utilizing Botox and fillers. With over than 3,500 Facebook likes, Kathryn A. Sneed DMD, MBA is known by her colleagues and her patients as a leader, both in the dental office and beyond. When not in the office, she can be found teaching exercise classes at Lifetime Fitness or teaching Bible Study at Central Church. Dr. Kathryn Sneed is a woman empowered, empowered by touching the lives of all those she comes into contact with. Come visit Sneed Dental Arts, and enjoy an experience unlike any other.

KATHRYN A. SNEED, DMD, MBA SNEED DENTAL ARTS 1122 Poplar View Lane N. Collierville, TN 38017 901.853.2575 sneeddentalarts.com

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CHILDREN’S DENTAL CENTER AT CHILDREN’S DENTAL CENTER we exist to provide the community with outstanding, comprehensive dental care to children from toddlers to teens in a patient-friendly environment. In addition to routine preventive care, we offer in-office sedation, treatment under general anesthesia at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, emergency care, and pre-orthodontic appliances. Dr. Chris Rowland has been practicing pediatric dentistry since 2000, and Dr. J.B. Selecman has been practicing pediatric dentistry since 2004. Both earned their dental degrees and completed pediatric dental residencies at UT College of Dentistry and are Board Certified Pediatric Dentists. We will be expanding to the Midtown area in early 2016! For more information about our practice, visit us online at www.dentistjustforkids.com or Facebook at www.facebook.com/ childrensdentalcenterofwesttenn.

Left to right: J.B. Selecman, DDS and Chris Rowland, DDS

3394 S. Houston Levee Rd., Germantown, TN 38138 1684 Poplar Ave., Memphis, TN 38104 (completed in early 2016)

901.861.9668 • www.dentistjustforkids.com

CLAYTON-MEFFORD DENTAL OUR PRACTICE HAS a passion for providing high-quality cosmetic, implant, and preventive dentistry. We are now serving our patients in two locations — Germantown and Bartlett. We are pleased to announce that we have added Dr. Lenny Andre, Dr. Allison Thomas, and Dr. Grant Dasher to our dental team.

Left to right: Grant Dasher, DDS, Allison Thomas, DDS, Wade Clayton, DDS, and Drew Mefford, DMD

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KENAN D. CLINTON, DDS KENAN CLINTON was born and raised in Tupelo, MS. He received his undergraduate degree in Biology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, graduated from UT Dental School in 2001, and received his Endodontics certificate from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, in 2004. He is a member of the American Association of Endodontists, as well as the Tennessee Dental Association. He enjoys spending time with his family and participating in dental mission trips to Honduras. Dr. Clinton and our staff are compassionate and dedicated to providing the best Endodontic care for every patient we treat. We accept most insurance plans and also offer CareCredit, an interest-free finance program designed for medical and dental needs.

6401 Poplar Ave., Suite 260 Memphis, TN 38119 901.682.8847 www.clintonendo.com

MILES C. MOORE, DDS MEMPHIS CENTER FOR FAMILY & COSMETIC DENTISTRY features a one-of-a-kind dentist and the most advanced dental care in the field. Dr. Miles C. Moore and his team will redefine your dental experience with compassion, understanding, and upmost respect. He uses the latest cosmetic techniques to provide high-quality aesthetic and restorative dentistry. Dr. Moore also offers a full range of treatments beyond cosmetic dentistry to encompass all of your dental needs. Dr. Moore’s office is up to date with cutting-edge technology offering CBCT-guided implant placement, impression-free dentistry, and Invisalign treatment. Whether you are seeking a complete smile makeover, “invisible braces,” or a regular check-up, our relaxed setting and down-to-earth team are waiting to provide you with exemplary service. After one visit you will realize what all of his patients are raving about!

MEMPHIS CENTER FOR FAMILY & COSMETIC DENTISTRY 725 W. Brookhaven Circle Memphis, TN 38117 901.761.2210 | beautifulsmiles.org

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THE GOAL OF Gary T. Wilson, Jr., D.D.S. Cosmetic and Family Dentistry is and always will be to provide the most comprehensive treatment for you and your family. Dr. Wilson and his staff strive to provide each and every patient with the very best dental care in the most supportive and nurturing manner. Their friendly atmosphere will immediately put you at ease. Not only does Dr. Wilson’s office focus on preventive care, but also on corrective care. Dr. Wilson’s office provides numerous cosmetic dental services including crowns, bonding, personalized whitening, digital x-rays, and Invisalign. Their intraoral camera allows you, the patient, to see clear images of what is happening inside of your mouth. It is an excellent tool for patient diagnosis and education. Dr. Wilson also uses the technology to digitally scan a 3D image of your tooth for restorative work. No more messy impressions and a more accurate fitting restoration!

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SECRETS of the GROTTO How a Mexican artist created one of Memphis’ greatest treasures.

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n 1935, a man by the name of Dionicio Rodriguez made his way to Memphis by way of southern Texas. Rodriguez, a Mexican sculptor of considerable renown, liked to dress in nicely pressed slacks and a crisp white shirt. He wore his black hair closely cropped and slicked back, in the style of the day. A sepia-tone photo, taken in 1937, shows Rodriguez standing near a footbridge that he sculpted for a cemetery in Maryland, his arm propped against a lighting feature at the base of the bridge. He appears relaxed and casually confident. At first glance, it would be hard to guess that the clean-cut Rodriguez spent his days tying together iron rebar and wire and hand-pouring cement in order to create lifelike imitations of the natural world. But for the six years he spent in Memphis, the quiet sculptor worked eight- to ten-hour days in the service of his elaborate creations, gathering together roughshod elements to make faux bois (translation: fake wood) trees, footbridges, benches, and fountains.

Memphians may not know very much about Rodriguez, but they are probably familiar with one of his most famous works — the Crystal Shrine Grotto, an elaborate man-made cave located at the center of East Memphis’ Memorial Park Cemetery. The Grotto is both the physical and spiritual center of the cemetery. The dark, crystal-studded enclosure is home to a ten-panel tableau depicting the life of Christ. It is surrounded, on the outside, by other unique features, all

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sculpted out of cement in a characteristic trabajo rustico (or “rustic work”) style. Among Rodriguez’s creations are a hollow tree called “Abraham’s Oak,” a bench in the shape of a fallen tree limb, a “Fountain of Youth,” a second tomb-like cave known as the “Cave of Machpelah,” a “wishing chair,” and a series of rustic footbridges that lead to what Rodriguez called “God’s Garden.” The Crystal Shrine Grotto and the accompanying sculptures have been on a shortlist of off-the-beaten-path Memphis attractions for decades now. A 2014 segment called “Behind Closed Doors” by

tites emerge, in clusters, from a low ceiling, while five tons of raw crystals — brought to Memphis by Rodriguez from the Diamond Cave in Jasper, Arkansas — gleam under multicolored artificial lights. A leather-bound guest book sits adjacent to a wooden plaque that impels visitors to spend a moment of repose in the cave. Many of Rodriguez’s dioramic paintings inside the Grotto are accompanied by carvings (added in the late 1970s and early 1980s) by Memphian David Day, which depict, variously, New Testament scenes such as the Raising of Jairus’ Daughter, the Sermon on the

graphs of Rodriguez in Memphis, much less anything resembling a complete biography. What was known was that Rodriguez was born outside Mexico City in 1891 and died in the states in 1955. He is buried in San Antonio, where he spent much of his career. Because little was known about his artistic training, it has often been assumed that he was a self-trained folk artist. “Much of his life,” wrote Lauderdale, “is shrouded in mystery. But somehow, he perfected a technique for chemically tinting concrete and then carving or molding it into naturalistic forms that closely resem-

Scenes from the life of Christ fill recesses inside the Crystal Shrine Grotto. With its elaborate use of tinted concrete and embedded crystals, the Grotto is perhaps Dionicio Rodriguez’s most experimental undertaking.

News Channel 24, for example, called the sculpture “a subterranean art museum of religious dioramas” while the ilovememphisblog.com recently surmised that the work has a “secret outdoor temple feel to it.” The Grotto is now also something of a national attraction, drawing attention from art and travel writers from around the country. In 2013, the critic Allison Meier wrote for the national art blog hyperallergic. com that “the experience is alternately transporting and peculiar” and that, while inside the Grotto, “you feel alone in a sweeping stillness.” There is something transporting about walking into the Grotto. Sculpted stalac-

Mount, and the Resurrection of Christ. The air is cool, and plinky recorded harp music resounds throughout, contributing to the kitschy-ness of the place; a defunct Super 8 camera mimics surveillance in one corner. But the effect transcends kitsch. A first-time visitor cannot avoid the sense that he is inside a work of art, one that retains the feel and vision of the artist. Despite ample press about the Grotto, little has been reported about the man behind its creation. Until eight years ago, not much was widely known about Rodriguez. In 2006, Memphis magazine historian Vance Lauderdale reported that, despite some digging, he had discovered no available photo-

bled stones, branches, trees — whatever he wished — even down to artificial wormholes, cracked branches, and peeling bark.” In 2008, a Texan art historian named Patsy Pittman Light published a survey of Rodriguez’s work across the United States called Capturing Nature: The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodriguez. Light’s book, based on extensive interviews with Rodriguez’s niece and assistant, Manuela Vargas Theall, reveals much more about both the sculptor and his works, including a stunning series of faux bois structures in North Little Rock’s Pugh Memorial Park, an achievement that Light calls a “lyrical fantasy” for its poetic use of faux bois forms.

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Light’s research into Rodriguez’ life also drew on a correspondence between E. Clovis Hinds, the founder of Memorial Park Cemetery, and Rodriguez. The two men’s relationship was defining for both Hinds and Rodriguez, as evidenced by a shared desire to create, as Hinds put it, “a landmark cemetery marked by beauty and serenity” that “will attract people.” The letters reveal two men who, despite the financial adversity of the Depression years, stayed the course until the project was finished in 1941. In 1924, Hinds sold his successful life insurance company, Cotton States Life Insur-

urban park space, which began in Europe and found American expression in Frederick Law Olmstead’s Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn. In order to create Memphis’ Memorial Park Cemetery, Hinds employed a landscape architect from the George Kessler firm of St. Louis. Kessler, a correspondent of Olmstead’s, was the architect who built Midtown’s sprawling Overton Park. The idea of adding sculpture to the cemetery came from Père Lachaise, the Paris cemetery that dates from 1804 and includes many notable works of art. In 1935, Hinds engaged Rodriguez to start

which includes three large, conical rock formations, the largest of which houses the Crystal Shrine Grotto. The Grotto, like the neighboring Cave of Malapach, is carved 59 feet into the hillside. It is fronted by the koifilled “Pool of Hebron” (a grand name for a quiet, man-made pond) and the gnarled “Abraham’s Oak,” through which visitors can walk. Though no one knows exactly where Rodriguez learned his craft, Pittman Light writes that many Mexican craftspeople emigrated to San Antonio in the 1920s, following difficult economic times and revolution

Complementing the “stalactites” Rodriguez crafted from tinted cement inside the Crystal Shrine Grotto are many elaborately carved wooden sculptures by Memphis artist David Day, added in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

ance, and started work on what would be his legacy, a “memorial park” cemetery in Memphis, in the style of Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles. As Hinds envisioned it, the cemetery would have hallmark f lat grave markers, allowing for an unimpeded sense of the landscape, a vista that the proprietor hoped would draw the mind towards life and hope, and away from dreary visions of mortality. According to Pittman Light, Memphis’ Memorial Park Cemetery is one of “more than six hundred ‘memorial park’ cemeteries that were built in the country by 1935.” Hinds, like many others, was inf luenced by a turn-of-the-century movement towards

work on his sculptures, while he simultaneously was working on projects in Maryland, Alabama and Michigan, among other sites. Rodriguez was apparently protective of his methods; when he worked with a team, he mixed his cement tints in private and disposed of them so that no one else learned of his recipes. He wrote to Hinds asking that the proprietor not allow “anyone else to try and perform or practice any of my artistical [sic] work.” Memorial Park’s uncluttered vistas — broken only by trees and bouquets of f lowers that mourning relatives leave atop the graves of loved ones — make for a better view of Rodriguez’s “Garden of the Gods,”

in Mexico. There was an inf luential craft school in Mexico City that trained many of these artisans. Rodriguez was not the originator or sole practitioner of the trabajo rustico genre. Genaro Briones, who may have worked with Rodriguez in Memphis, was another adherent to the style. Briones and other artisans are well remembered for the faux bois work that they created throughout the American Southwest. Despite this lineage, Rodriguez’s work in Memphis is often grouped, stylistically, with work by environmental sculptures by self-taught and untrained artists such as the French postman Ferdinand Cheval’s “Le Palais idéal” — an obsessive monument in

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PRACTICE AREA INDEX Alternative Dispute Resolution .............................S-4 Banking...................................................................S-4 Bankruptcy: Business .............................................S-4 Bankruptcy: Consumer...........................................S-4 Business Litigation .................................................S-4 Business/Corporate ...............................................S-4 Civil Litigation: Defense .........................................S-4 Civil Rights .............................................................. S-5 Class Action/Mass Torts ........................................ S-5 Construction Litigation .......................................... S-5 Consumer Law........................................................ S-5 Creditor Debtor Rights ........................................... S-5 Criminal Defense .................................................... S-5 Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI................................... S-5 Elder Law ................................................................ S-5 Employee Benefits.................................................. S-5 Employment & Labor ............................................. S-5 Employment Litigation: Defense ...........................S-6 Employment Litigation: Plaintiff ...........................S-6 Entertainment & Sports .........................................S-6 Environmental ........................................................S-6 Estate Planning & Probate ....................................S-6 Family Law.............................................................. S-7 General Litigation................................................... S-7 Government Finance .............................................. S-7 Health Care............................................................. S-7 Immigration ............................................................ S-7 Insurance Coverage................................................ S-7 Intellectual Property .............................................. S-7 Intellectual Property Litigation.............................. S-7 Personal Injury General: Defense ..........................S-8 Personal Injury General: Plaintiff...........................S-8 Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Defense ................................................................S-9 Personal Injury Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff.................................................................S-9 Personal Injury Products: Defense ...................... S-10 Personal Injury Products: Plaintiff ....................... S-10 Professional Liability: Defense ............................ S-10 Real Estate ........................................................... S-10 Securities & Corporate Finance ........................... S-10 Securities Litigation.............................................. S-10 Social Security Disability ...................................... S-10 State, Local & Municipal ...................................... S-10 Tax......................................................................... S-10 Transportation/Maritime ..................................... S-10 Workers’ Compensation....................................... S-10

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ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION Blair, Allen S., Blair Mediation, Memphis TN, 901-581-4100 Cody, W.J. Michael, Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5000 Hoffman, Sheree L., Hoffman Law and Mediation Office, Memphis TN, 901-754-9994 Lait, Hayden D., Mediation & Law Office, Memphis TN, 901-230-4990 Potter, Jerry O., The Hardison Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-525-8776 Pg. S-3 Tate, Shepherd D., Bass Berry & Sims, Memphis TN, 901-543-5701

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BANKRUPTCY: BUSINESS Bailey, III, James E., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200 Pg. S-3 Coury, Michael P., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Pg. S-3 Douglass, Steven N., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455 Pg. S-3 Kahn, Bruce M., Apperson Crump, Memphis TN, 901-756-6300 Matthews, Paul A., Bourland Heflin Alvarez Minor & Matthews, Memphis TN, 901-683-3526 Parker, Toni Campbell, Law Offices of Toni Campbell Parker, Memphis TN, 901-683-0099 Ryder, John L., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455 Pg. S-3 Shelton, III, Henry C., Adams and Reese, Memphis TN, 901-524-5271 Pg. S-3

BANKRUPTCY: CONSUMER Gambrell, Robert, Gambrell & Associates, Oxford MS, 662-281-8800 Sissman, Ben G., Attorney at Law, Memphis TN, 901-730-4958

BUSINESS LITIGATION Bearman, Jr., Leo, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2220 Pg. S-3 Belz, Saul C., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-576-1741 Pg. S-3 Black, Douglas A., Wolff Ardis, Memphis TN, 901-763-3336 Childress, Jr., E. Franklin, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2147 Pg. S-3 Clayton, Jr., Claude F., Clayton O’Donnell, Tupelo MS, 662-620-7938 Cocke, David J., Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-525-6781 Craddock, Jr., Robert E., Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, Memphis TN, 901-537-1000 Crawford, Robert L., Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, Memphis TN, 901-537-1052 Crosby, Scott J., Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5134 Deacon, Barry, Deacon Law Firm, Jonesboro AR, 870-336-9300 Dyer, Thomas R., Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, Memphis TN, 901-537-1000 Feibelman, Jef, Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5000 Pg. S-3

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MALCOLM B. FUTHEY III FUTHEY LAW FIRM PLC Memphis • 901-725-7525

www.futheylawfirm.com Germany, Jeffrey D., Morton & Germany, Memphis TN, 901-522-0050 Golwen, John S., Bass Berry & Sims, Memphis TN, 901-543-5903 Graves, Michael K., Graves & Palmertree, Hernando MS, 877-616-9514 Harris, David J., Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5120 Harvey, Albert C., Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-577-6115 Hearn, Jr., Don L., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Heflin, III, John J., Bourland Heflin Alvarez Minor & Matthews, Memphis TN, 901-683-3526 Holbrook, Frank M., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7312 Pg. S-3 Jones, John Marshall, Bourland Heflin Alvarez Minor & Matthews, Memphis TN, 901-683-3526 Kirby, James L., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455 Lathram, J. Brook, Bass Berry & Sims, Memphis TN, 901-543-5900 Lewis, III, George T., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2256 Mayo, Jr., J. Cal, Mayo Mallette, Oxford MS, 662-236-0055 McAnally, Melody, Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7322 McLaren, Michael G., Black McLaren Jones Ryland & Griffee, Memphis TN, 901-762-0535 Pg. S-5 McQuiston, II, John W., Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-525-6781 Miller, Louis Jay, Apperson Crump, Memphis TN, 901-756-6300 Minor, III, Lancelot L., Bourland Heflin Alvarez Minor & Matthews, Memphis TN, 901-683-3526 Moffett, Larry D., Daniel Coker Horton & Bell, Oxford MS, 662-232-8979 Newman, Charles F., Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5103 Newsom, III, James R., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455 Noel, Randall D., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7346 Norris, Sr., Mark S., Adams and Reese, Memphis TN, 901-524-5279 Patton, Michael C., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2265 Pera, Lucian T., Adams and Reese, Memphis TN, 901-524-5278 Pg. S-3 Roberts, Kristine, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8136 Pg. S-3 Speer, John C., Bass Berry & Sims, Memphis TN, 901-543-5919 Stratton, Irma Merrill, Law Office of Irma Merrill Stratton, Memphis TN, 901-526-6464 Trammell, Bradley E., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2121 Van Horn, Daniel W., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7331 Ward, C. Barry, Ballin Ballin & Fishman, Memphis TN, 901-525-6278 Webster, Ross E., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-576-1892 Wellford, Shea Sisk, Martin Tate Morrow & Marston, Memphis TN, 901-522-9000

BUSINESS/CORPORATE Bobango, John A., Farris Bobango Branan, Memphis TN, 901-259-7100 Chase, III, Lee J., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Orians, Robert E., Martin Tate Morrow & Marston, Memphis TN, 901-522-9000

CIVIL LITIGATION: DEFENSE Adelman, Rebecca, Hagwood Adelman Tipton, Memphis TN, 901-529-9313

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BY PRACTICE AREA Bearman, David L., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8116 Pg. S-3 Driskell, III, Mitchell O., Daniel Coker Horton & Bell, Oxford MS, 662-232-8979 Glover, R. Mark, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2222 Pg. S-3 Green, Robert L., Allen Summers Simpson Lillie & Gresham, Memphis TN, 901-763-4200 Hale, Robert B.C., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Hughes, Brett A., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455 McMullen, Bruce A., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-526-2000 Pepke, Amy M., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200 Reid, Glen G., Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, Memphis TN, 901-537-1000 Pg. S-3 Wade, David C., Martin Tate Morrow & Marston, Memphis TN, 901-522-9000 Pg. S-3 Webb, Dan W., Webb Sanders & Williams, Tupelo MS, 662-844-2137

CIVIL RIGHTS Kramer, Bruce S., Apperson Crump, Memphis TN, 901-271-2710 O’Donnell, David D., Clayton O’Donnell, Oxford MS, 662-234-0900

ELDER LAW Self, Jr., William K., Apperson Crump, Memphis TN, 901-756-6300

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS Thornton, David A., Bass Berry & Sims, Memphis TN, 901-543-5922

EMPLOYMENT & LABOR Allen, Jr., Richard H., Allen Summers Simpson Lillie & Gresham, Memphis TN, 901-575-3211 Bennett, Richard D., Farris Bobango Branan, Memphis TN, 901-259-7100 Biller, Stephen H., The Biller Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-259-5383

Britt, Louis P., Ford & Harrison, Memphis TN, 901-291-1516 Caraway, Kirk A., Allen Summers Simpson Lillie & Gresham, Memphis TN, 901-763-4200 Crone, Alan G., Crone & McEvoy, Memphis TN, 901-737-7740 Pg. S-8 Davis, Angie C., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8110 Gerson, Herbert E., Ford & Harrison, Memphis TN, 901-291-1500 Godwin, Deborah G., Godwin Morris Laurenzi Bloomfield, Memphis TN, 901-528-1702 Goodwin, Stephen D., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2141 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-6

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MEMP HIS Michael G. McLaren

CLASS ACTION/MASS TORTS Allen, Cannon F., Adams and Reese, Memphis TN, 901-524-5275 Burns, William F., Watson Burns, Memphis TN, 901-529-7996 Pg. S-2 Hudson, Eric E., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7309

CONSTRUCTION LITIGATION Getz, Joseph T., Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-525-6781 Less, Michael I., Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, Memphis TN, 901-537-1042 Stengel, Elizabeth, Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-525-6781 Summers, James B., Allen Summers Simpson Lillie & Gresham, Memphis TN, 901-763-4200 Pg. S-3

CONSUMER LAW Snider, Kevin A., Snider & Horner, Germantown TN, 901-751-3777

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VICKIE HARDY JONES, MICHAEL G. MCLAREN*, MARK GRIFFEE, JOHN C. RYLAND

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Blaylock, David, Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Pg. S-3

CRIMINAL DEFENSE Ballin, Leslie Irwin, Ballin Ballin & Fishman, Memphis TN, 901-308-6084 Pg. S-3 Ganguli, Juni S., Ganguli Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-544-9339 Massey, William D., Massey McClusky McClusky & Fuchs, Memphis TN, 901-384-4004 Pg. S-3 McAfee, Marty B., The McAfee Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-328-7000 McClusky, Lorna S., Massey McClusky McClusky & Fuchs, Memphis TN, 901-201-6747 McDaniel, Mark S., Attorney at Law, Memphis TN, 901-527-6518 Patterson, Kevin G., KGP Law Firm, Germantown TN, 901-300-4820 Quinn, Arthur E., Arthur E. Quinn Law Office, Memphis TN, 901-302-4868 Scholl, Michael E., The Scholl Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-529-8500 Stengel, Michael J., Law Office of Michael J. Stengel, Memphis TN, 901-527-3535

CRIMINAL DEFENSE: DUI/DWI Brannon, Jr., Robert M., Brannon Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-521-1710

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KRISTINE E. NELSON, BRICE M. TIMMONS, JANA D. LAMANNA**, CHRIS J. WEBB**, STEVAN L. BLACK*, WILLIAM E. COCHRAN, JR., REBECCA K. HINDS *CHOSEN TO 2015 SUPER LAWYERS **CHOSEN TO 2015 RISING STARS

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A trial lawyer. In these days of alternative dispute resolution, we are a dying breed. But the fact remains that only a true trial lawyer has the leverage to achieve optimal client results regardless of the forum. The Law Office of Stephen R. Leffler has represented clients in both state and federal forums in personal injury and criminal cases for more than 30 years. Our team approach incorporates our experienced staff investigator, Tim Norris, to assure that no stone that could make a difference in the case goes unturned. Leffler has been licensed to practice law in Tennessee since 1984. The office has handled cases across the state but focuses most of its practice in West Tennessee. Leffler is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, the Tennessee Bar Association, Tennessee Association for Justice, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and actively writes for Memphis Lawyer Magazine. He has taught trial skills seminars for years.

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Hagerman, Jennifer, Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5162 Hill, Charles W., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Jaqua, David P., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200 Kaplan, Jonathan E., Littler Mendelson, Memphis TN, 901-322-1229 Kiesewetter, Jay W., Fisher & Phillips, Memphis TN, 901-526-0431 Lichterman, Lisa, Littler Mendelson, Memphis TN, 901-795-6695 Marshall, Michael R., Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-525-6781 Morris, Samuel, Godwin Morris Laurenzi Bloomfield, Memphis TN, 901-528-1702 Norris, III, O. John, Jackson Lewis, Memphis TN, 901-462-2600 Pascover, Kathryn W., Ford & Harrison, Memphis TN, 901-291-1528 Perl, Arnold E., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-576-1758 Photopulos, Todd, Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200 Shields, Stephen L., Jackson Shields Yeiser & Holt, Memphis TN, 901-754-8001 Simmons, John W., Littler Mendelson, Memphis TN, 901-795-6695 Simpson, James M., Allen Summers Simpson Lillie & Gresham, Memphis TN, 901-763-4200 Thompson, Tanja L., Littler Mendelson, Memphis TN, 901-795-6695 Waide, III, James D. (‘Jim”), Waide & Associates, Tupelo MS, 662-842-7324 Pg. S-3 Weintraub, Jeff, Fisher & Phillips, Memphis TN, 901-526-0431 Wexler, Maurice, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2272 Young, Edward R., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2341

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: DEFENSE Cowart, Craig A., Jackson Lewis, Memphis TN, 901-462-2600 Hancock, Jonathan C., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8202 Henderson, Thomas L., Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, Memphis TN, 901-767-6160 Holmes, Charles V., Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, Memphis TN, 901-767-6160 Krupicka, Lisa A., Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5000 Pg. S-3 Meyers, Robert D., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1715 Pg. S-3 Mulroy, II, James R., Jackson Lewis, Memphis TN, 901-462-2600 Pg. S-3 Prather, Paul E., Littler Mendelson, Memphis TN, 901-795-6695 Pg. S-3 Stock, Jr., James H., Jackson Lewis, Memphis TN, 901-462-2600

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF Donati, Donald, Donati Law, Memphis TN, 901-278-1004 Pg. S-3 Norwood, Dan, Norwood & Atchley, Memphis TN, 901-528-8300 Ryan, William B., Donati Law, Memphis TN, 901-278-1004

ENTERTAINMENT & SPORTS Luckett, Jr., William O., Luckett Tyner Law Firm, Clarksdale MS, 662-624-2591

ENVIRONMENTAL Womack, Randall B., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322

ESTATE PLANNING & PROBATE Alvarez, Robert K., Bourland Heflin Alvarez Minor & Matthews, Memphis TN, 901-683-3526

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BY PRACTICE AREA Bailey, Jr., Olen M. “Mac”, The Bailey Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-843-2760 Pg. S-10 Bradley, Beth Weems, Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5133 Bradley, J. Anthony, The Bradley Law Firm, Germantown TN, 901-682-2030 Buckner, Thomas R., Apperson Crump, Memphis TN, 901-260-5122 Duncan, Joe M., Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5110 Hall, Jr., James R. (Josh), Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-579-3126 McDaniel, A. Stephen, Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, Memphis TN, 901-537-1033 Murrah, John F., Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-525-6781 Nassar, Jr., George J., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-576-1773 Shainberg, Raymond M., Harkavy Shainberg Kaplan & Dunstan, Memphis TN, 901-761-1263 Thornton, M. Matthew, Bourland Heflin Alvarez Minor & Matthews, Memphis TN, 901-683-3526 Tual, Blanchard E., Tual Graves Dorkowski, Memphis TN, 901-474-1230 Walker, Joseph B., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200 Wolfe, Alan R., Law Office of Alan R. Wolfe, Cordova TN, 901-754-8001 Womack, Tom D., Womack Phelps & McNeill, Jonesboro AR, 870-932-0900

Wellford, Buckner, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2152 Pg. S-3 Wheeler, Jr., George T., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-682-1455 Wiggins, Kyle M., Attorney at Law, Memphis TN, 901-262-8132

Deaton, Chris H., Brock Deaton Law Firm, Tupelo MS, 662-844-2055

IMMIGRATION

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

Babaoglu, Rehim, Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-525-8721 Siskind, Gregory H., Siskind Susser, Memphis TN, 901-682-6455

Garrison, Grady M., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8151

INSURANCE COVERAGE Cassidy, Jr., Thomas P., McAngus Goudelock & Courie, Memphis TN, 901-682-3435

Walker, Jr., William C., Walker Law Firm, Oxford MS, 662-234-8074

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION Carter, Richard M., Martin Tate Morrow & Marston, Memphis TN, 901-522-9000 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-8

FAMILY LAW Alford, T. Swayze, Attorney at Law, Oxford MS, 662-234-2025 Black, Stevan L., Black McLaren Jones Ryland & Griffee, Memphis TN, 901-762-0535 Pg. S-5 Jones, IV, William W., The Jones Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-761-5353 Landers, Suzanne, The Landers Firm, Memphis TN, 901-522-1010 Nichol, Caren Beth, Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-525-6781 Pounders, Dorothy J., Pounders Coleman, Germantown TN, 901-752-1250 Rice, Larry, Rice Amundsen & Caperton, Memphis TN, 901-526-6701 Pg. S-3 Taylor, Daniel Loyd, Law Offices of Daniel Loyd Taylor, Memphis TN, 901-624-2244 Turner, Kay Farese, Kay Farese Turner & Associates, Memphis TN, 901-529-4040

GENERAL LITIGATION Davis, Walter Alan, Dunbar Davis, Oxford MS, 662-281-0001 Hutton, Robert L., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Lamar, Jr., John T., Lamar & Hannaford, Senatobia MS, 662-562-6537 Mallette, Pope S., Mayo Mallette, Oxford MS, 662-236-0055 McLean, Robert A., Farris Bobango Branan, Memphis TN, 901-259-7100 Miller, Robert F., Farris Bobango Branan, Memphis TN, 901-259-7100 Pg. S-3 Sams, Jr., L.F. (Sandy), Mitchell McNutt & Sams, Tupelo MS, 662-842-3871 Wallis, Ed, Glassman Wyatt Tuttle & Cox, Memphis TN, 901-527-2125

GOVERNMENT FINANCE Earthman, B. Douglas, Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322

HEALTH CARE Bicks, Nathan A., Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5000 Houseal, Jr., John I., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-576-1745 Moore, Jeffrey S., Phelps Dunbar, Tupelo MS, 662-842-7907 Prewitt, Jr., Thomas R., The Hardison Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-525-8776 Shelton, Max, Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONT’D FROM PAGE S-7

Halijan, Douglas F., Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5123 Vorder-Bruegge, Jr., Mark, Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, Memphis TN, 901-537-1069

GARY K. SMITH LAW FIRM, PLLC The Forum III 1770 Kirby Parkway, Suite 427 Memphis, TN 38138 PH: (901) 308-6484 | FX: (901) 308-6482 gsmith@garyksmithlaw.com

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: DEFENSE

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PLAINTIFF CATASTROPHIC INJURY AND WRONGFUL DEATH INSURANCE BAD FAITH | PRODUCTS LIABILITY | MEDICAL MALPRACTICE Gary K. Smith is a civil litigation lawyer who emphasizes representation of plaintiffs in catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, insurance bad faith, products liability and medical malpractice claims. He is licensed to practice in all state and federal courts in Tennessee and before the 5th, 6th and 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. Smith’s professional associations include the Tennessee Bar Association; Memphis Bar Association (president 2012); State of Tennessee Supreme Court Disciplinary Board (1991-1997); Executive Committee, Master of the Bench; Leo Bearman, Sr. American Inn of Court (founding member and president 2000-2001); Fellow International Academy of Trial lawyers (Secretary of International Relations, Executive Committee 2013-, Board of Directors 2006-); Memphis Bar Foundation; listed in The Best Lawyers In America since 1995; listed in Super Lawyers since 2006; Fellow Litigation Counsel of America; The National Trial Lawyers Top 100; National Association of Distinguished Counsel The Nations Top One Percent; Fellow American Board of Trial Advocates.

Allen, Louis F., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-576-1783 Byars, III, Wilton V., Daniel Coker Horton & Bell, Oxford MS, 662-232-8979 Carmody, Jr., Leo J., Wells Marble & Hurst, Oxford MS, 662-236-1500 Cooper, Margaret F., Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-525-8721 Dunbar, John H., Dunbar Davis, Oxford MS, 662-281-0001 Flynn, Robert D., HF Law Group, Memphis TN, 901-322-8025 Lewis, Goodloe T., Hickman Goza & Spragins, Oxford MS, 662-234-4000 Lusby, Richard A., Womack Phelps & McNeill, Jonesboro AR, 870-932-0900 Moore, Robert L., Heaton & Moore, Memphis TN, 901-526-5975 Owens, Jr., Nicholas J., Owens Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-525-0616 Spragins, H. Scot, Hickman Goza & Spragins, Oxford MS, 662-234-4000 Stacy, Jr., Robert F., Daniel Coker Horton & Bell, Oxford MS, 662-232-8979 Underwood, Richard D., Farris Bobango Branan, Memphis TN, 901-259-7100 Vescovo, Christopher L., Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-577-6140 Williams, B. Wayne, Webb Sanders & Williams, Tupelo MS, 662-844-2137

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Alan Crone is passionate about resolving disputes for businesses and individuals. He is committed to ﬁnding innovative solutions to traditional legal issues in the areas of: • • • • • • • • •

Employment law Business formation and litigation Human resources Overtime, wage and hour disputes Noncompetition and intellectual property litigation Business divorces Business disputes Business transactions And more

While he is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and Arkansas, he has represented clients in courtrooms all over the United States. Crone enjoys cases with complex factual and legal issues, and works to maximize outcomes for each client. 5583 Murray Road, Suite 120 Memphis, TN 38119 PH: (901) 737-7740 FX: (901) 737-7558 acrone@thecmﬁrm.com

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STEPHEN R. LEFFLER

LAW OFFICE OF STEPHEN R LEFFLER Memphis • 901-527-8830

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BY PRACTICE AREA McLaughlin, David A., Morgan & Morgan, Memphis TN, 901-333-1843 Peel, David Britton, Peel Law Firm, Millington TN, 901-872-4229 Pg. S-10 Pfrommer, Michael P., Pfrommer & Castle, Memphis TN, 901-681-9834 Pittman, Steven W., Chatham Pittman, Hernando MS, 662-429-9871 Saharovich, Alex, Nahon Saharovich & Trotz, Memphis TN, 901-683-7000 Siegel, David A., Nahon Saharovich & Trotz, Memphis TN, 901-462-3352 Pg. S-3 Smith, Gary K., Gary K. Smith Law, Memphis TN, 901-308-6122 Pg. S-3, S-8 Stephens, II, James B., Gatti Keltner Bienvenu and Montesi, Memphis TN, 901-526-2126 Pg. S-10 Tannehill, Jr., J. Rhea, Tannehill Carmean & McKenzie, Oxford MS, 662-236-9996 Vines, Jr., Glenn K., Nahon Saharovich & Trotz, Memphis TN, 901-462-3339 Pg. S-3 Wages, A. Wilson, Wages Law Firm, Millington TN, 901-872-8008 Wells, Phillip J., Wells & Wells, Jonesboro AR, 870-819-3349 Willhite, M. Scott, Orr Willhite, Jonesboro AR, 870-972-1500 Wiseman, Lang, Wiseman Bray, Memphis TN, 901-372-5003

Wheeler, John G., Mitchell McNutt & Sams, Tupelo MS, 662-842-3871 Pg. S-3 Wilson, James D., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455

PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: PLAINTIFF Benfield, J. Mark, Apperson Crump, Memphis TN, 901-260-5125 Cocke, John H., Merkel & Cocke, Clarksdale MS, 662-627-9641 Pg. S-9 Geller, Mark N., Nahon Saharovich & Trotz, Memphis TN, 901-462-3353 Graddy, Chad, Morgan & Morgan, Memphis TN, 901-333-1900

Holton, Timothy R., Deal Cooper & Holton, Memphis TN, 901-523-2222 Jones, Les, Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5000 Pg. S-3 Martin, Jr., Bobby F., Morgan & Morgan, Memphis TN, 901-217-7000 McDaniel, Bobby R., McDaniel Law Firm, Jonesboro AR, 855-524-4744 Pg. S-3 Merkel, Jr., Charles M., Merkel & Cocke, Clarksdale MS, 662-627-9641 Pg. S-3, S-9 Mitchell, Cynthia I., Merkel & Cocke, Clarksdale MS, 662-627-9641 Pg. S-9 Morrell, Gary K., Morton & Germany, Memphis TN, 901-522-0050 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-10

PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: DEFENSE Anderson, Katherine “Kay” M., The Hardison Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-525-8776 Clark, Joseph M., Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-577-6110 Pg. S-3 Conley, Craig Creighton, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2290 Cook, David M., The Hardison Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-525-8776 Pg. S-3 Dunlap, Jr., William W., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455 Haltom, Jr., William H., Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-525-8721 Pg. S-3 Harrison, Jennifer, Hall Booth Smith, Memphis TN, 901-620-4990 Hayes, Jr., W. Timothy, The Hardison Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-525-8776 Johnson, J. Kimbrough, Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-525-8721 Magee, Marcy Dodds, Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-577-6136 Malkin, Andrea N., Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-577-6120 Martin, Jonathan T., The Hardison Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-525-8776 McNabb, Tabitha F., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455 McNeill, Paul D., Womack Phelps & McNeill, Jonesboro AR, 870-932-0900 Pg. S-3 Milam, S. Kirk, Hickman Goza & Spragins, Oxford MS, 662-234-4000 Morrow, Charles F., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7317 Podesta, Eugene (Gene), Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2213 Steinberg, Jill M., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2234 Pg. S-3 Upchurch, David W., Upchurch & Upchurch, Tupelo MS, 662-260-6950 Upchurch, Robert K., Upchurch & Upchurch, Tupelo MS, 662-260-6950 Vescovo, Stephen W., Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-525-8721 Waddell, Amanda C., Rainey Kizer Reviere & Bell, Memphis TN, 901-333-8101 Waddell, Paul D., Waddell Cole & Jones, Jonesboro AR, 870-931-1700

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STANDING (L TO R): Cynthia I. Mitchell*, Charles M. Merkel, Jr.* Top 50 Memphis, Top 50 Mississippi, Charles M. Merkel, III, John H. Cocke*; SEATED: Corrie J. Schuler, Edward (Ted) P. Connell, Jr.*

PROTECTING CLIENTS’ RIGHTS FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS

10 YEARS

SELECTED TO Super Lawyers Charles M. Merkel, Jr. John H. Cocke

One of the largest, go-to plaintiff law firms in North Mississippi, Merkel & Cocke is a MartindaleHubbell-rated firm whose senior partners are all AV rated. It has a 30-year reputation as a MidSouth leader in medical malpractice but is also known for all types of personal injury and more. With 167 years of combined experience, Merkel & Cocke’s six attorneys are trial lawyers committed to providing the highest quality legal services in complex litigation. Our firm often works with other attorneys, by referral or association. John Cocke, a Super Lawyers honoree for 10 consecutive years, is Best Lawyers’ 2016 Lawyer of the Year in plaintiffs’ personal injury litigation. Charles Merkel Jr., also a 10-time Super Lawyers honoree, was Best Lawyers’ Lawyer of the Year in 2012 and is on the Top 50 Memphis and Top 50 Mississippi lists. Edward “Ted” Connell Jr. and Cynthia Mitchell were also selected to Super Lawyers and MERKEL & COCKE, P.A. have received this honor several times. 30 Delta Ave.,Clarksdale, MS 38614 PH: (662) 627-9641 • FX: (662) 627-3592

Merkel-cocke.com *Chosen to 2015 Mid-South Super Lawyers

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Raiford, III, William B., Chapman Lewis & Swan, Clarksdale MS, 662-627-4105 Rosenblum, Jeffrey S., Rosenblum & Reisman, Memphis TN, 901-527-9600 Pg. S-1, S-3

JEFFREY S. ROSENBLUM ROSENBLUM & REISMAN, P.C. Memphis • 901-527-9600

www.rosenblumandreisman.com

PERSONAL INJURY PRODUCTS: DEFENSE Cassisa, Jr., Paul V., Butler Snow, Oxford MS, 662-513-8000 Harrell, Charles C., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200 Jeter, William M., Law Offices of William M. Jeter, Memphis TN, 901-544-1556 Spicer, Joe D., Spicer Rudstrom, Memphis TN, 901-523-1333 Sutherland, Kari L., Butler Snow, Oxford MS, 662-513-8000

Chapman, Ralph E., Chapman Lewis & Swan, Clarksdale MS, 662-627-4105 Pg. S-3

RALPH E. CHAPMAN

CHAPMAN LEWIS & SWAN Clarksdale • 662-627-4105

www.chapman-lewis-swan.com Cooper, Berry, McNabb Bragorgos & Burgess, Memphis TN, 901-624-0640 Edwards, Tim, Ballin Ballin & Fishman, Memphis TN, 901-525-6278 Pg. S-3 Phelps, John V., Womack Phelps & McNeill, Jonesboro AR, 870-932-0900 Pg. S-3

PROFESSIONAL LIABILITY: DEFENSE

Ardis, Patrick M., Wolff Ardis, Memphis TN, 901-763-3336

Blair, Sam Berry, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2257 Faughnan, Brian S., Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-577-6139 Glassman, Richard, Glassman Wyatt Tuttle & Cox, Memphis TN, 901-527-2111 Pg. S-3 Mitchell, Jerry E., Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop, Memphis TN, 901-577-6135

OLEN M. “MAC” BAILEY, JR.

MALCOLM B. FUTHEY III

5100 Wheelis Drive Suite 215 Memphis, TN 38117 Tel: 901-843-2760 Fax: 901-843-2761 ombailey@thebaileylawfirm.com www.thebaileylawfirm.com

1440 Poplar Avenue Memphis, TN 38104 Tel: 901-725-7525 Fax: 901-726-3506 malcolm@futheylawfirm.com www.futheylawfirm.com

ESTATE PLANNING & PROBATE ELDER LAW ESTATE & TRUST LITIGATION

BUSINESS LITIGATION BUSINESS/CORPORATE CLASS ACTION/MASS TORTS

Olen M. “Mac” Bailey, Jr. is an elder law, probate and estate planning attorney licensed in Tennessee and Mississippi. Bailey graduated from Millsaps College, Vanderbilt University School of Law, and recently earned his LL.M. in Elder Law with Honors from Stetson University College of Law. Bailey is an Accredited Estate Planner and member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys. He was selected as one of the Mid-South’s Top Forty Under 40 by the Memphis Business Journal and named a Five Star Wealth Manager and the Face of Elder Law by Memphis magazine. Bailey’s writings have been published in journals including the Tennessee Bar Journal and the American Bar Association’s Probate & Property.

Mr. Futhey’s practice focuses on civil and commercial litigation. He also handles matters concerning business law, intellectual property, entertainment law, personal injury, class actions, bankruptcy, employment law, real estate, government law, and constitutional law. After graduating from Wake Forest University School of Law, Mr. Futhey clerked for the Honorable David R. Herndon, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Illinois. Mr. Futhey worked for prominent Tennessee firms before founding his own law firm in 2013. His published articles cover matters relating to employment law, Medicare law, and civil procedure.

PERSONAL INJURY PRODUCTS: PLAINTIFF

THE BAILEY LAW FIRM, A PC

FUTHEY LAW FIRM PLC

REAL ESTATE Austin, Jr., Stewart G., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Biggs, Lodie V., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-579-3131 Cates, C. Thomas, Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5000 Chance, Michael B., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-579-3101 Harkavy, Ronald M., Harkavy Shainberg Kaplan & Dunstan, Memphis TN, 901-866-5329 Humphreys, R. Hunter, Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-576-1744 Jalenak, James B., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-682-1455 Kahane, S. Joshua, Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Kaplan, Michael D., Harkavy Shainberg Kaplan & Dunstan, Memphis TN, 901-866-5326 Kirk, Jr., Robert S., Farris Bobango Branan, Memphis TN, 901-259-7123 Lenschau, James G. M., Martin Tate Morrow & Marston, Memphis TN, 901-522-9000 McLaren, Jr., James B., Adams and Reese, Memphis TN, 901-524-5277 Pierce, Jr., J. William, Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Scott, W. Rowlett, Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5000 Smith, Bryan K., Pietrangelo Cook, Memphis TN, 901-685-2662 Spore, III, Richard R., Bass Berry & Sims, Memphis TN, 901-543-5902 Stemmler, John A., Bass Berry & Sims, Memphis TN, 901-543-5908 Warner, James C., Martin Tate Morrow & Marston, Memphis TN, 901-522-9000 White, Barry F., Farris Bobango Branan, Memphis TN, 901-259-7100

SECURITIES & CORPORATE FINANCE Chafetz, Samuel D., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2148

SECURITIES LITIGATION Patterson, Lori H., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8241

SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY Cornaghie, Chris A., Attorney at Law, Memphis TN, 901-454-9888

DAVID BRITTON PEEL

JAMES B. STEPHENS, II

8582 Highway 51 North PO Box 8 Millington, TN 38053 Tel: 901-872-4229 Fax: 901-872-4272 DavidPeel@PeelLawFirm.com www.PeelLawFirm.com

219 Adams Avenue Memphis, TN 38103 Tel: 901-526-2126 www.gkbm.com

PEEL LAW FIRM

STATE, LOCAL & MUNICIPAL

GATTI, KELTNER, BIENVENU AND MONTESI, PLC

Griffith, Benjamin E., Griffith Law Firm, Oxford MS, 662-238-7727 Mitchell, III, Guy William, Mitchell McNutt & Sams, Tupelo MS, 662-842-3871 Murphree, William C., Mitchell McNutt & Sams, Tupelo MS, 662-842-3871

TAX PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF PERSONAL INJURY MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: PLAINTIFF SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY

PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF

Handling trucking, auto crashes, medical malpractice, and disability since 1996, Peel founded Peel Law Firm in 2000. Named a Best of the Best Attorney, recently named, “The face of catastrophic injury and wrongful death,” by Memphis magazine, The National Trial Lawyers’ Top 100, a Life Member of the both the Million Dollar and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forums, as well as the Christian Legal Society, the Tennessee and American Associations for Justice, and the Memphis Bar Association. A Deacon at Bellevue and a Board Member of Love Worth Finding Ministries, his article “Can a Christian Sue?” is widely accessed. Peel and his bride of 21 years are the proud parents of three great teens.

James Stephens, II is an attorney at Gatti, Keltner, Bienvenu & Montesi, PLC since 1996. He was admitted to practice law in Tennessee in 1996 and Arkansas in 2014. He is a member of the Tennessee Bar Association and the Memphis Bar Association. His practice is focused entirely on plaintiff’s personal injury claims. He has represented hundreds of those injured or killed by the negligence of others. His experience includes extensive practice in car accident, truck accident, motorcycle accident, wrongful death, premises liability, and product liability litigation. He has assisted injured plaintiffs obtain fair compensation throughout the Mid-South.

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Fletcher, Gregory G., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2294 Mays, Jr., William T., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322

TRANSPORTATION/MARITIME Bratton, G. Ray, Bratton O’Neal & Thorp, Memphis TN, 901-259-2374 Piovarcy, Lee L., Martin Tate Morrow & Marston, Memphis TN, 901-522-9000

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION Hill, John S., Mitchell McNutt & Sams, Tupelo MS, 662-842-3871

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ANTITRUST LITIGATION McCluer, Stuart H., McCulley McCluer, Oxford MS, 662-550-4511 AVIATION & AEROSPACE Cresswell, Jr., James L., Petkoff & Feigelson, Memphis TN, 901-523-1050 BANKRUPTCY: BUSINESS Hagan, M. Ruthie, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8214 BUSINESS LITIGATION Brown IV, Byron N., Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, Memphis TN, 901-537-1038 Christoff, Annie T., Bass Berry & Sims, Memphis TN, 901-543-5900 Conway, Kannon C., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455 Cramblitt, Jr., Stephen J. (“Joey”), Phelps Dunbar, Tupelo MS, 662-842-7907

Culpepper, III, L. Clayton, Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-525-6781 Dickerson, Jacob A., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8236 Martin, Laura, Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455 Mathis, Andre B., Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 McLaren, Michael C., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200 Mulqueen, Matthew, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8234 Nelson, Jonathan E., Bass Berry & Sims, Memphis TN, 901-543-5988 Perry, Gadson William (Will), Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200 Shelat, Kavita, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8120 Skertich, Ryan, Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Tauer, Michael, Glankler Brown, Memphis TN, 901-525-1322 Tom, Robert F., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2159 Whitlock, Derek E., Harkavy Shainberg Kaplan & Dunstan, Memphis TN, 901-866-5344 Pg. S-13 Yoakum, Brian L., Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-525-6781

BUSINESS/CORPORATE Bourland, Blake W., Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-525-6781 Bright, Jr., Al, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, Memphis TN, 901-288-1652 Daniel, Paula Proctor, Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200 Magdovitz, II, Lawrence M., Law Offices of Lawrence Magdovitz, Clarksdale MS, 662-627-5350 CIVIL LITIGATION: DEFENSE Atkins, Jay M., McAngus Goudelock & Courie, Oxford MS, 662-281-7828 Bass, Phillip, Shuttleworth Williams, Memphis TN, 901-526-7399 Houston, II, Earl W., Martin Tate Morrow & Marston, Memphis TN, 901-522-9000 Jordan, Russell B., Hickman Goza & Spragins, Memphis TN, 901-881-9840 McNees, Edward R. (Russ), Holcomb Dunbar Watts Best Masters & Golmon, Oxford MS, 662-234-8775 Patrick, Charles R., Leitner Williams Dooley & Napolitan, Memphis TN, 901-527-0214 Scott, Shea S., Daniel Coker Horton & Bell, Oxford MS, 662-232-8979 CIVIL LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF Webb, Chris J., Black McLaren Jones Ryland & Griffee, Memphis TN, 901-762-0535 Pg. S-5 CONTINUED ON PAGE S-12

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BY PRACTICE AREA CONSTRUCTION LITIGATION Benton, Jessica A., Allen Summers Simpson Lillie & Gresham, Memphis TN, 901-763-4200 Giles, III, Justin R., Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-474-6132 Lebair, IV, Harry W., Allen Summers Simpson Lillie & Gresham, Memphis TN, 901-575-3232

CREDITOR DEBTOR RIGHTS Ebelhar, Jay, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8204

CRIMINAL DEFENSE Ballin, Blake D., Ballin Ballin & Fishman, Memphis TN, 901-308-6084 Katzman, Michael A., Wagerman Katzman, Memphis TN, 901-527-0644 Lee, J. Jeffrey, The Law Office of J. Jeffrey Lee, Memphis TN, 901-318-3733 McClusky, Joseph A., Massey McClusky McClusky & Fuchs, Memphis TN, 901-201-6747 Mogy, Eric, Eiseman & Mogy, Memphis TN, 901-443-9133 Working, Michael R., The Working Law Firm, Memphis TN, 901-507-4200

EMPLOYMENT & LABOR Boals, R. Alex, Littler Mendelson, Memphis TN, 901-795-6695

Calkins, Audrey M., Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, Memphis TN, 901-767-6160 Coston-Holloway, Joann, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8223

EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: DEFENSE Bogard, Katherine, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8119 Busey, Zachary, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8164 Dexter, V. Latosha, Rainey Kizer Reviere & Bell, Memphis TN, 901-333-8101 Harmon, Whitney M., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2230 Leyes, Courtney, Fisher & Phillips, Memphis TN, 901-526-0431 EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION: PLAINTIFF Ashby, Bryce W., Donati Law, Memphis TN, 901-278-1004 Crandall Osowski, Janelle, Donati Law, Memphis TN, 901-278-1004 Waide, Rachel Pierce, Waide & Associates, Tupelo MS, 662-842-7324 ESTATE & TRUST LITIGATION Thompson, Lynn W., Apperson Crump, Memphis TN, 901-756-6300 ESTATE PLANNING & PROBATE Coats, Christopher J., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-579-3127

Lancaster, Cory, Lancaster Law Firm, Tupelo MS, 662-823-2679 Malin, Robert D., Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, Memphis TN, 901-537-1027 Nichols, John B., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200

FAMILY LAW Arthur, Megan, Shea Moskovitz & McGhee, Memphis TN, 901-821-0044 Buffington, Beth, Evans | Petree, Memphis TN, 901-525-6781 Coe, J. Matthew, Fogleman Rogers & Coe, West Memphis AR, 870-735-1900 J. MATTHEW COE FOGLEMAN ROGERS & COE West Memphis • 870-735-1900

www.westmemphisattorney.com

Davis, Anne B., Butler Sevier Hinsley & Reid, Memphis TN, 901-578-8888 Hisaw, J. Wesley, Holland Law, Horn Lake MS, 662-342-1333 Johnson-Mead, Anne E., Butler Sevier Hinsley & Reid, Memphis TN, 901-578-8888 Lamanna, Jana D., Black McLaren Jones Ryland & Griffee, Memphis TN, 901-762-0535 Pg. S-5 McWhorter, Tiffany A., Cordell & Cordell, Memphis TN, 901-334-3267 Rice, Nick, Rice Amundsen & Caperton, Memphis TN, 901-526-6701

7642 POPLAR PIKE • GERMANTOWN, TN 38138 • (901) 537-0010 WWW.THOMASFAMILYLAW.NET

OUR FOCUS IS ON YOUR FAMILY Located in the heart of historic Germantown, Tennessee, Thomas Family Law Firm, PLC provides family law counsel to clients in Tennessee and Mississippi. Because our entire focus is solely on divorce, support and matters of custody, we remain up-to-date on the latest family law issues, trends and legislation. Our clients can count on us for highly skilled and deeply caring representation and can expect consistent communication during the process. At our ﬁrm, clients are in control. Our style is straightforward and honest. We will evaluate the situation, provide clients with options and allow them to make a decision that is best for them and their families.

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L to R: Heather Smith, Kaitlyn Badgley, Justin K. Thomas* *CHOSEN TO 2015 RISING STARS

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BY PRACTICE AREA Stokes, Laquita R., Stokes and Glass, Memphis TN, 901-401-1000 Thomas, Justin K., Thomas Family Law Firm, Germantown TN, 901-537-0010 Wagner, Mary L., Rice Amundsen & Caperton, Memphis TN, 901-526-6701 White, Leigh Taylor, Shea Moskovitz & McGhee, Memphis TN, 901-821-0044

GENERAL LITIGATION Embry, H. Case, McAngus Goudelock & Courie, Oxford MS, 662-234-2177 Embry, Kate M., Mayo Mallette, Oxford MS, 662-236-0055 Kinsella, Ronna D., Glassman Wyatt Tuttle & Cox, Memphis TN, 901-527-2145 Lamar, III, John T. (Trey), Lamar & Hannaford, Senatobia MS, 662-562-6537 Lubozynski, Matthew M., Wyatt Tarrant & Combs, Memphis TN, 901-537-1087 Lyons, Lewis W., Glassman Wyatt Tuttle & Cox, Memphis TN, 901-527-4673 Snyder, Jr., Steven N., McAngus Goudelock & Courie, Memphis TN, 901-682-3435 Starling, Brian, Law Office of Brian Starling, Tupelo MS, 662-840-5151 Turner, Jr., Van D., Hagler Bruce & Turner, Memphis TN, 901-290-6610 Webb, Abigail J., Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh, Memphis TN, 901-525-1455 HEALTH CARE Shanker, Scott B., Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200 Wiley, Shannon, Bass Berry & Sims, Memphis TN, 901-543-5987 IMMIGRATION Sauer, Ari, Siskind Susser, Memphis TN, 901-682-6455 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY Gupta, Hemant, Butler Snow, Memphis TN, 901-680-7200 Schrantz, Stephen D., Schrantz Law Firm, Jonesboro AR, 870-275-7838 Vescovo, Nicholas, Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-8103 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION Baldridge, Adam S., Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, Memphis TN, 901-577-2102 Oliver, Shea B., Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5143 MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Campbell, Jay, Adams and Reese, Memphis TN, 901-524-5325 PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: DEFENSE Baker, S. Shane, Waddell Cole & Jones, Jonesboro AR, 870-336-8255 Goodman, Jr., David E., Burch Porter & Johnson, Memphis TN, 901-524-5154 PERSONAL INJURY GENERAL: PLAINTIFF Clary, Tom, Glassman Wyatt Tuttle & Cox, Memphis TN, 901-527-2154 SUPERLAWYERS.COM

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Cluck, Justin S., Smith Whaley, Holly Springs MS, 662-278-0695 Cossey, Daniel G., Nahon Saharovich & Trotz, Memphis TN, 901-683-7000 Emerson, Adam B., Bridgforth & Buntin, Southaven MS, 662-393-4450 Fairchilds, Derek O., Nahon Saharovich & Trotz, Memphis TN, 901-683-7000 Johnson, Adam H., Nahon Saharovich & Trotz, Memphis TN, 901-683-7000 May, Matthew, Rosenblum & Reisman, Memphis TN, 901-527-9600 Pg. S-1 MATTHEW MAY ROSENBLUM & REISMAN, P.C. Memphis • 901-527-9600

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Shaw, Amber Griffin, Law Office of J. Houston Gordon, Covington TN, 901-476-7100 Shea, Erin Melton, Wiseman Bray, Memphis TN, 901-372-5003 Wilson, Jr., Timothy O., Nahon Saharovich & Trotz, Memphis TN, 901-683-7000 Woodard, Jared, Stanley & Woodard Law Firm, Jonesboro AR, 870-932-2000

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ASK VANCE

The Spanish Mansion Our trivia expert solves local mysteries of who, what, when, where, why, and why not. Well, sometimes.

by vance lauderdale DEAR VANCE: Next to

the parking lot of a modern-style church on Colonial Road is a smaller stucco building that looks like an old carriage house — something you’d see in Central Gardens instead of East Memphis. What’s the story behind this unusual property? — f.r., memphis.

PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, UNIVERSIT Y OF MEMPHIS LIBRARIES

below: Only the carriage house has survived from the “Spanish Mansion” built by attorney Henry Craft.

DEAR F.R.: I have also noticed this old building, apparacres of land at the southeast corner of Park and Coloently the garage for a now-vanished home. Many years nial, and erected the rambling Spanish-style mansion ago, when Mother would take me to the Penal Farm to you see below. He named his new estate, “Hillacres.” visit Father, we would drive past a gravel driveway that A newsletter for the Church of Christ at White Stastretched back through woods, and I tried to imagine tion — yes, this is the church F.R. mentioned in his what the house at the end of the lane must look like. query — describes the home: “The mansion was a What I eventually found, with help from my pal Nan- three-level Spanish-style house of pink stucco with cy Deal, was much better than I ever dreamed. Nancy, a matching tile roof. The interior contained massive, you see, is the unofficial historian of the Colonial Acres ornate fireplaces, rare tinted glass, vaulted ceilings, Neighborhood Association; everything I’m about to and iron fretwork on stairways and balconies.” An old newspaper article provided further details, including tell you comes from her. She deserves credit for her detective work, but also if something you read here is “a crypt-like entrance hall built entirely of carved stone, wrong, take it up with her, okay? intricate, high windows draped with The mansion was a threeI think most people understand velvet, a unique floor of hand-moldthat the neighborhood bordered by ed tile, walls of gold leaf, and ceiling level Spanish-style house beams carved in a rope design.” Quince, Park, Mt. Moriah, and Cherry made of pink stucco with a (get a map if this confuses you) was A separate building, the smaller once open land and woods. Into this one still standing, had space for six matching tile roof. area, sometime around 1910, came carriages and a two-room apartment. Okay, that’s the easy part of this story. What’s coma prominent Memphis attorney named Henry Craft. Well-known in his day, Craft was president of the Ten- plicated is the later ownership. Henry Craft died in 1925 nessee Club and Colonial Country Club. A biography at the age of 59. I believe that his widow continued to entry uncovered by Nancy noted, “He enjoyed a lucra- live in the house for several years. After all, why would tive practice, as clients were quick to recognize his anyone want to leave such a wonderful home? But in grasp of the law and to appreciate his painstaking care the late 1920s, a good chunk of all those 98 acres, inof every interest entrusted to him.” He purchased 98 cluding the mansion, was purchased by Curtis King,

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who owned a sprawling estate called the Watkins Experimental Farm, at Cherry and Park. Watkins was a nationwide distributor of medicines, tonics, and other household products, and King ran the company. In other words, a man with money. The result of this purchase was that King’s property stretched from Cherry to Mt. Moriah. By the way, King’s first home is still standing today; the two-story brick building serves as the administration building for Harding Academy. Back to the “Spanish Mansion,” as it came to be called, on Colonial. According to the church newsletter and old newspaper articles, King “remodeled the house, improved the grounds, and built the entrance on what we now know as Park Avenue, just west of Holy Rosary Church.” This is the driveway I remember as a child. He also laid out two polo fields on the grounds, “one for practice and one for contests.” In 1940, records show the property changed ownership again. Robert Galloway bought it, but it wasn’t the same Robert Galloway who established the Memphis Park Commission, among other worthy endeavors. This was apparently his son, and any research about the “Spanish Mansion” gets very confusing because the newspapers often referred to it as the “Galloway Mansion” and Memphis already had a Galloway Mansion — the one by the zoo owned by the elder Galloway. Okay, but what happened to such a fine-looking home? Well, in the late 1950s, a group of Memphians decided to form their own church, to be called the Church of Christ at White Station. The name, like everything else I’ve told you so far, can be misleading, but at that time “White’s Station” was a railroad station located close to Poplar and Colonial. The road we know today as White Station came later, much farther east. Please, just pay attention. Anyway, this church, which originally had only 50 or so members, first met in the King Mansion on Cherry, but eventually grew large enough that they were able to purchase the old Spanish Mansion on Colonial. According to church records, “the large living room, dining room, and hallway of the mansion were used for an auditorium when the church assembled on the property for the first time on January 9, 1953.” The very first minister, by the way, was the Rev. E.H. Ijams. As the church expanded over the years, the old house was used as offices and storage. Eventually, though, the church outgrew its buildings, it needed a larger sanctuary with meeting rooms and an educational wing, and the old house had to go. It was razed sometime in 1964. Several months ago, with help from Senior Adult Minister Leon Sanderson, Nancy Deal arranged for long-time church members to meet at the church and talk about their memories of the house. Theresa Ellers attended Sunday School in the old mansion. “It was wonderful,” she says. “The acoustics were perfect, so the sound [from singing hymns] was great.” Earl Priest remembers the big fireplace in the living room, and recalls that “the minister at the time had moved his office into the entrance hall.” Dot Douglas took us outside the meeting room to show us a nicely framed print of a watercolor she had made of the mansion, based on the old newspaper photograph that you see here. And then came one of those “oh, by the way” moments that brightens the life of any historian. While we were standing there admiring

left: An ornately carved fireplace from the Spanish Mansion, complete with iron screen and andirons, was rescued and moved to a meeting room at the Church of Christ at White Station. the print, someone — I believe it was Dot — asked, “Would you like to see the original painting?” Well sure, that would be nice, I thought. And then she said, “It’s hanging over the old fireplace in the room next door.” “What fireplace?” I asked. And her reply: “The big fireplace we saved from the Spanish Mansion.” I’m not sure why nobody mentioned this when we first gathered at the church to talk about the house, but sure enough, at one end of a nearby meeting room called, logically enough, “The Fireplace Room,” stood a massive wooden mantel. It was incredible to behold, crafted of solid oak adorned with all manner of figures and elaborate carvings, with its original andirons and fancy iron screen. Above the fireplace, as you can see, is Douglas’ original oil of the Spanish Mansion. And outside, just across the parking lot, for several years the old carriage house was home to graduate students attending the Harding School of Theology; it’s currently serving as a private apartment. So that’s the basic story of the old house, but obviously big holes in this long history need to be filled. For example, anyone driving around that neighborhood has probably noticed two or three homes that are obviously much older than the surrounding properties, which were constructed when Colonial Acres was laid out in the 1950s. One of these houses, on Essexshire, was originally a farmhouse, and another building, at Colonial and Amboy, has been identified by Nancy Deal as the original overseer’s house when the Crafts owned all that land. Even more intriguing, to me, is that quite a few neighbors remember buying candy from “the old ladies” (sometimes it’s just “an old lady”) at the mansion. The name “Annie” even comes up in some of these stories. Who was this woman, and why was she selling candy? C’mon, Nancy. Get to work on this! Special thanks to Joe Lowry and Chris Ratliff for turning up the old photograph, and to the Colonial Acres Neighborhood Association.

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BOOKS

Two Sides of the Same City Two new books explore Memphis’ most musical characters and her darkest secrets.

by richard j. alley

henever I get a new book, the first thing I do is turn to the Acknowledgments page in the back. I don’t know why I do this. I know a number of writers personally, so maybe I want to see if anyone I know and the author knows overlap. Or maybe I want to see if my name is there (it never is). Most likely I’m just curious as to who else might have had a hand in an endeavor as solitary as writing a book.

At any rate, this was the case when I first received the new Elvis Costello memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink (Blue Rider Press) last month. My name wasn’t listed, but there among his wife — the jazz chanteuse Diana Krall — his manager, and his family was the music biographer Peter Guralnick. As chance would have it, I already had an appointment to interview Guralnick by phone the next morning. I love this interface between books and the entertainment arts. Guralnick’s latest, Sam Phillips: Th e Man Who Invented Rock ’n’ Roll (Little, Brown and Company), is an in-depth look at the visionary Guralnick has who acted as midwife to an entire new his thumb on genre with what is the pulse of considered the semmusic, whether inal rock-and-roll song, “Rocket 88.” it’s half a He also famously century or half recorded Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, a week old. and Elvis Presley at his little shop, Memphis Recording Services, on Union Avenue, later the home of Sun Records. Guralnick grew up in Boston and first became schooled on music in the 1960s with the live shows of Ray Charles, Solomon Burke, James Brown, and Otis Redding, among others. Many of those shows were experienced as he walked the venues’ aisles. “I had ushered all these soul shows in Boston which was an experience both enthralling and intimidating,” he said that morning on the phone. “I just did it because it was a way of getting in early and free, and getting next to the music, being there when Little Richard was rehearsing beforehand or getting backstage with Jackie Wilson.”

And that’s just the way his career has gone as he’s ushered readers through the careers of Elvis Presley and Sam Cooke, through the birth and rise of Southern music, as well as

the turbulent climate of the civil rights movement that was, itself, ushered in with soul, gospel, and a backbeat. Since his earliest work in the 1960s and

1970s, Guralnick said that “everything I have ever done has stemmed from personal passion, everything I’ve ever written about has been written out of belief and out of a desire to tell people.” On a rainy night last month, the day after the book’s release, Guralnick took the stage in the Dorothy K. Hohenberg Auditorium at Memphis Brooks Museum of Art to answer questions lobbed by longtime friend and author Robert Gordon. A standing-room-only-audience of more than 200, which included some of Phillips’ kin, looked on as Guralnick recounted the writing of the book and his relationship with the storied producer. “I wanted to break it up,” he said, “make it into a living, breathing thing.” To that end, the book is not merely a timeline of Phillips’ life from birth to his death in 2003, but is resplendent with personal stories and anecdotes that the author “hopes will reverberate.” Reverberate it does as the man comes to life on every one of the 661 pages. Guralnick is masterful at the craft of research and interviewing, but it is his storytelling that is unparalleled. “My ambition from when I first started writing,” he told the crowd, “was to write from the inside out, not to do an external list.” He added to the sentiment by quoting Phillips himself: “Anybody can keep a diary.” Guralnick has been teaching creative writing at Vanderbilt University for 10 years and tells his students to “prize a digression.” In discussing his interview process with Gordon at the Brooks, Guralnick said that Phillips was, to put it mildly, “a bit digressive.” He would give an hourlong preamble to any interview and that preamble would establish the terms of what would be discussed. “Sam was going to talk about whatever he wanted to talk about,” Guralnick said. “He was nothing but digression; he never gets to the point.” But then, maybe digression is how we get to the good stuff, the world-changing sounds and styles. Presley’s “That’s All

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Memphis magazine Fiction Awards Right, Mama” was cesses of smoky bars, first played during a train cars, and abanrehearsal break while doned homes. After all, why should Halrecording ballads, loween have all the and Phillips latched onto it. (“The rest of mysterious fun? the session went as The new anthology if suddenly they had Memphis Noir (Akashic all been caught up Books) is replete with in the same fever mu rd er s , gho st s , dream,” Gurlanick gangsters, a sharptoothed baby, Boss writes.) That night at the Brooks, GuralCrump, and high wanick digressed from ter on the bluff. The Phillips into lovely selection of writers tales and personal coralled by editors anecdotes of Howlin’ Laureen P. Cantwell Wolf, B.B. King, and and Leonard Gill, Rufus Thomas. who used to pen this Regarding his being listed in the Ac- very space as book editor for Memphis (in the knowledgements pages of Costello’s book, spirit of full disclosure, I have a story included and allowing for the fact that Costello’s mu- in this collection), are as diverse as Memsic is “contemporary” when compared with phis itself. Even the publisher had difficulty that of Sam Cooke and Presley, or Phillips winnowing down the submissions as there himself, I digressed and asked are 15 stories where they’d only Guralnick if he enjoys new murequested 14. Included as well There’s plenty sic, if we might expect a future is a graphic novella, the first of going on in the volume on, say, Justin Timberits kind in any of Akashic’s 72 lake. He neither confirmed nor offerings in the Noir series, by shadows, the dark denied a Timberlake book, but husband-and-wife team Adam recesses of smoky he did say he’s been listening Shaw and Penny Register-Shaw. to songwriters such as Kevin There are many recognizable bars, train cars, and Gordon, Paul Burch, Lucinda names here, too: Cary Hollaabandoned homes. Williams, and Colin Linden. day, who has also published in Guralnick has his thumb on Pittsburgh Noir; David Wesley the pulse of music, whether it’s half a century Williams, a two-time winner of the Memphis or half a week old. magazine short fiction contest; Lee Martin, In the end, the drive for Guralnick to tell finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Ficthe stories behind the music may be the same tion; and Arthur Flowers, novelist, perfordrive for us to buy and read such a book. “The mance poet, and past-executive director of thrill for me is being welcomed into worlds I the Harlem Writers Guild. could never have access to,” he said. Though Many of these writers showed up at Stowe will enjoy the music by the likes of Howlin’ ry Booth at Crosstown Arts last month for Wolf, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash for years a discussion and signing. The crowd was to come, none of us were in the room when eager to hear how the stories came to fruithese men first hit the note that lit the bulb tion, what dark minds might be inspired by in Phillips’ head. Guralnick’s prose puts us a murder in North Memphis, a secret torture in that room. chamber in Midtown, or a setting known as PV (you’ll have to read the book for more on those initials). ho says the holidays have to be bright and cheery with colorful This holiday season, be sure to stuff your lights, candles, and trees? There’s loved one’s (or your own) stocking with a copy plenty going on in the shadows, the dark re- of Memphis Noir.

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DINING OUT

Bountiful

Chef Jackson Kramer redefines family style with spirited and flavorful American food.

by pamela denney photography by justin fox burks

ver the course of a week in midNovember, three different people want to talk about chef/owner Jackson Kramer’s sweet and sour cauliflower, a simple dish with memorable flavors from chili-infused honey and a reduction of balsamic vinaigrette. They are effusive (the best vegetables on earth), incredulous (who deep-fries cauliflower, anyway?), appreciative (love, love, love the herb salad on top), and flabbergasted (we ate every bite and wanted more).

When I recount these accolades to Kramer three of our city’s other talented young chefs a few days later, he seems a little surprised — Andrew Ticer, Michael Hudman, and and describes the dish’s preparation as super Ryan Trimm. He worked with Jeff Dunham easy. “Cauliflower is a cool vegetable,” he says. at the Grove Grill and cooked with Wally “We tried lots of different ways, but it turns Joe before the restaurant by the same name out the best is just dropping it in the fryer.” transitioned into Interim. One of about 20 dishes on the seasonal For the past year, Kramer and his wife, menu at Bounty on Broad, the cauliflower’s Carrie Kramer, who is Bounty’s general manpopularity shows how Kramger, have settled into their own er — a vegetable shaman restaurant, a meticulously — treats carrots as renovated property that fits both their carefully as stuffed mountain trout. cooking style and On busy nights, temperament. more than 30 Constructed in the early 1900s, orders of brown the building has a butter Bruscheckered history sels sprouts as a series of bars, zoom out of the restaurant’s open including a Western kitchen, platters of prophecy honky-tonk. Gutted “Cauliflower is a about how people in Memphis back to its original brick cool vegetable.” like to eat. walls, the new build-out is both Kramer certainly underhip and respectful with white — Jackson Kramer stands his customers. Many oak floors and intricate wood followed him to the Broad Avenue Arts Dispaneling mixing cedar, cypress, cherry, maple, walnut, and pine. trict from Interim in East Memphis, where he Local architects Steve Berger and Jason was the executive chef two different times. A Memphis native, Kramer has close ties to the Jackson from brg3s embraced the buildlocal restaurant community. He graduated ing’s second-story view, locating the main from Christian Brothers High School with dining room and 10-seat bar upstairs where

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new American food, served family style, is both familiar and contemporary. DRINKS: Try local craft beers on tap and specialty cocktails like Royal Street made with Sazerac rye whiskey, absinthe, and lemon. ATMOSPHERE: Customers range from 20-something hipsters to professionals of all ages who appreciate upbeat energy and excellent food. SERVICE: Servers are friendly and professional. EXTRAS: Like to watch chefs cook in a busy restaurant kitchen? Ask for the two-person counter table downstairs. NOISE LEVEL: The upstairs dining room gets loud. Really loud. RESERVATIONS: You will need them, especially when the nearby Water Tower Pavilion stages events. PRICES: Shared plates for vegetables, $10-$13; seafood, $15 to $27; meats, $14 to $48; and brunch, $7 to $19. Credit cards only. OPEN: Tuesday-Thursday 5 to 9:30 p.m.; FridaySaturday 5 to 10 p.m.; and Sunday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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GRILLED CHICKEN WINGS: The wing’s meat, seasoned with ginger, cinnamon, cumin, coriander, and the trifecta of chili, garlic, and onion powders, pulls off the bone with a gentle tug. Smokin’ good! large windows let in sunshine for Sunday brunch and in the evening, noir glimpses of the neighborhood’s warehouses and iconic water tower. A few leftover bricks from the building’s renovation stayed in the kitchen, cured from cooking like cast-iron pans. Kramer uses the bricks to make “under a brick” chicken, a menu hit from the start. First, he drops half a chicken in a pan, stacks on the brick, and lets the skin get crispy. When the chicken heads for the oven, the brick goes along, shaping a succulent centerpiece for the plate’s greens and smoked cream corn. It’s easy to overeat at Bounty, and typically I do, a repercussion of my own enthusiastic appetite and how the food is served. I’m not complaining. On a recent visit for dinner, I went nuts, starting with six halfshell oysters grouped in pairs: Delaware Bay from New Jersey, Grand Pearl from The restaurant’s design by Memphis architects brg3s accentuates the original brick walls.

ROASTED BEET SALAD: A popular bottled dressing in the 1970s, Green Goddess pops up in Bounty’s festive and colorful salad, swirled while serving into beets, hazelnuts, baby lettuce, and goat cheese.

PANNA COTTA: Panna cotta means cooked cream. Bounty’s version comes with a pomegranate topping and four shortbread cookies dusted with sugar. My advice? Order your own and don’t share.

the Chesapeake Bay, and Murder Point (so good!), raised in Alabama to sit plump and buttery in smooth, deep shells. A table of four, we ordered six more, sprinkled with freshly grated horseradish and dunked in mignonette. Four cheeses stacked in wedges came next plated with jam, tapenade, fresh thyme, pickled vegetables, and a fan of sesame seed crackers, gluten-free like every dish on the menu. We kept ordering (we are sharing family style, right?) and as the plates arrived I felt a flush of nostalgia from my Baby Boomer palate. Poached pears winked back at Julia Child with blue cheese and pomegranate, beef tartare updates with watercress, quail eggs, and chicken skins fried crispy, and blackened redfish arched over fall vegetables like a sculpted memorial to the late Paul Prudhomme’s signature dish. For brunch at Bounty, I resumed my love af-

fair with Kramer’s American cooking. Collard greens arrived at the table in vintage “Spice of Life” Corningware, but the garnish — pickled carrots, onions, and a single cauliflower floret — was new Southern. Half-a-dozen deviled eggs crowned with country ham also won my affection. Their spring green stuffing, creamy and bright, comes from avocado and a little Green Goddess dressing, a 1970s throwback, only better and house-made. Some brunch dishes pull from the dinner menu, tweaked with a new ingredient or two. Others, like braised brisket, get topped with fried egg. The movement of dishes between dinner and brunch mimics how Kramer plays his menu, much like a musician perfecting a favorite song. Dishes come, go, and come back, refined and reinvented. “It’s simple cooking, but not easy cooking,” Kramer says. “It’s about letting the flavors of a dish highlight the ingredients.” Las Cruces and other craft cocktails complement Bounty’s seasonal menu.

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from left: Bartender Dallas Downen serving local craft beers; owner Mike Miller; ceviche-style shrimp tacos in corn tortillas.

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Heritage Tavern & Kitchen by pamela denney

he culinary concept behind Heritage Tavern — familiar food from across the country — has a simple start. Owner Mike Miller is a proud American. “I’m a patriot,” he says. “I wanted to celebrate our culinary heritage with food that people remember from traveling and from growing up.” An ambitious undertaking, Miller pulled from research, staff suggestions, and his own restaurant chops (he also owns Patrick’s on Park Avenue) to develop a regional menu that lets customers eat their way from Maine to California with appetizers, soups, sandwiches, and entrees. Some dishes fit firmly in place, like the top-selling carnitas tamales that anchor the menu’s southwest corner. The dish starts as pork shoulder, rubbed with dried chili puree and smoked over hickory for half a day. Hand-rolled and steamed, the tamales build a happy plate with pico de gallo, garlic ranchero sauce, and sour cream. The regionalization of other dishes is more inspirational than geographic. Skewered Frisco shrimp is sourced from the Gulf of Mexico, but its West Coast orientation, brushed on before grilling, is Green Goddess dressing, a creamy invention created in 1923 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Open since early August in the Regalia Shopping Center, Heritage combines good value, scratch cooking, premium well drinks, and Friday night fried chicken specials in an East Memphis neighborhood populated by pricier restaurants. Plus, customers can play the menu game to authenticate their culinary roots. A New Yorker, my husband headed for New England clam chowder on our first visit. I ordered pork chops with cinnamon apples and a side of onion slaw, predictable behavior for a Maryland native who adopted Tennessee.

above: Grinders stuffed with marinara and Italian sausage or meatballs; a trio of premium well drinks and wine.

6150 Poplar Ave., Suite 122 (901-761-8855) $$. Open for lunch, dinner, and Sunday brunch.

above: Strawberry shortcake with creme Anglaise; baskets with housemade mufﬁns and cornbread

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emphis magazine offers this restaurant listing as a service 753-2220; 4680 Merchants Park Circle, Carriage Crossing (Collierville). 854-5822. L (Fri.-Sat.), D, SB, X, $-$$$ to its readers. The directory is not intended as a recommendation of the estab- BONNE TERRE—This inn’s cafe features American cuisine with a lishments included, nor does it list every restaurant in town. It does, however, Southern flair, and a seasonal menu that changes monthly. Offers include most of the city’s finer restaurants, many specialty restaurants, and a representative Angus steaks, duck, pasta, and seafood. Closed Sun.-Wed. 4715 Rd. W. (Nesbit, MS). 662-781-5100. D, X, $-$$$ sampling of other Bluff City eating establishments. No fast-food facilities or cafeterias Church BOOKSELLERS BISTRO—Serves soups, sandwiches, quiche, are listed, nor have we included establishments that rely heavily on take-out business. salads, pasta, and seafood, including shrimp polenta; a specialty is pesto pasta. The Booksellers at Laurelwood, 387 Perkins Extd. 374-0881. Restaurants are included regardless of whether they advertise in Memphis magazine. B, L, D, WB, X, $-$$ The guide is updated regularly, but we recommend that you call ahead to check on hours, BOSCOS—Tennessee’s first craft brewery serves a variety of freshly prices, and other details. Suggestions from readers are welcome; please contact us. brewed beers as well as wood-fired oven pizzas, pasta, seafood, steaks, and sandwiches. 2120 Madison. 432-2222. L, D, SB (with live Email dining@memphismagazine.com. jazz), X, MRA, $-$$ BOUNTY ON BROAD—Offering family-style dining, Bounty and baked mac-and-cheese. 2125 Madison. 207-1436. L, D, WB, ABUELO’S MEXICAN FOOD EMBASSY—Mejores de la serves small plates and family-sized platters, with such specialties as X, $-$$ casa — beef and stuffed shrimp — is a specialty here, along with grilled pork loin and stuffed quail. Closed Mon. 2519 Broad. 410tilapia Veracruz, quesadillas, chili rellenos, and chicken BAR-B-Q SHOP—Dishes up barbecued ribs, spaghetti, bologna; 8131. D (Tues.-Sat.), SB, X, $-$$ medallions. 8274 Highway 64 (Bartlett). 672-0769. L, D X, $-$$ also pulled pork shoulder, Texas toast barbecue sandwich, chicken BOZO’S HOT PIT BAR-B-Q— Barbecue, burgers, sandwiches, sandwich, and salads. Closed Sun. 1782 Madison. 272-1277. L, D, ABYSSINIA RESTAURANT—Ethiopian/Mediterranean and subs. 342 Hwy 70, Mason, TN. 901-294-3400. L, D, $-$$ menu includes beef, chicken, lamb, fish entrees, and vegetarian X, MRA, $-$$ BRAZIL FLAVOR—Offers daily buffet with traditional Brazilian dishes; also a lunch buffet. 2600 Poplar. 321-0082. L, D, X, $-$$ BARDOG TAVERN—Classic American grill with Italian influence, dishes. Closed Monday. 8014 Club Center Dr. 746-9855. L, D, $ Bardog offers pasta specialties such as Grandma’s NJ Meatballs, as well as ACRE—Features seasonal modern American cuisine in a stylish BRASS DOOR IRISH PUB—Irish and New-American cuisine salads, sliders, sandwiches, and daily specials. 73 Monroe. 275-8752. setting using locally sourced products; also small-plates/bar. Closed includes such entrees as fish and chips burgers, sandwiches, salads, B (Mon.-Fri.), L, D, WB, X, $-$$ for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 690 S. Perkins. 818-2273. L, D, X, and daily specials. 152 Madison. 572-1813. L, D, SB, $ $$-$$$ BARI RISTORANTE ENOTECA—Authentic Southeastern BROADWAY PIZZA HOUSE—Serving a variety of Italian cuisine (Puglia) emphasizes lighter entrees. Serves fresh fish AGAVE MARIA—Menu items at this Mexican eatery include pizzas,including the Broadway Special, as well as sandwiches, salads, and beef dishes and a homemade soup of the day. 22 S. Cooper. duck tacos, shrimp and scallop enchiladas, and salmon sashimi wings, and “soul-food specials.” 2581 Broad. 454-7930; 627 S. tostadas; also family-style chef’s seasonal selections. 83 Union. 722-2244. D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ Mendenhall. 207-1546. L, D, X, $-$$ 341-2096. L, D, X, $-$$ BAYOU BAR & GRILL—New Orleans fare at this Overton BROOKLYN BRIDGE ITALIAN RESTAURANT— Square eatery includes jambalaya, gumbo, catfish Acadian, shrimp ALCHEMY—Southern fusion, locally grown cuisine features small Specializing in such homemade entrees as spinach lasagna and lobster dishes, red beans and rice, and muffalettas; also serves some and large plates; among the offerings is the pan-seared hanger steak ravioli; a seafood specialty is horseradish-crusted salmon. Closed favorites from the former Le Chardonnay. 2094 Madison. with duck-fat-roasted fingerling potatoes; also handcrafted Sun. 1779 Kirby Pkwy. 755-7413. D, X, MRA, $-$$$ cocktails and local craft beers. Closed for dinner Sun. 940 S. 278-8626. L, D, WB, X, $-$$ BROTHER JUNIPER’S—Breakfast is the focus here, with Cooper. 726-4444. D, SB, X, $-$$ BEAUTY SHOP—Modern American cuisine with international specialty omelets, including the open-faced San Diegan omelet; also flair served in a former beauty shop. Serves steaks salads, pasta, and ALDO’S PIZZA PIES—Serving gourmet pizzas — including Mr. daily specials, and homemade breads and pastries. Closed Mon. 3519 seafood, including pecan-crusted golden sea bass. Closed for dinner T Rex — salads, and more also 30 beers, bottled or on tap. 100 S. Walker. 324-0144. B, X, MRA, $ Sunday. 966 S. Cooper. 272-7111. L, D, SB, X, $-$$$ Main. 577-7743; 752 S. Cooper. 725-7437. L, D, X, $-$$ THE BRUSHMARK—New American cuisine with a menu that BEDROCK EATS & SWEETS—Memphis’ only Paleo-centric AMERIGO—Traditional and contemporary Italian cuisine includes changes seasonally; offers sandwiches, salads, soups, pastas, and restaurant offering such dishes as pot roast, waffles, enchiladas, pasta, wood-fired pizza, steaks, and cedarwood-roasted fish. 1239 crepes. Closed Mon. and Tues. Brooks Museum, Overton Park, 1934 chicken salad, omelets, and more. Closed Sun. 327 S. Main. 409Ridgeway, Park Place Mall. 761-4000. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ Poplar. 544-6225. L, WB, X, $-$$ 6433. B, L, D, X, $-$$ ANDREW MICHAEL ITALIAN KITCHEN—Traditional BRYANT’S BREAKFAST—Three-egg omelets, pancakes, and BELLE-A SOUTHERN BISTRO—Brisket in a bourbon Italian cuisine with a menu that changes seasonally with such entrees The Sampler Platter are among the popular entrees here. Closed brown sugar glaze, and chicken with basmati rice are among the as Maw Maw’s ravioli. Closed Sun.-Mon. 712 W. Brookhaven Cl. 347Tuesday. 3965 Summer. 324-7494. B, L, X, $ specialties; also seafood entrees and such vegetables as blackened 3569. D, X, $$-$$$ green tomatoes. Closed for dinner Sun. and all day Mon. 117 Union BUCKLEY’S FINE FILET GRILL—Specializes in steaks, ANOTHER BROKEN EGG CAFE—Offering several varieties of seafood, and pasta. (Lunchbox serves entree salads, burgers, and Ave. 433-9851. L, D, WB, X, $-$$$ eggs benedict, waffles, omelets, pancakes, beignets, and other more.) 5355 Poplar. 683-4538; 919 S. BENIHANA—This Japanese steakhouse breakfast fare; also burgers,sandwiches, and salads. . 6063 Park Ave. Yates (Buckley’s Lunchbox), 682-0570. L serves beef, chicken, and , and seafood 729-7020. B, L, WB, X, $ DINING SYMBOLS (Yates only, M-F), D, X, MRA, $-$$ grilled at the table; some menu items THE ARCADE—Possibly Memphis’ oldest cafe. Specialties change monthly; sushi bar also THE BUTCHER SHOP—Serves steaks include sweet potato pancakes, a fried peanut butter and banana B — breakfast ranging from 8-oz. fillets to a 20-oz. featured. 912 Ridge Lake. 767-8980. L, D, sandwich, and breakfast served all day. 540 S. Main. 526-5757. B, L — lunch porterhouse; also chicken, pork chops, fresh X, $$-$$$ L, D (Thurs.-Sat.) X, $ D — dinner seafood. 107 S. Germantown Rd. BHAN THAI—Authentic Thai cuisine AREPA & SALSA— Offering Venezuelan dishes such as the (Cordova). 757-4244. L (Fri. and Sun.), D, SB — Sunday brunch includes curries, pad Thai noodles, and namesake arepa (a corn-based dish with a variety of fillings) and X, MRA, $$-$$$ vegetarian dishes, as well as seafood, tostones with shredded pork or black beans. Closed Sunday. 662 WB — weekend brunch CAFE 1912—French/American bistro serving pork, and duck entrees. Closed for lunch Madison. 949-8537. L, D, X, $ X — wheelchair accessible such seafood entrees as grouper and steamed Sat.-Sun. and all day Mon. 1324 Peabody. ASIAN PALACE—Chinese eatery serves seafood, vegetarian items, MRA — member, Memphis mussels: also crepes, salads, and French onion 272-1538. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ dim sum, and more. 5266 Summer Ave. 766-0831. L, D, X, $-$$ Restaurant Association soup, 243 S. Cooper. 722-2700. D, SB, X, BLEU—This eclectic restaurant features A-TAN—Serves Chinese and Japanese hibachi cuisine, complete MRA, $-$$ American food with global influences and $ — under $15 per person without with sushi bar. A specialty is Four Treasures with garlic sauce. 3445 CAFE ECLECTIC—Spanish omelets, local ingredients. Among the specialties Poplar, Suite 17, University Center. 452-4477. L, D, X, $-$$$ drinks or desserts and chicken and waffles are among menu are a 14-oz. bone-in rib-eye and several AUTOMATIC SLIM’S— Longtime downtown favorite specializes $$ — under $25 items, along with sandwiches, wraps, and seafood dishes. 221 S. Third, in the in contemporary American cuisine emphasizing local ingredients; also $$$ — $26-$50 burgers. 603 N. McLean. 725-1718; 111 Westin Memphis Beale St. Hotel. extensive martini list. 83 S. Second. 525-7948. L, D, WB, X, MRA, Harbor Town Square. 590-4645; 510 S. $$$$ — over $50 334-5950. B, L, D, WB, X, $$-$$$ $-$$$ Highland. 410-0765. B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, BLUE DAZE BISTRO—Serving SHADED — new listing BABALU TACOS & TAPAS—This Overton Square eatery $ American cuisine with Cajun flair; lunch dishes up Spanish-style tapas with Southern flair; also taco and CAFE KEOUGH—European-style cafe entrees include the Black & Bleu Salad and enchilada of the day; specials change daily. 2115 Madison. 274serving quiche, paninis, salads, and more. 12 S. Main. 509-2469. B, a crab cake sandwich; dinner entrees range from salmon to Cajun 0100. L, D, SB, X, $-$$ cream penne pasta. Closed for dinner Sun., and all day Mon.L, D, X, $ BAHAMA BREEZE—Baby back ribs, Jamaican chicken wings, Wed. 221 E. Commerce St. Hernando (MS). 662-469-9304. L, D, CAFE OLE—Now under new ownership, this 23-year-old eatery and coconut shrimp are among the entrees at this Caribbean-fusion SB, X, $-$$$ specializes in authentic Mexican cuisine; one specialty is the buildrestaurant. 2830 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 385-8744. BLUE NILE ETHIOPIAN— Kabobs, flavorful chicken and your-own quesadilla. 959 S. Cooper. 343-0103. L, D, WB, X, MRA, L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ lamb stew, and injera (flatbread) are traditional items on the menu, $-$$ BANGKOK ALLEY—Thai fusion cuisine includes noodle and along with vegetarian options. 1788 Madison. 474-7214. L, D, X, CAFE PALLADIO—Serves gourmet salads, soups, sandwiches, curry dishes, chef-specialty sushi rolls, coconut soup, and duck and $-$$ and desserts in a tea room inside the antiques shop. Closed Sun. 2169 seafood entrees. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. at BLUEFIN RESTAURANT & SUSHI LOUNGE—Serves Central. 278-0129. L, X, $ Brookhaven location; call for hours. 121 Union Ave. 522-2010; 2150 Japanese fusion cuisine featuring seafood, duck, and steaks, with CAFE PIAZZA BY PAT LUCCHESI—Specializes in gourmet W. Poplar at Houston Levee (Collierville). 854-8748; 715 W. seasonally changing menu; also, a sushi bar and flatbread pizza. pizzas (including create-your-own), panini sandwiches, and pasta. Brookhaven Cl. 590-2585. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 135 S. Main. 528-1010. L, D, X, MRA, Closed Sun. 139 S. Rowlett St. (Collierville). 861-1999. L, D, X, BAR DKDC— Features an ever-changing menu of international $-$$ $-$$ “street food,” from Thai to Mexican, Israeli to Indian, along with BOMBAY HOUSE—Indian fare includes lamb korma and CAFE PONTOTOC—Serves a variety of internationally inspired specialty cocktails. Closed Sun.-Mon. 964 S. Cooper. 272-0830. D, chicken tikka; also, a daily luncheon buffet. 1727 N. Germantown small plates, as well as salads and sandwiches. Closed Mon. 314 S. X, $ Pkwy. (Cordova). 755-4114. L, D, X, $-$$ Main. 249-7955. 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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— 118 Courthouse Sq., Oxford, MS. 662-232-8880. BELLY ACRES—2102 Trimble Pl, 529-7017.. BLUE AND WHITE RESTAURANT—1355 US 61.N., 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. THE CHEESECAKE FACTORY—2760 N. Germantown Pkwy, Suite 193 (Wolfchase). 937-1613. 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. MAC’S BURGERS—4698 Spottswood. 512-4604. MIDTOWN CROSSING GRILLE—394 N. Watkins. 443-0502. O’CHARLEY’S—6045 Stage Rd., #74. 373-5602 (Bartlett); 1040 N. Germantown

wrapped shrimp, along with daily specials and vegetarian 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. 6839291. 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, $-$$ CELTIC CROSSING—Specializes in Irish and American pub fare. Entrees include shepherd’s pie, shrimp and sausage coddle, and ﬁsh and chips. 903 S. Cooper. 274-5151. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ 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. 272-9377; 4375 Summer Ave. 767-4672; 147 E. Butler. 672-7760. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ CHEZ PHILIPPE— Classical/contemporary French cuisine presented in a luxurious atmosphere with a seasonal menu focused on local/regional cuisine. Afternoon tea served Wed.-Sat, 1-3 p.m. (reservations required). Closed Sun.-Mon.-Tues. The Peabody, 149 Union. 529-4188. D, X, MRA, $$$$ CIAO BELLA—Among the Italian and Greek specialties are lasagna, seafood pasta, eggplant rolotini, gourmet pizzas, and vegetarian options. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 565 Erin Dr., Erinway Shopping Center. 205-2500. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ 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, $$-$$$

CLUBS/PUBS/SPORTS BARS Pkw. 754-6201; 357 W. Goodman Rd. 662-349-6663 (Southaven); 656 W. Poplar (Collierville). 861-5811. THE OLIVE GARDEN—7778 Winchester. 624-2003; 8405 Highway 64, Wolfchase Galleria. 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, #107. 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—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 U.S.194 (Rossville). 853-2586.

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; also homemade banana pudding. Closed Sun.-Mon. 745 N. Parkway. 527-9158. 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, including po-boys, jambalaya, and shrimp and grits. 51 S. Main. 505-0212. L, D, 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 to housemade pastas and a grilled vegetable plate; also a Saturday brunch. Closed Sun.-Mon. 1585 Overton Park. 410-8200. L, D, X, $-$$ EDO—Traditional Japanese cuisine includes shrimp tempura, nagiri, and chicken teriyaki. Closed Mon. 4792 Summer. 767-7096. D, X, $ EIGHTY3—Contemporary menu of steaks and seafood offers a variety of eclectic specialties; also weekly specials, small plates, appetizers, and patio dining. 83 Madison Ave. 333-1224. B, L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ 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). 7551447; 1492 Union. 274-4264; 11615 Airline Rd. (Arlington). 8671883; 9045 Highway 64 (Lakeland). 383-4219; 7164 Hacks Cross

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 St. 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). 662-3497776; 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. HICKORY TAVERN—4600 Merchants Park Cir. 861-0196. 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. 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. PIG ON BEALE—167 Beale. 529-1544 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—8071 Trinity Rd. (Cordova). 756-4480; 2821 N. Houston Levee Rd. 377-9997. UBEE’S—521 S. Highland. 323-0900 WESTY’S—346 N. Main. 543-3278 . THE WINDJAMMER— 786 E. Brookhaven Cl. 683-9044.

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CIT Y DINING LIST 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). 6249358; 1016 W. Poplar (Collierville). 854-5770. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ ELFO GRISANTI’S—Specializing in northern Italian cuisine, including pasta, fish, beef and nightly specials — all made in-house. Closed Sun. 2285 S. Germantown Rd. 753-4017. D, X, $-$$$ EMERALD THAI RESTAURANT—Spicy shrimp, pad khing, lemon grass chicken, and several noodle, rice, and vegetarian dishes are offered at this family restaurant. Closed Sunday. 8950 Highway 64 (Lakeland). 384-0540. L, D X, $-$$ ERLING JENSEN—Presents “globally inspired” cuisine: specialties are rack of lamb, big game entrees,and fresh fish dishes. 1044 S. Yates. 763-3700. D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ EVELYN & OLIVE—Jamaican/Southern fusion cuisine includes such dishes as Kingston stew fish, Rasta Pasta, and jerk rib-eye. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun.-Mon. 630 Madison. 748-5422. L, D, X, $ EXLINES’ BEST PIZZA—Serves pizza, Italian dinners, sandwiches, and salads. 2935 Austin Peay. 388-4711; 6250 Stage Rd.(Bartlett). 382-3433; 2801 Kirby Parkway. 754-0202; 7730 Wolf River Blvd.(Germantown). 753-4545; 531 W. Stateline Rd. 662-342-4544 (check online for additional locations). L, D, X, $ 4DUMPLINGS—Chicken with celery and pork with Napa cabbage are among the hand-made dumpling varieties; also serves Asian tacos, and noodle and rice meals. Closed Sunday. 6515 Poplar. 762-4184. L, D, X, $ THE FARMER—Serving upscale Southern cuisine, with a focus on locally grown ingredients. Among the specialties are smoked beef tenderloin and shrimp and grits. Closed for dinner Sun.-Mon. 262 S. Highland. 324-2221. L, D, X, $-$$ 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, $-$$ FIREBIRDS—Specialties are hand-cut steaks, slow-roasted prime rib, and wood-grilled salmon and other seafood, as well as seasonal entrees. 8470 Highway 64 (Bartlett). 379-1300; 4600 Merchants Circle, Carriage Crossing (Collierville). 850-1637. L, D, X, $-$$$ 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, $-$$ FLEMING’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE—Serves wet-aged and dry-aged steaks, prime beef, chops, and seafood, including salmon, Australian lobster tails, and a catch of the day. 6245 Poplar. 7616200. D, X, MRA, $$$-$$$$ FLIGHT RESTAURANT & WINE BAR—Serves steaks and seafood, along with such specialties as pork rib-eye and roasted duck, all matched with appropriate wines; also gourmet plate lunches. Closed for lunch Sat.-Sun. 3 9 S. Main. 521-8005. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ 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. 766-9900. 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, $-$$ FUEL CAFE—Focus is on natural “Americana” dishes with such specialties as bison burgers, grass-fed beef dishes, and wild-caught fish; also vegan and gluten-free entrees. Closed Sun.-Mon. 1761 Madison. 725-9025. L, D, X, $-$$ 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, $-$$ GOLDEN INDIA—Northern Indian specialties include tandoori chicken as well as lamb, beef, shrimp, and vegetarian dishes. 2097 Madison. 728-5111. L, D, X, $-$$ 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, $-$$$ THE GROVE GRILL—Offers steaks, chops, seafood, and other American cuisine with Southern and global influences; entrees include crab cakes, and shrimp and grits, also dinner specials. 4550 Poplar. 818-9951. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $$-$$$ GUS’S WORLD FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN—Serves chicken with signature spicy batter, along with homemade beans, slaw, and pies. 310 S. Front. 527-4877; 215 S. Center St. (Collierville). 853-6005; 2965 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 373-9111; 730 S. Mendenhall. 767-2323; 505 Highway 70 W., Mason, TN. 901-294-2028. L, D, X, MRA, $ HALF SHELL—Specializes in seafood, such as King crab legs; also serves steaks, chicken, pastas, salads, sandwiches, a ”voodoo menu”; oyster bar at Winchester location. 688 S. Mendenhall. 682-3966; 7825 Winchester. 737-6755. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ 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, $ HERITAGE TAVERN & KITCHEN—Featuring classic cuisine from the country’s five regions, including lobster rolls, fried chicken, smoked tamales, Green Goddess shrimp, and more. 6150 Poplar, Regalia. 761-8855.L, D, WB, 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, including the Red-Eye with pork-belly, and small plates with everything from meatballs to beef and cheddar hotdogs;and local veggies. Closed for lunch Mon. 707 W. Brookhaven Cl. 207-7396. L, D, SB, X, $-$$$ HONG KONG—Cantonese and Mandarin standards are sweetand-sour chicken, and pepper beef. Closed Sunday. 3966 Elvis Presley. 396-0801. L, D, X, $ HOUSTON’S—Serves steaks, seafood, pork chops, chicken dishes, sandwiches, salads, and Chicago-style spinach dip, 5000 Poplar. 683-0915. L, D, X $-$$$ I LOVE JUICE BAR—Serving an extensive line of juices and grab-and-go lunch items. 553 S. Cooper. 612-2720. 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 porkshoulder 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, $-$$ ITTA BENA—Southern and Cajun-American cuisine served here; specialties are filet Oscar and shrimp and grits, along with steaks, chops, seafood, and pasta. 145 Beale St. 578-3031. D,X, $$-$$$  JASMINE THAI AND VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT—Entrees include panang chicken, green curry shrimp,and pad thai (noodles, shrimp, and peanuts); also vegetarian dishes. Closed Mon.-Tues. 916 S. Cooper. 725-0223. L, D, X, $ JIM ’N NICK’S BAR-B-Q—Serves barbecued pork, ribs, chicken, brisket, and fish, along with other homemade Southern specialties. 2 359 N. Germantown Pkwy. 388-0998. L, D, X, $-$$ 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 charcoal-grilled steaks. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 518 Perkins Extd. 766-2030; 3660 Houston Levee (Collierville). 861-5000. 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 salmon-shrimp cakes with green salad and roasted sweet potato wedges; also cold-pressed juices, to-go dishes, and desserts. 6300 Poplar. 509-8675. B, L, D, X, $-$$ JUST FOR LUNCH—Serves sandwiches, quiche, salads, fresh fish including fried oysters, daily specials, and homemade rolls. Closed Sunday. 3 092 Poplar, Chickasaw Oaks Plaza. 323-3287. L, D (Thurs. only), X, MRA, $-$$ KOOKY CANUCK— Offers prime rib, catfish, and burgers, including the 4-lb. “Kookamonga”; also late-night menu. 9 7 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. 4818 Summer. 685-6857. L, D, $ LAFAYETTE’S MUSIC ROOM—Serves such Southern cuisine as po boys and shrimp and grits, and wood-fired pizzas; also live music. 2119 Madison. 207-5097. L, D, WB, 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. 4 002 Park Ave. 458-9264; 5689 Quince. 8002873. 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

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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., #521 (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.. 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. D E C E M B E R 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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shrimp; also tingas tostados and such sides as steamed corn. Closed Sunday. 1215 S. Germantown Rd. 751-1200. L, D, X, $-$$ LEONARD’S—Serves wet and dry ribs, barbecue sandwiches, spaghetti, catfish, homemade onion rings. and lemon icebox pie; also a lunch buffet. 5465 Fox Plaza. 360-1963. L, X, MRA, $-$$ 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 pork osso bucco. 95 S. Main. 473-9573; 2126 Madison. 725-1845. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ THE LOOKOUT AT THE PYRAMID—Serves Southern fare, including catfish tacos and crawfish tails, atop The Pyramid with a panoramic view of the river. 1 Bass Pro Dr. 620-4600/291-8200. L, D, X $-$$$ LOS COMPADRES—Serves enchiladas, burritos, tamales, tacos, and vegetarian dishes; also Cuban entrees. 3295 Poplar. 458-5731. L, D, X, $-$$ LOST PIZZA—Offering pizzas (with dough made from scratch), pasta, salads, sandwiches, tamales, and more. 2855 Poplar. 5721803; 5960 Getwell, Southaven. 662-892-8684. L, D, X, $-$$ LOTUS—Authentic Vietnamese-Asian fare, including lemon-grass chicken and shrimp, egg rolls, Pho soup, and spicy Vietnamese vermicelli. 4970 Summer. 682-1151. D, X, $ LYFE KITCHEN—Serving healthy, affordable wraps, bowls, sandwiches, and more; entrees include roasted salmon and “unfried” chicken. 6201 Poplar. 684-5333. B, L, D, WB, 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, $- $$$ THE MAJESTIC GRILLE—Housed in a former silent-picture house, features aged steaks, fresh seafood, and such specialties as roasted chicken and grilled pork tenderloin; offers a pre-theatre menu and classic cocktails. 145 S. Main. 522-8555. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$$ MANILA FILIPINO RESTAURANT—Entrees include pork belly cutlet with lechon sauce, and shrimp and vegetables in tamarind broth; also daily combos, rice dishes, and chef specials. 7849 Rockford (Millington). 209-8525. L, D, X, $ 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, $-$$ MARDI GRAS MEMPHIS—Serving Cajun fare, including an etoufee-stuffed po’boy. 496 Watkins. 530-6767. L, D, X, $-$$ 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, $-$$ MARMALADE RESTAURANT & LOUNGE—Southern homestyle entrees include catfish, honey-baked ham, steaks, and shrimp, all with a choice of three vegetables. Closed Sun. and Mon. 153 G.E. Patterson. 522-8800. D, X, $ MAXIMO’S ON BROAD—Serving a tapas menu that features creative fusion cuisine. Closed Mon. and Tues. 2617 Broad Ave. 4521111. L, D, SB, X, $-$$ 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. 7538755. L, D, X, $-$$ MCEWEN’S ON MONROE—Southern/American cuisine with international flavors; specialties include steak and seafood, sweet potato-crusted catfish with macaroni and cheese, and more. Closed Sun., Monroe location. 120 Monroe. 527-7085; 1110 Van Buren (Oxford). 662-234-7003. L, D, SB (Oxford only), X, MRA, $$-$$$ DAN MCGUINNESS PUB—Serves fish and chips, shepherd’s pie, burgers, and other Irish and American fare; also lunch and dinner specials. 4694 Spottswood. 761-3711; 3964 Goodman Rd. 662890-7611. L, D, WB (Spottswood), X, $ MEDALLION—Offers steaks, seafood, chicken, and pasta entrees. Closed for dinner Sunday. 3700 Central, Holiday Inn (Kemmons Wilson School of Hospitality). 678-1030. B, L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$$ 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, $-$$ MEMPHIS BARBECUE COMPANY—Offers spare ribs, baby backs, and pulled pork and brisket, along with such sides as mac and cheese, grits, and red beans. 709 Desoto Cove, Horn Lake (MS). 662-536-3762. L, D, X, $-$$ MEMPHIS PIZZA CAFE—Homemade pizzas are specialties; also serves sandwiches, calzones, and salads. 2087 Madison. 726-

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. 5343; 5061 Park Ave. 684-1306; 7604 W. Farmington (Germantown). 753-2218; 797 W. Poplar (Collierville). 861-7800; 5627 Getwell (Southaven). 662-536-1364. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$ MESQUITE CHOP HOUSE—The focus here is on steaks, including prime fillet, rib eyes, and prime-aged New York strip; also, some seafood options. 5960 Getwell (Southaven). 662-8902467; 88 Union. 527-5337; 3165 Forest Hill-Irene (Germantown). 249-5661. D, SB (Germantown), X, $$-$$$ MISTER B—Features New Orleans-style seafood and steaks. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 6655 Poplar, #107. 751-5262. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ 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). 8505288; 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, $-$$$ NAM KING—Offers luncheon and dinner buffets, dim sum, and such specialties as fried dumplings, pepper steak, and orange chicken. 4594 Yale. 373-4411. L, D, X, $ NAPA CAFE—Among the specialties is miso-marinated salmon over black rice with garlic spinach and shiitake mushrooms. Closed for lunch Sat. and all day Sun. 5101 Sanderlin, Suite 122. 6830441. L, D, X, MRA, $$-$$$ NEW ASIA—Specializing in authentic Chinese food, including roast Peking duck. 2075 Exeter, Suite 90. 758-8388. L, D, X, $ NEW HUNAN—Chinese eatery with more than 80 entrees;also lunch/dinner buffets. 5052 Park. 766-1622. L, D, X, $ THE OFFICE@UPTOWN— Offering sandwiches, wraps, pizza, soups, salads, and several vegetarian options. Closed Sunday. 594 N. Second St. 522-1905. B, L, D, X, $ OLD VENICE PIZZA CO.— Specializes in “eclectic Italian,” from pastas, including the “Godfather,” to hand-tossed pizzas, including the “John Wayne”; choose from 60 toppings. 368 Perkins Ext. 767-6872. L, D, SB, X, MRA, $-$$ 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. 249-4227. 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;

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Agave Maria Aldo’s Pizza Pies Alfred’s The Arcade Automatic Slim’s Bangkok Alley Bardog Tavern B.B. King’s Blues Club Bedrock Eats & Sweets Belle — A Southern Bistro Bleu Blind Bear Speakeasy Blue Monkey Bluefin Blues City Cafe Bon Ton Cafe COLLIERVILLE/WEST TN. Brass Door Irish Pub Burrito Blues Mexican Grill (ARLINGTON, COVINGTON, Cafe Eclectic MILLINGTON, OAKLAND) Cafe Keough Bangkok Alley Cafe Pontotoc Bonefish Grill Capriccio Bozo’s Hot Pit Bar-B-Q Central BBQ Cafe Piazza Chez Philippe Cajun Catfish Company City Market Carrabba’s Italian Grill Cozy Corner Chili’s DeJaVu Corky’s Double J Smokehouse & Saloon Crepe Maker Earnestine & Hazel’s El Mezcal Eighty3 El Porton Felicia Suzanne’s Emerald Thai Ferraro’s Pizzeria Firebirds Five Spot Ronnie Grisanti’s Italian Restaurant Flight Gus’s Fried Chicken Flying Fish Hickory Tavern Flying Saucer Huey’s T.G.I. Friday’s Jim’s Place Grille Grawemeyer’s Manila Filipino Gus’s Mulan Happy Mexican Osaka Japanese Hard Rock Cafe Memphis Pizza Cafe Havana’s Pilon Pig-N-Whistle Huey’s Sekisui Itta Bena Silver Caboose King’s Palace Cafe Stix Kooky Canuck Vinegar Jim’s Little Tea Shop Wolf River Cafe Local CORDOVA Lookout at the Pyramid Bahama Breeze McEwen’s on Monroe Bombay House The Majestic Bonefish Grill Marm Divaalade Brazil Flavor Mesquite Chop House Butcher Shop Mollie Fontaine Lounge Cheddar’s The Office@Uptown Chili’s Onix Corky’s Oshi Burger Bar Crazy Italians Paulette’s East End Grill Pearl’s Oyster House El Mezcal Pig on Beale El Porton Pink Diva Cupcakery & Cuisine T.G.I. Friday’s Rendezvous, Charles Vergos’ Flying Saucer Rizzo’s Diner Green Bamboo Rum Boogie Cafe Gus’s Silky O’Sullivan’s Happy Mexican South of Beale Hunan Palace South Main Sushi & Grill Huey’s Spaghetti Warehouse J. Alexander’s Spindini Jerry Lee Lewis’ Cafe & Honky Tonk The Terrace Jim N Nick’s Bar-B-Q Texas de Brazil Joe’s Crab Shack A-Tan Brother Juniper’s Cheffie’s Derae El Porton The Farmer Just for Lunch La Baguette Los Compadres Lost Pizza Medallion Osaka Japanese Pete & Sam’s Rock’n Dough Pizza R.P. Tracks Woman’s Exchange

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Belmont Grill The Cheesecake Factory Chili’s City East Elfo Grisanti‘s El Porton Exlines’ Best Pizza Germantown Comm. Mellow Mushroom Memphis Pizza Cafe Mesquite Chop House New Asia Petra Cafe Royal Panda Russo’s New York Pizzeria & Wine Bar Sakura Soul Fish Cafe West Street Diner

MEDICAL CENTER Arepa & Salsa The Cupboard Evelyn & Olive Sabrosura Tops Bar-B-Q Trolley Stop Market

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Alchemy Aldo’s Pizza Pies Alex’s Applebee’s Babalu Tacos and Tapas Bar DKDC Bar Louie Bar-B-Q Shop Bari Barksdale Restaurant Bayou Bar & Grill Beauty Shop Belly Acres Bhan Thai Blue Nile Ethiopian Boscos Bounty on Broad Broadway Pizza House The Brushmark Cafe 1912 Cafe Eclectic Cafe Ole Cafe Palladio Cafe Society Celtic Crossing Central B B Q The Cove Cozy Corner The Crazy Noodle The Cupboard Dino’s Ecco El Mezcal Evergreen Grill Fino’s from the Hill Frida’s Fuel Cafe Golden India Greencork Huey’s I Love Juice Bar Imagine Vegan Cafe India Palace Jasmine Thai Java Cabana Lafayette’s Music Room LBOE Local Mardi Gras Memphis Maximo’s on Broad Memphis Pizza Cafe Midtown Crossing Grille Molly’s La Casita Mulan Chinese Bistro Murphy’s Old Zinnie’s Otherlands Outback Steakhouse P & H Cafe Pei Wei Asian Diner Pho Binh Pho Saigon Restaurant Iris Robata Ramen & Yakitori Bar Saigon Le Schweinehaus The Second Line Sekisui The Slider Inn Soul Fish Cafe Stone Soup Strano Sicilian Kitchen Sweet Grass Tart Tsunami Young Avenue Deli

NORTH MISSISSIPPI Ajax Diner Applebee’s Blue and White Blue Daze Bistro Bonne Terre Chili’s City Grocery Colton’s Steakhouse Como Steakhouse Corky’s Fox & Hound Huey’s Lee’s Family Restaurant Logan’s Roadhouse Lost Pizza

McEwen’s Memphis Barbecue Company Memphis Pizza Cafe Mesquite Chop House Nagoya O’Charley’s Olive Garden Osaka Japanese Cuisine Outback Steakhouse Ravine Sekisui Tuscany Ital Steakhouse

PARKWAY VILLAGE/ FOX MEADOWS Blue Shoe Bar & Grill Leonard’s Jack Pirtle’s Chicken Three Little Pigs Bar-B-Q POPLAR/I-240 Amerigo Benihana Blue Plate Cafe Brooklyn Bridge Capital Grille, The P.F. Chang’s Chipotle Exlines’ Best Pizza 4Dumplings Fleming’s Frank Grisanti’s Happy Mexican Heritage Tavern & Kitchen Julles Posh Food Co. Mister B’s Olive Garden One & Only BBQ Owen Brennan’s Pyro’s Fire-Fresh Pizza Red Koi River Oaks Ruth’s Chris Salsa Seasons 52 Sekisui Wang’s Mandarin House

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SOUTH MEMPHIS Coletta’s The Four Way Interstate Bar-B-Q Jack Pirtle’s Chicken

SUMMER/BERCLAIR Bryant’s The Cottage Edo Elwood’s Shack High Pockets High Point Pizza La Taqueria Guadalupana Lotus Nagasaki Inn Orr Restaurant Pancho’s Panda Garden Tops Bar-B-Q

WEST MEMPHIS/ EASTERN ARK.

The Cupboard Pancho’s Sammy Hagar’s Red Rocker Bar & Grill

WHITEHAVEN Hong Kong Marlowe’s

WINCHESTER

Cheddar’s East End Grill Formosa Half Shell Happy Mexican Huey’s Logan’s Roadhouse Olive Garden Red Lobster Ruby Tuesday T.G.I. Friday’s Tops Bar-B-Q Tycoon

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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, #104. 416-1944; 2760 N. Germantown Pkwy. 620-0469. CRAZY ITALIANS—1250 N. Germantown Pkwy., #105 (Cordova). 347-2449. 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; 3546 Walker. 590-0192 SWANKY’S TACO SHOP—6641 Poplar (Germantown). 737-2088. 4770 Poplar. 730-0763; 711 Southcrest Pkwy, #101 (Southaven). 662-655-0662. MRA. TAZIKI’S MEDITERRANEAN CAFE— 540 S. Mendenhall. 290-1091. 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 cilantro with pimento cheese and toast points; also sausage-cheese appetizer. Closed Monday. 251 Riverside Dr. 524-0817. L, D, 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, $-$$ ROBATA RAMEN & YAKITORI BAR— Serves ramen noodle bowls and Yakitori skewers as well as rice and noodle dishes, and sake. 2116 Madison. 410-8290. D, WB, X, $ ROCK’N DOUGH PIZZA CO.—Specialty and custom pizzas made from fresh ingredients; wide variety of toppings. 3445 Poplar Ave., Ste. 1. 512-6760. L, D, X, $$ 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. 7550092. L, D, WB, X, MRA, $-$$ RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE—Offers prime steaks cut and aged in-house, as well as lamb, chicken, and fresh seafood, including lobster. 6120 Poplar. 761-0055. D, X, MRA, $$$-$$$$ SABROSURA—Serves Mexican and Cuban fare, including arroz tapada de pollo and steak Mexican. 782 Washington. 421-8180. B, L, D, X, $-$$ 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, $-$$ SAKURA—Sushi, tempura, and teriyaki are Japanese specialties here. 2 060 West St. (Germantown). 758-8181. 4840 Poplar. 5721002. L, D, X, $-$$ 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. Crescent Center, 6085 Poplar. 682-9952. 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, $-$$ SEKISUI—Japanese fusion cuisine, fresh sushi bar, grilled meats and seafood, California rolls, and vegetarian entrees. Poplar/Perkins location’s emphasis is on Pacific Rim cuisine. Menu and hours vary at each location. 25 Belvedere. 725-0005;1884 N. Germantown Pkwy. (Cordova). 309-8800; 4724 Poplar (between Perkins & Colonial). 767-7770; 2130 W. Poplar (Collierville). 854-0622; 1255 Goodman Rd. (Horn Lake). 662-536-4404; 2990 KirbyWhitten (Bartlett). 377-2727; 6696 Poplar. 747-0001. L, D, X, MRA, $-$$$ 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, $-$$$ SOUTH MAIN SUSHI & GRILL— Serving sushi, nigiri, and more. 520 S. Main. 249-2194. L, D, X, $ SPINDINI—Italian fusion cuisine with such entrees as wood-fired pizzas, gorgonzola stuffed filet, and fresh seafood; pizza specials on Mon.; large domestic whiskey selection. 383 S. Main. 578-2767. D, X, $$-$$$ STAKS— Offering pancakes, including Birthday Cake and lemon ricotta. Menu includes other breakfast items such as beignets and French toast, as well as soups and sandwiches for lunch. 4615 Poplar. 509-2367. B, L, WB, X, $ STIX—Hibachi steakhouse with Asian cuisine features steak, chicken, and a fillet and lobster combination, also sushi. A specialty is Dynamite Chicken with fried rice. 4680 Merchants Park Circle, Avenue Carriage Crossing (Collierville). 854-3399. L, D, X, $-$$ STONE SOUP CAFE— Cooper-Young eatery serving soups, salads, quiche, meat-and-two specials; 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, wood-grilled fish, and hand-tossed pizzas such as the King Alaska, with salmon and chevre. 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, $-$$$ TANNOOR GRILL—Brazilian-style steakhouse with skewers served tableside, along with Middle Eastern specialties; vegetarian options also available. 830 N. Germantown Pkwy. 443-5222. L, D, X, $-$$$ 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 salad bar with extensive toppings. 150 Peabody Place, Suite 103. 526-7600. L (Wed.Fri.), 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. 323-9865; 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; delivery available. 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

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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., #112. 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. LUCCHESI’S BEER GARDEN—84 S. Reese. 452-3002. LUCCHESI’S RAVIOLI—540 S. Mendenhall. #3. 7669922. LUNCHBOX EATS—288 S. Fourth. 526-0820. 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 RAFFE’S DELI—3358 Poplar. 458-5110. 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. Asian nachos and roasted sea bass. Closed Sunday. 928 S. Cooper. 274-2556. D, X, $$-$$$ TUSCANY ITALIAN STEAKHOUSE—Filet mignon, beef tenderloin, and various seafood and pasta dishes are served up here. 5910 Goodman Rd. (Olive Branch, MS). 662-895-3663. L, D, WB. 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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ow that we’ve reached the end of 2015, I’m surprised that sports fans across America haven’t reached out to the Lauderdales for our opinions, advice, and down-home common-sense ways to improve many of these games we have watched throughout the year. I presume it’s because you don’t helpful too. I’m concerned about the well-being of my fellow man often see a Lauderdale attending here, that’s all. many sporting events, but that’s Now, basketball needs help. If mainly because my cape and sword-cane usually get confisyou’ve been paying attention as cated at the gate. you’ve read this But if you knew Making bowling more fun issue, we named how much time Grizzlies player involves exploding pins, I have spent Marc Gasol our and I’m not sure we’re in front of our “Memphian of 12-inch Stromthe Year.” I have ready for that yet. berg-Carlson, great respect for watching football while Basil this fine athlete and his skills on stood on the roof, turning the the court. But I’ve seen enough antenna this way and that, you’d basketball games to notice that realize that I’ve viewed enough too many of these giant players athletic events to have keen ideas tend to get “jammed up” under for making the games better for the basket. With no room to everyone involved. move, they start elbowing each Take our national pastime, for other, the referee blows the whisinstance. For one thing, it seems tle, the game stops, and then we go to a commercial. baseball could take a lesson from football and let players run anyS o here’s my where they wanted. A player on idea: Add a secsecond base should be allowed to ond basket. Inscamper straight home — right stead of one across the pitcher’s mound — during lulls in the action. It’s just a thought. What really bothers me about baseball is the awkward position of the catcher, forced to crouch down like that all inning long — it makes my knees hurt to see that poor fellow. So, is it really so far-fetched to provide him with a comfy chair, padded with the team colors? A seat for the home-plate umpire would be

for each team at the end of the court, I’m thinking a basket in each corner would do the trick. Why, imagine a game where Gasol is struggling to make a shot “in the paint” and then he suddenly dashes off to the other basket and slam-dunks it. The crowd would go wild, I’m telling you. Also, at halftime, lots of teams let these hyperactive gymnastics fellows bring in little trampolines for spectacular leaping shots. Why not, at certain areas of the court, have pop-up trampolines the players could use? Is anyone listening to me? One problem with football, if you ask me, are those goal posts. Their name doesn’t even make sense; right now, they’re only useful for extra points and field goals. But with my new improved football field, to score a touchdown the player would actually have to run between the two goal posts. There’d be no more of this nonsense about “breaking the plane” of the entire end zone for six points. Wait a minute. “Breaking the plane” could be taken literally.

I would add a sheet of breakable glass between the two posts — not real glass, but the shattery stuff they use in movies when a stuntman gets hurled through a window — so a receiver would have to crash through it to score. That really would be worth six points. Sponsors could even put their names on the glass to help pay for replacing it after each touchdown. I’ve also been pondering ways to change the shape of the football itself. It’s an awfully hard thing to catch and kick, from what I see on TV, but my friends tell me that’s crazy talk. Maybe next year. For tennis, I’d return to the old days of “court tennis” and add high walls around the court. Don’t worry, they would be transparent so the spectators could still watch the game. Sure, aces and volleys are fun, but if players could make amazing bank shots off the back or side walls, it would combine the best elements of billiards, racquetball, and tennis. Plus it would eliminate tedious arguments with the line judge about whether the ball was in, or out. There would be no “out” — unless you hit it over the wall entirely, and if you did that, perhaps tennis isn’t your game. You might consider badminton. This is only a start; I’ve got plenty of equally fine ideas for other sports. I’m still pondering a way to make bowling a lot more exciting for the fans, but it involves exploding pins, and I’m not sure we’re ready for that yet. In the meantime, I say, let the games begin.

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